EURAMES Info Service 40/2015

CONFERENCES
 
1. Jewish Studies Conference: "The Reception of European Orientalism in the East:
Scholarly Encounters in India, Iran, and the Mashriq During the 19th and 20th
Centuries, Dartmouth, 14-15 November 2015 
 
2. International Conference INCONET GCC2: "Collaboration for Innovation; Linking GCC
and EU", Muscat, 6-8 December 2015 
 
3. RSC Workshop: "The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster: Understanding Perception,
Aspirations and Behaviour in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey", Oxford, 9 December 2015 
 
4. 13th Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO):
"Migrants: Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflicts", University of Catania, 17-19
March 2016
 
5. Papers for Panel: "Responses to Euro-Med Conflict and Migration: Towards a
Holistic Approach", at SeSaMo Conference, Catania, Sicily, 17-19 March 2016
 
6. Papers for Panel: 'International Private Law and Migration: From North Africa to
Europe and Back', at SeSaMo Conference, Catania, Sicily, 17-19 March 2016 
 
7. 9th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens Institute
for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece, 21-24 March 2016  
 
8. International Conference: "Towards a Sociology of Popular Music in the Arab
Region", Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI),
University of Westminster, London, 8 April 2016

 9. Conference: “Perceptions of Islam in the West and its Effects on Relations
between Islamic Countries and the West”, American Council for the Study of Islamic
Societies, Villanova University, PA, 15-16 April 2016
 
10. CSID's 17th Annual Conference: "Democratization, Authoritarianism, and
Radicalization: Exploring the Connections", Washington DC, 21 April 2016 
 
11. Conference: "American Foreign Policy and the Middle East", Maltepe University,
Istanbul, 26-27 May 2016 
 
12. International Conference: "Islamic Banking and Finance between Islamic Legal
Thinking and Modern Financial Rules", Occidental Institute for Islamic Banking and
Finance, London, 10 July 2016 
 
13. Conference/Academy: "Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts, and Circulation",
Universidad Federal de São Paulo, 17-24 July 2016 
 
14. Papers for Panel:  “Beyond Established Meta-Geographies: Trans-Regional
Connections Transcending the Arab World and the Middle East”, at the "Tenth Nordic
Conference on Middle Eastern Studies", University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 22-24
September 2016 
 
15. International Conference: “A New Social Contract for MENA Countries: Experiences
from Development and Social Policies”, German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, 5-6
December 2016
 


POSITIONS
 
16. Two Research Officers at the Middle East Centre and Department of Media &
Communications, London School of Economics 
 
17. Positions in North America   
 
 
OTHER INFORMATION
 
18. Course: "Palestine Refugees and International Law", British Institute, Amman,
11-12 March 2016 
 
19. 150 Ph.D. Scholarships at the European University Institute (near Florence in
Italy) for the 2016-17 Academic Year 
 
20. International Summer School in Forced Migration, Oxford Department of
International Development/Wadham College, Oxford, 4-22 July 2016 
 
21. Spring School: "Environmental Methods in Mamluk and Islamic Studies", Annemarie
Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn, 14-18 March 2016 
 
22. Articles on “Culture” for the Peer-reviewed Online Journal “Middle East – Topics
& Arguments” (META)  
 
23. Articles for Edited Book: "A Forced Marriage? Minorities and the Nation-State in
Contemporary Middle East and Caucasus" 
 
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CONFERENCES
 
1. Jewish Studies Conference: "The Reception of European Orientalism in the East:
Scholarly Encounters in India, Iran, and the Mashriq during the 19th and 20th
Centuries, Dartmouth,  14-15 November 2015 
 
Information:
http://jewish.dartmouth.edu/news/jewish-studies-conference-november-14-and-15-2015-reception-european-orientalism-east-scholarly#sthash.bCzQlY39.dpuf
 
 
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2. International Conference INCONET GCC2: "Collaboration for Innovation; Linking GCC
and EU", Muscat, 6-8 December 2015 
 
INCONET-GCC 2 is a European Commission funded project which aims at establishing a
Science, Technology and Innovation International Cooperation Network between the
European Union and the Arab Gulf Countries aiming at the bi-regional coordination
towards HORIZON2020.
 
