CONFERENCES
- Workshop:
"Conflict, Governance and Post-Conflict Economic Agenda", ERF in
Collaboration with the Institute of Financial Economics, American University
in Beirut, 20-21 November 2019
- Conference:
"The GCC at Cross-Roads: Responding to New Economic Order
Conference", ERF and GCC Economic Research Initiative (GCCeRI),
Muscat, 8-10 December 2019
- Workshop:
“Inequalities, Peace and Conflict in Turkey”, Stockholm University, 9-10
December 2019
- International
Conference: "Historicity and Islamicity: Perceptions of Early Islamic
History in Contemporary Muslim Thought", Institute for the Study of
Islamic Culture and Religion, Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M., 12-14
December 2019
- Workshop:
"God's Justice and Animal Welfare", Department for
Islamic-Religious Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University
Erlangen-Nürnberg, 13-14 December 2019
- International
Symposium: “Political Economy of Sanctions”, Centrum für Nah- und
Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg, 13 -14 December
2019
- Conference:
"Visible and Invisible Borders between Christians and Muslims in the
Early Modern World”, Central European University, Budapest, 10-11 January
2020
- Workshop:
“Mosques, Power and Politics”, University of Copenhagen, 22-24 January
2020
- Workshop:
“Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Methodological Encounters
and (Dis)Encounters”, Casa Árabe, Madrid, 27 January 2020
- Graduate
Student Workshop: "Turning Points: The Middle East and Balkans,
1918-1923", UC Berkeley, 6-8 February 2020
- Centre
for Islamic and West Asian Studies 3rd Annual Conference:
“Urban Islam: Muslim Mi-norities, Identity and Tradition in West Asian,
South Asian, and African Cities”, University of London, 19 February 2020
- Conference:
“Protests, Power, and Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and
Religion”, Religion Graduate Students Association, University of Florida,
21-22 February 2020
- 17th
Annual Duke-UNC Conference: “Who Speaks for Islam? Approaches to Authority
within the Academy and Beyond”, University of North Carolina, 29 February
2020
- Spring
Meeting of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society:
“Islam and Law,” Emory University, Atlanta, 6-8 March 2020
- Workshop:
"Western Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political
Containment, Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies", University of
Oxford, 10-11 March 2020
- International
Workshop: "Media Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern
Perspectives", Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig,
12–13 March 2020
- Conference:
"Mare Nostrum: The Mediterranean Basin as Wellspring of Human
Endeavor", St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 13-14 March
2020
- Annual
Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, Aga Khan
University, London, 6-7 April 2020
- Graduate Student Workshop on “Religion,
Law, and Politics in the Middle East”, Syracuse University, 23 April 2020
- Workshop:
"The Visibility of Strangers. Diasporas, Urban Spaces, and Material
Pluralism in the Mediterranean Space", Cagliari, Italy, 29-30 April
2020
- Conference:
“Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious Figures in the
Migratory Dynamics of Africa”, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké, Côte
d’Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020
- Conference
of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network: “Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations”,
University of Manchester, 19-20 May 2020
- Congress
of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30
May 2020
- 8th International Conference
of the National Records and Archives Authority of the Sultanate of Oman
(NRAA): “Omani-German Relations during the 19th and 20th Centuries”,
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 5-6 June 2020
- Conference:
“Discursive Challenges: Power, State Legitimacy and
Counter-narratives in the Arab World”, Institute for Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham University, 9-11 June 2020
- Workshop
"Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East
(16th-20th Centuries)", University of Vienna,
12-13 June 2020
- Seventh
Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and
Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
- 15th
International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH),
University of Zagreb, 13-17 July 2020
- Session:
"Ottoman Cultural Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of
Travel, Collecting and Display", within the International Conference
of European Urban Historians Network, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020
- Conference:
"Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads
and Beyond", University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April
2021
- 20th
ISA World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent Authoritarianism:
Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and
Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
POSITIONS
- Post-doctoral 2020-2021
Fellowships for Scholars in the Study of Africa, University of Bayreuth
- Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area
Studies, Hamburg
- PhD Position for Research
Project "Bibliotheca Arabica: On the Production, Transmission, and
Reception of Arabic literatures”, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Leipzig
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship Position in the Project
“Striking from the Margins: From Disintegration to Reconstitution of State
and Religion in the Middle East”, Central European University, Budapest
- Doctoral Research Fellowship in
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Department of Culture Studies and
Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
- Director, Middle Easter Studies
Center (MESC), American University Cairo
- Tenure-Track Position (Open
Rank) in the Environmental History of the Mediterranean, University of
Haifa
- Postes de
Doctorant.e/Post-doctorant.e, Centre Jacques Berque pour les Etudes en
Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Rabat
- Faculty Positions in the Sociology and Anthropology
Program, School of Social Sciences & Humanities, Doha Institute for
Graduate Studies
- Assistant Professor in Global
Public History (Focus on the Islamic World since 1800), York University,
Ontario, Canada
- Assistant Professor of History
of the Circum-Mediterranean/Islamic World before 1500, Western New England
University
- Postdoctoral Fellowships in
Migration Studies, Center for International Studies, Cornell University
- Bita Daryabari Assistant or
Associate Professor of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern
Studies, Berkeley
OTHER INFORMATION
- Richard Gillespie Mediterranean
Prize for Early Career Researchers
- Ph.D. Research Grant at the
Orient-Institut in Istanbul for 2020
- Middle East and North Africa
Mobility Grants for Young Researchers / bourses de mobilité pour jeunes
chercheurs, Centre Francais d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales
- Spring School of the Innovative
Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the
European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS) on "Contesting Authority:
Knowledge, Power and Expressions of Selfhood", Catania, Italy, 2-8
March 2020
- Intensive Course of
“Contemporary Iranian Studies”, University of Religions and Denominations
(URD), 4-14 March 2020
- Critical Muslim Studies Summer
School, Granada, 15-20 June 2020
- Scholarship Program of the
German Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region in
Berlin, 1-30 September 2020
- Appel à dossier de la revue
« Les Cahiers de Tunisie »
53. Appel à
contribution pour le MIDÉO 36 (2021) : « Iğtihād et taqlīd dans
l’islam sunnite et šīʿite »
- Articles on "Labors of
Need: Lives of African and Asian Workers in the Middle East" for
Special Issue of "Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and
North African Migration Studies"
- Publications for the
"Occasional Paper Series of the Center for International and Regional
Studies (CIRS)", Georgetown University in Qatar
- New "Journal of Material
Cultures in the Muslim World"
- Contributions to Edited Book:
“Moroccan Peregrinations: Construction, Transmission and Circulation of
Islamic Knowledge (18th – 21st Centuries)"
- Monographs for Series
"Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights"
- New Book Series “Gulf Studies”
by Gulf Studies Center (GSC), Qatar University, in Collaboration with
“Springer Nature”
- Chapters for Edited Book on
„Amazigh Cinema” (Palgrave’s Arab Cinema Series)
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Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of
Sharjah/UAE
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CONFERENCES
- Workshop:
"Conflict, Governance and Post-Conflict Economic Agenda", ERF in
Collaboration with the Institute of Financial Economics, American
University in Beirut, 20-21 November 2019
The workshop
aims to serve as a platform for presenting and discussing a six Arab country
case studies (including Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen) touching upon several
conflict related issues, and enable cross fertilization and networking with
international scholars and promote a multi-disciplinarily approach to
researching the conflict related issues.
_____________________________________
- Conference:
"The GCC at Cross-Roads: Responding to New Economic Order Conference",
ERF and GCC Economic Research Initiative (GCCeRI), Muscat, 8-10 December
2019
This
conference is designed to be the major inaugural event of the GCCeRI. This new
institution will provide a platform for GCC researchers and policy makers to
discuss research and policy issues as well as regional and global developments;
and, disseminate research outcomes to the public through means of publications,
newsletters, conferences and workshops.
