1.On November 4th-5th, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park will host the “Manuscripts in the Digital Age Workshop,” which is co-sponsored by Tufts University’s Perseids Project, UMD’s Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy, UMD’s School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC), and Kent State University’s School of Library and Information Science).
It will bring together researchers, curators, librarians, and technical specialists from the Perseus Digital Library, Library of Congress, Digital Latin Library, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (UPenn), Freer & Sackler Galleries, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to discuss the technical challenges for the creation of an integrated online “manuscript workspace.”
The technical participants in this workshop want to better understand the needs and types of functionality that scholars, students, citizen scientists, and those working in the GLAM sector would ideally like to see in such a workspace. For this reason, we are asking any of you who work on manuscripts to consider taking this very brief questionnaire (http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH) s about what types of features and functionality you would like to see developed for digital manuscript studies: http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH
Sincerely,
Bridget Almas, Perseids Project, Tufts University
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State University
Matthew Thomas Miller, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of Maryland
Joshua Westgard, University of Maryland Libraries
Matthew Thomas Miller, Ph.D.
Roshan Institute Research Fellow
Associate Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD)
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
2. College of Liberal and Creative Arts
San Francisco State University
San Francisco State University, College of Liberal and Creative Arts, invites applicant for the Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and Director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies.
The University seeks a senior scholar to serve in an academic leadership position as the founding Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and Director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies. The individual will be a senior scholar who will hold faculty rank and tenure in one of the academic units in the College of Liberal & Creative Arts.
The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, established by a generous gift from alumna Neda Nobari, will make visible, give voice to, and forge connections across the evolving Iranian diasporas in the United States and beyond. Its interdisciplinary focus will create opportunities for research, outreach, and campus/community programming in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences as well as across all of the colleges at the university. The Center will develop collaborative opportunities for faculty and students to engage in research and scholarship on Iranian diasporas with a focus on transnational movements and migration patterns of Iranian communities around the globe, particularly in California, the United States, North America, and Europe. It will promote intellectual engagement and conversations with local, regional, national and global communities.
Qualifications: Candidates should have:
Responsibilities:
The Director will engage and convene academic forums and cultural programs, distinguished guest speakers, and research exchanges with scholars and students locally, nationally, and internationally.
The Director will also work to build collaborative relationships and programs with members of the Iranian diaspora both locally and nationally.
The Director will engage the campus and community in developing a strategic plan for the Center, build a supportive advisory board, and establish a sound resource base through philanthropic and grant-based funding.
The Director will teach one course per semester at the undergraduate or graduate level in on of the departments or schools of the college and will maintain an active research agenda his/her field of expertise.
Rank and Salary: Associate or Full Professor. Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. The CSU provides generous health, retirement and other benefits.
Application Process: Submit a letter that explains your interest in and vision for the Center, a current CV, and names and contact information of three references. For full consideration, submit your application to the Chair of the Hiring Committee, Prof. Maziar Behrooz at mroozbeh@sfsu.edu by December 15, 2016.
San Francisco State University is a member of the California State University system and serves a diverse student body of 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The University seeks to promote appreciation of scholarship, freedom and, human diversity through excellence in instruction and intellectual accomplishment. SFSU faculty are expected to be effective teachers and demonstrate professional achievement and growth through research, scholarship, and/or creative work.
San Francisco State University is an Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity. We welcome applicants of all ethnic, racial and gender identities, sexual orientations as well as people with disabilities. We particularly encourage those who may be from historically underrepresented groups.
A background check (including a criminal records check) must be completed satisfactorily before any candidate can be offered a position with the CSU. Failure to satisfactorily complete the background check may affect the application status of applicants or continued employment of current CSU employees who apply for the position.
