The 8th Annual Conference of the Peace and Justice Studies Association October 1-2, 2010 Menno Simons College and the Global College Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Submission Deadline – March 15, 2010 The PJSA Program Committee invites submissions for the 2010 Annual Meeting of the PJSA, to be held on the campuses of Menno Simons College and The Global College, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, on Friday October 1 and Saturday October 2, 2010. We welcome proposals from a wide range of disciplines, professions, and perspectives that address issues related to gender, identity, and security in the search for peace. We seek to…

The issues to be discussed at this interfaith conference will be: Basics of dialogue between Islam and Eastern religions; Shared values between Islam and Eastern religions; Areas of cooperation between Muslims and believers in Eastern religions Relationship between Muslims and others Commonality of beliefs and shared ideas between Islam and Eastern religions, their stress on humane and civilised behaviour, tolerance, and important teachings of each religion for coexistence among people and nations.

31st German Oriental Studies Congress and 17th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), Marburg, 20-24 September 2010 On behalf of the board of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG, German Oriental Studies Society), we kindly invite you to the 31st German Oriental Studies Congress. The Congress is convened regularly every three years. The event will take place in Marburg, September 20-24, 2010, after a 60-year break since the last Congress in this town. The decision to hold the most important congress of German Oriental Studies in Marburg has been prompted by the recent establishment of the Center…

This workshop will explore the ways in which the food and foodways partake in the production, reproduction, negotiation and subversion of power and meaning in the Middle East and Mediterranean. Papers are invited that approach the culinary sphere as an active arena of cultural production, that perceive of culinary artifacts as cultural icons that define different aspects of identity and that highlight power and power relations as tangible social forces. The workshop will be held in Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel (in the English language). Submission of Paper Proposals: Researchers (including postgraduates and early career researchers), theoreticians and…

The conference is organised by The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (NSM). NSM organises a Nordic and international conferences every three years. The conferences are open to all scholars in Middle Eastern studies in the humanities and social sciences. With this conference is intended a focus on the relationship between the peoples and groups within the Middle East and the outside world. The conference will emphasize translocal relations and its effects on social, cultural, educational, religious and other transformations. Furthermore, the conference will highlight issues of trans-regional relations and exchanges to and from the Middle East and…

The Faculty of Political Science, Public Administration and Diplomacy (FPSPAD) at Notre Dame University – Louaize, Lebanon (NDU), reflecting on the University’s mission statement and building on the pioneering experience of Lebanon in the field of human rights, is planning to organize an international conference on the role of Arab universities in spreading the culture of human rights and peace building for 20 to 22 May 2010. As a Faculty we believe that Arab universities play a key role in their respective societies and in the development of their surrounding communities. This cannot be separated from their genuine commitment to…

The Culture of the Qur'an and Tafsir Studies in Ottoman Period (13th-18th Centuries) 0L0M YAYMA VAKFI THE QUR’AN AND TAFSIR ACADEMY The Culture of the Qur'an and Tafsir Studies in Ottoman Period (13th-18th Centuries) ISTANBUL, 2-6 August 2010 CALL FOR PAPERS Background-Context “The Qur’an and Tafsir Academy” is funded by Ilim Yayma Foundation aimed at providing a support for academicians who work on the Qur’anic studies. The aim of the program is to promote PhD candidates and also post-doctoral scholars. The applicant's doctorate should have been completed no earlier than 2005. “The Qur’an and Tafsir Academy” invites scholars in all…

American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies The 27th Annual Conference call for papers The American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS) plans to hold a conference on the topic Islam and South Asia. The Conference will be held on April 9-10, 2010 at Villanova University in Devon Room of the Connelly Center. Please see the attached Conference Paper and Panel Submission Form or visit the ACSIS website at www.acsis.us for further information regarding the conference including registration, directions, and accommodations. This year’s conference will focus on Islam and South Asia (typically, South Asia consists of India,…

Critical Islamic Reflections Conference: Community Leadership in American Islam Born of a polyglot community of practitioners, American Islam is characterized by its heterogeneity. Whether the descendants of African slaves, emigrants from the Ottoman Empire, or colonial subjects who entered America after the immigration law reforms in the 1960s, each American Muslim community has struggled to establish institutions to help its members negotiate and live their religion robustly within a minority context. What's more,the past decade has witnessed unprecedented change in the American Muslim landscape: the election of a Caucasian female to the presidency of the Islamic Society of North America,…

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY Call for Paper Proposals U.S. Engagement with the Muslim World: One Year After Cairo CSID's 11th Annual Conference Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Washington DC In a much-anticipated speech in June 2009, President Barack Obama, speaking from the Egyptian capital, sought a "new beginning" in U.S. relations with the Muslim world. Promising to move beyond terrorism and security to focus on issues of mutual interest, the President laid out an ambitious agenda for overhauling ties between his country and the world's 1.57 billion Muslims. Since the speech there has been considerable debate over…

