For the past decade, the NMCGSA Symposium has provided more than a hundred promising graduate students a superb opportunity to share their original research with the broader scholarly community in a conference-like forum, and to publish their presentations as proceedings. The theme of this 2007 symposium, "Dynamics of Continuity and Change in the Near & Middle East (from Antiquity to the Present)", has been chosen to ensure that a sense of interdisciplinarity prevails.

We thus welcome graduate student proposals for papers in all areas related to Near and Middle Eastern Studies. To be considered for the symposium, e-mail or mail submissions must be received by January 20th, 2007. For more information regarding the submission procedure and the possibility for students registered at a Near and Middle Eastern university to apply for potential partial funding by January 5th, 2007, check our website at http://nmcgsa.sa.utoronto.ca (Symposium – Call for Papers in Pdf format), or contact Anne Clément, NMCGSA Symposium Co-coordinator, at the following address: anne.clement@utoronto.ca, or