Campus Climate Resources
MESA has created a new Campus Climate resource page for our members in response to academic freedom-related developments on campuses across North America and beyond.
MESA has created a new Campus Climate resource page for our members in response to academic freedom-related developments on campuses across North America and beyond.
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites submissions for its Middle Eastern Science Fiction Translation Contest. Stories and novel excerpts will be accepted. No entry fee.
The Middle East Institute at Columbia University invite applications for an appointment as ARCAPITA Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies for a one-semester position for the fall 2024 or spring 2025 semester.
Our letter expressing concern about the administration’s failure to uphold academic freedom at the University of Arkansas
We are delighted to announce our second colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” which will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2024.
Our letter expressing concern about the suspension of Jairo Fúnez-Flores, Assistant Professor of Curriculum Studies and Teacher Education at Texas Tech University (TTU).
Apply for CASA Fellowships by April 5!
Our letter expressing concern about the closure of the Texas A&M University campus in Qatar as a detrimental move against academic freedom, influenced by geopolitical and external pressures, and calling for a re-evaluation of the decision based on transparency and adherence to academic values.
The Department of Politics at Bates College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in comparative politics, with a particular interest in the politics of the Middle East to begin Fall 2024
Join the Crown Center for Middle East Studies for Lisa Wedeen, in conversation with Daniel Neep, on the ethnographic and theoretical findings of her book, "Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria" on April 3 at 11am EST
The Duke University Middle East Studies Center (DUMESC) and the Department of History at Duke University invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa in 2024-25
The Program in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Colgate University invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor position in any aspect of the contemporary Middle East (except Egypt) beginning fall semester 2024.
Applications are now open for the annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies be held at St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, from 28 July to 9 August 2024.
Our letter expressing concern regarding the effort by Republican members of the Judiciary Committee to smear and delegitimize the Center for Security, Race and Rights at Rutgers University-Newark Law School and the executive director, Professor Sahar Aziz.
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’s Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESAS) Program seeks applications for a one-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Arabic language, beginning July 1, 2024.
The University of Texas at Austin is offering online courses this summer at the Online Hebrew Summer Institute, the Pashto Online Summer Institute (POSI), and an online upper level language courses in Iranian Cinema.
This workshop seeks to expand on existing conversations and open new ones on the importance of Palestine in the wider American mahjar (land of migration), inviting contributions from scholars, writers, and activists. We particularly encourage applications from those working in Spanish and Portuguese language contexts with the aim of placing Latin America and the Caribbean into closer dialogue with Anglophone North America.
This symposium welcomes researchers, curators and photographers from all geographical areas. Proposals may concern any post-colonial period from the 19th to the 20th century. Abstracts in english or french (approx. 500 words) must be sent by May 31, 2024 at the latest, with a short biography, affiliation information, and a bibliography (for researchers)
The Middle East and South Asia (MESA) Studies program at Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies Welcomes the MESA Secretariat
Brown University Digital Publications invites applications for participation in an NEH Institute on Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities, Born-Digital Scholarly Publishing: Resources and Roadmaps. The three-week hybrid Institute will take place virtually July 8–19 and in person at Brown University July 22–26, 2024. Participant travel, lodging, and per diem expenses will be covered for the in-person component.
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington invites applications for a Visiting Lectureship position in the Persian Language, to begin in Fall 2024.
Our letter to the president and provost of York University expressing concern about a recent incident involving police disruption of an academic lecture.
Our letter to Iranian government authorities objecting to the ongoing attacks on academic freedom in Iran since September 2022 and specifically, the politically motivated dismissals of and other punitive measures taken against university professors who have supported their students' freedom of expression and right to engage in peaceful protest
Form for Reporting Changes in Campus Climate and Incidents of Harassment, Intimidation, and Discrimination in North America