Monthly Archives: May 2018

Strangers to Citizens (S2C)

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a reader in history at Glasgow Caledonian University, and am currently putting together an application for EU funding for a group project whose focus would be the history of immigration, provisionally titled ‘Strangers to Citizens’. The project would be based around an MSCA incoming fellowship, whereby a scholar from outside the UK (preferably from another EU country) would come to Glasgow to base himself or herself at our institution and run the project.

Professor Tariq Modood of the University of Bristol has recommended that I contact you to ask if you would circulate a call for candidates via your mailing list. I would be very grateful if you would do this for me. Please find the call attached, together with a short text for the introductory email.

Please let me know if you have any concerns or would like any further information.
Yours sincerely,
Ben Shepherd

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME)

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for five postdoctoral fellowships for the research program

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME).

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on the international expertise of scholars in and outside of Germany and is embedded in university and extra-university research institutions in Berlin. It supports historical-critical philology, rigorous engagement with the literatures of the Middle East and their histories, the social history of cities and the study of Middle Eastern political and philosophical thought as central fields of research not only for area or cultural studies, but also for European intellectual history and other academic disciplines. The program explores modernity as a historical space and conceptual frame.

The program puts emphasis on three programmatic ideas: 1) supporting research that demonstrates the rich and complex historical legacies and entanglements between Europe and the Middle East; 2) reexamining genealogical notions of mythical ‘beginnings’, ‘origins’, and ‘purity’ in relation to culture and society; and 3) rethinking key concepts of a shared modernity in light of contemporary cultural, social, and political entanglements that supersede identity discourses as well as national, cultural or regional canons and epistemologies that were established in the nineteenth century.

EUME supports and builds upon the following interconnected research fields:

Cities Compared: Urban Change in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Regions

is directed by Ulrike Freitag and Nora Lafi, both of the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. It contributes to the debate on plurality, citizenship and civil society from the historical experience of conviviality and social, cultural, ethnic, and religious differences and conflict in the cities around the Mediterranean.

Islamic Discourse Contested: Middle Eastern and European Perspectives

is directed by Gudrun Krämer, Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. It analyzes modern Middle Eastern thought in the framework of discourses on authenticity, modernity, secularity, and justice.

Perspectives on the Qur’an: Negotiating Different Views of a Shared History

is directed by Angelika Neuwirth, Freie Universität Berlin. This research group situates the foundational text of Islam within the religious and literary landscape of late antiquity, early Islamic History and Arabic philology, and combines a historicization of its genesis with an analysis of its hermeneutics, its reception and perception in Europe and the Middle East.

Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures

is directed by Friederike Pannewick, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, and Samah Selim, Rutgers University. This research group reassesses literary entanglements, translations and processes of canonization between the Middle East and other regions.

Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secularism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives

is a special forum, directed by Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben-Gurion University, that attempts to rethink key concepts of modernity like secularity, tradition, or religion in the context of the experiences, interpretations, and critiques from the Middle East.

EUME is interested in developing new fields of research that bridge the gap between social science approaches and cultural studies in questions relating to the ongoing transformation processes in Europe and the Middle East (in cooperation with Cilja Harders, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universitaet Berlin, Rachid Ouaissa, Political Science Department, Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg and Kader Konuk, Universität Duisburg-Essen).

Fellowships

The fellowships are intended primarily for scholars of art history, history, literature, philology, political philosophy, political science, religion and sociology who want to carry out their research projects in connection with the Berlin program. Applicants should be at the postdoctoral level and should have obtained their doctorate within the last seven years. Fellows gain the opportunity to pursue research projects of their own choice within the overall framework of Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe. Successful applicants will be fellows of EUME at the Forum Transregionale Studien and associate members of one of the university or non-university research institutes listed below. As a rule, the fellowships start on 1 October 2018 and will end on 31 July 2019. Postdoctoral fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 2.500 € plus supplement depending on their personal situation. Organisational support regarding visa, insurances, housing, etc. will be provided. Fellows are obliged to work in Berlin and to help shape the seminars and working discussions related to their research field. Scholars are also invited to apply with their own funding. The working language of EUME is English.

