CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE
Lecture Series: "Global 1979 Iranian Revolution: The Limits of Global
History", Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University, Hagop
Kevorkian Center, Part 1: 15 March; Part 2: 29 March; Part 3: 26 April 2021;
2:00 pm ET
2.
ONLINE Book Talk: "The Arab and the Jewish
Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond", by Bashir
Bashir (Open University of Israel) and Leila Farsakh (University of
Massachusetts Boston), SOAS, 16 March 2021 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
3.
ONLINE
Session of the Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series: “The Druzes, from
Ismaili Esotericism to the Formation of a Doctrinal School of Law” by Wissam
Halawi (University of Lausanne), Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre
London, 17 March 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT
4.
ONLINE Conversation: "The Arab Uprisings Ten
Years on: A Continuing Process" by Dina Matar and Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, 17
March 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
5.
ONLINE Lecture: "Life, and Death, of a King in
Exile: The Final Years of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Founder of Modern Iran", by
Shaul Bakhash, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, 18 March 2021, 6:00 pm - 7:30
pm GMT
6.
ONLINE Panel on "Queer Studies: Activism in the
Middle East", Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March
2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
7.
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
8.
ONLINE 36th Annual Meeting of the American
Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (AC-SIS): “The Influence of Islam in
Politics and Society: Civic Engagement, Social Inclusion and Political
Participation”, Villanova University, 19-20 March 2021
9.
ONLINE Book Launch “Neither Settler nor Native: The
Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities” by Dr Mahmood Mamdani, Council for
British Research on the Levant, 22 March 2021, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm GMT
10. ONLINE Lecture and
Discussion on "Regional Balance in the Middle East and the Palestinian
Question", by Dr. Ahmad Jamil Azem (PLO Palestinian Central Council),
Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Athens, 22 March
2021, 6:30 pm CET
11. ONLINE Book Talk:
"Turkey in the Global Economy: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarian
Populism, 2000-2020" by Bülent Gökay (Keele University), SOAS, 23 March
2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
12. ONLINE Conference:
"Producing the Middle East: New Directions in Regional Media and
Politics", Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington
University, 25-26 March 2021
13. ONLINE Panel on
“’Ottoman’ Mediterranean", Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU,
26 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST
14. ONLINE Symposium:
“Muslim Philanthropy in a Canadian Context”, University of Toronto, 27 March
2021
15. ONLINE Book Launch on
"Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan
and Lebanon" by Nicola Pratt, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown
University, 30 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
16. ONLINE Colloquium on
"Music as a Vector of Political Engagement: Youssef Chahine’s Cinema as a
Case Study" by Dr. Amal Guermazi, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Arizona, 31 March 2021, 1:00 pm MST
17. ONLINE Talk on
"What’s So Colonial About Colonial Rule? Violence and Authoritarianism in
French Algeria" by Adria Lawrence (John Hopkins University), Crown Center
for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 7 April 2021, 11:00 pm - 12:00 pm
EST
18. ONLINE 14th
Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference: "Global Islamophobia and the
News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media," Michigan State
University, 8-9 April 2021
19.
ONLINE Seminar on "National and Regional
Dimension of Mediterranean Studies" at the Annual Meeting of the American
Comparative Literature Association, 8-11 April 2021
20. ONLINE Conference
"The Conversion of Spaces and Places of Worship", Anatolian Religions
and Beliefs Platzform (ARBP), 10-11 April 2021
21. ONLINE International Conference: "The
Fragility of Global Migration", Center of Methods in Social Sciences,
University of Göttingen, 20-21 May 2021
22. 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
23. 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
24. Conference of the Red
Sea Project X: “Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, University of Crete,
Rethymno Greece, 16-19 June 2021
25.
ONLINE Postgraduate Symposium: "Muslims in the UK and Europe",
Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 17 June 2021
26. 21st
International Conference of Migration: "Border Thinking",
Alpen-Adria-University of Klagenfurt, Austria, 17-18 June 2021
27. "4th Congress of Studies on the Middle East and Muslim
Worlds", Aix-en-Provence, 28-30 June 2021
28. Huitième édition des Journées de l’association des
doctorants la Halqa sur le thème : « Mobilisations et engagements dans les
mondes arabes et musulmans (XVIIe – XXIe siècles) », Aix-en-Provence, 1 - 2
juillet 2021
29.
