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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Open Access Journal: Middle East – Topics & Arguments
Middle East – Topics & Arguments is a unique platform for innovative research on the Middle East combining disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches. Articles critically reevaluate established scholarly traditions and think beyond entrenched disciplinary boundaries. By bringing together well-known academics and young scholars with international backgrounds, a broad range of perspectives will ensure lively debates.
Middle East – Topics and Arguments wants to encourage interdisciplinary discussion on two levels: Firstly, between social sciences and humanities in the field of Middle Eastern studies, and secondly, between Middle Eastern studies and the systematic disciplines. We thereby aim at integrating regional academic discourse into a global setting. We hope to ensure trans-regional comparability, thus leaving behind the notion of cultural and religious exceptionalism which has for a long been connected with Middle Eastern studies.
Each issue of Middle East – Topics & Arguments focuses on one main topic. This allows for perspectives from different disciplines, such as:
cultural studies
literary studies
linguistics
history
political science
sociology
anthropology
economics
ancient studies
2. Call for Papers
Pahlavi Iran, 1941-1979:
A Global History Workshop
London School of Economics and Political Science
19 May 2016
Sponsored by the LSE Kuwait Programme and the British Institute of Persian Studies
The LSE Middle East Centre invites submissions for a one-day workshop on the global history of Pahlavi Iran at the London School of Economics on 19 May 2016.
In the four decades that passed between the Allied wartime occupation of Iran in 1941 and the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979, Iran was slowly transformed from a battleground of Cold War competition to a major regional and global actor. The Pahlavi state and Iranian society both witnessed profound social, cultural, and economic changes as rising oil revenues fuelled the developmental goals of the White Revolution, while global movements of ideas and activism shaped the growing opposition to the rule of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The roots of contemporary Iran, and the challenges and opportunities it presents, lie in those formative four decades that culminated in the political and social earthquake of the Iranian Revolution.
We seek applications from advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and non-tenured faculty working on all aspects of Iran’s global history in the Pahlavi era from 1941 to 1979. Papers could examine Iran’s place and impact in the world, or the impact of global forces within Iran itself. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics spanning the cultural, diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history of late Pahlavi Iran, with a common focus on global issues, forces and questions that transcended Iran’s borders. We particularly welcome submissions in three broad areas: 1) the international and transnational relations of Pahlavi Iran; 2) oil, development, and modernisation in Pahlavi Iran; and 3) ideas, culture, and dissent in Pahlavi Iran. Workshop participants will receive feedback at the closed-door workshop from three commentators: Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History at the LSE; Houchang Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University; and Cyrus Schayegh, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
Applicants should submit a 300-word abstract and CV by email to the workshop convenor, Dr Roham Alvandi <r.alvandi@lse.ac.uk>, by 1 February 2016. Abstracts should indicate what sources your paper will draw on, as well as the global dimensions of your research. We anticipate selecting nine workshop participants, each of whom will receive funding for return economy air or train travel to London, and one night’s hotel accommodation. Participants will be asked to submit an 8,000-word working paper ahead of the workshop in London. Following the workshop, having received feedback on their work, participants will be invited to revise and resubmit their papers for publication as an edited collection.
For further information, please see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/vacancies/Pahlavi-Iran-workshop-.aspx
3. Publication – Mirjam Shatanawi, “Islam at the Tropenmuseum”
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce my most recent book Islam at the Tropenmuseum (Arnhem: LM Publishers).
From the publishers website:
This beautifully illustrated book presents for the first time the rich Islamic collections of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Highlighting over a hundred artworks and everyday objects, the author demonstrates how Muslims, from the beginning of Islam to the present day, have expressed their faith in art and culture. The book features a wide variety of artefacts from different regions of the world, from Southeast Asia of the Middle East, from West Africa to the Caribbean.
