Archive for December, 2020

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1.Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE) (Leiden University, October 2021)

Participants are asked to present a case study discussing how just rule was defined and what actions and reactions it precipitated in specific historical, geographical and cultural contexts (local, regional and imperial). How was just rule or, conversely, the abuse of political power understood and defined? What solutions were at hand to redress unjust rule or to institute just rule? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2021. Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/799/

2. ONLINE: Interdisciplinary Conference on “Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture”, Cappadocia University, Turkey, 14-15 January 2021

Topics: Plague, pandemic & epidemic representations in fiction & films; Apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic/pandemic fiction; Pandemic politics & praxis; Capitalism and biopolitics; Constructions of post-pandemic worlds; Post-humanism/post-anthropocentrism and multispecies interactions: etc.

Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-in-the-end-times-utopian-and-dystopian-representations-of-pandemics-tickets-117170820077

3. Four Postdoctoral Fellowships in Middle East History, Tel Aviv University

The fellowships, $30,000 each, are available for the academic year of 2021-2022, with a possibility of a one-year renewal. Fellows will conduct their research under the supervision of a senior faculty member from Tel Aviv University.

Deadline for applications: 11 February 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6940474/postdoctoral-fellowships-2021-2022-zvi-yavetz-school-historical

4. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan

ACOR promotes study, teaching, and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a focus. We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021. Information: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/

5. Articles for “Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World”, Vol. 39, 2022

Muqarnas is a scholarly journal that publishes articles on art, architectural history, and archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary.

Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6931259/call-submissions-muqarnas-39-2022

6. Articles on “Geopolitical Shifts and Ethnic Conflicts: The Transnational Kurdish Conflict in the Contemporary Middle East” for “Special Issue of the International Journal of Conflict and Violence”

Topics include: The Kurdish conflict through the lens of the geopolitics of Kurdistan in past and present; The rise and transformation of modern Kurdish nationalism; Intra-Kurdish relations: political, military, economic, social (tribes, sects, NGOs, associations); Cross-border mobility of the Kurds: etc. Guest Editors are Gülistan Gürbey (Freie Universität Berlin) and Arzu Yilmaz (University of Hamburg)

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2021. Information: https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/ikgblog/resource/IJCV/CfP_2021-3_final.pdf

7. CfP : Canon and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History

Conference and volume

The conference welcomes papers that focuses on certain texts, ideas or individuals that were perceived by Muslim communities as canon, authorities, or constitutional ideas and texts. In order to reach broad conclusions from the various papers, we encourage case studies that cover a wide range of disciplines (Sufism, Islamic law, Islamic theology, Islamic Philosophy, hadith-studies etc.) as well as focus on texts, ideas and individuals from different regions and time periods ranging from early Islamic history to modern times. It is particularly important to highlight the plurality of Islamic intellectual and theological thought by focusing on different schools of thoughts (e.g. Sunni, Shii, Zaydi schools of thoughts and others). The conference wants to offer valuable insights into a wide variety of studies and aims for an increased exchange with other disciplines. Therefore, in addition to studies from the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History, papers from humanities and social sciences as well as historical science are welcomed. Papers from the field of Islamic manuscript studies in various regions and historical periods can also be submitted.

The following research questions shall guide the contributions: What do the concepts of ‘canon’ and ‘censorship’ mean in the context of the case study? How did the canon become authoritative? How were contradicting ideas suppressed or censored? What stages did a text or an idea pass through with regard to the reception history to become a canonical text or a constitutional idea? What scholarly community stood behind this development who has fostered and supported a certain text or idea? What other historical, social or political factors favored the dominance of certain texts, ideas or individuals over others?

Organization:

The conference will be organized and the proceedings edited by Mohammad Gharaibeh (Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Bacem Dziri (Institute for the Study of Islamic Culture and Religion at the Goethe University of Frankfurt) and Amir Dziri (Swiss Center for Islam and Society, University of Fribourg) in cooperation with the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG). The conference will take place in Berlin from October 8th–10th 2021. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered. If international travelling will not be possible in Oct 2021, the conference will take place virtually. The papers will be peer reviewed and published in a collective volume.

