CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Book Presentation by Hilal Alkan (ZMO) and
Nazan Maksudyan (FU Berlin/Centre Marc Bloch): "Urban Neighbourhood Formations.
Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
(ZMO), Berlin, 11 January 2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CET
2. ONLINE Colloque «
Islams et luttes de l’immigration », Institut Convergences Migrations, Sciences
Po Toulouse, 11-12 janvier 2021
3. ONLINE Roundtable
"New Voices in Middle East Studies", British Society for Middle
Eastern Studies (BRISMES), 13 January 2021, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm GMT
4. ONLINE Séminaire
IISMM « Orient-Littératures » - Thème : "L’image du Monde arabe dans la
littérature européenne du XIXe siècle. Anthologies, différences et
influences", Paris, 14 janvier 2021, 11:00 - 13:00 h (CET)
5. ONLINE Lecture by
Franziska Fay: "Young Swahili-speakers in Oman and the ‘Zanzibar
Diaspora’", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 14 January
2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
6. ONLINE Lecture:
"Jews and Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean: The Life and
Afterlife of Nissim Shamama (1805-1873)", UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, 14 January 2021, 12:00 PT
7. 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
8.
ONLINE Arabic Teacher Workshop: "Teaching for
Social Justice in the World Language", Institute for Middle East Studies,
George Washington University, 16 January 2021, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST
9.
ONLINE Book Presentation by Malte Fuhrmann:
"Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late
Ottoman Empire", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 18 January
2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
10. ONLINE Séminaire
IISMM « Frontières et enfermements dans les sociétés arabes et les mondes
musulmans : incorporations, affects et vécus », Thème : « Des Frontières
affectées », 21 janvier 2021, 13:00 - 16:00 h CET
11.
ONLINE Conference on "Digital Hadith
Studies", Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 27 January 2021,
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm CET
12.
ONLINE National Conference on "Rahma and Karuna
– Compassion as Common Ground for Building Understanding between Islam and
Buddhism", International Islamic University Malaysia, 27 January 2021,
9:30 am - 4:00 pm (GMT+8)
13.
ONLINE Lecture by Hedayat Heikal:
"Constitutionalism in the Middle East and the Question of Democracy",
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 28 January 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:30
pm CET
14.
ONLINE Book Presentation by Mona Abaza (AUC):
"Cairo Collages. Everyday Life Practices after the Event",
Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 1 February 2021, 5:00-6:30 pm
CET
15.
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
16.
ONLINE Lecture by Max Weiss: "Cultural
History and/as Intellectual History in Baʿthist Syria", UCLA Center for
Near Eastern Studies, 23 February 2021, 3:00 pm PT
17.
ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of Minorities in
the Middle East and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces", UCLA Center
for Near Eastern Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2: 12 March
2021, 2:00 pm PT
18. ONLINE Discussion
"Trans/Formations in Arabic Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits",
Columbia University, 19 March 2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June 2021;
Second Session: 14-17 October 2021
19.
HYBRID "14th Annual International
Conference on Mediterranean Studies", Center for European &
Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), 29 March - 1 April 2021, Athens, Greece
20.
ONLINE 4th International Conference on
"Arabs' and Muslims' History of Sciences: Scientific Legacy and its
Contemporary Impacts", University of Sharjah, UAE, 4-6 April 2021
21.
Symposium: "Ottoman Ego-Documents",
Istanbul Medeniyet University, 7-9 April 2021
22. 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
24. ONLINE Workshop:
"Archival Methods and Global Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s",
Roskilde University, Denmark, 16-17 April 2021
25.
ONLINE Symposium on
“Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and the University
of California Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021
26.
Workshop on "Mitigation and Adaptation to
Impact of Climate Change in the MENA Region", Economic Research Forum
(ERF), June 2021
27.
21st International Conference of
Migration: "Border Thinking", Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt,
Austria, 17-18 June 2021
28. 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
29. Journée d’études : « Rire en Égypte :
l’humour dans la poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, Paris, 2
juillet 2021
30.
