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1. International Conference on Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Iran

Friday 27 – Saturday 28 March 2020, Sigmund Freud University Vienna

The objective of the conference is to:

• Explore the experiences of the ethnic and religious minorities in Iran, such as Jews, Yarsani, Christian, Sabean, Mandaean, Bahai, Zoroastrian, Baluch, Kurd, Turk, Gilaki, Arabs and others
• Provide an historical overview of their position in society before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution
• Delve into the minorities’ rich history and explore their contribution to the country’s history, diversity and development
• Identify the historical, socio-political and economic factors that affected the minorities’ development during the course of the last century.

Abstract Submission Deadline – 30 Dec 2019
Notification of Acceptance – 1 February 2020
First draft of full article – 1 March 2020

For further info, see:

https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/international-conference-on-ethnic-and-religious-minorities-in-iran/

 

 

 

 

2. Conference: “Eastern Questions: New Perspectives on British Orientalism”, Watts Gallery and Royal Holloway, University of London, 16-17 October 2019

This interdisciplinary symposium, a collaboration between Watts Gallery Artists’ Village (WG-AV) and Royal Holloway (University of London), aims to explore new perspectives on the intersection between Orientalism and visual culture across the nineteenth century. This two-day conference coincides with John Frederick Lewis: Facing Fame, the latest exhibition at WG-AV.

Information: https://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/eastern-questions-new-perspectives-british-orientalism/?edit&language=en-gb

 

 

 

 

3. Seminar: “Internationalism, Anti-Authoritarianism and Anarchism in the Eastern and Southern Mediterranean (1860 – 1920)”, UCLouvain, Belgium, 21-22 April 2020

The objectives of this meeting are: To question why historians of radical movements have forgotten about this geographical area; to reconstruct the history of individual or collective, anti-authoritarian and anarchist internationalist experiences in this region; to adopt a transnational perspective that considers travel, contacts and exchanges between individuals and groups at the local, regional and international levels; etc. Interventions will be in French and English.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2019.

Information: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/iacchos/larhis/journee-d-etude-internationalisme-anti-autoritarisme-et-anarchisme-en-mediterranee-orientale-et-meridionale-1860-1920.html

 

 

 

 

4. Postdoc Position, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

The call is open for recent postdocs (not more than four years after award of the doctoral degree) in Arabic Studies; Asian and African Studies; Central Asian Studies; History of Islamic Art; Human Geography; Islamic Studies; Political Science; Semitic Studies; Social and Cultural Anthropology. The successful applicant will be employed on a full position for two years.

Application deadline: 4 November 2019.

Information: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/announcements/201909_Thyssen-Postdoc.html

 

 

 

 

5. Director of the Middle East Studies Center (MESC), American University in Cairo

Requirements: PhD degree in a discipline relevant to MESC’s field of study. Candidates should have well established and extended experience in policymaking and implementation related to the Middle East. They should have research and publications records showing interest and contributions to the field of Middle East studies. They may also bring evidence to contributions to negotiations, policymaking or policy advice in the Middle East at a high level in government, international organizations and/or think tanks.

Deadline for applications: Open until position is filled.

Information: https://academiccareers.com/job/4902/director-middle-east-studies-center-mesc-115424/

 

 

 

 

6. Coordinator of the Middle East Studies Program and Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language and the Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in related. Master’s degree preferred. Excellent written skills in English. Good command of at least one Middle Eastern language (Arabic, Persian, Turkish or Hebrew). Excellent organizational skills in performing a variety of administrative tasks. Excellent time-management skills and ability to adhere to deadlines. Ability to work independently and with others. Occasional evening and/or weekend work may be required.

Deadline for applications: 3 November 2019. Information: https://jobs.hr.wisc.edu/en-us/job/503025/mesp-and-aptli-coordinator

 

 

 

 

7. Articles on “Islam and/or Tradition? Traditional Islam and Islamic Traditions in the Eastern Europe” for the First Issue of the Journal “Modern Islamic Studies”

Taken in a broad geographical sense, we are seeking for the papers addressing history and modernity of Muslims in the area from Balkans and Crimea on the South, Baltia on the North and Caucasus on the East, where indigenous Muslim population and traditions are represented.

Deadline for full papers: 15 November 2019. Information: https://journals.oa.edu.ua/Islamic/

 

 

 

 

8. New Book Series: “Ecclesiastica Ottomanica”

The series welcomes contributions beyond the confines of grand theories such as dhimmitude and the millet system, and of traditional binaries such as toleration and persecution. It has a cross-disciplinary perspective involving the fields of Ottoman history, Middle Eastern studies, Balkan studies, African studies, religious studies, church history, missiology, the history of interactions, connected history, and diaspora studies.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4923491/new-book-series-ecclesiastica-ottomanica

 

 

 

 

9. The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Program for Comparative Literature and Theory, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Middle East Center, and South Asia Center of the University of Pennsylvaniaare pleased to invite submissions to our 2020 graduate student conference Troubling Translation(s) to be held on February 21 and 22, 2020 in Philadelphia, PA.

We invite graduate students of all stages to consider translation as concept, practice, andmethod.

Our discussions will be oriented around the constructive consideration of written work submitted by presenters prior to this conference. They will be driven by the following questions:

1.How do we move beyond the familiar conceptualisation of translation as a logo-centric, singular,uni-directional ​event to discern its multidirectional, multiform, and processual dimensions?

2.How does the multidirectional quality of translation as process involve its subject and object? Howdoes subjectivity shape translations, and how do subjects translate themselves?

3.In what ways do translations form and become formed by their spatiotemporal context? How do they challenge contemporary notions of sociopolitical and cultural formations?The conference is interested in expansive interpretations of translation across space and time. Scholarship across the disciplines has challenged and moved beyond frameworks of hybridity, multiculturalism, andsyncretism for exploring processes of change and exchange. How have broader spatial, temporal, andmaterial contexts shaped the practical and conceptual concerns of translation?

Finbarr B. Flood has conceived translation as a dynamic and multivalent framework capable of accounting for material and intellectual transformation and exchange in the premodern period. More recently, Francesca Orsini hasshown how translations within “multilingual locals” generate “worlds” specific to them. How do theseconcerns lead into the contemporary context?

Scholars such as Stuart Hall and Saba Mahmood haveconsidered translation’s relationship to conceptions of racialization and liberal certitude respectively. While Lawrence Venuti has addressed the question of the translator’s invisibility apropos their text, Talal Asad questions the hermeneutical exercise of interpretation and translation, drawing our attention, among otherthings, to “untranslatability.”

We welcome papers that critically examine translation in and across forms, bodies, languages, media, thevisual and performing arts, and religions. Papers may address a range of practices, themes, or concerns. How, for example, did translation figure in the Islamicate and Indic cultural systems of the premodern period? What has been the role of translation, broadly understood, in negotiating relations between non-hegemonicand hegemonic forms across history and geography? In what ways have translations, as events, been put topolitical or social use, for example in Latin America or in the present North American context? Moreover,how have agents and bodies relied on translation and/or untranslatability to trouble the larger socioculturalsystems of which they are a part? Such questions constitute some of the broad spectrum of concerns theconference intends to address.

Guidelines for submissions:

Please submit a 350-word abstract outlining your topic along with a title andyour name, institution, and year of study by November 4, 2019. Limited grants may be available to supplement travel costs and can be requested via a Google Form during abstract submission. Accepted presenters should submit their final drafts by February 7th, 2020 so as to provide sufficient time for review prior to the conference.

Conference applications should be submitted via this Google Form: https://tinyurl.com/PennTT2020  .

Questions may be directed to penntranslations@gmail.com ​.

 

 

 

 

10. Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford

Research Seminars, October-December 2019 (Michaelmas Term)

Thursdays, 17:15-18:30, KRC Lecture Room, 3 St John Street, Oxford OX1 2LG, UK

For further details and abstracts, please visit: https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/homekrc

 

17 October: Marijn Van Putten, Leiden University. “The Language of the Qur’an in Light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts”

24 October: Beatrice Leal, University of Oxford. “The Great Mosque of Damascus and the Medieval Islamic Mosaic Industry”

31 October: Eléonore Cellard, Collège de France. “The Archaeology of the Ṣanʿāʾ Palimpsest: New Reflections from the Perspective of Codicology”

7 November: Doris Behrens-Abouseif, SOAS. “The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate”

14 November: Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford. “Origins of Hebrew Calligraphy: From Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo”

21 November: Constant Hamès, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. “Manuscrits coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative”

28 November: Dr Aila Santi, American University of Beirut. “The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic Topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622- 750) Based on Written Sources”

5 December: Gulfishan Khan, Aligarh Muslim University. “Artistic and Architectural Patronage of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan”

Convenor: Umberto Bongianino

1. The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for an appointment as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Arabic Studies.

