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1. Project Curator: Islamic Galleries, British Museum
Full time position. 3 year contract. Grade C3C. £27,360 per annum. Reference number: 1537722
Closing date 12 noon; Wednesday, 09 March 2016
The British Museum has an exciting opportunity for a Project Curator: Islamic Galleries to join the Middle East department and work on the Albukhary Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World in preparation for opening in October 2018. The post-holder will assist the team with all aspects of the preparatory work for the new galleries, including object research, coordinating object lists and liaising with other departments within the Museum in order to successfully complete the galleries.
Educated to degree level, or equivalent, in a subject connected to the material culture of the Middle East and broader Islamic World, you will have knowledge of either Arabic, Persian or Turkish. Experience will include evidence of research capabilities, working with a collection and some publication experience, as well as excellent computer skills.
Effective and open communication skills are essential, with the ability to present in public in an engaging manner. Working as part of a team, you will be able to work with colleagues across the Museum in order to meet deadlines and produce work of the highest standard.
For further information or to apply for this role, please go to www.britishmuseum.org/jobs. The following link goes straight to how to apply. https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTUzNzcyMiZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT02NzI…
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52598
2. CFP: Graduate Conference in Vernacular Islam
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) at the University of Michigan invites proposals for papers to be presented at our first graduate symposium, to be held on Monday, April 4, 2016. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Conference Theme: Vernacular Islam
As we envision it, Vernacular Islam is every expression of Islam within the Islamicate world. The focus of our definition is on the domestic and functional—versus the rigid and standard—aspects of the term vernacular. Being a social and expressive faith, there are no practices of Islam nor are there Muslim communities that do not fall under the umbrella of vernacular. Thinking about the vernacular for us also describes a phenomenon in Muslim societies wherein particular Islamic expressions position themselves in relation to an imagined standard or orthodoxy on a social, political, economic, and historical level. In the words of Tom Pepinsky, “All Islam is vernacular Islam. All of it. Wahhabis and Salafis in the Arab Middle East are just as much products of particular historical moments and sociopolitical contexts as are other Sunni Muslims who don’t happen to speak a form of Arabic as their native language (to say nothing of Ibadis, Ismailis, Alevis, etc.).”
Deadline Extension! Now Monday, February 22, 2016!
Monday, April 4, 2016
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Rackham East Hall, 4th floor
915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Keynote Address by Alexander Knysh, U-M Professor of Islamic Studies
Guideline for Submission
The IISS welcomes all proposals that cover or touch upon this theme. Individuals may submit a proposal, no more than 300 words, for a 15-20 minute presentation, accompanied with a cover letter including the individual’s name, contact information, and affiliated institution. Send all proposals to IISScoordinators@umich.edu. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Please refer any questions to IISScoordinators@umich.edu.
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is the only academic forum at the University of Michigan that engages students and faculty who are interested in the study of Islam and Muslim societies in an interdisciplinary and cross-regional conversation. Following our inception in the winter term 2010, IISS has grown to include a large number of both student and faculty participants. They represent a wide range of departments and programs including American Culture, Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Planning, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, Law, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Musicology, Natural Resources and Environment, Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Romance Languages and Literatures, South Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies.
3. Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated to publishes high quality, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scholarly articles on all aspects of related to Islam and Muslim societies offered in a variety of other disciplines as well, such as culture, history, geography, art, law, anthropology, political science, philosophy, literature, sociology, economics, and women, gender and sexuality studies, architecture and international relations. Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes.The journal aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims at different perspective such as the history of Muslim nation, arts and sciences in Islam, Islamic cultural heritage, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology and Islamic philosophy, Islamic economics and finance, Islamic sociology and Islamic psychology, Islamic literature, Islamic art and architecture and all other aspects of Islamic culture and civilization.The scope of the journal includes the study of a variety of different in knowing and understanding of the religion, comprehensive knowledge of Islamic intellectual history and civilization of Islam as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world and interdisciplinary studies that are cross national and comparative.