ONLINE "The Migration Conference 2021",
Ming-Ai Institute, London, 6-10 July 2021
31. ONLINE Panel on "What Does Diaspora
Mean in the 21st Century" during the "12th
International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12)", Kyoto, 24-27 August
2021
32. 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
33. Workshop on “Lived Citizenship, Uprising
and Migration: Everyday Politics, Imaginaries and Contestation", Max
Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG)/
SOAS/AUC, Berlin, 30 September – 1 October 2021
34. ONLINE International Conference on “Canon
and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History”, Berlin
Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8-10 October
2021
35. Workshop: “Expectations of Justice and
Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600-1500 CE), Leiden University,
27-29 October 2021
36. 55th
Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA),
28-31 October 2021 (Location to be Announced)
37. Conference on
"The Visual Culture of Mosques", King Abdulaziz Center for World
Culture (Ithra), Dahran, 23-25 November 2021
38. 20th ISA World Congress of
Sociology on "Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements
of Religions, Politics, and Economies", Melbourne, Australia, 24-30 July
2022
39.
"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
41. Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows Middle
East and North Africa and / or Asia (3 Years), German Institute for Global and
Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
42. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship on Middle
Eastern Futurism (2 Years), Department of Culture Studies and Oriental
Languages, University of Oslo
43. Four Postdoctoral Fellowships in Middle
East History, Tel Aviv University
44. Full Time
Faculty Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo
45. One-year Fellowships for Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Researchers
on Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
46. Assistant Professor of Political Science (Focus Middle East
Politics), Pennsylvania State University
47. Visiting Assistant Professor of Israel Studies, University of
Virginia
48. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History, Norwich University, Vermont
49. Postdoctoral
Associate, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University
50. Assistant Director, Arabic Program, University of Arizona, Tucson
OTHER INFORMATION
51. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and
Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan
52.
Prix de thèse Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans 2021, GIS
Moyen-Orient Mondes musulmans du CNRS et l’Institut d’études de l’Islam et des
sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM)
53. Masters of Arts in Muslim Cultures, Aga Khan University Institute
for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London
54. Summer Programme: "Gender in Muslim Contexts", Aga Khan University
London, 28 June - 6 July 2021
55. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images of/in Islam:Languages
and Translations in Texts and Images", Università degli Studi di Catania,
Sicily, New Dates: 5–9 July 2021
56. Articles for “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman,
Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies“
57. Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on
the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Vol. 39, 2022
58. Articles on "Geopolitical Shifts and
Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle
East" for "Special Issue of the International Journal of Conflict and
Violence"
59. Articles on "Migration, Human Trafficking and Displacement in
the Horn of Africa" for Special Issue of "African and Black Diaspora:
An International Journal" (Routledge)
60. Articles from Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa for
"Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)"
61. Articles on "New Media and National Identity" for Special
Issue of the "Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research"
62. Contributions for "The IASA Bulletin" of the
International Association for the Study of Arabia (Spring 2021)
63. Chapter on "The Approach of Egypt toward the NPT and Nuclear
Security" for Edited Book
64. Chapters for Edited Book on "Media and
Terror"
65. Chapters for Edited Book on "Living with Tourism: Paradoxes,
Empowerment and Future Directions (Focus MENA Region)"
66. New Entries in the Mediterranean Syllabi Index: "The History
of the Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789)" and "The Mediterranean
World, 1450-1750"
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further details with a link to the respective website or an email address.
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
Book Presentation by Hilal Alkan (ZMO) and Nazan Maksudyan (FU Berlin/Centre
Marc Bloch): "Urban Neighbourhood Formations. Boundaries, Narrations and
Intimacies", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 11 January
2021, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm CET
This edited book offers insights into neighbourhood formations in
an age of constant mobility and helps us understand the grassroots-level
dynamics of xenophobia and hostility, as much as welcoming and openness.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/urban-neighbourhood-formations
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2.
ONLINE Colloque « Islams et luttes de l’immigration »,
Institut Convergences Migrations, Sciences Po Toulouse, 11-12 janvier 2021
Programme,
inscription et information : https://www.icmigrations.cnrs.fr/2020/11/06/conf-colloque-islams-et-luttes-de-limmigration-11-et-12-janvier-2021-sciences-po-toulouse/
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3.
ONLINE
Roundtable "New Voices in Middle East Studies", British Society for
Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES), 13 January 2021, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, GMT
Yara
Hawari, Marc Oven Jones, Kamran Matin and Mezna Qato will reflect on the
legacies of the revolts and the opportunities and obstacles for meaningful
social, political, and economic transformation in MENA.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0ode6vrDMoGNZIdRbLJn5qZrFB6-1CoJqA
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4.