______________________________________
- Workshop: “Inequalities, Peace
and Conflict in Turkey”, Stockholm University, 9-10 December 2019
This workshop aims to shed light on the patterns and mechanisms of
inequalities and their impact on societal conflicts in Turkey. We invite papers
that tackle the issues of inequalities, peace, and conflict from a broader
perspective, including social, economic, political and spatial features. While
this workshop’s geographical focus is on Turkey, it seeks to construct a better
understanding of the challenges related to social and economic injustice in the
global context and to bring innovative policy options to these challenges.
______________________________________
- International Conference:
"Historicity and Islamicity: Perceptions of Early Islamic History in
Contemporary Muslim Thought", Institute for the Study of Islamic
Culture and Religion, Goethe University in Frankfurt a.M., 12-14 December
2019
Our
conference attempts to shed light on the contemporary Muslim perceptions and
perspectives on the early history of Islam. It will first address the
mechanisms of construction of ‘early Islamic history’ and its use in the
processes of identity building among Muslims and, in a next stept, the critical
and revisionist approaches to history developed by Muslim scholars.
Organizers:
Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika, Dr. Soumaya Louhichi-Güzel.
See program
at https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/82093441/ContentPage_82093441
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- Workshop:
"God's Justice and Animal Welfare", Department for
Islamic-Religious Studies, Friedrich-Alexander University
Erlangen-Nürnberg, 13-14 December 2019
The junior
research group "Norm , Normativity and Norm Changes" is organizing
this workshop which aims to fathom the understanding of to what extent animals
are recipients of justice. Hereby, interdisciplinary approaches are used to
find answers to the research question. The workshop is open for interested
researchers and students. Registration is required.
_____________________________________
- International Symposium:
“Political Economy of Sanctions”, Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien
(CNMS), Philipps-Universität Marburg, 13 -14 December 2019
Organiser:
Prof. Mohammad R. Farzanegan (Economy of the Near and Middle East).
______________________________________
- Conference:
"Visible and Invisible Borders between Christians and Muslims in the
Early Modern World”, Central European University, Budapest, 10-11 January
2020
We aim to
create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive understanding of
past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European context through
the addressing of three main research problems: otherness, migration and
borders.
Information: https://is-le.eu/calls/conferences/
_____________________________________
- Workshop: “Mosques, Power and
Politics”, University of Copenhagen, 22-24 January 2020
This seminar
will examine the power strategies used by national and local politicians,
examining national legislation and municipal planning on mosques, and will
investigate a number of concrete cases of contested mosque building.
_____________________________________
- Workshop:
“Dialogues in the Late Medieval Mediterranean: Methodological Encounters
and (Dis)Encounters”, Casa Árabe, Madrid, 27 January 2020
The aim of
this workshop is to create a network that will help to provide a comprehensive
understanding of past relations between Christianity and Islam in the European
context through the addressing of three main research problems: otherness,
migration and borders.
Information: https://is-le.eu/workshop/dialogues-in-the-late-medieval-mediterranean-methodological-encounters-and-disencounters/
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- Graduate
Student Workshop: "Turning Points: The Middle East and Balkans,
1918-1923", UC Berkeley, 6-8 February 2020
Students
using all types of approaches are welcome to apply: legal, diplomatic, and
social/cultural history; domestic/regional, transnational and international
politics; economic and environmental.
______________________________________
- Centre
for Islamic and West Asian Studies 3rd Annual Conference:
“Urban Islam: Muslim Mi-norities, Identity and Tradition in West Asian,
South Asian, and African Cities”, University of London, 19 February 2020
We welcome
research that focuses on all Muslim communities, including Sunni, Shiite, Sufi,
those of sub-denominations and of different schools of thought, jurisprudence
and theology; and adherents of Muslim movements having a prominent communal
identity and living as minorities in Islamic cities.
Information: http://ciwas.net/upcoming-events-2/
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- Conference: “Protests, Power,
and Prayer: Intersection of Activism, Culture, and Religion”, Religion
Graduate Students Association, University of Florida, 21-22 February 2020
Contributors should frame their papers primarily in response to the
questions: In what ways are religious practices and/or beliefs deployed within
various socio-cultural protests? How and why do certain individuals or groups
engage in activism? To what degree are religiously motivated protests
effective/ineffective?
