Archive for December, 2015
- December 17, 2015
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Publication – Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam – volumes 41-42
Tables of contents available at: www.jsai.huji.ac.il
2. New Open Access Journal: Estudios Iranios y Turanios
“The second issue of the Estudios Iranios y Turanios, which was launched last year by the Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios, has been published. This issue of the journal, entitled Homenaje a Éric Pirart en su 65º aniversario, collects a number of philological discussions in honour of Éric Pirart’s 65th birthday. ”
Publisher: Girona Sociedad de Estudios Iranios y Turanios 2014-
ISSN: 2386-7833
Language note: In Spanish or English; abstracts in English.
3. Conference: “Islam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures”, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, University of California-Berkeley, 24-26 June 2016
The conference aims to (re-)examine the key axioms and moral claims of Islamic economy both in theory and as practiced; explore the economic, social and political dynamics underpinning the various sectors, scales and sites of the Islamic economy; and interrogate the extent to which the Islamic economy provides a substantive alternative to mainstream economic activity with a special emphasis on the Islamic finance sector.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 January 2016. Information: https://sase.org/2016—berkeley/mini-conferences_fr_232.html#MC8
4. Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University – www.vcujobs.com/postings/48138
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University – https://jobs.princeton.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=67571
5. IPS Program for Arab Countries, German Bundestag, Berlin, 1-30 September 2016
The Bundestag is offering a scholarship program for politically engaged young Arab graduates who are interested in the German parliamentary system and play an active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries. The German Bundestag offers the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the German parliamentary system during an intensive four-week program. Accommodation will be provided free of charge and the costs of travel to and from Berlin covered.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2016. Information: www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/bundestag/international/exchange/ips/arabian/250618
6. 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships, Humboldt University Berlin
As part of Sharon Macdonald’s Alexander von Humboldt Prize, two Postdoctoral Fellowships are offered to work on one or other of the following themes: “Transforming the Ethnographic” or “Representing Islam”. Fellowships are available to begin as soon as possible and to run until 30 October 2020.
Deadline for application: 8 January 2016. Information: www.euroethno.hu-berlin.de/de/perspektiven/stellenangebote/2015-12-04-english
7. Postdoctoral Fellowship: “Confessional Dynamics in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries”, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
This fellowship is one of the positions associated with the ERC project entitled “The Fashioning of a Sunni Orthodoxy and the Entangled Histories of Confession Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-17th Centuries”. The applicant has a PhD degree in history, Islamic Studies, or a related field, a good command of Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, as well as written and spoken proficiency in English.
Deadline for application: 30 January 2016. Information: Dr. Derin Terzioglu (derint@boun.edu.tr )
8. Post-Docs, PhD and Visiting PhD fellowships, History of the Mongol Empire (including the Middle East), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The ERC project “Mobility, Empire and Cross-Cultural Contacts in Mongol Eurasia” is offering Post-Docs, PhDs and Visiting PhD’s fellowships for outstanding candidates fluent in Chinese, Arabic and Persian (at least one of the above) and with a sound knowledge of the history of the Mongol Empire.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2016. Information: http://mongol.huji.ac.il/fellowships-and-funding-opportunities
9. Articles on “Political Humor in the Arab Uprisings” for Edited Book
Based on a conference held at Cologne University, we are editing a book on the role of political humor and satire in cultural and media production of the Arab uprisings. In order to enlarge the regional scope, we invite further contributions on the Arab Gulf States, the Maghreb and Iraq.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2016. Information: Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf (s.damir-geilsdorf@uni-koeln.de), Dr. Stephan Milich (smilich@uni-koeln.de)
10. Latest News from Islamic Reformulations:
- Islam, Law and the State: Research Seminar and Public Lecture by Professor Mohammad Fadel – programme available. This research seminar, to be held the January 2016 at the University of Exeter, will examine the relationship between Islam, Muslims and Law, covering subjects from conception of Law in the Muslim tradition, and how Muslims are framed by current UK legislation. Following the seminar, Professor Mohammad Fadel will give a lecture titled, “Islamic Constitutionalism as an Alternative Approach to Islamic Legal Reform”.