ONLINE Séminaire IISMM « Orient-Littératures » - Thème :
"L’image du Monde arabe dans la littérature européenne du XIXe siècle. Anthologies,
différences et influences", Paris, 14 janvier 2021, 11:00-13:00 h CET
Intervenant : Valerio Vittorini, Chercheur associé à l’
Université Côte d’Azur, Centre Transdisciplinaire d’Épistémologie, de la
Littérature et des Arts vivants.
Prière de vous
inscrire auparavant à l’adresse : https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0RIR2TDmS-mZndSB0puccQ. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/49853
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5.
ONLINE Lecture by Franziska Fay: "Young
Swahili-speakers in Oman and the ‘Zanzibar Diaspora’", Leibniz-Zentrum
Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 14 January 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
What
does it mean to be a ‘young’ (below the age of 35) Swahili-speaker in Oman?
Where do these young people position themselves on the spectrum of the
so-called Zanzibar Diaspora? Fay reflects on findings from fieldwork with young
people between Zanzibar and Oman in 2018 and 2019.
Please register at registration@zmo.de.
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6.
ONLINE
Lecture: "Jews and Legal Belonging in the Modern Mediterranean: The Life
and Afterlife of Nissim Shamama (1805-1873)", UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, 14 January 2021, 12:00 pm PT
When
a wealthy Jew from Tunisia died in Italy in 1873, a fierce lawsuit over the
estate consumed Jews, Muslims, and Christians on both sides of the
Mediterranean. The Italian courts had to decide which law to apply to his
estate—a matter that depended on his nationality. This lawsuit encourages us to
think differently about the history of citizenship and state membership.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/jews-and-legal-belonging-in-the-modern-mediterranean-the-life-and-afterlife-of-nissim-shamama-1805-1873
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7.
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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8.
ONLINE
Arabic Teacher Workshop: "Teaching for Social Justice in the World
Language", Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington
University, 16 January 2021, 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm EST
The workshop will include hands-on work with social justice
standards and World-Readiness Standards and opportunities to brainstorm and
collaborate with fellow participants.
Information
and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSco3PNWgRV09vMC3kCq14ufd86x3IUHG69S0dYthTyWX1uPYA/viewform
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9.
ONLINE
Book Presentation by Malte Fuhrmann: "Port Cities of the Eastern
Mediterranean. Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire", Leibniz-Zentrum
Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 18 January 2021, 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm CET
This study examines changes in the histories of space, consumption,
and identities of Constantinople, Smyrna, and Salonica in the nineteenth and
early twentieth century while the Mediterranean became a zone of influence for
European powers.
Please
register at registration@zmo.de.
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10.
ONLINE Séminaire IISMM « Frontières et enfermements
dans les sociétés arabes et les mondes musulmans : incorporations, affects et
vécus », Thème : « Des Frontières affectées », 21 janvier 2021,
13:00 - 16:00 h CET
Chiara Pilotto
(IRIS/EHESS) : « Silence, affects et racisme dans l’espace colonial
israélo-palestinien »
Aymon Kreil
(Ghent University) : « À l’abri des ennuis : Désir de normalité et
frontières dans l'Égypte post-Moubarak »
Registration : https://listsem.ehess.fr/courses/808/requests/new. Information : https://enseignements.ehess.fr/2020-2021/ue/808
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11. ONLINE Conference on "Digital Hadith Studies", Islamicate
Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 27 January 2021, 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm CET
This conference is dedicated to the creative and innovative
solutions that scholars are currently developing in order to allow the
automated analysis of Hadith literature.
Program and abstracts: https://idhn.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/IDHNOnlineConference_DigitalHadith_Abstracts-6.pdf;
registration: registration@idhn.org
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12. ONLINE National Conference on "Rahma and Karuna – Compassion
as Common Ground for Building Understanding between Islam and Buddhism",
International Islamic University Malaysia, 27 January 2021, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
(GMT+8)
Registeration
link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVpwHoAe3Vd08o70jFdXyh7OJq-j6IrOEGlSCyyyIgmj_wFA/viewform
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13. ONLINE Lecture by Hedayat Heikal: "Constitutionalism in the
Middle East and the Question of Democracy", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner
Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 28 January 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm CET
This is part of the "The Historicity of Democracy
Seminar", organized within the framework of the HISDEMAB international and
collaborative research programme of the Leibniz-Association (ZMO-ZZF-IEG) in
collaboration with IFPO and Manouba University.
