EURAMES Info Service 53/2018

CONFERENCES

1.    International Conference: "Untangling Popular Power: Rhetoric, Faith, and Social Order in the Middle East," Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Columbia Global Center Amman, Jordan, 2-3 March 2019

2.    Fourth Georgetown-Qatar Arabic Program Symposium: "Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects", Doha, 24-25 April 2019

3.    International Conference on Mobile Identities 2019: "The Mediterranean Crossings: Border-crossing, Representations, and Estrangement on the Sea Shores", Universitaire Ait Melloul, Morocco, 24-25 April 2019

4.    Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Crete, Greece, 29 May - 1 June 2019

5.    Sixth International Graduate Conference on "Cultural Entanglement, Transfer and Contention in Mediterranean Communities", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Budapest, 30 May - 1 June 2019

6.    International Conference on Ιbadi Studies 2019: "Ibadism and the Study of Islam: A view from the edge", Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 17-19 June 2019

7.    19th International Migration Conference "Mapping the Nation", Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines CDMH, Dudelange/Luxembourg, 27- 28 June 2019 

8.       Qur’an Conference of the International Qur´anic Studies Association on "Reading the Qur’an in the Context of Empire", University of New England, Tangier, Morocco, 25-26 July 2019

9.    Panel: "Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim Groups and the Ottoman State in the “Post-Classical Age”, during the MESA Meeting in New Orleans, 14-17 November 2019

10.   Colloque international du réseau de chercheurs Amoun : « Cinéma et littérature en Egypte - L’adaptation : moments clés dans une histoire commune », Université du Caire, 16-18 novembre 2019

11.  Conference: “The Ties that Bind: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire", Leiden University, 2-6 December 2019

12.  Conference: "Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia: Current and Historical Perspectives", University of Haifa, 16-18 December 2019

POSITIONS

13.  Visiting Fellow in Comparative Religion, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

14.  Visiting Fellowships at Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program: "Law and Social Change" for 2019–2020 Academic Year

15.  Assistant or Associate Professor at the Department of History at the American University in Cairo

OTHER INFORMATION

16.  PhD Research Grants of the Orient-Institut Istanbul

17.  German Parliamentary Scholarship for Young Arab Graduates in Berlin, 1-30 September 2019

18.  Undergraduate/Graduate Studies and Research on Islamic Studies & Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Edinburgh

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CONFERENCES

1.    International Conference: "Untangling Popular Power: Rhetoric, Faith, and Social Order in the Middle East," Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Columbia Global Center Amman, Jordan, 2-3 March 2019

This forum aims to explore the extent to which recently emerging populisms in the contemporary Middle East are illustrative of a new historical trend, and/or the extent to which they are a continuation of the diverse strategies for the mobilization of peoples that were deployed during international anti-colonial projects and civil rights movements.

Deadline for final papers: 15 January 2018. Information:
https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/call-papers-untangling-popular-power-rhetoric-faith-and-social-order-middle-east-march-2-3

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2.    Fourth Georgetown-Qatar Arabic Program Symposium: "Arabic Heritage Education: Pedagogy, Challenges, and Prospects", Doha, 24-25 April 2019

This symposium seeks to address significant aspects of heritage Arabic education. It aspires to provide a platform for sharing and discussing key issues in this field. Participants are expected to share their research on heritage Arabic education, whether in the Arab world or elsewhere. Free accommodation for international participants.

Deadline for abstracts: 11 January 2019. Information: https://www.qatar.georgetown.edu/faculty/arabic-events

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3.    International Conference on Mobile Identities 2019: "The Mediterranean Crossings: Border-crossing, Representations, and Estrangement on the Sea Shores", Universitaire Ait Melloul, Morocco, 24-25 April 2019

This conference seeks to invite contributors from all sorts of discipline to discuss the questions of crossing the Mediterranean and what this process entails for the migrants, politicians, NGOs, economists, geopoliticians, sociologists, social politics, and social work.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019. Information: http://clas-lab.com/

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4.    Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Crete, Greece, 29 May - 1 June 2019

Individual papers, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods are invited.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/call-for-papers-august-2018.html

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5.    Sixth International Graduate Conference on "Cultural Entanglement, Transfer and Contention in Mediterranean Communities", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Budapest, 30 May - 1 June 2019

The aim of this conference is to work against the grain of disciplinary boundaries to better understand these processes of inheritance, transmission, and exchange both diachronically and synchronically. How were the cultures of Mediterranean communities particularized through accommodation to, modification of, and divergence from their shared pasts?