Strong candidates will have research interests centered on expressions of contemporary social and political phenomena in the Arab World, including but not limited to migration and refugee issues, statelessness and conceptions of nationhood, treatment of minority groups, fundamentalism, liberalism, modes of social activism, and the like. They will also be skilled at translating these interests into engaging courses that meet student interest in the current political moment and related cultural production, while expanding their understanding of the diversity and plurality of the contemporary Middle East. The successful candidate will actively participate in all aspects of the Arabic Program at UMD, which consists of a major and a minor and hosts a federally-funded Arabic Flagship Program that draws a diverse student body from majors across the campus. The teaching load is four courses a year (a 2-2 load). In addition to a dynamic research agenda, a passion for teaching Arabic as a second language at all levels is essential. Candidates who can contribute to the intellectual life of the School and the University through interdisciplinary collaborations are particularly desired for this position.

 

Minimum Qualifications: 

 

PhD in hand by July 2020; evidence of exceptional scholarly achievement and excellence in teaching; native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English; a strong command of Modern Standard Arabic.

 

How to apply: 

 

For best consideration, apply by Monday, November 4, 2019. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, sample syllabus, and an approximately 20-page writing sample. Please upload the sample syllabus as Supplemental Document 1. The names of three references will be requested in the online application, and the system will generate emails asking them to submit their letters of reference via a link. All application materials should be submitted only through the University of Maryland online employment application system at: https://ejobs.umd.edu.

The position is contingent on the continued availability of funds.

 

For more details and to apply: https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/74034

 

 

 

2. Crown Center for Middle East Studies <https://t.e2ma.net/click/o23k5b/07bopb/wk3uxj>

*Now Accepting Applications*
Junior Research Fellowship 2020-2022

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is offering *two-year fellowships* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/o23k5b/07bopb/cd4uxj> to outstanding scholars of Middle East politics, economics, history, religion, anthropology, or sociology for the 2020-2022 academic years. This consecutive, two-year fellowship is targeted at junior scholars with PhD in hand and not yet tenured. The fellowship’s goal is to allow junior scholars the flexibility and means to advance a specific research project related to the contemporary Middle East.

*Eligibility*
The 2020-2022 Junior Research Fellowship is open to both recent PhDs (as a post-doctoral position) and assistant professors in Middle East-related fields. A PhD must be completed by September 1, 2020.

*Terms
*This fellowship is a two-year appointment beginning September 1, 2020, and ending June 30, 2022. The annual stipend is $50,000. In addition, funding is available for research, travel, and related expenses. Fringe benefits will be available during the two-year appointment period.

Fellows are required to be *in residence* at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship. During their residence, fellows write a /Middle East Brief/ *each* year and participate in all Crown Center events, including: seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.

*Application Deadline
*October 31, 2019

*Notification
*January 31, 2020

*Application Submission
*Apply *here* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/o23k5b/07bopb/s54uxj>.

*Inquiries
*You may direct inquiries to Kristina Cherniahivsky at *crowncenter@brandeis.edu* or call 781-736-5320.

Twitter <https://t.e2ma.net/click/o23k5b/07bopb/8x5uxj>     Facebook <https://t.e2ma.net/click/o23k5b/07bopb/oq6uxj>

 

 

 

 

3. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is one of the largest and most esteemed institutions of higher education in Germany, offering a wide  range of academic disciplines.

   

The Chair for Late Antique and Arabic Philosophy (Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson) at the Faculty for Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Religion at the LMU seeks to fill two positions with employment beginning on October 1, 2020, under the aegis of an ERC funded project on Animals in Philosophy in the Islamic World:

 

    Position A: Postdoctoral position (3 years)

    Position B: Funded PhD position (3 years)

   

It is in principle possible to take up the positions part-time.

 

Responsibilities:

• Collaborative research with other project team members.
• For position A: research on the Book of Animals (Kitab al-Hayawan) by al-Jahiz.
• For position B: doctoral research on philosophical issues concerning animals in Arabic medical literature.

 

Your profile:

Prerequisites for position A are an excellent university degree (PhD at

least submitted, though not necessarily already published) and expertise

in the relevant area of research. Applicants for position A should have

the ability to work with texts in classical Arabic at a high level.

 

Applicants for position B should have facility with Arabic and ideally also ancient Greek, as well as a Masters level degree in a relevant discipline (classics, philosophy, Islamic studies, or similar).

 

A further requirement for both positions is native or near-native facility in German and/or English, as well as standard computer skills, creativity and ability to work in a team, being results-oriented and willing to take on new challenges.

 

Our offer:

Your workplace is located in Munich and is well-connected by public transport. We can offer an interesting and challenging work environment and good prospects for further career development. Salary will be calculated according to group E 13 TV-L; position A is a 100% post, position B is a 65% post. We particularly welcome applications from female candidates. The University intends to enhance the diversity of its faculty members: disabled candidates with essentially equal qualifications will be given preference.

Please send your application with the usual documents (including CV, transcripts, diplomas, list of publications and courses taught if relevant), as well as a brief description of your expertise as relevant to the theme of the project, either by email as a PDF file (max. 5 MB) or by post by January 15, 2020 to the following address.

 

LMU München

Lehrstuhl für spätantike und arabische Philosophie

Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson

Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1

80539 München

Germany

E-Mail: peter.adamson@lrz.uni-muenchen.de

 

Should you have any questions, feel free to contact us via e-mail (peter.adamson@lrz.uni-muenchen.de) or by telephone +49 (0)89/2180-72154.

 

 

 

4. 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

‘Historical inertia: Continuity in the face of change 500-1500 CE’

Historical discourse has long concerned itself with patterns of change and discontinuity to demonstrate and validate models of periodisation and the compartmentalisation of the wider historical field. Building on these themes, this conference has chosen to focus on the opposing view by concentrating on inertia – how history, material culture, ideas and communities can be seen to maintain a stayed course or deviate if a significant force is exerted upon it. Inertia, a concept that has yet to be applied to mainstream Late Antique studies, introduces perspectives and frameworks that permit new approaches to traditional processes.

This conference will be hosted by the Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society of the University of Edinburgh on the 22-23 November 2019 and will tackle the notion of inertia and the implications accompanying it for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine history from 500-1500 CE.

For full info and to register, see:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/3rd-annual-edinburgh-laibs-conference?fbclid=IwAR1PYHufWeDToxSA9iaPCEFY1fbxdb9Qms1sdwvrBVOwMyetIYZRS1VMo6g

 

 

 

5. [Mondes iranien] Journée d’études internationale 25 octobre 2019

‘Vers une histoire culturelle des relations internationales de l’Iran moderne et contemporain : la scène de théâtre des opérations diplomatiques et ses acteurs’

Date : 25 octobre 2019
Horaires : 8h 45 à 18h 45
Lieu : Maison de la Recherche – Sorbonne Nouvelle, 4 Rue des Irlandais, Paris 5e (Salle Athéna)

 

For complete information, see:

https://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/evenements-scientifiques/colloques-et-conferences-2019/vers-une-histoire-culturelle-des-relations-internationales-de-l-iran-moderne-et.html?lang=fr

1. Online Meeting: “Islamicate Digital Humanities”, Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 6 November 2019

We are calling for contributions from both members and guests employing digital methods in their research within the Islamicate Studies and Linguistics. To contribute, send an email to info@idhn.org  with the title and a description of your presentation. We encourage submissions from those in Graduate School or beyond.

For more information, see www.idhn.org/membersmeeting

 

 

 

 

2. Research Fellowships in Global History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Summer Term 2020

The fellowships are open to postdoctoral researchers from all disciplines. Scholars who are already advanced in their academic careers and have a strong international track record are explicitly encouraged to apply. The duration of the fellowship will be between one and three months.

Deadline for application: 30 November 2019. Information: https://www.globalhist.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/events/fellowship_w192021/index.html

 

 

 

 

3. Tenure-track Professorship in Turkic Languages and Literatures from Early Modern to Present Time, University of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences

We expect the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor’s programmes and for participation in university committees.

Deadline for application: 15 November 2019. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/UNIWPHILKUOEAW_TT_Turk_E_0819.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. Assistant Professor in the History of the Islamic World, University of Texas at San Antonio

We seek candidates whose research and teaching contribute to the department theme of “Empires, States and Borders”. Experience in digital humanities and public history in especially welcomed.

Review of application with begin on 14 October 2019. Information: https://jobs.utsa.edu/postings/14008

 

 

 

 

5. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Stetson University, DeLand, FL

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Islamic studies by September 2020 and should be conversant both with the historical development of Islam and the modern manifestations of Islam.

Review of applications will begin 28 October 2019, and continue until the position is filled. Information: Dr. Mitchell Reddish, mreddish@stetson.edu

 

 

 

 

6. Articles on “Political Economy of Research in Social Sciences in the Arab World” for Special Issue of the Journal “Civil Society Review”

Issue edited by: Dr. Candice Raymond, Dr. Sbeih Sbeih, and Dr. Marie-Noëlle Abi Yaghi. Main themes: Institutional configurations and actors’ rationale in the Arab world: How are political economies of research in social sciences organised? – Research agendas, methods and paradigms: the constrained choices of research. – Researchers’ trajectories in the Arab world: functions, carriers, value.

