CONFERENCES
- Islamic Archaeology Day, UCL
Institute of Archaeology, London, 1 February 2020
- Winter Workshop of the
Mediterranean Seminar on „Emotions, Passions and Feelings”, University of
Rochester, 21-22 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
- 4th AEGIS Thematic
Conference on „New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
intersected“, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
- 35th Annual Conference of the American
Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS) on “The Influence of
Islam in Politics and Society: Civic Engagement, Social Inclusion and
Political Participation”, Villanova University (Pennsylvania), 27-28 March
2020
- Annual Conference of the
British Association for Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7
April 2020
- 2nd International
Congress on “Women and Politics in a Global World”, Altinbas University,
Istanbul, 17-18 April 2020
- Inaugural Middle East Conference: “Ideas Towards New
Agendas”, Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD), Hamad Bin Khalifa
University Doha, 20-21 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
- 35th Annual Middle
East History and Theory Conference: “Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in
the Historic and Contemporary Middle East”, University of Chicago, 1-3 May
2020
- Conference: “Crisis and Infrastructure: Responses to
Change between Materiality and Immateriality – A Dialogue between
Anthropology, Geography and History,” University of Padova, 5-7 May 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
- 42nd Annual
Conference of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International), University of
Marburg, 26-28 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
- Workshop: “Teaching Israel
and/in the Middle East,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-18 June 2020
- 20th International
Conference on Migration: "The Multicultural Condition",
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten,
18-19 June 2020
- International Research
Conference: “Palestine as Epistemic Site: Knowledge Production beyond
Fragmentation“, University of Vienna, 24–26 June 2020
- Workshop of the Economic
Research Forum: „The Micro-Level Analysis of the Impact of Violent
Conflict on Lives and Livelihoods in the MENA Region“, June 2020 (TBD)
- 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
- Conference: “Ideas in Motion:
Arabia in Late Antiquity,“ Leiden University and King
Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Leiden, 26-27 August 2020
- Section on “(Geo)Political
Transformations in the Mediterranean”, during the “Conference of the
European Consortium of Political Research (ecpr)”, University of
Innsbruck, 26-28 August 2020
- International Research
Conference: “The Work of the Joint Distribution Committee and other
International Jewish Organizations in Islamic Countries”, Jerusalem, 1-2
September 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: “Arabic-Script
Manuscripts in Africa”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, 13-16
September 2020
- International
Conference of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII): “From
Ancient to Modern: The Current State of Research on Iraq“, Washington, DC,
9 October 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
- Visiting
Professorship in Jewish Studies/Modern Hebrew Literature, College for
Jewish Studies Heidelberg
- Two
Full-time Post-doc Positions for Research on “Multiple Secularities –
Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities (Focus Israel)“, Centre for Advanced
Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Leipzig University
(2020-2024)
- Fellowships
for Senior Researchers for Studies on „Multiple Secularities – Beyond the
West, Beyond Modernities (Focus Israel)“, Centre for Advanced Studies in
the Humanities and Social Sciences, Leipzig University
- 2 Doctoral and 6 Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Program,“ 4A
Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics“,
Berlin, Academic Year 2020/2021
- PhD
Position for Research Project "Bibliotheca Arabica: On the
Production, Transmission, and Reception of Arabic Literatures”, Sächsische
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig
- 2 Postdoctoral Researchers
for the Project “Going Local in
the Perso-Islamic Lands: Afghan Geniza, Islamisation and Language in the
pre-Mongol Islamic East”, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of
Oxford
- Assistant
Professor in Political History (Focus Middle East/Mediterranean),
Universiteit Utrecht
- Doctoral
Research Fellowship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Department of
Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
- Fellowships
of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII) for Research on Iraq
- Faculty Positions in the
Sociology and Anthropology Program, School of Social Sciences &
Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
- Open-Rank
Positions in the Field of Intercultural Communication, Hamad Bin Khalifa
University, Qatar
- One-year
Postdoctoral Fellowship for the Academic Year 2020/21, Tel Aviv University
- One-Year Fellowships for
Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School
