Archive for 2016

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CEIAS EHESS, 190-198 avenue de France, Paris 75013
Contact: Iqbal Akhtar (iakhtar@fiu.edu)

1.Call for Papers, 2^nd workshop

RECOVERING ‘LOST VOICES’:

THE ROLE AND DEPICTION OF IRANIAN/PERSIANATE SUBALTERNS FROM THE 13TH CENTURY TO THE MODERN PERIOD

A multi-year research project funded by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).

The second of four workshops – on subalterns across the entire Persianate world in the Safavid and Afsharid periods – will be held at the University of Edinburgh, UK, on 19-21 May, 2017.

Read more at:

http://www.shii-news.imes.ed.ac.uk/projects/the-subalterns-project/

Accommodation will be provided. Limited funding support for travel and other expenses is available, especially for PhD students and unaffiliated scholars.

Prospective presenters should submit a 500 word abstract, with an indicative list of the primary sources on which the paper will draw, to a.newman@ed.ac.uk by Friday, 6 January, 2017. The final composition of the workshop will be announced by mid-February, 2017.

Presentations will be filmed and archived and selected papers from the project will be published.

 

2. CFP – Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture

by Ugur Bakan

Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated to publishes high quality, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scholarly articles on all aspects of related to Islam and Muslim societies offered in a variety of other disciplines as well, such as culture, history, geography, art, law, anthropology, political science, philosophy, literature, sociology, economics, and women, gender and sexuality studies, architecture and international relations. Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes.

The journal aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims at different perspective such as the history of Muslim nation, arts and sciences in Islam, Islamic cultural heritage, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology and Islamic philosophy, Islamic economics and finance, Islamic sociology and Islamic psychology, Islamic literature, Islamic art and architecture and all other aspects of Islamic culture and civilization.

The scope of the journal includes the study of a variety of different in knowing and understanding of the religion, comprehensive knowledge of Islamic intellectual history and civilization of Islam as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world and interdisciplinary studies that are cross national and comparative.

If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com

Submission and Publication Information:
Submission deadline: November 10th, 2016
Final manuscript submissions to publisher: Jan, 2017

Submission to first decision:  3 weeks

Submission to final decision: 6 weeks
Number of papers: 7 to 10 papers

See: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/146722/cfp-journal-islamic-perspective-and-culture

 

 

3. Conference – Islamic Art: Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern Times (Zurich, 4 Nov. 2016)

University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 59, Room RAA-E-29, November 4, 2016
Registration deadline: Nov 1, 2016

Workshop “Islamic Art – Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern
Times“

Looking closely at medieval and modern transfer and reception processes
within Islamic art, the aim of the workshop is to discuss and analyse
theoretical approaches, methods and concepts dealing with such
processes. A range of significant case studies presented by Magdalena
Valor (University of Sevilla), Yuka Kadoi (Edinburgh) and Maximilian
Hartmuth (University of Vienna) will provide the opportunity to examine
interesting overlaps, theoretical innovations and methodological
challenges. Attendants are hereby invited to contribute a short
presentation / poster-presentation on their personal ongoing research
projects dealing with transfer and reception processes.
The interdisciplinary workshop is open to MA, PhD and post-docs
students. It is organized by members of the Institute of Art History,
the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies and the University Research
Priority Program Asia and Europe at the University of Zurich.

Program

08:30 Welcome and registration

09:00 Katrin Kaufmann, Helena Lahoz Kopiske and Elika Palenzona-Djalili
(Universität Zürich): Opening Remarks

09:25 Magdalena Valor (Universidad de Sevilla): “The Iberian Medieval
Conquered Space: The Transformation of Religious Buildings”

Coffee Break

10:45 Yuka Kadoi (Edinburgh): “Image Transfer, Object Exchange: The
Case of the Mongol Empire”

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Maximilian Hartmuth (Universität Wien): “‘Austro-Islamic
Architecture’ and ‘Moorish Style’ in Habsburg-ruled Bosnia”

14:20 Poster and short Presentation Session. MA Students, PhD and
Post-docs

Coffee Break

15:50 Plenary Discussion and Final Remarks

17:00 Aperitif

For more information see:
http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch/en/events/conferences/reception.html

 

 

4. Jobs:

 

Florida State University – Assistant Professor, Islamic World

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53718

 

Oberlin College – Assistant Professor of Art / Architecture of the Islamic World

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53730

 

