CONFERENCES
1.
Conference: “Gender in
Israeli and Palestinian Film”, Brown University, Rhode Island, 9-10 February
2020
2.
Conference: "The
Concept of Good, and the Concept of Evil, in Judaism, Christianity and
Islam", Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, University of
Erlangen-Nürnberg, 12-14 February 2020
3.
Conference: “Law,
Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East“, British Institute of International
and Comparative Law, London, 14 February 2020
4.
Workshop "Covering Syria
– Politics and Communication in Times of War and Revolution", SOAS,
University of London, 25 February 2020
5.
Workshop: “Inequalities,
Peace, Conflict & Justice in Turkey”, Istanbul, 6-7 March 2020
6.
7th Annual
Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown
University, 6-7 March 2020
7.
Panel on “National and
Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March
2020
8.
Islam
Section of the AAR Midwest Regional Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March
2020
9.
6th
Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for Peace and
Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020
10. 26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF)
on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development
Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020
11. International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical
Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020
12. Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for Graduate
Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020
13. Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in
the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium,
21-22 April 2020
14. 8th International Symposium on the
History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and
Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April
2020
15. Conference of the Collaborative Research Group
Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
16. 10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in
Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and
Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020
17. Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious
Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane
Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020
18. 7th International Conference of the Centre for Strategic
Research and Analysis (CESRAN) on “Eurasian Politics & Society“, Lisbon,
14–15 May 2020
19. International Conference on Middle Eastern
Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University
Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020
20. International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and
Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late
Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020
21. 11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East
Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020
22. International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral
to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020
23. Conference: “News Media in the Middle
East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
24. Conference: “Soldiers, Prisoners and Converts between Permeable Borders
in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th Centuries)“, Palermo,
28-29 May 2020
25. Annual Meeting of the French Colonial
Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020
26. 2nd International
Conference on “Society and Culture in the Muslim World'”, Allameh Tabataba'i
University, Tehran, 30-31 May 2020
27. Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and
Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020
28. Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the
Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th
Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13
June 2020
29. Conference: “Not That Long Ago, Not That Far Away: Concentration Camps
and Areas of Segregation in and around The Mediterranean (late 19th-21st
Century)”, Tours, 15-17 June 2020
30. Conference: "Global Cities: Middle Eastern Metropoles 2020",
University of London, 17-19 June 2020
31. 24th Conference of the Comité International des Études
Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020
32. International Conference: “Africa and the
Middle East and North Africa: Understanding Paradoxical Outcomes of
Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25 June 2020
33. 7th Regional Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies
Society (CESS), University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, 25-28 June
2020
34. 7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for
Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
35.
Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise :
« GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral
(in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
36. Conference: "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts
and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020
37. Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
(IASA): “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
38. Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
39. Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA),
American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020
40. Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
41. 5th Arabic Natural Language
Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020
42. International Conference: “An African
Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo,
15-17 September 2020
43. 4th “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish
Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020
44. 27th International Congress of the
German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26
September 2020
45. International Workshop: “Christian-Muslim Interplay in Late Medieval and
Early Modern Balkans: Power Networks and Regional Lordships during the Ottoman
Conquest“, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 28 September 2020
46. International Symposium: “On the Boundaries of Here and Now“, Department
of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1–2
October 2020
47. Panel on "From Miṣr to Egypt and al-Shām to Syria: Sovereignty,
Community and Rule 1600-1880” during MESA Conference, Washington, DC, 10-13
October 2020
48. Panel on "Policing, State and Society” during the MESA Conference,
Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
49. 4th International Conference “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid,
14-16 October 2020
50. Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA
2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020
51.
