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CONFERENCES
1. Conference on "The International Politics of Middle East Migration”, University of Birmingham, 7-8
March 2019
2. Conference on "The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation", London Middle
East Institute, 27-28 March 2019
3. Conference on "Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Across and Between the Local and the
Global", Leibnitz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 3-5 April 2019
5. Conference on "A Century of Human Displacement and Dispossession: Europe and the Middle
East, 1919-2019", American University of Beirut, 14-15 May 2019
6. Conference on "Basic Concepts and Categories of Jewish Thought: Sources and Contexts",
Department of Jewish Culture, Saint-Petersburg State University, 29-31 May 2019
7. 3rd International Kurdish Studies Conference on “Shifting Dynamics of the Kurdistan Question in a
Changing Middle East”, Middlesex University, London, 25-26 June 2019
9. Conference on “Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods", Nottingham Trent
University, 9-11 July 2019
10. International Brainstorming Meeting on "Bodies Matter: Death and Shiite Muslim Migrants",
Swansea University, 12 July 2019
11. Workshop on “European Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protections
in Turkey: Exceptional or Symptomatic?”, Freie Universität Berlin, 29-30 August 2019
12. Conference on “Sufism and the Body”, University of Utrecht, 12-13 September 2019
13. Dean Hopper Conference on "Refugees, Citizenship, and Belonging: Towards a History of the
Present", Drew University, Madison, 20-21 September 2019
15. 20th Annual Conference of the "Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)", George Washington
University, Washington D.C., 10-13 October 2019
16. Conference on "The Global Syrian Refugee Crisis: Health and Socioeconomic Perspectives,
Challenges and Opportunities", Gaziantep University, 14-18 October 2019
17. Workshop: “Beyond Crisis: The Course of People and Water in Egypt’s Political Ecology”, Rosa-
Luxemburg Stiftung / Social Justice Platform, Cairo, October 2019
18. Travel Grants for the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and
Africa (ASMEA), Washington D.C., 31 October–2 November 2019
19. 9th Conference 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
20. Conference on “The Aftermath of the First World War: Humanitarianism in the Mediterranean”,
University of Milan, 3-4 December 2019
21. Conference on "Immortality of the Soul in Islam and Christianity", Islamic Sciences and Culture
Academy (ISCA), Tehran, 4-5 March 2020
POSITIONS
28. Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
OTHER INFORMATION
30. Workshop on “Constitutional Law and Political Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran”, Tehran, 29
April-3 May 2019
31. Summer School on “Identity in the Middle East and North Africa: Actors, Strategies and Dynamics”,
Torino, 17-21 June 2019
32. Summer School on ‘The Middle East in Global Politics’, London School of Economics and Political
Science, 17 June–5 July 2019
33. Summer School on “The Middle East in Global Politics”, SOAS, 1–19 July 2019
35. Articles on “Transnational American Studies within the Post-Arab Spring Context” for Special Issue
of the "Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)"
37. Articles on "Critical Reflections on Contemporary Muslim Thought and Human Rights" for "Journal
of Contemporary Poetics"
40. Contributions sur “Demain, le printemps: Pratiques d’imagination et d’anticipation dans le monde
arabe” pour un numéro d’Horizons Maghrébins
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Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz, in cooperation of the University of
Sharjah/UAE
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CONFERENCES
The conference features panelists discussing refugee, migration, and diaspora politics across the Middle
East, and draws from both local and international perspectives. The keynote address, "Syria: From Refuge
to Refugee State,” will be given by Professor Dawn Chatty (University of Oxford).
Program at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i22iwO4MbBk8ff-aJFwDiZGsTv-SGRQs6eEOBcux6-
c/edit
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2. Conference on "The Egyptian Revolution of 1919: The Birth of the Modern Nation", London
Middle East Institute, 27-28 March 2019
The Egyptian independence movement in 1919 led to the recognition of Egyptian sovereignty in 1922, an
Egyptian constitution in 1923, and Saad Zaghloul’s appointment as the first prime minister of a government
elected by suffrage in 1924. The conference will include presentations by Egyptian and international
historians on the causes and events of the revolution.
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3. Conference on "Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Across and Between the Local and the
Global", Leibnitz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 3-5 April 2019
The conference marks the completion of ZMO’s twelve-year research program "Muslim Worlds – Worlds of
Islam? Conceptions, Practices, and Crises of the Global".
See program at
http://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/2019/Conferences/ConferenceProgramme_ClaimingAndMakingMuslim
Worlds_Final.pdf. Contact: MuslimWorlds2019@zmo.de
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5. Conference on "A Century of Human Displacement and Dispossession: Europe and the
Middle East, 1919-2019", American University of Beirut, 14-15 May 2019
The conference committee welcomes proposals across disciplines of migration studies, refugee studies,
history, politics, sociology, anthropology and other relevant scholarly fields.
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6. Conference on "Basic Concepts and Categories of Jewish Thought: Sources and Contexts",
Department of Jewish Culture, Saint-Petersburg State University, 29-31 May 2019
Conference sessions will include discussions on basic concepts, categories and formation of the intellectual
vocabulary of the Jewish thought in early period (Biblical and Post-Biblical era), and in later periods
(medieval Jewish philosophy, Kabbalah, Hasidism, early modern and contemporary Jewish Philosophy).
