Archive for September, 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) are pleased to inform you that we are in the final stages of development for the new iteration of Archnet.org. ARCHNET NEXT, aka Archnet 3.0, is the first major revisioning since of the site since 2013. ARCHNET NEXT should be available sometime in the next 3-6 weeks. The fundamental principle that guided this revision can be summarized in one word: accessibility.
- ARCHNET NEXT will be more responsive to users in all corners of the world, and on all sorts of devices. A Globally Distributed Content Delivery Network positions content on servers around the world so that it is closer to Archnet’s end users. This expedites the delivery of material without complicated routing across networks of servers. This will improve the experience for users on slower connections such as those in more rural areas and in developing nations.
While Archnet will continue to deliver a first-class experience to desktop users, it has been designed to work equally well on tablets and mobile phones. In addition, ARCHNET NEXT takes advantage of this availability on mobile devices by incorporating a “Near Me” feature so that mobile users can find points of interest near their current location. ARCHNET NEXT also conforms to W3C accessibility guidelines for users with disabilities.
New browsing features will make it easier for all users to get to sites, authorities and collections directly from the home page. Quick filters and a robust search engine allow users to find precisely what they are looking for more quickly and easily.
ARCHNET NEXT was developed in collaboration with Performant Software Solutions LLC, based in Boston, MA and Charlottesville, VA. Specialized in Digital Humanities projects, the firm updated the back end technologies that, greatly increasing the efficiency with which Archnet can process queries of a database that has developed since its inception to become the largest online library focused on the built environment of Muslim societies.
Archnet is a free, intellectual resource focused on architecture, urbanism, environmental and landscape design, visual culture, and conservation issues with a particular focus on societies in which Muslims are or have been a significant cultural presence. Our mission is to provide ready access to unique visual and textual material to facilitate teaching, scholarship, and professional work of high quality. Archnet is an authority, a growing repository, and a tool for teaching and learning about the architecture of Muslim societies, past, and present.
The virtual library contains published records for over 8500 sites and 1100 authorities. Users can access and download more than 9,500 publications and 125,000 images and videos.
For updates, please subscribe to our mailing list. For additional inquiries contact us using archnet-next@mit.edu
2. Online Course – Warfare in Muslim Material Cultures: From Egypt to Bilad al-Sham
Military architecture through recent archaeological excavations and arms and armour in the Royal Armouries Collections.
The course presents Muslim material cultures in a very specific context: warfare in the Middle East and Egypt during the Medieval and Modern Ages. War played a very important role in Muslim cultures and through the study of military architecture and arms and amour, the course will explore art and architecture in a war context to explain identity and changes in Muslim societies from the Arab conquest to the eve of the colonial period. Most of the arms and armour which will be presented during the course are from the Royal Armouries’ collections, from some of its most well-known treasures to objects rarely made available for public view.
Read and download course structure.
Learning Outcomes
This course links Muslim and Christian cultures through war and peace, diplomacy and social changes. All aspects of Muslim societies will be studied through the lens of military architecture, arms, and armour. Following this short course, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between the role of warfare in Muslim societies in the Middle and Modern Ages;
- Learn about the importance of cultural exchanges between the East and West;
- Study the impact of the past to understand the relations between Muslims and Christians in today’s society;
- Receive a methodological background on archaeology, history and art history;
- Recognise the different types of Muslim fortifications by geographical area and period;
- Distinguish between different types of Muslim arms and armour by geographical area and period.
Course Convenors
Stephane Pradines is an archaeologist, Professor of Islamic art and architecture at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. He is a specialist of trade and Islamisation in the Indian Ocean, from the Swahili coast to the Maldives. He is also a specialist of warfare in medieval Africa. He was the director of the excavations of the Walls of Cairo in Egypt from 2000 to 2016. He is now in charge of the excavations of the fort of Lahore in Pakistan. From 2008 to 2015, Stephane Pradines, Abbes Zouache and Mathieu Eychenne were co-directors of an international research programme on War in the Medieval Middle East organised by the French Institute of Archaeology in Cairo (IFAO) and the French Institute in Near East, Beirut-Damascus (IFPO). Professor Pradines has published many articles and books on military architecture, fortifications, arms and armour from the Fatimid to the late Ottoman period.
