In this way, there is a distinction between the book and the on-line archive; all papers in the book have been revised by their authors, and some considerably modified. All papers have in addition been through severe language revision, as well as more technical editorial work. For this reason, it is well worth picking up the book even if you have a Netscape address sitting somewhere.
All of you who are paid-up members of the Nordic Society will get the book for free in the mail (or have already received it by this time); those who have not paid their 1997 fees will get a polite reminder, and we will ship off the book to them as their settle, at least for the first few months. The rest of you, those who hear nothin in paper mail and thus are not members, will have to go to a bookstore. The book is sold by Chr. Hurst in London, and is in their catalogue, but you can also get it directly from us in Bergen. Contact sylvia.liland@smi.uib.no by email or otherwise. The book is 270 pp long, check http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/nsm/meec.html for more detail.
As this is being written, the Society's workshop on "scriptual Islam and social reality" in Lund is underway, with the twenty students and lectureres from Europe, the Middle East and our countries. Hopefully a success.
Final Call. Extension of Abstract Deadline to 1 July 1997.
Our previous calls for keynote speeches and papers have prompted a fine response. The keynote speakers include among others Annelies Moors, Rosemary Sayigh, Willy Jansen, Shahla Haeri, Sharif Kanaana and Shelagh Weir. The papers of PhD candidates cover a wide range of topics, relating to issues of gender and society in the Muslim Middle East. There is space for some more PhD candidates working at related topics to register. Those PhD students who would like to participate but need some funding, please contact the organizers soonest. For practical matters, we need to have your confirmation of attendance by 15 June.
The working method: The mornings will be reserved for key note addresses with discussion, open to members from local academic community who will be asked to register beforehand. The afternoons will involve working group sessions where papers by those working at their theses will be presented and discussed.
Please send abstracts to
Susanne Dahlgren
Department of Cultural
Anthropology
POB 13, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
You can address any other inquiries to one of the
following:
Ulla.Vuorela@Helsinki.fi
Dahlgren@valt.Helsinki.fi (Susanne
Dahlgren)
ytriis@uta.fi (Riina Isotalo)
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Ulla Vuorela
Associate
professor
University of Tampere, Finland
West and Central Asia, defined as a region stretching from the Mediterranean to China, and from the Himalayas to Siberia, is an area undergoing great change. Its regional history can be characterised as dynamic. The area has extended a rich cultural heritage to Europe and has at the same time contributed to shaping the identity of Europe by constituting a significant "other". Research on the region will obviously fall within the programme, and so does research concerning the relationships between the region and neighbouring regions. The programme will cover both contemporary and historical periods.
The programme is multi-disciplinary and one of its aims is to support and develop contacts between researchers within different fields and disciplines. The programme has a budget of approximately SEK 25 million Swedish crowns for the five year period, most of which will be used for multi-disciplinary projects spanning at least three years. Funding will also be available for other activities, in order to initiate and promote contacts between researchers both within and outside Sweden.
The general theme of the programme is "multiplexities in co-operation and conflict". The linguistic, religious, ethnic, political, and economic complexities of the region give excellent opportunities to analyse how coexistence and conflict is or has been expressed among groups in this area. It is of considerable interest for the programme that issues of cultural homogeneity and heterogeneity are problematised. It is possible to analyse the circumstances under which religious or linguistic belonging functions as social markers of inclusion or exclusion and under what circumstances these markers are of less importance. Another issue of interest to the programme is to study how - or if- ideas of multiplexity and heterogeneity in religious movements is variously interpreted in time and space. The development of languages and literature in complex conditions is also relevant for the programme. It can furthermore be of interest to study if ideas of one group concerning, for example, economic co-operation or integration, from the perspective of another group can be interpreted as economic conflict or economic colonisation.
Applications for research projects within the new programme undergo the usual scrutiny extended to all projects sponsored by the Swedish Council for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. The overall activities, however, are handled by a programme committee We welcome contact with researchers outside Sweden.
