samedi 27 février 2021

EURAMES Info Service 09/2021

Attention Please: Call for Open Panels for the 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021

 

If you are interested in organizing an open panel for this congress and look for paper presenters, you are kindly requested to send the title and summary (up to 300 words) to the General Secretary of the congress, Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@googlemail.com) before 15 March 2021.

The call for papers for open panels will then be forwarded via EURAMES and DAVO-Info-Service to more than 6000 scholars who should send their paper proposals directly to the organizer of the specific panel until 15 May 2021.

Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html

 

Please find also the following announcements:

 

 

CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS

 

1.    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

 

2.    ONLINE conférence: « Les facultés de médecine de Beyrouth à la fin de la période ottomane, entre modernisation et impérialismes » de Chantal Verdeil, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman, 2 mars 2021, 18h30 – 20h GMT+1

 

3.    ONLINE Seminar: “Echoes of Violence and their Deployment in Israel and the Diaspora” by Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 2 March 2021, 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST

 

4.    ONLINE Book Presentation: “Building Politics: Urban Transformation and (Un)Making Markets in Istanbul and Cairo” by Sarah El-Kazaaz, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS London, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT

 

5.    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

 

6.    ONLINE Lecture: “First Ladies of Authoritarianism: Regimes as Joint Accounts in the Arab World” by Mustafa Menshawy, University of Durham, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm GMT

 

7.    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

 

8.    ONLINE Seminar: “Feminist Art in the Middle East and Turkey”, British Institute at Ankara and Council for British Research in the Levant London , 4 March 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT

 

9.    ONLINE One-Day Colloquium: “Qur’ān Translations and Interpretations by European Muslims”, ERC Project “The European Qur’ān, 1150-1850” (EuQu), University of Amsterdam, 5 March 2021, 9:00 am CET

 

10.  ONLINE Workshop: “The Muslim Memories of Europe: Circulations and Politics of Remembrance”, Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, 5 March 2021, 9:30 am CET

 

11.  ONLINE Book Talk: “Women of the Midan” by Sherine Hafez, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 5 March 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

 

12.  ONLINE Panel: “Space, Place, and Global Ottoman Institutions” Organized by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU (OTS-NYU), 5 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST

 

13.  ONLINE Colloquium: "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran", Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, 5 March 2021, 3:00 pm MST

 

14.  ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces", UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2: 12 March 2021, 2:00 pm PT

 

15.  Annual Lecture 2021: “The Apartheid Paradigm” by Professor Raef Zreik, Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS London, 5 March 2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT

 

16.  ONLINE Seminar: “Ten Years after the Arab Spring: Assessing the State of Human Rights and Democratization in the Arab World”, Arab Center Washington DC, 11 March 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

 

17.  ONLINE Zahra Institute Lecture: “The Kurdish Medrese in Republican Turkey: An Institution of Civil Society Caught Between Turkish State and Kurdish Political Movement” by Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University), Chicago, 11 March 2021, 2:00 pm EST

 

18.  ONLINE Lecture: "Kings and Clerics in Modern Iranian History" by Prof. Abbas Amanat (Yale University), Department of Middle East Studies, USC, 13 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

 

19.  ONLINE 6th Annual Conference on Shi´i Studies, Islamic College, London, 13 March 2021

 

20.  ONLINE Panel on “Well-being and Living Well: Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Disability in Contemporary Jordan," ACOR Jordan, 16 March 2021, 7:00 pm EET

 

21.  ONLINE Panel: “Queer Studies: Activism in the Middle East”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST

 

22.  ONLINE Conference "Trans/Formations in Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits", Columbia University, Preliminary Discussion: 19 March 2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June 2021; Second Session: 14-17 October 2021

 

23.  ONLINE International Workshop: “The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives”, RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, 22-23 March 2021

 

24.  ONLINE Conference: “Qur’an and Bible”, ERC Project “The European Qur’an”, University of Notre Dame, 22-26 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET

 

25.  ONLINE Seminar: “On Origin Myths and Genealogical Imagination: The Marginalization of Yemen’s Black Community” by Gokh Amin Alshaif, Department of History at Brandeis University, 24 March 2021, 11:00 am EST

