CONFERENCES
1.
Conference : "Islam and Democracy: Exploring the Strategies of
Political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood's Contribution", The Cordoba
Foundation, London, 12 February 2015
2. Conference: "Innovation
Arabia 2015: Innovate, Collaborate, and Differentiate: Honouring the
Past, Treasuring the Present, and Shaping the Future", Dubai, 16-18
February 2015
3. Joint Conference of BRISMES/American University
in Dubai: "Relocating Middle East Studies: New Geographies of
Discourse", Dubai, 16-18 April 2015
4. Workshop: "The Arab Nahda in its Regional and Global Contexts", University of Oxford, 22-23 April 2015
5.
Conference: "Allied Friends or Foes: The First World War in/and the
Arab World", National Archives of Egypt, Cairo, 9-11 May 2015
6.
Symposium: "Ecologies of Violence and Genealogies of Terror: Assembling
the Biosocial and its Histories in the GCC", Center for Gulf Studies,
University of Exeter, 18 May 2015
7. Conference: “Academics and Activists Speak Out on the Shifting Places of Women in the Arab World”, Beirut, 2-4 June 2015
8. 49th Seminar for Arabian Studies Conference, British Museum, London, 24-26 July 2015
9.
Interdisciplinary Symposium „Notions of Dignity and Deficiency -
Intertextual Approaches to the Anthropology of the Qur’an in
Contemporary Muslim Discourse“, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 17-18
September 2015
10. International Conference: "Contemporary Arab
World in the International Relations", University of Gdansk, Poland, 24
September 2015 - New Date!
11. Panel: "Crisis/Time: Crisis and
Temporality in the MENA Region and Neighbouring Regions", German
Anthropological Association Bi-Annual Conference, Marburg University, 30
September - 3 October 2015
12. International Symposium: "Time in Islamic Civilization", Konya, Turkey, 8-11 October 2015
13.
International Conference and Graduate Student Workshop on "Islam in
Russia", Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 15-16 October 2015
POSITIONS
14. Six Doctoral Studentships Including Arabic Studies, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg
15.
Post-doctoral Research Associate for Al-Jazeera Media Project, Focus
on Turkey and Morocco Research Associate, POLIS, University of Cambridge
16. Research Associate for "Science and Scripture in Christianity and Islam", Faraday Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
17. Two Annual Fellowships for 2015-16 at the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies, New York
OTHER INFORMATION
18.
Graduate Student Workshop: “Space, Place and Technologies of Map Making
in Late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine”. University of Tuebingen and
State Academy Bad Wildbad (Black Forest), Germany, 28-30 July 2015
19.
Joint MSc Economics of the Middle East (EMEA) at Philipps-Universität
Marburg (Germany) and the Lebanese American University
20. M.A. in Middle East and Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
21. Summer School of the London Middle East Institute, 22 June - 23 July 2015
22. International Summer School in Forced Migration, University of Oxford, 6-24 July 2015
23.
Articles on "A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian
Cyberspace" in "CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East"
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CONFERENCES
1.
Conference : "Islam and Democracy: Exploring the Strategies of
Political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood's Contribution", The Cordoba
Foundation, London, 12 February 2015
List of speakers and further information: www.thecordobafoundation.com/events.php?id=1&art=144
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2.
Conference: "Innovation Arabia 2015: Innovate, Collaborate, and
Differentiate: Honouring the Past, Treasuring the Present, and Shaping
the Future", Dubai, 16-18 February 2015
Innovation Arabia 8, will
be held under the patronage of the Crown Prince of Dubai and President
of HBMSU. Innovational Arabia is a highly scientific refereed event
where thought leaders, academics, and the professional community
searching to exchange ideas, discuss trends, solutions and challenges in
the development of sustainable economies and societies in the Arab
World through innovation. Innovation Arabia will feature four important
tracks: Quality and Business Management; Smart Learning; Health
and Environment; Islamic Banking and Finance.
Information www.innovationarabia.ae
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3.
Joint Conference of BRISMES/American University in Dubai: "Relocating
Middle East Studies: New Geographies of Discourse", Dubai, 16-18 April
2015
Proposed Conference Sessions: - Negotiating Modernities and
the Contemporary in Visual Culture, - Re-readings / Re-takes; Narratives
in Literature and Media, - Transdisciplinary Studies of Gender in West
Asia and North Africa, - New Dynamics in the Economies of West Asia and
North Africa, - Fluctuating Geopolitics of West Asia and North Africa, -
Shifting Identities and Diasporic Communities, - Youth Culture
Activating New Geographies, Art Forms and Social Media.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 February 2015. Information
http://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/154-audbrismes-conference_____________
4. Workshop: "The Arab Nahda in its Regional and Global Contexts", University of Oxford, 22-23 April 2015
This
workshop aims to situate the nineteenth-century “Nahda” (the Arab
revival, enlightenment or renaissance) in its regional and global
context. We hope to draw on links and parallels with the Ottoman
Tanzimat, the Greek and Balkan Enlightenments, the Armenian Renaissance,
and comparable movements further afield, to place the Nahda in its
global context. The workshop will bring together scholars from
intellectual history, global history, literary theory, and comparative
literature, art history.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2015. Information
http://oxfordnahdaworkshop.wordpress.com_____________
5.
