Categories : Academic items

1.Workshop on “Islamic Reform and Modernity”, Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, 23-24 April 2019

Questions to be answered:  What do we mean by Islamic reform (Islah) and Renewal (Tajdid) in Islamic Thought?  Is Islamic reform mandatory or a choice? What are the fields required to be reformed for Islamic Revival? Is Islamic renaissance possible in 21st century? Etc

Deadline for abstracts: 11 March 2019.

Information: https://www.iur.nl/2019/02/07/call-for-papers-workshop-islamic-reform-and-modernity/

 

 

 

2. International Workshop on “Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages”, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, 13-14 June 2019

Examples of contemporary controversies include unregistered marriages, polygamous marriage, marriages with parties deemed too young or too old, temporary marriage, and mixed marriages (be it interfaith, interethnic, interracial, interclass, or transnational), etc. are welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/workshops/2019/02/multiple-materialities-of-muslim-marriages.html

 

 

 

3. Second International NEHT Workshop on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey”, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 6-7 September 2019

The overarching theme of the workshop is “Historicizing Nature: Water, Forest and Land”.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 March 2019. Information: http://neht.hist.metu.edu.tr/

 

 

 

4. Workshop: „Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era“, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 15 December 2019

The workshop explores the interconnectivities between Asia (Central, East, Southeast, South and North) and the Middle East (including Greater Iran, Anatolia, Syria and Egypt, Yemen, al-Hijaz) in the Mongol period (13th-15th centuries).  We especially welcome studies focusing on one text, object or media as an arena of cross-cultural connections as well as papers dealing with specific cross-Asian networks (commercial, religious, scientific).

Deadline for abstracts: 11 March 2019.

Information: http://mongol.huji.ac.il/news-and-activities/cfp-multilateral-dynamics-between-middle-east-and-asia-mongol-era

 

 

 

5. Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Radicalisation of Islam”, Yale University

The candidate for this one-year position will teach one course related to Muslim American studies which overlaps and extends several ethnic studies subfields (such as Arab American studies, African American studies, and Asian American studies) as well as disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, and political science.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/58704

 

 

 

6. Postdoctoral Associate on Contemporary Islam in Africa, University of Florida, Gainesville

This position is responsible for organizing workshops; teaching one semester-long undergraduate class; and pursuing a program of independent scholarship related to Islam in Africa in global context.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/60177

 

 

 

7. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, Kenyon College, Central Ohio

The successful candidate will teach language–introductory through advanced courses–as well as possible courses in the candidate’s field of expertise, e.g. literature, film, etc. The teaching load consists of 3/2 course schedule.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019.

Information: http://careers.kenyon.edu/cw/en-us/job/492565/visiting-assistant-professor-of-arabic

 

 

 

8. Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholars Program for Senior Policymakers and Academics, Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School

Applications from scholars working on contemporary issues of policy relevance to the Middle East, and the Arabian Gulf in particular, in the disciplines of political science, economics, history, and sociology are especially welcome. Duration: One Semester (about four months).

Deadline for application: 17 February 2019.

Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/project/middle-east-initiative#kuwait-foundation-visiting-scholars-program

 

 

 

9. Contributions to “The Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas”

The Handbook seeks original contributions that address social, cultural, political or historical aspects of Middle Eastern diaspora communities. The Handbook aims to include field-based contributions on diaspora communities in and from the Middle East, as well as more general pieces addressing theoretical or methodological issues.

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 1 March 2019.

Information: https://www.cmes.lu.se/research/call-for-contributions

 

 

 

10. Contribution pour le MIDÉO 36 (2021): “Iǧtihād et taqlīd dans l’islam sunnite et šīʿite”

Les propositions d’article doivent être soumises pour évaluation avant le 15 janvier 2020.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/36891

 

 

 

11. Oklahoma State University, School of Global Studies and Partnerships, Stillwater, OK, invites applications for a Tenure Track position as Assistant Professor and Farzaneh Chair of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies to begin August 2019. Deadline for applications: February 28, 2019.  We seek a forward-looking scholar and educator with strong intellectual and leadership skills to direct the Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an understanding of historical and contemporary challenges facing the nation, and will have the leadership skills required to lead and grow the Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program.

For more information, see: https://okstate.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=8&id=6017&fbclid=IwAR3a6fmQZT78EnHExtbUPRcSDqscTE9q3qY6IjfQNMHSfWfXFGO8sIWiNTc

 

1.Narrative Illustration on Qajar Tilework in Shiraz

Author: Atefeh Seyed Mousavi

Publisher: Verlag für Orientkunde

Publication date: December 2018

Series: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients” (Contributions to the Cultural History of the Islamic Orient).

EAN:  978-3-936687-46-3

Paperback: Vol. 1, 335 pages (Texts); Vol. 2, 268 pages (Images)

Price for two volumes: 79 €

Order Books: verlag.fuer.orientkunde@web.de (www.verlag-fuer-orientkunde.com)

 

Tilework illustration of the Qajar period has received comparatively little scholarly consideration. This applies specifically to Shiraz, where the art was abundantly practiced. My book, the first of its kind, presents a detailed analytical study of Qajar tile painting in Shiraz. The material has been collected during two extensive fieldwork trips. Having collected more than 5,000 photos, I have chosen 42 historical buildings in Shiraz with tile work decoration for a detailed analysis, supplying minute descriptions for each and every image together with a solid documentation of the tiles’ respective location in the buildings. My study identifies, classifies and analyzes the depicted themes and the craftsmanship behind it. Particular attention has been devoted to a detailed discussion of the prominent themes, their argument and motivation, as well as to popular artists of the period. In addition to the study, my work contains ample visual documentation.

For more information and the table of contents, please see: http://kreationen.net/

This book was published with the financial support of The Barakat Trust.

 

 

 

2. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arabic or Visiting Assistant Professor of
Arabic College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The Arabic Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at
the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for a full-time
appointment as Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track) for the 2019-20 academic
year, with possibility of extension. The Program includes a major, a minor,
and an Arabic Flagship Program and draws interested students from majors
across campus. It uses the integrated approach in teaching Arabic, i.e. Arabic
dialects and the formal register are taught side by side, based on different
linguistic and cultural functions.

Strong candidates will have a passion for teaching Arabic as a second language
at all levels and for developing new curricular content in Arabic and English
in an area of specialization that engages students with life in the
contemporary Arab World from varying perspectives. Possible areas of
specialization include, but are not limited to, contemporary literature,
visual culture, digital communications and media, migration and refugee
studies, environmental studies, international relations, and anthropology. The
successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in academic and
extracurricular events sponsored by the Program, to pursue an active research
agenda, to teach four courses per year (a 2-2 load), and to play a dynamic
role in curriculum development and outreach in interdisciplinary studies and
on-campus partnerships.
Qualifications: PhD in hand by August 20, 2019; 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.
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; research travel
support available.

This position will be filled as either an Adjunct Assistant Professor or as
Visiting Assistant Professor. There is no tenure associated with this
position.  For best consideration, materials should be received by Wednesday,
March 6, 2019. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, sample syllabus,
and contact information for three references who will be asked to provide a
confidential letter of recommendation, all through the University of Maryland
online employment application system at: https://ejobs.umd.edu. This position
is contingent on the continued availability of funds.

The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures seeks to investigate and
engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of
speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese,
Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as questions
surrounding language learning itself. Its 15 units are organized into 6
Departments (East Asian Languages and Cultures; French and Italian; Germanic
Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Russian; Spanish and Portuguese) and three
independent programs (Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Film
Studies; and Second Language Acquisition); 2 Centers (the Center for East
Asian Studies; the Roshan Center for Persian Studies); the Language House
Living-Learning Program, and the Summer Institute. To learn more about the
School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, please visit our website at:
www.sllc.umd.edu.

 

 

 

3. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Hosted by the Oxford Centre for Global History and the University of Texas

Date:                25-26 May 2019

Location:         Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Registration:   £50 standard, £25 student
Includes entry to all conference sessions, tea/coffee and lunch on both days, and a drinks reception on 25th May 
For  more information: https://global.history.ox.ac.uk/event/conference-sacred-kingship-world-history-between-immanence-and-transcendence

 

 

 

4. Classical Central Asia in the Digital Age: Three Newly-Digitised Navoiy Manuscripts at the British Library

Thanks to a partnership between the British Library and the Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature named Alisher Navoiy, three manuscripts including the poetical works of Alisher Navoiy are now available online. These three items are the first Chagatai-language texts to be uploaded to the Library’s digitised manuscript holdings, a sample of the more than 110 Chagatai and Central Asian Turkic manuscripts held by the British Library as part of its Turkish and Turkic collections.

All three works contain Divans, or poetical compendia, of the work of Alisher Navoiy, also known as ‘Ali Shīr Navā’ī. Navoiy was born in 1441 CE in Herat, Afghanistan, at a time when it was part of the Timurid Empire, and died in the same city in 1501 CE. He is the national poet of Uzbekistan and is regarded as one of the great poets of the mediaeval Turkic world. His broad oeuvre is a testament to the cultural, intellectual and social flowering of Khorasan in the 15th century CE, and to the importance of Herat in the broad mosaic of Turkic cultural production. The works are also an introduction to classical Chagatai, the literary language of Turkic Central Asia and Siberia. Little known or studied today outside of specialist circles, Chagatai was also the language of the Mughals, who established their reign over parts of the Indian Subcontinent in 1526.

