samedi 11 janvier 2020

EURAMES Info Service 01/2020


CONFERENCES

1.    International Conference of the Academy of Exile: “Dire Times: Critical Thinking Then and Now”, Berlin Max Planck Society, 16-17 January 2020

2.    7e Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient : « Images et imaginaires au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord », EHESS, Paris, 23-24 janvier 2020

3.    Workshop: "Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement", Naples, 11 February 2020

4.    International Conference on Qur'anic Studies, Tehran, 24-25 February 2020

5.    Conference of the Islamicate Graduate Student Association: "Who Speaks for Islam?: Approaches to Authority within the Academy and Beyond", Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 29 February 2020

6.    7th Annual Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown University, 6-7 March 2020

7.    Workshop: "Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies", University of Oxford, 10-11 March 2020

8.    Panel on “National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March 2020

9.    Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University Graduate Student Symposium, 26-27 March 2020

10.  Islam Section of the AAR Midwest Regional Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March 2020

11.  6th Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for Peace and Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020

12.  26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020

13.  International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020

14.  Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020

15.  Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium, 21-22 April 2020

16.  8th International Symposium on the History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April 2020

17.  Conference of the Collaborative Research Group Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020

18.  Early Career Academics Symposium in Honour of Fred Halliday, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, 30 April 2020

19.  10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020

20.  Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020

21.  International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020

22.  International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020

23.  11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020

24.  International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020

25.  Conference: News Media in the Middle East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo, 26-27 May 2020

26.  23rd Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30 May 2020

27.  International Conference: “The Discourse of Anger in the Arab World since 2011”, Grenoble Alpes University, 28-29 May 2020

28.  Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020

29.  Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020

30.  Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020

31.  24th Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020

32.  International Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25 June 2020

33.  Roundtable on "Decolonizing Islamicate Manuscript Studies" during the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), University of Kent, Canterbury, 29 June – 1 July 2020

34.  7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020

35.  Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral (in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020

36.  "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020

37.  Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020

38.  Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020

39.  Panel on “Migrants, Law and the State in and beyond Europe” during the Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Lisbon, 21-24 July 2020

40.  Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020

41.  Panel on "Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display", within the "International Conference of European Urban Historians Network", Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020

42.  Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of  the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020

43.  Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020

44.  International Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020

45.  27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020

46.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020

47.  Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021

POSITIONS

48.  Grants for Three-years PhD Program at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (Focus MENA Region), Hamburg

49.  “Global Professorships 2020“ – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities

50.  PhD Studentship in the Research Project "Colophons, Community, and the Making of the Christian Middle East, 1500-1900", University of Oxford

51.  Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Middle Eastern Diasporic Literatures and Cultures, York University

52.  Assistant Professor in Gender, Post-Colonialism, and the Islamic World, York University

53.  One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University

54.  Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University

55.  Faculty Positions for Middle Eastern History & Arabic Language plus others, Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait

56.  Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Sciences, Sociology and Economics, Division of Social Science, New York University (Global), Abu Dhabi

57.  Postdoctoral Fellowship in North African Studies, 2020-2021, Yale University, MacMillan Center

58.  Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of the Middle East / North Africa, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

59.  One Year Fellowships for Researchers at the Pre-doctoral, Postdoctoral, and Junior Faculty Level for Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA

60.  One-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern or Early Modern Middle Eastern History, Reed College, Portland

61.  Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Australian National University, Canberra

62.  Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Australian National University, Canberra


OTHER INFORMATION

63.  MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University of London

64.  Three-months Internship with the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat

65.  Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberatiion Theologies”, Granada, 15-19 June 2020

66.  Articles for “Labors of Need: Lives of African and Asian Workers in the Middle East” for Special Issue of the Journal “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”

67.  Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“

68.  Article for Edited Book on “International Response to Domestic Violence in the Middle East“ (Rutledge Publication)

69.  Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”

70.  New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"


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Best regards,

Guenter Meyer, Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah

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CONFERENCES

1.    International Conference of the Academy of Exile: “Dire Times: Critical Thinking Then and Now”, Berlin Max Planck Society, 16-17 January 2020


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2.    7e Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen-Orient : « Images et imaginaires au Moyen-Orient et en Afrique du Nord », EHESS, Paris, 23-24 janvier 2020

Voyez le programme : https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/colloque-images-et-imaginaires-au-moyen-orient-et-en-afrique-du-nord-23-et-24-janvier-2020/

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3.    Workshop: "Historiography of the Perception of Islam through Manuscripts, Korans and their Displacement", Naples, 11 February 2020

The aim of this workshop is to approach the question of the relationship between Christianity and Islam through the study of the production, circulation and uses of Arabic manuscripts, and mainly Korans, in the late medieval and early modern Mediterranean Europe.


