کنفرانسی یک روزه در مورد خاورمیانه در استنفورد

Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford have organized a one-day symposium on May 17, 2007. With the working title “The State of Middle East Studies: Knowledge Production in an Age of Empire,” this cross-disciplinary event seeks to address current developments in the production of knowledge about the Middle East within the US and transnationally. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the fol lowing themes: power/knowledge and the political economy of the academy; the production and reproduction of gendered nationalist discourses in/about the Middle East; governmental and nongovernmental funding for Middle East Studies programs; the production of “expertise” and the role of experts as apparatus of governmentality; historical continuities and nuances in discourses of national security, terror and war