_____________________________________
- 17th Annual Duke-UNC
Conference: “Who Speaks for Islam? Approaches to Authority within the
Academy and Beyond”, University of North Carolina, 29 February 2020
In light of
recent attempts at intimidation by the state, we are particularly interested in
thinking through the politics of power. As such, we are seeking papers that
interrogate questions of authority and power. Potential topics include, but are
not limited, to the following: Who gets to speak for Islam and Muslims? What
landscape of authority exist in the Islamicate World? For example what
geographies constitute the Islamicate world? Etc.
Deadline for
applications: 15 November 2019. Information: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40033
_____________________________________
- Spring
Meeting of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society:
“Islam and Law,” Emory University, Atlanta, 6-8 March 2020
We invite
paper abstracts from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that
address any topic related to Islam and Law in the MENA region – for example:
Islam’s role in the historical, cultural, or theological origins of law and
law-making; Islam’s role in shaping law, legal institutions, and legal
processes; etc.
_____________________________________
- Workshop: "Western
Intervention in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings: Political Containment,
Neoliberalism, and Imperial Legacies", University of Oxford, 10-11
March 2020
This workshop aims to situate current military and development
interventions into a larger context and debate about (neo)colonialism,
governance, the state, sovereignty, and to encourage a systematic treatment of
the historical continuities and ruptures between the present and the explicitly
imperial political contexts of the early twentieth century.
Deadline for
abstracts: 24 November 2019. Information: https://www.area-studies.ox.ac.uk/article/call-for-papers-western-intervention-in-the-wake-of-the-arab-uprisings-political-containment
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- International Workshop "Media
Representations of Law and Justice: Middle Eastern Perspectives",
Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig, 12–13 March 2020
We invite contributions on Arabic-language cinematic and television
formats screening legal system in either contemporary or historical perspective
and papers on legal dramas from neighboring countries in the ‘Greater Middle
East’, as well as comparative studies to allow for broader transnational
perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 January 2020. Information: https://tinyurl.com/vbqxrvo
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- Conference:
"Mare Nostrum: The Mediterranean Basin as Wellspring of Human
Endeavor", St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York, 13-14 March
2020
This
conference will analyze the manifold dimensions of human endeavor centered
around the Mediterranean, defined as the region extending from the western
terminus of the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates Valley.
Deadline for
submissions: 1 February 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/4766107/cfp-mare-nostrum-mediterranean-basin-wellspring-human-endeavor
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- Annual Conference of the
British Association for Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7
April 2020
Papers are welcome on the following: Art, Architecture and Material
Culture in the Muslim world; Diversity within Islam and Islamic Studies;
Economy, Marketing and Finance; Education; Gender Studies; Hadith Studies;
History, Intellectual History, History of Science; Interreligious Relations;
Law; Literature, Media and Cultural Studies including Postcolonial Studies;
etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 November 2019.
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- Graduate Student Workshop on Religion, Law, and
Politics in the Middle East, Syracuse University, 23 April 2020
The
workshop will serve as avenue for advanced graduate students (ABDs) to meet and
share their work-in-progress and receive extensive feedback on their
dissertation projects from a panel of interdisciplinary experts. The workshop
welcomes research conducted on a broad range of topics that addresses the
historical and contemporary interactions between religious, legal and political
institutions in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 December 2019.
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- Workshop:
"The Visibility of Strangers. Diasporas, Urban Spaces, and Material
Pluralism in the Mediterranean Space", Cagliari, Italy, 29-30 April
2020
Papers range
from social analysis of diasporas to the anthropological approach to foodways;
from the economic inquire of foreigner lifestyle to the artistic patronage of
foreigner urban guilds - framed in the Mediterranean from the 17th
to the 19th century, especially related to the effects of the
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire on urban pluralism.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4339606/visibility-strangers-diasporas-urban-spaces-and-material
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- Conference: “Migration via the
Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of
Africa”, Université Alassane Ouattara de Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire, 7-8 May
2020
This
conference intends to open a scientific dialogue to discuss the place of the
religious in migratory dynamics. The conference’s anchoring point is the
illegal migration from Africa towards Europe and Middle East. But proposals
dealing with the link between religious and all other forms of human mobility
within the African continental space or from it to other destinations could be
examined according to their relevance.
