CONFERENCES 1. Conference: "The Battle of Yarmuk (636 CE): Rethinking ‘Conquest’ in the Late Antique Near East from Byzantium to Islam", University of Tuebingen, 16-17 June 2017 2. International Workshop: "Dialogues in Late Medieval Mediterranean: The Cultural Legacy of Western Islamic Societies", Lisbon, 20 June 2017 3. Conference of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), Beït Al-Hikma, Carthage, Tunisia, 4-6 July 2017 4. Expert Workshop: “From Neoliberal to Socially-Just Reconstruction – The Role of Civil Society in Shaping Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policies in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya”, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Beirut, 19-20 September 2017 5. Conference: "Eastern Coins in the Early Modern World - Antiquarianism and the Oriental Artifact 1500-1800", Trujillo, Spain, 26-29 September 2017 6. International Conference: "Academic Theses in Qur´anic Studies: West and Muslim World in Comparison", Istanbul, 23-26 November 2017 7. Symposium: “Tourism: The Phenomenon and its Socio-Economic Consequences”, Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies & Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development, Beja, Tunisia, 28-30 November 2017 8. Conferences of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2018-2020, Oxford University POSITIONS 9. Chair in the Early Modern History of the Mediterranean (c. 1450-1700), European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy 10. Visiting Scholars at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London 11. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: “Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts”, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2018–2019 12. Copy Editor for the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) OTHER INFORMATION 13. BRAIS - De Gruyter Prize for the Study of Islam and the Muslim World 14. Cape Town Summer School on Critical Muslim Studies: “Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies" 15. Articles on: "Deconstructing Unitary Statehood: Hybrid Security in Africa and the Middle East" for Special Issue of "Small Wars and Insurgencies" If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1500 recipients) and EURAMES Info Service (more than 6000 recipients, only English and French announcements), please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 50 words and no attachment. Please send only the most important information to davo@geo.uni-mainz.de and refer to further details with a link to the respective website or an email address. Best regards, Guenter Meyer, Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz ____________________ CONFERENCES 1. Conference: "The Battle of Yarmuk (636 CE): Rethinking ‘Conquest’ in the Late Antique Near East from Byzantium to Islam", University of Tuebingen, 16-17 June 2017 The organizers of this conference are aiming to bring together, among others, Byzantinists and Arabists and engage in a shared debate on the history and reception of the events attached to a specific memory space. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/182545/battle-yarmuk-636-ce-rethinking-%E2%80%98conquest%E2%80%99-late-antique-near _____________ 2. International Workshop: "Dialogues in Late Medieval Mediterranean: The Cultural Legacy of Western Islamic Societies", Lisbon, 20 June 2017 The main goal will be to analyze the Islamic cultural legacy in a comprehensive approach, from the multidisciplinary fields of History of Art, Architecture, History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Music and History of Religions. The participant researchers are from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Argentina, Switzerland, United States and Mauritania. Deadline for registration: 18 June 2017. Information: http://iem.fcsh.unl.pt/section.aspx?kind=noticia&id=1263 _____________ 3. Conference of the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA), Beït Al-Hikma, Carthage, Tunisia, 4-6 July 2017 The meeting will focus on the following three areas: Epistemology: The Place of the Qurʾanic Studies in Islamic sciences; Methods and Tools (Presuppositions, Applications and Purposes); Themes and Interpretations: Qurʾanic polemics. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2017/05/30/2017-international-meeting-tunisia/ _____________ 4. Expert Workshop: “From Neoliberal to Socially-Just Reconstruction – The Role of Civil Society in Shaping Post-Conflict Reconstruction Policies in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya”, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Beirut, 19-20 September 2017 Interested academics, researchers and civil society representatives from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Libya (or with significant research/ professional experience on these countries) are invited to submit abstracts. Deadline for abstracts: 2 July 2017. Information: http://www.fes-syria.org/index.php?id=61 _____________ 5. Conference: "Eastern Coins in the Early Modern World - Antiquarianism and the Oriental Artifact 1500-1800", Trujillo, Spain, 26-29 September 2017 Organized by Martin Mulsow (Erfurt) and Stefan Heidemann (Hamburg), the conference will explore the early beginnings of western ‘Orientalism’ with an artefact, comparatively abundant in Europe: coins. Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2017. Information and contact: martin.mulsow@uni-erfurt.de or Stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.de _____________ 6. International Conference: "Academic Theses in Qur´anic Studies: West and Muslim World in Comparison", Istanbul, 23-26 November 2017 Masters and Doctoral theses in the field of Qur'anic Studies in the West and Muslim world will be evaluated. The ultimate goal in this conference is to determine the scientific quality and standards of post-graduate academic studies for Qur'anic Studies in Universities. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2017. Information: http://www.conference.tefsir.gen.tr/en/ _____________ 7. Symposium: “Tourism: The Phenomenon and its Socio-Economic Consequences”, Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies & Tunisian World Center for Studies, Research, and Development, Beja, Tunisia, 28-30 November 2017 The theme could be approached from different perspectives, which include the phenomenon of tourism; the economic dimension of tourism; the socio-cultural dimension of tourism. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2017. Information: http://www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imgen/478-cfp-10thconference-2017.pdf _____________ 8. Conferences of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 2018-2020, Oxford University Information on all conferences: http://aramsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Forthcoming-Conferences-1.pdf _____________ POSITIONS 9. Chair in the Early Modern History of the Mediterranean (c. 1450-1700), European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy Candidates should have a distinguished record of scholarly publications and experience in postgraduate teaching and doctoral supervision. Deadline for application: 28 July 2017. Information: http://www.eui.eu/Documents/ServicesAdmin/AcademicService/JobOpportunities/2017/HEC2-2017.pdf _____________ 10. Visiting Scholars at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London Applicants should have experience in one of the following research themes: The Construction of Knowledge about Muslim Cultures and Societies; Understanding the Processes of Social Change in Muslim Cultures and Societies; Governance for the Public Interest in Muslim Contexts. Deadline for application: 15 June 2017. Information: http://www.aku.edu/vacancies/pages/job-detail.aspx?JobID=3912&Title=Call%20for%20Visiting%20Scholars%202017/18 _____________ 11. Post-Doctoral Fellowship: “Jewish Life in Modern Islamic Contexts”, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2018–2019 The fellowship will support scholarship on Jewish life, culture and thought as these have developed in modern times across North Africa, the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and Central and South Asia. Deadline for application: 31 October 2017. Information: http://katz.sas.upenn.edu/fellowship-program/next-year _____________ 12. Copy Editor for the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Applications are invited for a copy editor for freelance contract work on IQSA’s three scholarly publication projects: JIQSA (annual journal), ISIQ (monograph series), RQR (monthly review of books). This is a deadline-driven position with overlapping seasonal workflows where diverse specialized texts require detailed technical editing in short turnaround times. Position open until filled. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/iqsa-job-vacancy-copy-editor/ _____________ SONSTIGE INFORMATIONEN / OTHER INFORMATION 13. BRAIS - De Gruyter Prize for the Study of Islam and the Muslim World The prize will be awarded to the best English-language doctoral thesis on the study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality. The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000. Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2017. Information: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize _____________ 14. Cape Town Summer School on Critical Muslim Studies: “Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies" The Summer School is an attempt to situate the conversations on Islam and Decoloniality more firmly in the Global South. Deadline for application: 11 August 2017. Information: https://criticalmuslimct.com/ _____________ 15. Articles on: "Deconstructing Unitary Statehood: Hybrid Security in Africa and the Middle East" for Special Issue of "Small Wars and Insurgencies" The main focus is on the multi-actor and multi-level nature of security governance across the Middle East and Africa, sidestepping the application of fictitious notions of state unitary actorness and absolute monopoly of violence. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2017. Information: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fswi20/current; contact Ruth Hanau Santini rhanausantini@johnshopkins.it and Abel Polese ap@tlu.ee
mardi 13 juin 2017
EURAMES Info Service 23/2017
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