- Assistant
Professor in Global Public History (Focus on the Islamic World since
1800), York University, Ontario, Canada
- Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Migration Studies, Center for International Studies,
Cornell University
- Assistant
Professor in Religious Studies, with Expertise in Islamic Studies and
Classical Arabic Traditions, Arizona State University
- Non
Tenure-track Instructor in Islamic Studies at the Rank of Lecturer
(2020-2021), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
- Senior
Lecturer in Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking
Middle East, Australian National University, Canberra
- New
Posts at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National
University, Canberra
OTHER INFORMATION
- Grants for Archival Research in
the “Jack G. Shaheen Collection on Arabs in US Film and Television”, New
York University
- Fellowships for Research in the
“Islamic Manuscripts Collection”, University of Michigan
- Richard Gillespie Mediterranean Prize for
Early Career Researchers
- MA Islamic Intellectual History
(1 Year), MA Islamic Intellectual History & Intensive Language (2
Years), SOAS University of London
- International Workshop: “Ibadi
Manuscripts in European & North American Libraries”, Ivan Franko
National University in Lviv, 24-25 April 2020
- Intensive Summer Course in
Modern Standard Arabic, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, 29 May – 24 July
2020
- Critical Muslim Studies Summer
School, Granada, 15-20 June 2020
- Intensive Course:
“Methodological Seminar on Venetian Sources Concerning Trade in Mamluk
Territories and the Role of Cyprus in this Regard“, Centre for Visual Arts
and Research, Nicosia, Cyprus, 29 June – 1 July 2020
- Teach English or Music to
Palestine and Syrian Refugee Children in the Camps of Lebanon, 29 June – 8
August 2020
- Intensive Summer School of
Ottoman History and Paleography: “Ottoman Provincial Elites: Origins and
Transformations“, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 8-14 July 2020
- Research Project, Workshops and
Joint Book Publication on “Failure of States in Pre-1800 Islamic and
Non-Islamic World“, Balzan Seminar, 2020-2014
- Articles on “Families and
Generations in Migration Processes” for Special Edition of the “Journal of
Mediterranean Knowledge“
- Articles for the
New, Fully Open-Access “Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam”
71. Appel à
contribution pour le MIDÉO 36 (2021) : « Iğtihād et taqlīd dans
l’islam sunnite et šīʿite »
- 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"
- Chapters for the New
“Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates” (Routledge)
- Chapters for Edited Book on
„Perspectives on Academic Persian“ in the Springer Language Policy Series
- 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”
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CONFERENCES
- Islamic Archaeology Day, UCL
Institute of Archaeology, London, 1 February 2020
The workshop presents
papers on the latest archaeological research across the Islamic world.
For program and
registration see https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-archaeology-day-2020-tickets-84251457377
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- Winter Workshop of the
Mediterranean Seminar on „Emotions, Passions and Feelings”, University of
Rochester, 21-22 February 2020
Deadline for registration: 14 February 2020.
Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-emotions-passions-and-feelings-mediterranean-seminar-2020-winter-workshop-21-22-february-rochester-922973?e=82aeb6c61d
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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 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?
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- 17th Annual Duke-UNC
Conference: “Who Speaks for Islam? Approaches to Authority within the
Academy and Beyond”, University of North Carolina, 29 February 2020
The
conference will 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.
Information: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40033
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- Spring
Meeting of the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society:
“Islam and Law,” Emory University, Atlanta, 6-8 March 2020
The meeting
will 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.
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- 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 will 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.
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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
Contributions will analyse 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.
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.
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- 4th AEGIS Thematic
Conference on „New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
intersected“, Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
The conference will analyse
the interconnections between Horn of Africa & Eastern Africa
societies and the Middle East countries, with a special focus on the challenges
of recent geopolitical, religious and economic ties between these regions.
