CONFERENCES
1.
ONLINE:
Annual Conference Webinar Series of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on
Sustainable Development Goals in the MENA Region, 1 September 2020, 4:00-5:30
pm Cairo Local Time
2.
ONLINE:
Annual Conference Webinar Series of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on
Sustainable Development Goals in the MENA Region, 2 September 2020, 4:00-5:30
pm Cairo Local Time
3.
ONLINE:
14th International Conference on "Sustainable
Development", Laurentian University, Toronto, 6-7 October 2020
4.
ONLINE:
Workshop "Being ‘Here’, Researching ‘There’: Reflecting on Temporal and
Spatial Remoteness in Ethnography", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin,
3-4 December 2020
5.
ONLINE:
International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, Global Center for
Religious Research (GCRR), 4-6 December 2020
6.
3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion
and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra,
8-10 December 2020 – POSTPONED to 8-10 December 2021
7.
ONLINE: International Conference on "10 Years On: The People &
The Protests", Project SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK, 17-18 December
2020
8.
13th
International Conference of the Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for
Historical, Social and Economic Studies on “Crimes, Felonies and Repression in
History“, Beja, Tunisia, 17-19 December 2020
9.
Conference:
“The Middle East c. 1960-1980 – Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St
Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021
10. 2nd Global Inclusive
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15
March 2021
11. 14th Annual International Conference
on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, 29 March - 1 April 2021 (ONLINE Presentations
are Accepted)
12. 14th Annual Muslim Studies
Conference on "Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment
Media, and Social Media", Michigan State University, 8-9 April 2021
13. International Conference: " Istanbul
Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City", Istanbul Research
Institut, 8-11 April 2021
14. 5th Conference of the Arab Council
for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the
Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change", Beirut,
21-23 May 2021
15. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
POSITIONS
16.
Tenure-Track Professorship for Migration and Mobility, University of
Vienna
17. Fully Funded European Research Council (ERC)
Collaborative PhD Studentship "The European Qur'an: Islamic Scripture in
European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)", in Collaboration with the
University of Copenhagen and the British Library, London
18.
British Academy Postdoc Fellowships (3 Years) for Outstanding Early
Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
19. Persian Language Assistant (1Year),
University of Edinburgh
20. Professor of Islamic Studies, Lund University
21.
Postdoctoral Fellowship (11 Months) for Research on Ottoman Turkish,
Arabic and Persian Sources on Religion in the Ottoman Empire (15th
-18th Centuries), Boğaziçi
University, Istanbul
22.
5 Fellowships (4 Months) for Researchers in the Interdisciplinary Fellow
Group "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice", Merian Centre for
Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Tunis
23.
Doctoral Scholarship (36 Months) in the Research Project “Historicity of
Democracy in the Arab World”, IFPO, Amman
24. Mandel Postdoctoral Fellowships in the
Humanities and Jewish Studies for 2021-2024, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
25. Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research
Associates and Early-career Scholars from Outside of the USA, Program
"Sustainable Futures", Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies (2021-22)
26.
Up to 40 Scholarships (3 or 6 Months) for Historical Research on Near
Eastern Civilizations and the Islamic World, Institute for Advanced Study
(IAS), Princeton University
27.
Up to 40 Residential Fellowships at the National Humanities Center,
Research Triangle Park, North Dakota
28. New Executive Director of Al-Bustan Centre of
Culture, Philadelphia
OTHER INFORMATION
29. “Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion“ for
the First Book by Early Career Scholars in the Humanities or Social Sciences,
Columbia University
30. Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies, Mediterranean
Seminar/CU Mediterranean Studies Group
31. M.A. in Mediterranean Studies, Department of Political Science and
International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, 2020-2021
32.
Articles on "Turkish-American Relations" for Special Issue of
"Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies" (December 2020)
33.