See: https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/02/classical-central-asia-in-the-digital-age-three-newly-digitised-navoiy-manuscripts-at-the-british-lib.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

 

 

 

5. Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies

Royal Holloway University of London

2^nd Annual Conference on Islam, the West, and Radicalism

20 February 2019

Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina (IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies, George Mason University)
• Rabab Sadr (Chairperson, Imam Sadr Foundation, Lebanon)

 

 

For further information and to register see: https://ciwas2.eventbrite.com

 

 

 

6. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies is currently accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position starting in September 2019.

 

Application Link:   https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/10521
Deadline for Application: 03/31/2019

If you have any questions, please contact iran@princeton.edu

 

 

 

7. Lecture: Comparative Philosophy Colloquium by Mohammad J. Esmaeili “Reading Aristotle’s Physics Today.”

Date

11 February 2019

Time

15:15 – 17:00  hrs

Address

P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden

Room

0.07

Mohammad J. Esmaeili obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy in Tehran in 2011 with a dissertation on Aristotle’s dynamics in the Greek, Arabic and Latin commentary traditions. At present he is a senior researcher at the Institute. His research focuses on Aristotelian philosophy and science and their impact on the Islamic world, roughly until the end of the seventeenth century CE. Apart from the articles that he published so far on this subject, he also edited a number of books on Islamic philosophy. These days he is finalizing his editio princeps of the natural philosophy section of Abu ʼl-ʿAbbās al-Lawkarī’s (fl. ca. 500/1106) comprehensive philosophical encyclopaedia Bayān al-ḥaqq bi-ḍamān al-ṣidq, in eight books: 1) Lectures on physics, 2) de Caelo et Mundo, 3) de Generatione et Corruptione, 4) de Mineralibus, 5) Meteorologica, 6) de Anima, 7) de Plantis, and 8) de Animalibus.

 

For more information:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2019/02/comparative-philosophy-colloquium-by-mohammed-j.-esmaeili

 

 

 

1.Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library

The Asian and African department at the British Library began 2019 with one of the most important annual events in our calendar: a training day for students beginning their doctoral dissertations. Approximately fifty students from across the UK were introduced to the collections and the best ways to research them.

Read more here.

 

 

2. We are seeking papers on the theme of ‘Islam and the category of “religion”‘ for the Summer 2019 issue of the semi-annual scholarly journal, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (PJHS), published by the Indiana University Press (Bloomington, USA).

Recent scholarship has historicised the concept of “religion” as it is used in contemporary popular, academic, and political discourse. Critics have called into question the usefulness and validity of a term developed in the context of post-Reformation Christianity and deeply entangled with the history of European colonialism, especially for the study of non-Western cultures. We seek papers that examine this question from the perspective of the study of Islam.

Potential topics:

• Is Islam a “religion”, now or in the past?
• Does the conception of Islam as a “religion” help or hinder our understanding of “Islamic art,” “Islamic science,” and “Islamic politics”?
• How has Islam been constructed or governed as a “religion” in contemporary contexts?
• How do indigenous concepts, such as dīnand īmān, compare to “religion”?
• Did the diversity of peoples and communities within Islamic empires, or studied by Islamic scholars, require the development of concepts similar to “world religions”?

Amina Steinfels, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA, will guest edit this issue.

Deadline for submitting articles is 15^th April 2019. Manuscripts should be submitted through the Indiana University Press website, via the following link:

https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/pjhs/login

Length of an article should be between 8,000 and 12,000 words. For style-sheet, visit the following link:http://hak3408.wixsite.com/khaldunia/guidelines-for-contributors

For more information or to propose an idea, please email to pjhs@khaldunia.org (cc to asteinfe@mtholyoke.edu; hak@khaldunia.org)

For previous issues of the journal, please visit the following link:

https://www.jstor.org/journal/pakijhiststud

Journal’s website: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?cPath=4&pID=97

 

 

 

3. Colloque International : « Terrains difficiles, sujets sensibles. Faire du terrain au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient » (“Difficult Fieldwork, Sensitive Topics: Doing Research in the Maghreb and the Middle East”), Institut universitaire de la recherche scientifique, Rabat, 14-15 February 2019

See program at https://terrainsdifficilessujetssensibles.home.blog

 

 

 

4. Conference: “Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (1150–1550) – including Arab-Islamic Geography”, University of Tübingen, 11-12 April 2019

The comparative perspective is intended to capture traditional peculiarities as well as transcultural exchange processes between the Arab-Muslim and the Latin-Christian world.

See program at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3543039/geography-and-religious-knowledge-medieval-world-1150%E2%80%931550

 

 

 

5. Sixth Conference on Translating the Meanings of the Holy Qur`an on “Translation Studies and the Translation of the Holy Qur`an”, Al Kindi Center for Translation and Training, University of Marrakech, 20-21 November 2019

The aim of the conference is to re-raise the problem of translating the meanings of the Holy Qur’an in the light of modern theories and techniques.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2019. Information: http://en.takc.org/2018/11/11/the-sixth-conference-on-translating-the-meanings-of-the-holy-quran-under-the-theme-translation-studies-and-the-translation-of-the-holy-quran-in-honour-of-professor-mohammed-didaoui/

 

 

 

6. Two Faculty Positions on Classical Ottoman (1300-1700) and Late Ottoman (1700-1922) History, Bilkent University

Positions will be open until they are filled. Information: https://stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/HIST2019Classic and https://stars.bilkent.edu.tr/staffapp/HIST2019Otto

 

 

 

7. Articles on “Critical Reflections on Contemporary Muslim Thought and Human Rights” for “Journal of Contemporary Poetics”

The Journal invites scholars working in the fields of history, cultural studies, political science, psychology, religious studies, critical theory, film and media studies, literature and languages, postcolonial studies, and law to present fresh insights into the debate.

Deadline for full papers: 7 April 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3526613/call-papers-critical-reflections-contemporary-muslim-thought

 

 

 

8. AUC Summer School

A one-month intensive program bringing international scholars of Qur’an, Hadith, Law, and Sufism and combining group lectures with Arabic language, primary source textual readings, and engagement with scholars in Cairo.

Open to students of all backgrounds and religious affiliations and backed by the American University in Cairo.

Application Deadline: April 1, 2019

For more information, see the school website:

http://schools.aucegypt.edu/sce/Programs/Pages/New%20Initiatives/Islamic-Studies.aspx

In addition, there is also a facebook page::

https://www.facebook.com/cairosummerinstitute/

 

 

 

9. Call for Papers: The Future of British Muslim Studies

A one-day Muslims in Britain Research Network conference organised in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, Cardiff University

Date: 24 April 2019

Since the Muslims in Britain Research Network was established over 25 years ago, British Muslim studies has grown exponentially. Yet despite this, the field faces significant challenges and uncertainty about its future direction. With so much of the focus on British Muslims being driven – both in academia and in wider society – by instrumental concerns about security and terrorism, much needed debates about the field’s core goals and purpose have often been obscured. The near constant use of research reports and polls on British Muslims in service of political agendas has meant that not only do those researching British Muslims often struggle to get their voices heard, but they are also forced to face difficult questions about their positioning and politics.

This one day event will bring together those from within and outside of academia who have an interest in shaping the study of Muslim Britain in order to discuss and debate the challenges facing the field and where it should go from here. What should British Muslim studies do, and who should it be for? Should it be seen as part of a project of improving Muslims’ rights and representation, as with the case of comparable fields like Black studies, or remain at a critical distance from Muslim politics? Is the field itself sufficiently inclusive of the diversity of Muslim and non-Muslim voices, and is sufficient recognition given to those outside the academy producing research into Muslims? When, and how, should academics partner with Muslim and community and activist groups? With researchers in the field scattered across disciplines, and with religion increasingly marginalised in the academy, how can the field cohere and have a positive impact?

Abstracts are invited for papers that address any of the conference themes:

• Emerging research agendas in, and challenges for, the field of British Muslim studies
• The politics of producing knowledge about Muslims in the West
• The relationship between academic scholarship and Muslims’ presence, voice and activism
• Partnerships between academic and Muslim community groups in the UK
• ‘Insider’ and ‘outsider’ dynamics in the study of British Muslims
• Complementarities and tensions between disciplinary approaches to the study of Muslims and Islam
• Securing the study of Muslims and Islam within and beyond UK higher education

Participants will be asked to present their research in a short format as part of a panel. To participate please send a 250 word abstract to the email address below by 1^st March along with a biographical note of no more than 50 words.

Abstract submissions and any general questions should be sent to the conference organisers at MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com.

 

 

 

10. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »

Séance du 7 février 2019, 17h-19h

Florian SCHWARZ, directeur de l’Institut d’études iraniennes, Académie autrichienne des Sciences, Vienne

« The Sufi, the village and the city. Hagiography and social history
in 17^th-century Bukhara »

The critical use of Sufi hagiographies for writing social history (in the broadest sense) of many regions and periods of Islamic history is well established. Central Asia has produced its fair share of hagiographic texts, which have been widely exploited in modern scholarship, while a large number of texts remain virtually unstudied. What sets the study of Central Asian hagiographical texts apart from many other areas is the necessity to engage with a strong Soviet tradition of research. This presentation will assess various research paradigms and explore new perspectives for a meaningful social history of Central Asia. As a case study, one particularly rich Persian hagiographical text from late 17^th-century Bukhara, Zinda Ali’s Thamarat al-mashayikh, will be presented and discussed.

