CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Roundtable Discussion on “Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections
on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage,” Max Planck
Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in
Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”, 10 November 2020, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, CET
2.
ONLINE Webinar: “The Impact of Covid-19 on Conflicts in the Middle East:
a Comparative Perspective“, Istituto Affari Internazionali, Roma, 12 November
2020, 11.00 - 13.00 CET
3.
VISIOCONFÉRENCE "Journée d’étude internationale
Sahara Occidental – Recherches en cours de doctorants et post-doctorants",
L’Observatoire universitaire international OUISO, 12 novembre 2020, 14h à 19h30
4.
ONLINE Seminar "Posing Slaves for the Camera: Race and Memory in
Khartoum, 1882", University of Arizona, 13 November 2020, 3 pm MST
5.
ONLINE Webinar: "Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba'thist State:
Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration", SOAS, University
of London, 17 November 2020, 5.30pm-7.00pm GMT
6.
ONLINE: "4th Annual Late Antique, Islamic, and Byzantine
Studies Conference", University of Edinburgh, 19-21 November 2020
7.
ONLINE International Conference "The Green Mosque. Muslims in the
Field of Tension between Fate and (Personal) Responsibility",
Interdisciplinary Research Center on Islam and Muslims in Europe (IFIME),
Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, 20-21 November 2020
8.
ONLINE: Discussion on "Protest Cycles and Repression in Iran",
Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU, 24 November 2020, 12:30 pm
Eastern Time
9.
ONLINE: Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association
(IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 30 November – 3 December and 7 – 10 December 2020
10.
ONLINE
Conférence internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique
de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
11. ONLINE Lecture Series: "10 Years
So-called Arab Spring - a Critical Perspective", Critical Students of
Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig (Dates in 2021 to be
Announced)
12. ONLINE International Conference: "COVID-19
and ICT-Enabled Education", Ibn Zohr University, Morocco 3-4 February 2021
13. ONLINE Conference: “The Tudeh Party of Iran at
80: A Critical Re-Appraisal and Re-Evaluation”, School of History and Institute
for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews, Week Commencing 29 March 2021
14. Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and
the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
15. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet
University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
16. International Conference: "Musical
Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period",
Ruhr-University Bochum, 10-12 June 2021
17. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of
Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
18. 27th International Congress of
the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic
Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
19. Third NEHT Workshop on "Environmental
Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World: The Anthropocene: From Empire
to Nation-States", University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021
20. Conference: "Islamic and Jewish
Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his Correspondents",
University of Göttingen, 12-13 November 2021
21. 3rd ANU Religion Conference:
“Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University,
Canberra, December 2021
POSITIONS
22. Researcher in Political Science, University of Oslo
23. Fellowships for Emerging Scholars to
Explore African Narratives in UAE, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco
24. Fellowships and Travel Grants of the
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for American Scholars
25. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ozyegin University, Turkey
26. Associate or Assistant Director, American Center of Research, Amman
27. Assistant Professor of 20th-century Global History and
Politics with a Focus on Africa and/or the Middle East (Tenure-Track), Suffolk
University, Boston
28. Part-Time Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies with a Focus on the History
of Israel’s Foreign Relations, University of California, Los Angeles
29. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months)
for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19th - 21st
Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
30. Research Fellow, Division of Sociology, School of Social Science,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
OTHER
INFORMATION
31. Scholarships for Visiting the German
Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region, Berlin, 1-30
September 2021
32.
Bourse d’aide à la mobilité doctorale au CEFAS (Koweit)
33.
Formation en ligne en philologie numérique pour master,
doctorat et recherche : "Étudier et publier les textes arabes avec le
numérique", 7-9 décembre 2020
34. Spring School: “Spoken Images of/in Islam:
Languages and Translations in Texts and Images” by the Innovative Training
Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network
for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Università degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, 1-6
March 2021
35. New International Peer-reviewed Journal
"Misriqiyā " on African-Egyptian Studies
36. Articles on MENA Migrants and Diasporas in 21st-Century Media
for Special Issue of “Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North
African Migration Studies”
37. Articles on “Feminist Political Economy in
the Arab Region” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Al-Raida”
38. Articles on "Governing and Living Amid
COVID-19 in the MENA" for Special Issue of the Jounal "Middle East
Law and Governance"
39. Articles on "Revolutions in the Middle
East and North Africa" for Special Issue of "Oxford Middle East
Review"
40.
