American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS)

📣 UPCOMING EVENT:
📅 March 25
⌚️ 17:00 Tunis/Oran Time

Abdeslam Ziou Ziou will be talking about "Berrechid 81. Retour sur une expérience collective à la lisière de l'art et de la ”

💻 Link to registration: https://aimsnorthafrica-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdOyvpz4jG9OxDHF1ImP8Zb2gLORBHeXnmea

From CEMAT:
📢Comparative Desert Imaginations: Place, Mobility, and Environment—Symposium and Student Workshop, May 20-21, 2021, Williams College, MA
Deserts have long acted as spaces of political tension and asymmetrical power, functioning as testing grounds for nuclear weapons, zones of indefinite detention and death, spaces of ecological disaster, and sites of geopolitical threat. The desert today continues to evoke problematic imaginaries of narcotraffickers, “illegal” immigrants, smugglers, and Islamist militias, images that have prompted justifications for policing, securitization, gridding, exploiting, and even (re)fertilizing projects in this supposedly dead space. Most recently, the flow of sub-Saharan African immigrants out of “desert space” into European territories has led many Western commentators to interpret current migrant patterns as a type of ‘encroachment’ of the Sahara, a socio-political desertification that has placed this vast land at the center of Europe socially, politically, and culturally. Yet such dialogues collectively eclipse deeper connections and exchanges that have taken root between desert inhabitants for millennia and have ignored the interplay of imperialist agendas, venture capitalist initiatives, and necropolitics (Mbembe) in the desert that have long shaped the cultural and socio-political contours of this landscape as a real
and imagined space.
This two-day symposium and student workshop, which will take place at Williams College on May 20-21, 2021, aims to open “the desert” up for a robust discussion about how such factors are
playing out not only in the Sahara, but in different desert landscapes across the world.
Additionally, it will chart the path for comparative desert studies, with chosen participants expected to reflect on deserts across languages, media, and disciplines towards transforming the idea of the desert from a disenfranchised space into a lens of critical inquiry for unpacking how this landscape has been used to construct diverse narratives for a spectrum of individuals, groups, causes, and ideologies around the world. The ultimate goal of this conversation will be the production of a platform for the development of a dedicated critical desert studies approach capable of addressing current and future questions with regards to the nature of the desert as landscape, imaginary, text, artifact, and even non-space from a cross-disciplinary perspective. In placing deserts at the center of scholarly thinking, particularly around investigations of the postcolony, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and mobility, this symposium will play a significant role in defining this nascent field of study by re-orienting the desert from the periphery to the center of scholarly discourse.
Themes of the papers may include:
• Colonialist genealogies of the securitization of the Sahara
• The Sahara/Desert as a discursive production
• The desert as a space for collective and individual trauma
• Deserts as dumpsters and burial grounds
• Local, regional, and trans-regional imaginations of the desert
• Filming loss in the desert
• Desert gothic
• Desert and sexuality
• Desert as a space for memory
• Imagining sustainable futures through the desert
• Desert as archive and space of knowledge production and preservation
• Visual art and aesthetic engagements with deserts
• Deserts and desertification in the age of Anthropocene
💻Please send a 300-word abstract to [email protected] by 📆March 15,
2021.
This conference is part of a multi-year collaboration between colleagues at Notre Dame
University, Yale University, and Williams College.

Ten-Year Anniversary of Tunisia’s Revolution
January 14, 2021

To commemorate the anniversary, CEMAT and CEMA (CEMA | Centre d'études maghrébines en Algérie) are launching a special Maghrib in Past and Present | Podcasts series, “The Ten-Year Anniversary of Tunisia’s Revolution (January 14, 2021).” The series engages Tunisian politics at home, in the Maghrib, and the wider Global South, in both the contemporary period but also in the longue durée, and through the lens of scholarly and cultural production. The first three podcasts of our year-long program about the Tunisian Revolution are launched on January 14th. The first is a conversation with Nadia Khiari, political cartoonist and creator of Willis from Tunis, on freedom of expression. The second, co-organized with the Tunis Office of Columbia Global Centers (Columbia Global Centers I Tunis), is a discussion between Professors Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui on the weight and limits of history in framing contemporary Tunisian politics. Finally, the third is a lecture by Dr. Idriss Jebari on memory, remembering and mourning in the Maghrib since the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on the history of Tunisia’s left.