Conférence
internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
52. 3rd ANU Religion Conference:
“Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University,
Canberra, 8-10 December 2020
53. Conference: "Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī
and His Pairs", Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020
54. Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and
the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
POSITIONS
55. Tenure-Track Professorship for Jewish Studies, University of Freiburg
56. Graduate Assistant in Studies of Islam in South Asia, University of
Lausanne
57. Two 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
58. Doctoral Scholarships in Research Project “The
European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)”, University of
Kent
59. Post-doctoral Positions in Research Project “The
European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)”, University of
Kent
60. Global Professorships 2020“ – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and
Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities
61. One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender
Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University
62. Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel
Aviv University
63. Postdoctoral Associate (Full-time One-year Position) in the Project
“Islam in Africa in Global Context”, University of Florida
64. Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ancient Iranian Studies, Pourdavoud Center
for the Study of the Iranian World, University of California, Los Angeles
65. Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim
Societies, Australian National University, Canberra
OTHER INFORMATION
66. MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway
University of London
67. Three-Months Internship with the Moroccan
Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat
68. Workshop: “Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies“, Saint John’s
University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1-5 June 2020
69. Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How
Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt
etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political
Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“
70. Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s
Series “Global Politics”
71. New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"
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(CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah/UAE
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CONFERENCES
1.
Conference: “Gender in
Israeli and Palestinian Film”, Brown University, Rhode Island, 9-10 February
2020
Presentations,
screenings, and panels will address differing social realities, their cinematic
representations, as well as the financial and political contexts of film making
in the region.
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2.
Conference: "The
Concept of Good, and the Concept of Evil, in Judaism, Christianity and
Islam", Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, University of
Erlangen-Nürnberg, 12-14 February 2020
See program at https://www.kcid.fau.de/die-forschungsstelle/aktuelles-und-ankuendigungen/.
Registration: katja.thoerner@fau.de
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3.
Conference: “Law,
Culture and Human Rights in Asia and the Middle East“, British Institute of
International and Comparative Law, London, 14 February 2020
Registration and program at https://www.biicl.org/events/11315/law-culture-and-human-rights-in-asia-and-the-middle-east.
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4.
Workshop "Covering Syria
– Politics and Communication in Times of War and Revolution", SOAS,
University of London, 25 February 2020
This workshop aims at
bringing together academics and postgraduate researchers working on Syria,
media and political communication.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 February 2020.
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5.
Workshop: “Inequalities,
Peace, Conflict & Justice in Turkey”, Istanbul, 6-7 March 2020
The conference is
co-organized by Lund University Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Friedrich
Ebert Stiftung. Papers are invited on resistance and solidarity, labor, social
welfare and social justice, and environmental justice. Intra-European
transportation costs, accommodation and meals will be covered.
Deadline for abstracts:
5 February 2020.
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6.
7th Annual
Workshop of New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown
University, 6-7 March 2020
Papers will analyse the
past, present, and future of ownership and on what it means to “own” Palestine.
On the material level, the use and distribution of immovable property in the
context of gender, generation, and class relations will be studied.
Program at
https://palestinianstudies.org/workshops/2020/program
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7.
Panel on “National and
Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies", during the Annual Meeting of
the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Chicago, 19-22 March 2020
The contributions will
engage with literary texts from any Mediterranean literary tradition, period or
genre, while being theoretically aware of their national and regional
dimension, and of their potential for challenging canonical interpretations of
critical issues relevant to their and/or other traditions in the region.
Program at
https://www.acla.org/program-guide#/seminars/all
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8.
Islam
Section of the AAR Midwest Regional Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March
2020
Papers will
focus on any aspect of the Islamic tradition, including its texts, history, or
practices and on any time period and be from any disciplinary approach, so long
as the topic is capable of engaging scholars of Islam.
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9.
6th
Conference on Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for Peace and
Sustainability” (COSTA 2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020
Through COSTA 2020 we
believe that by creating a platform for dialog of peaceful ideas for the
tourism industry, we can work together to better promote and achieve peace
through tourism. Main themes include: Cultural and Heritage Tourism: Dark
Tourism; Eco-Tourism and Geo-Tourism: Halal Tourism; Medical Tourism;
Religious Tourism; Sustainable Tourism, etc.
