Archive for 2026

1. Hybrid Conference: Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches

Our upcoming conference “Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches” that will take place on 23-24 July 2026 in a Hybrid format, with in-person attendance at Monash University, Caulfield Campus in Victoria, Australia. Registration closes on the 26 June. 

This international and interdisciplinary conference brings to a close the activities of the grant team “Pursuing Public Health in the Preindustrial World, 1100-1800.” Beyond the team itself, it involves a dozen scholars working across health history, history of science and technology, religion, archaeology and landscape in areas covering Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and East and Southeast Asia.

Convener

Guy Geltner, Monash University
Keynote Speaker
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University

For further details of the conference check out our website click here or program click here.

Both remote and in-person attendance is free. To register, please click the following link (note: if you responded to the pre-registration form, you do need to fill out this registration form to confirm your attendance): https://forms.gle/osAuopLawo9a3e5U6 

For any questions, please direct them towards Lucy Moloney (lucy.moloney1@monash.edu)

 

 

 

 

 

2. Prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 4 juin 2026, 17h, à l’INALCO
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra jeudi prochain, 4 juin 2026, 17h-19h, en salle 4.06 à l’INaLCO(65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4^eétage).

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Ekaterina Nechaeva, Professeure à l’Université de Lille, historienne de l’Antiquité tardive, spécialiste en particulier des relations entre Rome et la Perse sassanide, pour une conférence intitulée :Le destin des captifs d’Amida au début du VIe siècle.

Résumé :

Amida, l’une des principales villes de Mésopotamie romaine, se trouve au cœur de la guerre entre Kavadh et Anastase (502-506). Le siège de la ville par les troupes iraniennes, long de plusieurs mois, compte parmi les épisodes les plus dramatiques du conflit et s’achève par sa prise en janvier 503, dans des circonstances que les sources expliquent de manière divergente, entre défaillance, négligence et récits de trahison. La chute de la ville s’accompagne d’une capture massive de la population, touchant à la fois des groupes urbains, des communautés religieuses, ainsi que des figures de rang plus élevé.

À partir d’un dossier de sources, en particulier grecques et syriaques, cette conférence se propose d’examiner les circonstances de ces captures, puis le devenir des captifs tel qu’il peut être reconstitué : leur sélection et leur dispersion, le maintien d’une partie d’entre eux sous occupation perse, la libération alléguée de certains, ainsi que la captivité prolongée d’autres après la reprise de la ville par les Romains. Une attention particulière sera portée à leurs trajectoires individuelles – qu’il s’agisse de captifs de haut rang ou de figures plus ordinaires  – afin de restituer, au plus près des sources, la diversité de ces parcours.

Orientations bibliographiques :

– Azarnouche, S., Petitjean, M. « Sasanian Warriors in Context: Historical and Religious Commentary on a Middle Persian Chapter on Artēštārān (Dēnkard VIII.26) », HiMA : revue internationale d’histoire militaire ancienne, 2022, p. 331–384.

– Berriah, M., Petitjean, M. « La théorie militaire sassanide : regards croisés », Antiquité Tardive 30, 2023, p. 181–199.

– Debié, M. « Du grec en syriaque », Byzantinische Zeitschrift 96 (2), 2003, p. 601–622.

– Greatrex, G. Rome and Persia at War, 502–532. Leeds, 1998.

– Greatrex, G. « Procopius and Pseudo-Zachariah on the siege of Amida and its aftermath (502–506) », in Börm, H. (éd.), Commutatio et Contentio: Studies in the Late Roman, Sasanian and Early Islamic Near East. Düsseldorf : Wellem Verlag, 2010, p. 227–251.

– Lenski, N. « Two sieges of Amida (AD 359 and 502–503) », in Lewin, A., Pellegrini, P. (éd.), The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest. Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007, p. 219–236.

– Petersen, L. I. R. Siege Warfare and Military Organization in the Successor States (400–800 AD): Byzantium, the West and Islam. Leiden – Boston : Brill, 2013.

– Shahbazi, A. Sh., Kettenhofen, E., Perry, J. R. « Deportations », Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1994. URL : https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/deportations (consulté le 22/01/2026).

Vous retrouverez l’intégralité du programme 2025-2026 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” en ligne sur le site du CeRMI: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2025-2026/

Dans l’attente du plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de cette dernière séance de l’année, qui se déroulera comme toujours en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII).

Bien cordialement,

Les organisateurs –

Simon Berger et Justine Landau

Contact: justine.landau@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

 

 

 

 

 

3. Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Colloque international

Turco-Persianate Popular Romances from Southeast Asia to the Balkans: 

Composition, Transmission, and Reception of Historical-Legendary Epics over the Longue Durée in a Multilingual Space

les 1-2 juin 2026, Paris

• Lundi/Monday, 01/06/2026, 9:00–17:45 
  Auditorium Georges Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche de l’INaLCO (2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris)
• Mardi/Tuesday, 02/06/2026, 9:30–12:00
  Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle(4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris)

Le colloque explore les modes d’expression des communautés du monde musulman oriental à travers la composition, la transmission et la réception de récits populaires centrés autour de protagonistes héroïques, notamment les figures des débuts de l’Islam, ainsi que la culture matérielle associée à leur vénération. Il fait suite au colloque Amir Hamza and Beyond: Historical Narratives and Romances across the Muslim World qui s’est tenu en septembre 2023 à l’Institut de recherche sur les langues et cultures d’Asie et d’Afrique (ILCAA) de la Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

• Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
• Information, programme détaillé et abstracts : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/turco-persianate-popular-romances-from-southeast-asia-to-the-balkans/

Ce colloque a été organisé avec le soutien de:

