dimanche 26 avril 2020

Derek Hopwood, the co-founder, former president and Honorary Member of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), died 23 March 2020

Derek Hopwood, the co-founder, former president and Honorary Member of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), died 23 March 2020.

Together with André Raymond, he was the driving force to establish EURAMES in 1990 as an „umbrella“ for the national societies engaged in Middle Eastern and North African studies in European countries. In 1992, Derek Hopwood took over the presidency of EURAMES and held this position until 1998. He contributed significantly to the opening of the national borders and the flow of information between scholars engaged in Middle Eastern studies. For his merits in promoting EURAMES he was awarded the title of Honorary Member of this association.

Derek Hopwood was an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony`s College, Oxford, where he had been the director of the Middle East Centre (MEC). He was also the founding president of the Middle East Libraries Committee and holder of the BRISMES Award (2003) for his services to Middle Eastern studies in Britain. He held visiting professorships at several international universities, such as University of ProvenceUniversity of KhartoumAin Shams University, and University of Pennsylvania.

Derek will live on in the memories of his colleagues, students and numerous scholars worldwide.

EURAMES Info Service 17/2020




1.    POSTPONED: Policy Forum on “The Social Contract: Citizens, the State and Trust in Institutions”, Rabat, 5-6 June 2020

2.    POSTPONED: Conference “Discursive Challenges 2020”, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham University, 9-11 June 2020

3.    POSTPONED: 7th Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2-4 July 2020

4.    "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020

5.    POSTPONED: Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020

6.    Workshop on “Turkish Diaspora in the World”, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, 16-17 July 2020

7.    Workshop on "Pension Reform in the Middle East and North Africa", German Development Institute, Bonn, 27 August 2020

8.    Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthropology (COMELA), American College of Greece, Athens, 2-5 September 2020

9.    Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Religion“ of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020

10.  POSTPONED: ATLAS Annual Conference of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS): “Tourism as a Driver of Regional Development and Collaboration,” Prague, 8-11 September 2020

11.  5th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop (WANLP 2020), Barcelona, 13-18 September 2020

12.  International Conference: “An African Metropolis: Cairo and its African Hinterland in the Middle Ages”, IFAO, Cairo, 15-17 September 2020

13.  Conference: “Images and Borderlands: Mediterranean Basin between Christendom and Ottoman Empire in the Early Modern Age”, Split, Croatia, 16-17 September 2020

14.  4th “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020

15.  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

16.  27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020

17.  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
18.  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

19.  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

20.  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

21.  Panel on "Policing, State and Society” during MESA Conference, Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020

22.  4th International Conference: “MediterráneoS 2020”, Madrid, 14-16 October 2020

23.  2nd Annual Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies, Yerevan, 23-24 October 2020

24.  5th Annual Conference of the Gulf Studies Center on "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in 21st Century", Qatar University, 11-12 November 2020

25.  4th Workshop on "Security & Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East", Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 19-21 November 2020

26.  Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020

27.  Conférence internationale « Islam et Pudeur », Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020

28.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020

29.  Conference: "Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Ṣafadī and His Pairs", Ca' Foscari University, Venice, 10-12 December 2020

30.  Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021

31.  Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East – The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021

32.  International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021


POSITIONS

33.  Graduate Assistant in Studies of Islam in South Asia, University of Lausanne

34.  PhD Candidate in “Socially Engaged Art and State Transformation in Lebanon and Palestine/West Bank,“ University of Amsterdam

35.  Associate Professor and/or Full Professor in Political Science, University of Copenhagen

36.  Assistant or Associate Professor of Public Relations, Al Ain University, UAE

37.  Associate Professor or Professor in Israeli Studies, University of Toronto


OTHER INFORMATION

38.  Best Article Award in Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida (UCF)

39.  Price of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) for the Best Dissertation on the Medieval Middle East (500-1500 CE)

40.  Awards and Prizes of the "Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA)" 

41.  Annual Book Award Competition of the "Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)"

42.  M.A. in Islamic & West Asian Studies (1 Year), Royal Holloway University of London

43.  “Fifth Yemen Exchange“: Intensive Online Course on Yemen, 11-15 May 2020

44.  Summer School "The Middle East: Power and Ideology", LSE, University of London, 22 June - 10 July 2020

45.  Articles for the “Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies (JADE)“

46.  Country Studies from the MENA Region on “Global Perspectives on Family and COVID-19“ for Special Issue of „”ournal of Comparative Family Studies“ (University of Toronto Press)

47.  Articles for “Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal”

48.  Articles for „Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies“

49.  Articles on "Poetized Love: Affects, Gender and Society" for Special Issue of "Anthropology of the Middle East"

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.  Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”

52.  New Book Series: "Ecclesiastica Ottomanica"

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CONFERENCES

1.    POSTPONED: Policy Forum on “The Social Contract: Citizens, the State and Trust in Institutions”, Rabat, 5-6 June 2020

The forum has been postponed due to COVID-19. New date to be announced.


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2.    POSTPONED: Conference “Discursive Challenges 2020”, Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham University, 9-11 June 2020

The conference has been postponed due to COVID-19. New date to be announced.