- Visiting researchers, January-February 2016: We are pleased to announce 5 visiting scholars to Exeter under the auspices of the Islamic Reformulations project. Each of the researchers will participate in the project’s activities, present their research and participate in a series of sandpit workshops. They are Drs David Warren (US), Ryan Rittenberg (US), Bianka Speidl (Hungary), Mohammed Eissa (Germany) and Samer El-Karanshawy (Egypt).
- Reformulation and Hermeneutics: Researching the History of Islamic Legal Theory, Istanbul, 21st-24th February 2016 – programme available. This conference, a collaboration of the Islamic Reformulations project (University of Exeter) and the Faculty of Theology (Istanbul University) will examine the intellectual history of Islamic legal interpretation, with a focus on legal theory.
- Recent Presentations: Robert Gleave was a panel member at the launch of the new journal Re-Orient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, held at SOAS on 2nd December 2015, alongside Salman Sayyid, Ruth Mas, Brian Klug and chaired by Samia Bano. Details for the journal can be found here. Robert Gleave also gave a presentation entitled “Muck and Brass: Some further thoughts on early Imami legal hadith” at the Islam@250 conference in memory of the great G.H.A. Juynboll (a former member of the Exeter University staff), held in Leiden, 3rd-5th December 2015. Details of the conference can be found here.
Details at www.islamicreformulations.net
Exeter’s two professorship vacancies (one in Arabic Studies and one Islamic Studies) have a closing date of 6th January 2016. Details can be found at:
11. 15 December 2015
4,000 Arabic manuscripts by the River Niger
12. Call for Papers:
Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS)
2016 Annual Conference
“Geography and the Environment in MENA”
Islamic Studies Program, University of Nebraska at Omaha
April 29 – May 1, 2016
The Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies (MAMEIS) and the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha are pleased to issue this call for papers for the MAMEIS 2016 Annual Conference to be held in Omaha, NE, April 29 – May 1, 2016. We welcome individual papers and pre-arranged panels from scholars based in the greater Midwest, particularly those related to this year’s theme “Geography and the Environment in MENA.” Geographical and environmental approaches allow us to look at familiar issues and sources in creative new ways by drawing out the underlying structural forces behind human social, economic, and political organization. Responses to, and depictions of, the natural world have also been a significant, but often overlooked, element of social, cultural and intellectual movements. This is a multi-disciplinary field of study which is strengthened by collaboration and exchange. We welcome papers and panels from a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to: Geography, History, Environmental Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Comparative Literature, Religious Studies, and Cultural Studies. As the central goal of this conference is to promote Middle East and Islamic Studies in the greater Midwest, pre-arranged panels on other topics will also be given full consideration.
MAMEIS – the Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies – is a nonprofit organization which promotes and fosters community among the many scholars of Middle East and Islamic Studies based at institutions throughout the Midwest. MAMEIS is concerned with promoting the study of the Middle East and Islamic world and does not subscribe to any particular religious or political viewpoints or agenda. Our aim is to develop an open forum for discussion of scholarly issues, share news and information about regional events, and support collegial ties among our members.
Please submit a 250 word abstract along with your name, title, and affiliation by February 1, 2016 to:
Dr. James M. Gustafson
President, MAMEIS
Prof. James M. Gustafson
President, MAMEIS
Dept of History – 621 Chestnut St.
