CONFERENCES
1.
Workshop: “Inequalities, Peace,
Conflict & Justice in Turkey”, Istanbul, 6-7 March 2020
2.
7th Annual Workshop of
New Directions in Palestine Studies: “Who Owns Palestine?”, Brown University,
6-7 March 2020
3.
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
4.
Islam Section
of the AAR Midwest Regional Conference, Muncie, Indiana, 27-28 March 2020
5.
6th Conference on
Sustainable Tourism in Asia: “Tourism for Peace and Sustainability” (COSTA
2020), Osaka City, 27-28 March 2020
6.
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
7.
International and Interdisciplinary
Conference: “Cultural and Critical Studies“, Doğuş University, Istanbul, 16-17
April 2020
8.
Conference “Digital Humanities in
Arabic”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 20-21 April 2020
9.
Seminar: "Internationalism,
Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean
(1860 - 1920)", UCLouvain, Belgium, 21-22 April 2020
10.
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
11.
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
12.
Workshop of the Mediterranean
Seminar: “The Global Mediterranean,” Ohio State University, Columbus, 24-25
April 2020
13.
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
14.
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
15.
International Workshop: “Realising
Understanding: Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and
Secular-Religious Contexts”, LMU Munich, 13 May 2020
16.
International
Conference on Middle Eastern Studies: “Conflicts and Struggles of the
Contemporary”, Altınbaş University Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020
17.
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
18.
11th Annual Conference of
the “Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS)“, George Washington
University, 21-22 May 2020
19.
International Conference:
"Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics", University of
Giessen, 21–23 May 2020
20.
International Conference: "The
Outsiders' Arabic: from Peripheral to Diaspora Arabic Varieties",
University of Bucharest, 25-27 May 2020
21. Conference:
“News Media in the Middle East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
22. Conference:
“Soldiers, Prisoners and Converts between Permeable Borders in the Mare Nostrum
(16th-18th Centuries)“, Palermo, 28-29 May 2020
23.
Annual Meeting
of the French Colonial Historical Society: “Francophone Borderlands”, Buffalo,
NY, 28-31 May 2020
24.
2nd International
Conference on “Society and Culture in the Muslim World'”, Allameh Tabataba'i
University, Tehran, 30-31 May 2020
25.
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
26.
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
27.
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
28.
Conference: "Global Cities:
Middle Eastern Metropoles 2020", University of London, 17-19 June 2020
29.
24th Conference of the
Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27
June 2020
30.
International
Conference: “Africa and the Middle East and North Africa: Understanding
Paradoxical Outcomes of Contemporary Transformations”, Ifrane (Morocco), 23-25
June 2020
31.
7th Regional Conference
of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), University of World Economy and
Diplomacy, Tashkent, 25-28 June 2020
32.
7th Conference of the
School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4
July 2020
33. Congrès International des Sociologues de Langue Francaise :
« GTO4 – Sociétés arabes en mouvement – La société moral
(in)justifiée… », Tunis, 6-10 julliet 2020
34.
"Future Past: Memory and
Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July
2020
35.
Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “54th Seminar for
Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
36.
Workshop on “Turkish Diaspora in the
World”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 16-17 July 2020
37.
Gulf Research Meeting (GRM),
University of Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
38. Workshop
on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German
Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 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.
Conference: “Images and Borderlands:
Mediterranean Basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern
Age”, Split, Croatia, 16-17 September 2020
44.
4th “European Convention
on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of
Mainz, 16-18 September 2020
45.
27th
International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO),
University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
46.
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
47.
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
48.
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
49.
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
50.
Panel on "Policing, State and
Society” during MESA Conference, Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
51.
4th International
Conference: “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid, 14-16 October 2020
52.
2nd Annual Armenian
International Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020
53.
Annual Meeting of the “International
Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020
54. Conférence
internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
55.
3rd
ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”,
Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020
56.
Conference: "Authors as Readers
in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī and his Pairs", Ca'
Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020
57.
Conference:
“Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and
Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
58.
International “Quṭb al-Dīn
al-Shīrāzī Symposium”, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
POSITIONS
59.
Research Associate/PhD Cand. in
Islamic Studies (13 TV-L) for Project "Romanization and Islamication in
Late Antiquity - Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North
Africa”, University of Hamburg
60.
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
61.
Graduate Assistant in Studies of
Islam in South Asia, University of Lausanne
62.
Doctoral Scholarships in Research
Project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and
Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Kent
63.