 

26.  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, 29 March – 1 April 2021

 

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

 

28.  ONLINE Conference: “Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021

 

29.  International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021

 

30.  ONLINE 7th International Graduate Conference on "Materiality In the Eastern Mediterranean World", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Central European University (Vienna/Budapest), 28-29 May 2021

 

31.  Workshop and Publication of the Economic Research Forum on "Mitigation and Adaptation to Impact of Climate Change in MENA Countries", June 2021 (Date to be Announced)

 

32.  International Conference: "Musical Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period", Ruhr-University Bochum, 10-12 June 2021

 

33.  ONLINE Special Panel on "Religion and International Studies: An Outdated Topic or a Topic in Fruition?" during the "International Conference of the British International Studies Association [BISA]", 21-23 June 2021

 

34.  Workshop “Nature and Political Order(s): Exploring Environmental Politics, Climate Futures, and Decarbonisation in the Middle East”, during the "8th European Workshops in International Studies", University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 30 June – 3 July 2021

 

35.  ONLINE International Society for the Sociology of Religion 36th Conference: “Religion in Global/Local Perspective: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation”, 12-15 July 2021

 

36.  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

 

37.  ONLINE Workshop "Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment (iFaith)", Universities of Birmingham, Erfurt and Graz, 15-17 September 2021

 

38.  International Colloquium: "Itinerant Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam", Paris, 16-18 Septembre 2021

 

39.  27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021

 

40.  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

 

41.  International Workshop: "Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives (Including Middle East)", University of Leipzig, 4-5 November 2021

 

42.  Workshop: “Turkey in/for (Global) International Relations”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 25-26 November 2021; ONLINE Follow-Up Workshop: 19-20 March 2022

 

43.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021

 

44.  Conference: "Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire (622-1500 CE)", Leiden, 6-8 December 2021

 

 

POSITIONS

 

45.  Post-doctoral Researcher for Project “The European Qur’ān: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Nantes

 

46.  Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social Sciences, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University

 

47.  Tenure Track Position in Mediterranean History, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa

 

48.  Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (2021-2023)

 

49.  Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern North African History, Loyola University Maryland

 

50.  One-Year Visiting Assistant Professorship in Arabic Studies, Arabic Studies Department at Williams College, Williamstown (MA)

 

51.  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

 

52.  Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

 

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 

53.  Short-Term Fellowships for Young Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)

 

54.  2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for Palestine Studies, Columbia University

 

55.  ONLINE Short Course: “Discussing Islamic Art, Aesthetics, and Visuality”, Oxford International Collaboration Centre, Azad University Oxford, 9 March – 8 April 2021, Two Sessions per Week on Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm GMT

 

56.  ONLINE Course: "Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology", Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 23-24 April 2021, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT

 

57.  Spring School on “Spoken Images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images”, Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Catania (Sicily), 5 – 9 July 2021

 

58.  ONLINE or IN-CLASS: "Ottoman Turkish Summer School":  Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5 July –

27 August 2021

 

59.  ONLINE Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Fall Semester 2021

 

60.  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”

 

61.  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

 

62.  Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Harvard University (Vol. 39, 2022)

 

63.  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 East-ern Studies"

 

64.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims and National Development in Postcolonial Ghana”

 

65.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims and Societies in Africa" (Including Arab Muslims of North Africa), University of Abuja

 

66.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Übersetzerforschung in der Türkei II" for Series "Germanistik in der Türkei"

 

67.  Chapters for Edited Volume on "Social Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing in the Modern Middle East & North Africa"

 

68.  Contributions on “Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geography” for “TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research”

 

69.  Muteferriqa: Full-text Search in Ottoman Turkish Periodicals

 

If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1300 recipients) and EURAMES Info Service (more than 6000 recipients, only English and French announcements), please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 50 words and no attachment. Please send only the most important in-formation to davo@geo.uni-mainz.de and refer to further details with a link to the respective website or an email address.

 

Best regards,

 

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

 

 

CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS

 

1.    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 democratiz-ing 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 dif-fering results to the fore.