Florian Schwarz est le directeur de l’Institut d’études iraniennes (Institut für Iranistik) de l’Académie autrichienne des Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) à Vienne. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur l’histoire de l’Iran et de l’Asie centrale en s’intéressant particulièrement aux cultures de tradition manuscrite, aux réseaux intellectuels et communautés savantes, à la numismatique et l’histoire monétaire, à l’épigraphie islamique ainsi qu’à la géographie historique. Il est l’auteur et l’éditeur scientifique de nombreux livres, notamment de Persische Poesie alla Turca: Sprache, Exil und die Grenzen der kulturwissenchaftlichen Iranistik (Wien : Vienna University Press, 2011), de Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen. XIVc Hurasan III: Balh und die Landschaften am oberen Oxus (Tübingen, Berlin : Wasmuth, 2002) et de Unser Weg schließt tausend Wege ein: Derwische und Gesellschaft im islamischen Mittelasien im 16. Jahrhundert (Berlin : Klaus Schwarz, 2000).

Lieu : INaLCO, salle 5.01, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris

Organisateurs : Amr Ahmed (INaLCO), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE), Oliver Bast (Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3), Agnès Devictor (Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne), Julien Thorez (CNRS)

 

 

 

11. Call for papers: Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: Critical and Interdisciplinary Approaches

Call for papers for a conference on ‘The
Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements: Critical and
Interdisciplinary Approaches’ organized by the Centre for the Critical
Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements (CenSAMM), taking
place at the University of Bedfordshire (Bedford Campus) on 27-28 June
2019.

The aim of the conference is to facilitate critical and
interdisciplinary discussion of apocalypticism, millenarianism and
associated movements across time, place, and culture, and will cover
academic fields such as anthropology, archaeology, biblical studies,
critical theory, cultural studies, history, literary studies, political
studies, psychology, religious studies, sociology, etc. The
interdisciplinary scope is broadly understood to include methodologies,
comparative approaches, and showcasing of research more specific to
individual fields of expertise.

Speakers include:
John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)
Vanessa Harding (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Bill McGuire (University College London)
Sarah Rollens (Rhodes College)
Beth Singler (University of Cambridge)
Fatima Tofighi (EUME, Berlin/University of Religions, Qom)
Paul-Francois Tremlett (Open University)

We invite individual paper proposals from scholars at all stages of
their career, including postgraduates, and we welcome suggestions for
group panels. Please submit proposals to conference@censamm.org .
Submissions for papers should include a 300-word abstract and short CV.

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2019.

Conference Registration is now open: www.ticketsource.co.uk/censamm

The full CfP is available on the CenSAMM website: censamm.org

1.The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce that it will be offering its intensive summer Arabic programs in Beirut between June 19 and August 7, 2019. CAMES offers two separate programs:

 

1. A seven-week program in Arabic Language and Culture that is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from Elementary to Advanced High and students receive 9 credit hours that can be transferred to their home institutions.

 

2. A seven-week program in Lebanese Arabic (LA) that offers intensive instruction in LA at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for those learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in LA and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence in LA. The program offers students 9 credit hours that can be transferred to their home institutions.

 

Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities.

 

The Summer 2019 CAMES Arabic Programs will be directed by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor of Arabic at AUB, and will feature an outstanding team of instructors from AUB and other educational institutions in Lebanon, Europe, the US, and the Arab world.

 

The application deadline is March 29, 2019.

 

For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application forms, cost, and financial support available, please visit our website:  http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/

 

For questions, contact  cames@aub.edu.lb.

 

 

 

2. Funded PhD studentship (UK): Islamic Architecture and the Modern Museum

Here is the link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/assc/2019/01/20/funded-phd-studentship-islamic-architecture-and-the-modern-museum/

 

 

 

3. The “Religion in Pre-modern Europe and the Mediterranean” Unit within AAR is soliciting papers for the 2019 AAR Annual Meeting which will take place in San Diego on November 23-26, 2019. See the CFP below:

Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Statement of Purpose:
This Unit aims to bring together scholars working on premodern Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam in order to create a venue in which religious
phenomena can be considered comparatively. Individual papers may be embedded
in a single tradition, but presenters should be interested in engaging this
material comparatively during the discussion period.

Call for Papers:
We welcome proposals on all topics related to the Unit’s subject matter,
broadly conceived. Proposals that are themselves comparative in nature or that
present novel approaches to the study of premodern religion are particularly
welcome. We encourage the submission of preformed panel proposals suitable for
90-minute time slots. We also encourage the submission of individual paper
proposals for panels on the following subjects:

● Author-Meets-Critics –
John Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam
from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton Univ. Press, June 2019). We seek
proposals from scholars in related fields who wish to respond to, engage with,
or offer a critique of the book, whose French edition has already been
published as Mohamet l’européen(Albin Michel, 2018). The author will respond.
To submit a proposal for this session, please include your name, describe your
scholarly background that relates to this text, and explain why you are
interested in responding to this text. In the abstract field, put “N/A.” (Co-
sponsored with the Religion in Europe program Unit)

● Material Cultural and Textual Representation of the Silk Road –
Papers might explore religious art, texts, or other objects of material
culture that come to Europe and the Mediterranean from geographic regions
along the so-called Silk Road. We are also interested in representations of
the route, the experience, history or expectations of traveling or living on
the route. Proposals that engage with theory relating to religious experience,
community, pilgrimage, economic exchange or religio-cultural interchange are
particularly welcome. (Co-sponsored with the Traditions of the East in Late
Antiquity Unit)

● Gendered negotiations of identity and authority in medieval cultures. We are
interested in all aspects of gender roles in relation to authority and
identity, particularly in and between various social and ethnic groups.
Potential areas of exploration include: How did medieval women negotiate
authority within and outside the family or, for Christian women, within and
outside the monastery? What roles did gender switching or gender ambiguity
play in these negotiations? How did interactions between social and ethnic
groups affect the dynamics of gender-based authority and identity?

● Religion, Medicine, and Healing Practices in Premodern Europe and the
Mediterranean – Papers might explore such topics as miraculous healings and
healing miracles; interpretations or adaptations of scriptural healing
narratives; religiously inflected healing magic, charms, or talismans; or
religiously specific approaches to medical training, practices, and/or
licensure. (Co-sponsored with the Religion, Medicine & Healing Unit)

Method of submission:
PAPERS – through the AAR website

Process:
Proposer names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee
members

Leadership:
Chair
Brian Catlos, brian.catlos@gmail.com
David Freidenreich, dfreiden@colby.edu

Steering Committee
Claire Fanger, claire@celestiscuria.org
Fadi Ragheb, fadi.ragheb@mail.utoronto.ca
Nicole Archambeau, nicole.archambeau@colostate.edu
Wendy Love Anderson, andersonwl@wustl.edu

 

 

 

4. OpenEdition books of the French Institute of the Near East

https://books.openedition.org/ifpo/?page=allbooks

 

 

 

5. Cambridge Muslim College (UK)

February Events

https://mailchi.mp/cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/events-feb2109?e=92080e26fe

 

 

 

6. A FIVE-WEEK COURSE

The Islamic City, Spirit and Identity, Past and Present

 

Time and Venue
Tuesdays 5 March-2 April 2019, 18.30-20.30
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This course is free but booking is essential

For more information and to book a place, see:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-five-week-course-the-islamic-city-spirit-and-identity-past-and-present-tickets-55026596030

 

 

 

 

 

7. Call for Papers: “Religion as a Changing Category of Muslim Practice”

One-day workshop on 24th May 2019 at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Deadline for proposals: 28th February 2019.

Organisers: Dr Alex Henley (alex.henley@theology.ox.ac.uk) and Nabeelah Jaffer (nabeelah.jaffer@pmb.ox.ac.uk).

 

This workshop will focus on ‘religion’ as a changing category in modern Muslim practice.  Participants are invited to share case studies from their research as a basis for discussion of the possible insights to be gained by bringing critical approaches to the category ‘religion’ to bear on our study of Islam.

The aim of the meeting is to support and encourage such fledgling studies, sharing both methods and findings in order to identify: effective methodologies; a useful conceptual vocabulary; common patterns among diverse case studies; degrees of variation across contexts; and potential new avenues for research. To this end, participation will be open both to researchers already focusing on these themes and those interested in exploring these aspects of their empirical work further.  The workshop is co-sponsored by the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and Pembroke College, Oxford.

For further details and submission guidelines, see here:

https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/religion-changing-category-muslim-practice-one-day-work-shop

 

 

8. Cultural Complexity and Academic Clarity:
MA Programme in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the LMU Munich
(Deutscher Text oben)

 

The MA programme starts:
In the winter term. Applications are accepted until June 15th, 2019.

For further information:
on the programme: www.naher-osten.lm.de/ma
on the application process: www.naher-osten.lmu.de/ma_bewerbung

1.Call for applications

Summer School: Working in an Indian Archive: Indo -Persian records from Hyderabad,

Hyderabad, India, 19 .8.-30.8.2019.

Application deadline: 15 February.

For further information, see https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/63733.html

 

 

 

2. The Middle East and North African Graduate Student Organization (https://menas.arizona.edu/MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona invite you to participate in the 19th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies to be held on March 28, and March 29, 2019 in Tucson, AZ. 