3. The Mercantile Effect: On art and exchange in the Islamicate world during 17th ̶18th centuries
Conference to be held at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, 33d Französische Strasse, Berlin, 18–19 November 2016
Registration now open:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-mercantile-effect-on-art-and-exchange-in-the-islamicate-world-during-17th-18th-centuries-tickets-24843495564
4. Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
20 October 2016 – 15 January 2017
Predicting, understanding, and controlling the range of occult forces believed to influence human existence were constant preoccupations in the pre-modern world. Islamic material culture, ranging from humble, hard stone amulets inscribed with pious invocations to elaborate talismanic shirts to be worn in battle, and sophisticated instruments for astrological and geomantic calculations, suggests widespread and sustained practices calling for supernatural assistance and divine protection. Showcasing over a hundred spectacular objects spanning the 12th to the 20th century, Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural is the first major exhibition to explore these themes. Amongst the displays are astrological charts, dream-books, talismanic clothing and jewel-encrusted amulets, many of which have never been seen in public before.
For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/powerandprotection/
For associated lectures and events, please visit: http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/powerandprotection/events/
A microsite for the exhibition is also available at the following link: http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/powerandprotection/exhibition/
5. Call for submissions – This American Muslim
This American Muslim leverages the media and the arts to establish platforms that empower American Muslims to share their stories and voices. This American Muslim welcomes art and writing submissions, created exclusively by American Muslims to be featured in a juried, traveling art exhibition and a published book.
PURPOSE
To challenge Islamophobia and celebrate the diversity and beauty of our American Muslim communites. Spark dialogue and empathy, and shift the focus, from American Muslims as objects of study and scrutiny, to people with voices, hearts, and dreams, Insha’Allah.
SUBMISSIONS
DEADLINE
The deadline to submit is January 2, 2017.
CONTACT INFORMATION
This American Muslim
submissions@thisamericanmuslim.org
projectprism.submittable.com
6. Call for Papers/ Conference: Crisis and Conflict in the Agrarian World, Sciences Po, Paris 1-3 March 2017
The Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po invites to an academic conference on the
topic of Crisis and Conflict in the Agrarian World: An Evolving
Dialectic, in cooperation with the American University of Beirut and
CIDOB, the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs. The conference
will be held on 1-3 March 2017 in Paris.
Conference proceedings will be published towards the end of 2017 in an
edited volume of CABI Publishers, a leading academic publisher on
development, agriculture, food security and health issues.
The organizers invite abstracts or preferably detailed proposals with a
short CV and list of publications. They should be submitted
electronically to Eckart Woertz eckart.woertz@sciencespo.fr
<mailto:eckart.woertz@sciencespo.fr> and Rachel Anne Bahn
rb89@aub.edu.lb <mailto:rb89@aub.edu.lb> until 30 November 2016. Authors of selected papers will be notified by 2 December 2016 and should submit their papers by 1 February 2017.
The papers should have a length of 7,000 words and represent original
research not presented or published elsewhere. All costs for travel and
accommodation will be covered according to Sciences Po travel policy.
Texts can deal with a variety of crises and their impact on agriculture
and food security, such as politically-driven violence and dispute, as
well as crises stemming from natural disasters or other phenomena
(earthquake/tsunami, drought, flooding, climate change, and disease
epidemics). Case studies will explore the relationship between
agriculture and conflict/crisis before, during, and after crisis periods.
Beside cross cutting and methodological explorations on topics like
political ecology, gender, health, climate change, land grabs or
ethnography we are interested in case studies of specific countries,
particularly from Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.
We look forward to receiving your abstracts or proposals.
Further details about the call for papers you can find here:
http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sites/sciencespo.fr.psia/files/Call_for_Papers_Agriculture_and_Conflict_2017.pdf
7. University of California, Los Angeles – Assistant Professor in Art History/Arts of the Islamic World
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54027
1.International Conference: “The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World during the 17th-18th Centuries”, Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin, 18-19 November 2016
From Agra to Aleppo, Cairo to Canton, Goa to Zanzibar; peoples as diverse as Armenians, Chinese, Arabs, Persians and Europeans, traversed long distances moving art things and their attendant ideas, ideals, and technologies. This conference will explore the development of global trade routes and the emergence of new methods of exchange.
Information and registration: http://www.gingkolibrary.com
2. Workshop: “Regions, Networks, and Institutions in Mongol Eurasia: A Meso-Historical Analysis”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 17-18 May 2017
We are looking for papers dealing with regions, networks and institutions in Mongol Eurasia which are based on close reading in primary sources (literary, archaeological, visual). The workshop aims at using the meso-history framework- the one between micro and macro – for illuminating the meaning and characteristics of the proto-globalization in Mongol Eurasia (13th-14th centuries).
