CONFERENCES
- 8th
International Conference of the National Records and Archives Authority of
the Sultanate of Oman (NRAA): “Omani-German Relations during the 19th
and 20th Centuries”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 5-6 June 2020
- Conference: “Discursive Challenges: Power, State Legitimacy and
Counter-Narratives in the Arab World”, Institute for Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham University, 9-11 June 2020
- Workshop: "Jews and Whiteness in Colonial Spaces", SOAS
Centre for Jewish Studies, London, 10-11 June 2020
- Workshop: "Travelling Practices and the
Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th
Centuries)", University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020
- Workshop: “Teaching Israel and/in the Middle East,” Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 14-18 June 2020
- 20th International Conference on Migration: "The
Multicultural Condition", University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland, Olten, 18-19 June 2020
- International Research Conference: “Palestine as Epistemic Site:
Knowledge Production beyond Fragmentation“, University of Vienna, 24–26
June 2020
- International Doctoral Conference in Religious Studies: “Resistance
to Order and Authority in Religion“, Central European University,
Budapest, 25-27 June 2020
- Conference: “Thinking about Violence in Africa through Women’s
Experiences: Vulnerability & Subversion,“ Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin,
29-30 June 2020
- Workshop of the Economic Research Forum: “The Micro-Level Analysis
of the Impact of Violent Conflict on Lives and Livelihoods in the MENA
Region“, June 2020 (TBD)
- 8th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop: “The
Regulation of Purity (Ṭahāra) and Impurity (Najāsāt) in Islam: Practical,
Socio-Ethical and Theological Implications”, Al-Mahdi Institute,
Birmingham, 2-3 July 2020
- 7th Conference of the School of
Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July
2020
- 16th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society: “The Arts
and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam”, Sapienza University, Rome,
2-4 July 2020
- 15th International Congress of
Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), University of Zagreb, 13-17
July 2020
- Workshop: “Social Remittances and Social Change: Links between Home
and Host Communities in the Gulf” during the 11th Annual Gulf
Research Meeting (GRM), Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
- Workshop 8: “Saudi Youth ‘Policy Relevance’: Dilemmas, Challenges,
Opportunities“ during the 11th Annual Gulf Research Meeting
(GRM), Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
- Middle East Mediterranean (MEM) Summer Summit, Lugano, 20-30 August
2020
- Conference: “Ideas in Motion: Arabia in Late Antiquity,“ Leiden University and King Faisal Centre for Research and
Islamic Studies, Leiden, 26-27 August 2020
- International Research Conference: “The Work of the Joint
Distribution Committee and other International Jewish Organizations in
Islamic Countries”, Jerusalem, 1-2 September 2020
- Workshop: “Trembling and Inundation: Natural Disasters in the
History and Culture of West Asia and North Africa”, Edge Hill University,
Ormskirk, Lancashire, 8 September 2020
- International Conference: “Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Authority in
Twelver Shia Islam: Clerics and the State, Past and Present”,
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin, 10-11 September 2020
- International Conference: “New Perspectives on Middle East
Migrations“, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 11-13 September
2020
- Conference: “Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa”, Bibliotheca
Alexandrina, Alexandria, 13-16 September 2020
24.
27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies
Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), University of
Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
25.
Panel on “The Qurʾān and its Cultural and Religious Context in Late
Antiquity” during the 27th International Congress of DAVO,
University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
26.
Panel on “Methodological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Traditions”
during the 27th International Congress of DAVO, University of
Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
- Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and
Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, Université
catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 24-26 September 2020
- International Conference: “Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics,
Culture, and Society, 1918-1923”, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 25-27
September 2020
- Conference: “North Africa in 2020 – Current Challenges and
Opportunities, Dominating Narratives, and New Perspectives”, King’s
College London, 6 October 2020
- International
Conference of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII): “From
Ancient to Modern: The Current State of Research on Iraq“, Washington, DC,
9 October 2020
- 54th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies
Association (MESA), Washington DC, 10-13 October 2020
- Journée d’étude : « Travail et travailleur·se·s au Maghreb
(XIXe-XXIe s.) », IDHES, Paris Nanterre, 20 octobre 2020
- International Conference: “Culture Made in Arabia: The Arabian
Peninsula as a New Major Player on the Arab Cultural Scene“, CEFAS /
Sorbonne Abu Dhabi / New York University Abu Dhabi, 31 October – 1
November 2020
34.