Time Frame:

– Please submit a short academic cv and a proposal by January 15th, 2021, including the title of your contribution and an abstract of about 400 words. Please send this via mail to the address below.

– Once the paper has been accepted, you will be asked to participate in one or two preceding workshops in Berlin in which we will discuss the theoretical and methodological framework as well as your papers more detailed. If travelling will not be possible at that time, we will offer an online workshop.

– The first draft of the full article after the conference will be due January 31st 2022 (7.000–15.000 words)

For more information please contact Iman Zayat at iman.zayat@hu-berlin.de

8. Call for Papers:

Issue 31, Winter/Spring  2021  on “Media & Health”

Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, is seeking submissions for our next issue on “Media & Health”.

A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, and following the publication of our Summer/Fall 2019 special issue on “Media & Science”, this next edition will examine broader issues relating to communication, and human health and medicine. For years, scientists sounded the alarm that the world was long overdue for the outbreak of a global pandemic, but in most cases the media and policy makers were ill-prepared for what has become the most catastrophic health crisis in a century. The pandemic has illuminated both successes and failures of our communication and media systems; expediting changes in how we use, receive, and understand information communication technology (ICT). The media has played a pivotal role in keeping the public protected and informed, but it has also been a vector for panic and misinformation. In the Arab world, health communication in general has its own sets of variables dictated by social, cultural, and religious factors, not to mention socioeconomic status and the political mechanisms governing the nations of the region. With this in mind, we are compiling a special issue dedicated entirely to “Media & Health” in the Arab region. More information is available here.

1.History of Istanbul : from Antiquity to the 21st century

“This website is designed for the dissemination of History of Istanbul from Antiquity to XXIst century, a work prepared by the cooperation of Türkiye Diyanet Foundation Center for Islamic Studies (İSAM) and İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality Kültür ve Sanat Ürünleri A.Ş.

The Project for the preparation of the Turkish version of the work was launched in late 2012, and completed and published in 2015. The book was prepared the­matically and composed of around 355 articles written by nearly 260 scientists about different fields such as topography, architecture, religious and social life, management, economics. In this book which consists of 10 volumes, nearly 5300 pages, around 4 thousand visual materials such as maps, miniatures, engravings, paintings, and archive documents were used. The English translation of the work was completed in 2019 and not published yet. It is accessible online…”

2. New Book: Quoting the Quran: A Reference Handbook for Authors and Scholars

Saad D. Abulhab

Volume 1: Full Text of the Quran in an Early Quranic Kufic Script with and without Diacritic Vowel Marks

https://books.google.com/books/about?id=2ObxDwAAQBAJ

Volume 2: Full Text of the Quran in Modern Arabic with a Latin Transliteration According to the ALA-LC Romanization Standards

https://books.google.com/books/about?id=zOr4DwAAQBAJ

This handbook is a reference tool intended to help authors, scholars, and anyone else provide accurate and standardized quotations from the Quran, both from linguistic and historical perspectives. The first volume of the handbook includes the full text of the Quran using a font mimicking its earliest script, Mashq or Early Kufic, and it is provided in two formats, with and without diacritic vowel marks. The font used to generate the full texts in the first volume, Arabetics Mashq, was designed and implemented by the author after years of in-depth examination of the historical Quranic manuscripts, notably the copy of Muṣḥaf ʿUthmān kept today in the Topkapi Museum in Turkey. The second volume of the handbook also includes two full texts of the Quran. The full text of the first part is a complete, word-by-word Latin transliteration of the modern Arabic script full text of the Quran, using the ALA-LC Romanization Standards. The second part includes a modern Arabic script full text of the Quran, including the full set of modern Arabic diacritic vowel marks. It is generated using Arabetics Latte, a multilingual font designed and implemented by the author to emphasize simple, clear shapes, and facilitate easy reading. Letters change shapes only minimally and are designed to have a large x-height. The diacritic vowel marks are placed intentionally away from the letters for clarity. Reading the Quran in this font can be very helpful to both native and non-native Arabic readers. The full text of the Quran contained in this book is based on the Tanzil Quran text, a carefully produced, highly verified and continuously monitored text by a group of specialists at Tanzil project. Possibly, this handbook includes the first Latin transliterated copy ever of the Quran using the ALA-LC Romanization Standards. Both volumes include indexes for Quran chapters and verses and the necessary tables needed to help the readers understand the early Quranic Kufic script and the ALA-LC Romanization Standards.

3. Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is organizing Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia.

The 8 weeks Persian language summer school will start on July 4, 2021 and will last till August 28, 2021. Applicants may also choose to participate in 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 weeks’ program.

For more details please check the following link: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school-04-july-28-august-2021-yerevan-armenia

4. ISLAMIC HISTORY / STUDIES

James Madison University – Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – Department of Philosophy and Religion
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60762

Preference will be given to candidates with a Ph.D. in Religious Studies with a specialty in Islam in Africa and/or the African diaspora. Candidates with other areas of specialization in the study of Islam and A.B.D. candidates are also welcome to apply.

Application closing date: 3 January, 2021.

5. CALL FOR PAPERS 

MESA’s 55^th Annual Meeting
October 28-31, 2021 

All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system (https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php) which opens on Friday, January 8, 2021 and closes on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Late submissions will not be considered.

Important Links
* Call for Papers & Submission Instructions: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

Membership is a requirement to submit a proposal. To renew your 2021 membership, login to your myMESA account. To join you will need to create an account in myMESA, complete a profile, and pay the annual dues. Contact Sara Palmer at sara@mesana.org with questions about membership. Preregistration payment is not required until May 15, after the program committee decisions are released.

Please direct questions about submissions to Kat Teghizadeh at kat@mesana.org.

6. Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with the Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative.

Supervisory team: Professor Esra Özyürek (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) and Sadiya Ahmed (Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative)
The CDA project asks how do different generations of Muslims understand what it means to be a Muslim in the U.K.? Can we talk about a British Muslim experience? If so, at which generation does it start? What kinds of everyday religious expressions bind British Muslims with each other and make them different from non-British Muslims? What would the across the generations experiences of British Muslims tell us about the relationship between migration and localization when it comes to diverse religious communities coming together and forming a distinct minority?
The CDA student will conduct research under the supervision of Esra Özyürek, Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Religions and Shared Values, and Sadiya Ahmed, Director and Founder of the Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative. The student will use existing audio-visual archival material from the Everyday Muslim Project, as well as collecting new sources from three generations of Muslims from different families in the U.K. This is a unique opportunity to understand transformation in the lived experience of Islam through generations of diverse Muslim communities in the U.K. The dissertation will be an anthropological contribution to our understanding of the rich but understudied lived experience of Islam in the U.K. from a generational perspective. It will allow us to gain a diachronic perspective on the localization of religious expression in creating cultural, ethnic, and citizenship ties in contemporary U.K.
The CDA is also an opportunity to develop professional skills in collecting oral history narratives and other audio-visual and material documents for archives. Upon completion of their degree the student will both have academic qualifications and practical training in collecting and archiving oral history narratives, and other visual and material evidence that highlight an aspect of Muslim lives in the UK of their choice. Hence, the student will join the much needed but scarce ranks of qualified people who can build bridges between academia and the museum and heritage world.
The award holder will be based at the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge, with regular periods of time spent at the Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative offices in London. Applicants from the fields of religious studies, divinity, anthropology, sociology, history, and related disciplines are encouraged to apply.
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Esra Özyürek: ego24@cam.ac.uk with questions and for any guidance before submitting their application. For further details on how to apply for this CDA through the University of Cambridge, please see the advert on the Cambridge jobs site.

7. Symposium on ‘Iran and Global Decolonization’
organized by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Los Angeles, to be held online on THURSDAY, MAY 20 and FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021.

We invite submissions for a symposium on Iran and Global Decolonization, organized by the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California Los Angeles, to be held online on THURSDAY, MAY 20 and FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021. Iranian activists, dissidents, entrepreneurs, non-state actors, diplomats, prostitutes, homeless and migrant populations engaged with and experienced colonialism and decolonization in different ways, both inside Iran and beyond its borders. The symposium invites scholars whose work investigates Iran’s experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of perspectives – including, but not confined to, race and ethnicity; foreign relations; intellectual history; social and economic networks; as well as cultural studies – to answer questions such as: What role did decolonization play in Iran’s interactions with the Global South? How did Iran respond to decolonization movements? What networks did Iranian women and minorities create to confront their experiences of dispossession reinforced by colonialism or decolonization? How did Islam and secular ideologies help proponents of decolonization movements to articulate their struggles?

