Call for Applications: “Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State” Program, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute
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Call for Proposals: Faculty Grants in Islamic Studies, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Call for Proposals Faculty Grants in Islamic Studies 2019-2020 Academic Year The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is accepting proposals for faculty grants to support workshops, symposia, or research projects for the 2019-20 academic year. Proposals must be of relevance to the study of Islam or Muslim societies, past and present. Applicants must … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Faculty Grants in Islamic Studies, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University
Call for Applications: “Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State” Program, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute
The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies announces the first "Winter School" program on the theme of "Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State." The winter school program will be held January 4th to 14th, 2020, and is open to advanced graduate students (ABD) and early career researchers in the social sciences and humanities. Prospective applicants have until September 30th 2019 to apply. … Continue reading Call for Applications: “Communitarianism, Sectarianism, and the State” Program, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha Institute
Call for Applications: Professors of Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies, Harvard University
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University seeks to appoint up to four professors who study race, ethnicity and/or migration with focus on Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies. We seek candidates who work in one or more of these areas or who do comparative work across them. These positions may … Continue reading Call for Applications: Professors of Asian American, Latinx, and/or Islam in America Studies, Harvard University
Call for Papers: “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East
March 12-13, 2020, at Leiden University As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the dynamics implicit in the act of excommunication and associated practices: ostracism, anathema, and other forms of religio-social … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East
Call for Applications: Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, Columbia University
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University is happy to announce the Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, which is dedicated to the publication of first books by early career scholars working in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences. This competition will give scholars the opportunity to travel … Continue reading Call for Applications: Claremont Prize for the Study of Religion, Columbia University
Call for Papers: Criminal Activity and its Investigation in Africa and the Middle East (1-2 Jun 2020 | Ben-Gurion University)
Criminal activity and its investigation hold a special value to historians. They bring to the forefront debates on important issues such as race, gender and class, and expose moral assumptions. They also allow historians to follow general patterns of crime investigation and examine global interactions. Crime and its investigation should therefore be examined not only … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Activity and its Investigation in Africa and the Middle East (1-2 Jun 2020 | Ben-Gurion University)
Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Macalester College
The Macalester College Religious Studies Department invites applications for an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies (tenure-track) to begin Fall 2020. A PhD is required by time of appointment. The successful candidate will be expected to teach a broad range of courses in classical and modern Islam and in the study of religion more broadly (i.e. … Continue reading Call for Applications: Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Macalester College
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
The Academy Scholars Program identifies and supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences or law with a command of the language and history or culture of countries or regions outside of the United States or Canada. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational … Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University
Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies, Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies Oct 3-4 | Daylong Workshop | Location TBD Sponsored by the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program.
Call for Papers: Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society
The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) invites scholars, including advanced doctoral students, to submit paper proposals for its 2020 spring meeting, which will be held March 6-8, 2020 at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The spring 2020 meeting will focus on “Islam and Law,” and paper proposals should be broadly related … Continue reading Call for Papers: Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society
Conference: Legal Perspectives on Islam and Europeanization, Denmark
This conference is for researchers, lawyers, judges, law students and others, who are interested in the legal aspects of Islam in Europe. During the conference, six leading scholars from around Europe will discuss how Islamic law and other Islamic norms are being used in Europe and how the European legal systems are responding to it. … Continue reading Conference: Legal Perspectives on Islam and Europeanization, Denmark
Call for Applications: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic, Macalester College
The Macalester College Department of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic. Candidates must demonstrate passion and ability for teaching Modern Standard Arabic at all levels, as well as research and teaching interests in the literature, history, cultures, and/or societies of the classical Arab world. Strengths in … Continue reading Call for Applications: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Arabic, Macalester College