CONFERENCES
1.
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
2.
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
3.
Conference: "Global Cities:
Middle Eastern Metropoles 2020", University of London, 17-19 June 2020
4.
International
Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding
Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25
June 2020
5.
24th Conference of the
Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27
June 2020
6.
9th International
Conference: "The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region:
Politics, (Dis)integration and Reformation in the Borderland," University
of Peshawar, Baragali, 24-26 June 2020
7.
7th Regional Conference
of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), University of World Economy and
Diplomacy, Tashkent, 25-28 June 2020
8.
7th Conference of the
School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4
July 2020
9. Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue
Francaise : « GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral
(in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
10.
"Future Past: Memory and
Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July
2020
11.
Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “54th Seminar for
Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
12.
Workshop on “Turkish Diaspora in the
World”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 16-17 July 2020
13.
Gulf Research Meeting (GRM),
University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
14. Workshop
on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German
Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 2020
15.
Conference on Mediterranean and
European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens,
2-5 September 2020
16.
Conference of the Working Group
“Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the International Society for Ethnology and
Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
17.
5th
Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18
September 2020
18.
International
Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the
Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020
19.
Conference: “Images and Borderlands:
Mediterranean Basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern
Age”, Split, Croatia, 16-17 September 2020
20.
4th “European Convention
on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of
Mainz, 16-18 September 2020
21.
International Seminar:
"Anti-Migration Politics and Islamic Ethics: Nationalism, Discrimination,
Securitization and Vulnerable Groups", Research Center for Islamic
Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 21-23
September 2020
22.
27th
International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO),
University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
23.
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
24.
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
25.
Panel 42 on “Anthropologists, Other
Humans and Non-Humans in the Waters of Middle East” during the IUAES
Congress, Šibenik, Croatia, 1-11 October 2020
26.
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
27.
Panel on "Policing, State and
Society” during MESA Conference, Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
28.
4th International
Conference: “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid, 14-16 October 2020
29.
2nd Annual Armenian International
Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020
30.
5th Annual Conference of
the Gulf Studies Center on "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in 21st
Century", Qatar University, 11-12 November 2020
31.
4th Workshop on
"Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East",
Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 19-21 November 2020
32.
Annual Meeting of the “International
Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020
33. Conférence
internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
34.
3rd
ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”,
Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020
35.
Conference: "Authors as Readers
in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī and His Pairs", Ca' Foscari
University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020
36.
Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
37.
International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī
Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
POSITIONS
38.
Two Post-doctoral Fellow Positions
in the Research Project "Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and
Disintegration in the Middle East", Central European University, Budapest
39.
Graduate Assistant in Studies of
Islam in South Asia, University of Lausanne
40.
Visiting
Scholar in Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
OTHER INFORMATION
41.
Awards and Prizes of the "Ottoman
and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA)"
42.
Book Prize in North African Studies
for 2020 by the "American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)"
43.
Annual Book Award Competition of the
"Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)"
44.
Two-year English-language M.A.
Program in "Ottoman History", University of Crete and Foundation for
Research and Technology-Hellas
45.
M.A. in Islamic & West Asian
Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University of London
46.
Workshop: “Introduction to Arabic
Manuscript Studies“, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1-5 June
2020
47.
Summer School "The Middle East:
Power and Ideology", LSE, University of London, 22 June - 10 July 2020
48.
Articles on "Poetized Love:
Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of
the Middle East"
49.
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“
50.
Articles for Book on "The
Effects of Pandemics on Religious History" (Focus Islamic and Jewish
History) Edited by Global Center for Religious Research
51.
Articles for Edited Book: “Diasporic
Political Communication: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
52.
Monographs and Edited Books on the
MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”
53.
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.
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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2.
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.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5773138/not-long-ago-not-far-away-concentration-camps-and-areas
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3.
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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4.
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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5.
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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6.
9th International
Conference: "The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region:
Politics, (Dis)integration and Reformation in the Borderland," University
of Peshawar, Baragali, 24-26 June 2020
Papers are invited on: War, Genre,
and Critique; Religion, Difference, and Violence; Law, Human Rights and Gender
Rights; Democratic Governance, Public Space, and Resistance; Youth and
Radicalization; Economic Transformation and Development; Migration, Diaspora,
Refugees, and Internally Displaced Persons; Politics of Identities; etc.
