dimanche 22 novembre 2020

EURAMES Info Service 47/2020

 CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS

 

1.    ONLINE Seminar "Unleashing a New Way of Warfare: How Turkey's Drones and Air Defense Systems Won the War for Tripoli", Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., 23 November 2020, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, EST

 

2.    ONLINE Book Presentation: "Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish Memory" by David Leupold, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 23 November 2020, 5:00-6:30 pm, CET

 

3.    ONLINE Book Presentation "Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran", Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice, SOAS, London, 24 November 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm, GMT

 

4.    ONLINE Seminar "China’s Engagement and Relations with Iran", Middle East Institute and Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London, 24 November 2020, 5:00-7:00 pm, GMT

 

5.    ONLINE Seminar "Afghanistan in Southwest Asia: The Search for Peace, Reconciliation and Security”, Strategic Group, Oxford University, 24 November 2020, 7:00 pm, GMT

 

6.    ONLINE Lecture "The Revival of Twelver Shi’i Tafsīr in Early Modern and Modern Times: Three Case Studies", Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 25 November 2020, 2:00-4:00 pm, GMT

 

7.    ONLINE Event "Arming the War in Yemen", Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, London, 25 November 2020, 3:00-4.30 pm, GMT

 

8.    ONLINE Events of the Middle East & North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS), 25 November - 11 December 2020

 

9.    ONLINE Book Launch on "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads", Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 26 November 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm, SGT

 

10.  ONLINE Symposium "The Idea of Iran: Iran in Transition to a New World Order", Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London, 28 November 2020, 11:45 am – 7:15 pm, GMT

 

11.  ONLINE Discussion on Book Lunch "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" by Laura Robson, Penn State University, 1 December 2020, 12:00 pm, EST

 

12.  ONLINE Research Panel "Black Saints, Turkish Enemies: Slavery, Captivity, and Salvation in the Atlantic Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Studies Group, University of Colorado, 2 December 2020, 11:30 am, MST

 

13.  ONLINE Webinar Series "COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity", Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 2 December 2020, 1:00 pm, EDT

 

14.  ONLINE Lectures on the "Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Worlds", University of California Humanities Research Institute, 3 – 10 December 2020

 

15.  ONLINE: International eConference on Interreligious Dialogue, Global Center for Religious Research (GCRR), 4 – 6 December 2020

 

16.  ONLINE "4th International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies in Turkey", Organized by "Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies", 7 – 10 December 2020

 

17.  ONLINE Symposium: "British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts, Experiences and Responses", Muslims in Britain Research Network, 8 December 2020, 1:00-5:00 pm, GMT

 

18.  ONLINE Séminaire RTP ICC : « Francité sur les bords : l’identité française, pluralité, et les communautés musulmanes et catholiques », cadre du séminaire « Actualités de la recherche sur les mondes musulmans », IISMM, Paris, 10 décembre 2020, 16h-18h

 

19.  ONLINE Seminar "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic",  Middle East Institute, SOAS, London, 15 December 2020, 5.30 pm-7.00 pm, GMT

 

20.  ONLINE: International Conference on "10 Years On: The People & The Protests", Project SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK, 17-18 December 2020

 

21.  ONLINE 2nd Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15 March 2021

 

22.  ONLINE Symposium: “Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian Context”, University of Toronto, 27 March 2021

 

23.  ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, 8-11 April 2021

 

24.  ONLINE International Conference: "The Fragility of Global Migration", Center of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021

 

25.  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

 

26.  Maghreb/Afrique subsaharienne : « L’Afrique dans les sciences humaines et sociales : regards croisés et approches méthodologiques », Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Juin 2021

 

27.  Conference of the Red Sea Project X: “Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete, Rethymno Greece, 16-19 June 2021

 

28.  "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021

 

29.  Mediterranean Studies Symposium, Ortigia, Italy, 1-4 July 2021

 

30.  3rd Workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World – The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States,” University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021

 

31.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021

 