Deadline for
abstracts: 30 November 2019. Information: https://calenda.org/673554
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- Conference
of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network: “Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations”,
University of Manchester, 19-20 May 2020
Scholars of
Jewish and Muslim histories, cultures, politics and theologies are invited to
share comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study
of these topics as they relate to and come into contact with one another.
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- Congress
of the Mediterranean Studies Association, University of Gibraltar, 27-30
May 2020
We are now
accepting proposals for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete
sessions on all sub-jects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean
cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of
the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any
Mediterranean language.
Deadline for
abstracts: 1 February 2020. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-studies-association-27-30-may-gibraltar?e=82aeb6c61d
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- 8th International Conference
of the National Records and Archives Authority of the Sultanate of Oman
(NRAA): “Omani-German Relations during the 19th and 20th Centuries”,
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 5-6 June 2020
The
scholarly conference will focus on the Omani-German relations since the arrival
of the Germans in East Africa and the Gulf, as well as the German role in
historical, economic, social and cultural studies of Oman. The conference,
organized in cooperation with Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Humboldt
University of Berlin, Free University of Berlin and Oman Studies Centre in
Germany, aims at bringing together scholars from Oman, Germany and other
countries.
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- Conference: “Discursive
Challenges: Power, State Legitimacy and Counter-narratives in the Arab
World”, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham
University, 9-11 June 2020
The aim of this conference is to understand the dynamics of the protests
gripping so many states and communities in the Arab region and also the current
challenges to regime legitimacy – traditionally held by a strong central
authority – in the MENA region.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 January 2020.
Information: https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/about/news/?itemno=40154
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- Workshop
"Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East
(16th-20th Centuries)", University of Vienna,
12-13 June 2020
This
workshop will analyze travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) with
regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. In shifting the
focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it will serve to place
travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of
infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual
travellers.
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- Seventh Conference of the
School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia,
2-4 July 2020
The
conference will be preceded by a three-day (June 29 – July 1, 2020) intensive
course on Venetian sources concerning trade in Mamluk territories and Cyprus,
taught by Professor Benjamin Arbel, Tel Aviv University.
Information: http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
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- 15th
International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH),
University of Zagreb, 13-17 July 2020
The
Executive Committee of ICOSEH and the Organizing Committee invite the
submission of abstracts of individual papers as well as pre-organized
panels/sessions and workshops. Papers are expected to address various aspects
of the economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire. We encourage panels
and workshops on any aspects of the Ottomans and the Mediterranean and the
Ottomans and Central Europe.
Deadline for
abstracts: 15 December 2019.
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- Session: "Ottoman Cultural
Mobilities: 19th Century Modes of Travel, Collecting and
Display", within the International Conference of European Urban
Historians Network, Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020
The session
focuses on the mobility and circulation of people and objects around Ottoman
and connected contexts; Ottoman encounters and exchanges en route; the journeys
of intellectuals, collections and archives in the late Ottoman Empire.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/5071043/cfp-ottoman-cultural-mobilities-19th-century-modes-travel; and https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/
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- Conference: "Rethinking
Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads and Beyond",
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
The conference examines the relationship between China and the Middle
East, both ancient and modern. Papers that incorporate additional regions,
such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia are also encouraged,
provided they are also incorporate both China and a country in the Middle East,
broadly construed.
_______________________________________
- 20th
ISA World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent Authoritarianism:
Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and
Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
_____________________________________
POSITIONS
- Post-doctoral 2020-2021
Fellowships for Scholars in the Study of Africa, University of Bayreuth
Africa-based scholars with a proven track record in the study of Africa
are eligible to apply. They may come from any discipline in the humanities and
the social, technical and ‘hard’ sciences.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2019.