Natasha Bennett is the Curator of Oriental Collections at the Royal Armouries, UK. Natasha read History at Durham University (2004 – 2007). She joined the Royal Armouries in 2011 as a Curatorial Assistant and was confirmed as Curator in 2017. The Royal Armouries holds the UK’s national collection of arms and armour. Natasha works with the Asian and African collections. Her remit includes an enormous spread of arms and armour mostly between the 14th and 20th centuries, so her areas of research and publication are necessarily wide-ranging. She is the author of Chinese Arms and Armour (Leeds: Royal Armouries, 2018). She has also published work on the accumulation and interpretation of South Asian arms and armour at the Armouries during the 19th century, Asian matchlock guns, the Royal Armouries’ Sudanese collection and Japanese armour.
Date and Time
22 and 29 November, 2021, 13:30 – 16:30 (London Time).
Organisers
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and Royal Armouries Museum, UK.
Registration
Book your ticket and join us online via Zoom by clicking here.
3. POSITION: Visiting Assistant Professor in Arabic Studies,
Carnegie Mellon University: Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Modern Languages
Location
Pittsburgh, PA
Open Date
Aug 30, 2021
Deadline
Oct 1, 2021 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of Modern Languages at Carnegie Mellon University invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor in Arabic Studies, beginning in January 2022, for a three-year appointment, pending satisfactory review after the first year. Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic (Modern Standard Arabic and at least one dialect) and English. Ph.D. in Arabic language, literature, cultural studies, applied linguistics, or a relevant field is required. Of particular interest are candidates whose research focuses on one or more of the following areas: literary and cultural studies, translation theory and practice, second language acquisition and literacy, bilingual studies, and/or technology-enhanced learning. Candidates are required to demonstrate evidence of an active research program and expertise in the latest approaches to classroom instruction, material development, and computer-assisted language learning. The teaching load is 3+2.
Preferred qualifications: In addition to the required qualifications, the successful candidate is expected to show familiarity with blended/hybrid language instruction or willingness to receive training in this area as needed; ACTFL OPI certification in Arabic is highly desirable.
Responsibilities: The successful candidate is expected to maintain an active research program, teach Arabic language courses at various levels, engage in curriculum design and material development, and participate in student and outreach activities.
The Department of Modern Languages offers a minor in Arabic Studies at both our Pittsburgh and CMU-Qatar campuse in Doha. The program emphasizes oral proficiency, cultural literacy, and the use of technology-based resources to enhance linguistic and cultural learning. The successful candidate will benefit from a strong and growing support of interdisciplinary humanities research and teaching at Carnegie Mellon, including such initiatives as the Center for the Arts in Society, Humanities@CMU, and Askwith Kenner Global Languages and Cultures Room.
Carnegie Mellon University is an equal opportunity employer committed to increasing the diversity of its community on a range of intellectual and cultural dimensions. Carnegie Mellon welcomes applicants who will contribute to this diversity through their research, teaching and service, including women, members of minority groups, protected veterans, individuals with disabilities, and others who would contribute in different ways.
Carnegie Mellon University also seeks to meet the needs of dual-career couples and is a member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC) that assists with dual-career searches.
Qualifications
PhD in Arabic language, literature, cultural studies, applied linguistics, or a relevant field.
Application Instructions
To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by 11:59pm (ET) on October 1, 2021. Applicants should submit 1) a current CV, 2) a cover letter addressing research, teaching, and evidence of commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and 3) the names and contact information for three professional references.
Application Process
This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.
4. ONLINE Panel: “Islamo-leftism and Debates on Class, Gender, and Religious Hierarchies in France”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 23 September 2921, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Hosted by Professors Nadje Al-Ali and Katharina Galor. In recent years, a group of French intellectuals have questioned the benefit of academic research that explores questions of ethnicity, race, gender, intersection-ality, post-colonialism, and Islamophobia. They blame American society and academia for influencing French left-wing scholars and activists.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/islamo-leftism-france
5. ONLINE and IN PERSON Symposium: “Notions of Jihad Reconsidered: Perspectives on Media, Materiality, and Political Violence”, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Mainz and Kunsthalle Mannheim, 6-8 October 2021
Bringing together international scholars, the symposium explores how different notions of jihad and political violence have been shaped by discursive formations in academia, media, and the arts. It takes the aesthetic dimensions of images and sounds that have emerged in the engagement with 9/11 and its aftermath as a starting point to rethink the various notions of jihad and its relation to political violence.
