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Roundup of open calls focused on the social sciences in the Arab region - June 22, 2017

Roundup of open calls focused on social sciences in the Arab region - June 15, 2017

The Orient Institute Beirut (OIB) is holding a workshop on "Postcolonial Legacies, Scholarly Mobility and Research Capacity Building" on June 15-16, 2017 in Beirut.

The ACSS is recruiting for the position of Associate Director to be based in Lebanon. The Associate Director is responsible for working with the Director General (DG) on planning, developing, and implementing the ACSS strategic plan.

Appel à communication pour l'ouvrage "L'Algérie au présent" sous la direction de Karima Dirèche (directrice de l'Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC)) Date limite d'envoi des résumés : 30 juin 2017.

L’Université Gaston Berger (UGB) de Saint Louis du Sénégal, l’Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC) à Tunis, Paris-Sciences-Lettres (PSL), l’Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire en Sciences Sociales (IRISSO, Paris-Dauphine, PSL) et le Centre Jacques Berque (CJB) à Rabat organisent une Ecole doctorale en sciences sociales du 11 au 18 septembre 2017 à l'Université Gaston Berger (UGB) de Saint Louis du Sénégal.

Abstracts are sought for a film studies conference on "Cinema of the Arab World" to take place March 3-4, 2018 on the New Cairo campus of The American University in Cairo.

Mohamed Said Saadi, who received a research grant from the Arab Council for the Social Sciences in 2015, has published a research report titled "Empowering Women through Land Policy Change: The 'Soulaliyate' Movement” with the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship in Beirut.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is looking for an Accountant to join the Finance and Administration Department.

A new special issue of Contemporary Levant (Volume 2, Issue 1, 2017) titled "Ethnography as Knowledge in the Arab Region" is out. The issue was put together by our 2016 postdoctoral fellows Muzna Al-Masri and Lamia Moghnieh, as well as Samar Kanafani, Zina Sawaf, Helena Nassif, Elizabeth Saleh, and Amal Eqeiq.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) hosted 20 Arab participants for an intensive workshop on quantitative data analysis for the social sciences from May 22, 2017 till May 26, 2017 in Beirut.

As a contributing partner of the InterAsia Initiative, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) will take part in the West Asia Workshop, which will be held on May 16, 2017 at the University of Sussex Asia Centre (USAC).

As part of the preparations for the 2017 World Humanities Conference, the Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS), in cooperation with UNESCO and in coordination with the International Center on Human Sciences (CISH), will be organizing the Arab regional conference on "Recentering Humanities: Theories, Approaches, Knowledge Production in the Arab Region”.

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, in partnership with the Open Society Foundation (OSF), has launched the Project entitled: “Breaking the mold: Arab civil society actors and their quest to influence policy-making”.

Driven by the need to put Libya on the map in a number of academic disciplines, a group of scholars launched two initiatives to draw attention to available resources and studies, and create a space to critically address the complex realities in Libya.

ACSS postdoctoral fellow, Idriss Jebari, will be presenting his work at the American University of Beirut (AUB) on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at 5:00 PM.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University is recruiting for several positions in the humanities and social sciences.

NYU Abu Dhabi seeks to expand its cohort of faculty working across the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

NYU Abu Dhabi is looking for a diverse group of professionals to join its staff.

The College of Islamic Studies (CIS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University is looking to hire an assistant/associate professor in Islamic finance.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) will be organizing a panel on Arab social sciences at the World Social Science and Humanities Conference, which will take place on April 26-27, 2017 at Kharzami University, Tehran, Iran.

The Arab Council for the Social Sciences (ACSS) is pleased to announce a five-day intensive workshop in quantitative data analysis for the social sciences, co-organized with the Odum Institute, a research institute housed at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill (USA).