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EURAMES - Join the network of more than 5000 scholars engaged in Middle East studies!

The European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES, www.eurames.de) invites scholars and graduate students in social sciences and humanities who are engaged in studies on the Middle East and North Africa to join the EURAMES Info Service.

This weekly list serve provides the most comprehensive information on academic activities in Middle East studies with more than 5000 recipients and contributors not only in European countries but also in North and South America, the Middle East and other parts of the world.  The EURAMES Info Service announces conferences, academic positions, new courses, summer schools, grants, prices, calls for articles in edited books and journals and other relevant news on Middle East studies in its widest sense.

The EURAMES Info Service is edited by the Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW) at the University of Mainz, Germany. If you want to join this free list, send an email to Guenter Meyer,  President of EURAMES, at eurames@geo.uni-mainz.de. Please include information on your position, title, discipline and academic affiliation.

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Introducing RIMAAL: a research network on Latin America and the MENA region

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launching of the new website of RIMAAL, a research network dedicated to Latin America and the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region in the fields of history, sociology, anthropology, political science,international relations, and cultural studies.

Created in 2011, RIMAAL seeks to strengthen academic relations between the two regions and to build a cohesive bi-regional research community. In particular, RIMAAL covers three main transversal research themes - interregional links (past and present, intergovernmental and transnational), comparative and areas studies, and social representations, including the production of orientalist visions through literature and the media.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in becoming a RIMAAL member (as a researcher) or partner (as an institution), or if you wish to share ideas with the team: info@rimaal.org; cecilia.baeza@rimaal.org; myriem.aboutaher@rimaal.org; elodie.brun@rimaal.org

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MESA, Middle East Studies Association

The Middle East Studies Association (MESA) is a private, non-profit, non-political learned society that brings together scholars, educators and those interested in the study of the region from all over the world. From its inception in 1966 with 50 founding members, MESA has increased its membership to more than 2,700 and now serves as an umbrella organization for more than sixty institutional members and thirty-nine affiliated organizations. The association is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Council of Area Studies Associations, and a member of the National Humanities Alliance.

http://www.mesa.arizona.edu/

Email: secretariat@mesana.org | Phone: 520-621-5850 | Fax: 520-626-9095

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WOCMES, World Congress for Middle East Studies

The World Congress seeks to address questions, exchange and explore information on the Middle East in the broadest sense. The invitation is aimed at scholars, researchers, educators, students, professionals and other groups interested in studies on North Africa, Middle East, Muslim states of Central Asia as well as other regions of the world which are directly or indirectly affected by affairs in these areas.

 
TURKISH SOCIAL SCIENCES ASSOCIATION
Aziziye Mah. Hosdere Cad. Hava Sk. 25/1
06540 Cankaya - Ankara / TURKEY
T: +90 312 441 45 24
F: +90 312 441 45 96
t.s.b.d@superonline.com
www.tsbd.org.tr 
 
 
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Organization for Islamic Area Studies, from Waseda University

Organization for Islamic Area Studies (OIAS) strives to deepen our understanding of contemporary Islam through interdisciplinary research and thorough comparative exploration of the characteristics of Islam in each geographic area. We also run the IAS network's central office, a joint research center that provides information about Islamic Area Studies.
Address
Organization for Islamic Area Studies Waseda University
3rd floor, Bldg.120-4, Waseda University
513 Waseda Tsurumakicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 162-0041 JAPAN
Phone: +81-3-3203-4748(office)
Fax: +81-3-3203-4840(office)
e-mail: info@islam.waseda.ac.jp

 

 

CONFERENCES


1. Conference: "From War to Peace: The Ottoman ‘Long War' of 1683–1699 with the Lega Sacra Powers and the Treaties of Carlowitz 1699: Antecedents, Course and Consequences", Sofia University, Bulgaria, 25–26 April 2014

2. Summer School/Symposium "Beyond Appearances. Information, Communication, Espionage (16th-17th Centuries)", Madrid, 22-24 July 2014