Please
register at HISDEMAB@gmail.com.
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14. ONLINE Book Presentation by Mona Abaza (AUC): "Cairo Collages.
Everyday Life Practices after the Event", Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
(ZMO), Berlin, 1 February 2021, 5:00 pm -6:30 pm CET
In Cairo collages, the large-scale political, economic, and social
changes in Egypt brought on by the 2011 revolution are set against the
declining fortunes of a single apartment building in a specific Cairo
neighbourhood.
Information
and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/cairo-collages
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15. 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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16. ONLINE Lecture by Max Weiss: "Cultural History and/as
Intellectual History in Baʿthist Syria", UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, 23 February 2021, 3:00 pm PT
Starting with the relationship between aesthetics and politics in
the making of contemporary Syria the lecture will reflect on the relationship
between cultural history and intellectual history in general, both through and
beyond the case of Baʿthist Syria.
Information
and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/cultural-history-and-as-intellectual-history-in-bathist-syria
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17. ONLINE Workshop: "The Making of Minorities in the Middle East
and North Africa: Objects, Images, Spaces", UCLA Center for Near Eastern
Studies, Part 1: 5 March 2021, 9:00 am PT; Part 2: 12 March 2021, 2:00 pm PT
This two-part workshop addresses minorities and minority-formation
in the art, architecture, and urbanism of the Middle East and North Africa
through time. A major goal is to consider the role of visual, spatial, and
material cultures in mediating minor cultural formations. Another aim is to
recognize the complex, varied terrain of interactions between minorities and
majority cultures: to emphasize instances of transfer, exchange, and
participation that challenge the binary of assimilation and opposition.
Information
and registration: Part 1 https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/08/the-making-of-minorities-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-objects-images-spaces-part-1;
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18.
ONLINE Discussion "Trans/Formations in Arabic
Literary Theory: Prospects and Limits", Columbia University, 19 March
2021, 10:00 am EST; First Session: 14-17 June 2021; Second Session: 14-17
October 2021
We invite
scholars to explore a plethora of thematic issues tied to the challenges of
mapping, reconstructing, and studying varied sets of Arabic literary
theoretical frameworks with the aim of identifying cross-temporal and
trans-local conceptualizations and terms for a genealogy of Arabic literary
theory.
Deadline for
abstracts: 10 January 2021. Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/
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19. HYBRID "14th Annual International Conference on
Mediterranean Studies", Center for European & Mediterranean Affairs
(CEMA), 29 March - 1 April 2021, Athens, Greece
We will accept both remote (online or pre-recorded) and onsite
presentations.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021. Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
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20. ONLINE 4th International Conference on "Arabs' and
Muslims' History of Sciences: Scientific Legacy and its Contemporary
Impacts", University of Sharjah, UAE, 4-6 April 2021
Scholars, researchers in higher educational institutions and
research centers, museums and heritage foundations, and postgraduate students
are cordially invited to submit their recent research findings to be presented
and published at this conference.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Media/Conferences/ICHS21/Pages/default.aspx
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21. 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/symposium/home-page-sempozyum
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22. 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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24.
