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4.2014 Yale
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Distinguished
Lecture and Research Workshop: “Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle
East Insurrections", Yale University, 3 April 2014
The
Distinguished Lecturer will be Dr. Sondra Hale of the Departments of
Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
During the day, we will host a research conference around the theme,
including Dr. Hale’s Distinguished Lecture, followed by a dinner to celebrate
JMEWS’s 10th anniversary.
We encourage
you to present your research or to attend this event as a guest. In order to
present your research, please submit a 200-word abstract to jmews@yale.edu by
1 January 2014. Information
http://www.jmews.org/programs/distinguished-lecture-workshop/?utm_source=December+2013&utm_campaign=JMEWS+Mailing+List&utm_medium=email
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4.2014 Athens
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Seventh Annual
International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 14-17 April 2014, Athens,
Greece
The conference
is organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). The
aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students
from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology,
philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics,
business, sports, environment and ecology, etc.
Deadline for
abstracts 31 December 2013. Information
http://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean.htm
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4.2014
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Conference:
"Arab Documentaries - Recording Whose 'Reality?", University
of Westminster London, 11 April 2014
This one-day
conference is organised by the Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media
Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster. We welcome papers from
scholars and film-makers that will engage critically with particular aspects
of Arab documentaries. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13
January, 2014. For more information:
http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-centres/arab-media-centre/events/arab-documentaries-recording-whose-reality
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4.2014 Istanbul
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International
Symposium: “Writing Women's Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and
Historiography", Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 19-20 April 2014
The symposium
is organized by the Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation (WLICF)
and Yeditepe University. It invites submission of abstracts of papers to be
presented at its calls for papers from a broad, interdisciplinary field of
women's life writing including biography and autobiography, letters, diaries,
memoirs, family histories, case histories and other ways in which women's
lives have been recorded. The call is open to various genres and national,
regional and global cultural traditions of women's life writings as well as
to papers on the related areas of women's oral traditions, oral history
research, testimonies, and the representation of women's lives in all
possible verbal and non-verbal art forms, such as documentaries, video, art,
etc.
Deadline for abstracts
15 December 2013. Information http://www.wwl-symposium.org/en/call_for_papers.asp
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5.2014 London
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First
International Conference on Islamic E-Learning (ICIE-2014), Islamic College
and Middlesex University, London, 26 May 2014
The main aim
of this conference is providing an opportunity for academics, experts and
researchers who are interested in the area of Islamic E-Learning settings to
interact with each other and be familiar with the different aspects of this
emerging issue.
This
conference covers all of the Technical, Methodological and Content-related
issues within the area of Islamic e-learning.
Topics of
interest include, but are not limited to:
- The specific
technical features of e-learning settings to meet requirements of the Islamic
courses
- The current
Islamic e-learning environments and their consistency with e-learning
standards
- Formal and
vocational programmes in Islamic virtual environments
- Islamic
Lectures and e-learning of Islamic higher education
- Students’
behaviour and attitudes with regard to implimetation of e-learning tools and
environments
- Cross
cultural aspects of e-learning in Islamic programmes, Etc.
Information
http://www.openstudy.org/conference
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5.2014 Jerusalem
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Workshop:
" Reclaiming the City Square: Urban Protests in the Mediterranean",
Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 25-27 May 2014
The aim
of this academic workshop is to discuss and conceptualize the recent social
protest movements from an interdisciplinary, regional perspective. We will
study individual movements within the broader context of social movements in
the Mediterranean and examine regional trends and commonalities. The city
square—whether Tahrir, Taksim, or Rothschild—provides the main inspiration
for this workshop: it is the place where citizens come to voice their
concerns and express their demands.
Deadline
for abstracts 1 February 2014. Information:
http://vanleer.org.il/en/content/call-participationreclaiming-city-square-urban-protests-mediterranean
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6.2014 Tel Aviv
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International
Research Workshop: “The Settlements in the West Bank (1967-2014): New Perspectives”,
Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv, 29-30 June 2014
The research
workshop aims at presenting a fresh perspective on one of the most
controversial issues in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian relations,
namely the presence of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The
workshop aims at exploring less conventional approaches and angles that
go beyond the immediate politico-diplomatic dynamics and impact of Israel’s
settlement policy by bringing together different perspectives, disciplines and
methodological approaches to the subject. We therefore invite contributions
focusing on (although not necessarily limited to): the identity of settlers;
the spatiality and the political economy of settlements; the comparative
study of settlements.
