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EURAMES Info Service 43/13
CONFERENCES
1. International Workshop:
“Towards New Migration Systems, Patterns and Policies in
Eurasia: The Case of Turkey
and the Russian Federation”, University of Oxford, 25
November 2013
The workshop will be hosted
by Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, (COMPAS),
the Turkish Migration
Studies Group (TurkMiS), Ertegun House
and South East
European Studies (SEESOX),
St Antony’s, all University of Oxford and will discuss in
general the causes and
consequences of migration flows in Eurasia and in particular
the population movements
between Turkey and Russia which in fact lead to a new
migration system within this
region. There will be two panels and in total six
papers: Panel I: Migration
in Eurasia: Past Trends, (Dis)continuities, Transition
and Change and Panel II:
Migration in Eurasia: Turkish-Russian Migration System.
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2. Post-Graduate Conference:
"New Research in Language-Based Area Studies",
University of Manchester,
13-14 March 2014
The conference is organized
by the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World
(CASAW) and other
institutions. The aim of the conference is to explore new avenues
for researching the Arabic
speaking world, China and Japan, and Eastern Europe and
Russia; to encourage
comparative studies of these regions and countries; to
facilitate a cross-centre
dialogue; and to offer a forum for postgraduates to
present their work to peers.
Papers on the following
broad themes will be particularly welcome: 1. The global vs.
the local 2. Social
imaginaries 3. Nation-building: continuities and discontinuities
4. Identity politics and the
media 5. Language in use: discourses, narratives and
perspectives 6. The
production, maintenance and transformation of power 7. Religion
as politics
Abstracts of no more than
200 words should be submitted by 1 December 2013 to
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3. Symposium: “Ways of
Knowing: Asian and Middle Eastern Women in Photographs”,
Singapore, 28-29 March 2014
This symposium is organized
by Nanyang Technological University and the Middle East
Institute, National
University of Singapore, is a co-sponsor. Researchers from
different disciplines
(anthropology, sociology, history, literature, cultural
studies, etc.) who use
photographs (videos) of women as a research method are
invited to meet and discuss their approaches
as well as the results of their
research. The conference
aims to bring together various perspectives in the social
and human sciences and in
the humanities.
Deadline for abstracts: 2
December 2013. Information
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4. International Conference:
"Ancient Arbela: Pre-Islamic History of Erbil", Erbil,
Iraq 7–10 April 2014
Organized by the Finnish
Institute in the Middle East (FIME),
Institut français du
Proche-Orient – Erbil (IFPO)
and Department of Archaeology,
Salahaddin University –
Hawler. Inspired by the
increased archaeological activity in the Kurdistan Region of
Iraq, and in particular in
Erbil, the conference aspires to bring together experts
of archaeology, Assyriology
and ancient history to discuss the new findings that
have changed our perception
of this age old city and its surroundings.
Deadline for abstracts 30
November 2013. Information
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5. Third Finnish Colloquium
of Middle East and North African Studies: “Concord,
Conflict and Co-existence:
Religion and Society in the Middle East and North
Africa”, Turku, Finland, 5-7
June 2014.
Proposals are encouraged to
explore present and past approaches to the main theme of
the conference from all
fields and disciplines of the Middle East, North African and
Mediterranean studies.
Proposals concerning other topics and themes in the different
fields of Middle East and
North African Studies are also very welcome!
The deadline for abstracts
is 30 November 2013. Information
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6. Annual Conference of the
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES):
“The Middle East in Global
Perspective: Interactions across Time and Space”,
University of Sussex, 16 -
18 June 2014
The conference organisers
encourage submissions that highlight the connections
between the Middle East and
other areas of the globe, as well as ties within the
region, be they between
individual countries or between sub-regions, such as the
Mashreq, Maghreb, Levant,
and Gulf. In addition, we are keen to welcome all scholars
whose work engages with the
Middle East in a critical fashion, regardless of their
fit with various area
studies approaches. Our aim is to encourage new dialogue
between scholars studying
the Middle East on either side of the divide between area
studies and specific
disciplines ranging from history to literary studies,
anthropology to
international relations, and many shades in-between.
