Archive for November, 2019
Shii News – French MP Questions Bahrain Human Rights Policy
French MP Jean François Mbaye Tables Question on Human Rights Violations in Bahrain – Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain
4 November 2019 – On 29 October, MP Jean François Mbaye tabled a question to the Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs. He raised concern regarding the ongoing human rights violations committed by the Kingdom of Bahrain, highlighting the 2014 elections where the rights of the political opposition were restricted, …
- November 07, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Light in the Heavens – T. Qutbuddin
Light in the Heavens
Humanitarian lessons and practical insights from the prophet of Islam The words of Muhammad, messenger of God and prophet of Islam, have a special place in the hearts of his followers. Wielding an authority second only to the Qur’an, they are cited by scholars in a vast array of disciplines-including law, theology, metaphysics, poetry, grammar, history, and medicine-and are quoted by Muslims to one another in their daily lives.
- November 06, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Grabar Opportunities:
The Grabar Travel Grant competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions. The maximum amount of the award is $700 US.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowshipis intended to support post-doctoral scholars at early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:
- To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.
- To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Applicants should have completed their PhD within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or for supplies.
For further details and to apply, please visit the HIAA website:
https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
2. International Conference: “Monotheistic Believing and Pluralistic Societies from an Islamic Perspective”, Department Islamic-Religious Studies, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 7-9 November 2019
The central matter of interest will be whether and how Islamic monotheistic understandings of God have impacted social interactions between Muslims and non-Muslims, in both historical and contemporary contexts.
See program, abstracts and contact at https://www.dirs.phil.fau.eu/2019/10/07/international-conference-monotheistic-believing-and-pluralistic-societies-from-an-islamic-perspective-from-november-7th-9th-2019/
3. Assistant Professor in Islamicate South Asian Studies, Columbia University
Required qualifications: Applications from scholars working in Urdu and a second South Asian language are especially welcome. The successful candidate will be expected to sustain an active research and publication agenda, to teach both broad courses for undergraduates as well as graduate seminars, and to direct MA and PhD theses. The appointment will begin on 1 July 2020. The Ph.D. must be in hand by the appointment start date.
The review of applications will begin 1 January 2020; the position will remain open until filled.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59458
4. Summer School Languages Program: Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, and Persian, Ibn Haldun University Süleymaniye Complex, Istanbul, 8 June – 24 July 2020
Application deadline: 31 March 2020.
5. Arabic Culture and Language Program at Bar-Ilan University, 23 December 2019 – 9 January 2020
The program includes three weeks (five days per week) of intensive classwork in the Arabic language. In addition, excursions are arranged in order to experience first-hand local customs, culture and culinary delights through direct interaction with Arab hosts in their homes within the local villages.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2019. Information: https://biuinternational.com/short-term-and-exchange/arabic-culture-language-winter-program/
6. Call for Submissions: SERMEISS Book Award for 2020
Established in 1977, the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) is a professional society for specialist and non-specialist educators whose professional activities engage the Middle East or Islam. The organization was founded to provide scholars in the southeastern United States with an opportunity to meet regularly with colleagues to share research findings and teaching concerns. SERMEISS is an affiliated organization of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). For more information, see: sermeiss.org
SERMEISS is pleased to announce its academic book prize for 2020 to recognize outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern or Islamic studies in any academic discipline in the social sciences or humanities from any time period. Submitted books should be peer-reviewed nonfiction, published in English, and exhibit original empirical and theoretical contributions. Books published within the last three years (2017, 2018, 2019) will be considered. Edited volumes, handbooks, and novels are not eligible for the book award. SERMEISS will also give an honorable mention award.
Submissions will be accepted from authors based at a university within the SERMEISS 10-state region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia.
Recipients will be required to attend and provide a brief presentation of their books at a future SERMEISS meeting. The society’s annual meeting occurs in October in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, and we have a biennial spring meeting.
Recipients of the SERMEISS prize will receive a $200 honorarium and certificate at their presentation. Recipients also receive a conference registration fee waiver
Submissions should include:
A cover letter including the following information:
Author name
University of Affiliation
Book Title
Publisher Name
Year of Publication
ISBN #
Contact name, phone, email
A copy of the book
SERMEISS will only accept one submission per author.
Send submissions to the SERMEISS Executive Director postmarked by March 1, 2020:
Calvin H. Allen, Jr., PhD
Executive Director-SERMEISS
208 Henkel Hall
Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA 22601
Contact: edsermeiss@gmail.com
7. Call for Submissions: SERMEISS Article or Chapter Prize for 2020
Established in 1977, the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) is a professional society for specialist and non-specialist educators whose professional activities engage the Middle East or Islam. The organization was founded to provide scholars in the southeastern United States with an opportunity to meet regularly with colleagues to share research findings and teaching concerns. SERMEISS is an affiliated organization of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). For more information, see: sermeiss.org
SERMEISS is pleased to announce its second annual academic article or book chapter prize for 2020 to recognize outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern or Islamic studies published as a peer-reviewed article or edited volume book chapter from any academic discipline in the social sciences or humanities from any time period). The submission should be peer-reviewed nonfiction, published in English, and exhibit original empirical and theoretical contributions. For the 2020 prize, submissions must have a copyright date within the previous two years (2019 or 2018). SERMEISS will also give an honorable mention award.
Submissions will be accepted from scholars based at a university within the SERMEISS 10-state region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia.
Recipients will be required to attend and provide a brief presentation of their publications at a future SERMEISS meeting. The society’s annual meeting occurs in October in Valle Crucis, North Carolina and we have a biennial spring meeting.