Journée d’études « Rire en Égypte : l’humour dans la
poésie dialectale égyptienne », INALCO-CERMOM, 2 juillet 2021
30. 27th
International Conference on Jewish Studies, Moscow, 11-13 July 2021
31. ONLINE Conference:
"Gulf Research Meeting 2021", Gulf Research Center (GRC), University
of Cambridge/UK, 23-24 July 2021
32. ONLINE Summer
Conference of the "Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the
Near East (ASTENE)", 24-25 July 2021
33. 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
34. Open Panels for the
"27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies
Association (DAVO)" Institute for Islamic Theology, University of
Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
35.
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
36. Conference on “Translation
and Transfer” of the Network "Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility
Dynamics”, University of Marburg, 6–9 October 2021
37. 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
38. Seminar “Reassembling
Creation: Green Ethics (GE) and the Scholarly Disciplines in the Islamic
Tradition”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Doha,
12-14 October 2021
39. Conference:
"Expectations of Justice and Political Power in the Islamicate World (ca.
600-1500 CE)", Leiden University, 27-29 October 2021
40. Workshop "Turkey
in/for (Global) International Relations", Goethe University Frankfurt,
25-26 November 2021
41. 3rd ANU Religion Conference: “Religion and Migration: Culture and
Policy”, Australian National University, Canberra, 8-10 December 2021
POSITIONS
42.
Research Associate for the Project “Romanization and
Islamication in Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian
Peninsula and in North Africa”, DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “RomanIslam”,
Universität Hamburg
43.
Eight Fellowships (2 years) of the "Academy in
Exile" at the Forum Tansregionale Studien in Berlin and the Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen
44.
PhD Scholarship in “Islamic & Middle Eastern
Studies”, University of Edinburgh
45. PhD Scholarship for Research on “The
Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity”,
University of Edinburgh
46. Short-Term Fellowships for Young
Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Leba-non, Morocco, Palestine,
Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the
Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)
47.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Modern Arabic Literature,
Tulane University, New Orleans
OTHER INFORMATION
48. Ten £3000 Student
Bursaries for New Masters Programme "The Globalised Muslim World",
Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
49. Book Awards of the
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
50. ONLINE Short Course: “Islam and Creativity”,
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University London,
7-21 June 2021
51. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images
of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images", Università
degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, Revised Dates 5-9 July 2021
52. ONLINE Summer School
"The Unfinished Arab Revolutions: Power, Politics and Governance in the
Middle East", University of Turin, 5-9 July 2021
53. Paid Research Articles
on “What has Changed in the Decade since the Outbreak of the Arab Uprisings?”
for a Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
54. Articles on “MENA
Migrants and Diasporas in 21st Century Media” for Special Issue of
“Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”
55. Articles on “Are
Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in the 21st Century?” for Special
Issue of Journal “Religions”
56. Articles on
"Islamic Constitutions: Managing Religion and Politics" for Special
Issue of Journal "Religions"
57. 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”
58.
Articles on "Islamic Theologies of Disasters:
Between Science, Religion and Messianism" for Special Issue of
"MIDEO" 38 (2023)
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CONFERENCES / ONLINE EVENTS
1.
ONLINE
Lecture Series: "Global 1979 Iranian Revolution: The Limits of Global
History", Iranian Studies Initiative at New York University, Hagop Kevorkian
Center, Part 1: 15 March; Part 2: 29 March; Part 3: 26 April 2021; 2:00 pm ET
The
lecture series explores the global processes which shaped the making of the
Iranian revolution. The invited speakers and discussants will highlight the
multiplicity of spaces of the revolution such as streets, schools, prisons,
personal lives, and histories such as the Cold War and Global 1960s and 70s.
Information and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/01/20/global-1979-iranian-revolution-the-limits-of-global-history
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2.
ONLINE Book Talk: "The Arab and the Jewish
Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond", by Bashir
Bashir (Open University of Israel) and Leila Farsakh (University of
Massachusetts Boston), SOAS, 16 March 2021 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
Shedding new light on the intricate relationships
among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab
and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.
Information
and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/16mar2021-the-arab-and-the-jewish-questions-geographies-of-engagement-in-palestine-and-beyond.html
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3.