For information contact Sylviane Toporkoff at stoporkoff@items-int.eu and visit
www.inconet-gcc.eu/ 
 
 
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3. RSC Workshop: "The Syrian Humanitarian Disaster: Understanding Perception,
Aspirations and Behaviour in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey", Oxford, 9 December 2015 
 
Information:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/events/rsc-workshop-refuge-from-syria?utm_source=RSC+Newsletter%2C+Michaelmas+term+2015&utm_campaign=RSC+Newsletter%2C+Michaelmas+term+2015&utm_medium=email
 
 
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4. 13th Conference of the Italian Society for Middle Eastern Studies (SeSaMO):
"Migrants: Communities, Borders, Memories, Conflicts", University of Catania, 17-19
March 2016
 
29 panels are open to contributions from scholars willing to present a paper on the
subject identified by the panel’s title and description at
www.sesamoitalia.it/?page_id=527;
 
Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2016. Information:
www.sesamoitalia.it/?page_id=455 

 
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5. Papers for Panel: "Responses to Euro-Med Conflict and Migration: Towards a
Holistic Approach", at SeSaMo Conference, Catania, Sicily, 17-19 March 2016
 
This panel aims to isolate the main drivers of specific conflicts in the MENA region
such as Syria and Libya, identify any linkages between them, and put forward
relevant policy-relevant solutions which address the generally unmanaged or
emergency responses to mass migration in the Euro-Med arena.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2015. Information:
www.sesamoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/19-Responses-to-Euro-Med-Conflict-and-Migration.pdf
 
 
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6. Papers for Panel: 'International Private Law and Migration: From North Africa to
Europe and Back', at SeSaMo Conference, Catania, Sicily, 17-19 March 2016 
 
The panel examines the intersection of personal status law and migration to Europe
from or through the MENA, and back. 
 
Deadline for abstracts:  1 December 2015. Information: contact
khoffman@northwestern.edu and m.voorhoeve@uva.nl. Conference website:
www.sesamoitalia.it/?paged=2
 
 
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7. 9th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens Institute
for Education and Research (ATINER), Athens, Greece, 21-24 March 2016  
 
Deadline for abstracts:  16 November 2015. Information: www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
 
 
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8. International Conference: "Towards a Sociology of Popular Music in the Arab
Region", Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI),
University of Westminster, London, 8 April 2016
 
The conference welcomes academics musicians, music industry and non-commercial music
organisations to engage in dialogue about the present concerns (cultural, aesthetic,
economic, political) of music in the Arab region.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2015. Information:
www.westminster.ac.uk/arab-media/events/call-for-papers-towards-a-sociology-of-popular-music-in-the-arab-region
 
 
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9. Conference: “Perceptions of Islam in the West and its Effects on Relations
between Islamic Countries and the West”, American Council for the Study of Islamic
Societies, Villanova University, PA, 15-16 April 2016
 
Proposals may cover the status of relations between Islamic countries and specific
European and North American countries, the relationship between Islamic and
non-Islamic identities in specific Asian, European and North American countries, the
rise of disturbing perceptions of Islam in Europe and North America, the press,
social networks and communication within Islamic countries, Europe and North
America, and other topics. 
 
Deadline for proposals: 29 January 2016. Information: www.acsis.us/papers.html
 
 
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10. CSID's 17th Annual Conference: "Democratization, Authoritarianism, and
Radicalization: Exploring the Connections", Washington DC, 21 April 2016
  
Paper proposals are invited on four broad topics: Islam and Democracy after the Arab
Spring; Iranian Nuclear Agreement: Impact on Democratization and Radicalization in
the Region; ISIS and Radicalization; Implications for Policy-making.
 
Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2015. Information: contact
conference2016@islam-democracy.org
 
 
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11. Conference: "American Foreign Policy and the Middle East", Maltepe University,
Istanbul, 26-27 May 2016 
 
The conference aims to investigative and examine the emergence, development and
transformation of American Foreign Policy towards the Middle East from the 1940s to
the present time. 
 
Deadline for proposals: 29 February 2016. Information:
http://sociologyofturkey.blogspot.de/2015/11/cfp-american-foreign-policy-and-middle.html
 
 
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12. International Conference: "Islamic Banking and Finance between Islamic Legal
Thinking and Modern Financial Rules", Occidental Institute for Islamic Banking and
Finance, London, 10 July 2016 
 
The conference pursues the theme of culmination of theories that are meant to
develop the qualitative and quantitative expansion of the Islamic finance as well as
the realities faced by this sector in the financial markets. 
 
Information: www.oiibf.org.uk
 
 
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13. Conference/Academy: "Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts, and Circulation",
Universidad Federal de São Paulo, 17-24 July 2016 
 
The goal of the conference/academy is to facilitate an exchange on concepts and
variations of modernism across nations and regions. In the spirit of this kind of
transregional perspective, the objective is to compare the modernist debates in
Latin American countries with those occurring in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North
America and to locate them within a global context.
 
Application deadline: 28 November 2015. Information: 
http://academies.hypotheses.org/152
 
 
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14. Papers for Panel:  “Beyond Established Meta-Geographies: Trans-Regional
Connections Transcending the Arab World and the Middle East”, at the "Tenth Nordic
Conference on Middle Eastern Studies", University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 22-24
September 2016 
 
Please send paper proposals both with an emphasis on conceptual and on empirical
(economic, social and political) aspects to Steffen Wippel, University of Marburg,
Germany (steffen.wippel@uni-marburg.de) until 14 December 2015.
 
