CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE
International Conference: "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in the 21st
Century", Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, 15 - 19 November 2020,
09:00 - 12:00 (Qatar Time)
2.
ONLINE
Webinar Series "COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity", Ali Vural Ak Center
for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 - 12:00 PM
EDT
3.
ONLINE Colloque « L'eau dans le monde iranien : usages,
partages, représentations de la Préhistoire à nos jours », Groupe d'études
iraniennes de l'IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 17-18 novembre 2020
4.
ONLINE
Conference of the "Islamicate Digital Humanities Network", Georgetown
University, 18 November 2020, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm EDT
5.
ONLINE
Seminar "Cultural Studies; Policy and Practice: Towards a Reformist
Approach to Strategic Communications (Focus Tunisia and Lebanon)", Centre
for Global Media and Communications, SOAS, 18 November 2020, 3.00 pm - 5 pm,
GMT
6.
ONLINE
Discussion on "Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean
(1895-1945)", UC Berkeley, 19 November 2020, 12 pm - 1pm, PT
7.
ONLINE
"Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 20 November 2020, 9:30 am
- 5:30 pm ETZ
8.
ONLINE:
International Conference "Mapping South-South Connections: Networks,
Alliances and New Actors on the International Scene during the Decolonization
Process and Cold War in Latin America, Asia and Africa (1810-1990)",
Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, 21-22 November 2020
9.
Webinar “China’s Engagement and Relations with
Iran” by Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University), SOAS, 24 November 2020, 5:30-7:00
pm GMT
10.
ONLINE Panel discussion : "Un partenariat d'égal à
égal ou un "projet colonialiste" - Les projets d'accords
d'association entre l'Union Européenne et les États du Maghreb",
Deutsch-Maghrebinische Gesellschaft et Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, 25
novembre 2020 à 19h00
11. ONLINE Symposium: "The Idea of Iran: Iran in Transition to a
New World Order", Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, 28 November 2020,
11.45 am - 7.15 pm, GMT
12. ONLINE Seminarr:
“Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding” by Daniel Marwecki (Hong
Kong University), SOAS, 1 December 2020, 5:30 – 7:00 pm, GMT
13. ONLINE Seminar: "Rethinking Tradition in the Middle East:
Islamic and Jewish Perspectives", Rutgers University, 1 December 2020,
10.30 am - 11.30 am, EST
14. ONLINE 2020 Conference of the European Network for the Study of
Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, 3-5
December, 2020
15. ONLINE: International Conference on Gender
Studies: "Mapping Gender", Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020
16.
ONLINE: "Fourth
International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies", Organized by
“Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies”, 7-10 December 2020
17. ONLINE Workshop: "Environmental History of the Ottoman
Empire", Orient-Institut Beirut, 10-11 December 2020,
18. ONLINE: Interdisciplinary Conference on
"Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of
Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture", Cappadocia University, Turkey,
14-15 January 2021
19. ONLINE: 18th Annual Islamicate
Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with
Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020
20. Symposium: "Ottoman Ego-Documents", Istanbul Medeniyet
University, 7-9 April 2021
21.
14th Annual
Conference of the Michigan State University Muslim Studies on "Global
Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media",
East Lansing, MI, 8-9 April 2021
- Conference: "Rethinking Narratives of China and the
Middle East: The Silk Roads and Beyond", University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
23.
International
Conference of the British Association of Teachers of Arabic: "Teaching,
Research and Scholarship Excellence in Arabic Language, Culture, Literature,
Linguistics and Translation", University of Leeds, 24-25 June 2021
24.
ONLINE
Papers on "What Does Diaspora Mean in the 21st Century"
during the "12th International Convention of Asia Scholars
(ICAS 12)", Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021
25. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies Association
Conference: “Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The Shaping of Hopes
and Perspectives”, Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
26. Conference on "The Visual Culture of
Mosques", King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dahran, 23-25 November
2021
27.