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10. 26th Annual Conference of the Economic Research Forum (ERF)
on “Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for MENA’s Development
Policy“, Luxor, 29-31 March 2020
See program at http://erf.org.eg/events/erf-26th-annual-conference-sustainable-development-goals-sdgs-framework-menas-development-policy/
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11. International and Interdisciplinary Conference: “Cultural and Critical
Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17 April 2020
In
accordance to particular area-studies approaches, the main objective of this
conference is to stimulate an interdisciplinary, globally focused dialogue, on
the role of culture in our lives, including: Literature and Cultural Studies;
Sociology of Culture: Migration; Gender, Sexuality, and Class etc.
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12. Conference “Digital Humanities in Arabic”, Doha Institute for
Graduate Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020
This conference focuses on issues pretraining to the praxis of Digital
Humanities in diverse geographical contexts, countries, and cultures,
especially Arabic. The conference is very multidisciplinary by nature with the
aim of advancing the current state of knowledge for researchers in Arabic
literature, culture, media, arts, history, political science, and sociology.
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13. Seminar: "Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in
the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium,
21-22 April 2020
The Seminar will question
why historians of radical movements have forgotten about this geographical
area; to reconstruct the history of individual or collective,
anti-authoritarian and anarchist internationalist experiences in this region;
to adopt a transnational perspective that considers travel, contacts and
exchanges between individuals and groups at the local, regional and
international levels; etc. Interventions will be in French and English.
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14. 8th International Symposium on the
History of Cartography “Mapping the Ottoman Realm: Travelers, Cartographers and
Archaeologist”, German Archaeological Institute (DAI), Istanbul, 21-23 April
2020
The symposium is open to
everyone with an interest in the cartography of the (former) Ottoman countries
during, but not limited to, the 16th to 20th centuries. The symposium will focus on two main
themes: 1) Cartography of the Ottoman Countries in Europe, Asia and Africa; 2)
Mapping Archaeological Sites, Landscapes and Excavations in the Ottoman Empire
in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
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15. Conference of the Collaborative Research Group
Africa in the Indian Ocean: “New Gulf Streams – Middle East and Eastern Africa
Intersected”, Lisbon, 23-24 April 2020
The
conference will be organised in interdisciplinary thematic panels focussing on
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.
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16. 10th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in
Society with Special Focus on: "Conservation, Environmentalism, and
Stewardship – Ecological Spirituality as Common Ground", University of
British Columbia, Vancouver, 30 April – 1 May 2020
The "Religion in
Society Research Network" comprises a conference and journal founded in
2011, exploring the role of religion and spirituality in society. Themes:
Religious Foundations; Religious Community and Socialization; Religious
Commonalities and Differences; The Politics of Religion".
Deadline for abstracts:
30 March 2020.
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17. Conference: "Migration via the Sea or Desert: Recourse to Religious
Figures in the Migratory Dynamics of Africa", Université Alassane
Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire, 7-8 May 2020
The conference is
focusing on the illegal migration from Africa towards Europe and Middle East.
Areas of reflection are: 1) Faith, beliefs and religious practices in the
development / maturation of the migration project; 2) Socioeconomic uses and
magico-religious experience on migration paths; 3) Religion and migratory
networks; 4) Religious treatment of the migration issue.
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18. 7th International Conference of the Centre for Strategic
Research and Analysis (CESRAN) on “Eurasian Politics & Society“, Lisbon,
14–15 May 2020
Paper proposals,
relating to all aspects of humanities and social sciences on wider Eurasia, are
invited.
Deadline for abstracts:
29 February 2020. Information:http://eurasianpoliticsandsociety.org/
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19. International Conference on Middle Eastern
Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary”, Altınbaş University
Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020
The
conference will focus on the role of global actors pursuing their own in the
region and analyse the intervention of regional and global actors in the
various grievances and struggles of local groups, people and communities. The
positions of the European Union and the United Nations towards these Middle
Eastern issues remain also problematic.
