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Οι Εναλλακτικές Εκδόσεις οργανώνουν την Τετάρτη 11 Δεκεμβρίου στις 19:30 εκδήλωση – συζήτηση με αφορμή το νέο βιβλίο του Απόστολου Διαμαντή Έθνος και θεσμοί στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας. Με αφορμή το βιβλίο ο Γιώργος Καραμπελιάς και ο Απόστολος Διαμαντής συζητούν για την πορεία του ελληνικού έθνους στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας και τη μεθοδολογική εκτροπή που παρατηρείται στον χώρο της τρέχουσας ιστοριογραφίας. Στο χώρο πολιτικής και πολιτισμού του Άρδην, Ξενοφώντος 4, 6ος όροφος, πλ. Συντάγματος.

Λίγα λόγια για το βιβλίο του Απόστολου Διαμαντή, Έθνος και θεσμοί στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας:

Στο βιβλίο αυτό εκτίθεται συνοπτικά η πορεία του ελληνικού έθνους στα χρόνια της Τουρκοκρατίας, ενώ ταυτόχρονα διερευνάται μια μεθοδολογική εκτροπή στον χώρο της τρέχουσας ιστοριογραφίας, η οποία έχει σοβαρές επιπτώσεις στην έρευνα, καθώς έχει μεταφέρει το ερευνητικό πεδίο από τη μελέτη των υπαρκτών παραδόσεων, από τη μελέτη των κοινωνικών σχέσεων, στην πολιτική ιδεολογία.
Η εκτροπή αυτή έχει ως αποτέλεσμα να αντιμετωπίζονται ιστορικές πραγματικότητες, όπως το έθνος, ως ιδέες, ως προϊόντα νοητικά του κράτους, του νομικού κανόνα δηλαδή. Πρόκειται για μια σαφή κανονιστική εκτροπή της ελληνικής ιστοριογραφίας.
Αυτήν ακριβώς την πολιτικολογούσα κανονιστική ιστοριογραφία θα προσπαθήσουμε στο μικρό αυτό δοκίμιο να αντιμετωπίσουμε, πάνω στο αγαπημένο  της έδαφος: την εθνική διάσταση. Και, κυρίως, πάνω στο πιο εκλεκτό της τέκνο, το ελληνικό έθνος, το οποίο κατά ένα περίεργο τρόπο κατέστη τα τελευταία χρόνια ο προσφιλής στόχος κάθε νέου ιστορικού, που ήθελε να δώσει τα διαπιστευτήριά του στο νέο ιστοριογραφικό καθεστώς.

Κυκλοφορεί από τις Εναλλακτικές Εκδόσεις.

