EURAMES Info Service 03/2015

Dear Madame, dear Sir, dear colleague and friend,

Please find below the following announcements:

CONFERENCES

1. Conference: "Reformers and Intellectual Reformulation in Contemporary Islam",
SOAS and Queen Mary University of London, 29-30 January 2015

2. Forum on "The Future of Islam", Rethink Institute, Washington, DC. 2 April  2015

3. Five Upcoming Middle East Politics Conferences : "The Exchange", Beirut - The
Gulf - Tunis -Turkey, March-July, 2015 

4. DO NOT MISS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EAST STUDIES  IN EUROPE 2015:
Joint Annual Conference of BRISMES and EURAMES: "Liberation in the Middle East?",
Middle East Centre, LSE, London,  24-26 June 2015

5. International Conference: "Contemporary Arab World in the International
Relations", University of Gdansk, Poland, 4 July 2015 

6. Panel: "Governance Dynamics beyond Authoritarianism and Democracy", ECPR General
Conference, Université de Montréal,  26-29 August 2015

7. Panel: "Muslims, Jews, Moriscos, Renegades, Conversos and Christians: Conflictual
Encounters, Conversions, and Exchange in the Early-Modern Habsburg Empire" at the
2015 MESA Meeting, Denver Colorado, 21-25 November 2015


POSITIONS

8. Project Manager for the Regional Project "Shared Prosperity in the MENA Region",
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

9. Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund
University

10. One-year Visiting Assistant Professorship - Medieval Mediterranean, Whitman
College, WA, Newzealand

11. The Woolf Institute Visiting Fellowship, Cambridge University 

12. Post-Docs,  PhDs and Visiting PhD's Fellowships for Candidates  Fluent in
Chinese, Arabic or Persian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem


OTHER INFORMATION

13. Research Grant Opportunities: Eighth Annual ASMEA Conference 
 
14. Spring Edition of the Media Arabic Webclass: Online Training of Speaking and
Listening Comprehension Skills 

15. Articles on " Orient and Occident: Distorting Mirrors of Writing" for Special
Issue of "Planeta Literatur. Journal of Global Literary Studies"

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Guenter Meyer, Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz,
Germany

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CONFERENCES

1. Conference: "Reformers and Intellectual Reformulation in Contemporary Islam",
SOAS and Queen Mary University of London, 29-30 January 2015

Symposium on the patterns of reformulation in contemporary Muslim theology, law,
exegesis, mysticism and political thought. The programme is available at:
http://www.islamicreformulations.net/reformers-and-intellectual-reform.php. 
Registration for the symposium is essential.

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2. Forum on "The Future of Islam", Rethink Institute, Washington, DC. 2 April  2015

Academics, experts, opinion leaders, community leaders and practitioners are all
invited to submit proposals and join the forum. Deadline for Submission of
Proposals: 20 February 2015. Information:
www.rethinkinstitute.org/upcoming-forum-future-islam/

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3. Five Upcoming Middle East Politics Conferences : "The Exchange", Beirut - The
Gulf - Tunis -Turkey, March-July, 2015 

The Exchange is an effort by Mideastwire.com and its partners to promote
understanding and academic enrichment through a variety of city-focused conferences
in and around the Middle East and North Africa. The following five Exchanges will be
offered over the coming months:

* The 13th Beirut Exchange (One Week Program), March 22-March 29
* The 4th Gulf Exchange (Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Doha), June 6-June 14
* The 3rd Turkey Exchange (Istanbul & Ankara), June 21-July 4
* The 14th Beirut Exchange (Two Week Program), July 5-July 19 
* The 6th Tunis Exchange, July 21-July 31

Information  http://www.thebeirutexchange.com

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4. DO NOT MISS THE MOST IMPORTANT CONFERENCE ON MIDDLE EAST STUDIES  IN EUROPE 2015:
Joint Annual Conference of BRISMES and EURAMES: "Liberation in the Middle East?",
Middle East Centre, LSE, London,  24-26 June 2015

Paper and panel proposals on any aspect of liberation and also on any other theme
are invited. We will include panels on as wide possible a range of disciplines,
including: politics, religious studies, history, law, economics, sociology,
anthropology, literature, linguistics, geography, translation studies, language
teaching etc.

Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 20 February 2015. Information
www.brismes2015.com

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5. International Conference: "Contemporary Arab World in the International
Relations", University of Gdansk, Poland, 4 July 2015 

The conference's methodological theme will be the SWOT analysis. During the
conference four workshops will be created: Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities and
Threats. Each of the workshops will be facing the problems of the Arabic region in
the XXI century.

Deadline for application: 4 June 2015
http://wns.ug.edu.pl/media/aktualnosci/39809/contemporary_arab_world_international_relations

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6. Panel: "Governance Dynamics beyond Authoritarianism and Democracy", ECPR General
Conference, Université de Montréal,  26-29 August 2015

The panel aims to disentangle the convergence of governance by contrasting
governance dynamics from MENA states, Europe and North America. Papers should be
comparative. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: anti-terror
legislation; gender-related legislation; government of dissent and the policing of
protests; privatisation plans, private-public partnerships (PPP) and urban
government; the management of international events (Olympic Games, Qatar 2020, Expo,
etc. 