Articles on "Legacies of 1922: Building and Rebuilding Borders,
Identity and Belonging Since the Greco-Turkish War and Population
Exchange" for Special Issue of the "Journal of Modern Greek
Studies" (October 2022)
34.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science,
Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of "MIDEO" 38 (2023)
35. Articles for New Open-access Peer-reviewed
"Journal of Islamic Law", Harvard Law School
36. Articles on "Disinformation in the Middle
East" for Special Issue oft he Journal "Open Information
Science", De Gruyter
37. Articles on “Queering Middle East Migrations”
for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: The Journal of Middle East and North
African Migration Studies”
38. Paid Articles on “The Influence of Covid-19 on
the Already Vulnerable Rights and Freedoms in the MENA Region” for Special
Issue of “Rowaq Arabi”
39. Articles on "Regional Development and
Policy in the EU Neighborhood Countries" for Special Issue of the Journal
"Economies"
40. Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of
"Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"
41. Articles on "Alcohol in the Muslim World: History, Geography,
Practices and Policies (15th - 21st Centuries)" for
Special Issue of "Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée"
(REMM)
42. Articles on "A Crisis within a Crisis: Global Pandemics and
Displacement" for Special Issue of the "Journal of Internal
Displacement"
43. Chapters for Edited Book on "Marriage and
Forced Migration: New Understandings of Conjugal Relationships in the Middle
East and North Africa", Rutgers University Press
44. Editors and Contributors on Middle Eastern,
Persian and Iranian Studies for “The Digital Orientalist”
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(CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah
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CONFERENCES
1.
ONLINE:
Annual Conference Webinar Series of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on Sustainable
Development Goals in the MENA Region, 1 September 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm Cairo
Local Time
Presentations
on:
1)
“De-industrialisation and Poverty in Turkey”, by Ayşe Aylin Bayar, Öner
Günçavdı and Haluk Levent.
2)
“Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Palestine”, by Marwan Khawaja, Jawad
Al-Saleh, Nathan Reece and Adriana Conconi.
3)
“Cash Transfers and Consumption of the Poor”, by Mohammad H.
Mostafavi-Dehzooei, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Masoumeh Heshmatpour.
Information
and registration: https://mailchi.mp/erf.org.eg/invitation_erf26_annual_conference-1389969?e=b6c891c6c3
_______________________________________
2.
ONLINE:
Annual Conference Webinar Series of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) on
Sustainable Development Goals in the MENA Region, 2 September 2020, 4:00-5:30
pm Cairo Local Time
Presentations
on:
1)
“Energy Expenditure in Egypt: Empirical Evidence Based on a Quantile Regression
Approach”, by Fateh Belaid and Christophe Rault.
2)
“The Opportunity Cost of Domestic Oil Consumption for an Oil Exporter:
Illustration for Saudi Arabia”, by Fatih Karanfil and Axel Pierru.
3)
“Power Sector Reforms and Technological Change: Evidence from Arab League
Members”, by Thibault Lemaire and Dina Ragab.
Information and registration:
https://mailchi.mp/erf.org.eg/invitation_erf26_annual_conference-1389985?e=b6c891c6c3
_______________________________________
3.
ONLINE:
14th International Conference on "Sustainable
Development", Laurentian University, Toronto, 6-7 October 2020
Themes:
1. Development, 2. Economics, 3. Environment and Natural Resources, 4. Food and
Agriculture, 5. Governance, 6. Health, 7. Information and Communication, 8.
Science and technology, 9. Social policy, 10. Gender equality.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September
2020.
Information: https://www.ontariointernational.org/icsdconference-a.htm
_______________________________________
4.
ONLINE:
Workshop "Being ‘Here’, Researching ‘There’: Reflecting on Temporal and
Spatial Remoteness in Ethnography", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient,
Berlin, 3-4 December 2020
With this workshop, we wish to open up a space in which we can
share different kinds of experience and strategies for working remotely. Which
strategies work in which contexts, and which methodological, ethical or
epistemological problems result from which (remote) access strategies to the
field? We invite contributions from researchers and activist scholars who have
been engaging especially in involuntary remote ethnographies.
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 September 2020. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/CfP/CfP_Workshop_Remote_Ethnography_ZMO.pdf
_______________________________________
5.
ONLINE:
International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, Global Center for Religious
Research (GCRR), 4-6 December 2020
The conference will bring together
religion scholars, specialists, and practitioners of different faith traditions
(from all over the world) to discuss the various complexities, problems, and
solutions resulting from interreligious dialogue.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September
2020. Information: https://www.gcrr.org/2020interreligiousdialogue
_______________________________________
6.
3rd ANU Religion
Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National
University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2020 – POSTPONED to 8-10 December 2021
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: 21 May 2021. Information:
https://hrc.cass.anu.edu.au/events/religion-and-migration-culture-and-policy-0#acton-tabs-link--tabs-0-middle-1
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7.