20th ISA
World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of
New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies", Melbourne,
Australia, 24-30 July 2022
28. "34. Deutscher Orientalistentag / 34th German
Oriental Congress" Combined with the "28th International
Congress of the German Middle Eastern Studies Association (DAVO)", Berlin,
11-17 September 2022
- 6th
World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-6), University of La Manouba, Tunis, 19-23 September 2022
POSITIONS
30. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Years) for Project "Warnings
from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East",
University of Exeter
31. PhD Position (4 Years) for Research on
Muslim Interreligious Encounters in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, University of
Groningen
32. Assistant or
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Doha Institute for Graduate
Studies
33. Two Positions
in International Relations at Assistant or Associate Professor Levels, American
University in Cairo
34. Full Time
Faculty Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo
35. Postdoctoral
Associate, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
36. The Qatar
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
37. American Druze
Foundation (ADF) Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
38. 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)
39. Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish
Studies (2021-2022), Columbia University and Fordham University
40. Assistant Professor for Late Antiquity
and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough
OTHER INFORMATION
41. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and
Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan
42.
ONLINE Course on "Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in
the Modern Middle East", Institute of Muslim Civilisation, Aga Khan
University, London, 11 & 18 December 2020
43. ONLINE Course on "Bridging the Great
Divide: The Jewish-Muslim Encounter", Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 11
January - 25 April 2021
44. Articles for “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman,
Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies“
- Articles on "Religious Transformation in the Middle
East – Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non-religion" for Special
Edition of Journal "Religions"
46. Articles on “Israel Studies as a Global
Discipline” for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Israeli History”
47. Articles on "Majority versus Proportionality? Trajectories of
Electoral Reform in the Mediterranean since the 1990s" for Special Issue
of the "Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP) /
Comparative Governance and Politics"
48. Articles on "Migration, Human Trafficking and Displacement in
the Horn of Africa" for Special Issue of "African and Black Diaspora:
An International Journal" (Routledge)
49. Articles on
“Power(s) in Palestine” for Special Issue of “Confluences Méditerranée”
50. 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)
51. Articles from Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa for
"Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)"
52. Chapters for Edited Book on "Living with Tourism: Paradoxes,
Empowerment and Future Directions (Focus MENA Region)"
53. Chapters for Edited Volume on "The
Gendered Arab"
54. Chapters for Edited Volume on "New Methods
in the Study of Islam"
55. ONLINE Dossier on Media and Corona in the Arab World by the
"Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers
(AREACORE)"
56. New Research Platform and Online Journal:
“Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and
Heritage in the MENA Region”
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Best regards,
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Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of
Sharjah.
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CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE
International Conference: "Social Change in the Gulf Societies in the 21st
Century", Gulf Studies Center, Qatar University, 15 - 19 November 2020,
09:00 - 12:00 (Qatar Time)
The conference aims to explore how
economic transformation, educational reforms, social media, rapid urbanization,
and growing expatriate population have brought about deep changes in the Gulf
societies.
Information and registration: https://www.qu.edu.qa/events/The-5th-Annual-International-Conference-of-Gulf-Studies-Center-at-Qatar-University-%E2%80%93-Social-Change-in-the-Gulf-Societies-in-the-21st-Century
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2.
ONLINE
Webinar Series "COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity", Ali Vural Ak Center
for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 - 12:00
PM EDT
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University), "Long before
COVID-19: The Socio-economic Effects of Contagious Diseases and Epidemics in
the Ottoman World (1500-1800)." This lecture will discuss the question of
how millions of Muslim and non-Muslim people once lived in the Ottoman Empire
had experienced the outbreaks of various contagious diseases between the
sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063.
For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/
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3.
ONLINE Colloque « L'eau dans le monde iranien : usages,
partages, représentations de la Préhistoire à nos jours », Groupe d'études
iraniennes de l'IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 17-18 novembre 2020
Organisé par Camille Rhoné-Quer (MCF
AMU/IREMAM), Jean-François Coulais (PR ENSA Paris Malaquais), Homa Lessan
Pezechki (PR AMU/IREMAM) et Mattéo Coq (doctorant AMU/IREMAM).
Information,
programme et inscription : https://iremam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article7005&lang=fr
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4.