Further information can be given by the chairman of the programme
committee
Professor Bo Utas, Department of African and Asian
Languages,
Box 513, Uppsala University, S751 20 Uppsala, e-mail:
Bo.Utas@afro.uu.se
or the co-ordinator of the programme committee
Ass.Prof. Annika Rabo,
Department of Social Anthropology, Linköping University, S-581 83
Linköping, e-mail: annra@tema.liu.se
or the other members of the programme group
Professor Jan Johanson,
Department of Business
Studies, Uppsala University, e-mail:
Jan.Johanson@fek.uu.se
Professor Tryggve Kronholm, Department of African and
Asian Languages, Uppsala University, e-mail:
Tryggve.Kronholm@afro.uu.se
Professor Tord Olsson, Department of History of
Religion, Lund University, e-mail: Tord.Olsson@teol.lu.se
Professor Staffan
Rosén, Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, e-mail.
Staffan.Rosen@orient.su.se
Professor Peter Wallensteen, Department of Peace
and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, e-mail: Peter.Wallensteen@pcr.uu.se
This is to inform you of a forthcoming CITIZENSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST+ [Electronic] NEWSLETTER soon to be published on an e-mail address hosted at Bethlehem University.
The NEWSLETTER is an extension of the recently launched international journal of CITIZENSHIP STUDIES (chief editor Bryan Turner, Deakin University, Australia) and is edited by the Regional Editorial Committee on the Middle East of the said journal (Nils Butenschon, Oslo; Uri Davis, Durham; Manuel Hassassian, Bethlehem; and Suad Joseph, California,Davis).
The NEWSLETTER is designated to serve as an information vehicle relevant to the growing network of scholars and activists concerned with the subject of citizenship in the Middle East and will bring to the attention of its subscribers titles of relevant articles; identify and pass forward PhD Dissertations; advertise grants and fellowships relevant to Citizenship Studies; and locate information regarding travel and visits of scholars whose work concerns Citizenship Studies, and with their agreement circulate this information in the NEWSLETTER, with the view to facilitate additional invitations as guest lecturers.
In a long term perspective the NEWSLETTER aims to make a significant contribution to the development of panels, workshops and eventually Middle East Citizenship sections within the existing disciplinary international associations of Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, History and others.
The NEWSLETTER invites readers to contribute relevant information as well as articles and reports up to 1,000 words. The Regional Editorial Committee would welcome additional journal length papers with the view to considering publication in CITIZENSHIP STUDIES.
The Regional Editorial Committee on the Middle East aims to make the CITIZENSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST NEWSLETTER known to the growing body of scholars and activists concerned with citizenship related issues, and with this object in mind wish to extend to you the invitation to subscribe to it.
For subscription please forward your name and e-mail address to the following
location:
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Should you have any additional questions please do not hesitate to contact the NEWSLETTER's coordinator, Uri Davis, at:
regcomm-l@bethlehem.edu
Att Uri Davis, Coordinator
Regional Editorial
Committee for the Middle East
Regine Roswall Grytnes,
Research Assistant
E-mail:
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This is to inform you that the cedej has completed the publication of an inventory and index of the Condominium archives of the Kassala Province. The paper copies have been sent to the Central Archives in Khartoum but an informatic [computerized] version can be consulted from an Internet site http://www.sciences-sociales.ens.fr/nro
This is of course regrettable from a Middle Eastern point of view, it may be related to the recent slashes that the Nordic Council has made on very many Nordic cultural institutions, slashes from which NIAS has escaped realitvely unharmed until now. We are not aware if this has effects on the participation of Middle Eastern scholars in other programs where we have been accepted, such as the scholarships to Copenhagen etc. We will keep you informred.
Gunvor Mejdell and Sabry Hafez (red.), Den arabiske verden forteller : arabiske noveller, Oslo: Bokklubben kunnskap og kultur, 1997. 620 s. : ISBN: 82-525-3695-6. Ei større ny samling av arabisk novellekunst, i samarbeid redigert av Mejdell (Oslo) og Hafez (SOAS, London). Desverre er tilgangen redusert til medlemmer i denne Bokklubben, iallfall inntil vidare, men den er tilgjengelig på biblioteker.
