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Arab governments rush to support India after Kashmir Terror Attack West Asian leaders have taken special notice of the heinous terrorist attack on India’s security forces in Pulwama district of Jammu and Kashmir. The West Asian foreign ministries issued a prompt condemnation and disapproval of terror attack in Pulwama that claimed 42 lives and scores of injured. ...

You are cordially invited to a lecture and discussion on “Islamic Exceptionalism in West Asia and the West” featuring Dr. Shadi Hamid, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and contributing editor at The Atlantic. Dr. Hamid’s 2017 book Islamic Exceptionaism: How the Struggle over Islam is Reshaping the World, was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize best book on foreign affairs. It offers a provocative argument on how Islam is “exceptional” in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the future of not just West Asia but also Western democracy. In the process, Hamid examines different models of reckoning with the problem of religion and state.

This discussion will be open to the public and press and is on-the-record. All participants are requested to register their attendance with Shruti Godbole at [email protected].

Thursday, May 03, 2018 4:00 PM
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5:30 PM IST
Brookings India
Kamalnayan Bajaj Conference Room
Brookings India
No. 6, second floor, Dr Jose P Rizal Marg, Chanakyapuri
New Delhi
110021
India

Job Opportunity: Global South Senior Research Fellowship, American University in Cairo

The American University in Cairo has received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support an ambitious program to promote work in the “Public Humanities in Egypt and the Global South”. This grant is administered through a dedicated academic unit, HUSSLab.

HUSSLab herewith invites applications for one Senior Research Fellowship, which will enable a prolific scholar in any branch of the Humanities to spend one full Semester in Cairo, and to engage in HUSSLab’s program of research, teaching, and public outreach.

The Global South Senior Research Fellow, during their one semester at AUC, will (1) contribute to HUSSLab seminars and workshops, (2) give one public lecture at the AUC Tahrir campus on an issue in the public humanities related to their research, and (3) offer research mentoring workshops for junior AUC faculty or HUSSLab partner organizations.

The Senior Fellow’s research and outreach plan for their fellowship will be determined in consultation with the HUSSLab Director before the beginning of the fellowship term.

Eligibility
- Applicants must be employed as full-time faculty at an accredited institution of Higher Education in any of the following countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa.

- The applicant’s research focus must lie within the Humanities, broadly conceived. This may include the following subject areas:
Anthropology
Arab & Islamic Studies
Art
Egyptology
English & Comparative Literature
History
Linguistics
Philosophy
Political Science
Sociology
Proposals must include a specific program of activities. This may include public lectures, academic workshops, and research collaborations.

Selection Criteria
The Senior Research Fellow will be selected on the basis of their international research profile, their engagement with issues of critical importance in the public humanities as it relates to societies and cultures in the Global South, and their willingness to contribute to intellectual life at AUC and in Cairo more broadly.

The selection committee will also consider applications in light of their potential to lead to lasting and productive collaborations with faculty members at AUC.

Conditions
The Fellows will be awarded for one full Semester. It is expected that the Senior Fellow will be present at the American University in Cairo during the academic semester (excluding public holidays and mid-term breaks).

The fellowship may be held during Fall 2018, or Spring 2019, or Fall 2019. The dates of the academic semester at AUC can be viewed online (AUC Academic Calendar).

The fellowship carries a stipend of USD 30,000 for one Semester, as well as travel funding to and from Cairo.

Application procedure
In order to apply, please send a short covering letter, your curriculum vitae and a short outline of your proposed activities (max. length 1000 words) to Mark Muehlhaeusler, Deputy Director of HUSSLab ([email protected]).

Application Deadline
The deadline for applications is June 15, 2018. Applicants will be notified in writing on or before June 30, 2018.

This opportunity is brought to you by HUSSLab, an initiative of AUC funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

المنتدى | المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية إذا كنتم ترغبون في الانتساب إلى المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعية، يمكنكم مراجعة صفحة العضوية للاطلاع على أنواع العضوية وكيفية تقديم طلب الانتساب.

ERC Funded Post-Doctoral Position

Koç University - Department of Sociology
Location: Istanbul - Turkey

Salary: Not specified
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Fixed-Term/Contract
Placed on: 8th January 2018
Closes: 28th February 2018

The Department of Sociology, Koç University, Istanbul, is currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position. The successful candidate will work with Assistant Professor Erdem Yörük on his European Research Council (ERC) funded project on the politics of welfare in emerging market economies.

