Roundup of Social Science Calls for the Arab Region (23 September 2020)

Roundup of Social Science Calls for the Arab Region (23 September 2020)

Roundup of Social Science Calls for the Arab Region (23 September 2020)

By : Jadaliyya Reports
ACSS-MERIP webinar with Arabic subtitles! You can now watch the full webinar with Arabic subtitles on the YouTube channel of The Beirut Forum, a component of the ACSS Critical Security Studies working group.
 
“Intercultural Seminar on Peacebuilding, Dialogue and Solidarity" (17 September 2020)
On the occasion of the International day of Peace, the International Center for Human Sciences (CISH) is organizing the “Intercultural Seminar on Peacebuilding, Dialogue and Solidarity” on September 21 and September 22, 2020 in partnership with Hanns Seidel Foundation and in collaboration with the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU).
 
New article co-authored by ACSS Postdoctoral Fellow, Hussam Hussein. Published in "Water Alternatives".
 
Women in Northern African History Article co-written by ACSS Board of Trustees member, Dr. Fadma Ait Mous in the Oxford Research Encyclopedias.
 
Call for Applications – InterAsia Academy Integration and Disintegration in InterAsian Perspective February 15–28, 2021. Deadline for submissions: October 2, 2020.
 
The Arab Council for the Social Sciences launched a survey regarding the impact of COVID-19 on the social science and humanities community in the Arab region.
 
Former ACSS Post-doc Fellow Suhad Daher-Nashef’s latest piece shows how #Israel uses #necropolitical and #biopolitical powers to manage Palestinian deaths.

Call for Applications: MECAM-Fellowships for the IFG "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice"
Call for Applications: MECAM-Fellowships for the IFG "Aesthetics & Cultural Practice". Application Deadline: 30 September 2020; 24.00h CET.

Global Call for Priorities for Science
Survey from the International Science Council (ISC) Note: This survey is not for the ACSS, we are sharing it on behalf of our partner the ISC of which we are a member.
 
Read the new article by ACSS Postdoc Fellow, Yasmine Moataz Ahmed
"The Social Life of Wheat and Grapes: Domestic Land-Grabbing as Accumulation by Dispossession in Rural Egypt" | The new article by ACSS Postdoc Fellow, Yasmine Moataz Ahmed | The Review of African Political Economy.
 
منحة جديدة ضمن الدورة السابعة من برنامج مختبر الفنون للعام
يسر اتجاهات - ثقافة مستقلة الإعلان عن المشاريع الحاصلة على دعم الدورة السابعة من برنامج مختبر الفنون بالتعاون مع معهد غوته. حيث دعمت المؤسسة في هذه الدورة 16 مشروعاً ضمن خمس فئات فنية وأدبية ليتم إنتاج أربعة عروض أدائية تتنوع بين المسرح والرقص والمسرح الغنائي، ألبومين موسيقيين، ثلاثة أفلام سينمائية، ثلاثة مشاريع بصرية، إضافة إلى دعم إصدار أربعة مشاريع أدبية يتم نشرها بالتعاون مع دار ممدوح عدوان
للنشر والتوزيع‫.
 
صدر العدد الثاني من مجلة قيم (المجلة المغربية للعلوم الاجتماعية والانسانية) عن مركز ابن خلدون للدراسات والأبحاث في القيم والمجتمع في مكناس-المغرب. وخُصّص العدد لموضوع الهوية وحقوق الانسان بين الكوني والمحلي. وشارك باحثون من المغرب وموريتانيا والجزائر وبلجيكا.
 
الاستعارة ودورها في بناء النظريّة الاجتماعيّة
ورقة عمل جديدة! نشر المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعيّة ورقة عمل جديدة في إطار سلسلة أوراق العمل بعنوان: "الاستعارة ودورها في بناء النظريّة الاجتماعيّة". مؤلِّف هذه الورقة هو خالد كاظم أبو دوح (أستاذ مساعد - جامعة سوهاج – مصر‫).
 

الاستبيانبالعربية - تأثيركوفيد-19
استبيان للمجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعيّة أطلق المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعيّة استبيانًا حول ‫“تأثير كوفيد-19 على مجتمع العلوم الاجتماعيّة والإنسانيّة في المنطقة العربيّة"  


بابُ استقبال الملخّصات مفتوح! يرحّب المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعيّة بملخّصات لباحثين/ات من المنطقة العربيّة والعالم، لمؤتمره الخامس: "مساءلة العلوم الاجتماعيّة في دوّامة الأزمات: موجات السّخط والمطالبة بالتغيير‫”
 

منحة جديدة من المجلس العربي للعلوم الاجتماعيّة! الإشكاليّات الأخلاقية في العلوم الاجتماعية: منح للبحوث والتشبيك والنشر (الدورة الأولى-2021) المهلة النهائية لتقديم الطلبات: 15 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر 2020
 
صدر عن مركز "فاعلون" العدد الأول من المجلة العربية للدراسات السوسيولوجية المعاصرة "سوسيولوجيون،" وهي مجلة دوليّة محكّمة نصف سنويّة. تستقبل المجلة المقالات على بريدها الإلكتروني الآتي‫:
sociologioune@gmail.com 
 
Questionnnaire en Français - L'impact du COVID-19
Le Conseil Arabe pour les Sciences Sociales a lancé une enquête sur l'impact du COVID-19 sur la communauté des sciences sociales et humaines dans la région arabe.
 
