This announcement comes courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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Berkeley Summer Sessions

Visiting Scholars Program

AUC internal deadline:  February 3, 2013

 

Berkeley Summer Sessions has created a Visiting Scholar program that is designed for faculty from a partner university that sends 35 students or more to study during the summer.  As AUC has sent more than 35 students to Berkeley for the past two summers, we are now eligible to send one professor under this program.  The professor can spend June and/or July 2013 at Berkeley.

 

The benefits include:

1. UC Berkeley identification card
2. Access to the 34 university libraries; in addition, Berkeley is one of only nine repositories for the Library of Congress
3. Access to University public computers and networks
4. A temporary Berkeley email account
5. Participants will not be provided with an office, phone or computer
6. Sponsorship for J1 Short Term Visiting Scholar status during the stay, assuming eligibility requirements are met and subject to Department of State approval
7. Waiver of visiting scholar and other fees (totaling $810)
8. Access to the Recreational Sports Facility for a fee paid to that Facility
9. Discounted passes for Alameda County Public Transportation
10. If 25 or more students are housed in University housing, then the Visiting Scholar is provided with a free room-and-board package in University housing; the Visiting Scholar is responsible for his/her airfare from/to Cairo and incidental expenses

Application requirements:

1. Submit a motivation statement, one-page research proposal, and resume to Ann Lesch at alesch@aucegypt.edu by February 3.  Please obtain the written approval of your chair before submitting the materials.
2. You must be a full-time faculty member at AUC, with a PhD or equivalent terminal degree.
3. A three-person faculty committee, chaired by Ann, will review the proposals in early February and rank-order them for submission to Berkeley for approval.  As each institution can only have one participant, AUC will submit two names: the recommended person and an alternate (should the recommended professor not be able to go).
4. Final approval of the Visiting Scholar is made by the Dean of Berkeley Summer Sessions.
5. Faculty will be expected to meet periodically with the AUC students while they study at Berkeley and provide 1-2 activities for them (e.g. a dinner or picnic).  AUC’s International Programs Office (IPO) will provide a small sum to cover those expenses.
6. At the end of the stay, the Visiting Scholar must submit a copy or summary of the research conducted or paper written to the Dean of Summer Sessions for Berkeley’s records.

This comes courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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ERASMUS MUNDUS

ONE-MONTH FACULTY RESEARCH IN EUROPE

UNDER THE WELCOME & MEDASTAR ACADEMIC COOPERATION AGREEMENTS

AY 2013-2014

Please contact Ann Lesch at alesch@aucegypt.edu for details on how to apply.  There are limited openings and the AUC professor needs to establish a relationship with a professor at the host university before applying.  IPO’s Mohamed Aboul Seoud and Dina Abulmagd will help you contact the universities and file the online application.

Deadline for contacting Ann and starting correspondence with a counterpart professor:  Sunday, January 20, 2013 – but please contact Ann earlier, if possible!

Deadline for filing application: Sunday, February 3, 2013

Academic staff:    One month of research at the host university for an Egyptian citizen within that university’s research program or for an independent project, approved by a host professor and the Erasmus Mundus office in the host university.  Activities can include teaching, research, training, or following highly specialized courses.  Some visits are primarily to develop collaborative research projects for future funding.  Erasmus Mundus covers the round-trip airfare, Euro 2500 stipend, full health and accident insurance coverage, residence permit, and visa fees.  Grant holders do not pay any fees to the host university.

“WELCOME” CONSORTIUM:  http://emwelcome.polito.it/application/fields_of_study

or http://www.emwelcome.polito.it/scholarships/academic_programmes

Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany:

(1)  Work with FUB research projects:

• biology & ecology
• comparative religious/intercultural studies
• education/teacher training
• history of the arts of Africa
• Latin American history
• materials & environmental engineering (2 projects)
• modern German literature and linguistics
• modern history
• physics

 

(2)  self-initiated research:

• anthropology (political anthropology; anthropology of transnationalism/migration)
• Arabic studies (classical and modern Arabic literature)
• business studies & management science
• communication & information science
• education
• geography & geology
• humanities
• Near East and Middle Asian archaeology
• Egyptology & Egyptian archaeology
• Law
• mathematics informatics
• natural sciences
• political science/MENA
• social sciences & governance studies

 

Ghent University, Belgium:  Academic staff conduct their own research, with approval of a host university professor.

Disciplines:

• architecture
• art & design
• business studies
• chemistry & biochemistry
• communication & information sciences
• economics
• educational science & comparative education
• engineering technology
• European Union studies
• Home economics, nutrition
• Humanities
• law & criminology
• linguistics
• mathematics & informatics
• microbiology & biotechnology
• natural sciences
• psychology
• political science & international relations
• social work
• sociology
• soil & water resources

 

Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal:  One-month staff visits are in international relations, European studies, or area studies.

 

Lund University, Sweden:  Academic staff conduct their own research, with the approval of a host university professor.

Disciplines:

• gender studies
• gerontology (medical sciences)
• information systems
• law

 

University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom:  Self-initiated research within the research themes of each department and with approval of a host professor.

Disciplines:

• architecture
• computer science
• electrical, electronic, and computer engineering
• linguistics
• museum, gallery and heritage studies
• urban & regional planning & design

 

 

Politecnico di Torino, Italy:  self-initiated research, with one-month visits intended for teaching, research, or training that emphasizes establishing links for future cooperation

(1)  Engineering:

• aerospace engineering
• building engineering & territorial systems
• chemical
• control & computer engineering
• electronics, electrical
• hydraulics, transportation and civil infrastructures
• land, environment & geo-engineering
• materials science & chemical engineering
• mechanical
• production systems & business economics
• structural & geotechnical Engineering

 

(2)  Planning:

• architecture & industrial design
• housing & city
• human settlements & science & technology
• territorial studies & planning

 

(3)  Science (applied):

• Energetics
• Mathematics
• Physics

 

(4)  Administration:  International Office staff training

 

Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain:  self-initiated research, approved by the host university professor.

Disciplines:

• applied linguistics
• applied mathematics
• applied physics
• applied statistics
• biotechnology
• chemistry
• engineering: aeronautical, cartographic/geodesy/photogrammetry, chemical, construction & civil, design, electrical, graphics, hydraulic & environmental, industrial, mechanical, nuclear & chemical, telecommunications, textile & paper
• music & musicology
• systems data processing & computer
• food technology

 

 

Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden:  Senior researchers use 1 month stays to develop future collaboration with KTH research teams.

Research fields:

• Chemistry (3 projects)
• energy systems planning (including bioenergy)
• materials science (4 nanotechnology-related projects)
• nanophotonics

 

Sciences Po, France:

Researchers are hosted at the Center for European Studies, Center for History, Center for International Studies & Research, Center for Political Research, Center for the Sociology of Organizations, Center for Socio-Political Data, Center for Studies in Social Change, Department of Economics, or the Law School, depending on their topic, which must be agreed upon by a Sciences Po collaborator/advisor.

 

MEDASTAR consortium:   http://www.medastar.eu/academic_offer/Academic%20offer%20EU%20partners%20-%20Call%202.pdf  -  Go to the final section for the one month opportunities

Arrangements for AUC professors to conduct research at a host European university must be agreed upon with the host department and preferably with a specific member of the host faculty, and the AUC professor must receive a formal letter of invitation.    One-month agreements can be for research, lecturing, or developing collaborative research project and can be for either junior or senior professors.

 

University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy (Bulgaria):

One month faculty lecturing:

• Biotechnology
• Chemical engineering
• Environmental protection and sustainable development (engineering)
• Inorganic, organic, physico- and analytical chemistry
• Materials science, silicate materials

 

Georg-August Universitat Gottingen (Germany):

One-month research:

• Applied statistics and empirical methods
• Biology & biochemistry: developmental, neural and behavioral biology; microbiology and biochemistry
• Chemistry: Catalysis for Sustainable Synthesis
• Computer science, internet technologies & information systems
• Environmental Studies: biological diversity & ecology; biodiversity & society; environmental informatics
• Mathematics
• Psychology: neurosciences

 

 

Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences (Germany):

One-month research:

• Administrative mobility: relevant administrative experience in a corresponding office – staff from the Egyptian university’s Alumni & Career Services or  International Office
• Business Information Systems
• Digital Media production for campus TV and learning materials
• Engineering: applied sciences; electrical/technology; sensor systems technology

 

Masaryk University (Czech Republic):

One-month research:

• Education, Teacher Training
• European Politics/Studies
• Geography, Geology
• Informatics, Computer Sciences
• International Relations
• Natural Sciences: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Biochemistry
• Sociology

 

Universidad de Oviedo (Spain):

One-month research:

• Biology
• Chemistry
• Economics & business
• Faculty of Commerce, Tourism and Social Sciences
• Faculty of Philosophy & Letters: Art History, Geography, History, Modern Languages
• Geology
• Higher Technical School of Mine Engineering
• I.T. Engineering School
• Law
• Psychology
• Polytechnic School of Engineering (Gijon)
• Polytechnic School (Mieres)
• Science: Mathematics, Informatics
• Teacher training and education

 

Sciences Po (France):

One-month research/lecturing:

• Center for History
• Center for International Studies and research: European affairs, international affairs, political science
• Center for Political Research: public administration
• Center for Studies in Social Change: sociology
• Department of Economics
• Law School
• Administrative staff mobility: administrative experience for an administrator from the partner Egyptian university

 

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium):

One-month research:

• Agogic sciences
• Applied Economic Sciences
• Art Sciences and Archaeology
• Bio-engineering science
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Communication Science
• Computer science (informatics)
• Criminology & Law (Faculty of Law and Criminology)
• Engineering Sciences: including Architecture
• Geography
• History
• Linguistics
• Mathematics
• Philosophy
• Physics & Astronomy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Sociology

This list comes courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

 

CONFERENCES

1. Journées d’étude : “Au delà des dichotomies : le Soudan, de la formation du pays à l’indépendance du Sud, 1869-2011″ –  ”Beyond Dichotomies: The Sudan from its Modern Foundations to the Independence of the South, 1869-2011″,  EHESS,  Paris, 12 novembre 2012

2. Colloque : “L’adab en islam: éthique et spiritualité, l’adab soufi”, IISMM et Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, 29 novembre – 1 décembre 2012

3. International Graduate Student Workshop: “Shared History, Shared Geography: The Ottoman East”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 18-19 April 2013

4. 35th International Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: “The Amorites and the Hurrians”, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 4-6 April 2013

5. Workshop: “Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West”, Leiden University, 13-14 May 2013

6. International Symposium: “Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture”, Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May 2013

7. Les régions montagneuses et forestières dans l’espace arabo-méditerranéen et leurs transformations à travers l’histoire, Béja (Tunisie) : 25-27 avril 2013.

