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Call For Papers3 &#38; 4 May 2013McGill UniversityMontreal, QuebecMcGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council (MIISSC)invites abstracts for scholarly papers to be presented at its third annualgraduate symposium.Tracing an encounter is central to any academic enterprise.  This can be anovert aspect of inquiry: historical encounters between peoples, ideas,cultures, traditions, moments, and any combination thereof.  The encountercan also be more subtly involved through reflexive attention to theencounter between the investigator and their object of study.  The myriadforms of inquiry that have come to make up the field of Islamic Studies are,like virtually all branches of the humanities, united by the centrality ofthe encounter in analyses.  The Third Annual McGill Institute of IslamicStudies Graduate Student Symposium will focus on graduate students’ andjunior scholars’ academic work that deals with their own attempts in tracingencounters through their research in Islamic Studies.Themes of papers can include but are not limited to:- Theoretical issues in the study of Islam- Feminism and gender in Islam and Islamic Studies- Art, art history and the Islamic world- Islam, communications, and (new) media- Islam and the political- Islam and social and environmental Justice- Anthropological perspectives and the study of Islamic culture(s)- The study of pre-modern Islam- Literature of Islamic societiesDeadline: Please submit an abstract (250-300 words) and CV no later than 1February 2013 to: miisscsymposium@gmail.comPresenters will be informed that their paper has been accepted by 14February 2013.Submission Guidelines: Abstracts must not contain the author’s name withinthe document. Panels of exactly three people are welcome with abstractssubmitted in a single document.  Participants will be given 15 minutes topresent their work.Participants selected to present a paper may be eligible for financialassistance (for travel expenses) up to a maximum of C$250.00 perparticipant.The Institute of Islamic Studies gratefully acknowledges the generoussupport of the State of Qatar for this event.Sincerely,Pascal AbidorInstitute of Islamic StudiesMcGill UniversityMIISSC Symposium 2013 Organizing Committee