Paper and panel submissions
do not have to adhere to the central theme. The
conference will also
highlight the areas of research undertaken by various research
networks affiliated with
BRISMES, including: - Critical Middle East Studies,
contact: Dr Jeroen Gunning
(Durham); - Faith, Politics and Society, contact: Dr
Hilary Kalmbach (Sussex); -
People Power and State Power: Religious and Political
Dialogue in the Middle East
(run by CASAW, contact: Dr Ewan Stein (Edinburgh) or Dr
Frederic Volpi (St Andrews)
Deadline for proposals 5
December 2013. Information
www.brismes2014.co.uk
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7. International Conference:
"Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and
Transcultural
Memories", Birkbeck College, University of London, 26-27 June 2014
Papers are inviting which
explore all aspects of the ex-Ottoman city and its many
intercultural encounters,
and whose approaches to these encounters may include, for
example: cultural history,
city and architectural studies particularly in relation
to individual and
transcultural memory; cultural studies
including literature,
autobiography and
life-writing, the visual arts (photography, cinema, painting);
anthropology, Middle-Eastern
and North African studies as well as the study of all
the Ottoman lands per se
(including also the Balkans, Greece, Cyprus, Armenia,
Eastern Europe); Jewish
studies, colonial and postcolonial
studies;
French/francophone and
Italian studies (many ex-Ottoman cities had French or Italian
as their lingua franca).
Deadline for abstracts 1
January 2014. Information
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8. 10th Symposium of the
Study Group for Mediterranean Music Studies: “Mysticism,
Magic, and the Supernatural
in Mediterranean Music”, St John’s College, Cambridge,
27-29 June 2014
The ICTM study group
Mediterranean Music Studies is seeking contributions from
ethnomusicology, music
history, and other related fields that will highlight
significant aspects of the
fascinating, and in some respects universal, relation
between music-making and
esoteric practices.
Deadline for paper proposals
15 January 2014. Information
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9. Panel: „Aegyptiaca in
Arabic Context - Pre-Modern Perceptions on Ancient Egypt’s
History, Civilization and
Cultural Heritage”, World Congress for Middle Eastern
Studies (WOCMES), Ankara,
18-22 August 2014
For obvious reasons the
medieval Egyptians, Arab pilgrims, and Muslim traders who
travelled throughout Egypt
in the pre-modern Islamic period
were much more familiar
with Ancient Egypt’s
ubiquitous material remains than their European contemporaries.
Egypt became the epitome of
magic, marvels, and treasures. This panel focuses on
some of these Aegyptiaca in
Arabic tradition by adopting an alternative perspective:
while leaving aside
dichotomies such as ‘authentic’ vs. ‘erroneous’ interpretations
of Egyptian culture, the aim
of this panel is to interpret the pre-modern Arab
perception of Ancient Egypt
in the light of a long-lasting cultural tradition of
‘Egyptianizing’ in the sense
of doing Egyptian.
This panel pursues an
interdisciplinary approach and highly welcomes contributions
from scholars of disciplines
such as Egyptology, Coptic, Ancient, Medieval and
Renaissance Studies. Please
send your proposal (no more than 300 words) and your CV
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10. Panel: «Les jeunes en milieu rural dans le
monde arabe et musulman: opinions,
stratégies de vie,
participations et préoccupations», World Congress of Middle East
Studies (WOCMES), Ankara,
18-22 août 2014
En rappelant le fait que le
« Printemps arabe » a surgi d’une petite ville
tunisienne et que les
mouvements d’indignés sont animés fondamentalement par les
jeunesses,dans ce panel on
invite les chercheurs de divers horizons du monde arabe
et musulman à présenter des
communications qui présentent les résultats de travaux
de recherche portant sur les
attitudes (opinions politiques et valeurs), les
stratégies de vie
(éducation, formation, profession, insertion économique
informelle, émigration,
mariage, etc.) et les actions collectives (participation
dans les politiques
publiques de développement local et agricole ou de revendication
de l’insertion dans ces
politiques ou encore de contestation de ces mêmes
politiques) en milieu rural.
Organisateurs: Dr. Thierry
Desrues, Dr. Abderrahim Bentaïbi, Prof. Noureddine Bahri.
Date limite de réception des
résumés : 1er décembre 2013.
Contacts :
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11. Conference: “Young
Adults and Circulation of Cultural Products: Mediterranean
Perspectives”, University of
Paris 3, 10-12 September 2014
The aim of this conference
is to examine the relationship between young adults and
cultural products in a
digital, globalised age. The focus will be on the logics and
the modes of production,
distribution, circulation and consumption of cultural
products intended for young
adults in the diversified geographical space of the
Mediterranean.