Συνέδρια

13-15.12.2013	International Conference "Islamism versus Post-Islamism? Mapping Topographies of Islamic Political and Cultural Practices and Discourses", Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main, 13-15 December 2013 The conference is organized by the Cluster of Excellence "The Formation of Normative Orders".  The aim of the conference is to elucidate the complexities and ambiguities of competing Islamic discourses and efforts of cultural and political reform in the Islamic World. Send your  registration to Gunnar Stange (Stange@em.uni-frankfurt.de) before 10 December 2013. Conference program at http://www2.uni-frankfurt.de/48840659/Program-Islamism-vs_-Post-Islamism.pdf
9 January 2014	International Conference: "25 Years of Revolution. Comparing Revolt and Transition from Europe 1989 to Arab World 2014", University of Edinburgh, 8-9 January 2014 This unique conference is organised by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), the Centre for Russian, Central and East European Studies (CRCEES), and the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS). It will bring together scholars working on the Arab world, Eastern and Southern Europe, and the former Soviet Union to showcase and stimulate comparative research on the two sets of revolutions. Information http://www.casaw.ac.uk/news-events/25-years-of-revolution-comparing-revolt-and-transition-from-europe-1989-to-the-arab-world-2014/
18-19  January 2014	Symposium: "Iran’s Natural Heritage: A Catalyst Symposium to Spark Measurable Change", London, 18-19  January 2014 Isolated and impoverished by trade sanctions for almost 35 years, Iran’s deteriorating environment has gone largely unnoticed by the outside world. It is time to consider how we can better support the Iranian environmental community, which is striving to reverse the loss of nature, habitat and vital agricultural land. The conveners of the symposium ask: "Together, how can we implement the best solutions for Iran’s natural heritage and build a sustainable future?" This symposium is organised by the Iran Heritage Foundation. It will gather together international NGOs, conservation practitioners and internationally renowned scholars to highlight the challenges that face Iran and the preservation of its unique habitats, wildlife and once abundant agricultural land. For the first time key organisations will come together with a commitment to take coordinated action. Information http://www.iranheritage.org/Ecology/default.htm
11-18 August 2014	Panel: "Rentier State Structures and the Competing Discourses on Citizenship", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 11-18 August 2014 The current manifestations of the crises of the Arab state, as demonstrated in the countries of the Arab Spring, have re-opened the public spheres for competing discourses on citizenship; the role of the citizens and their relations to state power. This panel aims to 1) to define how these discourses are articulated and debated (whether they are religious or secular; collective or individualized; and, state-based or transnational). 2) define the political and social implications of these discourses within reference specifically to the institutional and ideological structures of rentier states in MENA. Comparative and historical cases are welcomed. Please send your abstract (no more than 300 words) and your CV to Ulrika Mårtensson ulrika.martensson@ntnu.no  or abdulhadi.khalaf@soc.lu.se  before 7 December 2013. Information on WOCMES www.wocmes2014.org
11-18 August 2014	Panel: "The European Union’s Involvement in Political Crises and Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 11-18 August 2014 This panel will analyse the impact of the ‘Arab Spring’ events, the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and the financial and economic crisis on the EU’s approaches to conflicts and crises in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Conflict and crisis are here defined in a rather broad fashion so as to include, among others, longstanding/frozen territorial conflicts, rapidly escalating internal conflicts or civil wars that have derived from ‘Arab Spring’ revolts and other domestic political crises in transitioning countries. We welcome papers focusing on either different aspects of the EU’s foreign policy and/or how actors in the MENA region perceive them and interact with them. Abstracts of maximum 250 words following the guidelines of WOCMES 2014 should be sent by 10 December to Dr. Dimitris Bouris (dimitris.bouris@coleurope.eu) and Dr. Irene Fernández Molina (irene.fernandez@coleurope.eu
18-22 August 2014	Panel: “Electoral Sociology after the Arab Spring”, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-22 August 2014 The Arab Spring led to a wave of free and fair elections in the MENA region. The transition period presents a unique opportunity to study emerging and changing political systems, political parties and their relationship with voters. This allows us to analyse some of the key phenomena of electoral sociology: political culture, electoral behaviour, party formation, and political participation after regime change. The emergence of public opinion polls also invites new methodological approaches to the emerging field of Middle Eastern electoral sociology. Deadline 8 December 2013. Information https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/44738381/Wocmes%2C%20electoral%20sociology.pdf
18-22 Αυγούστου	Panel: "Urban Restructuring and Urban Policy in the Arab World", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-22 August 2014 During the last decade many major cities in the Arab World have faced huge processes of restructuring and renovation. Neoliberal patterns promoted by different political, economic and social actors pursue specific strategies to accumulate capital through new urban development schemes. Socio-spatial reconfiguration and urban fragmentation are the results. The panel will analyze key phenomena leading to the production of urban rent, such as large-scale urban development projects, gentrification, heritage preservation and city marketing. Papers are invited from scholars and PhD students engaged in different academic fields whose research is based on empirical in-depth research. Contact Jonas Margraff, Centre for Research on the Arab World, University of Mainz, (j.margraff@geo.uni-mainz.de) until 10 December 2013.

