Archive for 2016

1.Postdoctoral Researcher

SOAS, University of London – Faculty of Languages and Cultures – Centre of Islamic Studies

Postdoctoral Researcher to work as part of the ‘Re/presenting Islam on campus’ project, a major research project funded by AHRC and ESRC, based in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures and the Centre of Islamic Studies and led by Professor Alison Scott-Baumann. This appointment will commence in mid-June or shortly thereafter.

See: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANN005/postdoctoral-researcher/

Closes on 9 May, 2016

2. Princeton Workshop on the History of Christianity in the Middle East: May 6-7, 2016

https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/121971/princeton-workshop-history-christianity-middle-east-may-6-7-2016

3. Lectureship in the History of the Middle East and/or the Islamic World, University of Bristol – School of Humanities

The University of Bristol invites applications to a permanent Lectureship (Lecturer B) in the History of the Middle East and/or the Islamic World. Candidates who can demonstrate excellence in research and teaching in any aspect of this topic are invited to apply.

The successful candidate will have a PhD (or completion by August 2016), a record of publication or well-developed plans for publication, and clear potential to achieve international excellence in research.

S/he will be expected to develop further an established research profile through publication, bidding for external research funding, and presentations at national and international conferences in order to play an active role in maintaining and enhancing the research profile of the department of History.  S/he will also be expected to supervise postgraduate research students.

For further information about the department, see http://www.bristol.ac.uk/history/

Contact for informal enquiries:

Dr Josie McLellan josie.mclellan@bristol.ac.uk

Rosanne Jacks r.jacks@bristol.ac.uk Tel. +44 (0)117 331 7982

Timescale of appointment:

Long-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 3 June 2016. They will be required to submit a sample of their work (in English, not more than 10,000 words) as soon after notification as possible but no later than Wednesday 8 June 2016.

Short-listed candidates will be notified on or about Friday 17 June 2016 and invited to interview. They will be required to submit brief outlines for 3-4 units they might teach (see department website for unit types http://www.bris.ac.uk/history/)

Interview date: Week of 27 June 2016

Anticipated start date: September 2016

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4. The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary invites applications for a non-tenure track instructor position in Arabic language and cultures, that will begin August 10, 2016. We seek a professional, skilled instructor who can teach at all levels of the curriculum, both Arabic language and Arabic/Middle-Eastern cultures courses. The former require implementation of innovative pedagogical techniques. The latter require a strong theoretical background to teach cultural studies courses. This instructor should also be able to function well in the WM classroom environment where students expect a high level of give and take, and interactive, organized learning.

The successful candidate will be expected to be an effective teacher and will have a 3-3 teaching load. Information on the Arabic Studies program in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William & Mary may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/arabic/index.php.

Job information can be found at:

https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/24012

5. U of Chicago Summer Arabic program, please click the following link:

http://summerlanguages.uchicago.edu/page/summer-arabic-2016

6. Persian summer program

Institute of Indo- Persian Studies (IIPS) in New Delhi, India,

Program Directors: Syed Akhtar Hussein (IIPS) & Pardis Minuchehr (George Washington University)

Program Description: In the course of this residential summer program, students attend individualized Persian language and culture sessions in an immersion setting five days a week.  Classes concentrate on modern Persian language proficiency, and familiarizing students with the rich cultural heritage of Persian language and culture in India.

Students are able to register in one of three program options below.

Immersion program dates:

Dates: June 20th- August 1st, 2016

(Application fees waived until April 30th.  The application fee will be $35 after April, 30th, 2016.)

For more information contact Professor Syed Akhtar Hussein; sahusain2000@yahoo.co.in, or Professor Pardis Minuchehr, minucher@gwu.edu

http://goo.gl/forms/LXVarFD5Xl

7. 5th European Congress on World and Global History on “Ruptures, Empires and Revolutions”, Central European University Budapest, Hungary, 31 August – 5 September 2017

With the focus on Colonial and Post-Colonial History as well as Immigration & Migration History etc., we hope to attract colleagues particularly from and/or working on Europe and the Middle East/Western Asia.

Deadline for proposals: 15 June 2016. Information: http://research.uni-leipzig.de/eniugh/congress/
 

8. Conference: “The Future of Minorities in the Middle East”, Christopher Newport University, Virginia, 24 September 2016

The conference will address issues related to Minorities and the Mapping of History, Culture, Literature, Gendered Peace-building, Language, Politics, and Identities, Global Structure and Local Practices, Migration, Role Minorities play in their marginalization etc.