In the decades after the Second World War, dozens of countries around the world achieved independence from colonial rule, including Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Kuwait (among others) in Asia and Senegal, Kenya, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Sudan and Angola (among others) in Africa. Similar processes had taken place earlier in the Americas. This period of rapid decolonization after WWII fundamentally changed the dynamics of global politics. Between 1946 and 1970, membership of the United Nations increased from 35 to 127 nations, and the organization became a forum in which these newly independent states could argue for the continuation of decolonization and the recognition of national rights.

From the 1950s onwards, and with increased urgency in the 1970s, Iran sought to establish close political relationships with the newly independent countries in the Global South. Iran presented itself as a powerful, wealthy, and like-minded ally – an alternative to the colonial powers of Europe. Though it was never formally colonized, Iran had, from the early nineteenth century, suffered repeated violations of its sovereignty at the hands of the Russians and British. This shared experience of imperialism allowed Iran to present itself as inherently sympathetic to the formerly colonized states of Africa, Asia and the Americas despite its imperial self-image and impulses.

In the same period, anti-colonialist and anti-imperialist movements around the world had a profound impact on intellectual thought inside Iran. The rising influence of the United States in the Middle East gave voice to new anti-imperialist currents in Iran that prompted intellectuals simultaneously to call for civil liberties, social justice and democracy.

We hope this symposium will show the necessity of studying Iran’s experiences with colonialism and decolonization in a global framework in an effort to broaden conversations around these subjects and to expose the complex networks that Iran created and shared with (de)colonized communities.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be emailed to: iranglobaldecolonization@gmail.com no later than Friday 15 January 2021.

8. ‘Building a Library: The Arabic and Persian Manuscript Collection of Sir William Jones’,

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/abs/building-a-library-the-arabic-and-persian-manuscript-collection-of-sir-william-jones/C27FD97B5285861ECF7CD06516DF2A1D

Profile in Persecution: Ali Hasan Tooq

For ADHRB Weekly Newsletter #378, click here.

1.ONLINE Workshop: “Environmental History of the Ottoman Empire”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 10-11 December 2020

Organised by Fatih Ermiş, the workshop is open to all researchers who show interest in the Ottoman environmental history and to all subfields of the Ottoman studies, especially historians, geographers, theologians, natural scientists, sociologists, political scientists, botanists and zoologists.

Information, program and registration: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/environmental-history-of-the-ottoman-empire

2. ONLINE Conference: “Iran and Global Decolonization”, University of Pennsylvania and University of California Los Angeles, 20-21 May 2021

The symposium invites scholars whose work investigates Iran’s experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a multiplicity of perspectives – including race and ethnicity; foreign relations; intellectual history; social and economic networks; as well as cultural studies – to answer questions such as: What role did decolonization play in Iran’s interactions with the Global South? How did Iran respond to decolonization movements? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/30/iran-and-global-decolonization-call-for-papers

3. Two-Year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

The postdoctoral position will be associated with the Work Package on Middle Eastern futurisms (such as Gulf, Arab, Iranian, Turkish). The Postdoctoral Fellow (PD) can hold a PhD in any relevant arts and humanities or social science discipline (including artistic research), and they can conduct research on any kind of media, including film, visual arts, literature, video games, as long as these can be considered a part of Middle Eastern futurisms.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/195901/postdoctoral-research-fellowship-at-the-department-of-culture-studies-and-oriental-languages

4. Azar Hatefi Graduate Student Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University

The scholarship supports original and significant research about the Iranian Diaspora that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. Award is contingent upon the candidate’s acceptance into a graduate program at SFSU. This $10,000/year award (with possibility for 2nd year renewal) may be used for expenses connected with research, course work, travel, data work/collection, and supplies.