ONLINE: International Conference on "10 Years On:
The People & The Protests", Project SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK,
17-18 December 2020
The conference on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of
the Arab Uprisings seeks to reflect on the ways in which the uprisings have
affected people and political projects across MENA and invites papers
reflecting on: Popular protests; relations between rulers and ruled;
resistance; gender and sexuality; sovereign power; spatial ordering;
clientelism; sectarianism; de-sectarianisation; political economy; power
sharing; urban politics; environmentalism; foreign policy making; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2020.
Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/conference-and-call-for-papers
_______________________________________
8.
13th
International Conference of the Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for
Historical, Social and Economic Studies on “Crimes, Felonies and Repression in
History“, Beja, Tunisia, 17-19 December 2020
Main
themes include: Origins of delinquency and crimes; Types and forms of
delinquency and crime; Types of
offenders and criminals; Society's reactions to delinquency and crime. If the
corona crisis persists, the congress will be postponed to the beginning of
April 2021.
_______________________________________
9.
Conference:
“The Middle East c. 1960-1980 – Global and Transnational Perspectives“, St
Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 5 March 2021
This
conference aims to reconfigure the history of the Middle East in these decades
no longer as an agglomeration of discrete episodes but as a single, integrated
phenomenon with its own dynamic and logic. It 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.
_______________________________________
10. 2nd Global Inclusive
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15
March 2021
Themes:
- Violence and Gender, - Media Portrayals of Violence, - Gender
Differentiation; can Women be Terrorists? - State-Sanctioned Violence (War,
Genocide, Torture, Capital Punishment, etc.), - How Culture Encourages /
Discourages Violence, - Ecological and Environmental Violence, - Violence and
Reconciliation Practices, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 4 September
2020.
Information: https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/evil/violence/conferences/
_______________________________________
11. 14th Annual International Conference
on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, 29 March - 1 April 2021 (ONLINE Presentations
will be Accepted)
The
aim of the conference is to bring together academics and researchers from all
areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy,
culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business,
sports, environment and ecology, etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 31 August 2020. Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
_______________________________________
12. 14th Annual Muslim Studies
Conference on "Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment
Media, and Social Media", Michigan State University, 8-9 April 2021
Scholars
in sociology, anthropology, religious studies, political science,
communication, psychology, computer science, media studies, and other relevant
fields are invited to present work related to Muslim portrayals in the media
(e.g., news, entertainment, social media) and evaluate its effects either on
publics or on Muslims themselves.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September
2020. Information: Mohammad Khalil khalilm@umich.edu
_______________________________________
13. International Conference: " Istanbul
Unbound: Environmental Approaches to the City", Istanbul Research
Institut, 8-11 April 2021
In
cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung-Turkey, the conference at the Pera
Museum will bring together innovative studies in the field of environmental
history, political ecology, and critical art studies that utilize
transdisciplinary methods and transcend predetermined scales and clearly
delineated boundaries between the histories and stories of humans, nonhumans,
and the built environment.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September
2020.
Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/images/pdf/istanbul-unbound/istanbul-unbound-.pdf
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14. 5th Conference of the Arab Council
for the Social Sciences (ACSS): “Interrogating the Social Sciences in the
Vortex of Crises: Waves of Discontent and Demands for Change", Beirut,
21-23 May 2021
The
conference is open to papers from all social science and allied disciplines and
to scholars from the Arab region and the rest of the world. Applicants must
hold at least an MA degree and be actively engaged in social science research.
Papers may examine contemporary or historical phenomena. Comparative,
cross-regional and global perspectives are particularly encouraged. The
conference will be organized around the following four major axes: Inequality
and Resistance; The State and Risk Society; Infrastructure and Survival;
Global, Regional and National Ecologies.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 September
2020. Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference
_______________________________________
15. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
This event is organized
by GIS Moyen Orient et mondes musulmans (MOMM) in collaboration with IREMAM,
IDEMEC, CHERPA, IMAF, and SEMOMM. The themes fall
under anthropology, archaeology and history of art, law, economics, geography,
history, islamology and religious sciences, linguistics, literature,
philosophy, sociology, political science, in a global or regional perspective.
As in previous years, the congress is an invitation to move beyond disciplinary
and institutional compartmentalization, by bringing together contributors from
diverse backgrounds, working in France and around the world.