American University – Beirut – Faculty position in world literature

and global film and visual culture

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53752

 

New York University – Visiting Research Scholar Program

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53735

 

 

5. 2016 MEM Graduate Student Prize

The Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) offers a prize of $250 for the best graduate student paper on a medieval topic. Although modest in amount, it is hoped that this award will provide encouragement to graduate students with an interest in the medieval period. One need not be a member of MEM to be considered for this prize. The prize will be awarded in Boston at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. Graduate Students who  wish to have their contributions considered for the 2016 prize should submit a copy of their paper (not to exceed 20 pages!) to Antoine Borrut, MEM secretary, at: aborrut@umd.edu

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2016. 

 

 

6. Thu 20 Oct, 2016 – Sat 22 Oct, 2016 Historians of Islamic Art Association 2016 Biennial Conference

Regionality: looking for the local in the arts of Islam

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London

For further information and the programme, see:

http://courtauld.ac.uk/event/regionality-looking-local-arts-islam

 

 

 

7. EHESS

Séminaire « L’Asie centrale dans tous ses États : questions et méthodes »

Responsables : Stéphane Dudoignon (CNRS/CETOBAC), Carole Ferret (CNRS/LAS), Isabelle Ohayon (CNRS/CERCEC), Julien Thorez (CNRS/M2I)

2^es lundis du mois de 13h00 à 16h00 – 190-8, av. de France – 75013 Paris

Les 10 octobre & 14 novembre : salle 1 – À partir du 12 décembre : salle du Conseil B

Lundi 10 octobre 2016

Aftandil ERKINOV (Institut des études orientales, Tachkent, Ouzbékistan)

Le grand tremblement de terre du début du xx^e siècle à Andidjan

Muzaffar OLIMOV (Centre Sharq, Douchanbeh, Tadjikistan)

Les radicalisations actuelles dans le domaine postsoviétique :

l’exemple du Tadjikistan

Venez nombreux !

Contacts : stephane.a.dudoignon@ehess.fr, carole.ferret@college-de-france.fr, isabelle.ohayon@cercec.cnrs.fr, julien.thorez@cnrs.fr

 

 

8. 2^nd GIS Congress

« Middle East and Muslim Worlds »

7 July 2017

INALCO, Paris

Preorganized Panel

Irrationality in the Middle East and Islām

Description

If rationality denotes what complies with the mind, irrationality, by contrast, deals with all that, at first sight, can’t be explained and controlled by the ʿaql. In other words, irrationality is a negatively defined notion marked by lack or loss (ʿadam-, ġayr– ou lā-ʿaql), distance (ibʿād) or deviation (inḥirāf) from the intellect, or even it is the result of reduced rationality (qillat al-ʿaql).

An irrational behaviour is considered rather strange, abnormal, and sometimes contrary to sound norms and moral principals. Consequently, this is the case of liminal states or of more or less voluntary marginal conducts: the insane and the mental ill, the drunk or the intoxicated, the silly, the foolish, the madly in love with beloved or with God, etc.

In other cases, irrationality can be defined either by the temporary loss of self-control (anger, violent attack, fear, etc.), or by the lack of moderation and the inability to abstain from the pleasures of the flesh (uncontrolled appetite, a more or less licit sexual pleasure, etc.).

However, irrationality also bears a specific knowledge, which is beyond the control of the logic, a vision of an alternative world and a different reality along with a set of spiritual insights that cannot be controlled and that are between the sensitive world and the unconscious: emotions, gratification of the senses, dreams, the world of magic and sorcery, divination, prophecy, superstition, miracle, the hereafter, ecstasy, mysticism, love, hallucination, imaginary, etc.

Propositions aimed at analysing all the historical periods of the Middle East and Islām and involving different areas (philosophy, theology, literature, social sciences, anthropology, Islamic law, history, medicine, sciences, mysticism, arts, etc.) are invited to participate.

Panel information

This panel will take place Friday the 7th of July 2017 from 1:00 to 3:30 pm, room 3.26 at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Pôle des Langues et Civilisations, 65, rue des Grands Moulins, 75214 Paris.

Participation

Candidates who wish to participate are kindly requested to send an abstract (300 words, including a provisional title) and a CV (200 words), in French or English, to Danilo Marino (danilo.marino@inalco.fr) by Sunday the 30th of October 2017.