ONLINE Workshop: "Archival Methods and Global
Palestine in the 1960s and 1970s", Roskilde University, Denmark, 16-17
April 2021
How can scholars, activists, and artists
research, teach, write, and archive the history of the Palestinian revolution
in a way that does justice to its global entanglements with other anti-colonial
movements and in a way that recognizes the role of Palestinians in globalizing
their revolution?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2021. Information:
https://ruc.dk/en/workshop-archival-methods-and-global-palestine-1960s-and-1970s
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25. ONLINE
Symposium on “Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and
the University of California Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021
The symposium invites scholars whose work investigates Iran’s
experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of
perspectives – including race and ethnicity; foreign relations; intellectual
history; social and economic networks; as well as cultural studies – to answer
questions such as: What role did decolonization play in Iran’s interactions
with the Global South? How did Iran respond to decolonization movements? Etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/30/iran-and-global-decolonization-call-for-papers
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26. Workshop on "Mitigation and Adaptation
to Impact of Climate Change in the MENA Region", Economic Research Forum
(ERF), June 2021
Topics include: The effects of climate
change on economic activity, productivity and economic growth; What are the
defining characteristics, country specific climate challenges? What adaptation
measures/ policies are planned? How does climate change (gradual and extreme
events) affect individual and household income/employment by sector/industry? Etc.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/erf.org.eg/call-for-proposals_climate_change?e=b6c891c6c3
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27. 21st International Conference of Migration: "Border
Thinking", Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 17-18 June 2021
In respect to migration very
different forms of borders develop their impact. In the dynamic process,
social, political, and cultural factors become visible, within which specific
social practices are manifest. The conference seeks to investigate these
aspects with reference to the debates on decolonizing, utilizing the method of
border thinking, a critical thinking about borders anchored in epistemic
disobedience.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: https://www.cdmh.lu/resources/pdf/_base_4/1402574270138-21IMK_CFP_border_thinking_English.pdf
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28.
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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29.
Journée d’études :
« Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la poésie dialectale
égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, Paris, 2 juillet 2021
Cette journée d’études se propose de mener des
réflexions sur le rire dans la poésie dialectale égyptienne et d’examiner dans
quelle mesure cette poésie véhiculait les divers aspects de l’humour et de
l’ironie. Nous espérons ainsi retracer l’historique du poème dialectal égyptien
depuis qu’il a commencé à prendre forme en passant du zajal
dont le chef de fil est le poète Bayram al-Tūnisī, à sa forme poétique, et
d’une critique sociale simple et directe aux vastes horizons poétiques et
lyriques.
Date limite : 31
janvier 2021. Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/appel-communication-journee-etudes-rire-egypte-humour-poesie-dialectale
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30. ONLINE "The Migration Conference 2021", Ming-Ai
Institute, London, 6-10 July 2021
The conference will focus on migration, migrant populations,
diasporas, migration policies, labour migrations, refugees, migration theory,
data and methods, COVID-19 impact, health and human mobility, migration
history, economic impacts, remittances as well as non-migrants and the wider
impact of human mobility on sending, transit and receiving societies.
Special
panel on "Migration and Religion" see https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7092977/cfp-migration-and-religion-migration-conference-2021;
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information: https://www.migrationconference.net/
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31.
ONLINE
Panel 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.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6752090/icas-conference-diaspora-call-papers
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32. 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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33.
Workshop
on “Lived Citizenship, Uprising and Migration: Everyday Politics, Imaginaries
and Contestation", Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and
Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG)/ SOAS/AUC, Berlin, 30 September – 1 October 2021
The workshop invites contributions based on field research in the
Arab region or among Arab populations, virtually and across the world. Through
the theme of lived citizenship, it explores how people experience and shape the
everyday realities of socio-economic, political and spatial governance,
contestation and legitimation in the Arab region and along journeys of
migration.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/638078/2021-09-30-cfa-workshop-lived-citizenship
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34.
ONLINE
International Conference on “Canon and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual
and Theological History”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8-10 October 2021
Muslim societies and theologies did not witness the emergence of a
single institution that establishes a binding canon for everyone who adheres to
Islam. Instead, the constitutional positions are (re)negotiated constantly in a
scholarly discourse. Against this backdrop, the conference focuses on the
question of how certain texts and positions evolve to a canon while others get
lost in time.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: https://www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/copy_of_forschung/islamische-ideengeschichte-1200-1800/medien/call-canon-and-censorship-1.pdf
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35.
Workshop: “Expectations
of Justice and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600-1500 CE),
Leiden University, 27-29 October 2021
Participants are asked to present a case study discussing how just
rule was defined and what actions and reactions it precipitated in specific
historical, geographical and cultural contexts (local, regional and imperial).
How was just rule or, conversely, the abuse of political power understood and
defined? What solutions were at hand to redress unjust rule or to institute
just rule? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/799/
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36.
55th Annual Meeting of the Middle East
Studies Association of North America (MESA), 28-31 October 2021 (Location to be
Announced)
The meeting features panels and roundtables
on a wide variety of topics related to the broader Middle East and North Africa
from the 600s until the present.