8. International Conference: “Converging Regions – Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle East”, Singapore, 29-31 May 2013

9. Conference: “Trade, Travel and Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean”, University of Cambridge (UK), 8-10 July 2013

POSITIONS

10. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar is Hiring 24 Faculty over 3 Years

11. Two Faculty Members in Arabic Language Instruction, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

If you want to distribute an announcement via DAVO-Info-Service (1450 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

Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW), University of Mainz
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1. Journées d’étude : “Au delà des dichotomies : le Soudan, de la formation du pays à l’indépendance du Sud, 1869-2011″ –  ”Beyond Dichotomies: The Sudan from its Modern Foundations to the Independence of the South, 1869-2011″,  EHESS,  Paris, 12 novembre 2012

The workshop is organized by the Center for African Studies and the IISMM (Institut d’études de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musulman), EHESS. The keynote speaker is Heather Sharkey, Historian, University of Pennsylvania. The languages of the workshop will be French and English, even if most of the program is now in French.

Le Soudan est décrit dans les média et dans les rapports des organisations humanitaires comme le pays des dichotomies : sud contre nord, arabes contre africains, musulmans contre chrétiens. Mais cette vision est profondément trompeuse.  Le Soudan, qui, avant l’indépendance toute récente du Sud, était le plus grand pays d’Afrique, comptant des dizaines de langues et des centaines de dialectes et une immense hétérogénéité dans sa géographie humaine, est plutôt le pays de la complexité. Cette journée va explorer cette complexité de deux points de vue principaux : celle de ses interactions avec l’extérieur, et celle de ses mécanismes identitaires.

Information http://actualites.ehess.fr/nouvelle5264.html
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2. Colloque : “L’adab en islam: éthique et spiritualité, l’adab soufi”, IISMM et Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, 29 novembre – 1 décembre 2012

Organisateurs : Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, professeur à l’INALCO et membre de l’IUF, Luca Patrizi, université d’Aix en Provence et L’Orientale de Naples.

Le colloque abordera, dans une perspective de longue durée, à la fois les questions de formation et de formulations de l’adab soufi; de normes et de transgressions; la comparaison avec le soufisme juif et les règles de vie du christianisme oriental; la question des genres littéraires (prière, musique, littérature) produits par l’adab soufi et de ses corpus (manuels, hagiographies…) à différentes époques.

Information http://iismm.ehess.fr (actualités)
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3. International Graduate Student Workshop: “Shared History, Shared Geography: The Ottoman East”, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 18-19 April 2013

The Ottoman East (defined roughly as the area bounded by Ankara, Mosul, and Kars) has been viewed largely, both by contemporary Ottoman statesmen and modern-day historians, as a periphery of the Ottoman enterprise centered in the imperial capital and western Anatolia. These accounts posit the imperial center as the active agent of history, seeking to civilize or bring order to its borderlands. This workshop will begin to provincialize the center as it attempts to understand the Ottoman East on its own terms.

The workshop seeks to bring together younger scholars (graduate students engaged in research or those having defended their dissertations in the last three years) studying the Ottoman East for the period 1839-1950. Emphasizing an interdisciplinary and connected approach, submissions should consider: . center-periphery relations/locality/provinciality: what did the state mean in the Ottoman East? . tax collection and land issues . trans-imperial networks and agents . cosmopolitanism/parochialism . the circulation of people, money, ideas, and goods . cultural aspects (nomadic culture, provincial literature, folklore, etc.) . inter-communal relations/sectarianism/ethnic divisions . social geography . gender and sexuality

Deadline for abstracts 15 December 2012. Information http://www.arisc.org/Resources/Calls-for-Papers
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4. 35th International Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: “The Amorites and the Hurrians”, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, 4-6 April 2013

All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact aram@orinst.ox.ac.uk before mid-December 2012.
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5. Workshop: “Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West”, Leiden University, 13-14 May 2013

During the colonial age in particular, European and Ottoman empires had brought the Hajj under surveillance primarily for political reasons and interests in the control of steamship and the fear for the growth of Pan-Islamic networks. Another important motive for their scrutiny of Hajj was their anxiety for the spread of epidemic diseases in their colonies after the pilgrims’ return. On the other hand, indigenous Muslims in Central and Eastern Europe, Muslim emigrants (especially in Great Britain, France and somehow in Germany) and European converts to Islam in other parts of Europe, were making their way to the Hajj and had left behind interesting accounts, such as diaries, published and un-published travelogues, press items in European newspapers, etc. European and non-European national and private archives enlist fascinating political, medical, religious and social reports of such narratives.

The symposium will investigate these European connections with the Hajj on these various levels. A particular focus will be placed on new research methods and results on the basis on national and personal archives and contemporary writings that so far have widely been ignored in the study of Hajj as part of European history. Among the questions which will be addressed: What do first-hand primary sources (especially archives) tell us about the European political perception of the Hajj? How did the international character of the Hajj as a Muslim sacred ritual influence European policies in their struggle for supremacy on the Muslim world? How did Muslims in Europe experience the logistic, economic, religious and spiritual aspects of the Hajj?

Deadline for abstracts 15 November 2012. Expenses for travel and hotel accommodation will be refunded. Informationhttp://www.isa-rc22.org/blog/?p=382
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6. International Symposium: “Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture”, Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies, UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May 2013

This gathering invites scholars of the humanities and social science engaged in the study of maritime environments – in particular, the application of Oceanic models (pertaining to the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Indian Oceans, etc.) to the study of the history of human society and culture. Rather than pure research presentations or case studies, Papers should engage explicitly and directly with the Mediterranean and/or Oceanic Studies as methodological frames or emerging disciplines.

Themes include:
- “In the sea” or “of the sea? The practica of maritime methodologies; geographical determinism and/or human adaptations;
- Revelations and revisions: What the sea brings to scholarship.
- The historiography and reception of the sea in scholarship

Deadline for abstracts 13 January 2013. Conference presenters will be provided accommodations, as well as travel funds as budget permits. Information: www.mediterraneanseminar.org
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7. Les régions montagneuses et forestières dans l’espace arabo-méditerranéen et leurs transformations à travers l’histoire, Béja (Tunisie) : 25-27 avril 2013

Si les régions montagneuses ont attiré l’attention de nombreux chercheurs dans divers champs et disciplines en vue de comprendre les spécificités de l’environnement et les transformations sociales et économiques dans ces régions à travers l’histoire, les différentes approches qu’ils ont faites et proposées tendent à s’intégrer et à se rejoindre tant dans l’analyse des transformations actuelles que dans l’évaluation des résultats des programmes de développement et les mécanismes de contrôle dans le domaine montagnard :
tout ceci dans la perspective d’une sortie de la spirale régressive de la paupérisation et de la marginalisation.

Limite de réception des résumés : 30 Novembre 2012. Information http://calenda.org/209275
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8. International Conference: “Converging Regions – Global Perspectives on Asia and the Middle East”, Singapore, 29-31 May 2013

This conference organized by the Middle East Institute at the National University of Singapore seeks to harness the insight and creativity of academic specialists best placed to explore and understand the cumulative problems of increasingly interdependent global communities. MEI will convene leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern and Asian affairs to discuss their views and perceptions of regional and global change. This conference will address the broad political, social, and economic ramifications of such events and their impact on the wider trans-regional context.

Further details as they emerge: www.mei.nus.edu.sg
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9. Conference: “Trade, Travel and Transmission in the Medieval Mediterranean”, University of Cambridge (UK), 8-10 July 2013

This inter-disciplinary conference will bring scholars together to explore the interaction of the various peoples, societies, faiths and cultures of the medieval Mediterranean, a region which had been commonly represented as divided by significant religious and cultural differences. The objective of the conference is to highlight the extent to which the medieval Mediterranean was not just an area of conflict but also a highly permeable frontier across which people, goods and ideas crossed and influenced neighbouring cultures and societies.

We invite proposals for papers in the fields of archaeology, art and architecture, codicology, ethnography, history (including the histories of science, medicine and cartography), languages, literature, music, philosophy and religion.

Abstract deadline: 1 December 2012. Information http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/?p=1170.
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POSITIONS

10. Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service in Qatar is Hiring 24 Faculty over 3 Years

This year alone we are recruiting in Arabic, Economics, English/Humanities, History. Faculty at any rank in these disciplines as well as other social science and humanities disciplines, in particular political science and international relations, are invited to express interest at any time.
Information: http://qatar.sfs.georgetown.edu/grow/
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11. Two Faculty Members in Arabic Language Instruction, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar

These new positions are part of an expansion in the field of Arabic language, literature and culture, including a path-breaking new Initiative in Arabic for Heritage Learners. The successful candidates will have the opportunity to collaborate on the development of the Arabic language program at SFS-Q, which currently offers courses in both Modern Standard Arabic as a non-native language and in the Heritage/Native Speakers track.

Full announcement at https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/2260

 

This comes courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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Post Docs. and Researchers

Re-invitation Program for Former Scholarship Holders (1 – 3 months)

Deadline for application: 15 November 2012

Objective

The Re-invitation Program helps the DAAD maintain contacts with its former scholarship holders (DAAD Alumni) who had studied in Germany for at least on year. DAAD Alumni can apply fo a re-invitation to Germany with the purpose of completing a research or work project at a state higher education institution or non-university research institute.

For additional questions, please contact Ms. Heba Afifi: WE@daadcairo.org

You can find further information regarding this topic here.

 

Bilateral Exchange of Academics

Deadline for application: 15 November 2012

The exchange program is primarily intended to support the implementation of mutual teaching and research projects

German applicants please refer to: Mrs. Deborah Dombret: deborah.dombret@daadcairo.org

Egyptian applicants please refer to: Ms. Heba Afifi: WAP@daadcairo.org

kindly find the WAP Information sheet.

 

GERSS – German-Egyptian Research Short term Scholarships

The German Egyptian Research Short term Scholarship GERSS is a program jointly funded by the Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) and the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn (DAAD) in order to finance short term scholarships for young Egyptian scientists to travel to Germany. The target groups of the program are researchers enrolled in MSc, PhD programs and young Post-Doctoral candidates. The scholarships may be awarded for a period from three to six months.

There are two calls for application annually:

Spring Call: 15th of February till 31 March

Autumn Call: 1st of September till 15th of October

Application Form:

Application (General)

Application (German)

Application (Medicine)

Template of endorsement letter

Template of recommendation letter

Guide for applicant

List of required documents

The application form together with the needed documents must be submitted in 3 sets (1 original and 2 photo copies) to the DAAD Cairo Office 11 El Saleh Ayoub St. Zamalek on Mondays orThursdays between 10:00 and 12:00 during the call of application period

Further information can be found in the info sheet.

For inquiries, please contact Ms. Heba Afifi: gerss@daadcairo.org

Tel. +20 2 2735 27 26 Ext. 119

N.B. Content of this announcement can be changed without prior notice

 

Leibniz – DAAD Research Fellowships 2012

Submission deadline: 20 March 2012

‘Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellowships’ is a programme implemented 2011 by the ‘Leibniz Association’ (Wissenschaftsgemeinschaft Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz) and the ‘German Academic Exchange Service’ (DAAD). The fellowships offer highly-qualified recent foreign postdocs the opportunity to conduct special research at institutes of the Leibniz Association in Germany.