Post-doctoral Positions in Research
Project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture
and Religion (1150-1850)”, University of Kent
64.
Visiting
Scholar in Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington
65.
One-year
Post-doctoral Fellowship in Middle East Studies, University of Southern
Californian, Los Angeles
66.
Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Ancient
Iranian Studies, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World,
University of California, Los Angeles
67.
Lecturer in
Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies, Australian National University,
Canberra
OTHER INFORMATION
68.
Book Prize in North African Studies
for 2020 by the "American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)"
69.
Annual Book Award Competition of the
"Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)"
70.
MA in Islamic & West Asian
Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University of London
71.
Workshop: “Introduction to Arabic
Manuscript Studies“, Saint John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota, 1-5 June
2020
72.
Articles on "Poetized Love:
Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of
the Middle East"
73.
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“
74.
Articles for Edited Book: “Diasporic
Political Communication: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
75.
Monographs and Edited Books on the
MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”
76.
New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica
Ottomanica"
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CONFERENCES
1.
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.
_____________________________________
2.
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.
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3.
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.
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4.
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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5.
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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6.
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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7.
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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8.
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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9.
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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10.
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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11.
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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12.
Workshop of the Mediterranean
Seminar: “The Global Mediterranean,” Ohio State University, Columbus, 24-25
April 2020
Registration until 14 April 2020.
See program at https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/participate-the-global-mediterranean-spring-2020-mediterranean-seminar-workshop24-25-april-the-ohio-state-university?e=82aeb6c61d
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13.
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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14.
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.
Information: https://calenda.org/673554
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15.
International Workshop: “Realising
Understanding: Language in Cross-cultural Migration/Integration and
Secular-Religious Contexts”, LMU Munich, 13 May 2020
The workshop will discuss the use of
language in multi- and cross-cultural contexts shaped by different linguistic
and cultural backgrounds of the communicating parties and analyze
(mis-)understandings in the context of migration and integration with the
intention to identify factors that can support genuine understanding.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2020.
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16.
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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17.
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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18.
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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19.
International Conference:
"Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics", University of
Giessen, 21–23 May 2020
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20.
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.
Information: https://romanoarabica.academy/2019/08/23/217/
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21. Conference:
“News Media in the Middle East: What is it Good for?”, University of Oslo,
26-27 May 2020
Papers will deal 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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22. 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.
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23.
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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24.
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.
Deadline for abstracts extended: 15
March 2020.
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25.
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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26. 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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27.
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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28.
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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29. 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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30. 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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31.
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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32.
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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33. 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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34.
"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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35.
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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36.
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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37.
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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38. 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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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.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April
2020. Information: https://comela2020.acg.edu
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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.
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43.
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.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 March 2020. Information: https://is-le.eu/calls/conference-images-and-borderlands-mediterranean-basin-between-christendom-and-ottoman-empire-in-the-early-modern-age/
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44.
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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45. “27th
International Congress of the 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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46.
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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47.
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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48.
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?
Deadline for abstracts: 23 March
2020.
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49.
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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50.
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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51.
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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52.
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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53.
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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54. 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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55. 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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56.
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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57. 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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58.
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
59.
Research Associate/PhD Cand. in
Islamic Studies (13 TV-L) for Project "Romanization and Islamication in
Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North
Africa”, University of Hamburg
Requirements: An excellent
University degree (MA) in a relevant fields of Middle Eastern, and North
African Studies or Studies on the Islamic Iberian Peninsula, excellent Arabic
language skills, experience with Arabic historical primary sources, excellent
knowledge of English, and French.
Deadline for applications: 25 March
2020.
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60.
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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61.
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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62.
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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63.
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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64.
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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65.
One-year
Post-doctoral Fellowship in Middle East Studies, University of Southern
Californian, Los Angeles
Researchers
with training in environmental studies, anthropology, political economy, urban
studies, and geography are particularly welcome to apply. This fellowship is
renewable for a second year contingent upon administrative approval. Applicants
must have received their Ph.D. within the last five years or at the latest by
16 August 2020, the start date of the position.
Applications
are due 15 March 2020. Position will remain open until filled.
Information: https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/postdoctoral-scholar-teaching-fellow-in-middle-east-studies/1209/15393442
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66.
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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67.
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
68.
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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69.
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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70.
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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71.
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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72.
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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73.
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
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74.
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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75.
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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76.
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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