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4.2014 Yale	Distinguished Lecture and Research Workshop: “Transnational Feminisms and the New Middle East Insurrections", Yale University, 3 April 2014 The  Distinguished Lecturer will be Dr. Sondra Hale of the Departments of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. During the day, we will host a research conference around the theme, including Dr. Hale’s Distinguished Lecture, followed by a dinner to celebrate JMEWS’s 10th anniversary. We encourage you to present your research or to attend this event as a guest. In order to present your research, please submit a 200-word abstract to jmews@yale.edu by 1 January 2014. Information http://www.jmews.org/programs/distinguished-lecture-workshop/?utm_source=December+2013&utm_campaign=JMEWS+Mailing+List&utm_medium=email
4.2014 Athens	Seventh Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 14-17 April 2014, Athens, Greece The conference is organized by the Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER). The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars, researchers and students from all areas of Mediterranean Studies, such as history, arts, archaeology, philosophy, culture, sociology, politics, international relations, economics, business, sports, environment and ecology, etc. Deadline for abstracts 31 December 2013. Information http://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean.htm
4.2014	Conference: "Arab Documentaries - Recording Whose 'Reality?",  University of Westminster London, 11 April 2014 This one-day conference is organised by the Arab Media Centre, Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster. We welcome papers from scholars and film-makers that will engage critically with particular aspects of Arab documentaries. The deadline for abstracts has been extended to 13 January, 2014. For more information: http://www.westminster.ac.uk/camri/research-centres/arab-media-centre/events/arab-documentaries-recording-whose-reality
4.2014 Istanbul	International Symposium: “Writing Women's Lives: Auto/Biography, Life Narratives, Myths and Historiography",  Yeditepe University, Istanbul, 19-20 April 2014 The symposium is organized by the Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation (WLICF) and Yeditepe University. It invites submission of abstracts of papers to be presented at its calls for papers from a broad, interdisciplinary field of women's life writing including biography and autobiography, letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories and other ways in which women's lives have been recorded. The call is open to various genres and national, regional and global cultural traditions of women's life writings as well as to papers on the related areas of women's oral traditions, oral history research, testimonies, and the representation of women's lives in all possible verbal and non-verbal art forms, such as documentaries, video, art, etc. Deadline for abstracts 15 December 2013. Information http://www.wwl-symposium.org/en/call_for_papers.asp
5.2014 London	First International Conference on Islamic E-Learning (ICIE-2014), Islamic College and Middlesex University, London, 26 May 2014 The main aim of this conference is providing an opportunity for academics, experts and researchers who are interested in the area of Islamic E-Learning settings to interact with each other and be familiar with the different aspects of this emerging issue. This conference covers all of the Technical, Methodological and Content-related issues within the area of Islamic e-learning. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - The specific technical features of e-learning settings to meet requirements of the Islamic courses - The current Islamic e-learning environments and their consistency with e-learning standards - Formal and vocational programmes in Islamic virtual environments - Islamic Lectures and e-learning of Islamic higher education - Students’ behaviour and attitudes with regard to implimetation of e-learning tools and environments - Cross cultural aspects of e-learning in Islamic programmes, Etc.  Information http://www.openstudy.org/conference
5.2014 Jerusalem	Workshop: " Reclaiming the City Square: Urban Protests in the Mediterranean", Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 25-27 May 2014  The aim of this academic workshop is to discuss and conceptualize the recent social protest movements from an interdisciplinary, regional perspective. We will study individual movements within the broader context of social movements in the Mediterranean and examine regional trends and commonalities. The city square—whether Tahrir, Taksim, or Rothschild—provides the main inspiration for this workshop: it is the place where citizens come to voice their concerns and express their demands.  Deadline for abstracts 1 February 2014. Information: http://vanleer.org.il/en/content/call-participationreclaiming-city-square-urban-protests-mediterranean
6.2014 Tel Aviv	International Research Workshop: “The Settlements in the West Bank (1967-2014): New Perspectives”, Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv, 29-30 June  2014 The research workshop aims at presenting a fresh perspective on one of the most controversial issues in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian relations, namely the presence of Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The workshop  aims at exploring less conventional approaches and angles that go beyond the immediate politico-diplomatic dynamics and impact of Israel’s settlement policy by bringing together different perspectives, disciplines and methodological approaches to the subject. We therefore invite contributions focusing on (although not necessarily limited to): the identity of settlers; the spatiality and the political economy of settlements; the comparative study of settlements. The deadline for abstracts submission is February 15st, 2014. For further information and contact details, please email marco.allegra@ymail.com or refer to the workshop website http://settlementsworkshop.wordpress.com/