The deadline
for abstracts submission is February 15st, 2014. For further
information and contact details, please email marco.allegra@ymail.com or
refer to the workshop website http://settlementsworkshop.wordpress.com/
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8.2014 Ankara
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Panel:
"Forming the Modern Muslim – Islam, Education and the Individual in the
Muslim World", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES),
Ankara, 18-22 August 2014
This panel
calls for contributions about the making of contemporary Islamic education by
political elites and state-employed intellectuals, Islamic revival and
education movements like the Muslim Brotherhood, or independent Islamic
preachers and educators. How does educational thought and practice reflect
the wider context of ideas about national citizenship, economic agency, and
the modern individual? Which are the various sources of tradition and
modernity that go into the often complex and contradictory process of
formulating specifically Islamic models of education?
Please send a
250-word abstract (English and French welcome) following the guidelines of
WOCMES 2014 to Sebastian Elsässer elsaesser@islam.uni-kiel.de. Deadline:
20 January 2014.
Information
on WOCMES: www.wocmes2014.org
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8.2014 Ankara
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Panel:
"Cycles of Revolts and Macro-historical and Structural Factors in the
MENA Region", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES),
Ankara, 18-11 August 2014
The panel is
chaired by Laura Feliu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). It will
investigate especially the following dimensions:
1.
Macro-historical and structural factors
2. Cycles and
historical regularities of the popular revolts
3. Factors
associated with the transnational ideological or value-laden axis.
4. Incidence
of interstate dimension, and long-term changes in the international and
regional balance of power.
Possibility of
financing the travel expenses for paper’s presenters. Proposals (including
name, institutional affiliation, CV, paper title, short abstract of 300
characters and full abstract of 250 words in English or French) should be
send to laura.feliu@uab.cat before 13 January 2014.
Information on
WOCMES: http://www.wocmes2014.org/
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8.2914 Ankara
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Panel:
"Urban Restructuring and Urban Policy in the Arab World", World
Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-22 August 2014
During the
last decade, many major cities in the Arab World have faced huge processes of
restructuring and renovation. Neoliberal patterns promoted by different
political, economic and social actors pursue specific strategies to
accumulate capital through new development schemes. Socio-spatial
reconfiguration and urban fragmentation are the results.
The panel will
analyze key phenomena leading to the production of urban rent, such as large
scale urban development projects, gentrification, heritage preservation and
city marketing. Papers are invited from scholars and PhD students engaged in
different academic fields whose research is based on empirical in-depth
research.
Please send
your abstract with no more than 300 words and a short CV to Jonas
Margraff at the Centre for Research on the Arab World, University of Mainz,
(j.margraff@geo.uni-mainz.de) until 25 January 2014. Information on
WOCMES: www.wocmes2014.org
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8.2014
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Fifth Gulf
Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 25-28 August 2014
The objective
of the Gulf Research Meeting is to provide an academic environment to foster
Gulf studies and to encourage scholarly and academic exchange among those
working on or interested in the developments taking place that are defining
the Gulf region and their constituent societies. The Gulf Research Meeting
will be hosting 14 workshops. Some of the topics are:
- Social Media
and the Changing Context of Politics in the Gulf
- The United
States and the Gulf: Towards a Reassessment of Gulf Commitments and
Alignments?
- Employed,
yet underemployed and underestimated: Leadership, ownership and work
motivation in the Gulf
- Green
Economy in the Gulf Region
- Enhancing
the Learning Ecosystem in the GCC: Learning Outside the Classroom
- The GCC
State’s Foreign and Security Policies after the Arab Spring
- Determinants
of Future Migration in the Gulf - Gulf Labor Market and Migration program.
Etc.
Deadline for
applications February 15, 2014. Information
http://grm.grc.net/. Accepted paper presenters will be eligible for a travel
allowance. Contact Elsa Courdier under elsa@grc.net.
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London
8-9.9. 2014
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Symposium:
"Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World", University
of London, 8-9 September 2014
The Leverhulme
Network 'Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World' aims to promote
comparative, cross-disciplinary scholarship on Islamic and European
cartography by bringing together experts in these two fields for a two-day
symposium to be held at Queen Mary, University of London.. Participants are
invited to explore moments of contact between traditions as well as
differences and divergences. Reflections on the methodology of the comparative
study of maps are also welcome.