Articles on "Theoretical an Experimental Issues in Arabic
Linguistics" for Special Issue of "Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic
Language and Literature", Department of Arabic Language and Literature,
University of Haifa
41. Articles on Islam in the Widest Sense for
Journal “Waikato Islamic Studies Review“, University of Waikato, New Zealand
42. Articles for Edited Volume on “Christianity
in Iraq at the Turn of Islam: History and Archaeology”
43. Articles for Edited Volume on "Warfare
in the Twentieth Century Europe: The Balkan Wars from the Ottoman Turkish
Perspective"
44. Articles for Edited Volume on "The
Canaanite Movement - the 'Young Hebrews'"
45. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Islamic Radicalisation in the Balkans
after the Fall of Communism,” Balkan History Association
46. Book Proposals for a New Academic Book
Series: "Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World" (I.B.Tauris)
47. Online Accessible Correspondence of Ignaz
Goldziher at the Hungarian Academy of Science
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Best regards,
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the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University
of Sharjah
CONFERENCES / ONLINE
EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Roundtable Discussion on “Hagia Sophia’s
Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions
of Heritage,” Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural
Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”, 10 November
2020, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, CET
Panelists include Karen Barkey (University of California Berkeley), Axel
Çorlu (Independent Scholar), Emily Neumeier (Temple University), Bissera
Pentcheva (Stanford University), M. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah).
For registration contact Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de
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2.
ONLINE Webinar: “The Impact of Covid-19 on Conflicts
in the Middle East: a Comparative Perspective“, Istituto Affari Internazionali,
Roma, 12 November 2020, 11.00 - 13.00 CET
The webinar will explore the historical, economic and political
dimensions of the impact of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa. 6
authors, from the Middle East and Europe, will present 6 research studies
covering Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and the Persian Gulf.
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSecUhL4betWX2371GrMVP__h2kDkQFge3O1ir-CddmiUEkFZw/viewform
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3.
VISIOCONFÉRENCE "Journée d’étude internationale
Sahara Occidental – Recherches en cours de doctorants et post-doctorants",
L’Observatoire universitaire international OUISO, 12 novembre 2020, 14h à 19h30
Information et inscription : http://ouiso.recherche.parisdescartes.fr/fr/2020/10/07/journee-detude-internationale-visioconference-12-novembre/
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4.
ONLINE Seminar "Posing Slaves for the Camera:
Race and Memory in Khartoum, 1882", University of Arizona, 13 November
2020, 3 pm MST
This talk explores a series of photographs taken by a French
photographer in Sudan in 1882. The photographs explore racial types for the
"enlightenment" of the French government, yet reveal so much more
about Khartoum society at a critical time in the city's history.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/05/posing-slaves-for-the-camera-race-and-memory-in-khartoum-1882
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5.
ONLINE Webinar: "Women, Writing and the Iraqi
Ba'thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration",
SOAS, University of London, 17 November 2020, 5.30pm-7.00pm GMT
Speaker: Hawraa Al-Hassan (University of Cambridge). This new book
traces the turbulent history of Ba'thist discourses on women and state
patronage of the novel, and explores various literary responses from a wide
spectrum of Iraqi women writers. It attempts to show the correlation between
'progressive' discourses on women and the rise of a nationalist novel, both of
which were used as markers of culture and progress by the State.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/17nov2020-women-writing-and-the-iraqi-bathist-state-contending-discourses-of-resistance-and-collabor.html
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6.
ONLINE: "4th Annual Late Antique,
Islamic, and Byzantine Studies Conference", University of Edinburgh, 19-21
November 2020
The conference focuses on disasters (natural, "manmade" or
“supernatural”) that shape historical memory and our understanding of the past,
concentrating on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in
Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies.
Information, program and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/4th-annual-edinburgh-late-antique-islamic-and-byzantine-conference-tickets-117904135443
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7.
ONLINE International Conference "The Green
Mosque. Muslims in the Field of Tension between Fate and (Personal)
Responsibility", Interdisciplinary Research Center on Islam and Muslims in
Europe (IFIME), Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, 20-21 November 2020
The conference presents concepts and discursive approaches of different
(Islamic) perspectives on climate justice, which have been developed and
evaluated in different contexts. Results of a regional study on sustainability
in mosque communities and on fears for the future in the context of the
environmental crisis will also be presented.