Deadline for abstracts: 31
January 2020. Information: https://gulfstreams.cei.iscte-iul.pt/
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- 35th Annual Conference of the American
Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS) on “The Influence of
Islam in Politics and Society: Civic Engagement, Social Inclusion and Political
Participation”, Villanova University (Pennsylvania), 27-28 March 2020
The conference puts
particular emphasis on socio-political dimensions of Islam and covers a vast
range of topics and areas from Sufism, the so-called apolitical dimension of
the faith to economic and financial aspects of Islam, both in Muslim and
non-Muslim societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 January 2020.
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- Annual Conference of the
British Association for Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7
April 2020
The conference will include include papers from the disciplines of 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.
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- 2nd International
Congress on “Women and Politics in a Global World”, Altinbas University,
Istanbul, 17-18 April 2020
The conference will assess
the place and significance of women within the spheres of family, law, science,
art, politics, culture and socio-economy throughout the ages in context of
interdisciplinary studies involving women in throughout Turkey and the world.
Information: http://www.altinbas.edu.tr/wpgw/en/
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- Inaugural Middle East Conference: “Ideas Towards New
Agendas”, Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD), Hamad Bin Khalifa
University Doha, 20-21 April 2020
The conference aims at developing a new,
more constructive agenda for Middle East studies which recognizes the region’s
evolving characteristics and challenges, but also sees these in the wider
context of international dynamics and interactions. We encourage participants
to re-think and re-imagine the epistemologies, directions and agendas of our
field.
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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 will
focus 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.
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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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- 35th Annual Middle
East History and Theory Conference: “Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in
the Historic and Contemporary Middle East”, University of Chicago, 1-3 May
2020
Proposals are invited on the Middle East and spanning the sixth century
c.e. to the present day. Topics include history, political science,
anthropology, religious studies, geography, literary studies, philosophy, art
history, and media studies.
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- Conference: “Crisis and Infrastructure: Responses to
Change between Materiality and Immateriality – A Dialogue between
Anthropology, Geography and History,” University of Padova, 5-7 May 2020
The
purpose of the conference is to explore the interactions between crises and
infrastructures starting from a pivotal question: is it possible to consider
transitional processes as moments of "a transformation that [...] includes
some essential elements of the previous phase"? (Pombeni 2013: 12) Or are
they to be intended just as dramatic interruptions and breaks?
Deadline for abstracts: 20 January
2020. Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G7SasyP-zYS5I_A2Lq5Z-V1gUUcv1bee/view
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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. Papers will also
deal with the link between religious and all other forms of human mobility
within the African continental space or from it to other destinations.
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 will share
comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of
these topics as they relate to and come into contact with one another.
Information: https://jmrn.co.uk/conference2020/
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- 42nd Annual Conference
of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International), University of Marburg,
26-28 May 2020
The
local convenor will be Dr Susanne Saker. Papers are invited on: Librarianship,
collection development and acquisition policies of Middle Eastern collections
as sources for area studies; Cataloguing policies and practices; Current issues
in information studies on the Middle East, etc. An excursion will also take
place on 29 May.
Deadline
for abstracts and pre-registration: 17 January 2020.
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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.
Information: https://travelmena.univie.ac.at
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- Workshop: “Teaching Israel
and/in the Middle East,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-18 June 2020
The workshop
focuses on best practices to teach about the history, culture and politics of
the State of Israel and its political role in the Middle East since 1948 to the
present. For this purpose, the workshop will discuss the teaching of current
and future challenges of Israel and the region: Israel’s society and political
system, Israeli foreign policy, an modern international relations of the Middle
East.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 February 2020. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5678737/teaching-israel-andin-middle-east
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- 20th International
Conference on Migration: "The Multicultural Condition",
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Olten,
18-19 June 2020
The conference will discuss the bases and
critiques of multiculturalism and analyze the relation of multiculturalism to
competing concepts, in particular transnationality, integration and diversity.
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- International Research
Conference: “Palestine as Epistemic Site: Knowledge Production beyond
Fragmentation“, University of Vienna, 24–26 June 2020
This conference aims at
uncovering new terrains for critical anthropological inquiry beyond the
socio-economic and territorial fragmentation of Palestinian communities.
Deadline for abstracts: 17
January 2020.
Information: https://ksa.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_ksa/PDFs/CfP/Call_for_participation_Palestine-compressed.pdf
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- Workshop of the Economic
Research Forum: „The Micro-Level Analysis of the Impact of Violent
Conflict on Lives and Livelihoods in the MENA Region“, June 2020 (TBD)
Papers are invited which
address either the impact of conflict, insecurity and fragility on people
(especially women and children) or which address the impact of women on peace
building.
Deadline for abstracts: 15
February 2020. Information: http://erf.org.eg/2020/01/08/call-for-proposals-the-micro-level-analysis-of-the-impact-of-violent-conflict-on-lives-and-livelihoods-in-the-mena-region/
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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 (29 June – 1 July 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.
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- Conference: “Ideas in Motion:
Arabia in Late Antiquity,“ Leiden University and King
Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Leiden, 26-27 August 2020
The conference will
address key themes in religious, intellectual, and cultural history in Arabia
in the period between 570-1000 AD. Central topics include: transmission of
ideas and texts; religious and philosophical doctrines and beliefs in Arabia;
devotional piety and theology; etc. Participants’ full travel and accommodation
costs will be covered by the conference organisers.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020. Information: https://diwan.hypotheses.org/17079 or the English version of the Call for Papers: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/678/files/2019/12/call-.pdf
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- Section on “(Geo)Political
Transformations in the Mediterranean”, during the “Conference of the
European Consortium of Political Research (ecpr)”, University of
Innsbruck, 26-28 August 2020
We invite research on:
What is specific to the social movements in the Mediterranean? How are states
responding to the demands of such movements, e.g. in Algeria and Lebanon? Can
we identify new forms of ‘Mediterranean Islamism’? etc.
Deadline for panel proposals: 19 February
2020.
Information: https://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=967&EventID=132
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- International Research
Conference: “The Work of the Joint Distribution Committee and other
International Jewish Organizations in Islamic Countries”, Jerusalem, 1-2
September 2020
Themes include: The role played by the JDC in the assistance to the
region’s Jewish communities; the impact of colonialism and national movements
on the work of JDC and other international Jewish organizations; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March
2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/25688/discussions/5687266/cfp-work-joint-distribution-committee-and-other-international
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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: “Arabic-Script
Manuscripts in Africa”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, 13-16 September
2020
The conference will
present original, current research on the Arabic-script manuscript cultures of
North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the care and management of manuscript
collections across the continent: historical traditions of Arabic-script Manuscripts
in Africa; manuscripts libraries and manuscript heritage centres in Africa;
African Arabic-script languages; cataloguing and publishing; preservation,
conservation, and digitization; cultural property protection.
Registration and workshop application open
on 15 January 2020.
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- International
Conference of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII): “From Ancient
to Modern: The Current State of Research on Iraq“, Washington, DC, 9
October 2020
This conference will
bring together American, Iraqi, and international scholars to present their
findings and exchange their ideas in any subject area.
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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.
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- 20th
ISA World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent Authoritarianism:
Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and
Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
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POSITIONS
- Visiting Professorship in
Jewish Studies/Modern Hebrew Literature, College for Jewish Studies
Heidelberg
The position is for the academic term 1 April – 30 September 2020 or 1
April 2020 – 31 March 2021. Preference will be given to early career scholars
with a doctorate in Jewish Studies, or related discipline, that have research
expertise in Jewish history and culture for a candidate who specializes in
Modern Hebrew Literature.
Deadline for applications:
31 January 20220. Information: http://www.hfjs.eu/md/hfjs/aktuell/2019_12_18_call_for_applications_sommerfreund_guest_professorship_jewishstudies.pdf
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- Two Full-time Post-doc
Positions for Research on “Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond
Modernities (Focus Israel)“, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
and Social Sciences, Leipzig University (2020-2024)
Applicants should have research experience on questions of secularity,
secularisation and secularism and empirical research experience (historical or
contemporary) in Israel.
