CONFERENCES
1. Annual Meeting of the
"American Academy of Religion", Denver, 17-20 November 2018
2. Conference: "Mapping the
Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern and Contemporary History", SOAS
University of London, 1 December 2018
3. Workshop: "The Politics of
the Judiciary and the Legal System in Contemporary Iran", Institute for
the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 4 December 2018
4. Mediterranean Panels and Papers at the Annual Meeting
of the "American Historical Association", Chicago, 3-6 January 2019
5. Conference of the World History
Association of Texas on "Global Civil Rights", Texas A&M
University, 23 February 2019
6. Annual Palestine Research
Seminar, SOAS University of London, 27 February 2019
7. Conference: “The International
Politics of Middle East Migration – Problems, Policy, Practice”. University of
Birmingham, 7-8 March 2019
8. Graduate Conference on “Movement
and Migration,” Stony Brook University, 30 March 2019
9. Workshop: "Sovereign
Institutions and Migration in South Asia", Radboud University Nijmegen, 3
April 2019
10. Graduate Student Symposium of the
Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 4-5 April 2019
11. Symposia Iranica, St John´s
College, Cambridge, 9-10 April 2019
12. Sixth Conference of International
Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), SOAS University of London, 16-17 May 2019
13. “China and the Middle East and
North Africa Conference”, Northwest University, Xi’an, China, 16-18 May 2019
14. Conference: "Pilgrimage and
the Senses", University of Oxford, 7 June 2019
15. Workshop: “Currents and Currency:
Cultural Circulations in the Mediterranean and Beyond”, Koç University, Turkey,
13-15 June 2019
16. Interdisciplinary Conference:
"The Arab World as Ghurba: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Literature
and Popular Culture", University of Warwick, 21 June 2019
17. International Workshop: “Gender,
Fashion, and Embodiment in Islam”, University of Hamburg, 29-30 June 2019
18. Workshop: "Critical
Perspectives on 'Modern Slavery': Law, Policy and Society", University of
Hull, 30 October 2019
19. 26th International Congress of
the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in Cooperation with the
Section Islam Studies of the DMG, University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019
POSITIONS
20. Communications Manager, LSE
Middle East Centre, London
21. Fellowship on Gender, Human
Rights and Refugees in the Middle East, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice
University
22. Assistant Professor with
Expertise in East or Southeast Asia or the Middle East, Department of Historical
and Political Studies, Arcadia University
OTHER
INFORMATION
23. 8 PhD Scholarships in Cultural
Studies at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC),
University of Giessen, Germany
24.
Visiting Scholar
Grants to Use the Archives at the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora
Studies
25. Funding Opportunities for
2019-2020 and Research Awards by the "Council of British Research in the
Levant"
26. Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral
Fellowship 2019-20, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
27. Economic Research Forum on
"Non-Monetary Dimensions of Inequality and Poverty among the Youth in the
ERF Region", Tunisia, 23 December 2018
28. Shia Studies Course, University
of Religion and Denominations, Iran, 22-28 February 2019
29. Articles on "Working with
Muslim Clients in the Helping Professions"
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CONFERENCES
1. Annual Meeting of the "American Academy of Religion", Denver,
17-20 November 2018
Mediterranean-themed papers and sessions will be featured at the
meeting.
See titles and abstracts at https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-sessions-at-the-aar-17-20-november-denver?e=82aeb6c61d
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2. Conference: "Mapping the Role of Intellectuals in Iranian Modern
and Contemporary History", SOAS University of London, 1 December 2018
Forty years after the Revolution, how can we evaluate the role of
Iranian intellectuals in the history of Iranian modernity and in the process of
the Iranian democratic debate? This question and many others are some of the
key points this one-day conference – organized by the Centre for Iranian
Studies at SOAS – will explore.
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3. Workshop: "The Politics of the Judiciary and the Legal System in
Contemporary Iran", Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga
Khan University, London, 4 December 2018
The workshop aims to analyze the judicial and legal institutions of the
Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) in their social and political and historical
contexts. Both the application of the Sharia and the rule of law have been
major pillars of the ideology of the IRI since its inception.
Registration and information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politics-of-the-judiciary-and-the-legal-system-in-contemporary-iran-tickets-52259708194
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4.