In partnership with
University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle IRCAV LABEX ICC;
University Descartes Paris 5
- CERLIS LABEX ICCA; French Institute for the Near East
– Beyrouth; Institute for
Research on Contemporary Maghreb – Tunis; University of
Malaga - Faculty of
Communication; Panteion University of Social & Political
Sciences, Department of
Communication, Media and Culture; Galatasaray University –
Istanbul.
Deadline for abstracts 6
January 2014. Information
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POSITIONS
12. Assistant Professorship
in Islam, Aarhus University, Denmark
The position is a three-year
fixed-term appointment with the possibility of
re-appointment to the
position of associate professor in Islam. The appointment
begins on 1 January 2014 or
as soon as possible thereafter. We are interested in a
candidate with a strong
research profile in the study of Islam. Documented insight
into formative Islam is
important, and insight into
contemporary issues would be an
advantage, but not a
prerequisite.
Applicants must have a
doctoral degree or equivalent qualifications in a field
relevant to the described
research area. Applicants must also document background in
the history of religion or
similar disciplines, thorough knowledge of classic Arabic
etc. Non-Danish speaking
applicants are expected to learn Danish to participate in
the daily administrative and
academic business of the department within two years.
Deadline for application 19
December 2013. Information ls@hum.au.dk.
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13. Assistant Professor of
History, Middle East and/or Africa Studies, Regis
University, Colorado
The Department of History
and Politics invites applicants for a full-time,
tenure-track position at the
level of Assistant Professor of History with an
expertise in historical
perspectives on the peoples, cultures, geographies and
material cultures of the
Middle East and/or Africa, to begin Fall 2014.
Deadline for application 25
November 2013. Information
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14. Four Researchers,
Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo), Amman, Beirut and
Erbil
- 1 researcher for Ifpo
research center (Contemporary Studies Departement) in Amman,
Jordan :
- 3 researchers for Ifpo
research center (Arabic, Medieval and Modern Studies
Department) in Beirut,
Lebanon (though the third one is likely to take place in
Erbil, Iraq) :
1.
2.
3.
Positions will start by September
2014.
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OTHER INFORMATION
15. Call for Papers for new
issue of Expressions maghrébines: "Women Writers from
Algeria. Fictions of Origin,
Origins of Fiction / Écrivaines d’Algérie. Fictions de
l’origine, origines de la
fiction"
This issue seeks to study
the literary and aesthetic referents linked to painting,
photography, and film in the
œuvre of women writers of Algerian origin. It will pay
particular attention to
Algerian writers addressing the question of Algeria and
organized around the
colonial-postcolonial debate and the political dialogue between
France and Algeria, so as to
examine the common cultural and literary imaginary upon
which these writers draw.
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16. First Website on
Migration to the Gulf States: www.gulfmigration.eu
With more than 23 million
third-country nationals, the states of the Gulf
Cooperation Council are the
third largest destination of global migrants. The Gulf
Labour Markets and Migration
(GLMM) programme is pleased to announce the first
website dedicated to
migration to the Gulf States: www.gulfmigration.eu.
GLMM is an international
independent, non-partisan, non-profit joint programme of
the Migration Policy Centre
(MPC - Florence) and the Gulf Research Center (GRC -
Jeddah, Geneva, Cambridge,
Tokyo). GLMM provides data, analyses, and recommendations
aiming at a better
understanding and improved management of Gulf labour markets and
migration, engaging with and
respecting the viewpoints of all stakeholders. GLMM
intends to become an indispensable
tool for researchers, students, policymakers,
advocates, migrants in and
nationals of GCC countries.
Responsible: Philippe
Fargues (MPC Director) & Nasra Shah (Professor at Kuwait
University) -GLMM Scientific
Directors- and Imco Brouwer (GRC) - GLMM Executive
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18. Jadaliyya Launches
"Critical Currents in Islam (CCI)" Page
Jadaliyya’s Critical
Currents in Islam Page engages with a broad range of topics
related to Islam as it is
interpreted, practiced, and contested in political,
cultural, and economic
arenas throughout the world. The page is a place for fresh
and critical perspectives on
many of the issues that have defined internal
discussions within Muslim
majority societies and a space for highlighting new
directions and discussions.
Comments and contributions are welcome at
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