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- Research Fellow, German
Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg
Qualifications:
excellent university degree (master’s or equivalent) in Political Science,
Sociology, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, or related social sciences
/ area studies; familiarity with academic research on radicalisation, political
Islam and jihadism; proficiency in English and Modern Standard Arabic; good
working knowledge of German; etc.
Screening of applications will begin
on 18 November 2019. Information: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/GIGA-19-11_Call_ResearchFellowIMES.pdf
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- PhD Position for Research
Project "Bibliotheca Arabica: On the Production, Transmission, and
Reception of Arabic literatures”, Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Leipzig
Requirements: An MA or equivalent degree in Islamic Studies, Arabic
philology or a cognate discipline; excellent knowledge of Arabic and preferably
one other primary language of the Islamicate world; experience in working with Arabic
manuscripts. Starting date 1 April 2020 for three years, with an option of
extension for another year.
Deadline for
application: 15 January 2020. Information: https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/bibliotheca_arabica.pdf/view
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- Post-Doctoral Fellowship Position in the Project
“Striking from the Margins: From Disintegration to Reconstitution of State
and Religion in the Middle East”, Central European University, Budapest
Applications are invited from researchers whose work falls under this
thematic field from any of the following disciplines: comparative gender,
policy studies, sociology, anthropology and religious studies. Required qualifications: Eligible applicants
should have held a doctoral degree for a period of less than five years, and
have a demonstrable record of achievement and promise in a relevant thematic
field and discipline; etc.
Deadline for applications: 8 December 2019. Information: https://www.ceu.edu/job/post-doctoral-fellowship
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- Doctoral Research Fellowship in
Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Department of Culture Studies and
Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
The applicant is asked to propose a project that enters the discursive
field in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), with a particular
focus on modern Iran and its transnational encounters. The resulting
dissertation is expected to contribute to the field of gender studies as it
intersects with capital, race, class, culture, sexuality and/or knowledge via
the MENA region and through its geographic and symbolic location.
Application deadline: 12
January 2020. Information:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/178544/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-middle-eastern-and-islamic-studies
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- Director, Middle Easter Studies
Center (MESC), American University Cairo
Requirements:
A PhD degree in a
discipline relevant to MESC's field of study. Candidates should have well
established and extended experience in policymaking and implementation related
to the Middle East. Candidates should have research and publications records
showing interest and contributions to the field of Middle East studies.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled.
_____________________________________
- Tenure-Track
Position (Open Rank) in the Environmental History of the Mediterranean,
University of Haifa
We are
looking for candidates with proven academic excellence in their respective
fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean
studies; a fully-developed Mediterraneanist approach guiding their research;
and proven interest in environmental issues in the history of the
Mediterranean. While the candidate should be firmly rooted within the
historical discipline, additional background in supporting social and natural
scientific fields, such as biology, geology, geography, ecology, etc., is a
distinct advantage.
Deadline for
applications: 31 December 2019.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58876
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- Postes de
Doctorant.e/Post-doctorant.e, Centre Jacques Berque pour les Etudes en
Sciences Humaines et Sociales, Rabat
CJB offer deux ou trois postes de
doctorant.e/post-doctorant.e pour une durée d’un an, renouvelables.
Date
limite d’envoi des candidatures : 15 décembre 2019. Information : http://www.cjb.ma/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Appel-%C3%A0-candidatures-CJB-2020.pdf
_____________________________________
- Faculty Positions in the
Sociology and Anthropology Program, School of Social Sciences &
Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
We are seeking to appoint an assistant/associate professor in sociology.
The position requires proven experience in advanced quantitative research
methods (research and teaching). Candidates with specialization in any area of
sociology will be considered. The ideal candidate will have a PhD in sociology
or a relevant social science field. Knowledge of Arabic and ability to teach in
the Arabic language is essential.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2020.
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- Assistant Professor in Global
Public History (Focus on the Islamic World since 1800), York University,
Ontario, Canada
Required qualifications include a completed PhD in History or a related
discipline, and an ongoing program of research in the area of specialization.