32.  PhD Workshop on "Unthought Perspectives in the Study of Turkish Islam: Methodology and Research Prospects”, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies, Paris (Date in 2021 to be announced)

 

 

POSITIONS

 

33.  Five Postdoctoral Fellowships, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

 

34.  Postdoc Resident Fellowship (1-12 Months), RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Hamburg University

 

35.  Doctoral Position in Global or Extra-European History (Middle Eastern History), ETH Zürich

 

36.  Full-time Faculty Position in Anthropology Fall 2021, American University in Cairo (AUC)

 

37.  Assistant/Associate/Professor for the History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Furman University, Greenville, SC

 

38.  Ehsan Yarshater-PHF Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022, Yale Program in Iranian Studies

 

39.  Assistant Professor, Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

 

 

OTHER INFORMATION

 

40.  International Parliamentary Scholarship for Young People from the Arab Region to Take Part in the Program in Berlin, 1-30 September 2021

 

41.  Grant for a Visiting Research Fellowship in Omani Studies (3 Months), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin

 

42.  MA Dual Degree in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia (New York) and Aga Khan University (London)

 

43.  Fully Funded Scholarship for the Aga Khan / Columbia University Dual Degree MA Student Fellowship

 

44.  Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis on the Study of Islam and the Muslim World by the British Association of Islam Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter

 

45.  Prize for the Best First Book in Mediterranean Studies, Mediterranean Seminar/CU Mediterranean Studies Group

 

46.  Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media” for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”

 

47.  Articles on "Business People in War Times and Alternative Economies and Exchange during Armed Conflicts (in the MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies"

 

48.  Articles on "Reclaiming Art in Urban Public Space in the MENA Region – Artistic Practices, Political Expression and Public Space Transformations" for Special Issue of "Manazir Journal" (Université de Genève)

 

49.  Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science, Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of "MIDEO" 38 (2023)

 

50.  Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of "Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"

 

51.  Chapters on "New Methods in the Study of Islam" for Special Volume of Brill`s "Supplements to Theory and Method in the Study of Religion"

 

52.  Submissions for the New "Journal of Islamic Law"

 

53.  Results of "The 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index", Conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar

 

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Guenter Meyer, Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah

 

 

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CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS

 

1.    ONLINE Seminar "Unleashing a New Way of Warfare: How Turkey's Drones and Air Defense Systems Won the War for Tripoli", Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., 23 November 2020, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm, EST

 

Jason Pack (Deputy Director of the European Union Institute of Strategic Studies) and Wolfgang Pusztal (Former Austrian Military Attache to Libya) will focus on: What strategies and tactics did Turkey establish throughout its involvement? Which modern military technologies helped shape the outcome of the War for Tripoli? What are the next likely steps in the international community’s mediation efforts in Libya?

 

Information and registration: https://www.mei.edu/events/unleashing-new-way-warfare-how-turkeys-drones-and-air-defense-systems-won-war-tripoli

 

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2.    ONLINE Book Presentation: "Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish Memory" by David Leupold, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 23 November 2020, 5:00-6:30 pm, CET

 

Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts.

 

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/embattled-dreamlands-the-politics-of-contesting-armenian-turkish-and-kurdish-memory

 

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3.    ONLINE Book Presentation "Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran", Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice, SOAS, London, 24 November 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm, GMT

 

The author Dr. Arzoo Osanloo (University of Washington) will introduce Iran’s victim-centered criminal justice system through an examination of various actors' roles in mediation and will further reflect on the relationship between forbearance and rights in criminal justice.

 

Information and registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/389671265707085/

 

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4.    ONLINE Seminar "China’s Engagement and Relations with Iran", Middle East Institute and Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London, 24 November 2020, 5:00-7:00 pm, GMT

 

Speaker: Prof. Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University). The shared perception of the United States as an intrusive Asian actor has been accelerated by the process of ‘systemic shift’, the surge in China’s thirst for Persian Gulf’s hydrocarbons, Iran’s ‘Asianization’, the BRI’s ambitious drive to build a new Eurasian space, and the sustained pressure of sanctions and economic isolation imposed on the Islamic Republic.