ONLINE
Conference of the "Islamicate Digital Humanities Network", Georgetown
University, 18 November 2020, 10.00 am - 12.30 pm EDT
- Opening words; Irene Kirchner
(Georgetown University)
- Handwritten-Text-Recognition for
Arabic Script: A Case Study in Ottoman Turkish; Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu
Dhabi)
- When Digital Forms of Information
Become a Reliable Source of Academic Research; Sofia Tsourlaki (SOAS University
of London)
- The #AmericasMuslimsMap: Using
Digital Visualization to Help Expand our Notion of "Global Islam";
Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin)
- A Comparative Quantitative
Analysis of the Concept of "Love" in Hafez's Ghazals and
Shakespeare's Sonnets; Mehdy Sedaghat Payam and Marjan Moosavi (University of
Maryland)
Registration: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/92629137582
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5.
ONLINE
Webinar "Cultural Studies; Policy and Practice: Towards a Reformist
Approach to Strategic Communications (Focus Tunisia and Lebanon)", Centre
for Global Media and Communications, SOAS, 18 November 2020, 3.00 pm - 5 pm,
GMT
Dr. Dounia Mahlouly (SOAS) addresses the role of communication
practices and community-owned media infrastructures in processes of collective
resilience, drawing on the case study of an EU-funded initiative designed to
support community resilience through media capacity in Tunisia and Lebanon.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/2020/18nov2020-cultural-studies-policy-and-practice-towards-a-reformist-approach-to-strategic-communicati.html
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6.
ONLINE
Discussion on "Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean
(1895-1945)", UC Berkeley, 19 November 2020, 12 pm - 1pm, PT
Discussion with author Valerie McGuire (University of St Andrews)
on her forthcoming book, which takes a critical approach to the concept of the
Mediterranean in the period of Italian expansion and examines how Italians
navigated issues of race, nation and migration as well as transnational
questions about sovereignty, identity, and national belonging which were
created by the decline and collapse of the Ottoman empire in North Africa, the
Balkans, and the eastern Mediterranean, or Levant.
Information and registration: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ies/event_ID=http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/sn/ies?event_ID=136092&date=2020-11-19&filter=Target/Open%20To%20Audiences&filtersel=
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7.
ONLINE
"Graduate Student Book Review Colloquium on Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies", George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 20 November 2020, 9:30 am
- 5:30 pm ETZ
At the Colloquium, the accepted students will present their book
reviews in pre-organized panels lasting 20 minutes, and then discuss their
reviews with leading scholars in the field.
Information, program and
registration: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11028
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8.
ONLINE:
International Conference "Mapping South-South Connections: Networks,
Alliances and New Actors on the International Scene during the Decolonization
Process and Cold War in Latin America, Asia and Africa (1810-1990)",
Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, 21-22 November 2020
This conference explores historical, political and cultural
connections between Latin America, Asia and Africa during the decolonization
process and the Cold War from an interdisciplinary perspective. The conference
is organized by Allameh Tabataba'i University (Iran) in collaboration with the
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain).
Information & program: https://southsouthconnections.atu.ac.ir
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9.
ONLINE Seminar “China’s Engagement and
Relations with Iran” by Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University), SOAS, 24 November
2020, 5:30-7:00 pm GMT
Anoush Ehteshami is Professor of International Relations in the
School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. His talk
will explore the development of Sino-Iranian relations since the 1990s.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/24nov2020-chinas-engagement-and-relations-with-iran.html
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10.
ONLINE Panel discussion : "Un partenariat d'égal à
égal ou un "projet colonialiste" - Les projets d'accords
d'association entre l'Union Européenne et les États du Maghreb",
Deutsch-Maghrebinische Gesellschaft et Gustav-Stresemann-Institut, Bonn, 25
novembre 2020 à 19h00
La soirée donnera des informations sur les
différentes positions concernant les accords prévus et mènera une discussion
sur les buts et intérêts des partenaires en question.