3. Doctoral Seminar: "Arab Nationalism: From Ottoman Empire to Colonial Mandates", University of Basel, 11-12 September 2014

4. Workshop: "The Arab Uprising: Researching the Revolutions", CBRL British Institute Amman,  22 - 23 September 2014

5. Conference: "Iran in the World: Old Challenges and New Opportunities in the Changing Middle East", Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia,  9-10 October 2014

POSITIONS

6. Two Post-doctoral Positions, within the Project «Perso-Indica: the Persanisation of Indian Learning (13th-19th Centuries)», University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - University Bonn

7.  Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter

8. Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern/Islamic History, Claremont McKenna College, near Los Angeles

9. Other Positions

10. Conference of the Research Network "Crossroads Asia" (including Persia): "Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies", Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 27-28 November 2014

OTHER INFORMATION

11. Call for Applications – "MSc Economics of the Middle East", University Marburg and Lebanese American University (LAU)

12. Application Call for 2014 Master's Degree Programs at Technische Universität Berlin Campus El Gouna, Egypt

13. Research Visit at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen

14. Summer School of the Mediterranean 2014, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, 7-11 July 2014

CONFERENCES

1. Conference: "From War to Peace: The Ottoman ‘Long War' of 1683–1699 with the Lega Sacra Powers and the Treaties of Carlowitz 1699: Antecedents, Course and Consequences", Sofia University, Bulgaria, 25–26 April 2014

2. Summer School/Symposium "Beyond Appearances. Information, Communication, Espionage (16th-17th Centuries)", Madrid, 22-24 July 2014

3. Doctoral Seminar: "Arab Nationalism: From Ottoman Empire to Colonial Mandates", University of Basel, 11-12 September 2014

4. Workshop: "The Arab Uprising: Researching the Revolutions", CBRL British Institute Amman,  22 - 23 September 2014

5. Conference: "Iran in the World: Old Challenges and New Opportunities in the Changing Middle East", Middle East Studies Forum at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia,  9-10 October 2014

POSITIONS

6. Two Post-doctoral Positions, within the Project «Perso-Indica: the Persanisation of Indian Learning (13th-19th Centuries)», University Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - University Bonn

7.  Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS), University of Exeter

8. Visiting Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern/Islamic History, Claremont McKenna College, near Los Angeles

9. Other Positions

10. Conference of the Research Network "Crossroads Asia" (including Persia): "Mobilities, Immobilities and the Issue of Positionality for Rethinking Area Studies", Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, Bonn, 27-28 November 2014

OTHER INFORMATION

11. Call for Applications – "MSc Economics of the Middle East", University Marburg and Lebanese American University (LAU)

12. Application Call for 2014 Master's Degree Programs at Technische Universität Berlin Campus El Gouna, Egypt

13. Research Visit at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen

14. Summer School of the Mediterranean 2014, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, 7-11 July 2014

 

CONFERENCES

  1. Conference: "Boccaccio and the Venetian World: 700 Years of Cultural Crossing in Mediterranean Venice", Venice, 20-22 June 2013

  2. Journée d'étude: "Littérature de l'ivresse - Ivresse de la littérature", Paris, 21 juin 2013

  3. Colloque International : "L'Egypte en ses miroirs. Art, architecture et critique, à demeure et au-delà (XIXe- XXe siècles)", Paris, - 26-27 juin 2013

  4. Conference: "Trade, Travel and Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean", Cambridge, 8-10 July 2013

  5. Conference: "'Tower of Babel' or Global Networks in Permanent Restructuring Migration between Myth and Reality", Beja, Tunisia, 5-7 December 2013

  6. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics: "Recovering Theological Traditions", Seattle, Washington, 9 - 12 January 2014

  7. Workshop: "Genres of the Imaginaire: How Creativity Mediates Islam through Local Vernaculars", Nashville, TN, 13-16 February 2014

