Dear Colleagues
There is a vacancy for a lecturer in sociology at Loughborough University, UK. The post is open to any research specialism.
Open positions: Three collaborating research fellowships/postdocs on Religion and Migration
Open positions at Uppsala University:
Three collaborating research fellowships/postdocs on the theme
“Religion and Migration: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy”
Uppsala University is an international research university focused on the development of science and education. Our most important assets are all the individuals who with their curiosity and their dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting work places. Uppsala University has 40,000 students, 7,000 employees and a turnover of SEK 6,5 billion.
The research fellowships will be part of the multidisciplinary research programme The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy (IMPACT) at Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre (CRS), which administratively is a unit within the Department of Theology. IMPACT explores how the increased visibility of religion translates into substantive changes in Swedish and Nordic society. It involves around 60 researchers from six university faculties and more than 25 academic disciplines (www.impactofreligion.uu.se).
– Time period January 1st 2017 – May 31st 2018 (17 months)
– 75% of full-time working time
Religion and migration
Complex economic, social, political, legal and cultural transformations related to migration are currently taking place in Sweden and Europe at large affecting the religious landscape. Sweden is an advanced, post-industrial society where individual autonomy and human rights constitute core values and religion is regarded as being part of the private sphere. The increasing levels of migration introduce “new” social and religious values which raise new and challenging questions. These relate to individual and collective rights; the foundation and function of the family and the role of gender; the role of religion and religious organisations in public life such as politics, education and media; religion in relation to violence and racism and in relation to the definition of health and well-being; and questions on the construction of both secular and religious world views. Current developments and challenges related to religion and migration needs to be addressed from a wide range of disciplinary and methodological approaches.
The research fellowships and their projects/work description
Three 75% research fellowships from different disciplines will be recruited and employed for the same time period. They will form an interdisciplinary research team, each one of them having their own project but working in close collaboration in a sharing atmosphere supported by a senior IMPACT researcher as mentor. They will be expected to take part in work on applications for external funding to finance their research after the fellowship period. Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre (CRS) (www.crs.uu.se) will be their physical working environment.
Qualifications Candidates for these positions:
have finished a PhD
have a strong academic record as evinced by curriculum vitae and list of publications
have a concrete and creative idea for their research project, which fits into the IMPACT research environment and contributes with additional qualities
have organisational skills
have an independent attitude as well as ability to work in a team
have excellent proficiency in written and spoken English
have an international academic network
Application Interested candidates should submit a complete application (in English) composed of:
A) A letter of application. B) A description of your research project plans/ideas. C) A letter of motivation, describing your own research interests, addressing the theme “Religion and Migration: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy” and explaining how your research project plans/ideas will contribute. Describe also what kind of interdisciplinary collaboration with other researchers that would be of interest for you. D) A complete CV with a publication list. E) Letters of recommendation from two academic referees. F) A summary of your doctoral dissertation in English. G) Three self-selected relevant “best” articles, chapters or papers.
Please send all credentials above in PDF format and in separate attachments. The application marked UFV-PA 2016/2129 with all attachments should be sent in by September 15th 2016 at 12 pm Swedish time, by the Uppsala University application system,
see http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=108367
create an account, log in and follow the instructions.
Uppsala University aims for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organization. We therefore welcome applicants of any gender and with different birth background, functionality and life experience.
Pay: Individual salaries
Starting: January 1st 2017
Type of employment: Temporary position ending May 31st 2018
Working hours: 75 %
Placement: Uppsala Religion and Society Research Centre, Uppsala, Sweden
Union representative: Per Sundman, Saco-rådet, Marie Ols, TCO/ST, Stefan Djurström, Seko
For further information about the position please contact Per Pettersson, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Director of IMPACT, per.pettersson@crs.uu.se
We decline offers of recruitment and advertising help. We only accept the application the way described above.
Job Opening: Lecturer in Islam in South East Asia
Lecturer in Islam in South East Asia
The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen seeks to make an appointment of a Lecturer in the field of Islam in South East Asia with a provisional start date of January 2017.
