Archive for 2022

House Raises Concern over Bahrain Government’s Human Rights Abuses, Calls for State Department Report on Upcoming Bahrain Election

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1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Applications and Nominations

We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2021.

Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.

Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2022. 

To apply or submit a nomination, click here.

Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com or t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Warmly,

WHOME 2022 Prize Committee

 

 

 

2. CfP International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 3-6 July 2023 (‘networks & entanglements’)

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval studies, including those related to the premodern Islamicate world. Proposals on any topic are welcome, but every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2023 this is ‘Networks and Entanglements’ (co-ordinator Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2022

Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2022

Format: Coronavirus restrictions permitting, the IMC is planning to host an in-person gathering in Leeds, with virtual involvement possible for those who are unable to attend in person.

For all information, see https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID International Conference “Uneasy Neighbours: Conflict and Control in the Colonial City, c. 1870–1940” (Including Beirut and Fes), University of Bremen, 21-22 July 2022

The conference explores ideas, experiences, and memories of neighbours and neighbourhoods in the colonial city. It brings together historians, sociologists, and urban scholars of the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia to discuss new avenues in the research of living together and living apart in colonial cities.

Program and registration: https://uneasyneighbours.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

 

4. Mediterranean Seminar Fall Workshop on “The Mediterranean Origins of the West”, University of Colorado Boulder, 21-22 October 2022

We seek to explore questions relating to the role of the Islamicate world and of peoples of Africa and West Asia in the evolution of modern science, theology, art and literature; the nature and significance of political and commercial engagement between the Islamic and Christian spheres; the role of gender, class and social affiliations; and the status and role of ethnic and religious minorities in pre-Modern and Modern Mediterranean societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-seminar-fall-2022-workshop-the-mediterranean-origins-of-the-west-21-22-october-boulder-925968

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Congress on “Gender Studies: Appearances of Violence”, Karadeniz Technical University etc., 16-18 November 2022

The Congress aims to provide a forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, students, and educators to discuss issues linked to gender studies from a violence perspective. Theoretical, empirical, conceptual, experimental, descriptive, and constructive studies focusing on gender are invited to highlight the issues, challenges, and opportunities that have developed as a result of the violence.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 September 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10481263/online-congress-gender-studies-cgs22-appearances-violence

 

 

 

 

6. Fellowship Program (2 Years) for Early Career Scholars from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, or Tunisia for Research on “The Maghrib from the Peripheries: Property, Natural Resources, and Social Actors in North Africa”

The fellowships from the “Council of American Overseas Research Centers / Carnegie Corporation of New York” are designed to serve scholars who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who completed their PhD in the past ten years.

Deadline for applications: 22 July 2022. Information:

https://www.caorc.org/post/call-for-applications-critical-research-and-scholarship-in-north-africa

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, Providence RI

The primary focus should be on the Islamic World and Jewish-Muslim relations in any period prior to the First World War. The department places a high priority on research excellence, high-quality teaching, and a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community.

Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108842

 

 

 

 

8. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants (Max Weber Foundation) to Academics in the Qualification Phase with an International Focus (Including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey etc.)

Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (with at least a M.A.) who have already published and can present a research plan. The total term of funding shall not exceed three months.

Deadline for applications: 7 October 2022.

Information: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/foerderung/feldman-travel-grants.html

 

 

 

 

9. Chapters on Languages Spoken and Taught in the Ottoman Empire for Edited Book on “Ottoman Minorities, Their Languages, and the World” (Bloomsbury)

Articles are invited on trade, culture, education, religion, and tourism as reasons for which these languages were spoken and they were taught, explaining the peculiarities of these languages, differentiating from previous studies on them; for instance, journal articles, recipes, folkloristic tests, exhibitions, auctions, etc. may be analyzed from global perspectives.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10485434/call-chapters-languages-spoken-and-taught-ottoman-empire

 

 

 

 

10. Call for articles: The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries) 

Chapters are sought for a collection of essays entitled, “The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries)”

Topics: The origin of the idea of crusade; Crusades historiography: eastern and western sources; Battles: The Crusades of 1096-1291; Alliances and Conflicts; Settlements: Crusader States (County of Edessa, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Cyprus); Roads: Crusades army route: sea and land roads from Clermont to Jerusalem; Byzantine Empire, Constantinople and the crusades.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-the-crusades-historiography-settlements-people-and-roads-11-14th-centuries?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450–1850)”

Main themes: Migration as a result of religious dissent and lack of a toleration towards religious diversity; Migration as a result of contested political positions, actions of political opposition, or state of war in the country of origin; Migration as a result of environmental conditions; Methodological reflections that elaborate the concept of migrant agency in a historical and long-term perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 2 September 2022. Information: https://ithacahorizon.eu/event/call-for-papers-migration-narratives-in-the-global-mediterranean-1450-1850/

 

 

 

 

12. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et representations (Special issue of REMMM)

Proposed by Farid Bouchiba and Myriam Laakili. – Axe 1. Débats doctrinaux autour du mawlid à travers l’histoire. – Axe 2. Pratiques du mawlid : une approche socio-anthropologique. – Axe 3. Productions littéraires et artistiques.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764#tocto1n3

 

 

 

 

13. Exilium Revista de Estudos da contemporaneidade / Journal of Contemporary Studies of the Edward Saïd Chair, at Federal University of São Paulo – Brazil,  is inviting submissions for unpublished articles on Orientalism, especially involving History, Literature and Culture of Africa and Asia of Portuguese language and culture or in connection with them.
For more information, including information for authors and the submission process, please see the journal’s website.

 

1.Call for papers: What is the European Qur’ān?

ERC EuQu, Nantes, 11-12 May 2023

(deadline for the submission of proposals: 30 September 2022)

The Nantes Université researchers of the ERC project EuQu – The European Qur’ān are pleased to announce the organisation of a conference devoted to the problem of defining the nature of the Qur’ān in Europe in the 12^th-19^th centuries.

How did medieval and modern Europeans perceive what the Qur’ān is? What definitions did they give, and what definitions underlie the representations they developed? How did they conceive the Qur’ān in relation to what was familiar to them and to their concerns? In what ways did they grasp, define and represent its different facets over the centuries? Participants will be invited to reflect on these questions through the study of lexicographical, encyclopaedic, technical, literary and scholarly works, as well as theatrical pieces and artistic representations.

For more info:

https://euqu.eu/2022/07/12/call-for-papers-what-is-the-european-quran/

 

 

2.دنياى سخن = Dunyā-yi sukhan

Nos. 10-95 ; 1366-1380 (1987-2001)
Published: Tihrān : Shams al-Dīn Ṣawlatī Dihkurdī, 1986-2001
ISSN 1606-5840

 

 

 

 

3. Seminar: Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 9:00 AM
Friday, August 26, 2022 1:00 PM

Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo 54 Ćemerlina Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, 71000 Bosnia & Herzegovina

Full details at:

https://www.astene.org.uk/current-events/travellers-in-ottoman-lands

 

 

 

4. I B Tauris

Browse Open Access Books by Subject:

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord=&browse=&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess

 

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:

• Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam
• Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
• Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida

 

 

 

18. Baylor University – Lecturer, History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63592

Deadline: Oct 1, 2022

 

 

 

19. FLAME University – Assistant /Associate & Professor – History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63543

Deadline: Nov 27, 2022