CONFERENCES
1. Conference: "A Player and not Just a Payer? The Work of German Political Foundations Abroad with a Special Focus on Israel and the Palestinian Territories", Ruhr University Bochum, 1-3 June 2016
2. Workshop: "Time(s) in Comparison: Transregional Approaches to Contemporary Philosophical Thought in the Middle East and South Asia", Berlin, 3-4 June 2016
3. Conference: “The Middle East: World Crisis?”, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, 4-5 June 2016
4. Conference: "Habsburg Jewry in the Silver Age", Jerusalem, 5-6 June 2016
5. Conference: “Borders and Beyond in the Middle East Since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities”, York St John University, UK, 17-18 June 2016
6. Cadbury Conference: “Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa”, University of Birmingham, 30 June - 1 July 2016
7. Workshop: “Pilgrimages, Ontologies, and Subjectivities in Neoliberal Economies”, University of Sussex, UK, 18 July 2016
8. Workshop: “The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa and the Middle East from the 1930s”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 14-15 November 2016
9. Conference: “The Heritage of Al-Andalus II, Iberia-Persia”, University of Seville, Spain, 16-17 November 2016
10. 3rd International Congress of Pontic Studies: “Pontus in the Late Ottoman Empire (1774-1908): Society and Economy”, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-20 November 2016
11. Workshop: "Skills, Organisations and Gendered Mobilities", ETMU Conference, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 25-26 November 2016
12. Conference: "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa", Harvard University, 16-18 February 2017
13. Workshop and Author Symposium: "Modernity, Islamic Traditions and the Good Life - Constructing Images of Modern Muslim Selfhoods", Spring 2017, Odense, Denmark
14. Conference: “The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries”, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 24-25 March 2017
15. Conference: "Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text", University of Tübingen, Germany, 30 March - 1 April 2017
16. Conference: “Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 1400-1750”, University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017
POSITIONS
17. Two-Year Postdoctoral Researcher in Israeli Studies, SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies, University of London
18. ACSS Postdoctoral Fellowships Program for Junior Arab Scholars
OTHER INFORMATION
19. Summer School: “The Indian Ocean World and Eurasian Connections”, Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ZIRS), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 25-30 July 2016
20. MA Program in Mediterranean Studies, University of Malta, 2016-2017
21. Submissions for Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize 2016
22. Proposals for New Peer-reviewed Book Series: “The Modern Muslim World”
23. Contributions to Series: "Islam of the Global West"
24. Articles on “Interculturality" for "Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge"
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CONFERENCES
1. Conference: "A Player and not Just a Payer? The Work of German Political Foundations Abroad with a Special Focus on Israel and the Palestinian Territories", Ruhr University Bochum, 1-3 June 2016
For registration and the detailed program see www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/political-foundations/
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2. Workshop: "Time(s) in Comparison: Transregional Approaches to Contemporary Philosophical Thought in the Middle East and South Asia", Berlin, 3-4 June 2016
The workshop is organized by Roman Seidel and Nils Riecken at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin / Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Information and program: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/dates/workshop_2016_times_in_comparison.html
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3. Conference: “The Middle East: World Crisis?”, German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin, 4-5 June 2016
This conference will contribute towards an understanding of the region’s multiple crises, and explore paths to their solution.
Deadline for registration: 30 May 2016. Information and program: http://www.nybooks.com/event/middle-east-world-crisis/
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4. Conference: "Habsburg Jewry in the Silver Age", Jerusalem, 5-6 June 2016
See the program at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/124645/conf-habsburg-jewry-silver-age-jerusalem-june-5-6-2016
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5. Conference: “Borders and Beyond in the Middle East Since 1914: Legacies, Changes, Continuities”, York St John University, UK, 17-18 June 2016
This international interdisciplinary conference will examine the effects of World War One and the post-war settlement in the Middle East, especially those which are still felt today e.g. state borders, migrations, secular and religious ideologies and movements, and struggles over power.
Information: www.yorksj.ac.uk/news---events/news---events-home/events/borders-and-beyond-in-the-midd.aspx
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6. Cadbury Conference: “Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa”, University of Birmingham, 30 June - 1 July 2016
The 2016 Cadbury program explores the practices, disciplines and debates through which West Africans learn to be Muslims. Five visiting fellows from Africa have been appointed and will participate in the programme of seminars, discussion groups, and other activities on 1 June, 8 June, 15 June and 28 June.
