May 5, 2021
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Date Description
Nov 1, 11:59PM EST Notice of Intent & Bibliographies for Spring 2022 Exams Due
 

Fall 2021 Exam Dates
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 
2021-2022 Comparative Study of Religion Junior Tutorial Positions

If you are interested in applying to lead a Junior Tutorial next year, please complete the attached application and send it to me at lamberth@fas.harvard.edu not later than Monday, May 10th. Please list topics you are prepared to teach and/or thematic courses you would like to develop.  Tutorial assignments are based on matching tutor expertise with undergraduate interest.  I am meeting with students individually, and after reading your applications, I hope to make assignments by late May so that students and tutors can meet over Zoom before summer.  I also attach here the Guidelines for teaching in the program and would be happy to meet with you over Zoom to discuss course ideas or the program more generally.  
 
With my best wishes,
 Courtney Lamberth 

Please see the full job description here.
Application (MS Word)
Guidelines
 
Harvard University Postdoctoral Writing Fellows
- STEM, Social Sciences, Humanities 
 
For the academic year 2021-2022, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) at Harvard University seeks postdoctoral fellows in STEM, Social Sciences, and Humanities to serve as Writing Specialists in GSAS’s newly merged office for writing and fellowships: the Fellowships & Writing Center. Discipline-specific writing specialists will assist students with all genres of academic writing, including fellowship proposals.

FWC postdoctoral fellows will work as members of a team reporting to the Center’s associate director and working closely with the executive director and the Academic Programs team in GSAS. Responsibilities will include offering regular individual consultations to GSAS students on papers, theses, dissertations, fellowship proposals, presentations, talks, and other modes of communication, as well as designing, promoting, and leading small group workshops and events that will help GSAS students to communicate their research in addition to leading small writing groups focused on accountability and building a community for student writers. Fellows could be asked to contribute to the development of customized research support for current students, working with faculty and administrators in their area of expertise, or in other ways contribute to the development of innovative programming, as appropriate and where needed. At this time, it is expected that Harvard will be operating in person starting in the fall semester 2021, and FWC Fellows will be expected to be available to work on campus in Cambridge. Opportunities for professional development will also be available to the Fellows.
Applicants must have already successfully defended their doctoral dissertations in order to be considered for the position.
Noel Bisson, Assistant Dean of Academic Programs
Contact Email    bisson@fas.harvard.edu
Full details: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10282  
Library Notes

Congratulations to those of you who are graduating!
Before you move on from Harvard, find out what library access you’ll have after you leave: https://guides.library.harvard.edu/alums. 
Bok Center Inclusive Teaching Week, May 10-14
Events including: "Case Studies in Inclusive Teaching"
See the Bok Center website for more details and registration.  
 

You are cordially invited to virtually attend the
HDS Film Festival!

Here is the Zoom registration link:   

https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GoF4mIv1RiCMQ5d3G4tuLg.

This Zoom link is for both days (May 6th and 7th) of the festival; attendees only need to register once. Once you register, you will receive a confirmation email with the link.

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 take a moment to apply and submit your completed application (this takes no more than 10 minutes). For more information, please see our website and/or for further questions, connect with slp@hds.harvard.edu. .
JOB OPPORTUNITY

Northeastern University Professor looking for a doctoral student to assist with grading and research. Will include interdisciplinary grading/research in religion, philosophy, and visual culture. Background in religious studies, philosophy, film and/or fine art visual culture preferred. Experiences with academic argumentative writing and Canvas needed. Proper authorization and work Visa for employment in the US are required. Send a cover letter and your resume or CV to: Professor Sheila Winborne at s.winborne@northeastern.edu 
(Sent via Allison Hurst. Since she recently held the position, she would be glad to speak with you if you would like more details.)

 
5/11 Deadline to Apply for GSAS Emergency Support Initiative
5/18, 6pm           New Directions Workshop, Belle Cheves (Harvard) "The Qajar Household" [Register Here]
5/20, 3pm    Harvard Fulbright US Student Program Information Session
5/20, 12pm Beyond Academia: Finding Your Vocation Through Writing (GSAS FWC)
5/26, 12pm   
Harvard Fulbright US Student Program Information Session
 
 6/3, 3:30 GSAS FWC; Project Management for Writers 
6/2-6/28, 1-2:30pm Bok Summer Seminars: Teaching with Purpose: A Critical Pedagogies Reading Group
6/9-7/15,
9-10:30am		 Bok Summer Seminars: Teaching and the Job Market: Getting from "TF" to "Colleague"
6/10, 6pm Harvard Horizons Presentation and Symposium
6/14-25, 10-12pm Bok Summer Seminars: Preparing to Teach: A Seminar for New TFs
 
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). 
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 15. 2021
Postdoctoral Fellow at Berea College’s bell hooks center
one- to three-year postdoctoral fellowship (11 months each year) to begin August 2021. In addition to engaging dr. hooks’s works in ways that advance their own research and scholarship, the fellow will take the lead in designing and planning, in collaboration with the bell hooks Teacher-Scholar in Residence, two symposia to be hosted by the bell hooks center in Summer 2023 and Summer 2024. The fellow will also provide overall support to the center Director and Chair of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department, while teaching two to three courses each year in the department or in Berea’s General Education program. Required: completion of a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or a related field prior to the beginning of the fellowship. Experience with conference planning preferred. Appointment is for one year with the possibility of renewal for one or two additional years based on satisfactory performance.
Click here for more information.
 