Information, program and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/tagung-die-gruene-moschee-muslim_innen-im-spannungsfeld-zwischen-schicksal-und-eigen-verantwortung/
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8.
ONLINE: Discussion on "Protest Cycles and
Repression in Iran", Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, NYU, 24
November 2020, 12:30 pm Eastern Time
Peyman Jafari will moderate this conversation with Narges Bajoghli,
Manata Hashemi, and M. Ali Kadviar on recent protests in Iran. They will
reflect on the social makeup of the protests, nature of the grievances, and the
State’s harsh repression of the protest movements. The panelists will also
reflect on Iran's protests in relation to global protests and the rise of
social justice in the region.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/04/a-panel-discussion-on-protest-cycles-and-repression-in-iran
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9.
ONLINE: Annual Meeting
of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 30
November – 3 December and 7 – 10 December 2020
Program Units include:
The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and
Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic
Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.
Information:
https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/
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10.
ONLINE
Conférence internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique
de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
La
conférence se centrera sur le thème de la pudeur (hayâ’) dans l’Islam, ses
conceptions, ses réceptions et ses perceptions dans le monde musulman et le
monde occidental. Comment comprendre les tensions majeures qui surviennent
aujourd’hui sans une compréhension plus précise et mieux ancrée de la tradition
islamique et de ses contextes?
Information et inscription: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/rscs/cito-colloque-islam-et-pudeur.html
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11. ONLINE Lecture Series: "10 Years
So-called Arab Spring - a Critical Perspective", Critical Students of
Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig (Dates in 2021 to be
Announced)
The main questions are: What happened in West
Asia and North Africa 10 years ago? Which critical perspectives should be
included? Every lecture in English, German or Arabic will last for 45 minutes
followed by Q&A. It will take place once a month on Wednesdays at 7pm CET.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2020. Information: https://kiaradiekritischen.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/call-for-participation-kiara.pdf
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12. ONLINE International Conference: "COVID-19
and ICT-Enabled Education", Ibn Zohr University, Morocco 3-4 February 2021
The conference
aims to promote a national, regional and a global reflection on the future
orientations of Education and the implications of the considerable acceleration
of the digitization of education, especially during and after COVID-19.
Deadline for application: 30 November 2020. Information: https://www.facebook.com/ICT-Enabled-Education-107404544492866
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13. ONLINE
Conference: “The Tudeh Party of Iran at 80: A Critical Re-Appraisal and Re-Evaluation”,
School of History and Institute for Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews,
Week Commencing 29 March 2021
This conference seeks to explore the various
dimensions of the Tudeh Party from its inception in 1941 to the present era. It
aspires to focus on both the party’s political evolution through decades of
upheaval in Iran and exile in Europe, as well as the impact of the Tudeh on the
Iranian arts, literature and cultural scenes.
Deadline for abstracts: 4 December 2020.
Information: bit.ly/3iD8idy; Submission form: https://bit.ly/36dBTry; Contact: tudehconference2021@gmail.com
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14. Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
Papers will examine the relationship between China
and the Middle East, both ancient and modern, and incorporate additional
regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia.
Information: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/news/call-papers-rethinking-narratives-china-and-middle-east
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15. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet
University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
Topics include: •
Linguistics • Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography •
Philosophy • Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political
Theory • Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ,
ḥawāshī, taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.
Information:
http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php
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16. International Conference: "Musical
Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period",
Ruhr-University Bochum, 10-12 June 2021
Papers will focus on Arabic, Persian and Byzantine music theory,
instruments and ways of transmission, with their roots in Ancient Greece and an
outlook onto Ottoman and Safavid music. Call for Papers closed. Guests are
welcome!