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20. International Conference: “Crossroads: European Cultural Diplomacy and
Eastern Christianity in Syria and Palestine: A Connected History in Late
Ottoman Times and the British Mandate”, Thessaloniki, 14-15 May 2020
The conference aims to
define and analyze how cultural diplomacy was deployed by the European powers
in interwar Palestine and Syria. It questions how these policies impacted the
cultural identification of indigenous Christians in a comparison with their
fellow Palestinian and Syrian compatriots. This conference will focus on
attempts at ideological and political domination by multiple actors, each with
a diversity of diplomatic and cultural ends.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4316854/european-cultural-diplomacy-and-eastern-christianity-late
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21. 11th Annual Conference of the “Project on Middle East
Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington University, 21-22 May 2020
Papers will
focus on the politics of the contemporary Middle East. The conference will
include workshop sessions on each accepted paper, with each paper read by multiple
senior scholars in the field with an eye towards preparing them for submission
for publication.
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22. International Conference: "The Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral
to Diaspora Arabic Varieties", University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020
The papers will focus on
the following topics of interest, adjacent to Arabic dialectology: Peripheral
Arabic varieties (main topic), Diaspora Arabic varieties (main topic), Pidgin
Arabic (main topic), Language contact (main topic), Historical linguistics,
Morphology, Syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, Creolization, Sociolinguistics.
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23. Conference: “News Media in the Middle
East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
Papers are invited that engage
with issues such as journalists as power brokers, the tensions between rights
and security, religious polarization and electoral mobilization, etc. The scope
spans from traditional news outlets to digital media and citizen journalism.
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24. Conference: “Soldiers, Prisoners and Converts between Permeable Borders
in the Mare Nostrum (16th-18th Centuries)“, Palermo,
28-29 May 2020
Even in times
of strong conflict, exchanges, connections and zones of contact between
Christian and Muslim societies are highlighted from multiple perspectives. The
purpose of the conference is to involve scholars from different countries in a
multidisciplinary discussion by focusing and interweaving individual and group
trajectories, as well as institutional actors and legal-regulatory productions.
Deadline for
abstracts: 7 February 2020. Information: https://is-le.eu/calls/conference-soldiers-prisoners-converts-between-permeable-borders-mare-nostrum-16th-18th-centuries/
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25. Annual Meeting of the French Colonial
Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo, NY, 28-31 May 2020
The
papers will
consider the peripheries of the French Empire as central to understanding the
French colonial empire and the people who inhabit it, as well as the ways zones
and points of contact are particularly revealing of imperial and colonial
experiences. In addition, other aspects of overseas France and its legacies
will be considered.
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26. 2nd International Conference on “Society and Culture in the
Muslim World'”, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, 30-31 May 2020
The themes address
issues pertaining to society and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective
and from any academic discipline in arts, humanities and social sciences. See
open panels at: http://scmwconf.atu.ac.ir/page_1262.html?lang=en
Deadline for abstracts: 20
February 2020. Information: http://scmwconf.atu.ac.ir/page_1198.html?lang=en).
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27. Workshop: "Making Sense of Climate Change – Models, Cosmologies and
Practices from North Africa and the Middle East", Leibniz Zentrum Moderner
Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2020
Scholars from the
humanities, social sciences and Middle Eastern studies will explore the wide
range of issues connected to climate change in the Middle East and North
Africa, for example: Which political, economic or environmental consequences
does, or will, global warming have in the region? Etc.
Information: https://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/calls%20for%20papers/CfP_Making_Sense_of_Climate_Change.pdf
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28.
Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of
Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries),
Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020
This workshop will
analyse travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) from the 16th
to the 20th centuries 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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29. Conference: “Not That Long Ago, Not That Far Away: Concentration Camps
and Areas of Segregation in and around The Mediterranean (late 19th-21st
Century)”, Tours, 15-17 June 2020
The aim is to propose a
comparative analysis of the forms of internment established by Southern
European colonies (Eg. France, Spain, Italy, and Portugal) within today’s
national boundaries as well as within the boundaries of their ancient empires.
The project is also aimed at unfolding the contemporary morphologies of
migrants and refugees’ imprisonment.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2020. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5773138/not-long-ago-not-far-away-concentration-camps-and-areas
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30. Conference: "Global Cities: Middle Eastern Metropoles 2020",
University of London, 17-19 June 2020
This conference queries
the nature of the Islamic and Middle Eastern city in a global context. What
roles does religion, culture and social and historical traditions still play in
the life and design of these cities? How is historical culture celebrated and
supported in contemporary Islamic and Middle Eastern cities? What lessons does
city life and culture in these regions offer the rest of the world?
