CONFERENCES
1. 2nd
International Workshop: "Dialogues in Late Medieval Mediterranean: Between
East and West", Alhambra of Granada, Spain, 13-14 November 2017
2.
Annual Conference of FEMISE: "Neighbours of Neighbours: Relation and
Cooperation of the EU-Med towards Africa", Valletta, Malta, 8-9 February
2018
3.
International Conference: “Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial
Spanish Legacies in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea", Institució Milà i
Fontanals, Barcelona, 14-15 March 2018
4.
Conference: “Fifty Years of Revolution: Gender, Race and Resistance 1968-2018”,
University of York, 21-22 May 2018
5.
Workshop: "The First Century of Photography: Photography as History/
Historicizing Photography in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Territories (1839 –
1939)", Bogazici University, Istanbul, 22-23 June 2018
6.
Symposium: “Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the
Mediterranean Shores”, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 4-6
July 2018
7.
Panel: "New Social Contracts for MENA Countries: Political Settlement
and Societal Reconstruction" at the 5th World Congress for Middle Eastern
Studies (WOCMES), Seville, 16-22 July 2018
8.
Panel: "Oil, Institutions and Economic Development: Policy Challenges for
the Oil MENA Region in a Post Arab Spring Era" at the 5th World Congress
for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, 16-22 July 2018
9.
Panel: "Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim
Socio-Religious Groups and the Ottoman State in the Post-Classical Age"at
the 23rd Conference of the CIÉPO, Sofia, Bulgaria, 11-15 September 2018
10.
Conference: "Middle Eastern and Balkan Mobilities in the Interwar Period
(1918-1939)", Cambridge, 13-14 September 2018
11.
Conference: "The Reach of Empire - The Early Islamic Empire at Work",
Universität Hamburg, 11-13 October 2018
POSITIONS
12.
Fellowships for International Researchers in Humanities, Social Studies, Law,
and Economics for 2018-2019, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
13.
Assistant/Associate Professor in International Relations (International
Security in Middle East Politics), Bilkent University, Ankara
14.
Open-Rank Position in History of the Middle East, Koc University, Istanbul
15.
Project Manager for Capacity Development in Lebanon/Beirut, Forum Ziviler
Friedensdienst
16.
Coordinator for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) Lebanon
Programme, Beirut, Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst
17.
Faculty Fellow in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
18.
Assistant Professor in Islamic Visual Culture before 1500, Case Western Reserve
University, Ohio
19.
Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Turkish Studies, Buffett Institute
for Global Studies at Northwestern University
20.
Non-Tenure Track Instructional Position to Teach Two Courses in Contemporary
Arabic Literature in the Spring 2018 Semester, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville
21.
Faculty Position in Arabic Linguistics, Arabic Culture or Relevant Fields,
National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan
22.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowships in Qur’anic Studies or Contemporary Islam,
University of Johannesburg
OTHER
INFORMATION
23.
Seminar: "Representing Muslim Women: Muslim Women and the Media",
Berkeley, 2-4 February 2018
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CONFERENCES
1.
2nd International Workshop: "Dialogues in Late Medieval Mediterranean:
Between East and West", Alhambra of Granada, Spain, 13-14 November 2017
The
main goal will be to analyse the Islamic cultural legacy in a comprehensive
approach, from the multidisciplinary fields of History of Art, Architecture,
History, Archaeology, Philosophy, Music and History of Religions. The
participant researchers are specialists from research centres of Portugal,
Spain, Italy, Switzerland, France, Hungry and the United States.
Deadline
for registration: 8 November 2017. Information: http://iem.fcsh.unl.pt/section.aspx?kind=noticia&id=1370
2.
Annual Conference of FEMISE: "Neighbours of Neighbours: Relation and
Cooperation of the EU-Med towards Africa", Valletta, Malta, 8-9 February
2018
The
conference provides a platform for the different actors of the EU-Med region of
research institutes’ members, academics, policymakers and representatives of
the international community including the EU, to engage in a constructive
dialogue about the future of the region and the role the EU can play in the
context of the new ENP.
Information: www.femise.org/en/slideshow-en/forthcoming-femise-annual-conference-valletta-malta-february-8th-9th-2018/
3.
International Conference: “Euro-African Memories: Colonial and Postcolonial
Spanish Legacies in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea", Institució Milà i
Fontanals, Barcelona, 14-15 March 2018
Direction:
Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré (IMF-CSIC) and Araceli González Vázquez (IMF-CSIC).
Deadline for abstracts: 4 December 2017. Information: hispanicafricanmemories@gmail.com
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4.