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4.    International Conference on Qur'anic Studies, Tehran, 24-25 February 2020

Scholars at any stage of their careers, including early career researchers and PhD students,will present papers on the Qur’an and its religious milieu; the reception history of the Qur’an, from the beginnings to modern times; literary, historical-critical, and comparative approaches to the Qur’an; etc.


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5.    Conference of the Islamicate Graduate Student Association: "Who Speaks for Islam?: Approaches to Authority within the Academy and Beyond", Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 29 February 2020

Papers will be presented that interrogate questions of authority and power. Who gets to speak for Islam and Muslims? What landscapes of authority exist in the Islamicate world? For example, what geographies constitute the Islamicate world? Etc.


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6.    7th Annual Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown University, 6-7 March 2020

Papers will analyse the past, present, and future of ownership and on what it means to “own” Palestine. On the material level, the use and distribution of immovable property in the context of gender, generation, and class relations will be studied.


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7.    Workshop: "Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies", University of Oxford, 10-11 March 2020

Papers will focus on: 1. Developments in Western humanitarianism and interventionism in the wake of the Arab uprisings 2. The merging of development, humanitarianism and military intervention 3. Ethnographic approaches to global discourses and policies 4. Strategies of control, neoliberal reforms and popular discontent.


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8.    Panel on “National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March 2020

The contributions will engage with literary texts from any Mediterranean literary tradition, period or genre, while being theoretically aware of their national and regional dimension, and of their potential for challenging canonical interpretations of critical issues relevant to their and/or other traditions in the region.


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9.    Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University Graduate Student Symposium, 26-27 March 2020

Graduate students at all stages of research and dissertation-writing related to Islam and Islamicate communities anywhere in the world will present papers in the fields of history, political science, and anthropology; theology, philosophy, mysticism, and jurisprudence; Urdu, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature.


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10.  Islam Section of the AAR Midwest Regional Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March 2020

Papers are invited which focus on any aspect of the Islamic tradition, including its texts, history, or practices and on any time period and be from any disciplinary approach, so long as the topic is capable of engaging scholars of Islam.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2020. Information: https://sites.google.com/site/aarmidwestregion/call-for-papers

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11.  6th Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for Peace and Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020

Through COSTA 2020 we believe that by creating a platform for dialog of peaceful ideas for the tourism industry, we can work together to better promote and achieve peace through tourism. Main themes include: Cultural and Heritage Tourism: Dark Tourism; Eco-Tourism and Geo-Tourism: Halal Tourism;  Medical Tourism; Religious Tourism; Sustainable Tourism, etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 17 January 2020.

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12.  26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020


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13.  International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020

In accordance to particular area-studies approaches, the main objective of this conference is to stimulate an interdisciplinary, globally focused dialogue, on the role of culture in our lives, including: Literature and Cultural Studies; Sociology of Culture: Migration; Gender, Sexuality, and Class etc.


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14.  Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020

This conference focuses on issues pretraining to the praxis of Digital Humanities in diverse geographical contexts, countries, and cultures, especially Arabic. The conference is very multidisciplinary by nature with the aim of advancing the current state of knowledge for researchers in Arabic literature, culture, media, arts, history, political science, and sociology.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020. Information: https://socialhistoryportal.org/news/articles/309989

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15.  Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium, 21-22 April 2020

The Seminar will question why historians of radical movements have forgotten about this geographical area; to reconstruct the history of individual or collective, anti-authoritarian and anarchist internationalist experiences in this region; to adopt a transnational perspective that considers travel, contacts and exchanges between individuals and groups at the local, regional and international levels; etc. Interventions will be in French and English.


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16.  8th International Symposium on the History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April 2020

The symposium is open to everyone with an interest in the cartography of the (former) Ottoman countries during, but not limited to, the 16th to 20th centuries. The symposium will focus on two main themes: 1) Cartography of the Ottoman Countries in Europe, Asia and Africa; 2) Mapping Archaeological Sites, Landscapes and Excavations in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and 20th Centuries.


