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1.ONLINE WORKSHOP: Collectively Situated Knowledge: A decolonial research method for constructing collective auto-narratives and positionalities
To Apply: Please fill out the form here- https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/9sxrFz2ZiLbLttWb43oy9tnb
Application Deadline: Until all spaces are filled.
Payment Deadline: November 13th, 2025
Dates: Mondays and Tuesdays November 16th- December 1st, 2025
Time: All sessions are Mondays and Tuesdays:
– 9hrs to 11hrs, Mexico City Time,
– 16hrs-18hrs Central European Time,
– 20:30hrs-22:30hrs India Standard Time
Location: ONLINE
**SPACE IS LIMITED**
THIS COURSE FOCUSES ON CREATING RESEARCH METHODS THROUGH COLLECTIVE PRACTICE
IT IS TIME TO CENTER COLLECTIVE THOUGHT AND PRACTICE IN RESEARCH
This workshop addresses two principal discrepancies that arise in the creation of scholar/activist knowledge with indigenous, rural and organized urban communities that seek to create a decolonial research methodologies. Through participatory practices of knowledge exchange we will first work to incorporate collective forms of knowledge creation drawing on the decision-making structures of community assemblies present in many rural and indigenous communities around the world and then, we will explore collective auto-narrative as a research method. In this process we will dismantle the construction and practice of situating knowledge in order to create collective positionalities that reflect the construction of the self within the collective contexts that we inhabit. By exploring collective forms of agency in knowledge creation we will delve into the multiplicitous protaganisms that conglomerate in creating praxis and have the potential to resist epistemicide.
THIS COURSE WILL COVER
-Methods and analyses for creating decolonial economic projects.
-Understanding ourselves as situated knowers and how to position ourselves collectively.
-Unlearning colonial paradigms of research and knowledge production.
-Rethinking value, exchange, and labor in research.
-El Cambalache as an example of an anti-capitalist and non-hierarchical research project that practiced collective auto-narrative.
FOR WHOM?
The practice, research and theories of non-capitalist social power included in this course were developed by and for all of us in order to bring about social change. For this reason, it is designed for people interested in creating, practicing and collectively researching noncapitalist and anti- colonial social power to be carried out in their places of residence or research. Everyone is invited to participate – women, people with diasporic heritages, indigenous people and LBGTQ++ are especially invited.
CALENDAR
All sessions are Mondays and Tuesdays:
– 9hrs to 11hrs, Mexico City Time,
– 16hrs-18hrs Central European Time,
– 20:30hrs-22:30hrs India Standard Time
Monday November 16th-
Introductions, Remembering Knowledge Beyond Extraction
Tuesday November 17th-
Positionality, Power, and Partial Perspectives- Making them Collective
Monday November 23nd-
Collective Knowledge as Method
Tuesday November 24th-
Persistent Relationships: collectivity and communality: Non-Capitalist Ethics of Research through Collective Autonarrative
Monday November 30th-
Practicing Collective Auto-narrative and Story as Resistance
Tuesday December 1st-
Living the Method — Research as Relationship and Collective Creation
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Decolonial methodologies call for shifting the power relationships within the construction of knowledge. This involves not only recognizing the obfuscation of the persistence and value of the great multitude of epistemes present in the majority world but also the consequential urgency to shatter the hierarchy of intersectional structural violences that deny the inherent diversity, wealth and abundance of these ontologies. The disparate nature of epistemicide within academia simultaneously seeks to innovate in the creation and practice of institutionalized minority world forms of knowledge while silencing, devaluing and ultimately eliminating the epistemic polyphony present in the majority world. In order to shift this dynamic new forms of research methods are necessary. In order to create new methodologies we, as researchers, are pushed to transform ourselves and our systems of valuing.
In Capitalism social power is constructed through the acquisition of wealth through commodities and currency. Access to wealth is limited through intersectional structural violence across geographies which consequentially restrict access to social power and, as such, diverse epistemes are devalued. Many pre-hispanic empires and now, indigenous communities in the Americas have persistently functioned with moneyless economies that are sustained through collective work, exchange and thought. However, these forms of thought and practice have no value in a capitalist/colonial economy because they have no monetary value. These forms of indigenous praxis create non-capitalist social power which is the most available form of social power in the world.