Information: http://majlis-remomm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Appel_4e%CC%80meCongre%CC%80s_en.pdf
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POSITIONS
16.
Tenure-Track Professorship for Migration and Mobility,
University of Vienna
Requirements: Doctoral degree/PhD and at
least two years post-doctoral experience at a university or other research
institution; background in social sciences and/or historical-cultural studies,
and use a long-term perspective to reflect on past and present problems of
migration: etc.
Deadline for applications: 23 September 2020.
Information: https://socioloxy.com/professorship-in-migration-and-mobility,i7206.html
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17. Fully Funded European Research Council (ERC)
Collaborative PhD Studentship "The European Qur'an: Islamic Scripture in
European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)", in Collaboration with the
University of Copenhagen and the British Library, London
Candidates
should have a M.A. in Art History, Near Eastern Studies, Arabic philology,
Theology, and Islamic Studies, ideally with a strong interest in early modern
religious history in Europe. Candidates should demonstrate a high level of
competence in reading Arabic and Latin.
Deadline for applications: 15
September 2020. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/49369
_______________________________________
18.
British Academy Postdoc Fellowships (3 Years) for
Outstanding Early Career Researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Any nationals from the European Economic Area are eligible,
regardless of where their doctorate was obtained. Eligible applicants are
expected to be at an early stage of their career. This is defined as being
within three years from the date of your successful Viva Voce examination.
Deadline
for application: 14 October 2020.
Information:
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/
_______________________________________
19. Persian Language Assistant ( 1Year), University
of Edinburgh
Requirements: A good first degree and
evidence of fluency or near-fluency in Persian and fluent in English:
experience in teaching Persian as a foreign language; etc.
Deadline for applications: 5 September 2020.
Information: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form
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20. Professor of Islamic Studies, Lund University
Requirements:
Experience of research focusing on both present-day and historical Islam;
Arabic language skills; experience of having initiated and formulated
strategically important research applications; experience of educational development
that includes digital tools and teaching environments, etc.
Deadline for applications: 30
September 2020.
Information: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/type:job/jobID:334474/?where=26
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21.
Postdoctoral Fellowship (11 Months) for Research on
Ottoman Turkish, Arabic and Persian Sources on Religion in the Ottoman Empire
(15th -18th
Centuries), Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
Application requirements: PhD degree in history, Islamic Studies,
or a related field; near-native fluency in English and an excellent command of
Ottoman Turkish, Persian and Arabic; experience in translating primary sources.
Deadline
for applications: 4 September 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6348878/cfa-postdoc-opportunity-bogazici-university-early-modern-ottoman
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22.
5 Fellowships (4 Months) for Researchers in the
Interdisciplinary Fellow Group "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice",
Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Tunis
Researchers at all stages of their academic
career in humanities and social sciences from all parts of the world are
invited to apply.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2020. Information:
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms/forschung/mecam/mecam-call-for-applications-ifg-aesthetics-and-cultural-practice.pdf
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23.
Doctoral Scholarship (36 Months) in the Research
Project “Historicity of Democracy in the Arab World”, IFPO, Amman
Candidates must be enrolled in doctoral
studies at a University in Jordan or enrol at the beginning of the scholarship
and will devote their research to a local or regional aspect of the research
programme. The successful candidate will benefit from research stays in Berlin
at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2020.
Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/ZMO_PhD_Amman_English_updated.pdf
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24. Mandel Postdoctoral Fellowships in the
Humanities and Jewish Studies for 2021-2024, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The
Fellowships are intended for scholars, who have shown exceptional excellence,
depth, and originality, and whose research may enrich academic and cultural
discourse. Applications will be accepted from candidates who completed their
doctoral degrees no earlier than 1 October 2016.
Deadline for applications: 15
September 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60182
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25. Fellowships for Postdoctoral Research
Associates and Early-career Scholars from Outside of the USA, Program
"Sustainable Futures", Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies (2021-22)
We
welcome applicants from all disciplinary and inter-disciplinary fields -
humanities, social science, natural science, engineering, technology, law,
architecture - to examine varied notions and workable practices of
sustainability.
Deadline for applications: 16
November 2020. Information: https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/16742 and https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/16822
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26.
