CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Panel on "Higher Education and Academic Freedom in Turkey:
Boğaziçi Yesterday and Today", Sponsored by OTSA and MESA, Istanbul, 15
February 2021, 12:00 pm EST
2.
ONLINE Session of the Séminaire d’observation du COVID-19
dans les sociétés du monde arabe (SOCOSMA) on “Equity of Access to Healthcare
during the COVID-19 Crisis in Egypt”, Centre d’Études et de Documentation
Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ), Cairo, 16 February 2021, 2:00 pm
CET
3.
ONLINE Seminar: "Understanding the Development of Complex Societies
in Lebanon during the Early Bronze Age", Council for British Research in
the Levant, 17 February 2021, 16.00-17.15 GMT
4.
ONLINE Seminar: "LGBTQ in Iran", SOAS, London Middle East
Institute and Roya Arab, 18 February 2021, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm GMT
5.
ONLINE Workshop: “Realising Understanding: Language in Cross-cultural
Migration/Integration and Secular-Religious Contexts (Focus: Interaction
between European and Islamicate Cultures) ”, Freie Universität Berlin, 18
February 2021, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm CET
6.
ONLINE Conversation: "Refugees in Middle Eastern History / The
Middle East in Refugee History, 1918–39" with Dr. Benjamin Thomas White
and Dr. Laura Robson, Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington
University, 18 February 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET
7.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Yemen Policy under Biden: Opportunities and Challenges”, Arab Center
Washington DC, 18 February 2021, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
8.
ONLINE Seminar on "Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s Labor and
Employment in the Middle East", Center for Middle East Studies at Brown
University and Journal "Gender, Work & Organization", 19 February
2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
9.
ONLINE International Conference "Migrating World: Interdisciplinary
Approaches to Migration and Integration", London Centre for
Interdisciplinary Research, 20-21 February 2021
10. ONLINE Seminar on "Cultural Brokerage
in Pre-modern Islam: Magic and Divination in the Cairo Genizah: Jewish, Muslim
and Other Texts" by Prof. Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University), 22 February
2021, 17:30-19:00 IST
11. ONLINE Seminar: “Eleven Wars against
Palestinians: How Palestinians are Coping with their Elimination”, SOAS Middle
East Institute and the Centre for Palestine Studies London, 23 February 2021,
5.30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
12. ONLINE Seminar: “Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami,
and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’”, Association for the Study of the Middle East
and Africa (ASMEA), 23 February 2021, 12:00 pm EST
13.
ONLINE Séminaire N.Ex.T (Normes, Exceptions,
Transgressions. Dialogue interdisciplinaire) du Département des Études arabes :
“Aspects religieux (époque contemporaine)”, Université de Lyon 2, 24 février
2021, de 18:00 à 19:30 CET
14. ONLINE Seminar: “The Arab Winter: Democratic
Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists” by Stephen J. King (Georgetown
University), SOAS Middle East Institute, 2 March 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
15. ONLINE Seminar: "Egypt, Democracy, and
Revolution: A Reappraisal” by Mona El-Ghobashy, Crown Center for Middle East
Studies at Brandeis University, 3 March 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
16. ONLINE Discussion by Alexandre Caeiro and
Nathan Brown on "The Government of Pearling: A Social History of Law in
the Arabian Gulf (1860-1950)", 4 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
17. ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of
Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces",
Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 5 March
2021, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT, and 12 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm PT
18. Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture:
“The Apartheid Paradigm” by Raef Zreik (Tel Aviv University), SOAS London, 5
March 2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
19. ONLINE 2nd Global Inclusive
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15
March 2021
20. ONLINE Session of the Islamic History and
Thought Lecture Series: “The Druzes, from Ismaili Esotericism to the Formation
of a Doctrinal School of Law” by Wissam Halawi (University of Lausanne),
Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre London, 17 March 2021, 2:00 pm –
4:00 pm GMT
21. ONLINE Conference: "Transformations of
Arabic Literary Theory", Columbia University, Preliminary Virtual
Discussion Panel: 19 March 2021; First in-person Session in Paris: 27-30 June
2021, Second in-person Session in New York: 1-3 December 2021.
22. ONLINE Panel: "Pan-Asian Modernity
Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Education, Social Ethics, and Universal
Religion", Virtual Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
(AAS), 25 March 2021, 8:30 am - 10:00 am ET
23.
ONLINE Symposium: “Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian Context”,
University of Toronto, 27 March 2021
24.
ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean
Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature
Association, 8-11 April 2021
25.
ONLINE Conference "The Conversion of Spaces and Places of
Worship", Anatolian Religions and Beliefs Platzform (ARBP), 10-11 April
2021
26.