Deadline for abstracts: 25 November 2016. Information: http://mongol.huji.ac.il/news-and-activities/cfp-meso-historical-analysis-regions-networks-and-institutions
3. 33rd German Oriental Studies Conference (DOT) / 24th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), University of Jena, 18-22 September 2017
The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and Modern Middle East, including North Africa, as well as all of Asia, with particular emphasis on Central, South and South East Asia.
Deadline for abstracts: January 2017. Information: www.dot2017.de/en/
4. Full-Time, One-Semester Assistant Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History, Southern Connecticut State University
Proficiency in a language such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish required. The courses include one section of World Civilization II, 1500-present; two sections of Modern Middle East at the general education level; and one upper division topics course such as the Ottoman Empire, the Arab-Israeli Conflict, or Gender and Islam.
Review will begin on 15 October 2016. Information: Dr. Katherine Hermes: hermesk@ccsu.edu.
5. Two Carnegie Fellowships in Support of Arab-Region Social Science, University of North Carolina
Applications are invited from social scientists affiliated with universities in the Arab world for semester-long fellowships in Fall 2017. Early-career scholars, including advanced doctoral candidates or faculty members within five years of their Ph.D., may be given preference.
Deadline for application: 4 January 2017. Information: http://mideast.unc.edu/jobs/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill-carnegie-fellowships-in-support-of-arab-region-social-science/
6. New Blog “Subaltern States”
This blog is about the domestic politics of states around the world from comparative politics or international studies perspectives. It centers on case study analysis using qualitative, culturalist, historicist, political-sociological, and/or interpretive approaches. “Subaltern” refers to brief analyses and commentaries that address the less powerful or marginalized of states, peoples, movements, or ideas within their domestic or regional contexts, or within the international system. The latest article focuses on “Times of Tumult: Discussing Islam and Feminism”.
Information: www.e-ir.info/category/blogs/subaltern-states/. Contact with blog curator at pjwoods@ufl.edu
7. job opportunity at Deakin University, Australia
Deakin University Strategic Plan
School/Centre :Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
Faculty/Institute/Division: Faculty of Arts and Education
Classification : Level A, , Research Only
Responsible to: Research Chair, Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue
Hours of Duty: Full
–
time (36.75 hours per week)
and fixed term for three years
Location of Work: Melbourne Burwood Campus
Vacancy reference number :160543
More information
Cayla Edwards Tel: +61 3 9244 6658, Email:
8. Syria’s Art and Architecture: A Multicultural History
The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
October 29–30th 2016
9. ICONOCLASM: BEELDENSTORM AND BEYOND
SYMPOSIUM, AMSTERDAM, 9-10 DECEMBER 2016
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Beeldenstorm, the wave of iconoclasm that swept over the Low Countries in 1566. This defining moment in Netherlandish history will be commemorated with a two-day symposium ICONOCLASM: BEELDENSTORM AND BEYOND, which will consider the Beeldenstorm in relation to iconoclasm as a global phenomenon.
The symposium will be held on 9 and 10 December 2016, in the auditorium of the Rijksmuseum and the aula of the University of Amsterdam. The program and registration are now online:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/iconoclasm
ICONOCLASM: BEELDENSTORM AND BEYOND will seek to deepen our understanding of the ideological and systematic destruction of art under different historical and cultural configurations. The symposium will bring together an international group of scholars who will offer the latest insights on the hostility towards images in the Habsburg Netherlands, the Byzantine world, Islam, Colonial America, China, (Early) Modern Europe and, presently, in the Middle East, and on iconoclasm in contemporary art.
10. Journées Internationales de sciences Po Grenoble sur la Méditerranée et le Moyen Orient
Iran les défis du retour”
17 et 18 novembre 2016
Le programme des Quatrièmes Journées Internationales « Iran le défi du retour » est sur le site de Sciences Po à l’adresse suivante :
Jais arrests 50 Pakistani Shia Muslims
See also:
1. 10th October 2016.
