The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
The Department of Art at Wellesley College (http://www.wellesley.edu/art) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the art, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world before 1500. The successful candidate will develop a curriculum attentive to the intersections of Islamicate arts with the arts of the Western Medieval and Byzantine worlds. We seek … Continue reading Call for Applications: Wellesley College: Assistant Professor, Islamic Art
We are pleased to announce the Sixth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies which will be held at Waseda University in Tokyo from June 15 to 17, 2019. The conference will be conducted in two parts, and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk archival material from June 12 to 14, 2019, to be … Continue reading Call for Papers: School of Mamluk Studies, Tokyo Conference
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral or more senior research position in the history, politics, economics, religion, and/or culture of Iran and the Persian Gulf region in the 20th and/or 21st century, starting in September 2019. This full-time twelve-month position may … Continue reading Call for Applications: Princeton University: Postdoctoral Researcher, Modern Iran
Submissions are solicited for a one-day symposium on "The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception," which will be held at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on Monday, April 8, 2019. Connections between the Qurʾān and Ethiopia are vast and varied. On the one hand, Ethiopia provides an important historical context (among many others) … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2019-2020 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary … Continue reading American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Fellowships
The Department of History at Boise State University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning August 2019. We seek to appoint a faculty member with expertise in Middle Eastern History. All research specializations, geographic areas, and secondary fields will be considered. A strong commitment to teaching and evidence of scholarly potential are expected. The successful … Continue reading Call for Applications: Boise State University: Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History
The Department of International Studies at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates seeks a full-time faculty member specializing in Middle Eastern and World History beginning in Fall 2019. Candidates must be willing to teach a range of courses in their field as well as survey courses in world history. The ability to … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Sharjah: Professor, Middle Eastern History
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography invites applications for its (2019-2020) fellowship cohort. The deadline is November 1, 2018. Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through … Continue reading Mellon Fellowships in Critical Bibliography
The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago invites applications for two-year Postdoctoral Researchers at the Rank of Instructor, to begin on July 1, 2019. Postdocs will join a community of leading scholars from across the university to study the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Chicago: Postdoctoral Researcher, History of Knowledge
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Annual Meeting on Law and Society! May 30-June 2, 2019 in Washington, DC This year’s theme is: Dignity Dignity embraces justice, rights, rule of law, respect for humanity and diversity as well as a commitment to human engagement, subjects that have been central in the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference
All those attending the 2018 American Society for Legal History conference in Houston are welcome to pre-register for the pre-conference workshop on teaching legal history held in the conference hotel on Thurs, Nov 8 from 11-4 pm. 30 participants will have an opportunity to share their own challenges and successes in dialogue with workshop facilitators … Continue reading ASLH Pre-conference Workshop on Teaching Legal History
On March 17th and 18th, 2019, Georgetown University in Qatar is proud to host an international, multidisciplinary conference with the aim of bringing together scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Organizing Committee for the 2019 Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought Conference is now accepting … Continue reading Call for Papers: Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought
Held at the University of Exeter (UK) from June 27th to 29th, 2019, the theme for the 16th annual conference is "The Globality of Central Asia." We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and sessions in non-traditional formats covering all aspects of Central Asian Studies across the humanities and social sciences. We particularly encourage proposals … Continue reading Call for Papers: European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference
The Research Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Tehran is inviting abstracts for an international conference on “Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law,” to be held on March 5th & 6th, 2019. The judicial and legal structures of Muslim-majority countries have changed drastically in … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University announces the 2019-20 Call for Applications for our Fellows-in-Residence Program. Application deadline: November 15, 2018 The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites applications from a broad range of researchers and practitioners who will work over the course of the year on … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Center for Ethics Fellowships
The University of Wisconsin Madison is seeking to hire a faculty member to conduct research and teach courses in gender/women’s studies as it relates to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, with a preference for the Arab Middle East. Preference will be given to applicants with area expertise who conduct research using Middle East … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Wisconsin–Madison: Assistant Professor, Gender in the Middle East
Hampden-Sydney College, Department of History, invites applications for a tenure-track full-time position in Islamic World or Middle Eastern history prior to 1600, with a preference for medieval history. Subfields and specialties are open, though candidates with an interest in the history of Islam and/or trade and commerce are particularly encouraged to apply. Teaching responsibilities include a … Continue reading Call for Applications: Hampden-Sydney College: Assistant Professor, Islamic History
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut is seeking an outstanding internationally-established scholar to fill the distinguished Sheikh Zayid Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the level of Associate or Full Professor, to begin on August 15, 2019. Candidates for the Sheikh Zayid Chair are required to have made … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Chair, Arabic and Islamic Studies
Do you know of any collections that are currently at risk and need preserving? The Endangered Archives Programme is now accepting preliminary applications for the next annual funding round – the deadline for submission of preliminary applications is 12 noon 19 November 2018 (GMT) and full details of the application procedures and documentation are available … Continue reading Call for Applications: Endangered Archives Programme
The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies 15 - 16 April 2019 (Arrival and Registration from 14 April) University of Nottingham Call for panels and papers Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual … Continue reading Call for Papers: British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
The Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut invites applications for a full-time faculty position in modern Middle East history, with a focus on the Arabic-speaking world, to begin August 15, 2019. The position is tenure-track and open to all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). The position is open to … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Professor, Modern Middle East/Arab History
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut seeks an established scholar of prominent standing in his/her field of specialization for visiting appointment to the Alfred H. Howell Endowed Chair in History and Archaeology. The applicant will be a recognized senior academic specializing in Medieval or Modern Middle Eastern History and/or … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Chair, History and Archaeology
The Stanford Center for Law and History invites paper submissions from graduate students for its second annual conference, which will center on the theme of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment. SCLH’s goal is to bring together faculty, postdocs, and students for workshops, conferences, and lectures examining the relationships between law and history, broadly … Continue reading Call for Papers: Legal Histories of the 19th Amendment
The Institute seeks a scholar with a very good knowledge of the field as a whole and excellent proficiency in at least one language of the MENA region. In their own research, applicants should have historical expertise (preferably in political, social or economic history) oriented towards questions of the present, as well as a high … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bern University: Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Applications are invited for Fellowships of up to 6 months, for research into the Persian Arts of the Book. Research areas may include but are not limited to studies in Art History, Codicology, Calligraphy, Miniature Painting, the History of Islamic Book Production and Scribal Practices, Manuscript Cataloguing, and the Editing and Translation of Texts. Academics … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bodleian Libraries Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book
Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at The MacMillan Center, Yale University The Yale Program in Iranian Studies accepts applications for the Ehsan Yarshater Fellowship in Iranian and Persian Studies for 2019-20 (renewable for one year). The Post-Doctoral Associate will teach one course during the year, either in the Fall … Continue reading Call for Applications: Yale University: Postdoctoral Fellow, Iranian Studies
To support the mission of the Society to foster the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, and in keeping with the value which the Society places on the field of bibliography as a critical interpretative framework for understanding such artifacts, the BSA funds a number of fellowships designed to … Continue reading Bibliographical Society of America Fellowships
Workshop Description: The study of Ibadi communities has grown rapidly over the past two decades, as demonstrated by a stream of new publications in Arabic, English, and French on different aspects of Ibadi history, law, hadith scholarship, and theology. Underlying most of these studies is a rich body of manuscript material and many Ibadi manuscript … Continue reading Call For Papers: Ibadi Manuscripts and Manuscript Cultures