 

This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research, exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs, but also from Linguistics, Literature, Area Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Journalism, Gender and Women Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, Sociology, Translation Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Music, and other studies related to the Middle East and North Africa from all time periods.

 

Internal applicants (UA) are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers and pre-organized panels. Individual paper abstracts must be 250 words and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. In the body of the email, please include the author’s name, paper title, school, and department affiliation, phone number, and email address. A panel organizer must submit an anonymous panel proposal that includes the description of the panel and an abstract for each paper on it. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within two weeks of the submission deadline. For further information, please submit your inquiries to uamena@gmail.com. Select papers will be published in our academic peer-reviewed online journal Zaytoon.

Submission deadline: February 22nd, 2019

Submit abstracts to UAMENA@gmail.com

 

 

 

3. Call for Applications: British Library PhD Research Placements

The British Library is now accepting applications for PhD research placements in 2019-20. A wide range of projects are available and full details, including information on how to apply, is available here: https://www.bl.uk/news/2019/january/phd-research-placements-2019

Our PhD research placement scheme is designed to offer opportunities for current PhD students to apply and enhance research, communications and analytical skills and expertise outside of Higher Education as part of their wider research training and professional development. A PhD research placement at the British Library offers the chance to experience research in a different environment to that of a university, to engage with a range of different research users and audiences, to gain insights into different potential postdoctoral career paths, and to make a tangible contribution to the activities and programmes of a national library and major cultural organisation.

The application deadline is 5 pm on Monday, 18 February 2019.

Most placements can take place any time between May 2019 and March 2020 (any restrictions to this are specified in the individual placement profiles). Each placement is for 3 months full-time or (if feasible) the part-time equivalent.

For the current Call for Applications, the placement topics are (please see the website for detailed profiles):

• Art, poetry and memory: Contemporary UK Artists’ Books
• Chinese works of art in the British Library Visual Arts collections
• The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa
• Identifying and using map images in born-digital collections
• Digitisation of archives: benefits and opportunities
• George Orwell’s Collection of Political Pamphlets
• Greek Papyri of Late Antique Egypt
• Assessing the impact of the British Library’s major heritage acquisitions
• Life on the Home Front: Experiences of the Second World War in Britain
• Communicating international engagement at the British Library
• The ‘long tail’ of UK born-digital publications: What can we learn from legal deposit data?
• Illumination in Persian manuscripts
• Making the case for the national library – exploring the value of how collections are used
• Practice research at the British Library
• Historic photographs of the Silk Road
• Public policy development at the British Library: Soft Power and international working
• Taras Shevchenko at the British Library: Mapping and linking our collections
• Analysing topographical image making c. 1600-1824
• Trade Literature in the British Library collection
• The oriental manuscripts collection of Sir William Jones (1746-94)
• Women’s History Online Resources
• Exploring working-class writing at the British Library

If you have any questions please contact Research.Development@bl.uk.

 

 

 

4. Two Arabic positions at William and Mary.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary invites applications for a one-year, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position that will begin August 10, 2019.  We are looking for professional, skilled language instructors with experience and competence in teaching Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and at least one dialect in a communicative, proficiency-based manner from elementary to intermediate levels. Applicants should have native or near native fluency in MSA, one dialect and English. An MA or higher in Arabic language or literature is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record. The successful applicant will be expected to be an effective teacher and will have a 3-3  teaching load.

Required: A Master’s degree in Arabic language, literature or culture is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record.

 

Preferred: Ph.D. or ABD is preferred at the time of appointment August 10,2019 in addition to having a successful teaching record in an American University.

 

Applicants must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu.  Submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter including statement of research and teaching interests, and a sample syllabus for a course you would like to teach. You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by the system with instructions on how to submit a letter of reference in addition to having a successful teaching record in an American University.

For full consideration, submit application materials by the review date, March 15, 2019. Applications received after the review date will be considered if needed and the position will remain open until filled.

Information on the degree programs in the Arabic Studies Program may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/arabic/index.php.

 

Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Arabic Studies)

The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the College of William and Mary invites applications for a non-tenure-track lecturer position that will begin August 10, 2019.  We seek an individual with expertise in Arabic Studies. The successful applicant will be expected to be a professional skilled instructor who can teach at all levels of the curriculum, both Arabic language and Arabic/Middle Eastern cultures courses.  The former require implementation of innovative pedagogical techniques. The latter require a strong theoretical background to teach cultural studies courses.

Applicants should have native or near native fluency in MSA, one Arabic dialect and clearly speak and understand English.  This instructor should also be able to function well in the William & Mary classroom environment where students expect a high level of give and take, and interactive, organized learning. The successful candidate will be expected to be an effective teacher and will have a 3-3 teaching load. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and teaching experience.

Required: A Master’s degree is required in Arabic language, literature or culture is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record.

Preferred: A Ph.D. or ABD is preferred at the time of appointment begins (August 10, 2019).  In addition to having a successful teaching record at an American University.

Applicants must apply online at http://jobs.wm.edu. Submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter which includes statement of research and teaching interests, a sample syllabus for a course you would like to teach.  You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by the system with instructions on how to submit a letter of reference (at least one of which must speak directly to teaching ability).

For full consideration, submit application materials by the review date, TBD at posting time 2019.  Applications received after this review date will be considered if needed.

Information on the Arabic Studies program in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/arabic/index.php.

The College of William and Mary values diversity and invites applications from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching and service missions of the university.

 

 

 

5. The Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft (EHG) | Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology and the Eötvös Loránd University are pleased to invite you to the 15th colloquium of the Society to be held in Budapest, July 4–6, 2019, under the title Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology.

 

THEME

 

The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in pre-modern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The medieval Hudud-al-ʽAlam (Limits of the World, 372/982) suggests, encapsulating in its title the defining significance of boundaries, that such divisions, imposed by mountains, rivers, or deserts, are inherent and natural markers to differentiate spaces and regions. The spatial turn, related also to changes in Central and Eastern Europe not so many years ago, has brought the concept to the forefront once again, also in scholarship on visual and material culture, art history, and archaeology.

 

Attempts to do away with the constraints of the inherited perception of a trans-regional Muslim world have brought about new approaches of looking at them. Such experiments have inevitably created new, perhaps more subtle, ruptures: temporal junctures between past and present understandings of things, and new, globalized distinctions. Spatial and regional delimitations rely on conceptual frames within which entities are defined, yet definitions themselves remain fluid despite our dependence on the very idea of definition. ‘Islamic art’ is among the definitions that fall short of  assuming a generally accepted outline, often particularly in the regional art historiography of the countries that supposedly are covered by the term. Postulating sets of criteria to imply that the visual and material culture of a Muslim community, or Muslim society, was perceived by that community or society as ‘Islamic’ may lead to unsatisfying results, yet scholarly discourse on art and archaeology needs a discussion of these attempts.

 

The 15^th colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society invites papers, and encourages panel proposals, to address the ways in which Islamic art developed within or expanded beyond external, internal, confessional, and political limits and resulted in a diversity of visual and material cultures. There will be, as usual, also room for papers that report on current research outside of the main theme of the colloquium.

 

PROCEDURE

 

The colloquium is planned to begin with a keynote lecture on the evening of Thursday, July 4, 2019. It continues with panel sessions on Friday and Saturday, July 5–6. A meeting of graduate students is scheduled for Thursday, July 4, for which a separate call will be circulated. The graduate meeting is planned to include also a discussion panel with professionals speaking on research skills, publishing, and finding a job.The annual general assembly of the Ernst Herzfeld Society will be held on Friday or Saturday afternoon.

 

Please submit your panel or paper proposal for the colloquium by March 1, 2019 to Dr Iván Szántó: szanto@caesar.elte.hu  All proposals will undergo a peer review selection process. Acceptance will be notified in the first week of April 2019.

 

Pre-arranged panels will preferably include three presentations. It is of course also possible to submit individual papers, which will be presented in open panels. Each presentation is limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion (or 30 minutes of discussion per panel). The colloquium languages are English and German.

– Individual papers: Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words.

– Pre-arranged panels: Please submit a title and an abstract of no-more than 500 words presenting the topic and the aim of the panel, as well as a provisional list of speakers.

 

If you want to submit a paper proposal for the graduate meeting, please send your title and abstract to Sarah Johnson: sarah.cresap.johnson@gmail.com

 

Registration and participation in the colloquium are free for members of the Society. Other speakers and participants are asked to pay a conference fee equivalent to the annual membership fee of 50 € (reduced 25 €). We kindly request that speakers and participants organize their own travel and accommodation. A list of hotels located in the vicinity of the colloquium venue will be sent in due course.

 

 

With best wishes,

 

Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft Chairman: Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter History of Islamic Art Department of Art History University of Vienna Austria

Vice-Chairwoman: Prof. Dr. Francine Giese SNSF-Professor Institute of Art History University of Zurich Switzerland

Organizer of the 15th EHG colloquium: Dr. Iván Szántó Department of Iranian Studies Eötvös Loránd University Budapest Hungary szanto@caesar.elte.hu

 

 

 

 

6. Intensive course: Mamluk Archival Material

A three-day intensive course on Mamluk archival material, intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants, will be offered by Professor Emad Badr al-Din Abu Ghazi (Cairo University). This will be held at Waseda University on June 12-14, 2019, immediately before the sixth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies. The course will enable students to develop reading skills in Arabic archival material related to the study of the Mamluk period and provide related contextual knowledge. It will deal with various types of archival material, including waqf-related documents, theRagusa/Dubrovnik documents, Ottoman land registers (which include Mamluk land records), and diplomatic documents, among others. The course requires advanced or intermediate level of Arabic reading knowledge.  Please note that the course will be taught in Arabic.

