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1.ISLAMIC PAINTED PAGE DATABASE – EXTENSION

The University of Hamburg’s Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures and Islamic Painted Page are pleased to announce the launch of a new version of the Islamic Painted Page website, www.islamicpaintedpage.com.

The website exists to help users locate reproductions, commentaries and online images for tens of thousands of Persian, Ottoman, Arab, Mughal, Sultanate and other paintings, bindings, illuminations, and decorated Qur’an pages up to c.1900 CE. It is also a signposting site, providing item-specific onward links and references to authoritative online and print publications.

As well as some refinements to the site, we are proud to report the database is now expanded to 42,000 references, of which 21,000 now include images.

Very grateful acknowledgement is made to the Smithsonian Freer Sackler Galleries; The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Harvard Art Museums; Copenhagen David Collection; the Geneva Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, and Chester Beatty Library, for permission to include images from their collections on this latest version of the database. Together with previous permissions and Creative Commons policies, this enables the database to display images for items from twenty of the world’s most important collections so far.

As a result, the database now covers works from over 270 collections worldwide, with image facilities and direct collection weblinks for 50% of the content. Everything is fully searchable by picture description as well as by place, date, accession number and other metadata, and supportive item-specific links are also provided to VIAF, WORLDCAT and FIHRIST.

The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures aims to enable the continued development of the Islamic Painted Page database, and the site is now hosted and supported by the University of Hamburg, although the database ownership and maintenance remain unchanged.

We hope that users will find the site increasingly useful, and warmly welcome feedback and any suggestions for future developments.

Stephen Serpell

Islamic Painted Page & Research Associate, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg

e-Mail: stephen.serpell@uni-hamburg.de

2. ASPIRANTUM -School of languages and cultures invites international participants to apply and take part in Armenian, Persian and Russian language winter schools from December 1 till December 21, 2019 in Yerevan, Armenia.

You can read testimonials of our alumni here: https://aspirantum.com/testimonials

You may find the details about Persian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/persian

You may find the details about Russian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/russian

You may find the details about Armenian language winter school here: https://aspirantum.com/topics/armenian

3. Colloque international

Jeudi 27 & vendredi 28 juin 2019

INaLCO, Auditorium de la BULAC (65 Rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris)

« Il y avait quelqu’un, il n’y avait personne »

Modes et enjeux de la narration dans le monde persanophone

Colloque international dédié à la mémoire de Marina Gaillard (1955-2015)

En 2015 disparaissait, fort prématurément, notre chère collègue et amie, Marina Gaillard, spécialiste de littérature persane classique, enseignante à l’INaLCO et membre de l’équipe CNRS « Mondes iranien et indien ». Son travail sur le récit en prose, et en particulier, sur les modalités du roman « semi-populaire » dans l’Iran médiéval, constitue une contribution majeure à notre connaissance de la narration persane pré-moderne. Auteur d’une œuvre pionnière, trop tôt interrompue, elle continue de nourrir nos recherches et d’inspirer nombre de nos travaux. Ce colloque est dédié à sa mémoire.

Du pouvoir salvateur des contes de Schéhérazade au mordant des récits de Hedayat et de Golshiri ; de l’épopée mythique de Ferdowsi aux romances médiévales en vers et en prose ; des anecdotes édifiantes de Sa‘adi à l’humour illustré de Marjane Satrapi ou au cinéma de Kiarostami et de Farhadi : autant de récits qui ont fasciné et continuent de fasciner le public persanophone aussi bien qu’étranger, en offrant un accès privilégié au monde dont ils sont issus, à ses croyances, à sa culture et sa pensée.

Y aurait-il donc un mode spécifique du récit « à la persane » ? Un rapport particulier à l’auditoire ? Une façon de raconter, héritage de pratiques ancestrales, qui aurait perduré à l’époque moderne ? Se pourrait-il que ces récits, dans leurs formes et dans leurs visées, voire dans leurs publics, se soient développés sinon indépendamment, du moins parallèlement aux formes connues du monde occidental ? L’attrait persistant qu’exerce, à ce jour, la narration persane sur un vaste auditoire, mérite que l’on s’attarde sur ces questions.