The electronic submission system closes on
18 February 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers
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37. 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.
Information: https://www.ithra.com/en/visual-culture-mosques
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38. 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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39. "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
41. Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows Middle
East and North Africa and / or Asia (3 Years), German Institute for Global and
Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
The successful candidates will work in the
project “World Order Narratives of the Global South”. Qualifications:
Outstanding academic records; a doctoral degree in a social science or history;
fluency in local languages that are required for the research (e.g. Arabic, Farsi,
Turkish or Hindi,Chinese); proficiency in English.
Deadline for applications. 15 January 2021. Information:
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-11_Postdoc_WONAGO_MENA.pdf and https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-12_Postdoc_WONAGO-MENA.pdf
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42. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship on Middle
Eastern Futurism (2 Years), Department of Culture Studies and Oriental
Languages, University of Oslo
Requirements: PhD with a specialization in
literature, culture studies, area studies, visual arts or similar disciplines.
The candidate's research project must be closely connected to the main project.
Proficiency in relevant languages connected with Middle Eastern futurisms (such
as Gulf, Arab, Iranian, Turkish).
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2020. Information:
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/195901/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-at-the-department-of-culture-studies-and-oriental-languages
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43. Four Postdoctoral Fellowships in Middle
East History, Tel Aviv University
The fellowships, $30,000 each, are
available for the academic year of 2021-2022, with a possibility of a one-year
renewal. Fellows will conduct their research under the supervision of a senior
faculty member from Tel Aviv University.
Deadline for applications: 11 February 2021. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6940474/postdoctoral-fellowships-2021-2022-zvi-yavetz-school-historical
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44. 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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45. One-year Fellowships for Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Researchers
on Middle Eastern Governance and Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and
International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA
We welcome applications from political scientists, historians,
economists, sociologists, and other social scientists. The Middle East Initiative
offers ten-month stipends of $40,000 to pre-doctoral fellows and $58,000 to
post-doctoral fellows.
Deadline
for applications: 15 January 2021. Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
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46. Assistant Professor of Political Science (Focus Middle East
Politics), Pennsylvania State University
The Department is looking for outstanding
candidates with a record that demonstrates the potential to build a
high-quality publication record, to secure external funding, and to serve as an
excellent teacher and mentor.
Review of applications will begin on 10 January 2020. Information: https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/job/University-Park-Campus/Assistant-Professor-of-Political-Science_REQ_0000009127-1
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47. Visiting Assistant Professor of Israel Studies, University of
Virginia
We are particularly interested in candidates who can teach courses
in the history and politics of modern Israel as well as courses in related
topics that may include Israeli culture, literature, religion, and society.
Review
of applications begins on 25 January 2021. Information: https://uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UVAJobs/job/Charlottesville-VA/Visiting-Assistant-Professor--University-of-Virginia-Jewish-Studies-Program_R0020628
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48. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History, Norwich University, Vermont
While a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching is essential,
particularly the ability to conduct both in-person and virtual classrooms,
Norwich University is committed to junior faculty developing scholarship
through a supportive faculty development program. A Ph.D. is strongly
preferred, though strong A.B.D. candidates will be considered. Candidates with additional specialties in African
history, South Asian history, and/or the Islamic world are encouraged to apply.
Deadline
for applications: 16 February 2021. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60709
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49. 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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50. Assistant Director, Arabic Program, University of Arizona, Tucson
Qualification: Master's degree in Arabic Linguistics, Applied
Linguistics or related. Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience
required.
Open until filled. Information: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/3818?c=arizona
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OTHER INFORMATION
51. 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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52.
Prix de thèse Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans 2021, GIS
Moyen-Orient Mondes musulmans du CNRS et l’Institut d’études de l’Islam et des
sociétés du monde musulman (IISMM)
Sont éligibles des travaux soutenus en
français ou en France entre le 1er janvier 2019 et le 31 décembre 2020, dans
toutes les disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales.
Prolongation au plus tard le 15 janvier 2021.
Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/12/Appel_candidatures_Prix2021-1.pdf
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53. Masters of Arts in Muslim Cultures, Aga Khan University Institute
for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London
The three-semester degree programme provides you with expert
insight and deep understanding of Muslim cultures and civilisations, both in
the historical and contemporary worlds.