Information: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/dasa/events/cadbury/index.aspx
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7. Workshop: “Pilgrimages, Ontologies, and Subjectivities in Neoliberal Economies”, University of Sussex, UK, 18 July 2016
In this workshop, we discuss the ways pilgrimages are imbricated in local, national and transnational economies. The workshop will also focus on the worshippers' own subjectivity especially of holy sites as being situated in their imaginations of historical continuity and discontinuity and their transformative experiences of worshiping using both modern and traditional forms of infrastructures.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 June 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/125600/call-abstract-pilgrim-economies-university-sussex
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8. Workshop: “The Avant-garde and its Networks: Surrealism in Paris, North Africa and the Middle East from the 1930s”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 14-15 November 2016
The aim is to gather information about the networks and the reception of Surrealism and thereby to approach its dissemination in the region more systematically. In addition to this structural dimension, the workshop will attempt to look at the qualitative aspects of the movement’s literary and artistic production and possible lineages.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2016. Information: https://oib.hypotheses.org/807
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9. Conference: “The Heritage of Al-Andalus II, Iberia-Persia”, University of Seville, Spain, 16-17 November 2016
The international conference encourages intercultural research approaches aimed at finding out how, when and where the encounter between these two cultures has provided more fertile ground.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 September 2016. Information: http://departamento.us.es/fintegradas/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Al-Andalus-II-Iberia-Persia.pdf
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10. 3rd International Congress of Pontic Studies: “Pontus in the Late Ottoman Empire (1774-1908): Society and Economy”, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 18-20 November 2016
The objective of this international conference is the scientific approach to issues associated with the multiple effects and aftereffects of the aforementioned changes, with the aim of giving an opportunity to both old and new scholars to discuss the findings of their recent studies, to illuminate uncharted so far fields and to get answers to new questions.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/126080/extension-cfp-3rd-international-congress-pontic-studies-general
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11. Workshop: "Skills, Organisations and Gendered Mobilities", ETMU Conference, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, 25-26 November 2016
This workshop invites empirical and conceptual papers which focus on analyzing the intersections of skills and organisations in the context of gendered mobilities. Organisations are understood broadly to refer to various kinds of institutional practices and policies, including but not limited to policy, legislative, workplace, school or home contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 September 2016. Information: driss.habti@uef.fi
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12. Conference: "Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa", Harvard University, 16-18 February 2017
The conference seeks to consider both pre-modern scholarship in Islamicate Africa and the ways in which Islamic scholarship is experienced in Africa today, i.e. contemporary knowledge practices, paying close attention to both continuities and ruptures linking modern with pre-modern scholarship in Africa.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/13790/discussions/126920/harvard-islam-africa-conference-call-papers-due-june-1st
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13. Workshop and Author Symposium: "Modernity, Islamic Traditions and the Good Life - Constructing Images of Modern Muslim Selfhoods", Spring 2017, Odense, Denmark
The workshop will look at different ways in which Islamic traditions have contributed to the construction of collectively acknowledged modern ways of construction meaningful Muslim selfhoods. It will focus on three major fields of modern subjectivity formation: work, education and intimacy.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2016. Information: http://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsprojekter/mmsp/call
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14. Conference: “The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries”, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 24-25 March 2017
This conference brings together scholars from the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Canada, and will explore important issues related to the history of science in the MENA region during the 18th-20th centuries—a critical period of change and modernization when Middle Easterners were concerned about the rising power of European states and societies and the weakness of Islamic ones in relation to them.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2016. Information: http://middleeastbrown.org/cfp-the-globalization-of-science-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-18th-20th-centuries/
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15. Conference: "Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text", University of Tübingen, Germany, 30 March - 1 April 2017
Place and space are now increasingly understood as invented reference systems that are entangled with political, religious, cultural, and intellectual history. This conference explores the ongoing shift of the history of geography and cartography to a diversely linked spatial history of the Islamicate world. Special emphasis is placed on genre, authorship, theme, and reception.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information: www.spatial-thought.uni-tuebingen.de
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16. Conference: “Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 1400-1750”, University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017
Taking as our focus the politically heterogeneous southern Europe and eastern Mediterranean, the Mamluk Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire, we aim to reconstruct the healthscape of this region in the early modern period, exploring its medical unity and disunity and the human and environmental factors that played a part in it.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=4eba999427&e=82aeb6c61d
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POSITIONS
17. Two-Year Postdoctoral Researcher in Israeli Studies, SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies, University of London
Requirements are: a good understanding of one or more of the key research areas in Israeli Studies pertaining to history, society or culture; ability to carry out high quality, publishable research; excellent proficiency in Hebrew, and ideally also knowledge of Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 5 June 2016. Information: https://jobs.soas.ac.uk/fe/tpl_soasnet01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=67197,6912231234&key=18818043&c=824762218758&pagestamp=sefiolmewamkutzwrj
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18. ACSS Postdoctoral Fellowships Program for Junior Arab Scholars
This 9-month Fellowship program of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences aims at enabling young researchers, up to three years out of the PhD, to pursue their research and publishing plans, become part of Arab research networks and plan a research career in the Arab region.