ONLINE
Session of the Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series: “The Druzes, from
Ismaili Esotericism to the Formation of a Doctrinal School of Law” by Wissam
Halawi (University of Lausanne), Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre
London, 17 March 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT
Focusing
on the 5th / 11th century, Dr. Halawi will show how
Druzism was in line with Ismaili doctrine at that time, while developing a
substantive law influenced by Sunni fiqh and customary law.
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4.
ONLINE Conversation: "The Arab Uprisings Ten
Years on: A Continuing Process" by Dina Matar and Gilbert Achcar, SOAS, 17
March 2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
Ten years ago, most of the Arabic-speaking
countries were shaken by the chain of uprisings that was called the Arab
Spring. The expectation of quick and smooth transformation was in 2011: social
struggles kept occurring in the region until a second wave of uprisings started
in 2018.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/17mar2021-the-arab-uprisings-ten-years-on-a-continuing-process.html
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5.
ONLINE Lecture: "Life, and Death, of a King in
Exile: The Final Years of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Founder of Modern Iran", by
Shaul Bakhash, Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS, 18 March 2021, 6:00 pm - 7:30
pm GMT
This lecture will describe the factors that shaped his
decision to abdicate and Reza Shah’s final journey into unhappy exile in
Mauritius and Johannesburg, the two places the British had chosen for him; his
life in exile; his finances; and his testy relationship with the British in
whose control the circumstances of war had placed him.
Information
and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei-cis/events/18mar2021-life-and-death-of-a-king-in-exile-the-final-years-of-reza-shah-pahlavi-founder-of-modern-i.html
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6.
ONLINE Panel on "Queer Studies: Activism in the
Middle East", Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 March
2021, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EST
The panel will engage with both the "Kohl"
special issue on queer feminisms and Ghassan Moussawi’s book, "Disruptive
Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut", as part
of a wider discussion on Queer Studies and activism with reference to the
Middle East. Hosted by Nadje Al-Ali, Director of the Center for Middle East
Studies.
Information
and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/queer-studies-activism-middle-east
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7.
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.
Information: https://icls.columbia.edu/news/cfp-transformations-of-arabic-literary-theory/
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8.
ONLINE 36th Annual Meeting of the American
Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (AC-SIS): “The Influence of Islam in
Politics and Society: Civic Engagement, Social Inclusion and Political
Participation”, Villanova University, 19-20 March 2021
The conference puts particular emphasis on
socio-political dimensions of Islam and covers a vast range of topics and areas
from Sufism, the so-called apolitical dimension of the faith to economic and
financial aspects of Islam, both in Muslim and non-Muslim societies.
Information: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/publications/jsames/acsis/conference.html; programme: https://www1.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/artsci/jsames/36Meeting-Program-ACSIS-2021.pdf
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9.
ONLINE Book Launch “Neither Settler nor Native: The
Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities” by Dr Mahmood Mamdani, Council for
British Research on the Levant, 22 March 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm GMT
This “genealogy of political modernity” offers original
arguments regarding the co-constitutive relationship between the nation-state
and the colonial state.
Information: http://cbrl.ac.uk/event/neither-settler-nor-native-book-launch-with-dr-mahmood-mamdani
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10. ONLINE Lecture and
Discussion on "Regional Balance in the Middle East and the Palestinian
Question", by Dr. Ahmad Jamil Azem (PLO Palestinian Central Council),
Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies, Athens, 22 March
2021, 6:30 pm CET
Information
and registration: http://cemmis.edu.gr/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=660:lecture-by-ahmad-jamil-azem-on-regional-balance-in-the-middle-east-and-the-palestinian-question&Itemid=206&lang=en
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11. ONLINE Book Talk:
"Turkey in the Global Economy: Between Neoliberalism and Authoritarian
Populism, 2000-2020" by Bülent Gökay (Keele University), SOAS, 23 March
2021, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm GMT
This book examines the transformation of Turkey over
the past two decades, from an underdeveloped and weak economic power into an
important regional player with a dynamic economy in global networks. At the
same time, the book provides a more granular focus on the political and
economic transformation of Turkey itself.
Information
and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/23mar2021-turkey-in-the-global-economy-between-neoliberalism-and-authoritarian-populism-2000-2020.html
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12. ONLINE Conference:
"Producing the Middle East: New Directions in Regional Media and
Politics", Institute for Middle East Studies, George Washington
University, 25-26 March 2021
This conference foregrounds media to explain how the
Middle East is being produced or reproduced as a region of lived experience and
meaning. It brings together scholars who each possess expertise in media and
the Middle East but from a range of theoretical and methodological approaches
and disciplinary backgrounds.