Application Procedure

An application should be made in explicit relation to one of the research fields and consist of

— the attached application cover sheet

— a curriculum vitae,

— a project description (no longer than five pages), stating what the scholar will work on in Berlin if granted a fellowship

The application should be submitted by e-mail as three separate WORD documents or PDF files in English and should be received by May 15, 2018, sent to

eume@trafo-berlin.de

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME)

c/o Forum Transregionale Studien e.V.

Attn: Georges Khalil

Wallotstrasse 14,

14193 Berlin

Fax +49 30 89 001 440

Institutional Framework

Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) has been initiated in 2006 as a joint research program of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. It builds upon the previous work of the Working Group Modernity and Islam (1996-2006). Since 2011, EUME is continued at the Forum Transregionale Studien.In scholarly terms, EUME is directed by a Collegium that currently consists of the following persons: Ulrike Freitag (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Cilja Harders (Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, FU Berlin), Kader Konuk (Institut für Turkistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen), Gudrun Krämer (Institute of Islamic Studies, FU Berlin), Nora Lafi (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin), Angelika Neuwirth (FU Berlin), Rashid Ouaissa (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg), Friederike Pannewick (Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg), Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin (Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva), Samah Selim (Rutgers University), and Stefan Weber (Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin).

The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien is a research organization that promotes the internationalization of research in the humanities and social sciences. The Forum provides scope for collaboration among researchers with different regional and disciplinary perspectives and appoints researchers from all over the world as Fellows.

In cooperation with universities and research institutions in Berlin and the rest of Germany, it carries out research projects that examine other regions of the world and their relationship to Germany and Europe systematically and with new questions. It currently supports four research programs and initiatives: Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Prisma Ukraïna – Research Network Eastern Europe, the Academy in Exile, and Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME).

For more information on the Forum, please visit: www.forum-transregionale-studien.de.

For more information on EUME and its research fields, please visit: www.eume-berlin.de.

For information on the research institutions in Berlin participating in EUME, please visit:

Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, FU Berlin: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de

Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, FU Berlin: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/polwiss

Corpus Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften: koran.bbaw.de

Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient: www.zmo.de

Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin: www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/en/friedrichschlegel

Institute of Islamic Studies, FU Berlin: www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/islamwiss

Museum for Islamic Art: www.smb.museum/isl

Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, FU Berlin: www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/semiarab

Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies: www.uni-marburg.de/cnms

Institut für Turkistik, Universität Duisburg-Essen: www.uni-due.de/turkistik/

Contact Info:

Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe (EUME)

c/o Forum Transregionale Studien

Attn: Georges Khalil

Wallotstrasse 14, 14193 Berlin

Fax +49 30 - 89 001 440

Email: eume@trafo-berlin.de

Contact Email:

eume@trafo-berlin.de

URL:

https://www.eume-berlin.de/en/call-for-application.html

A New Journal: Global Review - The Institute of Global Studies - Shanghai University

A New Journal: Global Review - The Institute of Global Studies - Shanghai University

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dYtGnOVfk3C0mwhfya-HsQ

The “Global Review” is an academic journal sponsored by the Shanghai University Center for Global Studies. It aims to promote the development of a global academic discipline in China. It was founded in 2012, when the Shanghai University’s Global Studies Center is upgraded to the Institute of Global Issues, the Global Review will also be revised.
The new edition of the “Global Review” is dedicated to advancing global academic research and discipline development in the Chinese academic community, advocating cross-cultural, cross-regional and interdisciplinary approaches, focusing on global issues and global governance, and revealing the diversity of world civilizations and the road to modernization. Diversity.
Globalization is both a process and a more beneficial perspective. The two characteristics of “liquidity” and “networking” in the era of globalization have made it necessary for many issues to break the old paradigm of “nation-states” and place them in a global context. Scholars may have differences about the starting point of globalization, but no one questions the breadth and depth of the current globalization process. We sincerely hope that the “Global Review” can become a “survey field” in the Chinese academic community. Welcome Scholars at home and abroad are here to discuss and debate and contend for confrontation. Ultimately, they can agglomerate consensus and form a Chinese theory, school, and program on global studies.

