Week of Events
Call for Papers: 2022 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Baltimore, March 31 – April 2, 2022
How 'Byzantine' Was the Eighteenth Century? New Insights on the Christian Orthodox Art and Architecture of the Late Ottoman Empire. Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, March 31—April 2, 2022 The most common term used to describe Christian Orthodox art and architecture produced in Ottoman territories during the early modern period is “post-byzantine.” While Byzantine elements did … Continue reading Call for Papers: 2022 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Baltimore, March 31 – April 2, 2022
Research Associate: The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History
The Emmy Noether project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) undertakes a study of the development of the Islamic world through a series of computational analyses of a corpus of Arabic biographical collections and chronicles. The project focuses on three closely connected case studies: 1) of major ethnic, religious, and professional groups - and … Continue reading Research Associate: The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History
Call for Applications: Data Science Fellow
Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Data Science Fellow to work on various apps in the SHARIAsource Lab, a Harvard initiative designed to deploy data science tools on historical Islamic sources. The Fellow will be based at Harvard Law School, with opportunities to collaborate with various departments and partners—including the Harvard … Continue reading Call for Applications: Data Science Fellow
Postdoctoral position opening: Christian-Muslim communication, University of Konstanz
The Postdoc position is to be filled by April 2022 and available for a period of three years. The successful applicant will be part of a binational research team financed by the British-German AHRC-DFG-project „Interreligious Communication in and between the Latin-Christian and the Arabic-Islamic Sphere: Macro-theories and Micro-settings“. The project will be conducted between the … Continue reading Postdoctoral position opening: Christian-Muslim communication, University of Konstanz
Call for Contributions: “Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time,” Institute for Advanced Study, April 1, 2022
The aim of the project is to bring together scholars from various disciplines to contribute to a volume that studies colophons in Middle Eastern manuscripts in various languages and traditions across space and time, including but not limited to, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac - as well as the ancient traditions of … Continue reading Call for Contributions: “Literary Snippets: Colophons Across Space and Time,” Institute for Advanced Study, April 1, 2022
Position opening: Assistant Director for Research, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, April 1, 2022
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University invites applications from scholars of the modern Middle East for the position of Assistant Director for Research. This is a full-time residential position. The Assistant Director for Research will be a core member of the Crown Center’s senior research team and will work under the … Continue reading Position opening: Assistant Director for Research, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, April 1, 2022