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17.  Conference of the Collaborative Research Group Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020

The conference will be organised in interdisciplinary thematic panels focussing on the interconnections between Horn of Africa & Eastern Africa societies and the Middle East countries, with a special focus on the challenges of recent geopolitical, religious and economic ties between these regions.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2020.

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18.  Early Career Academics Symposium in Honour of Fred Halliday, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics, 30 April 2020

The main objective will be to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and ideas between researchers in the last year of their PhD, or still within three years of having completed one, undertaking research on any of the topics that Fred Halliday worked on: Greater West Asia/the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, revolutions, historical sociology, gender, nationalism and internationalism, historical International Relations.


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19.  10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020

The "Religion in Society Research Network" comprises a conference and journal founded in 2011, exploring the role of religion and spirituality in society. Themes: Religious Foundations; Religious Community and Socialization; Religious Commonalities and Differences; The Politics of Religion".

Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2020.

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20.  Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020

The conference is focusing on the illegal migration from Africa towards Europe and Middle East. Areas of reflection are: 1) Faith, beliefs and religious practices in the development / maturation of the migration project; 2) Socioeconomic uses and magico-religious experience on migration paths; 3) Religion and migratory networks; 4) Religious treatment of the migration issue.


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21.  International Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020

The conference will focus on the role of global actors pursuing their own in the region and analyse the intervention of regional and global actors in the various grievances and struggles of local groups, people and communities. The positions of the European Union and the United Nations towards these Middle Eastern issues remain also problematic.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2020. Information: http://www.icmesistanbul.com/

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22.  International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020

The conference aims to define and analyze how cultural diplomacy was deployed by the European powers in interwar Palestine and Syria. It questions how these policies impacted the cultural identification of indigenous Christians in a comparison with their fellow Palestinian and Syrian compatriots. This conference will focus on attempts at ideological and political domination by multiple actors, each with a diversity of diplomatic and cultural ends.


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23.  11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020

Papers will focus on the politics of the contemporary Middle East. The conference will include workshop sessions on each accepted paper, with each paper read by multiple senior scholars in the field with an eye towards preparing them for submission for publication.


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24.  International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020

The papers will focus on the following topics of interest, adjacent to Arabic dialectology: Peripheral Arabic varieties (main topic), Diaspora Arabic varieties (main topic), Pidgin Arabic (main topic), Language contact (main topic), Historical linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, Creolization, Sociolinguistics.


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25.  Conference: News Media in the Middle East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo, 26-27 May 2020

Papers are invited that engage with issues such as journalists as power brokers, the tensions between rights and security, religious polarization and electoral mobilization, etc. The scope spans from traditional news outlets to digital media and citizen journalism. The organizers will cover travel and accommodation costs for the selected presenters.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2020. Information: Jacob Høigilt, University of Oslo, jacobhoi@uio.no.

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26.  23rd Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30 May 2020

We are accepting proposals for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any Mediterranean language.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2020.
Information: https://www.mediterraneanstudies.org/call-for-papers-2020.html

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27.  International Conference: “The Discourse of Anger in the Arab World since 2011”, Grenoble Alpes University, 28-29 May 2020

Researchers in Arabic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Political Communication, Psycholinguistics, Sociology, History and other related disciplines are invited to submit proposals to this conference. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary research that tackles any aspect of the discourse of anger in the Arab world. Papers are invited in Arabic and French.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2020.

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28.  Annual Meeting of the French Colonial Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020

The papers will consider the peripheries of the French Empire as central to understanding the French colonial empire and the people who inhabit it, as well as the ways zones and points of contact are particularly revealing of imperial and colonial experiences. In addition, other aspects of overseas France and its legacies will be considered.


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29.  Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020

Scholars from the humanities, social sciences and Middle Eastern studies will explore the wide range of issues connected to climate change in the Middle East and North Africa, for example: Which political, economic or environmental consequences does, or will, global warming have in the region? Etc.


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30.  Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020

This workshop will analyse travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) from the 16th to the 20th centuries with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual travellers.


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31.  24th Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020

The aim is to provide a platform of a high scholarly level, which will promote the knowledge and sustain the memory of Ottoman history. Panels and individual papers will focus on the following topics: the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions; Sources: New Interpretations and Approaches; etc.