 

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/24nov2020-chinas-engagement-and-relations-with-iran.html

5.    ONLINE Seminar "Afghanistan in Southwest Asia: The Search for Peace, Reconciliation and Security”, Strategic Group, Oxford University, 24 November 2020, 7:00 pm, GMT

 

Speaker: Professor Iftikhar Malik (Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of International History at Bath Spa University) is author of the book "Pashtun Identity and Geopolitics of Southwest Asia: Pakistan and Afghanistan since 9/11".

 

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6814007/seminar-afghanistan-oxford

 

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6.    ONLINE Lecture "The Revival of Twelver Shi’i Tafsīr in Early Modern and Modern Times: Three Case Studies", Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 25 November 2020, 2:00-4:00 pm, GMT

 

Speaker: Dr Mathieu Terrier (CNRS, Paris). An impressive revival of the Imami Tafsīr can be observed in the Ilkhanid period, and even more so during the Safavid era in Iran, in the context of interfacing between Imami Shi’ism, Sufism and philosophy. The lecture will illustrate the evolution of Imami Qur’anic exegesis in its coherence and diversity.

 

Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/revival-twelver-shii-tafsir-early-modern-and-modern-times-three-case-studies

 

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7.    ONLINE Event "Arming the War in Yemen", Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, London, 25 November 2020, 3:00-4:30 pm, GMT

 

Prof. Anna Stavriankis (University of Sussex) focuses on UK arms export policy as a way into thinking about the insecurity generated by the war in Yemen. She will outline the ways in which the UK state mobilises the practice of risk assessment to facilitate arms exports through systematic humanitarian law violations. She will also examine the curious absence of the war in Yemen in scholarship on UK foreign policy.

 

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/politics/events/departmental-seminars/25nov2020-arming-the-war-in-yemen.html

 

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8.    ONLINE Events of the Middle East & North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS), 25 November –

11 December 2020

 

25 November: Najda Makhlouf: "El Moudjahidate: Invisible to Visible: The Role and Memory of Women Anti-Colonial Resistance Fighters in Algeria" - in conversation with Prof Martin Evans about her exhibition.

 

30 November: Dr Anne Irfan (Oxford); "Researching Palestinian Refugee History” - in conversation with Dr Jacob Norris.

 

9 December: Sarah El Hamed (performance artist): "Cheikha Rimitti, the Iconic Mother of Raï and Her Legacy: Resistance Music, Rebels and the Breaking of Social Taboos in Algerian Society" - in conversation with Prof Martin Evans on Cheikha Rimitti and her iconic role in the long history of protest music in Algeria.

 

11 Dec.: Dr Francis Clark-Lowes, Book Presentation of Riad ElTaher’s "O Daughter of Babylon" - in conversation with Dr Ali Kassem.

 

Information and registration: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=menacs-events---autumn-2020---final.pdf&site=525

 

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9.    ONLINE Book Launch on "Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads", Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 26 November 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm, SGT

 

Author: David Rundell (former American diplomat, partner of "Arabia Analytica”, Dubai). He argues that King Salman may have made Saudi Arabia less stable by turning it into a country in which absolute political and military power have been concentrated in the hands of one man, ruling over a young population that aspires for greater transparency and accountability.

 

Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/17/book-launch-vision-or-mirage-saudi-arabia-at-the-crossroads

 

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10.  ONLINE Symposium "The Idea of Iran: Iran in Transition to a New World Order", Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London, 28 November 2020, 11:45 am – 7:15 pm, GMT

 

Convenors: Charles Melville (University of Cambridge) and Sarah Stewart (SOAS). What does the Idea of Iran mean in the 18th century? Can we discern the ways that contemporaries viewed their traditions and their environment (natural or built); what was the view of outsiders, and how does modern scholarship define the distinctive aspects of the period?