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: https://cems.ceu.edu/cems-graduate-conference-2019

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6.    International Conference on Ιbadi Studies 2019: "Ibadism and the Study of Islam: A view from the edge", Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 17-19 June 2019

The Conference will locate the study of Ibadism interdisciplinarily as we examine how the spatial metaphor of center and edge, when applied to the study of Ibadism, can gesture to new research orientations in the field of Islamic studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019.  Information: https://ibadistudies.org/index.php

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7.    19th International Migration Conference "Mapping the Nation", Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines CDMH, Dudelange/Luxembourg, 27- 28 June 2019 

We are looking for research paper presentations that seek to shed new light on the process of the cultural, social and economic conditions under which the nation and nation-state are constructed (anew) and reproduced in the context of migration.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2019. Information: http://web.fhnw.ch/plattformen/migrationskonf?set_language=en

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8.    Qur’an Conference of the International Qur´anic Studies Association on "Reading the Qur’an in the Context of Empire", University of New England, Tangier, Morocco, 25-26 July 2019

We are particularly interested in papers about how rulers, politicians, religious figures and later colonial officers and European travelers contributed to the production, distribution and reception of Scriptures in general and the Qur’an in particular.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2019. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/international-meeting-2019/

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9.    Panel: "Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim Groups and the Ottoman State in the “Post-Classical Age”, during the MESA Meeting in New Orleans, 14-17 November 2019

The panel aims to develop fresh and likewise philologically grounded perspectives on these communities, whose history in the Ottoman Empire is oftentimes misconstrued by outdated binaries, such as orthodoxy-heterodoxy, minority-majority, high-low-Islam etc.

Abstracts for papers may be sent to benjamin.weineck@uni-bayreuth.de until 1 February 2019

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10.  Colloque international du réseau de chercheurs Amoun : « Cinéma et littérature en Egypte - L’adaptation : moments clés dans une histoire commune », Université du Caire, 16-18 novembre 2019

Ce premier colloque du réseau de chercheurs Amoun envisage les rapports entre littérature et cinéma en Egypte en vue de produire une histoire commune qui les réunit.

Date limite : 15 janvier 2019. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2018/11/Appel-colloque-Amoun.pdf

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11.  Conference: “The Ties that Bind: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire", Leiden University, 2-6 December 2019

In focusing on local and regional elites, we aim to understand how the authority and power of the caliphate was actualized within the daily lives of the empire’s inhabitants.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-dependency-in-the-early-islamic-empire-2-6-december-2019/

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12.  Conference: "Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia: Current and Historical Perspectives", University of Haifa, 16-18 December 2019

We are interested in particular in the political, military, economic and cultural aspects of the relations, their determinants, undercurrents, and trajectories, as well as in other external players in the region.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/3431987/cfp-multilateral-dynamics-between-middle-east-and-asia-haifa

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POSITIONS

13.  Visiting Fellow in Comparative Religion, Clare Hall, Cambridge University

The Fellow (at an early stage of the career) will pursue research into two or more faiths, or into a faith which is not the Fellow’s own, with a view to gaining a deeper understanding of religion in comparative context. The stipend for one year is £26,000 etc.

Deadline for application: 4 January 2019. Information: https://www.spaldingtrust.org.uk/files/inline-files/Advertisment_Spalding_2018.pdf

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14.  Visiting Fellowships at Harvard Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program: "Law and Social Change" for 2019–2020 Academic Year

We welcome applicants with a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD or other comparable degree who are interested in spending from one month up to one academic year in residence at Harvard Law School working on an independent project.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/how-to-apply/

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15.  Assistant or Associate Professor at the Department of History at the American University in Cairo

This is a five-year position, beginning fall 2019. All specializations and areas of study are welcome.

Deadline for application: 15 March 2019. Information: https://www.aucegypt.edu/about/jobs/faculty-vacancies, click on the History Faculty position, then on "Apply now."

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OTHER INFORMATION

16.  PhD Research Grants of the Orient-Institut Istanbul

The grants support field research in Istanbul by PhD students not living in Turkey in one of the research areas of the Institute:

1. Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey 2. Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire 3. Historic and contemporary forms of religious expression in Anatolia since the 11th century 4. Manuscript cultures in the Ottoman Empire and Iran 5. Human, medicine, and society The award consists of a monthly stipend of € 1,100 for up to six months the reimbursement of travel expenses. Start of the scholarship should be at latest 1 November 2019.

Deadline for applications: 7 January 2019. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/stipendien/

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17.  German Parliamentary Scholarship for Young Arab Graduates in Berlin, 1-30 September 2019

The scholarship program is aimed at highly-motivated, capable and talented young individuals from the Arab region who are open to new ideas, interested in politics and wish to play an active and responsible role in shaping the democratic future of their country. Very good knowledge of German is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2018. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian/250618

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18.  Undergraduate/Graduate Studies and Research on Islamic Studies & Christian-Muslim Relations, University of Edinburgh

Pursue interdisciplinary study of Islamic thought and practice, and of encounters between Christianity and Islam, Interfaith Awareness and World Christian Consciousness.

Application deadline: 31 August 2019. Information: https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity

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