Academic Publishing and Postdoctoral Applications Workshop 

11:00-15:00, Monday 26 May, BGSMCS Library 

Hosted by Esra Sözalmaz Tiryaki, convened by Drs Amaan Merali and Mohammad Magout 

This workshop introduces doctoral candidates to the sometimes daunting, always exciting world of academic publishing and applications for postdoctoral research posts. The workshop convenors draw on their extensive local and international experience to offer insights into early-career publishing and postdoctoral opportunities. 

The workshop is divided into two one-and-a-half-hour sessions, the first on academic publishing and the second on postdoctoral applications. Each session will allow participants to ask questions and share their own experiences or concerns. Participants will submit a current CV when registering to attend so the convenors can offer feedback on formatting and other particularities of the academic CV. 

Convenors and participants will discuss the nuts and bolts of academic publishing, including journal rankings and metrics; publishing the dissertation in part or in whole; managing peer-review feedback and the (long) revision process; components of successful postdoctoral applications; different types of funding bodies; formatting academic CVs; who your contact references should be; and criteria selection committees consider when making decisions. 

To register for the workshop, please send an email with your name, your dissertation title, year of programme and a current CV to Esra Sözalmaz Tiryaki (tiryakie@student.hu-berlin.de) by noon, Friday 16 May. The workshop is open to third-year and above doctoral fellows affiliated with BGSMCS. Space is limited and in-person participation is required. Online attendance may be possible—please explain why you would need this in your registration email. You will receive a confirmation of your registration by Monday, 19 May. Participants will earn one credit towards their degree by attending. 

Tea, coffee and snacks will be provided along with a catered lunch. 

Esra Sözalmaz Tiryaki is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, HU Berlin and affiliated with BGSMCS. Her PhD project focuses on higher educational institutions of Islam in Malaysia and Turkey and their respective religious discourses in the 1980s and 1990s. 

Dr Amaan Merali is a Thyssen Fellow in the Department of History and Cultural Studies, FU Berlin. He has published chapters and articles on modern Middle Eastern history and taught at BGSMCS, the University of British Columbia and the University of Oxford, among others. His book Imperial Rivalry and Muslim Reform: The Ottomans, the Aga Khan and the Syrian Ismailis is forthcoming with I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury. 

Dr Mohammad Magout is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Islamic Studies, FU Berlin, where he runs the DFG-funded project ‘Religion in the Early Arabic Press in Beirut: An Intellectual History’. Before joining FU, he taught and conducted historical and contemporary research on Ismailism, Islam and secularity, Emir Abdelkader and the Nahda at the universities of Leipzig, Erfurt and Zürich.