The Global Review has five sections:

(1) Global Theory

(2) Global issues and global governance

(3) Globalization and Regional Social Development

(4) Human Destiny Community

(5) Book reviews and academic information

The new edition of the “Global Review” will be published by the Social Sciences Academic Press and will be published twice a year. Anonymous peer review system was implemented, and the reply was given within two months of acceptance. The citation and annotation format of the manuscript is the same as “Chinese Social Sciences”.
Please submit the manuscript to the editorial office of Global Review.

Mailing address: Building 3, East Campus, Baoshan Campus, Shanghai University, 333 Nanchen Road, Shanghai, China

Announcing a new journal: Journal of Dharma Studies

The journal’s mission is to employ theoretical and empirical methodologies for the intersubjective understanding of, and real-world applications of the conceptual resources, textual sources, and experiential practices—including ritual, social, ethical, liturgical, contemplative, or communitarian—to foster critical-constructive reflections on Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions: what is now referred to as Dharma Studies.

Editors-in-Chief: Rita D. Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA
  • Investigates, presents, interprets, and envisions the shared and distinct categories of the life-worlds of the Indic Religions globally
  • In a multidisciplinary format with articles from religious studies, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, musicology, film, contemporary issues, sociology, anthropology, and the arts
  • Within a structure that maintains the rigor of conventional academic discourse, but adds methodological contextualization and investigative, epistemic, hermeneutical and evaluative perspectives from these religious and cultural traditions.

Optimism Reigns Over Arab Renaissance Amman Conference

Dears,

This is meant to share some “good news” coming from a region in conflict:
Optimism Reigns Over Arab Renaissance Amman Conference (By Mohammed Hashas, 03 May 2018)
“I was very pleased to participate in a lively and timely international conference (and congress), entitled “Arab Renaissance: Renewing the Civilizational Message,” organized in Amman, Jordan, on 25-26 April 2018, in the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Arab Renaissance Foundation for Democracy and Development (ARDD), directed by a young lady, the lawyer Samar Muhareb, and whose board of trustees is presided over by Zaid Eyadat, a professor of Political Science at the University of Jordan. The conference took part in collaboration with the University of Jordan, Arab Thought Forum, and the American University of Beirut.

Prominent Arab philosophers and thinkers took part in the conference, which was attended by a large audience during the two days of the proceedings; these scholars include Hassan Hanafi (Egypt), despite his old age and move in wheelchair, Abu Yaareb al-Marzuki (Tunisia), Muhammad Shahrur (Syria), Ali Oumlil (Morocco), Abdeljabbar al-Rifai (Iraq), Abdellah Seyyid Ould Bah (Mauritania), Ridwan el-Sayyid (Lebanon), besides many others; female scholars and activists, like Fahima Sharafeddine, Suad Joseph, Magda Essanoussi, underlined especially gender issues and their challenges in the Arab world, and beyond. Youth voices were very present during the discussion sessions and contributed to energetic debates.

Hanafi centralized the role of human change and perpetual interpretations of religion and the tradition, and asked the youth to rebel whenever their rights and aspirations are not met by the ruling class or are threatened by external hegemons; he demanded an urgent revival of the humanist spirit in the tradition; al-Marzuki underlined the role of history and economics in human growth, and challenged the idea of renaissance and awakening, saying that without strong and independent economies and serious ethics of work, social growth may remain a wishful thinking; at the same time he enumerated the various benefits of the early Arab Renaissance of the 19th and early 20th century, among which the revival of the Arabic language and literatures; ultimately, he said that the current catastrophes in the Arab world reflect the crises of not only the Arabs but those of the modern world as well; the Arab world has a civilizational mission, and should not be eclipsed by the ongoing ruins and wars; this region has a place in world history and it can always revive it, differently, creatively, he said. Al-Rifai called for reinvigorating the humanist aspect of religion, and argued that religion is not only law; law is a very small aspect of which, and it is historical; Shahrur went so far as to say that the Muslim legal scholars have misunderstood the Islamic message, and made of law its core; he also said that early Muslim theologians and legal theorists centralized the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his Companions, in mimicry of Christianity and the centrality of Jesus Christ, at the expense of the Quran, whose central place has to be reclaimed for renewal. As for