Recipients of the SERMEISS prize will receive a $100 honorarium and certificate at their presentation. Recipients also receive a conference registration fee waiver.
Submissions should include:A cover letter including the following information:
Author name
University of affiliation
Publication Title
Journal Name
Year of Publication
Citation information
Contact name, phone, email
A copy of the publication in pdf format.
SERMEISS will only accept one submission per author.
E-mail submissions to the SERMEISS executive director at edsermeiss@gmail.com by March 1, 2020:
Calvin H. Allen, Jr., PhD
Executive Director-SERMEISS
208 Henkel Hall
Shenandoah University
Winchester, VA 22601
Contact: edsermeiss@gmail.com
8. 8th International Conference on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion
Subject Matter: Religious Diversity
Basics:
- Description of Religious Diversity in the world
- Explanation of Religious Diversity in the world (and its epistemological, ontological and anthropological basis)
- Approaches in facing Religious Diversity
Issues:
- The definition of religion and the extent of Religious Diversity
- Religious Diversity and interreligious dialogue
- Religious Diversity and epistemic obligation
- Religious Diversity and religious pluralism
- Religious Diversity and guidance and legitimacy
- Religious Diversity and the transcendental unity of religions
- Religious Diversity and peaceful coexistence
- Religious Diversity and tolerance and global peace
- Religious Diversity and global theology
- Religious Diversity and religious minorities
- Religious Diversity and politics
- Religious Diversity and mysticism
- Religious Diversity and futurology
Time: 4-5 February 2020
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 6 December 2019
Deadline for Submission of Full Text of Speech (1500-2000 words): 10 January 2020
Venue: Islamic Propagation Center, Shahid Rajaei St., Mashhad, Iran
Submissions:
Proposals of papers should consist of a title, a 300-350 word abstract, at least 3 keywords, and the author’s affiliation and email address. The proposal should be sent online from the form, available here.
Accommodation: The conference secretary offers you a two day stay in Mashhad for FREE.
Website: www.en.philor.org
Contact Conference Secretariat
philorconf@gmail.com
m.mahdi.fallah@gmail.com
Telephone: +989126048893
- November 05, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘The Alevi Question’ – C. Boyraz
The Alevi question and the limits of citizenship in Turkey
The Alevi question in Turkey is not only about a manifestation of the demands for religious freedoms and pluralism but also an issue of citizenship at least for the last three decades.
- November 05, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Papers
IRANIAN STUDIES INITIATIVE COLLOQUIUM SERIES
2020-2021
UC Santa Barbara, California, United States
The 2020-2021 Colloquium Series of the Iranian Studies Initiative will be held this next year in caboration with the UCSB Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR). The theme of the colloquium is:
ART AND LITERARY EXCHANGE BETWEEN IRAN, TRANSCAUCASIA, CENTRAL ASIA, AND RUSSIA IN THE 20th CENTURY
We welcome interdisciplinary proposals for papers and seminars addressing such transnational exchanges in roughly three periods: The Tsarist/Qajar Era, the Soviet Union/Pahlavi era, and the Islamic Republic/Post 1991 era, with a focus on Iran, Russia, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia. Although our focus is on literary, artistic, and cultural exchange, we will entertain submissions by historians and political scientists provided they relate to these areas.
The deadline for sending your abstract is December 31, 2019. If you are interested in participating, please send a resume, the title of your presentation, and an abstract (250 words). Please include any theoretical or methodological approaches used in your research. If your paper or seminar is accepted, we ask that you provide a draft of your paper/an outline of your seminar by late September 2020. Your lecture or seminar may be scheduled for the Fall, Winter, or Spring quarters 2020/21 on a Wednesday evening. If you have a preference for a particular time of day, please let us know.
Two nights of accommodation and meals, as well as travel expenses (in the US), and a small honorarium will be provided. Funds may be available for international travelers, but will be decided on an individual case by case basis.
For questions and paper proposals, please contact:
Christine D’Anca
Colloquium Organizer
Contacts:
Janet Afary, Mellichamp Chair Director, Iranian Studies Initiative, UCSB
Sven Spieker, Professor of German and Slavic Studies Comparative Literature Program, UCSB spieker@gss.ucsb.edu
2. Inaugural lecture, Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC), Toronto. Nov. 7
Tiles that tell Persian Tales–the Safavid Tile Arch Project of the Royal Ontario Museum
Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)
Venue: Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto (Jackman Building, room 530)
In 1976 the ROM acquired two large Safavid arched panels composed of colourful glazed square tiles: a royal picnic and a heroic dragon-slaying scene. Recently, The Safavid Tile Arch Project (Lisa Golombek and Robert B. Mason) decided to delve further into their history. They found that there are at least another 24 such pictorial arched panels representing a wide range of subjects (e.g., Shahnameh, Nizami, Jami, Safavid history and daily life), some yet to be identified. Stylistically, they date the tiles to c. 1680, the reign of Shah Sulayman. In this talk, Lisa Golombek will present their research and discuss the issues that have yet to be resolved—who commissioned these tiles, when and for what building, and why were these images chosen.
The Islamic Art and Material Culture Collective (IAMCC) is a new collaborative research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Aga Khan Museum. The aim of the IAMCC is to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on Islamic art and material culture, support a joint student internship program, host monthly talks and research seminars and present a high-profile annual visiting lecture.
3. Ševčenko Prize Deadline — 15 November 2019
Every year HIAA sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The 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 winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
For more information, see the Historians of Islamic Art Association website:
- November 02, 2019
- by Andrew Newman
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