 

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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11.  ONLINE Discussion on Book Lunch "The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle East" by Laura Robson, Penn State University, 1 December 2020, 12:00 pm, EST

 

The author uses a framework of mass violence – encompassing the concepts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, forced migration, appropriation of resources, mass deportation, and forcible denationalization – to explain the emergence of a dystopian politics of identity across the Eastern Mediterranean in the modern era and to illuminate the contemporary breakdown of the state from Syria to Iraq to Israel. Discussants: Joel Beinin, Mustafa Aksakal, Dirk Moses, and Laura Robson.

 

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6800266/book-launch-politics-mass-violence-middle-east-laura-robson

 

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12.  ONLINE Research Panel "Black Saints, Turkish Enemies: Slavery, Captivity, and Salvation in the Atlantic Mediterranean,” Mediterranean Studies Group, University of Colorado, 2 December 2020, 11:30 am, MST

 

Erin Rowe (Johns Hopkins University) discusses early modern Spaniards’ thinking about race, salvation, and different modalities of enslavement as the presence of newly baptized black Africans introduced a third element to the Christian-Islamic dyad.

 

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-black-saints-turkish-enemies-slavery-captivity-and-salvation-in-the-atlantic-mediterranean-erin-rowe-2-december-1130am-mst-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d

 

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13.  ONLINE Webinar Series "COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity", Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 2 December 2020, 1:00 pm, EDT

 

Nancy Khalil (University of Michigan), “US Imams and Efforts to Prevent a Professional Epidemic in a Pandemic”.

 

Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063. For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/

 

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14.  ONLINE Lectures on the "Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Worlds", University of California Humanities Research Institute, 3 – 10 December 2020

 

3 Dec.: Mary Elston (Harvard Law School): “Heritage (Turāth) in Modern Egypt: From Muḥammad ‘Abduh to Ali Gomaa”

 

10 Dec.: Ana Sekulic (European University Institute): "Bosnia between Wilderness and Heavenly Gardens: The Making of Religious Belonging and Landscape in the Ottoman Empire"

 

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/zoom-lectures-on-the-ottoman-and-post-ottoman-worlds-october-december-2020?e=82aeb6c61d

 

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15.  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.

 

Information and registration: https://www.gcrr.org/2020interreligiousdialogue

 

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16.  ONLINE "4th International Conference on Israel and Judaism Studies in Turkey", Organized by "Israiliyat: Journal of Israeli and Judaic Studies", 7-10 December 2020

 

The Conference will 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? Etc.

 

Deadline for abstracts has been extended to 3 December 2020. Information: http://israiliyat.com/en/pub/page/8782

 

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17.  ONLINE Symposium: "British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts, Experiences and Responses", Muslims in Britain Research Network, 8 December 2020, 1:00-5:00 pm, GMT

 

Papers are invited that explore any dimension of Muslim identity / lived experiences in relation to the pandemic, lockdown and subsequent socio-economic implications of Covid-19 in Britain.

 

Information: https://www.mbrn.org.uk/call-for-papers-british-muslims-and-covid-19-impacts-experiences-and-responses/

 

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18.  ONLINE Séminaire RTP ICC : « Francité sur les bords : l’identité française, pluralité, et les communautés musulmanes et catholiques », cadre du séminaire « Actualités de la recherche sur les mondes musulmans », IISMM, Paris, 10 décembre 2020, 16h-18h

 

Avec Carol Ferrara (Assistant Professor, Emerson College) et Discutante Françoise Lorcerie (Directrice de recherches au CNRS, IREMAM).

 

Information et inscription: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/50340

 

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19.  ONLINE Seminar "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic",  Middle East Institute, SOAS, London, 15 December 2020, 5:30-7:00 pm, GMT

 

Over ten years, the speaker Narges Bajoghli (Johns Hopkins University) who is also author of the new book "Iran Reframed",  met with men in Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Ansar Hezbollah, and Basij paramilitary organizations to investigate how their media producers developed strategies to court Iranian youth. This book offers a multilayered story about what it means to be pro-regime in the Islamic Republic, challenging everything we think we know about Iran and revolution.