Conference: “Land to the Tiller?” Hopes and Ruins of Agrarian Reform in
Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin,
12-13 November 2020
- Colloque : « La place des Lumières dans
les pays arabo et/ou musulmans : pour une nouvelle approche des liens
Orient/Occident », Institut Supérieur des sciences humaines, Tunis,
18-20 novembre 2020
- Panel on “Borders, Bodies and Ethics: Transnational Religious
Networks in the Middle East” during the "American Anthropological
Association Meeting", St. Louis, MO, 18-22 November 2020
- Symposium on "The Body at Work: Gender, Labour,
Migration", University of London, Paris, 20 November 2020
- Conference Examining Design, Planning & Construction in the
Modern World: “Dubai 2020: Rapid Cities – Responsive Architectures“,
American University in Dubai, 22-24 November 2020
- Conférence international : "Islam et
pudeur", Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique, 3-4 décembre
2020
- Conference: “Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond.
Al-Safadī and His Pairs”, Venice, 10-12 December 2020
- International Symposium: “Foreign Images and Practices of
Bibliotherapy: From ‘The Arabian Nights’ to ‘Manga’, University of
Strasbourg, 27-29 January 2021
- Conference: "Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle
East: The Silk Roads and Beyond", University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
- 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology
on "Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of
Religions, Politics, and Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July
2022
- 6th World Congress for Middle
Eastern Studies (WOCMES-6), University
of La Manouba, Tunis, 19-23 September 2022
POSITIONS
- Fellowship Program
to Support Emerging Displaced Scholars (Humanities and Humanistic Social
Sciences), Columbia University, Global Center, Amman
OTHER INFORMATION
- Book Award Competition 2020 of
the Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)
- MA Islamic Intellectual History
(1 Year), MA Islamic Intellectual History & Intensive Language (2
Years), SOAS, University of London
- Intensive Summer Course in
Modern Standard Arabic, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, 29 May – 24 July
2020
- Summer School of Arabic and
Kurdish Dialects, French National Institute for Oriental Languages and
Civilisations (Inalco), Paris, 2 June – 10 July 2020
- Summer School “The Middle East
in Global Politics”, SOAS, University of London, 29 June - 17 July 2020
51.
Summer Course: "Romanization and Islamization
in the Western Mediterranean", Casa Árabe in Cooperation with University
of Hamburg, Cordoba, 23-28 July 2020
- Summer School: "Cultural
Encounters and Ibadi Theological Developments" and Workshop:
"Assessing the Study of Early Ibadi Sources: Methodologies,
Developments and Perspectives", University of Tuebingen, 7-11
September 2020
- Articles on "Visibility of
Religious Difference in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean“ for Special
Issue of “Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies”
54.
Articles on “Oman over Times: A Nation from the
Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040“ for Special Issue of „Arabian Humanities“
- Articles on “The Politics of
Religious Dissent” for Special Issue of “International Journal of
Religion”
56.
Articles on “Constructing Islam: Politization of
Muslim Identity in the Contemporary World“ for Special Issue of “Islamology –
Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies”
- Articles on "Religious
Transformation in the Middle East – Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and
Non-religion" for Special Edition of Journal "Religions"
58.
Articles for “CyberOrient – Online Journal of the
Virtual Middle East and Islamic World”
- New "Journal of Material
Cultures in the Muslim World"
- New Book Series “SOAS Palestine Studies“ with
I.B.Tauris
- New Book Series “Gulf Studies”
by Gulf Studies Center (GSC), Qatar University, in Collaboration with
“Springer Nature”
- Publications for the
"Occasional Paper Series of the Center for International and Regional
Studies (CIRS)", Georgetown University in Qatar
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CONFERENCES
1. 8th International Conference of the
National Records and Archives Authority of the Sultanate of Oman (NRAA):
“Omani-German Relations during the 19th and 20th
Centuries”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 5-6 June 2020
The scholarly conference will focus on the Omani-German relations since
the arrival of the Germans in East Africa and the Gulf, as well as the German
role in historical, economic, social and cultural studies of Oman. The conference,
organized in cooperation with Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Humboldt
University of Berlin, Free University of Berlin and Oman Studies Centre in
Germany, aims at bringing together scholars from Oman, Germany and other
countries.
