Middle East and Islamic Consortium of BC (MEICON-BC)

UPCOMING EVENTS

5th Annual Islamic Studies Student Conference
March 23, 2013, 8:00 am- 6:00 pm
Engineering and Computer Science Building - Room 125

A full day of panels and presentations by students from across Canada. Featuring a keynote address by Professor Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, "Studying the Middle East and Islam in an Age of Empire," 12:50-1:50 pm, ECS, Room 125. All welcome.

Panels

• Religious Interpretations and Practice
• Political Islam
• The Politicization of Gender and Identity
• Imagining the Nation
• Education and Epistemology
• Confronting the Modern State
• Challenging Orientalism
• The Middle East in the Arts

Free and open to the public.

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MEICON-BC Faculty Symposium
Canada's Contribution to Middle East and Islamic Studies
Friday, March 22, 8:00 am - 6:00 pm, University Club

This symposium on Canada's contribution to Middle Eastern and Islamic studies aims to bring together faculty from a variety of disciplines who are engaged in research on any aspect of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. In suggesting this theme, we are inviting colleagues to consider the work of scholars writing and teaching in Canada that has made a significant impact on disciplinary practice. Is there is something distinctively "Canadian" about these contributions, especially as to whether they promote "Canadian" values, such as peace building, peacekeeping, multiculturalism, and multilateralism? In raising these topics, we hope to provide an open environment to encourage interactive dialogue on cutting-edge research, to confront the challenges of mobilizing knowledge especially in public discourse on the Middle East and Islam, and to strengthen the network of scholars in Western Canada and beyond. We hope to arrange for publication of the symposium papers.

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The symposium is preceded on the evening of March 21, 2013, by the UVic Centre for Studies in Religion and Society’s Distinguished Lecture in Islam, featuring Dr. Zayn Kassam from Pomona College and followed on March 23 by the 5th Annual MEICON-BC Student Conference.

We gratefully acknowledge financial support for the above events provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, the Simon Fraser University Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, the UVic Centre for Asia-Pacific Iniatiatives and Centre for Global Studies, the UVic Religious Studies Students' Association, the UVic Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology, UVic Faculties of Humanities, Graduate Studies, and Social Sciences, University of British Colombia Department of Religious Studies.

2013 Distinguished Lecture in Islam
Representations of Muslim Women: Image and Reality

Zayn R. Kassam
Department of Religious Studies, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

Thursday, March 21, 2013, 7:00 pm
Human and Social Development Building, Room A240

Details

ABOUT MEICON-BC

The Middle East and Islamic Consortium of British Columbia (MEICON-BC) is a collaborative project of Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia. The purpose of MEICON-BC is to provide an organizational basis for communication and cooperation among British Columbian academics interested in the study of the Middle East and Muslim societies and cultures.

UVic MEICON faculty group

This is the site of the UVic MEICON group. News and information from the University of Victoria will be moderated and posted on this site.
Please forward information that you would like posted to the UVic MEICON coordinator Mona Goode (goodems@uvic.ca).

• Mona Goode (History, MEICON Coordinator)
• Eva Baboula (History in Art)
• Greg Blue (History)
• Martin Bunton (History)
• Marcus Milwright (History in Art)
• Andrew Rippin (History)
• Daromir Rudnyckyj (Pacific and Asian Studies)
• Peyman Vahabzadeh (Sociology)
• Anthony Welch (History in Art)

Join MEICON. You may join the MEICON listserve by emailing meiconbc@sfu.ca. For more information visit the home site at MEICON-BC.

Student conferences

MEICON BC 4th Annual Student Conference, March 24, 2012, Simon Fraser University - Details

MEICON BC 3rd Annual Student Conference, March 12, 2011, University of British Columbia - Details

MEICON BC 2nd Annual Student Conference, March 27, 2010, University of Victoria - View program [pdf]

First Annual MEICON BC Student Conference, May 9, 2009, Simon Fraser University - View program [pdf]

MEICON student publication

Conference paper submissions should be prepared according to the following guidelines:

Editorial Style Guide for submissions (PDF)