Up to 40 Scholarships (3 or 6 Months) for Historical
Research on Near Eastern Civilizations and the Islamic World, Institute for
Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton University
Requirements: Substantial record of
publications and a PhD awarded by no later than 31 December 2019.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2020.
Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement
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27.
Up to 40 Residential Fellowships at the National
Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Dakota
Mid-career and senior scholars from all
over the world are encouraged to apply. Emerging scholars with a strong record
of peer-reviewed work may also apply. In addition to scholars from all fields
of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social
sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in
humanistic projects.
Deadline for applications: 8 October 2020.
Information: https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/become-a-fellow/
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28. New Executive Director of Al-Bustan Centre of
Culture, Philadelphia
Professional
qualifications required: Fluency in Arabic; 7 to 10 years of senior non-profit
management experience; demonstrated transparent and high integrity leadership;
excellent writing, public speaking, and interpersonal communication skills;
deep knowledge of Arab culture, arts, and history; experience in living or
traveling in the Arab region.
Preferred start date: 1 October
2020. Information: https://www.albustanseeds.org/about/opportunities/
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OTHER INFORMATION
29. “Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion“ for
the First Book by Early Career Scholars in the Humanities or Social Sciences,
Columbia University
Submissions
can be on any aspect of the study of religion, including the study of
secularism. Prize-winners will be invited to the Institute for Religion,
Culture, and Public Life(IRCPL) to participate in a workshop and the books will
appear in IRCPL’s series, “Religion, Culture, and Public Life,” published by
Columbia University Press.
Deadline for submissions: 14
September 2020. Information: https://www.ircpl.columbia.edu/claremont-prize
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30. Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies, Mediterranean
Seminar/CU Mediterranean Studies Group
Eligible publications
are dated 2016-2020. We are most interested in books that break new ground
conceptually, are comparative and/or interdisciplinary, that emphasize the
intercultural/interregional/inter-religious contact. Books from any period will
be considered and are welcome from history, art and material culture, literary
and cultural studies, anthropology, and sociology.
Deadline for proposals: 1 January 2021. Information:
https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/enter-best-first-book-prize-in-mediterranean-studies-the-mediterranean-seminar?e=82aeb6c61d
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31. M.A. in Mediterranean Studies, Department of Political Science and
International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, 2020-2021
The MA is taught in
English in partnership with the University of Bologna (Italy), Université
Sorbonne Paris Cité (France), Yaşar University (Turkey), Neapolis University of
Pafos (Cyprus), and the Olympia Summer Academy.
Deadline for
application: 31 August 2020. Information: https://pedis.uop.gr/?page_id=1949
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32.
Articles on "Turkish-American Relations" for
Special Issue of "Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies" (December 2020)
Submissions on the historical background,
current status and future of the relations as well as the strategic, political,
and economic dimensions and bilateral, regional, and global reflections of the
relations are welcomed. As an interdisciplinary platform, the journal also
welcomes original research on the interconnected relationship between area
studies and international relations, sociology, global studies, etc.
Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2020.
Information: http://cjas.kapadokya.edu.tr/Anasayfa.Aspx
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33.
Articles on "Legacies of 1922: Building and
Rebuilding Borders, Identity and Belonging Since the Greco-Turkish War and
Population Exchange" for Special Issue of the "Journal of Modern
Greek Studies" (October 2022)
One hundred years after the Greco-Turkish
War, the internal and transnational displacements that it sparked, and the
state-sponsored Exchange into which it transformed, what lasting paradigms has
this experience bequeathed to cultural, material, social and political domains
of the Aegean and its diasporas, and how have subsequent experiences reshaped the
original paradigm?
Deadline for abstracts: 16 November 2020. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6339773/cfp-update-legacies-1922-building-and-rebuilding-borders-identity
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34.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters:
Between Science, Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of
"MIDEO" 38 (2023)
This issue of MIDEO is devoted to the
Islamic theology of catastrophes at different periods of history, in ancient,
modern and contemporary theological thought.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021.
Information: https://www.ideo-cairo.org/en/2020/07/call-for-papers-islamic-theologies-of-disasters/
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35. Articles for New Open-access Peer-reviewed
"Journal of Islamic Law", Harvard Law School
Focusing
on historical, comparative, and law and society approaches to Islamic law, we
have a keen interest in featuring data science tools and primary sources that
inform the scholarly analysis. The Journal welcomes long-form articles, essays,
book reviews, and notes on cases and other new developments in the field.