Deadline for abstracts in Arabic, French or English: 15 November 2019. Information: https://civilsociety-centre.org/content/political-economy-research-social-sciences-arab-world-en-fr-ar?fbclid=IwAR1nfxKQK-igeYxAB9iNth6YvqOXbmQSp3yLSjbch9UJ9AWpqvwKifMel1o

 

 

 

 

7. Call for Panel Proposal

The 2nd International conference on ‘Society and Culture in the Muslim World’

Tehran, Iran, 30-31 May 2020

Allameh Tabataba’i University (the largest public university specialized in humanities and social sciences in Iran) will hold the second international conference on “Society and Culture in the Muslim World” (http://scmwconf.atu..ac.ir)  on 30-31 May 2020 in Tehran. Enjoying active partnership of a wide variety of national and international academic entities, the conference aims to provide a suitable platform for researchers from across the world interested in issues concerning Muslim societies and communities. Therefore, the conference themes address a broad range of issues pertaining to society and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective and welcomes contributions from any academic discipline in arts, humanities and social sciences.

 

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Sari Hanafi, President of the International Sociological Association

Prof. Syed Farid Alatas, Professor of Sociology at the National University of Singapore

 

Deadline

Deadline for Submission of panel proposals is 2019-11-20 (http://scmwconf.atu.ac.ir/page_1198.html?lang=en).

 

Travel grants

Please visit the following links: http://scmwconf.atu.ac.ir/page_1205.html?lang=en

 

Related Journal: International Journal of ‘Society and Culture in the Muslim World’ (SCMW), http://scmw.atu.ac.ir

 

Past conference: International Conference on ‘Social Policy in the Islamic World’ ([http://spiw.atu..ac.ir/]http://spiw.atu.ac.ir)

 

Queries

Please do not hesitate to email us (scmwconf@atu.ac.ir) if you need any further information which could not be found in the conference website.

 

1. FULLY-FUNDED PhD opportunity in Islamic Approaches to Mental Health Treatment and Prevention – at the University of Wales Trinity St David, starting Jan 2020.

Please check the full advert here carefully and then contact a.slater@uwtsd.ac.uk:

https://uwtsd.ac.uk/…/phd-scholarship-islamic-approaches-t…/

Deadline: 15th October

 

 

 

 

 

2. Call for Papers:

The International Center for the Developing Peace, Culture and Rationality in order to promote peaceful coexistence, will hold the Second International Peace Studies Conference on 29 February 2020 and intends to gather together scholars and researcher for having a better explanation of peace and reconciliation.

Important Dates:

Abstract deadline: 21 Nov. 2019

Full paper deadline: 20 Jan. 2020

Conference day: 29 Feb. 2020

Conference email: conference@icpcr.com

Secretariat: +982532890442

For more information, please refer to https://icpcr.com/en/adm/conference.html

 

 

 

3. Islamic Studies – A Contested University Subject

Jørgen Nielsen, University of Birmingham

Date and Time:

Wed, 6 November 2019

18:00 – 19:30 GMT

Location:

Aga Khan Centre (ACR, 1st floor)

10 Handyside Street

London

N1C 4DN

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-studies-a-contested-university-subject-tickets-72509563055

 

 

 

4. The Faculty of Theology at UCLouvain (Belgium) is opening a tenure-track position in Classical Islam (Doctrines de l’islam classique). The deadline for applying is Nov. 15, 2019.

https://jobs.uclouvain.be/PersonnelAcademique/job/Un%C2%B7e-acad%C3%A9mique-en-Islamologie-%281-EFT%29/560243301/

 

 

 

 

5. State University of New York – Geneseo – Assistant Professor of History (Islamic World), focus on the history of the Islamic World before 1800.

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59245

Submit all materials by November 15, 2019.

 

 

 

6. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2020-2021 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: 

ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history.  The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training.  The fellowships may be held for terms ranging from four months to a full year.  Stipend per month is $4,200.

ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences.  Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may be held for various terms, from one month up to one academic year.  Stipends range from $2,500 to $15,500.

Applications for ARIT fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2019.  The fellowship committee will notify applicants by late January, 2020.

Details: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html

 

1. The Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University is searching to fill a tenure stream position at the rank of Assistant Professor.

We wish to hire a candidate whose research focuses on one or more of the central fields of Islamic Studies in the formative or classical period/s. We expect candidates to demonstrate innovative methodological and/or theoretical frameworks in their research. Areas of specialization may span disciplines and regions. We especially welcome applications from candidates with a commitment to the study and teaching of texts, but who are also working with texts in relation to societies, traditions of interpretation, and broader contexts.

Candidates for this position must demonstrate a solid record of research to date as well as excellent prospects and plans for future research. In addition to an innovative research portfolio, candidates are expected to show promise of excellence in teaching. They should show that they are committed to pedagogy, with an interest in how Islamic Studies is taught in a range of undergraduate and graduate teaching contexts. We are also interested in candidates who have an interest in participating in both academic and non-academic communities in various ways.

Applications should include a complete CV, a letter of application, and three academic letters of recommendation submitted via:

AcademicJobsOnline – https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14576

The deadline for applications is 1 November 2019. All questions about this position should be addressed to the Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Search Committee, Professor Michelle Hartman: director.islamic@mcgill.ca  .

 

In their letters of application, candidates should discuss in detail how their research is innovative and contributes to the field/s and discipline/s of Islamic Studies, as well as how they might engage the current research areas and resources of the Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill. They also should specifically address teaching experience and innovative teaching practice. Candidates should have completed their PhD by the time of appointment. The salary will be negotiable and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

 

Applications should include a complete CV, a letter of application, and three academic letters of recommendation.

 

 

 

2. CFP: “Encounters during the Period of Crusades: History through Objects.”

We are looking for an Islamicist or Islamicists to participate in a roundtable “Encounters during the Period of Crusades: History through Objects.” The roundtable will take place at the conference organized by the Society for the Study of Crusades and the Latin East in Royal Holloway, University of London, 29 June – 3 July 2020,  – 2020 ( see https://www.sscle2020.com/ ).

The roundtable’s coordinators are Richard Leson, Cathleen Fleck and Elizabeth Lapina. Its purpose is primarily pedagogical. To this end we will be posing some big questions including, for example, “What can we teach our students / general public about the period of the crusades through objects?” and “How might teaching this period with visual and / or material culture create a more effective pedagogical experience than reliance upon texts alone?”

This is a “low-pressure” roundtable event. We are interested in assembling scholars with disparate backgrounds and are asking each contributor to speak for about 5 minutes to a single object they find valuable as a teaching / outreach tool.

 

 

 

3. 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

November 10-11, 2019

The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art

Summer break is over and we, the Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium Co-chairs, are entering a busy phase of our conference planning for The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art, the Eighth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, to be held November 10-11, 2019, in Doha, Qatar. Panels, speakers and topics are available on http://islamicartdoha.org/2019-symposium/.

In our ongoing newsletters leading up to the symposium we are continuing to introduce to you the respective chairs and topics of the panels that will form the backbone of our conference. The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art aims to open up discourse on global connectivity through the lens of the Islamicate world and its material culture. Today I am introducing to you a panel that is rooted in the past, but has a clear resonance in today’s world.

Anne Dunlop, Herald Chair of Fine Art at the University of Melbourne is organizing a panel titled The Ilkhanate and Its Neighbors: Artistic Exchange, Overland Routes, and Maritime Trade, c. 1250-1400. Her session takes its cue from an account of Ilkhanate artistic mobility and exchange provided in the 16th-century account on the history of calligraphy by Dost-Muhammad who situates the roots of painting and calligraphy of his own time in the flourishing of portraiture and painting in “the lands of Cathay and the Franks” under the Ilkhanid ruler Abu Sa’id (r. 1316-1335). For the sixteenth-century artist and writer, the awakening of the arts in the fourteenth-century Mongol lands took place in a larger and interconnected visual world. Anne Dunlop’s core point is that few moments of Islamic art history have been shaped so directly or definitively by cross-cultural movement and contact. In this light the session explores the spread and impact of Persian Ilkhanate art in Europe, East Asia, and the Indian Ocean trade basin, and the response within Ilkhanate art to new or intensified contact with these cultures. It brings together specialists in Ilkhanate, Yuan, and trecento Italian art, to create dialogue about artistic mobility and exchange between specialists of Islamic art and researchers in related fields.