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7.
7th Regional Conference
of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), University of World Economy and
Diplomacy, Tashkent, 25-28 June 2020
Papers will deal with 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.
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8.
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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9. 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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10.
"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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11.
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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12.
Workshop on “Turkish Diaspora in the
World”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 16-17 July 2020
Contributions are invited on: New
Theoretical Approaches; Diaspora Policies; Diaspora and Migration; Assimilation
and Integration; Identity, Culture, Heritage.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 May 2020.
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13.
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.
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14. Workshop
on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German
Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 2020
The workshop will
discuss the origins of pension schemes in the MENA region, understand their
trajectories, identify options of systemic and parametric pension reforms and
explore the complex politics behind them.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March
2020. Information: https://www.die-gdi.de/veranstaltungen/details/pension-reform-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-1/
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15.
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.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April
2020. Information: https://comela2020.acg.edu
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16.
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.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5651674/religion-and-nature-–-cultural-ecologies-belief
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17.
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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18.
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.
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19.
Conference: “Images and Borderlands:
Mediterranean Basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern
Age”, Split, Croatia, 16-17 September 2020
The starting point of examination
will be images, i.e. the usage of images (pictures, mental images, literally
images and other visual representations) as historical evidence.
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20.
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.
Information: http://www.turkologentag-2020.de
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21.
International Seminar:
"Anti-Migration Politics and Islamic Ethics: Nationalism, Discrimination,
Securitization and Vulnerable Groups", Research Center for Islamic
Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 21-23
September 2020
This seminar aims to explore the
current growing hostilities towards migrants, asylum seekers and refugees
around the world from the perspectives of Islamic ethical principles, legal and
political challenges. Papers should have some empirical content and analysis
along with reflections on Islamic ethical principles.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2020. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-papers-anti-migration-politics-islamic-ethics-nationalism-discrimination
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22.
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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23.
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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24.
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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25.
Panel 42 on “Anthropologists, Other
Humans and Non-Humans in the Waters of Middle East” during the IUAES
Congress, Šibenik, Croatia, 1-11 October 2020
What interspecies constellations -
humans, animals, fish and microbes - are assembled by waters in and of the
region? What challenges are facing multispecies communities and mobilities in
an era of human interference in water and water flows? What legacies of human
interventions and imperial debris keep on haunting water?
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26.
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.
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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27.
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.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/5772083/cfp-mesa-2020-panel-“policing-state-and-society”
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28.
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.
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29.
2nd Annual Armenian
International Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020
We invite papers on the Middle East
from the ancient times to the present day, including religious studies,
geography, anthropology, political science, literary studies, linguistics,
philosophy, art history, and media studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8378/discussions/5891148/cfp-second-annual-armenian-international-congress-oriental
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30.
5th Annual Conference of
the Gulf Studies Center on "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in 21st
Century", Qatar University, 11-12 November 2020
The workshop will address
significant questions such as: what was the extent of the relationship between
Nazi genocide and colonialism? What were potential ways in which European
colonialism could have fed back into Europe throughout World War II? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6045308/deadline-reminder-cfp-international-workshop-colonial-paradigms
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31.
4th Workshop on
"Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East",
Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 19-21 November 2020
Topics include: Security in the
Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East; Migration, Refugee Crisis and Human
Security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East; The Present and Future of
Euro-Mediterranean relations.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2020. Information: http://idos.gr/4th-workshop-on-security-amp-stability-in-the-mediterranean-and-the-middle-east-call-for-papers-amp-panels/?lang=en
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32.
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.
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33. 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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34.
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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35.
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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36.
Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
Papers will examine the relationship between China and the Middle East,
both ancient and modern, and incorporate additional regions, such as Europe,
Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia.
Information: https://ceas.sas.upenn.edu/news/call-papers-rethinking-narratives-china-and-middle-east
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37.
International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī
Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
Topics include: • Linguistics •
Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography • Philosophy •
Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political Theory •
Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ, ḥawāshī,
taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2020.
Information: http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php
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POSITIONS
38.
