Archive for August 7th, 2021

1. Representing Iran in East Germany : ideology and the media in the German Democratic Republic

Edgar Klüsener

Bloomsbury, 2021

2. Announcement of 2021 Virtual Conference: Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, 12-16 September 2021, Remotely via Zoom from Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Bibliotheca Alexandrina and The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with the library’s Manuscripts Center and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—are delighted to announce the conference Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa, which will be held remotely via Zoom at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt from 12 to 16 September 2021.

The conference will comprise five panels featuring original, current research on the Arabic-script manuscript cultures of North and Sub-Saharan Africa and the care and management of manuscript collections across the continent:

• Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa
• Manuscript Libraries and Manuscript Heritage Centres in Africa
• African Arabic-Script Languages
• Cataloguing, Editing, Research, and Publishing
• Preservation, Conservation, and Digitization

Each panel will include four papers: one presented by an invited keynote speaker and three presented by persons selected through a call for papers. Additionally, the conference will include six workshops corresponding to the themes of the panels. The languages of the conference will be Arabic, English, and French; and simultaneous interpretation will be available throughout the event. All panels and workshops will be held on Eastern European Time (EET). Subsequent to the conference, the organizers will publish its papers in an edited volume of proceedings.

Registration for the event in advance is required via the online registration form. Registration is free of charge, and will be open until 5 September 2021. A link to access the online event will be sent two days prior to the event to the email address associated with the registration form.

Persons wanting to attend a workshop must meet any prerequisites for participation and complete the separate online workshop application form. The application period will also be open until 5 September 2021. A link to each workshop will be sent to the selected participants two days prior the event to the email address associated with the application form.

For more information, please visit the conference’s webpage and see its facebook and twitter accounts.

3. UCF: Elementary Kurdsh

ONLINE | AUG 23 – DEC 11 |OPEN TO ALL

The University of Central Florida’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures & Kurdish Political Studies Program.

UCF students, guidance concerning registration, overrides, and lateadd/swap can be found at https://sciences.ucf.edu/cosas/current-students/registration-overrides/

For non-UCF and International Students, please review the guidance for Transient Students: https://registrar.ucf.edu/transient-students/

and the guidance for Online Students : https://www.ucf.edu/online/student-resources/online-student-guidelines/

For ALL inquiries about registration, fees, and credits, please contact the UCF Registrar, https://registrar.ucf.edu/contact/

For inquiries about the course, materials, etc. please contact Dr. Haidar Khezrivia hkhezri@ucf.edu

4. POS: Assistant Professor, Historian of Early Islam (until 1250), NELC, University of Chicago

Assistant Professor – Historian of Early Islam until 1250

Description

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the History of the Middle East in the Early Islamic Period until the Mongols (i.e., until circa 1258 C.E.) with an expected start date of July 1, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Qualifications

The successful candidate should have a demonstrated ability and/or potential to carry out original independent research and publication on the social, political, and economic history of early Muslim/Islamic societies; be able to teach a wide range of courses from surveys to advanced seminars; be able to supervise theses and, in time, Ph.D. dissertations; and have a strong command of classical Arabic. Knowledge of an additional relevant language desirable.

Candidates must have completed all requirements for receipt of a Ph.D. in a field related to the search prior to the start of the appointment.

Application Instructions

To apply for this position, candidates must submit their application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment site at http://apply.interfolio.com/91641.

The application must include:

• a cover letter,
• cv,
• a published article or a dissertation chapter,
• a research statement,
• and three letters of recommendation.

All materials from the applicant must be received by 11pm central time on November 1, 2021. Letters of recommendation must arrive by November 15, 2021. Only complete applications can be considered.

For information on the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, please go to https://nelc.uchicago.edu. For further questions about this position, please contact Amanda Young, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, amanday@uchicago.edu

This position is contingent on final budgetary approval.