{"id":2880,"date":"2025-09-22T12:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atharebartar.com\/en\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:26:09","slug":"call-for-papers-public-history-in-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atharebartar.com\/en\/call-for-papers-public-history-in-the-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Call For Papers: “Public History in the Middle East”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Submitted by Lindsey Waldenberg<\/a> on 09\/15\/2025 – 3:17am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Announcement Type: Call for Papers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date: September 9, 2025 – January 31, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location: Qatar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call for Papers: Public History in the Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conference Date:<\/strong> October 19\u201320, 2026
Organizers:<\/strong> Qatar National Library\u2019s Heritage Library<\/a> & Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies<\/a> (NC State University)
Location:<\/strong> Qatar National Library
Contact:<\/strong> Dr. Akram Khater and Maryam Al-Mutawa
Submission Deadline:<\/strong> January 31, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a field that began in the US in the 1960s, public history brings to the fore the history of those whose voices and lives have been omitted from colonial and national archives whose contents often relay hegemonic narratives. It opens scholarly space for multivocality and shared authority in driving historical inquiry and study, effectively encouraging new perspectives in how the public views and interprets the past, and challenges the very nature of archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While public history is well-established in many regions, it remains in its relative infancy within Middle Eastern studies. Scholars, practitioners and institutions in the Arab World have been navigating questions of historical memory, public engagement and the politics of representation for a long time. However, the field remains without clear theoretical and structural framing, and these efforts have not fully coalesced into a sub-discipline of Middle Eastern studies. This conference seeks to map the current state of public history in the Middle East and foster dialogue on its challenges, opportunities and intersections with broader social, political and cultural processes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This conference invites paper submissions for an interdisciplinary gathering dedicated to exploring the emergence, development and practice of public history in the Middle East. We encourage submissions that address, but are not limited to, the following questions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n