At 10.55 am two men aged 54 and 32 years old (father and son) were arrested at their home in Jalan Jasmin, Felda Kemendor, state of Melaka for preparing to organize ashura gathering. They were interrogated under Section 63 Enactment Sharia Criminal State of Melaka 1991. If found guilty they will be fined up to RM5000, or three years jail or both. Melaka banned Shi’ism on 24th September 2015. Media Report: http://www.bharian.com.my/node/200861
2. 13th October 2016.
Malaysia’s Human Rights Commission through his chairperson, Razali Ismail criticized intimidation and arrest against Shias in Malaysia. He emphasized on freedom of religion: “This right shall include the freedom to have or to adopt a religion or belief of his choice and freedom, either individually or in community with others in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.” Media report: https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/358958
3. 14th October 2016
A standardize Friday sermon throughout state of Selangor spread hate speech against Shia adherents calling them deviants and reminding listeners to obey the 17th October 2013 religious fatwa banning Shia in Selangor. Media report: http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/359041
4. 17th October 2016.
70-100 people from local NGOs such as Pertubuhan Kebajikan Silaturahim Malaysia (Si’rah Malaysia) The Mosque Organization of Masjid Al Husna Bandar Sunway (led by Mohd Hazizul Mohd Ghouts) and The Mosque Organization of Surau Munawarah (led by Mohd Fairuz Ahmad Jahari) demonstrated and intimidate small community centre for foreign students (mostly Iranians) in Sunway, state of Selangor. They demand the closure of the community centre and bring along banner reads: “Eradicate Shias from Malaysia” during the demonstration. They even report the centre to State Religious Authorities and Police. Media report: http://www.hmetro.com.my/node/174810?m=1
1.The “Dangerous Classes” in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference
26 January 2017
St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Attendance is free. For the programme and to register go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-dangerous-classes-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa-conference-tickets-28223362838 .
2. New book series: Sex, Marriage and Family in the Middle East.
Please send me abstracts of your forthcoming monographs and edited volumes for consideration.
Series Editors: Janet Afary (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Claudia Yaghoobi (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Series scope: Marriage and family remain fundamental institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). However, when people think of marriage in the MENA cultures, they tend to assume that many existing practices were originated with the birth of Islam and without subsequent interactions with other religions and cultures of the East or the West. This innovative series will explore the connections and influences among ancient, early Islamic, medieval, early modern, and contemporary marriage practices and traditions of the region. Through the lens of marriage laws and practice, we can see how these communities interacted, or resisted interacting with one another, in order to strengthen communal identities or secure communal boundaries. The series will examine a diverse set of issues such as various types of matrimonial bonds, the status of women in marriage, slavery, concubinage, divorce, polygamy, widowhood, parenting, pilgrimage rituals, and rules of property and inheritance for women, among others. This inter-disciplinary series, will include both edited volumes and monograms, and welcomes contributors from various disciplines such as Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, History, Religious Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, and Media Studies.
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Claudia Yaghoobi, PhD
Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies
Persian Program Coordinator
Office: 134 E. Franklin St., 218A
Department of Asian Studies
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3. 20 Years of Iran and the Caucasus: A Breakthrough, 21-23 October, 2016 Aghveran, Armenia
The Conference is organised by the International Journal Iran and the Caucasus (BRILL, Leiden-Boston) in the Framework of the Celebration of its 20th Anniversary, in cooperation with Caucasian Centre for Iranian Studies, Yerevan; Russian-Armenian State University, Yerevan; Institute of Autochthonous Peoples of the Caucasian-Caspian Region, Yerevan; and ARMACAD.