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31.
24th
Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes,
Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020
The aim is to provide a
platform of a high scholarly level, which will promote the knowledge and
sustain the memory of Ottoman history. Panels and individual papers will focus on
the following topics: the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions; Sources: New
Interpretations and Approaches; etc.
Information: https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CIEPO24_1st_Circular.pdf
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32. International
Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding
Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25
June 2020
The conference aims to
interrogate the ways in which Africa and the MENA have been studied in the
interdisciplinary field of International Studies. We are particularly
interested in addressing disciplinary debates with fresh analysis of local
empirics as well as local-international connections.
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33. 7th Regional Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies
Society (CESS), University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Tashkent, 25-28 June
2020
Submissions are invited
on all aspects of humanities and social sciences in the geographic domain of
Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia, Inner
Asia, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe.
Deadline for abstracts:
29 February 2020.
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34. 7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for
Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
Papers will analyse
issues such as the impact of the late Crusades and Papal policies on relations
be-tween the Mamluk Sultanate and Cyprus or Latin Europe more generally;
Mamluk-Byzantine relations; Islamic concepts of imperial and international law
(dār al-ḥarb and beyond); European trade and diplomacy; etc.
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35.
Congrès International des Sociologues de
Langue Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société
moral (in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
Notre rencontre est
ouvertes, entre autres, aux questions suivantes : La démocratie est-elle la
forme la plus adéquate à la pratique juste et bonne de la politique ? La
violence est-elle justifiable dans certaines situations et à certains moments
et quand ne l’est-elle plus ? Les économies morales (surtout celles des pauvres
et des non-affranchis) suffisent-elles à les qualifier de sujets politiques ?
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36. Conference: "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts
and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020
We invite papers that
trace memory and commemoration within imaginal politics to highlight how future
past emerges, circulates and mobilizes. The conference focuses on future past
under authoritarian regimes across the world however, the papers with focus on
the Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus are given priority.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 April 2020.
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37. Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
(IASA): “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
This is the only annual
international forum for the presentation of the latest academic research on the
Arabian Peninsula. The subjects covered include archaeology, history,
epigraphy, languages, literature, art, culture, ethnography, geography, etc.
from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and
social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire.
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38. Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
Workshops include the following topics: Art, Museums and Cultural
Initiatives in the Arabian Gulf; Energy Transition and Climate Change; Europe
and the Multipolarization of the Gulf; Foreign Aid and the Gulf States;
Industrial Policies in the Gulf; Nationalization of GCC Labor Markets; Social
Remittances and Social Change; etc.
Deadline for
abstracts: 15 February 2020.
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39. Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology
(COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020
COMELA invites academics
in Linguistics, Anthropology, Linguistic and Cultural Anthropology, and
Ethnology, to address the shifting boundedness of Language Communities of the
Mediterranean and Europe. Papers and posters should describe processes of
language shape, change, and ideology, pertinent to social, cultural, political
histories, and futures of Mediterranean and European regions.
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40. Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
The conference wants to draw closer
to the current as well as historical dynamics of the “religion-nature”
interdependence and thus to the cultural ecologies of beliefs. We are
interested in a broad set of questions and research foci, i.e.: how do
religions and religious communities in past or present symbolically and
ritually articulate and negotiate relationships with their immediate and
distant environment? What role do other species – i.e. animals, plants –
play within religious (knowledge) systems and practices? Etc.
Deadline for
abstracts: 1 March 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5651674/religion-and-nature-–-cultural-ecologies-belief
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41. 5th
Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18
September 2020
We
invite submissions on: - Basic core technologies: morphological analysis,
disambiguation, tokenization, POS tagging, semantic role labeling, sentiment
analysis, Arabic dialect modeling, etc. - Applications: machine translation,
speech recognition, speech synthesis, optical character recognition, pedagogy,
assistive technologies, social media, etc. - Resources: dictionaries, annotated
data, corpus, etc.
