CONFERENCES 1. International Workshop: "Refugee Transfers in the Euro-Arab Mediterranean Zone", Lebanese American University, Byblos, 10-12 April 2017 2. International Symposium: "Avicenna Reloaded. Analyzing a Muslim Polymath from a Present View", Osnabrück University, 12-13 May 2017 3. Symposium: "Field as Archive/Archive as Field: Architectural Insights from Contemporary Turkey", Bartlett School of Architecture, London, 19 May 2017 4. Conference: "The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange", Princeton University, NJ, 19-20 May 2017 5. International Workshop: "Postcolonial Legacies, Scholarly Mobility and Research Capacity Building", Orient-Institut Beirut, 15-16 June 2017 6. 4th International Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society: "Civilisation and World Politics", Istanbul, 1-2 July 2017 7. Deuxième Congrès du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Paris, 5-8 juillet 2017 8. International Symposium: "Imaging a 'Middle East'", Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 6-7 July 2017 9. Conference: "Speech and Space: Discursive Environments across Non-Arab Islam", Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 7-9 September 2017 10. Workshop: "The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey", Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, 28-30 September 2017 11. Conference: "Path of Men. Portrait of a Literature: Life Stories in Arab Writing before the 10th Century AD", Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Hammamet, 4-6 October 2017 12. Colloque international : » Patrimoines en péril : Action publique et politiques de préservation au Maghreb », Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, 13-14 octobre 2017 13. Colloque: « Traditions poétiques, narratives et sapientiales arabes : De l'usage du dialecte et d'autres formes dites « populaires » », Université Ibn Tofail- Kénitra, Maroc, 2-3 novembre 2017 14. Conference: "1917-2017: The Russian Revolution and the (Post-)Ottoman World", Center for Modern Turkish Studies, Istanbul Şehir University, 3-5 November 2017 15. International Symposium: "The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics - States and Markets", Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 16-18 November 2017 16. Conference: "Cultures of Occupation: Establishing a Transnational Dialogue", University of Nottingham, 12-14 January 2018 17. International Conference: "Religious Conversion and the Political Sphere: New Approaches (Antiquity-Early Modern Times)", Université Paris-Est Créteil, 24-26 January 2018 POSITIONS 18. Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg 19. Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford 20. Fully-funded PhD Position on Syrian Refugee Crisis & Education, University of Birmingham 21. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professorship of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge 22. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Rank of Associate Professor or Professor in Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar 23. Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities, University of Maryland 24. Chair in Islamic Studies (Ottoman History and Culture) Brandeis University, Waltham, MA OTHER INFORMATION 25. Research Scholarships: "Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements" 26. Expert Meeting for an Exchange of Experiences to Develop a Concept on "Studying as a Refugee" for Universities in Jordan, GIZ, Berlin, 19 April 2017 27. Summer School: "Religion in the World: Beyond the Secular Paradigm", Utrecht University, Netherlands, 3-7 July 2017 28. Small Grants Program: "Youth" and "Urban Spatial Inequalities", Arab Council for the Social Sciences 29. Articles on "Infrastructure" for the Online Journal "Middle East - Topics & Arguments" 30. Articles on "The History of Books and Collections through Manuscript Notes" for the "Journal of Islamic Manuscripts" 31. Launch of the First Volume of the "Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association" If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1500 recipients) and 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 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. International Workshop: "Refugee Transfers in the Euro-Arab Mediterranean Zone", Lebanese American University, Byblos, 10-12 April 2017 We seek in both historical and contemporary perspectives to shed light on refugees as knowledge transmitters who channel social, cultural and political "remittances". Program and information: http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/md/transculturality/flyerfinal.pdf _____________ 2. International Symposium: "Avicenna Reloaded. Analyzing a Muslim Polymath from a Present View", Osnabrück University, 12-13 May 2017 Panels cover: Avicenna and Medicine; Avicenna's Philosophy and the Reception of Avicenna. Deadline for registration: 30 April 2017. Information: http://www.islamische-theologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Plakate_Brosch%C3%BCren/Brosch%C3%BCrenentwurf_Avicenna_Reloaded_3-Seitig.pdf _____________ 3. Symposium: "Field as Archive/Archive as Field: Architectural Insights from Contemporary Turkey", Bartlett School of Architecture, London, 19 May 2017 This symposium aims to open a discussion on the ways in which architectural researchers' experiences during fieldwork and/or archival work shape architectural history and theory, with a specific focus here on recent and ongoing research in Turkey. Deadline for registration: 25 April 2017. Information: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-as-archive-archive-as-field-architectural-insights-from-contemporary-turkey-tickets-32921488057 _____________ 4. Conference: "The Medieval Iberian Treasury in the Context of Muslim-Christian Interchange", Princeton University, NJ, 19-20 May 2017 Topics of inquire include Islamic law and sumptuary production, Christian manuscripts and metalwork, patronage and royal studies, identity and gender studies, and cultural and political history. Information: https://ica.princeton.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Medieval-Iberian-Save-the-Date-HORIZONTAL-V2.jpg _____________ 5. International Workshop: "Postcolonial Legacies, Scholarly Mobility and Research Capacity Building", Orient-Institut Beirut, 15-16 June 2017 We explore the dimensions of knowledge production, with a regional focus on Africa and the Middle East, including the Gulf. Convenors: Daniele Cantini (Orient-Institut Beirut), Lama Kabbanji (Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement). Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2017. Information: http://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Scholarly_mobility_workshop_call_for_papers.pdf _____________ 6. 4th International Conference on Eurasian Politics and Society: "Civilisation and World Politics", Istanbul, 1-2 July 2017 Papers are invited on Turkic Countries, Geopolitics, Globalisation, Islamic Movements, Migration, Terrorism in Eurasia, etc. Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2017. Information: http://eurasianpoliticsandsociety.org/call-for-papers _____________ 7. Deuxième Congrès du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans, Paris, 5-8 juillet 2017 Les inscriptions sont ouvertes au 15 mai 2017. Programme: http://majlis-remomm.fr/programme _____________ 8. International Symposium: "Imaging a 'Middle East'", Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, 6-7 July 2017 This symposium examines the continued seductiveness that Orientalism seems to hold over the production of images of the contemporary 'Middle East', both inside and outside of the region. Deadline for abstracts: 23 April 2017. Information: http://www.ici-berlin.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CFP_Imaging_ME_full-version.pdf _____________ 9. Conference: "Speech and Space: Discursive Environments across Non-Arab Islam", Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 7-9 September 2017 Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2017. Information: mailto:ashley.n.anderson.1@vanderbilt.edu _____________ 10. Workshop: "The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey", Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Istanbul, 28-30 September 2017 This workshop is a cooperation between the Department of Sociology at Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi and the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at PhilippsUniversität Marburg. Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2017. Information: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2017/03/CfP_Workshop_Politics-of-Culture_Istanbul.pdf _____________ 11. Conference: "Path of Men. Portrait of a Literature: Life Stories in Arab Writing before the 10th Century AD", Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Hammamet, 4-6 October 2017 The objective of this conference is to examine, from a literary perspective, the biographical story in classical Arabic sources. The conference is part of the GenèR programme at Ifpo "Genesis and Evolution of the Arabic Literary Narrative: New Perspectives" and of the recently concluded ESCIMED seminar "Biography and Autobiography: Rethinking Short Time in the Islamic World". Deadline for abstracts: 19 May 2017. Information: http://www.ifporient.org/en/node/1897 _____________ 12. Colloque international : » Patrimoines en péril : Action publique et politiques de préservation au Maghreb », Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain, Tunis, 13-14 octobre 2017 Cette rencontre interdisciplinaire a pour objectif de mettre en lumière et d'ouvrir le débat sur les politiques et les processus de patrimonialisation dans les villes maghrébines. Date limite : 22 mai 2017. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/26847 _____________ 13. Colloque: « Traditions poétiques, narratives et sapientiales arabes : De l'usage du dialecte et d'autres formes dites « populaires » », Université Ibn Tofail- Kénitra, Maroc, 2-3 novembre 2017 Langues du colloque : français, arabe, anglais. Date limite pour les résumés : 10 Avril, 2017. Information: http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/traditions-poetiques-narratives-sapientiales-arabes-usage-dialecte-autres-formes _____________ 14. Conference: "1917-2017: The Russian Revolution and the (Post-)Ottoman World", Center for Modern Turkish Studies, Istanbul Şehir University, 3-5 November 2017 This conference aims at an investigation of the influence of the Russian Revolution over the then-emerging post-Ottoman world, which covers an area, including but not limited to, the Balkans, the Black Sea basin, the Caucasus, modern Turkey, and the MENA region. Deadline for abstracts: 10 May 2017. Information: http://cemts.sehir.edu.tr/1917 _____________ 15. International Symposium: "The Global Power of Private Museums: Arts and Publics - States and Markets", Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 16-18 November 2017 Participants will be exploring the background, mechanisms and consequences of a phenomenon that may be referred to as the "global power of private museums". Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2017. Information: http://www.eume-berlin.de/en/calendar/details/the-global-power-of-private-museums-arts-and-publics-states-and-markets.html _____________ 16. Conference: "Cultures of Occupation: Establishing a Transnational Dialogue", University of Nottingham, 12-14 January 2018 The aim of this conference is to bring scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds, and countries together to explore the fundamental question of "how does 'foreign occupation' (broadly defined) influence cultural expression?". Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2017. Information: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/history/cotca-conference-2018/cotca-conference-2018.aspx _____________ 17. International Conference: "Religious Conversion and the Political Sphere: New Approaches (Antiquity-Early Modern Times)", Université Paris-Est Créteil, 24-26 January 2018 We invite proposals for papers based on the various aspects of religious conversion connected to the political sphere, especially in connection with political construction and conversion of public spaces. Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2017. Information: https://pocram.hypotheses.org/rencontres/conversion_et_espace_politique _____________ POSITIONS 18. Senior Research Fellow / Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg Your profile: Doctorate in political science, economics, or a cognate discipline; profound knowledge of political, economic, and/or social developments in countries of Africa, Asia, Middle East. Deadline for application: 31 May 2017. Information: http://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/vacancies _____________ 19. Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford We are seeking a Departmental Lecturer for 12 months from October 2017. You must hold a relevant postgraduate qualification in a subject related to Islamic art and architecture, preferably with a specialisation in the central Arab lands between c. 650 and 1200 CE. Deadline for application: 21 April 2017. Information: http://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=128011 _____________ 20. Fully-funded PhD Position on Syrian Refugee Crisis & Education, University of Birmingham This project will examine the current situation facing Syrian refugees as they aim to enter higher education, navigating a range of complicated and often contradictory systems at the local, national and international levels at the nexus of immigration, asylum policies and education policies. Deadline for applications: 28 April 2017. Information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AYM111/phd-studentship-syrian-refugees-and-higher-education/ _____________ 21. His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said Professorship of Modern Arabic Studies, University of Cambridge Candidates will hold a PhD or equivalent postgraduate qualification. An outstanding research record of international stature in the study of the modern Arab world, including but not limited to history, politics, or culture and society is desired. Deadline for application: 28 April 2017. Information: http://www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk/files/sultanqaboos.pdf _____________ 22. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Rank of Associate Professor or Professor in Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar The ideal candidate must provide leadership in ensuring the highest quality of the academic programs and must have a doctorate degree with a professorship title in the field of Islamic studies from an accredited and high-profile academic institution. Position will be open until filled. Information: http://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/content/associate-dean-academic-affairs _____________ 23. Assistant Professor of Persian Literature and Digital Humanities, University of Maryland Experience in scholarship and teaching in the areas of Comparative Literature, Islamicate Sexualities, and Persian Digital Humanities are preferred. Deadline for application: 1 May 2017. Information: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/50664 _____________ 24. Chair in Islamic Studies (Ottoman History and Culture), Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Deadline for application: 21 September 2017. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9011 _____________ OTHER INFORMATION 25. Research Scholarships: "Islam, the Modern Nation State and Transnational Movements" The special programme is aimed at researchers who, with an eye to current developments, are examining the emergence of political movements in the Islamic world at the national and/or transnational level. Applications for up to 24 months can be made directly by Postdocs or scholars with Post Doctoral Lecture Qualification. Deadline for application: 24 May 2017. Information: http://www.fundit.fr/en/calls/research-scholarships-islam-modern-nation-state-and-transnational-movements?utm_content=bufferf2a6b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer _____________ 26. Expert Meeting for an Exchange of Experiences to Develop a Concept on "Studying as a Refugee" for Universities in Jordan, GIZ, Berlin, 19 April 2017 Information and program: http://dafg.eu/fileadmin/dafg/17-04-19_GIZ_Weiter_Panel_Discussion_Einladung/InvitationExpertMeetingGIZ_19042017.pdf _____________ 27. Summer School: "Religion in the World: Beyond the Secular Paradigm", Utrecht University, Netherlands, 3-7 July 2017 We will discuss the tension between religious identities and the modern state, and other recent controversies about religious diversity, as well as recent scholarly approaches to the study of 'religion' from a material and corporeal perspective. Experts of various religious traditions will offer you a broad overview of the history and current situation of religion in the West. Deadline for registration: 1 June 2017. Information: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/culture/religion-in-the-world-beyond-the-secular-paradigm _____________ 28. Small Grants Program: "Youth" and "Urban Spatial Inequalities", Arab Council for the Social Sciences This funding opportunity aims to support scholars and professionals in the Arab region undertaking five kinds of activities: conference presentations, internships, pilot studies, dissemination events, and organizing workshops. Applicants must be citizens of an Arab League member state or nationals of an Arab country. Applicants must hold at least a Master's degree. Deadline for application: 5 May 2017. Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/sgp _____________ 29. Articles on "Infrastructure" for the Online Journal "Middle East - Topics & Arguments" For this issue, we are looking for submissions that not only interrogate infrastructural networks as spatial arrangements that lay out social organization, but also look back into the temporality of infrastructures: histories of colonialism and imperialism that once shaped Middle Eastern and North African societies and the post/neo-colonial continuations of material networks that facilitate and control communities. Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2017. Information: http://meta-journal.net/announcement/view/17 _____________ 30. Articles on "The History of Books and Collections through Manuscript Notes" for the "Journal of Islamic Manuscripts" Information: Boris Liebrenz - mailto:boris.liebrenz@gmail.com and http://www.brill.com/journal-islamic-manuscripts _____________ 31. Launch of the First Volume of the "Journal of the International Qur'anic Studies Association" Potential English and Arabic contributions to JIQSA should be sent to the editors. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/launch-journal-of-the-international-quranic-studies-associationvol-1-2016/
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