Information and registration: https://notions-of-jihad.uni-mainz.de/
6. Workshop: “Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond”, Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS), Royal Holloway University of London, February 2022
Organised by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) and Thomas Pierret (Aix-en-Provence). Scholars are invited with various disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of the many utopias that have shaped (or, at least, strove to shape) the Middle East and adjacent regions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2021. Information: https://utopiasinthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/
7. ONLINE Conference: “Islamic Perspectives on Exotheology”, 10-11 May 2022
Organised by Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Zayed University and Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, etc.. Questions to be asked: Are extraterrestrials even metaphysically or hermeneutically possible in Islamic thought? If extraterrestrials exist, how would this impact Islamic jurisprudence and/or ethics? What philosophical implications could there be for Muslims if extraterrestrial life exists? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021. Information: https://www.academia.edu/51090491/Call_for_pa-pers_Islamic_Perspectives_on_Exotheology
8. Conference on “Social Justice in Multicultural Settings”, Arab Academic College, Haifa, 7-9 June 2022
Conference sessions will explore the relationship between social justice and multiculturalism, especially as they are related to education. In Israel with four major religions, teachers, educators, academic researchers and policy makers live social justice issues every day. Presenters from around the world will bring experi-ences from their cultural contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021. Information: http://sjms2022.arabcol.net/sjms2022arabcol/
9. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
The ability to teach a survey course in modern Middle Eastern history is required; the ability to also teach a course on the history of Palestine and Israel is preferred. We are also interested in candidates whose teach-ing can address inter-disciplinary and methodological questions in Middle Eastern and North African studies.
Deadline for application: 15 October 2021. Information: https://careers.bowdoin.edu/postings/7739
10. ONLINE Digitization Workshop of the Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN), 29 September 2021
The first half will provide an outline of the basic equipment and techniques needed to put together a mobile digital suite. The second half will be devoted to the various challenges and issues those working in the field encounter when undertaking digital humanities projects outside the academic setting.
Information and registstration: https://idhn.org/conferences
11. Alpheios Tool explained for Arabists
Around ten years ago, our Peter posted the Alpheios Project here for the first time:
http://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2011/11/alpheios-texts.html
In the meantime, there are tools for morphological analyses of Arabic texts (classical and modern). You can implement these tools into your browser and learn from them. Hakan Özkan in his insightful video-tutorial explains how to make use of it.
https://youtu.be/y45JZCVtol4
The Alpheios Reading Tool … enables you to get definitions (in a pop-up window) of Arabic words with one click directly into your web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari). One major dictionary the tool uses is E.W. Lane’s Arabic-English lexicon, which makes this tool especially useful for premodern texts. Alpheios also runs a morphological analysis of the selected Arabic word and thus makes it easier for you to see the underlying root or basic form. Watch the video for details.
- September 07, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Foreign Policy: The Taliban’s Mixed Messages to Hazaras
‘Afghanistan’s Hazaras Get Mixed Messages From the Taliban
The Islamic State-Khorasan has come to represent a greater threat to the persecuted minority.’
Foreign Policy
4.9.21
(Ed note: This article is behind a pay-wall.)
- September 06, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – News18: Hazara Shia Muslim Families Find Refuge in Quetta
‘Fearing Persecution, Afghan Hazara Shia Muslim Families Find Refuge in Pakistan’s Quetta’
News18
3.9.21
- September 04, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The current issue of The Art Bulletin (103:3, Sept 2021), includes Alexander Brey’s excellent article on jigsaw masonry, ornament, and Umayyad world-making, “Fragmentation and Reassembly: Decoration, Technique, and Meaning at an Early Islamic Platform” (pp. 17-41), as well as Angela VanHaelen’s “Strange Things for Strangers: Transcultural Automata in Early Modern Amsterdam” (pp. 42-68), including the works of al-Jazari and the Banu Musa.
For general info, see: https://www.collegeart.org/publications/art-bulletin/https://www.collegeart.org/publications/art-bulletin/
For information regarding the Bulletin’s submission process: https://www.collegeart.org/publications/art-bulletin/submissions)
2. Webinar Series – Deccan Heritage Foundation
Restarts 10 September.
Registration page is now available: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration
For previous recordings, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfT8egrdGJ1yWYAWgCz3oIQ
3. Website Announcement – Hazine Post – The Pen’s Screech: Muslim Spiritual Practice of Arabic Calligraphy
A new essay titled The Pen’s Screech: Muslim Spiritual Practice of Arabic Calligraphy has been published on the Hazine website. The author, Noman Baig, discusses the challenges of developing a theoretical and practice-based Arabic calligraphy course in an academic setting and takes us through the life of the Pakistani Arabic calligraphy master Kashif Khan. The essay is an intimate account of how Muslims calligraphers approach the practice of Arabic calligraphy both practically and spiritually. Here’s an excerpt:
“To propose and teach a practice-based course in a highly academic setting is a formidable task. Practitioners usually face resistance from theoretically minded academics who perceive hands-on training as a lowbrow vocation. Last year in 2020, after practicing Islamic calligraphy for a year under a disciple of Kashif Khan (b. 1978), I decided to teach an undergraduate course on the subject at the newly established liberal arts college Habib University in Karachi, Pakistan.