ONLINE
International Conference: "The Fragility of Global Migration", Center
of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021
27. ONLINE Colloque: « Les sociétés maghrébines et du
Moyen-Orient à l’épreuve de la pandémie de la COVID-19 », GT4- Monde arabe en
mouvement - Association internationale des sociologues de langue française
(AISLF), 21-22 May 2021
28. 5th Conference of the Arab Council
for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the
Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change", Beirut,
21-23 May 2021
29. ONLINE Seminar for Arabian Studies of the
International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), Summer 2021
(Dates to be announced)
30. Conference of the Red Sea Project X: “Red
Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete, Rethymno Greece,
16-19 June 2021
31. 21st International Conference of
Migration: "Border Thinking", Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt,
Austria, 17-18 June 2021
32. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
33. Medworlds Workshop: “Coexistence in Practice:
Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia”, Fatih
Sultan Mehmet Vakif University Istanbul, 1-2 July 2021
34. Mediterranean Studies Symposium, Ortigia,
Italy, 1-4 July 2021
35.
Journée d’études « Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la
poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, 2 juillet 2021
36. ONLINE "54th Seminar for Arabian
Studies", Casa Arabe, Cordoba, 2-4 July and 9-11 July 2021
37. 27th International Conference on
Jewish Studies, Moscow, 11-13 July 2021
38. ONLINE Conference: "Gulf Research
Meeting 2021", Gulf Research Center (GRC), University of Cambridge/UK,
23-24 July 2021
39. HYBRID Research Workshop: "Decentering
Holocaust Studies: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South (Including
Middle East)", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 26 July - 6 August
2021
40.
3rd Workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental
History of Turkey on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman
World – The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States,” University of Vienna,
16-18 September 2021
41. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of
the Network "Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”,
University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021
42. ONLINE International Conference on “Canon
and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History”, Berlin
Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8-10 October
2021
43. Seminar for Book Project:
"Reassembling Creation: Green Ethics and the Scholarly Disciplines in the
Islamic Tradition", Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics
(CILE), Doha, 12-14 October 2021
44. Conference: "Expectations of Justice
and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600-1500 CE)", Leiden
University, 27-29 October 2021
45. Panel on "Women of Islamism"
during the Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montréal,
Canada, 28-31 October 2021
46. Panel on “Confessional Frontiers in the
Islamicate Mediterranean” during during the
Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montréal, Canada,
28-31 October 2021
47. Panel on “Prisons, Dungeons and Arsenals:
Confinement in the Middle East,” during the Conference of the Middle East
Studies Association (MESA), Montréal, 28-31 October 2021
48. HYBRID 9th Biennial Hamad bin
Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art: "The Environment and Ecology in Islamic
Art and Culture", Doha, 7-8 November 2021
49. 3rd ANU
Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian
National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
50.
PhD Workshop on "Unthought Perspectives in the Study of Turkish
Islam: Methodology and Research Prospects”, Center for Turkish, Ottoman,
Balkan, and Central Asian Studies, Paris (Date in 2021 to be announced)
POSITIONS
51.
W1 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) with a W2 Tenure Track for
“Islamic Philosophy”, Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT), University of Münster
52. Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
53. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
(2021-2023)
54.
Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social Sciences, Gulf Studies
Program, Qatar University
55. Associate/Full Professor in Economics of
the Gulf, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University
56. One-Year Visiting Assistant Professorship
in Arabic Studies, Arabic Studies Department at Williams College, Williamstown
(MA)
57. Lecturers for History in the Middle East
and Jewish History, University of California, Berkeley
58. Tenure-track Assistant Professor for
International Affairs Programm, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
59. Post-Doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
60.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Modern Arabic Literature, Tulane University,
New Orleans
OTHER INFORMATION
61. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
62. ONLINE Short Course: “Islam and Creativity”,
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University London,
7-21 June 2021
63. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images
of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images", Università
degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, Revised Dates 5-9 July 2021
64.
Articles on “Are Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in the 21st
Century?” for Special Issue of Journal “Religions”
65. Articles on "Islamic Constitutions:
Managing Religion and Politics" for Special Issue of Journal
"Religions"
66. Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media”
for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North
African Migration Studies”
67.
Articles on "Business People in War Times and Alternative Economies
and Exchange during Armed Conflicts
(in the MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies"
68.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science,
Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of "MIDEO" 38 (2023)
69. Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of
"Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"
70. Articles for Edited Volume and Workshop on
"At the Crossroads – The Middle Eastern and the North Atlantic World
during the Interwar Years"
71. New History Journal in Turkey:
"Tarihçi/Historian"
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CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Panel on "Higher Education and Academic
Freedom in Turkey: Boğaziçi Yesterday and Today", Sponsored by OTSA and
MESA, Istanbul, 15 February 2021, 12:00 pm EST
Former and current Boğaziçi professors will discuss the state of higher
education in Turkey by reflecting on the past of Boğaziçi University and
analyzing the recent events that have been unfolding since the appointment of a
new university president.
Information and registration: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwvcumorTktHN0ZxQRihHj0uqq1LZ-7Uy6s
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2.
ONLINE Session of the Séminaire d’observation du COVID-19
dans les sociétés du monde arabe (SOCOSMA) on “Equity of Access to Healthcare
during the COVID-19 Crisis in Egypt”, Centre d’Études et de Documentation
Économiques, Juridiques et Sociales (CEDEJ), Cairo, 16 February 2021, 2:00 pm
CET
Held
by the dentist and Public Health specialist Muhamad Al-Zawawy. Registration is
mandatory.