Heather Coffey, Assistant Professor of the History of Art at OCAD University in Toronto will discuss the way research has looked at the spread and use of ultramarine pigment in 14th-century Italian painting and the way it may have been fetishized by Western scholars. In another paper, Shane McCausland, Percival David Professor of the History of Art in the Department of History of Art and Archaeology and Head of the School of Arts at SOAS, University of London will discuss “Art’s Agency at the Mid-Yuan Court Contemporary with the Reign of Abu Sa’id (r. 1316-1335).” Stefano Carboni will focus on an important artistic axis between the Ilkhanid and Mamluk worlds. His paper is titled “Artistic Exchanges and Overland Routes: An Exploration of the Ilkhanate’s Role in the Development and Circulation of Enameled Glass under the Mamluks.” All these contributions will provide unique angles that shed light on a variety of approaches across the seas and land. I am sure that they will add significantly to our historical understanding and evaluation of artistic movement and exchange.

In our next newsletter my colleague Sean Roberts will introduce you to yet another exciting panel. We all look forward to seeing you in November. Please contact Marisa Brown, our project manager, at mabrown@vcu.edu with any questions.

With best regards,

Jochen Sokoly

Co-Chair, 8th Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art
Associate Professor, Arts of the Islamic World
Art History Program
VCUarts Qatar

 

 

 

 

4. ANNOUNCEMENT OF AMERICAN CENTER OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH IN AMMAN FELLOWSHIPS
2020–2021

Deadline for the following fellowships is February 1, 2020
ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Two or more two- to six-month fellowships for post-doctoral scholars and scholars with a terminal degree in their field, pursuing research or publication projects in the natural and social sciences, humanities, and associated disciplines relating to the Middle East. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $32,400. Awards must be used between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2021 and Fellows must reside at ACOR. Funding for this fellowship is provided by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

ACOR-CAORC Fellowship: Two or more two- to six-month fellowships for masters and doctoral students. Fields of study include all areas of the humanities and the natural and social sciences. Topics should contribute to scholarship in Middle East studies. U.S. citizenship required. Maximum award is $23,800. Awards must be used between June 15, 2020 and December 31, 2021 and Fellows must reside at ACOR. Funding for this fellowship is provided by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellowship: Up to four awards of $1,500 each to support beginners in archaeological fieldwork who have been accepted as team members on archaeological projects with ASOR CAP affiliation in Jordan. Open to undergraduate or graduate students of U.S. or Canadian citizenship as well as individuals who graduated less than 12 months before February 1, 2020 and/or have been accepted to a Graduate program for Fall 2020.

Bert and Sally de Vries Fellowship: One award of $1,500 to support a student for participation on an archaeological project or research in Jordan. Senior project staff members whose expenses are being borne largely by the project are ineligible. Open to enrolled undergraduate or graduate students of any nationality except Jordanian citizens.

Harrell Family Fellowship: One award of $2,000 to support a graduate student for participation on an archaeological project or for research in Jordan. Senior project staff members whose expenses are being borne largely by the project are ineligible. Open to enrolled graduate students of any nationality except Jordanian citizens.

Pierre and Patricia Bikai Fellowship: Two awards for one month each or one two-month award for residency at ACOR in Amman. It is open to enrolled graduate students of any nationality, except Jordanian citizens, participating in an archaeological project or conducting archaeological work in Jordan. The fellowship includes room and board at ACOR and a monthly stipend of $600.

Burton MacDonald and Rosemarie Sampson Fellowship: One award for either eight weeks residency at ACOR for research in the fields of Ancient Near Eastern languages and history, archaeology, Bible studies, or comparative religion, or a travel grant to assist with participation in an archaeological field project in Jordan. The ACOR residency fellowship option includes room and board at ACOR and a monthly stipend of $400. The travel grant option provides a single payment of $2,000 to help with any project related expenses. Both options are open to enrolled undergraduate or graduate students of Canadian citizenship or landed immigrant status.

Kenneth W. Russell Fellowship: One award of $1,800 toward educational assistance for a Jordanian student enrolled in an archaeology or cultural heritage degree program in any country. For the 2020–2021 cycle, the Russell fellowship is only open to enrolled graduate students of Jordanian nationality.

James A. Sauer Fellowship: One award of $1,250 to support a graduate student participating on an archaeological project or pursuing independent research in Jordan. For the 2020–2021 cycle, the Sauer fellowship is only open to enrolled graduate students of non-Jordanian nationality.

Frederick-Wenger Memorial Endowment: Two awards of $1,500 to assist a Jordanian student with the cost of their education. Eligibility is not limited to a specific field of study, but preference will be given to study related to Jordan’s cultural heritage. Candidates must be Jordanian citizens and currently enrolled as undergraduate or graduate students in a Jordanian university.

Jordanian Graduate Student Scholarship: Four awards of $3,000 each to assist Jordanian graduate students with the annual costs of their academic programs during the period May 1, 2020 through May 31, 2021. Candidates must be Jordanian citizens and currently enrolled in either a Master’s or Doctoral program in a Jordanian university. Eligibility is limited to students in programs related to Jordan’s cultural heritage (for example: archaeology, anthropology, linguistics/epigraphy, history, conservation, museum studies, and cultural resource management related issues). Awardees who demonstrate excellent progress in their programs will be eligible to apply in consecutive years.

Please Note: NEH, CAORC, MacDonald and Sampson (residency option), and Bikai Fellows will reside at the ACOR facility in Amman while conducting their research.

 

Deadline for the following scholarship is February 1, 2020.
See the application instructions for this scholarship:

Jordanian Travel Scholarship for ASOR Annual Meeting: Two travel scholarships of $3,500 each to assist Jordanians participating and delivering a paper at the ASOR Annual meeting in mid-November in the United States. Academic papers should be submitted through the ASOR’s website (www.asor.org/am) by February 1, 2020. Final award selection will be determined by the ASOR program committee.

 

Deadline for the following scholarship is February 15, 2020.
See the application instructions for this scholarship:

ACOR Fellow MESA Award:  One award of $1,000 to a former ACOR Fellow of any nationality for participation in the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual meeting. Eligible applicants are anyone who had previously been awarded any ACOR Fellowship (including the named fellowships and former CLS students) and their abstract has been submitted for presentation at the 2020 MESA annual meeting. The awardee must mention the award and ACOR in the text of paper, in addition to including ACOR’s logo on the “Thank You” slide. A check for $1,000 will be mailed before the meeting takes place. To apply, please submit the abstract, CV, and cover letter to usa.office@acorjordan.edu by February 15, 2020. For more information about the MESA annual meeting, please check MESA’s website: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/

 

 

 

5. Pennsylvania State University – Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Arabic
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59149

Review of applications will begin November 1, 2019.

 

 

 

6. The Department of Religion at Columbia University invites applications for an assistant professor appointment in the study of Islam prior to 1800.

We particularly welcome applicants whose research exhibits dynamic and innovative approaches to the study of Islam, as well as familiarity with broader debates in religious studies. Area of research and teaching specialization is open. Applicants with interests in Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan and coastal Africa are especially encouraged to apply. Position start date is July 1, 2020, Ph.D. required at time of appointment. Candidates are expected to sustain an active research and publication agenda and teach in both undergraduate and graduate programs.

For more information, go to: https://pa334.peopleadmin.com/postings/4231

Review begins 10/25/19

 

 

 

 

7. At the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studiesof the University of Vienna and the Institute of Iranian Studies (IFI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW)
the position of a TENURE-TRACK PROFESSORSHIP for the field of Turkic Languages and Literatures from Early Modern to Present Time (full-time position) is to be filled.

The successful candidate is expected to be widely experienced in philological work with an historical perspective and should be able and willing to do research within the research programme of both the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and of the University of Vienna. Successful candidates
should have the following qualifications:

• Doctoral degree/PhD and at least two years post-doctoral experience at a university or other research institution; as a general rule, applicants must have gained research experience outside the University of Vienna for a total of at least two years during or after their doctoral studies
  ·Outstanding achievements and potential in research, excellent publication record, international reputation
  ·Experience in designing and participating in research projects, ability to lead research groups, willingness to acquire third-party funding
  ·Enthusiasm for excellent teaching, teaching experience at universities or a teaching concept. Candidates are expected to be willing to teach students at all levels (bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral level), to supervise academic theses and to promote junior colleagues.
• The application deadline is 15 November 2019.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/UNIWPHILKUOEAW_TT_Turk_E_0819.pdf

 

 

 

8. The University of Miami Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites applications for a tenure-track position in Arabic, beginning August 15, 2020, at the rank of Assistant Professor. 

The successful candidate will have native or near-native competence in Arabic and a solid command of English. In addition to the ability to teach Modern Standard Arabic through advanced L2 and heritage courses, the ability to teach upper level courses in another language (e.g., French, German, Italian, Spanish) is highly desirable. Field of specialization open to any area of modern literary or cultural studies or sociolinguistics. The candidate will be expected to collaborate with colleagues in fields such as Arabic literary and cultural studies, Maghrebian studies, gender and sexuality studies, Islamic art, and Islamic studies.

The successful candidate will have the ability to teach undergraduate courses at all levels (including upper-level Arabic Studies courses taught in English), be ready to take on a leadership role in curricular and program development and extracurricular activities in the Arabic studies program, and be willing to advise and teach students in our interdisciplinary Ph.D. program.

