EURAMES Info Service 22/2015

CONFERENCES
 
1. International Workshop: “The ‘State’ of Lebanon: Concepts of Political Order in
Crisis?”, Orient-Institut Beirut,  15-16 October 2015
 
2. Conference: “Two Hundred Years since the Congress of Vienna: The State of
International Relations as a Discipline and Alternative World Views”, Kadir Has
University, Istanbul, 22-24 October 2015
 
3. Conference: “Power and the Mediterranean”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
13-15 November 2015 
 
4. Conference: “Transnational Religious Movements, Dialogue and Economic
Development: The Hizmet Movement in Comparative Perspective”, University of Turin,
10-11 December 2015
 
5. Conference: “From Christianisations and Islamisations to
(Hetero)Europeanisations: Transformations of Cultural-Historical Heritage on the
European Margins”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ca'Foscari University of Venice &
INALCO, Sofia, 31 March - 2 April 2016
 


 POSITIONS
 
6. Political Scientists for Faculty Positions, New York University, Abu Dhabi 
 
7. Assistant Professor in Political Science, Santa Clara University 
 

OTHER INFORMATION
 
8. Studying Arabic in Oman at A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra
 
9. Continuation of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership, DAAD
 
10. 4th International Summer School: “Light and Shadow – Experimental Spirit,
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Aesthetics in Sciences, Medicine and Poetry”, Prof.
Dr. Fuat Sezgin Research Foundation for the History of Science in Islam, Istanbul,
17-22 August 2015 
 
11. Summer Scholarships for Study Trip in Turkey, 17-25 August 2015 
 
12. 29 Research Junior Scholar Fellowships on "InterAsian Contexts and Connections"  
 
13. Articles for new open access Journal: “Mediterranea. International Journal on
the Transfer of Knowledge”
 
14. Articles on "What is New in the ‘New Middle East’?" for Journal "Insight
Turkey", Fall 2015
 
15. Articles on "Gender, Citizenship, and Immigration: A Comparative Perspective on
the Mediterranean” for a special issue of “Journal of Levantine Studies”

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 CONFERENCES
 
 
1. International Workshop: “The ‘State’ of Lebanon: Concepts of Political Order in
Crisis?”, Orient-Institut Beirut,  15-16 October 2015
 
The workshop aims at examining the explanatory value of various classical and new
approaches towards political order in understanding the fragility/stability of state
and society in Lebanon.
 
Deadline for proposals: 30 June 2015. Information:
www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CfP_State_of_Lebanon__OIB_15-16_Oct_2015.pdf
 
 
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2. Conference: “Two Hundred Years since the Congress of Vienna: The State of
International Relations as a Discipline and Alternative World Views”, Kadir Has
University, Istanbul, 22-24 October 2015
 
The Conference is meant to address the lessons learned from previous landmark events
and their legacies on the international system by focusing on the global challenges
today and defining ways to address them primarily from a theoretical perspective. By
looking at the past, we seek to assess the present and future of international
relations.
 
Deadline for proposals: 1 August 2015. Information:
www.khas.edu.tr/en/1884/annual-conference 
 
 
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3. Conference: “Power and the Mediterranean”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
13-15 November 2015 
 
Submission may address questions including: How have power relations in the
Mediterranean been figured across history? When and how is power exchanged between
states, communities, and individuals? How is power relevant to discussions of
politics, culture, and the future of the Mediterranean? How are power relations
affected by migration and movement within the Mediterranean region and beyond?
 
Extended deadline for proposals: 15 July 2015. Information:
https://meditopos.rll.lsa.umich.edu/the-meditopos-conference/ 
  
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4. Conference: “Transnational Religious Movements, Dialogue and Economic
Development: The Hizmet Movement in Comparative Perspective”, University of Turin,
10-11 December 2015
 
This conference aims at including papers addressing the Hizmet movement in its
transnational perspective: either by analysing its activities, development and
institutionalisation in different countries, or by comparing it to other
dialogue-oriented religious movements. Different disciplinary perspectives, from
political science to sociology, anthropology and law, as well as different
methodological perspectives, are welcomed. 
 
Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2015. Information:
http://standinggroups.ecpr.eu/religion/?p=396
 
 
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5. Conference: “From Christianisations and Islamisations to
(Hetero)Europeanisations: Transformations of Cultural-Historical Heritage on the
European Margins”, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Ca'Foscari University of Venice &
INALCO, Sofia, 31 March - 2 April 2016
 
We aim to gather insights for drafting typologies and chronologies of: 1) the
Europeanisation of a number of national collective identities from the European
margins; 2) phenomena that can be considered re-active towards Europeanisation; 3)
contacts and mutual (non)interest and preconceptions between cultures from the
margins. 
A limited number of successful applicants shall be able to benefit from travel
grants. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2015. Information:
https://sites.google.com/site/heteroeuropeanisations/announcement 
 
 
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POSITIONS
 
6. Political Scientists for Faculty Positions, New York University, Abu Dhabi 
 
NYU is inviting applications from political scientists for faculty positions at any
level (assistant, associate or full professor, tenure/tenure track) to strengthen
its program in Political Science, for appointment on September 1, 2016. We encourage
applications from all subfields of Political Science, with a particular interest in
applicants in International Relations.
 
