Virtual Open House
MA in Middle eatsern Studies/MEMEAC, the Graduate Center, CUNY
Begins March 15, 2025
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.
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.
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.
CfA: Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop (USHMM, 7/7–18, 2025), due 2/14/25
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies invites applications for the 2025 Moskowitz/Rafalowicz International Research Workshop Interrogating Neutrality during the Holocaust.
Islamic Nationalism and the Future of Turkish Democracy
Royal Society for Asian Affairs
Royal Society for Asian Affairs invites people for an online panel discussion with Professor Emeritus Jenny White, Associate Professor Sebnem Gumuscu and Dr Bilge Yabanci.
Begins March 13, 2025
Call for Applications: MESA/ACSS/OIB Summer 2025 Workshop
MESA
The Middle East Studies Association, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences, the Orient Institute in Beirut are organizing a five-day workshop at the American University of Cairo, June 29-July 3. The workshop, which is co-sponsored by AUC, will bring together a select group of doctoral students from North American, German, and Arab universities to discuss the possibilities, critical approaches, epistemological, and practical challenges of undertaking archival and/or ethnographic research in the Arab region.
Online Arabic Summer Institute at UT-Austin
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for the Arabic Summer Institute (ASI), which provides an intensive language and culture program for beginning, intermediate, and advanced Arabic students.
Assistant Professor of Persian and Iranian History
University of Arizona
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) and the Department of History invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Persian and Iranian History (early modern/modern period).
2025-2026 PARC Research Fellowships for U.S. Scholars
Palestinian American Research Center
The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) announces Fellowships for U.S. Scholars Conducting Research on Palestine
Assistant Professor and Open Rank Faculty Position in Modern Art and Visual Culture
University of Southern California
The Department of Art History at the University of Southern California invites applications for two full-time, tenure-track positions in Modern Art and Visual Culture, one Open Rank and the other at the rank of Assistant Professor.
MENACA 2024: 2nd Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, & Central Asian Dance, Music, and Performing Arts
Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Dances (MENACA)
Schedule and Registration are available for The Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts (MENACA 2024) to be held in-person on the campus of Pomona College in Claremont, California, from 3-6 October 2024.
15th Gulf Research Meeting 2025 Call for Workshop Proposal
Gulf Research Center (GRC)
The Gulf Research Center (GRC) is still accepting applications for workshop proposals for its annual Gulf Research Meeting (GRM).
Assistant Professor in Infrastructures of Peace and Conflict
Colgate University
The Peace and Conflict Studies (PCON) program at Colgate University invites applications for a tenure-stream position starting in the fall semester of 2025 at the rank of Assistant Professor.
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers: Disasters In and Of the Middle East
CMES Harvard University
The Disaster Studies Initiative at Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to announce a 2-day conference to center the region in scholarly discourse on disasters and seeks paper submissions from scholars across all fields that focus on disaster discourse
MESA announces search for editor of the Review of Middle East Studies
MESA announces a call for applications by the end of summer 2024 for the editorship of its journal, the Review of Middle East Studies, published by Cambridge University Press.
Yemeni Studies Fellowship for US Scholars Now Accepting Applications
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies
The American Institute for Yemeni Studies (AIYS) is now accepting applications for the US Scholars Fellowship until February 13th, 2024! This fellowship enables US scholars to travel and complete research on Yemen in any academic discipline.
Call for Papers - Springer Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas
UCLA
We would like to invite you to submit a chapter proposal for an edited volume tentatively titled Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas. This handbook welcomes scholars from all social and human science disciplines to contribute to linguistic anthropological studies.
Curator - Islamic Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Met is seeking an established and experienced scholar in the art and architecture of the Islamic world between 650-1250 C.E., with a good knowledge of Arabic as a language and of historical, literary, and documentary sources in Arabic, as well as a broad view of Arabic-speaking cultures and networks of exchange that includes the Western Mediterranean, parts of Africa and the wider Indian Ocean throughout history to the present.
Assistant Professor-Tenure System
Michigan State University
The Department of Religious Studies at Michigan State University is hiring a tenure-stream Assistant Professor in the position of Contemporary Islam.
MESA Board Initiates Search for Next IJMES Editor
Middle East Studies Associaton
The MESA Board of Directors invites applications and nominations for the next editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Application review will begin June 2024, and continue until a new editor is identified.
Call for papers: The Fares Center International Conference
The Fares Center
The Fares Center at the Fletcher School at Tufts University plans to hold an international interdisciplinary conference on “The US in the Middle East, and the Middle East in the US,” April 18-19, 2024
Assistant Professor of Practice - International Studies
University of Arizona
The College of Education invites applications for an academic Assistant Professor of Practice career-track position in International Studies
The Ethics of Weeping: The Case of Islam
Weeping is a way to express commitment to a community and what it holds to be sacred, but not all weeping is the same, even in a single religious tradition.