Information et inscription : https://www.dmag-bonn.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/InvitationMaghreb_251120.pdf
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11. ONLINE Symposium: "The Idea of Iran: Iran in Transition to a
New World Order", Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, 28 November 2020,
11.45 am - 7.15 pm, GMT
What does the Idea of Iran mean in the 18th century? Can
we discern the ways that contemporaries viewed their environment; what was the
view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship define the distinctive
aspects of the period? These are some of the questions to be explored in this
complex and difficult period from which Iran emerged with a curtailed presence
in the new world order.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei-cis/events/idea-of-iran/28nov2020-the-idea-of-iran-iran-in-transition-to-a-new-world-order.html
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12. ONLINE Seminar:
“Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding” by Daniel Marwecki (Hong
Kong University), SOAS, 1 December 2020, 5:30 – 7:00 pm, GMT
Daniel Marwecki’s pathbreaking
analysis deconstructs the myths surrounding the odd alliance between Israel and
post-war Federal Germany. Thorough archival research shows how German
policymakers often had disingenuous, cynical or even partly antisemitic
motivations, seeking to whitewash their Nazi past by supporting the new Israeli
state. This is the true context of West Germany’s crucial backing of Israel in
the 1950s and ’60s.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/01dec2020-germany-and-israel-whitewashing-and-statebuilding.html
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13. ONLINE Seminar: "Rethinking Tradition in the Middle East:
Islamic and Jewish Perspectives", Rutgers University, 1 December 2020,
10.30 am - 11.30 am, EST
In the 10th-century Middle East, two scriptural
religions developed-for the first time-theoretical perspectives on the late
antique legal traditions that they had inherited. Written in Arabic, these
novel sacred histories penned by Muslim and Jewish theologian-jurists sought to
clarify their religious legal systems and to resolve conflicting and discursive
legal sources.
Information and registration: https://bildnercenter.rutgers.edu/campus-programs/faculty-seminars
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14. ONLINE 2020 Conference of the European Network for the Study of Islam
and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, 3-5
December, 2020
The conference examines Islam and esotericism, from Sufism and
dreams to sorcery and magic, in al-Andalus, the historical and contemporary
Middle East, Africa, and the West.
Program at: http://ensie.site/2020conference.html
Free registration at: https://doodle.com/poll/ahvdmz9airifz933
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15. ONLINE: International Conference on Gender
Studies: "Mapping Gender", Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020
The
conference seeks to explore the past and current status of gender identity
around the world, to examine the ways in which society is shaped by gender and
to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human affairs. Online
participation is available. Presented papers will be published in a
post-conference volume.
Information: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/home/
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16.
ONLINE: "Fourth International Conference on Israel and Judaism
Studies", Organized by
“Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies”, 7-10 December 2020
The Conference is to present new methods of assessing
Jewish identity and to identify patterns of Jewish engagement. It seeks to
address the following questions: Can we define one Jewish identity? If so, from
what does it derive? What are the expressions of this identity according to
different regions today? How has the Jewish identity been assessed in the past
vs. the present by different scholars?
Information: http://israiliyat.com/en/pub/page/8782
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17. ONLINE Workshop: "Environmental History of the Ottoman
Empire", Orient-Institut Beirut, 10-11 December 2020,
Organised by Fatih Ermiş, the workshop is open to all researchers
who show interest in the Ottoman environmental history and to all subfields of
the Ottoman studies, especially historians, geographers, theologians, natural
scientists, sociologists, political scientists, botanists and zoologists.
Information,
program and registration: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/environmental-history-of-the-ottoman-empire/
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18. ONLINE: Interdisciplinary Conference on
"Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of
Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture", Cappadocia University, Turkey,
14-15 January 2021
Topics:
Plague, pandemic & epidemic representations in fiction & films;
Apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic/pandemic fiction; Pandemic politics & praxis;
Capitalism and biopolitics; Constructions of post-pandemic worlds; Post-humanism/post-anthropocentrism
and multispecies interactions: etc.
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19. ONLINE: 18th Annual Islamicate
Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with
Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020
We are seeking submissions
from fields inclusive of, but not limited to: Religious Studies, Political
Science, Sociology, History, Art History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature,
Philosophy, Asian Studies, African American Studies, Geography, Women and
Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, and African Studies.
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20. Symposium: "Ottoman Ego-Documents", Istanbul Medeniyet
University, 7-9 April 2021
The symposium will be in English and Turkish. The
texts belonging to pre-Tanzimat period are particularly advisedb to present.
The primary sources used in the presentations can be in Ottoman Turkish,
Arabic, Persian or any other languages spoken/written in Ottoman territories.
The main focus would be on the texts writ-ten in Ottoman Turkish.