Ould Bah and Oumlil, they both read the current political crisis as a return to pre-modern notions of sectarian politics by which the established institutions of the modern states are put to the ground in a number of Arab countries and capitals. El-Sayyid, after having critically examined the Quranic studies literature in Western academia, went back to the Arab world to say that the current young generations of Arabs at the university for example lack interest in local issues and in the ideas of reform and renaissance because they belong to a more digital and global generation; their concerns are different, and it is challenging to expect them to have the same concerns as those of the pioneers of reforms.

In sum, these big figures that represent the 1967 generation of Arab philosophers and intellectuals all emphasized the need of real ethical work to not only save what could be saved but importantly to renew the old hopes of the Arab Renaissance of the 19th century, by underlining human rights, humanist values, pluralism, rule of law, and economic growth. The congress ended by launching the birth of Arab Renaissance Center for Thought, as part of ARDD foundation.

One could not but be optimist despite the dark present in the region and around the world! Arab scholars have given this message of hope as a moral duty for the locals first, and for the world outside as well.”

—

Kind regards,

CFP

The journal of ‘Sociology of Social Institutions‘

https://ssi.journals.umz.ac.ir/

We are pleased to invite interested scholars to submit papers for possible publication in the journal of Sociology of Social Institutions (SSI). The journal of SSI is essentially in Persian language (Farsi) published by The University of Mazandaran, Iran. Detailed information of this journal is available at this link: https://ssi.journals.umz.ac.ir/

We plan to allocate one special issue of the SSI in English language. This will be a primary attempt for possibly further developments in future. The submissions to this special issue should focus principally on the context of Iran, while comparative studies between Iran and other countries are also acceptable. This special issue covers a wide range of topics from a sociological perspective. The topics, for instance, can include (but, not limited to) issues such as social institutions, social capital, family, social deviances, gender, population, migration, youth, etc. Again, the submissions need to have a central focus on Iran from a sociological perspective.

At this stage, we accept abstracts with maximum 500 words. The abstract should clearly indicate the aim, methodology, data, and key results. Also, a short bio of the authors with max 500 words including university affiliation and contact details need to be added into abstracts.

Abstracts Submission Deadline: May 30, 2018.

For more information and inquiries, please contact Dr Yaghoob Foroutan (y_foroutan@yahoo.com).

The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified and informed about the detailed instructions of full articles by June 20, 2018. The deadline for the submission of full articles will be August 30, 2018.

Abstracts Submission Deadline: May 30, 2018

Please send abstract (simultaneously) to:

- Professor Akbar Aliverdinia (aliverdinia@umz.ac.ir)

- Associate Professor Dr Heidar Janalizadeh (hjc@umz.ac.ir)

- Associate Professor Dr Yaghoob Foroutan (y_foroutan@yahoo.com)

Department of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,

The University of Mazandaran, IRAN, https://ssi.journals.umz.ac.ir/

Politology of Religion: A Biannual Conference”, November 23-24th 2018

Dear members of ISA’s RC 22,

It is my great pleasure to share a CfP for “Politology of Religion: A Biannual Conference”. to be held in Belgrade, Serbia, November 23-24th 2018.
Deadline for proposing a paper/panel is June 30th 2018. You can find more information about the conference here, or in the attached file.
We are looking forward to your proposals!

Publication announcement

Institute for Asian Muslim Studies, Waseda University, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Halal Food Consumption in East and West (with Appendix of Survey Report), Institute for Asian Muslim Studies, Research Paper Series, Vol.5. Institute for Asian Muslim Studies, Waseda University, Tokyo, March 2018 (ISBN: 9784990740245). This is downloadable from here:

https://www.waseda.jp/inst/ias/en/publication/institute-for-asian-muslim-studies/

New book on multicultural and transnational families at Palgrave Macmiallan

Dear colleagues,

I am happy to let you know that a new book focused on multicultural and transnational families in Europe has been recently released by Palgrave Macmiallan. Please feel free to get back to me if you would like to make a review and I’ll forwad you addresses of conatact people.

