EURAMES Info Service 31/2014.

EURAMES Info Service 31/2014


Dear Madame, dear Sir, dear colleague and friend,

Please find below the following announcements:

CONFERENCES

1. Seminar: “Democracy in Contemporary Egypt”, Pembroke College, Oxford, 17-18
September 2014

2. Authors' Presentations: "Businessmen in Arms. How the Military and Other Armed
Groups Profit in the MENA Region",  Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC, 1
October 2014

3. Colloque final du projet européen RELMIN . "Minorités et Cohabitations
Religieuses du Moyen-Âge à nos Jours", Nantes, France,  20-22 octobre 2014

4. Third International Conference on Iran’s Economy, Boston College, 24-25 October 2014
 
5. International Conference: "The Visual World of Persianate Culture", University of
Edinburgh, 24-26 October 2014

6. Workshop: "“Land and Sea in the Mediterranean World” , University of California
Santa Barbara, 7-8 November 2014

7. Conference: "Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions",  Saint Louis
University, 26-27 March 2015 

8. Tenth Arab Media Centre Annual Conference: “History in the Making: Arab Media and
Processes of Remembering”, London, 24 April 2015


POSITIONS

9. PhD Position at the Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA), Cairo

10. PhD Position "Mecca in Morocco: Negotiating the Meanings of Hajj in Everday
Life", University of Groningen, The Netherlands

11. Positions at American Universities

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CONFERENCES

1. Seminar: “Democracy in Contemporary Egypt”, Pembroke College, Oxford, 17-18
September 2014

The seminar will showcase the results of survey research conducted by Prof Stephen
Whitefield, Dr Mazen Hassan and Dr Elisabeth Kendall following Egypt’s parliamentary
elections in 2011 and presidential elections in 2014. It will provide an opportunity
for international scholars and policy-makers to engage with this research as well as
to present their own work and conclusions.

Information 
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/details/34914-seminar-on-democracy-in-contemporary-egypt.html

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2. Authors' Presentations: "Businessmen in Arms. How the Military and Other Armed
Groups Profit in the MENA Region",  Bonn International Center for Conversion BICC, 1
October 2014

Nine authors and partners in the cooperative research project "Economic Interests
and Actors during and after the Arab Spring" will present and discuss their draft
papers for a planned book publication, which will be the final output of a two-years
project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in its funding initiative
"Transformations in the Arab World / Pilot Studies".

Registration for participation until 23 September 2014 through pr@bicc.de.

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3. Colloque final du projet européen RELMIN . "Minorités et Cohabitations
Religieuses du Moyen-Âge à nos Jours", Nantes, France,  20-22 octobre 2014

Le programme de recherche RELMIN, qui travaille depuis 2010 sur l’étude des règles
de cohabitations et sur le statut des minorités religieuses, dresse le bilan d’une
recherche scientifique approfondi et livre, à l’occasion de ce colloque
international, ses observations pour une meilleure compréhension de l’héritage
multi-religieux et pour favoriser et susciter un dialogue apaisé et éclairé pour
lutter contre les formes d’obscurantisme, d’intolérance, de communautarisme.

Information :
http://www.relmin.eu/index.php/fr/actualites/evenements/1-colloque-final-relmin/event_details

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4. Third International Conference on Iran’s Economy, Boston College, 24-25 October 2014
 
The International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA) is organizing this Conference.
It was initiated by 25 senior economists from various institutions around the globe
who act as its ‘Founding Members’. 
 
Pre-registration required at
http://store.soas.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=23&catid=218&prodvarid=276..

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5. International Conference: "The Visual World of Persianate Culture", University of
Edinburgh, 24-26 October 2014

This international conference will explore the importance of the visual in the
Persian world and examine the historic role of visual culture in the shaping,
influencing, and transforming of Persian cultures across the various historical
periods, ranging from pre-Islamic cultures, medieval / early modern Islamic
cultures, to Iran’s modern visual cultures. An immensely rich visual culture has
always existed in Iran and the surrounding regions from early antiquity, often
shaped by encounters with different zones of contact and patronised by ruling elites
and dynasties with a myriad of artistic and cultural traditions, needs and agendas.
This conference is sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation.