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2015. Information: nyuad.socialscience@nyu.edu
 
 
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7. Assistant Professor in Political Science, Santa Clara University 
 
The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position
specializing in Comparative Politics to begin Fall 2016. Regional interest includes
China, South Asia, and Latin America. Themes of interest include participation,
human rights, politics, religion and development, and sustainable development.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Political Science and university-level teaching
experience. Demonstrated success in research and publishing peer-reviewed works is
necessary to achieve tenure.
 
Deadline for applications: 21 August 2015. Information:
www.apsanet.org/jobs_listing.asp?id=1209 
 
 
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OTHER INFORMATION
 
8. Studying Arabic in Oman at A’Sharqiyah University, Ibra
 
We offer Standard Arabic, Colloquial Omani Arabic and Media Arabic. The teaching
staff is Omani and highly trained to teach non-native speakers and in intercultural
communication to ease the students into Omani culture. The Fall Semester starts on
Sep 5th and ends on Dec 17th and our 4-week intensive winter program starts on Jan
5th and ends on Jan 28th.
 
Information:
www.asu.edu.om/asharqiyah-university-countinuing-and%20professional-education-arabic.php
  
 
 
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9. Continuation of the German-Arab Transformation Partnership, DAAD
 
The DAAD will be funding projects in Tunisia, Morrocco, Libya, Jordan and Jemen in
research and university cooperation as well as short-term measures. Applications for
funding will be accepted as of today. 
 
Information on research partnerships:
www.daad.de/hochschulen/ausschreibungen/projekte/de/11342-foerderprogramme-finden/?s=1&projektid=57210488
; Information on university partnerships:
www.daad.de/hochschulen/ausschreibungen/projekte/de/11342-foerderprogramme-finden/?s=1&projektid=57159651;
Information on short term measures:
www.daad.de/hochschulen/ausschreibungen/projekte/de/11342-foerderprogramme-finden/?s=1&projektid=57210610
 
 
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10. 4th International Summer School: “Light and Shadow – Experimental Spirit,
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Aesthetics in Sciences, Medicine and Poetry”, Prof.
Dr. Fuat Sezgin Research Foundation for the History of Science in Islam, Istanbul,
17-22 August 2015 
 
Light and shadow play an important role in the history of science and technology.
The focus is extendable to medicine, philosophy, poetry etc. 
 
Information:
http://ibtav.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=129%3A4th-summer-school-2015&catid=40%3Ahaber&Itemid=121&lang=de

 
 
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11. Summer Scholarships for Study Trip in Turkey, 17-25 August 2015
 
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey will offer a study
trip for successful and motivated graduate students (MA, MPhil, PhD, etc.)
interested in Ottoman and Turkish studies. The aim of the project is to provide
wide-ranging first hand information on Turkey.
 
Applicants must be graduate students in Turcology, History, Political Science,
International Relations, Sociology, Journalism, Law or Public Administration. The
program is open to students from: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Republic of
Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania,
Russian Federation, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, USA. All travel and
accommodation expenses of the study trip will be covered by the Turkish Ministry of
Culture and Tourism.
 
Deadline for applications: 5 July 2015. Information: Melissa Abache MABACHE@ku.edu.tr 
 
 
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12. 29 Research Junior Scholar Fellowships on "InterAsian Contexts and Connections" 
 
These fellowships help junior scholars (one to five years out of the PhD) complete
first books or undertake second projects. The intellectual thrust of the project is
the reconceptualization of Asia as an interlinked historical and geographic
formation stretching from West Asia through Eurasia, Central Asia, and South Asia to
Southeast Asia and East Asia. Proposals supported by the fellowship examine
processes that connect places and peoples (such as migration, media, and resource
flows) as well as those that reconfigure local and translocal contexts (such as
shifting borders, urbanization, and social movements)..
 
Deadline for application: 25 August 2015. Information:
www.ssrc.org/fellowships/transregional-research-fellowship/
 
 
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13. Articles for new open access Journal: “Mediterranea. International Journal on
the Transfer of Knowledge”
 
The recently created journal is focusing on various areas of knowledge transfer from
Late Antiquity to the Early Modern period, covering the Middle East and the
Mediterranean basin, and paying special attention to philological, philosophical,
scientific, cultural and religious fields of research. Mediterranea publishes
original papers. All submissions from Arts and Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Social
Sciences and Experimental Sciences are welcome.
 
Information: www.uco.es/servicios/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/mediterranea/index
 
 
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14. Articles on "What is New in the ‘New Middle East’?" for Journal "Insight
Turkey", Fall 2015
 
This issue will discuss how to address the enduring challenges in the region. There
is a dearth of studies on the new social forces and emergent structures of
political, religious and military formations in the region. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 10 July 2015. Information
www.insightturkey.com/call-for-papers-what-is-new-in-the-‘new-middle-east/articles/2484
 
 
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15. Articles on "Gender, Citizenship, and Immigration: A Comparative Perspective on
the Mediterranean” for a special issue of “Journal of Levantine Studies”
 
We welcome submissions offering insights on the new developments in the triad of
citizenship, gender, and immigration, particularly manuscripts dealing with
structural economic problems, political instability after the “Arab Spring,” and
ongoing conflicts in specific countries. We specifically welcome contributions from
scholars and social activists that analyze the inclusionary and exclusionary
experiences of women, children, and members of LGBTI communities, labor and
political migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers or return migrants.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2015. Information:
www.vanleer.org.il/sites/files/CFPGenderPoster540_0.png