A strong commitment to excellence in teaching at a private multicultural non-sectarian institution should accompany solid scholarly potential. Prior teaching experience  and a record of academic publications is highly desirable. Ph.D. (in Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Linguistics, or another relevant field) must be completed by May 2020.

The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Preference will be given to candidates whose materials are received by November 15, 2019. Selected candidates will be asked to send additional materials and will be interviewed via Skype. Please submit all application materials (i.e., letter of application, CV, transcripts) via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/68198

https://umiami.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UMFaculty/job/Coral-Gables-FL/A-S–MLL-Assistant-Professor-of-Arabic-Studies_R100035069

 

 

 

 

9. Research Assistant (Postdoctoral Position, 13 TV), Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

The area of study includes Muslim societies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, as well as Muslim communities in Europe and North America. The researchers examine concepts, practices, and institutions variously understood as Islamic. Special attention is given to relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, as well as forms of inter- and intra-cultural communication.

Application deadline: 4 November 2019. Information: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/announcements/201909_Thyssen-Postdoc.html

 

 

10. Carter V. Findley Professorship in Ottoman and Turkish History, Ohio State University

The position is to begin in Autumn 2020. Rank is open, although the department’s preference is for a candidate who is a tenure-eligible assistant professor, an associate professor, or a recently-promoted full professor. Area of specialty is open.

Deadline for applications: 31 October 2019. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/14660

 

 

 

1. CFP – HIAA Biennial Symposium. ‘Regime Change’, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2020

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

How do we write histories of Islamic art and architecture, and in the service of what interests? We might proceed from questions about the intentions of patrons, the agency of craftsmen, and their responses to previous artistic production, thereby allowing artifacts and monuments to be set within a historical, social, and/or artistic context. We might also posit large-scale organizational forms—dynasties, courts, regimes, workshops, technological systems, and exchange circuits—as frames that regulate aspects of life, belief, and ultimately artistic creativity. Recent scholarship has also shifted focus to other forms of agency. For example, “reception history” and the “history of objects” have attempted to move beyond the process of creation to consider the role of later actors and material accretions for the significance of artifacts, while the “material turn” in art history has sought to challenge rigidly anthropocentric epistemologies and open up narratives told by the “stuff” of art.

The aim of this conference is to focus on moments of “regime change” in Islamic art history and to also direct attention to “regimes” that structure our own field, raising questions of interpretation and method. We invite new research focusing on art and architecture after clear political ruptures (e.g., invasion, occupation, conversion); on the replacement of one symbolic order with another (e.g., public inscriptions in the urban space, changes in sartorial codes, new gender norms); and on the transfer of resources (e.g., artists, objects, libraries, treasuries) from one power to another. We also invite panels and papers that explore the potentials and pitfalls of new interpretive and methodological approaches to core questions about objects, material, and images, in both the academy and the museum.

 

Call for Papers

The submission deadline for pre-organized panels and single papers is December 1, 2019. For single papers, please submit as a single attachment a one-page CV and a paper abstract of no more than 250 words. For pre-organized panels (three or four papers), please submit as a single attachment one-page CVs for all speakers, and the panel abstract and individual abstracts, each no more than 250 words.

Please submit panels and papers to Christiane Gruber, Organizer (cjgruber@umich.edu). All other queries may be directed to Bihter Esener, Managing Organizer (besener@umich.edu).

Accepted speakers must be HIAA members in good standing by the time of the symposium. Speakers will have their travel expenses and accommodation covered by the University of Michigan and HIAA.
The 2020 HIAA Symposium Committee:

Christiane Gruber, organizer

Anneka Lenssen, Michael Chagnon, and Alain George, committee members

 

 

 

 

2. Lamia Balafrej, The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-making-of-the-artist-in-late-timurid-painting.html

 

 

 

 

3. The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings. We aim to enhance local capacity to manage and preserve archival collections into the future, and therefore all applications must involve at least one archival partner in the country where the material is based.

We welcome applications for funding on an annual basis. The current deadline for preliminary applications is 11 November 2019. Application forms and guidelines can be found at eap.bl.uk. The Endangered Archives Programme is administered by the British Library and supported by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

For enquiries please contact us at endangeredarchives@bl.uk.

 

 

 

 

4. IJCS new Special Issue: The aesthetics of dissent: Culture and politics of transformation in the Arab world

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ics/0/0

 

 

 

 

5. Call for Papers
First International Conference on Qur’anic Studies
24-25 February  2020

Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Tehran, Iran

The department of Qur’anic Studies at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies announces the call for papers for the 2020 international conference on Qur’anic studies to be held in Tehran, Iran from Monday 24 to Tuesday 25 February 2020.

We welcome original work from scholars at any stage of their careers, including early career researchers and PhD students, relating to the following themes:

-The Qur’an and its religious milieu;

-The reception history of the Qur’an, from the beginnings to modern times;

-Literary, historical-critical, and comparative approaches to the Qur’an;

-The history of scholarship and methodological issues in Qur’anic studies;

-Qur’anic manuscripts;

 

Applicants are kindly asked to submit their abstracts to Dr. Ala Vahidnia at a.vahidnia@ihcs.ac.ir by November 15, 2019.

The organizing committee will send notification of acceptance for abstracts on December 15, 2019.

The Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies will issue an official invitation for all participants who need to apply for their own visas individually.

Papers may be presented in English or Arabic.

Should you have any question about the conference please contact the conference director, Dr. Ala Vahidnia at  a.vahidnia@ihcs.ac.ir.

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Aga Khan Centre, London, 17-19 October 2019

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present.

Registration and Program: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/4613292/workshop-arabic-pasts-histories-and-historiographies

 

 

 

7. Workshop “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries)”, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020

This workshop will analyze travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual travellers.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2019. Information: https://travelmena.univie.ac.at

 

 

 

8. Professorship for Turkish Studies (W2), Department of Turkish Studies, University Duisburg-Essen

Candidates should have a PhD in the social or political sciences or in the humanities, and a distinctive international profile in Turkish Studies. Expected is a specialization in Gender Studies.  Desirable are research interests in cultural studies modes of enquiry and pan-epochal approaches that will facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation in the Turkish Department. Excellent knowledge of Turkish and English is expected. Candidates without German language skills will be expected to learn German (C1) within the first two years.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2019. Information: https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/turkistik/professorship_in_turkish_studies_ude.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Tenured Professor in Ethnic Studies and/or Studies of Islam in America, Havard University

Qualification: Doctoral degree and Intellectual leadership in the field; potential for significant contributions to the Faculty, University, and wider scholarly community; demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring; and experience working with and teaching diverse students.

Deadline for applications: 1 October  2019. Information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9212

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, North Carolina State University

Minimum Experience: PhD in Middle Eastern History or a relevant field in the Humanities or Social Sciences, or ABD with confirmed plans to defend the dissertation within the next year.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/122937

 

 

 

11. PhD Master Class

 

The Study of Islam and Muslim Societies

School of Social Sciences and Psychology

Western Sydney University

Parramatta South Campus

2 October 2019

 

Convenor and Organiser

Dr. Pedram Khosronejad

(Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University)

 

 

Local Tarekat and the State: Tarekat Shiddiqiyyah and Its Efforts to Preserve Nationalist Values in Indonesia

Rizqa Ahmadi

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Problems Faced by Indonesian Female Muslim Students in the US and Australia: An Intercultural Communication Case

Win Arifin

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

The Politics of Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Women in Gaza

Ayah Abubasheer

PhD student, Institute for Religion, Politics, and Society, Australian Catholic University.

 

‘Green Islam’ in Indonesia: Prospects and Challenges

Mohammad Hasan Basri

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

What are the factors leading young Australian Muslim men to travel to Syria to join Islamic State?

Joumanah El Matrah

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

Countering Islamophobia: The Role of Muslim Community Organisations as Agents for Positive Change

Sara Cheikh Husain

PhD student, Alfred Deakin Institute of citizenship and Globalisations, Deakin University.

 

The MTB Bargain: Using Religion and Autocratic Leadership for Economic Advancement in West Java

Shinta Dewianty

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Being Women Sufi in Modern Life: An Anthropological Study of Women Members within the Naqshabandiyyah Nazimiyyah Sufi Order

Laily Hafidzah

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

Reinventing the Progressive Era of Thought: State, Political Dissonance, and the Origins of Reformist Thought in the Teaching of Islamic Law in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Wildani Hefni

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Mechanics Fleeing Communism: the Russian Refugee Diaspora in Iran and its Resettlement in Australia and the United States, 1930-1960.

Marcus James

PhD student, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University.

 

Islamic Leadership and Muslim Immigration: A Framework for Reflection and Analysis

Mehrnosh Lajevardi Fatemi

Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University.