Leibniz-DAAD Research Fellows can do their research at one of the Leibniz-Institutes which are covered in the following (five) sections:

Section A:     Humanities and Educational Research/ Geisteswissenschaften und Bildungsforschung

Section B:     Economics, Social and Spatial Sciences/Wirtschaft- und Sozialwissenschaften, Raumwissenschaften

Section C:     Life Sciences/ Lebenswissenschaften

Section D:     Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering/ Mathematik, Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften

Section E:      Environmental Research/Umweltwissenschaften

Further information can be found in this announcement.

Application Form for download.

Further information about the Leibniz Association is available on the Internet at: http://www.leibniz-gemeinschaft.de/

 

UNILEAD 2012/2013

The deadline for application is 8 April 2012.

The Intensive Blended Learning University Leadership and Management Training Course (UNILEAD) in Germany

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the University of Oldenburg in Germany and the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth / South Africa are jointly organizing the 5^thcall of UNILEAD program in Oldenburg / Germany. The intensive training program is part of the DIES program (Dialogue on Innovative Higher Education Strategies) which has been jointly coordinated by the DAAD and HRK (German Rectors’ Conference) since 2001.

Further information can be found in the information sheet .

The application form is available under the following link: Application form.

 

DLR-DAAD-Fellowship Programme

We have the pleasure of announcing updated offers for our scholarship program intended for highly-qualified foreign doctoral and postdoctoral students as well as senior scientists working in the fieldof Space, Aeronautics, Energy and Transportation Research: “DLR-DAAD-Fellowship Programme”

This program offers scientists and researchers the opportunity to conduct special research at the institutes of the DLR in Germany. DLR is Germany´s national research center for aeronautics and space. Its extensive research and development work in these fields is integrated into national and international cooperative ventures.

DLR-DAAD Fellowships are defined and awarded on an individual basis . Each Fellowship announcement will indicate the specific qualification requirements and terms of the visit. The new offers are published under: http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/ausschreibungen/09144.de.html

For more information about the offered courses description, selection, funding and application, kindly visit our website: www.daad.de/dlr

For more details interested candidates can refer to Mrs. Mona Ayoub mona.ayoub@daadcairo.org.

GESP – Mobility Grant program for German Egyptian research teams

Deadline: 15.12.2012

The German Egyptian Scientific Projects GESP is a fund that supports the exchange of scientific visits between Egyptian and German research teams.

This program is co- financed by the Science and Technology Development Fund in Egypt (STDF) and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Germany.

For Egyptian Scientists

• The information sheet is available on the Science and Technology Development Fund website  www.stdf.org.eg and the DAAD website http://cairo.daad.de/en/  
• The online application form is available  on the STDF website
• For inquiries please contact Ms. Heba Afifi gesp@daadcairo.org

For German Scientists

§  The call for application and the application forms will be available on the DAAD Website under the following linkhttp://www.daad.de/ppp

§  For inquires please contact Mrs. Arua Husaini husaini@daad.de 

N.B. Content of this announcement can be changed without prior notice

These listings come courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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EURAMES Info Service 25/12

Dear Madame, dear Sir, dear colleague and friend,

Please find below the following announcements:

CONFERENCES

1. International Conference: “Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies”, Université de Liège, 6-8 September 2012

2. Graduate Workshop: “Egypt in the Arab Spring: Perspectives from Economics and Democratisation Studies”, London School of Economics, 28 September 2012

3. Workshop: “Rethinking Authorship in Islamic Literature”, Bayreuth University, Chair of Islamic Studies, 22-25 November 2012

4. Workshop: “The Arab Spring and the EU Democracy Promotion Efforts: Between Intentions and Perceptions”, 14th  Mediterranean Research Meeting,  Mersin University, Turkey, 20 – 23 March 2013

5. Workshop: “Honor in Ottoman and Contemporary Mediterranean Societies: Controversies, Continuities, and New Directions”, Budapest, 21-23 March 2013

6. Panel: “Narratives of Travel in Middle Eastern Literatures”,  44th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Tufts University, Boston, 21-24 March 2013

7. International Graduate Conference “Symposia Iranica: 1st Biennial Graduate Conference on Iranian Studies”, University of St Andrews, 13-14 April 2013

8. Conference: “Knowledge, Exchange, Encounter: Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1718”, University of Cambridge, 8-9 July 2013

9. 35th Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: “The Decapolis: History and Archaeology”, University of Oxford, 29-31 July 2013

POSITIONS

10. PhD Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick

11. Research Fellow on “Islamic Reformulations: Belief, Violence, Governance”, University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

12. Assistant Professor in the Politics of the Arab World, Georgetown University, CCAS, Washington, DC

13. Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Georgia Southern University

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

14. “Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies” and “Master of Islam in the Modern World”, Australian National University, Canberra

If you want to distribute an announcement via EURAMES Info Service to more than 5000 scholars engaged in Middle East studies, please apply the usual format of the text with no more than 150 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
Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW),  University of Mainz, Germany
CONFERENCES

1. International Conference: “Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies”, Université de Liège, 6-8 September 2012

Organized by Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche under the aegis of the Commission Internationale de Diplomatique (Comité International des Sciences Historiques). The full programme is available at: http://www.islamo.ulg.ac.be/f3.htm. Registration is free, but those who would like to attend are requested to send a message to f.bauden@ulg.ac.be

2. Graduate Workshop: “Egypt in the Arab Spring: Perspectives from Economics and Democratisation Studies”, London School of Economics, 28 September 2012

The LSE Middle East Centre will be organising the first of two one-day graduate workshops as part of the collaborative project with the Faculty of Economics and Political Science (FEPS), Cairo University.
The workshop will discuss the causes and immediate implications of the Egyptian revolution in the context of the Arab Spring from an economic-political economy and democratisation perspective. It is structured in two sections; each section introduced by a paper from one of the members of the steering committee of the collaborative project and includes presentations from young scholars from UK universities and FEPS.

This workshop is free and open to all. Registration is essential. For further information and for the full programme and abstracts  http://www2.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/research/Collaboration-Projects/collaboration-2011-2012/LSE-Collaboration-with-FEPS/LSE-FEPS-Conference.aspx

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3. Workshop: “Rethinking Authorship in Islamic Literature”, Bayreuth University, Chair of Islamic Studies, 22-25 November 2012

We all know that authorship in Islamic literature has meanings and functions different from authorship in European literature. However, this knowledge stays somewhat theoretical, as Islamic literature and especially hadith-literature is still analysed and treated with unreflected notions of authorship in the back of one’s mind.

In contrast to this situation the workshop will challenge current notions of authorship. What does authorship mean concerning compilations of traditions? Is their collective authorship in Islamic literature? What about anonymous types of text? How could a structuralist approach to hadith-literature look like?

Contributions are welcome not only from the realm of Islamic studies but also from neighbouring disciplines like medievalism, literary studies or philosophy. Candidates should send a very short c v and an abstract of their contribution till end of September to hans-thomas.tillschneider@uni-bayreuth.de.

Travel and accommodation costs are covered by the chair of Islamic studies (Prof. Osswald). http://www.islamwissenschaft.uni-bayreuth.de/de/index.html

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4. Workshop: “The Arab Spring and the EU Democracy Promotion Efforts: Between Intentions and Perceptions”, 14th  Mediterranean Research Meeting,  Mersin University, Turkey, 20 – 23 March 2013

More information on the workshop contents and objectives: http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/InternationalTransnationalRelations/MediterraneanProgramme/MRM/MRM2013/ws05.aspx

Deadline for submitting the paper proposal: 15 September 2012. Workshop directors and contacts: Nesreen K. El Molla, (Cairo University, Egypt: nelmolla@hotmail.com)  and Dario Cristiani, (King’s College London, United Kingdom – Global Governance Institute, Belgium:dario.cristiani@kcl.ac.uk)

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5. Workshop: “Honor in Ottoman and Contemporary Mediterranean Societies: Controversies, Continuities, and New Directions”, Budapest, 21-23 March 2013

The Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Central European University will host this workshop. The co-organizers of the conference are soliciting participants who work on honor and related topics in Ottoman and contemporary Mediterranean societies. Deadline for abstracts 1 November 2012.

Information: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=196551

6. Panel: “Narratives of Travel in Middle Eastern Literatures”,  44th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), Tufts University, Boston, 21-24 March 2013

This panel seeks papers that address different narratives of travel (such as exile, diaspora, immigration, and colonial adventure) in Middle Eastern literatures. Deadline for abstracts 30 September 2012. Information     http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=196514

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7. International Graduate Conference “Symposia Iranica: 1st Biennial Graduate Conference on Iranian Studies”, University of St Andrews, 13-14 April 2013

Symposia Iranica invites proposals for individual papers, pre-arranged panels, and poster presentations that relate to any aspect of Iranian studies. These include (but are by no means limited to): literature, political science, philosophy, archaeology, religions and theology, geography, sociology, anthropology, music, history of art, architecture, international relations, education, history, linguistics, Diaspora studies, new media and communication studies, film, and the performing arts. Interdisciplinary papers are also very welcome.

Submissions are welcomed from final year undergraduates, postgraduates, doctoral candidates and post-docs who graduated within three calendar years of the submission deadline. Deadline for submissions 15 October 2012. More Information http://www.symposia-iranica.com.

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8. Conference: “Knowledge, Exchange, Encounter: Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1718”, University of Cambridge, 8-9 July 2013

The aim of this conference will be to further our understanding of the ways in which knowledge was exchanged between Europe and the Ottoman Empire during the period from  the conquest of Constantinople to the Treaty of Passarowitz. Information http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2077/

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9. 35th Conference of the ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies: “The Decapolis: History and Archaeology”, University of Oxford, 29-31 July 2013

The conference aims to study the movement of nomads and their settlements in the Syrian Orient; and it will pay a special attention to the migration of Arab nomads from the Arabian Peninsula to the Fertile Crescent in the pre-Islamic period. All papers given at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, subject to editorial review. If you wish to participate in the conference, please contact aram@orinst.ox.ac.uk

POSITIONS

10. PhD Research Fellow, Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick

Fixed Term Contract from 1 October 2012 until 30 September 2016 (£27,578 – £35,938 pa). A four year PhD fellowship is available to do research on the Iraqi diaspora in Europe within the Project “Diasporas and Contested Sovereignty”. The project will be conducted under the supervision of Dr. Maria Koinova. A team of four researchers (PI, post-doc, two PhD researchers) will investigate the transnational mobilisation of conflict-generated diasporas in Europe and their impact on polities experiencing contested sovereignty in the Balkans, the Caucuses, and the Middle East.

You will possess a masters degree (awarded or near completion) or equivalent in a relevant discipline. The ability to act as an independent researcher is essential, as is evidence of a clear research agenda. You will ideally have an academic background in international relations, comparative politics, conflict studies, foreign policy analysis, transnationalism, and migration and diaspora studies. Very good linguistic skills in Arabic are essential. Prior qualitative and/or quantitative methods training is highly desirable. You will be expected to do multi-sited research both in Europe and Iraq, publish academic articles, and assist with the organisation of project-related events.