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3.
ONLINE Seminar: "Understanding the Development of
Complex Societies in Lebanon during the Early Bronze Age", Council for
British Research in the Levant, 17 February 2021, 16.00-17.15 GMT
Dr Kamal Badreshany will discuss ceramic and architectural evidence from
recently excavated sites in the region to assess the economic underpinnings of
EBA communities. He will examine the distribution of EBA settlement in coastal
Lebanon with a view to understanding the underlying logic.
Information and registration: http://cbrl.ac.uk/event/understanding-the-development-of-complex-societies-in-lebanon-during-the-early-bronze-age
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4.
ONLINE Seminar: "LGBTQ in Iran", SOAS,
London Middle East Institute and Roya Arab, 18 February 2021, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
GMT
This seminar is an introductory session with three Iranian academics
providing an overview of their research into the Iranian LGBTQ community.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/18feb2021-lgbtq-in-iran.html#reg
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5.
ONLINE Workshop: “Realising Understanding: Language in
Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and Secular-Religious Contexts (Focus:
Interaction between European and Islamicate Cultures) ”, Freie Universität
Berlin, 18 February 2021, 10:00 am - 4:30 pm CET
The workshop will discuss the use of language in multi- and
cross-cultural contexts shaped by different linguistic and cultural backgrounds
of the communicating parties and analyze (mis-) understandings in the context
of migration and integration with the intention to identify factors that can
support genuine understanding.
Registration: housamedden.darwish@uni-leipzig.de; Information and program: https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/academicsinsolidarity/news/Realising-Workshop.html?fbclid=IwAR3uMlwcAk0frV4qP0VhOFOjtgnthcWbSvMj637X3Nou0n-gYOzHgO4N524
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6.
ONLINE Conversation: "Refugees in Middle Eastern
History / The Middle East in Refugee History, 1918–39" with Dr. Benjamin
Thomas White and Dr. Laura Robson, Institute for Middle East Studies, George
Washington University, 18 February 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET
This conversation asks what role refugees played in Middle Eastern
history in the years when its modern states emerged, and what role the Middle
East has played in modern refugee history.
Information and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/calendar_event/refugees-in-middle-eastern-history/
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7.
ONLINE
Seminar: “Yemen Policy under Biden: Opportunities and Challenges”, Arab Center
Washington DC, 18 February 2021, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Speakers
at this webinar will provide an update on the situation in Yemen and its
humanitarian conditions, analyze the framework and outlook for the ongoing
peace talks, examine the impact and implications of US policy shifts under
President Biden, and assess the prospects for ending the war in Yemen.
Information: http://arabcenterdc.org/events/yemen-policy-under-biden-opportunities-and-challenges/; registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3616125417604/WN_ZXjCC785SLK9cQvu-GFM6Q
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8.
ONLINE Seminar on "Impact of COVID-19 on Women’s
Labor and Employment in the Middle East", Center for Middle East Studies
at Brown University and Journal "Gender, Work & Organization", 19
February 2021 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
The speakers will explore the gendered implications of the pandemic in
the region and engage in cross-disciplinary conversations around its variant
manifestations and experiences across different groups.
Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiA0CO6VBf0&feature=youtu.be; registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gfq2c-76R9OnLW_fjiV8Rw
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9.
ONLINE International Conference "Migrating World:
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Migration and Integration", London Centre
for Interdisciplinary Research, 20-21 February 2021
Scholars from around the world will exchange and share their research
findings in all relevant aspects of migration and integration. It will provide
an interdisciplinary platform to discuss the most recent innovations, trends as
well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of
migration, integration and cultural diversity.
Information: https://integration.lcir.co.uk/
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10. ONLINE Seminar on "Cultural Brokerage
in Pre-modern Islam: Magic and Divination in the Cairo Genizah: Jewish, Muslim
and Other Texts" by Prof. Gideon Bohak (Tel Aviv University), 22 February
2021, 17:30-19:00 IST
Information and registration: https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/magic-and-divination-cairo-genizah-jewish-muslim-and-other-texts-seminar
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11. ONLINE Seminar: “Eleven Wars against
Palestinians: How Palestinians are Coping with Their Elimination”, SOAS Middle
East Institute and the Centre for Palestine Studies London, 23 February 2021,
5.30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
The main
lecture will be held by Dr. Salman Abu Sitta (founder and president of the
Palestine Land Society).
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12. ONLINE Seminar: “Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami,
and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’”, Association for the Study of the Middle East
and Africa (ASMEA), 23 February 2021, 12:00 pm EST
Prof.
Martin Kramer will examine how the founders of the ASMEA related to the
influential concept popularized by Samuel Huntington. Both Lewis and Ajami
demonstrated an initial ambivalence, and a later acceptance. Kramer will pose
the question of which of their rationales speak to us most clearly today.
Information: https://www.asmeascholars.org/webinar
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13.