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- Conference:
“Discursive Challenges: Power, State Legitimacy and
Counter-Narratives in the Arab World”, Institute for Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies (IMEIS), Durham University, 9-11 June 2020
The aim of this conference is to understand the dynamics of
the protests gripping so many states and communities in the Arab region and
also the current challenges to regime legitimacy – traditionally held by a
strong central authority – in the MENA region.
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- Workshop:
"Jews and Whiteness in Colonial Spaces", SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies,
London, 10-11 June 2020
The workshop will bring together scholars who work on Jews
and race in colonial and post-colonial spaces to reflect on the framework of
whiteness, its explanatory potential, and its limitations.
Information: http://soas.ac.uk/jewishstudies/events/10jun2020-jews-and-whiteness-in-colonial-spaces---call-for-papers.html
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- Workshop: "Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism
in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries)",
University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020
This workshop will analyze travel literature (travelogues and
guidebooks) with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of
travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it
will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic
questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways
of individual travellers.
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- Workshop: “Teaching
Israel and/in the Middle East,” Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 14-18 June
2020
The workshop focuses on best practices to teach about the history,
culture and politics of the State of Israel and its political role in the
Middle East since 1948 to the present. For this purpose, the workshop will
discuss the teaching of current and future challenges of Israel and the region:
Israel’s society and political system, Israeli foreign policy, an modern
international relations of the Middle East.
Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5678737/teaching-israel-andin-middle-east
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- 20th
International Conference on Migration: "The Multicultural
Condition", University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern
Switzerland, Olten, 18-19 June 2020
The conference will
discuss the bases and critiques of multiculturalism and analyze the relation of
multiculturalism to competing concepts, in particular transnationality,
integration and diversity.
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- International
Research Conference: “Palestine as Epistemic Site: Knowledge Production
beyond Fragmentation“, University of Vienna, 24–26 June 2020
This conference aims at uncovering new terrains for critical
anthropological inquiry beyond the socio-eco-nomic and territorial
fragmentation of Palestinian communities.
Information:
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/i_ksa/PDFs/CfP/Call_for_participation_Palestine-compressed.pdf
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- International
Doctoral Conference in Religious Studies: “Resistance to Order and
Authority in Religion“, Central European University, Budapest, 25-27 June
2020
The conference
invites contributions studying the conceptualization, management and
instrumentalization of religious ideas and beliefs with regard to past and
contemporary resistance movements.
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- Conference:
“Thinking about Violence in Africa through Women’s Experiences:
Vulnerability & Subversion,“ Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 29-30 June
2020
The aim is to outline different experiences of violence (symbolic,
social, domestic, epistemic, political or sexual) as well as to explore how
they can be transformed, appropriated and reversed. Young researchers (PhD
students, postdoctoral scholars) will share their ideas from various
disciplines (anthropology, film studies, gender studies, history, literary
studies, psychology, sociology, etc.).
Information:
https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/01/Junges-Forum_CfP_fr_en_final.pdf
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- Workshop of the
Economic Research Forum: “The Micro-Level Analysis of the Impact of
Violent Conflict on Lives and Livelihoods in the MENA Region“, June 2020
(TBD)
The workshop
will address the impact of conflict, insecurity and fragility on people (especially
women and children) and the impact of women on peace building.
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- 8th
Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop: “The Regulation of Purity (Ṭahāra)
and Impurity (Najāsāt) in Islam: Practical, Socio-Ethical and Theological
Implications”, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, 2-3 July 2020
Papers are invited to historical studies regarding rulings of im/purity,
their textual origins, social contexts and processes of codification into
Islamic jurisprudence; critical analysis of textual and theological foundations
used to derive, or assumed as a result of, rulings about im/purity;
(re)assessing potential developments in jurisprudential and theological
approaches; etc.