Chees, Alissa Tolstokorova

Making Multicultural Families in Europe: Gender and Intergenerational Relations. Crespi, Isabella, Giada Meda, Stefania, Merla, Laura (Eds.) London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

The book is published in three formats:

- Hardback and e-book on Palgrave MacMillan’s website: https://www.palgrave.com/de/book/9783319597546

- Downloadable pdf version (either in one piece or each chapter separately) on Springer’s website:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-59755-3#toc

This edited collection explores family relations in two types of ‘migrant families’ in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory flows. In their examination of family life in a migratory context, the authors develop theoretical approaches from the social sciences that go beyond migration studies, such as intersectionality, the solidarity paradigm, care circulation, reflexive modernization and gender convergence theory.
Making Multicultural Families in Europe will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including migration and transnationalism studies, family studies, intergenerational studies, gender studies, cultural studies, development studies, globalization studies, ethnic studies, gerontology studies, social network analysis and social work.

Table of contents (14 chapters)

  • Transnational and Mixed Families: Key Issues and Emerging Trends

    Giada Meda, Stefania (et al.)

    Pages 1-20

  • ‘Global Householding’ in Mixed Families: The Case of Thai Migrant Women in Belgium

    Fresnoza-Flot, Asuncion (et al.)

    Pages 23-37

  • ‘Doing Gender’ Across Cultures: Gender Negotiations in European Bi-national Couple Relationships

    Brahic, Benedicte

    Pages 39-53

  • Reversal of the Gender Order? Male Marriage Migration to Germany by Turkish Men: New Forms of Gendered Transnationalization of Migrant Offsprings in Germany

    Apitzsch, Ursula

    Pages 55-70

  • Comparing Sibling Ties in Inter-ethnic and Intra-ethnic Families in Germany

    Balaban, Ebru (et al.)

    Pages 71-89

  • Intercultural Negotiations Over a Newborn: The Case of Persians in the United Kingdom

    Amirmoayed, Ali

    Pages 91-106

  • Distant Relationships in Transnational Families and Kinship Networks: The Case of Turkish Migrants in Germany

    Reisenauer, Eveline

    Pages 109-126

  • Intimacies of Power in the Circulation of Care: Making Gender Across Generations. Transnational Andean Families in Quito and Madrid

    Dallemagne, Grégory

    Pages 127-143

  • ‘And They Shall Be One Flesh…’: Gender Convergence of Family Roles in Transnational Families of Ukrainian Migrant Women

    Tolstokorova, Alissa

    Pages 145-159

  • Intergenerational Solidarity in Romanian Transnational Families

    Hărăguș, Mihaela (et al.)

    Pages 161-177

  • Transnational Families in Lithuania: Multi-dimensionality and Reorganization of Relationships

    Juozeliūnienė, Irena (et al.)

    Pages 179-196

  • Gender and Care in Transnational Families: Empowerment, Change, and Tradition

    Isaksen, Lise Widding (et al.)

    Pages 197-214

  • ‘Not Fit for Migration with Teenage Children’: Polish Transnational Immigrant Families in Ireland

    Sokolowska, Beata

    Pages 215-231

  • Migration Matters: Insights into Intergenerational Solidarity Patterns in Europe

    König, Ronny (et al.)
    Pages 233-253

Call for Submissions: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration

Greetings all,

As your teaching term draws to a close and you prepare for a summer of research we would like to invite you to consider submitting your academic work for consideration as a chapter in the The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration, edited by Rubina Ramji (ruby_ramji@cbu.ca) and Alison Marshall (marshalla@brandonu.ca). Below/attached is the call for papers. Proposals are due June 1, 2018. Complete papers are due January 1, 2019.

If you have any questions or thoughts please don’t hesitate to be in touch with either one of us.

Please help us spread the word. Many thanks!

Many thanks!

Rubina