ONLINE Séminaire N.Ex.T (Normes, Exceptions, Transgressions.
Dialogue interdisciplinaire) du Département des Études arabes : “Aspects
religieux (époque contemporaine)”, Université de Lyon 2, 24 février 2021, de
18:00 à 19:30 CET
Stéphane Valter : « Norme et dissidence : les
chiites égyptiens entre approches sécuritaires et enjeux géopolitiques »
Naïma Bouras : « Course au savoir religieux et
institutionnalisation du prêche féminin dans les milieux salafistes
égyptiens »
Pour
participer, adressez un courriel à farid.bouchiba@univ-lyon2.fr.
Information : https://langues.univ-lyon2.fr/presentation/actualites/seminaire-next
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14. ONLINE Seminar: “The Arab Winter: Democratic
Consolidation, Civil War, and Radical Islamists” by Stephen J. King (Georgetown
University), SOAS Middle East Institute, 2 March 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Tracing
the period of the Arab Spring from its background in long-term challenges to
autocratic regimes, to the mass uprisings, authoritarian breakdown, and the
future projections and requirements for a democratizing conclusion, Stephen J.
King establishes a broad but focused history which refines the leading theory
of democratization in comparative politics, and realigns the narrative of Arab
Spring history by bringing its differing results to the fore.
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15. ONLINE Seminar: "Egypt, Democracy, and
Revolution: A Reappraisal” by Mona El-Ghobashy, Crown Center for Middle East
Studies at Brandeis University, 3 March 2021, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Based on her forthcoming book, "Bread and Freedom: Egypt's
Revolutionary Situation", the author will map out the political conflicts
powering Egypt's interregnum of 2011-2013. Coming to terms with what these
struggles were about will further our understanding of both democratization and
revolution.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ilSS-3-HSl2j7UdZ-Lc_Bw
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16. ONLINE Discussion by Alexandre Caeiro and
Nathan Brown on "The Government of Pearling: A Social History of Law in
the Arabian Gulf (1860-1950)", 4 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
The scholars will discuss the legal regulation of the pearl trade; the
effects of British attempts to re-organize the pearling industry and reshape
the legal systems of the Gulf sheikhdoms; and the relationship between
"ruler's courts", "merchants' courts," and "Islamic
courts.”
Information and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/calendar_event/the-government-of-pearling/
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17. ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of
Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces",
Center for Near Eastern Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 5 March
2021, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm PT, and 12 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm PT
This two-part workshop addresses minorities and minority-formation in
the art, architecture, and urbanism of the Middle East and North Africa through
time. A major goal is to consider the role of visual, spatial, and material
cultures in mediating minor cultural formations.
Information and registration: Part 1: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/14783; Part 2: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/14784
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18. Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture:
“The Apartheid Paradigm” by Raef Zreik (Tel Aviv University), SOAS London, 5
March 2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Professor
Zreik will offer an interpretation regarding the recent increase in the
deployment of the Apartheid paradigm to describe the current reality in
Palestine-Israel. He will reflect on its meaning and significance as well its
potential to alter the political imagination that guides our perception of the
political reality there.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei-cps/events/05mar2021-cps-annual-lecture-2021-the-apartheid-paradigm.html
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19. ONLINE 2nd Global Inclusive
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15
March 2021
Themes:
- Violence and Gender, - Media Portrayals of Violence, - Gender Differentiation;
can Women be Terrorists? - State-Sanctioned Violence (War, Genocide, Torture,
Capital Punishment, etc.), - How Culture Encourages / Discourages Violence, -
Ecological and Environmental Violence, - Violence and Reconciliation Practices,
etc.
Information: https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/evil/violence/conferences/
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20. ONLINE Session of the Islamic History and
Thought Lecture Series: “The Druzes, from Ismaili Esotericism to the Formation
of a Doctrinal School of Law” by Wissam Halawi (University of Lausanne),
Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre London, 17 March 2021, 2:00 pm –
4:00 pm GMT
Focusing
on the 5th / 11th century, Dr. Halawi will show how
Druzism was in line with Ismaili doctrine at that time, while developing a
substantive law influenced by Sunni fiqh and customary law.
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21. ONLINE Conference: "Transformations of
Arabic Literary Theory", Columbia University, Preliminary Virtual
Discussion Panel: 19 March 2021; First in-person Session in Paris: 27-30 June
2021, Second in-person Session in New York: 1-3 December 2021.
The focus is on Arabic literary theory, engaging
with its development from the pre-modern era up to the present. Literary Theory
is not limited to the classical or premodern reading of poetics and adab, but
also inclusive, and very strongly, of transformations since the late nineteenth
century.
Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/
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22. ONLINE Panel: "Pan-Asian Modernity
Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Education, Social Ethics, and Universal
Religion", Virtual Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
(AAS), 25 March 2021, 8:30 am - 10:00 am ET
Panel organizer and speaker: Maria-Magdalena Pruss (Leibniz-Zentrum
Moderner Orient Berlin). This panel focuses on translocal intellectual and
social networks between the Middle East and other parts of Asia from the 17th
to the 20th centuries which were created by Muslims and non-Muslims
alike. It investigates how knowledge about Islam and the Muslim world was
produced, translated, disseminated and adapted through these networks.