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com
Submission and Publication Information:
Submission deadline: April 10th, 2016
Final manuscript submissions to publisher: June, 2016
Number of papers: 5 to 7 papers
Submit Online I Manuscript Submission I Editorial Board I Contact
A FREE one-year, no obligation trial to find out if JIPC is right for you
The trial is available to all institutions through on our website. Please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com
Current Issue
Did Muhammad Really Say That?! Jamal al-Banna’s Refutation of Sahih al-Bukhari’s Infallibility
Luay Radhan
The Political, Social, and Religious Attitudes of Muslim Americans
Dennis Patterson, Gamal Gasim, Jangsup Choi
A Participant Observer’s Insight into Rituals and Practices of the Tablīgh Jamā‘at in Australia
Jan Ali
Challenging the Hegemony of Nationalism and Islamism: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Algeria
Abdelkader Cheref
Salafism in France: Transnational Identity and Emancipatory Form of the Father’s Colonial Past
Abeer Aloush
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4. Within the framework of the Research Training Group “Literary Form: History and Culture of Aesthetic Modelling”, funded by the German Research Council, the University of Muenster, advertises up to 12 doctoral scholarships. Funding is to commence on 1 October 2016 and lasts for at least 30 months.
The Research Training Group “Literary Form” is a cooperation of eight literature departments at Muenster University (Arabic, English, German, Medieval German, French/Italian/Spanish, Dutch, Slavonic, Classical Philology). The programme offers young researchers working on innovative doctoral projects the chance to connect in a state of the art research context.
The programme’s focus is on the re-interpretation and expansion of the concept of ‘literary form’ by means of a transdisciplinary model theory. It approaches these issues in three methodological distinct research areas: 1.) Knowledge of forms and forms of knowledge (epistemology), 2.) Cultural models and model cultures (cultural poetics), 3.) Modelling at the limits of form (structure).
Project proposals should, ideally, focus on one of these aspects or indicate how they might link up with one or more of them. We welcome proposals from a wide spectrum of research on literature; any further profiling of projects within and towards the programme framework will, wherever necessary or desired, be closely supervised and supported after admission.
Deadline for application: 29 April 2016.
For further Information, see www.wwu.de/GRKLitForm/en/.
Contact: Leonie Windt, M.A. (Coordinator), tel. +49-251-83-30150, leonie.windt@uni-muenster.de
5.Grants – British Foundation for the Study of Arabia
The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) grants are intended to support research in any academic area covered by the BFSA’s aims, which are to promote research relating to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular, its archaeology, art, culture, epigraphy, ethnography, geography, geology, history, languages, literature and natural history. Grants may be used to fund fieldwork, library or laboratory-based research or research support.
Applications must be linked to clear and achievable plans for immediate publication.
The number of awards made each year will depend on the strength of applications. Main Research Grants up to £4,000 and Small Research Grants up to £1,000. It is expected that grants of a combined value of up to about £8,000 will normally be awarded each year.
Guide to applicants
There are two types of research grant:
- Small Research Grants: up to £1,000 (for all categories of researchers)
- Main Research Grants: up to £4,000 (for post-doctoral research)
Completed applications, together with referee statements, should be submitted by email to the BFSA Grants sub-committee (details below) by 15th April 2016. This deadline will be strictly adhered to.
For full details, see:
https://www.thebfsa.org/content/grants
6. Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge agreed to start a joint three year project on the Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period.
The Project will consist of three conferences on three themes:
- Disease and Disaster (both man-made and natural disasters).
- Trade and Production will be held in Ankara in Spring 2017
- Social Life will be held in Ankara in Spring 2018
Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge are pleased to announce the program of the Disease and Disaster conference which will be held on 18-19 March 2016 in Cambridge.
For detailed program, see
http://vekam.org.tr/upload/userfiles/files/Programme_%20FINAL.pdf
7. The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 3rdInternational Conference on Turkey and Turkish Studies, 27-30 June 2016, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 29 February 2016, by email only (info@atiner.gr) addressed to Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice President of Academic Affairs of ATINER & Professor of History, Sam Houston University, USA.
Please include with this order: Title of Paper, First Name and Family name of all co-authors, Current Position of all co-authors, Institutional Affiliation (University/Organization) of all co-authors, Country of all co-authors, an email address of all co-authors and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. The working languages of the conference is Turkish and English.