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3.    POSTPONED: 7th Conference of the School of Mamlūk Studies, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2-4 July 2020

Due to COVID-19, the conference has been postponed and will be held in the same location 1-3 July 2021. The accompanying intensive course will be held 28-30 June 2021, and the trip to visit Famagusta will follow the end of the conference on 4 July 2021.


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4.    "Future Past: Memory and Imaginal Politics in Conflicts and for Conflicts", Amsterdam, 14-15 July 2020

The presented papers will 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.


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5.    POSTPONED: Conference of the International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA): “54th Seminar for Arabian Studies“, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020

The conference has been postponed to 14-17 July 2021 due to COVID-19. A call for papers for the rescheduled Seminar will be issued later in the year.


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6.    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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7.    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.


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8.    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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9.    Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Religion“ 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.


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10. POSTPONED: ATLAS Annual Conference of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS): “Tourism as a Driver of Regional Development and Collaboration,” Prague, 8-11 September 2020

The conference has been postponed to 7-10 September 2021 due to COVID-19.

New deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information: http://www.atlas-euro.org/Default.aspx?TabID=333

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11. 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.


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12. 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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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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.


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16. 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: https://www.iit.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html

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17. 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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18. 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.


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19. 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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20. 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.


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21. 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.


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22. 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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23. 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.


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24. 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.


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25. 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.


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26. 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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27. 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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28. 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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29. 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.

30. Conference: “The Middle East c.1960-1980. Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021

The Conference will look at the ways in which events in the Middle East were shaped by global and transnational contexts and, in turn, the impact events in the region exercised on other parts of the world.


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31. 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.



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32. 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

33. 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.


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34. PhD Candidate in “Socially Engaged Art and State Transformation in Lebanon and Palestine/West Bank,“ University of Amsterdam

The successful applicant must have a relevant Master’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences or the Arts, completed no later than 31 August 2020; outstanding research qualities; excellent spoken Arabic; excellent written and spoken English.


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35. Associate Professor and/or Full Professor in Political Science, University of Copenhagen

Candidates are invited within the field of International Relations including, but not limited to security studies, gender, diplomacy, war, post-colonialism, international political sociology and political economy.

Deadline for applications: 10 June 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/professorship-of-international-relations,i6621.html

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36. Assistant or Associate Professor of Public Relations, Al Ain University, UAE

The successful candidate will have sound full-time teaching experience in Arabic and English with an appropriate scholarly record at the assistant/associate professor level in higher education or hold an MA with the high professional record.

Applications until position is filled. Information: https://aau.ac.ae/en/vacancies/view/32

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37. Associate Professor or Professor in Israeli Studies, University of Toronto

Candidates must hold a PhD in history or any social sciences discipline, with a research and teaching portfolio focused on modern Israel.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2020. Information: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=2000690

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OTHER INFORMATION

38. Best Article Award in Kurdish Political Studies, University of Central Florida (UCF)

For this award cycle, articles published in English in peer-reviewed journals in 2019 will be considered. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $500.


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39. Price of the Middle East Medievalists (MEM) for the Best Dissertation on the Medieval Middle East (500-1500 CE)
Dissertations filed and defended between 1 July 2018 and 31 May 2020 will be eligible for this year’s prize. It will be awarded during the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Washington, DC in October 2020.


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40. 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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41.  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.

Deadline for nominations: 15 May 2020. Information: http://amews.org/amews-book-award/

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42.  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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43. “Fifth Yemen Exchange“: Intensive Online Course on Yemen, 11-15 May 2020

Participants will listen for more than 25 hours to Yemeni analysts, academics, politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and international experts to gain insight and a rare first-hand knowledge about the country from a wide range of perspectives. Participants will have the chance to virtually engage with speakers both during the sessions and connected with speakers they wish to engage individually after the Exchange.

Deadline for applications: 4 May 2020. Information: https://sanaacenter.org/event/the-fifth-yemen-exchange

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44. 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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45. Articles for the “Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies (JADE)“

Articles are invited on Leadership and policy; Business and economics; Agriculture and environment; Transformative education; Technological advancement.


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46. Country Studies from the MENA Region on “Global Perspectives on Family and COVID-19“ for Special Issue of „”ournal of Comparative Family Studies“ (University of Toronto Press)

The articles should focus on the changes and effects of COVID-19: Economic well-being; work/income; Education and schooling; Family interaction, social distancing, and isolation; Mental health and anxiety; Communication in community; Ethnic, cultural, and social class variations.

Deadline for manuscripts: 1 June 2020. Information: https://utpjournals.press/journals/jcfs/cfp

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47. Articles for “Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal”

Articles for this double blind peer-reviewed, open access journal are invited on scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic, Jewish, Persian, and Turkish thought, cultures, literature, practices, and institutions.


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48. Articles for „Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies“

Diyâr is a new, interdisciplinary and interregional academic journal concerned with research on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, Iran, Central Asia and the Caucasus. We accept articles of a variety of research topics and areas in the field of the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences written in German, English, and French.


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49. 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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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.


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51. 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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52. 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.


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