The project investigates the political causes of welfare state development in emerging market economies (see emw.ku.edu.tr and the brief summary of the project below). The project is building two databases: (i) welfare state database (the most comprehensive database in terms of countries, variables, and years covered); and (ii) protest events database on emerging markets (the creation of which employs artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing (NPL) methods on local news sources). The successful candidate is expected to conduct advanced quantitative analyses using these two databases, and other microdata sources, in order to test the hypotheses of the project.

Candidates with the following backgrounds are encouraged to apply: (i) PhD in a social science discipline (e.g. sociology, economics, political science, social policy, or public policy); (ii) extensive knowledge and experience in quantitative research methods; (iii) interest in welfare state studies, social movements, political economy, comparative-historical sociology, and emerging markets.

The successful candidate is expected to:

Have extensive knowledge and experience in advanced quantitative analysis, including time-series analysis, content analysis methods, and data cleaning and management operations.
Have working knowledge of Stata and/or R statistical software packages.
Have completed their PhD degree by the start date of the position.
Work with other research team members to co-author research articles on the topics of the grant.
Be comfortable working in an international environment and have no restrictions on travelling internationally.
The targeted start date of the position is September 2018. However, an earlier start date is negotiable. The initial term of the position is for a full year. Renewal of the position for up to three years is possible contingent on research productivity and continued substantive fit of the candidate. This is a full-time position with a competitive salary as well as additional benefits such as private health insurance and housing. Funding for conferences is available contingent on the relevance of the conference to the project. The position will not have any teaching responsibilities.

Please send your application electronically as a single pdf. file comprising your motivation letter, CV (including a list of publications), a writing sample which includes a quantitative empirical analysis, and two letters of recommendation to the Principal Investigator, Dr Erdem Yörük (send to both [email protected] and [email protected]). The deadline for applications is February 28, 2018, but early applications are welcome.

The New Politics of Welfare: Towards an “Emerging Markets” Welfare State Regime (ERC Starting Grant)

This research project aims to identify a new welfare regime in emerging market economies and explain why it has emerged. The project will compare Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa, and Turkey to test two hypotheses: (i) emerging market economies are forming a new welfare regime that differs from liberal, corporatist, and social democratic welfare regimes of the global north on the basis of extensive and decommodifying social assistance programmes; (ii) the new welfare regime emerges principally as a response to the growing political power of the poor as a dual source of threat and support for governments.

CALL FOR PAPERS: RE-IMAGINING CULTURAL HISTORIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA Add to calendar
Date: 28 June 2018
Time: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW

Conference organised by:

Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster; Centre for Global Media & Communications, SOAS; Goldsmiths, University of London; and Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Ella Shohat, New York University

The Arab uprisings of 2011 have awakened interest in studies of cultural creativity and transformations across different historical epochs in the Middle East and North Africa region. However, despite the expanding scholarship, there is a significant gap in knowledge about the diverse cultural histories of the region. The little work there is remains trapped within the narrow Western-centric premise of liberal and modernisation theories that presuppose linear models of cultural, creative and political innovation.

This conference begins with the premise that understanding cultural histories of the region needs to begin with contextualized analysis of cultural and political practices within their local contexts, while not disregarding or ignoring the encounters with the global and international. It also begins with the proposition that a historical analysis of culture and cultural practices needs to consider the relationship between structure and agency as well as lived experiences in order to provide a more critical and historically-contextualized theorisation of cultural histories of the region.

We ask key questions about why we need to address the writing of cultural histories now and why it matters. Who are the key writers of MENA’s cultural histories? In which languages and under what social conditions were these histories written? How have these writers responded to socio-cultural, political and technological transformations in the region? Through which conceptual frameworks have they understood the region? Why have they focused on some countries and ignored others? What type of epistemologies and theorisations of 'culture' and 'history' still dominate the writing of cultural history of this region? What role have Middle Eastern and North African cultural historians played in cultural translation and subsequently in reimagining the cultural history of their region? What elements of their legacies need to be challenged; who is challenging them today, and how?