Information: https://benanlatilari.medeniyet.edu.tr/en
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21.
14th Annual Conference of the Michigan State University
Muslim Studies on "Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment
Media, and Social Media", East Lansing, MI, 8-9 April 2021
Panelists from computer science, sociology,
anthropology, religious studies, political science, communication, media
studies, and psychology are invited to present their research on Islamophobia
in the news media, entertainment media, and on social media.
Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/ (select
"2021")
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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.
Information: mec-conference@sas.upenn.edu
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23.
International
Conference of the British Association of Teachers of Arabic: "Teaching,
Research and Scholarship Excellence in Arabic Language, Culture, Literature,
Linguistics and Translation", University of Leeds, 24-25 June 2021
The Conference offers a platform for teachers, students and
research scholars of Arabic language, culture, literature, linguistics and
translation, to exchange ideas, share good practice and disseminate their
scholarship and research to a wider audience.
Deadline
for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information: https://britisharabicteaching.org/bata-conference-24-25-june-2021
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24.
ONLINE
Papers on "What Does Diaspora Mean in the 21st Century"
during the "12th International Convention of Asia Scholars
(ICAS 12)", Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021
The conference will explore the meaning of diaspora in the 21st
century. The diasporic discourse is at risk of becoming teleological as a means
of articulation, and, thereby, masking the very real struggles that may only
eventually produce collectiveness. Or, does this disavow any room for dynamics
within diasporic studies? The globalisation also brings with it a whole new set
of parameters for perspectives on belonging.
Deadline
for abstracts: 11 December 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6752090/icas-conference-diaspora-call-papers
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25. Maghreb Review and Maghreb Studies
Association Conference: “Empires in the Middle East and the Maghreb: The
Shaping of Hopes and Perspectives”, Oxford, 13-14 September 2021
Papers should deal with various aspects of the question of how colonial
rule, and its demise, has shaped the perceptions of one another held by the
colonial powers and the colonised peoples of the MENA region, including debates
and conflicts that came to the fore in the post-colonial period. The conference
will be in English or French. Papers will be published in "The Maghreb
Review".
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2021.
Information: maghreb@maghrebreview.com
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26. Conference on "The Visual Culture of
Mosques", King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra), Dahran, 23-25 November
2021
Architects, designers, archeologists, artists, writers, historians and
curators are invited to present their original research, objects or insights
about mosques and related cultural objects. Categories of submission include: Research
papers; Models, objects; Posters; Audio-visual productions.
Deadline for submissions: 28 December 2020.
Information: https://www.ithra.com/en/visual-culture-mosques
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27.
20th ISA World Congress of Sociology on "Resurgent
Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and
Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July 2022
Mind this date! Information: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress
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28. "34. Deutscher Orientalistentag / 34th German
Oriental Congress" Combined with the "28th International
Congress of the German Middle Eastern Studies Association (DAVO)", Berlin,
11-17 September 2022
Mind this date!
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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
30. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Years) for Project "Warnings
from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East",
University of Exeter
This is a systematic archive-based comparison of two official
inquiries into British military intervention in Iraq: the Mesopotamia
Commission (1917) and the Iraq Inquiry (2016). Qualification: PhD in a related
field of study, including Political Science, International Relations and
History; knowledge of the broad history of the British state and government
with reference to imperial/foreign policy in the 20th century;
extensive archival experience; etc.
Deadline for applications: 19 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=563699UG5t&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
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31. PhD Position (4 Years) for Research on
Muslim Interreligious Encounters in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, University of
Groningen
The PhD candidate is expected
to have a thorough training in research skills, to be fluent in English (both
oral and written) and be able to carry out research in one or more languages
(such as Arabic and Spanish), etc.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020.
Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007XJP&cat=phd
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32. Assistant or
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Doha Institute for Graduate
Studies
The candidate must have a PhD in Comparative Literature. Please
note that the Ph.D. requirement must have been fulfilled by 1 September 2021.
Preference will be given to female candidates with specializations in literary
theory, approaches to World Literature and the new comparative literature, and
with demonstrable expertise in Arabic literature and an Asian, African or Latin
American literature.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020. Information:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/09/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-comparative-literature
33. Two Positions
in International Relations at Assistant or Associate Professor Levels, American
University in Cairo
A PhD is required at the time of appointment. Successful candidates
should have an ongoing research and publication program and teaching
experience. In addition to research and teaching, responsibilities include
service to the Department and the University.