Applicants should have a proven research record in the relevant field and experience of teaching in higher education. This position will involve a commitment to undergraduate teaching, postgraduate supervision and research and will carry particular duties in the delivery of teaching and in the supervision of doctoral work.
The School offers a wide range of undergraduate courses leading to an MA (without honours) after three years or, more usually, a single or joint honours MA after four years. The School houses the largest body of postgraduate students within the University
The successful candidate will teach in the Religious Studies undergraduate programme, introduce and lead exciting and challenging courses in Islamic Studies at undergraduate and masters level, and provide postgraduate supervision within the field of their expertise.
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Divinity, History & Philosophy
Staff Category: Teaching
Position Type: Full Time
Closing Date: 04/07/2016
Ref No: DHP049A
- Further Particulars.pdf
(PDF, 807.67kb)
For more details please visit:
https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-islam-in-south-east-asia-267144.html
Call for Presentations: “Music and Islam”
IV UskoMus symposium: ”Music and Islam”
Cultural Centre Stoa, Helsinki 10 November 2016
Call for Presentations
UskoMus* Research Network (uskomus.com) will organise its next one-day symposium with the theme ”Music and Islam”, with islamologist Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University) as a guest speaker. The symposium will be followed by a public discussion and a concert celebrating the 25-year career of the Turkish-Finnish band Nefes (nefes.fi <http://nefes.fi/>), supported by Senegalese Pape Sarr, Rane Diallo, Ismaila Sane and Ousseynou Mbaye, and with an emphasis on Sufi musical practices.
UskoMus hereby invites proposals for symposium presentations, whether in the form of conventional academic papers or more experimental delivery. All topics associated with the general theme are welcome, but please note that the number of presentations is limited. The 200–300-word abstracts should be sent to uskomus.network@gmail.com no later than 30 September 2016; notifications of acceptance will be sent by 14 October.
There will be no conference fee but no free lunches either.
The language of the symposium will be English. The symposium is organised in collaboration with City of Helsinki Cultural Centre Stoa (stoa.fi <http://stoa.fi/>), Etnosoi! Festival (etnosoi.fi<http://etnosoi.fi/>) and Global Music Centre (globalmusic.fi <http://globalmusic.fi/>), Music Archive JAPA (musiikkiarkisto.fi <http://musiikkiarkisto.fi/>) and the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology (etnomusikologia.fi <http://etnomusikologia.fi/>). For further information, please consult UskoMus website (uskomus.com <http://uskomus.com/>) oruskomus.network@gmail.com <mailto:uskomus-network@gmail.com>.
Welcome to the symposium!
On behalf of UskoMus,
Antti-Ville Kärjä
*) “uskomus” = a belief, a shibboleth; “usko” = faith, confidence; “mus(iikki)” = mus(ic)
CFP: Special Issue on “Performing Religion”
Call for submissions:
Performance Matters 3.1 (May 2017)
Special issue on “Performing Religion”
Performance and religion, both as practices and as fields of study, overlap. In religious studies, performance theory has provided a way to understand ritual as action with performative force (Tambiah 1979; Hollywood 2002), while a shared interest in ritual fueled the exchanges between Richard Schechner and Victor Turner from which grew one branch of performance studies as a discipline. Less explicitly, a reverence among performance theorists for theater’s transformational potential and performance’s politically liberatory power inspires some of the field’s foundational work (Dolan 2005; Phelan 1993). These commitments in turn draw strength from a long scholarly tradition that traces the mutually constitutive histories of theater and religion. In performance studies, a growing body of recent scholarship has reinvigorated the question of what it means to perform religion. Unlike earlier performance research which tended to downplay the religious aspects of ritual practice, this newer work focuses directly on religious activities like worship, private devotion, preaching, evangelization, and veneration. Whether analyzing onstage manifestations of Krishna (Mason 2009), evangelical dramaturgy (Stevenson 2013), proselytization as activist performance (Fletcher 2013), or occult theater (Lingan 2014), this work examines the theatrical and performance strategies of religious communities and movements. In doing so, it raises a series of disciplinary and methodological questions. What are the advantages and pitfalls of using theater and performance as analytical frameworks for studying religious activity? To what degree does ritual still occupy the middle ground between religious studies and performance studies? How might greater dialogue between scholars in these two fields enrich research on religious performance? In the interest of pursuing these and other related questions, Performance Matters invites papers that draw on performance theory, theater metaphors and the tools of performance analysis or creation to conduct research on religious practices, texts, histories, philosophies, or phenomena.
