Archive for June 12th, 2021

‘Seven killed in twin van bomb blasts in Afghanistan’s Kabul
Six others wounded in bombings that struck western Kabul neighbourhood largely populated by members of the the ethnic Hazara minority.’
AlJazeera, 12 June

‘Legacies of Islamic Ecumenicism:
Taqrib, Shi’a-Sunni Relations, and Globalized Politics in the Middle East’
Weatherhead Center, 2021
M. Sagha, ed.
https://shiism.wcfia.harvard.edu/publications/legacies-islamic-ecumenicismtaqrib-shia-sunni-relations-and?

1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize

Call for Applications and Nominations

We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2020.

Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.

Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on July 31, 2021.

To apply or submit a nomination, click here.

Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com

2. Tufts University – History of the Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61432

Closing date: June 24, 2021

3. Humboldt-Universit”at zu Berlin – Research fellow (postdoc) in Global
Intellectual History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61436

Closing date: June 15, 2021

4. On-Line (via Teams) Workshop: Pluriversality at Play: Art and Material Culture in the Thirteenth-Century Mediterranean

University of St Andrews, School of Art History Online via Teams |17-18 June 2021 | London/Edinburgh BST Thursday, 17 June: 14.15-19.10, 18 June: 15.30-18.00

For more information and to register see:

https://events.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/pluriversality-at-play/

5. ‘Reception of Rorty’s Thought in Iran: How His Anti-Foundationalism Has Contributed to Iran’s Tradition-Modernity Debate’

Seyed Mohammad Ali Taghavi

Middle East Critique, 2021