Information: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/orient/aktuelles/index.html
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17. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference: "Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of
Hopes and Perspectives", Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
Besides
the European powers that established their colonial hegemony in the MENA
region, the conference will also deal with the influence of countries, such as
the United States of America and Germany, which extended their influence
through diplomacy, financial and military aid, and education.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April
2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6160235/empire-middle-east-and-maghreb-shaping-hopes-and-perspectives
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18. 27th International Congress of
the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic
Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
It was originally planned that this
international congress should take place in September 2020 in the Institute for
Islamic Theology at the University of Osnabrück, chaired by Prof. Dr. Bülent
Uçar. This event had to be postponed by one year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
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19. Third NEHT Workshop on "Environmental
Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World: The Anthropocene: From Empire
to Nation-States", University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021
The workshop
will discuss the ways of integrating the concept of the Anthropocene into the
field of Ottoman/post-Ottoman environmental history. It will open a space for
analysing the role of human activities in transforming the Ottoman/post-Ottoman
landscapes in the age of the Anthropocene.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2021.
Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021/
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20. Conference: "Islamic and Jewish
Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his
Correspondents", University of Göttingen, 12-13 November 2021
The conference will focus on the correspondence between Ignaz Goldziher
and preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian
Academy of Sciences, addressing aspects of the history of the discipline as
seen through the letters. Papers examining specific aspects of Goldziher’s
contributions to Islamic and Jewish studies from a wider history of science
point of view are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information:
https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/7927 and https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/7927/Goldziher%20at%20100%20CALL%20FOR%20ABSTRACTS.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
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21. 3rd
ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”,
Australian National University, Canberra, December 2021
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: 21 May 2021.
Information: https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0
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POSITIONS
22. Researcher in Political Science, University of Oslo
Qualification
requirements: completed MA degree in political science or related social
science discipline or PhD degree in political science; familiarity with Arabic
text analysis and web scrapping packages or cognate software and/or competence
in survey data analysis and knowledge of relevant surveys fielded in the MENA
region; research proficiency in Arabic; etc.
Deadline for applications: 24 November 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCG414/researcher-in-political-science
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23. Fellowships for Emerging Scholars to
Explore African Narratives in UAE, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco
How view Africans themselves and how are they viewed
by others? The research will be conducted across mainstream media, social
media, popular culture, etc. Each scholar will be awarded up to $7000 to
conduct their research. They will also have access to training, networking
opportunities, mentorship and other resources.
Deadline for applications: 13 November 2020. Information: https://africanofilter.org/africa-no-filter-launches-the-emerging-scholars-fellowship-program-to-explore-evidence-based-narratives-about-africa/
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24. Fellowships and Travel Grants of the
American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for American Scholars
Doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars,
independent scholars and faculty in humanities and social science disciplines
are invited to apply. ARCE provides fellows with funding, administrative
support and practical, sound advice to ease access to museums, monuments,
archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and collections.
Deadline for applications: 18 January 2021. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellowships
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25. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Requirements: Ph.D. in sociology or related
disciplines; active research agenda, a record of international peer-reviewed
publications, and demonstrated excellence in teaching. The areas of
specialization are flexible, but qualitative research experience on Turkey is
an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/assistant-professor-position-in-sociology,i7627.html
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26. Associate or Assistant Director, American Center of Research, Amman
Requirements: post-graduate
degree focusing on the Near or Middle Eastern region: a wide range of
specialties are welcome, such as cultural anthropology, geography, sociology,
history, political science, archaeology, ancient or modern languages, etc. A
demonstrated capacity for management of complex projects is desired.
Conversational Arabic is desired and native fluency in English is required.
Review of applications
will begin on 14 November 2020. Information: https://acorjordan.org/news-and-events/now-hiring-associate-or-assistant-director/
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27. Assistant Professor of 20th-century Global History and
Politics with a Focus on Africa and/or the Middle East (Tenure-Track), Suffolk
University, Boston
Requirements: Ph.D. in History.
Outstanding candidates in the final stage of doctoral studies are eligible for
consideration but must have the degree in hand by 1 July 2021. Preferred
applicants will have proven college/university teaching excellence and
engagement with Public History.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.jobvite.com/suffolkuniversity/job/opIIdfwM
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28. Part-Time Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies with a Focus on the History
of Israel’s Foreign Relations, University of California, Los Angeles
The
ideal candidate should have knowledge of the history of Israel's foreign
relations and, more generally, of Israeli history and foreign policy.
Applicants must have experience teaching at a university level, and have their PhD
in Near Eastern Studies or related fields, in hand by July 2020.