[This roundup was originally posted by the Arab Council for the Social Sciences on 21 September 2020.]

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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism Matters!

On 5-6 March 2011, the Palestine Society at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London will hold its seventh annual conference, "Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine." This year`s conference aims to understand Zionism as a settler colonial project which has, for more than a century, subjected Palestine and Palestinians to a structural and violent form of destruction, dispossession, land appropriation and erasure in the pursuit of a new Jewish Israeli society. By organizing this conference, we hope to reclaim and revive the settler colonial paradigm and to outline its potential to inform and guide political strategy and mobilization.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique and exceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the original inhabitants. Indeed, as conference keynote speaker Patrick Wolfe, one of the foremost scholars on settler colonialism and professor at La Trobe University in Victoria, Australia, argues, "the logic of this project, a sustained institutional tendency to eliminate the Indigenous population, informs a range of historical practices that might otherwise appear distinct--invasion is a structure not an event."[i]

Therefore, the classification of the Zionist movement as a settler colonial project, and the Israeli state as its manifestation, is not merely intended as a statement on the historical origins of Israel, nor as a rhetorical or polemical device. Rather, the aim is to highlight Zionism`s structural continuities and the ideology which informs Israeli policies and practices in Palestine and toward Palestinians everywhere. Thus, the Nakba -- whether viewed as a spontaneous, violent episode in war, or the implementation of a preconceived master plan -- should be understood as both the precondition for the creation of Israel and the logical outcome of Zionist settlement in Palestine.

Moreover, it is this same logic that sustains the continuation of the Nakba today. As remarked by Benny Morris, “had he [David Ben Gurion] carried out full expulsion--rather than partial--he would have stabilised the State of Israel for generations.”[ii] Yet, plagued by an “instability”--defined by the very existence of the Palestinian nation--Israel continues its daily state practices in its quest to fulfill Zionism’s logic to maximize the amount of land under its control with the minimum number of Palestinians on it. These practices take a painful array of manifestations: aerial and maritime bombardment, massacre and invasion, house demolitions, land theft, identity card confiscation, racist laws and loyalty tests, the wall, the siege on Gaza, cultural appropriation, and the dependence on willing (or unwilling) native collaboration and security arrangements, all with the continued support and backing of imperial power. 

Despite these enduring practices however, the settler colonial paradigm has largely fallen into disuse. As a paradigm, it once served as a primary ideological and political framework for all Palestinian political factions and trends, and informed the intellectual work of committed academics and revolutionary scholars, both Palestinians and Jews.

The conference thus asks where and why the settler colonial paradigm was lost, both in scholarship on Palestine and in politics; how do current analyses and theoretical trends that have arisen in its place address present and historical realities? While acknowledging the creativity of these new interpretations, we must nonetheless ask: when exactly did Palestinian natives find themselves in a "post-colonial" condition? When did the ongoing struggle over land become a "post-conflict" situation? When did Israel become a "post-Zionist" society? And when did the fortification of Palestinian ghettos and reservations become "state-building"?

In outlining settler colonialism as a central paradigm from which to understand Palestine, this conference re-invigorates it as a tool by which to analyze the present situation. In doing so, it contests solutions which accommodate Zionism, and more significantly, builds settler colonialism as a political analysis that can embolden and inform a strategy of active, mutual, and principled Palestinian alignment with the Arab struggle for self-determination, and indigenous struggles in the US, Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere.

Such an alignment would expand the tools available to Palestinians and their solidarity movement, and reconnect the struggle to its own history of anti-colonial internationalism. At its core, this internationalism asserts that the Palestinian struggle against Zionist settler colonialism can only be won when it is embedded within, and empowered by, the broader Arab movement for emancipation and the indigenous, anti-racist and anti-colonial movement--from Arizona to Auckland.

SOAS Palestine Society invites everyone to join us at what promises to be a significant intervention in Palestine activism and scholarship.

For over 30 years, SOAS Palestine Society has heightened awareness and understanding of the Palestinian people, their rights, culture, and struggle for self-determination, amongst students, faculty, staff, and the broader public. SOAS Palestine society aims to continuously push the frontiers of discourse in an effort to make provocative arguments and to stimulate debate and organizing for justice in Palestine through relevant conferences, and events ranging from the intellectual and political impact of Edward Said`s life and work (2004), international law and the Palestine question (2005), the economy of Palestine and its occupation (2006), the one state (2007), 60 Years of Nakba, 60 Years of Resistance (2009), and most recently, the Left in Palestine (2010).

For more information on the SOAS Palestine Society 7th annual conference, Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine: www.soaspalsoc.org

SOAS Palestine Society Organizing Collective is a group of committed students that has undertaken to organize annual academic conferences on Palestine since 2003.

 


[i] Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event, Cassell, London, p. 163

[ii] Interview with Benny Morris, Survival of the Fittest, Haaretz, 9. January 2004, http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=5412