Conference: "Allied Friends or Foes: The First World War in/and the
Arab World", National Archives of Egypt, Cairo, 9-11 May 2015
The
conference will examine the various aspects of the Arab roles in the
First World War. The focus will be on the multiple conflicts and battles
in the Middle East and North Africa, especially these that have been
buried in national and historical memories.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2015. Information
http://iismm.hypotheses.org/19976_____________
6.
Symposium: " Ecologies of Violence and Genealogies of Terror:
Assembling the Biosocial and its Histories in the GCC", Center for Gulf
Studies, University of Exeter, 18 May 2015
Deadline for abstracts: 11 February 2015. Information
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/ecologiesofviolence/____________
7. Conference: “" Academics and Activists Speak Out on the Shifting Places of Women in the Arab World”, Beirut, 2-4 June 2015
The
conference is hosted by the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab
World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University Beirut. The wars and
unrest in the Arab region have proven lethal to women’s rights. The
gender dimension is at the core of both the struggle during armed
conflict and the social reconstruction that follows. The languages of
the conference will be: English, Arabic, and French.
Deadline for abstracts 20 February 2015. Information
http://womeninwar.org/wordpress/beirut-conference-june-2015/____________
8. 49th Seminar for Arabian Studies Conference, British Museum, London, 24-26 July 2015
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). The Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies are published
the following year in time for the next Seminar'.
Deadline for
abstracts of papers on 28 February 2015 and for posters on 31 May 2015.
Information www.thebfsa.org/content/about-the-seminar. Contact
seminar.arab@thebfsa.org._______________
9.
Interdisciplinary Symposium „Notions of Dignity and Deficiency -
Intertextual Approaches to the Anthropology of the Qur’an in
Contemporary Muslim Discourse“, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 17-18
September 2015
Hosted by the Chair for the Study of Religions, in
Cooperation with the Center for ‘Anthropology of Religion(s)’
(CAR).This call is addressed to Muslim and Non-muslim scholars (doctoral
and postdoctoral) who conduct research about the intertextuality and
discourse of the Qur’an especially with regard to anthropological
accounts (Ādam/Iblīs, ḫalīfa, amāna/fiṭra etc.) and are interested in
discussing their theses and contributions with leading representatives
of their disciplines.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2015.
Information:
www.theologie.uni-erlangen.de/lehrstuhl-fuer-religions-und-missionswissenschaft/forschungcfp.html
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10.
International Conference: "Contemporary Arab World in the International
Relations", University of Gdansk, Poland, 24 September 2015 - New Date!
The
conference’s methodological theme will be the SWOT analysis. During the
conference four workshops will be created: Strengths, Weakness,
Opportunities and Threats. Each of the workshops will be facing the
problems of the Arabic region in the XXI century.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 August 2015
http://wns.ug.edu.pl/media/aktualnosci/39809/contemporary_arab_world_international_relations______________
11.
Panel: "Crisis/Time: Crisis and Temporality in the MENA Region and
Neighbouring Regions", German Anthropological Association Bi-Annual
Conference, Marburg University, 30 September - 3 October 2015
We
invite anthropological case studies investigating subjective and
individual experiences of crisis in the MENA and neighbouring regions.
How are these experiences articulated and represented? How are they
framed in relation to larger-scale experiential processes, interpretive
frameworks and systems of meaning (and when is this impossible)? Which
temporal references are invoked?
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2015 to
Katharina.Lange@zmo.de. Information: www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/calls%20for%20papers/cfp_crisis_temporality.pdf
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12. International Symposium: "Time in Islamic Civilization", Konya, Turkey, 8-11 October 2015
Scientists
and thinkers have been engaged in the discussion of time, searching for
answers to such questions as what time is, how it is perceived, in what
way it is related to human life, how it was considered in the past. The
Islamic culture and civilization has indeed produced a wealth of
literature dealing various aspects of time. This international event,
aims to bring to light the contributions that have been made by
philosophers, scientists, theologians, Sufis, and intellectuals of
Islamic civilization in this field.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 17 April 2015. Information:
http://irct2015.konya.edu.tr/en/index.php#.VL-ycEesVqU______________
13.