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
13. CfP: The Mercantile Effect: On art and exchange in the Islamicate world during 17th – 18th centuries
The Courtauld Institute of Art − Pera Museum − Gingko Library Conference
18-19 November 2016 Istanbul and London
Convened by Dr Sussan Babaie, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; Dr Melanie Gibson, Editor of the Gingko Library Arts Series; Dr Barbara Schwepcke, Gingko Library
From Agra to Aleppo, Bandar Abbas to Marseilles, Cairo to Canton, Goa to Zanzibar; peoples as diverse as Armenians, Chinese, Arabs, Persians and Europeans, traversed long distances along land and maritime trade routes moving art things and their attendant ideas, ideals, and technologies. The development of mercantile networks and global trade routes in the early modern period relied on the emergence of new institutional and cultural methods of exchange. The formulation of diverse collective ventures was organized through the Dutch, English and French East India companies and additionally by the establishment of a colonial presence in the New World by the Dutch and Portuguese, ensuring a territorial sphere of power and increased influence through trade. Material culture – including building ideas – connected aspirations towards prestigious foreign and exotic objects, new luxuries in manufactured textiles, inlaid metalwork, paper products, glazed ceramic and painted porcelain vessels.
This conference invites papers that take a trans-disciplinary approach, looking at the specifics of art objects and ideas. The focus will be on those regions where Islam was the religion of the majority and informed the cultural position, but did not necessarily impose a religious mandate for action in the making and exchange of goods. We ask for reflections through art things and material culture on the mechanisms of exchange and transmission of ideas and their effects on the cultural spaces between local histories and global networks within the Islamicate world in the 17th and 18th centuries. The conference takes place in Istanbul, a city whose long history as a nexus of trade and cultural exchange embodies many of the possibilities of this intellectual inquiry.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted by Friday 5th February 2016 to Aran Byrne (contact details below). Papers should present original research, which expands the boundaries of knowledge and which the scholars would like considered for publication. Proposals should be no more than 300 words long. Speakers will be given 15-20 minutes to present their papers at the conference.
Key dates:
5 February 2016: Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals
15 April 2016: Accepted papers and panels announced
16 September 2016: Deadline for paper submission
18-19 November 2016: Conference dates
20 January 2017: Deadline for submission of revised papers for peer-review and inclusion in conference publication
Autumn/Fall 2017: Publication of conference proceedings
For further details please contact:
Aran Byrne
Gingko Library
London SW1X 9AH
aran@gingkolibrary.com
The Gingko conference series brings together scholars from the East and the West. The Gingko conferences are designed to complement the Gingko Library, a project to publish one hundred books over the next ten years that present the latest work in all languages and across the full range of humanities, social sciences and sciences relating to the MENA region.
The conference will include a gala reception on the evening of Friday 17 November. Hosted by Professor Baha Tanman; the gala will launch the first title to be published in the Gingko Library Art Series, Art, Trade, and Culture in the Near East and India: From the Fatimids to the Mughals, to which Professor Tanman has contributed. A literary event on the evening of Saturday 18 November on the theme of ‘From the West-östlicher Divan to the Payam-e- Mashriq’ will conclude the conference.
The presentations and discussions will be recorded and live-streamed to an audience at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and online to reach the widest possible audience.
Funding opportunities to cover travel and accommodation are available for scholars selected to speak at the conference.
Selected papers delivered at the conference will be published together in a volume in the Gingko Library, following peer review. Speakers at the conference may also develop their papers into book-length proposals to be submitted to the Gingko Library.
The Courtauld Institute of Art is the world’s leading centre for the study of art history, conservation and curating.
The Gingko Library is a registered charity (no. 1158548). It is committed to fostering intercultural dialogue and better understanding between the West and the MENA region.
The Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation with the aim of offering an outstanding range of diverse high quality culture and art services. The Pera Museum has evolved to become a leading and distinguished cultural center in one of the liveliest quarters of Istanbul.