Mediterranean Panels
and Papers at the Annual Meeting of the "American Historical Association",
Chicago, 3-6 January 2019
See 29 panels on Mediterranean themes at https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-sessions-at-the-aha-3-6-january-chicago-q6c36i5qk6?e=82aeb6c61d
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5. Conference of the World History Association of Texas on "Global
Civil Rights", Texas A&M University, 23 February 2019
We envision the theme broadly as transnational, multicultural, and
multiethnic recognizing there are many avenues toward building an historical
narrative of civil rights that may include dimensions of gender, race,
ethnicity, identity, sexuality, equity, equality, resistance, and social
justice.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3138174/extended-deadline-cfp-world-history-association-texas-global
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6. Annual Palestine Research Seminar, SOAS University of London, 27
February 2019
This one-day research seminar provides a critical platform for PhD
students working on Palestine or Palestine-related issues to present their
projects and discuss theoretical and research questions. We welcome a broad
range of topics aiming at an inter-disciplinary dialogue across Palestine
Studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2018. Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cps/events/27feb2019-annual-palestine-research-seminar.html
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7. Conference: “The International Politics of Middle East Migration –
Problems, Policy, Practice”. University of Birmingham, 7-8 March 2019
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars
working on the interplay of international relations and migration into, out of,
and across the Middle East, both historically and in contemporary times.
Funding is available to cover participants’ costs.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 December 2018. Information:
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/government-society/polsis/news-events/2018/BA-2019-Tsourapas.pdf
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8. Graduate Conference on “Movement and Migration,” Stony Brook University,
30 March 2019
The conference offers graduate students an excellent opportunity to
network, engage with new and innovative scholarship from multiple disciplines,
and receive feedback on their research projects from fellow students and
established scholars.
Submission deadline: 1 February 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3075799/cfp-grad-conference-“movement-and-migration”-w-keynote-speaker
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9. Workshop: "Sovereign Institutions and Migration in South
Asia", Radboud University Nijmegen, 3 April 2019
This one-day workshop seeks to juxtapose land-based sovereign
institutions with the various kinds of movement that occurred throughout the
Indian Ocean during the 18th and 19th centuries. Through the discussion of
migration over these centuries, we hope to assess the influence of these
governing bodies over local communities, as well as the agency that local
communities had in dictating their own mobilities.
Deadline for
abstracts: 31 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3111239/sovereign-institutions-and-migration-south-asia
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10. Graduate Student Symposium of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill
University, 4-5 April 2019
We are invite graduate students at all stages of research and
dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate communities anywhere in
the world to submit proposals for individual paper presentations.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3031188/cfp-mcgill-institutes-islamic-studies-graduate-student
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11. Symposia Iranica, St John´s College, Cambridge, 9-10 April 2019
Symposia Iranica is a dedicated, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed
platform open to emerging scholars working on any aspect of Iranian or Persian
Studies within the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2018. Information: http://symposia-iranica.com/cfp/
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12. Sixth Conference of International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA),
SOAS University of London, 16-17 May 2019
The proposed topics may be in any field of economics, economic history
and political economy. The Program Committee welcomes both empirical and
theoretical papers that use quantitative or analytical narrative methods.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2019. Information: https://mailchi.mp/1c8bc21785e5/call-for-papers-international-iranian-economic-association-iiea-sixth-international-conference?e=66e25d39c7
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13. “China and the Middle East and North Africa Conference”, Northwest
University, Xi’an, China, 16-18 May 2019
Topics include the Political Economy of the Middle East, Environmental
Issues, Social Movements, Religion and Politics, Gender Issues in the Middle
East, etc.
Deadline for
abstracts: 15 April 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/2858642/cfp-5th-china-and-middle-east-and-north-africa-conference
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14. Conference: "Pilgrimage and the Senses", University of Oxford,
7 June 2019
This interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of Oxford
aims to shed light on how sensory perception shapes and is shaped by the
experience of pilgrimage across cultures, faith traditions, and throughout
history.
Deadline for
abstracts: 20 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112523/cfp-pilgrimage-and-senses-conference-oxford-7-june-2019
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15. Workshop: “Currents and Currency: Cultural Circulations in the
Mediterranean and Beyond”, Koç University, Turkey, 13-15 June 2019
The conference aims to bring together cultural works that constitute
alternative archives of the Mediterranean in order to reassess the current
geographical divides that shape typical understandings of the Mediterranean and
beyond.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/call-for-abstracts-currents-and-currency-cultural-circulations-in-the-mediterranean-and-beyond_87821.php
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16. Interdisciplinary Conference: "The Arab World as Ghurba:
Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Literature and Popular Culture",
University of Warwick, 21 June 2019
This conference is interested in how migration to the Arab world appears
in literature as well as culture more generally, and in what this documentation
tells us about the Arab world as a migrant destination, or a place of ghurba.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2018. Information: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/arab/
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17. International Workshop: “Gender, Fashion, and Embodiment in Islam”,
University of Hamburg, 29-30 June 2019
We want to compare the dynamics in the so-called “Islamic center” (the
Arabian Peninsula) with developments in the so called “Muslim Periphery". The
workshop aims to problematize the discursive and lived interactions between
gender, fashion, spirituality, religion, class, and ethnicity.