 

Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/02mar2021-the-arab-winter-democratic-consolidation-civil-war-and-radical-islamists.html

 

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2.    ONLINE conférence: « Les facultés de médecine de Beyrouth à la fin de la période ottomane, entre modernisation et impérialismes » de Chantal Verdeil, Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman, 2 mars 2021, 18h30 – 20h GMT+1

 

Si vous souhaitez accéder à la visioconférence merci de bien vouloir rejoindre la salle en renseignant votre nom et choisissant "écoute seule" à l'adresse https://webconference.ehess.fr/b/bil-kca-tri

 

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3.    ONLINE Seminar: “Echoes of Violence and their Deployment in Israel and the Diaspora” by Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen, Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, 2 March 2021, 10:30 am – 11:30 am EST

 

This seminar will explore violence in communal memory and its place in modern politics. It doesn’t seek to blame specific individuals or groups. Rather, the seminar suggests what might today be the redemptive power of critical self-assessment.

 

Information: https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/campus-programs/faculty-seminars

 

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4.    ONLINE Book Presentation: “Building Politics: Urban Transformation and (Un)Making Markets in Istanbul and Cairo” by Sarah El-Kazaaz, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS London, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm GMT

 

Challenging the notion that redistributive politics have disappeared in a neoliberalizing Middle East, El-Kazaaz argues that neoliberalization has shifted rather than decimated the terrain upon which redistributive struggles are unfolding.

 

Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/politics/events/03mar2021-building-politics-urban-transformation-and-unmaking-markets-in-istanbul-and-cairo.html

 

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5.    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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6.    ONLINE Lecture: “First Ladies of Authoritarianism: Regimes as Joint Accounts in the Arab World” by Mustafa Menshawy, University of Durham, 3 March 2021, 3:00 pm GMT

 

This presentation, which is part of a bigger project based on analysing texts and interviews conducted over the past two years, examines the roles, powers and identities of wives as key actors dually stabilizing and de-stabilizing their husbands as authoritarian leaders. The project reconsiders the role of leader’s wife and positions her as a more autonomous partner or holder of the joint account of authoritarianism alongside the authoritarian husband.

 

Information: https://bit.ly/3r159cx

 

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7.    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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8.    ONLINE Seminar: “Feminist Art in the Middle East and Turkey”, British Institute at Ankara and Council for British Research in the Levant London , 4 March 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT

 

This webinar will showcase the latest debates and scholarship on modern and contemporary feminist art practices and histories from the Middle East and Turkey. The panellists will share their perspectives on feminist art in Syria, Turkey and Palestine.

 

Information: http://cbrl.ac.uk/event/feminist-art-in-the-middle-east-and-turkey

 

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9.    ONLINE One-Day Colloquium: “Qur’ān Translations and Interpretations by European Muslims”, ERC Project “The European Qur’ān, 1150-1850” (EuQu), University of Amsterdam, 5 March 2021, 9:00 am CET

 

This event aims to foster existing collaborations of the team at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) with the project members, as well as to facilitate knowledge exchange with other scholars working on similar topics outside the EuQu.The discussion will focus on Qur’an translation and interpretation practices adopted by Muslims in different regions of wider Europe, as well as on Muslim-Christian interactions brought aboutbythose translation activities.

 

Please register in advance. Information: https://euqu.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Program-Quran-translations-and-interpretations-with-logos.pdf

 

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10.  ONLINE Workshop: “The Muslim Memories of Europe: Circulations and Politics of Remembrance”, Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, 5 March 2021, 9:30 am CET

 

This workshop brings together historians whose fields of study are located throughout Europe and whose research invites to approach from a new angle the place hold by Muslims and Islam in European memories from the Renaissance to the present day. It thus proposes to go beyond a caricatured and artificial distinction made between "Europe" and "Islam".

 

Information and programme: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7332126/muslim-memories-europe-circulation-and-politics-remembrance

 

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11.  ONLINE Book Talk: “Women of the Midan” by Sherine Hafez, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 5 March 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

 

Bringing Arab women to the center of the historical narrative of the “Arab Spring”, this book draws on accounts by Egyptian women who witnessed the realities of the revolutionary period that began on 25 January 2011 and continue to this day. Based on interviews collected over a five-year period with women from various backgrounds, classes and religious background, this current publication aims at redressing the imbalance of a male historical gaze that obscures women.