Deadline for applications: 18 November 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-middle-eastern-studies,i7609.html
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29. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months)
for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19th - 21st
Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
The goal of
the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate
world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of
Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.
Deadline for applications: 18 December
2020.
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Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821
30. Research Fellow (Focus Qatar), Division of Sociology, School of Social Science,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
This position
is part of the project ‘Does Citizenship Matter? Interrogating
second-generation immigrant incorporation in Singapore and Qatar’.
Requirements: PhD in Sociology or any other related field in the social sciences;
rich skills and experience in quantitative and qualitative research methods;
the successful candidate will be expected to conduct field research, interviews
and focus groups in one of the following languages: Arabic, Urdu, Hindi or Malayalam;
etc.
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OTHER
INFORMATION
31. Scholarships for Visiting the German
Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region, Berlin, 1-30
September 2021
The
scholarship program is aimed at highly-qualified, committed, capable and
talented young women and men from the Arab region who are interested in
politics and wish to play an active role in shaping the democratic future of
their country. Qualification: University degree, under the age of 35, good
knowledge of German.
Deadline for applications: 15 November
2020.
Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
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32.
Bourse d’aide à la mobilité doctorale au CEFAS (Koweit)
Aide pour les étudiant(e)s doctorant(e)s inscrit(e)s en
thèse dans une université française, et qui effectuent leur recherche doctorale
sur la région de la péninsule Arabique dans le domaine de l’archéologie et des
sciences humaines et sociales. L’obtention de la bourse est conditionnée à
l’inscription en thèse.
Date limite
d’envoi des dossiers de candidature : 1 décembre 2020. Information: https://cefas.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article809&lang=fr
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33.
Formation en ligne en philologie numérique pour master,
doctorat et recherche : "Étudier et publier les textes arabes avec le
numérique", 7-9 décembre 2020
Cette formation s’insère dans les actions du Groupement
d’Intérêt Scientifique « Moyen Orient et mondes musulmans », à la suite des
propositions formulées dans le Livre blanc « Vers la science ouverte ? La
transition numérique et la recherche sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes
musulmans en France ». L’objectif est de sensibiliser la communauté à ce qu’il
est désormais coutume d’appeler la philologie numérique. Cette formation réunit
des chercheur.e.s français.e.s et internationaux.
Information et inscription: https://philaranum.hypotheses.org/
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34. Spring School: “Spoken Images of/in Islam:
Languages and Translations in Texts and Images” by the Innovative Training
Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network
for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Università degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, 1-6
March 2021
This school is to investigate the image–text relations in Muslim
traditions by applying to different genres of images and texts and by thinking
about how they are affected by translation or interpretation. It will bring
together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with
doctoral and MA students to explore how the transfer of texts and images move
from one culture to another in Muslim societies and beyond.
Deadline for application: 5 January 2020. Information: http://iismm.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2147/call_springschool2021.pdf
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35. New International Peer-reviewed Journal
"Misriqiyā " on African-Egyptian Studies
This journal publishes articles in the fields of anthropology, history,
sociology, politics, geography, linguistics, literary and cultural studies and
Basic Sciences. Miṣriqiyā is published in both print and online versions. It is
published quarterly by the Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
Submissions are accepted throughout the
year. Information: https://misj.journals.ekb.eg/
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36. Articles on MENA Migrants and Diasporas in 21st-Century Media
for Special Issue of “Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North
African Migration Studies”
This special
issue seeks scholarly contributions that engage with questions related to the
main theme through analyses of representations in local, national, or
transnational contexts, both in the Global North and South. We welcome topics
including but not limited to examinations of otherness, statelessness,
self-representation, cultural citizenship, diasporic activism, and aesthetics
of representation.
Deadline for articles:
15 March 2021.
Information:
https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/23
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37. Articles on “Feminist Political Economy in
the Arab Region” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Al-Raida”
This issue of Al-Raida asks what feminist political economy, or FPE, can
contribute as a critical framework for analyzing, understanding, and
challenging dominant socioeconomic and political systems in the Arab Region.
With an emphasis on process, FPE examines the lived realities of social
difference, and the constraints and pressures of the everyday under global
capitalism.