 

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/15dec2020-iran-reframed-anxieties-of-power-in-the-islamic-republic.html

 

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20.  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.

 

Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/conference-and-call-for-papers

 

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21.  ONLINE 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.

 

Information: https://www.progressiveconnexions.net/interdisciplinary-projects/evil/violence/conferences/

 

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22.  ONLINE Symposium: “Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian Context”, University of Toronto, 27 March 2021

 

This symposium addresses a simple, yet underexplored, question: How is Muslim philanthropy developing in a secular liberal democracy such as Canada? The symposium will be a pioneering event bringing together scholars from a variety of disciplines and practitioners working in the non-profit/charitable sector.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 24 December 2020. Information: https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=JsKqeAMvTUuQN7RtVsVSEPPJaGxaHCpEvDKPihpEmi1UN0I2TUxKMVNMWE04MlI5MEg5S0xOUTBEQy4u

 

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23.  ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, 8-11 April 2021

 

This seminar engages with literary texts from diverse Mediterranean literary traditions, periods, and genres in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, while being theoretically aware of their potential to challenge canonical interpretations of critical artistic, political, religious, and linguistic issues relevant to their and/or other national traditions in the region.

 

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-acla-2021-national-and-regional-dimension-of-mediterranean-studies-8-11-april-2021-virtual?e=82aeb6c61d

 

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24.  ONLINE International Conference: "The Fragility of Global Migration", Center of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021

 

Papers are invited on environmental disasters, unnatural catastrophes, and all sorts of crises that lead to stalled and failed migration processes, and the consequences in the migration between the Global North and the Global South, including processes of refugee migration which are structurally fragile, involving vulnerabilities, difficult encounters, and often overwhelming economic, social, or legal hindrances.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/50226.html?cid=25115

 

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25.  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. 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.

 

Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/fifth-conference

 

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26.  Maghreb/Afrique subsaharienne : « L’Afrique dans les sciences humaines et sociales : regards croisés et approches méthodologiques », Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, Juin 2021

 

Destinée aux doctorants en sciences sociale inscrits dans une université ou rattachés à un laboratoire situé dans un pays d’Afrique du Nord ou d’Afrique sub-saharienne, elle a pour objectif d’apporter un soutien méthodologique tout en stimulant la coopération scientifique entre l’Afrique de l’Ouest, l’Afrique du Nord et l’Europe.

 

Information : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QsKCYy-Rq_BvgNNyGuswv5l8qgbDkZST/view?fbclid=IwAR3fVlHYk1EuudYDRbCtuUhPJ7Knppq4wXKKYD1e8BdU1bZ1Q4DWlszYgFY

 

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27.  Conference of the Red Sea Project X: “Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete, Rethymno Greece, 16-19 June 2021

 

Papers will explore edges and transitions in the histories and material cultures of the Red Sea, or reflect on the historical horizons and invisible boundaries in Red Sea research. Themes include: Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal borders; the medieval and early modern, with an emphasis on the Ottoman Red Sea; etc.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/6586815/call-papers-red-sea-project-x-red-sea-horizons-edges-and

 

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28.  "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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29.  Mediterranean Studies Symposium, Ortigia, Italy, 1-4 July 2021

 

Preferred attention will be given to proposals about Sicily but focus on other areas of the Mediterranean region will be gladly considered. Interdisciplinary approaches from humanities, social sciences, media studies, and other fields of study are pivotal. Any historical period of reference is welcome.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 29 November 2020. Information: https://www.cla.auburn.edu/international/programs-and-events/mediterranean-studies-symposium/

 

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30.  3rd Workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World – The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States,” University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021

 

Topics include: The Anthropocene within the context of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world; Urban and rural environmental history; Histories of water, soil, forests and mines; History of medicine, health and disease; Environmental histories of gender, labour and inequality; Environmental histories of wars, armed conflicts and violence; Ecology and Ottoman/Turkish literature; etc.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2021. Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021

31.  3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 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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32.  PhD Workshop on "Unthought Perspectives in the Study of Turkish Islam: Methodology and Research Prospects”, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies, Paris (Date in 2021 to be announced)

 

This workshop invites Master, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who share a common object of study (i.e, the various aspects of Turkish Islam), to consider what remains unthought in their research projects.

