Archive for August 27th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.A new journal by Brill: The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)
https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?rskey=yeG37d&result=10
2. The eminent Armenologist and Byzantinist Prof. Nina G. Garsoïan passed away on August 14. She broke a number of glass ceilings in academia, both as a woman and as a specialist in Armenian Studies.
More about here life history and achievements may be accessed here: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/de-vita-sua
3. Postdoctoral or advanced PhD position, Aristotle’s ‘On the Soul’ in Arabic (Tuebingen, Germany)
A position for a postdoctoral or an advanced PhD researcher is available at
the University of Tuebingen (Germany). The vacancy is connected to the award
of an ERC Advanced Grant, entitled “TIDA – Text and Idea of Aristotle’s
Science of Living Things” directed by Prof. Klaus Corcilius (Dept. of
Philosophy). The researcher will be working with Klaus Corcilius and with me
(Dept. of Oriental and Islamic Studies).
The period of employment will be for 2 years, beginning in January 2023.
Review of the applications will begin on November 1, 2022, and continue until
the position is filled.
information in the link below:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/stellenangebote/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/postdoctoral-or-advanced-phd-researcher-m-f-d-75-e13-tv-l/
Applications should be sent to klaus.corcilius@uni-tuebingen.de . If you have
any questions, please feel also free to contact:
(heidrun.eichner@uni-tuebingen.de ).
4. Call For Proposals – Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
Series Editors: Jocelyne Cesari and Mirjam Künkler
This series of monographs provides a platform for the burgeoning scholarship on religion and politics from either religious studies, political science, or the social sciences in general. Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
seeks to examine topics that are intensely debated in the public space such as violence and politics, human rights, or democracy and secularism from multidisciplinary theoretical and data-driven perspectives.
The series welcomes manuscripts based on recent original research (whether involving fieldwork, archival work, surveys, or other methods) in a particular national or regional setting or in a comparative way across religions or political contexts. Manuscripts typically range from 35,000 to 40,000 words, but could also extend to 80,000 words. The book series does not publish edited volumes.
All proposals must contain an overview of the work and a description of its contribution to existing scholarship, as well as a description of the prospective readership of the work.
Proposals should be sent to the series editors:
Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham, UK, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA: jcesari@hds.harvard.edu
Mirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden: mirjam.kuenkler@gmail.com
For more information, please contact Brill’s Acquisitions Editor for Religious Studies, Laura Morris: laura.morris@brill.com
5. Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
Keele University
The School of Social, Political and Global Studies is currently recruiting a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. The successful candidate will be a multi-faceted academic with an interdisciplinary politics and international relations specialism in the Middle East across teaching, research, media impact, and outreach.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
6. Lecturer in Translation Studies (Arabic)
University of Strathclyde
As part of a wider collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and the Middle East University (Amman, Jordan), a new MSc Applied Translation will launch in October 2022. The School of Humanties seeks to appoint a Lecturer to join the Translation and Interpreting subject team, on a full-time open-ended contract. The post holder will teach primarily on the MSc Applied Translation programme and will be located at MEU in Amman during the teaching semesters.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
7. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Middle East Studies
University of Oxford
The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies invites applications from candidates in a social science discipline with reference to countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for a fixed-term postdoctoral position, funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) for 24 months commencing 1st January 2023.
Deadline | 9 September 2022
8. Lectureship in the History of the Global South
Aberystwyth University
The Department of History and Welsh History invites applications for a full-time Lectureship in the History of the Global South (nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries), tenable from 1 September 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. We will be particularly interested in applicants who specialise in one or more of: East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, or Latin America.
Deadline | 15 September 2022
9. Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (SLLCS) warmly welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations based in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. The successful candidate will be a specialist in an aspect of Islamic Civilisations, particularly Islamic culture in the Middle East, and will have a PhD in a cognate discipline, relevant teaching experience and a publication track-record appropriate to an appointment at this level.
Deadline | 23 September 2022
10. Call for Proposals – Urban Politics in the MENA
Workshop | Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) | Beirut | 17 February 2023
Political and social scientists have increasingly turned to the study of urban politics, with a growing literature on local and regional governance and institutions, political geography and territoriality, the politics and processes of spatial production, urban infrastructural politics and the role of urban space in political mobilization. To explore these issues, POMEPS invites proposals for short papers (approximately 2,500 words) exploring urban politics in the MENA region.
Deadline | 26 September 2022
11. AKU-ISMC – 6-8 October 2022 Event – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
Full info at:
12. U of British Columbia call for Applications in Classical Persian Lit. & Culture
The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Classical Persian Literature and Culture. Applicants with expertise in the history and practice of classical Persian literature and culture are welcome to apply; applicants with a commitment to the broader notion of ‘Persianate’ literary culture are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants are expected to have full professional proficiency in English and in Persian, and proficiency in at least one other language of the Persianate cosmopolis. A strong track record of participation in team work and program affairs, and experience in community outreach and program building is a plus.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field or expect to have successfully defended the dissertation before July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate excellence in research and undergraduate and graduate teaching, and to maintain an active program of research, publication, teaching, graduate supervision, and service. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with tenure-stream Asian Studies faculty in South Asian and Persianate and Islamic history and culture, and with any future hires in the area of Persian/Iranian Studies. Further information about the Department can be found on its website, www.asia.ubc.ca.
The application dossier should include:
- a letter of application;
- a curriculum vitae;
- a 1-page statement identifying the applicant’s contributions, or potential contributions, to diversity, and ability to work with a culturally diverse student body;
- one writing sample (maximum 30 pages);
- two sample course syllabi, preferably one at the undergraduate-level and one at the graduate-level;
- evidence of teaching effectiveness; and
- names and contact information of three referees who could provide confidential letters of recommendation should the candidate be long- or short-listed.
The deadline for receipt of complete applications is October 7, 2022. The anticipated start date of employment is July 1, 2023.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
All application materials should be submitted electronically through the Department’s careers website, https://asia.ubc.ca/department/careers/ by October 7. Inquiries may be sent to asia.jobsearch@ubc.ca.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Given the uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, applicants must be prepared to conduct interviews remotely if circumstances require. A successful applicant may be asked to consider an offer containing a deadline without having been able to make an in-person visit to campus if travel and other restrictions are still in place.
- August 27, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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