 

Contingency of Text in 17th Century Safavid Art: An Intertextual Survey of the Epigraphic Program of the Prayer Hall of Shaykh Lutfullah Mosque

Mahroo Moosavi

PhD student, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney.

 

A Preliminary Sketch of Iranian Middle-Class Consciousness

Hugh Myers

Masters student, Department of Social Anthropology, Macquarie University.

 

Normalising Islamophobia: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the Liberal Party of Australia and the current othering discourse.

Heela Popal

PhD student, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Sydney.

 

The Sound of Utopia: Prayers as Sonic Invocation of a Perfect Public in Contemporary Iran

Simon Theobald

PhD student, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.

 

Media and Democracy in the Third Space: Locating the Spatial Axis of the Turkish Media in the Euro-Muslim World

Fulya Vatansever

PhD student, Southern Cross University.

 

Searching for a Meta-Theoretical Framework for Analysis of Rival Conceptions of Rights during the Constitutional Revolution of Iran

Behzad Zerehdaran

PhD student, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.

 

All are welcome

Venus:

8am – 12pm: Building EB, Level 3, Room 21 (Collaborative Learning Space)

12pm – 5:30pm: Building EB, Level 3 Room 18 (Collaborative Learning Space)

 

Dr. Pedram Khosronejad | Adjunct Professor

Religion and Society Research Cluster | School of Social Sciences and Psychology

E: P.Khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au

 

1. 26^th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) Combined with the Conference of the Section for Islam Studies of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019

Registration for participation is possible until the start of the conference and onsite.

Program and further information: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html

 

 

 

 

2. Conference: “Archaeological Perspectives on Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in Africa”, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, 17-18 December 2019

Although it is fully acknowledged that conversion to Islam and Islamisation processes are not universal, but subject to significant variation and complexity, this conference has considerable value for the paradigmatic structure of our archaeological understanding of becoming Muslim in sub-Saharan Africa. This conference will explore these issues through a comparative perspective, and discuss and summarise the ‘state of the art’.

Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=9330

 

 

 

 

 

3. Panel: “Migration Epistemologies: Translation in the Middle East and North Africa” during the Conference: “Genealogies of Knowledge II: Evolving Transnational, Transdisciplinary and Translational Epistemologies”, Hong Kong Baptist University, 7-9 April 2020

This panel seeks to explore how translation and other forms of mediation have participated in the production and contestation of knowledge in the Middle East and North Africa by renegotiating and/or transforming the meaning of key concepts and values at specific historical points.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2019. Information: http://genealogiesofknowledge.net/events/gokconf2020/panels/migrational-epistemologies/

 

 

 

 

4. 7^th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020

We welcome papers on issues such as the impact of the late Crusades and Papal policies on relations be-tween the Mamluk Sultanate and Cyprus or Latin Europe more generally; Mamluk-Byzantine relations; Islamic concepts of imperial and international law (dār al-ḥarb and beyond); European trade and diplomacy; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2019. Information: http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html

 

 

 

 

5. 15 Research Fellowships for Outstanding Postdocs, Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich

LMU offers 10 Incoming and 5 Outgoing Research Fellowships to outstanding postdocs. The two-year fellowship with a competitive salary and substantial research budget will give you the opportunity to carry out your own research project with the support of an LMU professor. Workshop for interested applicants on 18 September 2019.

Deadline for application: 12 November 2019. Information: https://www.lmu.de/excellent/research-fellowships

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professorship (Tenure-Track) in the Field of Modern Islam, Fordham University, New York

We seek a scholar who combines scholarly research in one or more sub-specialties with the ability to engage in humanistic inquiry about religious thought and practice in the modern world. The department is eager to consider candidates working on a range of modern Islamic traditions and communities, geographical region open, and in a range of methodologies. PhD required

Deadline for application: 11 October 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/67784

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor in the History of the Pre-Modern and Early Modern Islamic World, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

We invite applications from historians whose primary research fields are in any region or any period prior to 1800. The successful candidate must show promise of outstanding scholarly achievement and a commitment to classroom teaching at the undergraduate level. Teaching assignments will involve introductory as well as more specialized courses. The appointment will begin July 1, 2020 and a Ph.D. in History or a related field is required by the start date of the appointment.

Deadline for applications: 11 October 2019. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58980

 

 

 

 

8. Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic History (Modern and/or early Modern Era), Clark University, Massachusetts

We invite applications for a one-semester, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor in the history of Islam in the early modern and/or modern worldto begin in January 2020. Secondary specialization is open. ABD or Ph.D. in History, Islamic Studies, or a related field is required by the time of appointment.

Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58972

 

 

 

 

9. Professorship in Middle East Studies, University of Oklahoma

We seek advanced assistant professors or associate professors for this tenure-track or tenured position. Scholars in the fields of political science/political economy, history, sociology, anthropology, and geography (or related humanities and social sciences disciplines) are welcome to apply. Candidates should have relevant Middle East regional expertise, language skills and fieldwork experience.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/67229

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor in History of Medieval Mediterranean / Global Middle Ages, Rhodes College

We are particularly interested in candidates whose teaching and research interests are trans-regional/cultural and interdisciplinary in nature and could contribute to at least one of the following areas: the history of medicine and/or science; migration or frontier studies; Africana Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies; Environmental Studies and Sciences; digital history; or public history. Candidates must have a Ph.D. in History, Medieval Studies, or a relevant area-studies program with a strong historical focus.

Review of completed applications will continue until the position is filled. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59001

 

 

 

 

11. Assistant Professor of Islam, Seattle University

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Religious Studies, Religion, Comparative Theology or related discipline by September 2020 is required. ABD candidates will be considered. Candidates should have expertise in classical and/or contemporary Islam, proficiency in Arabic and other relevant research languages, and preparation in the methods and theories of the academic study of religion.

Review of applications begins 15 October 2019 and continues until the position is filled. Information: https://seattleu.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?id=1059&site=2

 

 

 

 

12. Articles for “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”

Diyâr is a new, interdisciplinary and interregional academic journal edited by the Society of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT). Unpublished contributions from the Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences with a geographical focus on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, Iran, Central Asia and the Caucasus are invited in German, English and French.

Deadline for papers: 15 October 2019. Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en. Contact: Tabea Becker-Bertau, diyar@ergon-verlag.de

 

1. Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

Monday 6^th-Tuesday 7^th April 2020

The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

10 Handyside Street, London, N1C 4DN

Call for Papers and Panels

Following the success of its conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017), Exeter (2018) and Nottingham (2019), the British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to invite proposals for individual papers, or whole panels, for its Seventh Annual Conference which will be hosted by the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London. Papers and panels may be proposed by senior and early scholars from Professor to PhD level.

Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all topics and disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), across all time periods from the formative to the classical, and pre-modern to the contemporary. Though not an exhaustive list, papers are welcome, for instance, on the following:

• Art, Architecture and Material Culture in the Muslim world
• Diversity within Islam and Islamic Studies
• Economy, Marketing and Finance
• Education
• Gender Studies
• Hadith Studies
• History, Intellectual History, History of Science
• Interreligious Relations
• Law
• Literature, Media and Cultural Studies including Postcolonial Studies
• Muslims in Africa and Asia
• Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
• Philosophy, Theology and Ethics
• Qur’anic and Tafsir Studies
• Representations of Islam and Muslims
• Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science
• Sufism and Mysticism

 

An Inclusive Conference

BRAIS is committed to the principles of equality, diversity and inclusivity. We welcome papers from scholars of all backgrounds and will work hard to ensure that BRAIS 2020 is a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and supported.

Submitting Your Paper Proposal

Your paper proposal should be submitted via the online submission form which is available

at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/BRAIS2020

In addition to information about yourself, you will need to provide a paper title and an abstract. Abstracts should not exceed 200 words and must be written in English.

Submitting Your Panel Proposal

BRAIS particularly welcomes proposals for whole panels curated around certain themes or methodologies. Panels will ideally include four individual papers, but panels of three individual papers will also be considered.

Your panel proposal should be submitted via the online submission form which is available  at: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Y6D7H7Q

We will require contact details, paper titles and abstracts for all papers submitted as part of the panel.

The panel should be submitted by the panel Chair who will be contacted by BRAIS once a decision has been made about your panel.

Submission Deadline

The deadline for submissions is midnight GMT on Sunday 17th November 2019.

PhD Fee Waivers

A number of fee waivers will be available for UK-based PhD students whose papers are accepted for the BRAIS 2020 conference. Details of how to apply for fee waivers will be emailed to all those whose papers have been accepted for the conference.

Any Questions?

If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Committee on: brais@ed.ac.uk .

 

 

 

 

2. American Center Of Oriental Research Photo Archive

The American Center of Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, is a non‑profit, 501(c)(3) academic institution dedicated to promoting research and publication in the humanities and social sciences, with a particular focus on issues related to Jordan and the broader region.

The ACOR Library holds a remarkable photographic archive related to its role in preserving and promoting the country’s heritage. The complete collection, estimated to number more than 100,000 images, provides primary visual documentation of Jordan, including the major archaeological and cultural heritage projects that the center has sponsored across the country over the decades.

