Archive for 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Webinar Series – Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA), SOAS
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 20th January 2022 at 7 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 19 January
Samer Akkach
Naẓar: The Question of Vision in Islamic Art and Architect
Abstract: Naẓar, literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’, thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one’s personal belief. Peering through the lens of naẓar, this seminar will shed light on aspects of these entanglements to provide insights into how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture and underlie the production of Islamic art and architecture.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 3rd February 2022 at 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 February
María Gómez López
Cartobiography: an experiential mapping of the world
Abstract: In this presentation, we will explore the growing presence of territorial depictions through a critical gaze and personal experience of place in contemporary art from the Arab world. In some works, the canonical map is manipulated and subverted with the purpose of evidencing its shortcomings. Other pieces reconfigure, and even transcend, the cartographic lexicon to explore alternative forms of spatial representation, seeking to articulate a more diverse and experiential narration of the world. Behind both types of projects lies a reconsideration of the definition, the relationship with and the narration of the places we traverse. This, in turn, evidences the inherent need of human beings – geographical beings – to learn and convey the territory through their experience of it.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 3rd March 2022 at 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 March
Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti
Interpretations of Objects from the Islamic Lands during the Age of Enlightenment
Abstract: The study and interpretation of medieval and early modern objects from Islamic lands in Europe was revived during the eighteenth century. Efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced, and these Islamicate objects were classified and given a new place in history. With reference to well-known objects, in this seminar we will explore the approaches and new interpretations proposed.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 17th March 2022 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 16 March
Darka Bilić
Mobility on the borders of the Empire: Shared Spaces of the Caravanserais in Ottoman Balkans
Abstract: The process of islamization and integration of western Balkans within the Ottoman-Islamic cultural norms during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was, among others, conducted through urbanization. The central government in Istanbul stimulated the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and caravanserais, as well as the broader infrastructure that enabled both the development of trade and fulfilled key military functions in this border province. The proposed talk will focus on the different types of buildings built along the trade routes in the geographic area of western Balkans from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Various examples of caravanserais as the ones in Sarajevo, Skopje, Počitelj and Vrana will be examined from the aspect of architectural design, their formal and functional characteristics. The recounts of many travellers – members of different religions, cultures and social classes – who used caravanserais for lodging are a valuable source of information about their aspect and conditions of lodging, but also in general of the conditions of travel through the Ottoman Balkans.
2. Reed College – Visiting Assistant Professor History and Humanities (Africa, Middle East, or South Asia)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62776
Closing date: 21.3.22
3. The British Library – Situations of Delicacy and Embarrassment: Ill-considered Favours in 1830s Persia
- December 31, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- December 30, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘Heir of the Prophets’ – H Qazwini
‘Heir of the Prophets, Veneration of Ḥusayn b. ‘Alī and the Socio-Religious Positioning of Twelver Shiism’
Hadi Qazwini
Islamic Studies, 60/3 (2021).
- December 29, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.‘A Mamluk-Venetian Memorandum on Asian Trade, AD 1503’
F. Apellaniz
2. Virtual Panel on “Arab Media Between Conflict and Peace” Recap
On Tuesday 7th of December, AMS hosted a virtual panel discussion on “Arab Media Between Conflict & Peace.”
The panel, hosted in advance of our upcoming issue on Media & Peace, discussed how media hampers or promotes peace in the region.
Our distinguished panelists included Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Philip Seib; Professor Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park; Nour Halabi, Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds who stepped in for Professor Christa Salamandra, Deputy Chair of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, the City University New York; and Jalel Harchaoui, researcher and analyst of North African affairs. The event was moderated by AMS Managing Editor, Sarah El-Shaarawi.
The panelists discussed everything from information warfare in the region, to the role of women in cyberactivism.
To watch the entire panel and hear more about the role of the media in conflict and peace visit our youtube channel here.
3. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series:
Iranian Cinema and Women Poets
Winter-Spring 2022
Series Zoom Registration:
https://uoft.me/IranianCinema-WomenPoets
Friday, Jan 21, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tainted Veil: Desire, Poetry and Subjectivity in the Persianate Literary Culture of South Asia
Razak Khan, University of Göttingen
Friday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m. EST
On Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry: Invisible, Impossible, or Immaterial?
Ahoo Najafian, Macalester College
Friday, February 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
“Salaam Mumbai”: Pasts and Presents of Exchange and Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas
Claire Cooley, Tufts University
Friday, February 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tracing the ‘Sensible Transcendental’: Forough Farrokhzad and the Question of Female Subjectivity
Mahrokhsadat Hosseini, University of Sussex
Friday, February 18, 4:00 EST
From Mehrin Negār to Tārā: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tārā” (1978-9)
Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews
Friday, February 25 Reading Week. No lecture.
Friday, March 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
Zīb al-Nisā (d. 1702): A “Hidden” Poetess at The Mughal Court
Pegah Shahbaz, University of Toronto
Friday, March 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
How Frightening Your Makings: Epidemics, Mass Metamorphoses,
and Bodies of the Iranian New Wave Cinema
Farbod Honaarpisheh, Yale University
Friday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. EST
Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically
Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar
Friday, March 25 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 1 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 8, 4:00 p.m. EST
Desire, Power and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading their Poems
before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Mahdi Touraj, King’s University College
Friday, April 15 Good Friday. No Lecture
Friday, April 22, 4:00 p.m. EST
New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema
Farshid Kazemi, Simon Fraser University
- December 28, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – CfP: Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS)
CALL FOR PAPERS: JOURNAL OF SHI‘A ISLAMIC STUDIES
As the premier English-language Shi‘a journal, the Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies (JSIS) is continuously in search of the latest and best research into Shi‘a Islam.
Now in its twelfth volume, JSIS covers all areas of Shi‘a studies, from the historical to the contemporary and from the theological to the philosophical. JSIS has a prestigious advisory board and is covered by the leading relevant indexing services.
Interested scholars are invited to submit their essays for the consideration of the Editor, at the address below. Essays undergo a process of blind peer review and should therefore not indicate the identity of the author(s).
LINK TO JOURNAL WEBSITE:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/publications/jsis/
also available via Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/582
CONTRIBUTIONS:
Interested scholars are invited to submit their essays for the consideration by the Editorial Board, at the address below:
jsis@islamic-college.ac.uk
- December 27, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Apply Before:
01/12/2022, 05:00 PM
Full information at:
2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts
Dwight Reynolds
3. Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships tenable at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for the academic year commencing in October 2022.
Visiting Fellowships
Two Visiting Fellowships are offered to support research in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences that has relevance to the study of Islam or the Muslim world, particularly anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.
Applicants would normally be established academics but scholars at the postdoctoral level are also eligible.
The Visiting Fellowship provides a stipend of £5000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 28 January 2022.
Click here for General Information
Click here to Apply
Visiting Research Fellowships
Two Visiting Research Fellowships, open to citizens of countries in Asia or Africa, are intended to encourage interaction among academics from different traditions of learning. Preference will be given to those studying classical Islamic sciences, although other areas in the humanities and social sciences will be considered.
Applicants should normally be at the postdoctoral level or equivalent.
The Visiting Research Fellowship carries a stipend of £4000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Research Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Research Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 11 February 2022.
Click here for General Information
Contact Email:
visiting.fellowships@oxcis.ac.uk
URL:
https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships
4. Workshop – Interdisciplinary Textile Studies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential – March 4
tudies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential
Disiplinler Arası Bağlamda Tekstil Araştırmaları Çalıştayı: Geçmiş, Gelecek ve Olası Çalışmalar
(Türkçe tercümesi aşağıdadır).