Papers may
wish to address: - the contexts - material, political, spiritual, artistic -
of mapmaking in Europe and the Islamic world; - interactions between European
and Islamic mapmaking: exchange, influence, borrowing; - the cartography of
al-Idrisi; - cartography in the Ottoman empire (up to c. 1600) etc. Proposals
are encouraged from doctoral students, early-career and established scholars,
and travel and accommodation for speakers will be funded.
Deadline for
abstracts 21 February 2014. Information
http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=270
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9.2014 Berlin
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German-Israeli
Summer School: "The Transmission of Ideas between Religious Communities
in the Medieval World of Islam", Freie Universität Berlin, 15-19
September 2014
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Θέσεις εργασίας/υποτροφίες
Research
Associate as Coordinator for the Research Project: „The Islamic Empire at Work
– The View from the Regions toward the Center”, University of Hamburg
Commencing on
April 1, 2014, the PhD position is half time (19,5 hours per week) and is
remunerated at the TV-L salary level. This two-year contract terminates on 31
March 2016. Duties are academic services in the project. Outside of this
position, the candidate is welcome for advancing his/her academic career, i.e.
a PhD. The results gathered within the project can be part of the PhD.
Requirements: A
university degree in a relevant subject within in the field of Middle Eastern
history and culture. Fluent command of English and the willingness to
familiarize her/himself with administrative procedures are required.
Deadline for
application 15 January 2014. Information
http://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/AAI_VordererOrient_15-01-14_e.pdf
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Senior Lecturer
in Arabic, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg,
Sweden
The position
includes mainly teaching and supervision of students at first- and second-cycle
level, but also research to some extent. The holder of the position will also
be expected to participate in the development of courses and programmes within
the subject area and related fields. Employment will start as soon as possible.
The applicant
must hold a doctoral degree and have a research focus deemed relevant for the
position. The applicant must also have demonstrated pedagogical proficiency.
Information:
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=576540&Type=E
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Ibrahim
Abu-Lughod Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies 2014-2015, Columbia
University
The Center for
Palestine Studies at Columbia University's Middle East Institute invites
applications for the 2014-2015 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award, a post-doctoral
fellowship in Palestinian Studies. The one-semester fellowship carries a
stipend of $25,000 and the status of post-doctoral research fellow or visiting
scholar at Columbia University, as appropriate.
Deadline for
application: 15 February 2014. Information
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/about/fellowships.html
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Inaugural Annual
Fellowship in "Palestine & Law", 2014-2015, Columbia
University
The Center for
Palestine Studies at Columbia University seeks applicants for a residential
Fellowship. The level of funding is individually determined based on
candidates' needs and the Program's ability to meet them.
Deadline for
application 3 February 2014. Information
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/about/fellowships.html
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Assistant
Professor for Visual and Material Culture of the Mediterranean and/or Near
Eastern World (ancient or early medieval), Auburn University
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48185>
b) Lecturer
in the History of Iran since c. 1500, School of Oriental and African Studies, London,
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48182>
c) Two
Postdoctoral Fellows in Israel Studies, New York University,
<http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48162>
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Freie
Universität Berlin (Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate
World) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem solicit applications for the
fourth German-Israeli Summer School, funded by the Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin.
The purpose of
the School will be to familiarize the student participants with an integrative
approach to the historiography of intellectual developments in the medieval,
post-medieval and early modern period. Such a methodology requires first of all
that the various intellectual histories be read together in order to analyze
the ways in which their thought was formed and fashioned. Only such an
integrative approach can allow us to fully grasp the various multidimensional
flows of ideas and their respective transformation. [3] In addition to the
philosophical/theological analysis of the material in question, the social
aspects of the transmission of writings particularly beyond communal barriers
shed an important light on the ways in which these processes of transmission
took place
Information
http://www.ihiw.de/w/e/summerschool/2014/ or contact
ronny.vollandt@fu-berlin.de
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19. Research
Grants Program on “Inequality Mobility and Development in the Arab Region” by
the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)
The competition
aims at canvassing a broad range of research proposals from across the
different countries and localities of the region. Grants will be available to
both individual researchers and teams of researchers from the Arab region.
The deadline for
application is 1 March 2014. Information:
http://theacss.org/pages/inequality-mobility-development
