Global Indigeneity
Considers theoretical and political questions raised by the model of “trans-indigeneity” paying attention to indigenous mythologies, histories of settler colonialism, and questions of comparison, translation, resistance, language, and appropriation. 300-word abstract and short bio.
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 20 March 2020
Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue U (aidrissi@purdue.edu ) Neville W. Hoad, The University of Texas at Austin (nhoad@austin.utexas.edu )

The Persistence of Palestine
Beyond its national and all-too-human struggle, how and why has Palestine, as an idea and a question, persisted and become a defining ethos of/within the Humanities today? 300-word abstract, short bio
Deadline for submissions: Sunday, 22 March 2020
Ala A. Alryyes, Queens C, CUNY (alryyes@alum.mit.edu )

Beyond Arab Dystopia: Hope in the Humanities
Against notion of “inḥiṭāṭ”, articulations and negotiations of classical Arabic-Islamic images, discourses, practices of pluralism, tolerance, multiculturalism, multilingualism, translation as sites of a new humanism. 300-word abstract, bio.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 25 March 2020
Rasha Chatta, SOAS, U of London (rc49@soas.ac.uk )