Further details www2.warwick.ac.uk/services/humanresources/jobsintro/further_particulars/71982-062.pdf. Application deadline is 14 September 2012.

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11. Research Fellow on “Islamic Reformulations: Belief, Violence, Governance”, University of Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

The Islamic Reformulations project comprises two elements: (1) a research project examining the continuities and discontinuities between pre-modern and modern Islamic thought relating to belief, violence and governance, and (2) a wider interdisciplinary study of how religious belief and ideological commitment might constitute a “global uncertainty”, and how the relationship between belief and action might best be characterised. The Research Fellow will contribute to both of the project’s elements. This ESRC funded post is available 1/10/2012 to 30/9/2014. The successful applicant, working with Professor Gleave, will engage in independent and collaborative research on a topic related to the main element  of the Islamic reformulations project work.
Closing date 18 September 2012. Details of the Research Fellowship: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AFA489/research-fellow/

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12. Assistant Professor in the Politics of the Arab World, Georgetown University, CCAS, Washington, DC

Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in the politics of the Arab World. Scholars with expertise in the international relations or comparative politics of the Arab world will be particularly attractive. The candidate must possess a deep knowledge of the Arab region and be proficient in Arabic. The position is based in SFS’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS). The scholar will become a core member of CCAS and her or his primary teaching responsibilities will be geared toward meeting the requirements of the Center’s prestigious Master of Arts in Arab Studies program. We seek candidates with a strong commitment to teaching and scholarship. The teaching load is two courses per semester, at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Each application should include a curriculum vitae; a brief statement of research and teaching interests; three letters of recommendation; samples of scholarly writing; and copies of teaching evaluations, if available.

The deadline for applications is 15 October 2012. The position will commence in the fall of 2013. Information https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/1800

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13. Assistant Professor of Modern Middle East History, Georgia Southern University

The successful candidate will teach the survey of World History since 1450, a core course required of all Georgia Southern University students, courses required for the major, and a variety of upper-division courses in his or her field. The position is a 9-month, tenure-track appointment, and the salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Screening of applications begins October 15, 2012.  The preferred position starting date is 1 August 2013. Information https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=45054

 

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

14. “Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies” and “Master of Islam in the Modern World”, Australian National University, Canberra

The Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS), at the Australian National University, offers a range of graduate degrees and applications are now open for international students interested in starting a degree in February 2013. The Centre offers several degrees, including: a ‘Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies’ and ‘Master of Islam in the Modern World’, both of which can be completed by coursework in one year full-time. Courses cover a range of topics on the Middle East and Central Asia and thematic issues such as politics, political economy, international relations and political Islam. Language study is available in Arabic and Persian. A sub-thesis option is also offered for the ‘Master of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies’.

Also available are a ‘Master of Philosophy’ and ‘Doctor of Philosophy’, research degrees completed by major thesis. Some scholarships are obtainable for outstanding international applicants for research degrees. For information on CAIS’s degrees, and how to apply, see http://cais.anu.edu.au/programs/postgraduate-study

This list of academic opportunities comes courtesy of Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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19th International DAVO Congress in Erlangen, 4-6 October 2012

 

Call for Papers for Pre-organized Panels

 

1)   Armed Groups and the Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities

2)   Processes of Transformation in Society and Politics in the Context of Web

2.0 Communication

3)   A New Nationalism? Identity and Nationalism in a Revolutionary Context

4)   The Year after Fukushima: Chances and Challenges for Sustainable Energy

Policies in the MENA-Region

5)   Religious Movements as Political Actors in the Near East

6)   Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa

7)   “Euroislam” in Eastern Europe

8)   “Citizenship” as a Result of the Arab Spring?

9)   Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance

10) Economic Dimensions of Political Upheaval in the Arab World:

Perspectives and Consequences

11) Migration, Mobility or Movements: Ways of People, Ideas and Goods

Around the Mediterranean Sea

12) Arab Spring: Background, Targets and Obstacles

13) The Military Factor in the Economy and the Implications for the

Development in North Africa and Western Asia

14) Non-oil Economic Growth and Stability in Iraq

15) Re-thinking Geopolitics in the Post-2011-Revolutions in the Arab World

16) The Muslim Brothers: New Roles, New Historiographies

17) The Syrian Uprising – Motives, Actors and Agendas

18)  MENA and its Diasporas: Impacts on Homeland Politics

19) Conceptions of Gender in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora

20) The Political and Economic Role of Turkey in the Near East

 

1) Armed Groups and the Arab Spring: Challenges and Opportunities

Organiser: Somdeep Sen, PhD Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen

As the Arab Spring triggered unprecedented regional events, the majority of the subsequent intellectual and political discourse has chosen to focus on post-revolution institutional and governance issues. While such discussions are critical for ensuring the ‘success’ of the revolution, it ignores key regional (power) stakeholders, namely, armed (non-state) groups. With changing alliances, rising Islamists and fragile state institutions, this panel explores the future of armed groups in a tumultuous Middle East. The panel will specifically focus on how regional events have (or promise to) impact strategies, organizational characteristics, structures and operational logic of armed non-state groups.

Please send your abstracts until 4. June 2012 to: Somdeep Sen, somdeeps@gmail.com; or: sos@ifs.ku.dk

 

2) Gesellschaftspolitische Transformationsprozesse im Kontext von Web 2.0-Kommu-nikation

Organisatoren: Thomas Demmelhuber, Universität Hildesheim / Georg Glasze, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Die Aufstände nach den Wahlen im Iran 2009, die als (gescheiterte) grüne „Twitter-Revolution“ bekannt wurden, sowie insbesondere die gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt seit 2011, die teilweise als „Facebook- und Twitter-Revolutionen“ beschrieben wurde, haben vielfältige Debatten über neue Formen der Mobilisierung und Organisation politischer Interessensgruppen ausgelöst. Während in klassischen Massenmedien und der Frühphase des Internets Inhalte von wenigen Anbietern zur Verfügung gestellt wurden, wird mit den neuen technischen Möglichkeiten eine Differenzierung zwischen Produzent und Konsument in weiten Teilen obsolet. Texte, Filme, Karten, Fotos etc. können jetzt von Internetnutzern mit relativ geringen Ressourcen generiert, modifiziert, kontextualisiert und neu im Internet präsentiert werden. Die zunehmende Bedeutung dieses user generated content gilt als das zentrale Merkmal des Web 2.0 – dem „Mitmachweb“.

Während zahlreiche Autoren die neuen Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten im Web 2.0 als Form von empowerment und Grundlage für Liberalisierungs- und Demokratisierungsprozesse beurteilen, warnen andere Stimmen vor einer Netzeuphorie (vgl. Evgeny Morozov). Vor diesem Hintergrund wollen wir ein Forum für konzeptionelle und empirische Beiträge bieten, welche gesellschaftspolitische Transformationsprozesse im Kontext von Web 2.0-Kommunikation durchleuchten. Willkommen sind beispielsweise Beiträge zu

-       der Rolle von sozialen Medien im Kontext der Umbrüche in der arabischen Welt,

-       neuen Formen der Web 2.0-Kartographie wie bspw. den Krisenkarten im Kontext der Umbrüche in Libyen, Syrien, Tunesien und anderen Staaten,

-       Interaktionen zwischen Cyberaktivismus und traditionelleren Formen politischer Auseinandersetzung,

-       Fragen der Rolle von neuen Medien in Liberalisierung- und Demokratisierungsprozessen

Vortragsanmeldungen mit abstracts bitte bis zum 4. Juni 2012 an:

gg.glasze@geographie.uni-erlangen.de und thomas.demmelhuber@uni-hildesheim.de

 

 

3) A New Nationalism? Identity and Nationalism in a Revolutionary Context

Organiser: Luisa Gandolfo, University of York

As the revolution continues across the region, accepted definitions of national identity are contested and renegotiated. The fall of authoritarian leaders who once endeavoured to embody the nation has resulted in a vacuum in which the people move to reclaim and construct a new national identity. In contrast, countries once united engage in conflict that prompts a fracturing of a once united national consciousness. This panel seeks to explore the evolution of national identity in the MENA region over the course of the Arab Spring and welcomes submissions addressing all aspects of national identity.

Please send your abstracts until 4. June to: luisa.gandolfo@york.ac.uk

 

4) The Year after Fukushima: Chances and Challenges for Sustainable Energy Policies in the MENA-Region

Organiser: Dr. Beyhan Sentürk, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin

The finite nature of oil and gas, increasing domestic demands and diminishing export revenues are forcing policy-makers in these natural resource rich countries of the MENA region to look for alternatives. Even though the region has, by worldwide comparison, a high potential to develop renewable energies, they are, at present, poorly (or marginally) developed. Nuclear energy programmes are being debated in many MENA-countries, but this choice remains problematic both for security and ecological reasons.

Which political options exist? How is the discrepancy between the potential and the accomplished performance explainable? Will the Arab Spring raise the chances for an “energy revolution” in the Middle East? From a socio-economic and security perspective, the panel will address the possibilities offered by establishing sustainable energy policies.

Please send your abstracts until 4. June to: Beyhan Sentürk, Beyhan.Sentuerk@fes.de

 

5) Religiöse Bewegungen als politische Akteure im Nahen Osten

Organisatoren: Peter Lintl, Christian Thuselt, Christian Wolff /Universität Erlangen

Politische Akteure mit religiöser Programmatik scheinen sich momentan in der Region des Nahen Ostens auf dem Vormarsch zu befinden. Dort haben sich insbesondere seit dem Arabischen Frühling vollkommen neue Rahmenbedingungen ergeben.

In Tunesien und Marokko haben islamisch-konservative Parteien bereits die meisten Sitze im Parlament errungen, in Ägypten wurden die Muslimbrüder stärkste Partei. Daneben politisieren sich seit den demokratischen Systemöffnungen zunehmend salafistische Bewegungen. Auch die schiitische Gemeinschaft wird im Irak wie im Libanon fast ausnahmslos von Parteien vertreten, die einer dezidiert politischen Theologie verpflichtet sind.

Aber das Auftreten religiöser Akteure in der Politik ist kein spezifisch islamisches Phänomen, sondern auch in Christen- und Judentum zu beobachten. In Israel etwa führt die rasante quantitative Zunahme der Ultraorthodoxie auch zu deren politischer Expansion und somit immer öfter zu einem Kampf um Moral und religiöse Normativität im öffentlichen Raum. Darüberhinaus stellt die bisweilen staatsfeindliche Agitation radikaler Siedler eine völlig neue Qualität dieser Auseinandersetzung dar. Im Libanon formulieren seit Jahrzehnten bedeutende Christenparteien wie die al-kata`ib die politischen Ansprüche ihrer Anhängerschaft an den Staat in religiös aufgeladenen Symbolen.

