CONFERENCES 1. Conference: “In and Out of Syria: A Conference on the War and the Refugee Crisis”, University of Texas, Austin, 15 February 2016 2. Congress: “Strategical Cooperation and Los Turcos”, Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM), Istanbul, 20-22 April 2016 3. Economic Forum, Middle East Research Institute (MERI), Erbil, Iraq, 26-28 April 2016 4. Conference: “Geography and the Environment in MENA”, Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS), Omaha, NE, 29 April - 1 May 2016 5. Conference: “Globalisation and its Discontents: Past, Present and Future”, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 5 May 2016 6. 31st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, MEHAT, University of Chicago, 6-7 May 2016 7. Symposium: “The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History", University of Cambridge, 14 May 2016 8. Conference: “Talking About ‘Arabs’. Echoes from Different Europes”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 27-28 May 2016 9. Conference: “After the Uprisings: Political, Economic, and Social Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, 31 May 2016 10. Workshop: “The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed”, University of Birmingham, 2-3 June 2016 11. Conference: “The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1911-1924)”, Addis Ababa University, 30 September - 1 October 2016 12. Conference: “Migrations and Borders in the 21st Century. The End of National Cultures and Identities?”, University Grenoble Alpes, France, 12-14 October 2016 13. Conference: “MediterráneoS 2016”, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (ILC-CCHS), Madrid, 26-28 October 2016 14. Workshop: “Water, Technology and the Nation-State”, University of Manchester, 28 October 2016 15. Annual Meeting, International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA), San Antonio, TX, 18-22 November 2016 16. Colloque: «L'habitat informel au Maghreb: champs, processus et acteurs», Centre Arabe des Recherches et de l’Etude des Politiques (CAREP) & Association Tunisienne des Etudes et des Recherches Urbaines (ATERU), Tunis, 24-25 Novembre 2016 17. Conference: “The ‘Dangerous Classes’ in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Oxford, 26 January 2017 POSITIONS 18. Program Officer, Higher Education in MENA Region, Higher Education Support Program (HESP), London 19. Tenured Academic Staff in Modern History of the Islamic World, University of Antwerp, Belgium 20. Full-time, Open Rank Position in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut OTHER INFORMATION 21. Seminar: “Good, Evil, and the Grey Zone: Religion’s Role in Genocide from the Holocaust to ISIS”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 27 June - 1 July 2016 22. Doctoral Programme, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg 23. Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research (CFPPR), Bilkent University, Ankara 24. Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Ali Shariati 25. Articles on “’Houses of Horrors’: Ethiopian Female Domestic Workers in the Middle East and Gulf States” for Issue of “African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal” 26. Letter by MESA on the Murder of the PhD Student Giulio Regeni and Open Letter to the Egyptian Authorities ________________ If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1500 recipients) and EURAMES Info Service (more than 6000 recipients, only English and French announcements), please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 100 words and no attachment. Please send only the most important information to davo@geo.uni-mainz.de and refer to further details with a link to the respective website or an email address. Best regards, Guenter Meyer, Center for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz ____________________ CONFERENCES 1. Conference: “In and Out of Syria: A Conference on the War and the Refugee Crisis”, University of Texas, Austin, 15 February 2016 Scholars and practitioners from the US and abroad whose professional expertise is the study of contemporary Syria and the present-day Syrian refugee crisis will discuss comparative Arab politics, war and state formation, the state of the Syrian opposition, etc. Information: www.utexas.edu/cola/mes/events/event.php?id=39712 ______________ 2. Congress: “Strategical Cooperation and Los Turcos”, Turkish Asian Center for Strategic Studies (TASAM), Istanbul, 20-22 April 2016 The forum aims at a comprehensive exchange of views through the coming together of representatives of countries of the region, representatives of Turkish public and private organizations and also through papers that will be presented by invited speakers. Information: http://tasam.org/en/Etkinlik/228/3rd_turkish_-_latin_america_and_caribbean_congress ______________ 3. Economic Forum, Middle East Research Institute (MERI), Erbil, Iraq, 26-28 April 2016 The Forum is designed to engage international