The Tropenmuseum Islamic collections are wide ranging including everyday household objects and popular art, colonial-period artefacts and contemporary art. The book presents the multiple histories of how these objects were collected and displayed, beginning in the 19th century with the founding of the Colonial Museum in Haarlem. It explores the changing ways in which the idea of Islam, as a religion, and as a set of practices, has been understood throughout time and how these changing ideas influenced the museum’s collections. This is the fifth volume of a series of ten books that discuss the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany them.
For more information please visit:
https://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/SHAISL.html
The book is also available at a considerable discount from major sellers.
Best regards,
Mirjam Shatanawi
Curator Middle Eastern and North African collections
Tropenmuseum, Afrika Museum and Museum Volkenkunde
The Netherlands
E-mail: mirjam.shatanawi@nmvw.nl
4. Freie Universität Berlin Lecture Series Winter semester 2015/2016
“Engaging with Contemporary Philosophy in the Middle East and Muslim South Asia: Themes, Approaches, and New Perspectives”
Iran related lecture, Thursday Dec. 10, 2015, 6-8 pm. For details: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/dates/lecture_2015_gheissari.html
For details on the entire series: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/events/lecture_series/lecture_series_2015_2016/index.html
Place:
Freie Universität Berlin
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin,
Seminarraum 2.2058 , 2. OG)
5. The 2016 Indiana University Summer Language Workshop (June 6-July 29, 2016) is accepting applications for intensive study of Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (BCS), Chinese, Estonian, Hungarian, Kurdish (Sorani), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
The program features 20 contact hours weekly; twice-weekly language tables; films; food tastings; student-run graduate research groups and other culturally rich extracurricular programming. The Workshop is well-suited for graduate students and professionals preparing for field research, offering opportunities to present papers and research to the Indiana University community.
- All students pay in-state tuition
- Competitive funding available to qualified students:
- Project GO scholarships for undergraduate students in ROTC in Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, or Turkish
- Title VIII fellowships for graduate students and area studies scholars in Azerbaijani, BCS, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Russian, or Ukrainian
- FLAS funding available for Arabic, Azerbaijani, BCS, Estonian, Hungarian, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Classes held June 6 – July 29, 2016
- All levels of Arabic begin May 31, 2016
- 4-week option available for Russian (ending on July 1)
- Students earn 4-8 credits
Priority application deadline: February 1, 2016.
See http://www.indiana.edu/~swseel for more information and to apply.
Questions? Please contact swseel@indiana.edu or 812-855-2889.
6. Dear colleagues,
This is to inform you of a Call for Publication for a special issue of Geopolitica that I am going to co-edit with prof. Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti. I would be grateful if you could circulate the call and why not submit an essay.
Best wishes,
Raffaele
GEOPOLITICA. Rivista dell’Istituto in Alti Studi di Geopolitica e Scienze Ausiliarie is accepting submissions for its second 2016 issue (July-December).
The volume’s subject matter is: Empire, Shi‘ism and Iranism: Iran After the Sanctions (editors: Prof. Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti and Prof. Raffaele Mauriello).
Deadline for proposals: 31 December 2015
Deadline for articles: 15 March 2016
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Raffaele MAURIELLO, Ph.D.
Research Fellow
Faculty of World Studies
University of Tehran (Northern Campus)
North Kargar Avenue
Office: (+98) 021 61119275
Mobile Iran: (+98) 09102112665
Mobile Italy: (+39) 339755665
7. Three PhD studentships and additional scholarships available at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK
8. International Conference: “Anti-Muslim Racism and Anti-Islamic Hostility in Germany and Europe – Problem-Situation, Solution Approaches, and Counter-Strategies”, Institute of Islamic Theology, Osnabrueck University, Germany, 14 – 16 January 2016
This conference aims to provide information about anti-Muslim racism and its threat for Europe and Germany. It focuses on anti-Islamic hospitality ranging from anti-Muslim racism within the German society to counter-strategies, anti-Islamic tendencies in schools, the refugee situation, anti-Muslim racism according to gender, safety discourses, and finally Islam in the media.
