Opportunities

Mona Saleh (Universität Duisburg Essen) & Ueli Staeger (University of Amsterdam)

For submission to the EISA 13th European Workshops in International Studies, İzmir University of Economics, 1-3 July 2026 “Navigating a Fractured World: Struggles for Survival and Solidarity” 

Potential contributors are warmly invited to express their interest to u.staeger@uva.nl and mona.saleh@uni-due.de, indicating their tentative paper title and institutional affiliation. Expressions of interest are not binding, as an open call for submissions will be issued through EISA.

Organised by the LSE Middle East Centre and the Centre for Peace and Security, Coventry University

We warmly invite the submission of papers for a British Academy Conference, Algeria: Historical Struggles and Imagined Utopias, at the London School of Economics on Thursday 28 – Friday 29 May 2026.

The important historical legacies of the Independence struggle and exciting recent developments in Algerian political, social, cultural and economic fields call for a public platform in the UK for scholars working on Algeria to share their research. Prioritising decolonising, feminist and other innovative approaches in order to learn from Algeria’s important revolutionary history, contemporary struggles and future imaginations, this conference encourages an intersectional and multidisciplinary approach. We welcome applications from disciplines including, but not limited to: history, politics, sociology, geography, ecology, economics, gender, governance, film, art, literary and media studies, languages, diaspora studies. We particularly encourage early career researchers to submit paper proposals.

Kurdish Studies Conference 2026, Wednesday 29 April - Friday 1 May, LSE

We warmly invite the submission of papers for the fourth Kurdish Studies Conference organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield.

The conference welcomes paper submissions with social sciences and humanities disciplinary approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies. These might include but are not limited to: history; political movements; social movements; gender; political representation; governance; displacement; anthropology; nationalism; ethnography; ecology; political economy; international relations; cultural studies; diaspora; security; and religion.

Conference, Institute for Research on Contemporary Maghreb, Tunis, 17-20 June 2026

This multidisciplinary conference aims to renew research on Islamophobia by bringing together in Tunis researchers of all statuses who mobilize, discuss, study, or engage in dialogue with the concept of Islamophobia—or related notions—in their work from Maghrebi perspectives, particularly along the following six themes:

– Theme 1 / A Social History of the Concept of Islamophobia in the Maghreb

– Theme 2 / Colonial Genealogies of Islamophobia in the Maghreb and Beyond

– Theme 3 / The Postcolonial Circulation of Islamophobic Ideas between the Maghreb and Europe

– Theme 4 / The Effects of Contemporary Islamophobia on the Movement of People to and from the Maghreb

– Theme 5 / (Fighting) Islamophobia in Europe: A Postcolonial Maghrebi Perspective

– Theme 6 / Islamophobia: A Useful Concept for Studying the Maghreb?

The LSE-Kuwait Programme is pleased to accept applications for a policy training workshop, titled Researching Education Policy, Leadership, and Agency, to be held in Kuwait from 25-26 January 2026. The LSE Kuwait Programme is hosted at the LSE Middle East Centre and supported by the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS). 

The editors welcome submissions for the tenth anniversary issue of the Oxford Middle East Review (OMER), a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal for discussion and debate on issues relating to the Middle East and North Africa. We are accepting submissions that critically engage with the theme of Reconstruction – understood not only as the rebuilding that follows destruction, but as a process of reimagining futures and renegotiating power across the Middle East and North Africa, with a broad temporal theme (though typically the contemporary MENA world, from the mid-1800s onwards). Papers will be considered for the journal’s two sections: a policy section (shorter pieces up to 2,000 words in length) and a research section (in-depth articles from 7,500-10,000 words). We are also welcoming interest in individuals who would like to review some of the latest books on the MENA region, of which we have a selection.

Special Issue

Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu (Dublin City University) and Paola Rivetti (Dublin City University) invite colleagues to submit an abstract (minimum 500 words) and a short biographical note for consideration for inclusion in our Special Issue “Rethinking authoritarianism: Transnational praxis between South-West Asia, North Africa, and the world”. Please send your abstract and bio to fabrizioleonardo.cuccu@dcu.ie by 10 January 2026. If you have any questions or would like to discuss the fit of your contribution, please contact us at the same address. We welcome submissions that engage critically and empirically with the themes outlined in the Call for Papers below.

The special issue aims to bring together papers that showcase new approaches and under-researched subjects, and that voice new interpretations, positionalities and methodologies. 

We are considering the following journals for submission: Democratization, Third World Quarterly, European Political Science, Globalizations.

This international conference aims to explore the central role of culture and art in the reconstruction and regeneration of the social fabric, through a reinterpretation of trauma as a driver of creation and preservation of cultural memory (Erll and Nünning, 2008) and as a form of resistance to the politics of erasure. Art, in its many material and immaterial expressions, leads to a reappropriation of space – geographical and symbolic – and time, through a process of “reorganization” of an unspeakable present (Crone and Mollerup, 2024), constantly disrupted by trauma, but which, through its representation, can be “recreated” and pave the way for a different future. 

We encourage papers dealing with the interconnections between trauma, memory and resistance in multiple artistic languages – literature, cinema, theatre, painting, photography, visual arts, sculpture, to name but a few – to highlight the role of art in reinterpreting trauma, making it a source of memory and thus a basis for social change. The focus will be on the artistic production, especially during the 21st century, created by Palestinian artists about Palestine, including those in the diaspora.

Workshop, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, 3-5 June 2026

In this three day workshop, we aim to bring together activists, artists, and scholars to interrogate how the wayward responds to violence, and how visual culture as wayward refuses systems of oppression. The concept of the wayward, understood as that which threatens these systems as a commitment to an emancipated futurity in the present, takes a central position in this workshop in an effort to open possibilities of thinking beyond binary categorization/s towards a more nuanced response to the individual and the communal. Even though the wayward, in its rebellion, is often labeled ‘violent’ in its manifestation/s, we refuse this label and learn from these radical liberatory practices. We will explore the processes through which bodies are dehumanized, ecology is disrupted, states become more militarised, and genocides are live-streamed; collectively understanding our role in bearing witness to our present through our past/s..

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is excited to announce that the 2026 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. This international prize is awarded annually to an outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. The award includes a cash prize of £1000 which will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS.

Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found via the link below. 

Organisations: Council for Arab British Understanding (Caabu) and Amjad & Suha Bseisu Foundation

Location: London, UK, with some travel to other locations in the UK

Job role:

For Caabu: 

• Making regular presentations and organising workshops at schools throughout the UK on the Arab World, its people, and culture 

• Liaising with schools and education authorities throughout the U.K. 

• Development of teaching materials and other resources. 

• Developing Caabu’s role in schools by implementing other educational projects 

• Website content 

For the Bseisu Foundation: To provide coordination and communications support to the Foundation’s scholarship programme and student network, helping to build community among scholars and enhance the Foundation’s visibility and engagement online.

Send your application by 7 December, at 11:59pm.