Archive for November 12th, 2024

1.HYBRID 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations (AFMA), Kyoto, Japan, 7-8 December 2024

Information and programme: https://www.james1985.org/uploads/files/AFMA15_2024_Program_1.pdf

2. Sixième édition du Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans, Strasbourg, 24-27 juin 2025

Les ateliers pourront couvrir un ou plusieurs domaines des sciences humaines et sociales (anthropologie, archéolo-gie et histoire de l’art, droit, économie, géographie, histoire, islamologie et sciences religieuses, linguistique, littéra-ture, philosophie, sociologie, sciences politiques), dans une perspective globale ou régionale, en lien avec l’étude du Moyen-Orient et/ou du Maghreb, des mondes musulmans au sens large ou de l’islam dans le monde.

Les propositions doivent être soumises avant le 8 décembre 2024.

Information: https://momm-strasbourg.sciencesconf.org/?lang=fr

3. Postgraduate Symposium on “Muslims of the UK and Europe”, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 29-30 September 2025

Current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims of the UK and Eu-rope, from any discipline. Topics vary widely, from Sufism to Salafism, from charity to burial rites, religious travel to therapy, Islamophobia, deradicalisation initiatives and more. Accommodation will be provided and economy travel expenses will be reimbursed up to £300.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2025. Information: https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers/

4. Conference “59th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)”, Washington, DC, 22-25 November 2025

Deadline for abstracts: 13 February 2025. Information: https://mesana.org/

5. 130 Fully-Funded, Four-Year Scholarships in the Doctoral Programmes in Economics, History and Civilisation, Law, Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute (EUI), San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2025.

Information: https://www.eui.eu/en/services/academic-service/doctoral-programme

6. Online event: ‘Contemporising Islamic Art’ with eL Seed and Dr Zahra Kazani, Monday 18 November, 1pm GMT

You are warmly invited to a special online conversation this coming Monday celebrating UNESCO’s International Day of Islamic Art.

We are delighted to be welcoming French-Tunisian contemporary artist, el Seed, and art historian Dr Zahra Kazani (University of Cambridge) to discuss ‘Contemporising Islamic Art: Arabic Calligraphy Across Time’. The event will take place online via Zoom from 1pm-2pm GMT on Monday 18 November.

The event is free to attend but registration is essential. For further information and registration visit the Alwaleed Cultural Network website here: https://www.alwaleedculturalnetwork.org/en/events/contemporising-islamic-art/

7. We are inviting you to our 11th IDHN Conference on November 21, 2024.

We will hear five exciting presentations:

Rahmi Oruç: Introducing MunazaraGPT  v.01

Fateme Najjarzadehgan: A Digital Exploration of Narrations on Women

Covadonga Baratech Soriano: Authorship attribution of a premodern Arabic work through stylo

Jehad Mohammed Oumer: Modeling Hadith Narrations Using Property Graphs

Yıldırım Leman: Decline and Science According to Kâtib Çelebi (1609 – 1657)

In order to attend the conference please register at: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucu2hrDkqGdf4jpuue6nP2-GEyvv8zdbm