 

Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/sherine-hafez-book-talk-women-midan

 

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12.  ONLINE Panel: “Space, Place, and Global Ottoman Institutions” Organized by the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU (OTS-NYU), 5 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST

 

This panel will explore key social and political spaces and institutions present throughout the Ottoman Empire. Panelist Topics will include: the Ottoman household as the structural heart of Ottoman social, political, economic, and military organization; the importance of the Bosnian Islamic Community as a model modern Islamic Institution; questions relating to the royal and viceregal property ownership during the long nineteenth century.

 

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOyqqzstHd3NCHaR19Fbme-1PaBPY03K

 

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13.  ONLINE Colloquium: "Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran", Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, 5 March 2021, 3:00 pm MST

 

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies invites participants to attend virtual event on the usage of classical poetry, spirituality of namaz, the temporality of performing a ritual, and the role of language in constructing a relationship with God.

 

Information: https://cmes.arizona.edu/events/haeri

 

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14.  ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces", UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2: 12 March 2021, 2:00 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. Another aim is to recognize the complex, varied terrain of interactions between minorities and majority cultures: to emphasize instances of transfer, exchange, and participation that challenge the binary of assimilation and opposition.

 

Information and registration: Part 1 https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/the-making-of-minorities-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-objects-images-spaces-part-1;

Part 2 https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/the-making-of-minorities-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-objects-images-spaces-part-2

 

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15.  Annual Lecture 2021: “The Apartheid Paradigm” by Professor Raef Zreik, Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS London, 5 March 2021, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm GMT

 

The speaker 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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16.  ONLINE Seminar: “Ten Years after the Arab Spring: Assessing the State of Human Rights and Democratization in the Arab World”, Arab Center Washington DC, 11 March 2021, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm EST

 

Speakers: Mozn Hassan (Executive Director and Founder, Nazra for Feminist Studies); Amy Hawthorne (Deputy Director for Research, Project on Middle East Democracy); Marwan Muasher (Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace); Liz Sly (Beirut Bureau Chief, The Washington Post); Sarah Leah Whitson (Executive Director, Democracy for the Arab World Now).

 

Information: http://arabcenterdc.org/events/ten-years-after-the-arab-spring-assessing-the-state-of-human-rights-and-democratization-in-the-arab-world/

 

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17.  ONLINE Zahra Institute Lecture: “The Kurdish Medrese in Republican Turkey: An Institution of Civil Society Caught Between Turkish State and Kurdish Political Movement” by Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht University), Chicago, 11 March 2021, 2:00 pm EST

 

Martin van Bruinessen is professor emeritus of the comparative study of contemporary Muslim societies at Utrecht University. He carried out anthropological field research in all parts of Kurdistan in the mid-1970s and has been returning to Kurdistan more or less regularly ever since. The social and political role of religion has been a central concern of his research.

 

Information: http://www.zahrainstitute.org/news_and_events.html

 

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18.  ONLINE Lecture: "Kings and Clerics in Modern Iranian History" by Prof. Abbas Amanat (Yale University), Department of Middle East Studies, USC, 13 March 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm PST

 

This is a part of the Iranian Studies Initiative Annual Distinguished Lecture Series arranged by the USC Department of Middle East Studies.

 

Information and registration: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_yCHea1iwRly2ToYcyGp27g

 

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19.  ONLINE 6th Annual Conference on Shi´i Studies, Islamic College, London, 13 March 2021

 

This conference provides a broad platform for scholars in Shi´i studies to share their latest research on any aspect of Shi´i studies.

 

Information: https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/shiistudies/conference/

 

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20.  ONLINE Panel on “Well-being and Living Well: Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Disability in Contemporary Jordan," ACOR Jordan, 16 March 2021, 7:00 pm EET

 

Jordan has undergone dramatic demographic shifts over a few short generations, offering ethnographers opportunities to examine how categories of health, normality, and difference—and structures of access, power, and inequality—shape everyday life. Three early-career scholars will reflect on medical anthropology and disability anthropology in Jordan and the broader region.