Interested contributors are asked to send short abstracts and paper proposals (250 words) to joy_palacios@sfu.ca by July 30, 2016.
Reviews of relevant performances or theatrical productions, as well as of books related to the theme of religious performance, are also invited, as are short position statements for a forum section featuring scholars in performance studies who work on religion and scholars in religious studies who think about performance.
Invited full papers will then be due by November 30, 2016.
Performance Matters is a peer-reviewed, open access, on-line journal published bi-annually by Simon Fraser University that focuses on all aspects of performance: what it does, and why it is meaningful. For more information, see http://performancematters-thejournal.com.
CFP: Special Issue on “Performing Religion”
Call for submissions:
Performance Matters 3.1 (May 2017)
Special issue on “Performing Religion”
Performance and religion, both as practices and as fields of study, overlap. In religious studies, performance theory has provided a way to understand ritual as action with performative force (Tambiah 1979; Hollywood 2002), while a shared interest in ritual fueled the exchanges between Richard Schechner and Victor Turner from which grew one branch of performance studies as a discipline. Less explicitly, a reverence among performance theorists for theater’s transformational potential and performance’s politically liberatory power inspires some of the field’s foundational work (Dolan 2005; Phelan 1993). These commitments in turn draw strength from a long scholarly tradition that traces the mutually constitutive histories of theater and religion. In performance studies, a growing body of recent scholarship has reinvigorated the question of what it means to perform religion. Unlike earlier performance research which tended to downplay the religious aspects of ritual practice, this newer work focuses directly on religious activities like worship, private devotion, preaching, evangelization, and veneration. Whether analyzing onstage manifestations of Krishna (Mason 2009), evangelical dramaturgy (Stevenson 2013), proselytization as activist performance (Fletcher 2013), or occult theater (Lingan 2014), this work examines the theatrical and performance strategies of religious communities and movements. In doing so, it raises a series of disciplinary and methodological questions. What are the advantages and pitfalls of using theater and performance as analytical frameworks for studying religious activity? To what degree does ritual still occupy the middle ground between religious studies and performance studies? How might greater dialogue between scholars in these two fields enrich research on religious performance? In the interest of pursuing these and other related questions, Performance Matters invites papers that draw on performance theory, theater metaphors and the tools of performance analysis or creation to conduct research on religious practices, texts, histories, philosophies, or phenomena.
Interested contributors are asked to send short abstracts and paper proposals (250 words) to joy_palacios@sfu.ca by July 30, 2016.
Reviews of relevant performances or theatrical productions, as well as of books related to the theme of religious performance, are also invited, as are short position statements for a forum section featuring scholars in performance studies who work on religion and scholars in religious studies who think about performance.
Invited full papers will then be due by November 30, 2016.
Performance Matters is a peer-reviewed, open access, on-line journal published bi-annually by Simon Fraser University that focuses on all aspects of performance: what it does, and why it is meaningful. For more information, see http://performancematters-thejournal.com.
