March 31, 2021

 
This Week's Features: 
*new updates are highlighted

Date Description
April 5, 11:59PM EST Notice of Intent & Bibliographies for Fall Exams Due 
April 6, 3pm CSR New TF Orientation
April 9, noon Graduate Development Workshop: Preparing for General Exams
April 22, 2pm CSR Pedagogy Workshop: Developing Your Teaching Statement
April 23, noon Graduate Colloquium with Prof. Gyatso
April 30, TBA Prospectus Day
Nov 1, 11:59PM EST Notice of Intent & Bibliographies for Spring 2022 Exams Due
 
Spring 2021 Exam Dates
Deadline Description
Mar 18, 11:59PM EST Paper in Lieu of April Exam #4 Due
April 6 Exam #1
April 9 Exam #2
April 12 Exam #3
April 15 Exam #4

Fall 2021 Exam Dates
Deadline Description
Sept 17, 11:59PM EST Paper in Lieu of Fall Exam #4 Due
Oct 4 Fall Exam #1
Oct 7 Fall Exam #2
Oct 12 Fall Exam #3
Oct 15 Fall Exam #4 
New TF Orientation
Tuesday, April 6, 3-4pm
Zoom link

Graduate Development Workshop: Preparing for General Exams
Friday, April 9, 12pm, noon
Link TBA
Any students who have completed the exam process and would like to join this session to share their wisdom about best practices,
please contact Sam Louie-Meadors.


Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Workshop for HDS Teaching Staff 
Friday, April 9, 2-3:30pm 
Facilitated by the Institute for Anti-Racist Education
Be in touch with Lucy (lucy_ballard@mail.harvard.edu) for more information and to RSVP by April 1st

CSR Pedagogy Workshop Series
"Developing Your Teaching Statement"
Thursday, April 22nd, 2-3:15pm

Dr. Eleanor Finnegan will return to lead a workshop on teaching statements, which will include several activities that allow participants to reflect on acquired teaching experience and narrativize this experience to entice potential academic employers. Whether you were able to make our February workshop on teaching portfolios or not, you won't want to miss this practical session on the most essential piece of your portfolio.
RSVP forthcoming!

Please join current PhD Candidate Janan Graham-Russell 
on  April 1, 5pm as she presents her work as part of the
"Black Religion in America" Webinar Series sponsored by Trinity College:
“Churched Bodies: Community Identity and Devotional Practice in Mormonism”
Register here.

Congratulations to PhD Candidate Chance Bonar who has been selected as
a Tyler Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks!
During his tenure in Washington DC, he plans to work on his dissertation that focuses on enslavement & the Shepherd of Hermas. He will also be assisting with a Dumbarton Oaks institutional project.

 

(all times are EST unless noted, links connect to event websites)
4/1      HDS Film Festival: Deadline to Commit
4/1, 12pm           GSAS FWC: What I Wish I Had Known About Summer Break as a PhD Student
4/2, 1pm       Office for Gender Equity: Prevention in Action: Bystander Intervention & Beyond
4/8, 3pm           GSAS FWC: Overcoming Writing Obstacles
4/6, 6pm           New Directions Workshop, Abdelrahman Mahmoud, "...History of the Concept of Sovereignty in the Ottoman Province of Egypt,1525-1600" [Register Here]
4/8, 3pm           Bok Center Critical Pedagogy Workshop: Becoming a Critically Reflective Practitioner
4/12, 4pm        Office for Gender Equity: Community Conversations: Sexual Harassment/Assault Resources & Education (SHARE) Information Session & Discussion
4/15, 1pm           GSAS FWC: Not Missing the Forest for the Trees: A Workshop on Writing and Finishing the Dissertation 
4/19, 1pm           Office for Gender Equity: Gender Diversity & Inclusion: from A to Ze (Part I)
4/19, 6pm           MEBB Workshop: Age, Race, and Jewish Terrorism on Trial in Mandatory Palestine: The Case of Rachel Habshush, Caroline Kahlenberg (PhD Candidate, HMES)
4/20, 6pm           New Directions Workshop, Hana Connelly (Yale) “'Like a Bird in a Golden Cage:' Hamid Ismailov’s Contemporary Retelling of Qodiriy’s Arrest in The Devil’s Dance" [Register Here]
4/21, 3pm Office for Gender Equity: Sexual Citizens Book Discussion
4/22    HDS Film Festival Submissions
4/26, 1pm Office for Gender Equity: Gender Diversity & Inclusion: Part II
4/28 Harvard Wears Denim (GSAS)
4/30, 4pm Office for Gender Equity: Community Conversation: Looking Ahead with the Office for Gender Equity
5/4, 10am           New Directions Workshop, Marhabo Saparova,  "Gender, Space and Diasporic Trade Networks" [Register Here]
5/18, 6pm           New Directions Workshop, Belle Cheves (Harvard) "The Qajar Household" [Register Here]
 