Registration deadline at reduced-rate: 1 March 2021 at https://www.asianstudies.org/conference. Information: https://www.eventscribe.net/2021/AASVirtual/agenda.asp?startdate=3/25/2021&enddate=3/25/2021&BCFO=M|OD&pfp=FullSchedule&tn=&cpf2=&cus2=&pta
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23.
ONLINE Symposium: “Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian
Context”, University of Toronto, 27 March 2021
This
symposium addresses a simple, yet underexplored, question: How is Muslim
philanthropy developing in a secular liberal democracy such as Canada? The symposium
will be a pioneering event bringing together scholars from a variety of
disciplines and practitioners working in the non-profit/charitable sector.
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24.
ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional
Dimension of Mediterranean Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association, 8-11 April 2021
This seminar engages with literary texts from diverse
Mediterranean literary traditions, periods, and genres in Europe, North Africa
and the Middle East, while being theoretically aware of their potential to
challenge canonical interpretations of critical artistic, political, religious,
and linguistic issues relevant to their and/or other national traditions in the
region.
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25.
ONLINE Conference "The Conversion of Spaces and
Places of Worship", Anatolian Religions and Beliefs Platzform (ARBP),
10-11 April 2021
Topics include: Conversion of religious places of worship into secular,
commercial and alternate religious spaces; Dispossession, destruction and
desecration of religious spaces of worship; Recognition of the validity of
religious places of worship; Legal restrictions by state agents vs.
international agreements for the preservations of such spaces.
Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/12/ADI%CC%87P_2021ConferenceCall_ENG.pdf
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26.
ONLINE
International Conference: "The Fragility of Global Migration", Center
of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021
Papers
are invited on environmental disasters, unnatural catastrophes, and all sorts of
crises that lead to stalled and failed migration processes, and the
consequences in the migration between the Global North and the Global South,
including processes of refugee migration which are structurally fragile,
involving vulnerabilities, difficult encounters, and often overwhelming
economic, social, or legal hindrances.
Information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/50226.html?cid=25115
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27. ONLINE Colloque: « Les sociétés maghrébines et du
Moyen-Orient à l’épreuve de la pandémie de la COVID-19 », GT4- Monde arabe en
mouvement - Association internationale des sociologues de langue française
(AISLF), 21-22 May 2021
Trois grandes questions orienteront la rencontre :
Comment la Covid-19 a affecté les sociétés, les groupes et les individus ?
Quelles sont les réponses institutionnelles et des collectifs à cette pandémie
? Quels sont les enseignements que nous pourrions en tirer en tant que
sociétés, groupes sociaux et individus ?
Information : https://www.aislf.org/GT04-covid-19
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28. 5th Conference of the Arab Council
for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the
Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change", Beirut,
21-23 May 2021
The
conference is organized around the following four major axes: Inequality and
Resistance; The State and Risk Society; Infrastructure and Survival; Global,
Regional and National Ecologies.
Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference
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29. ONLINE Seminar for Arabian Studies of the International
Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), Summer 2021 (Dates to be announced)
This is the only international forum that meets annually for the
presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian
Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of
political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).
Deadline for abstracts: 28 Februar 2021. Information: https://www.theiasa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2021CallforPapers.pdf
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30. Conference of the Red Sea Project X: “Red
Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete, Rethymno Greece,
16-19 June 2021
Papers will explore edges and transitions in the
histories and material cultures of the Red Sea, or reflect on the historical
horizons and invisible boundaries in Red Sea research. Themes include:
Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal
borders; the medieval and early modern, with an emphasis on the Ottoman Red
Sea; etc.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6586815/call-papers-red-sea-project-x-red-sea-horizons-edges-and
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31. 21st International Conference of
Migration: "Border Thinking", Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt,
Austria, 17-18 June 2021
In respect to migration very different forms of borders develop their
impact. In the dynamic process, social, political, and cultural factors become
visible, within which specific social practices are manifest. The conference
seeks to investigate these aspects with reference to the debates on
decolonizing, utilizing the method of border thinking, a critical thinking
about borders anchored in epistemic disobedience.
Information: https://www.cdmh.lu/resources/pdf/_base_4/1402574270138-21IMK_CFP_border_thinking_English.pdf
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32. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
This event is organized
by GIS Moyen Orient et mondes musulmans (MOMM) in collaboration with IREMAM,
IDEMEC, CHERPA, IMAF, and SEMOMM. The themes fall
under anthropology, archaeology and history of art, law, economics, geography,
history, islamology and religious sciences, linguistics, literature,
philosophy, sociology, political science, in a global or regional perspective. The
congress is an invitation to move beyond disciplinary and institutional
compartmentalization, by bringing together contributors from diverse
backgrounds, working in France and around the world.