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- 7th
Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and
Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
The conference will be preceded by a three-day (29
June – 1 July 2020) intensive course on Venetian sources concerning trade in
Mamluk territories and Cyprusy. The first day of the conference will focus on
Mamluk-Cypriot relations in a wider Euro-Mediterranean perspective under the
title “Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a
Euro-Mediterranean Perspective.” The following two days of the conference will
be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual,
political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period.
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- 16th
Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society: “The Arts and Archaeology of
Funerary Cultures in Islam”, Sapienza University, Rome, 2-4 July 2020
The colloquium
discusses Islamic funerary cultures through art history and archaeology as well
as related disciplines and subfields.
Information:
https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/01/2020_07_02-04-Funerary-Cultures-in-Islam_CFP.pdf
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- 15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and
Economic History (ICOSEH), University of Zagreb, 13-17 July 2020
The Congress will address various aspects of the economic and social
history of the Ottoman Empire as well as any aspects of the Ottomans and the
Mediterranean and the Ottomans and Central Europe.
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- Workshop: “Social
Remittances and Social Change: Links between Home and Host Communities in
the Gulf” during the 11th Annual Gulf Research Meeting (GRM),
Cambridge, 21-23 July 2020
The overall goal of this workshop is to advance the body of knowledge
about the types, modes, and channels through which social remittances are
transmitted and the impacts social remittances exert on social change in the
home and/or host countries.
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- Workshop 8: “Saudi
Youth ‘Policy Relevance’: Dilemmas, Challenges, Opportunities“ during the
11th Annual Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), Cambridge, 21-23 July
2020
The workshop focusses on dilemmas, challenges and opportunities present
in the contemporary socio-economic, socio-political and cultural spheres as
well as ways and means by which these can be addressed.
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- Middle East
Mediterranean (MEM) Summer Summit, Lugano, 20-30 August 2020
The Summit is designed as an intellectual and social exchange across
borders, cultures and languages. The emphasis is on the need and ambition to
pursue an incisive analysis and reflection on the complex challenges facing the
extended Middle East Mediterranean region. It consists of a seminar (20-28
August) and a forum (29-30 August).
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- Conference: “Ideas
in Motion: Arabia in Late Antiquity,“ Leiden University and King
Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Leiden, 26-27 August 2020
The
conference will address key themes in religious, intellectual, and cultural
history in Arabia in the period between 570-1000 AD. Central topics include:
transmission of ideas and texts; religious and philosophical doctrines and
beliefs in Arabia; devotional piety and theology; etc.
Information: https://diwan.hypotheses.org/17079 and the English version of the Call for
Papers: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/678/files/2019/12/call-.pdf
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- International
Research Conference: “The Work of the Joint Distribution Committee and
other International Jewish Organizations in Islamic Countries”, Jerusalem,
1-2 September 2020
Themes include: The role played by the JDC in the assistance to the
region’s Jewish communities; the impact of colonialism and national movements
on the work of JDC and other international Jewish organizations; etc.
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- Workshop:
“Trembling and Inundation: Natural Disasters in the History and Culture of
West Asia and North Africa”, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, 8
September 2020
What happens to our understandings of histories, societies and cultural
production when human activity is interrupted by earthquakes, floods,
volcanoes, droughts and plagues? What do these mighty forces, impacting on all,
irrespective of social position, but experienced differently according to it,
tell us about societies? This workshop is intended to facilitate intensive
discussion with the aim of producing a published collection.
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- International
Conference: “Sovereignty, Legitimacy and Authority in Twelver Shia Islam:
Clerics and the State, Past and Present”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
(ZMO) Berlin, 10-11 September 2020
This conference seeks to investigate clerical positions towards secular
authority and power in different historical periods. The focus will be the
Middle East, but a wider geographical perspective with contributions are also
welcome on similar debates in South Asia and other parts of world where Shia
clerics were or have become influential political actors.