Deadline: May 15. 2021
Resident Teacher-Scholar at Berea College’s bell hooks center
One- to three-year residency (11 months each year) to begin August 2021. Responsibilities include: teaching two to three courses each year in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or in Berea’s General Education program; making feminism available, as dr. hooks writes, “for everybody,” by critically engaging dr. hooks’s papers in the Berea College Special Collections and Archives, and by supplementing these resources with personal interviews and other research focused on her works; and regularly sharing their research with the campus community and beyond. The teacher-scholar will work closely with the center Director and Chair of Berea College’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department to support curricular alignment with dr. hooks’s teachings and center programming of national esteem. In addition, the teacher-scholar will work with a postdoctoral fellow to organize the first two bell hooks center symposia in Summer 2023 and Summer 2024. Required: a Ph.D. in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies or a related field; at least three years of post-graduate teaching experience; and a strong record of scholarly publication. Experience with conference planning preferred. Appointment is for one year with the possibility of renewal for one or two additional years based on satisfactory performance.
Click here for more information.
 
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: June 7, 2021
2021 Noma-Reischauer Graduate Prize in Japanese Studies
Essays must have been written during the current academic year and be submitted to the Reischauer Institute by Monday, June 7, 2021. The essays may be of any length. Accepted submissions include course or seminar papers, BA and MA theses, essays written specifically for the competition, and chapters from doctoral dissertation projects. Full dissertations, however, will not be considered. The essay must be in English. Essay submissions should be for work completed at Harvard; previously published materials are not eligible. One entry per student is allowed per year. Awards are announced in September.
See website for details.

Deadline: June 29, 2021
Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series (AWGWS) Abstract Submission
The Society for Ancient Studies (SAS) and the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Student Council (ISAW-SC) are delighted to announce a joint initiative aimed at connecting graduate students working on topics in or relevant to the ancient world through a new Ancient World Graduate Workshop Series (AWGWS). Submit topics here.

Deadline: June 30, 2021
CFP Arc: Journal of the School of Religious Studies 
"Religion, Resistance, and Racialized Identities”
Although many will remember 2020 as the year of the pandemic, it was also the year where millions of people from around the world held protests against racial inequality and racialized police violence. In the wake of these protests have been calls for renewed vigilance in reflecting on and responding to issues related to race and the reality of racialized discrimination. Arc is thus interested in submissions which reflect on the multitude of ways religion and race intersect. Full details available here.

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
Harvard Journal of Islamic Law 
The Journal of Islamic Law is a peer-reviewed online Journal—published together with a regular Forum—that features new scholarship in Islamic legal studies. Focusing on historical, comparative, and law and society approaches to Islamic law, we  also have a keen interest in featuring data science tools and primary sources that inform the scholarly analysis. The Journal welcomes long-form articles, essays, book reviews, and notes on cases and other new developments in the field.

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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  • 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
    There are a few spots left in some of our small peer writing groups. Please contact individual facilitators to join.
    T/Th 2-4pm ET: Armin Fardis, afardis@fas.harvard.edu
    M/T/W 10am-12pm ET: Anna White-Nockleby, awhitenockleby@fas.harvard.edu 
    Th/F 10am-12m ET: Janet York, janetzyork@g.harvard.edu
  • ARC Accountability Hour M-Th 4-5pm. Register here.
Harvard Divinity School Fall Language Program Spanish TF

Harvard Divinity School seeks to appoint an adjunct instructor/lecturer to teach one course in Spanish translation at the advanced intermediate level (HDS 4464) for the Fall Semester 2021. The appointment title will depend on the finalist’s academic qualifications.

The candidate is expected to teach one course at the advanced intermediate level 3rd semester of Spanish Translation) with an emphasis on reading and translation in theological and religious studies. Previous teaching experience at the college and/or university level is required.

This course is normally attended by students of Harvard Divinity School’s masters programs as well as the doctoral Program in Religion (FAS at Harvard University). There may also be students from the various member schools of the Boston Theological Institute.

This third semester-level course builds on two semesters of previous experience (at the college level or one course in the Summer Language Program at Harvard Divinity School). Review of Spanish grammar and syntax as they relate to the translations at hand are required, providing some cultural, historical, literary, and language background studies for the students are expected.

Click here to apply and for more details.
Note on Printing Access from GSAS Scholarship Restart Team
GSAS has advocated with Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) to offer printing in select locations. Access is only available to GSAS students. Crimson Print printers are located in the SEAS Science & Engineering Complex and the Smith Campus Center, with others planned for the Science Center in the future. More information can be found in the Crimson Print Printer Catalog. If you do not currently have a Crimson Print account, you can find installation and printing directions, including instructions on how to map printers, on HUIT’s Crimson Print page
If you need help or encounter problems with access to printing resources, please visit the HUIT ITHelp Portal for assistance.

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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