CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Webinaire : « Les filles qui sortent.
Jeunesse, sexualité et prostitution au Maroc », IREMAM, Aix Marseille Université,
19 janvier 2021, 14h à 15h (CET)
2.
ONLINE Lecture "Reluctant Reception: Refugees, Migration and
Governance in the Middle East and North Africa", SOAS, University of
London, 19 January 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
3.
ONLINE Seminar: "The Normalisation Accord between Bahrain and
Israel", University of Hull, 20 January 2021, 7: 00 pm - 9:00 pm GMT
4.
ONLINE Seminar: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University College London):
“Shifting the Gaze: Southern-led Humanitarian Responses to Displacement (from
Syria)“, 21 January 2021, 9:30 am - 10:30 am PT
5.
ONLINE Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber "The Museum of Islamic Art
the Pergamon Museum: From the Ivory Tower to the Centre of Our Society",
Berlin, 21 January 2021, 5:00 pm CET
6.
ONLINE Seminar of Zeynep Kaya (SOAS): "Mapping Kurdistan:
Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism", London Middle East
Institute, 26 January 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
7.
ONLINE Seminar: "Global Uprising: Policing as Politics, Policing as
War", Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York
University, 26 January 2021, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST
8.
ONLINE
Workshop Series: “Unspoken Memories, Unwritten Histories: Eastern Mediterranean
Pluralism in Oral History and Memory Studies”, Swedish Research Institute in
Istanbul, 28 January 2021, 1:00 pm (UTC+3)
9.
ONLINE Lecture "Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial Economism and the
Crises of Capitalism", 28 January 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
10. ONLINE Conference "The GCC Economies
in the Wake of COVID19: Charting the Road to Recovery and Resilience",
Economic Research Forum (ERF), probably 24-25 February 2021
11. ONLINE 2nd Global Inclusive
Interdisciplinary Conference on "Violence", Lisbon, Portugal, 14-15
March 2021
12. ONLINE Conference: "Transformations of
Arabic Literary Theory", Columbia University, Preliminary Virtual
Discussion Panel: 19 March 2021; First in-person Session in Paris: 27-30 June
2021, Second in-person Session in New York: 1-3 December 2021
13.
ONLINE Symposium: “Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian Context”,
University of Toronto, 27 March 2021
14.
ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional Dimension of Mediterranean
Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature
Association, 8-11 April 2021
15.
ONLINE Conference "The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship",
Anatolian Religions and Beliefs Platzform (ARBP), 10-11 April 2021
16.
ONLINE Workshop: "Labor Transformation and Regime Transition:
Lessons from the Middle East and North Africa", Cornell University, 29-30
April 2021
17.
ONLINE
International Conference: "The Fragility of Global Migration", Center
of Methods in Social Sciences, University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021
18. ONLINE Colloque: « Les sociétés maghrébines et du
Moyen-Orient à l’épreuve de la pandémie de la COVID-19 », GT4- Monde arabe en
mouvement – Association internationale des sociologues de langue française
(AISLF), 21-22 May 2021
19. 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
20. ONLINE Seminar for Arabian Studies of the
International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), Summer 2021
(Dates to be announced)
21. Conference of the Red Sea Project X: “Red
Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete, Rethymno Greece,
16-19 June 2021
22. 21st International Conference of
Migration: "Border Thinking", Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt,
Austria, 17-18 June 2021
23. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
24. Mediterranean Studies Symposium, Ortigia,
Italy, 1-4 July 2021
25.
Journée d’études « Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la
poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, 2 juillet 2021
26. 27th International Conference on
Jewish Studies, Moscow, 11-13 July 2021
27. HYBRID Research Workshop: "Decentering
Holocaust Studies: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South (Including
Middle East)", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 26 July - 6 August
2021
28.
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
29. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of
the Network "Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”,
University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021
30. 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
31. Conference: "Expectations of Justice
and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca. 600-1500 CE)", Leiden
University, 27-29 October 2021
32.