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- International
Conference: “New Perspectives on Middle East Migrations“, North Carolina
State University, Raleigh, 11-13 September 2020
Potential themes may include: race, whiteness, and Middle Eastern
migration; gender, femininity, and masculinity; youth, childhood, generational
change and movement; law and movement; narratives of migration in literature,
cinema, and ego-documents; labor migration and the political economy of
movement; etc.
Information:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/01/10/middle-east-migrations-new-perspectives
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- Conference:
“Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Alexandria, 13-16 September 2020
The
conference will present original, current research on the Arabic-script
manuscript cultures of North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the care and management
of manuscript collections across the continent: historical traditions of
Arabic-script Manuscripts in Africa; manuscripts libraries and manuscript
heritage centres in Africa; African Arabic-script languages; cataloguing and
publishing; preservation, conservation, and digitization; cultural property
protection.
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24. 27th
International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association for
Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26
September 2020
Papers are invited in social sciences and humanities related
to the Middle East, North Africa and the entire Islamic World.
Deadline for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 15 July
2020.
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25. Panel on “The
Qurʾān and its Cultural and Religious Context in Late Antiquity” during the 27th
International Congress of DAVO, University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
The panel will focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān
and earlier pagan Arab, Christian, and Jewish traditions illuminating the
context, its cultural, political, social, and religious environment and leading
to a better comprehension of the Muslim holy book itself.
Deadline for
abstracts: 30 June 2020. Contact panel organizer Ana Davitashvili, Bamberg, aad1988@gmx.de; Information: https://www.iit.uos.de/davo2020
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26. Panel on
“Methodological Approaches to the Study of Muslim Traditions” during the 27th
International Congress of DAVO, University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
The panel will discuss the authenticity of Muslim traditions
and the reliability of their ascription to authorities of the first and second
centuries of Islam which have been highly controversial topics among Western
scholars since at least the early twentieth century.
Deadline for
abstracts: 30 June 2020. Contact panel organizer Ana Davitashvili, Bamberg, aad1988@gmx.de; Information: https://www.iit.uos.de/davo2020
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- Meeting of the
European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic
Esotericism in Global Contexts”, Université catholique de Louvain,
Belgium, 24-26 September 2020
The aim is to consider the relationship between Islam and
esotericism, and Islamic esotericism, in a global context, shifting the
emphasis not only from Western perspectives, but also being more inclusive of
the experience of Islam beyond the Arabo-Persian domains.
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- International
Conference: “Occupied Istanbul: Urban Politics, Culture, and Society,
1918-1923”, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, 25-27 September 2020
The conference will focus on developments in the city of Istanbul and
surrounding area: Politics and Administration; Trade, Taxation and Finance; Law
and Policing; Religion and Inter-Communal Relations; Infrastructure and Urban
Planning, Culture and the Arts, etc.
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- Conference: “North
Africa in 2020 – Current Challenges and Opportunities, Dominating
Narratives, and New Perspectives”, King’s College London, 6 October 2020
We invite especially early career researchers and PhD
students to present papers for panels on: - Political Islam Across North
Africa: Withered to Irrelevance or Continuous Influencer? - Religious Voices
and Peace: From Grassroots Peacebuilding Movements to Leading Religious Leaders
and their Impact; - Trans-regional Threats and Challenges: Terrorism, Migration
and Smuggling.
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- International Conference of the Academic Research
Institute in Iraq (TARII): “From Ancient to Modern: The Current State of
Research on Iraq“, Washington, DC, 9 October 2020
This
conference will bring together American, Iraqi, and international scholars to
present their findings and exchange their ideas in any subject area.
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- 54th
Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington
DC, 10-13 October 2020
This conference is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey,
Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab world (and their
diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including
Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are
included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle
Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.
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- Journée
d’étude : « Travail et travailleur·se·s au Maghreb (XIXe-XXIe
s.) », IDHES, Paris Nanterre, 20 octobre 2020
Que sait-on des mines et des mineurs au Maghreb
ou des travailleurs du rail ? Comment les rapports de
domination liés au genre, à la classe, à la race s’expriment-ils dans la sphère
du travail ? Cette journée vise à comprendre les processus originaux de
développement d’un salariat coexistant avec d’autres formes de travail tout au
long de la période considérée.