Information: http://majlis-remomm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Appel_4e%CC%80meCongre%CC%80s_en.pdf
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33. Medworlds Workshop: “Coexistence in Practice:
Politics, Trade and Culture in the Late Medieval Anatolia and Iberia”, Fatih
Sultan Mehmet Vakif University Istanbul, 1-2 July 2021
The
workshop aims to provide a platform for medieval history researchers to discuss
topics related to broadly defined practices, experiences and spaces of “living
together” in geographically distant but experience-wise similar societies in
Anatolia and Iberian Peninsula in the 13th – 15th centuries. Themes include:
Modes of coexistence, especially in times of crises and catastrophes,
Convivencia; Local and cross-border trade; etc. Contributions will be collected
in an edited book.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February
2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7261584/coexistence-practice-politics-trade-and-culture-late-medieval
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34. Mediterranean Studies Symposium, Ortigia,
Italy, 1-4 July 2021
Preferred attention will be given to proposals about
Sicily but focus on other areas of the Mediterranean region will be gladly considered.
Interdisciplinary approaches from humanities, social sciences, media studies,
and other fields of study are pivotal. Any historical period of reference is
welcome.
Information: https://www.cla.auburn.edu/international/programs-and-events/mediterranean-studies-symposium/
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35.
Journée d’études « Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la
poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, 2 juillet 2021
Cette journée d’études se propose de mener des réflexions
sur le rire dans la poésie dialectale égyptienne et d’examiner dans quelle
mesure cette poésie véhiculait les divers aspects de l’humour et de l’ironie.
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36. ONLINE "54th Seminar for Arabian
Studies", Casa Arabe, Cordoba, 2-4 July and 9-11 July 2021
This is the only international forum that meets annually for the
presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian
Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of
political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2021. Information: https://www.theiasa.com/2020-seminar/
37. 27th International Conference on
Jewish Studies, Moscow, 11-13 July 2021
Sections include Biblical and Talmudic Studies, Jewish Thought, Jewish
History, Judeo-Christian Relations, the Holocaust, Israeli Studies, Languages
and Literature, Art, Ethnology, Demography, Jewish Genealogy, Museums and
Archives, etc.). We also welcome topics that require interdisciplinary
approach.
Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2021. Information: https://sefer.ru/eng/education/international_conferences/intconfeng.php
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38. ONLINE Conference: "Gulf Research
Meeting 2021", Gulf Research Center (GRC), University of Cambridge/UK,
23-24 July 2021
The workshops cover a wide range of topics in the fields of politics,
energy, security, and the wider social sciences as they relate to the wider
Gulf region (GCC countries in addition to Iraq and Yemen).
Deadline for abstracts: 25 February 2021. Information: https://www.gulfresearchmeeting.net/
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39. HYBRID Research Workshop: "Decentering
Holocaust Studies: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South (Including
Middle East)", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 26 July - 6 August
2021
This workshop seeks to bring histories into a wider scholarly frame in
order to identify their commonalities and as well as the centrality of the
margin. We welcome proposals that address the study of
the Holocaust from the Global South, broadly understood.
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40.
3rd Workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental
History of Turkey 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.
Information:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021
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41. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of
the Network "Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”,
University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021
The conference will stress the pragmatic implications of the translation
of texts in its narrower sense and the translators involved in activities
across or within the Transottoman focus region. For a closer look at this and
the multiple projects within this framework, please visit our website at www.transottomanica.de.
For further information, contact florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
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42. ONLINE International Conference on “Canon
and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History”, Berlin Institute
for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8-10 October 2021
Muslim societies and theologies did not witness
the emergence of a single institution that establishes a binding canon for
everyone who adheres to Islam. Instead, the constitutional positions are
(re)negotiated constantly in a scholarly discourse. Against this backdrop, the
conference focuses on the question of how certain texts and positions evolve to
a canon while others get lost in time.
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43. Seminar for Book Project:
"Reassembling Creation: Green Ethics and the Scholarly Disciplines in the
Islamic Tradition", Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics
(CILE), Doha, 12-14 October 2021
The seminar is convened by Dr. Birgit Krawietz, BGSMCS, Berlin), in
collaboration with Dr. Mohammed Ghaly who is leading the CILE’s research unit
"Islam and Biomedical Ethics" as part of a publication project
carrying the same title, in collaboration with Brill Publishers.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-research-papers-reassembling-creation-green-ethics-ge-and-scholarly-disciplines
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44. Conference: "Expectations of Justice
and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600-1500 CE)", Leiden
University, 27-29 October 2021
Participants are asked to present a case study discussing how just rule
was defined and what actions and reactions it precipitated in specific
historical, geographical and cultural contexts (local, regional and imperial). How was just rule or, conversely, the abuse of political power
understood and defined? What solutions were at hand to redress unjust rule or
to institute just rule? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information:
https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/799/
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45. Panel on "Women of Islamism"
during the Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montréal,
Canada, 28-31 October 2021
The panel investigates the motives of women who seek to join Islamist
movements and the obstacles they encounter. The contributions explore how these
women are perceived both in their own communities as well as by broader
national and international publics.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021.
