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Congratulations to Dr. Johannes Czakai for receiving the Friedrich Meinecke Award of the Free University in Berlin for his dissertation "Nochem’s New Names: The Jews of Galicia and Bukovina and the Adoption of German First and Family Names, 1772-1820"!
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The prize, which is awarded every year for the best historical doctoral thesis by the Faculty of History, was presented on December 07 2022 at a ceremony in Berlin. The jury concluded: "The fascinating study of Johannes Czakai makes visible Jewish-Christian lifeworlds around 1800 through the theme of naming. At the same time, it is an important contribution to a modern administrative history of the Habsburg Monarchy. The study offers empirical and methodological basic research on a broad source basis and at the highest level of presentation."
The price is awarded every two years by the Austrian Society for Modern History, the Austrian Ministry for Education and Science and the City of Vienna for outstanding publications and scientific achievements to scientists (postdocs). The award ceremony will take place in March 2023 in Vienna. Already in September she received a special distinction for her PhD thesis by the Jury of the "Scientific Award of the Polish Ambassador to Germany" which supports research in the field of Polish history and culture and Polish-German relations. The price is awarded every year by the Center for historical Research Berlin – Polish Academy of Science and the Polish Embassy to Germany.
Candidates who have completed their PhD at an Israeli or German university, as well as citizens of Israel or Germany who have received their PhD in any country, are eligible to apply. Application is open for those specializing in all fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences.
The prize is awarded by the European Academy of Religion, the Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose, and Emilia-Romagna Region. The ceremony award took place on June 22, 2022.
Linus Ubl (Literature) Johannes Lotze (Imperial China) Benjamin Wilck (history and philosophy of mathematics) Johannes Czakai (Early modern Jewish History) Anne-Christin Klotz (Modern Jewish History)
State-building, Political Thought, and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries
How did Others (non-Muslims, non-mainstream Muslim sects, tribes, ethnic groups) contribute to the development of Muslim states and empires and conceptualize their interactions with Muslim polities? How did Muslim empires react to the presence of Others in their peripheries? And how did different schools of Islamic law and political thought conceptualize their respective Others?
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Drawing on the example of Yemen, where both Sunni and Shīʿa polities routinely dealt with a diverse group of Others including – and depending on the perspective – Ottomans, Zaydis, Ismailis, Jews, and tribal communities, the conveners of this workshop invite prospective participants to reassess the contribution of minority groups to the development of Muslim states and societies. Recent scholarship demonstrates that the contribution of non-dominant groups and their participation in socio-political processes had a fundamental effect on state (trans)formation. This theme is particularly well explored in certain periods (e.g., the Christian, Jewish and nonArab contribution to the development of the early Islamic Empire) or in relation to certain groups (e.g., Armenians, Kurds, Greeks, and the Shīʿa in the Ottoman Empire). Building on these advances, the workshop suggests two angles for the exploration of how Sunni-dominated states and their Others interacted: through the lens of political, legal, and religious works produced by both sides and through interactions with state institutions. The workshop invites its participants to consider Muslim imperial peripheries as the main arena in which these intellectual and sociopolitical processes took place. It aims to start a comparative multidisciplinary conversation on how interactions in the far-flung regions of Muslim empires altered Sunni normativity. We invite historians of Muslim states, scholars of Islamic legal and political thought, and researchers of ethnic and religious minorities in the Muslim world to jointly discuss the possibilities of a common framework in the exploration of non-dominant groups as contributors to Muslim state-building and the development of the Muslim “self”. In this way, the participants are encouraged to step out of their usual spatial and temporal frame of reference to consider the broad implications of their research. Submission guidelines Submissions should include a title, short description of the proposed presentation (500-700 words), and a brief biography of the contributor, including name, affiliation, and email. Panels will be organized based on the themes of the abstracts. Please send your submissions by May 1, 2022 to ekaterinap@vanleer.org.il and/or kerstin.huenefeld@mail.huji.ac.il Local participants are encouraged to present in person and will be reimbursed for local travel expenses. International participants are welcome to participate in person, however, we can provide only limited partial compensation for 2-3 participants. International participants will be accommodated in zoom-panels. Organizing committee Dr. Kerstin Hünefeld (Martin Buber Society Fellow, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Dr. Ekaterina Pukhovaia (Polonsky Academy Fellow, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)