Preliminary programme is available / registration is required:
http://persianconference2014.wordpress.com/programme/

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6. Workshop: "“Land and Sea in the Mediterranean World” , University of California
Santa Barbara, 7-8 November 2014

The Workshop will be held in conjunction with a symposium organized by the Medieval
Studies Program at UC Santa Barbara. We invite proposals for workshop papers  on the
topics relating to the land and sea in the Mediterranean which may include works on
Mediterranean methodologies or perspectives, or studies strongly informed by such.
We seek papers in any relevant discipline, especially comparative or
interdisciplinary work that uses the Mediterranean as a frame of analysis.

Deadline for workshop proposals:  21 September 2014. Information
mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

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7. Conference: "Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions",  Saint Louis
University, 26-27 March 2015 

The conference is focusing on the following themes:
•To what extent is there a common paradigm in the ways Jews, Christians, and Muslims
have addressed the needs of the more vulnerable members of their respective
societies? 
• How do the three religions differ in their understanding of poverty and wealth,
and in their justifications for giving charity? How does religious duty to be
charitable translate into private and public virtue?
•How do charitable institutions affect cross-cultural interactions--between
different cultures and religions, as well as between dominant and minority groups? 

Deadline for submissions: 10 December 2014. Information
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=216172

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8. Tenth Arab Media Centre Annual Conference: “History in the Making: Arab Media and
Processes of Remembering”, London, 24 April 2015

This one-day conference will seek to address issues raised by the place of Arab
media in history, the function of media artefacts as historical sources, and the
processes involved in documenting and storing media images and accounts that will
make the past accessible to future generations.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 November 2014. Information
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/arab-media/events/history-in-the-making-arab-media-and-processes-of-remembering

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POSITIONS

9. PhD Position at the Arab Forum for Alternatives (AFA), Cairo

The PhD student will collaborate in the research project "Socioeconomic protests and
political transformation: dynamics of contentious politics in Egypt and Tunisia
against the background of South American experiences", which is conducted in
cooperation with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF),  the Volkswagen
Foundation in Germany, and the University of Sfax, Tunisia. The positions is open
for all who have completed Masters degree in social sciences (preferably political
sciences) and are fluent speaking and writing skills in English and Arabic; working
knowledge of French is an advantage; etc.

Deadline for application: 30 October 2014. Information Dr. Nadine Abdalla:
nadine.abdalla1984@gmail.com

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10. PhD Position "Mecca in Morocco: Negotiating the Meanings of Hajj in Everday
Life", University of Groningen, The Netherlands

 The research project consists of extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Morocco  to
investigate the meanings and sociocultural embeddedness of pilgrimage to  Mecca in
contemporary Moroccan society.

The PhD student is expected:  •  to have an excellent master’s diploma (preferably a
Research > master) in Cultural Anthropology or another relevant discipline •  ample
experience with ethnographic fieldwork •  to have an excellent profiency in (oral)
Arabic, preferably the  Moroccan-Arabic dialect  •  to have the abilities to finish
the PhD thesis in four years; etc.

Deadline of application 27 October 2014. Information:
http://www.rug.nl/about-us/work-with-us/job-opportunities/overview?details=00347-02S000482P

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11. Positions at American Universities

a) University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign - Assistant Professor in Islamic
Studies, information http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49468

b) University of Virginia - Visiting Faculty in Israel Studies, information
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49415

c) New York University Abu Dhabi - Faculty Position, Ethnomusicology, NYU Abu Dhabi;
information http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49435

d) San Diego State University - Assistant Professor, Historian of Modern Middle
East/North Africa (MENA), information
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=49422