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32.  International Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25 June 2020

The conference aims to interrogate the ways in which Africa and the MENA have been studied in the interdisciplinary field of International Studies. We are particularly interested in addressing disciplinary debates with fresh analysis of local empirics as well as local-international connections.


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33.  Roundtable on "Decolonizing Islamicate Manuscript Studies" during the Annual Meeting of the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), University of Kent, Canterbury, 29 June – 1 July 2020

The participating scholars will critically engage with the possibilities for the decolonization of Islamicate manuscript studies. How, and should decolonization be operationalized in the field of Islamic manuscript studies?


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34.  7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020

Papers will analyse issues such as the impact of the late Crusades and Papal policies on relations be-tween the Mamluk Sultanate and Cyprus or Latin Europe more generally; Mamluk-Byzantine relations; Islamic concepts of imperial and international law (dār al-ḥarb and beyond); European trade and diplomacy; etc.


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35.  Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral (in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020

Notre rencontre est ouvertes, entre autres, aux questions suivantes : La démocratie est-elle la forme la plus adéquate à la pratique juste et bonne de la politique ? La violence est-elle justifiable dans certaines situations et à certains moments et quand ne l’est-elle plus ? Les économies morales (surtout celles des pauvres et des non-affranchis) suffisent-elles à les qualifier de sujets politiques ?


Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020.

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36.  "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020

We invite papers that trace memory and commemoration within imaginal politics to highlight how future past emerges, circulates and mobilizes. The conference focuses on future past under authoritarian regimes across the world however, the papers with focus on the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus are given priority.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2020.

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37.  Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020

This is the only annual international forum for the presentation of the latest academic research on the Arabian Peninsula. The subjects covered include archaeology, history, epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, geography, etc. from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2020. Information: https://www.theiasa.com/2020-seminar/

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38.  Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020

Workshops include the following topics: Art, Museums and Cultural Initiatives in the Arabian Gulf; Energy Transition and Climate Change; Europe and the Multipolarization of the Gulf; Foreign Aid and the Gulf States; Industrial Policies in the Gulf; Nationalization of GCC Labor Markets; Social Remittances and Social Change; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2020. Information: http://gulfresearchmeeting.net/grm2020-call-for-papers/

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39.  Panel on “Migrants, Law and the State in and beyond Europe” during the Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Lisbon, 21-24 July 2020

This panel interrogates how migrants without settled legal status in the Global South and North use the law to demand political, economic, social and cultural rights. It brings together research on migrants' navigation of bureaucratic landscapes as well as ethnographic work on state bureaucracies.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2020. Information: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8815

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40.  Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020

COMELA invites academics in Linguistics, Anthropology, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, and Ethnology, to address the shifting boundedness of Language Communities of the Mediterranean and Europe. Papers and posters should describe processes of language shape, change, and ideology, pertinent to social, cultural, political histories, and futures of Mediterranean and European regions.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2020. Information: https://comela2020.acg.edu

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41.  Panel on "Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and Display", within the "International Conference of European Urban Historians Network", Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020

The panel focuses on the mobility and circulation of people and objects around Ottoman and connected contexts; Ottoman encounters and exchanges en route; the journeys of intellectuals, collections and archives in the late Ottoman Empire.


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42.  Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of  the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020

The conference wants to draw closer to the current as well as historical dynamics of the “religion-nature” interdependence and thus to the cultural ecologies of beliefs. We are interested in a broad set of questions and research foci, i.e.: how do religions and religious communities in past or present symbolically and ritually articulate and negotiate relationships with their immediate and distant environment? What role do other species – i.e. animals, plants – play within religious (knowledge) systems and practices? Etc.


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43.  Fifth Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020

We invite submissions on: - Basic core technologies: morphological analysis, disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, semantic role labeling, sentiment analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation, speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy, assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated data, corpus, etc.


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44.  International Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020

This conference’s goal is to portray, for the first time in the same frame, the relationships between the capital city of Egypt and the African continent, on both shores of the Sahara and from the western Maghreb to the Horn of Africa, in the Middle Ages.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2020.

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45.  27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020

Papers are invited in all fields of social sciences and humanities related to the Middle East and North Africa as well as the impact of this region on the development of other parts of the world.

