Archive for 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
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 :
- October 25, 2016
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- October 25, 2016
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Shii News – Intimidation in Malaysia
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
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- October 22, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
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
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- October 18, 2016
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