Candidates are expected to demonstrate excellence or the promise of excellence
in teaching and in scholarly research.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2020.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59541
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- Assistant Professor of History
of the Circum-Mediterranean/Islamic World before 1500, Western New England
University
This can include classical and medieval Europe or the Islamic world. The
primary qualification for this position is excellence in teaching.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2019.
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- Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Migration Studies, Center for International Studies,
Cornell University
Two
fellowships will be conferred to emerging scholars studying the movement of people,
plants, and/or animals. While in residence at Cornell, the Fellows will work to
generate new knowledge that addresses key themes and concerns. These include
but are not restricted to socio-environmental dynamics and complexity,
recognition of multiple spatiotemporal and hierarchical scales, and attention
to the roles of governance, democracy, and authority as they relate to the
subject of migrations.
Deadline for
applications: 15 January 2020. Information: https://einaudi.cornell.edu/migrations/call-postdoctoral-fellows
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- Bita
Daryabari Assistant or Associate Professor of Iranian Studies, Department
of Near Eastern Studies, Berkeley
Applications
are encouraged from scholars with rigorous training in the languages and
cultures (textual and/or material) of Iran (broadly defined) and with a
research specialization within the period from antiquity to the advent of
Islam. Preference will be given to individuals whose research has strong
philological and/or material cultural foundations.
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OTHER INFORMATION
- Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize for
Early Career Researchers
Mediterranean
Politics is pleased
to announce the launch of this Prize for the best research article on the
contemporary social and political dynamics of the Mediterranean region
published in the Journal by an early career researcher. We welcome contributions on politics
and international relations as well as economics, human geography, sociology,
anthropology and other relevant disciplines in the humanities and social
sciences.
Information: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/journal-prize-richard-gillespie-mediterranean-prize/
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- Ph.D. Research Grant at the
Orient-Institut in Istanbul for 2020
Field research in Istanbul for Ph.D. students not living in Turkey will
be supported. Grants are available for one of the research areas of the
Institute: - Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; -
Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire; - Historic and
contemporary forms of religious expression in Anatolia since the 11th century;
- Sociolinguistics; - Human, medicine, and society; - Manuscript cultures of
the Ottoman Empire and Iran. The research grant consists of a monthly stipend
of € 1,100 for six months. Travel expenses will be reimbursed.
Deadline for applications: 5 January 2020. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/stipendien/
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- Middle East and North Africa
Mobility Grants for Young Researchers / bourses de mobilité pour jeunes
chercheurs, Centre Francais d’Archéologie et de Sciences Sociales
The aim of this call for projects is to fund
research stays between Switzerland and the following countries: Egypt, Lebanon,
Morocco, Palestine, Qatar, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates.
Deadline
for applications: 31 December 2019.
Information: http://cefas.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article672&lang=fr
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- Spring School of the Innovative
Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the
European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS) on "Contesting Authority:
Knowledge, Power and Expressions of Selfhood", Catania, Italy, 2-8
March 2020
PhD candidates and advanced MA students are invited to participate. How
have technological revolutions informed the performance of selfhood (including
gender), the modes of engagement with society, and the political consequences
of shifting boundaries between public and private spheres? The school addresses
the construction and transformation of religious authority and religious
knowledge production, and concomitant questions of legitimacy, power and
discipline, under changing circumstances.
Deadline for applications: 25 December 2019.
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- Intensive Course of
“Contemporary Iranian Studies”, University of Religions and Denominations
(URD), 4-14 March 2020
The program provides an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary platform
for the study of modern Iranian culture, politics, and society and includes
workshops and cultural tours in Qom, Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran.
Registration deadline: 30 December 2019, Information: http://iranstudytours.com/special_courses/30
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- Critical Muslim Studies Summer
School, Granada, 15-20 June 2020
The premier summer school on Islam and Decoloniality focuses on
approaches to the academic study of Islam which are both critical and
post-Orientalist. The program is geared towards advanced undergraduate and
postgraduate students; junior lecturers; as well as those working in the
government or civil society sectors who have a keen interest in the summer
school topics.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2020. Information: http://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/
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- Scholarship Program of the
German Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region in
Berlin, 1-30 September 2020
The programme is aimed at politically engaged young graduates from the
Arab region who are interested in the German parliamentary system and play an
active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries.
