Fall 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series

Fall 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series

            The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) welcomes you to listen and engage with graduate students who will present on their research on young people in the Middle East and North Africa, and its diasporic communities.  The format of the sessions is thirty minutes of presentation by the speaker followed by thirty minutes of discussion and Q&A with the audience.  The AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series is intended to be a space for graduate students to share their cutting-edge research as well as workshop their dissertation material.

Friday September 23rd, 11 am CST

Samar Nour, University of Toronto

 “Juvenile Delinquency and the construction of (ab)normal Child/hood” in Egypt 1882-1952”

Friday October 28th, 11 am CST

                  Ahmet Berkem Yanikcam, Kadir Has University

Title: TBA

Friday December 9th, 11 am CST

Atacan Atakan, University of Arizona

“Magazines I’d Like to Dig (MILD): Children’s Sexuality, Gender, and Corporeality in the Ottoman Empire during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.”

Please RSVP to Dylan Baun to attend (djb0035@uah.edu) and receive the zoom link