{"word_count": 178, "character_count": 1360}
Brown University’s Middle East Studies will host the third annual Engaged Scholarship conference on April 10-11, 2015, with the theme of “Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East/North Africa.”Our primary objective is to bring together a diverse group of experts from the Middle East and around the world (academics, journalists, activists, human rights advocates, filmmakers, novelists, faith-based leaders, artists, and others) who have contributed to the representations and/or development of lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/queer (LGBTQ) movements in the Middle East/North Africa (MENA) region.The three central questions animating the conference are as follows:What is the ethical role that academics who work on queer social movements in the Middle East can play in supporting their development?How does that role differ from the contributions of grassroots activists, social entrepreneurs, civil society actors, states, and national, regional, and international institutions?How do we represent the past, present, and future trajectories of various queer movements in the Middle East/North Africa region?Our co-sponsors include Brown University’s Pembroke Center, the Brown LGBTQ Center, the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center, the Watson Institute, and The Open Society Foundations.Plus d'infos: https://engagedscholarshipconference.wordpress.com/