Registration Fees

The registration to the Congress will open in January 2017 through AGIS (Association des Amis du GIS). The cost of registration is 20 euros per person except for PhD and post-doctoral students without employment contract. The registration fee authorises access to the Congress panels, round-tables and shows (except the concert).

Expenses for travel or stay will be at participants’ charges

Panel organizer

Danilo Marino, CERMOM, Inalco, Paris, danilo.marino@inalco.fr

 

 

9. Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography: Persian Histories from the Peripheries. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Mimi Hanaoka, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies
University of Richmond
http://www.cambridge.org/9781107127036

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Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the times in which they lived? In this book, Mimi Hanaoka offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching these sorts of local histories from the Persianate world. By paying attention to the purpose and intention behind a text’s creation, her book highlights the preoccupation with authority to rule and legitimacy within disparate regional, provincial, ethnic, sectarian, ideological and professional communities. By reading these texts in such a way, Hanaoka transforms the literary patterns of these fantastic histories into rich sources of information about identity, rhetoric, authority, legitimacy, and centre-periphery relations.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Methodologies for reading hybrid identities and imagined histories
3. Contexts and authorship
4. Dreaming of the prophet
5. Holy bloodlines, prophetic utterances, and taxonomies of belonging
6. Living virtues of the land
7. Sacred bodies and sanctified cities
8. Prophetic etymologies and sacred spaces
9. The view from Anatolia
10. Lessons from the peripheries.

 

 

10. Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition OCR
https://www.academia.edu/28923960/Important_New_Developments_in_Arabographic_Optical_Character_Recognition_OCR_

May be of interest to those interested in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Persian (i.e., turning all of those old PDF scans in digital, searchable texts!).

Above all, emailing this out because we are very interested in collaborating with Persianists who want to help expand the Persian training data set and have their texts OCRed in the process. Please get in touch!
—

Matthew Thomas Miller
Roshan Institute Research Fellow
Associate Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities (PersDig@UMD)
University of Maryland, College Park
PersDig@UMD website: http://persdig.umd.edu/
Professional website: http://www.matthewthomasmiller.com/
Academia.edu Page: https://umcp.academia.edu/MatthewThomasMiller

 

 

Intellectual Interactions in the Islamic World: The Ismaili Thread | The Institute of Ismaili Studies

For the the full programme, registration and webcast details, see the website.

 

1.The Department of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at the University of California, Davis invite applications for the Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature at the Associate or Full Professor level, effective 7/1/2017.

For full consideration, complete applications should be received no later than November 1, 2016.

For more information and to apply, see

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF01059

 

 

 

2. CNRS: Mondes iranien et indien

Atelier

Vendredi 7 octobre, 9h-12h, salle 3.15

INaLCO, 65, rue des Grands Moulins PARIS

« Etymologie et emprunts dans l’histoire des langues iraniennes »

Interventions de

 

Agnes Korn :            « Noms de parenté en baloutchi : une famille recomposée »

Thomas Jügel :         « Calquing the Iranian verbal system: the case of Neo-Aramaic »

Sebastian Heine :      « Influence of other languages on Kurdish »

Johnny Cheung :      « Shedding light on the history of the speakers of Kurdish »

Matteo De Chiara :   « Recherches sur la lexicologie et la lexicographie du pashto »

 

 

3. Open Access Journal

Mizan, Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations

A Bi-Annual, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal of Islamic Studies Border Graphic

E-ISSN 2472-5919

http://www.mizanproject.org/journal/

 

 

 

4. Ebooks from the American Numismatic Society,

http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/results?q=genre_facet:%22e-books%22

 

 

 

5. Séminaire ‘Sociétés, politiques et cultures
du monde iranien’

Séance du 6 octobre 2016, 17h-18h30

Sebastian Heine, Bonn University

« Pashto Influence on the other Indo-Iranian languages in Afghanistan »

Persian and Pashto are the most important Iranian Language in Afghanistan, and also the two official languages of the country. While the deep impact of Persian Loans on the rest of the Iranian Group is evident, from a phonological, lexical as well as from a morphological point of view, until now lesser attention has been paid to the role of Pashto as a contact language with the remaining of the Indo-Iranian languages, i.e. languages belonging to the three subgroups of the Iranian languages, Indo-Aryan languages and Nuristani languages.
On the basis of some selected examples, Pashto influence on several dialect groups (Ormuri, Parachi, Yidgha-Munji, Pashai, Nuristani) will be explained.