Organized by Ivana Jevtić (Koç University) and Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)
We are pleased to call for applications from current graduate students to attend a workshop about textile studies, taking place on Friday March 4 2022 in Istanbul. The one-day event focuses on material from the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific aim of spurring dialogue across periods and disciplines, as well as the immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. Please see below / the end of this message for details on eligibility and application.
Textiles were the second-most traded commodity in world history, second only to grain. In the eastern Mediterranean, silks feature as chief items of display in both Byzantine and Ottoman courts, woolens were worn by soldiers, peasants, and clerics alike, and townsfolk signalled their status and affiliations with expensive clothing, furnishings, and other accoutrements. Work in the textile sector encompassed expert designers, weavers, and tailors, as well as dyers, spinners, and amateur embroiderers. Across the region, men and women raised goats and sheep, and wore woolens, and bought, sold, traded, and re-used cloth both plain and fancy. While textiles shaped life and experience across time and place, they are not often the subject of serious, sustained engagement. This workshop aims to re-center textiles and to showcase the potentials for interdisciplinary study by bringing together academics, curators, professionals, and students.
The workshop is pleased to announce the following speakers and topics:
Sibel ALPASLAN ARÇA, Topkapı Sarayı Museum Osmanlı Kıyafet Koleksiyonu / Clothing from the Ottoman Dynasty; Hülya BİLGİ, Sadberk Hanım, Osmanlı işlemeleri ve işleme tekniği / Ottoman Embroideries and Techniques; Paul HEPWORTH, Conservator, 19th Century Ottoman Textiles / 19. Yüzyıla ait Osmanlı Tekstiller; Ivana JEVTIĆ, Koç University, Representations of Textile in Byzantine frescoes / Bizans Fresklerinde Tekstil Tasvirleri; Recep KARADAĞ, Istanbul Aydın University / Turkish Cultural Foundation, Dyestuffs and metal threads analysis, and textile technologies in Ottoman textiles / Osmanlı tekstillerinde boyalar ve metal iplik analizleri, ve tekstil teknolojileri; Eunice Dauterman MAGUIRE, curator emeritus, Gender-fluid garments, breastfeeding and holy persons in late antiquity/ Geç Antik Çağda Akışkan Cinsiyetli Kıyafetler, Emzirme ve Kutsal Kişiler; Çiğdem MANER, Koç University, Anatolia: A Major Hub for Textile Production During the Bronze and Iron Age / Anadolu: Tunç ve Demir Çağları’nda Önemli Tekstil Üretim Merkezi; Amanda PHILLIPS, University of Virginia, Textile Studies: Interdisciplinary Potentials / Tekstil Araştırmaları: Disiplinler Arası Olasılıklar; Gang WU, former ANAMED postdoctoral fellow; Understanding Byzantine silk production technology / Bizans İpek Üretim Teknolojisini Anlamak; Filiz YENİŞEHİRLİOĞLU, Koç University / VEKAM (Ankara), Tarihi Dokumak: Bir Kentin Gizemi: Sof / Weaving History: The Mystery of a City: Sof (Camlet)
The workshop is sponsored by the Barakat Trust for Islamic Art with the support of Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), the Koç University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM), and the American Research Institute in Turkey’s Istanbul branch.
The workshop will be in Turkish and English, with live translation during the Q&A as necessary.
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Space is limited to ten participants. To apply, please send the following information as a single Word or PDF document, to textileworkshopistanbul2022@gmail.com by 15 January 2022.
- Your name
- Your university and graduate program affiliation
- The name of one professor with whom you are working who can attest to your enrollment and progress in the program
- A CV, two pages maximum
- In a paragraph of about 200 words, please describe any experience you have studying or working with textiles and material culture of any type, including classes, short or summer programs, field or lab work, internships, or other relevant experience.
- In a paragraph of about 300 words, please explain why you would like to participate in the workshop, what you hope to learn, and how it relates to your overall formation as a student and/or future academic or professional.
Applicants will receive notification by the beginning of February 2022.
We are grateful to Hayriye Bilgi for her help with translations from English to Turkish.
5. ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fourth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 3, 2022.
For more details and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
The deadline to apply is April 21, 2022.
For a discount, you will need to apply by March 10, 2022.
6. ONLINE Contemporary Middle East Lecture Series on “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue” by Marina Rustow (Princeton University), SMEI, 18 January 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/18jan2022-the-lost-archive-traces-of-a-caliphate-in-a-cairo-synagogue.html
7. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022
This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africa, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.
8. ONLINE Webinar: “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs” by Marc David Baer (LSE), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 8 March 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth cen-tury, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/08mar2022-the-ottomans-khans-caesars-and-caliphs.html
9. Workshop: “Continuity and Change Throughout the Ottoman Longue Durée”, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, 1-3 April 2022.
Works in progress and early career scholars are especially welcomed. Regional participants prioritized.
Abstracts are due 31 January 2022, submitted to naltikri@umw.edu .
Information: https://maow.umwblogs.org/
10. HYBRID “15th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies”, Center for Euro-pean & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), Athens, 11-14 April 2022
Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
11. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgram a Pilgram? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022
Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Bud-dhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pil-grims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.
Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf
12. Freie Universität Berlin
Department of History and Cultural Studies Institute of Islamic Studies
University Professor of Islamic Studies (Classical Islam) Salary grade: W3 or equivalent Reference code: W3Islamwiss Successful candidates will have an excellent record of research and publications in the field of classical Islam, ideally with a focus on the social, cultural, religious, or philosophical history of Islam and employ innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of English and be able to teach in that language. Their German language level must be at least B1. Their Arabic must also be excellent. Knowledge of an additional Near Eastern language relevant to the field is desirable. Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/english/GK-W3Islamwiss_E.html
13. Several Full-time Open-rank Faculty Positions, Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University, Istanbul
We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas: Early modern Turkish literature; Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender; Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.
Deadline for applications: 29 December 2021. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440
14. Postdoctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies of the Pre-modern Mediterranean in Haifa and Israel, Haifa, 2022-2024
Candidates are invited who demonstrate academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/211124-post-docs-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-hcmh?e=82aeb6c61d
15. Call for Articles: Relations Between Religious Communities (Maghreb Review)
Topics could include: 1. The impact of the Arab-Islamic conquest on Christian and Jewish communities in the region. 2. Andalusia with Western Europe during the Umayyad Period 755-1031 and experiences of travel more broadly. 3. The attitudes of different medieval Muslim empires towards religious difference and minorities. 4. Commercial relations and litigation across religious lines in the medieval and early modern period. Etc.
Deadline for submissions in English or French: 31 January 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-relations-between-religious-communities-maghreb-review?e=82aeb6c61d
16. Articles for Journal “BOAS_insights #2” (“Bonn Oriental and Asian Studies Insights”)
The editors of this online, peer-reviewed and open-access journal call for submissions that cover a wide range of subjects and a large geographical scope within Asian and Middle Eastern Area Studies. We encour-age multi-disciplinary approaches that incorporate diverse perspectives and bridge deeply specialized fields.
Deadline for articles: 28 February 2022. Call for papers, recent issues and further information: https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en; https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en/call-for-papers/call-for-papers
- December 24, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- December 22, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- December 21, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CALL FOR PAPERS – MESA’s 56th Annual Meeting
December 1-4, 2022 in Denver, Colorado
Deadline: February 17, 2022
The Middle East Studies Association of North America invites and encourages submissions for its 56th Annual Meeting to be held in the fall of 2022. Submissions by students are more than welcome.
MESA is a leading international forum for scholarship, intellectual exchange, and pedagogical innovation. Since its founding in 1966, it has been the hub for academic collaboration within the field of Middle East studies. The meeting features panels and roundtables on a wide variety of topics related to the broader Middle East and North Africa from the 600s until the present. Presentations and discussions are complemented by an exciting film festival of documentaries, features, and shorts related to the region, as well as a comprehensive book exhibit featuring the latest publications in the field, in addition to a variety of other events and opportunities related to academic and professional careers in Middle East studies.