Deadline for full-length article: 27
November 2020. Information: http://alraidajournal.com/index.php/ALRJ/announcement/view/5
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38. Articles on "Governing and Living Amid
COVID-19 in the MENA" for Special Issue of the Jounal "Middle East
Law and Governance"
This
special issue will take a broad look at how the MENA – the state, governments,
and societies of the region -- are governing and/or living amid COVID-19. It
encourages papers from a wide range of disciplines and methodological
approaches in the social sciences and humanities.
Deadline for manuscripts: 1 December
2020. Information: https://brill.com/view/journals/melg/melg-overview.xml?contents=editorialContent-17621
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39. Articles on "Revolutions in the Middle
East and North Africa" for Special Issue of "Oxford Middle East
Review"
We invite shorter briefs or position papers up to 2,000 words aimed at
influencing contemporary debate or policy-making and articles up to 10,000
words that present original material from any discipline that engages
critically with the Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for abstracts: 27 November 2020. Information: https://omerjournal.com/current-call-for-papers/
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40.
Articles on "Theoretical an Experimental Issues in Arabic
Linguistics" for Special Issue of "Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic
Language and Literature", Department of Arabic Language and Literature,
University of Haifa
Articles are
invited on: Phonology and morphology; Grammar of Classical and Modern Standard
Arabic; Semantics and pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics;
Discourse analysis; Syntax of the Qurʾān, written in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2021.
Information: http://alkarmil.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/instruction-for-authors
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41. Articles on Islam in the Widest Sense for
Journal “Waikato Islamic Studies Review“, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Submissions
are invited on any topic or theme, including religion, philosophy, history,
politics, sociology, culture, and law, within the broad field of studies on
Islam and Muslim societies.
Information and past journals: https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review.shtml
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42. Articles for Edited Volume on “Christianity
in Iraq at the Turn of Islam: History and Archaeology”
An international round table organized on 4 and
5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the
interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity
in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo is now calling for papers
related to this theme. Convenors: Kinga Dévényi (Budapest), Sebastian Günther
(Göttingen), Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton).
Deadline for articles in French, English or Arabic: 28 February 2021.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Christianity_in_Iraq_at_the_turn_of_Islam_Call_for_Papers.pdf
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43. Articles for Edited Volume on "Warfare
in the Twentieth Century Europe: The Balkan Wars from the Ottoman Turkish
Perspective"
Topics include: Before the War: Ottoman General Staff, Defense Plans,
Military Intelligence, Preparation and Mobilization. During the War: Ottoman
Strategy of War, Armies in the Field, Military Intelligence, Battles, German
Officers in Ottoman Army. After the War: The Armistices, Treaties, Casualties,
Prisoners, Experi-ence of Ottoman Officers, War Finance, Memories of Soldiers,
German Reactions after the War, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.balkan-history.com/the-balkan-wars-from-the-ottoman-turkish-perspective/
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44. Articles for Edited Volume on "The
Canaanite Movement - the 'Young Hebrews'"
This edited volume seeks to examine Canaanism and its effect on Israeli
society, as well as on thinkers in adjacent countries, in historical,
ideological-political, and artistic contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8378/discussions/6548468/cfp-edited-volume-focusing-canaanite-movement-young-hebrews
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45. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Islamic Radicalisation in the Balkans
after the Fall of Communism,” Balkan History Association
Academics
from the following fields of research are invited to contribute: intelligence,
political science, history, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and
history of religions to submit original studies in English on the proposed
topic.
Deadline for abstracts:
31 December 2020. Information: https://www.balkan-history.com/cfp-islamic-radicalisation-in-the-balkans/
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46. Book Proposals for a New Academic Book
Series: "Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World" (I.B.Tauris)
The series
welcomes proposals from scholars in Ottoman/Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies,
Slavic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, and disciplines
of History, Political Science, Anthropology, Literature and Sociology, among
others.
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47. Online Accessible Correspondence of Ignaz
Goldziher at the Hungarian Academy of Science
When Ignaz Goldziher died in 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific
correspondence of over 13,000 letters from about 1,650 persons, in ten
languages. This corpus is freely accessible in its entirety in digital form at
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It constitutes the single most important
source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and
cognate fields during Goldziher‘s time.
See https://konyvtar.mta.hu/index_en.php?name=v_3_2_1_goldziher and https://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2018/06/ignaz-goldziher-correspondence-archive.html?m=1
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