Deadline for applications: 3 January 2021. Information: https://sfsu.academicworks.com/opportunities/11729

5. ONLINE Course: “Muslims in the UK”, Aga Khan University, London, 12, 19, and 26 January, 2 February 2021, 9:30-11:30 am GMT

This course will address, among other things, the history and diversity of Muslims in the UK, the discussion about integration, radicalisation, securitisation, gender and Sharia. The aim is to give participants an in-depth introduction and tools to critically understand discussions about Muslims.

Information, program and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muslims-in-the-uk-short-course-tickets-129491874683

6. Articles on “Contesting Boundaries and Producing the Norm: Gender-related Issues in Islamic Theory and Practice” for Special Issue of “Islamology – Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies”

Major social, economic, political transformations of the last decades have strongly affected both Muslim majority and Muslim minority countries, bringing issues related to gender and sexuality to the forefront. These transformations that have fundamentally altered the previously dominant role division between men and women.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2021. Information: http://islamology.in/journal/announcement/view/20?fbclid=IwAR0K9JyCZYR5c76Tn4cjbOuRGqfhoubwwfKVIJTG3DkjW6PpvYpoRjU31cg

7. The Mediterranean Syllabi Index

This is an open-access resource for instructors developing or teaching undergraduate and graduate courses relating to Mediterranean Studies topics in disciplines including History, Art History, Material Culture, Archaeology, Literature and Language, Music, Culture and the Social Sciences. from Antiquity to the present.

Information: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/syllabus

8. Job vacancy: fully-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in late antique and/or medieval Greek and Near Eastern narrative (2 years) at Ghent University (Belgium)

The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for a fully-funded and full-time postdoctoral research fellowship in the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Novel Echoes. Ancient novelistic receptions and concepts of fiction in late antique and medieval secular narrative from East to West (for an abstract, see https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/about/projects). Its Principal Investigator is Prof Dr Koen De Temmerman, who specializes in ancient fiction and its reception. See here for the full announcement.

deadline: 5 January 2021

9. The master’s program Cultural Studies of the Middle East, jointly hosted by the Universities of Bamberg and Erlangen, invites applications for the Visiting Professorship 2021-22

The deadline to apply is January 07, 2021.

1.UK Think-Tanks, the War on Terror and the Radicalisation Debate

December 7, 2020
12:00 pm-1:00 pm | London

Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

The event will be livestreamed on AKU-ISMC’s Facebook page @akuismclondon and will be available afterwards on our YouTube channel.

2. CEU Department of History | Apply for PhD and MA Scholarships!

The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on history from the late medieval period to the present. It is recognized for its innovative approaches to research and teaching and as a center for outstanding research advancing comparative and transnational history on empirical and theoretical grounds. Our international faculty offers expertise that extends from early modern history to the comparative study of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, as well as the post-communist period; from numerous aspects of social, cultural and intellectual history to comparative religious, visual and archival studies.

CEU is an English-language, graduate university located in Vienna, and accredited both in Austria and the United States. It is committed to attracting talented students and scholars from around the world and take pride in the fact that there is no dominant nationality on campus. Our student/faculty ratio is 8:1, allowing for small, discussion-based seminars and close guidance from faculty members.

Scholarships and Application Deadline

The vast majority of our students receive financial aid packages, including scholarships with stipends and accommodation. Research grants are also available for all students regardless of nationality. The deadline to apply for admission for the 2021-22 academic year is February 1, 2021 at 23:59 CET.

Programs Offered

• Master of Arts in Comparative History (One Year)
• Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to the Present (Two Years)
• Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History [MATILDA] (Two Years)
• Master of Arts in “History in the Public Sphere” [HIPS] (Two Years)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History

Additional Certificates in Various Specializations

Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Thought, Religious Studies, Visual Theory and Practice, and Archives and Evidentiary Practices (in collaboration with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives).

Selected Areas of Research

Early modern cultural and political history

Comparative history of Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires

Comparative religious studies

History of nationalism and national movements

Comparative history of fascism

Comparative history of communism

Gender history

History of political thought

Social and labor history

Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Transnational and global history

Urban studies

Visual studies

History of science

Follow this link or write to Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (history@ceu.edu) for further information. 