Deadline for
abstracts: 19 January 2018. Information: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/soa/personen/thimm/medien/workshop-gender-fashion-islam.pdf
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18. Workshop: "Critical Perspectives on 'Modern Slavery': Law, Policy
and Society", University of Hull, 30 October 2019
We particularly seek papers that question and theorize the use of the term
“modern slavery”, and related legal and policy responses, from any perspective
or discipline.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3071776/cfp-critical-perspectives-“modern-slavery”-law-policy-and
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19. 26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies
Association (DAVO) in Cooperation with the Section Islam Studies of the DMG,
University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019
Mind the date! Website with detailed information will soon be available.
Deadline for
abstracts of panels on 15 February 2019 and papers on 30 April 2019. Information:
davo@geo.uni-mainz.de
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POSITIONS
20. Communications Manager, LSE Middle East Centre, London
LSA seeks to hire an experienced Communications Manager to lead the
Centre’s communications work and research impact. The postholder is responsible
for managing the Centre’s publications, events, web presence and outreach work.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information:
https://apply.interfolio.com/57545Deadline for applications: 29 November 2018.
Information: https://bit.ly/2zzwZ61
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21. Fellowship on Gender, Human Rights and Refugees in the Middle East,
Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University
Position for a Fellow whose work is at the intersection of gender, human
rights, and refugees in the Middle East. This is an endowed position with
primary responsibility in conducting policy-relevant research on these topics.
Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.
Information: https://jobs.rice.edu/postings/16664
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22. Assistant Professor with Expertise in East or Southeast Asia or the Middle
East, Department of Historical and Political Studies, Arcadia University
Thematic specialization in one or more of the following areas is
desired: international political economy, global governance, conflict
management, or environmental politics and sustainable development. We welcome
candidates with training in Political Science, History, Anthropology, and other
related disciplinary and interdisciplinary fields.
Consideration of
applications will begin 14 December 2018. Information:
https://faculty-arcadia.icims.com/jobs/2352/assistant-professor-in-the-department-of-historical-%26-political-studies/job
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SONSTIGE
INFORMATIONEN / OTHER INFORMATION
23. 8 PhD Scholarships in Cultural Studies at the International Graduate
Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen, Germany
The GCSC encourages applications which make a significant contribution
to the study of culture in various historical contexts, including contemporary
phenomena. An international research perspective, i.e. international study
experience, is an advantage. Scholarships are offered for one year with the
possibility of two extensions, each of one year.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112516/8-phd-scholarships-cultural-studies-gcsc-giessen-university
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24. Visiting Scholar Grants to Use the Archives at the Khayrallah Center for
Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Funding for researchers - at all levels of their
career from graduate students to senior scholars - working on early Arab
diaspora and migration to work at the Khayrallah Center for a period of 1 to 2
weeks.
Applications
are accepted on a rolling basis with no deadline. Information:
https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/VisitingScholar.php
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25. Funding Opportunities for 2019-2020 and Research Awards by the
"Council of British Research in the Levant"
CBRL offers research grants for fellowships, project awards and travel
grants.
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26. Byzantine Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019-20, University of Notre
Dame, Indiana
This fellowship is designed for junior scholars with a completed
doctorate whose research deals with Byzantine Studies om history (including its
auxiliary disciplines), archaeology, art history, literature, theology, and
liturgical studies, as well as the study of Byzantium’s interactions with
neighboring cultures.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/57545
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27. Economic Research Forum on "Non-Monetary Dimensions of Inequality
and Poverty among the Youth in the ERF Region", Tunisia, 23 December 2018
This approach is based on the assumption of a decomposable
multi-attributes rank-dependent social welfare function. Since these social
welfare functions are additive in the different attributes, researchers can use
the same framework to analyze socioeconomic inequalities in other non-income
dimensions, such as education.
Deadline for proposals: 23 December 2018. Information: http://erf.org.eg/2018/11/13/call-for-proposalsl-non-monetary-dimensions-of-inequality-and-poverty-among-teh-youth-in-the-erf-region/
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28. Shia Studies Course, University of Religion and Denominations, Iran,
22-28 February 2019
The Shi’a Intensive Course endeavors to enhance scholarly attention to
Shi’a Islam and offer an original and insightful understanding of its history,
doctrines, and practices. Combining the classical Shi’ite thought and the
current political, social, and religious concerns of Shi’ite society in Iran,
this program aims to offer scholarly perspectives on challenging issues that
affect contemporary Iran.
Information:
http://shiacourse.urd.ac.ir/
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29. Articles on "Working with Muslim Clients in the Helping
Professions"
The goal of this volume is to prepare helping professionals in areas
such as social work, human resources, counseling, palliative care, nursing,
public health, guidance counselors, funeral services, life coaches, and other
related areas to understand pertinent issues that may impact their success
working with Muslim clients.
Deadline for
abstracts: 26 December 2018. Information: https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/3551
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