Deadline for application: 13 June 2016. Information: www.theacss.org/pages/post-doc-fellowships
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OTHER INFORMATION
19. Summer School: “The Indian Ocean World and Eurasian Connections”, Center for Interdisciplinary Area Studies (ZIRS), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 25-30 July 2016
The summer school will focus on “Networks of Connectivities: Routes, Commodities, and the Politics of the Indian Ocean”. The landmass extending from the Mongolian grasslands to the Black Sea is usually portrayed as the conduit for Eurasian interactions and exchanges. However, even more of the links across Eurasia were initiated by sea. The summer school foregrounds these links, demonstrating that the Indian Ocean has been an integral and essential aspect of trans-Eurasian connections from the early historical period to contemporary times. Travel, accommodation and meals for the participants will be covered.
Deadline for application: 15 June 2016. Information: www.zirs.uni-halle.de/dokumente/2016-07-25-Call-for-Applications.pdf
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20. MA Program in Mediterranean Studies, University of Malta, 2016-2017
This is an inter-disciplinary program with a broad range of study-units. Students can explore a variety of perspectives highlighting the diversity and the unity of the Mediterranean region, including its geo-political, cultural, sociological, historical, anthropological, linguistic, archaeological and sociological aspects.
Information: www.um.edu.mt/arts/MAmediterraneanstudies%20and%20https:/www.facebook.com/uom.mamedstudies
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21. Submissions for Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize 2016
The author of the winning article will receive a € 750,- cash prize and the article will be published in one of Brill’s leading journals. The Prize is open to students who are currently registered for doctoral research at a higher education institution, or have obtained their doctoral degree after 1 September 2013.
Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2016. Information: www.brill.com/paperprize
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22. Proposals for New Peer-reviewed Book Series: “The Modern Muslim World”
The series will provide a platform for scholarly research on Islamic and Muslim thought, emerging from any geographic area and dated to any period from the 17th century until the present day. Academics dealing with any aspect of the Muslim world (history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, science, art, economics, etc.) are invited to contribute to the series. The series is open to established and early career academics, as well as to postgraduate researchers intending to publish revised doctoral theses.
Information: www.gorgiaspress.com/bookshop/t-modern_muslim_world.aspx
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23. Contributions to Series: "Islam of the Global West"
This is a pioneering series that examines Islamic beliefs, practices, discourses, communities, and institutions that have emerged from 'the Global West.' The geographical and intellectual framing reflects both the role played by the interactions between people from diverse religions and cultures in the development of Western ideals and institutions in the modern era, and the globalization of these very ideals and institutions. Editors: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and Frank Peter.
Information: www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/islam-of-the-global-west/
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24. Articles on “Interculturality" for “Journal of Mediterranean Knowledge”
This issue aims at investigating and rethinking the notion of “interculturality” understood in its broadest meaning, encompassing various dimensions, perspectives and approaches, with special attention to the Mediterranean area.
Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2016. Information: www.mediterraneanknowledge.org/download/CallJMK-Issue_2.pdf