Participants have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the German
parliamentary system and political decision making processes.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2019.
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- Appel à dossier de la revue
« Les Cahiers de Tunisie »
La revue « Les Cahiers de
Tunisie » lance un appel à dossier et offre la possibilité de coordonner
un dossier thématique en collaboration avec les membres du comité de rédaction.
Le dossier thématique comprend entre
5 et 8 articles (en arabe, en français et en anglais), réunis à la suite d’un
appel à contribution.
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53. Appel à
contribution pour le MIDÉO 36 (2021) : « Iğtihād et taqlīd dans
l’islam sunnite et šīʿite »
Le dossier de ce MIDÉO se propose d’approfondir les deux logiques à
la lumière du patrimoine islamique. L’histoire de la pensée islamique montre
que l’on a établi en effet des distinctions entre les principes fondamentaux et
les branches du fiqh, que l’on a élaboré des relations avec des notions connexes, que l’on a
évalué de manière différente le taqlīd, ou encore établi des distinctions de degrés d’iǧtihād. Il s’agira par conséquent d’investir
ces différentes notions connexes.
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- Articles
on "Labors of Need: Lives of African and Asian Workers in the Middle
East" for Special Issue of "Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of
Middle East and North African Migration Studies"
Contributions
are invited from scholars working in the fields of history, area studies,
anthropology, sociology, geography, political economy, political science,
religious studies, cultural studies, and other cognate fields.
Deadline for
articles: 6 January 2020.
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- Publications for the
"Occasional Paper Series of the Center for International and Regional
Studies (CIRS)", Georgetown University in Qatar
CIRS publishes original research on a range of issues related to the
Middle East, including international relations, political science, sociology,
and anthropology, among others. All CIRS papers are accessible, for free, in
print and electronic formats. Papers are distributed via online academic
platforms and search databases, making them widely cited.
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- New "Journal of Material
Cultures in the Muslim World"
The Journal aims to be a new reference for field archaeologists, (art)
historians, anthropologists, curators, and scholars and students of the
archeology, (art) history, architecture, anthropology and ethnography of the
Muslim world. Material culture includes not only artefacts, architectural
structures and monuments, but also crafts and archaeological field surveys.
Information: https://brill.com/page/mcmw
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- Contributions
to Edited Book: “Moroccan Peregrinations: Construction, Transmission and
Circulation of Islamic Knowledge (18th – 21st
Centuries)"
The ambition
of this issue is to renew previous reflections by gathering multidisciplinary
studies that juxta-pose human and social sciences and Islamic studies, shed
light on unpublished sources and explore new fields. The volume will include
the following themes: contents, actors and the geography of knowledge;
knowledge policies, competing knowledge; Vintage Islam, New Age Islam.
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- Monographs for Series
"Routledge Studies in Islam and Human Rights"
We invite scholarly monographs that examine the rich and complex
intellectual and institutional legacy of Islam relevant to human rights and
social (in)justice since the formative period of Islam (7th century
CE). The Series welcomes works dealing specifically with the topic of human
rights theories as well as discoveries that connect human rights to social
issues, institutions, themes, ideas, and events.
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- New Book Series “Gulf Studies”
by Gulf Studies Center (GSC), Qatar University, in Collaboration with
“Springer Nature”
The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to documenting the
changes taking place in the Gulf societies, and the evolving relationship
between the Gulf and the other regions. The series is dedicated to advancing a
non-Western perspective for studying societies in the Gulf, and their
interactions with the rest of the world.
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- Chapters for Edited Book on “Amazigh
Cinema” (Palgrave’s Arab Cinema Series)
The New York Forum of Amazigh Films (NYFAF) invites you to submit
proposals which will be workshopped in New York City on 22 May 2020. The book
aims to highlight research on the cinematic expression of self-identifying
Amazigh filmmakers and examine the contributions of Amazigh cinema to issues of
representation, identity, sustainability, and artistic labor.
Deadline for proposals: 16 December 2019.
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