4. Call for Applications – American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Fellowships, 2022-2023
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2022-2023 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada:
ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, art, archaeology, anthropology, literature, and linguistics, as well as all aspects of history. The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training. The fellowships may be held for terms ranging from four months to a full year.
ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may be held for various terms, for terms from one month up to one academic year.
Applications for ARIT and ARIT-NEH fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2021. The fellowship committee will notify applicants in late January 2022.
ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language in Istanbul offers intensive advanced study of Turkish at Bogazici University for summer 2022. Participants must have two years of Turkish language study or the equivalent. The application deadline will be in early February 2022. The fellowships cover round-trip airfare to Istanbul, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend.
For further information please see the ARIT webpage at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/
5. Keynote lecture by Maxim Romanov for the 3rd Summer school in Islamicate digital humanities for scholars in manuscript studies held in Hamburg University on Monday 6th September at 5:30 pm (CEST) Hamburg time.
This is the zoom link for attending the lecture:
6. 2021-2022 Baskerville Institute Lecture Series begins September 22nd at 12 PM (MT) or 2 PM (EST).
This lecture is entitled “Peace Corps in Iran: A History of Friendship and Contributions” by Professor Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi.
The lecture coincides with the 60th anniversary of the founding of the US Peace Corps and we are delighted to start the Baskerville Institute Lecture Series with Professor Rostam-Kolayi.
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi is Professor of History and Department Chair at California State University, Fullerton. She is the director of an oral history project on Peace Corps Iran and has interviewed many former volunteers. Her articles are published in Iranian Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and Middle East Critique, and book chapters in Iran and the Surrounding World, The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, and The Routledge Handbook of the Global Sixties.
Though studies of Iran-U.S. relations of the late twentieth century often narrate accounts of bitter resentment and deep mistrust, the story of the U.S. Peace Corps program in Iran, which operated from 1962 to 1976, provides a complex picture of engagement between Iranians and Americans. This talk discusses how the Peace Corps came to Iran, its formative years and peak in the mid-to-late-1960s, why it departed from Iran and its layered legacy at the program’s 60th anniversary.
Register Now: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7edRNAmuT1irKHQxo7od6g
7. The Portolan, Issue 111: British Mapping of Afghanistan (Ristow Prize), Joachim Lelewel’s Editing of Early Maps, Exploration of the Southwest, Spanish Enlightenment, Vavassore’s World Map, and more
Below is information on the Fall 2021 issue of The Portolan recently published and mailed. See https://washmapsociety.wildapricot.org/about-the-portolan.
THE PORTOLAN: JOURNAL OF THE WASHINGTON MAP SOCIETY
ISSUE 111 (Fall 2021)
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Issue 111 (Fall 2021) was published in August 2021 and is in distribution to all members of the Washington Map Society.
This issue includes Emily Boak’s 2020 Ristow prize-winning essay on the British mapping of Afghanistan, Matthew Edney’s article on Joachim Lelewel’s editing early maps, Wesley A. Brown’s favorite map that engages James W. Abert’s exploration of the southwestern United States, Dirk de Pagter’s journey of maps by Don Juan Corradi, Donald McGuirk’s discussion of Giovanni Vavassore’s Tuto il Mondi Tereno (c. 1522), Ira Lourie’s inquiry about A.J. Johnson’s maps, and four book reviews.
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The Portolan is published three times per year; issue 112 is due for release in late December 2021 / early January 2022.
8. Call for Papers: 8th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies/Intensive Course
We are pleased to announce the Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, which will take place at the Philipps-Universität Marburg.
As in preceding years, the conference will have both themed and open sessions (7-9 July 2022), and it will be preceded by a three-day intensive course (4-6 July 2022) presenting a multi-disciplinary approach to environmental studies in pre-modern Egypt.
Themed Day: This year’s conference will be a joint cooperation of the Faculty of Islamic Studies at the University of Marburg and the EGYLandscape Project (www.egylandscape.org). As such, the themed portion of the conference on the 7th of July will be “Environment and Nature in the Mamluk Sultanate”. With environmental studies of the Mamluk period a growing but still new field, this themed day will survey the topic broadly. We welcome papers related to land use, hydrology and irrigation, disease and famine, flora and fauna, crops and food, and anything related to these topics. This theme may be interpreted and explored from a literary, political, art historical, economic, archaeological, or any other approach. The focus is on broadening the scope and view of environmental studies of the Mamluk Sultanate.