Ethnography constructs knowledge through the investigation of ethnic expression, experience and is now recognized as intercultural research across epistemologies and ontologies. Ground-up approaches to ethnography such as photo-voice, community cinema, community radio, varied forms of artistic expression and podcasting seek to decenter the investigator while privileging the agency of research participants in the co-creation of knowledge. Meanwhile, beyond academia, social media around the world has created a platform for people from all walks of life to express themselves and their ontological experiences. Simultaneously, indigenous and rural communities in the Americas (and around the world) employ the structure of community assemblies to create knowledge about themselves, their context and resolve problems that they face.
The push towards collective knowledge creation amplifies the imperative to recognize the polyphonic nature of life on Earth. In order to audaciously create knowledge about resistance to coloniality and the expressions of flourishing in spite of all of the violence and chaos that greets us in 2025 academic practice would do well to incorporate and recognize the collective nature of our own experience, the interwoven immersion that accompanies us through our fields of research, our protagonism and that of others as we mutually influence and transform ourselves
and each other in the co-creation of knowledge. The community assembly as method for decision-making and knowledge creation simultaneously recognizes the incredible strength to persist in cultural maintenance and innovation inherent in those communities whose epistemes and territories are under constant attack through the mechanisms of capitalism/coloniality while also shifting away from the extractive nature of academic research. If we want to change the system it would do us well to let those that have always had different ways of knowing and being to take the lead in constructing the expression about their quotidian experience and its implications.
This is not to say that these practices are not fraught with contradiction and complexity. However, giving voice to those experiences creates the possibility to activelychange what we consider knowledge and who we understand to have access to it. Consequently, it is also necessary to piece apart the fraught nature of individualism, ethics and relationality within academic practice so that we may innovate towards a future that seeks liberation from capitalism/coloniality through a multiplicity of epistemologies and ontologies. Through this workshop we will practice collective work and thought through sharing our research experiences, challenges and steps towards developing futures that resist genocide and epistemicide.
HOW TO APPLY
Please fill out this online form:
https://share.mayfirst.org/apps/forms/s/9sxrFz2ZiLbLttWb43oy9tnb
In the form you will be asked to include a 1,000-word letter of motivation to explaining why you would like to participate in the workshop and what types of research or community projects that will benefit from your participation. It is recommended that you write the letter beforehand and then paste it into the form. If you have any questions please contact:
Dr. Erin Araujo, cambalach@autoproduzioni.net
IMPORTANT DATES
Sessions: November 16th to December 1st 2025
Application Deadline: until all seats are filled (limited capacity).
Course Payment: Due by November 13th, 2025
**SPACE IS LIMITED**
COSTS
Cost for participants from countries with a high access to money
(in US dollars)
$500 – $350 Solidarity price for well employed participants or collectives who want
to participate with a single contribution. This price is suggested for people who have
some kind of funding for their professional development or can afford it because of
their high salary level. This price contributes some support to other people, with less
economic possibilities of work, so that they can pay less.
$350 – $200 Students and participants who can afford it because they have access
to some type of financing or are collectives that want to participate through a single
contribution.
$200 – $80 Students, grassroots activists and participants who have little access to
money.
Cost for participants from countries with little access to money (in Mexican
pesos):
$5,000-$3,500 Solidarity price for well-employed participants or collectives who
want to participate with a single contribution. This price is suggested for people
who have some kind of funding for their professional development or can afford
it because of their high salary level. By paying this price, you will contribute in
supporting other people who lack economic resources or whose access is very
limited, and who want to participate in the workshop, so that they can pay less.
$3,500-$2,000 Students and participants who can afford it because they have
access to some type of financing or are collectives who want to participate
through a single contribution.
$2,000 – $800 Students, grassroots activists and participants who have little
access to money.
If for any reason you are unable to cover the fees, please ask for moneyless
exchange options to cover prices.
All proceeds from this workshop will go to support El Cambalache’s research,
community and decolonial work.
This workshop is provided by El Cambalache from its Department of Decolonial Economics.
El Cambalache is a project that works on decolonizing the economy. Located in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas
and made by and for women and all those we know. It focuses on the exchange of things, knowledge and mutual aid
through workshops, actions, publications and an emerging podcast. Cambalache was started in 2014 and has been
created on a foundation of anti-systemic, anti-colonial and anti-capitalist values from local social movements towards
a future of well-being for all.
For more information see:
FB LaCambalache – IG Elcambalachesancristobal – X LaCambalachera – TT cambalacheras –
YT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCslgLGj8V0LFxSaDnL8iYQg
Our documentary: Inter-Change Value (2016) https://vimeo.com/159060233
Please contact Dr. Erin Araujo at cambalach@autoproduzioni.net with questions.
