Shii News – Academic Items
1.Submissions Invited for 2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize
About the Prize
The 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. This 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 £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University in 2022 is eligible to apply. We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
To enter, please send the following to office@brismes.org:
- An electronic copy of your thesis
- A letter of nomination from your supervisor
Deadline: Midnight on 31 January 2023
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/submissions-open-for-2023-leigh-douglas-memorial-prize
2. PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)
The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna offers students an array of programs in interdisciplinary and comparative historical research. The CEU History Department is recognized for its innovative approaches to historical studies and graduate education. Our international faculty offer expertise that extends from the early modern period to the study of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, as well as the post-communist period; from numerous aspects of social, cultural, political, and intellectual history to religious, visual and archival studies.
CEU is an English-language, student-focused research university located in Vienna and accredited both in Austria and the United States. CEU attracts talented students and scholars from around the world. Our student/faculty ratio (7:1) allows for small research-driven and discussion-based seminars and close guidance from faculty members.
Scholarships and Application Deadline
The majority of our students receive financial aid regardless of nationality. Research grants are available for all students. We also offer a fully-funded merit scholarship in our MA programs, the Gerd Bucerius History Scholarship. The deadline to apply for admission and financial aid for the 2023-24 academic year is February 1, 2023 (23:59 CET).
Programs Offered
- Master of Arts in Comparative History (One Year)
- Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to the Present (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History [MATILDA] (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in “History in the Public Sphere” [HIPS] (Two Years)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History
Additional Certificates in Various Specializations
Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Thought, Religious Studies, Visual Theory and Practice, Archives and Evidentiary Practices (in collaboration with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives), Central European Studies, and Romani Studies.
Selected Areas of Research
o Comparative history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires
o Religious studies
o History of nationalism and national movements
o Comparative history of fascism
o Comparative history of communism
o Early modern history
o Diplomatic history
o Gender history
o Art history
o History of political thought
o Social and labor history
o Soviet and post-Soviet history
o History of Central Asia
o Urban studies
o Visual studies
o History of Medicine
o History of science
Follow this link or write to Daniela Munteanu (history@ceu.edu) for further information.
3. We are writing to solicit applications from doctoral students and other researchers for our seventh Political Economy Summer Institute to be held 1-4 June 2023 hosted by George Mason University on the political economy of the Middle East. The aim of the Political Economy Summer Institute(PESI) is both to provide graduate level engagement and instruction as well as to connect doctoral students and independent researchers with mid-career and senior scholars working in the field of critical political economy. The Summer Institute will consist of three main parts: (1) doctoral students presenting their research and receiving written and verbal feedback from the participants, (2) methodological and theoretical workshop sessions led by faculty scholars, and (3) small break-out group discussions that build on the faculty-led sessions.
Anyone interested in submitting an application to attend the workshop should provide the following: [If you are not a Ph.D. student, you may still apply.]
- Title of your current research project.
- Institutional affiliation along with name and contact information for your thesis/dissertation advisor (and any additional committee members if possible).
- Research narrative (2500 words maximum, not including bibliography). Please lay out your primary research question, scope of your research, methodology, and where you are in the research process.
- Personal narrative (500 words maximum). Please explain how your attendance at the Political Economy Summer Institute can support your current research project and how you hope to benefit from participating.
- Expected completion date of Ph.D., if applicable.
- Funding. Please indicate whether you are able to secure funding from your department or home institution.
- List of any relevant publications.
Please submit all applications by 31 January 2023 to the Pedagogy Working Group at the Political Economy Project through the following online form:
Apply here:
4. The Islamic College
Monthly Seminar: The Future of Interfaith (Towards Universal Fraternity)
A Lecture by Revd Jon Dal Din
Tuesday 20th December 2022
6.00 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. (LONDON TIME)
Register at:
5. UCLA
The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:00am Pacific via Zoom
6. The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science. The successful candidate will be appointed to one of the eight departments in the Division: Asian Languages and Literature, French and Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
The successful candidate for this position, researching and teaching primarily in one or several languages other than English, will be expected to :
- create, analyze, use, present and communicate data, broadly understood, in disciplines of language, literature, and/or culture
- explore a variety of forms of data including large historical or contemporary corpora, textual archives, digital media and genres, or online datasets and their uses
- engage a range of analytical techniques and methods of analysis
- investigate questions and challenges posed by data science and by data, such as the role of bias in algorithms, uncertainty in artificial intelligence, and/or the use of ever-larger datasets in machine translation
- engage in an active research agenda
Since this is a cross-disciplinary position, the successful applicant will also be expected to work across departmental and disciplinary boundaries, and contribute to the development of existing cross-disciplinary initiatives (e.g., Translation Studies Hub, Textual and Digital Studies, Global Literary Studies) and to new curricula and programs in areas of inquiry such as human and machine translation, computational text analysis, AI and creativity, the future of language learning.
In particular, this position has been created in conjunction with the establishment of a new minor in Data Science intended for Social Science and Humanities students (http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/single-pages/data-science-minor/). The candidate hired into this position will dedicate 25% of their teaching and service responsibilities to this program, with the remainder determined within the context of the appointing department. The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the minor, including developing and teaching courses in the required Data Skills and Data Studies categories, and serving on the Steering and Curriculum Committees of the Data Science minor.
Candidates should in addition be prepared to take full advantage of the rich array of resources at the UW for research and teaching in data science as well as in the digital humanities, including the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the eScience Institute, the Open Scholarship Commons in the UW Libraries, and the Humanities Data Lab.
The candidate is also expected to actively contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their potential department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in departmental statements and in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. This position has an anticipated start date of September 2023, and will have a 9-month service period.
Qualifications
Applicants must, by the start of the appointment, have a PhD, or foreign equivalent, in a field consistent with an appointment in a department in the Division of the Humanities.
The successful candidate must have a record of innovative and effective teaching and student mentoring; and a record of contribution to departmental or institutional diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Instructions
Priority will be given to applicants who submit the following materials by January 9:
- A cover letter that describes the candidate’s suitability for this position and explains how the candidate’s experiences, activities, and goals will lead to success in a cross-disciplinary position
- CV
- Research statement, not to exceed one page, describing present projects and future directions
- A representative example of research (such as a chapter, article, or a link to an online project or a digital tool)
- A teaching portfolio, which should provide evidence of teaching excellence and may include such items as: example syllabi, lecture videos, website links for courses or student activities, or digital tools created by the candidate
- A statement, not to exceed one page, on how their work would contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/)
- Three letters of recommendation
Because applicants are expected to come from a variety of disciplinary orientations, traditional and nontraditional backgrounds, resulting in different professional profiles, applicants are welcomed in any of the above materials to provide details that can help to contextualize their dossier. Such details might include experiences, aspects of training, outreach, teaching or research that are felt to contribute to a distinctive professional profile. Contact Prof. Gina Levow for questions regarding this position (levow@uw.edu).
7. ANN: List of 2022 Books on Map History (and some from 2020 and 2021, and earlier)
https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2022/12/16/map-history-books-published-in-2022
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- December 17, 2022
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