Lieu : INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, salle 3.03 (3e étage), 75013, Paris.

Organisateurs :
Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS).

 

 

 

6. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) will be holding an academic conference entitled, Media in Muslim Contexts: Inventing and Reinventing Identities, at its London campus (210 Euston Road, NW1 2DA) on Nov 3-4, 2016.

There is no registration fee but places are limited.

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/research/activities/Pages/Media-in-Muslim-Contexts.aspx

 

 

 

7. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Visual Culture

Submission deadline: November 15, 2016
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) is pleased to invite submissions for the 2017 Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished article written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. Awarded annually by HIAA, this prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long‐serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT.
The competition is open to HIAA members only. As well as receiving an award of $500, the recipient of the prize will be announced at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The winning essay will also be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submission must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to urustem@jhu.edu by November 15, 2016.
 

 

8. Fashioned from Holy Matter.
A cross-cultural workshop on the semantics of image-making

Call for Papers
Deadline: 30 November 2016

Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
6–7 July 2017

This workshop draws attention to a particular type of image, which has not been studied yet as a group: images that were made of or shaped from holy matter, such as earth, stone, blood, sweat or wood. These materials might have been used as a support for painting, colour itself, as a modelling substance or as building material. The image-relic relationship—in particular, the insertion of relics into images/icons or reliquaries—and the miraculous properties of images in general have been the subject of sustained scholarly interest. In addition, the material properties of images and materiality, more broadly, are now major areas of study in both art history and a number of related disciplines. Yet little work has been devoted to the creative use of matter already perceived as holy or, vice versa, the later attribution of holiness to the substance of images.

The workshop seeks to explore from a cross-cultural and interreligious perspective how holy material becomes semantically charged and/or redefined through the process of artistic creation. How is meaning attained through the interaction between holy substance and image and how is the value of the holy matter communicated to various audiences (through inscriptions or legends for instance)? Does the image authenticate its holiness and, if so, what visual strategies were used? How might written descriptions or representations of  images also make this holy presence known? A related objective of the workshop will be to analyse the implications of meaning: how does it contribute to the function, use and activation of such images—in both sanctioned and unofficial devotional and ritual practices—, which might be informed by possible transcultural and transhistorical dynamics. Further, how might the meanings ascribed to fashioned matter express apotropaic, pharmacological or other concerns?

Papers from all fields, from earliest to contemporary times, are welcome.
Please send proposals of max. 500 words and a short Curriculum vitae by 30 November 2016 to the organisers:

hoffmann@khi.fi.it and jessica.richardson@khi.fi.it

 

 

 

9. Conference: “Envisioning a Post-Crisis Regional Order in the Sharq Region – Sykes Picot 100 Years”, Istanbul, 8-9 October 2016

Registration and Program: http://sharqforum.org/events/envisioning-a-post-crisis-regional-order-in-the-sharq-region/

 

10. Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen Orient (CCMO) : « Complots, mukhabarats, conspirationnisme : le Moyen-Orient du secret », Hôtel de Ville de Paris, 26 octobre 2016

Inscription obligatoire à inscriptions.ccmo@gmail.com. Information: https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/
 

 

11. International Conference: “Religion: Bridging Gaps and Breaking Paths – Contemporary Approaches towards Discourses of Religion and Knowledge Production in Transdisciplinary Perspective”, Berlin, 2-4 February 2017

This conference is hosted by the Doctoral Program “Religion – Knowledge – Discourse” of the Humboldt-University.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2017. Information: http://www.rwd.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/cfp-conference

 

 

 

12. Tenure-track Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo

The position is beginning in the fall of 2017. Candidates with a PhD in sociology and any area of expertise are welcome to apply, while a focus on the Middle East and/or community development would be an asset.