Deadline for applications:
30 January 2020.
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- Fellowships for Senior
Researchers for Studies on „Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West,
Beyond Modernities (Focus Israel)“, Centre for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, Leipzig University
Fellowships will be awarded for periods between 6 and 12 months, in
exceptional cases shorter stays (at least 2 months) will be possible as well.
Applications are possible
at any time.
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- 2 Doctoral and 6
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Program, “4A Laboratory: Art
Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics“, Berlin, Academic
Year 2020/2021
Applications are
welcome from all regions, with various disciplinary formations, such as Art
History, Aesthetics, Archaeology, Anthropology/Ethnology, History and neighboring
fields dealing with artifacts, artistic production, material culture, and
aesthetic practices relating to objects, images, languages and architectures.
Deadline for applications: 30 January
2020.
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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 applications:
15 January 2020. Information: https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen/bibliotheca_arabica.pdf/view
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- 2 Postdoctoral Researchers for the Project “Going
Local in the Perso-Islamic Lands: Afghan Geniza, Islamisation and Language
in the pre-Mongol Islamic East”, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
We are looking for someone who has (or will
have by the start of the role) a relevant PhD/DPhil, and expertise in Persian,
Arabic, Hebrew or other specialist knowledge of the ancient languages,
traditions and history of the pre-Mongol Islamicate East. Ideally you will also
have an understanding of and interest in Islamicate history, Iranian
linguistics, documents and archival practices.
Deadline for applications: 7 February 2020.
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- Assistant Professor in
Political History (Focus Middle East/Mediterranean), Universiteit Utrecht
Applicants specialised
in modern or contemporary European political history, ideally with a focus on
the relationship between gender and politics; the history of colonialism or
imperialism; Middle East; (post) colonial states.
Deadline for applications: 15 February
2020.
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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.
Deadline for
applications: 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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- Fellowships of the Academic
Research Institute in Iraq (TARII) for Research on Iraq
Proposals are invited from U.S.
scholars for feasible research
on Iraq-related topics to be conducted outside of Iraq and from post-doctoral
and advanced pre-doctoral Iraqi researchers living in Iraq for fellowships to
conduct research related to Iraq in any field of the humanities, social
sciences, or natural sciences.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2020.
Information: https://www.tarii.org/fellowships
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- 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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- Open-Rank Positions in the
Field of Intercultural Communication, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
The successful candidate has a PhD in (Intercultural) Communication,
Discourse Analysis or any related field and will be a dynamic, experienced, and
internationally recognized scholar with a strong record of research output and
funding/grant acquisition. The candidate needs to be fluent in English, and
preferably a language or languages of the region.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the positions are
filled.
Information:
https://professorpositions.com/faculty-positions-in-humanities-and-social-sciences,i5394.html
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- One-year Postdoctoral
Fellowship for the Academic Year 2020/21, Tel Aviv University
We will give preference to candidates whose research focuses
on the history of gender studies. Candidates must have received their PhD from
an accredited institution of higher learning, no earlier than 1 October 2015 and
no later than 1 October 2020.
Deadline for applications: 16 February
2020.
Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59683
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- One-Year Fellowships for
Research Related to Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Harvard
Kennedy School
Priority will be given to applications pursuing one of these six primary
areas of focus: (1) improving governance; (2) building peace; (3) revitalizing
the state; (4) broadening financial and labor markets; (5) governing
technology; or (6) adapting to environmental challenges. Eligible candidates
include advanced doctoral candidates, recent recipients of a Ph.D. or
equivalent degree, and untenured faculty members. We welcome applications from
political scientists, sociologists, economists, historians, and other social
scientists.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2020. Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
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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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- 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.