  8. Conference: "Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-18", Istanbul, 9-12 April 2014

  9. International Conference with a Focus on the Middle East: "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters", Leiden (NL), 5 - 7 June 2014

 

POSITIONS

  1. Positions for Postdoc Researchers and Doctoral Positions at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin

  2. Head of Learning & Academic Programmes  of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

 

OTHER INFORMATION

  1. Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Gender and Migration" in "Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies"
    If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (about 1500 recipients) and EURAMES Info Service (more than 5000 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 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, Germany

 

CONFERENCES

  1. Conference: "Boccaccio and the Venetian World: 700 Years of Cultural Crossing in Mediterranean Venice", Venice, 20-22 June 2013
    The conference does not focus merely on Boccaccio, but on his world, in order to contextualize and relocate Boccaccio within the Mediterranean cosmos of influences and dialogues among cultures so well-represented in the Decameron: where characters, men and women, Muslims, Jews and Christians, all travel in the Mediterranean to and from Alexandria, from Sicily to Tunisia, and even from Acre and Jerusalem to Italy, like Saladin himself, who in disguise comes to Italy to spy on preparation of the crusaders
    Detailed program at http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=225

  2. Journée d'étude: "Littérature de l'ivresse - Ivresse de la littérature", Paris, 21 juin 2013
    La journée d'étude est organisée par le Centre de recherches Moyen-Orient Méditerranée (CERMOM).  Vous pouvez consulter le site internet de l'INALCO:http://www.inalco.fr/IMG/pdf/prg_Ivresse.pdf

  3. Colloque International : "L'Egypte en ses miroirs. Art, architecture et critique, à demeure et au-delà (XIXe- XXe siècles)", Paris, - 26-27 juin 2013
    Primitivisme, Orientalisme et Égyptomanie ont été principalement étudiés comme des phénomènes purement occidentaux, et déconnectés l'un de l'autre. L'intérêt pour les passés de l'Égypte et leurs traductions par les arts visuels, l'architecture ou la fiction, ont été de même fragmentés. Dans la masse des œuvres qui ont usé de la référence égyptienne, des hiérarchies ont été instaurées, des omissions se sont fait jour. Les réinterprétations de l'Égypte ancienne ont pris le pas dans l'imaginaire commun sur les inspirations nées de périodes plus récentes. Publics et musées ont joué leur partition dans la formation et la consolidation de ces représentations.

    Programme http://invisu.inha.fr/L-Egypte-en-ses-miroirs-Art

  4. Conference:  "Trade, Travel and Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean", Cambridge, 8-10 July 2013

    The conference is organized by the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. Information and program www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/conference-2013-1.php

  5. Conference: "'Tower of Babel' or Global Networks in Permanent Restructuring Migration between Myth and Reality", Beja, Tunisia, 5-7 December 2013The Tunisian-Mediterranean Association for Historical, Social and Economic Studies (T.M.A. for H.S.E.S.) holds its fifth International Symposium with a focus on the following themes:
    - 1: Causality and rationality of migration
    - 2: Migration and displacement in the course of history - Human movement and circulation of wealth, skills, ideas and diseases ...
    - 3: Globalization, international migration and current issues - Acceleration and flow transformations, new migratory logics - Immigration policies, control trials and contradictions, problems of migrant integration in the host societies
    - 4: "Internal" or "regional" migration, territorial and socio-economic restructuring
    Deadline for paper submission 25 June 2013. Contact: tunisian.mediterranean.associ@gmail.com. Information http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=202270

  6. Fifth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics: "Recovering Theological Traditions", Seattle, Washington, 9 - 12 January 2014
    We invite paper proposals dealing with any aspect of Muslim ethics. Topics may be theoretical or applied; historical or contemporary; textual or philosophical.  We especially encourage proposals on the theme of "Recovering Theological Traditions," which explores the importance of "traditions" and the necessity and standards for selective retrieval of traditional sources.
    The deadline for submission of proposals is 1 August 2013. Information http://www.ssmethics.org/2014CallforPapers.htm

  7. Workshop "Genres of the Imaginaire: How Creativity Mediates Islam through Local Vernaculars", Nashville, TN, 13-16 February 2014
    This is a part of the "Being Muslim: How Local Islam Overturns Narratives of Exceptionalism" series of workshops being convened by the Department of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University.
    Proposals due 7 October 2013. Additional information: http://as.vanderbilt.edu/religiousstudies/IslamProject.php/.