Post-Doc in Jewish-Islamic Studies
Dear colleagues,
The Jewish Museum Berlin invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the framework of our Jewish-Islamic Forum. For more information visit
http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/Pdfs-en/About-the-Museum/Jobs/Postdoc_WMBlumenthal-Stipendium_EN.pdf
Best regards,
Yasemin
—
Dr. Yasemin Shooman
Head of Academy Programs
W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 (030) 25993-379 | E-Mail: y.shooman@jmberlin.de
Post-Doc in Jewish-Islamic Studies
Dear colleagues,
The Jewish Museum Berlin invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the framework of our Jewish-Islamic Forum. For more information visit
http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/Pdfs-en/About-the-Museum/Jobs/Postdoc_WMBlumenthal-Stipendium_EN.pdf
Best regards,
Yasemin
—
Dr. Yasemin Shooman
Head of Academy Programs
W. Michael Blumenthal Academy of the Jewish Museum Berlin
Jewish Museum Berlin
Lindenstraße 9-14
10969 Berlin
Tel. +49 (030) 25993-379 | E-Mail: y.shooman@jmberlin.de
Journal Issue: Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies
We are happy to announce the publication of Vol. 27/1 of the journal Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, which marks the re-establishment of the journal after a pause of eight years. Available in open access at: https://ojs.abo.fi/nj Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies aims at promoting Jewish studies in Scandinavia by publishing scholarly articles, surveys, documents and by reviewing recent literature. The contributions are published in Scandinavian languages, English, German or French, with an abstract in English. The journal is strictly academic and does not pursue any special religious, political or cultural policy. Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies was established in 1975 and has for several decades been the leading academic journal in its field. It has published 26 volumes between the years 1975 and 2008. To follow the journal and receive up-dates about new issues, please register as reader at our website. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Ruth Illman The Donner Institute Phone +358-50-517 5917 ruth.illman@abo.fi Nordisk Judaistik Vol 27, No 1 (2016) Table of Contents http://ojs.abo.fi/index.php/nj/issue/view/146 Editorial -------- Editorial (1-3) Ruth Illman, Karin Hedner Zetterholm Articles -------- ”Vi har redan tillräckligt med judar här”.Tonsättaren Hans Holewa och exilens dubbelhet (4-23) Henrik Rosengren Splittringen mellan polska judiska och icke-judiska överlevande från koncentrationsläger. Det svenska samhällets reaktioner våren och sommaren 1945 (24-42) Mordechay Giloh Linguistic, cultural and history-related studies on Jews in Finland: a look into the scholarship in the twenty-first century (43-57) Laura Katarina Ekholm, Simo Muir, Oula Silvennoinen Reports -------- Bøger om jødisk historie i Danmark de sidste 15 år (58-70) Morten Thing
Journal Issue: Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies
We are happy to announce the publication of Vol. 27/1 of the journal Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies, which marks the re-establishment of the journal after a pause of eight years. Available in open access at: https://ojs.abo.fi/nj Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies aims at promoting Jewish studies in Scandinavia by publishing scholarly articles, surveys, documents and by reviewing recent literature. The contributions are published in Scandinavian languages, English, German or French, with an abstract in English. The journal is strictly academic and does not pursue any special religious, political or cultural policy. Nordisk judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies was established in 1975 and has for several decades been the leading academic journal in its field. It has published 26 volumes between the years 1975 and 2008. To follow the journal and receive up-dates about new issues, please register as reader at our website. Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Ruth Illman The Donner Institute Phone +358-50-517 5917 ruth.illman@abo.fi Nordisk Judaistik Vol 27, No 1 (2016) Table of Contents http://ojs.abo.fi/index.php/nj/issue/view/146 Editorial -------- Editorial (1-3) Ruth Illman, Karin Hedner Zetterholm Articles -------- ”Vi har redan tillräckligt med judar här”.Tonsättaren Hans Holewa och exilens dubbelhet (4-23) Henrik Rosengren Splittringen mellan polska judiska och icke-judiska överlevande från koncentrationsläger. Det svenska samhällets reaktioner våren och sommaren 1945 (24-42) Mordechay Giloh Linguistic, cultural and history-related studies on Jews in Finland: a look into the scholarship in the twenty-first century (43-57) Laura Katarina Ekholm, Simo Muir, Oula Silvennoinen Reports -------- Bøger om jødisk historie i Danmark de sidste 15 år (58-70) Morten Thing