The conference entitled “Creative Resistance, Indigeneity, and Cultural Production in the Middle East and Beyond” welcomes individual papers, panels, roundtables, artistic presentations, and community-engaged scholarship.

It will be held on October 15–17, 2027 at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Join scholars, artists, practitioners, and community partners for an international conference exploring how identity, memory, and cultural knowledge are reclaimed, contested, and transformed amid colonialism, displacement, and historical violence.

Selected conference themes include creative resistance and cultural production; indigeneity, heritage, and material culture; migration, displacement, and diaspora; gender, memory, archives, and oral histories; and AI, digital technologies, empire, and resistance.

The abstract submission deadline is February 1, 2027. Submissions should include a 250–300-word abstract and a 100–150-word biography.

Sponsored by the Arab & Muslim Women’s Research & Resource Institute (AMWRRI) and Marquette University.