Comité d’organisation

Amr Ahmed, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature kurdes sorani, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, “Mondes iranien et indien” (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)

Julie Duvigneau, Maître de Conférences en langue et littérature persanes, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, “Mondes iranien et indien” (FRE2018, CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-INaLCO-EPHE)

Yassaman Khajehi, Maître de Conférences en Études Théâtrales, Université Clermont Auvergne, Centre d’Histoire “Espaces et Cultures” (CHEC)
Justine Landau, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Programme et Information sur le site web de l’Inalco et de « Mondes iranien et indien »

INALCO : http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/avait-quelqu-avait-personne-modes-enjeux-narration-monde-persanophone

Mondes iranien et indien : https://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/evenements-scientifiques/colloques-et-conferences-2019/il-y-avait-quelqu-un-il-n-y-avait-personne-modes-et-enjeux-de-la-narration-dans.html

4. 1st Annual Muslim Minorities and Human Rights Conference – London

This conference aims to encourage academic and quality research on Muslim minorities’ issues, and trying to provide academic and practical solutions to the problems and challenges of social, political, educational aspects that are faced by Muslim minorities in Britain. Aiming also to create a forum of dialogue on related issues for researchers and stakeholders.

Centre for Arab Progress – London is pleased to invite researchers and academics to participate in the 1st Annual Conference, to be held on (5th September 2019), entitled: “Islam, Muslims in Britain: radicalisation, deradicalisation, islamophobia and human rights”.

The conference aims to become an important academic and research platform in the UK on Islam and Muslim minorities and related matters. In addition, the papers that are accepted and presented in the conference will be published as hard copy and in electronic format.

For further information on the conference please visit the conference website on the following link: http://mmhrc.co.uk/

5. Call for papers:

*AFGHANISTAN IN THE WORLD: 100 Years of Independence
*SOAS, University of London*
*18-19 October 2019*

https://afgacademia.wixsite.com/afgindependence

*Deadline: June 30, 2019*

*Subject Fields: *Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian History / Studies,
Geography, Humanities

2019 marks one hundred years since the signing of the Anglo-Afghan Treaty
of 1919. This monumental event resulted in the United Kingdom formally
recognising Afghanistan’s independence, yet at present Afghanistan’s
sovereignty is still being contested. In a year when multiple events will
be taking place globally to celebrate the country’s independence, we seek
to critically engage with the notion of independence in a two-day workshop
marking the centenary of the modern state of Afghanistan with our Keynote
Speaker cited above.

We welcome PhD students and early-career researchers to submit abstracts of
200 words on any of the following themes:

1. Colonialism and imperialism
2. Society, borders and mobility
3. Histories and historiography
4. Insider-outsider perspectives
5. Decolonisation, resistance and resilience

For further details about the workshop and information on applying please
refer to:
*https://afgacademia.wixsite.com/afgindependence/call-for-papers

Completed abstracts should be e-mailed to afg1919soas@gmail.com

*Deadline for abstract submission:* *30th June 2019*

*The workshop will take place on Friday the 18th of October and Saturday
the 19th of October 2019 at SOAS, University of London.*

This workshop is supported by the generosity of the SOAS Early Career
Development Fund and the Association for Central Asian Civilizations & Silk
Road Studies – UK.

*Conveners*: Rabia Khan (SOAS) – Florence Shahabi (SOAS)

*Contact Info: *Florence Shahabi

*Contact Email: afg1919soas@gmail.com

*URL:* http://bit.ly/2HGwc7x

6. MA Iranian Studies: Iran in Antiquity and Late Antiquity

For the autumn 2019/20 (“Wintersemester”) at the Institute of Iranian Studies,

Freie Universität Berlin. This two year (four semesters), full-time study programme

is convened in English , leading to an internationally recognised Master of Arts in

Iranian Studies.

See: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/iranistik/studium/master/index.html

7. « Current Perspectives on Ibn ʿArabī and ‘Akbarī’ Thought »

June 24-25, 2019