Submissions may be in the form of pre-organized panels, pre-organized roundtables, or individual papers (to be formed into panels by the program committee).
MESA’s purview is primarily the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.
All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system (https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php) which opens on Monday, January 10, 2022 and closes on Thursday, February 17, 2022 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 2022 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.
2. Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
| Institution Type: | College / University |
| Location: | District of Columbia, United States |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University
The Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship was established by a generous grant from the State of Qatar to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication; teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester; and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.
Eligibility
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. within the past five years; the Ph.D. degree must be from a university in the United States; applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.
Application Requirements
Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Two references*
Academic transcript(s)
Dissertation outline & sample chapter (or published article)
Course proposal for seminar
*Please provide the names and contact information of two professional references. If you are shortlisted for the fellowship, you will be notified in mid-January and asked to submit two recommendation letters. The letters should be emailed directly to CCAS within three weeks of notification.
Applications for the 2022-2023 ADF Fellowship will be due January 31, 2022. Click here to apply.
Questions about the fellowship may be directed to Ms. Dana AlDairani at da603@georgetown.edu.
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Linguicide and Kurdish Theater in Turkey: Seeking the Voice” by Bilal Akar, Kadir Has University, 22 December 2021, 7:30 pm TRT
Since 1991, the Kurdish theater field has faced ongoing effects of the linguicidal policies of the republic and negotiated the changing politics of language and identity. This presentation will focus on the effects of these linguicidal policies on the production of Kurdish theater texts, the limited number of artists who can speak in their mother tongue, the debates on the usage of local dialects, surtitles, and assimilation, hybridization, non-verbal plays, and multilingualism.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9312750/webinar-linguicide-and-kurdish-theater-turkey-seeking-voice
4. Colloque international : « Le pouvoir du rire – rire et pouvoir. Humour, discours et politique (avec un focus spécial sur le monde arabo-islamique) », Université de Craiova (Roumanie), INALCO (Paris) et Université de Lyon 2, Craiova, 19-20 mai 2022
Arme fatale contre le cynisme, la sottise, la langue de bois et la censure, l’humour démasque l’arbitraire, brise les idoles et s’attaque aux tabous. Toutes les aires géographiques et culturelles sont concernées (dont bien sûr le monde arabo-islamique).
Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/pouvoir-rire-rire-pouvoir-humour-discours-politique
5. Assistant/Associate Professor of Classical/Premodern Arabic Literature
American University in Cairo
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62583
Dec 31 2021 closing date.
6. Assistant Professor of History: Africa/Global South (Focus Middle East), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
We seek applicants whose research is grounded in Africa; time period and regional specialization within Africa are open. Scholars are welcome who treat and connect varied regions/nations of the continent, or who tie Africa to other geographic areas, such as South Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean as well as scholars whose research incorporates non-European languages and sources.
Deadline for applications: 16 January 2022.
Information: https://jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/497422/assistant-professor-of-history-africaglobal-south
7. Articles on Communication of culture and Islamic Fundamentalism, for Special Issue of Frontiers in Communication
Topics: Fundamentalist Islam and less advantaged gender, sex, religious and ethnic groups. Conceptualization of outgroups, terrorism, and Jihad through the Islamic fundamentalist lens. Interculturality and Islamic fundamentalism. Theorization of Islamic fundamentalism in the literature of culture, communication, and me-dia studies. Islamic fundamentalists, propaganda, and media. Cultural impacts of the Taliban’s taking over of Afghanistan, locally and globally. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26194/communication-of-culture-and-islamic-fundamentalism
8. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year
Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.
Deadline for applications: 20 January, 2022.
Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
- December 21, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘The Words of the Imams: Al-Shaykh Al-Saduq and the Development of Twelver Shi’i Hadith Literature’ – G Warner
- December 20, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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