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1.“15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH)”, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 11-15 July 2022

The program is available: https://iaoseh.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/icoseh-zagreb-program-online.pdf

2. ONLINE Lecture on “Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections” by Samuel Thrope (Curator, Islam and Middle East Collection, National Library of Israel), 14 July 2022, 11:00 am ET

The Islam and Middle East Collection contains nearly 2500 Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts dating from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. Among these are numerous rare and important copies of works that attest to the history of Islamic medicine. The Lecture will focus on rare and unique manuscripts that can shed light on the NLM’s own collection, which is among the best in the world.

Information and registration: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44389

3. Conference “Beyond Cultural Identities – The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts”, IZEA, University Halle-Wittenberg, 18-20 July 2022

Information and program:

https://www.izea.uni-halle.de/veranstaltungen/detail/beyond_cultural_identities_.html

4. HYBRID Sessions on “Eco-Imagination towards a Sustainable Future. Perspectives from Philosophies in Islam and Asia” during the “66th International Congress of Phenomenology”, Milan, 27-29 October 2022

Contributions are invited on the following topics: – Eco-imagination in Islamic Philosophies and Occidental Phenomenology. – Self-Knowledge and alterity. – Oneness in cross-cultural dialogue. – Symbiotics in the understanding of everything-there-is-alive. – Sustainable future(s) in Islamic and Asian philosophies; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2022. Information: http://phenomenology.org/

5. Rencontres de la sociologie francophone de l’Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF): « De la circulation des concepts ou comment mieux éclairer nos sociétés (arabes!)? », Sfax, Tunisie, 24 – 28 octobre 2022

Les sessions du GT04 « Sociétés arabes en mouvement » souhaitent lier les questions épistémiques posées par la production de la connaissance en sciences sociales, en particulier en sociologie, à celles posées par la circulation des concepts. Comment une réflexivité soucieuse des apports des contextes locaux conditionnent les possibilités d’échange et d’enrichissement disciplinaire ?

Ouvert jusqu’au 31 juillet 2022. Information: https://www.aislf.org/gt04-circulation-des-concepts

6. International Conference on “Memory and Identity in North Africa”, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, 22-24 December 2022

We seek papers that draw on Memory Studies to reflect on issues related to identity, history, historiography, commemoration, remembrance, and changing conceptions of the self and the collective in North Africa. We ask how much memory is present in the North African spheres? How have memories of the past in North Africa been appropriated for the sake of a more flexible public sphere? Who are the memory stakeholders? How do they mobilize memory?

Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10460827/memory-and-identity-north-africa-new-abstract-submission

7. Post-doctoral Fellowships for Excellent Researchers in Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (6 Months)

The fellowships are open to researches with a completed PhD and up to six years of postdoctoral experience. Duration 1 April 2023 until 30 September 2023.

Deadline for applications: 31 August 2022. Information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/thyssen-april23-1.pdf ; https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/call-international-fellowships-vi.pdf

8. CHARGÉE DE MISSION (CHERCHEUSE) / CHARGÉ DE MISSION(CHERCHEUR) – INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU PROCHE-ORIENT (IFPO) –ANTENNE DE JÉRUSALEM – ISRAËL / TERRITOIRES PALESTINIENS Le chercheur aura pour mission de mettre en place et de piloter, à partir des Territoires palestiniens, un pôle de recherche en islamologie au sein de cet institut de recherche à vocation régionale (Liban, Jordanie, Irak, Territoires palestiniens) placé sous la tutelle du ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE) du ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR) et du CNRS.

Limit: 31/08/2022. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/07/Fiche-de-Poste_0003007141_01-12-2022.pdf

9. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship / Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California

Qualifications: Applicants should have expertise in Islam, with some training in Religious Studies; they should hold a Ph.D. by the time of appointment; evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching (whether as primary instructor or teaching assistant); the potential for an active research agenda; fluency in relevant research languages; etc.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2022.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63558

10. Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, Norwich University, Vermont

Requirements: While a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching is essential, Norwich University is committed to junior faculty developing scholarship through a supportive faculty development program. A Ph.D. is strongly preferred, though strong A.B.D. candidates will be considered.

Application as soon as possible. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63544

11. Autumn School on “Coercion, Slavery, and Relations of Dependency in the Islamicate World”, Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University, 31 October – 4 November 2022

The Autumn School aims at Master-level and PhD researchers. It will feature four keynote speakers, Serena Tolino (Bern), Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv), Sebastian Sons (Bonn), and Paolo Gaibazzi (Bayreuth). The keynote lectures will focus on the question of coerced labour in the Islamicate world in historical and contemporary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts and registration: 1 September 2022. Information: https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/news/events/autumn-school-nisis

12. 1 Candidatures pour l`Académie doctorale “Horizons de Renouvellement des Ètudes Arabes (HoREA)” HoRÉA est un programme de formation et d`accompagnement interdisciplinaire et interuniversitaire destiné à des doctorantes et doctorants de toutes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales dont le travail porte sur les mondes arabes et implique und maitrise avancée de la langue arabe, acquise ou en cours d`acquistion.