Ziel des Panels ist es, Hintergründe und Konsequenzen des politischen Erstarkens religiöser Bewegungen zu untersuchen. Im Fokus stehen dabei Fragen wie: Mit welchem normativen Anspruch treten diese im öffentlichen Raum auf? Wie wird das Gemeinwohl aus religiöser Sicht begründet?  Welche Rolle spielen sie in Bezug auf eine Demokratisierung? Warum politisieren sich nun quietistische Bewegungen wie die Salafisten?

Eine Veröffentlichung in Buchform wird angestrebt. Bitte senden Sie Ihre abstracts bis zum 4.6. an: religionnahost@gmail.com

 

6) Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Organisation: Steffen Wippel and Christian Steiner

Papers are invited which are tackling economic and/or economic and social policy related issues in the MENA Region from different theoretical as well as empirical perspectives.         Please send your paper proposals with abstract until 4. June to: Steffen Wippel, steffen.wippel@rz.hu-berlin.de and Christian Steiner, Steiner@em.uni- frankfurt.de

 7) „Euroislam“ in Osteuropa

Organisiert von Swetlana Czerwonnaja, Nikolaus Kopernikus Universität (Thorn / Torun, Polen)

Eine Theorie des “Euroislams” wurde in den Kreisen der politischen Eliten und der wissenschaftlichen Intelligenz der Republik Tatarstan im 20. Jahrhundert auf der Basis des Djadidismus von Ismail Bey Gaspraly (1851-1914) und anderer fortschrittlicher, auf die Modernisierung des Lebens der Muslimischen Völker gerichteten Konzeptionen entwickelt. Die Besonderheiten dieser Theorien sowie ihre politische und kulturelle Bedeutung (insbesondere nach dem 11. September 2001) besteht darin, dass sie sich gegen radikale Tendenzen und Bewegungen in der islamischen Welt richten, den Islam vom “asiatischen” Radikalismus und Fundamentalismus befreien und ihn in die europäische Kultur und in die modernisierte post-industrielle Gesellschaft integrieren wollen. Dem Islam soll ein „europäisches Antlitz” und Europa ein menschliches, „islamisches Antlitz” gegeben werden.

Ziel des Panels ist einerseits die Vorstellung dieser Theorien, andererseits die Untersuchung, wie sie sowohl bei der muslimischen als auch der christlichen Bevölkerung in den osteuropäischen Staaten aufgenommen werden, wie die Regierungen sich zu ihnen stellen und welchen Einfluss und Bekanntheitsgrad sie über die Region hinaus haben”.

Bitte schicken Sie Vortragsanmeldungen mit abstract (300 Worte) bis zum 4. Juni 2012 an Prof. Swetlana Czerwonnaja, swetlana@umk.pl

 

“Citizenship is the Solution”: Is it the Upshot of the Arabic Spring?

Organised by Hala Kindelberger, University of Potsdam

“Citizenship is the Solution” (El-Mowatna heya el-Hall) is the new slogan in the Arabic world after the Arabic Spring. Especially the minorities and the less privileged people in the society of the Arabic World feel discriminated and ignored both in the labor market, and in having access to many rights. Justice is not for all and it is differentiated according to the connections one has, also before court and judges.

The old slogans used like Democracy, Liberalism or Secular State are attacked by the Islamist political groups and are pictured as an anti-Islamic western model, which makes them weak and difficult to defend or to be adopted. Here “Citizenship” offers a good alternative. It helps that the word does not carry bad connotations and is also not too novel, since it has been used by the old regimes in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia and the Golf Monarchies in the course of reformation and transition.

In the neo-patrimonial authoritarian regimes in the Arabic world, belonging and networking with the head of the states is vital. Qualification or knowledge plays no role, people are not the same before the law. Will the concept of “Citizenship” under the Islamist governments gain importance or will it remain the same? Can the Monarchies keep their neo-patrimonial system the way it was or will it be affected by the revolutionary demands to go forward in reforming the citizenship concept? Which role do the Islamist political groups play in weakening or encouraging the “Citizenship” concept?

The panel aim is to debate the concept of “Citizenship,” its definitions and its compatibility with the existing regimes in the MENA-Region, but also in Israel as a “democratic” neighbor and a geographic partner in the region. To what extent the people in the MENA region are aware about “Citizenship” should also be addressed in some presentations. Which importance will the Islamists grant to civil society organizations and human rights legislation: will they remain marginalized as before or will there be tendency towards improvement?

It is also sought to compare and to analyze the common points or similarities as well as the differences between the aforementioned countries. Contributions of case studies or conception papers are welcome from different disciplines.

The deadline for the submission of abstracts (no more than 300 words) is 04 June 2012. Abstracts should be sent to Hala Kindelberger (University of Potsdam): hala.k@hotmail.de

 

9) Islamic Economics and Islamic Finance

Organized by: Heiko Schuß, University of Erlangen

Islamic Economics promised to offer an alternative to capitalism and communism. While the results of establishing an Islamic national economy are not convincing, industries which are offering Islamic products, like halal food or Islamic financial services, are flourishing on a global scale. These products obviously serve to define the Islamic identities of their consumers. Against the background of the global financial and economic crisis it might be asked if these products present a more ethical way to do business or if it is just a marketing strategy to address pious Muslim customers.

Paper presenters dealing with topics of Islamic economic theory, Islamic finance, halal food industry and trade, Islamic clothes, Islamic tourism, etc. are invited to participate in this panel.

Please send your abstracts until 4. June 2012 to: Dr. Heiko Schuß, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Heiko.Schuss@orient.phil.uni-erlangen.de

 

10) Economic Dimensions of Political Upheaval in the Arab World:
Perspectives and Consequences

Organiser: Juliane Brach (Universität Kopenhagen), Markus Loewe (Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn), Anja Zorob (Freie Universität Berlin)

The year 2011 has changed the political order of several Arab countries, while the structures and deficits of their economies have remained widely unchanged. In addition, several countries have seen some of their major sources of external income ebb away (especially tourism and foreign investment). However, even the path of political development in the Arab world– especially in post-revolutionary Tunisia, Egypt and Libya – depends foremost on economic reforms and improvements in the socio-economic living conditions. What can governments (and other actors) do to reactivate external income sources as well as overcome the structural deficits of the Arab economies?

Please send your abstracts until 4. June 2012 to:  Markus Loewe, markus.loewe@die-gdi.de

 

11) Migration, Mobility or Movements: Ways of People, Ideas and Goods around the Mediterranean Sea

Organiser: Ines Braune, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Marburg

The increasing movement of people, ideas and goods around the globe is one of the most defining attributes of the globalized world. This is most notably relevant for the Mediterranean region, due to its geographical position, and function as a bridge between wealthy Europe, and the countries of the southern shore of the Mediterranean.

Concepts like migration and integration seem to focus mainly on linear and one-dimensional processes of peoples’ movements and victimize often the actors. Mobility is a more appropriate term to discuss recent movements with its complex and multidimensional effects.

This panel focuses on the mobility of people, ideas and goods from different scientific approaches. Case studies and ethnographic accounts are welcome, as are contributions from any other field as well.

Please send your abstracts until 4. June 2012 to: ines.braune@uni-marburg.de

 

12) Arab Spring: Background, Targets and Obstacles

Organiser: Fawzy Naji, Berlin

Politicians in both the west and the east have been surprised by the Arab Spring; few could have predicted it. The results of this process of transformation have set new standards in the relationships between ruler and people and between regional and international cooperation. The desired outcomes of the Arab Spring, the abolition of dictatorships and the creation of new democratic systems with social justice, have been met with internal, regional and international obstacles.

In this panel the opportunity will be given to discuss the following topics:

• Background of the Arab Spring
• Targets of the Arabic Revolutions
• Internal, regional and international obstacles
• Dictatorships in the Arab World
• Democracy and human rights
• Political players in the Middle East
• Political Islam
• Arab Spring and the International Community

Please send your abstracts until 4.6.2012 to Dr. Fawzy Naji (f.naji@hotmail.de).

 

13) The Military Factor in the Economy and the Implications for the Development in North Africa and Western Asia

Organisatorin: Sabine Hofmann, FU Berlin

Im weltweit verlaufenden Prozess der Aufrüstung weisen die MENA-Staaten und -Gesellschaften im globalen Maßstab weiterhin den höchsten Grad der Militarisierung auf (siehe GMI des BICC; Rüstungsstatistiken laut SIPRI). Mit den erneuten Vereinbarungen zur Lieferung von Waffensystemen (wie Leopard II-Panzer an Saudi-Arabien, Dolphin-U-Boot an Israel) sowie den atomaren Waffenpotentialen und -ansprüchen steigt das Gefahrenpotential nicht nur in der ohnehin seit Jahrzehnten angespannten Krisenregion, sondern weltweit. Auch der Rüstungstransfer im informellen Sektor trägt zur Anspannung der Rüstungsspirale bei. Weiterhin kommt Militärtechnik zunehmend in der sog. unkonventionellen Kriegsführung zur Anwendung, wie in der Terrorismusabwehr und gegen Piraterie. Primär nach außen zur Verteidigung des eigenen Gemeinwesens gerichtet, wird sie mit Sicherheitsbegründungen zunehmend innen eingesetzt. Militärisch basierte Technologien sind in Überwachungssystemen und zur Informationsbeschaffung auch in den zivilen Alltag integriert worden (wie Drohnen, Sicherheitsdetektoren, GPS).

Das Panel will sich insbesondere mit dem Einfluss von Rüstungswirtschaft und Militärtechnologie auf Wirtschaft und Politik unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen regionaler Machtverschiebungen und globaler Krisenprozesse befassen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen der quantitative und qualitative Einfluss des militärischen Faktors auf Wirtschaft, Politik und Gesellschaft und die Implikationen für die Entwicklung in Nordafrika und Westasien.

Das Panel ist offen für die interdisziplinäre und vergleichende Analyse. Willkommen sind sowohl theoretische Überlegungen zum Verhältnis von Rüstung, Militär und Wirtschaft als auch empirische Einzel- und Vergleichsanalysen der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Fragestellungen der Diskussion sind unter anderem:

- Innenpolitische und gesellschaftliche Folgen von Produktion, Export und Import von Rüstungsgütern,

- Anstieg von Rüstungsproduktion und -export im Gesamtprozess der nationalen Wirtschaft – „Motor“ für Wirtschaftswachstum?

- Einfluss von militärisch induzierten Technologien auf die primär zivile Wirtschaft – volkswirtschaftlich teure spillover-Effekte oder politisch notwendig?

- Treiben globale Netzwerke des informellen Rüstungsmarktes das Aufrüsten in der Region an?

Bitte senden Sie Ihre abstracts bis zum 4. Juni 2012 an: Dr. Sabine Hofmann: shofmann@zedat.fu-berlin.de

 

 

14) Non-oil Economic Growth and Stability in Iraq

Organised by: Şefik Alp Bahadir, University Erlangen-Nürnberg

The key themes of the panel are issues of generating sustainable economic growth, employment, and social safety nets, improving human resource management, and reforming public institutions and governmental policies in Iraq.