 

Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2021. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/10/Unthought_Turkish_Islam_2021.pdf

 

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POSITIONS

 

33.  Five Postdoctoral Fellowships, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

 

Applications are invited for the academic year 2020/21 for the research program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe” (EUME). The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars in the humanities and social sciences who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years.

 

Deadline for applications: 6 January 2021. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/eume/pdf/ausschreibung/EUME_CfA_2021-22/EUME-2021-2022-CfA.pdf

 

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34.  Postdoc Resident Fellowship (1-12 Months), RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Hamburg University

 

Scholars are invited from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. Scholars working on comparative empire and transcultural studies in a broader historical (or contemporary) perspective whose research has a strong focus on theoretical and methodological issues are also welcome.

 

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020. Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cffellows.pdf

 

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35.  Doctoral Position in Global or Extra-European History (Middle Eastern History), ETH Zürich

 

Requirements: M.A. (or an M.Phil.), background in 18th to 20th century Global History; Imperial/Colonial History, Middle Eastern History and related fields; proficiency in English. Preference will be given to candidates who additionally master at least one non-European Language, such as Arabic. Knowledge of German and/or French is a welcome asset, but not mandatory.

 

Deadline for applications: 25 November 2020. Information: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/ifg/geschichte-der-modernen-welt/documents/2020-10-22_ETHZ_GMW_Open%20PhD%20Position.pdf

 

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36.  Full-time Faculty Position in Anthropology Fall 2021, American University in Cairo (AUC)

 

The AUC is seeking to recruit an Assistant Professor of Anthropology for a four-year contract beginning Fall 2021. Requirements: A PhD in Cultural Anthropology or Social Anthropology and a demonstrable ability to teach a broad range of subjects within the discipline to both undergraduate and graduate students. An active research and publication agenda, and a readiness to undertake service to the program, department and university.

 

Priority will be given to applications that are submitted by 20 December 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60669

 

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37.  Assistant/Associate/Professor for the History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Furman University, Greenville, SC

 

The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in hand by the start of appointment on 1 August 2021 and will be expected to be or become an excellent classroom instructor and student mentor, establish and maintain an active scholarly agenda. Etc.

 

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60686

 

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38.  Ehsan Yarshater-PHF Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022, Yale Program in Iranian Studies

 

The Associate in all fields of humanities and social, political and environmental sciences will teach one undergraduate seminar in the Fall or Spring semester, pursue their own research, and help to organize the activities of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies (YPIS). Post-doctoral Associates are expected to work collaboratively with the Council on Middle East Studies and be in residence from August 2021 to May 2022.

 

Deadline for application: 31 December 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/79421

 

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39.  Assistant Professor, Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada

 

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 applications: 30 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Late-Antiquity-andor-Early-Islam-ON/541785217/

 

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OTHER INFORMATION

 

40.  International Parliamentary Scholarship for Young People from the Arab Region to Take Part in the Program in Berlin, 1-30 September 2021

 

During an intensive four-week programme, participants have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the German parliamentary system and political decision making processes. The programme is aimed at highly-qualified young women and men from the Arab region who are interested in politics and wish to play an active role in shaping the democratic future of their country.

 

Deadline for application extended to 1 December 2020. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618

 

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41.  Grant for a Visiting Research Fellowship in Omani Studies (3 Months), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin

 

We are seeking an outstanding postdoctoral scholar who is engaged in projects in research fields related to Omani Studies.