Information and program: www.islamische-theologie.uni-osnabrueck.de/fileadmin/documents/public/Tagung_-_Antimuslimischer_Rassismus_Stand_-_Flyer.pdf
9. Conference: “Islam in International Affairs: Politics and Paradigms”, European International Studies Association’s (EISA), Yaşar University, Izmir, Turkey, 7-10 September 2016
The section seeks to explore theoretical approaches and empirical experiences of the Islamic civilization by referring to both classical and modern sources, the worldview of prominent thinkers, statecraft experiences, current transnational movements, and case studies on the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) phenomenon.
Deadline for proposals: 8 January 2016. Information: www.coiris.org/islam-in-international-affairs-politics-and-paradigms/.
10. Research Assistant in the DFG-research Project “Diversity, Power, and Justice: Transcultural Perspectives”, University of Kassel
The Research Assistant (EG 13 TV-H) will conduct independent research within the sub-project “Justice and the Critique of Occidentalism within Contemporary Political Theory in the Maghreb” with the objective of graduating with a PhD. The applicant has completed a Masters degree in the field of Political Sciences or Philosophy with a major focus on Arabo-Islamic Philosophy. A very good command of Arabic, French and English or German is required. Commencement of job: 1 January 2016.
Deadline for application: 14 December 2015. Information: www.uni-kassel.de/intranet/aktuelles/stellenangebote/stellenausschreibung-details/tx_ukstellenausschreibung/27009.html
11. AUB Summer Arabic Programs in Modern Standard Arabic & Colloquial Lebanese Arabic
June 22 – August 10, 2016
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies at the American University of Beirut will offer two intensive Arabic programs in the summer of 2016: one in Modern Standard Arabic and one in Colloquial Lebanese Arabic.
The program in Modern Standard Arabic provides intensive instruction at eight levels: Introductory, High Introductory, Low Intermediate, Intermediate, High Intermediate, Advanced, High Advanced and Superior. The total of 186 classroom hours is equivalent to 9 credit hours earned at AUB which may be transferred to other universities. The typical daily workload includes five hours of MSA and one hour of Lebanese dialect, followed by lectures, field trips, clubs and movies which are integrated into the program. Students should also expect at least four hours of homework each day. The program uses the Georgetown Arabic language textbooks by Brustad, al-Batal, and al-Tonsi and other supplementary materials.
The program in Colloquial Lebanese Arabic provides intensive instruction at the intermediate level. This program is designed for students who already have some knowledge of Levantine dialect and wish to reach a higher level. Students applying to this level must have studied Modern Standard Arabic for at least two semesters. The course consists of 120 contact hours, equivalent to 6 credit hours earned at AUB, which may be transferred to other universities. The typical daily workload includes four hours of colloquial Lebanese Arabic followed by lectures, field trips, clubs and movies which are integrated into the program. Students should also expect at least four hours of homework each day. The program uses teaching materials developed by CAMES as well as Lebanese films, songs, and other audiovisual materials.
The deadline for regular admission in both programs is April 15, 2016. Students who apply by April 15 will receive a response by the first week of May. Applications for both programs may be downloaded from: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/sap_application.aspx or http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/ColloquialLebaneseArabic.aspx
For further information, please email cames@aub.edu.lb or check these links:
http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/arabic_program.aspx or http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/Pages/ColloquialLebaneseArabic.aspx
12. School of Modern Languages and Institute of Iranian Studies
University of St Andrews
Call for Conference Papers
‘Culture and Cultural Production in Iran: Past and Present’
(17th, 18th and 19th June 2016)
Convener: Dr Saeed Talajooy <st83@st-andrews.ac.uk>
This conference aspires to encourage the application of the evolving approaches to the study of culture to the history of artistic production in Iran. The unifying element of the conference, therefore, is artistic cultural production and the spaces in which it has occurred as an aesthetic, economic, socio-political phenomenon in Iran, particularly during the last two hundred years. We welcome a variety of submissions: from those that offer overviews of a particular form in a given period, to very specific studies of individual artists, works, practices, or material culture. We are also interested in the role these cultural products have played in the expansion of the concept of art and ‘the redistribution of the sensible’— what can be seen and heard in society due to the machination of political, cultural and religious aesthetics that confine these sounds and images in a hierarchical system of values. Of particular interest are also those papers that explore the theoretical aspects of the meaning and functions of art in Iran by studying specific topics. The conference, thus aims to encourage analytical and theoretical discussions on the multiplicity of locations that art (literature, cinema, theatre, music, dance, visual arts, architecture, etc.) occupies in Iranian discourse on modernity and post-industrial contemporaneity.