Deadline for application: 10 November 2016. Information: http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/services/faculty-vacancies
 

 

 

13. Arabic Language Teaching & Learning in UK Higher Education

Tuesday 28^th March 2017

Call for Papers

The purpose of the conference is to bring together academics and language teachers working in UK Universities to discuss the nature and challenges presently faced in the field.  This is in the context of a recent rapid growth of demand for Arabic language learning, in particular across University Wide Language Programmes.  There are now (2016) almost 60 UK Universities teaching Arabic language, including 12 who offer degree programmes (single or joint honours, undergraduate or postgraduate) in Arabic Studies.  The Conference intends to:

1. Provide a forum for all teachers of Arabic in Higher Education in the UK to come together, and to act as a catalyst for collaboration across all institutions
2. To support the closer integration of the teaching & learning of Arabic with the teaching & learning of other languages in UKHE
3. To provide a forum for development of collaborative ideas amongst participants, leading to collaborative projects through external funding

The conference will include two external keynote speakers, and will close with a panel discussion. There will also be parallel sessions to receive presentations on topics of principal interest, a small exhibition and a space for posters. The focus will be towards Arabic teaching and learning in UK universities, submissions from outside the UK will be accepted. We now invite abstract submissions and/or posters that relate to the following sub-themes:

 

1. Pedagogical Approaches to Arabic Diglossia and Language Variation: This may include research  findings, presentations on the integrated approach and the questions of MSA versus Dialect.
2. Arabic Language Resources, Technology and Innovation: This would allow discussions on textbooks and technology T&L resources.
3. Approaches to Assessment and Proficiency Level Bench-marking: This can include discussions on proficiency scales for Arabic language, assessment of the different language skills and the different Arabic varieties and the use of innovative approaches to assessment.
4. Arabic Students and Teachers Aspirations: This can include learning motivations as well as opportunities for teacher training and professional development.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Zeinab A. Taha, American University in Cairo

Munther A. Younes, Cornell University

Abstract Submission

Papers are allotted thirty-minute slots followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Please submit your abstract (In English, 250 words maximum) to ArabicConference@leeds.ac.uk, by 9^th December 2016. A scientific committee will review the abstracts and acceptance will be confirmed by 13^th January 2017.

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 9^th December 2016
Notification of acceptance: 13^th January 2017
Registration opens: 16^th January 2017.
Registration deadline: 13^th March 2017.

For more information, please contact ArabicConference@leeds.ac.uk

 

 

 

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Writing Competition: Biography of Imam Ali (as)

 

1.Ottoman Monuments and Persian Poetry: A Case from Istanbul in the 1540s

Lecture by Dr Tim Stanley

London, 5 Octobver, 2016, 6.30 pm

For further information, and ticket details, see

http://www.iranheritage.org/05Oct16/default.htm

 

 

2. Washington University in St. Louis – Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic

Art or Art of the Ancient Americas

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53566

 

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities – Two Tenure-Track Assistant
Professor positions, specializing in 1) Qur’anic Studies and 2) Muslims in America
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53591

University of Southern California – Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53539

Washington University in St. Louis – Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Art or Art of the Ancient Americas
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53566

Yale University – Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53582

 

Assistant Professor in Medieval Mediterranean/Islamic Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Research focus in Islamic art. Creative cultural interactions between global Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern Studies and contemporary issues encouraged.
Review of applications will begin 1 January 2017. Information: ggorse@pomona.edu

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
The position is to begin fall 2017. A Ph.D. in Arabic is required.
Deadline for application: 21 October 2016. Information: www.wofford.edu/modernlanguages/arabicSearch/
 

3. Trading Communities Conference: 2 – 4 October 2016

Merchants and trading communities in early Islam (800 – 1000)

St Andrews, 2-4 October, 2016-09-22

http://tradingcommunitiesconference.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

 

 

4. Borders, Itineraries on the Edges of Iran

a cura di Stefano Pellò
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia 2016
pello@unive.it

Open Access, at:

http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/

 

 

 

5. The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position in Persian and Iranian Studies at the Assistant Professor level, to begin in the fall semester 2017.

For a full copy of the job ad as posted on the University of Arizona Human Resources website and application form, please see: https://uacareers.com/postings/13768

 

 

 

6. International Conference: “Heidegger in the Islamicate World”, University of Bern, 2-4 November 2016

This conference explores various aspects of the reception of Heidegger in the Arabic, Iranian, and Turkish intellectual context. The contributions of established scholars and junior researchers introduce and discuss approaches to Heidegger’s philosophy that operationalize, recontextualize, or review it critically in the light of Islamic and Islamicate traditions.

Information: www.islam.unibe.ch or: HeideggerConferenceBern@gmail.com
 

 

7. 8th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 1-4 August 2017

Scholars are invited to apply to direct a workshop focusing on political, economic, security or social issues of the Gulf region. Any proposals dedicated to the study of the Gulf region within the context of the social sciences are welcome.