Deadline for abstracts 5 February 2015. Information:  paola.rivetti@dcu.ie and
Francesco.cavatorta@pol.ulaval.ca

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7. Panel: "Muslims, Jews, Moriscos, Renegades, Conversos and Christians: Conflictual
Encounters, Conversions, and Exchange in the Early-Modern Habsburg Empire" at the
2015 MESA Meeting, Denver Colorado, 21-25 November 2015

The Mediterranean sea and its coasts during the XVI and XVII centuries are the arena
of religious and political conflicts and negotiations. This panel will explore
sixteenth-century representations of conversions and encounters between Christians,
Jews and Muslims. Papers may consider themes such as piracy, conversion, Moriscos
and Conversos, Mediterranean lingua franca, and polemical treatises.

Deadline to submit a 250-word abstract and CV to the organizer Diana Galarreta,
University of Virginia (dg9ta@virginia.edu) is 28 January 2015. Information 
http://mesana.org/annual-meeting.


POSITIONS

8. Project Manager for the Regional Project "Shared Prosperity in the MENA Region",
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung

The three-year project consists of a series of conferences on economic and social
policy issues to be convened in different countries in the MENA region. The project
manager will work as a free lancer approximately 20 hours per week for a duration of
22 months (March 2015-Dec. 2016t)
Tasks: Conduct research on economic, social and energy-related topics; Mapping of
experts and research institutes in the MENA region; Proof reading publications in
Arabic and English etc. Requirements: Professional background in economics (M.A. or
PhD candidate); Proficiency in Arabic and English etc.

Deadline of application: 17 February 2014. Information Sharedprosperity@fes.org.ma.

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9. Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund
University

This is a full-time position. Preferred starting August 2015. The candidate must
hold a PhD or equivalent international degree within a relevant field in the
humanities or social sciences. The applicant to this position must be able to
demonstrate: A) Broad expertise in Middle Eastern societies, conditions and cultural
processes in general. B) Documented, specialized knowledge of the specific research
areas based on fieldwork experience in the Middle East. C) Teaching and advising
experience. D) Expert proficiency in one or several Middle Eastern languages; etc.

Deadline for applications: 23 February 2015. Information:
www.lunduniversity.lu.se/erek/job/642513

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10. One-year Visiting Assistant Professorship - Medieval Mediterranean, Whitman
College, WA, Newzealand

Applications are welcomed from scholars with research interests in medieval southern
Europe, the Byzantine Empire, or the Islamic World to 1453. Preference will be given
to candidates with teaching competence in two of the following areas: Europe, the
Islamic World, and the Ancient Mediterranean.  Effective August 2015. Ph.D.
required.

To apply, go to https://whitmanhr.simplehire.com/, click "Faculty" and "Visiting
Assistant Professor of History". Deadline: 21 February 2015.

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11. The Woolf Institute Visiting Fellowship, Cambridge University 

The Woolf Institute, which specialises in the study of relations between Jews,
Christians and Muslims from a multidisciplinary perspective, invites applications
for its annual visiting fellowship. The successful candidate will be expected to be
involved in a project of academic research, public education or of the arts in an
area relevant to the Institute's work. 

Deadline for applications is 20 February 2015. Information http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/

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12. Post-Docs,  PhDs and Visiting PhD's Fellowships for Candidates  Fluent in
Chinese, Arabic or Persian, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The European Research Council (ERC)  project "Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural
Contacts in Mongol Eurasia" is looking  for outstanding candidates with a sound
knowledge of the history of the Mongol Empire. The successful candidates will take
part in a team work, which creates a prosopographical database of people active
under Mongol rule, and can use the  accumulated data for their own research.

New Deadline: 27 February 2015. Information
http://mongol.huji.ac.il/fellowships-and-funding-opportunities or contact Michal
Biran at biranm@huji.ac.il

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OTHER INFORMATION

13. Research Grant Opportunities: Eighth Annual ASMEA Conference 
 
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) offers grants of
up to $2500 for  qualified professors and students engaged in the study of the
Middle East and Africa. Deadline for application: 2 March 2015. Information
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=219161

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14. Spring Edition of the Media Arabic Webclass: Online Training of Speaking and
Listening Comprehension Skills 

The University of Zürich's Asia-Orient-Institute offers an intensive web based
course in Media Arabic. In small groups and guided by experienced Arabic teachers
from European and Arab Universities, students focus on training their speaking and
listening comprehension skills of Modern Standard Arabic as spoken in Arab TV
reports and talk shows. It is designed for PhD students, scholars, journalists, and
diplomats etc. with a sound theoretical knowledge of Standard Arabic who wish to
become fluent in Arabic in an academic or media environment.

Registration is open until 22 March 2015. Information
www.aoi.uzh.ch/institut/weiterbildung/mediaarabic.html or contact Daniel Falk
(daniel.falk@uni-leipzig.de)

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15. Articles on " Orient and Occident: Distorting Mirrors of Writing" for Special
Issue of "Planeta Literatur. Journal of Global Literary Studies"

This issue will gather contributions concerning the literary experimentation with
the concepts of Orient and Occident, trying to pin up their precise scope and
meaning in particular writers or literary and cultural movements. 

Deadline for papers: 30 April 2015. Information
www.planeta-literatur.com/orient-and-occident.html