Contact: deschampslaporte@gmail.com.
Information: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting
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46. Panel on “Confessional Frontiers in the
Islamicate Mediterranean” during during the Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA),
Montréal, Canada, 28-31 October 2021
For
this panel we seek papers that examine the porous and ambiguous nature of the
boundaries between religio-political spheres, whether in terms of politics,
commerce, culture, or ideology in relation to the Islamicate Mediterranean in
the period from about 800 to about 1600 – a larger Mediterranean that includes
the continental hinterlands around the Black and Red Seas as well as the
Mediterranean itself.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 February
2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/extended-cfp-confessional-frontiers-in-the-islamicate-mediterranean-mesa-28-31-october-montreal?e=82aeb6c61d
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47. Panel on “Prisons, Dungeons and Arsenals:
Confinement in the Middle East,” during the “Conference of the Middle East
Studies Association (MESA), Montréal (or Zoom), 28-31 October 2021
Papers are invited which interrogate the development and history of
confinement across the Middle East from the early modern period up to the
present.
For further information, contact Karim
Malak (kmm2282@columbia.edu).
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48. HYBRID 9th Biennial Hamad bin
Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art: "The Environment and Ecology in Islamic
Art and Culture", Doha, 7-8 November 2021
As art history shifts its disciplinary attention to the unfolding global
crisis, this symposium considers how an ecological art history can examine
objects, materials, and the built environment through the lens of Islamic
culture. It also seeks to push beyond binaries of human/non-human and
culture/nature in which the human and the cultural are privileged over other
species and the natural world.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 February 2021. Information: http://islamicartdoha.org/call-for-papers/
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49. 3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and
Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
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#acton-tabs-link--tabs-0-middle-1
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50.
PhD Workshop on "Unthought Perspectives in the
Study of Turkish Islam: Methodology and Research Prospects”, Center for
Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies, Paris (Date in 2021 to be
announced)
This workshop invites Master, PhD students and
postdoctoral researchers who share a common object of study (i.e, the various
aspects of Turkish Islam), to consider what remains unthought in their research
projects.
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2021. Information:
https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/10/Unthought_Turkish_Islam_2021.pdf
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POSITIONS
51.
W1 Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) with a W2
Tenure Track for “Islamic Philosophy”, Centre for Islamic Theology (CIT),
University of Münster
The candidate must hold a university degree
in Islamic theology or Islamic studies, pedagogical aptitude and special
ability at pursuing advanced, independent research which is substantiated by a
subject-relevant, above-average doctoral degree. Research and teaching
experience in the field of Islamic philosophy with a focus on Islamic ethics
and very good, subject-specific Arabic skills should be proven.
Deadline for applications: 19 February 2021. Information: https://universitoxy.com/juniorprofessur-fuer-islamische-philosophie,i10659.html
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52. Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
We are looking for candidates with broad
expertise of the contemporary Middle East with a particular focus on politics
and culture. S/he should be proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and preferably
also Hebrew. Candidates with a background in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic
Language and Culture, (contemporary) History, Political Science, and related
fields are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 18 February 2021. Information:
https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S00082BP
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53. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
(2021-2023)
We are looking for candidates able to demonstrate
proven academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together
with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies. We encourage
applications from candidates working in all related fields. Applicants must
hold a Ph.D. by the beginning of the fellowship tenure period, and no longer
than five years.
Deadline for
applications: 1 March 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/apply-two-year-post-doctoral-fellowship-at-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-2021-23?e=82aeb6c61d
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54.
Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social Sciences,
Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University
Requirements: Ph.D. in
anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences and other relevant degrees; relevant
teaching experience at the graduate level; specialization in the Gulf and Middle
East Region; proficiency in Arabic and English is required.
Deadline for applications: 6 March 2021.
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55. Associate/Full Professor in Economics of
the Gulf, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University
Requirements: Ph.
D. in the Relevant disciplinary area, such as political economy, economy,
economy of the Gulf; excellent written and oral communication skills in English
required; etc. Candidates proficient in Arabic will be preferred.
Application deadline: 9 March 2021. Information: https://careers.qu.edu.qa/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_EID_VIS_INTG_GATEWAY&p_action=viewPosting&p_svid=21539&p_spid=1014182&p_srid=690216
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56. One-Year Visiting Assistant Professorship
in Arabic Studies, Arabic Studies Department at Williams College, Williamstown
(MA)
Candidates
should have native or near-native fluency in Arabic; provide evidence of
demonstrated excellence in undergraduate teaching of the Arabic language; and
hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field by the beginning of their appointment on 1
July 2021.
Applications should be submitted by 1 March 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/83612
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57. Lecturers for History in the Middle East
and Jewish History, University of California, Berkeley
Preferred qualifications: A PhD in History,
or related field. Demonstrated teaching excellence in the appropriate fields
with undergraduates and, where appropriate, graduate students.
Applications will be reviewed for appointments during
the 2021-2022 academic year.