-NIHU Global Mediterranean at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)
-Kyoto University
-Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS)
-Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INaLCO)
-Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
-Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA)
-Fondation Max van Berchem
-Institut d’études de l’islam et des sociétés musulmanes (IISMM)
-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Organisation scientifique:
• Sacha Alsancakli, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
• Yui Kanda, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Maria Szuppe, CNRS, CeRMI UMR8041

Contact:

alsancakli.sacha.6s@kyoto-u.ac.jp

kanda@aa.tufs.ac.jp

maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr

 

 

 

 

 

4. Séminaire « L’Afghanistan à travers les âges » – séance de mercredi 3 juin 18h-19h30N

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la séance du séminaire « L’Afghanistan à travers les âges », qui se tiendra mercredi 3 juin 2026, 18h-19h30, entièrement en distanciel. Voici le lien de connexion: https://zoom.us/j/96136711428?pwd=jqZ3lotYx6re8bpoU4uAYPl9GRM1CF.1

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M Muhammad Ali Dinakhel, Cermi, pour une conférence intitulée : Pashto Across Borders: Language Planning and Identity in Afghanistan and Pakistan (20th–21st Centuries).

Résumé:

This lecture explores the trajectory of Pashto language planning and identity across Afghanistan and Pakistan from the late 19th century to the present. Situated within the broader framework of language planing policy (status, corpus, and acquisition planning), it examines how the Durand Line (1893) shaped linguistic development, publication practices, and orthographic unity. In Pakistan, Pashto’s role evolved through constitutional debates, literary movements such as the Khudai Khidmatgar and Pukhtun Resala(1928), and institutional initiatives including the Pashto Academy at the University of Peshawar, alongside recent policy directives mandating Pashto in schools. In Afghanistan, shifting regimes from Amir Sher Ali Khan to the Taliban era demonstrate varying approaches to Pashto’s status, from nation-building projects and compulsory policies under Zahir Shah to bilingual compromises and constitutional recognitions in 1964, 1976, 1987, and 2004. Through a comparative lens, the lecture highlights the tensions between politics, identity, and pedagogy in shaping Pashto’s development, illustrating how one language has been molded by two states, two policies, and multiple narratives.

 

Orientations bibliographiques:

Ahady, Anwar-ul-Haq (1995) The Decline of Pashtuns in Afghanistan. Asian Survey 35/7.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2012) Pashto as Official Language in the Swat State Pashto. Bilingual Quarterly Research Journal, Pashto Academy 40-41/642s, pp. 23-35.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2018) Analysis of Conflict Between Pashto and Dari Languages of Afghanistan. Central Asia Biannual Research Journal 83, pp. 79-99.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2019) A Study of Pashto Folklore: Its Aspects and Nation-building in Pakistan. PAKISTAN 55, pp. 61-76.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2021) An Introduction of Pashto Manuscripts in the State Library Berlin, Central Asia Biannual Research Journal88, pp. 57-72.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2023) An Overview of The Development of Novel in Afghanistan (1913-1940). PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt / Egyptology 20/1, pp. 422-432.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2023) An Analysis of the Themes of Identity and Sense of Belonging in the Pashto Literary Works of Afghan Refugees from 1979 to 1989. Khair Ul Ummah 3/1, pp.1-19.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2023) Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Impact of Afghan Refugees on Pashto language, literature and culture in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Pakistan 8/2, pp. 14-34.

Dinakhel, M.A. (2023) Reflection of Pak-Afghan Border in Pashto Literature, Its Impacts on Pashto Language and Linguistic Research. Khair Ul Ummah 2/2, pp.53-59.

Dvgryankov, N.A., Pashto Dialects and the Literary Language in Afghanistan, XXVI International Congress of Orientalists, Papers presented by the USSR Delegation.

Henderson, M.M.T. (1983) Four varieties of Pashto. Journal of the American Oriental Society 103/3.

Mackenzie, D.N. (1959) A Standard Pashto, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 22/1-3.

Morgenstierne, G. (1925) Report on a Linguistic Mission to Afghanistan. Oslo.

Morgenstierne, G. (1932) Report on a Linguistic Mission to North-western India. Oslo.

Schiffman, H.F. (2012) Language Policy and Language Conflict in Afghanistan and Its Neighbors. Leiden-Boston.

Shinwari, M.M. (1968) Da Afghanistan Milli Jaba aw Adab [National Language and Literature of Afghanistan], Pashto Tolana.

Bien cordialement,

Arezou Azad et Matteo De Chiara

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CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
Campus CNRS Ile-de-France Villejuif
7, rue Guy Môquet – 94800 Villejuif – FRANCE
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr

 

 

 

 

 

5. Conference “Mecmuas in the Ottoman World: Interdisciplinary Approaches and Current Research”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 4-6 June 2026

The conference is dedicated to the study of manuscript miscellanies (mecmuas) as a key yet insufficiently theorised format of knowledge organisation across the Ottoman world and Eurasia. By examining mecmuas as dynamic sites of intellectual, religious, and practical exchange, the conference foregrounds their significance for understanding processes of communication and transformation across regions and periods.

Information, program and registration: https://mecmuaconference.univie.ac.at/

 

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Meeting of the “Forum for the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in Arabic Scripts”, Harvard University and University of Strasbourg, 25 June 2026, 17:00 – 18:00 CET

The Forum seeks to establish a collaborative space for: • Centralizing researchers working on TEI in Arabic-script materials (Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Urdu, and related corpora). • Sharing existing resources for encoding and editing practices. • Discussing various workflows and pipelines, as well as possibilities for automation of annotation, data extraction, and visualizations, including the use of large language models (LLMs) and other computational methods. • Identifying opportunities for shared infrastructures and future collaborations.

Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/5eyvsxtc. Meeting ID: 934 9867 7303.

Passcode: 391302. Information: Adam Mestyan (mestyan@fas.harvard.edu)

 

 

 

 

 

7. Workshop “Identifying as Woman in Transnational Religious Spaces: Contemporary Dynamics of Lived Religion, Femininity, and Womanhood“, Department of the Study of Religion with a Focus on Islam, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, 18-20 November 2026

We want to draw attention to the interrelation between women’s everyday religious practices and transnational dynamics that come with performative discourses of femininity and womanhood. We speak of femininity and womanhood as social and cultural discourses of material, aesthetic, and performative social and cultural impact and frameworks that may shape both the spaces we study and our own analytical gaze.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/4mmwffsr

 

 

 

 

 

8. Workshop for Edited Volume: “A Seat at the Table: Making Space for the Middle East and North Africa in Global Food Studies”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 20 November 2026

All submissions should aim to demonstrate, on the one hand, the theoretical and empirical im-portance of MENA to global food studies, and, on the other, how the lens of food and foodways can help us rethink key themes and metanarratives in Middle East studies. The workshop seeks to feature diverse methodological perspectives, including those originating in less-represented disciplines such as art history, architecture and musicology.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/4a6jd6kw

 

 

 

 

 

9. “7e congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans”, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry, 14-18 juin 2027

Les propositions peuvent relever d’un ou plusieurs domaines des sciences humaines et sociales (anthropologie, archéologie et histoire de l’art, droit, économie, géographie, histoire, islamologie et sciences religieuses, linguistique, littérature, philosophie, sociologie, science politique…), dans une perspective globale ou régionale. Les langues dans lesquelles le programme du congrès est présenté sont le français et l’anglais.

Proposition au plus tard le 30 juin 2026. Information : http://majlis-remomm.fr/74126

 

 

 

 

 

10. World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies: “Global Imagi-naries, Maritime Power, and Intercontinental Circulations: The Ambivalent Legacies of the Long Nineteenth Century”, Valparaíso, Chile, 20-23 July 2027

Themes: • Visions of international order and global geopolitics in nineteenth-century thought. • Imaginations of post-imperial possibilities for the organization of power and society. • The devel-opment of maritime power in its military, institutional, technological, and commercial dimensions. • The creation of intercontinental and transnational networks of circulation of knowledge, ideas, goods, and practices, and their impact on power structures.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2026. Information: https://www.global19c.com/congress2027

 

 

 

 

 

11. Post-Doc Position (30 Months) for the Critical Edition with Annotated English Translation of Musky Aromas, MOSAIC Project, UCLouvain, Belgium

Qualification: – PhD in Islamic Studies, in Middle Eastern Studies, or related fields. – Excellent command of Classical Arabic (the knowledge of additional languages such as Persian and Turkish is considered an advantage). – Academic writing and presentation skills in English (the working language of the project). – Ability to work both individually and as part of a team.

Deadline for applications: 10 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/2axtd8uf

 

 

 

 

12. Academic Career Development Fellow (3 Years) in the Global Politics/International Relations of the MENA, University of Cambridge

Candidates should have a proven academic profile in global politics and international relations in the Middle East and North Africa or South Asia. They will have a PhD in a relevant field already and be able to demonstrate an outstanding research record for their career stage.

Deadline for applications: 4 June 2026. Information: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55579/

 

 

 

 

 

13. New Book: “The Birth of British Islam – Multiculturalism and the Localisation of Muslim Debates” by Masooda Bano, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026, 304 Pages

This book is based on in-depth ethnographic studies within British Muslim communities, including mosques and dar ul ulooms, to provide real-life insights. It documents young British imams and second- and third-generation Muslims actively working to align Islamic teachings with British val-ues. It highlig hts the crucial role of Muslim women as mothers, educators, and preachers in shaping debates about future of British Muslim communities. And it demonstrates how religious teachings can prevent youth radicalization.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/yfk3sd98

 

 

 

 

 

14. New Book: “Christians in Middle Eastern History: Strangers No More”, Edited by John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner, Jack Tannous, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026, 336 Pages

This volume offers a series of case studies by leading scholars that offer different answers to the question of what histories of the region might look like if this demographic situation were taken seriously. Critiquing dominant narratives that conflate the history of the Middle East and the history of Islam, they show how integrating Christian actors, experiences and sources can enrich our understanding of the region.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/yuk3645k

 

 

 

 

 

 

15. New Book: “Sovereignty in Iran – Challenges to Eurocentrism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic” by Shabnam J. Holliday, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026, 376 Pages

This book contains the first comprehensive exploration of sovereignty that considers many as-pects of Iran. It explores sovereignty from ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic including the Woman, Life, Freedom protests. It also provides an inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary ap-proach that moves beyond periodised understandings of history contributes to better understand-ing Eurocentrism.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/yvsbhrbr

 

 

 

 

 

16. New Book: “Islamic Apocalypticism in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Society, Pol-itics and Technology in a Century of Change” by Waleed Rikab, Edinburgh University Press, May 2026, 272 Pages

This book contains an unprecedented and comprehensive discussion of Islamic apocalyptic and messianic thought in the 20th-century Middle East. Bringing to light numerous unstudied Arabic texts and considering previously undiscussed debates, this book corrects misconceptions about Islamic apocalypticism and enables a better understanding of the variety of thought that appears in apocalyptic materials published throughout the Arab World.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/bdha4zzt

Programme can be found here.

