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Events Call for Papers: The 16th Annual International Workshop of the Department of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Socio-legal Perspectives on the Passage to Modernity in and beyond the Middle East Coordinators: Dr. Iris Agmon & Dr. Avi Rubin Historians perceive the “long 19t century” as a crucial phase in the transition of Middle East societies to modernity, along with societies in other parts of the globe. The law forms one major field of human activity in which social, political, cultural and economic meanings are constantly constituted, re-defined, and negotiated. As such, it provides a fascinating perspective for the purpose of investigating the onset of modernity in the Middle East. The proposed workshop is broadly defined so as to stress our understanding of the legal field as a myriad of practices and meanings that are interconnected with other spheres of life. We seek to bring together historians working on various aspects of legal change in and beyond the Middle East during the “long 19th century” and the first half of the 20th century. We hope to advance a discussion on the socio-legal contexts in which modernity was experienced, defined and contested. We invite papers addressing legal change viewed from the perspective of “law in action.” Papers of comparative nature, or which address these issues from the perspective of world history are welcome. We also encourage submission of papers addressing the historiography of law in the Middle East and elsewhere in the context of modernity. The workshop will demonstrate the great potential of socio-legal research for filling gaps in historians’ understanding of the passage of Middle East societies to modernity; it will further allow its participants to identify major scholarly trends and achievements of recent years, and hopefully to formulate the challenges ahead. The workshop will be held at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev from June 4 through June 6, 2012. All participants will be expected to submit in advance a working paper to be distributed among the other participants. Those interested in participating in the workshop are welcome to send a one-page proposal in English, along with their C.V. by September 30, 2011. The proposal should briefly state the topic, and outline how the paper contributes to the aims of the workshop. Authors will be notified by October 31, 2011 whether their proposal was accepted for presentation in the workshop. Authors whose proposal is accepted will be expected to submit a full-length version of the paper by April 1, 2012. Participants from abroad will be offered round trip airfare and lodging. Proposals should be addressed by email to: Dr. Iris Agmon: iragmon@bgu.ac.il Dr. Avi Rubin: avirubin@bgu.ac.il Call for Papers: The Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW) and Islamic Contextualising Community - Diasporas of the Modern Middle East 27-28 October 2011-
University of Edinburgh The Middle East (defined broadly) has historically been a heterogeneous site where distinct communities, differentiated by origin and orientation, have coexisted through many periods of conflict and even longer times of peace. At certain points, some communities rose to positions of prominence and power, while others’ very existence was threatened. From the late nineteenth century, dynamic political changes have meant that many of these groups struggle to claim and negotiate a space for themselves, based on political and social pragmatism. Although there has been substantial interest in Middle Eastern immigrant communities in the west, diasporic and minority communities in the Middle East have been relatively neglected in recent academic scholarship. Through both theoretical engagement and in depth case studies, this symposium will look at how these groups are organised and sustained, balancing (actual or imagined) ‘homelands’ and the reality of lives lived in ‘host states’, while challenging the terms and validity of this framework. The symposium will map the entanglement of these communities in the wider Middle Eastern societies of which they are a part. We will investigate how this varies according to the political climate and discourse of the moment. We will also reflect more widely on how communities are built and maintained in a diasporic space, examining issues of identity, citizenship and belonging in the modern Middle East. We are interested in receiving papers combining both theoretical
discussion of diaspora with a specific empirical case or regional study.