Panel on “Prisons, Dungeons and Arsenals: Confinement in the Middle
East,” during the “Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)”,
Montreal (or Zoom), 28-31 October 2021
33. Panels of the "Middle East
Medievalists (MEM)" during the "Conference of the Middle East Studies
Association (MESA)", Montreal (or Zoom), 28-31 October 2021
34. 3rd ANU
Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and Policy”, Australian
National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
35.
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
36.
Program Manager und Chief Communication Editor, Yemen Policy Center
Germany e.V., Berlin
37. Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in History and Society in the Modern
Middle East, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen
University (UCPH), Denmark
38. Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
39. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
(2021-2023)
40. Professor in Political Science (Focus
Middle East), New York University Abu Dhabi Division of Social Science
41. Post-doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
42. Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in
Persian, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
43. Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History, History Department, Oberlin College (OH)
OTHER
INFORMATION
44. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
45.
MA
Dual Degree in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia (New York) and
Aga Khan University (London)
46. Articles on "Migration, Human
Trafficking, and Displacement in the Horn of Arica (Including Migration to the
Gulf States)" for Special Issue of "African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal" (Routledge)
47. Articles for New "Journal of Arab
& Muslim Service, Tourism and Hospitality Research (JAMSTHR)"
48. Articles on "Islamic Constitutions:
Managing Religion and Politics" for Special Issue of the Journal
"Religions"
49. 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”
50.
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"
51.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters: Between Science,
Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of "MIDEO" 38 (2023)
52. Articles on "Historizing Islamophobia" for Special Issue of
"Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam"
53. Chapters for Edited Volume on
"Creative Processes, Patrimonial Practices: Art and Heritage in the Middle
East and North Africa"
54. Chapters for Edited Collection on "The
Arab World as Ghurba: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Literature and
Popular Culture", University of Warwick
55. New Book Series "Critical Studies on
Islamism" Published by I.B.Tauris & Bloomsbury
56. ONLINE "Meet the Scholar: Snapshots of
Intellectual Journeys", Video Series of Conversations with Senior
Academics, Highlighting Their Scholarship and Situating Their Contributions to
Various Fields, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington DC
57. ONLINE Survey on the Practices, Attitudes
and Implementation of Educational Technology in Teaching in the MENA Region,
Language Centre, University of Cyprus
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Best regards,
Guenter Meyer, Centre for Research on the Arab World
(CERAW), Universtity of Mainz, in cooperation with the University of Sharjah.
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CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE Webinaire : « Les filles qui sortent.
Jeunesse, sexualité et prostitution au Maroc », IREMAM, Aix Marseille
Université, 19 janvier 2021, 14h à 15h (CET)
Cohabitant avec une dizaine de jeunes femmes engagées
dans le sortir à Tanger, Mériam Cheikh a mené une ethnographie longitudinale
sur sept ans.
Information : https://iremam.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article7038&lang=en
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2.
ONLINE Lecture "Reluctant Reception: Refugees,
Migration and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa", SOAS,
University of London, 19 January 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
Seeking to understand why host states treat migrants and refugees
inclusively, exclusively, or without any direct engagement, Kelsey Norman
(Baker Institute, Rice University) offers this original, comparative analysis
of the politics of asylum seeking and migration in the Middle East and North
Africa. Norman demonstrates how, by allowing migrants and refugees to integrate
locally into large informal economies, and by allowing organizations to provide
basic services, host countries receive international credibility while only
exerting minimal state resources.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/19jan2021-reluctant-reception-refugees-migration-and-governance-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa.html
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3.
ONLINE Seminar: "The Normalisation Accord between
Bahrain and Israel", University of Hull, 20 January 2021, 7: 00 pm - 9:00
pm GMT
Speaker: Fahad Albinali (Counsellor of the Embassy of Bahrain, London).
Registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3230085197335237900
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4.
ONLINE Seminar: Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (University
College London): “Shifting the Gaze: Southern-led Humanitarian Responses to
Displacement (from Syria)“, 21 January 2021, 9:30 am - 10:30 am PT
The scholar focuses on responses to Syrian displacement since 2011 and
develops a multiscalar analysis of the roles played by Southern states, local
host communities, faith-based networks, and refugees themselves. She argues
that a focus on “refugee-refugee humanitarianism” can challenge dominant and
exclusionary Northern humanitarianism paradigms of refugee studies.
