SAMLA 97 – Knowledge – Atlanta, GA | November 6th - 8th, 2025, https://samla.ballastacademic.com  

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

With the theme of SAMLA 97 - Knowledge - panelists are asked to consider how these Muslim American writers and artists employ different media in their contrapuntal articulations of assimilation, alterity, dissent, and transgression in high and low art forms to the following: knowledge production, community building, national and global consciousness, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and censorship.

This in-person session about the responses of Muslim American writers and artists to the social, religious, political, and economic dimensions of contemporary Muslim American realities will take place during the annual SAMLA convention in Atlanta, GA, from November 6-8, https://samla.ballastacademic.com. 

Please submit a 300-word abstract, with a short academic biography (100 words) and A/V requirements, to Mahwash Shoaib (m.shoaib@wingate.edu) by May 25.