CONFERENCES 1. Conference: "Through the Looking Glass of the Local: Rereading Istanbul’s Heterogeneous Pasts", Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, 28-29 September 2017 2. Symposium: "Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia", VEKAM, Koç University, Ankara, 28-29 September 2017 3. The Yemen Exchange, Hosted in Beirut, 11-15 October 2017 4. Workshop: "Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World. Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy", Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University Hamburg, 18-19 December 2017 5. Workshop: “The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey”, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg, Germany, 14-16 February 2018 6. International Conference: "Social Policy in the Islamic World", Tehran, Iran, 12-13 May 2018 7. Panels on "Islamic Movements"; "China and the Middle East"; "The Gülen Movement", for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 8. Panel on "Halāl Enterprise in and beyond the Middle East" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 9. Panel on "The ‘Resistance Axis’ and the Syria Conflict: Losses, Gains and New Trajectories?" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 10. Panel of the "Maghreb Review" on "State and Society in the Maghreb" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 11. Panel of the "Maghreb Studies Association" on "Colonial Heritage in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 POSITIONS 12. Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of Göttingen, Germany 13. Assistant or Associate Professorship in the Study of Religion (Focus on Islam), Aarhus University, Denmark 14. Two PhD Students with a Focus on "Middle Eastern and North African Studies" and with a Focus on "Turkish Studies", Stockholm University 15. Three Post-Doc Positions in the Project "The Origin and Early Development of Philosophy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus: The Impact of Ill-Defined Materials and Channels of Transmission", Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium 16. Deputy Director of the Kenyon Institute, East Jerusalem 17. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Assistant/Associate Prof.) in International Relations, Monash University, Melbourne 18. Assistant Professor in International Law and Human Rights, University of Maryland (near Washington DC) 19. Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles 20. Assistant/Associate Professor in International Development, Tulane University, New Orleans 21. Open-Rank, Tenure-Track Professor of Islamic Studies, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania 22. Assistant Professor of Islamic World History, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 23. Assistant Professor for Late Antique or Medieval History (Focus on Mediterranean, and/or Near Eastern History, ca. 200 – 1400 CE), Stony Brook University, New York 24. Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Queens College, the City University of New York (CUNY) 25. Junior Research Fellow 2018-2020 at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, MA 26. Associate or Full Professor in the Sociocultural Anthropology of the Middle East, Brown University, Rhode Island 27. Associate Professor/Professor in Middle Eastern Culture and Islamic Religious Studies, University of Alabama 28. Assistant or Associate Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies, University of Colorado Boulder 29. Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies (tenure-track), Emory University, GA OTHER INFORMATION 30. New Survey: "Research in Arabic-speaking Countries: Funding Competitions, International Collaboration, and Career Incentives" 31. Articles on "Building Bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements" for "Yearbook of Women’s History 2018" If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1400 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, University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah/UAE ____________________ CONFERENCES 1. Conference: "Through the Looking Glass of the Local: Rereading Istanbul’s Heterogeneous Pasts", Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany, 28-29 September 2017 Hosted by the Research Group “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”, the conference foregrounds the heterogeneity of Istanbul by emphasizing the formative, perspectival relationship between historical narratives of the city and spaces and places within it. Program: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Flyer_Events/2017/2017-09-28_Poster_Conference-Istanbul_01.pdf _____________ 2. Symposium: "Trade and Production in Ottoman Anatolia", VEKAM, Koç University, Ankara, 28-29 September 2017 The Symposium will be in English and Turkish and simultaneous translation will be available. Further information and program: https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/en/content/trade-and-production-ottoman-anatolia _____________ 3. The Yemen Exchange, Hosted in Beirut, 11-15 October 2017 The Second Yemen Exchange is co-hosted by the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies (SCSS) and Mideastwire.com. During the five day program, participants from around the world will listen and engage Yemeni politicians, civil society figures and analysts gaining rare and intensive insight into Yemen, from several differing perspectives. Deadline for registration: 4 October 2017. Information: https://thebeirutexchange.com/yemen-exchange/ _____________ 4. Workshop: "Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World. Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy", Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University Hamburg, 18-19 December 2017 The workshop is organized by Sonja Brentjes (Max Planck Gesellschaft, Berlin), Maribel Fierro (ILC-CSIC, Madrid), Tilman Seidensticker (CSMC, Hamburg). Information on the programme: http://www.manuscript-cultures.uni-hamburg.de/cal-details/2017_12_18%20CMSC%20WS%20Rulers%20as%20Authors%20Programme.pdf _____________ 5. Workshop: “The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Turkey”, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg, Germany, 14-16 February 2018 The organizers invite academics from the field of anthropology, cultural studies, education studies, film and media studies, gender studies, literary studies, political science, religious and urban studies to submit papers. Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2017. Information: http://www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/aktuelles/news/cfp_the_politics_of_culture_in_contemporary_turkey _____________ 6. International Conference: "Social Policy in the Islamic World", Tehran, Iran, 12-13 May 2018 The conference themes cover a broad range of related topics from a multidisciplinary perspective, ranging from "Historical Developments of Social Policy in Muslim Societies" to "Social Policies towards Muslim Minorities in Western Countries". Travel grants are available. Deadline for abstracts: 10 October 2017. Information: http://spiw.atu.ac.ir/cnf/about _____________ 7. Panels on "Islamic Movements"; "China and the Middle East"; "The Gülen Movement", for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 Send your abstract to Tugrul Keskin (Shanghai), the organizer of these panels, until 16 October 2017. Information: http://internationalstudiesandsociology.blogspot.de/2017/08/cfp-islamic-movements-china-and-middle.html Deadline for registration of abstracts and closed panels for WOCMES: 9 December 2017. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/registration _____________ 8. Panel on "Halāl Enterprise in and beyond the Middle East" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 This panel will examine the history, present and future of the halāl economy and the enterprises, products and services that populate it. Papers focusing on single countries, regions or comparative studies examining multiple locales or countries are welcome, as are papers from any single or combined disciplinary perspective. Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2018. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/call-for-open-panels (No. 4) _____________ 9. Panel on "The ‘Resistance Axis’ and the Syria Conflict: Losses, Gains and New Trajectories?" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 Organised by Robert Mason, American University in Cairo. This panel addresses the so-called ‘resistance axis’ during the Syria conflict and the consequences of the conflict on each actor’s legitimacy, security and policies. It recognizes the loss of Hamas from the alliance and assesses such reconfigurations, including Russian intervention in support of the Syrian regime. Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2017. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/call-for-open-panels (No. 5) _____________ 10. Panel of the "Maghreb Review" on "State and Society in the Maghreb" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 Papers are invited for the themes: The history of State building movements — Almoravides, Almohads, Fatimids, etc.; Problems in the relationship between State and Society in the pre-colonial period; Changes in State-Society relationships introduced by indigenous reformists and colonial administrations; The role of the national State in social services, family affairs, urban planning, agrarian reform, etc. Deadline for abstracts: 8 March 2018. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/call-for-open-panels (No. 6) _____________ 11. Panel of the "Maghreb Studies Association" on "Colonial Heritage in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives" for the Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, Spain, 16-22 July 2018 This theme invites original papers dealing with various aspects of the question of how colonial rule, and its demise, has shaped the perceptions of one another held by the colonial powers and the colonised peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. Deadline for abstracts: 8 March 2018. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/call-for-open-panels (No. 7) _____________ POSITIONS 12. Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, University of Göttingen, Germany The Fellowship will begin as soon as possible, at the latest 1 January 2018. Qualification: Good research skills, the ability to work in a team, and communication skills with good written and spoken English are required. Applicants should be in possession of a PhD in anthropology, religious studies, or Asian area studies. Deadline for application: 9 October 2017. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55484 _____________ 13. Assistant or Associate Professorship in the Study of Religion (Focus on Islam), Aarhus University, Denmark Qualification: Knowledge of formative, classical or medieval Islam; Knowledge of contemporary and lived Islam and of modern Arab and Islamic societies and their history and culture; The ability to work in Quranic and classical Arabic as well as Modern Standard Arabic. Deadline for application: 3 October 2017. Information: http://mideast.unc.edu/aarhus-university-assistant-or-associate-professorship-in-the-study-of-religion/ _____________ 14. Two PhD Students with a Focus on "Middle Eastern and North African Studies" and with a Focus on "Turkish Studies", Stockholm University The positions will be associated with the department's aim to become a research hub dedicated to Middle Eastern and North African Studies as well as to Turkish Studies. All proposals are welcome which fall within the range of our expertise. Deadline for application: 16 October 2017. Information: http://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/jobs?rmlang=UK&rmpage=job&rmjob=3878 _____________ 15. Three Post-Doc Positions in the Project "The Origin and Early Development of Philosophy in Tenth-Century al-Andalus: The Impact of Ill-Defined Materials and Channels of Transmission", Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium The positions of three years each (to start from 2 January 2018) are offered in relation with the following sub-projects: 1) the Ikhwān al-Ṣafā’, 2) Ibn Waḥshiyya and the Nabatean Corpus; 3) Ibn Masarra. Qualifications: PhD in Islamic Studies, in Middle Eastern Studies, or related fields; excellent command of Classical Arabic (ancient Greek, Latin and in particular Hebrew is considered an advantage); etc. Deadline for application: 10 November 2017. Information: http://calenda.org/416228 _____________ 16. Deputy Director of the Kenyon Institute, East Jerusalem The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is offering this position. Applicants must have a PhD from a UK university at the time of application, an active research interest in the region, and a research profile in any of the disciplines or subject areas supported by the CBRL (i.e. social sciences and humanities). Deadline for application: 30 October 2017. Information: http://cbrl.org.uk/opportunities/item/name/deputy-director-kenyon-institute _____________ 17. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer (Assistant/Associate Prof.) in International Relations, Monash University, Melbourne The subfield in International Relations is open. Candidates should demonstrate a strong potential for teaching and scholarly research excellence and should be prepared to teach an upper-level undergraduate class on international relations theory. Deadline for application: 13 October 2017. Information: http://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/ci/en/job/567135/lecturersenior-lecturer-international-relations _____________ 18. Assistant Professor in International Law and Human Rights, University of Maryland (near Washington DC) Candidates should combine excellence in research with a commitment to the mentoring and teaching of students. Preference will be given to applicants who have proven interest in international law and human rights and show a desire to combine their research excellence with our Center for International Development and Conflict Management. Minimum qualification: PhD by August 2018. Deadline for application: 30 September 2017. Information: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/53480 _____________ 19. Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles We encourage applicants whose specializations relate to early and classical Islam up to the early Ottoman era (strong preference for research proficiency in Persian and/or Ottoman Turkish). Applicants should have a PhD on hand by June 2018. Deadline for application: 15 October 2017. Information: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/apply/JPF03055 _____________ 20. Assistant/Associate Professor in International Development, Tulane University, New Orleans We seek candidates from comparative politics, international relations, or public policy with a research focus on developing areas. Applicants should demonstrate a strong research capability, a commitment to effective teaching, and have a PhD in hand by July 1, 2018. Deadline for application: 30 October 2017. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/44986 _____________ 21. Open-Rank, Tenure-Track Professor of Islamic Studies, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania The ideal candidate will be an expert in Islam as a global religious tradition, with interdisciplinary research that highlights trans-regional or trans-national connections between the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, or beyond. Ph.D. in Religious Studies/Islamic Studies is required by start date. Deadline for application: 1 October 2017. Information: http://jobs.bucknell.edu/cw/en-us/job/493822/openrank-tenuretrack-professor-of-islamic-studies _____________ 22. Assistant Professor of Islamic World History, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Candidates should have expertise in a particular region of the Islamic World combined with broad training in the history of Islam’s transnational, cross-cultural, and global dimensions. Preference for any of the following: Gender, Intellectual and Cultural Life, Imperialism, Globalization, Religion, Science, Environmental, or Health and Medicine. Deadline for application: 10 October 2017. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9447 _____________ 23. Assistant Professor for Late Antique or Medieval History (Focus on Mediterranean, and/or Near Eastern History, ca. 200 – 1400 CE), Stony Brook University, New York Candidates should contribute to one or more of our graduate program thematic clusters: Global connections, empire, capitalism; Health, science, environment; Race, citizenship, migration; Religion, gender, cultural identity; States, nations, political cultures. Deadline for application: 1 December 2017. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9802 _____________ 24. Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, Queens College, the City University of New York (CUNY) A Ph.D. degree in Arabic literature, Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies or comparative literature is required. Also required is native or near-native competency in Arabic and English. Information: http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DAH/CMAL/Documents/Arabic_Advertisement.pdf _____________ 25. Junior Research Fellow 2018-2020 at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, MA This two-year fellowship is offered to outstanding scholars of Middle East politics, economics, history, religion, anthropology, or sociology. The fellowship is targeted at junior scholars with PhD in hand and not yet tenured. Deadline for application: 31 October 2017. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/9758 _____________ 26. Associate or Full Professor in the Sociocultural Anthropology of the Middle East, Brown University, Rhode Island We are looking for a scholar whose work addresses on one or more of the focal areas: security (studies of violence, war, policing, military policy, and borders), development (inequality, gender, humanitarianism, ethical dimensions of intervention), and governance (ethnographic study of states, transnational governance, civil society, policy, social movements, NGOs, human rights). Deadline for application: 15 October 2017. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/43477 _____________ 27. Associate Professor/Professor in Middle Eastern Culture and Islamic Religious Studies, University of Alabama The position will begin August 2018. We welcome applications from mid-career and senior scholars working in such fields as Anthropology, History, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Religious Studies, or other disciplines represented in the College of Arts and Sciences. Deadline for application: 15 October 2017. Information: https://facultyjobs.ua.edu/postings/41763 _____________ 28. Assistant or Associate Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder Qualification: PhD in History or a related discipline such as Jewish Studies or Middle Eastern Studies; Proficiency with Hebrew and Arabic. Deadline for application: 16 October 2017. Information: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=10192 _____________ 29. Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies (tenure-track), Emory University, GA Qualifications: PhD in Arabic Studies or related field; native or near native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic as well as fluency in one or more dialects; documented excellence in teaching Arabic language, literature, and culture at the undergraduate level. Deadline for application: 27 October 2017. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/43881 _____________ OTHER INFORMATION 30. New Survey: "Research in Arabic-speaking Countries: Funding Competitions, International Collaboration, and Career Incentives" Bruce Currie-Alder, Rigas Arvanitis and Sari Hanafi analysed the expansion of research funding in Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Qatar. Published: 8 September 2017. See article at: https://academic.oup.com/spp/article/doi/10.1093/scipol/scx048/4107903/Research-in-Arabicspeaking-countries-Funding _____________ 31. Articles on "Building Bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements" for "Yearbook of Women’s History 2018" Papers are invited which discuss the historical formation, transformation and impact of gendered discourses, representations and practices within sport and physical culture. The focus will be international (including colonialism, migration etc.) and comparative. Deadline for abstracts: 2 October 2017. Information: http://rosavzw.be/pdf/Callforpapers-sport.pdf ______________
vendredi 29 septembre 2017
EURAMES Info Service 38/2017
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