Archive for May 25th, 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
1.CfP: International Conference on ‘Ibn Sina’s Philosophical Anthropology’
December 26-28, 2021, organised by the Iranian Institute of Philosophy.
Abstract Submission Deadline: 2021-07-22
Full information at:
2. Antioch, A History
Andrea U. De Giorgi, A. Asa Eger
Routledge, 2021
https://www.routledge.com/Antioch-A-History/Giorgi-Eger/p/book/9780367633042
3. ONLINE Seminar: “Self-Narratives, Gendered Middle Class Subjectivities, and Feminism(s) In the “Orient” from the Last Quarter of the 19th Century to the Interwar Period” by Efthymia Kanner (University of Athens), Lecture Series “Life Narratives and Gender: Voices of Women in the Near East an Eastern Mediterranean”, Orient Institut Istanbul, 26 May 2021, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm TRT
The lecture will try to reconstitute the gendered middle class subjectivities of some women who lived in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Early Turkish Republic from the last quarter of the 19th century to the Inter-war period and link these subjectivities to the emergence of feminist thought in the region.
Information and registration: https://30qtcudfwz93ffi2426a91bc-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/LIFE_NARRATIVES_BOOKLET_SPREAD.pdf
4. ONLINE Lecture: “Emotive Circulation: 19th Century Islamophobia in Anglophone Newspapers in India and the United States” by Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 27 May 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
Anglophone newspapers published in India, Britain, and the United States in the nineteenth century reflected both the imaginaries and the emotions that helped constitute, reinforce, and challenge normative regimes of social belonging and religious commitment.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/emotive-circulation-19th-century-islamophobia-in-anglophone-newspapers
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Scholars, Apostasy and States in Medieval Islam: Historiographical and Juridical Issues”, Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 17 June 2021, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm GMT
Through the examples of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadānī and Shihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī this lecture will first present how the authors of literary sources of history constructed their narratives of scholarly apostasy in accordance with their own sectarian and political affiliations. It will then present the juridical procedure at play when scholars were accused of apostasy.
Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/scholars-apostasy-and-states-medieval-islam-historiographical-and-juridical-issues?utm_source=hnet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IHTLS
6. ONLINE Lecture: “The Politics of Islamic Pop” by Prof. Jonas Otterbeck (Aga Khan University, London), Middle East Institute, National Univerversity of Singapore, 23 June 2021, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm SGT
This webinar will analyse the politics of Islamic pop music through a case study of the Islamic media company Awakening Records and their artistes. Beyond motivations and implications, the discussion will zoom in on the genealogy of the music in question. How can we frame the logic of politics within a conceptual discourse of Islamic ethical empowerment?
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/the-politics-of-islamic-pop/
7. ONLINE Conference: “Sites of Encounter and Cultural Exchange in West Asian and the Mediterranean (500-1500 CE)”, Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Society, University of Edinburgh, 4-6 November 2021
Papers and posters are invited that address issues including: Sites of Encounter in Material Culture; Frontiers; Marginality; Multilingualism; Religion as Site of Encounter; Mapping and Geographic Writings; Commercial Networks and Trade.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/7717863/sites-encounter-and-cultural-exchange-west-asian-and
8. International Conference: “Media Aesthetics of Occidentalism”, Centre for Near and Middle East Studies, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany, 26-28 January 2022
The conference pursues the central question “How do media aesthetic qualities contribute to the constitution of Occidentalist discourses?”
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2021. Information; https://www.online.uni-marburg.de/okzidentalismus/index.php/2021/02/08/internationale-abschlusstagung-26-bis-28-januar-2022/
9. PhD Candidate in Islamic History and Culture, University of Bergen
The candidate must hold a Norwegian master’s degree in African or Middle East history, Islamic studies, social anthropology or related disciplines and is expected to produce a PhD dissertation within a project which will analyze Islamic textual material from coastal East Africa ca. 1950 to the present.
Deadline for application: 6 June 2021. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/205579/phd-candidate-in-islamic-history-and-culture
10. Articles for “Nidhomul Haq: Journal of Islamic Education Management”
The journal invites scholars, researchers, and students to contribute in English the result of their studies and researches in the areas related to Islamic Education Management, leadership, school management, knowledge management which covers textual and fieldwork investigation with various perspectives of Education, philosophy, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, political science, and others.
Information: https://e-journal.ikhac.ac.id/index.php/nidhomulhaq
11. Assistant Professor of Islamic Traditions and Contemporary Politics, Radboud University, Nijmegen
Requirements: A completed PhD and scientific publications on a relevant theme in contemporary politics and Islamic studies; teaching experience in the field of Islamic studies, and/or Middle Eastern studies at BA and MA levels; involvement in societal debates about the role of Islam in contemporary society; proficiency in Dutch (C1 level) and English (C2 level) or willingness to achieve these levels within two years.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2021. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/nl/300482/assistant-professor-of-islamic-traditions-and-contemporary-politics/
12. Post: University of Oxford, Departmental Lecturer, Islamic History,
Faculty of Oriental Studies, Pusey Lane
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 25 June 2021.
This is a full-time, fixed-term position between 1 September 2021 (or as soon as possible thereafter) and 31 August 2023.
Full info at:
13.On-line seminar: Early Hadith Criticism: ‘Ali b. al-Madini and His Contributions.’ .
Lecturer: Dr. I-Wen Su
National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan
Date: 27 May 2021 (Thursday) Time: 3.00 – 4.00 pm (Malaysia and Taiwan Time Zone)
Platform: Microsoft Teams – URL: shorturl.at/mszQV
- May 25, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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