 

Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZxrQ1O_8SKiORLnXEMNhFw

 

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21.  ONLINE Panel: “Queer Studies: Activism in the Middle East”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST

 

The panel will engage with both the “Kohl” special issue on queer feminisms and Ghassan Moussawi’s book, Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut, as part of a wider discussion on Queer Studies and activism with reference to the Middle East. Hosted by Nadje Al-Ali, Director of the Center for Middle East Studies.

 

Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/queer-studies-activism-middle-east

 

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22.  ONLINE Conference "Trans/Formations in Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits", Columbia University, Preliminary Discussion: 19 March 2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June 2021; Second Session: 14-17 October 2021

 

We invite scholars to explore a plethora of thematic issues tied to the challenges of mapping, reconstructing, and studying varied sets of Arabic literary theoretical frameworks with the aim of identifying cross-temporal and trans-local conceptualizations and terms for a genealogy of Arabic literary theory.

 

Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/

 

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23.  ONLINE International Workshop: “The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives”, RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, 22-23 March 2021

 

Deadline for registration: 18 March 2021. Programme: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8b856123/Workshop-Umayyads-poster-program.pdf

 

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24.  ONLINE Conference: “Qur’an and Bible”, ERC Project “The European Qur’an”, University of Notre Dame, 22-26 March 2021, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET

 

This workshop will explore the changing ways in which Medieval and Early Modern Jewish, Christian and Muslim readers relate Biblical literature and Qur'an. How did medieval and early modern readers assess the relationship between the two scriptures? How did they account for narrative parallels as well as the differences they found in them?

 

Information and programme: https://euqu.eu/2021/02/08/international-workshop-quran-and-bible/

 

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25.  ONLINE Seminar: “On Origin Myths and Genealogical Imagination: The Marginalization of Yemen’s Black Community” by Gokh Amin Alshaif, Department of History at Brandeis University, 24 March 2021, 11:00 am EST

 

Gokh Amin Alshaif will examine the origin myths and racialized genealogical imagination at the root of Black Yemenis’ (known as Muhamasheen) marginalization. She will discuss the ways in which some Yemenis deploy imagined genealogies to justify the Muhamasheen's status and construct the categories of "Arab" and "Black" as mutually exclusive. Finally, she will explore acts of resistance by Muhamasheen activists today and their struggle to reclaim power over naming and genealogy.

 

Information: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1NgKuKcrSFOzuTjEj37Bdw

 

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26.  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, 29 March – 1 April 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.

 

Information: bit.ly/3iD8idy. Contact: tudehconference2021@gmail.com

 

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27.  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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28.  ONLINE Conference: “Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and University of California, Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021

 

The symposium invites scholars whose work investigates Iran’s experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of perspectives – including race and ethnicity; foreign relations; intellectual history; social and economic networks; as well as cultural studies – to answer questions such as: What role did decolonization play in Iran’s interactions with the Global South? How did Iran respond to decolonization movements? Etc.

 

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/30/iran-and-global-decolonization-call-for-papers

 

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29.  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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30.  ONLINE 7th International Graduate Conference on "Materiality In the Eastern Mediterranean World", Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies (CEMS), Central European University (Vienna/Budapest), 28-29 May 2021

 

We welcome approaches that focus on the relations between humans and their physical surroundings, the way they understand, perceive, and use them. Moreover, in turning towards the material, the conference intends to explore connections and entanglements between human/non-human, spiritual/physical, and phenomenological/epistemological.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 5 April 2021. Information: https://cems.ceu.edu/cems-graduate-conference-2021

 

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31.  Workshop and Publication of the Economic Research Forum on "Mitigation and Adaptation to Impact of Climate Change in MENA Countries", June 2021 (Date to be Announced)

 

The MENA countries are particularly vulnerable to climate change disasters and their consequences, their heavy dependence on natural capital and the environment for survival and prosperity, and the limited adaptive capacities of these countries to environmental shocks. Proposals can be cross-country or focused on a single country.

