EURAMES Info Service 08/2017

CONFERENCES
 
1. Conference: "Innovative Forms of Islamic Higher Education in Western Europe",
Leiden Islam Academy, Netherlands, 3-4 April 2017 
 
2. Conference: "Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World
1400-1750", University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017 
 
3. Workshop: "Deconstructing Unitary Statehood: Hybrid Governance in Comparative
Perspective (Focus MENA Region)", Naples, 5-6 May 2017
 
4. Conference: "Sociology in Islamic Geographies", Sociological Association in
Turkey, Istanbul, 12-13 May 2017 
 
5. Symposium: "Open Civilization: Encounters, Differences and Uncertainties", Ibn
Khaldun University, Istanbul, 19-21 May 2017 
 
6. Conference: "Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders,
and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy", Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians, Hempstead, NY, 1-4 June 2017 
 
7. Workshop: "Migration and Empire: The Roman Experience from Marcus Aurelius to
Muhammad", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 19 June - 14 July 2017 
 
8. Panel: "Religion in Social Movements, Rebellions and Revolutions" at the Annual
Meeting of the "Association for the Sociology of Religion", Montreal, Canada, 13-14
August 2017
 
9. 8th International Conference on Popular Cultures of the Middle East and North
Africa - "Popular Culture between Site and Flow", Tbilisi, Georgia, 28-30 September
2017
 
10. Conference: ''Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence
of Africa, Asia and Europe'', University of London, 9-11 November 2017
 
11. Panels/Papers on "Contemporary Islam, "Islamic Mysticism", "Islam, Gender,
Women", "Middle Eastern Christianity", "Study of Islam", "Study of Judaism" at the
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Boston, 18-21 November
2017
 
12. Workshop: "From Oriens Christianus to the Muslim Near East: Theological,
Historical and Cultural Cross-Pollination in the Eastern Mediterranean of Late
Antiquity", Freie Universität Berlin, 4 December 2017 
 
13. Conference: "Migrations in Mongol Eurasia: People, Ideas, Artifacts", Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 18-20 December 2017 
 
 Workshop: "The Illustration of History in Medieval Manuscripts", Centre for the
Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, 3-4 March 2017

This workshop brings together scholars working on illustrated chronicles and other
primarily secular texts produced in both the Western and Persian medieval period.
The workshop aims to explore issues of the choice of texts for illustration, the
choices of scenes to illustrate, and the purpose for which the illustrations were
made. 

For further details and registration, see:
www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/register_illustration2017.html



POSITIONS
 
14. Ten PhD Candidates and One Post-Doc for Research on "World Politics: The
Emergence of Political Arenas and Modes of Observation in World Society", Bielefeld
University, Germany
 
15. Two PhD Candidates in Central Asian / Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden Institute
for Area Studies
 
16. Associate Professor of Ottoman History, University of Oxford 
 
17. Postdoctoral Fellowships Program for Junior Arab Scholars in Social Science
 
 
OTHER INFORMATION
 
18. International Summer University (ISU) on the Middle East: "Business, Politics,
and Conflicts in a Changing World", University of Marburg, Germany, 22 July - 19
August 2017
 
19. Summer School: "Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberation
Theologies", Granada, Spain, 3-14 July 2017 
 
20. Arabic Immersion Course, SOAS, University of London 
 
21. Articles on "Russia and the Middle East" for Special Issue of "Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies" 
 
 
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CONFERENCES
 
1. Conference: "Innovative Forms of Islamic Higher Education in Western Europe",
Leiden Islam Academy, Netherlands, 3-4 April 2017 
 
The conference explores the following questions: What are current 'moments of
meeting and merging' between public and private universities, secular and
confessional approaches, and academic and non-academic audiences? What challenges do
the stakeholders face and how do they reflect upon their roles? Which new directions
or models are emerging in the study of Islamic higher education within the Western
European setting?
 
Information:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2017/04/innovative-forms-of-islamic-higher-education-in-western-europe

 
 
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2. Conference: "Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World
1400-1750", University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017 
 
This conference will offer, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of medicine
and healing in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, ca. 1400-1750. 
 