Θέσεις εργασίας / υποτροφίες

Fellowship: "Relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims", Cambridge, 2015

The Woolf Institute, which specializes in the study of relations between Jews,

Christians and Muslims from a multidisciplinary perspective, invites applications

for its annual visiting fellowship. The Fellowship is tenable for a two to three

month period that overlaps one of the Cambridge terms 2015:  Lent term: 13

January–13 March 2015; Easter term: 21 April–12 June 2015.

The Fellowship is available for a postdoctoral scholar of any academic rank, a

policymaker or analyst in a relevant area of work, or an artist (writer, painter,

photographer, etc.) and will most likely be asked to participate in some of the

Institute's teaching or practice-based activities.

Deadline for the submission of applications is 24 January 2014. Information

http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=264

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10. Research Fellowship in Medieval Islamic History, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

The fellowship is tenable from January 2014 or as soon as possible thereafter, for a

period of two years. A competitive salary in the region of £30,000 will be

determined by qualifications and experience.

Further particulars are available at http://www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies/advert5.html

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Positions: Post-Docs, PhDs and Visiting PhDs Fellowships for Research on History

of Mongol Eurasia, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The European Research Council (ERC)  project   "Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural

Contacts in Mongol Eurasia" at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is offering

Post-Docs, PhDs and Visiting PhD's fellowships beginning in 2014-15 for outstanding

candidates fluent in Chinese, Arabic and Persian (at least one of the above) and

with a sound knowledge of the history of the Mongol Empire.

Deadline 3 February 2014. Information

http://mongol.huji.ac.il/fellowships-and-funding-opportunities. For info about the

project visit http://mongol.huji.ac.il/ or contact Michal Biran at

biranm@huji.ac.il.

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Other Positions in Middle Eastern History and International Studies

a) Assistant/Associate Professor in Middle Eastern History, Troy University

Montgomery Campus, Alabama,  Information

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48101

b) Head of the Department of International Studies, American University of Sharjah,

Information http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48092

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 διάφορα.

AGAPS PhD Dissertation Award 2014

The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) invites recent PhD

graduates to submit their dissertations for consideration for its 2014 PhD

Dissertation Award. PhD dissertations accepted between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014

are eligible.

Dissertations must primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula, but can be inclusive of

the transnational flows of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea, and

Indian Ocean. All applicants must be members of AGAPS at the time of submission. The

winning dissertation will be announced in the Journal of Arabian Studies (JAS). The

author will be invited to publish an article based on his/her dissertation in JAS.

Deadline for submission 1 July 2014. Information Gwenn Okruhlik at okruhlik@msn.com

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AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize 2014

AGAPS invites the submission of graduate student research papers for AGAPS’s 2014

Graduate Paper Prize. They must primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula but can be

inclusive of the transnational flow of people, goods and ideas across the Gulf, Red

Sea and Indian Ocean. AGAPS welcome submissions from all disciplines. Papers should

include an engagement with literature that concerns the study of the Arabian

Peninsula, a clear methodology, and make an original contribution to scholarship in

the field. Paper with 7500 words must have been written between 1 July 2013 and 30

June 2014. The winning paper will be announced in the Journal of Arabian Studies

(JAS) and published by JAS if it meets the journal’s editorial standards.

Submission deadline is 1 July 2014. Information Gwenn Okruhlik at okruhlik@msn.com.

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Two-year MA Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of

Muslim Civilisation, London

The programme offers a distinctive way of understanding Muslim civilisations as they

have evolved over time; it stresses the plurality and complexity of past and present

Muslim cultures, studying them as part of world cultures, and it employs the tools

of the social sciences and humanities as a framework for learning.

Within the disciplines of the social sciences and humanities our students study a

number of subjects including anthropology, development studies, economics, political

science, art, architecture, history, literature, comparative religion and law;

students are also required to study either Arabic, Persian or Turkish and undertake

an intensive four-week language course abroad.

Financial assistance is available. Application deadline: 28 February 2014.

Information:  www.aku.edu/ismc