Deadline for application: 21 January 2021. Information: https://www.aku.edu/ismc/ma/Pages/home.aspx
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54. Summer Programme: "Gender in Muslim Contexts", Aga Khan
University London, 28 June - 6 July 2021
Run by leading experts on gender and Islam, the programme will
bring together scholars and students from diverse backgrounds to discuss key
issues in the study of gender in Muslim contexts.
Deadline
for application: 16 April 2021. Information: https://www.aku.edu/ismc/study/Pages/summer-programme.aspx
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55. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images of/in Islam:Languages
and Translations in Texts and Images", Università degli Studi di Catania,
Sicily, New Dates: 5–9 July 2021
The main objective of this school is to investigate the image–text
relations in Muslim traditions by applying to different genres of images and
texts and by thinking about how they are affected by translation or
interpretation.
Deadline
for application: 1 April 2021. Information: http://iismm.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2147/call_ed2021_06_11_20_final3.pdf
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56. 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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57. Articles for "Muqarnas: An Annual on
the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World", Vol. 39, 2022
Muqarnas is a scholarly journal that
publishes articles on art, architectural history, and archaeology, as well as
all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and
contemporary.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2021. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6931259/call-submissions-muqarnas-39-2022
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58. Articles on "Geopolitical Shifts and
Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle
East" for Special Issue of the “International Journal of Conflict and
Violence"
Topics include: The Kurdish conflict
through the lens of the geopolitics of Kurdistan in past and present; The rise
and transformation of modern Kurdish nationalism; Intra-Kurdish relations:
political, military, economic, social (tribes, sects, NGOs, associations);
Cross-border mobility of the Kurds: etc. Guest Editors are Gülistan Gürbey
(Freie Universität Berlin) and Arzu Yilmaz (University of Hamburg)
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021. Information:
https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/ikgblog/resource/IJCV/CfP_2021-3_final.pdf
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59. 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 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6720437/migration-human-trafficking-and-displacement-horn-africa
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60. 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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61. Articles on "New Media and National Identity" for Special
Issue of the "Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research"
This special issue of JAMMR aims at enriching the debate on media,
identity and cultural formation. It seeks to critically address this
ever-growing area of enquiry and revisit the field from various theoretical and
empirical multi-disciplinary dimensions.
Deadline
for abstracts: 25 January 2021. Information: https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/54399/1/JAMMR_CFP_jan2021.pdf
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62. Contributions for "The IASA Bulletin" of the
International Association for the Study of Arabia (Spring 2021)
The IASA Bulletin compiles notices on research, publications,
fieldwork, museum updates, societies, conferences and events in the Arabian
Peninsula as well as feature articles and book reviews.
Deadline for contributions: 14 February 2021. Information: https://www.theiasa.com/publications/bulletin/
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63. Chapter on "The Approach of Egypt toward the NPT and Nuclear
Security" for Edited Book
The volume asks what the nuclear security priorities of various
states were when the NPT was first proposed in 1958, how the governments and
foreign ministries reacted to the proposal, and how the national priorities
changed (or remained the same), until the treaty opened for signatures, in
1968.
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64. Chapters for Edited Book on "Media and
Terror"
Contributions are invited from scholars in
International Politics, Security Studies, Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Studies, Media and Communication Studies focussing on the challenges,
difficulties and obstacles of media coverage of terrorism and the established
practices, including the use of new media by terrorist groups and ways how to
prevent their propaganda tools in the different parts of the world - including
the MENA region.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6952604/call-chapters-edited-book-media-and-terror-21st-century
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65. 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 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6769711/call-book-chapters-living-tourism-paradoxes-empowerment-and
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66. New Entries in the Mediterranean Syllabi Index: "The History
of the Early Modern Mediterranean (1450-1789)" and "The Mediterranean
World, 1450-1750"
The Mediterranean Syllabi Index is an open-access resource for
instructors developing or teaching undergraduate and graduate courses relating
to Mediterranean Studies topics in disciplines including History, Art History,
Material Culture, Archaeology, Literature and Language, Music, Culture and the
Social Sciences from Antiquity to the present.
See complete list of courses at http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/syllabus
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