Deadline for proposals: 1 June 2016. Information: https://cnu.irisregistration.com/Form/FutureofMinoritesintheMiddleEast
 

9. Two research positions about Islamic thought – International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, VA:
www.iiit.org/research-grants.html

10. Winter School:  “Media Activism and Postcolonial Futures”, C-Centre, University of Hong Kong, 16-21 January 2017

This event is intended to support PhD Students or advanced masters’ students with professional experience (such as experience in the field of journalism).  All applicants must be working on original research projects that engage with the Winter School theme, especially related to the Middle East.

Deadline for application: 13 June 2017. Information: http://iias.asia/masterclass/general-information-winter-school-2017

11. University Teacher in Islamic Studies (University of Glasgow)
Part time (20 months from 1 September 2016, grade 7)

For further details: http://jobs.gla.ac.uk/fe/tpl_glasgow01.asp?s=4A515F4E5A565B1A&jobid=89033,3948250223&key=183146083&c=23463533363436&pagestamp=sepsjvaneguptddxkt

Baghdad bomb targets Shia pilgrims – BBC News

Video: Khalil Andani Discusses Ismaili Islam and Gnosis on Talk Gnosis

Islamic State Group Claims Bomb Attack on Saudi Police

Bahrain hands out eight life sentence for ‘terrorism’

See 12 min video with Maryam al-Khawaja on Bahrain’s rising 5 years after, on same site.

Peasant Uprisings in Astarabad: the Siyāh Pūshān (wearers of black), the Sayyids, and the Safavid State

IPAC Report 27: The Anti-Shi’a Movement in Indonesia

ADHRB Weekly: Dear Penpal – Letters from Bahrain’s Child and Adolescent Prisoners

1. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship is now available for the study of Kurdish (Sorani) language -1^st and 2^nd year- in the Summer Language Workshop at Indiana University, Bloomington. Please announce this to your students and colleagues who might be interested.

IU Summer Language Workshop:

http://indiana.edu/~swseel/

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships:

http://sgis.webhost.iu.edu/flas/

2. The Department of Middle Eastern South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University invites applications for adjunct faculty to teach three Persian language courses per year and perform other duties associated with the Persian Language Program. Appointment is from September 1, 2016 and ends on May 31, 2017. We are seeking a professional language teacher with a serious commitment to teaching languages for academic purposes. This is a part-time position.

Preference will be given to applicants who have a Ph.D., but those with a Master’s degree and at least 1 year of language teaching experience are also encouraged to apply. Native or near-native fluency in Persian and English, foreign language instruction experience on a collegiate level, and an oral proficiency based approach are required.

All applications must be submitted online and must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching evaluations, statement of teaching philosophy and methodology, and three letters of recommendation. For more information and to apply, go to:

academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=62525 

Applications will be reviewed starting 05/01/2016.

3. MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World

The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the medieval period. The program is characterised by a strongly research-driven, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in the original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research.
The primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions in Istanbul and Berlin per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for discussion, teaching and examination. Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students, many of whom are from the region of the Middle East. The language of instruction is English.

Application period for the academic year 2016/17 is open from 15 April until 31 May 2016.

For more information: www.ihiw.de/master
For direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de

4. Middle East Summer School at SOAS – 20 June-21 July 2016

An intensive five-week summer school programme which includes a choice of courses from the following:

• Beginners Arabic (Level 1)
• Beginners Arabic (Level 2)
• Beginners Persian (Level 1)
• Government and Politics of the Middle East
• Culture and Society in the Middle East

Students would normally take either one of the Arabic modules or the Persian module, which take place in the morning, and either ‘Government and Politics of the Middle East’ or ‘Culture and Society in the Middle East’, both of which run in the afternoon. Students may, however, choose to take any combination of the courses offered eg. Government and Politics of the Middle East & Culture and Society in the Middle East with or without Arabic or Persian.

See http://www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/summerschool/

5. The Centre for Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter is seeking to
recruit one excellent doctoral student   whose area(s) of specialisation
fit(s) and complement(s) the research interests of our academics. This
prestigious award covers: direct payment of tuition fees for 3 years;
maintenance allowance for accommodation and living expenses of around
£13,863 per annum.
The studentship is open to *Home/EU and International students*.

Application deadline: *29 May 2016*.

