Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World

Unfortunately, we have to inform you that the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World will be terminated on December 31, 2019. Therefore, the team will also cease to post news and announcements on this page.

The past seven years have been an incredible journey through virtual teaching, intellectual history and intercultural encounters. We had the honor to work with the most renowned scholars from all over the world - the oldest one being around 80 when he started to learn about online didactics. The majority of the 91 participants who decided to embark on this journey with us were from countries in the Near and Middle East that do not always entertain friendly relationships with each other. There could have been many reasons for these individuals not to join our program. Still they did so - looking for scientific knowledge, mutual understanding and personal contacts. It wasn't all gold, it wasn't all perfect. But the program proved for seven years that bringing people together can change perceptions and initiate change.

Eventually, we have found so many new friends. Thank you!

Become a Fellow at the National Humanities Center!

The National Humanities Center will offer up to 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities for the period September 2020 through May 2021.

Fellowships at the National Humanities Center The Center annually welcomes forty scholars from all fields of the humanities for semester- or year-long residential fellowships.

Job opening for a PostDoc with the project “Political, social and economic history: Stamp seals and interconnections” at Tel Aviv University and University of Bern!

www.religionswissenschaft.uzh.ch

Opportunity for a tenure track position in Islamic Studies at Harvard's Faculty of Divinity!

Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenure track appointment in Islamic Studies. Particularly interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies.

Faculty Openings Position in Islamic Studies Harvard University’s Faculty of Divinity seeks to make a full-time, tenure track appointment in Islamic Studies. We are particularly interested in a candidate with scholarly expertise either in: Islam in the Americas, Islam in Southeast Asia, or Quranic Studies. The can...

For PostDocs: the 2019 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions call for Individual Fellowships is open!

The 2019 MSCA call for Individual Fellowships is open - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - European Commission The 2019 MSCA call for Individual Fellowships is open

Para los que hablan español:
The Autonomous Region of Madrid, Spain, has opened the call of the "Atracción de Talento" posdoc junior and senior positions.

The call is open to postdoctoral researchers of all nationalities and scientific fields who hold a doctoral degree.

Más información aquí:

Convocatorias 2019 | Madrid Ciencia y Tecnología Convocatorias de la Dirección General de Investigación e Innovación de la Comunidad de Madrid Convocatorias año 2019

Multiple junior research positions in the research project "Stamp seals from the Southern Levant: a multi-faceted prism for studying entangled histories in an interdisciplinary perspective".

Check it out below!

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A post-doctoral position (100%) for Jewish Studies is available at the University of Heidelberg in its Collaborative Research Centre 933 "Material Text Cultures".

The position is embedded in the sub-project B04 "The Masorah of the Hebrew Bible in its Various Material Properties in Western Europe".

Check it out!

Materiale Textkulturen - Sonderforschungsbereich 933 an der Universität Heidelberg | Aktuelles The Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 933 'Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies' is an interdisciplinary research collaboration at present exclusively in the field of humanities and social sciences by the German Research Foundation at Heidelberg....

Summer school at the University of Hamburg on Islamicate Digital Humanities!

The summer course is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research.

It includes both theoretical and practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data annotation, search and visualization.

ISLAMICATE DIGITAL HUMANITIES FOR SCHOLARS IN MANUSCRIPT STUDIES This summer course is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research.

Berlin! There is a DH Training Workshop on Digital Methods for Linguistic Investigation organized at Freie Universität in November.
If you are interested, sign up!

DH Training Workshop: Digital Methods for Linguistic Investigation The workshop will bring together 20 trainees together with experts to share experiences, methods and techniques for the creation, management and use of linguistic data. The event is organized by Simona Olivieri, Humboldt Research Fellow - Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität Ber...