Call for Papers: The Institutional Embedding of Shiʿi Imams: Kinship, Caliphs, Courts and Companions (700-900)
University of Leiden, 13th-15th January 2027.

This conference (organized by the ERC project Embodied Imamate) seeks to illuminate the embedding of imams (and uncanonised candidates for imamate) as actors within their social, institutional and historical context before the canonization of an unbroken line of Twelve imams (260/874).

It will consist of a conference with traditional presentations, combined with a more workshop-style discussion of sources and approaches aimed at generating solid conversations about the state of the field.

The Imami imams are familiar as scholars and sources of knowledge, but they were, crucially, also elite members of the Islamic empire and as such occupied a pre-eminent place within society, serving as landowners, powerbrokers and community leaders. They also married into the other major families including the dynastic families of the Umayyad and Abbasids. Many of their followers occupied eminent positions within the polities of their day, while several imams (Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, in primis) serve as transmitters of religious knowledge for non-Shiʿi communities. They were, thus, embedded within early Islamic society and played a role in its formation.

A core assumption of this conference will be that the institutions of the Imami Shiʿi imamate came into being in historical time at some point after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, but that it is not clear exactly when or how this occurred: key questions, then, will be to interrogate potential methodologies for tracing different aspects of when and how a distinctive Imami imamate emerged. The conference will not accept papers that are purely doctrinal or intellectual history, without a large component of social or institutional contextualisation.

The organisers welcome papers addressing the following themes (amongst others) for the period 700-900 CE:
Imami vs Caliphal authority: in what sense were the imams, imams?
The household of the imam
Access to the imams
Socio-political studies of the lives of individual imams
The development or role of the “Shi’i” community in specific regions/cities (e.g., Qom, Kufa, Medina, Baghdad)
Inheritance and bequesting practices
Instruments of succession – waṣiyya, naṣṣ vs bayʿa
Estates and property
Kinship ties between the imams and other Arabian elites
The role of companions of imams in the caliphal court
Networks of companions (geographical and social)
Imams at the caliphal court (politics, imprisonment etc.)
Methodologies and sources for writing Shiʿi social and institutional history
Comparisons between the social and institutional positioning, and followers of different candidates and conceptions of imamate: such as Zayd b. ʿAlī, ʿAbd Allāh al-Afṭaḥ, Abū Ḥanīfa, or the caliph al-Manṣūr
Failed imams
Alqāb as indicators of claims to authority
Inscriptions and papyri as sources for the early Shiʿa

Presentations will last 45 minutes. The organisers are open for presenters to choose how they wish to use their time, whether as a traditional presentation (30 minutes talk + 15 minutes Q&A), by pre-circulating primary sources you wish to discuss or other suitable arrangements. The organisers intend to publish contributions from the conference as either an edited volume/special issue and will be in touch with further details and timeline once the speakers have been determined.

Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the organisers.

Please send abstracts to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl and l.f.pecorini.goodall@hum.leidenuniv.nl. Abstracts of no more than 300 words. Deadline: Monday, 20th of June, 2026

See also:
https://embodiedimamate.hcommons.org/2026/04/25/call-for-papers-the-institutional-embedding-of-shiʿi-imams-kinship-caliphs-courts-and-companions-700-900/

1. Call for contributions:

Workshop: The Theft of Art? Art Theories in Light of Global Art History

(University of Strasbourg, 8 January 2027)

Building on Jack Goody’s (2007) highly influential thesis of The Theft of History, this workshop aims to address an “institution” that this critique of the Eurocentric historiographical model imposed on “the rest of the world” left largely unaddressed: the institution of art. By asking why art has escaped this ambitious and coherent theory in terms of its self-reflexivity and decentring, the workshop intends to put forward the hypothesis of a theft of art in the sense of a process of conceptual capture through which the authoritative, hegemonic, European theorising and historicising doxa has normalised its own, situated, artistic experience while obscuring its minority, or “provincial”, status, thus “stealing” the plurality of artistic concepts, terminologies, languages, and narratives produced by other cultures. Despite its heuristic value, Goody’s theft thesis, along with his work on the image—particularly his theory of the cognitive contradiction caused by representation (Goody, 1997; Chevalier & Mayor, 2009)—paradoxically appears to be a case in point of the cognitive contradictions embedded in discourses on art that purport to be self-reflexive and decentred, yet which perpetuate Eurocentric, asymmetrical and hierarchical frames of reference and teleological narratives. This workshop proposes to scrutinise this paradox.

Despite significant efforts toward decentering, particularly through translation (e.g. Art in Translation), and circulation and “fragment” studies (e.g. Cooke, 2022; Kaufmann et al. 2015; Saint-Raymond, 2022), Eurocentric paradigms continue to shape both art theories and art history, including world art history (Summers, 2003) or global art history (Elkins, 2007). Art theories that incorporate discourses based on non-European artistic and visual experiences remain extremely rare (e.g. D’Souza and Casid, 2014). For example, Emmanuel Alloa’s (2010–2017) anthology of thirty texts by philosophers, theorists, and art historians unfortunately features only three contributors from non-Western fields, none of whom are art historians. In his hypothesis of four forms of “worlding” (mondiation) and ontological inferences, Philippe Descola (2021) groups the entire world into three categories (animism, totemism, analogism), assigning “modern” Europe a category of its own (naturalism). He also approaches world cultures holistically while viewing Europe from an evolutionary perspective (moving from analogism to naturalism). In this view, Europe appears not only as the only region in the world with a history, but also as the culmination of history. Although Descola denies having such an intention, he shows “a respect tinged with humility” only towards Western art historians, but makes no room for discourses on naturalism, realism, or comparable concepts developed within other cultures, which challenge his categories (e.g. Weiss, 2020). As for world or global art history, it is still typically written from the West. It is even common for specialists in Western art to be entrusted with the task of representing the discourses on art (in translation) and mediating the arts of non-Western cultures (e.g. Belting 2012; Elkins 2015), while specialists in non-Western arts and non-Western voices all too often remain in the “margins” (e.g. Gupta & Ray 2007; Juneja 2023), without this peripheral position being sufficiently recognised as a potential source of critical renewal. This creates a situation of cognitive dissonance. Although art theory and history increasingly claim global scope, their conceptual apparatuses and modes of knowledge production remain deeply grounded in Western frameworks that merely reinforce the “Great Divide” (Latour, 1983) and its hierarchies, between European, especially “modern”, and non-European and “pre-modern” or “traditional” artistic productions. This is particularly due to the scarcity of effective collaboration between specialists trained in different theoretical and historiographical traditions.