Workshop on De- / Anti-Colonial Methods for Creating Collectivity, Incorporating Multiple Forms of Valuing and Supporting the Persistence of Our Relationships
2. Workshop – Monastic Landscapes in Northern Mesopotamia in the 6th-10th centuries
The study of Christianity in northern Mesopotamia during the late Sasanian and early Islamic periods (6th-10th centuries), particularly within the context of monasticism, offers critical insights into how Christian communities were shaped by the intersection of religious, cultural, and political dynamics. This era was characterized by significant religious diversity, with Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Manichaean, and Islamic communities coexisting in the region. Northern Mesopotamia, encompassing regions like the Tur Abdin plateau, the Jazira plain, and the upper and middle Tigris valley, was a significant center of Christianity and monasticism. The region was home to numerous monastic communities that functioned not only as religious centers but also as hubs of religious education and cultural interaction.
The workshop (organized by Mustafa Ahmad and Alexander Pruß) will explore the archaeological, architectural, social, and cultural dimensions of monasticism and investigate the role of monasteries in shaping the socio-religious landscapes of northern Mesopotamia. The presentations of case studies, along with the discussions that follow, will contribute to a deeper understanding of the spatial organization, communal life, and broader societal impact of these monastic communities. Additionally, the workshop aims to highlight the ways in which monasteries functioned as centers of religious practice, education, and cultural exchange, providing new insights into the dynamics of interfaith interaction and the region’s historical development.
Contact Information
Dr. Mustafa Ahmad
Contact Email
URL
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/177344484/Poster_Programma.pdf
3. Book launch (hybrid) – Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
The book Explorations in Islamic Archaeology: Material Culture, Settlements, and Landscapes from the Mediterranean to Western Asia edited by Joanita Vroom & Hagit Nol is launched at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Leiden) and online.
The symposium includes a keynote by Neil Price (Uppsala University): “The Vikings and Asia” and a session focusing on Leiden junior research in Islamic archaeology with Kate Mokránová, Aila Santi, and Jonathan Ouellet.
Registration until November 18th. Please mention if you join the museum event or online.
Contact Information
Hagit Nol
Contact Email
URL
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2025/11/book-launch-explorations-in…
4. CFP – EHG Colloquium: The production of material culture in the Islamic world: centers, craftsmen and technique
The 21st Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society is taking place on July 2-4, 2026, at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany). It aims to bring together scholars of various disciplines to discuss the Islamic world from a materiality perspective. Shifting the focus from consumers and patrons to craftsmen, their workshops and their ‘know how’ allows to foreground social and economic dynamics that often go unnoticed. The interdisciplinary discussion would enable a better understanding of such dynamics as well as establishing a fuller historical narrative for craftsmen. We invite researchers from the fields of Islamic archaeology, Islamic architecture, Islamic art history and the contemporary arts as well as manuscript studies, museology, history, ethno-archaeology and archaeometry to submit a paper proposal by November 25, 2025.
Contact Information
Dr. Mustafa Ahmad
Contact Email
URL
https://ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/EHG2026.Fran…
5. Conference – Central Asian Pottery Network (CAPN) – First Meetin
Upcoming Conference in Siena | 30–31 October 2025
Central Asian Pottery Network (CAPN) – First Meeting
Towards a New Agenda for Ceramic Studies and Related Fields in Central Asia
We are pleased to announce the first meeting of the Central Asian Pottery Network (CAPN), which will take place in Siena (Italy), 30–31 October 2025.
Central Asian ceramics represent a vast and diverse field of study, encompassing a wide range of materials, methods, and scholarly traditions. Following the successful EAA Session “Pots in Transition” (Rome 2024), this meeting aims to put into practice the ideas and collaborations discussed there, and to consolidate an active network of researchers working on pottery and related materials from Central Asia.
While ceramics remain at the core of the discussion, the meeting welcomes contributions addressing other categories of material culture — such as glass, metals, and ecofacts — as well as interdisciplinary and archaeometric studies that integrate technical, historical, and socio-economic perspectives.
Particular emphasis will be placed on fostering dialogue between young scholars and colleagues from Central Asia and neighbouring regions. By exploring themes such as urbanism, rurality, and exchange through the lens of ceramics, the CAPN meeting seeks to promote a more holistic understanding of how material culture shapes and reflects ancient societies.
We look forward to meeting in Siena and to building a collaborative, dynamic community for the study of Central Asian ceramics and beyond. You can also follow the meeting online: https://unistrasi-it.zoom.us/j/88332720771.
