Opportunities

Conference, Digital British Islam, Coventry University, 5-6 February 2025

Papers are invited for Digital British Islam: Experiences, Responses and Impact, from Britain and Beyond, the flagship event of the Digital British Islam project, that has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK. This two-day international conference will explore the diversity of ways in which diverse Muslim identities are experienced, encountered and catered for within digital spaces. While our research focused on ‘British’ experiences, we are keen to engage with perspectives globally. We invite proposals for papers that explore any dimension of online Islam, in any geographical context, focusing on a particular tradition, group or movement or on the interactions between different parties, or on broader cultural or political changes impacting upon how religion is expressed online. We hope that the conference will attract a range of epistemological positions and disciplinary standpoints.

Critical Studies on Terrorism Annual Conference (hybrid), University of Sheffield, 3-4 September 2024

This year’s annual conference is centred on the theme of settler colonial violence and those violences made permissible through the framing of ‘terrorism’. This further invites a focus on the ongoing and current settler colonial violence in Gaza which has been described as a plausible genocide by the ICJ. Internationally, a broad use of the term ‘terrorism’ is currently being used to curtail freedoms of speech, expressions of solidarity and the right to protest, confirming previous warnings by the UN Special Rapporteur on Counter Terrorism and Human Rights. In light of this, we encourage submissions which pay special attention to Palestine, the discursive power of the category ‘terrorism’ and the violence it permits in response to it throughout this annual conference.

The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Project and Partnerships Manager to commence on 2^nd September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. 

The successful candidate will play a leading role in managing the Centre’s portfolio of existing projects, whilst also being expected to explore new prospects in key regions of the world as defined by the Centre’s strategy. The post is full-time (35 hours per week) for a fixed term of two years, and combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

Workshop & Edited Collection, University of Warwick, 12 October 2024

In an interview with the Progressive Magazine, Nawal El Sadaawi, the Arab world’s most prominent feminist and writer, says: “Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can’t have anything without women” (2011). Influenced by these themes, this interdisciplinary one-day workshop and the proposed edited collection aim to shed light on the radical traditions expressed in the efforts and achievements of contemporary Arab women in challenging patriarchal social norms and structures and thereby transforming Arab societies. 

Fully Open Access (OA) journal Cogent Social Sciences is currently recruiting for a Senior Editor within its Area Studies section, to take the lead on a new strand focusing on Middle East Studies (North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and the Arabian Peninsula). This role reports to the Editor-in-Chief, and you will be joining the Senior Editors for African Studies, Asian Studies, and Central Asian, Russian and East European Studies. This role is a great opportunity for an academic with a strong research background in Social Sciences and whose research focuses on the Middle East, and who also has the commitment, drive and ability to help develop the journal

UCL Urban Laboratory is seeking an appointment for part-time Postgraduate Teaching Assistants for four EISPS modules (ESPS0032 Global Politics ESPS0045 Politics of the Middle East ESPS0047 Topics in Global South Politics and Policy ESPS0049 Racial Capitalism and the Political Economy of the Middle East) for the 24/25 academic year. The purpose of this job is to support teaching and learning in EISPS modules, working with the module lead through the delivery of small group teaching for undergraduate students. Indicative duties of the post are seminar teaching, seminar teaching support, regular meetings with the module lead, co-ordination of presentation feedback to students, attendance reporting, support with module assessment.

Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), Qatar, 11-16 January 2025

ACRPS is now accepting applications for the sixth round of its International Winter School (IWS) on the theme of “Media in Wartime”. The sixth round of the IWS will address the interaction between media and war, exploring how conflicts and the media mutually influence each other, and examining how war coverage is shaped by ideological and cultural biases. The school invites submissions from advanced PhD students and early career scholars specializing in various social science and humanities disciplines worldwide.

Seminar, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2025

Proposals are invited for contributions to Travellers in Ottoman Lands, Seminar Three (TIOL3) Places Forgotten, Places Remembered. Three days of presentation sessions in the historical neighbourhoods of Karaköy and Beyoğlu will be followed by one day of excursions. The Seminar is presented by Travellers in Ottoman Lands, in association with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of Sabancı University, The Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) and Cornucopia, The Magazine for Connoisseurs of Turkey.

With the end of the three-year term of the current Honorary Treasurer, the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) seeks to appoint a new Honorary Treasurer to the Council of Management at its next AGM in December 2024. Experience of financial management in the commercial or not-for-profit worlds and an accountancy qualification is desirable, but not essential. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until 15^th November 2024

Peace Politics in the Middle East aims to present reflective and cutting edge research that provide a forum for critical debate between scholars and politicians from across the Middle East and beyond. The focus is on presenting solutions to seemingly intractable problems and situations, and to explain the ramifications of their potential implementation.

Peace Politics in the Middle East delivers texts which predominantly deal with the prevention, causes and resolution of wars, terrorism, genocide, and gross violations of human rights. The series will aim to provide in-depth understanding that can assist academics and practitioners to work towards building a just and peaceful system. It delves into substantial analyses of constructive relationships across ethnic, religious, class and gender that can contribute to peacebuilding and mutual coexistence.

The Middle East is experiencing major political transformations, some of which continue from the Arab uprisings of 2011, which invite historical and comparative examinations. The first of its kind, Disruptions publishes studies on the origins, nature, and impact of the ideas, events (uprisings, revolutions, protests), and actors (ordinary people, activists, intellectuals, or leaders) that are now disrupting the social orders in the region.

We welcome monographs and, in exceptional cases, edited volumes that offer novel theoretical and conceptual frameworks and/or empirical material generated from the region. Disruptions fosters the principle of pluralism in knowledge generation in the Social Sciences, and will be open to various theoretical and methodological approaches in Political Science, History, Sociology, Social Psychology and Middle Eastern Studies.

Under the direction of the new series editors, the Global Ethics book series seeks to advance research and conversation around a broad array of ethical issues in international and global matters. The editors are interested in publishing both monographs and edited collections from scholars, practitioners, and those engaged in civil society. These may include topics such as global governance, global health disparities, international intellectual property, climate change, economic sanctions, food security, civil and transnational conflict, and migration. Our particular interest is to provide a platform for scholars and practitioners from the Global South, and to host a dialogue involving diverse perspectives on issues of concern to the Global South.

The editors would welcome submissions of books, book proposals and inquiries about possible projects.

This series approaches gender as a category of analysis, a platform of mobilisation and activism, an essential aspect of governance and a signifier of power relations that intersect with other inequalities. Encouraging interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies, Critiquing Gender & Islam mainly features empirically grounded work, including ethnographic, visual and discursive material. Sexuality and queer politics are important aspects of the series’ understanding of the politics of gender.

I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara are seeking book proposals for the Contemporary Turkey academic book series. The Contemporary Turkey monograph series is a joint initiative by the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), internationally renowned for its support of independent academic research, and leading publisher of Middle East and Turkish Studies I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic.

The series publishes cutting-edge research monographs and edited collections from a new generation of scholars working on modern Turkey across the social sciences and humanities. In bringing to light new data and insights directly from the field, this series is distinguished by its emphasis on innovative approaches that challenge established ways of examining Turkey.