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This conference aims to bring together researchers from a range of disciplines working on Kurdish history,
politics, culture, gender, minority rights and diaspora to examine the ongoing political, social and cultural
developments in the lives of the Kurds and Kurdistan.
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In hidden corners of now-minority Muslim communities, traces of old textual circulations remain. Many sources
survive in non-traditional archives, where the apparatus for accessing them is often poorly developed. This
workshop aims to build a network of scholarship and archival practice that accelerates the recovery of these
texts, rebuilds their trans-national context, and brings their stories of neglected Islamic traditions to life.
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9. Conference on “Religion and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods",
Nottingham Trent University, 9-11 July 2019
The conference will incorporate a broad chronological spectrum from medieval to early modern with a view
to developing current research, sharing techniques, investigating new approaches and enhancing study in
the wider field.
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10. International Brainstorming Meeting on "Bodies Matter: Death and Shiite Muslim Migrants",
Swansea University, 12 July 2019
The aim is to bring together scholars of different fields in social and human sciences, NGOs and GOs,
policymakers, journalists, and religious leaders to discuss how Shiite Muslim migrants (including refugees
and asylum-seekers) deal with the phenomenon of death, and how the host countries, their governments
and institutions, and consequently local communities respond to this.
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11. Workshop on “European Responses to the Decay of the Rule of Law and Human Rights
Protections in Turkey: Exceptional or Symptomatic?”, Freie Universität Berlin, 29-30 August
2019
We particularly encourage proposals that offer a comparative analysis of the responses of European
institutions to the other states exhibiting similar tendencies and/or a comparative analysis of the European
institutional responses with the responses of other intergovernmental organs such as the United Nations
bodies.
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12. Conference on “Sufism and the Body”, University of Utrecht, 12-13 September 2019
Drawing on recent literature regarding sensation, embodiment, and the material turn in the study of religion, this
conference assesses the role of the human body in Sufism. It attempts to bridge the gap between the study of
the spiritual and corporeal in Sufism by focusing on the place of the body in Sufi thought, practice, literature, and
art.
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13. Dean Hopper Conference on "Refugees, Citizenship, and Belonging: Towards a History of
the Present", Drew University, Madison, 20-21 September 2019
The Conference will place the current “refugee crisis” in cultural, historical and political context. We invite
papers engaging with the intellectual and cultural history of the “refugee,” and related topics like home,
statelessness, and extraterritoriality.
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The conference aims at discussing the cycle of the creation and decay of architectural heritage, thereby
investigating, inter alia, (i.) the historical, philosophical, and social implications of destruction and
(re-)construction, (ii.) the effects of destruction and (re-)construction on individual and collective
psychology, etc.
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15. 20th Annual Conference of the "Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)", George
Washington University, Washington D.C., 10-13 October 2019
The conference concentrates on the five post-Soviet states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), as well as Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Xinjiang, and Mongolia.
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16. Conference on "The Global Syrian Refugee Crisis: Health and Socioeconomic Perspectives,
Challenges and Opportunities", Gaziantep University, 14-18 October 2019
The conference seeks to promote a better understanding of the effects of forced migration, displacement
and socioeconomic deterioration on physical and mental health as well as social behaviour. It aims to build
links and promote partnerships between researchers, governmental and non-governmental organisations
and stakeholders in Turkey, the MENA region and their counterparts in countries with Syrian refugees.
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17. Workshop: “Beyond Crisis: The Course of People and Water in Egypt’s Political Ecology”,
Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung / Social Justice Platform, Cairo, October 2019
We are seeking contributions that establish clear connections between water and national political
economy, social rights, authoritarian regimes, political ecology, global economic relationships,
developmental agendas, and finally environmental justice. We ultimately seek to elucidate the political and
economic relationships that help reproduce historical inequalities with respect to water in Egypt, and then
propose interventions for alternative governance.
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18. Travel Grants for the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East
and Africa (ASMEA), Washington D.C., 31 October – 2 November 2019
Grants up to $750 are offered to scholars of the Middle East and of Africa focused on the world of Islam,
Islamism, and related issues on the continent.
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19. 9th Conference 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.
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20. Conference on “The Aftermath of the First World War: Humanitarianism in the
Mediterranean”, University of Milan, 3-4 December 2019
The conference proposes a dual shift of perspective: thematic and geographical. On the one hand, it
focuses on international relief and rehabilitation programs during and in the aftermath of war. On the other
hand, the conference specifically concerns the Mediterranean area thereby shifting our attention away from
the well-studied Northern European and Transatlantic region.
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21. Conference on "Immortality of the Soul in Islam and Christianity", Islamic Sciences and
Culture Academy (ISCA), Tehran, 4-5 March 2020
Topics of interest: the concept of death; the concept of immortality; the criteria of personal identity; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 March 2019. Information: http://seminars.ir/soul2/en/
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POSITIONS
The Institute is interested in candidates with a strong record in research and teaching related to early
modern and modern developments in the Ottoman Empire and/or Turkey. Knowledge of Ottoman Turkish,
Arabic and Persian will be particularly welcome.