  8. Conference: "Not All Quiet on the Ottoman Fronts: Neglected Perspectives on a Global War, 1914-18", Istanbul, 9-12 April 2014
    The History Foundation of Turkey

  9. International Conference with a Focus on the Middle East: "Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters", Leiden (NL), 5 - 7 June 2014
    As a result of colonial expansion and the technologies that made long-distance communication and travel possible, the 19th and 20th centuries witnessed an accelerated rate of individual interactions across the globe, including scholarly encounters. Individual scholars became more conscious of the commonalities that they shared with fellow humans all over the world, which they expressed in universalistic projects in philosophy, philology, the life sciences and other fields of human inquiry. Yet the encounter also brought about an articulation of differences.
    The conference is dedicated to exploring the personal (and especially self-reflective) dimensions of academic knowledge production by studying scholars (i.e., producers) and their contexts (i.e., institutions and societies) in relation to the study of oriental languages and cultures, including the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The conference addresses this by looking at first-person accounts of conferences, reports, travel writing, correspondences, memoirs, auto/biographies, polemical essays, and translations, among other writings.  Scholars working on the history of orientalist scholarship, Middle Eastern studies and Ottoman-European encounters are encouraged to apply by 14 July 2013.
    For further information: http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/en/revisiting-the-canons-of-textual-scholarship/call-for-papers.html

 

POSITIONS

10. Positions for Postdoc Researchers and Doctoral Positions at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin

ZMO is an independent research center devoted to a multidisciplinary study on the history, societies and cultures of the Middle East, North and sub-Saharan Africa and South, Southeast and Central Asia from the eighteenth century to the present.

ZMO announces the opening of a number of three-year positions for postdoc researchers and a very limited number of doctoral positions for the second phase of the current research programme "Muslim Worlds – World of Islam?"

Research will be organized in the following thematic fields:
- "Progress and its Discontents" studies concepts which aim at a transformation of individual and society, as well as actors who intend to realise them and the semiotic materiality that represents them.
- "The Politics of Resources" investigates contested and changing ways of appropriating, accessing and using material resources.
- "Cities as Laboratories of Change" explores the socio-political dynamics and transformations of urban life, notably the development of new practices and formation of new ideas.

The positions are open from 1 January 2014 for 36 months. Deadline for applications 11 August  2013. Information http://www.zmo.de/Ausschreibungen/Call_Research_Positions_2013.pdf

 

11. Head of Learning & Academic Programmes  of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Job Requirements: Bachelors / Masters degree in education, museum studies or other relevant subject area; minimum of three years professional experience in relevant educational or museum role; experience of developing learning materials and activities across age-groups; fluency in both Arabic and English is an advantage.

Applications by 30 June 2013 to miaadmin@qma.com.qa; information http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=46809

 

OTHER INFORMATION

12. Call for Papers for Special Issue on "Gender and Migration" in "Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East Migration Studies"

We invite scholars from all disciplines to contribute theoretically innovative and empirically grounded papers on any aspect of gender and migration from, to, and across the Middle East over the last two centuries. Specific topics may include: 1. Feminist organizing through migration
2. Gender and long-distance nationalism
3. The role of gender in shaping migrant families, and migrant families in shaping gender
4. The gendering of institutions and practices through migration (my preference would be to keep this open to different institutions and not limit to religious)
5. Gender, ethnicity, and sexuality
6. Gender and state immigration policy
7. Gender and the literary imagination
8. Return migration and gender politics in the Middle East.

Deadline for abstracts 31 October 2013. Information akhater@ncsu.edu.