3. British Institute of Persian Studies,

AGM Lecture 2020: ‘Art as a Source for the History of Mongol Eurasia’

Professor Sheila Blair
7 December, 2020, 5 pm UK time
About the speaker
Professor Blair recently retired from the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, positions she shared with her husband and colleague Jonathan Bloom.

The lecture is dedicated to the memory of Dr Abdullah Ghouchani
Please, register for the Zoom lecture here.
The lecture will be also broadcasted on Facebook.
 

4. CfP: Conference on Religious minorities in Iran

24-25 September 2021

Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU)
Campus Prater
Freudplatz 1
A – 1020 Vienna

Deadline for abstracts – March 2021
Declaration of acceptance – April 2021
First draft of the full article – June 2021

Conference Organizers:
Behnaz Hosseini & Ourania Roditi

For further information please contact Ourania Roditi & Behnaz Hosseini at ethnic.religious2020conference@gmail.com

Download: Conference on Ethnic_Religious Minorities in Iran (pdf)

5. THE ROLE OF MARY IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM

Hartford Seminary

ONLINE

Tuesday, Dec. 15

7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (US EST)

Join us during this celebratory time of the year as three members of Hartford Seminary’s Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations explore the role of Mary in the Gospels and the Qur’an, and in Muslim and Christian belief.

REGISTER HERE

6. Séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 17 décembre 2020

Nous sommes heureux de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR 8041),
le jeudi 17 décembre 2020, de 17h à 19h, au cours de laquelle nous écouterons :

Alberto Bernard (doctorant, EPHE, PSL/CeRMI)
Hiérarchie, salaires et compétition : les prêtres zoroastriens au IXe siècle de notre ère

Werner Gaboreau (doctorant, Sorbonne Nouvelle/CeRMI)
Classifier et inventorier au XVIIe siècle : L’Iran safavide, un exemple de construction du savoir préscientifique

Nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre via Zoom en suivant le lien :

https://zoom.us/j/94710042955?pwd=U1I1eHltbXRXcHJHR3BWZy8xdDNoQT09

ID de réunion : 947 1004 2955

Code secret : 569080

Retrouvez les résumés et les orientations bibliographiques de cette séance sur le site internet du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/events/3eme-seance-du-seminaire-de-recherche-pluridisciplinaire-societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2020-2021/

Bien cordialement,
Amr Ahmed (INaLCO/CeRMI), Sandra Aube (CNRS/CeRMI),
Samra Azarnouche (EPHE/CeRMI), Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle/CeRMI)

7. The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) has the following two openings:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa (m/f/d) and
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa and / or Asia (m/f/d).

https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-11_Postdoc_WONAGO_MENA.pdf <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.giga-hamburg.de%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmd_pdf%2FAusschreibung_GIGA-20-11_Postdoc_WONAGO_MENA.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Ceckart.woertz%40giga-hamburg.de%7C7a0ed4a711804c3732b508d898687c82%7C1ef3ba1c574c4a4ca39bc6243af6af59%7C1%7C0%7C637426921821853416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I%2F3iEsd9iBa5RGpEd7Sx6O675MdNUCELwnwKmD%2FYja4%3D&reserved=0>

https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-12_Postdoc_WONAGO-MENA.pdf <https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-12_Postdoc_WONAGO-MENA.pdf>

Applications are invited for a full-time position, with a contract of 3 years, starting 1 April 2021. The salary is commensurate with EG 13 TV-AVH / TVöD.

The successful candidate will work in the project “World Order Narratives of the Global South”, pending external funding. A research team of six postdocs and several senior researchers and visiting fellows will investigate what world order narratives have emerged in the Global South after the end of the Cold War and how this reflects the position of the respective countries in a changing geopolitical landscape.

Eckart Woertz
Director, GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
Professor for Contemporary History and Politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, room 342
20354 Hamburg
Germany
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‘Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood, Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land’
2020 HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 10 (2): 351–355
Morteza Hashemi
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THE NARRATION ANALYSIS OF ‘ABBÂD B. YA’QÛB AS A SYIAH RÂFIḌAH NARRATOR IN THE MAIN HADITH BOOK OF SUNNI | Amrulloh | Jurnal Ushuluddin

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