The following is a tentative list of general themes that speakers may choose to address while researching specific topics, but other subjects or approaches will also be welcomed:
v What is ‘Farhang’? Is there a divide between a popular and an elite culture? Who possesses culture?
v What is art? Where does it occur? How has it been received and promoted in Iran since the 1800s?
v Visual arts and the transformation and idealization of the body;
v The museum as a space and as an art form; collecting and buying art products;
v Cultural production and royal/clerical modernity in the late Qajar, Pahlavi and post-revolution era;
v What is ‘the contemporary’ and when did it begin in its Iranian context? What is contemporary art (literature, music, drama, dance, visual arts, architecture, etc.)?
v Mimicry, theatricality and theatrical politics: theatre, cinema, and their socio-political doubles;
v Music, dance and the rise of public space; music, dance, and culture; women on the stage;
v Transformation of the concept of art as a prerequisite for modernity;
v The art of subversion through historicist, cross-cultural, and folkloric reformulation and adaptation;
v Art as a public space for socio-political inquiry; and history writing as an art form;
v The birth of the new concept of ‘the individual’ in Iranian art;
v The rebirth of Tehran as a modern/Islamic modern/contemporary metropolis: immigrants, minorities, marginality, coups, foreign occupation, Islamic transformations and artistic production;
v The expansion of the public space through architecture, theatre, cinema, opera, ballet, concerts, night club dance and performance, reformulated religious rituals, marketing and religious murals, etc.;
v Marxism, art and modernity; Islamism, art and modernity; Existentialism, art and modernity; Capitalism, consumerism and art; Nation, nation-building and nationalism in Iranian art;
v Comparative studies of Iranian and non-Iranian art (fiction, music, dance, poetry, drama, visual arts, architecture, etc.) with a focus on the meaning of the modern or the contemporary;
v Publication, distribution , canonization and festivals and their roles in the reformulation of the culture;
v Transformation of family, individual and society in cultural products,
v Women as the subject and producers of Iranian art;
v Modern history and art as a secular space to display cosmopolitanism;
v Rereading history, religion or myth in Iranian art;
v Revolution as performance; streets and homes, indoor and outdoor, social control and metamorphosis;
v Indigenous artistic traditions and negotiating the relationship between the past and the present.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Bahram Beyzaie (Cinema)
Ahmad Karimi Hakkak (Literature)
Mohamad Tavakoli Targhi (History)
Hamid Amjad (Theatre)
Jila Esamailian (Publication)
Naghmeh Samini (Television)
Hooman Asadi (Music)
Performance
Mojdeh Shamsaie
Please submit abstracts of between 250 and 300 words by 25th January 2016. Authors will have 20 minutes to present their papers. A selection of papers will be chosen for further expansion and publication in an edited volume on Culture and Cultural Production in Iran. The abstracts must be electronically submitted to Saeed Talajooy <st83@st-andrews.ac.uk>.
13. http://www.biblioiranica.info/
“Bibliographia Iranica is a collective effort, continuing the work that Arash Zeini started at his blog over at www.arashzeini.com. This new website and connected social media share and distribute information on recent publications and events in Iranian Studies, understanding the field in its broadest sense from antiquity through to late antiquity and the early Islamic era with occasional excursions into neighbouring disciplines, geographies and eras.”