We invite cultural and art historians, anthropologists, political scientists as well as media and cultural studies scholars to contribute papers engaging with, but not limited to, the following themes in the context of the MENA region:

Rural/urban cultural histories
Intellectual histories/genealogies
Histories of trade Unionism and the Left
Migratory and minority cultural histories
Comparative cultural histories of the MENA region
Subcultural histories and transgression
Modernist art and artistic expression in the late 20th century
Questioning methods and epistemologies of cultural history
Media history and the archive
Digital histories, the internet and the future of cultural history
Doing cultural history in the age of media virality
Memory, remembering and war
Gender, race and sexuality
A cultural history of entertainment
Comics, music, photography, murals and street art as cultural history


Deadlines for abstracts is 28 February 2018. Please send abstracts to [email protected] with the subject line: Cultural History Abstract

There is no fee to attend the conference. Registration will open in the spring.

Call for Papers: Re-Imagining Cultural Histories of the Middle East and North Africa - Arab Media Centre - University of Westminster, London Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster; Centre for Global Media & Communications, SOAS; Goldsmiths, University of London; and Middle East and North Africa Programme, Chatham House

Call for Papers: InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi
Call for Papers
InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi
December 4-7, 2018
Hosted by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Application Deadline: February 28, 2018

Organizers: Social Science Research Council InterAsia Program, Duke University Global Asia Initiative, Göttingen University Global and Transregional Studies Platform, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore, Seoul National University Asia Center, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, and Yale University.

Organizers are pleased to announce an open call for papers from researchers in any world region who wish to participate in one of the eight thematic workshops at InterAsian Connections VI: Hanoi, the sixth in this international conference series.

The conference, to be held in Hanoi, Vietnam, and hosted by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, will include concurrent workshops coordinated by individual directors and showcasing innovative research from across the social sciences and related disciplines. Workshops will focus on themes of particular relevance to Asia, reconceptualized as a dynamic and interconnected historical, geographical, and cultural formation stretching from West Asia through Eurasia and South Asia and Southeast Asia to East Asia.

The conference structure and schedule have been designed to enable intensive working group interactions on a specific research theme, as well as broader interactions on topics of mutual interest and concern. Accordingly, there will be public sessions open to the full group of conference participants and additional scholars as well as closed workshop sessions.

Paper submissions are invited from junior and senior scholars, whether graduate students, faculty, or researchers in NGOs or other research organizations, for the following eight workshops:
Beyond the New Media: Deep Time of Networks and Infrastructural Memory in Asia
Workshop Directors: Xiao Liu (McGill University) and Shuang Shen (Pennsylvania State University)
China’s OBOR Initiative and Its Impacts for Asian Countries
Workshop Directors: Anh Nguyen Dang (Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)
Divine/Transcendent Rulers of Imagined Communities: The Rise and Fall of Royal Nationhood in Asia
Workshop Directors: Wasana Wongsurawat (Chulalongkorn University) and Michael K. Connors (University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus)
Eurasia’s Islamic Socialist Ecumene
Workshop Directors: Eren Tasar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Mustafa Tuna (Duke University)
Sacred Forests and Political Ecology: Cosmological Properties and Environmentality
Workshop Directors: Bixia Chen (University of the Ryukyus) and Christopher Coggins (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)
Sport Mega-Events as Hubs for InterAsian Interactions
Workshop Directors: Susan Brownell (University of Missouri-St. Louis) and Gwang Ok (Chungbuk National University)
States of Fortification: Connecting Asia through Technologies of Food and Health
Workshop Directors: Melissa L. Caldwell (University of California, Santa Cruz) and Izumi Nakayama (The University of Hong Kong)
The Netware of the New Asian Economy under the Industrial Revolution 4.0
Workshop Directors: Salvatore Babones (University of Sydney) and Vinh Duc Nguyen (Institute of Sociology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences)

Detailed abstracts for the individual workshops, information on the application process, the required application materials, answers to frequently asked questions, and details on funding can be found here.

Please note that an individual cannot apply to more than one workshop.

Deadlines
Application materials are due by February 28, 2018. Selection decisions will be announced in April 2018. Accepted participants are required to submit a draft research paper in July 2018, and a final paper in November 2018.

Funding
A contributing partner of the InterAsia Initiative, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) will fund participants from the Arab region who are selected to take part in one of the workshops. InterAsian connections are a unique opportunity for scholars to engage with frameworks and concepts that aim to reconceptualize Asia as a dynamic and interconnected formation spanning Central Asia, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East (including Turkey), and Russia.

Questions? Please write to: [email protected]

Jerusalem!