8. Harvard Law School – Executive Director, SHARIAsource
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52592
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer in the History of the Pre-Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52559
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52560
9. News from the Islamic Reformulations project, all available at islamicreformulations.net :
Reformulation and Hermeneutics: Researching the History of Islamic Legal Theory, Istanbul, 21st-24th February 2016 – final programme available. This conference, a collaboration of the Islamic Reformulations project (University of Exeter) and the Faculty of Theology (Istanbul University) will examine the intellectual history of Islamic legal interpretation, with a focus on legal theory. Registration has now closed.
Feb’16 Visiting Researchers: Our Jan’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs David Warren (US), Ryan Rittenberg (US) and Bianka Speidl (Hungary)) have now departed after a very productive month; and our Feburary’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs Mohammed Eissa (Germany) and Samer El-Karanshawy (Egypt)) have been with us for nearly a fortnight now and doing great work in the Institute.
Aerosol Arabic creates Knowledge Mural, 1-3 February 2016: Mohamed Ali, aka Aerosol Arabic, returns to Exeter to create a public mural blending local Exeter themes with Arabic calligraffiti.
Recent Islamic Reformulations activities: Islam, Law and the State, a one day workshop with guest lecturer Professor Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) was held on 7th January 2016 at the University of Exeter. Details here. Rob Gleave and the January’16 visiting fellows (Drs Warren, Speidl and Rittenberg) took part in the URL: Religion and Law workshop, held at Cardiff University, with a guest lecture by Professor Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) on 27th January 2016.
10. Call for papers
Exeter Gulf Conference, which will take place at the Institute of Arab and Islamic
Studies (Exeter, UK) on 22-23 August 2016.
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/gulfconference/2016conference/
Deadline for application: *1 April 2016*
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1. Iran Data Portal
We would like to inform you that the Iran Data Portal had moved from
Princeton University to Syracuse University. You will find a treasure
trove of information about Iranian politics, economics, legal and social
system on this portal. Check it out.
http://irandataportal.syr.edu/
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Syracuse University
2.Al-Furqan Digital Library Portal
http://www.al-furqan.com/manuscripts
Open Access site
“Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation recently opened its Digital Library Portal. It provides free access to a variety of materials. English and Arabic interfaces are available. The portal allows cross searching between various collections; one of these collection is the “World Collection” which is the digital embodiment of the publication, World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts (4 vols.)This section allows for browsing collections of Islamic manuscripts from all over the the world by language, subject, size and date of establishment of the collections.”
3. 3rd International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
25-26 August, 2016
After two conferences in Bamberg (August 2013) and Mardin (October 2014), the
3rd International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL) will take place at
the University of Amsterdam on 25-26 August 2016. The event is jointly
organized by the Department of General Linguistics at the University of
Bamberg and the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.
The conference serves as a forum of scientific exchange for linguists working
on any aspect of Kurdish, including the interactions with its neighboring
languages. Accordingly, we welcome contributions which address these issues
from the perspectives of various subdomains of linguistics, such as
sociolinguistics, descriptive and typologically-oriented analyses of phonology
and morphosyntax, formal approaches to the grammar, grammaticalization and
historical development, pragmatics, language acquisition, language contact,
and corpus linguistics.
Keynote: TBA
Organizing Committee:
Margreet Dorleijn: (local organizer), M.Dorleijn@uva.nl
Songül Gündoğdu: snglgndgdu@gmail.com
Ergin Öpengin: ergin.opengin@uni-bamberg.de
Abstract Submission:
Authors are invited to submit anonymized abstracts, limited to one single and
one co-authored presentation per person, for 20-minute talks. The language of
the conference is English.
Details of poster presentations will be provided by the organizers later.
Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length (including examples and
references) with 12 point font size (Times New Roman) and 1.5 line spacing.
Abstracts should be sent by 30 March 2015, as an attachment in pdf and docx
formats to:
kurdishlinguisticsconference@yahoo.com
In the body of the email, please include the following information: Title of
paper, Your name,
Affiliation and address, E-mail address.
