Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Conference: “Recovery of Aleppo – Law, Architecture and Geodata Management to Revive War-Torn Cities”, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, 19-20 November 2021
The conference would like to provide interdisciplinary interested architects, archaeologists, (urban) planners, lawyers and geospatial data managers with approaches for thinking and acting to what extent cooperation possibilities and fields of activity are possible for the recovery in Aleppo and other war-ravaged cities in Syria and beyond.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2021. Information: https://vgdh.geographie.de/veranstaltungen/2021/16063/
2. International Conference: “Media Aesthetics of Occidentalism”, Centre for Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 26-28 January 2022
The conference pursues the central question “How do media aesthetic qualities contribute to the constitution of Occidentalist discourses?”
3. 15th Annual Conference of the Muslim Studies Program on “Belong Nowhere: States of Statelessness in the Muslim World”, Michigan State University, 24-25 February 2022
Abstracts are welcome which reflect a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary backgrounds—including (but not limited to) refugee studies, sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, political studies, law, and religious studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2021. Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference
4. Tenure Track Professorship (W1 Tenure Track to W2) in Media Studies (Focus on Transcultural Media Cultures in the MENA Region), Institut für Medienwissenschaft, CNMS, Philipps-University Marburg
Qualification: Outstanding doctorate on a topic within media (cultural) studies; media studies research focus on the MENA region, as evidenced by the dissertation or further publications; very good active language skills in one of the main languages of the CNMS (Arabic, Persian, Turkish); broad knowledge of media studies in teaching, and experience in/ability to teach in German and/or English.
Deadline for applications: 20 August 2021. Information: https://www.uni-mar-burg.de/de/universitaet/administration/verwaltung/dezernat2/personalabteilung/bewerber/stellen/professuren-stellen/fb09-prof-w1ttw2-medienwissenschaft-mds-transkulturelle-medienkulturen-130821-engl.pdf
5. Assistant Professor for Asian Religions Including Islam, Missoury State University
Candidates are required to have the Ph.D. in Religious Studies or a related field completed by August 1, 2022. They must demonstrate strong potential in research and have successful teaching experience. The successful candidate must be able to teach courses at the undergraduate and master’s level in Asian religions, including Islam, and the department’s world religions survey course.
Deadline for applications: 13 September 2021. Information: https://jobs.missouristate.edu/postings/54824
6. Award by the Early Career Grant Scheme of Regional Studies Association (RSA)
This award of up to £10,000 is open to applicants in their early career (five years maximum after the date of their PhD certificate). Applicants must be based within an eligible higher education institution and must be a member of the RSA (applicants may apply for membership at the same time as applying for the grant).
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2021. Information: https://www.regionalstudies.org/funding/early-career-grant-scheme/#
7. Articles on “Islamicate Fictionalities” for Special Issue of the Journal “postmedieval”
Papers are invited on medieval fiction outside of the West, in Islamicate contexts that span from Morocco to Indonesia, and in comparison with the literatures of their borderlands in Central Europe, East Africa, South/east Asia, and the Western Mediterranean. We seek projects that explore fictionality in ways particular to the Islamicate sphere.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 August 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8038115/cfp-islamicate-fictionalities
8. Articles on “Visions of Constantinople: The City and its Peoples” for Special Issue of the Journal “Hiperboreea”
We are calling for papers on any topic from any period, from 330 CE until 2021 CE about what Constantinople or Istanbul has meant to those who have encountered it, for good or ill, and to those who lived there; and how Constantinople has impacted on the religious, cultural, and political landscape over the centuries.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2021. Information: https://www.balkan-history.com/cfp-visions-of-constantinople-the-city-and-its-peoples/
9. Articles on “From the School Door to the Classroom: School Life in the Arab and Muslim Worlds” Proposed by Chloé Pellegrini for Special Issue of “Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM)”
Topics: School materialities and sensorialities; Teaching practices and knowledge construction in the classroom; Language practices at school; Religious and civic education at school.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2021. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/15093#tocto2n10
10. Articles on “Muslims and COVID-19: Everyday Impacts, Experiences and Responses” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
This issue invites articles discussing the interplay of ethnicity, religion, and deprivation in negotiating the particular challenges of living through COVID-19. It will include a range of epistemological positions and disciplinary standpoints and will explore dimensions of Muslim identity/lived experiences in relation to the pandemic, lockdown, and subsequent socioeconomic implications of COVID-19.
Deadline for manuscripts: 15 November 2021. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Muslims_Responses#editors
11. Articles for “Diyâr 6: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”
We welcome original and as yet unpublished contributions in German, English, and French from all research areas of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies. Reviews can also be submitted at any time.
Deadline for articles: 15 February 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7844858/cfp-diy%C3%A2r-journal-ottoman-turkish-and-middle-eastern-studies
12. The Department of History at Loyola Marymount University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in sub-Saharan African History or Middle Eastern history, chronological focus open, at the rank of assistant professor beginning August 2022. The successful candidate will be expected to teach lower-division courses in African or Middle Eastern history and world history, as well as upper-division courses in the area of specialization. The successful candidate will also be expected to contribute to one or more of the following History Concentrations: Law, Politics, and Society; Environment, Science, and Technology; Public and Applied History; Race, Gender, and Culture; and Global Economies, Encounters, and Exchange.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61695
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- August 17, 2021
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