 

Since the number of participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms2019tokyo@gmail.com by the end of January, 2019. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February 2019, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.

 

The course fee is 35000JPY (approximately US$315), which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (June 15-17). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2019. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging.

 

We look forward to meeting you in Tokyo.

Tetsuya Ohtoshi, Waseda University (local organizer)

sms2019tokyo@gmail.com

Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège

Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago

 

 

 

7. Two AUC Summer Courses for Islamic Studies in Cairo for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students

The general program (June 16 – July 12) covers Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic Law, and Sufism while the Islamic Law program (July 14 – August 8) covers origins, cases, criminal law, and post-colonial law

Deadline for application: 15 April 2019. Information: www.cairosummerinstitute.com

 

 

 

8. Conference: “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses: The Concept of Person and the Concept of Sexuality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 13-15 February 2019

See program at https://www.kcid.fau.de/files/2019/01/KCID_Person_Sexuality_Folder_RZ_Freigabe_2.pdf

 

 

 

9. Workshop on “Youth Politics in the Middle East”, Amman, 19-20 June 2019

This workshop aims to move beyond simplistic descriptions of youth in the Middle East in favor of richer scholarship that takes young people seriously as social actors, and explores how their cultural, educational, economic, and local experiences intersect with politics and political struggle. Papers will be published as an issue of the open access POMEPS Studies series.

Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2019. Information: https://pomeps.org/2018/12/10/call-for-proposals-june-2019-workshop-youth-politics-middle-east/?fbclid=IwAR168JBbAFOMNZE21bGcmH8rXVorcRkx9cnhcUxLgSN7Q0w28tEL-cAjxKE

 

 

 

10. Seminar for Arabian Studies, University of Leiden, 11-13 July 2019

This international forum meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2019. Information: https://mailchi.mp/01b457455b66/bfsa-bulletin-call-for-contributions-1658909?e=18cf0337f7

 

 

 

11. PhD Research Fellowship on “Biopolitics in the Middle East”, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

The fellowship is part of the project “The Lifetimes of Epidemics in Europe and the Middle East” which sets out to analyze and understand the different temporalities of epidemics. Qualification requirements:  A Master’s degree or equivalent in Middle Eastern studies, medical humanities, cultural history, history of science, historical International Relations or relevant fields.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/161059/doctoral-research-fellowship

 

 

 

12. Call for Applications- Aga Khan Museum- International Research Grant

The Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani

Aga Khan Museum Art History Student Gift

 

The Aga Khan Museum (AKM) is pleased to announce the availability of research grants, generously supported by Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani.  The Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani Aga Khan Museum Gift has been created to support PhD Art History candidates studying at higher education institutions worldwide with the costs of travel and accommodation related to research at the Aga Khan Museum.

 

The Aga Khan Museum

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada is the first museum in North America that is dedicated to presenting the artistic, intellectual, and scientific heritage of Muslim civilizations across the centuries from the Iberian Peninsula to China. Through education, research, and artistic collaboration, the Museum aims to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions made by Muslim civilizations to world heritage and to promote tolerance and mutual understanding among people. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, a world-renowned architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Museum opened in September 2014 and is home to a renowned collection of 1000 pieces of art from the Muslim world. To learn more about the collection and the upcoming programming at the Museum, visit, www.agakhanmuseum.org

 

International Research Grant

 

This research grant supports Art History PhD students internationally with their doctoral theses. Applications will be assessed based on the fit of the proposed research with the collections and resources available at the Museum, and the time proposed to undertake the work. Awardees are expected to spend the majority of their research time on the trip at the Aga Khan Museum, and to provide a short presentation of their research to an internal forum of Museum staff, which will then be shared with Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani.

 

Grants of a maximum of CAD $5,000 will be awarded to support researchers with their travel and accommodation in Toronto.

 

Requirements

Applications are restricted to Art History PhD candidates in support of research related to their doctoral theses.

 

To apply for a research grant, the applicant is required to have their research program pre-approved by the Aga Khan Museum. A letter of support from the office of the Director is required as part of the application.

 

 

To apply, candidates are asked to submit:

• their CV;
• a cover-letter of no more than two pages outlining their proposed research proposal, including the object list (if applicable), and days to be spent at the Aga Khan Museum and other Toronto museums;
• a budget consisting of costs for travel to and from Toronto and accommodation during the stay;
• a letter of support from the office of the Director of the Aga Khan Museum.

 

Applications will be reviewed once per year and must be received by 31st March.  Candidates must be eligible to travel and stay in Canada. Candidates are advised to confirm their eligibility to travel to Canada before submitting their application so that there are no disappointments later.

 

Please submit applications to:

 

International Research Grant

C/o Director’s Office

Aga Khan Museum

77 Wynford Drive

Toronto, ON M3C 1K1

Canada

Email:research.grant@agakhanmuseum.org

 

 

 

13. Virginia Commonwealth University – VCU – Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58186

 

 

 

14. The Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University invite applications for two one-year postdoctoral fellowships, beginning July 1, 2019. The fellows will take a leading role in a research project on themes in Culture, History, and Translation, a project funded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Tufts under its Research and Scholarship Strategic Plan.

We seek two junior scholars whose research builds upon the traditional strengths of humanities – languages, textual interpretation, ethics and values – to rethink society, culture, art, religion, and civilization beyond the national unit that previously organized many studies. This project considers longer histories of connection, exchange, and interdependency in ways that unsettle discretely bounded territories and recast received historical periods, by reconsidering formerly studied “areas” such as: the global study of Europe, transoceanic studies, hemispheric American studies, global Black diaspora studies, and transregional Arabic studies, among others.

The fellow will receive a stipend of $48,000, will be eligible for Tufts University health benefits, and will have a workspace at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. Fellows will be expected to teach one course in a topic related to their area(s) of specialization, or to participate in equivalent work of course design and planning, during the academic year, as well as participating in other designated activities.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a PhD. The area of disciplinary specialization is open and may involve one or more of the following disciplines: anthropology, history, comparative literature, religion, material and visual culture, critical theory. However, the Culture, History, and Translation project is particularly interested in interdisciplinary scholarship with the ability to think broadly and experimentally across conventional geographic, thematic or temporal norms. Specifically, we seek scholars whose work engages the concept of translation as interceding on settled notions of culture and history and as imbricated in constructions of colonialism, race, empire and diaspora.

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, a 2500-word research description, and three confidential letters of reference, submitted directly by the authors, and uploaded to Interfolio. All application materials must be submitted via Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/58991. For additional information, applicants may contact the Center for the Humanities at humanities@tufts.edu. Review of applications begins on February 1, 2019 and continues until the positions are filled.

 

 

 

15. Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship

The 8^th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

 

The organizing committee invites applications for fellowships to support attendance at the 8^th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art to be held in Doha, Qatar from November 10 to 11, 2019. The due date for applications is March 1, 2019.

 

The Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship provides full financial support for up to 5 individuals (advanced graduate students or early career scholars) who will present new and cutting-edge research in a dedicated workshop on November 9, 2019 with the Symposium speakers, Co-chairs, and Virginia Commonwealth University students and faculty.  This workshop will not be open to the public. Presentations shall engage with the symposium’s theme: The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art. Fellowships cover the cost of travel, meals and lodging, and special events during the entirety of the Symposium, from the Fellows’ Workshop on November 9 through the speaker presentations on November 11. Preference is given to applicants from diverse backgrounds with long-standing research interests in Islamic art. Participants at the symposium and workshop will include more than two dozen leading international scholars researching the cross-cultural strands of Islamic art beyond its traditional borders. Each fellow’s presentation will be 15 minutes and will be followed by discussion.

 

Applications include a statement of interest of up to 100 words, a presentation title and abstract of up to 300 words, and a 2-page CV.  To apply, please visit www.islamicartdoha.org.

 

 

 

16. Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies. The volume offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. The 28 essays cover the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate.

Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies. Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche (eds.), Leiden and Boston 2019, xxviii-882 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-38463-7

https://brill.com/view/title/39256

 

 

 

1.CfP: “The Ties that Bind”: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, 2-6 December 2019

Deadline for submission of abstracts, January 31st 2019.

As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the structures and mechanisms that allowed the early Islamic empire to function. The period to be focused on at the conference is roughly focused on is roughly 600-1000 CE.

Structures and mechanisms

The papers should describe the way that local and regional elites were both embedded in larger structures of power and dependency, and employed specific mechanisms to achieve their goals. By structures, we refer to frameworks such as administration, tax-collection, political networks, religious communities, legal systems, social conventions and patronage networks. By mechanisms, we refer to specific instances which establish relationships between actors, including documentary cultures, mechanisms of social integration and embedding (such as oaths, contracts, pledges, marriage, inheritance and succession conventions), mechanisms of social exclusion (such as ostracism, imprisonment, excommunication) and so forth.

Papers may deal with mechanisms and structures that hold the empire together, or examine the fissiparous and centrifugal forces that tend in the opposite direction. Moments of crisis and breakdown are understood as particularly useful both illuminating the precise nature of structures and mechanisms and they are contested, renewed or replaced.