8.2014 Ankara	Panel: "Forming the Modern Muslim – Islam, Education and the Individual in the Muslim World",  World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-22 August 2014 This panel calls for contributions about the making of contemporary Islamic education by political elites and state-employed intellectuals, Islamic revival and education movements like the Muslim Brotherhood, or independent Islamic preachers and educators. How does educational thought and practice reflect the wider context of ideas about national citizenship, economic agency, and the modern individual? Which are the various sources of tradition and modernity that go into the often complex and contradictory process of formulating specifically Islamic models of education? Please send a 250-word abstract (English and French welcome) following the guidelines of WOCMES 2014 to Sebastian Elsässer elsaesser@islam.uni-kiel.de. Deadline: 20 January 2014.  Information on WOCMES: www.wocmes2014.org
8.2014 Ankara	Panel: "Cycles of Revolts and Macro-historical and Structural Factors in the MENA Region", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-11 August 2014  The panel is chaired by Laura Feliu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). It will investigate especially the following dimensions: 1. Macro-historical and structural factors 2. Cycles and historical regularities of the popular revolts 3. Factors associated with the transnational ideological or value-laden axis. 4. Incidence of interstate dimension, and long-term changes in the international and regional balance of power. Possibility of financing the travel expenses for paper’s presenters. Proposals (including name, institutional affiliation, CV, paper title, short abstract of 300 characters and full abstract of 250 words in English or French) should be send to laura.feliu@uab.cat before 13 January 2014. Information on WOCMES: http://www.wocmes2014.org/
8.2914 Ankara	Panel: "Urban Restructuring and Urban Policy in the Arab World", World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Ankara, 18-22 August 2014 During the last decade, many major cities in the Arab World have faced huge processes of restructuring and renovation. Neoliberal patterns promoted by different political, economic and social actors pursue specific strategies to accumulate capital through new development schemes. Socio-spatial reconfiguration and urban fragmentation are the results. The panel will analyze key phenomena leading to the production of urban rent, such as large scale urban development projects, gentrification, heritage preservation and city marketing. Papers are invited from scholars and PhD students engaged in different academic fields whose research is based on empirical in-depth research. Please send your abstract  with no more than 300 words and a short CV to Jonas Margraff at the Centre for Research on the Arab World, University of Mainz, (j.margraff@geo.uni-mainz.de) until 25 January 2014.  Information on WOCMES: www.wocmes2014.org
8.2014	Fifth Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 25-28 August 2014 The objective of the Gulf Research Meeting is to provide an academic environment to foster Gulf studies and to encourage scholarly and academic exchange among those working on or interested in the developments taking place that are defining the Gulf region and their constituent societies. The Gulf Research Meeting will be hosting 14 workshops. Some of the topics are: - Social Media and the Changing Context of Politics in the Gulf - The United States and the Gulf: Towards a Reassessment of Gulf Commitments and Alignments? - Employed, yet underemployed and underestimated: Leadership, ownership and work motivation in the Gulf - Green Economy in the Gulf Region - Enhancing the Learning Ecosystem in the GCC: Learning Outside the Classroom - The GCC State’s Foreign and Security Policies after the Arab Spring - Determinants of Future Migration in the Gulf - Gulf Labor Market and Migration program. Etc. Deadline for applications February 15, 2014. Information http://grm.grc.net/. Accepted paper presenters will be eligible for a travel allowance. Contact Elsa Courdier under elsa@grc.net.
London 8-9.9. 2014	Symposium: "Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World", University of London, 8-9 September 2014 The Leverhulme Network 'Cartography between Europe and the Islamic World' aims to promote comparative, cross-disciplinary scholarship on Islamic and European cartography by bringing together experts in these two fields for a two-day symposium to be held at Queen Mary, University of London.. Participants are invited to explore moments of contact between traditions as well as differences and divergences. Reflections on the methodology of the comparative study of maps are also welcome. Papers may wish to address: - the contexts - material, political, spiritual, artistic - of mapmaking in Europe and the Islamic world; - interactions between European and Islamic mapmaking: exchange, influence, borrowing; - the cartography of al-Idrisi; - cartography in the Ottoman empire (up to c. 1600) etc. Proposals are encouraged from doctoral students, early-career and established scholars, and travel and accommodation for speakers will be funded. Deadline for abstracts 21 February 2014. Information http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=270
9.2014 Berlin	German-Israeli Summer School: "The Transmission of Ideas between Religious Communities in the Medieval World of Islam", Freie Universität Berlin, 15-19 September 2014