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Applicants should hold a PhD and have 5 to 7 years of research and/or academic experience with a focus
on the politics, security, international relations of the Middle East with a particular focus on the Gulf states.
Excellent language skills in English are essential while a working knowledge of Arabic and French is
desirable.
Information: https://www.bussolainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Research-Fellow-Politics-and-
Security-002.pdf
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Applicants should hold a PhD and have 5 to 7 years of research and/or academic experience with a focus
on the economics, political economy, and technology of the Middle East with a particular focus on the Gulf
states. Excellent language skills in English are essential while a working knowledge of Arabic and French is
desirable.
Information: https://www.bussolainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Research-Fellow-Economics-
and-Technology-003.pdf
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Applicants should hold a PhD and have 5 to 7 years of research and/or academic experience with a focus
on the social and cultural field of the Middle East with a particular focus on the Gulf states. Excellent
language skills in English are essential while a working knowledge of Arabic and French is desirable.
Information: https://www.bussolainstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Research-Fellow-Society-and-
Culture-003.pdf
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Deadline for applications: 18 March 2019. Contact for Religious Studies: PD Dr. Rober Langer
(langer@oiist.org); for Human, Medicine and Society Dr. Melike Şahinol (sahinol@oiist.org)
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Qualification: ability to work and communicate in Arabic and English; academic rank of full professor at a
renowned academic institution; knowledge and experience in an academic setting, including curriculum and
instruction, research and scholarly activity, accreditation, admissions and financial aid, and academic
support services; etc.
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28. Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond
Scholars in Islamic art from any time period or geographic area are invited to apply. Prominent scholars whose
research focuses on contemporary Islamic art will be strongly considered. This is a fixed-term appointment
limited to a tenure of 9 months.
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OTHER INFORMATION
The Orient-Institut Beirut awards 3-month fellowships to established scholars who have attained distinction
in their fields and wish to make use of the facilities of the OIB to work on an article, research paper, or book
free from other academic obligations.
Applications are accepted by 1 April and 1 October of each year but should be submitted at least six
months prior to the proposed stay in Beirut.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/hans-robert-roemer-fellowships/
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30. Workshop on “Constitutional Law and Political Structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran”,
Tehran, 29 April-3 May 2019
31. Summer School on “Identity in the Middle East and North Africa: Actors, Strategies and
Dynamics”, Torino, 17-21 June 2019
The summer school critically unpacks identity and its politicization, exploring the role they have had across
time and space to read and represent regional political and social events. Identity is thus used to frame
relevant topic such as class, the status of minorities, State formation, sectarianism, language, and gender
issues, among others.
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32. Summer School on ‘The Middle East in Global Politics’, London School of Economics and
Political Science, 17 June–5 July 2019
The course covers the history and politics of the Middle East since 1918 through twelve lectures dedicated
to each of the main regional powers and to aspects of the region’s politics such as political Islam,
nationalism, conflicts, the Arab Springs, etc.
Information: https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Summer-Schools/Summer-
School/Courses/Secure/International-Relations-Government-and-Society/IR160
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33. Summer School on “The Middle East in Global Politics”, SOAS, 1–19 July 2019
This module will place the modern Middle East in its global context without losing sight of local and regional
dynamics, cultures, and political traditions. We will explore histories of empire and decolonization,
alongside themes of hegemony and resistance, conflict and cooperation, identity and foreign policy.
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This journal considers academic papers that lie within geopolitics and political geography disciplines.
Academic papers in international relations, political sciences, political economy, strategic sciences,
international law and political sociology and other disciplines with geopolitical approach are also
considered.
Information: http://journal.iag.ir/journal/authors.note?lang=en
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35. Articles on “Transnational American Studies within the Post-Arab Spring Context” for
Special Issue of the "Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS)"
Papers are invited on: The post-Arab Spring dynamics and its impact on American Studies as a field of
study and its teaching outside the US. The racialization of Islam within a continuum of imperialism and fight
for civil rights and liberation. How Arabs, Americans, African Americans and other groups construct national
and transnational identities in light of local, regional, and global bio- and geo-politics, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2019. Contact: arabspringtas@gmail.com
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Each issue features reports of original investigation, presenting the latest developments in theory and
methodology of media and communication studies in English or Turkish.
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37. 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.
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The main aim is to create a virtual multi-disciplinary space in which all perspectives of the History,
Language and Literature of Jews and Muslims can converge, as well as themes on Judaism and Islam in
general. There is a special focus on Iberian Muslims and Jews and their Diaspora, entraining a comparative
analysis of historiographical, philosophical, anthropological and sociological discourses.
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Nous encourageons des contributions permettant de nourrir le débat théorique et conceptuel autour de la
question de la modération et d’analyser, à travers des approches empiriques et localisées, les stratégies et
les dynamiques islamistes dans les champs politiques en Afrique du Nord.
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