Important Dates:
– Deadline for abstract submission: 30 March, 2016
– Notification to authors: 30 April, 2016
– Conference date: 25-26 August, 2016
Note: The conference will not cover travel and accommodation expenses;
however, lunches and refreshments during breaks will be offered to the
participants free of charge.
4. Lecturer in Persian
The University of California, Davis Classics Program and the Middle East/SouthAsia Studies Program announce a lecturer position to teach Persian in a new program.
Primary duties are to teach eight (8) courses at the elementary and intermediate level over three quarters, with the possibility of renewal. In addition to teaching duties, the instructor must hold a minimum of two regularly scheduled office hours per week to provide students with the opportunity for consultation outside of the classroom.Applicant must have an M.A. or a Ph.D. or be A.B.D in Persian or a related field. Applicant should have experience teaching Persian as a second languageat the college level or related experience in second language teaching.
Appointment dates are July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017. Position is renewable.Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and teaching experience.
For full consideration, please apply by March 10, 2016. The position will
remain open until filled. All materials and information should be submittedelectronically. To apply, go to: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00862The following materials are required when applying: please send a letter of application indicating the texts and methods that you have used in Persian instruction, a CV, two sets of evaluations, two syllabi, sample tests and
quizzes, and three letters of reference.
5. CALL FOR PAPERS
Department of Iranian Studies, Sofia University
‘’St.Kliment Ohridsky’’
and
Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies
Announces the International conference
‘’Iran and Europe in the Mirror of History’’
The Conference will take a place on June 02-03, 2016 at Sofia University.
Please send your abstract of about 500 words in English, Bulgarian or Persian to the following address:
Deadline: April 08 st,2016
Registration fee for Speakers: 30 Euro
Conference theme:
– Language:
Commonalities and bonds in Iranian Languages, especially Persian and European Languages
– Literature:
Iran and Iranians in European literature.
Europe in Iranian literature.(Various literary types, visualization and various combinations …)
Comparative Literature.
– History and Civilization:
Iran and Europe, Pre-Islamic Relations.
The influence of Iranian Pre-Islamic Religious ideas in Europe.
The influence of Iranian Mysticism and Sufism in Europe. (Bektashi , Khorasani and…)
The influence of Europe in Iran in the twentieth century .
A comparative look at scholars from Iran and Europe.
Cultural commonalities between Iran and Europe.
Historical Geography of Europe in Iran. (Range, race, language, people, and …)
– Political Science:
Role of Iran in the formation of new states in the latest decades of the twentieth century.
Political Relations between Iran and Europe.
– Economics:
Economic relations between Iran and the countries of Europe.
6. The Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation / BRISMES Scholarships
http://www.brismes.ac.uk/student-area/scholarships/the-abdullah-mubarak-brismes-scholarshp
The purpose of the scholarships is to encourage more people to pursue postgraduate studies in disciplines related to the Middle East in British universities. The scholarships will be for one academic year. The value of each scholarship will be £2,000. Two scholarships will be awarded.
The deadline for the next round will be 31st March 2016.
To qualify applicants must fulfil the following conditions:
- be registered at any UK university
- be a paid-up member of BRISMES (Student membership suffices) but the time you apply
- submit an application of 600 – 1000 words, by E-mail to the BRISMES research committee This should include a sketch of the overall research topic, and a description of the purpose for which the grant would be used
- obtain a brief supporting statement from their supervisor
The BRISMES research committee will recommend to the Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah Foundation which applications merit an award. The announcement of the award will be made in June and published in the July edition of the BRISMES newsletter.
Applications should be sent by email to a.l.haysey@dur.ac.uk or by post to the administrative office:
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Durham University
Al-Qasimi Building
Elvet Hill Road
Durham, DH1 3TU.
7. CFP: Islamic Art History &Archaeology in Crisis?
Madrid, January 12 – 15, 2017
Deadline: Apr 30, 2016
Islamic Art History and Archaeology in Crisis?