Deadline for abstracts:
20 May 2020. Information: https://sites.google.com/view/wanlp-2020 and https://sites.google.com/view/nadi-shared-task
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42. International
Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the
Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020
This conference’s goal
is to portray, for the first time in the same frame, the relationships between
the capital city of Egypt and the African continent, on both shores of the
Sahara and from the western Maghreb to the Horn of Africa, in the Middle Ages.
Deadline for abstracts:
15 February 2020.
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43. 4th “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish
Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020
The conference is
organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) in
co-operation with the Chair of Turcology of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
and addresses the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society,
politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples.
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44. 27th
International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO),
University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
Papers
are invited in all fields of social sciences and humanities related to the
Middle East and North Africa as well as the impact of this region on the
development of other parts of the world.
Deadline
for proposals of open panels: 30 April 2020.
Deadline
for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 30 June 2020.
Information:
amke.dietert@googlemail.com
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45. International Workshop: “Christian-Muslim Interplay in Late Medieval and
Early Modern Balkans: Power Networks and Regional Lordships during the Ottoman
Conquest“, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 28 September 2020
The workshop invites for
a thorough examination of the complex web of political and personal
relationships that extend beyond the local Balkan or imperial Ottoman
boundaries tangled in a complex interplay of different relations between
states, empires, elites and individuals with varying interests and agendas.
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46. International Symposium: “On the Boundaries of Here and Now“, Department
of Asian and North African Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 1–2
October 2020
This symposium aims to
reflect on and contribute to the methodological lenses introduced by the recent
scholarship and is an attempt to develop a critical understanding of the
disputed spaces in Eurasia. Simultaneously, it seeks to investigate how
boundaries are negotiated, (re-)made, resisted and/or unmade within spaces of
cultural (re)production in the contemporary world, where, for instance, a
populist wave of nationalist ideologies fuels tensions and conflicts globally.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2020. Information:
https://www.unive.it/data/agenda/4/36815?fbclid=IwAR1LV8MeRWzC8bms9IU3-cTr7yXv2n50q6UL5_I_x1RhJ1DSSfQ7UK730w0
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47. Panel on "From Miṣr to Egypt and al-Shām to Syria: Sovereignty,
Community and Rule 1600-1880” during MESA Conference, Washington, DC, 10-13
October 2020
The panels tries to
answer the question of how Levantines and Egyptians experienced changes in
sovereignty, community and rulership from the 16th century onwards through the
various milestones of war and conquest, famine, Western intervention and
massacre.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 February 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/5766513/cfp-mesa-2020-panel-miṣr-egypt-and-al-shām-syria-sovereignty
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48. Panel on "Policing, State and Society” during MESA Conference,
Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
The panel will explore
the ways in which practices, institutions and discourses of policing in the
modern Middle East have shaped and been shaped by the states and societies of
the region.
Deadline for abstracts: 2 February 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/5772083/cfp-mesa-2020-panel-“policing-state-and-society”
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49. 4th International Conference “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid,
14-16 October 2020
Papers will present
research works on the transfer of knowledge from the study of educational
systems to the transmission of ideas, texts, artistic techniques or work
methodologies, utensils, legends, ceremonies, and its Greco-Roman, Jewish, Arab
and Near Eastern influences.
Deadline for abstracts:
28 February 2020.
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50. Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA
2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020
Program Units include:
The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and
Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic
Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 11 March 2020.
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51.
Conférence
internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
La
conférence se centrera sur le thème de la pudeur (hayâ’) dans l’Islam, ses
conceptions, ses réceptions et ses perceptions dans le monde musulman et le
monde occidental. Comment comprendre les tensions majeures qui surviennent
aujourd’hui sans une compréhension plus précise et mieux ancrée de la tradition
islamique et de ses contextes?