This workshop seeks to scrutinize this dissonance with a view to contributing to moving beyond it. Adopting the alter-globalist approach to art history initiated by Piotr Piotrowski (2015), it proposes to continue to explore its two main axes of research: on the one hand, “dissection” of Eurocentrism and Occidentalism and both their “repressive practices” and denial mechanisms in art theories and art history; on the other hand, “resistance to centralistic and exclusive art-historical activities” through “inter-epistemological dialogue” from a horizontal and comparative perspective. The workshop format aims to encourage in-depth discussion at the intersection of art theory and global art history, drawing on multi-situated research across a variety of geographical areas, historical periods, textual and visual sources, and artistic and sensory experiences. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• The manifestations of Eurocentrism and the Great Divide in theories of art and the image; the forms of epistemic violence embedded in these theories and in global art history; art history as an imperial resemanticization of non-Western art.
• The impact of normative and Eurocentric theoretical frameworks and narratives on the interpretation of artistic practices and regimes of the image that fall outside these frameworks.
• The relevance and limitations of major Western theories of art and the image (e.g. philosophy of art, Kunstwissenschaften, Bildwissenschaften, Visual Studies, Gaze studies, as well as anthropological theories with a universalist aim (e.g. Goody, 1997; Belting, 2004; Descola, 2021)), for the analysis of non-Western arts and images.
• Alternative conceptions of art and the image that challenge binary oppositions (e.g. iconic/aniconic, realism/imagination, exteriority/interiority) by shifting the focus to other culturally and historically situated spectra, following the models of Jean-Pierre Vernant’s research on figurative representation in ancient Greece (Vernant, 1990), Jean-Claude Schmitt’s work on medieval European images (Schmitt, 2023), as well as research in ethno-aesthetics and multimodal ethnography (Collins et al., 2020).
• Comparative approaches to discourses on art and the image situated within diverse geographical, historical, cultural and artistic contexts.

Organisation and contact details:

Nourane Ben Azzouna, Associate professor, UMR 7044 Archéologie et histoire ancienne : Méditerranée – Europe, University of Strasbourg, Fellow, University of Strasbourg Institute of Advanced Studies, benazzouna@unistra.fr

Scientific committee:

Nadia Ali, Associate researcher, Institut de Recherches et d’Études sur les Mondes Arabes et Musulmans, Aix-Marseille Université

Monica Juneja, Professor, Center for Transcultural Studies, University of Heidelberg

Julie Ramos, Professor, UMR 3400 ARCHE Art, civilisation et histoire de l’Europe – University of Strasbourg

 

 

 

 

 

2. KNOW workshop: Polymathy and Problem-Solving in the History of Islamic Knowledge; 2-4 June 2026
I’m pleased to announce the upcoming workshop Polymathy and Problem-Solving in the History of Islamic Knowledge, which will take place at Ghent University on 2–4 June 2026. This is an in-person event and registration is required. The full programme is available on the KNOW project website: https://erc-know.ugent.be/en

The workshop brings together researchers working on the history of Islamic knowledge, with a particular focus on how Muslim scholars engaged with concrete intellectual problems across disciplinary boundaries. Rather than approaching disciplines as fixed and isolated domains, the workshop explores the dynamic ways in which scholarly practices, methods, and concepts travelled across different fields of knowledge. Through a series of pre-circulated papers and discussion-based sessions, participants will reflect on polymathy, problem-solving, and the practical organisation of knowledge in Islamic intellectual history.

The workshop is organised within the framework of the ERC project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures (1200–1800 CE) at Ghent University.

If you wish to stay informed about forthcoming events and publications, please consider joining our mailing list (via the link above).

With best wishes,

Islam Dayeh

 

 

 

 

 

3. UCLA

Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Pooyan Tamimi Arab

Utrecht University

English Lecture

Monday, June 8, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time

Online via Zoom

Registration Required: 

https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg

 

 

 

4. Online – Ferdowsi Summer School of Modern Persian

July 20 – August 7, 2026

https://ferdowsi.org/ferdowsi-online-summer-school-of-persian/

 

 

Call for Papers

‘Shi`i/Sunni Relations in the Persianate World’
The University of Edinburgh
8-10 December, 2026

A research project funded by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).

In the wake of the Iranian Revolution and, especially, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, whose toppling of Saddam Hussein resulted in the rise of the dominance of Iraqi politics by Iraqi Shi`i groups, Arab Sunni governments voiced concerns about Shi`i/Iranian expansion across the region. Some of these states, such as Saudi Arabia, were well-known for the active intolerance of their own Shi`i minorities. The supposedly inherent sectarian nature of Islam, a notion further fuelled by such later events as the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’, has been widely echoed in the West.

The present project envisions holding a workshop of 8 to 10 speakers to examine the nature of Shi`i-Sunni relations in the Persianate world, from the early Islamic period to the mid-18th century, to explore the extent to which sectarian hostility was the norm or the exception.

The intent is to discuss all forms of Shi`i/Sunni relations and discourse, the former including the Zaydi, Isma`ili, Twelver Shi`i faiths, in this period. The term ‘Persianate’ encompasses reference to such relations as they could be examined across the region, potentially from the Anatolian plateau and Greater Syria in the West to the Indian Subcontinent, at least, in the East, into the Caucasus and Central Asia to the North, and South at least to the Persian Gulf.

Conference Deadlines:
• Monday, 13 July, 2026: Please RSVP by this date, simply to let us know if you can participate – we are eager to have you attend: anewman@ed.ac.uk
• Monday, 14 September, 2026: Send Abstracts (250–300 words), which should include the title of the proposed paper, a brief introduction to the topic, and a well-developed thesis with objectives and preliminary arguments clearly expressed. Include a biography (up to 100 words).
• Monday, 2 November 2026 Pre-conference draft papers for your talk (approx. 3,000–3,500 words for a 20-25-minute presentation) and PowerPoint slides (if using and ready) to be sent

Practical Details:
The conference will cover meals from dinner on 8 December to lunch on 10 December.
Depending upon final numbers, further, if limited, funding support for travel, accommodation, and other expenses may be available, especially for PhD students, Early Career Researchers (ECRs), and unaffiliated scholars.

Publication Guidelines – Looking Ahead:
Thinking longer term, the following information will be helpful to you:
• Final Paper Submission Deadline: Thursday, 30 July, 2027
• Length: ~7,000–10,000 words (excluding citations)
• Software Format: MS-Word, .docx
• Transliteration and Foreign Languages:
o Transliterate. Do not use Arabic script unless it is necessary for the argument.
o Use ALA-LC Romanization Table for Arabic (which also covers Persian and other Arabic-script characters).
o Use ʿ and ʾ for ʿayn and hamzah
o Passages in foreign languages must also be translated into English.
• Review: All papers will undergo peer review and editorial revision. Please ensure your submissions are review-ready. Papers that do not pass peer review cannot be included in the volume.

Further publishing information will be available closer to the time.

For further information, please contact
a.newman@ed.ac.uk

1. Launching the Journal of Mughal Studies
For more information about the aims and scope, editorial board, policies, and ethics of the journal, please see: <https://escholarship.org/uc/journalofmughalstudies/about>.

We are hoping to launch the first issue of the journal at the end of 2026. If you or someone you know would like to be considered for publication in the first issue, the submission deadline is July 15. For information about the submission guidelines: https://journalpub.escholarship.org/journalofmughalstudies/submissions/

By way of background, the journal has been accepted by eScholarship Publishing, an open access publishing platform subsidized by the University of California, managed by the California Digital Library, and home to around 90 journals. The Journal of Mughal Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. It is also completely open access.

With best wishes,

Ali Anooshahr and Munis Faruqui with the editorial board

 

 

 

2. ‘Mehmandari: Hosting and Minding Foreign

Visitors in Safavid and Qajar Iran’,

R Matthee

IRAN, 2026

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05786967.2026.2644770

 

 

 

 

3. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore – Tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in South and/or Southeast Asian Political Thought

https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/70027/nanyang-technological-university-singapore-tenure-track-assistantassociate-professor

 

 

 

 

 

4. AMECYS 2026 Dissertation Award

The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies invites nominations for the 2026 AMECYS Dissertation Award

The AMECYS is a 501 (c) (3) private, non-profit, international membership-based association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa, Gulf and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about and by Middle Eastern, North African and Gulf children and youth in diverse times and places from any disciplinary and methodological approach.

The AMECYS Dissertation Award is a new award to recognize an outstanding dissertation and its contributions to the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa, Gulf and their diasporic communities.  Dissertations defended in 2025 or  2026 will be reviewed. INominations/nominees must include the following materials all collated into a single pdf file:

1. A digital copy of the successfully defended doctoral (PhD) dissertation;
2. Proof that the doctoral dissertation has been successfully passed or deposited (please include author, title of dissertation, unit and university), where the dissertation was successfully defended/deposited, defense date, names of dissertation evaluation committee members).
3. A brief  letter of support sent directly to the chair of the Awards committee from the dissertation advisor (or one of the evaluators) attesting to the dissertation’s significance and contribution to the field of children and youth studies.
4. Nominees must be AMECYS members in good standing, and may be students anywhere around the world. Only self-nominations will be considered.
5. Discipline and methods are open, but the subject matter must deal with the study of children and youth – broadly defined – in the Middle East, North Africa, Gulf and their diasporic communities. Works will be evaluated both for their contribution to the study of children and youth and to the applicant’s field/s.
6. Nominations must be received by August 1, 2026 12:00 PM EST for dissertations to be eligible for the competition and must consist of a digital copy of the dissertation, the author’s name, address, phone number and email, and be sent to the chair of the Awards Committee, Baun@uah.edu

Acknowledgment of receipt will be made via e-mail.

The author of the AMECYS Award will receive $200 and a certificate of award. In the event of co-winners, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certificate of award. Winners will be announced during the 60th MESA Annual Meeting in Boston, MA and we strongly encourage winners to attend to receive their award in person. The results will also be posted on the AMECYS website and in other publications as deemed appropriate by AMECYS.

In the event of no worthy submissions, AMECYS reserves the right to not hand out any prize.