Deadline for proposals of open panels: 30 April 2020.
Deadline for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 30 June 2020.
Information: amke.dietert@googlemail.com

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46.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020

Forms of human movement including global immigration, asylum-seeking, climate migration, and the internal migration accompanying mass urbanisation, have radically altered religious cultures around the world, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this conference is to explore the various phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social transitions impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary communities.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2020.

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47.  Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021

Abstracts that examine the relationship between China and the Middle East, both ancient and modern are encouraged, and papers that incorporate additional regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia are also encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2020.

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POSITIONS

48.  Grants for Three-years PhD Program at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (Focus MENA Region), Hamburg

Requirements: Excellent MA in political science/international relations, economics, history, or a related discipline, high-quality project proposal that fits with the GIGA’s core research agenda with a focus on comparative area studies or a cross-regional focus, strong command of the English language. Starting 1 October 2020.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2020. Information: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/GIGA-20-01_DP_CfA_external_funding.pdf

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49.  “Global Professorships 2020“ – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities

This programme provides mid-career to senior scholars in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences, who are currently employed outside the United Kingdom, with the opportunity to be based for four years in the UK and make a contribution to UK research and higher education.

Deadline for applications: 19 February 2020. Information: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/global-professorships-2020

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50.  PhD Studentship in the Research Project "Colophons, Community, and the Making of the Christian Middle East, 1500-1900", University of Oxford

Ideally, candidates will be able to work with manuscripts in Arabic or Syriac. The scholarship will cover course fees and provide a living allowance at Research Council rates. Candidates from all backgrounds are welcome to apply.


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51.  Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in Middle Eastern Diasporic Literatures and Cultures, York University

We are particularly interested in candidates whose research can be situated within the fields of Postcolonial and World Literature in English within and across periods, genres, and regions. Interdisciplinary and intermedial approaches are especially welcome. The successful candidate will have a PhD in English Literature or a related field with a specialization in Middle Eastern Diasporic Literatures and Cultures; a dynamic, substantial, and ongoing research portfolio; etc.

Deadline for applications: 25 January 2020.

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52.  Assistant Professor in Gender, Post-Colonialism, and the Islamic World, York University

A PhD by the start of the appointment in Political Science or an appropriate related field is required. The successful candidate’s research should complement the present scholarly profile of the Department of Politics in the study of gender, post-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and the Islamic World, conceived to encompass not only "Islamic countries" but in a diasporic sense, and to develop the conception in new and innovative ways.

Deadline for applications: 25 January 2020.

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53.  One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University

Preference will be given to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender studies. $ 30,000 award. Candidates must have received their PhD no earlier than 1 October 2015 and no later than 1 October 2020.

Deadline for applications: 16 February 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59683

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54.  Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University

$ 30,000 award. Candidates must have received their PhD no earlier than 1 October 2015 and no later than 1 October 2020.

Deadline for applications: 16 February 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59684

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55.  Faculty Positions for Middle Eastern History & Arabic Language plus Others, Gulf University for Science & Technology (GUST), Kuwait

Open Faculty positions at GUST are to start in Fall 2020. Review of applications begins in December and will continue until the positions are filled.
- Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History; https://www.gust.edu.kw/Vacancy_details/92977
- Assistant Professor in Arabic Language; https://www.gust.edu.kw/Vacancy_details/92978
- Further vacancies: https://www.gust.edu.kw/vacancies

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56.  Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Sciences, Sociology and Economics, Division of Social Science, New York University (Global), Abu Dhabi

Requirements: applicants must have received a PhD in the last three years or be within a few months from completion. We encourage applications from very promising candidates with a capacity to conduct innovative, high-quality scholarly research in the fields of Economics, Political Science, Sociology and Public Policy. Successful candidates are expected to develop a well-defined research program and to forge productive collaborations with faculty at NYUAD.

The position will close on 15 March 2020; candidates for Sociology will be evaluated beginning 1 November 2019; and candidates for economics will be evaluated starting 15 December 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/66364

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57.  Postdoctoral Fellowship in North African Studies, 2020-2021, Yale University, MacMillan Center

Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to North Africa, including any period from early modern to contemporary (1500 - present). The Council invites applications from across the social sciences and humanities.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/71069

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58.  Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics of the Middle East / North Africa, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Required qualifications: a Ph.D. in Political Science or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment. Candidates must have a research focus that involves comparative political analysis in the MENA region and demonstrated excellence in research. They also must have evidence of teaching effectiveness to meet the Department’s key teaching needs in its B.A. and M.A. programs.