Information:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medicine-environment-and-health-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-world-1400-1750-tickets-32272100722

 
 
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3. Workshop: "Deconstructing Unitary Statehood: Hybrid Governance in Comparative
Perspective (Focus MENA Region)", Naples, 5-6 May 2017
 
Joint Workshop of the Università L'Orientale di Napoli, Universite' Libre de
Bruxelles and Tallinn University of Technology. The main aim of this workshop is to
investigate the synergies generated by the co-existence, competition and conflict
between competing actors of governance.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 17 March 2017.  Information:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sociologuesdelenseignementsuperieur/j3Fj4WKfdbY

 
 
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4. Conference: "Sociology in Islamic Geographies", Sociological Association in
Turkey, Istanbul, 12-13 May 2017 
 
Flights, hotel and meal expenses will be reimbursed. 
 
Deadline for registration: 27 February 2017. Information: lalevurgun@hotmail.com 
 
 
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5. Symposium: "Open Civilization: Encounters, Differences and Uncertainties", Ibn
Khaldun University, Istanbul, 19-21 May 2017 
 
We encourage studies that focus on reflections of Ibn Khaldun's thoughts on today's
world and the applied analysis of his model. The papers can be presented in Turkish,
Arabic and English. Transportation and accommodation will be covered for the authors
of the accepted papers. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 6 March 2017. Information:
http://symposium.ihu.edu.tr/ENG_CallforPapers.pdf 
 
 
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6. Conference: "Difficult Conversations: Thinking and Talking About Women, Genders,
and Sexualities Inside and Outside the Academy", Berkshire Conference of Women
Historians, Hempstead, NY, 1-4 June 2017 
 
To a greater extent than ever before, we are involving K-12 teachers, activists,
artists, public intellectuals, writers, performers, veterans, and formerly
incarcerated people in our discussions of the importance of studying our history and
how we might utilize this knowledge to make people's lives better.
 
Information: https://2017berkshireconference.hofstra.edu/about/  
 
 
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7. Workshop: "Migration and Empire: The Roman Experience from Marcus Aurelius to
Muhammad", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 19 June - 14 July 2017 
 
We seek applicants from the widest possible range of relevant disciplines and
institutions who are eager to explore the Roman experience of migration and empire
with intent to share it in the college classroom, and to integrate it with coverage
of the movements of peoples in other times and places.
 
Deadline for application: 1 March 2017. Information:
http://history.unc.edu/neh-inst-2017-migration/ 
 
 
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8. Panel: "Religion in Social Movements, Rebellions and Revolutions" at the Annual
Meeting of the "Association for the Sociology of Religion", Montreal, Canada, 13-14
August 2017
 
We are interested in both the progressive and reactionary roles that religions have
played in: peasant, slave, and plebeian rebellions; successful modern revolutions
such as the French, Russian, Chinese, Iranian and Nicaraguan as well as failed ones;
and social movements. We are particularly interested in prophetic and messianic
movements, heretical sects, religious communism, secular religions, and liberation
theology.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2017. Information:
www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org/dada/mail.cgi/archive/CCRR_Listserve/20170215095825/

 
 
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9. 8th International Conference on Popular Cultures of the Middle East and North
Africa - "Popular Culture between Site and Flow", Tbilisi, Georgia, 28-30 September
2017
 
In what ways can or should the idea of popular culture be adapted to account for the
significant patterns of contemporary movement of MENA peoples? In what ways are the
spectacular demographic flows towards, through, and away from the region leading to
the fetishization of movement, hybridity, and exchange in MENA cultural production?
Etc. 
 
Extended deadline for paper and panel proposals: 15 March 2017. Information:
https://menapoptbilisi.wordpress.com/ 
 
 
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10. Conference: ''Faces of the Infinite: Neoplatonism and Poetics at the Confluence
of Africa, Asia and Europe'', University of London, 9-11 November 2017
 
The conference examines the extent to which Neoplatonist philosophy has permeated
poetic theory and practice in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Persian, Spanish and
Turkish, from late antiquity to the modern period.
 