Two Post-doctoral Fellow Positions
in the Research Project "Striking from the Margins: Religion, State and
Disintegration in the Middle East", Central European University, Budapest
- Position on Gender Regimes under
Conditions of Continuing Conflict: Applications are invited from researchers
working on issues related to gender regimes under conditions of continuing
conflict in Syria or Iraq, or alternatively Libya or Yemen.
- Position on Transitional/Post-War
Dynamics in Syria and/or Iraq; Applications are invited from researchers
working on issues related to transitional and/or post-civil war settings in
Syria or Iraq.
Deadline for application: 31 March
2020.
Information: Esther Holbrook, religion@ceu.edu / https://www.strikingmargins.com/
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39.
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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40.
Visiting
Scholar in Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
For academic
year 2020-21. Ph.D. in Jewish Studies or a related field is required, but suitable
ABD candidates will also be considered.
Consideration
of applications will begin on 1 April 2020 and continue until the position is
filled. Information: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/9399
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OTHER INFORMATION
41.
Awards and Prizes of the
"Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA)"
Applications and submissions are
invited for two book prices (each $ 1000), a graduate student paper prize ($
200) and travel grants ($ 500).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2020 and later.
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42.
Book Prize in North African Studies
for 2020 by the "American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)"
The proposed books in any
chronological period and any field of the humanities or social sciences must have
been published in 2018 or 2019 in the English language. Books will demonstrate
originality of research, new theoretical insights, and advance knowledge about
North Africa.
Deadline for entries: 31 March 2020.
Information: https://aimsnorthafrica.org/annual-book-prize/
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43.
Annual Book Award Competition of the
"Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)"
We are accepting nominations for any
book published in 2019 on women, gender, sexuality and feminism in the Middle
East, North Africa, and among diasporic communities from the MENA.
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44.
Two-year English-language M.A.
Program in "Ottoman History", University of Crete and Foundation for
Research and Technology-Hellas
The program consists of 5 history
courses (four in Ottoman History, and one in Medieval or Modern History); 4
Turkish language courses; 4 Ottoman language and palaeography courses. Students
are required to write an original M.A. thesis based on the critical analysis of
Ottoman archival, epigraphic or narrative sources. No tuition fees.
Deadline for application: 6 April 2020. Information: http://www.history-archaeology.uoc.gr/en/graduate-studies/programs-of-post-graduate-studies/joint-english-language-m-a-program-in-ottoman/?lang=en
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45.
M.A. 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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46.
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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47.
Summer School "The Middle East:
Power and Ideology", LSE, University of London, 22 June - 10 July 2020
The course will examine the regional
politics of the Middle East since 1918 and their interaction with problems of
international security, global resources and great power/superpower/hyperpower
policies. It will also deal with more recent developments such as the 2011 Arab
uprisings and their consequences.
Deadline for applications: 25 May
2020.
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48.
Articles on "Poetized Love:
Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of
the Middle East"
This issue seeks to analyze love
poetry not from a literary or linguistic point of view but from an
anthropological point of view. What kind of gender relations are involved in
seductive and romantic encounters when women and men do not have the same
options to express their affection?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2020.
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49.
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 manuscripts: 31 March 2020. Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/10026/media-populism-how-media-populism-and-inflating-fear-empowers-populist-politicians
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50.
Articles for Book on "The
Effects of Pandemics on Religious History" (Focus Islamic and Jewish
History) Edited by Global Center for Religious Research
We welcome both industry leaders and
scholars from any discipline related to religious studies, the natural or
social sciences, theology, and history. Proposals may include any topic related
to the impact of pandemics, diseases, or pestilence.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2020. Information: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/42N4DTvxM?fbclid=IwAR0Ch2t9sSoakJaud98ysCdSAFDyOX7ia5Kij0muKg7_vLuEFn9UMUPPWZU#/main
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51.
Articles for Edited Book: “Diasporic
Political Communication: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
We invite contributions for:
- Theoretical chapters:
Mediatisation, Diaspora, Multimodality, Contentious Action Formation, and how
each of these concepts relates to political communication among (Middle East)
diasporas.
- Empirical chapters on Middle East
diasporas, and how these diasporas use traditional and (or) digital media to
politically mobilize and transnationally connect.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April
2020.
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52.
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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53.
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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