Θέσεις εργασίας/υποτροφίες

Research Associate as Coordinator for the Research Project: „The Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions toward the Center”, University of Hamburg

Commencing on April 1, 2014, the PhD position is half time (19,5 hours per week) and is remunerated at the TV-L salary level. This two-year contract terminates on 31 March 2016. Duties are academic services in the project. Outside of this position, the candidate is welcome for advancing his/her academic career, i.e. a PhD. The results gathered within the project can be part of the PhD.

Requirements: A university degree in a relevant subject within in the field of Middle Eastern history and culture. Fluent command of English and the willingness to familiarize her/himself with administrative procedures are required.

Deadline for application 15 January 2014. Information http://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/AAI_VordererOrient_15-01-14_e.pdf

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Senior Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

The position includes mainly teaching and supervision of students at first- and second-cycle level, but also research to some extent. The holder of the position will also be expected to participate in the development of courses and programmes within the subject area and related fields. Employment will start as soon as possible.

The applicant must hold a doctoral degree and have a research focus deemed relevant for the position. The applicant must also have demonstrated pedagogical proficiency.

Information: http://www.gu.se/english/about_the_university/announcements-in-the-job-application-portal/?languageId=0&disableRedirect=true&id=19144&Dnr=576540&Type=E

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 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies 2014-2015, Columbia University

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University's Middle East Institute invites applications for the 2014-2015 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Award, a post-doctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies. The one-semester fellowship carries a stipend of $25,000 and the status of post-doctoral research fellow or visiting scholar at Columbia University, as appropriate.

Deadline for application: 15 February 2014. Information http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/about/fellowships.html

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Inaugural Annual Fellowship in "Palestine & Law", 2014-2015, Columbia University

The Center for Palestine Studies at Columbia University seeks applicants for a residential Fellowship. The level of funding is individually determined based on candidates' needs and the Program's ability to meet them.

Deadline for application 3 February 2014. Information http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/about/fellowships.html

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Assistant Professor for Visual and Material Culture of the Mediterranean and/or Near Eastern World (ancient or early medieval), Auburn University  <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48185>

b) Lecturer in the History of Iran since c. 1500, School of Oriental and African Studies, London,  <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48182>

c) Two Postdoctoral Fellows in Israel Studies, New York University,  <http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=48162>

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Freie Universität Berlin (Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem solicit applications for the fourth German-Israeli Summer School, funded by the Einstein-Stiftung, Berlin.

The purpose of the School will be to familiarize the student participants with an integrative approach to the historiography of intellectual developments in the medieval, post-medieval and early modern period. Such a methodology requires first of all that the various intellectual histories be read together in order to analyze the ways in which their thought was formed and fashioned. Only such an integrative approach can allow us to fully grasp the various multidimensional flows of ideas and their respective transformation. [3] In addition to the philosophical/theological analysis of the material in question, the social aspects of the transmission of writings particularly beyond communal barriers shed an important light on the ways in which these processes of transmission took place

Information http://www.ihiw.de/w/e/summerschool/2014/ or contact ronny.vollandt@fu-berlin.de

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19. Research Grants Program on “Inequality Mobility and Development in the Arab Region” by the  Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS)

The competition aims at canvassing a broad range of research proposals from across the different countries and localities of the region. Grants will be available to both individual researchers and teams of researchers from the Arab region.

The deadline for application is 1 March 2014. Information: http://theacss.org/pages/inequality-mobility-development