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- Assistant Professor in
Religious Studies, with Expertise in Islamic Studies and Classical Arabic
Traditions, Arizona State University
The regional
area is open but candidates with expertise in the Middle East, North Africa,
and/or Asia are desired. The successful candidate will be a scholar of Islam
who can both fill our program’s gap in the study of the classical Islamic and
Arabic traditions, and add to our faculty’s expertise in the anthropology of
Islam and Islam in the contemporary world. While language competence in the
candidate’s geographical area of research is expected, they are required to
have mastery of classical Arabic.
Deadline for
applications: 19 January 2020.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59670
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- Non Tenure-track Instructor in
Islamic Studies at the Rank of Lecturer (2020-2021), Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, NJ
The ideal candidate will have the PhD in hand as well as proven ability
to teach in at least three of the following areas: Sufism, Islamic Intellectual
Traditions, Islamic Scriptures, Shi’ism, Islamic Mystical Literature, the
Prophet Muhammad, an introduction to Islam, and a survey of religions of the
Western World.
Review of applications will
begin on 14 February 2020. Information:
http://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/107353
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- Senior Lecturer in Politics and
International Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East, Australian
National University, Canberra
This position requires active independent contribution to research,
undergraduate and graduate teaching and the supervision of research students.
Knowledge and research competency in Arabic language is desirable.
Deadline for applications:
20 January 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/senior-lecturer-in-politics-and-international-relations-of-the-arabic-speaking-middle-east,i6247.html
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- New Posts at the Centre for
Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
Lecturer (Iranian Studies with a Focus on Political
Science and IR Related to Iran)
Deadline for application: 3
February 2020. Information: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/534784/lecturer-iranian-studies
Senior Lecturer (Politics and International
Relations of the Arabic Speaking Middle East)
Deadline for application: 2
March 2020. Information: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/530822/senior-lecturer-politics-and-international-relations-of-the-arabic-speaking-middle-east
Lecturer (Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies)
Deadline for application: 2
March 2020. Information: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/535130/lecturer-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies
Postdoctoral Fellow (Central Asian Studies)
Deadline for application: 2
March 2020. Information: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/535158/postdoctoral-fellow-central-asian-studies
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OTHER INFORMATION
- Grants for Archival Research in
the “Jack G. Shaheen Collection on Arabs in US Film and Television”, New
York University
Grants, ranging between $500 and $2500 for research stays approximately
three weeks in length, are meant to facilitate travel to and accommodation in
New York City.
Deadline for applications:
15 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8378/discussions/5582616/jack-g-shaheen-research-grants-hagop-kevorkian-center-and
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- Fellowships for Research in the
“Islamic Manuscripts Collection”, University of Michigan
The
University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for
research in residence. We will award the
fellowships to support research projects that require substantial on-site use
of our special collections, including the Islamic Manuscripts Collection
held in the Special
Collections Research Center. Applications for support for all types
of research projects -- academic, creative, journalistic, etc. -- will be
considered, and no specific credentials are required.
Deadline for
applications: 31 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/5687082/ralph-c-and-mary-lynn-heid-research-fellowships-university
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- 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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- MA Islamic Intellectual History
(1 Year), MA Islamic Intellectual History & Intensive Language (2
Years), SOAS, University of London
Based at the School of
History, Religions and Philosophies, this is a programme on historical Islamic
studies, which offers in-depth study of the intellectual, religious and
cultural history of the Islamic world, past and present, and of wider
socio-political contexts. Intensive language programmes include Arabic,
Persian, Turkish, South East Asian Languages and Swahili. Convenors: Dr James
Caron (james.caron@soas.ac.uk) and Dr Ayman Shihadeh (a.shihadeh@soas.ac.uk)
Now open for applications. Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/religions-and-philosophies/programmes/ma-islamic-intellectual-history/; https://www.soas.ac.uk/religions-and-philosophies/programmes/ma-islamic-intellectual-history-intensive-language/
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- International Workshop: “Ibadi
Manuscripts in European & North American Libraries”, Ivan Franko
National University in Lviv, 24-25 April 2020
This workshop aims to
investigate critically the histories and politics of the collections, with
special attention to their acquisition and subsequent use by scholars from both
outside and inside Ibadi communities.