Local and regional elites

In focusing on local and regional elites, we aim to understand how the authority and power of the caliphate was actualized within the daily lives of the empire’s inhabitants. This focus cements a shift in recent years to thinking about the caliphate as a multipolar entity, rather than a pyramidical hierarchy of power (Neff and Tillier), and as a set of relationships and interfaces between actors whose influence derives from being embedded in a particular local context, and power-brokers at the centre of the empire (Paul, Heidemann) . This conference aims to push the field further, by inviting participants to dissect with greater precision the specific structures, mechanisms, behaviours, strategies and conventions that enabled key stakeholders to achieve goals which shaped the lives of the inhabitants of the empire.

Source material will be open to presenters, but we particularly welcome papers that combine literary sources with documentary and material sources.

In addition to  the presentation of papers, invited presenters will be encouraged to prepare visualizations of the structures and frameworks that they perceive in their materials, to be discussed in a separate session. These visualizations might be formed in terms of networks, hierarchies, blocs, or other models of conceptualizing the relationships between the diverse stakeholders in the empire.

One of the outcomes of the ERC project, Embedding Conquest, will be an edited volume which records the results of this and other conferences. Participants may be invited to submit their contribution as part of the edited volume. If you will be unable to contribute your research to this volume, then please signal that when you submit your abstract.

Details

The conference will take place 2-6th December, 2019.

Papers will be 30 mins with 15 for Q&A. Participant may also be requested to participate in additional discussion and visualization sessions.

Please send an abstracts of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31st 2019.

Travel and accommodation will be subsidized.

 

Link to the call for papers:

https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-dependency-in-the-early-islamic-empire-2-6-december-2019/

 

 

 

2. Lecturer in Islamic History 600-1800 at QMUL (London) (closing date 06/02/19)

https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobRef=QMUL17414

 

 

 

3. The Research Training Group *Philosophy, Science and the Sciences* (RTG 1939) (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de ) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering several

*salaried positions for doctoral candidates*
*stipends for pre-doctoral studies*

to candidates working on a research project within the RTG 1939 on the dialogue between different forms and models of knowledge in ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic thought (including its medieval and early modern reception). Topics involve both philosophy and some special science or other (including mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines that we might not today consider special sciences, such as grammar or divination).

Salaried doctoral positions (T-VL Berlin E13 at 65%) will be funded for three years, starting on 1 October 2019.
Stipends for pre-doctoral studies have guaranteed funding for one year, starting on 1 October 2019. Pre-doc students making good progress toward the doctorate will receive a further three years of funding, leading to the completed doctorate.

Additional funding is available for conference travels, research stays abroad and other qualification measures, such as language training.

Applications: Please follow the instructions given on our website (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de). The application deadline is 31 January 2019.

 

 

 

4. 1st International Conference on “Peace and Conflict Resolution (ICPCR)”, Tehran, 29-30 April 2019

The University of Tehran, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and the Iranian Peace Studies Scientific Association will host this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 February 2019, Information: https://icpcr.ut.ac.ir/

 

 

 

 

5. 41st International Annual Conference of the European Association of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International): L’Orientale, Napoli, 18-21 June 2019

MELCom International is devoted to the study of collections, librarianship, projects etc. of resources and sources from and on the Middle East at large.

Information: www.melcominternational.org

 

 

 

6. Two Research Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

The fellowships are tenable from October 2019  for a three year period, offering a competitive salary determined by qualifications and experience in the range of £24,000 – £31,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies.

 

 

 

7. Senior Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

The successful candidate will be engaged in research and publication in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences which contributes to a more informed understanding of the Islamic world – its history, economics, politics, culture, civilisation and contemporary life. The fellowship is for a three year renewable period, and may be extended. Salary in the range of £39,000 to £53,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies

 

 

 

8. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture, University of Rhode Island

The lecturer will teach courses at all levels, from beginning language courses to upper-level content courses taught in the Arabic language, and potentially English-language content courses on cultural topics in the Arabic-speaking world.

Deadline for application: 15 February 2019. Information: https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/4608

 

 

 

9. Articles for the First Issue of “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”

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.

Extended deadline for full articles: 15 April 2019. Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en/; contact Tabea Becker-Bertau (diyar@ergon-verlag.de).

 

 

1.FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS | SYMPOSIA IRANICA

FOURTH BIENNIAL PG AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE ON IRANIAN STUDIES

Hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 9-10 April 2019

***Final Submissions by Midnight, Friday 25 January 2019***

We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities and social sciences. These include but are not limited to prehistory through to the ancient and post-antique, modern, and contemporary histories; historiography; art and architecture history; anthropology; archaeology; cultural heritage; film and cinema; music and musicology; new media and communication studies; the performing arts; poetry and literature; languages and linguistics; Diaspora and migration studies; diplomatic studies, international relations and political science; social and political theory; law and legal studies; economics, philately and numismatics; sociology; philosophy; religions and theology.

Comparative themes and interdisciplinary approaches are also very welcome.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals are open to early career scholars at postgraduate and post-doctoral levels from any disciplinary background within the arts, humanities and social sciences:

1. Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc. who are currently enrolled or who graduate/d in 2019 or 2018);
2. PhD students and PhD candidates at any stage of their degree; and
3. post-docs who graduated within the last three years (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).

Persons falling into any of these categories are eligible to submit a proposal for an individual paper or pre-arranged panel. Submission is conducted electronically through the website. For any questions, please email us at office@symposia-iranica.com.

 

The language of the conference is English. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.

 

 

2. The Aga Khan Library, London, is hosting  Seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship: Past, Present and Future on 31 January 2019 (10-00-5.30 pm).

Speakers: Leif Stenberg, Walid Ghali, Arnoud Vrolijk, Paul Auchterlonie, David Hirsch, Gregor Schwarb, Waseem Farooq and Sarah Savant

Address: Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre,  10 Handyside Street,  London N1C 4DN

For further details and registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-on-islamic-studies-librarianship-past-present-and-future-tickets-53442200059

 

 

 

3. Open Access Book Series: Memoria fontes minores ad historiam Imperii Ottomanici pertinentes.

https://prae.perspectivia.net/publikationen/memoria

 

 

4. Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam(University of Texas Press, March 2018).

Edited by Federico Spinetti (U. Cologne) and Michael Frishkopf, with a foreword by Ali Asani (Harvard), this interdisciplinary collection comprises 14 chapters, representing multiple regions of the Muslim world, by scholars offering diverse perspectives on the multifaceted relations between sound and the built environment.

The volume includes 16 full color plates, some 70 b&w figures, and an accompanying website (in progress) at archnet.org, which will ultimately provide accompanying AV for every chapter.

ِContributors (in order) include Ali Asani, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Nina Ergin, John Morgan O’Connell, Irene Markoff, Michael Frishkopf, Jonathan H. Shannon, Samer Akkach, Cynthia Robinson, Glaire D. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Saida Daukeyeva, Anthony Welch, and Federico Spinetti.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/frishkopf-spinetti-music-sound-and-architecture-in-islam

 

 

 

5. Jobs:

 

University of Oslo – PhD Fellowship: Biopolitics in the Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58082

 

 

National Chengchi University – Full-time Faculty Position (Tenure
Track) in Arabic Linguistics/ Arabic Culture/ Computer Science/
Information and Communication Technology in Learning/ or relevant
fields
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58096

 

 

University of California – Berkeley – Academic Coordinator II-Center
for Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58108

 

 

 

6. 3rd Annual International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Studies on: “Feminism in the MENA Region: Women’s Rights in a Post-Globalist World”, Kenitra, Morocco, 20-21 March 2019

The Takamul Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research in cooperation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to participate in this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2019. Information

http://www.hssma.org/admin_files/Conference%20Call%20for%20Submissions%20Updated.pdf

 

 

 

7. Conference: “Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (1150–1550) – Including Arab-Islamic Geography”, University of Tübingen, 11-12 April 2019

The comparative perspective is intended to capture traditional peculiarities as well as transcultural exchange processes between the Arab-Muslim and the Latin-Christian world.

See program at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3543039/geography-and-religious-knowledge-medieval-world-1150%E2%80%931550

 

 

 

8. Posts:

a) Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Berlin, 2019/2020

The prize consists of a post-doctoral research fellowship of up to ten months and the possibility to participate in the scholarly activities of the Forum.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/ausschreibungen/irmgard-coninx-2019.html

 

b) Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo

Applications are invited to conduct independent humanities research in Egypt. Doctoral, postdoctoral, early career and senior humanities scholars are eligible to apply. Most awards require American citizenship.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellows

 

c) Assistant Professor in Islam, Florida International University

The Department of Religious in the School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce a search for a faculty colleague with a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Candidates should becompetent in either Turkish, Arabic or both. A Ph.D. is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=516574

 

d) Assistant Professor on Islam of the Late Medieval or Early Modern Period, Florida International University

Candidates should have a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire.Candidates should be competent in either Turkish, Arabic or both.

Qualified candidates should apply to Job Opening ID (516574) at https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/

 

 

 

9. Summer School on “Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia (15th-19th Centuries)”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 2-7 June 2019

The basic requirement is knowledge of Persian and one Turkic language (Ottoman Turkish or Chaghatay).