Priority
will be given to applications received by 15 December 2020. The position is
open until filled. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/pols-international-relations
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34. Full Time
Faculty Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo
A PhD in sociology or a related
discipline with the ability to teach and publish within the discipline of
sociology. Commitment to teaching and engagement of students, as well as
service to the university, particularly the sociology program and the
department, are necessary, as well as an active research agenda.
Deadline for applications: 10 January 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/full-time-faculty-position-in-sociology-fall-2021
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35. Postdoctoral
Associate, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
This fellowship is open to scholars in all fields of Jewish
Studies; preference will be given to scholars who strengthen and/or complement
the intellectual interests of Center-affiliated faculty. To that end we
particularly encourage applications in the fields of Archaeology of the
Southern Levant, Kabbalah and Hasidism, and Medieval to Modern Jewish
Philosophy.
Deadline
for applications: 15 January 2021. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60621
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36. The Qatar Postdoctoral
Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC
Applicants must have completed a PhD within the past five years;
the PhD degree must be from a university in the United States; applicants will
be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of
their academic record.
Deadline for
applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78670
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37. American Druze
Foundation (ADF) Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
The fellowship will be awarded to a doctoral graduate (Ph.D.) from
an accredited university or granting institution. The fellowship is based on an
international competition. Applicants must have a record of relevant research
in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics,
anthropology, and archaeology. Applicants will be assessed on the originality
of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.
Deadline
for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78701
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38. 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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39. Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Jewish
Studies (2021-2022), Columbia University and Fordham University
Requirements are a Ph.D. granted between 1 June 2017 and 30 June 2021
and an excellent command of Hebrew. Fellows will be expected to be in residence
between 15 August 2021 and 31 May 2022, teach one undergraduate course per
semester, give one public lecture and a faculty seminar during their fellowship
period, and participate in the intellectual life of the two institutions.
Deadline for application: 31 December 2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6451643/featured-job-rabin-shvidler-joint-postdoctoral-fellowship
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40. Assistant Professor for Late Antiquity
and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough
Applicants must have a Ph.D.
in Classics, Middle East Studies, History, Religion, Art History, Archeology,
or another, closely related discipline. They must demonstrate a record of excellence
in research and teaching in the field of Late Antique studies and/or the study
of early Islam both conceptually and methodologically.
Deadline for application: 30 November 2020.
Information: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Late-Antiquity-andor-Early-Islam-ON/541785217/
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SONSTIGE INFORMATIONEN / OTHER INFORMATION
41. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and
Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan
ACOR promotes study, teaching,
and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a
focus. We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021.
Information: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/
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42.
ONLINE Course on "Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in
the Modern Middle East", Institute of Muslim Civilisation, Aga Khan
University, London, 11 & 18 December 2020
This is an introductory course
on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims
to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users.
In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of
its socio-political and religious context through its connections to ethnicity,
gender, nationalism, as much as religion.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/religious-cultural-heritage-concepts-and-issues-in-the-modern-middle-east-tickets-125137001139
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43. ONLINE Course on "Bridging the Great
Divide: The Jewish-Muslim Encounter", Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 11
January - 25 April 2021
Despite their closeness in
belief and practice, today, Jewish-Muslim interactions are often the source of
intense religious conflict. This course will explore the history, culture and
theology of Muslims and Jews, reflecting both on similarities and differences
as well as discussing the major challenges.
Deadline for application: 13 December 2020.
Information: https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/study/online-courses/bridging-the-great-divide-the-jewish-muslim-encounter
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44. 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.
Deadline for articles: 15 March
2021. Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/index.php?id=7418&L=1
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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.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religious_Arab
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46. Articles on “Israel Studies as a Global
Discipline” for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Israeli History”
In
addition to critical explorations of more established regional clusters (like
the UK), the special issue will emphasize emerging and less-explored scholarly
writing on Zionism and Israel, whether in Central and Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, East Asia, South Asia, Africa or Latin America.