Fellowships are live!
Please be sure to check CARAT for fellowship opportunities, as these are now live.  Note: some fellowships have internal CSR deadlines, which supercede the GSAS deadline (the GSAS deadline is for administrators to submit ranked applicants). 
The deadline for the GSAS Summer School Tuition Fellowships has been extended to April 2. Fellows are provided a tuition waiver for a language class at the Harvard Summer School. Eligibility is open to GSAS students in the humanities and social sciences.
 
March Deadlines
(none remaining)

April Deadlines
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
Center for Humanities at Tufts Postdoctoral Fellowships
  • Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships (General), 2021-2022
  • Tufts Postdoctoral Fellowships with the theme: Translating Race, 2021-2022
  • Cultural History of the Modern Middle East Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2022
Full details: https://sites.tufts.edu/chat/postdoctoral-fellowships/

Application Deadline: April 2 2021
The deadline for the GSAS Summer School Tuition Fellowships has been extended to April 2. Fellows are provided a tuition waiver for a language class at the Harvard Summer School. 

Application Deadline: April 2 2021
Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund (HCLIF) Grants
The Culture Lab Innovation Fund (CLIF) was designed to provide Harvard students, staff, faculty, and academic personnel, and postdoctoral researchers and fellows with competitive grants of up to $25,000 or more to pursue projects that aim to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging at Harvard.
Please see their website for more details.

Application Deadline: April 6, 2021, 5pm EST
The Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal (RSDR) Fellowship of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) invites proposals for research at the intersection of religion, spirituality, and democracy in the United States. The fellowships offer research support over a period of up to 12 months to doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy and to postdoctoral researchers within five years of their PhD. Doctoral candidates will receive up to $15,000 and postdoctoral researchers up to $18,000 toward research-related expenses. Applications are welcome from scholars at either of these career stages from any country around the world. More information available here.

Application Deadline: April 9, 2021
Graduate Student Council Spring Conference Grant or Summer Research Grant
Each year the GSAS Student Council (GSC) gives out financial awards to individual students for the purposes of conference participation and summer research. Conference Grants of up to $750 are awarded three times per year, in the Fall (October), Winter (February), and Spring (April), and Research Grants are awarded once per year, alongside the Spring Conference Grants (also in April). 
All applications must include a letter of support from a Harvard faculty member.
Full details here.

Application Deadline: April 9, 2021
Asia Center Graduate Summer Language Grants: These grants are for students enrolled in a masters or doctoral program at Harvard, in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences or any of its professional schools, for study during the summer of an East Asian language (including the Altaic languages), or of one of the languages of South or Southeast Asia.


Deadline: April 24, 2021
CFP:  "Historical Perspectives on Conflict, Crisis, and Change"
The Twenty-Second Annual Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference (RMIHC) (Sept 17-19, 2021) 
This conference is geared towards graduate students from a variety of disciplines whose work takes a historical approach. Please feel free to widely distribute the attached call for papers. One-page abstracts and CVs are due April 24, 2021.  Apply here.
For details, please download this CFP. 

Deadline: April 25, 2021
Visiting Scholars Program Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program
Northeastern University (*unpaid*)
Each year the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) program at Northeastern University hosts a group of 1-3 competitively selected scholars for a period of one academic year. The program is open to scholars of all disciplines and ranks who have obtained their terminal degree and who would enjoy working in an interdisciplinary environment that encourages critical feminist exploration
addressing intersections of gender and sexuality with race, class, nation, religion, and a wide range of social justice issues.
Please see the full details here. 

Deadline: April 30, 2021
Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) 2021 Grant Opportunities
A) The ASMEA Research Grant Program of $2500 seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Awardees are required to present their research at the Fourteenth Annual ASMEA Conference which will take place on November 13 - 15, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
B) Separately, ASMEA is offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the  Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. 
Applicants can apply for both grants but will only be awarded one.
Full details here.

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May, Future & Rollng Deadlines
Deadline: Friday, May 7, 2021
HDS Summer Language Program 2021 Accepting Applications!'
Please see the revised and updated SLP website (as of March 9).
 
The Summer Language Program (SLP) at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is an eight-week, intensive summer language program for students to learn and study translation in their various target languages, and one way to prepare for the language qualifying exams offered by HDS.
Building on last year’s great success of the SLP 2020, we are delighted to announce that Harvard Divinity School’s Summer Language Program 2021 will again run synchronously and completely online (using Zoom) from Monday, June 14, to Thursday, August 5, 2021.
For more information, please connect with slp@hds.harvard.edu .
 