Elie Wardini (ed.), Built on Solid Rock: Studie s in Honour of Professor Ebbe Egede Knudsen on the occasion of his 65th Birthday April 11 1997, Oslo 1997, 308 pp. The title says it all, a Festschrifit to Professor Knudsen, who recently retired from his post in Comparative Semitic studies at the University of Oslo. 26 contributions by Nordic and outside colleagues, mostly in Semitology, but also in Islamic Biblical studies.
Christopher Toll and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.) Law and the Islamic world past and present : papers presented to the joint seminar at the Universities of Copenhagen and Lund, March 26th-27th, 1993. Copenhagen : Commissioner: Munksgaard, 1995. 184 s. Again a fairly complete description in the title; it has been out since 1995, but we note it now, since we have not been aware of it earlier. (To anybody publishing books in our countries: Send us a reference and preferably a photocopy of the blurb or description! Then we will distribute and publicize).
The year-long faculty/graduate project will investigate on a comparative basis such topics as the origins of the millennial idea, prohecies and messianic manifestations in Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as well as American millennial visions and Millenarianism in East Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. Applicants (Ph.D. in hand by January 1, 1998) from disciplines such as Anthropology, History, Literature, Religion or Sociology should demonstrate a clear interest in the study of millennialism.
The successful candidate will be expected to assist in the planning of this program in collaboration with the director and faculty, and pursue research and writing related to the seminar's theme. This fellowship will either entail one year-long fellowship starting in January, 1998 or two six-month fellowships (January-July 1998 or July-December 1998). Stipend for the year is $30,000 which includes health insurance or $17,000 for six months. Fellows will be expected to be in residence at Yale during the term of the fellowship. Please send a letter of application, indicating whether you are interested in the year-long or six-month position by September 15, 1997 including a curriculum vitae, a prospectus of research/writing during the tenure of the fellowship, a sample of your written or published work, and two letters of recommendation to:
Abbas Amanat, Chair
Council on Middle East Studies
Re: Post-Doctoral
Fellowship
Yale Center for International and Area Studies
P.O. Box
208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
Further information is available at the Council on Middle East Studies at Yale University at (203) 432-6252. [Directly submitted]
Further details of these posts are obtainable by writing to the Personnel Office, Liverpool Hope University College, Hope Park, Liverpool L16 9JD or by telephoning 0151 291 3661 (24 hours). Please quote reference on/in all communications. [2 June]
Contact Jan DeCosmo, 413 Tucker Hall, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee Florida 32307 (904/599-3831) before June 30 deadline. [9 June]
A. Asaduzzaman, "Urban sweepers in Bangladesh: Caste and community, religion and dignity" (11 April) and
Frode Fadnes Jacobsen, "Narratives as points of entry into Beja cultural knowledge. Exploring theories of sickness and misfortune among the Hadandowa." (26 April).
Thus a varied fare in geography and thematic.
Otherwise, it may be noted that the Centre has held a lecture series in the History of Islamic Law this spring, a new venture for this institution. The course is meant to be integrated into the newly estabished degree course in Middle East Area studies as an alternative within the study of Islam.
We have had various visiting researchers this spring, in particular Prof. Øyvind LaBianca from Andews University, which many of you will know from his participation in the Society and two of its conferences; he stayed here for two months. We may also mention Dr. Abdel Shareef of Zanzibar, who has also stayed here for two months, and Profs. Reinhold and Erika Friedl Loeffler of W. Michigan University who stayed for a similar period at the Dept. for Anthropology. In September, we expect a return visit from Prof. Aharon Layish of Jerusalem, who has visited us before and will now stay here some weeks under the cultural exchange program.
Bergen and Lund are also planning a seminar on "Religion, Political Language and Action", as we have mentioned earlier. It will go into the winter and new year.
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