Please send your abstracts (up to 300 words) until 4. June 2012 to: Prof. Şefik Alp Bahadir, sefik.alp.bahadir@Orient.phil.uni-erlangen.de

 

 

15) Re-Thinking Geopolitics in the Post-2011-Revolutions in the Arab World

Session 1: The Case of Saudi Arabia” – Session 2: The Case of Syria

Organizer: Dr. Ala Al-Hamarneh, CERAW – Institute of Geography, University of Mainz

The 2011 revolutions, revolts and mass protests in many Arab countries changed the regional and international rules of the geopolitical game in the WANA region (West Asia and North Africa). Or at least it caused radical adjustments and corrections in visions, methods, estimations and aims of the geopolitical actors.

In this panel we would like to examine how regional and international political actors in various cases of political crises have decided to act and to react; which instruments have been used? Which aims and visions they had? And to which extend these decisions have re-shaped the geopolitical situation in the WANA region.

Two cases have been chosen to be addressed in two separate sessions; the Saudi and the Syrian cases. The Saudi case should demonstrate, on the one hand, the political and economic re-positioning of Saudi Arabia in the post-2011-revolutions by exemplifying the role of the Kingdom on various levels and layers in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Egypt etc. as well as the changing interactions in the GCC, with Iran, Turkey and the USA. On the other hand, we would like to tackle the dependencies of domestic politics (regime stability, the Shia issue, etc.) on the regional and international tactics of the country. The Syrian case should demonstrate the “international geopolitical” factors in the development of the domestic political crises; the interests of neighboring countries, the “Sunni” and the “Shia” regional factors, the Lebanon interaction, the Palestinian/Israeli factor etc.  We hope by tackling these two country cases to be able to demonstrate the dynamics of the geopolitical shifts, impacts and their backgrounds in the WANA region.

Please send your abstract until 4. June 2012 to Dr Ala Al-Hamarneh at a.al-hamarneh@geo.uni-mainz.de (please mention DAVO-Geopolitics Panel-Abstract in the title of the email).

 

 

16) The Muslim Brothers: New Roles, New Historiographies

Organised by: Uri Kupferschmidt, University of Haifa

The latest elections in Egypt and other developments in the Middle East have opened a new phase in the eighty-four years history of the Society of the Muslim Brothers. While their future course in politics is difficult to predict, the proposed panel intends to raise questions on past and present perspectives in historiography and research, and the need to revise or go beyond the existing literature.

Emphasis has often fallen on the early ideological tenets and the political narrative of the Muslim Brothers, as well as their confrontations with various governments, and has also tilted towards their most prominent leaders. No doubt, this was also because of the perspective of the rulers. Though an ideological transformation and gradual adaptation to new realities over the past few decades had been observed, this has so far hardly led to a systematic revisiting of the main narrative.

The proposed panel intends to put the evolvement of the Muslim Brothers in a long-term perspective, be it one of good fortune or one of strategic acumen and planning. One may think of  the development of their internal structure, ostensible or real democratic processes within the ranks of the movement, the role attributed to or asserted by women, relations between the three or more generations in the movement, the actual construction of popular bases of power, their performance in the various parliaments and trade unions under the Mubarak regime, their actual coping with economic realities, including poverty and enrichment, and the use of mass media and technology.

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted until 4. June 2012 to Uri Kupferschmidt, kpfrschm@research.haifa.ac.il

 

17) The Syrian Uprising – Motives, Actors and Agendas

Organized by: Anja Zorob and Salam Said

Vortragssprachen / Languages:  Deutsch/German, Englisch/English

The Syrian Uprising which started in March 2011is characterized as the longest, most violent and apparently also most opaque struggle for freedom and dignity in the framework of the “Arab Awakening”. The atrocities committed by the security forces loyal to the regime against armed opposition groups and, in a similar manner, the overwhelming majority of those peacefully demonstrating everyday in towns and villages all over Syria seems to have divided the Syrian population into two fronts for and against Assad. In addition, all calls for an end of violence brought forth by the Syrian opposition in- and outside the country, the Arab neighbors and the international community have been ignored so far. Against this background the Syrian regime has isolated itself to a large degree in the international political arena. Moreover, the United States, the European Union and others introduced harsh and extensive economic sanctions against the country.

The aim of this panel is, on the one hand, to identify and discuss different socio-economic and political motives or driving factors behind the uprising. On the other hand, the panel wants to throw a more detailed look on the major actors pro and contra the protests on the local as well as external levels as well as to explore their claims, ideas and agendas. This discussion shall not only focus on or be limited to “the family”, oppositional groups or forces loyal to the regime, private entrepreneurs, religious or ethnic groups or different external actors, but shall include also the local and international media, for instance. Finally, the panel aims at investigating and analyzing actual and potential long-term effects of the uprising on the Syrian economy, culture and society.

Paper proposals (300 words approx.) should be sent directly to Anja Zorob, Ruhr University Bochum (anja.zorob@rub.de) and Salam Said, FU Berlin (salamsaid@zedat.fu-berlin.de) by June 4, 2012.

 

 

18)  MENA and its Diasporas: Impacts on Homeland Politics

Organiser: Paul Tabar, Lebanese American University, Institute for Migration Studies

This panel will explore the dynamics of the political relationships between Middle Eastern Diasporas and their homelands in terms of their impact on the state, national identities, and peace and conflict. This theme would be incorporating theoretical discussions on issues such as transnational political activity, long-distance nationalism, political remittances and the trans-border extension of citizenship rights among others. Case studies could include Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Turkey and other MENA countries with sizable and politically active diasporas.

Please send your abstracts (up to 300 words) until 4. June 2012 to:  Paul Tabar ptabar@ lau.edu.lb

 

19)  Conceptions of Gender in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora

The panel examines the social construction of gender in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora. Considering the various social, economic, and political changes that have been taking place in recent years – as for instance the rise of a political Islam, the expansion of consumer culture, or the adoption of new laws and regulations as regards the status of women in society –

it can be assumed that common conceptions of gender have been changing as well. Our session aims to explore these changes not only in a Turkish, but also in a European context. We are particularly interested in questions like: How do men and women negotiate gender identities in everyday life? Do cultural globalization processes and social change foster the emergence of new concepts of masculinity and femininity? Do particularly young people challenge traditional morality or do they hold on to dominant concepts of gender identity?

Please send your abstracts (300 words) to Carina Großer-Kaya, Universität Leipzig: carinagro@freenet.de and Pierre Hecker, Universität Marburg: pierre.hecker@staff.uni-marburg.de

 

20) The Political and Economic Role of Turkey in the Near East

Organisatoren: Nasim Barham / Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark

Es gibt bereits eine feste Gruppe von ReferentInnen, weitere Interessenten können sich wenden an: barham_nasim@hotmail.com

 

This comes via Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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EURAMES Info Service 36/11

Dear Madame, dear Sir, dear colleague and friend,

Please find below the following announcements:

CONFERENCES

1. International Workshop: "Preserving the Built Heritage. The Challenge of a New Legal Framework to Manage Another", Tunis, Museum Bardo, 26 – 27 January 2012

2. 9th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference: "Making Sense of Islam – Sensuality and Affect in the Muslim Humanities", Duke University, Durham, NC, 24-25 March 2012

3. 13th International Academic Conference on Islamicjerusalem Studies: "Palestine and Islamic Jerusalem – Introducing Islamicjerusalem Studies to South East Asia", Malaysia (venue to be confirmed), 10-12 April 2012

4. Workshop: "Language and Identity in Central Asia", UCLA, 4-5 May 2012

5. Workshop: "Big Dams: Investigating their Temporal and Spatial Politics in Africa, the Middle East and Asia", Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 1 June 2012

POSITIONS and GRANTS

6. Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellowship Programme at SOAS, London

7.  Position: Sir Thomas Adams’s Professorship of Arabic, University of Cambridge

8. Funding for Doctoral Research in Arab World Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester

9. One-Year Visiting Research Fellowship in the Study of Shi‘i Islam in the Arab and/or Persian-speaking World,  Institute of Ismaili Studies, London

10. Open Society Scholarship Program offers grants for Master Degree Courses  at Top-ranked Universities in the U.S in Public Policy / Public Administration / Media / Communications Studies /Law / Gender Studies

OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

11. Master Programme: "Economic Change in the Arab Region", Including Scholarships, University of Marburg/Germany and Cairo

With all best wishes for the New Year,

Guenter Meyer
Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW),  University of Mainz,  www.ceraw.uni-mainz.de

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CONFERENCES

1. International Workshop: "Preserving the Built Heritage. The Challenge of a New Legal Framework to Manage Another", Tunis, Museum Bardo, 26 – 27 January 2012

This meeting aims to support the coming heritage policies management in Tunisia and provides opportunities for professionals of the sector to share ideas and experiences into the Workshops as open spaces for debate and exchanges.

Registration before 5 January 2012.Information: http://www.montada-forum.net/sites/default/files/activitats/Programme%20TunisiaBardo.pdf

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2. 9th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference: "Making Sense of Islam – Sensuality and Affect in the Muslim Humanities", Duke University, Durham, NC, 24-25 March 2012

Possible themes for papers include but are not limited to:
 * The visual language of Islamic design and architecture
 * Sensation in classical & modern Prose and poetry
 * Cultural institutions and practices for sensing the supernatural
 * The choreography of religious ceremony
 * The physical and material evocation of memory
 * Trends in modern Muslim art and artists
 * Philosophical and scientific theories of human sensation
 * Sight, memory, and sound as evidence in Islamic Law

We will provide opportunity for interactive, deliberative, and inter-disciplinary engagement with scholarly work in progress by gathering in an intimate workshop format. Please submit at minimum a 1,000-word detailed abstract accompanied by a working bibliography and CV to DUKEUNCconf@gmail.com by January 9, 2011. Submissions that include a written paper are highly preferred. Ph.D. students in advanced stages of research and dissertation writing are especially encouraged to apply.

Complete Call for Papers: http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/ceeresebulletin/files/2011/11/DukeUNC-Islamic-Studies-Graduate-Conference-2012.pdf

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3. 13th International Academic Conference on Islamicjerusalem Studies: "Palestine and Islamic Jerusalem – Introducing Islamicjerusalem Studies to South East Asia", Malaysia (venue to be confirmed), 10-12 April 2012

The Conference is organized by  the Academy for Islamicjerusalem Studies (ISRA). The objective of this Conference is to introduce the new terminology of Islamicjerusalem and its field of inquiry to Malaysia and south East Asia. Scholars, academicians, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students, and the wider public who are interested in understanding better Palestine and Islamicjerusalem and the new field of inquiry are invited to participate in this Conference.

Proposals for papers should be send  to conference@isra.org.uk by 17 February 2012. For further information see www.isra.org.uk

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4. Workshop: "Language and Identity in Central Asia", UCLA, Los Angeles,  4-5 May 2012

We are seeking the participation of graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, and junior faculty to take part in a two-day workshop to present and discuss their work in this area. These participants will be joining a group of four invited established scholars in the field and faculty discussants.