Episode 101: "Willis from Tunis, 10 ans et toujours vivant!" - Entretien avec Nadia Khiari
Listen here : https://www.themaghribpodcast.com/.../willis-from-tunis...

Episode 102: Conversation with Lisa Anderson and Tarek Kahlaoui: Reflections on Tunisia's State Building History and Contemporary Democratization Experience
Listen here: https://www.themaghribpodcast.com/.../conversation-with...

Episode 103: Memoirs, Memory, and the History of the Tunisian Left
Listen here: https://www.themaghribpodcast.com/.../memoirs-memory-and... See Less

It's that time of year again! Time to join or renew your membership with AIMS. $50 for students and $100 for individuals. You get access to the Journal of North African Studies and the ability to apply for grants, AIMS conferences, and much more! Come join us and let's talk about the Maghrib together!

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AIMS Health and Humanities in the Maghreb Lecture Series presents: Jill Jarvis's talk on Mapping the Afterlives of French Nuclear Imperialism in the Sahara. Thursday Nov. 19. 11:30AM EST

Zoom link: https://aimsnorthafrica-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwudeyrpzkiE9F0ce8ZpqoYIjYkWnxr76py

Don't forget this Friday, Nov 13 at 12:30 EST! 'Fear of a : Mapping Epidemics in in an Intersectional Framework'. Register here: https://aimsnorthafrica-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqfu-ppjkjGNVS8gxSFKRmE1Mzua0kDSQF?fbclid=IwAR38nZLxKmzihaxzLgg--DJVebgqPDQzlTDmP31AVVl-sfuZYBFLZ2-OWmo

Please send this on to Moroccan PhD students

Are you a Moroccan PhD student? Do you want to have your doctoral research be supervised by an American professor along with your Moroccan supervisor? You can now apply for the Fulbright Joint-Supervision Program which enables you to pursue a year of study and research at an American university under the co-supervision of an American professor.

For more details click here: https://macece.ma/program/fulbright-joint-supervision-program/

The Centre d'Études Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT) and the Centre d'Études Maghrébines en Algérie (CEMA) are pleased to invite you to an online lecture on "Fear of a Pandemic: Mapping Epidemics in North Africa in an Intersectional Framework” by Dr. Edna Bonhomme, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The lecture is part of ‘The AIMS Health and Humanities in the Maghrib Lecture Series’ and will be moderated by Dr. Todd Shepard, Johns Hopkins University.
The event will take place online via Zoom on Friday, November 13, 2020, at 18:30 Tunis/ Oran Time.
(12:30, EST/ 11:30, CST/ 09:30, PST)

Link to registration: https://aimsnorthafrica-org.zoom.us/.../tJYqfu...

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The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce its Annual Grants Program for the 2021-2022 cycle. The AIMS Grant Program offers grants to U.S. scholars to conduct research on North African topics in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, or Tunisia.

Submissions are due January 31, 2021.

For more information and application details, please visit:

AIMS Annual Grants Program – AIMS The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) announces its annual Grants Program for academic year 2021-2022 beginning in July 2021. The Grant Program offers grants to U.S. scholars to conduct research on North African topics in Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco, or Tunisia. AIMS Overseas Research C...

ACOR - The American Center of Oriental Research is seeking a full time Associate or Assistant Director! ACOR is a non-profit institution dedicated to advancing knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected Middle East, past and present. This position will be based in Amman, Jordan and is intended to assist the organization in the implementation of its mission and work toward future growth.

Candidates with a post-graduate degree focusing on the Near or Middle Eastern region are preferred. Those with expertise/experience in the current, historic, or ancient periods of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and/or the Arabian Peninsula are especially encouraged to apply. A wide range of specialties are welcome, such as cultural anthropology, geography, sociology, history, political science, archaeology, ancient or modern languages, etc. A demonstrated capacity for management of complex projects is desired. Conversational Arabic is desired and native fluency in English is required.

Now Hiring: Associate or Assistant Director - Acor Jordan 1 November 2020 Click here to read or download as a PDF. The American Center of Research (formerly the American Center of Oriental Research), a non-profit institution dedicated to advancing knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected Middle East, past and present, seeks an Associate or Assistant Dire...