Trump’s Immigration Actions: What to Know Webinar
AAUP and MESA
The American Association of University Professors is organizing a webinar with a specialist in deportation law. This event is cosponsored by MESA.
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CfP: Mainstreaming the Margins and Marginalizing the Mainstream in Contemporary Egyptian Culture
CEDEJ & American University in Cairo
The conference invites scholars and practitioners of contemporary Egyptian cultural production to submit paper proposals.
Death Time and the Politics of Queer Feminist Pedagogy, Study, and Knowledge Production
SOAS, University of London
The workshop organised by the Centre for Gender Studies invites abstract submissions
Organizing for Palestine in US Scholarly Associations Roundtable
Coalition For Action In Higher Ed (CAHE)
Join CAHE on Thursday 3 April, 6pm EST for a roundtable, featuring organizers of boycott, scholasticide, and genocide resolutions at leading scholarly associations from around the country.
Call for Abstracts: Women, Algeria, Torture, Foucault: Advancing the Anticolonial Sociology of Marnia Lazreg
University of Kentucky
Abstract submissions are now open for the conference, which will be held at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City on September 25 and 26, 2025.
Call for Papers: Intellectual and Discursive Battles over Palestine
University of Macedonia, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies
The conference invites submissions of abstracts on a wide range of issues related to Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
CfP - Within and Beyond Islam. Stories and Engagement of Young Muslims in Italy
Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico
This call for papers seeks to gather research focused on the young Muslim population in Italy, emphasizing their life stories and experiences related to both commitment and disengagement, within and beyond religious associations and places of worship.
A short course on Governing Diversity: Engaging with a Complex World
The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom
In collaboration with the Ismaili Centre and the Aga Khan Museum, The Aga Khan University is offering a face-to-face short course in Canada on Governing Diversity: Engaging with a Complex World.
Publications Manager, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South
Northwestern University in Qatar
The Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South is inviting applications for the position of Publications Manager.
The Altaf S. Al Sabah Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies
The American University of Beirut
The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Media Studies (SOAM) invites applications for the Altaf S. Al Sabah Visiting Chair in Women and Societal Development Studies.
Instructional Professor (open rank) - Modern Hebrew
University of Chicago
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a position as Instructional Professor (open rank) in modern Hebrew language
Virtual Open House
MA in Middle eatsern Studies/MEMEAC, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Visiting Assistant in History of the Mediterranean World
Hampden-Sydney College
The Department of History invites applications for a one-year visiting assistant professor in the history of the Mediterranean World.
Early Scholars Publication Grants
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
The UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures invites dissertations that reconceptualize translating cultures in the digital age.
Translating Cultures and Artificial Intelligence
UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures
This call for papers is specifically focused on one of the emerging technê of translation, inviting submissions that explore the role of AI in translating cultures.
Call for Applications: 2025-2026 Hellenic Research Fellowship Program
California State University, Sacramento
The university library invites applications for the residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies
Visiting Assistant Professor Of Arabic
Bucknell University
The Department of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics invites applications for a one-year position in Arabic Studies at the Visiting Assistant Professor level beginning in August, 2025.
Call for Papers: Conference “Minority Law in Arab States: Governing Religious Diversity”
AGYA & Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law
The Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) and the Centre of Expertise for the Law of Arab and Islamic Countries at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law invite submissions for their conference.
MANUSCRIPTS FOR RESEARCH: A TRAINING COURSE IN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
The Aga Khan University (International) in the United Kingdom
The Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), in collaboration with the Academy of Science (Portugal), invites applications for an advanced training course entitled Manuscripts for Research.
Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies
Columbia University
The Middle East Institute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies invite applications for an appointment as Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies.
Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies
New York University Arts and Science
The Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies invites applicants for a full-time, non-tenure track position as a Faculty Fellow in Near Eastern Studies.
Emirates Leadership Initiative Research Fellowship at the Middle East Initiative
Harvard Kennedy School
Middle East Initiative invites applications to The Emirates Leadership Initiative Research Fellowship.
CfP - Connecting Constantinople: Objects, Empire, and Inter-Civic Relationality
Utrecht University
The workshop organizers invite abstract submissions addressing any aspect of the role of objects in the production of inter-civic connectivity between Constantinople and other cities.
Visiting Assistant Professor In Religion And Ethics
Bucknell University
The Department of Religious Studies invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor in Religion and Ethics, to begin August 2025.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Colgate University
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program invites applications to fill a visiting assistant professor position in the field of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies or related discipline beginning in the Fall of 2025.