Contact Information
Agnese Fusaro – University for Foreigners of Siena – International University (Italy); agnese.fusaro@unistrasi.it
Gabriele Puschnigg – Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); Gabriele.Puschnigg@oeaw.ac.at
Jacopo Bruno – Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); “A tale of pots and people” project (FWF – der Wissenschaftsfonds ESPRIT-Projekt ESP 422-G); jacopo.bruno@oeaw.ac.at
Contact Email
URL
https://www.unistrasi.it/1/798/1111953/Central_Asian_Pottery_Network.htm
6. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that the 2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World has been jointly awarded to:
Dr Razieh S. Mousavi (PhD awarded by the Humboldt University of Berlin) for her thesis entitled: ‘Al-Farghānī’s Elements of Astronomy (c. 860 CE): An Interplay of Meaning and Form at the Intersection of Astronomical and Medical Tradition
and
Dr Leone Pecorini Goodall (PhD awarded by the University of Edinburgh) for his thesis entitled: ‘Sons and Daughters of the Caliphate:
Succession Politics in the Marwanid and early Abbasid family (64-216/684-831)’
Both submissions were praised in the highest possible terms by our reviewers and our Prize Committee, and we offer our sincere congratulations to Dr Mousavi and Dr Pecorini Goodall who have both kindly provided abstracts of their superb theses which you can read here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-winner-2025
BRAIS Prize 2026
We are also excited to announce that the 2026 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 5pm GMT Friday 30 January 2026. Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2026
This international prize is awarded annually to one outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted.
BRAIS would like to offer its heartfelt thanks to everyone who gave so generously of their time to the BRAIS Prize this year, including the many reviewers across the world who read the manuscripts and our Prize Committee who had the very difficult task of selecting our winner. Particular thanks to the BRAIS Prize Chair, Dr Saeko Yazaki, and Prize Coordinator, Adam Ramadhan, for their tireless work in overseeing the process from start to finish
Congratulations again to Dr Mousavi and Dr Pecorini Goodall and very best wishes from us all at BRAIS,
The British Association for Islamic Studies
The Alwaleed Centre
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
7. CLAMS Presents: Disasters and Resilience in the Mediterranean 400-1000 CE: Friday October 31st, 12:00 to 2:00 pm; Zoom Link: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/…/BLPWCRdeRo-DHlQrx8xM7A
The first program of CLAMS’ fourth year!
Registration Link:
https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/BLPWCRdeRo-DHlQrx8xM7A
8. Full-time tenure track open rank position at Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University (ROC/Taiwan)
Job Description
The Department of Arabic Language and Culture at National Chengchi University invites applications for one full-time tenure track open rank position in Arabic/Arab/Middle East/Islamic studies, starting on 1 August 2026. The deadline for the application is 2025 December 15.
We are seeking a junior or senior scholar with an excellent track of research in one (or more) of the following fields:
Arabic linguistics
Arabic literature
Arabic language teaching
Islamic studies
Middle Eastern studies
The ideal candidate will have active research agendas and a remarkable record of publications in their field after the appointment. The candidate will contribute to Arabic teaching in accordance with the teaching guideline of the Department, or teach the courses on the Department’s curriculum. They will have to teach 6 hours per week in one semester, which usually comprises 16 weeks, and two semesters per year. In addition, the candidate is expected to share the administrative responsibilities, engage in the intellectual activities of the Department, and take part in students’ activities. The candidate must be able to communicate in English and/or Chinese with the faculty members and the administrative staff.
Employer: National Chengchi University
Location: Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)
Starting Date: 1 August, 2026
Deadline for Applications: December 15, 2025 (GMT +8). Review of applications will begin immediately after the deadline.
Qualification: Applicants must have a PhD in Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern studies, or a related discipline, preferably with a record of an active research agenda and teaching experience.
Application Instructions and Procedures
All applicants complete the application form and submit the required documents (listed below) via the link below https://forms.gle/JDvZdhwgtXWVfGMG8
Enquiries concerning the application and related matters may be directed to the Department’s secretary, Ms. Wei (arabic@nccu.edu.tw ), or the Head of the Department, Dr. Ching-An Chang (chingan@nccu.edu.tw ).
