Call for papers:
Collaboration
with
Necmettin
Erbakan University
Center
for Turkish Area Studies
June 4
- 5, 2020
Konya,
Turkey
Co-Sponsored
by
Sociology
of Islam Journal, Brill
Center for Global Governance, Institute of Global Studies,
Shanghai University
Description and Objectives:
We organized five very successful academic conferences on
this topic in collaboration with Pekin University, on March 17-18, 2015; Qatar
University, on March 23-24, 2016; Shanghai University, on June 7-8, 2017; and Nevsehir
Haci Bektas Veli University, Cappadocia University on June 20-22, 2018 and
Shanghai University on May 17-18, 2019.
This year, we will have 6th China and the
Middle East and North Africa Conference on June 4 – 5, 2020 at Necmettin
Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey.
We therefore invite submissions
on the following and related topics:
China and the Middle East
China and North Africa
Islam and Muslims in China
US-China Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
Cold War in the Middle East
China’s Foreign Policy Toward Middle East/West Asia
The Belt and Road Initiative
Asia and the Middle East
Political Economy of the Middle East
Nationalism and Nation-State
Political Parties
Environmental Issues
Social Movements
Religion and Politics
Gender Issues in the Middle East
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Modern Middle East and Modern China
Energy
Trade
Economic Integration
Please include the following in your email:
-Author full name;
-Affiliation;
-Email address;
-Abstract in Word format (200 to 300 words);
-Title of your paper
-A short Biography (NOT A CV)
IMPORTANT DATES
· Submitting Proposals: by April 17, 2020
· Information about accepting the
proposal: By May 1, 2020
· Preliminary conference program: May
11, 2020
· Final conference program: May
22, 2020
· Submitting Draft Version of
Paper: May 29, 2020
· Submitting Papers for
Publication: August 30, 2020
In
case your abstract is accepted, a draft paper of around 3000 - 4000 words is
due two weeks prior to the beginning of the conference. We intend to compile an
edited volume with the best papers for publication in an international
reference publisher.
There
is no fee for this conference. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL COVER YOUR
ACCOMMODATIONS (4 nights: June 3, 4, 5 and 6, 2020) AND FOOD DURING YOUR STAY
IN KONYA, TURKEY.
Please note that this is an academic conference only, no
non-academic presenters will be accepted.
Any additional queries should be sent to
Organizing Committee:
· Cem
Zorlu, Professor and President, Necmettin Erbakan University,
Konya, Turkey.
· Hasan Ali Karasar, President -
Cappadocia University, Turkey.
· Gokhan Bozbas, Necmettin Erbakan
University, Konya, Turkey.
· Tugrul Keskin,
Professor, Shanghai
University, China.
· Mohammad
Marandi, Professor – University of Tehran, Iran.
· Guo Changgang, Professor and
Director of Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University and Shanghai
Academy of Social Sciences, China.
· Yang Chen, Assistant Professor, Shanghai University, China.
· ChenNing, PhD Student and Research
Assistant, Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai University, China.
·
Juan Cole,
Professor - University of Michigan, USA.
·
Mehran Kamrava,
Professor – Georgetown University-Qatar.
·
Hakan Yavuz,
Professor – University of Utah, USA.
·
Ejaz Akram,
Professor – NDU, Pakistan.
·
Sean Foley,
Associate Professor - Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
·
Mojtaba Mahdavi,
Associate Professor - University of Alberta, Canada.
·
Zeng
Guie, Professor – Center for Global Governance, Shanghai University, China
·
Merthan
Dundar, Professor and Director of Asian Studies, Ankara University, Turkey.
·
Suha
Atature, Professor and Chair of International Relations - Gedik University,
Turkey.
· David Perez-Des Rosiers, PhD
Candidate and Research Assistant, Institute of Global Studies, Shanghai
University, China and Canada.
Conference Program
THURSDAY JUNE 4,
2020
9:00 – 9:15 Introduction
and Welcome Speech
9:15 - 9:30 Welcome Speech and Introduction
9:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speech
10:00
– 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 - 12:00 Panel
-1 Current Realities in the Middle East
12:00
– 13:00 Lunch
14:00
– 15:30 Panel – 1 and 2
15:30
– 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45
– 17:15 Panel 3 and 4
18:00
DINNER
FRIDAY JUNE 5,
2020
8:30
– 10:00 Panel – 5 and 6
10:30
– 12:00 Panel 7 and 8
12:00
– 13:00 Lunch
14:00
– 15:30 Panel – 9 and 10
15:30
– 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45
– 17:15 Panel 11 and 12
17:15
– 17:30 Coffee Break
Discussion for future projects and Closing Remarks by TBA 17:30 – 18:00
19:00
DINNER