While we support dissertations written in languages other than English, at this time, we can only review dissertations in English

*** No additional materials are necessary as part of the submission. 

Reviewers 

1. Dylan Baun, Department of History, University of Alabama in Huntsville
2. Rustem Ertug Altinay, Department of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, University of Milan
3. Reda Rafei, Department of History, Texas Tech University

For any questions, can email Dylan.Baun@uah.edu

To learn more about AMECYS, visit www.amecys.org

To become an AMECYS member, visit https://www.amecys.org/membership

 

 

 

 

 

5. Colloque international : Turco-Persianate Popular Romances from Southeast Asia to the Balkans (1-2 juin 2026, Paris)
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI) du CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE & Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Colloque international

Turco-Persianate Popular Romances from Southeast Asia to the Balkans:

Composition, Transmission, and Reception of Historical-Legendary Epics over the Longue Durée in a Multilingual Space

les 1-2 juin 2026, Paris

 

• Lundi/Monday, 01/06/2026, 9:00–17:45 
  Auditorium Georges Dumézil, Maison de la Recherche de l’INaLCO (2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris)
• Mardi/Tuesday, 02/06/2026, 9:30–12:00
  Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle(4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris)

Le colloque explore les modes d’expression des communautés du monde musulman oriental à travers la composition, la transmission et la réception de récits populaires centrés autour de protagonistes héroïques, notamment les figures des débuts de l’Islam, ainsi que la culture matérielle associée à leur vénération. Il fait suite au colloque Amir Hamza and Beyond: Historical Narratives and Romances across the Muslim World qui s’est tenu en septembre 2023 à l’Institut de recherche sur les langues et cultures d’Asie et d’Afrique (ILCAA) de la Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

• Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
• Information, programme détaillé et abstracts : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/turco-persianate-popular-romances-from-southeast-asia-to-the-balkans/

Ce colloque a été organisé avec le soutien de:

-NIHU Global Mediterranean at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA)
-Kyoto University
-Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS)
-Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INaLCO)
-Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
-Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA)
-Fondation Max van Berchem
-Institut d’études de l’islam et des sociétés musulmanes (IISMM)
-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)

• Organisation scientifique:
• Sacha Alsancakli, The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research and Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University
• Yui Kanda, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Maria Szuppe, CNRS, CeRMI UMR8041

Contact:

alsancakli.sacha.6s@kyoto-u.ac.jp

kanda@aa.tufs.ac.jp

maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr

 

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop “Comparative Strategies in Empires of Salvation Religions” (Focus Middle Eastern Salvation Religions), Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies (RomanIslam), University of Hamburg, 11-14 November 2026

The Roman, Islamic, and Spanish empires all seem paradigmatic for our understanding of a transform-ative imperialism. Their imperial missions were driven by Middle Eastern salvation religions. Subse-quent empires and political regimes until today have all drawn, in one way or another, on the common heritage of Roman, Islamic, and Hispanic imperial legacies.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/43tms8mk

 

 

 

 

 

7. HYBRID Annual Meeting of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA): “Redefining and Restating Middle East Librarianship in our Current Moment”, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 19-21 November 2026

Proposed themes: • The place of the “human” in the wake of emerging technologies • Advancements in cataloging and resource description for Middle East & North African resources • Austerity and the Mid-dle East librarianship profession in crisis • Collecting diaspora or minority language materials • Ephem-era and “born-digital” collecting • Critical pedagogy in area studies librarianship • Cultural heritage under threat • Digital preservation of at-risk archives.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/58ne8b4p

 

 

 

 

 

8. Workshop “Layers of Interpretation: The Islamic Commentary Tradition and the Making of Scholarly Authority”, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 11-12 December 2026

This workshop foregrounds the relationship between commentaries and scholarly authority in the Is-lamic world and seeks to discuss the following main question: Which roles did commentaries play in processes of negotiation, exercise, and challenge of scholarly authority in the Islamic world?

Deadline for abstracts: 5 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/4w5m7uf9

 

 

 

 

 

9. International Conference “Refutations, Rivalries and Revenge. Polemics in the Premodern Islamic World (ca. 800-1500)”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-University Berlin, 28-30 January 2027

The interdisciplinary conference is organized by Nadine El-Hussein and Mohammad Gharaibeh. It aims at an in-depth understanding of polemics in their specific premodern configurations, along with the forms, functions, reasons and developments of polemics in the premodern Islamic World.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2026. Information: https://hu.berlin/26412

 

 

 

 

 

10. Full-Time Arabic Lecturer (1-3 Years), Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Pennsylvania

Applicants should demonstrate a primary focus on language education, and should have received at least a Master’s degree, and preferably a PhD, in Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics or TAFL. Native or near-native competency in Arabic language, and fluency in English, are required. Preference will be given to applicants who have significant teaching experience at all levels of Arabic language at post-secondary North American institutions.

Deadline for applications until the position is filled. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/186109

 

 

 

 

11. AMEWS 2026 Book Award

The Book Award recognizes and promotes excellence in the field of Middle East gender, women’s and sexuality studies. Books published (copyrighted) in 2025 will be considered for the 2026 award. They have to be non-fiction, scholarly monographs based on original research. The competition is open only to books published in English.

Deadline for applications: 1 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/y8t6dpx3

 

 

 

 

 

12. International Summer School on Gulf Studies: “Understanding the Gulf – Politics, Economy, and Society”, Center for Gulf Studies and Global Policy (GSGP), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 21-25 July 2026

Organized in collaboration with the Sharjah International Foundation for the History of Muslim and Arab Sciences and University of Sharjah, this intensive summer school offers participants a unique oppor-tunity to engage critically with the Gulf region through an interdisciplinary and globally informed aca-demic framework.

