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This event aims at promoting the thinking across boundaries: across disciplinary boundaries between the study of history and religion; language and literature; and the arts and material culture; and across regional boundaries to see the medieval world as interconnected. The Medieval Middle East Meeting is a yearly forum for students, junior researchers and senior scholars to present historical work-in-progress that is related to the Middle East broadly defined to include North Africa, Central Asia, and Mediterranean world (e.g. Andalusia). The conception of medieval likewise is broadly defined, also including late antiquity to early modernity. Students will benefit from presenting their research before senior scholars and by attending the presentation of more senior scholars and seeing research in process. 
The program includes a keynote lecture and a roundtable on a theme, plus 10-20 short papers on a variety of subjects, presented in a number of parallel sessions by research students and tenured staff.
Participation is encouraged both from specialists on the Middle East (e.g. Arabists or Persianists), but also from scholars whose major research focus is only partially associated with that region, for example the European circulation of art objects originating in the Middle East, or the representation of Islam and Arabs in European literatures.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent to the organisers (Josephine van den Bent, j.m.c.vandenbent@uva.nl; and Edmund Hayes edmund.hayes@ru.nl) by 7 September 2023.

Teachers

-Dr. J. van den Bent (UvA/RU): j.m.c.vandenbent@uva.nl
-Dr. E. Hayes (RU): edmund.hayes@ru.nl