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" _______________ If you want to distribute an announcement via EURAMES Info Service (more than 6000 recipients, only English and French announcements), please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 50 words and no attachment. Please send only the most important information to mailto: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, Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz ____________________ 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/ ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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/ ______________ 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 mailto:mortenv@ps.au.dk. Information on the conference: http://www.wisc2017.org/ ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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 ______________ 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/
dimanche 12 juin 2016
EURAMES Info Service 23/2016
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