Information: https://apptrkr.com/2140041
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58. Tenure-track Assistant Professor for
International Affairs Programm, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant
social science (such as Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Urban Studies, Area
Studies, Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies). Preferred areas of specialization are
migration, development, post-colonialism and/or critical race theory.
Review of applications will begin 17
February 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/82243
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59. Post-Doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
The successful applicant must have the doctorate in hand by the start of
the fellowship (25 August 2021), but be no more than seven years beyond the
granting of the PhD.
The deadline for applications: 1 March
2021. Information: https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/cnyepprd/GUEST/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=22123&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
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60.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Modern Arabic Literature,
Tulane University, New Orleans
Requirements:
Candidates must have received their PhD
after 1 September 2018 and no later than 30 June 2021. They are expected to design
and teach courses on literature and cultural production from the MENA region,
time period open.
Deadline for applications: 30 March
2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/02/12/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-the-humanities-modern-arabic-literature
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OTHER INFORMATION
61. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
The award recognizes and seeks to foster innovative and groundbreaking
scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will
support a post-doctoral scholar working on a book project in any field of the
humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. Information: http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/cpsfellowships/ibrahim-abu-lughod-award
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62. ONLINE Short Course: “Islam and Creativity”,
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University London,
7-21 June 2021
The aim of this online short course is to learn about and gain analytical
tools to understand contemporary creativity in relation to Islam. During the
course, participants will discuss Islamic discourse, ethics, aesthetics and
creative processes in popular music, films, paintings and novels among other
things. The course will discuss how artists push and cross boundaries in an
increasingly entangled world.
The organisers advise
to book as soon as possible. Information: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=1676&Title=Islam%20and%20Creativity
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63. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images
of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images", Università
degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, Revised Dates: 5-9 July 2021
The
objective of 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. The school 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: 1 April
2021: Information: http://www.iric.org/tabid/99/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2135/MIDAENIS-Summer-School-2021.aspx
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64.
Articles on “Are Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in
the 21st Century?” for Special Issue of Journal “Religions”
We
invite scholars to reflect on today’s relations and trends of Muslim-Jewish
relations. This issue will be focused on areas where Muslim-Jewish relations
seem to be improving but we also welcome submissions that are more skeptical in
their outlook. We especially welcome case studies that look at projects that
rediscover the local or regional Jewish or Muslim heritage and case studies of
interfaith projects.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30
April 2021. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Muslims-Jewish
65. Articles on "Islamic Constitutions:
Managing Religion and Politics" for Special Issue of Journal
"Religions"
Papers are invited that examine the ways in which constitutions,
constitutional articles, and the writing and abolition of constitutions manage
the relationship between religion and politics. Of particular interest are
papers which highlight the specific legal, social, and political consequences
of how religion is altered by the state’s management of it through
constitutional articles especially in Muslim-majority countries.
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2021. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religion_Politics
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66. Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media”
for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North
African Migration Studies”
This
special issue seeks scholarly contributions that engage questions relating to
the representation of contemporary diaspora and migration issues 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 abstracts: 15 March 2021. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/23
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67.
Articles on "Business People in War Times and
Alternative Economies and Exchange during Armed Conflicts
(in the MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies"
Given that capital flight constitutes one of the most
important dimensions of wars and conflicts and influences considerably the
current course of the (post-) conflict processes, this special issue aims to
analyze displaced business peoples' economic activities and their motivations
in general for engagement in their places of origin and the host countries.
Deadline for full texts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://ormer.sakarya.edu.tr/4,3,,208,call_for_papers_in_turkish_journal_of_middle_eastern_studies.html
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68.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters:
Between Science, Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of
"MIDEO" 38 (2023)
This issue of MIDEO is devoted to the
Islamic theology of catastrophes at different periods of history, in ancient,
modern and contemporary theological thought.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2020/07/call-for-papers-islamic-theologies-of-disasters/
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69. Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of
"Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"
We seek articles that
present counter-hegemonic analyses, approaches and concepts, examining
Islamophobia as a longer and more complex phenomenon. We are especially
interested in papers which examine how settler-colonial projects against
Indigenous communities and colonized communities have informed Islamophobia
formations across varying national, social and political contexts.
Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6142269/special-issue-%E2%80%9Chistorizing-islamophobia%E2%80%9D
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70. Articles for Edited Volume and Workshop on
"At the Crossroads – The Middle Eastern and the North Atlantic World
during the Interwar Years"
The volume aims to gain a broader understanding of the joint and entangled
history of both regions. It is particularly interested in the influences of the
Middle Eastern World on the North Atlantic World between the First and Second
World War.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7234367/cfp-crossroads-%E2%80%93-middle-eastern-and-north-atlantic-world-during
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71. New History Journal in Turkey:
"Tarihçi/Historian"
This is an international peer-reviewed online journal that is published
three times each year and that accepts article submissions in both English and
Turkish. Authors are encouraged to submit article manuscripts that engage with
historical events and experiences, historical sources, and historical methods,
theories, and historiography.
Information: https://tarihci.biz/en/home/
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