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3531264/call-applications-summer-school-cultures-documentation

 

 

 

10. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, in conjunction with the Program of Iranian Studies, at UCLA, invite applications for a postdoctoral position in the history and culture of modern Iran, effective July 1, 2019.  

The Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellowship aims at promoting the work of exceptional scholars at an early stage of their careers whose presence at UCLA would strengthen the study of modern Iran. Applicants from all fields of humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply. The Department is particularly interested in candidates whose research and teaching engage broader cultural and intellectual traditions, are transdisciplinary in scope, and grounded in philological expertise and archival work.

Applicants are required to have completed their PhD before the beginning of their tenure at UCLA. Preference is given to candidates who have obtained their doctoral degree more recently. Postdoctoral fellows may not hold concurrent fellowships or positions during their appointment.

Applicants should apply online via UCLA Academic Recruit. Applications require submission of (1) cover letter; (2) curriculum vitae and list of publications; (3) synopsis of proposed research project, and why it may be successfully conducted at UCLA, including publication goals; (4) sample syllabi for introductory courses and graduate seminars for a 10 week quarter; and (5) names of three referees.

Deadline for applications is February 15, 2019 and the Search Committee will begin reviewing the applications on March 1st. 

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04237

 

1.International Conference: “Untangling Popular Power: Rhetoric, Faith, and Social Order in the Middle East,” Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life and Columbia Global Center Amman, Jordan, 2-3 March 2019

This forum aims to explore the extent to which recently emerging populisms in the contemporary Middle East are illustrative of a new historical trend, and/or the extent to which they are a continuation of the diverse strategies for the mobilization of peoples that were deployed during international anti-colonial projects and civil rights movements.
Deadline for final papers: 15 January 2018. Information:
https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/call-papers-untangling-popular-power-rhetoric-faith-and-social-order-middle-east-march-2-3

 

 

 

2. International Conference on Ιbadi Studies 2019: “Ibadism and the Study of Islam: A view from the edge”, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto, 17-19 June 2019

The Conference will locate the study of Ibadism interdisciplinarily as we examine how the spatial metaphor of center and edge, when applied to the study of Ibadism, can gesture to new research orientations in the field of Islamic studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2019.  Information: https://ibadistudies.org/index.php

 

 

 

3. Panel: “Beyond ‘Minorities’, Beyond Millet: Non (Sunni-)Muslim Groups and the Ottoman State in the “Post-Classical Age”, during the MESA Meeting in New Orleans, 14-17 November 2019

The panel aims to develop fresh and likewise philologically grounded perspectives on these communities, whose history in the Ottoman Empire is oftentimes misconstrued by outdated binaries, such as orthodoxy-heterodoxy, minority-majority, high-low-Islam etc.

Abstracts for papers may be sent to benjamin.weineck@uni-bayreuth.de until 1 February 2019

 

 

 

4. Visiting Fellowships at Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program: “Law and Social Change” for 2019–2020 Academic Year

We welcome applicants with a JD, LLM, SJD, PhD or other comparable degree who are interested in spending from one month up to one academic year in residence at Harvard Law School working on an independent project.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://ilsp.law.harvard.edu/how-to-apply/

 

 

 

5. German Parliamentary Scholarship for Young Arab Graduates in Berlin, 1-30 September 2019

The scholarship program is aimed at highly-motivated, capable and talented young individuals from the Arab region who are open to new ideas, interested in politics and wish to play an active and responsible role in shaping the democratic future of their country. Very good knowledge of German is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2018. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian/250618

 

 

 

6. Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship is now available for the study of Kurdish(sorani) language – 1st year and 2nd year – in the 2019 summer Language Workshop at Indiana University-Bloomington.

IU Summer Language Workshop:

https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/

 

Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship:

https://hls.indiana.edu/student-life/scholarships/flas.html?fbclid=IwAR2yh7dSpzg5Tx8EOWnkDr0Cj1z86foPMXSDbfT1CXyaxGdRdeo8m6S2vJA

 

 

7. Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan 

Fall 2019 Fellowship for U.S. Citizens and Permanent Residents – March 1, 2019

Program Overview: The Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP-AIPS) is accepting applications for its Fall 2019 intensive Urdu language immersion program based at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Pakistan until March 1, 2019. Jointly administered by the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) and the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan (BULPIP) at the University of California, Berkeley, this Urdu language program offers daily classroom instruction, five days a week, for approximately fifteen weeks. Classes are small and individual tutorials provided. There are regular assignments outside of class and special emphasis is placed on connecting with the local speech community as well as self-management of learning. Participants need to take part in all program events, such as attending films, plays and other cultural activities. All admitted students, who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, receive program fellowships.

Applications materials must be submitted on Tango by March 1, 2019, before 5 pm (Pacific Standard Time):

 

Please check for detailed requirements at:

Berkeley-AIPS Urdu Language Program in Pakistan 2019

 

 

 

8. A tribute to Ehsan Yarshater (Video)

Speaker: Shapour Rasekh

22nd annual Conference of Persian Arts and Letters

London, Dec. 2018

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

 

PERSIAN DUTCH NETWORK

www.persiandutch.com

 

 

 

9. Conference: “Politics of Religious Knowledge and Ignorance”, Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR), Toronto, 21-23 May 2019

Given the continued role of religion in the public realms of most societies, how might the anthropology of religion—alongside or distinct from theology and the natural sciences—articulate an equally public voice?

Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2018. Information: http://sar.americananthro.org/activities/meeting/

 

 

 

10. International Conference: “Pilgrimages and Tourism”, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Re-search, Cambridge, 15-16 June 2019

This conference seeks to analyze the complex concepts of pilgrimages and tourism. What is a pilgrimage? Do pilgrimages contribute to the sense of community and belonging? Is tourism a transformative experience?  How do souvenirs, memorabilia and travelogues facilitate imagination of other people and places? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: http://tourism.lcir.co.uk/

 

 

 

11. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA),

New Orleans, LA, 14-17 November 2019

MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

 

 

 

12. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship on “Epidemics in the Middle East”, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

The fellowship is part of the project “The Lifetimes of Epidemics in Europe and the Middle East” which sets out to analyze and understand the different temporalities of epidemics. Qualification requirements:  PhD or equivalent academic qualifications in a field relevant to the project; specialisation in language-based Middle Eastern studies; etc.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/161101/post-doctoral-research-fellowship

 

 

 

13. Visiting (Research) Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2019-20, University of Oxford

These Fellowships carry a stipend of £5000, with membership of the Common Room, office space and access to the resources of the Centre.

Deadline for applications: 13 January 2019. Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/sites/www.oxcis.ac.uk/files/inline-files/Visiting%20Fellowships%20Poster%202018-19_4.pdf

 

 

 

14. Postdoctoral Position at SASNET for Religion and Politics in South Asia, Lund University

The position is full-time, divided as follows: 80% will be spent on research directly linked to religion and politics in South Asia, and 20% on teaching and other tasks related to education and administration.To be appointed as a postdoc you will need to have earned a PhD in the social sciences or other related subject.

Deadline for applications: 6 January 2019. Information: https://lu.mynetworkglobal.com/en/what:job/jobID:241035/type:job/where:4/apply:1?fbclid=IwAR2WRVzOMjeVlq2teQdbvJ_1fX4b6WpXAkaM30JP9AOxYj_lIi26blMVVoQ

 

 

 

15. Assistant Professor in the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark

Applicants must have a Ph.D.-degree in the study of religions (‘comparative religion’), and document research expertise in a field of specialization as well as a potential for teaching in this as well as in other fields.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58040

 

 

 

16. Two AUC Summer Course for Islamic Studies in Cairo for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students

The general program (June 16 – July 12) covers Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic Law, and Sufism while the Islamic Law program (July 14 – August 8) covers origins, cases, criminal law, and post-colonial law

Deadline for application: 15 April 2019. Information: www.cairosummerinstitute.com

 

 

 

17. This year the University of Oxford 2019 Slade Professor is Finbarr Barry Flood, Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University.  He will be speaking on ‘Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm’.

 

Wednesdays 5pm, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG

 

16 January The Making of an Image Problem

23 January Mimesis and Magic: The Lives of Images Revisited

30 January Regulating the Gaze in the Medieval Mosque

06 February Economies of Imaging: Bowls, Baths and Bazaars

13 February Grammars of Defacement: Censure and Redemption

20 February Figuring for Piety: Strategies of Negotiation (Followed by a drinks reception)

27 February Statue Histories: Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism

06 March Beyond Enlightenment? Towards a Conclusion (Followed by questions and a discussion)

 

 

 

18. Other Posts:

 

Bard Graduate Center – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islamic Art and
Material Culture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58075

 

University of California Berkeley – Assistant Professor – Southeast
Asian Studies Modern or Pre-Modern Period
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58077

 

Emory University – South Asian Studies Librarian
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58053

 

1.„Seminar for Arabian Studies”, British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA), University of Leiden, 11-13 July 2019

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international forum that meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2019. Information: https://www.thebfsa.org/the-2019-seminar/

 

 

 

2. Posts

a) PhD Position on Islamic Law, Contemporary Islamic Law in Muslim States and Islamic Family Law, Maastricht University

PhD researchers participate in the Maastricht University Graduate School of Law. They will prepare a PhD thesis in English or Dutch within the Faculty of Law’s research programme. Supervision will be provided by Prof. Susan Rutten, Professor of Islamic Family Law in a European Context.