- December 16, 2015
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- December 16, 2015
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- December 15, 2015
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Shii News – AAR programme items
The American Academy of Religion held its annual meeting in
Atlanta, GA
, from
November 21-24, 2015
Papers of potential interest to the list include:
Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary
Is Ghulat Religion Islamic Gnosticism? The Shi’ite “Extremists” of
Early Islamic Iraq
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
Every Place is Karbala: Muslim Reflections on Cosmopolitanism,
Modernity, and Imperialism
Markus Dressler, G.ttingen University
Comparing Marginalized Alid Traditions from the Balkans to
Western Iran: Toward a New Research Agenda
Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
Sensate Devotion: Invoking the ‘Alam in Qutb Shahi Somatic Shi’ism
Rubina Salikuddin, Harvard University
Prohibitions and Proper Etiquette: Regulating Ziyārat in the
Timurid Period
Nebil Husayn, Princeton University
When Ali Was without Equal: Tafdil Ali in Proto-Sunni Thought
Contemporary Islam Group
Theme: Forgetting the Indic for the “Islamic”: Exploring the
Development of Khōjā Caste Memory
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott-International 2 (International Level)
Nargis Virani, New York, NY, Presiding
Iqbal Akhtar, University of Edinburgh
The Chronicle of Light: Khōjā Cosmology in the Periphery of Indic
Islam
Karim Gillani, University of Alberta
The Contestation of Indic Khoja Oral Literature (Ginans) as “Islamic”
Responding:
Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University
Siti Sarah Muwahidah, Emory Univesity
Everyday Peacebuilding and Sunni-Shī’i Coexistence in Indonesia
The full AAR programme is available at:
https://papers.aarweb.org/AAR_Sessions.pdf
- December 14, 2015
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- December 14, 2015
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Shii News – “Les Cinq Esprits de l’homme divin”
Mohammad-Ali AMIR-MOEZZI, “Les Cinq Esprits de l’homme divin (Aspects de l’imamologie duodécimaine XIII)”, Der Islam 92.2 (2015), pp. 297-320.
Le corpus ancien du Hadith imamite contient un certain nombre de traditions sur les « cinq esprits » de l’imam. A quelques variantes près, ceux-ci sont les suivants: l’esprit saint, l’esprit de la foi, l’esprit de la puissance, l’esprit du désir et l’esprit du mouvement. « L’esprit saint » est présent dans toutes les versions. Ces traditions, concernant les membres intellectifs de l’homme divin, ne semblent pas avoir des fondements proprement islamiques ou arabes. En revanche, des traditions religieuses et spirituelles antiques et tardo-antiques peuvent nous fournir de nombreux parallèles saisissants. Dans une première partie, la « préhistoire » de la notion est étudiée. De nombreuses exégèses gnostiques et manichéennes d’Isaïe 11, 2–3 sont examinées (en particulier le logion 19 de l’Evangile selon Thomas, le Psautier copte et le traité chinois appelé « Traité Chavannes-Pelliot »). Elles concernent toutes les cinq membres de l’homme parfait surtout dans le manichéisme. La deuxième partie de l’article est consacrée aux prolongements de ces traditions (leur ancienneté dans les cercles ésotériques shiʿites imamites et ismaéliens, chez al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, dans le Umm al-kitāb et jusque dans l’apocryphe énigmatique tardif d’origine morisque appelé l’Evangile de Barnabé). L’implication majeure de ces traditions sur le plan doctrinal c’est la capacité de l’imam et de son initié de recevoir les révélations divines grâce aux facultés de « l’esprit saint » ou « l’esprit de la sainteté » (rūḥ al-quds).
- December 12, 2015
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Conference: “Religions and Human Rights”, University of Padua, Italy, 14-15 April 2016
The aim of the international conference is to take stock of the complex connections between religion and human rights, emphasizing that both the definition and the application of these two concepts are influenced by the different social and cultural contexts within which they are placed.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2016. Information: http://unipd-centrodirittiumani.it/en/attivita/Call-for-Papers-International-conference-Religions-and-Human-Rights-Padua-Italy-April-14-15-2016/1051
2. 50th Seminar for Arabian Studies, British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA), London, 29-31 July 2016
The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the only international forum that meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2016. Information: www.thebfsa.org/content/about-the-seminar
3. Associate Professor/Assistant Professor of Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Strong candidates in all disciplinary fields will be given serious consideration. The geographic area of specialization is open. Knowledge of Arabic and/or Persian or other regional research language(s) is preferred. The successful candidate will have an international reputation with a strong publication record and extensive teaching experience, preferably at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Deadline for application: 15 January 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52161
4. Funded PhD Studentship Commencing Oct 2016, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow, Scotland
We are happy to announce a PhD studentship in history/archive studies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, investigating the capture, transfer, and reconstitution of Iraqi archives in the USA.