The conference is organized along four axes of interaction between Central Asia and other parts of the world:  * contact with the Islamic Middle East and Ottoman world,  * contact with the Russian Empire and its successor states,  * internal contact among populations of Central Asia,  * contacts with China and East Asia. Each axis will begin with a keynote talk by an invited scholar, followed by one or two panels that further explore the area.

 Deadline for abstracts 1 February 2012. For information seehttp://www.international.ucla.edu/asia/centralasia.

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5. Workshop: "Big Dams: Investigating their Temporal and Spatial Politics in Africa, the Middle East and Asia", Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 1 June 2012

With a view to a subsequent publication, we invite papers on empirical case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds that address any of the following questions:
-        Can we find typical patterns of cost-benefit analysis by different actors? Do these differ in any way from those relating to other large-scale modernisation projects, such as urban (re)building, highway construction, etc.?
-        What are the spatial scales of social belonging invoked in the contestations of dam building projects, e.g. ‘small’ and marginal communities having to sacrifice for the ‘greater’ (national or regional) good?
-        How are these discourses temporalized, how do they articulate ideas of ‘modernisation’, ‘progress’, ‘backwardness’ and ‘tradition’? How do the different social actors deal with processes of erasure and submerging sites of past experiences and memories in the name of the future? And how do governments, citizens and corporate investors deal with historical successes or mistakes associated with dams?

We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words by 3 February 2012, to be sent to the conference organizers at feaucroj@hu-berlin.de, langekat@rz.hu-berlin.de,katrin.bromber@rz.hu-berlin.de. Limited funding is available to help cover accommodation and travel expenses.

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POSITIONS and GRANTS

6. Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) Visiting Fellowship Programme at SOAS, London

As part of its Institutional Partnerships Programme, Iran Heritage Foundation is supporting two Visiting Fellows in Iranian Studies at SOAS. Fellows will be given access to the SOAS library, office space and work station. They will receive a monthly stipend of £1,500 and will be refunded for the cost of their return journey from their country of residence to London to take up the Fellowship.

One Fellowship will be tenable from March 2012 for a maximum period of six months. Thereafter, two Fellowships per year will be offered starting from the beginning of the academic year 2012/13. Each Fellowship is available for a minimum of four and a maximum of six months. Applicants will normally hold a PhD or equivalent and must demonstrate sufficient command of English to be able to take part in the academic life of SOAS. Their research may be in any discipline working on Iran.

Deadline for applications: 31st January 2012. Further informationhttp://www.soas.ac.uk/news/newsitem73133.html

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7.  Position: Sir Thomas Adams’s Professorship of Arabic, University of Cambridge

The Faculty is seeking a world-class academic to fill this position in the field of Classical Arabic Studies on 1 October 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate should have proven leadership capabilities, including the ability to initiate policy and motivate and support academic colleagues. He or she will be expected to take a leading role in the development of the Faculty’s strategic direction in both research and teaching, and in the encouragement of the next generation of scholars. The postholder will be expected to undertake various academic administrative duties in turn with colleagues, such as the role of Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, taking an interest in all aspects of the Faculty’s activities and their future successful development.

Application should be sent  to the Academic Secretary, University Offices, The Old Schools, Cambridge, CB2 1TT, (email: ibise@admin.cam.ac.uk) together with details of current and future research plans, a curriculum vitae, a publications list and form CHRIS/6 (parts 1 and 3 only) with details of two referees, so as to reach him no later than 15 January 2012.

For further information please contact Professor Charles Melville oncpm1000@cam.ac.uk.

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8. Funding for Doctoral Research in Arab World Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Manchester

The University of Manchester is offering a range of awards to which candidates working on topics related to Arab World Studies are eligible to apply. The two main awards, which comprise a fee-bursary and a maintenance grant, are ESRC studentships in Language-Based Area Studies and the University-funded President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards.

A). The North West Doctoral Training Centre, jointly run by the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, is offering 3 PhD studentships in Language-Based Area Studies, in fields which include Arab World Studies. This award covers home/EU fees and offers a maintenance grant. (Last year the value of the grant was £ 13,590.) Successful candidates will be based at the University of Manchester. The University has wide-ranging expertise in Arab World Studies and Middle Eastern Studies, with relevant members of staff based across the Faculty of Humanities, particularly in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures and the School of Social Sciences. We will be able to offer supervision in a wide range of topics concerning the societies, politics, history and literature of the Arab World.

For a description of the North West DTC and of the opportunities for post-graduate studies which it offers, please go to http://www.nwdtc.ac.uk/ andhttp://www.nwdtc.ac.uk/programmes/pathways.html; for all funding opportunities in the discipline, see http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/. The application deadline for the ESRC studentships is 23 March, 2012. For informal inquiries, please contact: Dr Ron Buckley, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, at ronald.p.buckley@manchester.ac.uk

B).   This year, the University of Manchester has launched a new £2.5m investment in PhD training with the creation of the President’s Doctoral Scholar Awards. These awards are open to all new PhD students (home, EU or overseas) and all disciplines. The Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures is welcoming applications for this funding scheme from candidates working on any topic related to the history, cultures, religions, languages and literature of the Middle East, including Arab World, Persian and Israel Studies, as well as Jewish Studies in any period. The award covers tuition fees (home/EU or international, as appropriate) and the equivalent of the research council stipend (£13, 590 in 2011-12).
An application for a place on a doctoral programme should be submitted to the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures by 15 February 2012 at the latest; a completed funding application form should be submitted by 1 March 2012 at the latest.

For the guidelines about how to apply, please visit http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/funding/. For informal inquiries about the academic side of the application process, please contact Dr Ron Buckley atronald.p.buckley@manchester.ac.uk or Professor Alex Samely atalex.samely@manchester.ac.uk

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9. One-Year Visiting Research Fellowship in the Study of Shi‘i Islam in the Arab and/or Persian-speaking World,  Institute of Ismaili Studies, London

One Year fixed-term contract based in London; funding: £ 34,000; closing date: 31 January 2012.

Your main responsibilities will be to undertake research as part of current and future projects related to Shi‘i Studies with a view towards preparing a specific work for publication directed to assess the state of the study of Shi‘i Islam in the Arabic and/or Persian-speaking world(s). Other duties include presenting seminar papers of your research and participating in the research life of the Department through attending all relevant meetings, workshops and conferences and in other related research at the IIS. The position requires a PhD in Islamic Studies and preference will be given to candidates with specialisations in the areas of Shi‘i thought and history, and a strong publication record. The ideal candidate must have knowledge of the language relevant to this field of research (Arabic and/or Persian) and should be willing to travel abroad for potential field-works. She/he will also possess an excellent command of the English language and attention to detail. Start date negotiable.

Please apply online with CV plus covering letter at www.iis.ac.uk (‘Job Vacancies’ link) where you can also download the job description and person specification.

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10. Open Society Scholarship Program offers grants for Master Degree Courses  at Top-ranked Universities in the U.S in Public Policy / Public Administration / Media / Communications Studies /Law / Gender Studies

The Middle East Rule of Law (MEROL) program aims to assist in the creation of a critical mass of reform-minded professionals in the Middle East working in fields crucial to the development and sustainability of open societies. In conceiving of the foundations of the “Rule of Law” to include the healthy functioning of various public sectors beyond law itself, MEROL represents an extension of the Open Society Foundations’ Palestinian Rule of Law Program (PROL).

Applicants must: • be legally resident in Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, or Syria at the time of application, • demonstrate an excellent academic record and have an advanced degree (Minimum: Bachelor’s), • display impressive civil society leadership potential, • prove through testing and interviews strong English language ability etc.

The fellowship provides: • Tuition and mandatory university fees, • Monthly stipend for room, board, and living expenses, • Transportation to/from the U.S. etc.

Deadline for application: 6 February 2012. For more information see:http://www.soros.org/initiatives/scholarship/focus_areas

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OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS

11. Master Programme: "Economic Change in the Arab Region", Including Scholarships, University of Marburg/Germany and Cairo

“Economic Change in the Arab Region” (ECAR) is a master’s programme in economics with a special focus on the Arab region. It is based on a joint initiative by the Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and the Philipps-Universität Marburg. ECAR has the objective of equipping international students with the relevant knowledge for furthering development and growth in the Arab region. Since the programme’s establishment, intakes of the years 2009, 2010, and 2011 have been studying in Germany and in countries of the Arab region.

The programme consists of three semesters – two in Marburg and one semester in the Arab region – and a two-month preparatory period in Cairo, Egypt. ECAR courses aim at education in modern economic methodology and its applicability to Arab countries. Students receive training regarding German and Arab languages, soft skills, and intercultural communication. More than 10 DAAD scholarships are awarded to selected candidates supporting living and travelling expenses.

Applications for programme starting in August 2012 can be submitted until  31 of March 2012. More information at  www.uni-marburg.de/ecar or ecar@wiwi.uni-marburg.de.

 

This list of academic opportunities is forwarded to the Bulletin by Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs.

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EURAMES Info Service 32/11

Dear Madame, dear Sir, dear colleague and friend,

Please find below the following announcements:

1. Inaugural Conference on Iran’s Economy, International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), hosted by London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 7-8 December 2011

2. International Workshop: "The Middle East from Below – Dynamics of Subversion", Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University, Germany, 8-10 December 2011

3. Workshop "The Maritime Mediterranean" und Roundtable Discussion “Re constructing the Mediterranean Past”, UC San Diego, 3-4 February 2012

4. Annual Conference of the  British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES): 'Revolution and Revolt: Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change',  Middle East Centre at LSE, London, 26-28 March 2012

5. Colloque international : " la sociologie des forces armées dans l’espace arabo-musulman",  Université du Havre, 10-11 mai 2012

6. Third Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 11-14 July 2012

7. Five 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Research Project: "Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship", Berlin, Academic Year 2012/13

8. Ph.D. Fellowship for a Historical and Literary Study of Urdu Medical Literature (Unani Medicine), Seminar of Oriental and Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

9. Professeur-e ordinaire en Etudes arabes. Genéve

10. Tenured (full) Professorship in Islamic History (of any pre-modern period), Departement d'Etudes arabes, University Paris-8 Saint Denis

Best regards,

Guenter Meyer
Centre for Research on the Arab World (CERAW),  University of Mainz,  www.ceraw.uni-mainz.de

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1. Inaugural Conference on Iran’s Economy, International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), hosted by London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 7-8 December 2011

The purpose of the conference is to provide a venue for the best current research on Iran’s economy and to generate information and encouragement for future high quality research in this area.

For the draft programme and  more general information, please see:  http://www.soas.ac.uk/iranianstudies/events/inaugural-conference-on-irans-economy-2011/

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2. International Workshop: "The Middle East from Below – Dynamics of Subversion", Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Marburg University, Germany, 8-10 December 2011

In observing the ongoing social upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa, the apparent absence of organized mass ideologies is remarkable. Supportive members of Nationalism and Islamism were not the driving force behind the mass protests. Instead, a new ideational orientation of actors emphasizing individual desiderata – such as freedom, human dignity, and social equity – has placed itself centrally in the midst of the new developments.