Information:
www.britac.ac.uk/events/faces-infinite-neoplatonism-and-poetics-confluence-africa-asia-and-europe

 
 
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11. Panels/Papers on "Contemporary Islam, "Islamic Mysticism", "Islam, Gender,
Women", "Middle Eastern Christianity", "Study of Islam", "Study of Judaism" at the
Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), Boston, 18-21 November
2017
 
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2017. Information:
https://papers.aarweb.org/content/welcome 
 
 
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12. Workshop: "From Oriens Christianus to the Muslim Near East: Theological,
Historical and Cultural Cross-Pollination in the Eastern Mediterranean of Late
Antiquity", Freie Universität Berlin, 4 December 2017 
 
The workshop seeks to shed new light on the crossroads at which the Late Antique
world of the Eastern Mediterranean heralded diverse exchanges between Oriental
Christendom, Byzantine culture and the Islamic world. Furthermore, how these
exchanges impacted the development of diverse regions, cultures, languages, and
religions.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2017. Information:
http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=1a788bada7&e=82aeb6c61d
 
 
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13. Conference: "Migrations in Mongol Eurasia: People, Ideas, Artifacts", Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 18-20 December 2017 
 
The conference seeks to illuminate various facets of migrations, of people, both
groups and individuals; knowledge, including science, art, religion, technologies,
political culture, and imperial institutions; as well as material goods.
 
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2017. Information:
http://mongol.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/CFP-migrations%20in%20mongol%20eurasia-final%20call1.pdf

 
 
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POSITIONS
 
14. Ten PhD Candidates and One Post-Doc for Research on "World Politics: The
Emergence of Political Arenas and Modes of Observation in World Society", Bielefeld
University (Germany)
 
Doctoral researchers will receive contracts as research associates (65% of salary
level E13) for three years and are expected to complete their dissertations during
that time. Start date: 1 October 2017.
 
Deadline for application: 15 April 2017. Information:
www.uni-bielefeld.de/soz/iw/gk/index.html 
 
 
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15. Two PhD Candidates in Central Asian / Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden Institute
for Area Studies
 
The PhD candidates will study a specified topic within the project focusing on a
particular linguistic resource related to the interaction between imperial ideology
and literary and artistic production in the medieval Turko-Persian world between
1000-1500. Vacancy number 17-050.
 
Deadline for application: 30 April 2017. Information: Dr. Gabrielle van den Berg,
g.r.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl 
 
 
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16. Associate Professor of Ottoman History, University of Oxford 
 
With a doctorate in the field of Ottoman history, the successful applicant will have
an outstanding record of internationally excellent publication and research in
Ottoman history of the period. She/he will have an excellent command of Ottoman
Turkish, being able to carry out research using primary sources in that language,
and to teach it to students; a working knowledge of Arabic and/or Persian is also
necessary. 
 
Deadline for application: 24 March 2017. Information:
www.ox.ac.uk/about/jobs/academic/index/ac23361j/ 
 
 
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17. Postdoctoral Fellowships Program for Junior Arab Scholars in Social Science
 
This 9-month fellowship program aims at enabling young researchers, up to three
years out of the PhD, to pursue their research. There is a special interest in
attracting foreign-trained Arab scholars back to the region.
 
Deadline for application: 24 February 2017. Information:
www.theacss.org/pages/postdoc_cycle4 
 
 
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OTHER INFORMATION
 
18. International Summer University (ISU) on the Middle East: "Business, Politics,
and Conflicts in a Changing World", University of Marburg, Germany, 22 July - 19
August 2017
 
The ISU offers a well-balanced combination of academic courses and a carefully
planned social program for students from more than 70 countries.
 
Deadline for application: 1 June 2017. Information: www.uni-marburg.de/isu/
 
 
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19. Summer School: "Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberation
Theologies", Granada, Spain, 3-14 July 2017 
 
The school welcomes participations from Muslim and non-Muslim heritages and
associations. The focus of the course is to inquire into Islam as a
postcolonial/decolonial perspective. 
 
Deadline for application: 12 March 2017. Information: www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/
 
 
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20. Arabic Immersion Course, SOAS University of London 
 
This intensive language training is designed and will be delivered by an experienced
team of language teachers. In addition to simulating the environment of studying in
the Middle East, the course will also offer diverse activities and interaction to
complement the learning process.
 
Deadline for early-bird registration: 10 March 2017. Information:
www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/events/25mar2017-arabic-immersion-course.html 
 
 
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21. Articles on "Russia and the Middle East" for Special Issue of "Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies" 
 
This special issue targets research addressing recent political developments in the
Middle East. Currently, there is a strong need for additional knowledge to inform
our understanding of Russia's new involvement in the region. 
 
Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2017. Information:
www.orsam.org.tr/index.php/Content/news/1?c=orsam%7Cenglish