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EURAMES Info Service 23/2016

CONFERENCES
 
1. Capacity Building Workshop and Panel Discussion "Egypt's Civil Society on the
Brink. Politics from Below 5 Years after the Revolution," Berlin, 16 July 2016
 
2. New-Med Conference: “Re-Ordering the Middle East? Peoples, Borders and States in
Flux”, University of Jordan, Amman, 18 July 2016 
 
3. Conference: “The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics
on Borderland”, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 29-31 August 2016 
 
4. International Conference: “Regime Transformation and the Recomposition of Elites
in the Arab World after 2010-2011: A Comparative Approach“, Tunis, 20-22 October
2016
  
5. Workshop: “Magic, Medicine, and Technology in the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean
Seminar & Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN, 11-12 November 2016
 
6. Conference: “Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time
and Space”, University of Cambridge, 9 - 10 December 2016
 
7. Colloquium: “Flight and Migration: Intercultural Philosophical Perspectives”,
polylog Forum for Intercultural Philosophy, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 11-13
January 2017 
 
8. Conference: “The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa,
18th-20th Centuries”, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, 24-25 March 2017
 
9. Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference:  "Waypoints and Watersheds:
Arab American Activism and Memories. A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of
the 1967 War", Dearborn, MI, 24-26 March 2017
 
10. Panel: "New Identity Politics in the Study of Middle East International
Relations" at the "WISC Global International Studies Conference", Taipei, 1-3 April
2017 
 
11. Conference of ACLA: "Sacred Troubling Topics in the Tanakh, New Testament, and
Qur'an", Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-9 July 2017
 
 
POSITIONS
 
12. Post-Doc Position in Iranian Studies, CNMS, University of Marburg, Germany
 
13. Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
 
14. Lecturer in Islam in South East Asia, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
at the University of Aberdeen
 
15. Assistant Professor, Islamic World History, University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
 
 
OTHER INFORMATION
 
16. Summer School: "The Middle East and North Africa Today: Crises, Mobilities and
Paths to the Future", Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal, 25-29 July
2016
 
17. Summer School: "Reading and Analyzing Ottoman Administrative Sources", Amman, 31
August - 2 September 2016
 
18. Articles for "The Journal of Contemporary European Antisemitism"

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CONFERENCES
 
1. Capacity Building Workshop and Panel Discussion "Egypt's Civil Society on the
Brink. Politics from Below 5 Years after the Revolution," Berlin, 16 July 2016
 
This event brings together young and mid-level professionals from different fields
as well as researchers and advanced students from Europe and the MENA Region. The
workshops are organized by Polis180 in cooperation with the Berlin Graduate School
of Social Sciences (BGSS), and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and
Societies (BGSMCS). This is followed by a discussion with German politicians and
civil society representatives, scholars and journalists from Egypt. 
 
Deadline for application: 20 June 2016. Information:
http://polis180.org/events/16-jul-egypts-civil-society-on-the-brink-politics-from-below-five-years-after-the-revolution/
 
 
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2. New-Med Conference: “Re-Ordering the Middle East? Peoples, Borders and States in
Flux”, University of Jordan, Amman, 18 July 2016 

 A number of leading scholars will present different historical and analytical
perspectives about the ‘end of the Sykes-Picot order’ and engage in a
forward-looking discussion of viable organizing principles of a new regional order.

Program: http://www.iai.it/sites/default/files/newmed_160718.pdf
 
 
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3. Conference: “The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics
on Borderland”, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 29-31 August 2016 
 
This Fifth Bara Gali Conference invites papers that take up the common theme of
“politics on border” along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in different ways. The
conference aims to make a series of interdisciplinary forays in making the
Pakistan-Afghanistan border more understandable.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2016. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/128159/cfp-extended-fifth-bara-gali-conference-dynamics-change-pakistan

 
 
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4. International Conference: “Regime Transformation and the Recomposition of Elites
in the Arab World after 2010-2011: A Comparative Approach“, Tunis, 20-22 October
2016
 
The conference is jointly organized by the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb
contemporain (IRMC) and the Konrad‐Adenauer‐Stiftung (KAS). Working languages are
French and English.
 
Deadline for proposals: 16 July 2016. Information:
http://irmcmaghreb.org/images/pdf/call.pdf
 
 
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5. Workshop: “Magic, Medicine, and Technology in the Mediterranean”, Mediterranean
Seminar & Saint John’s University, Collegeville, MN, 11-12 November 2016
 
The three rubrics for the workshop are: Disease, hospitals, and care in the
Mediterranean; Scientific exchange in the Mediterranean; Magic and dissimulation in
Mediterranean society. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2016. Information:
http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=ff291689a6 
 
 
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6. Conference: “Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time
and Space”, University of Cambridge, 9 - 10 December 2016
 
The interdisciplinary conference aims to investigate Muslim interactions and
encounters in various spatial and temporal settings since ca. 1250. Historians, art
historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of comparative
literature and Islamic studies who work on Islamic communities all across the globe
are invited.
 
