{"id":34803,"date":"2026-01-05T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/conflicts-of-knowledge-arab-world-academic-narratives\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:51:32","slug":"conflicts-of-knowledge-arab-world-academic-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/conflicts-of-knowledge-arab-world-academic-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\" style=\"border-color:#f0b429;border-width:1px;border-radius:8px;background-color:#fff4e5;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--40)\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-7949ca13 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Update, April 2026:<\/strong> the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. The final colloquium programme is now available: <a href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/acfas-2026-conflicts-of-knowledge-arab-world\/?lang=en\"><strong>see the programme announcement and Pluriel researchers&#8217; contributions<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Call for papers, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec.<\/strong> The production of knowledge about the Arab world is shaped by a set of deep tensions \u2014 linguistic, epistemological, disciplinary, institutional, and ideological. These tensions reveal genuine conflicts of knowledge, in which competing narratives confront one another: between local intellectual heritages and dominant Western theoretical frameworks; between languages of production (Arabic, French, English) inscribed in unequal hierarchies of legitimation; between the aspiration to scientific autonomy and structural dependence on external funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The central aim of this colloquium is to analyse how these conflicts shape, fragment, or reconfigure the academic narratives concerning the Arab world. It seeks to bring to light not only the mechanisms of domination, invisibilisation, and exclusion that govern the circulation of knowledge, but also to explore possible pathways toward more inclusive, pluralist, and genuinely transnational humanities and social sciences \u2014 in direct resonance with the overall theme of the 93rd Acfas Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Call for papers<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>To submit your paper proposal <u>BY 13 FEBRUARY 2026<\/u>, please send to<\/strong> <strong>&#119;&#x61;e&#108;&#x5f;m&#x61;&#x68;&#109;&#x6f;o&#100;&#x40;t&#114;&#x65;&#110;&#x64;s&#114;&#x65;s&#101;&#x61;&#114;&#x63;&#x68;&#46;&#x6f;r&#103; a document with the following information<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Full name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Email address, position (e.g., doctoral student in political science), and affiliation (academic or other)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A short biography of approximately 150 words<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A <strong>title<\/strong> and a <strong>paper proposal of approximately 350 words<\/strong>, specifying the links between your research and the colloquium&#8217;s theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*You will need to register for the congress on the Acfas platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venue: Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, 3351 boulevard des Forges<br>Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Canada (G8Z 4M3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.acfas.ca\/evenements\/congres\/programme-preliminaire\/400\/453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update, April 2026: the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. The final colloquium programme is now available: see the programme announcement and Pluriel researchers&#8217; contributions. Call for papers, Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec. The production of knowledge about the Arab world is shaped by a set of deep tensions \u2014 linguistic, epistemological, disciplinary, institutional, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"date_tournage":"","lieu":"","nature_evenement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narratives - Pluriel<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/conflicts-of-knowledge-arab-world-academic-narratives\/?lang=en\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Conflicts of Knowledge: The Arab World in Academic Narratives - Pluriel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Update, April 2026: the call for papers closed on 13 February 2026. 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