Given its broad range of content and subject matter, the ACOR Library photographic archive has the potential to be a crucial resource for American, international, and Jordanian scholars involved in cultural and natural heritage preservation and management.

As a first step in making this extensive archival collection available to researchers, the ACOR Library is cataloging, digitizing, and making accessible online ACOR’s major institutional and donated photographic holdings.

The project is supported by a U.S. Department of Education, Title VI grant (2016-2020)

The ACOR Research Library Photographic Archive Project is made possible under a Fiscal Year 2016  American Overseas Research Centers grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Use ACOR Photo Archive Images:
Request to use images
Read more about our archive policies:ACOR Library Photographic Archive Notice and Takedown policy

 

 

 

 

3. A Guide to Online Visual Sources in Middle East, North Africa, and Islamic Studies by Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at the Harvard Fine Arts Library.

“Let’s face it: every publication is better with images. Whether it’s a presentation, a blog post, a book, or just a paper, images engage an audience instantly. The internet is flush with images from Islamic art, architecture, and society, but reliable sources (with credit information) are more difficult to track down. So we’ve done it for you! Here are some of the best sites for finding credited visual resources for Islamic, Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Feel free to suggest more in the comments and we’ll update the list!…

 

 

 

4. Call for Applications: 2 Postdoctoral positions (9 and 12 months respectively) for the project “Avicenna East & West I: Commentaries on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs” (FRS-FNRS; UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)

Project description

The aim of this project on the commentaries on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs attributed to Avicenna is twofold: (1) to provide a better understanding of how Avicenna’s theory on the soul was received, interpreted and transformed in the Muslim East; and (2) to document the attitude towards Avicenna’s legacy, and falsafa in general, in Islamic society. The corpus chosen offers a particularly fruitful basis for such an inquiry: the poem is rather short and not technical (allowing a large diffusion in a non-philosophical milieu), while raising important questions about the congruence of some of the ideas it conveys with what we know to be Avicenna’s teaching.

Sub-projects
(1) Edition and analysis of the commentaries by ʿAlī b. Sulaymān al-Baḥrānī (m. 672/1274), ʿAfīf al-Dīn al-Tilimsanī (610-690/1213-1291), Dāʾūd al-Qayṣarī (m. 751/1350)
(2) Comparative analysis of the commentaries by Dāʾūd al-Anṭākī (d. 1599) and ʿAbd al-Raʾūf al-Munāwī (d. 1621)
(3) General analysis of the commentary tradition on the Qaṣīdat al-nafs, exploring the various contexts and aims of these texts, the precise nature of the questions raised, and the types of arguments and references used in the debates emerging in the interpretation of the poem or between commentators.

The postdoctoral researchers will be responsible for sub-project 2 (commentaries by Anṭākī and Munāwī) and participate in the other sub-projects. They are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the Institut supérieur de philosophie (ISP) and of the Institut orientaliste (INCAL/CIOL) at UCLouvain, and to spend part of her/his time to pursue her/his own intellectual interests and to work creatively to produce new exciting research.

Profile
PhD in Islamic studies, philosophy, history or another research area relevant for the research project; excellent knowledge of Arabic and proven expertise in the intellectual history of relevant periods. Candidates with experience in editing texts and/or the study of commentary traditions are particularly welcome. The capacity to teach portions of a BA course on pre-modern Islamic philosophy is a plus.

This position is funded by the Fonds de la Recherche scientifique, Belgium (FRS-FNRS), and is only available for candidates who hold a PhD for no more than 6 years at the time of appointment, and who were not resident of Belgium for more than 24 months in the three years immediately before the appointment. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance. Some funding for travel for research is available.

Starting date
These two positions are available as soon as possible after Jan. 1, 2020 for a period of respectively 9 and 12 months. There is some flexibility in the starting date and in the duration of these positions. Candidates interested to apply for a shorter period or willing to discuss the starting date are invited to mention it in their cover letter. Candidates who are about to complete their PhD can apply but the PhD must be in hand at the start of the employment.

Working location: Institut supérieur de philosophie, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

Apply
Please send your application (letter of motivation, CV, names and contact information of two academic referees, and a sample of your writing) to info-fite@uclouvain.be

Review of applications will start on Oct. 1, 2019 and will continue until the positions are filled.

This call on Euraxess: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/443735

This call at UCLouvain: https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cdwm/2-postdoctoral-positions-for-the-project-commentaries-on-the-qasidat-al-nafs.html

 

 

 

5. Hikmat International Institute is organizing a learning tour of Iran from 4 – 20 of April 2020 for professors, students, and anyone else who wants to explore the beautiful Iran and learn more about religions, culture, and history of the country. In this tour, the participants will see Iran’s most important tourist attractions in 6 major cities. In addition to three informative workshops about reliogion and politics in Iran there will also be friendly meetings and discussions with academics, religious leaders, scholars etc. The tour will be held with high standards and is an amazing opportunity. The group will include 15 to 20 participants.

The Early Bird Discount is a US$ 100 discount reserved for participants who register before October 31.

Registration deadline is January 1, 2020.

 

More information: https://hikmat-ins.com/iran-tour-6/

 

 

 

6. Leiden Conference: Negotiation in Conquest: Wars, Treaties and Recollections of the Rise of the Caliphate, 12 -14 September 2019

The programme for the 12 -14 September 2019 Conference is online:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2019/09/negotiation-in-conquest

The great conquests of the seventh and eight centuries brought under Arab-Muslim control an area that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. Military conquests on this scale are remarkable enough; the establishment of a stable empire in the centuries that followed is even more so. How did a military minority succeed in asserting and maintaining durable political dominance over the diverse and dispersed territories of their conquest domains? In short, how was the establishment of the caliphate realised in the aftermath of the conquests?

This conference explores the dynamics of negotiation in the process of conquest and the subsequent building of the caliphate. How did the terms of conquest – the accommodations and agreements made with subjected cities, regions and their representatives – and the ways in which they were re-evaluated in subsequent centuries contribute to the establishment of short and long-term caliphal rule? In other words how were relations between the different stakeholders of the caliphate shaped by the experiences and memories of the negotiated conditions of the conquest?

 

 

 

 

7. La Chaire du Louvre lectures 2019

Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’Islam:  pèlerins, reliques, et copies

A cycle of five lectures by Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University, followed by a round table discussion.

Musée du Louvre, Paris, 26^th September – October 14^th  2019.

Thursday, September 26^th,  19:00 – Prendre la mesure

Monday, September 39^th, 19:00 – Incorporer par la poussière

Thursday, October 3^rd, 19:00 – Guérir avec des images et des mots

Monday, October 7^th, 19:00 – Tracer les contours

Thursday, October 10^th, 19:00 – Faire une impression

 

Round Table – Monday, October 14^th, 19:00 – Corps et copies: de la dévotion à l’exposition

Discussion including Finbarr Barry Flood (NYU),  Yannick Lintz (Musée du Louvre), Jérémie Koering (CNRS/Centre André Chastel), Walid Raad (Cooper Union School of Art).

 

All events take place in the main auditorium, Musée du Louvre.

The full program can be found at:

http://mini-site.louvre.fr/trimestriel/2019/Chaire_du_Louvre_2019/

and a teaser at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP3WD4fNL4g

A book accompanying the series will be published on September 25^th:

https://www.editions-hazan.fr/livre/technologies-de-devotion-dans-les-arts-de-lislam-9782754111171

 

 

 

 

8. Re-Approaching Architecture of the Lands of Islam – Columbia University, 2019-20

Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures

Re-Approaching Architecture of the Lands of Islam

A series of lectures to address the historiography of the field ‘Islamic Art’ by scoring the particular moments of ruptures that fractured its foundations or the methods that shaped its objects of study.

Organized by Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor, Arts of Islam, at the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.

 

Fall 2019 

Rethinking the Friday Mosque: A Critical Enquiry of an Architectural Paradigm

Ruba Kana’an (University of Toronto Mississauga)

October 16 at 6 pm (612 Schermerhorn)

 

The Isolated Monument and the Making of Masterpieces

Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, Columbia University)

November 20 at 6 pm (612 Schermerhorn)

 

 Spring 2020

Conservation and Restoration Documentation as a Source in Architectural History

Igor Demchenko (GSAPP, Columbia University).