Abstracts are due on 15 July 2016. Information:
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26819
 
 
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7. Colloquium: “Flight and Migration: Intercultural Philosophical Perspectives”,
polylog Forum for Intercultural Philosophy, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 11-13
January 2017 
 
The colloquium intends to create a space for the discussion of the philosophical
dimensions of flight and migration in an intercultural orientation: Ethical and
human rights' grounds of the protection of refugees; Debates on borders, open
borders and migration; Global equality and flight, etc. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 5 August 2016. Information:
http://ev.polylog.org/colloquium-en.htm
 
 
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8. Conference: “The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa,
18th-20th Centuries”, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, 24-25 March 2017
 
The papers will consider the nature of encounters between Islamic societies and the
west as the balance of power between these regions shifted in the favor of Europe.
 
Abstracts are due by 15 June 2016. Information:
http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/termine-31212
 
 
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9. Arab American Studies Association 2017 Conference:  "Waypoints and Watersheds:
Arab American Activism and Memories. A Conference Marking the 50th Anniversary of
the 1967 War", Dearborn, MI, 24-26 March 2017
 
Scholars from American studies, media studies, literature, history, ethnic studies,
cultural studies, anthropology, sociology, political science, Arab and Islamic
Studies, gender, sexuality and women's studies, performance studies, public health,
psychology and other related fields are invited.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information:
https://arabamericanstudies.org/2016/05/23/cfp-aasa-announces-2017-conference-march-24-26-2017-at-the-aanm/

 
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10. Panel: "New Identity Politics in the Study of Middle East International
Relations" at the "WISC Global International Studies Conference", Taipei, 1-3 April
2017 
 
The aim of the panel is to explore whether scholarly identities - of disciplinary
and cultural/geographical nature - matter in how identity politics in Middle East
international relations are approached, and to discuss how a greater awareness of
possible differences/similarities among scholars can enrich our understanding of
Middle East international relations 'out there' and the working of International
Relations Theory 'in here'.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 26 June 2016. Contact panel organizer Morten Valbjørn at
. Information on the conference: http://www.wisc2017.org/
 
 
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11. Conference of ACLA: "Sacred Troubling Topics in the Tanakh, New Testament, and
Qur'an", Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-9 July 2017
 
Suggested troubling topics include racism, domestic violence, purity/impurity,
polemics, figural readings, suicide, sexuality, unbeliever, LGBTQ, misogyny,
trickster, humor, fallible prophet, good vs./and evil, self-denial, spying,
deception.
 
Submission of proposals: 1-23 September 2016. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/128349/sacred-troubling-topics-tanakh-new-testament-and-quran-acla
 
 
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POSITIONS

12. Post-Doc Position in Iranian Studies, CNMS, University of Marburg, Germany
 
The position is available at the earliest convenience for a period of 22 months. An
individual post-doc research project to be proposed should focus on Iranian, Central
Asian or Persianate history/cultural history in the time frame of the 15th to 17th
century. 
 
Deadline for application: 1 July 2016. Information:
www.uni-marburg.de/administration/verwaltung/dez2/personalabteilung/bewerber/stellen/oeffentlich/oeffwisstellen/ze-0064-cnms-wmz-010716-engl.pdf
 
 
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13. Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
 
Applications are welcome from scholars in Qur’an (including study of hadith or the
history of tafsir), in classical Arabic texts, in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
 
Deadline for application: 29 June 2016.  Information: http://tinyurl.com/gm4hgm2
 
 
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14. Lecturer in Islam in South East Asia, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
at the University of Aberdeen
 
Applicants should have a proven research record in the relevant field and experience
of teaching in higher education.  The full time position will start in January
2017.
 
Closing date for application: 4 July 2016. Information:
www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-islam-in-south-east-asia-267144.html
 
 
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15. Assistant Professor, Islamic World History, University of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
 
The position will start August 2017.The PhD is required by the time of appointment.
Theme, time period, and geographic focus are open. We welcome applications from
single sub-region specialists as well as from scholars whose work embraces
trans-regional approaches.
 
Deadline for application: 26 September 2016. Information:
http://www.pittsource.com/postings/118928  
 
 
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OTHER INFORMATION
 
16. Summer School: "The Middle East and North Africa Today: Crises, Mobilities and
Paths to the Future", Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon, Portugal, 25-29 July
2016
 
Main Topics: Activism and Generation - Gender and Mobility - Religion and Ethical
Imagination - Conflict and Future. 
 
Information: http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/file111033.PDF
 
 
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17. Summer School: "Reading and Analyzing Ottoman Administrative Sources", Amman, 31
August - 2 September 2016
 
During the program we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and Ph.D.
candidates, but post-docs may also apply) to reading and analyzing the various
manuscript sources which have been issued by Ottoman administrative institutions at
both provincial and imperial levels.
 
Deadline: 15 June 2016. Information:
www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Summer_school_Amman_CfA_English.pdf 
 
 
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18. Articles for "The Journal of Contemporary European Antisemitism"
 
This journal is the first of its kind and will cover all forms of anti-Semitism
found in today's Europe. We invite scholars from all relevant disciplines across the
social sciences and humanities to send us their original research articles.
 
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2016. Information:
www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/jcea/

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