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- International
Conference: “Culture Made in Arabia: The Arabian Peninsula as a New Major
Player on the Arab Cultural Scene“, CEFAS / Sorbonne Abu Dhabi / New York University
Abu Dhabi, 31 October – 1 November 2020
This conference aims to stimulate discussion of the Arabian Peninsula as
a new contender on the regional cultural scene, from state-led cultural
policies to the development of a Khaleeji “pop culture”, understood both as
commercial entertainment and as the grassroots cultural forms produced by local
youth and by diverse migrant communities. Papers are welcome on all aspects of
cultural production and policy in the Arabian Peninsula.
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34. Conference:
“Land to the Tiller?” Hopes and Ruins of Agrarian Reform in Africa, Asia and
the Middle East, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 12-13 November 2020
This conference revisits practices and models of agrarian
reform and revolution that have been promoted across the Middle East, Africa
and Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries. It will explore
current research from historical as well as contemporary perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2020.
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- Colloque : « La place des Lumières dans les pays arabo et/ou
musulmans : pour une nouvelle approche des liens Orient/Occident »,
Institut Supérieur des sciences humaines, Tunis, 18-20 novembre 2020
Les
liens entre ce que l’on nomme les Lumières occidentales et le monde
arabo-musulman ont donné lieu à plusieurs études ces dernières années. Les
analyses sur la relation entre ces deux entités culturelles ont souvent été
confinées à une réflexion sur l’orientalisme et sur le regard porté par les
écrivains occidentaux sur le monde musulman.
Information:
http://ihrim.ens-lyon.fr/evenement/la-place-des-lumieres-dans-les-pays-arabo-et-ou-musulmans-pour-une-nouvelle
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- Panel on “Borders,
Bodies and Ethics: Transnational Religious Networks in the Middle East”
during the "American Anthropological Association Meeting", St.
Louis, MO, 18-22 November 2020
This panel invites ethnographic and theoretical contributions
engaging the question of religious networks in the Middle East whose
“traditions” are shaped through historical and spatial interrelations.
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- Symposium on
"The Body at Work: Gender, Labour, Migration", University of
London, Paris, 20 November 2020
Reflecting deep concerns with the reach of capital, in both
its colonial and neo-colonial/global guises, the aim is to pose questions about
how bodies are identified, exploited, and displaced across different regimes of
labour. From sex work to construction, from agricultural day labour to domestic
services.
Deadline for abstracts: 4 May 2020.
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- Conference
Examining Design, Planning & Construction in the Modern World: “Dubai
2020: Rapid Cities – Responsive Architectures“, American University in
Dubai, 22-24 November 2020
Seeking diverse perspectives on best practice design, construction and
development models for cities and architecture the conference welcomes
contributions from a range of disciplines: Urban Design, Architecture,
Construction, Sustainability, Engineering, Housing, Public Health, Sociology,
Transport, Business, Technology, History and Culture, Media.
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- Conférence international : "Islam et pudeur", Université
Catholique de Louvain, Belgique, 3-4 décembre 2020
La conférence se saisira somme toute de la question
suivante: comment une meilleure connaissance des traditions et de leur sens permettrait-elle
de construire un dialogue des raisons plutôt qu’une disqualification mutuelle
et abrupte des styles de vie ? Les communications sont souhaitées en français
ou en anglais.
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- Conference:
“Authors as Readers in the Mamlūk Period and Beyond. Al-Safadī and His Pairs”,
Venice, 10-12 December 2020
The conference will focus on authors as readers (What do they
read? How do they read?); their methodology and working method; scholars’
library; readers’ digest and collections; and Al-Ṣafadī and his network.
_____________________________________
- International
Symposium: “Foreign Images and Practices of Bibliotherapy: From ‘The
Arabian Nights’ to ‘Manga’, University of Strasbourg, 27-29 January 2021
The idea that books can cure is very popular in contemporary Western
culture, where workshops of “bibliotherapy” and books aiming at strengthening
mental health blossom. This new attitude is a turning point in the conception
of literature’s role since 1950. The new set of images and practices connect
literature not only to the aesthetic sphere, but also to everyday life.