Processes of individualized opposition have been taking place under the surface in these regions for years. Intellectuals, artists, youth, women, and others have been engaged in subverting the dominant political, social, and cultural conceptions. In contrast to previous ideology-based mass movements, recent dynamics of resistance have been characterized by individual, non-hierarchical, and spontaneous actions and behavior.

How is the given terminology adequate to grasp these dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa or do we need new terms and approaches in order to be able to analytically describe these above-mentioned individualizing processes?

The workshop aims to address the issue by providing theoretical lectures and discussions, in connection with presenting empirical case studies. The workshop is a prelude to a series of workshops that will be hosted over the coming years within the framework of the Marburg University research group: Triumph of subversion? The end of mass ideologies, and new oppositional dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa.

For the program see http://www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/aktuelles/events/2011-12-workshop-subversion, Contact: yvonne.albers@uni-marburg.de

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3. Workshop "The Maritime Mediterranean" und Roundtable Discussion “Re-constructing the Mediterranean Past”, UC San Diego, 3-4 February 2012

The UC Mediterranean Studies Multicampus Research Project invites proposals for this  workshop. It will consist of discussion of three to four pre-circulated article-length essay (35 pages maximum). Proposals from all relevant Humanities and Social Science disciplines and methodologies are welcome. “The Maritime Mediterranean” (broadly construed to include topics such as navigation technology, piracy, shipwrecks, etc.) are preferred, although other proposals will be considered as well.

 Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2011. Submit your abstracts (250-500 words) and a two-page CV to mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org with the Subject Heading “MRP Winter 2012 Abstract.”. Presenters will receive support for travel and accommodation.

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4. Annual Conference of the  British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES): 'Revolution and Revolt: Understanding the Forms and Causes of Change',  Middle East Centre at LSE, London, 26-28 March 2012

The conference will be held in association with the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) and the Asian Federation of Middle East Associations.

The unprecedented uprisings in the Middle East over the past year have drawn comparisons with a wide scope of revolts from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This conference seeks to place the focus on a multi-disciplinary consideration of the local and regional sources and forces which have fuelled the uprisings, as well as the narratives of the events. In addition to an emphasis on dynamics within and interpretations of the uprisings, presenters are encouraged to reflect on what the events may mean for the study of the region.

The conference will also highlight the areas of research undertaken by the BRISMES research networks:
- Clerical Authority in Shiite Islam
- Critical Middle East Studies
- Faith, Politics and Society
- Liberation, Domination and Expression
- Resistance, Representation and Identity
And an additional sub-theme organised by LLAS Centre for languages, linguistics and area studies| with the sponsorship of the Higher Education Academy Islamic Studies Network:
Teaching and learning about Islam and Muslims in UK higher education,

As in previous BRISMES conferences, panels on topics not covered by the overall theme or the research networks maybe also be proposed. Individual papers, however, will not be accepted unless they are relevant to the overall theme, relevant to the research network sessions, or integral to a panel proposed on the topic.

Non-presenting conference participants are warmly welcomed. Deadline for panel and paper proposals: 18 November 2011. Deadline for registration: 10 February 2012
Further information : http://www2.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/Events/BRISMES%202012/BRISMES2012.aspx

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5. Colloque international : " la sociologie des forces armées dans l’espace arabo-musulman",  Université du Havre, 10-11 mai 2012

Thèmes abordés : Armées régulières, services de sécurité, milices Forces paramilitaires : Hamâs, Hizbollâh, etc. Armée de métier et conscription. Privatisation de la sécurité (Liban, etc.) Répartition confessionnelle dans les forces armées. Dimension ethnico-communautaire et tribale Sociologie politique de l’armée syrienne dominée par la minorité alaouite.  Forces armées libanaises : rapport Finul/Hizbollâh.  Forces de sécurité palestinienne sous la période Fayyad.  Niveaux de vie des militaires de carrière Armée comme creuset national.  Constructions identitaires mises en œuvre dans l’armée.  Identification territoriale des forces armées Armées entre patriotisme et défense des régimes.  Armée israélienne : conscrits, supplétifs druzes, etc.

Les chercheurs désirant participer par une communication sont priés d’envoyer un bref curriculum vitæ de même qu’un résumé de leur intervention à : stephane.valter@univ-lehavre.fr Langues de travail : français et anglais (éventuellement arabe). Les actes de ce colloque seront publiés (après sélection des meilleures contributions).
Manifestation ouverte au public après inscription.

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6. Third Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 11-14 July 2012

The Gulf Research Meeting is organized by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge with the aim 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 that are defining the Gulf region and their constituent societies. All persons working on the Gulf region are encouraged to apply. We especially encourage young scholars to participate. The meeting last July brought together over 400 scholars, specialists and students.

The Call for Papers for the 2012 meeting has now been issued and we have selected 19 workshops in the field of international relations, politics, economics, and social issues pertaining to the Gulf region.

For a full list on the workshop, their description, further information about the meeting and the registration process, please go to the GRM website under: http://grm.grc.net/

The deadline for the Call for Papers is January 6, 2012. All successful paper applicants will receive a travel allowance to attend the meeting at the University of Cambridge.
Contact Dr. Christian Koch under ckoch@grc.net or Madaliso Mauluka-Savage undermmauluka@grc.net.

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7. Five 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Research Project: "Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship", Berlin, Academic Year 2012/13

Zukunftsphilologie is a research project that aspires to support research in marginalized and undocumented textual practices and literary cultures with the aim of integrating texts and scholarly traditions from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East as well as from Europe itself. The project takes as its point of departure the increasingly growing concern with the global significance of philology and the potential of philology to challenge exclusivist notions of the self and the canon.

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of the major linguistic and philological traditions from Africa, Asia and Europe (for example, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Persian, Sanskrit, Syriac, Turkish), whose research explores linguistic practices and disciplinary entanglements in intellectual and literary history, comparative linguistics, philology, religion and the history of science. Research projects focusing on intellectual debates, polemics, correspondences, and transregional encounters are especially welcome.

Fellowships start October 1, 2012, and will end on July 31, 2013. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of € 2.250 plus supplements depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided. Zukunftsphilologie is funded in the framework of the Forum Transregionale Studien by the federal state of Berlin.

Deadline for application 10 January 2012. Please find the complete announcement including the application procedures at: http://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/pdf/zukunftsphilologie/ZP-Ausschreibung-1213.pdf

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8. Ph.D. Fellowship for a Historical and Literary Study of Urdu Medical Literature (Unani Medicine), Seminar of Oriental and Islamic Studies, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany

The fellowship (income level TVL 13, 50%) is offered for a period of two years, with a possible extension of another year. Employment is available at the next possible time. The fellowship is part of a Research Project on „Islamic Knowledge and Plural Culture: Graeco-Islamic Medicine (tibb-e yunani, Unani Medicine) and its Representation in South Asia“, which has been funded by the German Research Fund (DFG) since 2008. It aims at an in-depth research into the historical roots of Unani Medicine,  its representation in South Asia, and its transformations as a factor of cultural identity in colonial, national and international contexts.

Applicants should enjoy working in an interdisciplinary research group. They should have finished their M.A. in Urdu Language and Literature, South Asian Studies, or Islamic Studies and should have acquired a general proficiency in Urdu. Some experience with Persian will also be expected.

Applications should be sent by email or ordinary mail together with CV and M.A. Certificate and transcript, and with two letters of recommendation until 31 December 2011, to the following address: Prof. Dr. Stefan Reichmuth, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum,  Seminar fuer Orientalistik und Islamwissenschaft, D-44780 Bochum, Tel. 0234-3225125, Fax 0234-3214671

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9. Professeur-e ordinaire en Etudes arabes. Genéve

 CHARGE :  Il s’agit d’un poste à 100 %, soit 6 heures de cours et de séminaires par semaine. Ces heures seront réparties entre les programmes BA (bachelor) et MA (master) de l’Unité d’arabe dans le département de langues et de littératures méditerranéennes, slaves et orientales, ainsi que, le cas échéant, des programmes interdisciplinaires et postgrades. Les candidat-e-s doivent démontrer dans leurs travaux de recherche et leurs enseignements leur spécialisation reconnue en au moins un des domaines suivants : – Histoire de l’islam et du monde arabe – Littérature classique ou moderne – Pensée arabe des périodes classique ou moderne Un intérêt et des compétences pour les époques modernes et contemporaines sont souhaités. Une parfaite maîtrise de la langue arabe est indispensable.

 Le-la candidat-e sera appelé-e à développer au niveau national et international des recherches dans ses domaines de spécialisation. Il-elle aura également la responsabilité de diriger des travaux de recherche des étudiants. Il-elle assumera les tâches de gestion et d’organisation.

TITRE EXIGE : Doctorat ès lettres ou titre jugé équivalent. ENTREE EN FONCTION : 1er août 2012 ou date à convenir.

Les dossiers de candidature constitués d’une lettre de motivation, d’un curriculum vitae détaillé comprenant une liste des publications, une copie du diplôme le plus élevé, doivent être adressés, en 12 exemplaires, avant le 30 novembre 2011 à la Faculté des lettres, Secrétariat du décanat, Uni Bastions, rue de Candolle 5, CH-1211 Genève 4, auprès duquel des renseignements complémentaires peuvent être obtenus sur le cahier des charges et les conditions.

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Vous pouvez consulter cette annonce à l’adresse suivante : https://jobs.icams.unige.ch/

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10. Tenured (full) Professorship in Islamic History (of any pre-modern period), Departement d'Etudes arabes, University Paris-8 Saint Denis

The successful candidate should have an adequate command of spoken and read/written French, for purposes of teaching and examining. A strong research and publication record is required. Publications in languages other than French, especially English, are welcome.

There are two teaching semesters of 13 weeks each. Teaching will include undergraduate lectures (introduction to the pre-modern history of the Middle East and North Africa), graduate seminars (in the Masters programme "Histoire et civilisations") and doctoral supervision. The university research team (Equipe d'Accueil) to which the post is attached is EA1571
"Centre de recherches historiques" (Director: Anne-Marie Helvtius).

The candidate will be expected to be active in organising and participating in research meetings and projects, for which funding is available both from the University and from national and European funding bodies, and to take part in administration.

All applications must be made online. The closing date is 3  December. Interviewing will take place on a date to be arranged in January. The post will be available from 1st March 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter.

Further information on the French Ministry of Education website, GALAXIE (which is best accessed via Google) > "Recrutements".

 

Dr. Ann Lesch, Associate Provost for International Programs, sends the following announcement:

Bilateral Exchange of Academics Research Stays (1 – 3 months)

Deadline: 31.10.2012

This exchange program is primarily intended to support the
implementation of mutual teaching and research projects

Requirements:

1.        Application form

2.        Complete list of publication

3.        Recent curriculum vitae

4.        Endorsement Letter

5.        Invitation letter from a German professor

6.        Detailed and well defined proposal

For more details please refer to the following URL:

http://cairo.daad.de/en/studyingresearchgermany/scholarshipforeigners/postdocsresearchers/

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