Deadline for submission of
proposal: 15 February 2020.
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- Intensive Summer Course in
Modern Standard Arabic, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, 29 May – 24 July
2020
Participants will develop their Arabic
language skills, learn about North Africa, and experience various aspects of
Moroccan culture through club activities and field trips.
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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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- Intensive Course:
“Methodological Seminar on Venetian Sources Concerning Trade in Mamluk
Territories and the Role of Cyprus in this Regard“, Centre for Visual Arts
and Research, Nicosia, Cyprus, 29 June – 1 July 2020
The seminar on a wide range of Venetian sources related to maritime
trade in the Mamluk sultanate and to the role of Cyprus in this regard will be
conducted by Professor Benjamin Arbel of Tel Aviv University. The course, which
will focus on late 15th- and early 16th-century
materials, will be held immediately before the “Seventh Conference of the
School of Mamlūk Studies“.
Deadline for application:
31 January 2020. Information: http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
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- Teach English or Music to
Palestine and Syrian Refugee Children in the Camps of Lebanon, 29 June – 8
August 2020
Volunteers are invited to provide English language instruction and other
recreational enrichment activities (such as music, theater, dance, film, yoga,
and creative writing), while living and working in the refugee camps of
Lebanon.
Deadline for application:
12 February 2020.
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- Intensive Summer School of
Ottoman History and Paleography: “Ottoman Provincial Elites: Origins and
Transformations“, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 8-14 July 2020
The aim of the summer school is to combine students’ training in the
reading of Ottoman documents with their familiarization with research
methodology and the academic literature and theoretical debate about an
important theme of Ottoman history.
Deadline for applications:
31 January 2020.
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- Research Project, Workshops and
Joint Book Publication on “Failure of States in Pre-1800 Islamic and
Non-Islamic World“, Balzan Seminar, 2020-2014
Participants are invited from among advanced graduate students,
postdocs, and holders of tenure-track positions working on topics related to
the formation, maintenance, and failure of states in the various regions of the
Muslim world prior to 1800.
Deadline for applications
to join the group: 31 January 2020. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/participate-failure-of-states-in-pre-1800-islamic-and-non-islamic-world-balzan-seminar-202024?e=82aeb6c61d
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- Articles on “Families and
Generations in Migration Processes” for Special Edition of the “Journal of
Mediterranean Knowledge“
The main purpose of the issue is to analyse the relationships between
migration processes and the ties among generations in migrant families and to
study how these specific relations are maintained, changed, reconstructed
across time and space in the experiences of generations in migration.
Deadline for abstracts: 1
March 2020. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/contribute-journal-of-mediterranean-knowledge-families-and-generations-in-migration-processes?e=82aeb6c61d:
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- Articles for the
New, Fully Open-Access “Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam”
Research articles are
invited on new approaches to Islamic law, new religious trends in the
Muslim world (e.g. new atheism, deism, agnosticism), Islam and politics,
sectarianism in the Muslim world, Islam and social change, Islam and human
rights, Islamophobia, Muslim-Christian relations, new methodological
developments in Quranic studies, hadith studies etc.
Submissions are now accepted for its first
issue, to be released at the end of March 2020.
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71. 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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- 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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- Chapters for the New
“Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates” (Routledge)
The Handbook will provide an up-to-date picture of the most active
non-violent extremist groups in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the US and the
Middle East and discuss the ideological foundation of their ‘war of ideas’,
their claims and perspectives. Chapter proposals are invited about Islamist
extremism, feminist extremism etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 March 2020. Information: Dr Elisa Orofino (elisa.orofino@anglia.ac.uk)
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- Chapters for Edited Book on
„Perspectives on Academic Persian“ in the Springer Language Policy Series
Potential
themes include: The concept of Academic Persian; Persian Academic Skills;
Genres of Academic Persian; Challenges of Academic Persian; Pedagogical
Perspectives; Possible Research Areas! Evaluation and Assessment in Academic
Persian.
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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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