Deadline: May 30, 2021
Arizona State University Center for Jewish Studies
Salo Wittmayer Baron Dissertation Award in Jewish Studies.  
The award is given to the best dissertation in the field of Jewish History and Culture in the Americas. A $5,000 award is granted every three years. Dissertations currently eligible for submission, must be completed and accepted between June 2018 and May 2021.
Applicants should see their website for instructions including those for a letter of nomination from the dissertation’s advisor.
Application must be received by May 30, 2021 | Awarded in Fall 2021
For more information and to download the cover sheet visit the website.

Deadline: September 15, 2021
Fulbright US Scholar Programs
Visit the Catalog of Awards for details of over 400 awards offered across 130 countries.  The deadline to apply is September 15, 2021. Please note that U.S. citizenship is required.

Deadline: October 1, 2021
Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature (a University Press of Florida journal) is dedicating the Spring 2022 issue to a special topic:  "Sacred Texts and Images from Africa and the African Diaspora" Guest editors: Benjamin Hebblethwaite (hebble@ufl.edu) and Kole Odutola (kodutola@ufl.edu). African and African Diaspora religions and their cultures are important pillars of society, but their sacred texts and images require far more dissemination and analysis. This volume approaches the sacred texts and images from an academic and interfaith orientation, letting diverse perspectives speak for themselves. In so doing, our goal is to preserve the sources and understand the subtext of the traditions of African people worldwide. More details here. 

Deadline: Rolling Deadline
CFP: Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal
IMEMS is a double blind peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic, Jewish, Persian, and Turkish thought, cultures, literature, practices, and institutions. 

Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME)
The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Stanford Libraries announced the release of a public, open platform for the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME), which aims to become one of the world’s largest online archives of Middle Eastern and North African artifacts.

Call for Middle Eastern studies article submissions (Al Noor, Boston College) We are currently accepting submissions for our Spring 2021 issue! Please email submissions to bcalnoor@gmail.com.

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Application Deadline: March 30
Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Université de Strasbourg)
Teaching Biblical Hebrew and Greek (vocabulary, grammar and syntax). Making students conscious of the linguistic and conceptual universe of the Old and New Testaments and making them aware of questions related to translation. The candidate will be invited to develop new pedagogical tools for students. The expected research profile is in the field of biblical philology. It will focus preferably on biblical texts and other writings of ancient Judaism, in order to analyze the methods and enterprises of translation that have been applied to them in the course of history. 

Application Deadline: March 31
Lecturer in African Literary and Cultural Studies (Harvard University)
The Department of African and African American Studies seeks applications for a Lecturer in African Literary and Cultural Studies. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2021. The Lecturer will teach three (3) courses in African Literature and Cultural Studies at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level and provide formal and informal mentorship to Graduate and Undergraduate students, including being part of Dissertation Committees, Oral Exam committees, and Prospectus Exam committees. The Lecturer may also advise and evaluate senior theses.

Application Deadline: April 16
Associate Professor, Black Feminist and Womanist Theology, School of Divinity (Wake Forest University)
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY’s School of Divinity in collaboration with the Program in African American Studies invites applications for a tenured faculty position in religion, Black feminist studies, and womanist theology at the associate or full professor level beginning July 1, 2022. We especially welcome candidates with particular research and teaching interests in environmental studies, sustainability, and/or ecological well-being to support and enhance our commitment to issues related to food, health, and ecology. We seek exceptional candidates who have a commitment to transformative intellectual leadership and to excellence in teaching and research. A Ph.D. in religious studies, theology, African American/Africana Studies, or a relevant field in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences is required.
Please see full details here.
  • HDS Summer Language Program
  • Bok Center TF Resource Hours Thursdays 3-5pm 
  • Bok Center Spring Discussion Group for International PhD Students:  Mondays, 10-11:30 am 2/15- 4/19 or Thursdays, 5-6:30 pm from 2/18 -4/22
  • NELC Workshops for Arabic & Islamic Studies; Hebrew Bible; & Jewish Studies (see details below)
  • GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center: Mock presentations
    Have an upcoming talk? Every Friday 2-5pm, the FWC staff provides feedback on oral presentations. Please sign up for a slot here.
  • GSAS Fellowships & Writing Center: Writing Oasis
    Small peer writing groups are underway, but if you are still interested in joining, please email Christopher Brown directly at cebrown@fas.harvard.edu
  • ARC Accountability Hour M-Th 4-5pm. Register here.