International Conference and Graduate Student Workshop on "Islam in
Russia", Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, 15-16 October 2015
This conference
will focus on what it means to be a Muslim in Russia today and how these
meanings are reflected in Russian political life. Conference
participants will examine the variety of Muslim identities in modern
Russia and also consider the evolving role of Muslims in Russian
history. In addition to the conference, a smaller graduate student
workshop will be held immediately prior to the conference.
The deadline for proposals: 1 February 2015. Information
http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-islam-russia______________
POSITIONS
14. Six Doctoral Studentships Including Arabic Studies, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg
Project
proposals in the field of Arabic literature, Arabic language pedagogy
or Arabic sociolinguistics are particularly welcome.
Closing date: 3 February 2015. For application see:
http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=671955&Type=E.
Further information:
phd@sprak.gu.se_____________
15.
Post-doctoral Research Associate for Al-Jazeera Media Project, Focus
on Turkey and Morocco Research Associate, POLIS, University of Cambridge
Requirements:
PhD in Politics, International Relations, Political Communication or a
cognate discipline), with an emphasis on the region, excellent written
and verbal communication skills in English and either Arabic or Turkish,
proven track record of academic publishing and research.
Deadline of application: 13 February 2015. Information
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/5894/___________________
16. Research Associate for "Science and Scripture in Christianity and Islam", Faraday Institute, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
The
project will commence on 1st March and the Research Associate will take
up post as soon as possible after that date for a period of three
years. The role will include conducting literature reviews and social
scientific fieldwork. The successful candidate will have a doctorate in a
relevant subject and a demonstrable expertise and interest in the
requirements of the job as specified in the job description (Ref:
FP3/2.)
Closing date for application: 28 February 2015. Information: www.faraday.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/index.php
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17. Two Annual Fellowships for 2015-16 at the Columbia University Center for Palestine Studies, New York
The
fellowships are offered via the “Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award in Palestine
Studies”, and the “Palestine & Law Fellowship” at the Center for
Palestine Studies. Deadline for application 20 February 2015.
Information: www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/about/fellowships.html
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OTHER INFORMATION
18.
Graduate Student Workshop: “Space, Place and Technologies of Map Making
in Late Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine”. University of Tuebingen and
State Academy Bad Wildbad (Black Forest), Germany, 28-30 July 2015
Proposals
may address, but are not restricted to: history of late Ottoman and
Mandatory Palestine • theories of space and place • mental maps •
regionalization • mapping and cartography in the late Ottoman period.
Students accepted to the workshop will be eligible for travel grants.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 February 2015. Information:
www.uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/aoi/orient-islamwissenschaft/aktuelles.html
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19.
Joint MSc Economics of the Middle East (EMEA) at Philipps-Universität
Marburg (Germany) and the Lebanese American University
We seek
students who are highly motivated to study challenging subjects in
economics as well as Middle Eastern economics and who will appreciate
studying in an international setting; Students with a strong focus on
economics in their first degree and very good English-language
proficiency.
German nationals and those of selected MENA
countries are eligible for a DAAD scholarship. Two years of work
experience are required.
Applications for DAAD scholarships must be
submitted by 30 April 2015. Self-financers can apply up to 15 July 2015.
Information www.uni-marburg.de/emea
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20. M.A. in Middle East and Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
The
aim of this degree program is to reposition the study of the Middle
East and Islam within a global context to help students better analyze
particular issues in light of current events and shifting historical
paradigms. The program’s core classes provide a solid background in both
fields of study, however students can choose to focus their coursework
on either Middle East Studies or Islamic Studies.
Application deadline: 23 February 2015 for admission in Fall 2015. Information
http://meis.gmu.edu/programs/la-ma-meis/overview/____________
21. Summer School of the London Middle East Institute, 22 June - 23 July 2015
Courses
are offered on "Culture and Society in the Middle East"
(www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/summerschool/culture-and-society-in-the-middle-east-and-arabic-language)
and "Government and Politics in the Middle East"
(www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/summerschool/government-and-politics) combined with
Beginners Arabic (Level 1 or 2). Application deadline is 24 May 2015.
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22. International Summer School in Forced Migration, University of Oxford, 6-24 July 2015
Asfari
Foundation bursaries are available for Summer School candidates who
work on refugee-related issues from Palestine, Lebanon and Syria (or
Palestinians and Syrians resident in the Arab world). The deadline for a
bursary application is 1 March 2015. Information:
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school.
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23.
Articles on "A Safe Refuge? Minorities and the State in Iranian
Cyberspace" in "CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East"
Deadline for full paper: 30 April 2015. Information:
http://iismm.hypotheses.org/16997
