Call for Papers

SERMEISS – Fall Conference October 13-15, 2023

Call for Papers:

The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) is excited to announce that it will hold its fall meeting on October 13-15, 2023. 


SERMEISS welcomes proposals for papers to be presented at its fall 2023 conference. Proposals for individual papers should include the paper title; a detailed abstract regarding your topic, thesis, and plan of presentation; and contact information (including department and institutional affiliation) for the presenter. If you would like to propose a panel, instead of an individual paper, please contact the program chair for details.    


SERMEISS is an inter-disciplinary organization and papers or panels may address any issue pertaining to the Middle East and/or Islamic world. To submit proposals, please send all materials in a single file to program chair Curtis Ryan (ryanc@appstate.edu) by July 15, 2023. This is a juried conference, and proposals will be vetted by a conference committee. Applicants will be contacted regarding the decisions of the committee by August 5th. 


For more information about SERMEISS, please go here: sermeiss.org


Our fall meetings are held annually at a lodge in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of western North Carolina. Even if you are not submitting a paper for presentation, please mark the date and plan to join us in October for our 2023 meeting of SERMEISS.