experts in a debate to promote economic reform in Iraq and Kurdistan Region. Over the course of two days the Economic Forum will look to address the need for both public and private sector reforms. The themes that will be debated include: (a) the management of oil and gas revenues, (b) combatting corruption, (c) increasing the competitiveness local companies, (d) strengthening the financial sector, and (e) the impact of geopolitics. Information: www.meri-k.org/economy-forum-2016/ ______________ 4. Conference: “Geography and the Environment in MENA”, Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS), Omaha, NE, 29 April - 1 May 2016 We welcome individual papers and pre-arranged panels from scholars based in the greater Midwest, particularly those related to this year’s theme. As the central goal of this conference is to promote Middle East and Islamic Studies in the greater Midwest, pre-arranged panels on other topics will also be given full consideration. Extended deadline for abstracts: 12 February 2016. Information: www2.indstate.edu/mameis/ ______________ 5. Conference: “Globalisation and its Discontents: Past, Present and Future”, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 5 May 2016 This university-wide interdisciplinary graduate research conference invites graduate students of the humanities and social sciences from all colleges to submit abstracts, regardless of the stage of their research. This conference will offer presenters the opportunity to introduce and receive feedback on their work from an encouraging but critical audience of both students and established academics at the University of Oxford. Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: http://st-hughsmcr.blogspot.de/2016/02/st-antonys-graduate-research-conference.html ______________ 6. 31st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, MEHAT, University of Chicago, 6-7 May 2016 We are pleased to invite graduate students, affiliated faculty, and independent scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit proposals on any topic concerning the Middle East and Islamic world from the advent of Islam to the present day. Disciplinary focuses include but are not limited to: history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, literature, philosophy, art history, cinema and media studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies. Deadline for abstracts: 12 February 2016. Information: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/mehat/conference/ ______________ 7. Symposium: “The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History", University of Cambridge, 14 May 2016 In this symposium, we will explore the heritage of displacements with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region and ranging from the Greek colonisation, through the Ottoman Empire to the movements of people that we have been witnessing most recently. Extended deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2016. Information: www2.arch.cam.ac.uk/heritage/conferencereports/CHS17_2016_RefugeeHeritageP.pdf ______________ 8. Conference: “Talking About ‘Arabs’. Echoes from Different Europes”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 27-28 May 2016 On the basis of concrete empirical studies, the workshop seeks to investigate the nexus between three different fields of knowledge production and diffusion in today’s Europe: media, academic/intellectual and policy-making. The goal is to examine the ways in which different scholarly traditions, journalistic cultures and political interest (or disinterest) affect knowledge on the Middle East in different parts of Europe. Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: www.orient.cas.cz/miranda2/export/sitesavcr/data.avcr.cz/humansci/orient/akce/aktuality/2016/Talking-about-Arabs-Call-for-Contributions.pdf ______________ 9. Conference: “After the Uprisings: Political, Economic, and Social Transformations in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, 31 May 2016 This conference is organized as the culmination of a three year international research project on political and social transformations in the Arab world. The project uses survey-based research to explore comparatively the beliefs, values, and behavior with respect to political and social transformations in seven Arab countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq). Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2016. Information: http://arabtrans.eu/documents/cfp_Edinburgh_May2016_FINAL_.pdf ______________ 10. Workshop: “The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed”, University of Birmingham, 2-3 June 2016 The social and political issues the motor age brought with it remain critically relevant and timely today, across the disciplines and to the wider public. Questions of automobility are central to citizens and policymaking around the world. Information: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ias/workshops/2016/jackson.aspx ______________ 11. Conference: “The First World War from Tripoli to Mogadishu (1911-1924)”, Addis Ababa University, 30 September - 1 October 2016 The effects of the war on the countries of Northeast Africa have not been studied with as much depth. Nevertheless, the available documentation clearly reveals that the First World War indeed had an impact on the history of the region. This conference aims to suggest an analysis of the conflict that focuses on three crucial points: space, time and chronologies, and agency. Extended deadline for abstracts: 12 February 2016. Information: http://neafricaww1.sciencesconf.org/ ______________ 12. Conference: “Migrations and Borders in the 21st Century. The End of National Cultures and Identities?”, University Grenoble Alpes, France, 12-14 October 2016 We plan to consider primarily the post-Cold-War decades but do not exclude phenomena occurring prior to this seismic change. We will question the impact of migrations on the host countries, on the family, and on major institutions. We will also question, in return, the evolution of mentalities and practices among migrant groups and their offspring as well as in their countries of origin. Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2016. Information: http://ilcea4.u-grenoble3.fr/fr/agenda/colloques/appel-a-communications-pour-un-colloque-international--278685.kjsp ______________ 13. Conference: “MediterráneoS 2016”, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East (ILC-CCHS), Madrid, 26-28 October 2016 Embracing the legacy of the two prior editions, this year’s aim is that of recreating the space –imagined and many times built up – for dialogue, connection and transition, creating a transversal and interdisciplinary forum for discussion and reflection about the different intellectual, cultural and social manifestations that took place in the Mediterranean from Antiquity until the Early Modern period. Information: www.congresos.cchs.csic.es/mediterraneos2016/en/presentation ______________ 14. Workshop: “Water, Technology and the Nation-State”, University of Manchester, 28 October 2016 The aim of this workshop is to further our understanding of the complex and often hidden connection between water and the nation building process, here defined as the set of policies aimed at creating a common national identity and a sense of patriotism and loyalty toward the state. Deadline for abstracts: 13 May 2016. Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8qzuRF9VEnIT3lrNnFLQXZULVk/view?pref=2&pli=1 ______________ 15. Annual Meeting, International Qur'anic Studies Association (IQSA), San Antonio, TX, 18-22 November 2016 For each of the five program units please find a detailed call for papers online. The units are “Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur’anic Corpus”, “Qur’an Seminar”, “Qur’anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics”, “The Qur’an and the Biblical Tradition”, and “The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Material Culture”. Deadline for abstracts: 2 March 2016. Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/annual-meeting-2016-call-for-papers/ ______________ 16. Colloque: «L'habitat informel au Maghreb: champs, processus et acteurs», Centre Arabe des Recherches et de l’Etude des Politiques (CAREP) & Association Tunisienne des Etudes et des Recherches Urbaines (ATERU), Tunis, 24-25 Novembre 2016 En proposant ce colloque nous voudrions tenter de répondre, entre autres, à ces questions : L’habitat informel est-ce une fatalité ? Peut-on agir ? Peut-on ou doit-on repenser l’informalité urbaine? Y a-t-il (y aurait-il) une (des) stratégie(s) de l’habitat informel, voire de l’informalité d’une manière générale ? Date limite d’envoi des résumés: 15 Mars 2016. Information : https://calenda.org/352687 ______________ 17. Conference: “The ‘Dangerous Classes’ in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Oxford, 26 January 2017 This conference takes as its central theme the notion of the “dangerous classes” and invites abstracts examining its explanatory power when applied to the Middle East and North Africa in the period from around 1800 to the present. Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/events/%E2%80%9Cdangerous-classes%E2%80%9D-middle-east-and-north-africa ______________ POSITIONS 18. Program Officer, Higher Education in MENA Region, Higher Education Support Program (HESP), London The position is intended for a mid-career professional who is committed to the role of higher education in creating and protecting open societies, specifically throughout the MENA region. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of the landscape of higher education in the region, particularly in the context of the challenges presented by the refugee crisis and youth unemployment. PhD is strongly preferred (Master’s degree in a social science subject at minimum). Deadline for application: 10 March 2016. Information: www.opensocietyfoundations.org/jobs/jr-0000111/program-officer ______________ 19. Tenured Academic Staff in Modern History of the Islamic World, University of Antwerp, Belgium This is a full-time position as a lecturer or senior lecturer in the tenure track for a term of five years, leading to a permanent appointment, if the performance is assessed favourably. The date of appointment will be 1 October 2016. A PhD in History or an equivalent discipline as well as several years of postdoctoral experience are required. Deadline for application: 24 March 2016. Information: www.careeredu.eu/index.php?post_id=14334 ______________ 20. Full-time, Open Rank Position in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut All specialties are welcome but the department is particularly interested in applicants with expertise in economic sociology, political sociology and/or social movements relevant to the region. The position is to begin September 2016. A Ph.D. in Sociology is required. Deadline for application: 15 March 2016 Information: www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/academic-employment/Pages/academic_positions.aspx#27 ______________ OTHER INFORMATION 21. Seminar: “Good, Evil, and the Grey Zone: Religion’s Role in Genocide from the Holocaust to ISIS”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 27 June - 1 July 2016 The Museum’s Program on Ethics, Religions, and the Holocaust is pleased to announce its annual seminar for faculty from all disciplines but particularly for professors of theology, ethics, and religion at theological schools and other institutions of advanced education. Deadline for application: 1 April 2016. Information: www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/faculty-seminars/seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty/annual-seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty ______________ 22. Doctoral Programme, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg GIGA is an independent social-science research institute. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The GIGA Doctoral Programme invites applications from Prospective Doctoral Students to join the three-year structured programme on 1 October 2016. Deadline for application: 1 March 2016. Information: https://giga.hamburg/en/dp ______________ 23. Pre- and Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, Center for Foreign Policy and Peace Research (CFPPR), Bilkent University, Ankara The main purpose of CFPPR is to help develop agendas and promote policies that contribute to the understanding of peace, security, and development. Fellows will be able to spend a substantial portion of their time working on their own research and writing projects, while taking advantage of the many academic resources available at Bilkent University. Information: www.foreignpolicyandpeace.org/en ______________ 24. Call for Papers: Edited Volume on Ali Shariati Ali Shariati is well known in some parts of the Muslim world and among Shi’a academics. In order to facilitate a greater understanding of his work and its potential, we’re issuing this call for papers for scholars who are interested in contributing to an edited volume. We will honor his life, work and continuing influence by reexamining, revisiting and re-theorizing some of his most important themes. We plan to publish this book in 2017. Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2016. Information: Dustin J. Byrd (dbyrd@olivetcollege.edu) and Seyed Javad Miri (seyedjavad@yahoo.com) ______________ 25. Articles on “’Houses of Horrors’: Ethiopian Female Domestic Workers in the Middle East and Gulf States” for Issue of “African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal” The editors seek contributions focusing on the intersection between domestic work and migration that interrogate the full dimension of Ethiopian female domestic workers’ experiences in the globalizing cities of the Middle East and Gulf States. Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/110165/%E2%80%9Chouses-horrors%E2%80%9D-ethiopian-female-domestic-workers-middle-east ______________ 26. Letter by MESA on the Murder of the PhD Student Giulio Regeni and Open Letter to the Egyptian Authorities On 4 February 2016, the Middle East Studies Association's Committee on Academic Freedom issued a letter on the murder of Mr. Regeni. At the link below, everyone can access that letter, as well as see the many interventions over the past months (indeed, years) documenting many of the increasing abuses of academic freedom and associated human rights in Egypt: http://mesana.org/committees/academic-freedom/intervention/letters-egypt.html#Egypt20160204 An open letter has been started by Giulio's PhD supervisor, and is available to sign at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1fulZt-YNrsvK6hn7hEU7AC-A2yoTEJzoodFRXyjA_OY/viewform?fbzx=-1880109545737946681
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