 

Deadline for application extended to 6 January 2021. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/CfP_TheOmanResearchGrant_ZMO_2021.pdf

 

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42.  MA Dual Degree in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia (New York) and Aga Khan University (London)

 

Students focus on the critical academic study of Islamic religious and intellectual traditions and on the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim communities. Students spend the first part in New York, and part two in London, and receive degrees from both institutions.

 

Deadline for fall admission: 11 February 2021. Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-masters-degree

 

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43.  Fully Funded Scholarship for the Aga Khan / Columbia University Dual Degree MA Student Fellowship

 

The fellowship provides multi-year full funding support covering full tuition and a stipend for living expenses. The fellowship will recognize and support an outstanding student in carrying out innovative scholarship in Muslim and Islamic studies.

 

Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-degree-funding

 

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44.  Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis on the Study of Islam and the Muslim World by the British Association of  Islam Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter

 

This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world are accepted. The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000.

 

Deadline for application:  31 December 2020. Information: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2021

 

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45.  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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46.  Articles on “MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media” for Special Issue of “Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”

 

This special issue seeks scholarly contributions that engage questions relating to the representation of contemporary diaspora and migration issues through analyses of representations in local, national, or transnational contexts, both in the Global North and South. We welcome topics including but not limited to examinations of otherness, statelessness, self-representation, cultural citizenship, diasporic activism, and aesthetics of representation.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2021. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/23

 

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47.  Articles on "Business People in War Times and Alternative Economies and Exchange during Armed Conflicts (in the MENA Region)" for Special Issue of "Turkish Journal of Middle Eastern Studies"

 

Given that capital flight constitutes one of the most important dimensions of wars and conflicts and influences considerably the current course of the (post-) conflict processes, this special issue aims to analyze displaced business peoples' economic activities and their motivations in general for engagement in their places of origin and the host countries.

 

Deadline for full texts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://ormer.sakarya.edu.tr/4,3,,208,call_for_papers_in_turkish_journal_of_middle_eastern_studies.html

 

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48.  Articles on "Reclaiming Art in Urban Public Space in the MENA Region – Artistic Practices, Political Expression and Public Space Transformations" for Special Issue of "Manazir Journal" (Université de Genève)

 

This issue will examine how artistic practices and productions lead to the emergence of new definitions, limits and functions of public space, in its material, social, legal and political dimensions. It will explore existing tensions between the use of art as a means of reinventing or “re-publicizing” places.

 

Deadline for abstracts in English or French: 15 December 2020. Information: https://bop.unibe.ch/manazir/CFP

49.  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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50.  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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51.  Chapters on "New Methods in the Study of Islam" for Special Volume of Brill`s "Supplements to Theory and Method in the Study of Religion"

 

This book offers a modest proposal to discover new methods, methodologies and approaches that can be applied, utilized and conceived in the study of Islam and Islamic Studies. The volume also seeks to show how such methods and approaches help us understand Islam’s relationship to other religious traditions.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6627636/reminder-call-abstract-new-methods-study-islam-dl-nov-30

 

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52.  Submissions for the New "Journal of Islamic Law"

 

We are inviting submissions in Islamic law, as well as for its dynamic forum designed to feature scholarly responses, debates, or new developments in Islamic law scholarship or at the intersection of Islamic law and data science. Submissions may take many forms, including: Articles, Essays, Case Briefs, Student Notes, Book Reviews, and Data Science Reviews.

 

Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2020. Information: https://journalofislamiclaw.com/current/about/submissions

 

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53.  Results of "The 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index", Conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar

 

The latest study is based on the findings of face-to-face interviews conducted with 28,288 individual respondents in 13 Arab countries. Main sections are: Living Conditions of Arab Citizens; Perceptions of State Institutions; The Arab Public’s Attitudes toward Democracy; Religion and Religiosity in the Public Sphere; Arab Public Opinion and Intra-Arab Relations; Arab Public Opinion toward ISIL.

 

Information and download: http://arabcenterdc.org/survey/the-2019-2020-arab-opinion-index-main-results-in-brief/

 

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