Deadline for
abstracts: 30 April 2020. Information: https://www.fabula.org/actualites/bibliotherapies-d-ailleurs-des-mille-et-une-nuits-au-manga_94939.php
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- Conference:
"Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads
and Beyond", University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April
2021
The conference examines the relationship between China and
the Middle East, both ancient and modern. Papers that incorporate additional
regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia are also
encouraged, provided they are also incorporate both China and a country in the
Middle East, broadly construed.
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- 20th ISA World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent
Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics,
and Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
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- 6th World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies
(WOCMES-6), University of La Manouba, Tunis, 19-23
September 2022
Mind this date!
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POSITIONS
- Fellowship Program
to Support Emerging Displaced Scholars (Humanities and Humanistic Social
Sciences), Columbia University, Global Center, Amman
Eligible candidates have been forcibly uprooted from their
home countries and respective academic institutions. They could be graduate
students who have had their education disrupted or post-doctoral scholars in
the early stages of their careers. Creative writers, artists, and curators may
also apply.
Deadline for
applications: 1 May 2020. Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/fellowship-program-emerging-displaced-scholars?fbclid=IwAR0wAWVxs8iSSlh-r8asDdHjibNRGCMxUZGVW0T-1TLhOZ1FcwhiTK_fV40
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OTHER INFORMATION
- Book Award Competition 2020 of the
Association for Middle East Women's Studies (AMEWS)
Nominations are accepted
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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- MA Islamic Intellectual History
(1 Year), MA Islamic Intellectual History & Intensive Language (2
Years), SOAS, University of London
Based at the School of
History, Religions and Philosophies, this is a programme on historical Islamic
studies, which offers in-depth study of the intellectual, religious and
cultural history of the Islamic world, past and present, and of wider
socio-political contexts. Intensive language programmes include Arabic,
Persian, Turkish, South East Asian Languages and Swahili.
Deadline for application: 15 May 2020. Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/religions-and-philosophies/programmes/ma-islamic-intellectual-history/; https://www.soas.ac.uk/religions-and-philosophies/programmes/ma-islamic-intellectual-history-intensive-language/
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- Intensive Summer Course in
Modern Standard Arabic, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, 29 May – 24 July
2020
Participants will develop their Arabic
language skills, learn about North Africa, and experience various aspects of
Moroccan culture through club activities and field trips.
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- Summer School of Arabic and
Kurdish Dialects, French National Institute for Oriental Languages and
Civilisations (Inalco), Paris, 2 June – 10 July 2020
Come and develop your proficiency in one of the Arabic dialects people
speak in the following countries: Morocco • Algeria • Libya • Egypt • Syria /
Lebanon (Levantine). You can also learn Sorani or Kurmandji, the dialects of
the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran.
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- Summer School “The Middle East
in Global Politics”, SOAS, University of London, 29 June - 17 July 2020
This module will help students place the modern Middle East in its
global context, exploring histories of empire and decolonisation, alongside
themes of hegemony and resistance, conflict and cooperation, identity and
foreign policy.
Deadline for applications: 25 May 2020. Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/summerschool/subjects/the-middle-east-in-global-politics/
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Summer Course: "Romanization and Islamization
in the Western Mediterranean", Casa Árabe in Cooperation with University
of Hamburg, Cordoba, 23-28 July 2020
Intensive text-oriented summer course (34h) directed at university
students and scholars who – regardless of their specialization - want to become
familiar with the most relevant issues related to the history of al-Andalus.
This year, the course will focus on the processes of Romanization and
Islamization that led to the formation of the Western Mediterranean first as a
Roman and later on as an Islamic society.
Deadline for applications: 1 July 2020. Information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/summer-course-romanization-and-islamization-in-the-western-mediterranean
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- Summer School: "Cultural
Encounters and Ibadi Theological Developments" and Workshop:
"Assessing the Study of Early Ibadi Sources: Methodologies,
Developments and Perspectives", University of Tuebingen, 7-11
September 2020
The Summer School will focus on text studies (early sources) bearing on
the emergence and early development of Ibadi theological thinking within the
culturally and religiously multifaceted context and spectrum of Early Islam.