February 10 at 6pm (612 Schermerhorn)

 

On Photographic Monumentalism in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Turkey

Ali Behdad (UCLA, California)

March 9 at 6 pm (612 Schermerhorn)

 

Perceived Through the Feet: Approaching Architecture on the Ground

Gerhard Wolf (KHI Florence, Max-Planck Institute)

April 6 at 6pm (612 Schermerhorn)

 

For further information, please click: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/calendar/disrupting-unity-and-discerning-ruptures.html

 

 

 

 

9. 2019 – 2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University

 

FALL

September 26, 2019

“Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century”

Ridha Moumni

Art Historian, Curator; Harvard CMES Fellow

Co-sponsored with The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

 

October 17, 2019

“Qusayr ‘Amra: The Pandora’s Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics”

Nadia Ali

Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University

 

November 21, 2019

“Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References”

Müjde Dila Gümüş

Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

 

December 5, 2019 

“Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra”

Ann Shafer

Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

 

SPRING

March 5, 2020

“Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates”

Jochen Sokoly

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar

 

SUNIL KUMAR: SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES

Professor, History of Medieval India, History Department Head, Delhi University

Co-sponsors, Standing Committee on Medieval Studies; Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Lecture 1: March 31, 2020

“The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad”

Lecture 2: April 2, 2020

“Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi”

These two lectures are held at 6:00pm, in the Sackler Basement Auditorium

 

April 9, 2020

“Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople”

Robyn Radway 

Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

 

Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm, in the Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. The two Special Guest Lectures will be held in the Sackler Basement Auditorium.

For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.

 

Contact Info:

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

Harvard University

Sackler 415

485 Broadway

Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Tel 617-495-2355

Contact Email:

agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

URL:

https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events

 

1.Conference: “The Concept of Violence, and the Concept of Just War, in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 18–20 September 2019.

See the program at https://www.kcid.fau.de/die-forschungsstelle/aktuelles-und-ankuendigungen/ Registration and further information: katja.thoerner@fau.de.

 

 

 

 

2. Ten Fellowships for PhD Students in the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS)

The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. Applications with a focus on strategies of negotiating diversity, difference, and distinction, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims are especially encouraged. Successful applicants will have a master’s degree in Arabic Studies, Central Asian Studies, History, History of Islamic Art, Human Geography, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Semitic Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South and Southeast Asian Studies or Southeast European History. Our language of communication is English.

Deadline for application: 7 October 2019.

Further information: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/Bewerbungen/index.html

 

 

 

 

3. Doctoral Researcher (75%) on Turkey-related Islamic Activism in Niger, Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies”, University of Bayreuth

Requirements: Master’s degree in the Study of Religion or a closely related field; capacity to co-design and conduct empirical field work in Niger and Turkey. We are particularly interested in candidates who are al-ready familiar with Islam and Islamic organizations of Turkish background and have a good command of Turkish as well as French.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2019. Contact: Prof. Dr. Paula Schrode (paula.schrode@uni-bayreuth.de)

 

 

 

 

4. Assistant Professor in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach

Preferred Qualification: Ph.D. in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; research agenda in applied gender studies in housing policy, social welfare, economic justice, conflict-mediation etc. and specific focus within Asian diasporic, Asian-American, and/or Muslim countries, cultures, and communities.

Review will begin on 15 October 2019. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/13698

 

 

 

5. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Syracuse University

We seek candidates whose teaching and research focus on the Middle East and North Africa. Applicants should have a Ph.D. in political science or a related field or a credible expectation of completing all requirements for the Ph.D. by August 2020.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2019.

Information: https://www.sujobopps.com/postings/81426

 

 

 

6. The British Institute of Persian Studies is excited to partner with the Centre for Iranian Studies (SOAS) to host a workshop series on Persian miniatures. The course is designed to take participants on a pleasant journey to the mysterious world of Persian miniatures, teaching them about materials, colours, paper preparation and Persian miniature styles.

The course will run every Monday, 6:30-8:30pm at SOAS (room 563) from 7 October to 9 December 2019. 

Registration: Email BIPS Executive Officer at bips@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.

Please note, there is limited spaces available and requires a minimum of 5 students to run. Registration deadline is 1 October 2019. Fees: £270 (10% discount for BIPS members). Course fee includes the costs for materials.

For further information, see :

https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/persian-miniatures-course/

1.Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History

The George Mason University Department of History and Art History invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History. Candidates for this position should have an active scholarly agenda in the field of pre-modern Islamic, Medieval European, or Byzantine art history. We especially welcome candidates whose research demonstrates critical engagements with global, transcultural, and trans regional conversations in their discipline. Candidates will have a 2/2 teaching load and will have broad latitude in developing an array of undergraduate and graduate courses. It is expected that the candidate will teach undergraduate courses across geographical areas and chronological periods on arts of the pre-modern Islamic world (Mediterranean, Middle East, or Central Asia), European Medieval, and Byzantine art, as well as Graduate courses in the candidate’s area of expertise.

The department is home to the award-winning Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and has highly ranked History PhD/MA and Art History MA programs. George Mason is a large public university located in the Washington DC suburbs with one of the most diverse student populations in the nation. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. by August 2020. Teaching experience in pre-modern Islamic, European Medieval and/or Byzantine art history preferred. Review of applications will begin after November 1, 2019, and will continue until the position is filled. For more information and to apply for position number F6543z, see http://jobs.gmu.edu/

 

 

 

 

2. MedMed-L

MEDMED-L is an unmoderated forum for communication among scholars studying medicine in the medieval period. The list manager is Monica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State University, monica.green@asu.edu.

To post to the list, send messages to MEDMED-L@ASU.EDU To manage your subscriber account, access the Archives, or to unsubscribe, go to http://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MEDMED-L

 

An email dated 28.8.19 from Professor Monica Green to those those already on the list:

 

Dear MEDMED-L Colleagues,

 

We’ve had a lot of new subscribers come onto the list recently, and several more people who (I’m happy to say) are moving on to new pastures but choosing to keep their MEDMED-L memberships active.

 

Over the years, we have regularly had subscribers make inquiries on the behalf of colleagues who are not list-members. That is entirely okay, and it is wonderful that we can share the collective expertise of the list. However, I would like to remind people of two “best practices” to keep in mind when inquiring on behalf of others:

 

1. Always encourage them to join the list. There are a variety of reasons people might not want to: they really only have one medicine/health-related question; they’re overwhelmed already with too much e-mail, etc. But do at least give them the option. This is a private list and I do not advertise its existence publicly. So word-of-mouth is the main way we let people know that this community exists. The link for signing on is included at the bottom of every message going out on the list: https://lists.asu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=MEDMED-L. (This is also the link where you, as a list-member, can access the Archives.)
2. If your colleague chooses not to join the list, please make clear to them that although copyright is not being formally claimed on postings to the list, scholarly courtesy would ask that any posting’s author be contacted for consent to use their contributions in another context. Also, it would be courteous to acknowledge the source of information.

 

Since I have you, just a reminder that the one hard and fast rule of MEDMED-L is that no attachments should be over 5 MB in size. Many people have fixed limits on the size of incoming mail, and over-sized attachments automatically cause havoc. Positively, a reminder that postings can be in any language that you want.

 

Finally, please remember that this list’s great value is in sharing information. Opinion is fine, too, but it should always be accompanied by links to resources for further information.

 

 

 

 

3. Appel à candidatures
8e Prix de la Maison des Cultures du Monde

Depuis sa création en 1982, la Maison des Cultures du Monde s’est fixé comme objectif de faire connaître et reconnaître des expressions remarquables de la diversité culturelle à travers le monde. Il s’agit en particulier de formes spectaculaires (théâtre, marionnettes, performance à caractère rituel ou symbolique) et d’expressions musicales et/ou dansées qui sont peu connues du public français, ou peu documentées, ou présentées par des artistes ou praticien·nes méconnu·es en France. La Maison des Cultures du Monde a acquis et développé dans ce domaine une expertise et un savoir-faire qu’elle souhaite partager avec les nouvelles générations de chercheur·ses.

À l’occasion du trentième anniversaire de sa fondation, la Maison des Cultures du Monde a créé en 2012 un prix destiné à permettre à un·e étudiant·e ou jeune chercheur·se la réalisation d’un projet d’étude et de valorisation d’une forme théâtrale, chorégraphique et/ou musicale correspondant à cette orientation artistique. Ce prix permet au/à la lauréat·e de compléter son projet de recherche en lui offrant la possibilité de faire venir en France dans le cadre du Festival de l’Imaginaire des artistes et/ou praticien·nes de la forme esthétique qu’il/elle étudie.

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Conditions de participation
Peut concourir au Prix de la Maison des Cultures du Monde tout étudiant·e âgé·e de moins de trente-cinq ans inscrit·e dans une université française (niveau master II minimum), ou étrangère et résidant en France, qui dans le cadre de ses recherches s’intéresse à des formes spectaculaires et/ou musicales n’ayant jamais été présentées en France, ou l’ayant été dans une interprétation différente de celle qui fait l’objet de son attention.

Calendrier
Les dossiers de candidature doivent être envoyés au plus tard le 30 septembre 2019 à minuit. Tou·tes les participant·es seront informés du résultats dans le courant du mois d’octobre 2019. Les artistes ou praticien·nes seront invité·es à la 25e édition du Festival de l’Imaginaire en 2021.

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Maison des Cultures du Monde – Centre français du patrimoine culturel immatériel
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