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. CFP: Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (Vol. 1, No. 2, July-December 2016)
Emotions, Humans and Animals
We invite submissions for the second issue of Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (Vol. 1, No. 2, July-December 2016), a peer-reviewed, semi-annual research journal published by Indiana University Press (Bloomington, IN, USA). The theme for this issue is “Emotions, Humans and Animals”. We are interested in articles that explore the emotional relationships between humans and animals in any region and period. The issue is concerned with but not limited to the study of emotions reflected in social and cultural construction of animals in human societies; the use of animal signs for characterising human experiences and metaphysical and religious ideas; the association and disassociation of humans with animals in agrarian and industrialised societies; and innovative theoretical and methodological approaches for studying the emotions involved in human-animal relationships. We are also interested in works exploring the post-humanist approaches which historicize the emotional behaviour among animals by moving beyond constructionism.
1 June 2016 is the deadline for submitting research articles, review articles and book reviews.
To submit a manuscript for consideration, an account with the journal is required. Please use the following link for registering an account or log-in to your existing account and then click the ‘new submission’ link:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/pjhs
For more information and queries, send an email to pjhs@khaldunia.org (and cc to tahirkamran_gcu@yahoo.com; hak@khaldunia.org)
Thank you
Hussain Ahmad Khan
Associate Editor, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies,
Email: hak@khaldunia.org
2. Call for Papers
Roshangar: the Roshan Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland
We are currently accepting submissions for the first edition of Roshangar, to be
published electronically in January 2016. We are seeking rigorous undergraduate
research papers (1,500-2,500 words) related to Persianate societies. We are especially
interested in work with an interdisciplinary and cross-sectorial approach.
Roshangar is a peer-reviewed journal working with an academic advisory board from the
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland. The journal serves to
inspire new and original research as well as to promote a broader interest in Persian
Studies within the academic community.
The deadline for paper submissions is December 22 (11:59 pm).
Please include in your application:
- Title page: Name of author and undergraduate institution
- 250 word abstract
- Electronic editable version of paper with bibliography, references, or works cited
list in MLA format
For submissions and additional information, please contact the editorial team
3. The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization at the University of Arizona Presents:
16th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies
Re-envisioning Boundaries: Navigating Society, Culture, and Sovereignties
Call for Abstracts
The Middle East and North Africa Graduate Student Organization (MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona cordially invite you to participate in the 16th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies to be held from Thursday, April 7th 2016 to Saturday, April 9th 2016 in Tucson, Arizona, USA
Objectives
This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines by providing a platform for graduate students to present their research projects, exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. This year’s conference is focused on the idea of mobility and sharing concepts related to the Middle East across fields with boundaries being redefined on various levels. We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs, but also from Linguistics, Literature, Law and LGBT/Queer Studies, Journalism , Gender and Women Studies, Philosophy, political Science, Public health, Religious Studies, Sociology, Translation, Anthropology, Economic, Education, Geography, History, Music, and other studies related to the study of the Middle East and North Africa.
Submission Guidelines:
Applicants are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers and pre-organized panels. Submissions are due December 11th for International students and January 15th for domestic students. Individual paper abstracts must be 250 words and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. In the body of email, please include author’s name, paper title, school and department affiliation, phone number, and email address. A panel organizer must submit an anonymous panel proposal that includes the description of the panel and an abstract for each paper it contains. Abstracts and proposals must be emailed to uamena@gmail.com. For further information, please visit http://menas.arizona.edu/mena-conference or submit your inquiries to uamena@gmail.com . Selected papers will be published in the academic peer-reviewed online journal Zaytoon.
Keynote Speaker
We are also pleased to announce that Dr. Asef Bayat will give this year’s keynote address. Dr. Bayat is the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His current research focuses on the Arab Spring, particularly the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.
4. Open Access Journal
CfP: Hadīth and Sīra Studies
http://magazine.hadithandsira.info/
The mission to understand Prophet Muhammad and present his message to the world based on primary sources, which Meridyen Association began in 2007 with the launch of the LastProphet.info web portal, is now expanding to a new field.