The workshop is intended to pay tribute to the contribution which Professor van
Ess made to research and study particularly on Early Ibadi sources.
Deadline for abstracts: 19
May 2020. Information: https://ibadistudies.org/index.php/summer-school/37-application-details-for-the-2nd-summer-school
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- Articles on "Visibility of
Religious Difference in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean“ for “Hamsa:
Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies”
The goal of this volume is to show ways in which religion marked a
perceptible difference in Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean.
Deadline for papers: 30
July 2020. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-visibility-of-religious-difference-in-medieval-europe-and-the-mediterranean-hamsa-journal-of-judaic-and-islamic-studies?e=82aeb6c61d
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54.
Articles on “Oman over Times: A Nation from the
Nahda to the Oman Vision 2040“ for Special Issue of „Arabian Humanities“
The articles should explore the historical, anthropological,
sociological and cultural dimension through the Oman Vision 2040 themes which
can be associated in their words: The cultural dimension of a
"creative" society - A nation state in "sustainable development"
- Natural resources and environmental protection - The modernization of
"the responsible state".
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- Articles on “The Politics of
Religious Dissent” for Special Issue of “International Journal of
Religion”
Three questions frame the topic in the special issue: - How do religious
leaders respond to dissent within their faiths? - How does the state respond to
religious dissent? - How do religions react to dissent from feminist and gay
activists?
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56.
Articles on “Constructing Islam: Politization of
Muslim Identity in the Contemporary World“ for Special Issue of “Islamology –
Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies”
Authors are invited to examine the phenomenon of politicization of
Muslim identity: on the one hand, what image is being shaped in different
sectors of public space? and, on the other hand, how does the Muslim community
react to the set frames? In what cases and why does a certain community
position itself as ‘Muslim’?
Deadline for abstracts:
1 June 2020. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6074071/special-issue-constructing-islam-politization-muslim-identity
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- Articles on "Religious
Transformation in the Middle East – Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and
Non-religion" for Special Edition of Journal "Religions"
This Special Issue looks to compose a cross section of current work in
social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and
non-religion in the Arab World. It aims at collecting case studies that offer
carefully contextualized explorations, grounded in theoretically informed
analyses.
Deadline for manuscripts: 1 December 2020.
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58.
Articles for “CyberOrient – Online Journal of the
Virtual Middle East and Islamic World”
The peer-reviewed and open-access journal of the American
Anthropological Association is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace
and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world
in Asia.
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- New "Journal of Material
Cultures in the Muslim World"
The Journal aims to be a new reference for field archaeologists, (art)
historians, anthropologists, curators, and scholars and students of the
archeology, (art) history, architecture, anthropology and ethnography of the
Muslim world. Material culture includes not only artefacts, architectural
structures and monuments, but also crafts and archaeological field surveys.
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- New Book Series on “SOAS Palestine Studies“
with I.B.Tauris
The series aims to promote innovative research in the study of
Palestine, Palestinians and the Israel-Palestine conflict all as a ‘crucial component’
of Middle Eastern and world politics. The first Western academic series
entirely dedicated to this topic draws from history, politics, economics,
media, social anthropology and development studies.
Information:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem145785.html
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- New Book Series “Gulf Studies”
by Gulf Studies Center (GSC), Qatar University, in Collaboration with
“Springer Nature”
The series takes an interdisciplinary approach to documenting the
changes taking place in the Gulf societies, and the evolving relationship
between the Gulf and the other regions. The series is dedicated to advancing a
non-Western perspective for studying societies in the Gulf, and their
interactions with the rest of the world.
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- Publications for the
"Occasional Paper Series of the Center for International and Regional
Studies (CIRS)", Georgetown University in Qatar
CIRS publishes original research on a range of issues related to the
Middle East, including international relations, political science, sociology,
and anthropology, among others. All CIRS papers are accessible, for free, in
print and electronic formats. Papers are distributed via online academic
platforms and search databases, making them widely cited.
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