 

Information: https://erf.org.eg/call-for-proposals-mitigation-and-adaptation-to-impact-of-climate-change-in-the-mena-region/

 

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32.  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.en

 

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33.  ONLINE Special Panel on "Religion and International Studies: An Outdated Topic or a Topic in Fruition?" during the "International Conference of the British International Studies Association [BISA]", 21-23 June 2021

 

We welcome submissions from politics, religious studies, anthropology, sociology, security studies, geopolitics, area studies, and related fields on any country or region. Our working group seeks to bring together scholars working in this field to examine all aspects of the crossroad of religion and international studies.

 

Information: https://conference.bisa.ac.uk/call-papers and www.hahellyer.com/RAISCall

 

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34.  Workshop “Nature and Political Order(s): Exploring Environmental Politics, Climate Futures, and Decarbonisation in the Middle East”, during the "8th European Workshops in International Studies", University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, 30 June – 3 July 2021

 

Workshop Convenors: Cemal Burak Tansel (University of Sheffield) & Jan Wilkens (University of Hamburg). MENA constitutes a crucial mobilisation space in which assumptions about energy transition, resource exploitation and contesting notions of just futures shape political struggles. This workshop seeks to advance theoretical debates in IR, IPE and environmental and climate research by focusing on the politics in the region.

 

Contact: jan.wilkens@uni-hamburg.de. Information: https://eisa-net.org/ewis-2021/

 

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35.  ONLINE International Society for the Sociology of Religion 36th Conference: “Religion in Global/Local Perspective: Diffusion, Migration, Transformation”, 12-15 July 2021

 

Global migration, labor mobility and travel lead to the diffusion of religion, but also to the questioning of religious boundaries and their potential transformation. The difference between religion, spirituality, culture, and nonreligion become themselves diffuse and even blurred. People feel, rediscover and redefine their religious and non-religious horizons in new ways through their everyday lives. This conference highlights the transnational, global and local character of these issues and aims to explore the nature of religious diffusion, encounters, and transformation.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2021. Information: https://conference-system.sisr-issr.org/conferences/conference-2021/#papers

 

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36.  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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37.  ONLINE Workshop "Rewiring the House of God: Religious Self-World Relations in the Digital Environment (iFaith)", Universities of Birmingham, Erfurt and Graz, 15-17 September 2021

 

The workshops seeks to engage with scholarly works concerned with 'digital religion', mediatization of religion, and religion on the Internet. The workshop will examine the mutually transformative relationship between digital technologies and contemporary modes of religiosity.

 

Deadline for abstracts extended to 2 April 2021. Information: https://www.uni-erfurt.de/en/universitaet/aktuelles/veranstaltungskalender/eventdetail/rewiring-the-house-of-god-religious-self-world-relations-in-the-digital-environment

 

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38.  International Colloquium: "Itinerant Prophets – Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam", Paris, 16-18 Septembre 2021

 

This colloquium will seek to grasp the itinerant figures: the prophets of the pre-modern Arab world, between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, between sacred model and familiar figure of popular literature, between mythical authority and historical hero. It will welcome proposals devoted to Islamic Studies, literary or historiographical approaches, as well as those that explore the continuities and discontinuities between these different fields.

 

Deadline for abstracts in French, English or Arabic: 26 March 2021. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2021/01/LES-PROPHETES-ITINERANTS-Appel-a-contributions.pdf

 

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39.  27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Institute for Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021

 

Papers are invited from scholars of all relevant disciplines in social sciences and humanities who are engaged in research on the contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and the entire Islamic World and its relations to other regions.

 

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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40.  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.