Conference venue: Aghveran Crystal Resort hotel, Aghveran, Armenia
PROGRAMME is available here: http://armacad.info/confprog-20-years-of-iran-and-the-caucasus-a-breakthrough-21-23-october-2016-aghveran-armenia
4. Beyond Borders: Mutual Imaginings of Europe & the Middle East (800-1700)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2016
BARNARD HALL
CONFERENCE
The 25th biennial conference of the Barnard Medieval & Renaissance Studies Program brings together scholars whose work challenges the stark border between Europe and the Middle East during the long period between 800-1700. Rather than thinking of these areas in isolation, this interdisciplinary conference reveals the depth of their mutual influence, exploring how trade, war, migration, and the exchange of ideas connected East and West during their formative periods. Distant worlds were not only objects of aggression, but also, inextricably, of fantasy and longing, as Jewish, Muslim, and Christian thinkers looked to each other to understand their own cultural histories and to imagine their futures. Plenary speakers are Nabil Matar of the University of Minnesota and Nancy Bisaha of Vassar College.
For further information and to register, see
5. 2015 – 2016 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
Thursday, November 3
“Sensing the City: Public Spaces and Urban Experience in Safavid Isfahan”
Farshid Emami, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are held Thursdays, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., at the Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138.
For further information, call 617-495-2355, email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu or visit: http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234
6. Fellowships – ACOR 2017-2018
See https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/148357/fellowships-acor-2017-2018
7. Exhibition & Symposium – Freer|Sackler: The Art of the Qur’an
In recognition of one of the world’s extraordinary collections of Qur’ans, the Freer and Sackler is hosting a landmark exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States. Some fifty of the most sumptuous manuscripts from Herat to Istanbul is featured in The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, opening this weekend on October 22. Celebrated for their superb calligraphy and lavish illumination, these manuscripts—which range in date from the early eighth to the seventeenth century—are critical to the history of the arts of the book. They were once the prized possessions of Ottoman sultans and the ruling elite, who donated their Qur’ans to various institutions to express their personal piety and secure political power. Each manuscript tells a unique story, which will be explored in this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition.
In conjunction with The Art of the Qur’an exhibition, Freer and Sackler is organizing a symposium, The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts, on December 1, 2 and 3, 2016 in Washington, DC.
The symposium focuses on luxury copies of the Qur’an made between the eighth and the seventeenth centuries from Herat to Istanbul and investigates their materiality, from the use of costly paper, special scripts, intricate illumination, to finely tooled bindings. These characteristics lend the Qur’ans their unique visual characteristics and set them apart from other copies. The speakers will examine the volumes in their historical, cultural, and artistic contexts and discuss their use as potent symbols of piety, political, and religious authority. As Qur’ans changed ownership, they also acquired a complex and layered after-life, which has further enriched their identity well into the present.
For the symposium program, abstracts and speaker bios, please visit: http://www.asia.si.edu/research/symposia/art-of-the-quran/default.php
For more information on the exhibition, please visit: http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/current/art-of-the-quran/default.php
For related programs, please visit: http://www.asia.si.edu/events/allevents.asp?trumbaEmbed=view%3Dseries%26seriesid%3D1327296
8. Conference – Khurasan from Early Islam to the Mongols and beyond (Stuttgart, 3-4 Nov.)
Heartland of Islamic Art and Culture: Khurasan from Early Islam to the Mongols and beyond
International Conference, Linden-Museum Stuttgart, 03.-04. November 2016
9. Job: Reader/Senior University Lecturer in Classical Arabic
Studies, University of Cambridge.
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/10938/
10. ‘The Qur’an: Text, Society And Culture’ Conference
Thursday 10 – Saturday 12 November 2016
SOAS, University of London
Convenors: Prof. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr Helen Blatherwick
Thursday 10 November
(Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS main building)
If you would like further information on the conference series, please visit the conference website at https://www.soas.ac.uk/quran-2016/. This will be updated on an ongoing basis.
For general enquiries, please contact the conference administrator at quran.conference@soas.ac.uk. For academic enquiries only contact Helen Blatherwick at hb20@soas.ac.uk.
Venue: Khalili Gallery (Thurs) and Brunei Lecture Theatre (Fri and Sat), SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, Thornhaugh Street, London WC1H 0XG
No registration is required for this conference and all are welcome to attend.
11. 8ème Conférences d’études iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater
7, 9, 10, 14 et 16 novembre 2016
Organisées par Mondes iranien et indien
Lieu : Collège de France, 11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75005 Paris