Conference: “Fifty Years of Revolution: Gender, Race and Resistance 1968-2018”,
University of York, 21-22 May 2018
Questions
the conference seeks to address include: How has gender, as it intersects
with categories such as race, ethnicity, class and (dis)ability, shaped what
counts as revolution and the revolutionary over this fifty-year period?;
How are constructions and embodied experiences of revolutionary agency and
subjectivity gendered?; etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 28 February 2018. Information: genderingrevolution@gmail.com
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5.
Workshop: "The First Century of Photography: Photography as History/
Historicizing Photography in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Territories (1839 –
1939)", Bogazici University, Istanbul, 22-23 June 2018
Topics
may include: Circulation of photography; Photography and the state;
Photography’s role in Ottoman and/or Republican historiography; Photography as
a historical object; Popular representations of history; Representations of the
Turkish Republic, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 January 2018.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/692161/first-century-photography-photography-history-historicizing
6.
Symposium: “Mediterranean Europe(s): Images and Ideas of Europe from the
Mediterranean Shores”, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 4-6
July 2018
The aim
is to bring together cultural and intellectual historians, philosophers,
anthropologists, as well as scholars of the arts and literature, and to try to
connect more firmly European and Mediterranean studies to shed new light on the
place and the role of the Mediterranean in shaping images, ideas, and
discourses about Europe from the eighteenth century onwards.
Deadline
for abstracts: 27 December 2017. Information: www.historyideaofeurope.org/images-and-ideas-of-europe-from-the-mediterranean-shores/_________________
7.
Panel: "New Social Contracts for MENA Countries: Political Settlement
and Societal Reconstruction" at the 5th World Congress for Middle Eastern
Studies (WOCMES), Seville, 16-22 July 2018
Organisers:
Bernhard Trautner, DIE, Bonn, and Ramage Nada, ERF, Cairo. What is required of
a social contract in order that it provides for peaceful transformation of
state-society and intra-societal relations? What changes are likely to be
required for different social groups to engage in peaceful relations with each
other and/or the state, and what changes can different MENA states
realistically offer?
Deadline
for abstracts: 25 November 2017. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/en/call-for-open-panels (No.
14)
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8.
Panel: "Oil, Institutions and Economic Development: Policy Challenges for
the Oil MENA Region in a Post Arab Spring Era" at the 5th World Congress
for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Seville, 16-22 July 2018
The
panel will explore the “myth” of the resource curse as it relates to the oil
MENA region by looking at countries endowed with oil riches but which defied
the so-called oil curse such as Norway and countries with zero resource wealth
such as Singapore that did well.
Deadline
for abstracts: 1 December 2017. Information: http://wocmes2018seville.org/web/index.php/es/call-for-open-panels (No.
15)
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9.
Panel: "Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim
Socio-Religious Groups and the Ottoman State in the Post-Classical Age"at
the 23rd Conference of the CIÉPO, Sofia, Bulgaria, 11-15 September 2018
The
panel aims to bring together works on various different socio-religious
communities and individuals in the Ottoman Empire that are neither Sunni-Muslim
(like, e.g. 12er Shiis, Nusayris, Kızılbaş-Alevis (Şabak, Tahtacı, Çepni etc.),
Bektaşis, Druzes, etc.) nor belong to one of the three millets, like, e.g.
Yezidis.
Deadline
for abstracts: 15 November 2017. Information: benjamin.weineck@uni-bayreuth.de
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10.
Conference: "Middle Eastern and Balkan Mobilities in the Interwar Period
(1918-1939)", Cambridge, 13-14 September 2018
The
conference aims to consider the factors behind the movements of population and
their impact both on the countries to which people moved as well as on those
they had moved from. It will also consider the ways in which populations
maintained contacts with, or were involved politically, socially or culturally
with, the countries they had left behind.
Deadline
for abstracts: 2 February 2017. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/622405/middle-eastern-and-balkan-mobilities-interwar-period-1918-1939
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11.
Conference: "The Reach of Empire - The Early Islamic Empire at Work",
Universität Hamburg, 11-13 October 2018
The
conference invites participants to consider the reach of the early Islamic
Empire from the 7th to the 10th centuries CE. Papers are invited that consider
the reach of law, Islamic and other, for the integration and functioning of the
empire, as well as its role in the development of Islam as an ‘imperial’
religion. To what extent did ‘Islam’ serve as an integrating force, even if
only for the imperial elite? Etc.
Deadline
for abstracts: 31 January 2017. Information: www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/news-and-events/conferences/reach-of-empire.html
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POSITIONS
12.