Deadline for applications: 7 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/5e492cnb

 

 

 

 

 

13. Summer School “Terms and Turns of Empire. Interconnecting Concepts and Methods (Focus Ottoman Empire)”, University of Freiburg, 7-12 September 2026

Organized by the research Graduate School “Empires. Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Impe-rial Orders”, this summer school offers an intensive interdisciplinary methodological forum for critical engagement with the relationship between methods and concepts of ‘empire’ across academic fields and historical periods.

Deadline for applications: 31 May 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/2zn54a6z

 

 

 

 

14. Inscription à la liste Réseau des chercheur.ses turcophones (RCT)

Ce groupe rassemble des chercheur·ses turcophones en SHS travaillant sur la Turquie et les terrains ex-ottomans, à tous les stades de leur parcours (masterant·es, doctorant·es, postdoctorant·es, cher-cheur·ses titulaires ou indépendant·es). L’objectif est de créer un espace de circulation d’informations et de solidarité académique. La liste sert à partager : appels à communication, offres de postes/finance-ments, publications, événements, ainsi que des conseils méthodologiques et ressources utiles.

Information et inscription : https://tinyurl.com/4vcfass7

 

 

 

15. Chapters on “Hybrid Ways of Knowing in Iran” for Volume Edited by Mahjoob Zweiri, Palgrave Macmillan

The volume asks how new hybrid ways of knowing are taking shape in Iran. It examines how Islamic and decolonial ideas are combined, negotiated, or resisted across academia and intellectual spaces, and how schools of thought, ideologies, and geopolitical contexts shape the knowledge that results. It also considers how AI, digitalisation, migration, and climate change are reshaping knowledge produc-tion, and what all of this means for academic freedom and intellectual autonomy.

Deadline for abstracts: 7 June 2026. Information: https://www.ciwas.net/blog

 

 

 

 

 

16. New Volume “A Region in Transition: Survey of Socio-Economic, Cultural and International Relations Trends in the Gulf Region” Edited by Saban Kardas, Ethics Press, 4 April 2026, 214 Pages

The contributors provide concise interdisciplinary analyses on the transformations reshaping the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states in recent years. Considering the unprecedented socioeconomic and cultural changes, energy transitions, and geopolitical realignments, the book promises to capture major aspects of the domestic and international realities of these nations.

Information: https://tinyurl.com/35954xte

Abstract: My presentation explores the intellectual, social, and political landscape of Sicily under the Arab Fāṭimid rule (909–965) and their Kalbid allies (948–1053). Building on research from my edited volume Muslim Sicily: Encounters and Legacy, it further examines Sicily’s connections with al-Andalus, Qayrawān, and Cairo. The talk highlights the dynamic nature of Christian–Muslim relations within a broader context of interaction among diverse ethnic and religious communities over several centuries. Drawing on recently published Arabic and Coptic texts, it also considers Fāṭimid state policies and Sicily’s role as a key player in the medieval Mediterranean.

Register at:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/TBJgbYt6Rk2rVXgQvpdvvA?lt_utm_source=lt_admin_share_link#/registration

1.HYBRID International Workshop “Mapping Preaching and Preachers in & from the Middle East: Circulation and Transnational Networks” by ANR PredicMO, MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 27-28 mai 2026

The workshop aims to foster a critical dialogue on the dynamics of preaching, enriching our under-standing of religious mobilities and cultural, spiritual and moral geographies. Contributions are focusing on comparative case studies, methodological innovation, and analyses of territorial strategies across Abrahamic religions in the Middle East and North Africa, from the late 19th century to the present.

Information, program and registration: https://predicmo.hypotheses.org/3111

 

 

 

 

 

2. International Workshop “What Makes a Diaspora? Middle Eastern Minorities, the Americas, and Jewish Studies in Conversation”, University of Cologne, 24-25 May 2027

This workshop is designed to bring three fields into conversation: American studies, Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) studies, and Jewish studies. Who mobilizes people, through which institutions and infrastructures, for what purposes, and with what consequences for communal authority, hi-erarchy, solidarity, and division? The workshop seeks to explore how diasporic formations depend on collective consciousness rather than understanding migration primarily as an individual project of au-tonomy and reinvention in lands of migration.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/mrwh2wuc

 

 

 

 

 

3. Post-Doc Position (30 Months) for a Comprehensive Study of Conjunction Astrology in Islam and Byzantium, MOSAIC Project, UCLouvain, Belgium

Qualification: – PhD in Islamic Studies, in Middle Eastern Studies, or related fields. – Excellent com-mand of Classical Arabic and Persian (the knowledge of additional languages such as Greek and/or Turkish is considered an advantage). – Strong background in the history of science. – Academic writing and presentation skills in English (the working language of the project). – Ability to work both individually and as part of a team.

Deadline for applications: 10 June 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/5f8sha65

 

 

 

 

 

4. Three Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Islamic Ethics, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Doha

We are seeking early-career researchers (PhD obtained within the last 5 years) with a strong back-ground in both the theoretical foundations and applied dimensions of Islamic Ethics. Ideal candidates will be output-oriented and possess professional proficiency in either English or Arabic (bilingualism is a significant advantage).

Deadline for applications: 23 July 2026; early submission is strongly encouraged. Information: https://ti-nyurl.com/b9b5wxtx

 

 

 

 

5. Articles for the “TAS Review Journal” of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies (Issue 45, Autumn 2026)

We welcome abstract submissions across a broad range of disciplines: Turkish History & Historiog-raphy. – Turkish Politics & International Relations. – Turkish Culture, Arts & Humanities. – Turkish Lan-guage & Linguistics. – Religion & Philosophy.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2026. Information: https://tinyurl.com/2pmj69wk