Deadline for submitting a draft proposal: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/51315/phd-candidates-at-the-faculty-of-law; Contact: s.rutten@maastrichtuniversity.nl

 

b) Research Fellowships in the 2019-2020 Program of the Middle East Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School

These one-year fellowships are available for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy. All fellowships carry a stipend. Citizens of all countries are invited to apply.

Deadline for application: 15 January 2019. Information: http://links.hks-belfercenter.mkt4851.com/servlet/MailView?ms=MjA3NDcxNzIS1&r=MjM2MzYyMzc5OTU1S0&j=MTQwMTI0MzAwOAS2&mt=1&rt=0

 

c) Postdoctoral Research Associate in Contemporary Politics in the Arab World, Princeton University

Applicants can be from the disciplines of history, politics, economics and international relations. The appointment will be for the year, September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2020. Candidates must hold the Ph.D.

Deadline for applications: 30 January 2019. Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=9961

 

d) Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics/Middle East/North Africa, Virginia Tech

Candidates must have a research focus that involves comparative political analysis in the MENA region and demonstrated excellence in research. They also must have evidence of teaching effectiveness to meet the Department’s key teaching needs in its B.A. and M.A. programs. Teaching requirements for this position will be four courses a year. A PhD in Political Science or a closely related field is required by the time of appointment.

Review of applications start: 22 January 2019. Information: https://listings.jobs.vt.edu/postings/92715

 

e) Full-Time Continuing Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Arabic, College of the Holy Cross

The position is established for an initial term of three academic years, beginning in Fall 2019, and the appointment holds the rank of lecturer. The position will be reviewed for renewal in the second year of the term. If the position is re-approved for another three years, the holder of the position will be reviewed in the third year for reappointment. Candidates must have native or near native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic; a master’s degree in Arabic language teaching.

Review of applications starts 1 February 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/59022

 

f) Visiting Scholar Grants to Use the Archives at the Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Funding for researchers – at all levels of their career from graduate students to senior scholars – working on early Arab diaspora and migration to work at the Khayrallah Center for a period of 1 to 2 weeks.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis with no deadline. Information: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/awards/VisitingScholar.php

 

 

 

3. Arabic Summer Program at McGill University, Montreal, 7 June – 2 August 2019

Intensive and immersive summer program open to undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals. 170 in-class hours, 67 hours of extra-curriculars. Levels from absolute beginner to higher intermediate.

Deadline for registration: 1 March 2019. Information: https://www.mcgill.ca/arabic-summer

 

 

 

4. 6000 images archéologiques de la Syrie en libre accès

Au cours de l’été 2018, l’Institut français du Proche-Orient (Ifpo) a mis en ligne sur MédiHAL plus de 6000 images archéologiques de la Syrie issues de ses fonds documentaires. Ce sont plus de 8500 images scientifiques qui sont aujourd’hui accessibles en libre accès dans la collection de l’Ifpo.

Information : http://www.ifporient.org/6000-images-archeologiques-de-la-syrie-en-libre-acces/

1.Gerlach Press titles on many current topics are available as eBooks from JSTOR, the leading and eBook provider.
More information on Gerlach Press eBooks on Middle East & Islamic Studies can be found here:
Direct Link to Gerlach Press at JSTOR:
https://tinyurl.com/y9nrnsjx
List of all Gerlach Press eBooks at JSTOR:
https://tinyurl.com/yccjeck8

 

 

 

2. Deadline extended

BRAIS 2019

The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies

15 April – 16 April 2019

(Arrival and Registration from 14 April)

University of Nottingham

The deadline for abstracts has been extended until 6 January 2019

 

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers for the Sixth Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all disciplinary approaches to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), modern and premodern.

Plenary sessions at the conference

The conference committee is very pleased to announce that plenary lectures at the conference will be delivered by Maribel Fierro (CSIC, Madrid) on ‘Rulers as Authors in the Medieval Islamic West’; Khaled Fahmy (University of Cambridge) on ‘Implementing Shari’a in Modern Egypt: A Medical Perspective’, and Alison Scott-Baumann (SOAS, London) and the ‘Re/presenting Islam on Campus’ team.

Abstract Deadline: Sunday 6 January 2019.

For details on how to submit an abstract, see:

http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019-call-for-papers

 

 

 

3. The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986.  The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year.

The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £150 for the runner up. We require:
A copy of the thesis (electronic) and a letter of endorsement/support from your supervisor.
Entries should be sent to louise.haysey@brismes.org .

Deadline | 31 January 2019.

 

 

 

4. CfP: UCL-Qatar Symposium on Living Arabic-Script Manuscript Cultures

15-16 April 2019

University College London- Qatar
Doha, Qatar

 

“The fascination of work with Islamic manuscripts lies in its direct contact with history, reviving it in the moment of studying it…Manuscripts reveal cultural exchanges across the borders of regions and times defined by ethnic, political, social, and language patterns” (Brinkmann & Wiesmuller, 2009, p. 15). The present day scholarly study of manuscripts – addressing their texts, contexts, and material form – has also produced new cultural exchanges. Through their study, preservation, collection, and digitization, latter day manuscript cultures of readership and engagement have arisen, cultivated by networks of scholars, archivists, librarians, conservators, students, and collectors, who make and make re/use of digital libraries, databases and social media in dynamic ways.

 

Archivists have argued that historical records are “recontextualized throughout every stage of the records life” and that they are constantly being activated with each interaction, interrogation and interpretation they undergo over time (Ketelaar, 2001, p.137). In this symposium, we intend to make explicit the ways in which modern day interactions with Arabic-script manuscripts are  contributing to the formation and elaboration of contemporary manuscript cultures of reception, readership and engagement.

 

We would like to examine the multifaceted aspects of these living* Arabic script manuscript cultures wherever they exist, be they in North and West Africa, South (East) Asia, the Levant, the Gulf, or the Americas and Europe.

 

In this vein, we invite papers that explore the dynamics of modern day Arabic-script manuscript cultures. This could include, but should not be limited to:

 

• Networks, discourses and lineages of present-day manuscript scholars
• Internet and social media as a facilitator of exchange
• Organizations, universities or foundations with special focus and mission to serve manuscript culture
• Understudied or marginalized manuscripts and manuscript cultures
• The culture of Orientalist manuscript scholarship
• Collections as manifestations of manuscript cultures
• Inheritances from earlier manuscript cultures
• The (re)publication, translation, and contemporary reception of specific scholarly manuscripts

*By “existing” we are not referring to the ongoing production/craft of manuscripts.*

 

Presenters whose papers are accepted will have their costs covered for transportation to and accommodation during the symposium.

Please submit an abstract no more than 500 words to qtap.qatar@ucl.ac.uk . The abstract should sufficiently detail the topic of the paper and the research approach that will be taken to address it. Also included should be the presenter’s name, affiliation (if any) and email address.

Abstracts must be submitted no later than: 18 January 2019

Abstracts accepted and presenters notified no later than:  15 February 2019

Symposium takes place 15-16 April 2019

 

 

5. CFP: “The Ties that Bind”: Structures and Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire

 

As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the structures and mechanisms that allowed the early Islamic empire to function.

 

The conference will take place 2-6^th December, 2019.

Please send an abstract of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31^st 2019.

 

Subsidies for travel and accommodation will be available.

For a detailed description of the conference see the EmCo project website:

https://emco.hcommons.org/2018/11/22/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-d…

 

 

 

6. Registration is open for the conference on Leadership, Authority and Representation in British Muslim Communities to be held at Cardiff University on 21^st January 2019.  The conference fee is £30 (including a vegetarian lunch and refreshments) with a concessionary rate of £15 is available for imams, students and the unwaged.  The registration deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 9^th January; we will not be accepting payment on the day so the only way to register attendance is through the online portal ahead of the deadline.

We are also pleased to share the conference programme which, alongside a series of Pecha Kucha style presentations, includes panels titled ‘Training Muslim Leaders in the West’ and ‘Changing Loci of Authority in British Islam’.  Additionally, Professor Ataullah Siddiqui (Markfield Institute of Higher Education) and Shaukat Warraich (Faith Associates) will deliver keynote lectures and a discussion panel on ‘The Future Role of Imams in Britain’ will feature Dr Shuruq Naguib, Dr Atif Imtiaz, Mufti Dr Abdur Rahman Mangera, Dr Myriam François-Cerrah, Imam Qari Asim MBE and Rehanah Sadiq (chaired by Saleem Kidwai OBE, Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Wales).  We hope you can join us!

The 2019 Public Seminar series which will kick off on 6^th February with Dr Anabel Inge’s session titled: ‘The Making of a Salafi Muslim Woman: Paths to Conversion’.

 

 

 

7. Annual Conference of the “Middle East and Islamic Studies Association of Israel (MEISAI)”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 30 May 2019

Scholars from all areas of study of the Middle East, Islam and Middle Eastern languages, with no limitation concerning discipline, period or sub-region, are welcome to send proposals.

Deadline for abstracts: 24 February 2019. Information: https://www.meisai.org.il/en/

 

 

 

8. Conference: “Pilgrimage and the Senses”, University of Oxford, 7 June 2019

This interdisciplinary conference hosted at the University of Oxford aims to shed light on how sensory perception shapes and is shaped by the experience of pilgrimage across cultures, faith traditions, and throughout history.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2019. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3112523/cfp-pilgrimage-and-senses-conference-oxford-7-june-2019