Shii News – Academic Items
1.2 Postdoctoral Fellowships (2 years) for Scholars at Risk at the “Academy in Exile”, TU Dortmund University and Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Essen, Germany
Eligible are scholars from any country who have a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, or law, and who are at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom. Academy in Exile fellowships give scholars the opportunity to continue their careers in Germany and to work on a research project of their own choosing in a multidisciplinary environment.
Application deadline: 15 April 2024. Information:
2. Postdoctoral Research Fellow (3-4 Years) for the Research Project “Beyond Restitution: Heritage, (Dis)Possession and the Politics of Knowledge (BEYONDREST)”, Europe in the Middle East (EUME), Berlin
Requirements: Completed dissertation in anthropology, (art) history, cultural studies, sociology, archaeology or a related field. – Established research focus on critical heritage studies, cultural policy, museum studies, politics of knowledge, material culture, and/or state violence. – Experience with ethnographic research and preferably also with archival research. – Regional expertise regarding the Near and Middle East and/or North
Africa.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2024. Information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/en/news/news/details/job-postdoctoral-research-fellow-f-m-d-in-the-project-beyondrest
3. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) for Comparative Politics (Focus Middle East), Department of Politics, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
Applicants should show a strong commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching. We strongly encourage applications from individuals with identities that have been historically marginalized in political science, and individuals who have followed non-traditional pathways to higher education due to societal, economic, or academic disadvantages.
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/142258
4. 2024 Graduate Student Paper Prize of the “Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS)”
The prize is awarded to a graduate student in any discipline in the humanities or interpretive social sciences to recognize an original work on an aspect of Middle East women’s, gender, and/or sexuality studies. The 2024 prize winner will receive a $500 award and comments to prepare the manuscript for publication as an article in JMEWS.
Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2024. Information:
https://amews.org/2024/02/29/2024-jmews-graduate-student-paper-prize-call-for-submissions/
5. Chapters for Edited Volume on “The Practice of Pilgrimage in a Global Early Modern Context”
We are seeking contributions to a volume exploring pilgrimage in a global context from the mid-fifteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. We are seeking contributors working from the perspective of diverse disciplines (e. art history, history, literature, anthropology), religious traditions (ie. Buddhism, Shintoism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity) and regional contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20026219/cfp-new-volume-practice-pilgrimage-global-early-modern-context
6. Articles for “Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies” (10th Issue)
Hamsa aims to create a multi-disciplinary space in the fields of Jewish and Islamic studies in which all perspectives of Social and Human sciences can converge. Articles are invited which foster a comparative analysis of historiographical, philosophical, anthropological and sociological discourses ranging from medie-vality to contemporaneity.
Deadline for papers: 31 March 2024. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/hamsa/4389
BSOAS
Ruben Nikoghosyan
8. “All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint
BSOAS
T Ahmed
9. Philipp Bruckmayr
Islamic Reform as a Family Affair: The Tariq Shah Wali Ullah in Modern Malaysia
Monday Majlis Online on the 18th of March, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuce6gpzktHd1X7Yh_4lcbROZVV4U0x7ug
10. UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Arabic Dialogues: Phrasebooks and the learning of colloquial Arabic, 1798-1945, by Rachel Mairs.
Download it free: https://bit.ly/3T07Fik
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- March 12, 2024
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