Information: https://journalofislamiclaw.com/current
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36. Articles on "Disinformation in the Middle
East" for Special Issue oft he Journal "Open Information
Science", De Gruyter
We
welcome studies that are focused on the empirical investigation of infodemics
targeting the Middle East and/or originating from the region.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September
2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6278732/disinformation-middle-east
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37. Articles on “Queering Middle East Migrations”
for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: The Journal of Middle East and
North African Migration Studies”
We
look to papers that explore sexual desire and pleasure-seeking amongst
migrants, and the role these subjectivities play in decisions to migrate, and
in their “search for material and social advancement.” We also invite scholars
who investigate the intersections between sexualities and other social,
economic, religious, and racial identities.
Deadline for articles: 1 October
2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/20
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38. Paid Articles on “The Influence of Covid-19 on
the Already Vulnerable Rights and Freedoms in the MENA Region” for Special
Issue of “Rowaq Arabi”
This
issue aims to provide new research on the influence of the Cvid-19 pandemic on
governance, freedoms and rights in the already troubled MENA region. How does
Covid-19 crisis management in the region unfold the practical meaning and
consequences of the interdependence and indivisibility of civil, political,
economic and social rights? And to what extent can the realisation of civil and
political rights contribute to the efficacy of states’ responses to the crisis?
Deadline for manuscripts: 31 August
2020. Information: https://rowaq.cihrs.org/call-for-contributions-the-influence-of-covid-19-on-the-already-vulnerable-rights-and-freedoms-in-the-mena-region/?lang=en
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39. Articles on "Regional Development and
Policy in the EU Neighborhood Countries" for Special Issue of the Journal
"Economies"
This
issue of the open access journal seeks contributions that deal with aspects of
regional analysis, policy approaches, and institutional or organizational
questions in EU enlargement or neighborhood countries and their regions.
Deadline for manuscript submissions:
30 September 2020.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/economies/special_issues/regional_policy
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40. Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of
"Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"
We seek articles that
present counter-hegemonic analyses, approaches and concepts, examining
Islamophobia as a longer and more complex phenomenon. We are especially
interested in papers which examine how settler-colonial projects against
Indigenous communities and colonized communities have informed Islamophobia
formations across varying national, social and political contexts.
Deadline for submissions: 20 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6142269/special-issue-%E2%80%9Chistorizing-islamophobia%E2%80%9D
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41. Articles on "Alcohol in the Muslim World: History, Geography,
Practices and Policies (15th - 21st Centuries)" for
Special Issue of "Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée"
(REMM)
Contributions may
consider the construction of alcohol consumption norms based on a
co-construction of usage and consumption norms by different groups, not simply
as a fiat decision "from above".
Deadline for abstracts:
1 September 2020. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/13379
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42. Articles on "A Crisis within a Crisis: Global Pandemics and
Displacement" for Special Issue of the "Journal of Internal
Displacement"
Papers are invited on
the inter-relationship between displacement and global pandemics, not only
COVID-19 but also SARS, Ebola, H1N1 and similar, including topics on
displacement, refugees, trafficked persons, stateless persons, nomads,
"boat/cruise ship people", the homeless, and other migrants.
Deadline for
manuscripts: 1 September 2020.
Information:
https://journalofinternaldisplacement.org/index.php/JID/announcement/view/2
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43. Chapters for Edited Book on "Marriage and
Forced Migration: New Understandings of Conjugal Relationships in the Middle
East and North Africa", Rutgers University Press
Edited
by Yafa Shanneik, Mulki al-Sharmani and Farah Al Taji, this volume seeks to
analyse conjugal relationships and matrimonial practices (marriage and divorce)
as they are being debated and developed in theory and practice in the MENA
region.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September
2020. Information: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/ptr/departments/theologyandreligion/news/2020/marriage-and-forced-migration.aspx
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44. Editors and Contributors on Middle Eastern,
Persian and Iranian Studies for “The Digital Orientalist”
This
is the digital magazine and arm the “American Oriental Society”. Editors will
be expected to contribute 5-6 posts between September 2020 and June 2021. We
are also looking for people who contribute guest posts or series of guests
posts on the Digital Humanities in General, Islamic Studies, Syriac Studies
etc.
Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2020/06/30/open-call-for-editors-and-contributiors/
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