Archive for August 16th, 2022

1. International Symposium on “The Politicization of Islam in East Asia, 1850-1950”, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, 18-20 August 2022

This symposium brings together scholars working on different aspects related to the politicization of Islam in East Asia to discuss research results and address open questions.

Program and registration: https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/events/conferences/islameastasia.html

2. ONLINE Webinar Series “Voices of Emerging Scholars (in Ottoman-Turkish Studies)”, Columbia Global Center in Istanbul, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Advanced Ph.D. students and early-career researchers who have received their Ph.D. degrees after January 2018 are invited to present their Ottoman-Turkish studies on Wars, Diplomacy, and Empires; Legal History; Ethnicity and Identity Politics; Immigration; Intellectual History; Manuscript Studies; Visual Culture; History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Occult; Life at Home; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.

Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/voices-emerging-scholars-call-proposals-2022

3. CFP Online Symposium: “Turkish-German Relations in Literary History from the Fifteenth Through the Twenty-First Century“, 28.11.22

Contributions are invited on the long-term contacts and intensive cultural exchanges between the two cultures as well as on the specific stereotypes which developed and became the subject of German and Turkish literature, films, and media throughout the ages. We welcome papers in German and English.

Deadline for abstracts: 18 October 2022. Information: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/cfp-online-symposium-turkish-german-relations-literary-history-fifteenth-through-twenty-first

 4. International Conference on the “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, University of La Réunion and Université de Lorraine, 16-17 March 2023

This conference will explore the conceptual and methodological modalities adopted in these scholarly books to describe Islam according to types determined by the choice of certain criteria and symbols.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/08/CFP_Conference_Nancy.pdf

5. Student Assistant (35 Hours/Month) for Research Project on “Dynamics of Climate Governance” (Transcription of Arabic Interviews), University of Hamburg

Profile: Completed the second year in a Bachelor studies program in Political Science, Geography or a related discipline in the Social Sciences; interest in climate governance, social movements, and climate research; excellent command of written and spoken English; Desired but not required: Knowledge of an additional language (esp. Arabic).

Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.

Information: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8c8af471/Call-Student-Assistant.pdf

6. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (4 Years) in the History and Culture of the Countries of the Silk Roads 2023, King`s College Cambridge

The fellowship is for those who intend to pursue a research project on some aspect of the Silk Road countries, societies, and cultures. The research project may address Environmental History, Religion, Art, Maritime History, China before 1911, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Central Asia, etc.

Deadline for application: 19 September 2022.

Information: https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships

7. Poste de chercheur·e chargé·e de mission à l’Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contem-porain (IRMC), Tunis

Date limite: 23 août 2022.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/69130

8. The Islamic College: Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
In-house
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)

Fees: £1500 (All students are eligible for a scholarship of up to 50%)
*Free for Islamic college graduates, staff, and students*
Starting: 14 November 2022
Application Deadline: 15 October 2022

For more information:

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences/