Archive for August 15th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Early Career Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
Early Career fellowships are available to researchers from any nationality and discipline based in Freiburg, Germany and abroad. The fellowships enable the researchers up to eight years after completion of their PhD to carry out their own research projects. Applications are welcome from all disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/funding-programmes/frias-fellowships?set_language=en
2. Senior Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
Senior fellowships are available to researchers from any nationality and discipline based in Freiburg, Ger-many and abroad. The fellowships enable scholars with at least eight years of postdoctoral research experience, holders of tenure-track professorships, and full-time professors to carry out their own research projects. Applications are welcome from all disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/funding-programmes/frias-fellowships?set_language=en
3. Faculty Position in Arabic Language or Linguistics Associate Professor / Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar
The ideal candidate should have stature and experience in programmatic leadership with qualifications in applied linguistics or language pedagogy and experience in an American university context. Candidates should have native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic; experience in proficiency-based, communicative approaches to teaching the language; and be familiar with proficiency testing and ACTFEL standards.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/129108
4. Articles for ZDMG
The Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG), one of the oldest academic journals publishing on the Near East, Asia and Africa, calls for new and innovative articles on Islamic Studies of various length to be published in issues 174.2 (2024) und 175.1 (2025).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023.
Information:
https://www.dmg-web.de/page/aktuelles_en
5. Registration Open for 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture
Marking the 20-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture Re-membering Iraq: On the Wounds of War by Sinan Antoon.
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq and left after the 1991 Gulf War. He earned a doctorate in Arabic literature at Harvard. He has published three collections of poetry and five novels. Antoon’s translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf and articles on Arabic poetry and modern Iraqi culture and politics. His essays have appeared in The Guardian, Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Times, and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. He is co-founder and co-editor at Jadaliyya.com. Antoon is associate professor of Arabic Literature at New York University.
Date: Thursday, 16 November 2023
Time: 17:30-19:00 GMT
Location: Online (via Zoom)
More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2023
The BRISMES Annual Lecture provides an opportunity to hear from a distinguished scholar or expert within the field of Middle Eastern Studies and is a major event in the BRISMES calendar. The lecture is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
6. Online Conference – Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba’a Massacre Ten Years On
15 – 16 August, 2023
7. On-Line Persian Courses
Hikmat International Institute
- August 15, 2023
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