Month: August 2025

Photographs should speak broadly to the idea of “Ghosts” the theme of the 2025 AAA conference.

Each submission can include 1-5 photos each with a caption (50-100 words) that explains the date, location, context, and the process through which the photograph was taken. Photos may be submitted as stand-alone images or a short image series meant to be viewed together (please specify). Submissions should be in jpg or tiff.

We encourage submissions from anthropologists and anthropologists-in-the-making, especially from the MENA region. Each person is limited to one submission of five photographs. We ask that those submitting be members of the Middle East Section, except for students, non-tenure track faculty or scholars in the Global South if membership imposes a significant hardship.
The winners will each receive a modest cash prize ($100). Their photos will be used on the MES AAA website and social media and will be credited each time they are used.

Please make your submission here by our deadline of Monday, September 15, 2025 Wednesday, October 1, 2025:
 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeeipr9eqs8iIk_tpReMMhgihm_-b9LQXhwdbzTobLoO3rljA/viewform?usp=pp_url

The Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association invites submissions for our Student Paper Award. Both undergraduate and graduate students (who have not defended at time of submission) are eligible. The winner will receive a prize of $500, plus a chance to summarize the award-winning paper at the 2025 MES business meeting (either virtual or in-person in New Orleans) and to have a summary published on the MES website. Papers should: be ethnographically grounded or engaging with anthropological literature; focused on peoples and cultures of the Middle East and North Africa and/or its diasporas; not exceed 10,000 words (not including notes and bibliography); and have been completed no earlier than January 1, 2024. Chapters from a thesis are welcome but should be able to stand alone (they can be revised to do so). Papers should not have been published or yet accepted for publication. The paper should include a cover page with the name of the professor and class for which the paper was written (if applicable) and email addresses for both the student and professor.

Student paper award submissions should be emailed to the committee chair, Dr. Timothy Loh (timloh [at] princeton [dot] edu). The subject line must say “MES Student Award.”

The deadline is Friday, September 5, 2025 Sunday, September 7, 2025.