Papers discussing particular aspects of diasporic cultural, political, Possible topics include but are not limited to: - how state policy affects diasporic groups Following the symposium participants will be invited to submit their revised paper for inclusion in an edited volume. With the help of funding from the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (a consortium of Durham, Edinburgh and Manchester Universities) we will be able to cover accommodation costs for all participants. We will also endeavour to cover or contribute to travel expenses for those coming from the Middle East. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a one page CV to: Dr Sossie Kasbarian, sossie.kasbarian@ed.ac.uk and Dr Anthony Gorman, Anthony.Gorman@ed.ac.uk by 18 July 2011. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in
Scotland, with registration number SC005336. The University of Copenhagen invites proposals for the two day conference Covering the Arab Spring the Middle East in the Media The Media in the Middle East Copenhagen, 1st & 2nd September 2011 This conference seeks to bring together scholars from various disciplines to exchange their descriptions and analyses of different national perspectives in the coverage of events in Arab countries throughout the first half of the year 2011 that have been referred to as the Arab Spring. Media coverage and international visibility played a big role not only for the sake of being informed about events in another city, nation or region but it was a major catalyst and tool for those demonstrating in different Arab cities. Being visible in national or international media, on facebook and twitter was one of the major means for protestor’s visibility in their struggle for both national and international support. Perception and media coverage of the developments in Arab countries in early 2011 in Europe and the US have been shaped by national frameworks of Islam perception, especially during the first days and weeks of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. As the unrests gained momentum and affected more and more countries, the frames for presenting and analyzing them in media and politics were challenged and finally changed considerably. Thus, the main objective of the conference, and subsequent journal proposal, is to shed light on the role of TV, press, and social media in political unrests and the articulation or ignorance of frustrations of Arab populations. Main aims of the conference: 1. Find a way to structure and analyze the media coverage of the uprisings in the Arab World 2011 in order to enhance academic research on media and Islam. 2. Provide mapping of traditional/new/social media and mediatized space in the Middle East under the revolutions and also to provide grounds for a critical reflection with regard to research strategies and methodologies which are being applied to the analysis of interaction between media, politics and new cultural practices. 3. Publish substantial papers in an special edition of a peer reviewed Journal. This approach raises questions related to media and opinion formation as well as a number of methodological questions of general interest for media and area studies. It connects research interests on media in the Middle East and on the perception of Islam in Europe. These topics will be investigated at several panels and a podium discussion in order to share the academic discussion with a broader audience in Denmark. The following questions will be addressed: • What were the dominant and shifting issues in the representations and political assessment of current events? • In what ways have agents of change been using media in order to support their cause? • What was the role of experts of Islam, terrorism and radicalism, on social media and the Middle East in media coverage? • What role did the national situations and environments for media have on the coverage? Submission of proposals: • Abstract, following this order: author(s), affiliation, email address, title of abstract, body of abstract, For contributions to the special edition a full paper of 6000 words should be submitted no later than 1st October 2011 and will then be subject to peer reviews and possible revisions. The selection of the papers will be based on quality and relevance to the conference themes. Deadlines: To send proposals and for additional information please contact the organizers: Riem Spielhaus Ehab Galal Call for Papers: Muslim Women and the Challenge of Authority March 31, 2012 – Boston University “The gender jihad is a struggle to establish gender justice in Muslim thought and praxis.
At the simplest level, gender justice is gender mainstreaming – the inclusion of women in
all aspects of Muslim practice, performance, policy construction, and in both political and
religious leadership” Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad Scholarship on female religious authority in Islam dates back at least to the 1970s and has gone through
several important phases. For two decades, most scholarship focused on demonstrating Muslim women's
poor social status and sought to locate the source of women's oppression within religious doctrine. By the
1990s scholarship had turned to locate an egalitarian impulse within Islam that had been thwarted by the
pressures of its patriarchal contexts. Over the next decade, female-authored studies of the Qur'an claimed
an unimpeachable basis for female rights by holding up the Qur'anic ideal of equality as a standard by
which to judge social realities. More recently, scholars have sought to complicate the view of Muslim
women's unrelenting oppression. They have worked instead to recover evidence of past and present