9. UCLA: Surveying the Nile: Scholarly Misaha Manuals in Late Ottoman Egypt
Thursday, October 23, 2025
3:30 PM PST
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Organized by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/17317
10. UCLA: Book Talk – Female Religiosity in Central Asia: Sufi Leaders in the Persianate World
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
3:30 – 5:00 PM PST
UCLA Bunche Hall, Rm 6275
Organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia, co-sponsored by UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/17274
11. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la première séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra jeudi 23 octobre 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 5.08 à l’INaLCO(65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme. Kristine Kostikyan, Historienne, Professeure à l’Université d’État d’Erevan et membre de l’Institut d’Études Orientales d’Arménie, pour une conférence intitulée : Persian Documents of the Matenadaran on Some Issues Referring to the Armenian Merchants of the Early Modern Period.
Résumé:
Matenadaran possesses a big collection of Persian historical documents: about 3000 units including decrees, letters and shari‘a notarial documents. The main core of the collection are the documents referring to the Armenian Church and its various issues, and only a small part of it refers to the Armenian merchants, who had any connection with the catholicoses of Holy Etchmiadzin and the Armenian monasteries in the regions. However, these documents contain interesting information and details concerning their activities in 17th till the beginning of 19th centuries. Some of them reveal the cooperation and co-assistance of the Armenian Church and the eminent merchants, the inclination of the Armenian merchants to acquire land and other property in the regions where they lived, the ties of some merchants of New Julfa in Isfahan with the merchants living in the provinces of Eastern Armenia, their participation in the local administration of the Safavid and Afsharid states of Iran, and some details referring to their network connecting them with their agents in different regions of the Middle East and the ways of money transfer accomplished by them. These issues considered with the involvement of the other sources help elucidate some realities of the social-economic history of the Middle East in the given period, the peculiarities of the activities of the Armenian merchants and the means of their adaptation to various changes happened in different phases of the period securing their consistent participation in the international trade accomplished through the transit routes crossing the territories of the Armenian highland, the Caucasus and Iran.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Aslanian, S. D. 2011. From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, Berkeley – New York – London, 2011.
– Avery, P. 2008. “Nādir Shāh and the Afsharid Legacy”, The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 7. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 3-63.
– Bournoutian, G. 1982. Eastern Armenia in the Last Decades of Persian Rule: 1807–1828; A Political and Socioeconomic Study of the Khanate of Erevan on the Eve of the Russian Conquest. Malibu, CA: Undena Publications (tr. 2004).
– Bournoutian, G. 2004. The Chronicle of Deacon Zak‘aria of K‘anak‘er, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers Inc.
– Bournoutian, G. 2003. The Journal of Zakaria of Agulis. Annotated transl. with commentary by GA. Bournoutian. Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, Inc.
– Floor, W. M. 1998. A Fiscal History of Iran in the Safavid and Qajar Periods. New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press.
– Herzig, E. M. 2018. “The Commercial Law of the New Julfa Armenians”, in S. Chaudhury, K. Kevonian, eds., Les Arméniens dans le commerce asiatique au début de l’ère moderne, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme (openedition.org), p. 63-81.
– Margaryan, G. A., Kostikyan, K. P., Tovmasyan, A. A. 2021. “Agulis on the Crossroads of International trade through Caucasus in XII-XVIII centuries”, History, Archaeology and ethnography of the Caucasus 18-4, p. 848-858 DOI https://doi.org/10.32653/CH174848-858
– Khach‘ikyan, Sh. L. 1988. Nor Jughayi hay vachaṛakanut‘yuně ev nra aṛevtra-tntesakan kaperě Ṛusastani het XVII-XVIII darerum, Yerevan.
– Khach‘ikyan, Sh. L. 1994. Shahvelu vordi Sarhadi hashvematyaně, Yerevan, Gitutyun.
– Khach‘ikyan, Sh. L. 2006. Lazaryan aṛevtrakan ěnkerut‘yan hashvemat‘yaně (1741-1759), Isfahan – Yerevan.
– Kostikyan, K. and G. Margaryan 2024. ‘Nādir Shāh’s Decree Issued at the Request of the Armenian Merchants of Agulis’, Iran and the Caucasus, 28 (2024), p. 166-178, DOI:10.1163/1573384X-02802004.
– Minorsky, V. F. 1943. Tadhkirat al-muluk, A manual of Safavid administration (circa 1137/1725), Persian text in facsimile, translated and explained, London: W. Heffer and sons LTD.
