EURAMES Info Service 29/2015

CONFERENCES 1. International Symposium: "Civilization, Cities and Architecture", Istanbul, 12-14 April 2016 2. Co-IRIS Workshop: "Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Agenda for an International Relations-Islam Discourse", University of Tübingen, Germany, 6-8 April 2016 3. International Symposium: "Persianate Cultures of Documentation (15th – 20th Centuries)", Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 23-24 June 2016 POSITIONS 4. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of History of Religions – Religions in Historical Time, University of Copenhagen 5. Assistant Professor in International or Comparative Politics, American University of Beirut OTHER INFORMATION 6. Articles for Book Edited by Samhita Chaudhuri on "Cultural Geography: Some Issues" 7. In memory of Thomas Philipp ______________   If you want to distribute an announcement via EURAMES Info Service (more than 5500 recipients, only English and French announcements), please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 100 words and no attachment. Please send only the most important information 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, Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, Germany ____________________   CONFERENCES 1. International Symposium: "Civilization, Cities and Architecture", Istanbul, 12-14 April 2016 The symposium aims to revisit the heritage of Turkish-Muslim, along with Roman, Byzantine, Greek, Chinese and other civilizations in the field of urban planning and architecture and to discuss whether the needs of the modern way of life and traditional architecture are compatible with each other, how they can complement each other, and whether the historical heritage can in some way or other brought to bear on modern city planning. Sponsored by the Turkish Historical Society Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2015. Information: http://sempozyum.ttk.gov.tr/eng/2015-eng-sempozyum4.html ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬____________________ 2. Co-IRIS Workshop: "Worlding beyond the Clash of Civilizations: An Agenda for an International Relations-Islam Discourse", University of Tübingen, Germany, 6-8 April 2016 This workshop is held during the "3rd European Workshops in International Studies" of the European International Studies Association. Deadline for abstracts: 2 October 2015. Information: www.coiris.org/co-iris-workshop-at-the-3rd-european-workshops-in-international-studies-ewis/ ____________________ 3. International Symposium: "Persianate Cultures of Documentation (15th – 20th Centuries)", Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 23-24 June 2016 The conveners J. Pickett and P. Sartori propose to reflect on the meanings of documentation across a larger historical area of the Muslim world, which is termed “the Persianate”. This symposium brings together scholars who work on material either in Persian or in languages directly influenced by Persian such as Urdu, Chaghatay, Marathi, Ottoman, Tatar, and Uyghur across the early-modern and modern period. Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2015. Information: www.oeaw.ac.at/iran/german/konferenz_documentation.html ____________________ POSITIONS 4. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of History of Religions – Religions in Historical Time, University of Copenhagen The Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in History of Religions to be filled by 1 August 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter. Deadline for application: 1 October 2015. Information: http://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=751804 _____________________ 5. Assistant Professor in International or Comparative Politics, American University of Beirut Preferably for applicants with a focus on conflict resolution, critical analysis of intervention, and/or humanitarian issues (including refugees and law), and with a research agenda in, or relevant to, the contemporary Arab world to begin August 15, 2016. Deadline for application 15 October 2015. Information: www.aub.edu.lb/fas/pages/academic-employment.aspx SONSTIGE INFORMATIONEN / OTHER INFORMATION 6. Articles for Book Edited by Samhita Chaudhuri on "Cultural Geography: Some Issues" In this book, an attempt has been made to know the various cultural attributes of people in different regions of the world. Research papers are invited to contribute in this book on any topic related to culture, society and region. Deadline for articles: 15 October 2015 for publication by this year. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/77168/call-papers-edited-book ______________ 7. In memory of Thomas Philipp Thomas Philipp died on June 11, 2015 in Erlangen, Germany, of cancer, only 74 years of age. He had just come back from Boston MA, his second home and was full of plans for the summer. See www.uni-erfurt.de/geschichte/lehrstuhl-fuer-geschichte-westasiens/aktuelles/in-memory-of-thomas-philipp/