A peer-reviewed academic journal, Hadīth and Sīra Studies, is the next step in a line of academic activities that include “The Hadīth and Sīra Research Awards”, “Sīra Workshop” and “International Sīra Studies Symposium” conducted under the Lastprophet.info project. With the focus of gathering academic research of the Prophet Muhammad’s life to reveal universal guiding principles applicable to both Muslims and non-Muslims alike, this biannual journal seeks to make a meaningful contribution to the field of hadīth and sīra studies.
Hadīth and Sīra Studies recognizes the rigorous intellectual standards set by Western academia and aims to adhere to them from its first issue as part of its long-term goal to become a leading international publication. In line with its interdisciplinary perspective, Hadīth and Sīra Studies welcomes contributions from diverse fields of research.
How primary Islamic sources have been understood and interpreted throughout history shapes the way they are understood by the present generation. It is therefore necessary to both convey the Islamic tradition through a re-evaluation and analysis of the literature written during previous centuries, and to make it relevant to contemporary problems. The critical and philosophical ideas voiced since the 18th century in both the East and West cannot be ignored and must be engaged with by hadīth and sīra studies. Classical Islamic texts should be reread and at the same time rediscovered in light of these intellectual developments. In tackling these significant issues, the importance of adopting both an international and interdisciplinary approach becomes clear. At this current time, Hadīth and Sīra Studies intends to publish articles in Arabic, English, German and French in addition to Turkish.
We welcome your academic contributions addressing the separate or common issues of hadīth and sīra studies, as well as those connecting them to relevant disciplines, for our second issue which will be published in May 2016.
Deadline for submissions: 15th March 2016
5. Spolia Reincarnated: Second Life of Spaces, Materials, Objects in Anatolia from Antiquity to the Ottoman Period
10th RCAC (Koc University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations-Istanbul) Annual Symposium, 5-6 December 2015.
The symposium focuses on various forms and types of reuse in the cultures that developed in Anatolia and Eastern Mediterranean from Antiquity up to the Ottoman period. Through a diverse range of presentations, emerging from the current research in spolia studies, the symposium intends to discuss the reuse of architectural elements, decoration and sculpture, reuse of space and buildings, as well as the reuse of objects (from metal objects to textiles). By bringing together archaeologists, art historians, historians of architecture and landscape, the aim is not only to show the abundance and variety of examples but also to question how, through the process of reuse, space, materials and objects were reworked and changed to fit into their new contexts.
Symposium organizers: Ivana Jevtic and Suzan Yalman (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koc University-Istanbul).
Saturday 05/12/2015
10.00-10:40 Finbarr Barry Flood, New York University
Keynote Lecture:
Seeing Time: Alteration, Cumulation and the Palimpsest Artwork
Session I:
“Setting the Stage”: Going Back to the Origins of the Term and the Concept of Spolia
11:15 – 11:40 Inge Uytterhoeven, Koc University
‘Spolia, -iorum, (n): From Spoils of War to Re-Used Building Materials. The History of a Latin Term
11:40-12:05 Philipp Niewohner, German Archaeological Institute, Berlin
Varietas and Spolia in East and West: The Origins of an Aesthetic Concept and Its Application to the Re-Use of Marbles in Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period
Session II:
Revival or Survival: Spolia, Memory and Legitimacy
13:40 – 14:05 Elif Keser Kayaalp, Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir
Spolia and Classicism in the Mosques of Diyarbakır (Amid) and Silvan (Mayyafariqin)
14:05 – 14:30 Livia Bevilacqua, Universita Ca’ Foscari, Venice
Spolia on City Gates in the Thirteenth Century: Byzantium and Italy
14:30 – 14:55 Scott Redford, SOAS, London
Seljuk Spolia
Session III:
Spolia and Ideology: Modes and Motives of Re-Use
15:50 – 16:15 Suna Cagaptay, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul
On the Beaks of the Double-Headed Eagle: Spolia in Re and Appropriation in Medieval Anatolia and Beyond
16:15 – 16:40 Maria Kiprovska, University of Sofia
Plunder and Appropriation at the Borderland: Representation, Legitimacy and Ideological Use of Spolia by Members of the Ottoman Frontier Nobility