 

Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021/

 

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41.  International Workshop: "Religion as an Object of Historical and Social Scientific Study: Global Perspectives (Including Middle East)", University of Leipzig, 4-5 November 2021

 

We are especially interested in the global presence and characteristics of religion as an object of study in the History of Religion; Comparative Religious Studies; Sociology; Anthropology and Political Science (excluding Theology and Philosophy). Central questions concern the place, status and history of research on religion in these disciplines.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/religion-as-an-object-of-historical-and-social-scientific-study-global-perspectives/

 

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42.  Workshop: “Turkey in/for (Global) International Relations”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 25-26 November 2021; ONLINE Follow-Up Workshop: 19-20 March 2022

 

The goal of the workshop is to generate a new body of scholarship that locates Turkey within (Global) International Relations (IR), bringing together studies that are publishable in the form of a special issue and/or an edited volume. We aim at deparochializing IR via provincializing it: by localizing it in empirical, theoretical, and historical ways, using the case of Turkey and its (possible) contributions in this regard to advance the agenda of Global IR.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/97833926/

 

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43.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 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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44.  Conference: "Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire (622-1500 CE)", Leiden, 6-8 December 2021

 

We are interested in exploring how and when the language of kinship was implemented as a persuasive device, an operative category, and a problem-solving mechanism in premodern Islamic(ate) societies.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire/

 

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POSITIONS

 

 

45.  Post-doctoral Researcher for Project “The European Qur’ān: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Nantes

 

Each candidate should propose an original, innovative research project on an important aspect of the role played by the Qur’ān in Medieval and Early Modern European culture and should be fluent in English and French and have strong skills in other languages appropriate to their research topics.

 

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/postdoc-european-qurn-nantes?e=82aeb6c61d

 

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46.  Assistant / Associate / Professor of Social Sciences, Gulf Studies Program, Qatar University

 

Requirements: Ph.D. in Anthropology, Sociology, Social Sciences or 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. Information: https://careers.qu.edu.qa/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_EID_VIS_INTG_GATEWAY&p_action=viewPosting&p_svid=15374&p_spid=755153&p_srid=450188

 

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47.  Tenure Track Position in Mediterranean History, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa

 

We encourage applications from candidates with distinct interests in medieval and/or early modern Mediterranean history and with proven academic excellence in their fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies, and a fully-developed Mediterraneanist approach guiding their research. The candidate should be firmly rooted within the historical discipline, with openness to other fields of knowledge in the social sciences.

 

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2021. Information: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/index.php/opportunities-for-researchers/tenure-track-positions

 

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48.  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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49.  Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern North African History, Loyola University Maryland

 

The History Department at Loyola University Maryland invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and North African history, with the possibility of a renewal. Ph.D. in hand and teaching experience preferred.

 

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2021. Information: https://careers.loyola.edu/postings/5271?source=JobTarget%20via%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences%20Online%20-%20H-Net&utm_source=JobTarget&utm_medium=Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences%20Online%20-%20H-Net&utm_campaign=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Middle%20Eastern%20and%20North%20African%20History%20(1213-5271)&_jtochash=wykmJAHEEadmsmxOHgJpV&_jtocprof=sC_3bWvTFN0Mvo9NZ6KwfAKecfhsQnBf

 

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50.  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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51.  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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52.  Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

 

One-year appointment, beginning fall semester 2021. The successful candidate should have expertise in a field of broad concern to peace and conflict studies, including but not limited to: regional or transnational conflict, gendered conflict, ethnic or religious conflict, racialized policing/violence, etc. We welcome applicants with disciplinary training in sociology, anthropology, political science, international relations, international studies, history, or geography.

 

Review of applications will begin on 26 March and continue until the position is filled. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/18202

 

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OTHER INFORMATION

 

53.  Short-Term Fellowships for Young Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)

 

FMSH and UNIMED offer short-term fellowships of 2 or 3 months in France for young researchers native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria and affiliated to one of the 133 Universities with membership in UNIMED. This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work.

 

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2021. Information: https://www.fmsh.fr/en/international/30667

 

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54.  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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55.  ONLINE Short Course: “Discussing Islamic Art, Aesthetics, and Visuality”, Oxford International Collaboration Centre, Azad University Oxford, 9 March – 8 April 2021, Two Sessions per Week on Tuesday and Thursday at 4:00 pm – 5.15 pm GMT

 

This 10 sessions of this courseule will introduce the artistic culture of Islam from the viewpoint of its aesthetics and meaning. It is conceptualized like a forum for both learning and appreciating the rich and beautiful arts of Islam so that the audience will get a sense of what these arts mean and express for the Muslim faithful.