Information: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/graduateschool/fundingopportunities/leverhulmetrustscholarships
5. Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Turkish Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
The fellowship will run from September 2016 to August 2018. The salary is $55,000. In addition, the Fellow is eligible for $5,000 per year to fund research and conference travel, and up to $2,000 in reimbursement for allowable relocation expenses in the first year. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. between January 2011 and August 2016.
Deadline for application: 1 February 2016. Information: http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/turkish-studies/postdoc.html
6. Call for Articles for Edited Book “The Quest for Humanity – Contemporary Muslim approaches to the notion of human dignity in the context of Qurʾānic anthropology”
The volume focuses on the question of how Islamic anthropology can contribute to cultivation and perfection of the individual self as well as to social ‘humanisation’. Its specific aim is to bring together contemporary Muslim and non-Muslim approaches to (and readings of) human dignity, with reference to the Islamic tradition in general and the anthropology of the Qurʾān in particular.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2016. Information: www.theologie.uni-erlangen.de/lehrstuhl-fuer-religions-und-missionswissenschaft/cfp.html
7. Articles on “Gender, Islam and Human Rights” for Special Issue of Journal “Muslim World Journal of Human Rights”
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights invites submission of articles focusing either on the human rights of women in Muslim majority or human rights of Muslim women in Muslim minority countries.
Deadline for submission: 31 March 2016. Information: www.degruyter.com/view/j/mwjhr
8. Articles on “Culture” for Issue of Journal “Middle East – Topics & Arguments” (META)
This issue aims to critically engage with the various, often contradictory concepts of culture as used in the field of Middle Eastern Studies. What we want to discuss by inviting scholars to contribute to this issue is the quality of the term itself, its ambiguity and complexity, and its implications and dangers in public and academic discourse.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2016. Information: http://meta-journal.net/announcement/view/12
9. Perso-Indica Workshop
Female Characters in Śukasaptati and its Persian Versions
December 14th 2015, 16.00-18.30
Program
16.00: Fabrizio Speziale, Introduction to the First Perso-Indica Workshop
16.15: Iran Farkhondeh, « “As long as You Know the Answer”- Women Characters in the Śukasaptati: Their Wits and Behaviours »
16.35: Discussion
16.45: Pegah Shahbaz, « Women Characters and Their Roles in Jawāhir al-asmār »
17.05: Discussion
17.15: Coffee-break
17.30: Syed Akhtar Hussain, « Thus Spake the Tūtī »
17.50 Discussion
18.00: Conclusion
Place: Salle des Placques, INALCO, 2 Rue de Lille, 75007, Paris.
Organisation and contact: Pegah Shahbaz,pegah.shahbaz@univ-paris3.fr
Iran Farkhondeh (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Mondes iranien et indien), « “As long as you know the answer”- Women characters in the Śukasaptati: their wits and behaviours »
To introduce the Śukasaptati, we will first give a sketch of the frame story. We will present in the main lines the elements of Indian civilization that are necessary to understand the whys and therefores of women’s behaviors in the Sanskrit text. We will suggest a typology of women’s characters in the book. Finally we will try to delineate the aims of the author. Is he of the opinion that, as long as a woman has the wits to get herself out of trouble, she could behave according to her wishes?