Challenges and New Perspectives
German Archaeological Institute at Madrid / Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid / University of Zurich
Islamic Art History and Archaeology are confronted with political,
social and academic challenges that require the definition of a new
standpoint. How far do conflicts and their related humanitarian and
demographic changes have an impact on the discipline and its social
acceptance? What consequences does the radical attitude of the Islamic
State entail upon accessibility, research, and conservation of art and
architecture in the Islamic World? And to what extent has the current
situation lead to a thematic and geographical shift within the
discipline, which not only finds itself in crisis since the victorious
advent of Global Art History but is also confronted to anti-Islamic
tendencies.
The conference, organized by the German Archaeological Institute at
Madrid, the Universidad Autónoma, and the University of Zürich proposes
to address the issues that now challenge the disciplines of Islamic art
history and archaeology, as well as to contribute to point out to new
perspectives. Areas formerly considered to be peripheral, such as the
Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, the Balkans, the Gulf region, Southeast
Asia, as well as Europe’s and North America’s diaspora, are now in the
limelight of international studies. Simultaneously, the role of
cultural contact zones appear ever more relevant. As a result, the
discipline is opening itself to new paths and approaches.
We seek contributions that relate to the following themes:
– Conflicts and accessibility, study and conservation of art and
architecture in the Islamic world
– Political instrumentalization of cultural heritage
– Strategies of reconstruction
– Role and relevance of archives and digital media
– Economic versus academic interests
– New positions within the discipline of Islamic art history and
archaeology
– New geographic focal points
– Social relevance
Contribution will be of 20 minutes and may be presented in German,
English, Spanish, or French. Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words)
as well as a short curriculum vitae until April 30, 2016 to:
conference@transculturalstudies.ch
8. CALL FOR PAPERS:
American and Muslim Worlds circa 1500-1900
Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
30 Mar – 1 Apr 2017
Keynote speakers:
Denise Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders
Sylviane Diouf, author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Program Committee: Edward E. Curtis, Mehmet Darakcioglu, Mitch Fraas, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, John Ghazvinian, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Timothy Marr, Daniel Richter, Heather Sharkey, Karine Walther
Long before the age of twentieth century geopolitics, the American and Muslim worlds informed, interacted, perplexed, inspired, confounded and imagined each other in ways far more numerous than is frequently thought. Whether through Salem traders in the East Indies, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in the work of Emerson, Morisco converts in Latin America, or the burial practices of enslaved Africans, there was no shortage of opportunities for Islam, Muslims and the inhabitants of the Americas to meet, interact and shape one another.
We invite proposals for a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conference examining the interplay between American and Muslim worlds, circa 1500-1900, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies in the spring of 2017. Most papers will be pre-circulated via a password-protected website, accessible only to conference registrants, who will be expected to read them in advance.
We are intentionally leaving the term “American and Muslim worlds” open to the widest possible interpretations. Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Islam and slavery in the Americas
- Islam and the founders
- Muslim immigration to the Americas
- American missionary activity as well as eschatological and other religious responses to the Muslim world
- Military conflicts (e.g., the Barbary wars)
- American orientalism
- Material culture (carpets, textiles, horses, irrigation, etc)
- Aesthetic forms
- Diplomatic and political history
- Trading networks
- Travel narratives
We envisage this conference as an intellectual platform bringing together scholars from the US and abroad, to consider the interweaving of American and Muslim worlds. We are particularly open to papers that consider Muslim responses to events that scholars in the Anglophone world have traditionally considered from “American” points of view (e.g., the US and the Barbary wars, missionary activity). We are also favorably disposed to papers that disrupt the idea of American and Muslim worlds as two separate and non-overlapping entities. Finally, we are keen to attract papers that conceive of the Muslim world as something more than just the Middle East (for example, papers that deal with the Ottoman Balkans; Central, South and Southeast Asia; West Africa).
Confirmed participants include Jacob Berman, Karoline Cook, Michael C. Hawkins, Paul Lovejoy, Ussama Makdisi, Bethel Saler, and Malini Johar Schueller. The conference will feature an opening plenary with presentations from senior scholars, and discussion-intensive panels of research in progress, with plenary speakers serving as discussants. The forum will also feature a public exhibit at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt Library.
Some support for travel and lodging expenses will be available to conference presenters.