Date limite pour la soumission des
résumés : 1er juin 2020. Information: Dr. Ayang Utriza Yakin ayang.walad@uclouvain.be
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52. 3rd
ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”,
Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020
Forms of human movement including global immigration, asylum-seeking,
climate migration, and the internal migration accompanying mass urbanisation,
have radically altered religious cultures around the world, especially in the
Asia-Pacific region. The aim of this conference is to explore the various
phenomena related to religion and migration; the political and social
transitions impacting upon the transnational religiosity of contemporary
communities.
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 April 2020.
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53. Conference: "Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī
and his Pairs", Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020
At the end of a research
project on al-Ṣafadī’s working method, his scholarly network, his habits as a
reader and as a scholar in the extremely rich context of the beginning of the
Mamluk period the conference will broaden the scope by confronting these
results to other situations: other authors, other periods, other places.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2020.
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54. Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
Abstracts that examine the relationship between
China and the Middle East, both ancient and modern are encouraged, and papers
that incorporate additional regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or
South/Southeast Asia are also encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2020.
Information: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/news/call-papers-rethinking-narratives-china-and-middle-east
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POSITIONS
55. Tenure-Track Professorship for Jewish Studies, University of Freiburg
The successful candidate
is a specialist in Jewish Studies with a focus on the history of ideas.
Expertise in Talmudic-Rabbinic literature is a requirement. Fluency in Hebrew
is expected. Research interests related to Jewish societies in the Near and
Middle East are a strong asset.
Deadline for
applications: 21 February 2020.
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56. Graduate Assistant in Studies of Islam in South Asia, University of
Lausanne
Start date: 1 August
2020. Length of contract: maximum 5 years. Work rate: 80%. Profile: M.A. in
Language and Cultures of South Asia or a related discipline. Interest to write
a doctoral thesis in the cultural, social, and political histories of Muslim
societies in South Asia. Knowledge of Urdu is necessary. A good knowledge of
French and Persian will be an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2020. Information: https://career5.successfactors.eu/career?career_ns=job_listing&company=universitdP&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH&rcm_site_locale=fr_FR&career_job_req_id=15317&selected_lang=fr_FR&jobAlertController_jobAlertId=&jobAlertController_jobAlertName=&_s.crb=6lIl/EOPiPI94hnrY7In+JKHNjE=
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57. Two 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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58. Doctoral Scholarships in Research Project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and
Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Kent
The
project studies the ways in which the Islamic Holy Book is embedded in the
intellectual, religious and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern
European Christians, Jews, freethinkers, atheists and Muslims. Candidates
should have a recent master’s degree (or equivalent) in the humanities, with a
specialisation related to the themes of EuQu. They should have a high level of
competence in the necessary languages (in particular Arabic or Latin, depending
on the thesis topic).
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2020. Information: https://research.kent.ac.uk/euqu/wp-content/uploads/sites/829/2019/12/2020-EuQu-PhD-call-for-candidates.pdf
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59. Post-doctoral Positions in Research Project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and
Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Kent
The
project studies the ways in which the Islamic Holy Book is embedded in the
intellectual, religious and cultural history of Medieval and Early Modern
European Christians, Jews, freethinkers, atheists and Muslims. Applicants
should have a PhD in a discipline in the humanities by the time of application,
or at least strong assurance that they will obtain the PhD by August 2020.
Candidates should be fluent in English and have strong skills in other
languages appropriate to their research topics.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2020. Information: https://research.kent.ac.uk/euqu/wp-content/uploads/sites/829/2019/12/2020-EuQu-postdocs-call-for-candidates.pdf
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60. Global Professorships 2020 – Funding of Scholars in Humanities and
Social Sciences Based Abroad to Do Research at UK Universities
This
programme provides mid-career to senior scholars in any discipline within the
humanities and social sciences, who are currently employed outside the United
Kingdom, with the opportunity to be based for four years in the UK and make a
contribution to UK research and higher education.
Deadline for
applications: 19 February 2020. Information:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/global-professorships-2020
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61. One-year Post-doctoral Fellowship for Research on the History of Gender
Studies (2020-2021), Tel Aviv University
Preference will be given to candidates whose
research focuses on the history of gender studies. $ 30,000 award. Candidates
must have received their PhD no earlier than 1 October 2015 and no later than 1
October 2020.