 

Information: https://www.oicc.uk/k-event/discussion_islamic_art/

 

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56.  ONLINE Course: "Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology", Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 23-24 April 2021, 11:00 am - 3:00 pm GMT

 

This introductory course is intended for students, researchers and librarians who are working in the field of manuscript studies. The lecturers will cover a wide range of aspects for those who are acquiring basic knowledge in this field.

 

Information: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=1652&Title=Manuscripts%20in%20Arabic%20Script:%20Introduction%20to%20Codicology

 

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57.  Spring School on “Spoken Images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images”, Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Catania (Sicily), 5 – 9 July 2021

 

The main objective 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 Summer School will bring together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with doctoral and MA students.

 

Deadline for application: 1 April 2021. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/49942

 

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58.  ONLINE or IN-CLASS: "Ottoman Turkish Summer School":  Intensive Instruction in Ottoman Turkish for International Students and Professionals, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 5 July –

27 August 2021

 

The summer school is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as seminars by top scholars on Turkish history, politics, literature, and art; cultural events, and, field trips to historical sites and archives.

 

Deadline for applications: 29 May 2021. Information: https://oss.ihu.edu.tr/languages-program/

 

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59.  ONLINE Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Fall Semester 2021

 

The program meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic.

 

Deadline for application: 31 May 2021.

Information and registration: https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/ra88et51c17saf/

 

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60.  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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61.  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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62.  Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Harvard University (Vol. 39, 2022)

 

Muqarnas publishes articles on art, architectural history, and archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/muqarnas

 

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63.  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 East-ern 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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64.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims and National Development in Postcolonial Ghana”

 

The chapters will focus on Muslims’ contributions to the fields of education, health, politics, economics, and international relations, among others. They could focus on either biography of Muslim figures and/or religious and non-religious institutions, issues on interreligious dialogue including NGOs and CBOs that critically highlight the place and engagements of Muslims in different development sectors in postcolonial Ghana.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: Holger Weiss, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland, Holger.Weiss@abo.fi

 

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65.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Muslims and Societies in Africa" (Including Arab Muslims of North Africa), University of Abuja

 

To what extent has the Muslim life been resilient or influenced by colonialism and globalisation? What is the extent of conformism or dissonance from the various constructs that determine Muslim identity. How does being a Muslim matter in the social, political and economic spheres of African societies.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7149932/muslims-and-societies-africa

 

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66.  Chapters for Edited Book on "Übersetzerforschung in der Türkei II" for Series "Germanistik in der Türkei"

 

In the chapters the life and / or works of translators who translate from Turkish to a foreign language or from a foreign language to Turkish are discussed.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7175074/cfp-%C3%BCbersetzerforschung-der-t%C3%BCrkei-ii

 

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67.  Chapters for Edited volume on "Social Histories of Disease, Medicine, and Healing in the Modern Middle East & North Africa"

 

This volume will illustrate how the study of medicine, disease, and healing reveal new aspects of the region’s history during the era prior to and during European imperialism, and during the era of 20th century state-building and decolonization.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2021. Information: https://histmedmena.hcommons.org/2021/02/25/cfp-social-histories-of-disease-medicine-and-healing-in-the-modern-me-na/

 

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68.  Contributions on “Infrastructures and Society in (Post-)Ottoman Geography” for “TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research”

 

We invite contributions to discuss and investigate how infrastructures shape and affect power relations and daily life; how they produce or organize inequalities, discrimination, or differentiated access to public goods and services; and how they may become part of state violence, or resistance, in Ottoman and post-Ottoman geographies.

 

Information: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/26811

 

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69.  Muteferriqa: Full-text Search in Ottoman Turkish Periodicals

 

Muteferriqa, by Miletos, is a search engine for Ottoman Turkish printed documents. It provides a full-text search for all printed documents (newspapers, journals, books). It features all the bells and whistles of a modern search engine. When complete, Servet-i Fünûn Collection will include over 1100 issues of the periodical, spanning the years 1891-1926 covering TUFS Hakkı Tarık Us Digital Collection's said title.

 

Information: http://muteferriqa.com/en/

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