female resistance and agency, demonstrating that Muslim women are carving out spheres of interpretive
autonomy and successfully negotiating their public and private lives within the constraints of broader
social structures. This conference builds on the foundation of the foregoing work and aims to bring
together considerations of religious, social, and interpretive authority across geographical and temporal
boundaries. Amina Wadud will be the keynote speaker for the conference, joined by Mohja Kahf who
will give the opening lecture. We invite the submission of papers addressing both Muslim women's
authority and others' authority over Muslim women in political, intellectual, ritual, and sexual contexts in
the contemporary world as well as in the past. Core questions for the conference include: To apply, please send the following to female.authority.conference@gmail.com by June 1, 2011 Organized by Kecia Ali (Boston University), Laury Silvers (University of Toronto), and Juliane Hammer Political Legitimacy in the Islamic West - Workshop by the Department of Middle East Studies, University of Cambridge - 13-14 September 2011. Sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust Call for papers - deadline for abstracts 4 February 2011 The workshop will investigate the strategies of legitimation used by Muslim rulers in Islamic Spain and the western Maghrib during the medieval and early modern periods to analyse how they justified and presented their rule to their subjects and to visitors from the Islamic east and Christian Europe. It aims to explore issues of religio-political identity and regional unities and divisions of both historical and contemporary relevance to shed light on an understudied period of this crucial Mediterranean regions' history. The chronological focus of the workshop will be on the 13th to 15th centuries CE, but the organisers also welcome contributions that make comparisons with earlier and later periods. For full details see http://islamicwest.ames.cam.ac.uk 11. International Conference: "Migration and Culture" - University of Klagenfurt/Austria, 16-18 June 2011 Proposals on the following subject areas are welcomed: Deadline for proposals: 5 January 2011. The call for papers for this conference is available under: http://www.irm-trier.de/irm-home.htm (German version) and http://www.irm-trier.de/irm-home_e.htm (English version). Conference languages are German and English and proposals in both languages are accepted. The Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University, plans to hold an international workshop on "Central Asia in the World of Islam" on 29-30 May 2011 and to publish subsequently papers presented in it. The intention of the workshop is to illustrate the position of Central Asia as an integral part of the Islamic world and the region's role in the development and history of this world. Those interested in presenting a paper at the workshop on topics related to this theme on any period in history up to the present should send an abstract of up to 250 words to mgcentralasia@gmail.com no later than December 15, 2010. Please indicate academic affiliation and attach a short CV. The participants will be required to submit a first (full) draft of their papers 3 weeks before the conference. Successful applications will be notified by January 15, 2011. Christians and the Middle East Conflict Workshop on Language, Literacy, and the Social Construction of Authority in Islamic Societies The Arab-Turkish Congress of Social Sciences (ATCOSS-2010) A Workshop at Yale University, December 9–10, 2011 Aspects of al-Ghazali's Influence on Modern and Contemporary Islam Call for Papers While al-Ghazali's influence on the centuries right after his death is evident and tangible in many writers, the ways he influenced Muslim thinkers in the modern and contemporary era is less clear. Yet we know, for instance, that al-Ghazali's "Revival of the Religious Sciences" was among the books favored by Hasan al-Banna' and read in the evening classes of the early Muslim Brotherhood. This call for papers solicits contributions to the study of al-Ghazali's position within Islamic discourses during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, be it in the fields of philosophy, Sufism, education, political theory, ethics, or any other topic. This can be in the form of a positive influence as well as in the form of an adversary that is argued against. Abstracts of no more than 600 words along with a short bio or CV should be submitted by January 12, 2011 preferably via e-mail to Amaar al-Hayder, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, amaar.al-hayder@yale.edu. See also the link: http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/cmes/al-GhazaliCallForPapers.pdf Past Events The VI International Conference on Islamic Legal Studies - Islamic Law and Custom Third University of Essex Islamic Conference 2009 (UEIC 2009) The Iranian Revolution: Thirty Years - The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University. 2009 SECSOR Regional Meeting International Conference on
Islamic Economics and Economies of the OIC Countries 2009 International Conference on Research in Islamic Laws (ICRIL 09) 2009/1430H International Conference on Rethinking Jihad: Ideas, Politics and Conflict in the Arab World and Beyond, September 7-9, 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland more.. International Seminar on Islamic Thought (ISoIT) American Academy of Religion - AAR 2009 Annual Meeting Middle East Studies Association - MESA 2009 Annual Meeting Yemen 2010 an International Conference Food, Power & Meaning In the Middle East and the
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