Information and registration: https://bit.ly/SawyerSem-Jan21
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5.
ONLINE Lecture by Prof. Dr. Stefan Weber "The
Museum of Islamic Art the Pergamon Museum: From the Ivory Tower to the Centre
of Our Society", Berlin, 21 January 2021, 5:00 pm CET
The Museum is one of the major collections of its kind in the world and
the only one in German-speaking countries. As the oldest Islamic Art Museum in
the West it is an internationally renowned research centre and archive of the
heritages of the Middle East with up to a million visitors each year.
Deadline for registration: 20 January 2021. Information:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XaRTceCwQNOJYsgeydq8ZQ
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6.
ONLINE Seminar of Zeynep Kaya (SOAS): "Mapping
Kurdistan: Territory, Self-Determination and Nationalism", London Middle
East Institute, 26 January 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
The author builds on her book Mapping Kurdistan to show how a
focus on self-determination, territorial identity and international norms helps
analyse how imaginations of homelands have been socially, politically and
historically constructed (much like the state territories the Kurds inhabit),
as opposed to their perception of being natural, perennial or intrinsic.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/26jan2021-mapping-kurdistan-territory-self-determination-and-nationalism.html
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7.
ONLINE Seminar: "Global Uprising: Policing as
Politics, Policing as War", Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern
Studies, New York University, 26 January 2021, 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm EST
Uprising everywhere seems to take the excessive power of police as a
clarion call. From the Middle East to the US, "police" appears as a
name for the broad systemic injustice of modes of rule. And though the
militarization of police is a given, some questions remain unclear.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/12/global-uprising-policing-as-politics-policing-as-war
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8.
ONLINE
Workshop Series: “Unspoken Memories, Unwritten Histories: Eastern Mediterranean
Pluralism in Oral History and Memory Studies”, Swedish Research Institute in
Istanbul, 28 January 2021, 1:00 pm (UTC+3)
Title
of the first session: “How can we talk about cultural pluralism in the Eastern
Mediterranean?” Following this initial virtual workshop bimensal meetings are
planned that will concentrate on multicultural cities of the Eastern
Mediterranean beyond Turkey, such as Thessaloniki, Alexandria and Jerusalem.
The goal being to offer a critical overview of the state of memory studies and
oral history in the region through panel presentations by academic and civil
society professionals.
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9.
ONLINE Lecture "Egypt’s Occupation: Colonial
Economism and the Crises of Capitalism", 28 January 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30
pm EST
Aaron Jakes (New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College)
offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of
capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles
that raged over the occupation.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/12/17/egypts-occupation-colonial-economism-and-the-crises-of-capitalism-with-aaron-jakes-and-wael-gamal
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10. ONLINE Conference "The GCC Economies
in the Wake of COVID19: Charting the Road to Recovery and Resilience",
Economic Research Forum (ERF), probably 24-25 February 2021
Researchers are encouraged to submit proposals in relevant areas they
think GCC economies need to address. The critical issue in the submission is a
focus on building the future GCC economies that are more efficient, diversified
and resilient.
Deadline for submission of complete papers:
20 January 2021. Information: https://erf.org.eg/call-for-proposals-the-gcc-economies-in-the-wake-of-covid19-charting-the-road-to-recovery-and-resilience/
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11. 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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12. ONLINE Conference: "Transformations of
Arabic Literary Theory", Columbia University, Preliminary Virtual
Discussion Panel: 19 March 2021; First in-person Session in Paris: 27-30 June
2021, Second in-person Session in New York: 1-3 December 2021.
The focus is on Arabic literary theory, engaging
with its development from the pre-modern era up to the present. Literary Theory
is not limited to the classical or premodern reading of poetics and adab, but
also inclusive, and very strongly, of transformations since the late nineteenth
century.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 11
February 2021. Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/
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13.
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.
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14.
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.
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15.
ONLINE Conference "The Conversion of Spaces and
Places of Worship", Anatolian Religions and Beliefs Platzform (ARBP),
10-11 April 2021
Topics include: Conversion of religious places of worship into secular,
commercial and alternate religious spaces; Dispossession, destruction and
desecration of religious spaces of worship; Recognition of the validity of
religious places of worship; Legal restrictions by state agents vs.
international agreements for the preservations of such spaces.
Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/12/ADI%CC%87P_2021ConferenceCall_ENG.pdf
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16.
ONLINE Workshop: "Labor Transformation and Regime
Transition: Lessons from the Middle East and North Africa", Cornell
University, 29-30 April 2021
To be published in the "Industrial and Labor Relations
Review". We are especially interested in empirical submissions from
scholars whose work is grounded in labor relations with diverse disciplinary
perspectives from industrial relations, sociology, psychology, economics, or
political science.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 January 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/25688/discussions/7130201/cfp-labor-transformation-and-regime-transition-lessons-middle
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17.
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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18. ONLINE Colloque: « Les sociétés maghrébines et du
Moyen-Orient à l’épreuve de la pandémie de la COVID-19 », GT4- Monde arabe en
mouvement - Association internationale des sociologues de langue française
(AISLF), 21-22 May 2021
Trois grandes questions orienteront la rencontre :
Comment la Covid-19 a affecté les sociétés, les groupes et les individus ?
Quelles sont les réponses institutionnelles et des collectifs à cette pandémie
? Quels sont les enseignements que nous pourrions en tirer en tant que
sociétés, groupes sociaux et individus ?
Date limite de soumission : 14 février 2021. Information
: https://www.aislf.org/GT04-covid-19
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19. 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 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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20. ONLINE Seminar for Arabian Studies of the International
Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), Summer 2021 (Dates to be announced)
This is the only international forum that meets annually for the
presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian
Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of
political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).
Deadline for abstracts: 28 Februar 2021. Information: https://www.theiasa.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2021CallforPapers.pdf
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21. 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.
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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22. 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.
Information: https://www.cdmh.lu/resources/pdf/_base_4/1402574270138-21IMK_CFP_border_thinking_English.pdf
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23. "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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24. 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.
Information: https://www.cla.auburn.edu/international/programs-and-events/mediterranean-studies-symposium/
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25.
Journée d’études « Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la
poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, 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.
Date limite : 31 janvier, 2021. Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/appel-communication-journee-etudes-rire-egypte-humour-poesie-dialectale?fbclid=IwAR3SLuFHJePacGdikS60b8R8r-A0T9qjjdrpw2ve0wY55iQ1P5xStHYbMXs
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26. 27th International Conference on
Jewish Studies, Moscow, 11-13 July 2021
Sections include Biblical and Talmudic Studies, Jewish Thought, Jewish
History, Judeo-Christian Relations, the Holocaust, Israeli Studies, Languages
and Literature, Art, Ethnology, Demography, Jewish Genealogy, Museums and
Archives, etc.). We also welcome topics that require interdisciplinary
approach.
Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2021. Information: https://sefer.ru/eng/education/international_conferences/intconfeng.php
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27. HYBRID Research Workshop: "Decentering
Holocaust Studies: Comparative Perspectives from the Global South (Including
Middle East)", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 26 July - 6 August
2021
This workshop seeks to bring histories into a wider scholarly frame in
order to identify their commonalities and as well as the centrality of the
margin. We welcome proposals that address the study of
the Holocaust from the Global South, broadly understood.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021.
Information: https://www.ushmm.org/research/opportunities-for-academics/conferences-and-workshops/research-workshop-program/decentering-holocaust-studies
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28.
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
The workshop will discuss the ways of
integrating the concept of the Anthropocene into the field of
Ottoman/post-Ottoman environmental history. It will open a space for analysing
the role of human activities in transforming the Ottoman/post-Ottoman
landscapes in the age of the Anthropocene.
Information:
https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021
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29. Conference on “Translation and Transfer” of
the Network "Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”,
University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021
The conference will stress the pragmatic implications of the translation
of texts in its narrower sense and the translators involved in activities
across or within the Transottoman focus region. For a closer look at this and
the multiple projects within this framework, please visit our website at www.transottomanica.de.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. For further information,
contact florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
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30. 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.