The First International Conference on Media and Challenges of the Arabian Gulf

Introducation
The Higher Education Council at the Ministry of Education in the Kingdom of Bahrain supports scientific and community activities in the light of the scientific development taking place in the kingdom leading to the formulation of the policy of scientific research, which contributes to building the knowledge of society, and making scientific research a tool for economic and social development and transfer of knowledge to the sectors of production and services.

Gulf University is keen to be an integral part of the development of the educational process in the Kingdom. The university strives at implementing the policies, activities and events in the service of Bahrain's strategic vision in the field of education. It adopts a scientific methodology in analyzing the reality of scientific research and its future aspirations. This aims at creating a knowledge economy based on fostering a culture of innovation, entrepreneurship, and the adoption of research that achieves sustainable economic, social and environmental development in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

In accordance with the directives of the Higher Council of Education, Gulf University will seek to launch an international conference under the title of ‘Media and the challenges of the Arabian Gulf’ since the Gulf region is going through events and crises and the conference contributes at solving problems and offering practical solutions to get out of these crises.

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The Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH) and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) are pleased to announce the first call for applications for their joint program titled “Short-Term Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship Program in the Social Sciences and Humanities.” This program is designed to support the research of postdoctoral fellows from Arab countries and to strengthen research networking and collaborations between Europe and the Arab region.

This competition is funded by FMSH and organized in conjunction with the ACSS. Short-term fellowships (2-3 months) will be available to individual researchers who are citizens and nationals of the Arab region, who have received their PhD degree within 0-6 years, and who wish to conduct research in France (including field research, library and archival work, as well as other types of data collection.)

Fellowship Details

Fellows will receive a monthly stipend of 1,600 € (paid at the beginning of each month of stay in France). The stipend is intended to cover accommodation, living and transportation costs, as well as research costs. The ACSS and FMSH will also cover the cost of one roundtrip ticket for each successful applicant from their country of residence to France.

FMSH will provide support for obtaining a visa and will guide potential fellows on planning the logistics of their stay. This includes help with finding accommodation, contact with French research centers, and letters to libraries and archives.

The fellowship period is divided into two cohorts: the first cohort of fellows can take up their fellowship between May 2018 and July 2018, and the second cohort can take up their fellowship between September 2018 and November 2018. Fellows could choose between staying a minimum of two months or a maximum of three months in France.

Eligibility Criteria

Nationality/Residence: Applicants must be citizens of an Arab country (defined as a member of the League of Arab States[1]) or nationals of an Arab country (defined as long-term residents, even if they do not hold citizenship as in the case of refugees or stateless residents) and must reside in the Arab region. This program does not fund scholars who reside and/or work outside the Arab region. Priority will be given to scholars who are marginalized, at risk, or dispossessed.

Education: This program targets scholars who are 0-6 years out of a PhD program in the social sciences or humanities. Applicants should have obtained their PhDs at the time of application. In case the PhD was obtained from a university outside the Arab region, the applicant should have been a resident in the Arab region for at least the previous 2 years at the time of application. The program does not have any age restrictions.

Discipline: This program is open to PhD holders in the social sciences or humanities fields. This includes disciplines such as anthropology, demography, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, geography, law, and philosophy. Interdisciplinary fields are also accepted and include gender studies, cultural studies, media studies, development studies, and urban studies. Due to French funding restrictions, the program is not open to linguistics, archaeology, literary studies, and arts.

Position and Employment: Applicants can be affiliated with a public or private research institution but they do not necessarily need to have a permanent position. However they should be engaged in research in addition to teaching. The proposed projects could be either ongoing or new.

French Host Institution: Before submitting their application, applicants must find a French research institution willing to host them during the time of their fellowship. Applicants must submit a letter from the hosting institution addressed to the FMSH and the ACSS expressing the institution’s willingness to host the applicant during the time of the fellowship and showing its ability to provide academic support and supervision to the prospective fellow during the period of his/her fellowship. Applicants who are not able to make contact with a French institution can visit SHSlab, where all French research centers are listed, or contact FMSH to ask for assistance at the following email: [email protected].

Conditions of the Fellowship

Upon completion of the fellowship period, fellows will have to write a short narrative report detailing the work done and the progress made during the fellowship period. In addition, each fellow will be requested to contribute an abstract concerning their project to the FMSH and ACSS websites, and one working paper to appear as a prepublication in the ACSS Working Paper Series. (Please see the guidelines for the Working Paper Series on this page.)