More information: http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=2162

6. The latest news from the Islamic Reformulations project at: http://www.islamicreformulations.net/

7. Book Series: Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies

The Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Series publishes new and original scholarship on various aspects of literature, history, geography, sociology and anthropology, religion, cinema and visual studies. The series will be published in English and French and intends to present research monographs, reviewed theses, and original reference works.
The series is financed and hosted by ”Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS)” at the Oklahoma State University.

Editor-in-Chief
Pedram Khosronejad (Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University, USA)
http://www.lit-verlag.de/reihe/irastu

8. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
5 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/17

(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: May 9, 2016)
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for five postdoctoral fellowships for the research program

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME).

EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in Berlin. It supports historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their histories, the social history of cities and the study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought as central fields of research not only for area or cultural studies, but also for European intellectual history and other academic disciplines. The program explores modernity as a historical space and conceptual frame.

The program puts forward three programmatic ideas:
1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East; 2) re-examining genealogical notions of mythical ‘beginnings’, ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in relation to culture and society; and 3) rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century.

http://www.eume-berlin.de/de/call-for-application-ausschreibung.html

9. Seminar: “Ijtihad (Juristic Deduction) in Contemporary Context: Concept, Functions and Methods”, Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics, Doha, 27-29 September 2016

Approved research papers written in Arabic or English will be published by the Center through the prestigious “House of Brill”. The Center will host the authors of the most distinguished papers, and will assume their travel expenses and accommodation during the days of the symposium.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 May 2016. Information: http://www.cilecenter.org/en/news/call-for-research-papers-ijtihad-in-contemporary-context-concept-functions-and-methods-27-29-september-2016/
 

10. Workshop: “Islamophobia in the East of the European Union”, Prague, Czech Republic, 23-24 October 2016

The workshop is focusing on the History and Present of Attitudes to the Other; National and EU Politics; the Lived Experience; Theory and Methodology etc.

Deadline for submission: 15 May 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/120889/cfp-workshop-islamophobia-east-european-union

11. Conference: “Sex, Sexuality, and Sexual Diversity in Islamic Thought and Praxis”, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 11-13 November 2016

Conference to address the developments of Classical Islamic discourse about sexuality and human dignity. While the main focus will be challenging homophobia by promoting human dignity, all discussions about sex and sexuality that engage Islamic primary sources will be of interest in this forum.

Deadline for submission: 31 May 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/120653/sex-sexuality-and-sexual-diversity-islamic-thought-and-praxis
 

12. International Workshop: “Left-Wing Trends in the Arab World (1948-1979): Bringing Transnational Back in”, Orient-Institut, Beirut, 12-13 December 2016

This workshop aims at shedding light on the transnational dynamics in which Arab left-wing trends have been embedded, especially during the 1960-70s, the glorious period of left-wing revolutionary movements throughout the world, in one word: the Tri-Continent moment.

Deadline for abstracts in English or Arabic: 26 June 2016. Information: http://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ARAL-CFP.pdf
 

13. Research Associate for the Project: “COBHUNI – Contemporary Bioethics and the History of the Unborn in Islam”, University of Hamburg

For the analysis of commentary traditions within one work-package of the Project, a set of 11th to 13th century authors have to be situated in their time by a doctoral researcher. M.A. in Islamic studies preferred; knowledge of Spanish obligatory. The 50% position commences on 1 September 2016 for a period of three years.

Deadline for application: 31 May 2016. Information: http://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-geisteswissenschaften/31-05-16-137.pdf
 

14. Summer Program: “Expressions of Diversity: An Introduction to Muslim Cultures -Knowledge, Power, and Identity in Muslim Contexts”, SFU-Vancouver, 11-15 July 2016

The 2016 program features international scholars with Islamophobia and orientalism as a form of knowing; knowledge and governance in the Ottoman empire; knowledge, power, and identities in Iranian Shi’ism; Islamic finance as knowledge and practice; interfaith interactions in early modern history; and questions of community in the interpretation of the Qur’an.

Information: http://www.sfu.ca/ccsmsc/summer-programme/2016isp2.html
 
15. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Visual Resources Librarian

for Islamic Architecture

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52866

New York University Arts and Science – FACULTY FELLOW, CONTEMPORARY

MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52868

Newcastle University, UK – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History (Middle East/Ottoman Empire)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52875

‘Western seminary’: On transnational Shiite higher education in Britain