16:40 – 17:05 Tugba Tanyeri Erdemir, Middle East Technical University, Ankara
Remains of the Day: Converted Anatolian Churches
17:05-17:30 Summary and Discussion
Sunday 06/12/2015
Session IV:
Spolia and Imperial Agenda: Transformation of Monuments and the Image of the City
10:10 – 10:50 Alessandra Guiglia, Claudia Barsanti, University of Sapienza, Rome
Spolia in Saint Sophia in Constantinople from Justinian to the Ottoman Period: The Phenomenon of Multilayered Re-Use
11:05 – 11:30 Nicholas Melvani, Koc University Stavros Niarchos Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Istanbul
Late, Middle, and Early Byzantine Sculpture in Palaiologan Constantinople
11:30 – 11:55 Unver Rustem, Johns Hopkins University and University of Cambridge
Byzantine Legacies and the Ottoman Baroque: Architectural Consciousness in Eighteenth Century Istanbul
Session V:
Second Life of Objects: Portable Items as Spolia
14:10 – 14:35 Konstantina Karterouli, The Catholic University of America, Washington DC
Re-Use of the Byzantine Object in the West c. 1200: Assimilation or Appropriation?
14:35 – 15:00 Elena Papastavrou, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports and Nikolas Vryzidis, British School at Athens
“Sacred Patchwork”: The Greek Church’s Patterns of Textile Re-Use During the Ottoman Era
15:15 – 15:40 Pagona Papadopoulou, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
The Afterlife of Coins: The Re-Use of Late Antique and Medieval Coins for Apotropaic, Religious and Ideological Purposes
16:10-16:50 Paul Magdalino, University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
Concluding Remarks
16:50-17:15 Ivana Jevtic, Koc University
General Discussion and Closing Remarks
[Added by H-Islamart Editor: The symposium is open to the public and simultaneous English-Turkish translation will be provided. For more information contact: Şeyda Çetin (seydacetin@ku.edu.tr)]
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Spolia Reincarnated (Istanbul, 5-6 December 15). In: H-ArtHist,
Nov 28, 2015. <http://arthist.net/archive/11575>
6. International Conference: “Resistance & Empire: New Approaches and Comparisons”, University of Lisbon, 26-29 June 2016
The conference invites students of French, British, Portuguese, German, and other European colonialisms to analytically address the multiple expressions of “resistance” in colonial history by engaging with empirical material and theoretical explorations.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2015. Information: www.ics.ul.pt/rdonweb-recursos/events/2015-12/2015-12-31.pdf
7. W3-Professorship in Oriental Studies (Arabic and Islamic Studies), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
The expected focus of research and teaching activities is the early modern and modern developments of the culture, history, and religion of the Arab and Islamic worlds, combined with experience in working with sociological and anthropological approaches to these fields. Several years of study and research experience in Arab countries and/or other countries of the Islamic world, as well as a second regional field of specialization, are equally desirable. The appointment begins April 1, 2016.
Deadline for application: 2 January 2016. Information: www.stellenwerk-bochum.de/jobs-finden/hochschulinterne-angebote/details/anzeige/bo-2015-11-10-14.html
8. Three LSE Middle East Centre Emirates Master’s Scholarship 2016/17
The LSE Middle East Centre Emirates Scholarship offers financial support for students from Arab states studying for a Master’s degree at LSE and who intend to focus their studies on the Middle East. The scholarship has a value of £30,000 which will cover full tuition fees with the remainder available to support living expenses in London.
Deadline for applications: 29 April 2016. Information: www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/scholarships/Masters/apply.aspx?utm_source=Mailing+List&utm_campaign=e976985226-Masters+2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_79ca332e34-e976985226-318654609
9. Call for Applicants and Scholarships for a Doctoral Program “The Asian Sphere”, University of Haifa and the Hebrew University
The Asian Sphere offers a unique opportunity for outstanding candidates, at the MA and PhD level, to enroll in a multidisciplinary and inter-university graduate program that deals with the Asian continent. Subject Fields: Asian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Art History, Archaeology, Geography, Political Science, International Relations, Cultural Studies, History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, and more.