Candidatures jusqu`au 18 juillet 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/68491

13. Candidatures pour des bourses de recherche en islamologie MASTER 2 (3 mois)

L’octroi d’une bourse de mobilité devra permettre aux étudiant/es d’accomplir un travail de terrain de recherche en islamologie en étant accueilli/es dans une UMIFRE (ou instituts partenaires du programme). La discipline « islamologie » est entendue au sens large et pourra intégrer les axes suivants : – Analyse, sciences et critique des textes et des doctrines. – Etude historique de l’Islam. – Etude et analyse du fait religieux musulman dans les sociétés contemporaines.

Les dossiers de candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 01/09/22. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2022/07/07/umifre-appel-a-candidatures-pour-des-bourses-de-recherche-en-islamologie-master/

14. Critical Pakistan Studies to be published by Cambridge University Press from 2023

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is pleased to announce that starting in January 2023, we will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France; and thus, expects to become a major force in a significant and growing field of research. Critical Pakistan Studies will also benefit from the strength of the existing CUP Asian Studies journals list and books program, with its strong focus on South Asia and the diaspora.

Critical Pakistan Studies will publish primary source interpretive social science and humanities research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, tackle broader interdisciplinary issues (e.g., colonialism, nationalism, integration, marginalization, devotion, institutionalization, vernacularism, cosmopolitanism, development, environment, popular culture, diaspora, gender, representation, and others). The journal’s interdisciplinary approach will push beyond the nation-state, security, Islam, extremism, and other topics that narrowly define the study of Pakistan. It will analyze, discuss, and seek to understand the varied and multilayered contexts that constitute Pakistan and its people (both past and present and in South Asia and the wider world).
Its global editorial board represents and supports the publication of scholarship on Pakistan and the diaspora originating within Pakistan itself, as well as throughout Europe, North America, and elsewhere in Asia.
The journal’s editorial collective of Kamran Asdar Ali, Michel Boivin, Matthew A. Cook, and Amina Yaqin assert that, “Until recently, Pakistan Studies was a small interdisciplinary research area. However, this is no longer the case and t here is no international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan. Critical Pakistan Studies will fill this gap and be the flagship publication in its field of study.”
Ann Avouris, Cambridge University Press’ Head of Journals, North America, said, “The Press looks forward to working with the partnered institutions and the editorial team in this exciting new launch. We are particularly keen to bring new authors and readers to our program from Pakistan itself.”
Learn more about this field-leading Gold Open Access journal at cambridge.org/CPS.

15. Mu’tazilism and the Qur’an Conference

22 July 2022, Aga Khan Centre (London) and Online

Full information at: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/mutazilism-and-quran-conference/?utm_source=D0722&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=AN

16. New publication on smartphone use and ageing in the Middle East

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of the Arabic translation of ‘The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology’, an open access eBook which presents a series of original perspectives deriving from the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) project. A multisited research project led by Prof. Daniel Miller at UCL Anthropology.

The book is based on simultaneous 16-months of research in 11 countries around the world. A key ethnography in the book was a joint project between Laila Abed Rabho, a Palestinian researcher, and Maya de Vries, an Israeli academic. Dar al-Hawa is a Palestinian community of around 13,000, which is today a neighbourhood in al-Quds. Prior to annexation by Israel, it was a village between the old city of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. This location remains very present in the daily lives of people, influencing their relationship to various bureaucracies and to digital and health services. Laila and Maya focused upon the local seniors’ club at the community centre and conducted many interviews and conversations both at the community centre and in people’s homes. Maya also taught a course on smartphone use. It is available as a free download from UCL Press.

Arabic: الهاتف الذكي العالمي: ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب
English: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology

We believe it is very important, where we can, to ensure the availability of our research findings to people whose first language is not English and we would be grateful if you can spread news of this publication to any networks you are aware of. For example, those who might find this useful for teaching purposes.

Best wishes,
Alex Clegg

Research Assistant, Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA)
Twitter: @ASSAUCL | Instagram: @assa.ucl | Facebook: @ASSAUCL

17. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2021 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The award comes with a prize of $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2022.

An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome. Deadline for nominations: September 2, 2022.

Award Committee: