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Dear colleagues and friends, 

This week we say farewell to one of our fellows, ask you to spread the call for a workshop for at-risk PhD students and present two job offers as well as calls for a workshop in Vienna and a conference in Rome. Enjoy!

Networking and Mentoring Workshop for At-Risk PhD students

The call is directed at current and prospective PhD students who have experienced difficulties in pursuing or continuing their dissertations due to political reasons and who have therefore left their country of origin, or are considering doing so. The primary purpose of the workshop is to provide participants with two days of academic normality - a chance to present and discuss their projects among themselves, as well as with local students, and more experienced scholars. The secondary purpose is to create a space for networking and mentorship. A group of senior academics (from the fields of Sociology, Cultural Studies, History, Political Science, Religious Studies, Islamic Studies, Gender and Media Studies) will offer participants an opportunity to think about future academic possibilities.

Organised by Markus Dressler
14 – 15 May 2020, Leipzig University
Deadline: 29 February 2020

Please spread the Call!

CfA: Post-doctoral Researchers on the “European Qur’an”- Project

The University of Kent, the Université de Nantes, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, and the Università di Napoli l’Orientale, are hiring up to twelve post-doctoral researchers to work on the ERC Synergy Project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)” (EuQu), starting September 2020. Candidates should hold a PhD (by August 2020) and propose an innovative research project on an important aspect of the role played by the Qur’an in Medieval and Early Modern European culture.

Deadline: 1 March 2020

CfA: Short Term Contract on Literature Review

The Religious Education Council of England and Wales is looking for a researcher to undertake a literature review on work engaging with the concept worldview. The literature review must include work within the disciplines of religious studies, theology, and religious education. Candidates should have or be working towards a PhD or equivalent in a related field. The work is scheduled for March and April 2020.

CfP: Workshop on Christian-Muslim Interplay in Late Medieval and Early Modern Balkans

The Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host a workshop on “Christian-Muslim Interplay in Late Medieval and Early Modern Balkans: Power Networks and Regional Lordships during the Ottoman Conquest”. The workshop seeks to move away from the state- and religion-centered approach to the early Ottoman Balkans and invites for a more thorough examination of the complex web of political and personal relationships that extend beyond the local Balkan or imperial Ottoman boundaries tangled in a complex interplay of different relations between states, empires, elites and individuals with varying interests and agendas.

28 September 2020, Vienna
Deadline: 15 March 2020

CfP: Conference on The Empire and Interreligious Conflicts

The Istituto Svizzero di Roma will host in cooperation with the Institute for Systematic Theology of the University of Bern a conference on “The Empire and Interreligious Conflicts”. The conference is part of a broader project on epistemology of interreligious conflicts. Its ongoing effort is to study such conflicts, both conceptually and historically, as inter-epistemic conflicts, namely as conflicts between radically different conceptions and performances of truth. The present conference, which will take place in Rome, is dedicated to the political dimension of inter-religious conflicts, more specifically to the role of the Empire. This call is especially addressed to potential speakers on empires in antiquity and in the middle ages.

8 – 10 June 2020, Rome 
Deadline: 14 February 2020