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31. Conference: "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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32. Panel on “Prisons, Dungeons and Arsenals:
Confinement in the Middle East,” during the “Conference of the Middle East
Studies Association (MESA)”, Montreal (or Zoom), 28-31 October 2021
Papers are invited which interrogate the development and history of
confinement across the Middle East from the early modern period up to the
present.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2021.
For further information, contact Karim Malak (kmm2282@columbia.edu).
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33. Panels of the "Middle East
Medievalists (MEM)" during the "Conference of the Middle East Studies
Association (MESA)", Montreal (or Zoom), 28-31 October 2021
MEM-sponsored panels will be publicized to our membership and
highlighted in MEM’s annual “Medieval MESA” circular. We urge medievalists
organizing panels for MESA 2021 to send us all the relevant material, including
titles, abstracts, and the names of participants.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2021. For further information, contact Zayde Antrim (zayde.antrim@trincoll.edu).
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34. 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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35.
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
36.
Program Manager und Chief Communication Editor, Yemen
Policy Center Germany e.V., Berlin
We are a young and ambitious team,
committed to supporting young Yemeni talents and develop the Yemen Policy
Center further. We seek to influence Yemeni and international policy making to
improve the living conditions of the Yemeni people and bring about a lasting
peace.
Deadline for applications: 30 January 2021. Information:
https://yemenpolicy.org/pdf/YPC_Job_Announcement_Programs_Manager_2021.pdf and https://www.yemenpolicy.org/pdf/YPC_Job_Announcement_Chief_Communications_Editor_2021_Jan.pdf
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37. Tenure-track Assistant Professorship in History and Society in the Modern
Middle East, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen
University (UCPH), Denmark
The successful applicant is expected to teach
and conduct research in the field of modern Middle Eastern history and the
dynamics that characterize the developments of the regional societies. She or
he must have a command of the Arabic language. Insight into classical Arabic
history will be an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 20 January 2021. Information:
https://employment.ku.dk/tenure-track/?show=153184
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38. Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
We are looking for candidates with broad
expertise of the contemporary Middle East with a particular focus on politics
and culture. S/he should be proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and preferably
also Hebrew. Candidates with a background in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic
Language and Culture, (contemporary) History, Political Science, and related
fields are especially encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 18 February 2021. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S00082BP
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39. Two-year Post-doctoral Fellowship, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
(2021-2023)
We are looking for candidates able to
demonstrate proven academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise,
together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies. We encourage
applications from candidates working in all related fields. Applicants must
hold a Ph.D. by the beginning of the fellowship tenure period, and no longer
than five years.
Deadline for
applications: 1 March 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/apply-two-year-post-doctoral-fellowship-at-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-2021-23?e=82aeb6c61d
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40. Professor in Political Science (Focus
Middle East), New York University Abu Dhabi Division of Social Science
Requirements: Ph.D. in Political Sciences.
We seek individuals who have, or have the potential to develop, a strong record
of scholarship and have the ability to develop and lead high-quality research.
Review of applications will begin on 1 February 2021. Information: https://professorpositions.com/professor-in-political-science,i16382.html
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41. Post-doctoral Position for Research on Race
and Racialization in the MENA Region and Middle Easterners in the USA, Graduate
Center, City University of New York
The successful applicant must have the doctorate in hand by the start of
the fellowship (25 August 2021), but be no more than seven years beyond the
granting of the PhD.
The deadline for applications: 1 March
2021. Information: https://home.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/cnyepprd/GUEST/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId=22123&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1
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42. Instructional Professor (Open Rank) in
Persian, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago
Applicants should demonstrate previous language teaching experience at
the college or post-secondary level. An M.A. degree is required. Candidates
with specialized training in second language acquisition are especially
encouraged to apply. 1 September 2021 is the start date.
Deadline for applications: 11 February
2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/11/instructor-professor-open-rank-in-persian
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43. Visiting Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History, History Department, Oberlin College (OH)
Requirements:
PhD (in hand or expected by August 2021). The incumbent will teach courses in
the general area of Middle East and North African History, including a
two-semester survey sequence, one or two intermediate-level classes, and at
least one advanced class in her/his area of specialization. We are particularly
interested in hiring a specialist in the history of the modern Middle East.
