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The German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO) is a scholarly, nonpolitical and nonprofit-making professional association open to all persons interested in the Middle East and North Africa.
Prof. Günter Meyer continues to run the DAVO Info Service as EURAMES Info Service in the future. DAVO members can be added to the mailing list by sending an email to eurames@geo.uni-mainz.de.
DAVO organizes every year an International DAVO Congress of Contemporary Middle East Studies with several hundred and even up to thousand participants. In order to promote the career of young scholars, the annual Congress offers also Special Workshops for PhD Candidates who can introduce the draft of their dissertation and benefit from the advice of experienced scholars. The best dissertations in Middle East studies which were accepted by a university in the previous year are honored during the Congress with the „DAVO Dissertation Award“ including up to 3000 Euros.
Members of the advisory board:
Chair: Christine Binzel, Professor of Economics: Economy and Society of the Middle East, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg
Deputy Chair: Hanna Al-Taher, Research Associate, Technical University Dresden and Queen Mary University London
Secretary: Hanna Kienzler, Professor of Global Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, King’s College London
Treasurer: Benjamin Schütze, PhD, Research Fellow and Head of an Emmy Noether Junior Research Group on ‘Renewable Energies, Renewed Authoritarianisms? The Political Economy of Solar Energy in the MENA’, Arnold-Bergstraesser Institute, Freiburg
Members of the academic council:
Sara Ababneh, PhD, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sheffield and Assistant Professor at the University of Jordan.
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe, Institute of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin, PI at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies at the Free University of Berlin.
Björn Bentlage, PhD, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Muslim Societies at the University of Bern and Lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies at LMU Munich.
Sebastian Elsässer, PhD, Privatdozent in Islamic Studies at Christian Albrecht University and Head of the DFG Research Group “Generations of Islamic Activism.”
Aymon Kreil, Professor of Middle Eastern Anthropology at Ghent University.
Nils Riecken, PhD, Research Associate (postdoc) in the ERC project “Late Ottoman Palestinians: Social and Cultural Dynamics in an Eastern Mediterranean Society during the Age of Empire, 1880-1920 (LOOP)” and Lecturer at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr University Bochum.
Serena Tolino, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Unit Middle East and Muslim Societies at the University of Bern, PI of the SNF Starting Grant “TraIL. Tracing Labor in Islamicate Legal Traditions”, the SNF project “TraSIS. Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies. Three Concepts from Islamic Legal Sources”, and co-director of the SNF/DFG project “The Flow: From Deep Learning to Digital Analysis and their Role in the Humanities. Creating, Evaluating, and Critiquing Workflows for Historical Corpora.”