For more details on the panel and on the conference see
www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/forschung/re-konfigurationen/aktuelles/news/cfp-beyond-established-meta-geographies
and www.sdu.dk/Om_SDU/Institutter_centre/C_Mellemoest
 
 
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15. International Conference: “A New Social Contract for MENA Countries: Experiences
from Development and Social Policies”, German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn, 5-6
December 2016
 
The conference is part of the DIE’s new research and policy advice project on
“Stability and development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)”, which is
meant to identify the core ingredients that a new social contract in MENA countries
would have. A call for papers will be launched in December 2015. 
 
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2016. Contact: Ms. Ina Klemke (ina.klemke@die-gdi.de).
 
 
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POSITIONS
 
16. Two Research Officers at the Middle East Centre and Department of Media &
Communications, London School of Economics 
 
a) Applications are invited from outstanding candidates in the fields of Media and
Communications, Sociology, Middle East Studies or Cultural Studies. Candidates will
join a multi-country LSE Media and Communications and Middle East Centre
collaboration project with the American University of Sharjah, and at field sites in
Morocco, Jordan, UAE and Tunisia.
 
b) The Centre seeks a Research Officer to contribute to research activities on the
historical sociology of the Middle East and to produce independent research.  
 
Deadline for application: 30 November 2015. Information:
www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/vacancies/home.aspx
 
 
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17. Positions in North America:   
 
a) Postdoctoral Position in the Contemporary Politics, Economics or Diplomacy of
Natural Resource Extraction in Iran and the Gulf Region, Princeton University
 
The position is starting in September 2016 for up to three years. Candidates are
required to apply online at https://jobs.princeton.edu (Requisition#1500901) before
31 January 2016.
 
 
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b) Postdoctoral Position in the Medieval History of Iran (ca. 100-1000 CE,
preferably on the Sasanian Period), Princeton University
 
The position is starting in September 2016 for up to three years. Candidates are
required to apply online at https://jobs.princeton.edu (Requisition #1500905) before
31 January 2016.
 
 
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c) Academic Coordinator II - Vice Chair - Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
University of California, Berkeley; https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00885 
 
d) Visiting Professorship in Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of
Pittsburgh; www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/visitingprofessor
 
 
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OTHER INFORMATION
 
18. Course: "Palestine Refugees and International Law", British Institute, Amman,
11-12 March 2016 
 
For all enquiries, contact Tara-Sienna Hartman at rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk.
Information: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/short-courses/palestine-refugees 
 
 
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19. 150 Ph.D. Scholarships at the European University Institute (near Florence in
Italy) for the 2016-17 Academic Year 
 
The European University Institute offers one of the largest and most prestigious
doctoral and postdoctoral programmes in the social sciences in Europe. 
 
Application deadline:  31 January 2016. Information:
www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/DoctoralProgramme/Index.aspx?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=phd2016
 
 
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20. International Summer School in Forced Migration, Oxford Department of
International Development/Wadham College, Oxford, 4-22 July 2016 
 
For all enquiries, please contact Tara-Sienna Hartman at summer.school@qeh.ox.ac.uk,
Information:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school/overview?utm_source=RSC+Newsletter%2C+Michaelmas+term+2015&utm_campaign=RSC+Newsletter%2C+Michaelmas+term+2015&utm_medium=email
 
 
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21. Spring School: "Environmental Methods in Mamluk and Islamic Studies", Annemarie
Schimmel Kolleg, Bonn, 14-18 March 2016 
 
In this year's Spring School, we are interested in the physical environmental in all
of its forms – climate, landscape, agriculture and pasturelands, water systems,
natural resources, urban green spaces, and food and feeding the people.  The course
will combine seminars (readings of Arabic texts) with "hands-on" work in a lab-like
environment.
 
Deadline for registration; 21 December 2015. Information:
www.mamluk.uni-bonn.de/mamluk-events
 
 
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22. Articles on “Culture” for the Peer-reviewed Online Journal “Middle East – Topics
& Arguments” (META)  
 
The issue aims to critically engage with the various often contradictory concepts of
culture as used in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. What we want to discuss is
the quality of the term itself, its ambiguity and complexity, its implications and
dangers in public and academic discourse.
 
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 January 2016. Deadline for article submission:
30 April 2016. Information: http://meta-journal.net/
 
 
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23. Articles for Edited Book: "A Forced Marriage? Minorities and the Nation-State in
Contemporary Middle East and Caucasus" 
 
This work seeks to demonstrate the importance of the fighting identities as
alternate explaining factors to the classic State-centrism that takes over the
studies on the region. We are proposing the inclusion of the complete scope of
heterogeneity to include elements that transform ethnic, religious, cultural and
linguistic diversity of the Middle East and the Caucasus into an intellectual
necessity for comprehensively studying both regions. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2016. Information: contact the editors Manuel
Férez (relacionesint.uams@anahuac.mx) and Ariel González Levaggi
(agonzalez14@ku.edu.tr)