Pegah Shahbaz (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Mondes iranien et indien), «Women Characters and Their Roles in Jawāhir al-asmār »
Jawāhir al-asmār (Jewels of Stories) is the earliest Persian translation, known thus far, of Śukasaptati (Seventy tales of the parrot) realized in 713-715 H. /1313-1315 A.D. by a secretary named ‘Imād ibn Muḥammad Ṯaġarī at the court of ‘Alā al-Dīn Ḫaljī (r. 1290-1316).Jawāhir al-asmār could be the same Persian verbose rendering that Ẓiyā’ al-Dīn Naḫšabī (d. around 751/1350-51) mentions in the introduction to his popular Ṭūṭī-nāma, as the most prominent source he used for preparing his Persian version of the tales of the parrot. This presentation will focus on female characters in Ṯaġarī’s translation. Women’s inherent role in tales and their noteworthy strategies for overcoming the norms of male-dominated societies will be studied in detail. By means of concrete examples, we’ll discover how the use/misuse of imaginary by women could appear as a defensive tool for and against them in narratives.
Syed Akhtar Hussain (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), « Thus Spake the Tūtī »
Since the translation of Kalīla wa Dimna into Pahlavi, Arabic and Persian, Indian Classics began to impact literature in the Middle East. Sanskrit texts namely the Panchatantra and Śhukasaptati enriched Persian literature both in form and contents. The Ṭūṭī-Nāma, among others, is not only a translation of Śukasaptati but also a gem of Perso-Indic literature. Its translator Zia Naḫšabī presents the wisdom of India in a more impressive and elegant manner than it appears in the Sanskrit text. The Ṭūṭī-Nāma develops“Katha” into pure Persian literature and swells more in size and gives a full size picture of the Perso-Indic world where in Prabhavati and Madan Vinod transform into Ḫujaste and Maymūn.Śukasaptati’s narratives reproduced with a twist here and a turn there in the Ṭūṭī-Nāma but however it transpires that the Indian threads are deftly woven in the Persian tapestry of the Ṭūṭī-Nāma.
Pegah SHAHBAZ
Post-doctorante ANR
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3
Sorbonne Paris Cité
13 rue Santeuil
75231 Paris Cedex 05
Monde iranien et indien (UMR 7528)
CNRS – Sorbonne Nouvelle – INALCO – EPHE
27, rue Paul Bert
94204, Ivry – sur – Seine
10. “Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts.”
For a description, please see http://thewalters.org/exhibitions/pearls-on-a-string/
11. Lectures & Workshops – Islamic Geometric Design (Istanbul 28-30 Jan 2016)
by Eric Broug
A 3 day event (28-30 January), with lectures and workshops by Eric Broug. Suitable for all, no experience needed. Tickets can be bought for individual events or for all events
28 Jan at 19:00 Lecture: An Introduction to Ottoman and Seljuk Geometric Design (35TRY)
29 Jan 09:30 to 16:30 Workshop: An Introduction to Islamic Geometric Design (95TRY)
30 Jan 09:30 to 16:30 Workshop: Advanced Islamic Geometric Design (95TRY)
30 Jan at 19:30 Lecture: What Architects and Designers Can Learn from Islamic Geometric Design (45TRY)
Ticket for all events: 225TRY
Location: MEF International School, Ulus Beskitas, Istanbul
For more information and to book tickets: http://broug.eventbrite.co.uk
Organised by the School of Islamic Geometric Design (www.sigd.org)
12. Call for Papers
31st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference
The University of Chicago
May 6–7, 2016
We are pleased to invite graduate students, affiliated faculty, and independent scholars from a broad range of disciplines to submit proposals on any topic concerning the Middle East and Islamic world from the advent of Islam to the present day. Disciplinary focuses include but are not limited to: history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, literature, philosophy, art history, cinema and media studies, gender studies, and diaspora studies.
Submissions should be sent electronically to mehat.conference@uchicago.edu no later than Friday, February 12, 2016. You may submit as individuals or as prearranged panels, with the latter strongly encourage. Please include each presenter’s name, institution, and position, and attach a 250-word abstract with a tentative title. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously, so please do not include any identifying information. Selection results will be announced in the middle of March 2016.
For updates and announcements, please see the MEHAT website and Facebook page. For specific inquiries, please write to mehat.conference@uchicago.edu.
- December 11, 2015
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- December 11, 2015
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- December 11, 2015
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