Program and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/events/imes-annual-conference/2021-program/
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13. ONLINE Panel on
“’Ottoman’ Mediterranean", Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU,
26 March 2021, 12:30 pm EST
This panel will explore prominent figures and debates
related to the Ottoman Mediterranean in order to expand, question, and
resituate our current understanding of the region’s relationship to the Empire.
Information
and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-CtqjgrE9E1eplL1HOuFAfCSfU3HhR9
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14. 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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15. ONLINE Book Launch on
"Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan
and Lebanon" by Nicola Pratt, Centre for Middle East Studies, Brown University,
30 March 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST
Based on over a hundred extensive personal narratives
from women of different generations in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon, Nicola Pratt
traces women’s activism from national independence through to the Arab uprisings,
arguing that activist women are critical geopolitical actors.
Deadline for
abstracts: 2021. Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/nicola-pratt-embodying-geopolitics
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16. ONLINE Colloquium on
"Music as a Vector of Political Engagement: Youssef Chahine’s Cinema as a
Case Study" by Dr. Amal Guermazi, Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
University of Arizona, 31 March 2021, 1:00 pm MST
The Egyptian filmmaker uses music for more than
entertainment. His melodies convey a critical political discourse that cannot
be expressed otherwise in narration, either because of censorship or because of
societal taboos. This presentation looks at the functions of music in the
director’s cinema. It tries to uncover how music manages to go beyond its usual
distraction role to become a real vehicle of engagement.
Information and registration: https://cmes.arizona.edu/events/guermazi
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17. ONLINE Talk on
"What’s So Colonial About Colonial Rule? Violence and Authoritarianism in
French Algeria" by Adria Lawrence (John Hopkins University), Crown Center
for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 7 April 2021, 11:00 pm - 12:00 pm
EST
Adria Lawrence will draw on the first half-century of
French rule in Algeria (1830-1880) to consider what made colonial rule
distinctive. She will focus on the use of violence during the colonial era in
order to show how the ability of the French to carry out their stated policy
aims in Algeria was limited.
Information and registration: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/events/2021/apr-7.html
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18. ONLINE 14th
Annual Muslim Studies Program Conference: "Global Islamophobia and the
News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media," Michigan State University,
8-9 April 2021
By bringing together leading scholars who study how
Islamophobia manifests on each of these platforms, we will develop a more
comprehensive understanding of the pervasiveness of anti-Muslim sentiment,
measure its effects, and develop recommendations to address it. The conference
will build a mentoring network of scholars interested in Muslims.
Information and registration: https://msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7yAKBF9xQqSWX5LO7EY1bA
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19.
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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20. 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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21. 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.
Information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/50226.html?cid=25115
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22. 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 ?
Information : https://www.aislf.org/GT04-covid-19
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23. 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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24. 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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25.
ONLINE Postgraduate Symposium: "Muslims in the UK and Europe",
Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 17 June 2021
Applications are invited from current Masters and PhD
candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK
and Europe, from any discipline. While historical or theoretical context is
valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research
findings, data or material.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 April 2021. Information: cis@cis.cam.ac.uk
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26. 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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27. "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. 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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28. Huitième édition des Journées de l’association des
doctorants la Halqa sur le thème : « Mobilisations et engagements dans les
mondes arabes et musulmans (XVIIe – XXIe siècles) », Aix-en-Provence, 1 - 2
juillet 2021
En offrant aux doctorant·e·s et masterant·e·s un espace
pour présenter leurs travaux, les Journées de la Halqaouvrent une possibilité
d’échange sur des problématiques communes par-delà les barrières disciplinaires
des sciences sociales.
Les
propositions de communication sont à envoyer avant le 30 avril 2021. Information
: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2021/03/Appel-a%CC%80-communications-8e-Journe%CC%81es-de-la-Halqa.pdf
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29.
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.
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30. 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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31. ONLINE Conference:
"Gulf Research Meeting 2021", Gulf Research Center (GRC), University
of Cambridge/UK, 23-24 July 2021
The workshops cover a wide range of topics in the
fields of politics, energy, security, and the wider social sciences as they
relate to the wider Gulf region (GCC countries in addition to Iraq and Yemen).