Fellowships for International Researchers in Humanities, Social Studies, Law,
and Economics for 2018-2019, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
Duration
of the Fellowship: a) a full academic year (10 months, October through July) or
b) a one-term fellowship (October-February, or March-July). The Fellowship
consists of: a monthly stipend of 750 Euro, accommodation, international
transportation to and from the home country.
Deadline
for application: 2 December 2017. Information: www.nec.ro and applications@nec.ro
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13.
Assistant/Associate Professor in International Relations (International
Security in Middle East Politics), Bilkent University, Ankara
Applicants
should hold a PhD in International Relations, Political Science or a related
field, though PhD candidates with publications and close to completing their
studies are also encouraged to apply. However, the prospective candidate is
required to receive a PhD no later than August 1, 2018.
Deadline
for application: 22 December 2017. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55928
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14.
Open-Rank Position in History of the Middle East, Koc University, Istanbul
Applicants
should focus on the History of the non-Turkish/Arab World and/or Iran. Thematic
interests in the Early Modern and Modern History of the above-mentioned areas
with demonstrable linguistic proficiency in Arabic and/or Persian is desirable.
Deadline
for application: 15 December 2017. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55861
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15.
Project Manager for Capacity Development in Lebanon/Beirut, Forum Ziviler
Friedensdienst
Your
profile: Advanced university degree with a minimum of 3 years of work
experience in trainings and the development of training curricula, ideally
within the civil society sector; several years’ experience in development
cooperation, peacebuilding and/or conflict transformation; etc.
Deadline
for application: 26 November 2017. Information: www.forumzfd.de/jobs/PM_Lebanon_2017
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16.
Coordinator for Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (PM&E) Lebanon
Programme, Beirut, Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst
Your
profile: Advanced university degree with a minimum of 2-3 years of work
experience in the field of planning, monitoring and evaluation; Profound
knowledge in working with systemic approaches to PM&E in the area of
peacebuilding and conflict transformation; etc.
Deadline
for application: 26 November 2017. Information: www.forumzfd.de/jobs/PME_Lebanon_2017
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17.
Faculty Fellow in Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
We are
looking for an outstanding junior scholar in any social science or humanities
discipline whose research offers a critical perspective on the contemporary
Middle East.
Deadline
for application: 1 January 2017. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/46267
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18.
Assistant Professor in Islamic Visual Culture before 1500, Case Western Reserve
University, Ohio
The
geographical area of specialization may be the Mediterranean world or the
Middle East (including Central Asia). The ability to teach contemporary art
from the Muslim world is desirable.
Deadline
for application: 20 November 2017. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=55879
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19.
Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Turkish Studies, Buffett Institute
for Global Studies at Northwestern University
Applications
are welcome from scholars whose research addresses transnational social
processes, problems, or conflicts in connection to contemporary Turkey.
Fellowship will run from 1 September 2018 to 31 August 2020.
Deadline
for application: 15 December 2017. Information: http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/turkish-studies/postdoc.html
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20.
Non-Tenure Track Instructional Position to Teach Two Courses in Contemporary
Arabic Literature in the Spring 2018 Semester, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville
Deadline
for application: 4 November 2017. Information: https://jobs.virginia.edu, search on posting 0621758
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21.
Faculty Position in Arabic Linguistics, Arabic Culture or Relevant Fields,
National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, Taiwan
The
successful applicant would be expected to begin employment on 1 August
2018. Ph.D. in Arabic linguistics, Arabic culture or relevant fields
required.
Deadline
for application: 28 February 2018. Information: arabic@nccu.edu.tw and www.arabic.nccu.edu.tw
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22.
Post-doctoral Research Fellowships in Qur’anic Studies or Contemporary Islam,
University of Johannesburg
Scholars
who are working in the field of Qur’anic Studies or Contemporary Islam with a
concentration on gender, liberation theology & decoloniality of Islam in
Africa to apply for this fellowship for one year.
Deadline
for application: 31 October 2017. Information: fesack@uj.ac.za
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OTHER
INFORMATION
23.
Seminar: "Representing Muslim Women: Muslim Women and the Media",
Berkeley, 2-4 February 2018
This
Institute brings together leading experts, journalists and faculty from the
USA, EU, and the Middle East, to engage participants in the global histories
and cultures of women and Islamic cultures. The goal is to foster accurate
reporting, representation, and public discourses related to Islamic cultures
and to Muslim women in a variety of media outlets.
Deadline
for application: 10 November 2017. Information: Suad Joseph sjoseph@ucdavis.edu
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