Deadline for
applications: 16 February 2020.
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62. Four Post-doctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies (2020-2021), Tel
Aviv University
$ 30,000 award. Candidates must have received their PhD no earlier than
1 October 2015 and no later than 1 October 2020.
Deadline for
applications: 16 February 2020.
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63. Postdoctoral Associate (Full-time One-year Position) in the Project
“Islam in Africa in Global Context”, University of Florida
We are particularly interested
in candidates working on contemporary Muslim-Christian encounters in Africa
with expertise in a particular region but also interest in comparative
reflection about such encounters across space and time.
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64. Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ancient Iranian Studies, Pourdavoud
Center for the Study of the Iranian World, University of California, Los
Angeles
The center invites
applications for a postdoctoral position in the history and culture of ancient
Iran, effective 1 July 2020.Applicants are required to have completed their PhD
before the beginning of their tenure at UCLA. Preference is given to candidates
who have obtained their doctoral degree more recently. Postdoctoral fellows may
not hold concurrent fellowships or positions during their appointment.
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65. Lecturer in Sociology of Islam and Muslim
Societies, Australian National University, Canberra
The appointee’s research profile should be rooted in sociological
perspectives or political sociology on the religion and culture of Islam and
Muslim societies. Research can focus on aspects of the global and complex
majority Muslim societies and/or minority status of Muslims in various
socio-political contexts.
Deadline for applications: 2 March 2020.
Information: https://socioloxy.com/lecturer-in-sociology-of-islam-and-muslim-societies,i6248.html
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OTHER INFORMATION
66. MA in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway
University of London
Based
at Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy, this degree
provides empirically-grounded engagement with West Asia, combining an
understanding of Islamic and regional history, with a clear connection to
contemporary policy-relevant issues.
Deadline for
application: 30 August 2020. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/37tQgFh or email: ciwas@rhul.ac.uk
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67. Three-Months Internship with the Moroccan
Institute for Policy Analysis, Rabat
Qualifications:
A Master’s degree in political science, economics, international relations,
sociology, anthropology or other relevant social sciences disciplines;
proficiency in English and Arabic. Preference will be given to applicants who
are currently registered as doctoral students.
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68. Workshop: “Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies“, Saint John’s
University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1-5 June 2020
The course will provide
basic introduction to paleography, codicology and philological practices;
engage with printed and digital scholarly tools for the study of Arabic
manuscripts; introduce participants to a range of Arabic manuscripts from West
Africa and the Middle East, both Islamic and Christian.
Deadline for
applications: 1 April 2020.
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69. Articles on Research Topic “Media Populism: How
Media Populism and Inflating Fear Empowers Populist Politicians“ (Focus Egypt
etc.) for Journals “Frontiers in Communication – Political
Communication“ and „Frontiers in Sociology – Political Communication“
The aim is to offer a variety of case
studies demonstrating the role of the media, specifically social media, in
getting populist leaders to power in democratic and authoritarian states.
Editor Rasha El-Ibiary, Future University, New Cairo
Deadline for submissions: 29 February 2020. Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10026/media-populism-how-media-populism-and-inflating-fear-empowers-populist-politicians
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70. Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s
Series “Global Politics”
We
invite scholarly monographs authored by academics on topical questions in international
relations and the modern and contemporary history of the Middle East and North
Africa. The aim is to promote deeper knowledge of emerging issues and trends.
Publications include original monographs and edited volumes which combine a
grasp of the past, an understanding of present dynamics, and a vision about
potential futures.
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71. New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"
The series welcomes
contributions beyond the confines of grand theories such as dhimmitude and the
millet system, and of traditional binaries such as toleration and persecution.
It has a cross-disciplinary perspective involving the fields of Ottoman
history, Middle Eastern studies, Balkan studies, African studies, religious
studies, church history, missiology, the history of interactions, connected
history, and diaspora studies.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4923491/new-book-series-ecclesiastica-ottomanica
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