Information: https://www.gulfresearchmeeting.net/
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32. ONLINE Summer
Conference of the "Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the
Near East (ASTENE)", 24-25 July 2021
Deadline for abstracts: 31 April 2021. Information: conference.astene@gmail.com
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33. 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.
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34. Open Panels for the
"27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies
Association (DAVO)" Institute for Islamic Theology, University of
Osnabrück, 16-18 September 2021
If you are interested in organizing an open panel for
this congress and look for paper presenters, you are kindly requested to send
the title and summary (up to 300 words) to the General Secretary of the
congress, Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@googlemail.com) before 15 March 2021.
The call for papers for open panels will then be
forwarded via EURAMES and DAVO-Info-Service to more than 6000 scholars who
should send their paper proposals directly to the organizer of the specific
panel until 15 May 2021.
Information: https://www.irp-cms.uni-osnabrueck.de/en/events/27th_international_davo_congress.html
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35.
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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36. 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.
For further information, contact florian.riedler@uni-leipzig.de.
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37. 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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38. Seminar “Reassembling
Creation: Green Ethics (GE) and the Scholarly Disciplines in the Islamic
Tradition”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Doha,
12-14 October 2021
The seminar is convened by Dr. Birgit Krawietz (Freie
Universität Berlin) in collaboration with Dr. Mohammed Ghaly (CILE). The papers
will be published as part of a thematic issue of the "Journal of Islamic
Ethics (JIE)" and/or an edited volume in the peer-reviewed book-series
"Studies in Islamic Ethics", both published by Brill.
Extended
deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2021. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-research-papers-reassembling-creation-green-ethics-ge-and-scholarly-disciplines
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39. 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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40. Workshop "Turkey
in/for (Global) International Relations", Goethe University Frankfurt,
25-26 November 2021
The goal of the workshop is to generate a new body of
scholarship that locates Turkey within (Global) IR, bringing together studies
that are publishable in the form of a special issue and/or an edited volume.
Deadline for
abstracts: 31 March 2021. Information: https://www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/97833926/
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41. 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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POSITIONS
42.
Research Associate for the Project “Romanization and
Islamication in Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian
Peninsula and in North Africa”, DFG Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “RomanIslam”,
Universität Hamburg
Requirements: an excellent university
degree (MA) in a relevant field of Middle Eastern history and culture;
excellent Arabic skills; experience with Arabic historical primary sources;
excellent knowledge of English, and French. The knowledge of further relevant
languages, such as Latin, and Spanish, etc. is advantageous. Experience in
working with additional sources, such as archaeological, numismatic, and
geographical mate-rial is welcome but not a requirement.
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2021. Information:
https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/66-gw-28-3-research-associate-phd.pdf
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43.
Eight Fellowships (2 years) of the "Academy in
Exile" at the Forum Tansregionale Studien in Berlin and the Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) in Essen
Eligible are scholars from any country, who
have a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, or law, and who are at risk
because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights,
democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2021. Information:
https://www.academy-in-exile.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AiE_Call_for_Applications-VW-February_2021-Extension.pdf
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44.
PhD Scholarship in “Islamic & Middle Eastern
Studies”, University of Edinburgh
The award is open to UK and Overseas
students commencing a PhD degree in the academic year 2021-2022. The Award will
cover the UK level of tuition fee and an annual stipend of £15,285 and will be
awarded for a maximum of three years subject to satisfactory annual progress.
Deadline for application: 3 May 2021. Information:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/humanities/languages-literatures-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern-studies
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45. PhD Scholarship for Research on “The
Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity”,
University of Edinburgh
It is imperative that
the candidate has previously studied Classical Arabic at the undergraduate
and/or graduate level. They will select a topic of Abbasid fiscal history for
their dissertation, based on the study of published documents in Arabic.
Deadline for application: 3 May 2021. Information:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/uk-eu/humanities/literatures-languages-cultures/phd-european-research
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46. Short-Term Fellowships for Young
Researchers Native from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Leba-non, Morocco, Palestine,
Tunisia and Syria, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the
Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED)
FMSH and UNIMED offer
short-term fellowships of 2 or 3 months in France for young researchers native
from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria and
affiliated to one of the 133 Universities with membership in UNIMED. This
research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in
France: field enquiries, library and archives work.
Deadline for
applications: 15 March 2021. Information: https://www.fmsh.fr/en/international/30667
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47.