Deadline for submissions: 15
December 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/6166222/pdf
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47. Articles on "Majority versus Proportionality? Trajectories of
Electoral Reform in the Mediterranean since the 1990s" for Special Issue
of the "Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (ZfVP) /
Comparative Governance and Politics"
Articles should analyze electoral system reforms in the
Mediterranean region under the aspect of improving governability or increasing
proportionality of representation. How is this dilemma addressed in the Mediterranean
region?
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/12/cfp-electoral-reform-in-the-mediterranean-region
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48. Articles on "Migration, Human Trafficking and Displacement in
the Horn of Africa" for Special Issue of "African and Black Diaspora:
An International Journal" (Routledge)
This issue seeks to shed light on the diverse dimensions of
migration within the Horn of Africa and beyond in order to foster debates on
migration and the ways in which local actors such as states, humanitarian
agencies (NGO's), human traffickers and criminal organizations play an active
role in migration, human trafficking and displacement of people from the Horn
of Africa to Europe, the Gulf states and beyond.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6720437/migration-human-trafficking-and-displacement-horn-africa
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49. Articles on
“Power(s) in Palestine” for Special Issue of “Confluences Méditerranée”
This isssue will focus on the new sources, practices, and
mechanisms of power(s) and their symbolic role and dimensions. The main themes
will be: Institutional questions, political governance and partisan struggles;
Palestinians on the international stage; Economic transformations and political
power: new forms of domination.
Deadline
for abstracts: 1 December 2020.
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50. 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 expe-rience
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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51. Articles from Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa for
"Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)"
The Digest's primary focus is on contemporary policy-relevant
issues. DOMES primarily aims to receive submissions from disciplines in Social
Sciences. Submissions for special issue are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/cfp-digest-of-middle-east-studies-domes
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52. Chapters for Edited Book on "Living with Tourism: Paradoxes,
Empowerment and Future Directions (Focus MENA Region)"
We seek proposals exploring tourism impacts, involvement,
resilience, tensions and paradoxes on local communities and their hosting,
production and consumption relationship practices revealed in the
particularities of each touristic destination. We also invite proposals
concerning broader discussions on future directions of tourism as a result of
the unprecedented worldwide changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline
for abstracts: 30 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6769711/call-book-chapters-living-tourism-paradoxes-empowerment-and
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53. Chapters for Edited Volume on "The
Gendered Arab"
Topics
include: The criteria of cisheteronormative masculinity in the Arab world; the
unparalleled perceptions of the Arabian male figure in comparison to the
traditional Non-Arab patriarchal archetype; conceptualizing the role of the
domesticated Arab mother in terms of comparative individuality with the Western
notion of motherness; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November
2020.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6345674/gendered-arab
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54. Chapters for Edited Volume on "New Methods
in the Study of Islam"
Topics
include: Method vs. Methodology in the Study of Islam; Existing Paradigms in
Methodological Study of Islam; Decolonizing Methods/Methodologies in Islamic
Studies; Easternism, Westernism and Centrality in Methods; Historicizing and
Universalizing Methods in Islamic Studies: etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November
2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6334585/call-abstracts-new-methods-study-islam
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55. ONLINE Dossier on Media and Corona in the Arab World by the
"Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers (AREACORE)"
COVID-19 has serious effects on media systems, journalism practices
and freedom of expression in the MENA region. There are alarming trends in some
countries which are monitored by AREACORE in English and Arabic, including
movies dealing with the relation of media, journalism and Corona: The Moroccan
Media in Times of Corona; Yemen & Corona: War x War; Media and Coronavirus
Pandemic in Oman; The Jordanian Floyd; The Media and Corona in Egypt.
Information: http://www.areacore.org/dossier-media-corona
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56. New Research Platform and Online Journal:
“Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and
Heritage in the MENA Region”
Manazir is oriented towards a diversity of
transcultural and transdisciplinary “landscapes” and “points of views” and open
to a multiplicity of themes, epochs and geographical areas. The Platform
disseminates information regarding conferences, workshops, publications and
exhibitions. Research results are also promoted through Manazir Journal, a
peer-reviewed online journal that regularly publishes thematic issues in
platinum open access.
Information: https://www.manazir.art/
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