Deadline for application: 31 January 2016. Information: http://asian-sphere.huji.ac.il
10. M.A. in Middle East and Islamic Studies at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
The aim of this degree program is to reposition the study of the Middle East and Islam within a global context to help students better analyze particular issues in light of current events and shifting historical paradigms. The program’s core classes provide a solid background in both fields of study; however students can choose to focus their coursework on either Middle East Studies or Islamic Studies.
Deadline for applications for the Fall/Spring 2016-2017 academic year: 15 February 2016. Information: http://meis.gmu.edu/
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How to apply
Email completed paper and panel proposal forms (downloadable below) before the deadline. Please limit your abstracts to 250 words.
Deadline for proposals: 19 February 2016, 5pm.
Panel Proposal Form | Paper Proposal Form | Conference Website
Within the overall theme of ‘Networks: Connecting the Middle East through Time, Space and Cyber Space’, papers and panels addressing historical or contemporary aspects of the following subthemes are particularly invited:
- Trade, transport and financial networks: ancient and modern economic collaborations and enterprises.
- Geographical networks in urban, regional and international contexts.
- Political and social networks: ruling elites, structures of government, networking in minority and majority contexts, diaspora communities and social movements.
- Migration networks: migrants’ routes, communications and integration.
- Cultural networks: connections within art, architecture, literature, film and music.
- Linguistics and etymological connections and language development.
- Virtual networks: social media, gaming and global communications networks.
- Networks within religion: religious communities (ancient and modern), interfaith connections, religious authority and evolving theological interpretations.
- Networks in radicalisation and counter-radicalisation.
Proposals for complete panel sessions are particularly welcome.
12. ESRC MSc/PhD studentships
ESRC Scottish Doctoral Training Centre MSc + PhD studentships for 2016 are available for students of Language-Based Area Studies at the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW), University of Edinburgh. Starting date September 2016.
CASAW, Edinburgh, invites applicants under three routes: first, its 2+3 model, which entails a two-year Masters in Arab World Studies (to become Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic), including intensive Arabic, followed by three years of PhD funding; second, its 1+3 model, which entails a one-year Masters in Advanced Arabic or in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, followed by three years of PhD funding; third, its +3 model, which entails three years of PhD funding.
Application Process, 2+3, 1+3 (MSc with Arabic training + PhD)
Applicants for study at CASAW 2+3 or 1+3 funding should send a CV, a 1,000-word outline of the proposed PhD research topic, and the names of two referees no later than Friday 22 January 2016, to Dr Anthony Gorman:
Applicants for 2+3 or 1+3 study at CASAW will also need complete an application to the relevant Masters degree, available at:
Arab World Studies on the Postgraduate Degree Finder
Advanced Arabic on the Postgraduate Degree Finder
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies on the Postgraduate Degree Finder
For further details about Masters degrees in Language-Based Area Studies of the Middle East at Edinburgh, see:
Application Process, +3 (PhD only)
Applicants for +3 (PhD only) study at CASAW should apply in the first instance for a PhD place at Edinburgh:
They should also write separately to Dr Anthony Gorman indicating their intention to apply for an ESRC LBAS scholarship, attaching their CV, PhD research proposal (c. 2,000-5,000 words) and the names of two referees:
Notification and registration with the Scottish Graduate School, 2+3, 1+3 and +3
Applicants to be put forward for an LBAS scholarship by the University of Edinburgh will then be notified of this on or before1 February 2015, at which point they should then register separately for the scholarship competition. For further details of the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre ESRC scholarships, including eligibility criteria see:
http://www.socsciscotland.ac.uk/studentships/how_to_apply
13. Simon Fraser University – Comparative Muslim Societies and Cultures Associate Professor/Assistant Professor
- December 01, 2015
- by Andrew Newman
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