Call for Editors: Continuity and Change Dr Chris Briggs and Dr Julie Marfany will shortly be coming to the end of their tenure as editors of Continuity and Change (C&C). Cambridge University Press is now inviting applications for their successors. The deadline for applications is 1 May, 2020. Now in its 34th volume, C&C aims to define …
Undergraduate Research Workshop CALL FOR PAPERS MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH WORKSHOP Saturday, October 10, 2020 1:00-5:00pm Marriott Wardman Park Washington, DC Sponsored by the Committee on Undergraduate Middle East Studies (CUMES) The Committee on Undergraduate Middle East Studies (CUMES) is sponsoring an undergraduate research workshop to be held in conjunction with the annual …
Director's Series Lecture (via Zoom): "The 'Spanish' Influenza in Egypt" by Christopher Rose The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to present this Director's Series lecture by Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin Wednesday, May 6, 2020 | 3-4:30pm | via Zoom Abstract: …
The Committee on Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize The Committee on Medieval Studies will award one prize of $250 for the best paper on any topic in Medieval Studies by a student in Harvard College. Students in all concentrations are eligible for consideration. Applicants should submit the following materials by 5:00 on Friday, 8 May …
AMECYS Call for Papers: Graduate Student Paper Prize Submissions deadline: Friday, May 1, 2020 The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit their papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will …
Call for Applications: Istanbul Research Institute Grants | Deadline: May 11, 2020 Istanbul Research Institute offers four types of grants for researchers working on projects related to its departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era studies, and its “Istanbul and Music” Research Program. 1 Post-Doctoral Research and Writing Grant (TRY40.000): In order to support work for preparing publications from …
The Summer Institute for Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will be held virtually this year. The classes and all program activities will take place online. The program will run from June 15 to August 8, 2020. The SILMWis an annual intensive language program at the University of …
PhD position The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion invites applications for a PhD research fellowship in the field of Islamic studies, relating to the topic of canonization of Islamic legal texts in the pre-modern and colonial Swahili coastal region. The position is part of the research project “Canonization and Codification of Islamic …
Khātima Conference 4.-6. June 2021 How to End Things in Arabic Literature Every text or, to be more precise, every reading of a text, has a beginning and an end. While one could call into question this linear perception in times of textual linkage and seemingly never-ending writing and reading processes, the end is a …
Call for contributions: “Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures” The Bibliotheca Arabica Project (2018-2035) based at the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig, Germany, is dedicated to charting the production, transmission, and reception of Arabic literatures in the period from 1150 to 1850 CE. The principal investigator …