Postdoctoral Fellowship for Modern Arabic Literature,
Tulane University, New Orleans
Requirements: Candidates
must have received their PhD after 1 September 2018 and no later than 30 June
2021. They are expected to design and teach courses on literature and cultural
production from the MENA region, time period open.
Deadline for applications: 30 March
2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/02/12/mellon-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-the-humanities-modern-arabic-literature
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OTHER INFORMATION
48. Ten £3000 Student
Bursaries for New Masters Programme "The Globalised Muslim World",
Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
The bursaries are available to UK and
international/EU students. This MSc programme explores the inherent diversity
of the world's Muslim societies whilst encouraging students to critically
analyse some of the major global, international and transnational trends and
movements that cut across borders and connect Muslims across the world.
Deadline for application: 29 March 2021. Information: www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk/msc-the-globalised-muslim-world
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49. Book Awards of the
Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)
This award and a monetary prize of $500 is presented
to the author of a research monograph, published in 2020, that: 1) represents
the most important contribution to Central Eurasian studies, or 2) that holds
the greatest potential for furthering scholarship on the Central Eurasian
region.
Deadline for
applications: 15 April 2021. Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/2021/call-for-nominations-2021-cess-book-awards/
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50. ONLINE Short Course: “Islam and Creativity”,
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University London,
7-21 June 2021
The aim of this online short course is to learn about and gain analytical
tools to understand contemporary creativity in relation to Islam. During the
course, participants will discuss Islamic discourse, ethics, aesthetics and
creative processes in popular music, films, paintings and novels among other
things. The course will discuss how artists push and cross boundaries in an
increasingly entangled world.
The organisers advise
to book as soon as possible. Information: https://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=1676&Title=Islam%20and%20Creativity
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51. MIDA/ENIS Summer School: "Spoken Images
of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images", Università
degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, Revised Dates 5-9 July 2021
The
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. The school will bring together
advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with doctoral and
MA students to explore how the transfer of texts and images move from one
culture to another in Muslim societies and beyond.
Deadline for
application: 1 April 2021: Information: http://www.iric.org/tabid/99/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/2135/MIDAENIS-Summer-School-2021.aspx
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52. ONLINE Summer School
"The Unfinished Arab Revolutions: Power, Politics and Governance in the
Middle East", University of Turin, 5-9 July 2021
The summer school critically unpacks power, politics
and governance, exploring the role they have in re-defining the trajectories of
Arab states, presented by Gilbert Achcar (SOAS), Adam Hanieh (University of
Exeter), Francesco Cavatorta (Laval University), Tamirace Fakhoury (AUL)
AmericAndrea Teti (Aberdeen University) and Bilge Yabanci (Ca' Foscari
Venezia).
Deadline for application: 17 June 2021. Information: https://www.tomideast.com/
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53. Paid Research Articles
on “What has Changed in the Decade since the Outbreak of the Arab Uprisings?”
for a Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
This issue aims at providing original
research in English or Arabic on the changes that occurred during the past
decade following the Arab Uprisings. Evidently, protesters across the region
have learnt lessons from their failures, while the existing authoritarian
elites have as well learnt their own in repressing and circumventing any
potential political mobilisation.
Deadline for manuscripts: 15 March 2021. Information: https://rowaq.cihrs.org/call-for-papers-what-has-changed-in-the-decade-since-the-outbreak-of-the-arab-uprisings/?lang=en
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54. Articles on “MENA
Migrants and Diasporas in 21st Century Media” for Special Issue of
“Mashriq wa Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies”
This special issue seeks scholarly contributions that
engage with questions related to the main theme 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
articles: 15 March 2021. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/mashriq/announcement/view/23
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55. Articles on “Are
Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in the 21st Century?” for Special
Issue of Journal “Religions”
We
invite scholars to reflect on today’s relations and trends of Muslim-Jewish
relations. This issue will be focused on areas where Muslim-Jewish relations
seem to be improving but we also welcome submissions that are more skeptical in
their outlook. We especially welcome case studies that look at projects that
rediscover the local or regional Jewish or Muslim heritage and case studies of
interfaith projects.
Deadline for
manuscript submissions: 30 April 2021. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Muslims-Jewish
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56. Articles on
"Islamic Constitutions: Managing Religion and Politics" for Special
Issue of 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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57. 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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58.
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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