Deadline
for application: 1 February 2021. Information: https://jobs.oberlin.edu/postings/9679
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OTHER
INFORMATION
44. 2021-22 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award for
Palestine Studies, Columbia University
The award recognizes and seeks to foster innovative and groundbreaking
scholarship on issues related to Palestine and Palestinians. The award will
support a post-doctoral scholar working on a book project in any field of the
humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2021. Information: http://palestine.mei.columbia.edu/cpsfellowships/ibrahim-abu-lughod-award
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45. 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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46. Articles on "Migration, Human
Trafficking, and Displacement in the Horn of Arica (Including Migration to the
Gulf States)" for Special Issue of "African and Black Diaspora: An
International Journal" (Routledge)
This issue will focus on the diverse dimensions of migration within the
Horn of Africa and beyond to foster wide-ranging debates and dialogues on
migration and how 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.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7116244/migration-human-trafficking-and-displacement-horn-africa
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47. Articles for New "Journal of Arab
& Muslim Service, Tourism and Hospitality Research (JAMSTHR)"
JAMSTHR invites qualitative and quantitative articles focused on themes
pertinent to the understanding of phenomena related to Service, Tourism,
Hospitality and related fields in the Arab and Muslim world and about Arab and
Muslim consumers worldwide. The Journal also publishes case studies, literature
reviews, and opinion pieces.
Information: https://www.jamsthr.com
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48. Articles on "Islamic Constitutions:
Managing Religion and Politics" for Special Issue of the Journal
"Religions"
Papers are invited that examine the ways in which constitutions,
constitutional articles, and the writing and abolition of constitutions manage
the relationship between religion and politics. Of particular interest are
papers which highlight the specific legal, social, and political consequences
of how religion is altered by the state’s management of it through
constitutional articles especially in Muslim-majority countries.
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2021. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religion_Politics
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49. 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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50.
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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51.
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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52. 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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53. Chapters for Edited Volume on
"Creative Processes, Patrimonial Practices: Art and Heritage in the Middle
East and North Africa"
Contributors seek to examine how artists, architects, curators and
digital content producers engage with various elements of aesthetic practice to
produce, re-produce an challenge cultural representations and narratives. This
volume analyses current artistic and heritage practices within the region,
questioning the appropriateness of existing methods and providing suggestions
for future research.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6974299/call-chapter-creative-processes-patrimonial-practices-art-and
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54. Chapters for Edited Collection on "The
Arab World as Ghurba: Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Literature and
Popular Culture", University of Warwick
The aim of this edited collection is to investigate the cultural
implications of different kinds of movement and migration to and within the
Arabic-speaking world.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7093745/call-book-chapters-arab-world-ghurba-citizenship-identity-and
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55. New Book Series "Critical Studies on
Islamism" Published by I.B.Tauris & Bloomsbury
Books are welcomed from political science, sociology, religious studies,
history, political economy, sociolinguistics, media and cultural studies, and
international relations. The geographical scope is global and it covers the
nature, dynamics, and evolution of Islamism at different contexts and regions.
Information: Contact Khalil al-Anani, Ph.D., kalanani@gmail.com
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56. "Meet the Scholar: Snapshots of
Intellectual Journeys", Video Series of Conversations with Senior
Academics, Highlighting Their Scholarship and Situating Their Contributions to
Various Fields, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown
University, Washington DC
This series is intended as a teaching resource for students and scholars
alike. They offer students the opportunity to briefly "see" and
"meet" some senior academics that they might be reading in their
courses, giving them a chance to put a face to the name. Fundamentally, it is a
way of humanizing scholars. These videos will be released weekly.
Information: https://arabic.georgetown.edu/meet-the-scholar/
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57. ONLINE Survey on the Practices, Attitudes
and Implementation of Educational Technology in Teaching in the MENA Region,
Language Centre, University of Cyprus
We are conducting a research study to examine the teaching practices and
attitudes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic concerning the integration of
educational technology into online teaching in Higher Education in the EU and
the MENA region. We kindly request participation, especially in the MENA
region, in this study which will take 15-20 minutes of your time.
Please use this link to access the survey: https://forms.gle/RLxQwLfKs3AcYTSMA
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