Papers of approximately 7,500 words will be due for precirculation no later than 3 February 2017. To be considered, please send an abstract of 250-300 words, along with a one-page CV, to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu no later than 16 May 2016. Decisions will be made during summer 2016.
Contact Info:
For questions, please contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu, or one of the conference co-conveners — John Ghazvinian ( john_ghazvinian@yahoo.com ) or Mitch Fraas ( fraas@pobox.upenn.edu )
Contact Email:
URL:
http://mceas.org/cfp-worlds2017.pdf
9. Individuals and Legal Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean – Conference Announcement
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC – March 7-8, 2016
While there is a vast literature on medieval Jewish and Islamic law, the histories of medieval Jewish and Muslim legal institutions have received substantially less attention. A relative dearth of documentary sources and a privileged position given to prescriptive texts have led to a top-down approach that views courts predominantly from the perspective of the central political power and/or the legal tradition. This situation contrasts with the study of courts and the legal arena in Christian Europe, where there has been a long tradition of studying legal institutions “from below,” whether through the lens of dispute settlement, microhistory, or legal anthropology.
This conference will attempt to bridge the gap between the study of legal culture and practice in medieval Europe and the Islamic world by bring together scholars of medieval Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular legal institutions to think comparatively about the study of individuals and legal institutions “from below.” In order to supply a comparative perspective, we will be joined by scholars who have tackled such questions in adjacent fields, from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire. The talks will explore how individuals accessed legal institutions and maneuvered in the legal arena, how legal institutions catered to and were affected by litigants’ participation, and to what extent viewing litigants as consumers is a fruitful model in Europe and across the Mediterranean.
Attendance on the first day of the conference is open to all. The second day of the conference will be in a workshop setting, but attendance is certainly possible with prior arrangement. To register, or to ask any questions please contact Serena Bazemore (serena.elliott@duke.edu) or Oded Zinger (oz3@duke.edu).
For more details on the conference and the participants, check out the conference website
http://jewishstudies.duke.edu/2016-medieval-mediterranean-conference .
10. Call for papers for the International Colloquium “Precious Metals in the Medieval Mediterranean : mining, processing, circulations.”.
It will be organised by Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Siena in Aix-en-Provence (France) from October, 6th, 7th and 8th 2016.
Paper proposals should be uploaded to this website by February 29th, 2016.
http://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/
We encourage you to disseminate the call for papers among your own networks. For any further queries, please feel free to contact me.
For the organizing committee,
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
PhD Student – Aix-Marseille Université
LA3M – UMR 7298
http://la3m.cnrs.fr/pages/acteurs/minvielle/minvielle.php
11. Brill provides free access to the Journal of World Literature
JWL provides a forum for debates on World Literature, defined as the global dissemination and canonization of literatures across space and time. It offers a space to discuss the circulation of literary traditions, with an emphasis on peripheral literatures and on translation issues.
The first issue of the JWL will be officially launched during the ACLA 2016 (March 17-20, 2016, Harvard University).
Take advantage of Brill’s offer and secure your free access to the journal for the next two years. The first issue is already available online!
To get free access to the journal, please visit the JWL homepage here:
http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-world-literature
Welcome to the JWL!
E. Haddadian-Moghaddam
O. Azadibougar
Managing editors
12. Conference: “Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation”, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 12-13 October 2016. There has been as yet no international conference dedicated to studying MENA’s environmental sustainability in its entirety in recent years. We hope to bring together climate and natural scientists and environmental engineers along with social scientists and policy makers and practitioners to engage in urgent dialogue to pave the road for future collaborations.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 March 2016. Information: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/centenary-conference/file109493.pdf
13. Visiting Assistant Professor of African and/or Middle Eastern History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland – http://apply.interfolio.com/33855
14. Summer Student Program, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, VA, 11 July – 14 August 2016
This residential program is designed for graduate students and exceptional senior undergraduates who have a particular interest in developing their knowledge and research skills in the core areas of Islamic studies such as methods in the study of Islam, the Qur’an, the Sunnah, Fiqh, Muslim History and Civilization, and Contemporary Islamic Thought.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2016. Information:
http://iiit.org/Education/SummerStudentsProgram/2016SummerStudentsProgram/tabid/419/Default.aspx
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