Application Process

Applicants must submit an online application (including research proposal and appendices) through the FMSH website, AND fill out a profile page on the ACSS website. Applications will be open as of October 10, 2017. Completed proposals can be uploaded to the application portal at any time before the application deadline on January 31, 2018 at 17:00 (Paris time).

Proposal materials can only be submitted in French or English. Proposals and attachments should be written in one of these languages; mixing different languages in the same proposal may disqualify the application. Only fully developed proposals will be examined by the Selection Committee. Final proposals should include all information and details necessary for the Selection Committee to understand the research ideas and plans. The final proposal should not exceed 3-5 pages (typed, double-spaced pages, 12-point font).

Guidelines for Writing the Proposal

The body of the proposal should include the following components with a maximum length of 3-5 pages (spaces and references included):
Aims of the research project, specific research questions, review of the literature, type of data to be collected, methodology, and anticipated results.
A bibliography of relevant sources for the research project.
A detailed plan of the activities to be conducted during the fellowship period, including places and institutions to be visited, contacts, type of data collection, and work plan.
Note: In case of questions concerning the content of the proposal, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). If additional clarification is needed, please contact the ACSS team at [email protected].

Required Appendices
Curriculum vitae (2 pages maximum)
Copy of the PhD diploma
Proof of citizenship or long-term residence in an Arab country
Letter of invitation from the director of the host research center in France

Application Steps

Step 1: Apply on the FMSH Website:
Access the online application form and enter "Researcher Workspace".
You have to be registered on the online platform in order to use it. If you haven’t created an account yet, you will be asked to.
Create your profile by filling in all your personal information and then enter “create a new application”.
Select “Atlas Programme incoming 2018” and then the specific call "FMSH-ACSS: Arab countries > France".
Fill in all the information tabs.
In the “Documents” final tab, you will need to upload your research proposal and the appendices into one single PDF document:
Research proposal
Curriculum vitae
Copy of your PhD diploma
Proof of citizenship or long-term residence in an Arab country
Letter from the director of the host laboratory/center of research in France
7. You can save your application and complete it later as many times as you wish, until the closure of the call for applications. Once you have submitted your application, you will no longer be able to amend it. Once you have submitted your application, you will receive an automatic email confirming the submission. For any information on the application platform or in case you face difficulties using it, please contact [email protected].

Applications not submitted, incomplete applications or applications that do not match the above description will not be considered.

Step 2: Fill out a profile page on the ACSS website:
Go to the profile platform.
You have to be registered on the platform in order to create your profile. If you haven’t created an account yet, you will be asked to.
Create your profile by providing the requested information.
Note: Since this is a joint program, all applicants are required to fill in a profile with the ACSS. This can be done after completing the FMSH application. All applications will be cross checked. Applicants who have not completed both steps will not be considered.

Selection Process

A multi-disciplinary Selection Committee composed of distinguished Arab and French scholars with established research and publication records will review and select proposals for funding. The selection procedures abide by the highest standards of academic and ethical judgment. Final decisions are based on the following evaluation criteria:
Research proposal’s contribution to knowledge, which includes the clarity of the research questions, the significance of the project, its quality and originality.
The competence of the applicants, which includes academic credentials and promise.
The candidate’s postdoctoral plan, which includes the relevance and significance of the selected host institution and the fellowship plan outlined in the proposal.
Expected outputs, which includes the planned activities, publications and career development plans.
Timeline

October 10, 2017: Application materials are available online.
October 10, 2017 – January 20, 2018: Prospective applicants may approach FMSH or the ACSS with questions about any aspect of the competition. Please read the Frequently Asked Questions before contacting the ACSS or FMSH. You may find the answers to your questions there. If you have questions about the details of the proposal, please email the ACSS at [email protected]. If you have questions about filling out the online application, please email FMSH at [email protected].
January 31, 2018: Final and complete proposals are due before 17:00 pm (Paris Time). Only candidates whose proposals are complete and ready for examination by the Selection Committee will be contacted by the Secretariat. Incomplete proposals will not be considered for funding.
April 2018: Decisions will be communicated to applicants via email.
May 2018 to July 2018: First cohort of fellows may conduct their fellowship.
September 2018 to November 2018: Second cohort of fellows may conduct their fellowship.

For more information, contact:

Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme (FMSH): Alexandra Duperray, FMSH International Center ([email protected])
Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS): Farah Al Souri, ACSS Grants Unit ([email protected])

http://www.theacss.org/pages/ACSS-FMSH-postdoctoral-mobility-fellowships