Deadline for proposals: 10 October 2016. Information: http://grm.grc.net/upload2016/Poster.pdf

 

8. 50-60 Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellowships & up to 20 Jean Monnet Fellowships at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

We offer 50-60 fully funded 1 and 2 year postdoctoral fellowships to applicants in the fields of economics, history, law and social and political sciences. The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers Fellowships for the academic year 2017/18 for scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years prior to the start of the fellowship.

Deadline for application: 25 October 2016. Information on the Max Weber Program at www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme/ApplytotheMWP/Why-Apply-Index.aspx and on the Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships at www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/JeanMonnetFellowships/Index.aspx

 

9. 2 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships 2017-18: “Muslim Converts and the Formation of Islamic Civilization”, University of Haifa

Preference will be given to candidates who are well immersed in Islamic history and
proficient in at least two Near Eastern languages, especially, but not exclusively, Arabic, Classical Armenian, Classical Greek, Hebrew, Middle Persian, and Syriac.

Deadline for application: 1 February 2017. Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=1da2af8942&e=82aeb6c61d
 

 

10. Mary Fox Whittlesey Visiting Professorship in Sociology, American University of Beirut

Position with specific emphasis on the Arab world, to begin 15 August 2017.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until 15 November 2016. Information:
www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/academic-employment/Pages/academic_positions.aspx#10

 

 

11. Call for Papers

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Seminar, Columbia University

“Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History”

Date: April 20, 2017; 10:00am-6:00pm

Organizers: Zeynep Celik (zc2162@columbia.edu) and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (la2142@columbia.edu), Seminar co-chairs

This conference aims to examine and problematize the use of visual sources of late Ottoman history in an interdisciplinary context. As images become more and more accessible, they are integrated in myriad ways into writing history–political, cultural, social, environmental, urban, art, architectural, and even economic. If they constitute primary documents for art and architectural historians, they enhance textual primary documents in other areas by giving them visual representation.  However, the dialogue between disciplines provokes serious methodological issues, ranging from excessive interpretation based solely on a single visual document (typically in art history) to the reduction of images as light distraction (as observed in social and political history).

The goal of our conference is to identify and discuss key methodological issues in the use of visual documents in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing from new research. The themes we hope to discuss include:

• How to combine visual and textual materials to re-construct buildings and urban forms which no longer exist or which are severely transformed?
• Social and political history’s use of photographic data. What are the precautions that need to be taken?
• How does the authorship of visual documents affect the messages they convey? Who are the authors?  What was the original purpose? What are the ways to read them against the grain?
• How to illustrate a historic event with a small number of photographs and convey an argument? How can the problem of flattening be avoided?
• How does visual material allow for readings that are not textually explicit? How can they be interpreted to do that?
• Use of maps and plans? New technologies?

PdD students and emerging scholars are invited to submit 300-word abstracts and short CVs. Transportation, accommodation, and meals will be provided. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2016. Please send the abstracts and CVs to the seminar rapporteur, Zeinab Alsadat Azarbedegan (zaa2117@columbia.edu)

 

 

12. Position in modern Arabic literature: The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies in the American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for a faculty position in Arabic Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate professor to begin in the Fall 2017.  A Ph.D. in Arabic studies is required, with a focus on a genre of or regional focus in modern Arabic literature, preferably the Arabic literature of the Gulf or women’s literature or both. The willingness and ability to teach entry-level Arabic heritage classes is essential. Successful applicants will have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. The language of instruction at AUS is English, however, candidates able to teach courses in both Arabic and English are preferred.  Strong scholarly record/potential and relevant teaching experience are expected.

AUS is located in the emirate of Sharjah, adjacent to Dubai, UAE. Founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, AUS is an independent, not-for-profit coeducational university in the Gulf, serving some 6,000 students of more than 90 nationalities. The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is accredited by the Commission of Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Applicants should have experience in and/or familiarity with the North American higher educational system, and experience in dealing with cultural and educational needs of a linguistically and culturally diverse student population. The ability to contribute to other courses offered by the Department will be a distinct advantage.

Interested applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of research, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a list of at least three referees to: Dr. Mahmoud Anabtawi, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, e-mail: cashr@aus.edu

For full consideration, applications must be received by 24 October 2016.

For information about the American University of Sharjah (AUS), please visit:www.aus.edu

 

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