Vous trouverez prochainement 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/
12. University of Exeter:
RESCHEDULED Monday Majlis. GABRIEL SAID REYNOLDS, A Faithful Dog and a Clay Bird: The Qur’an in Its Christian World. Monday Majlis Online on the 19th of JANUARY, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
13. ONLINE Book Panel: “Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World”
The book provides a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century. It features 14 original papers by some of the most prominent and innovative scholars of Ottoman history and sheds light on the complex role that ideas have played in all aspects of Ottoman social and political life throughout the history of the Ottoman world.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/42k7hzp3 . Zoom: https://tinyurl.com/mr2br2tv
14. HYBRID Vortrag “Werte und Rechtsnormen in Bibel und Koran – _Perspektiven aus der inter-religiösen Praxis” von Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Reinbold, Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft II, Universität Göttingen, 13. November 2025, 16:15 – _17:45 CET
Der Vortrag ist Teil des Seminars “Vortragsreihe: Religiöse Rechtsordnung als Grundlage für ein interreligiöses Diskursfeld”.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/yc3a2ud4 . Registrierung: https://tinyurl.com/4k2zbjz5
15. Workshop “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence – Majority-Minority Relations in the Late Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space”, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien & Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, 25-26 January 2026
This workshop explores majority–minority relations across the late Ottoman and post-Ottoman worlds, from Jewish-Arab dynamics in Israel and Kurdish-Turkish relations in Turkey to interethnic tensions in the Balkans. We invite interdisciplinary contributions that examine coexistence, exclusion, and transformation across imperial, national, and contemporary contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/2uchsavu
16. Workshop “Constitutionalism and Religious Identity in the Middle East: Historical and Transnational Perspectives”, University of Oxford, 11-12 June 2026
We invite proposals that highlight the dynamic historical nature of constitutionalism and religion in the region. With particular attention to the hybridities, entanglements, and messy overlaps that resist dichotomies, the workshop will focus on the dramatic transitional period between 1850 and 1950, when competing visions of constitutionalism, the secular, and religion were simultaneously being debated, contested, and reimagined.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/3b3pktth
17. 26th Symposium of the “International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIÉPO), Varna, Bulgaria, 23-27 June 2026
Themes: The Black Sea Region and Crimea in Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Times. – Europe, the Mediterranean World, and the Ottomans: War, Trade, and Diplomacy. – The Nomads and the State. – Ottoman Agriculture between Tradition and Transformation. – Demography and Migrations. – Governance and Corruption, Public Order and Justice. – Ottoman Studies and Digital Humanities. Languages are English, French, German, and Turkish.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2025. Information: https://ciepo26varna.weebly.com/
18. “Academic Freedom and Knowledge Production in the Arab Region”
The followship supports individual researchers holding a PhD degree in the field of social sciences, humanities and/or allied and interdisciplinary fields with an established research record, to conduct research projects on and in the Arab region. A grant of up to USD10,000 is available for individual researchers to undertake research on the topic and explore potential areas of collaboration and joint outputs with other researchers.
Deadline for applications: 26 October 2025.
Information: https://theacss.org/about-grants-fellowships/scg-cycle-2-call-for-applications/
19. Two Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2 Years) on “Islamic Studies after Gaza” and “Interdisciplinarity and Experimental Methods in Islamic Studies”, University of Toronto
Qualifications: PhD in a field of Social Sciences or Humanities, with the degree completed no earlier than August 2021. – PhD candidates may apply if they complete their dissertation defence successfully no later than July 2026. – Demonstrated research expertise and publication record in Islamic studies or a closely related field. – All nationalities may apply.
Deadline for applications: 9 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/4ejwpxh9
20. Fellowship (9 Months) in Druze and Arab Studies of the “American Druze Foundation”, Georgetown University
The purpose of the ADF Fellowship is to promote research on the Druze and Arab minorities with a concentration in the political, economic, and social history of the Druze. The ADF Fellowship supports academic research in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology, and archaeology. It cannot be used to support research that relates essentially to matters theological or religious in scope and nature.
Deadline for applications: 2 January 2026. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/174867
21. Assistant Professor on the History Studies on Israel and/or the Middle East, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Qualifications: The successful candidate will have a research and teaching agenda that focuses on Israel, Israel Studies, and/or the Middle East. Applicants must have their dissertation and all other work for a Ph.D. in history or a closely related field completed and approved by August 2026.
Deadline for applications: 21 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/46d2c2jr
22. Award of the “Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies” for the Best MA Thesis on the Middle East or Islam Submitted at a Nordic Educational Institution during 2024/25
The thesis must be submitted at an educational institution in one of the Nordic countries (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark) and written in English, Norwegian, Swedish or Danish.
Deadline for application extended to 31 October 2025. Information: https://www.nsmes.org/awards
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