You are cordially invited to virtually attend the HDS Film Festival!
The festival will take place on May 6 & 7, 2021.
Day 1 will be similar to previous years:  social justice-oriented films and discussions by filmmakers. 
Day 2 will be dedicated to showing films created by HDS affiliates. We are calling them visual stories . We are inviting anyone who is affiliated with HDS to submit. 
We also have created a survey so filmmakers can express interest in participating. Anyone who is interested is encouraged to take the survey; filling it out does not commit anyone to submit. April 1 is the deadline to commit, and all films are due by April 22. 
Interest Survey:  https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08NgSaOcHEL3icJ
For more information, please go to the website for the Film Fest '21: HDS Film Fest (harvard.edu)

April Sexual Assault Awareness Month Calendar
The team in the newly formed Office for Gender Equity has been working with campus partners to develop an extensive calendar of programs to commemorate SAAM and foster dialogue among Harvard community members about how we can, together, cultivate a climate of gender equity and inclusion.

Deadline: Friday, May 7, 2021
HDS Summer Language Program 2021 Accepting Applications!

The Summer Language Program (SLP) at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is an eight-week, intensive summer language program for students to learn and study translation in their various target languages, and one way to prepare for the language qualifying exams offered by HDS.

Building on last year’s great success of the SLP 2020, we are delighted to announce that Harvard Divinity School’s Summer Language Program 2021 will again run synchronously and completely online (using Zoom) from Monday, June 14, to Thursday, August 5, 2021.

Please see the revised and updated SLP website (as of March 9).

For more information, please connect with slp@hds.harvard.edu .

Hellenic Education and Research Center
Please find below information on HERC Summer 2021 Academic Programs in Greece.
Hellenic Education & Research Center (HERC) was established in 2006 and is dedicated to the promotion of Hellenic Studies with an emphasis on the Classics.
For more on HERC, please visit www.herc.gr or contact info@herc.org.gr.
Brochure available here.

An example of an upcoming research program:
The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros (6/27-7/10/21)
This course aims at introducing the participants to the study of Greek inscriptions from the Archaic Period to the Roman times with an emphasis on the inscriptions of the Aegean Islands.

Students will have the opportunity to become familiar with the nature of epigraphic documents, will be introduced to the expertise required in the field of Greek epigraphy and will understand how inscriptions are invaluable documents for the knowledge of Ancient History.

Middle East Beyond Borders Workshop
MONDAYS, 6-7:30PM ON ZOOM 
Info and RSVP: cbordewich@g.harvard.edu & lucy_ballard@mail.harvard.edu
MARCH 22: Oral Drama in Early Modern Istanbul: Poetics of Improvisation and Impression, Daria Kovaleva (PhD Candidate, HMES)
APRIL 5: *PROSPECTUS DAY*
Assistive Technologies for the Deaf in Jordan: Language, Religion, & the Question of
Disability, Timothy Loh (PhD Candidate, HASTS, MIT); Second Presenter: TBA 
APRIL 19: Age, Race, and Jewish Terrorism on Trial in Mandatory Palestine: The Case of
Rachel Habshush, Caroline Kahlenberg (PhD Candidate, HMES)

NELC Workshop on Arabic & Islamic Studies 

The Workshop on Arabic & Islamic Studies (WAIS) is a graduate-student only forum to share works-in-progress and get feedback.  We would also like to invite those who would like to share their translation of Arabic works for feedback and/or help with particular issues. Contact coordinators for Zoom link: 
Faculty Adviser: Justine Landau, jlandau@fas.harvard.edu Graduate Student Coordinators: Ozzy Gündüz, hgunduz@g.harvard.edu, Cem Türköz, cemturkoz@fas.harvard.edu

NELC Hebrew Bible Workshop

This will be the first fully-virtual semester of HBW. We are delighted by the number of student presenters we have this semester, and are very happy that we were able to reschedule Prof. Liane Feldman after cancelling due to COVID last spring. All meetings will take place on Thursdays at 5:30 PM (EST).
Faculty advisers: Jon Levenson, jlevenson@hds.harvard.edu & Andrew Teeter, ateeter@hds.harvard.edu
Graduate Student Coordinator: Allison Hurst (Committee on the Study of Religion), allison_hurst@g.harvard.edu
 
The Jewish Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary, student-led group dedicated to workshopping academic papers and presentations, in any stage of the writing process. We invite papers that relate to Jewish studies, very broadly construed, from a wide range of topics across all disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences.
Please contact the coordinators for the Zoom link. Graduate Student Coordinators: Michael Zanger-Tishler, michael_zangertishler@g.harvard.edu; Sama Mammadova, smammadova@g.harvard.edu
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