Contemporary Events in Iran in Light of the Iranian Revolution Saturday, 5 December 09 Chase Auditorium Haverford College 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., with lunch served 10:00 a.m. Said Arjomand. Stony Brook University. "The Iran [post-election] Crisis - the Perspective of the Sociology of Revolution." Misagh Parsa. Dartmouth College. "Challenges against the Islamic Republic and Continuation of the Conflicts of the Iranian Revolution." Mark Gould. Haverford College. Chair 12:30 p.m. Lunch- Center for Peace and Global Citizenship Café/Stokes 104 2:00 p.m. Narges Erami. Yale University. "The Bazaar and the Politics of Protests." Ahmad Ashraf. Columbia University. "Reflections on Iran's Post-Election…

7th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference: "No!: Subjectivity and Agency in Muslim Rights/Rites of Negation" Graduate students in Islamic Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are now accepting papers for the following conference: Keynote Speaker - Kecia Ali, Boston University The concept and practice of “No!” can establish barriers and break them down. As Georges Bataille explained, “No” can be passive negation or active rebellion. Who gets to refuse and how they do so involves subjectivity—ways in which individuals relate to themselves and the other. The act of negation enacts the affirmation…

Even though the role of Islam in the socio-economic and political development of Nigeria has been recognized and applauded and even though there is panoply of information on the history of the spread of the religion in the country, knowledge and information about the roles and contributions of the Muslims to the weal and woe of the country since independence are hard to come by. The need is equally felt for an Inside- and Outside-In critical appraisal of the destiny, fortune and "futures" of Islam and Nigerian Muslims as the country begins its march to its centenary. How does it…

The International Conference on Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences aims to bring together academic scientists, leading engineers, industry researchers and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted. PAPER SUBMISSION All full paper submissions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical and/or research content/depth, correctness, relevance to conference, contributions, and readability. The full paper submissions will be chosen based on technical merit, interest, applicability, and how well they fit a coherent and balanced technical program.…

The Islamic Studies section encourages the submission of proposals that are related to the academic study of Islam. We are particularly interested in papers that touch directly or indirectly on the 2010 AAR/WR theme of "La Frontera” (border, boundary, or frontier). This theme calls for analysis of the many types of boundaries, including geographical, spiritual, cultural, chronological, theological, transformational, and theoretical, that are found in our societies and in our lives. You are also welcome to submit papers having to do with Islamic Studies that are unrelated to the topic of the conference. Proposals, no more than two pages in…

6th Annual Duke-UNC-CH Graduate Islamic Studies Conference The Duke-UNC Islamic Studies Conference is an annual international conference drawing graduate students from programs such as religious studies, history, comparative literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, and cultural studies. Negotiating Multiple Islams: The study of Islam today has moved well beyond early Orientalist assumptions of seeing it as a monolithic religious entity. Static and reductionist categories have been replaced in order to account for the dynamic and "lived" aspects of Islam, bringing into focus its multiple interpretations and manifestations that transcend cultural boundaries. "Lived Islam" includes the variety of ways that…

A Symposium Sponsored by Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Istanbul Sehir University and the World History Association proudly announce a symposium focusing on the world-historical significance of Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations, 330-1922. The symposium will consist of approximately 30 papers by Turkish and international participants, plus a keynote address and several other plenary sessions. The official languages of the symposium are English and Turkish. Panel and paper proposals dealing with Byzantine and/or Ottoman civilizations in the context of world history and across all relevant disciplines are invited and should be submitted electronically *using this form only *no later…

The Islamic Manuscript Association, in conjunction with the University of Cambridge, announces the third annual workshop on Islamic codicology, to be held 7-11 September 2009 at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Cambridge University Library. The workshop will be led by Professor François Déroche, Director of Studies at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes in Paris and author of the book Islamic Codicology: an Introduction to the Study of Manuscript in Arabic Script. The five-day programme will provide an overview of Islamic codicology with a comparative focus on the methods of localising and dating Islamic manuscripts.…

The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society This conference offers a forum to problematize the prevailing surrounding the veil while exploring the veil's subversive potential.The extent to which the veil can erode, or even invert power and oppression is, with the exception of various Islam-inspired positions, an overlooked and under-explored area of academic theorizing. We ask what new insights may be unearthed in moving beyond the impetus to repudiate, fear, or adore the veil. This conference is a unique opportunity to discuss those contested voices situated within the interstices of the liberal, conservative and Islamic constellations, and, in the…

The University of Indonesia is jointly organizing the Fourth International Conference of the Asian Philosophical Association (ICAPA 2008) in Jakarta, Indonesia on 4-6 November 2009 in cooperation with Fatih University of Turkey, DaeDong Philosophical Association of Korea. The sessions will be arranged thematically and each paper will be allowed twenty minutes for presentation. The languages of the conference are English, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean and Turkish. Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings volume one week before the conference will take place. Prospective participants are invited to send abstracts of their proposed papers by 1 September 2009 to the following…