Screening of applications will begin 21 January 2020 and continue until the position is filled. Information: http://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/511605/asst-professor-comparative-politicsmiddle-eastnorth-africa

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59.  One-Year Fellowships for Researchers at the Pre-doctoral, Postdoctoral, and Junior Faculty Level for Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA

Applications from political scientists, historians, economists, sociologists, and other social scientists are welcome. Eligible candidates include advanced doctoral candidates, recent recipients of a Ph.D. or equivalent degree, and untenured faculty members. Priority will be given to applications pursuing one of these six primary areas of focus: Improving governance; building peace; revitalizing the state; broadening financial and labor markets; governing technology; adapting to environmental challenges; etc.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2020.

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60.  One-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern or Early Modern Middle Eastern History, Reed College, Portland

In addition to teaching one course each semester in one's own area, the appointee will teach one year-long discussion section in Reed’s writing-intensive, introductory Humanities course.

Deadline for applications: 6 January 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/71932

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61.  Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Australian National University, Canberra

The appointee’s research profile should be rooted in sociological perspectives or political sociology on the religion and culture of Islam and Muslim societies. Research can focus on aspects of the global and complex majority Muslim societies and/or minority status of Muslims in various socio-political contexts.

Deadline for applications: 2 March 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies,i6248.html

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62.  Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Australian National University, Canberra

This position requires active independent contribution to research, undergraduate and graduate teaching and the supervision of research students.  Knowledge and research competency in Arabic language is desirable.

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/senior-lecturer-in-politics-and-international-relations-of-the-arabic-speaking-middle-east,i6247.html

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OTHER INFORMATION

63.  MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University of London

Based at Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, this degree provides empirically-grounded engagement with West Asia, combining an understanding of Islamic and regional history, with a clear connection to contemporary policy-relevant issues.

Deadline for application: 30 August 2020. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/37tQgFh or email: ciwas@rhul.ac.uk

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64.  Three-Months Internship with the Moroccan Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat

Qualifications: A Master’s degree in political science, economics, international relations, sociology, anthropology or other relevant social sciences disciplines; proficiency in English and Arabic. Preference will be given to applicants who are currently registered as doctoral students.


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65.  Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberatiion Theologies”, Granada, 15-19 June 2020

The course covers several topics such as Introduction to Critical Muslim Studies, Islamic Theology of Liberation, Islamic Decolonial Pedagogy, Inter-Faith Dialogues, Women and Islam, and Islamic Spirituality. The focus of the course is to inquire into Islam as a postcolonial/decolonial perspective.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2020. Information: http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/

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66.  Articles for “Labors of Need: Lives of African and Asian Workers in the Middle East” for Special Issue of the Journal “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”

Papers are invited on Employment, sponsorship, and the legal regimes governing migration; the migration process; migrants’ working lives in various sectors; gender and migration; race, representation and migration; regional, religious, and social distinctions among migrants; etc.

Deadline for full articles: 6 January 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/15

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67.  Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“

The aim is to offer a variety of case studies demonstrating the role of the media, specifically social media, in getting populist leaders to power in democratic and authoritarian states. Editor Rasha El-Ibiary, Future University, New Cairo


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68.  Article for Edited Book on “International Response to Domestic Violence in the Middle East“ (Rutledge Publication)

Special attention is devoted to the evolution of anti-domestic violence laws, the way that law enforcement agencies, non-governmental organizations and/or health agencies deal with domestic violence, and how all these initiatives influence women’s rights and interests.

Expressions of interest due by 15 January 2020.

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69.  Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”

We invite scholarly monographs authored by academics on topical questions in international relations and the modern and contemporary history of the Middle East and North Africa. The aim is to promote deeper knowledge of emerging issues and trends. Publications include original monographs and edited volumes which combine a grasp of the past, an understanding of present dynamics, and a vision about potential futures.


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70.  New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"

The series welcomes contributions beyond the confines of grand theories such as dhimmitude and the millet system, and of traditional binaries such as toleration and persecution. It has a cross-disciplinary perspective involving the fields of Ottoman history, Middle Eastern studies, Balkan studies, African studies, religious studies, church history, missiology, the history of interactions, connected history, and diaspora studies.


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