For the themed day, a maximum of 12 to 15 paper proposals will be selected. If there are more proposals received on this theme, some of the authors who are not selected for the conference may be given the possibility to publish their contributions in the conference’s proceedings. Each paper will be allocated twenty minutes with an additional ten minutes for discussion.
Paper Panels: The remaining two days of the conference (8 and 9 July) will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized into presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each. Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for the panel’s organization. Please note that in case of the cancellation of 2/3 or 3/4 papers in a panel, the panel will be withdrawn from the program.
Language: The official language of the conference and its proceedings will be English.
Fees: The conference registration fees will be fifty (50) euros for participants and attendees. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (9 July) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by 30 April 2022 (information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular, which will be sent in January 2022). Participants must make their own travel arrangements; information and suggestions for accommodations will be provided in the first circular.
Proposals: Paper proposals for the themed day must be submitted electronically to https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html by 31 October 2021. Panel proposals must be submitted in the same manner by 30 November 2021. The paper proposals should provide the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional paper title, and an abstract of a maximum of 1500 characters (about 300 words) per paper. Panel proposals must be submitted as such, including the relevant information for each component paper as well as the name of the panel’s chair (the chair can be one of the panelists).
Acceptance: Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2022 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.
Publication:
- a) Themed day: the papers will be published in a volume(s) of proceedings.
- b) Panels: selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Intensive course: “A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Studies in Pre-Modern Egypt”
A three-day, intensive course in methodological approaches to environmental studies in pre-modern Egypt will be held on 4-6 July 2022 immediately before the Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies. The course is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be instructed by Ghislaine Alleaume (Aix-Marseille University), Allison Gascoigne (University of Southampton), Nicolas Michel (Aix-Marseille University), and Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary, University of London). The course will cover a variety of topics, including: an introduction to archaeological methods in environmental history, historiography and research methods for the environmental history of pre-modern Egypt, an introduction to GIS (geographic information systems), and the use of map resources generally.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 15), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose (1-2 pages), and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms2022marburg@gmail.com by the end of January 2022. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February 2022, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
We are pleased to announce that in partnership with the EGYLandscape Project, there will be two scholarships for graduate students, who would like to attend the intensive course. In addition to covering the course fee, the scholarship will also pay for travel and accommodations. If you would like to be considered for the EGYLandscape scholarship, please submit an additional short statement (paragraph) expressing such a need alongside the statement of purpose. We ask that only students who do not have access to institutional funds or whose funds are limited apply. Students from the Middle East region are encouraged to apply.
The course fee is two hundred (200) euros, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (7-9 July). The fees must be paid by 30 April 2022. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging.
We are excited to welcome you to the Universitätsstadt Marburg,
Albrecht Fuess and Anthony Quickel (local organizers) – sms2022marburg@gmail.com
with, Frédéric Bauden (Université de Liège), Antonella Ghersetti (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice), and Marlis Saleh (University of Chicago)
9. MEM Fellowship for Graduate Students of Color: Call for a Second Round of Applications
As promised in our July 2020 Statement on Anti-Racism, the Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce the second round of applications for our new fellowship to support graduate students of color in medieval studies attending the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). In light of uncertainties around travel to the 2021 meeting, we have decided to use this round to help graduate students of color who wish to attend (either virtually or in person) pay the registration fee.
In order to be considered in this round, please send a paragraph containing the following information to the MEM secretary (Zayde.Antrim@trincoll.edu): your graduate program/institutional affiliation; whether or not you are a MESA member; a brief statement about why you wish to attend the MESA annual meeting; and any other sources of funding available to you. We will review applications as they come in, so that we can fund as many as possible before MESA’s September 15 pre-registration deadline. We will continue to consider applications as long as we have funds available (up to our pledged total of $1500). Please note that we are willing to reimburse participants or attendees who have already paid the registration fee if they demonstrate need. Any questions about the process should be directed to the MEM secretary (Zayde.Antrim@trincoll.edu)
10. Harvard University – Assistant Professor in Medieval Islamic History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61774
Deadline: 15, October 2021
11. AKU-ISMC Winter Programme – Gender in Muslim Contexts 17-25 January 2022
The nine-day course will be held online and run by leading experts on gender and Islam. The programme will bring together scholars and students from diverse backgrounds to discuss key issues in the study of gender in Muslim contexts and is open to advanced undergraduate students, graduate students and those with prior interest in the subject or a record of study in a related topic .
Module topics include:
- Gender and Sharia
- Gendering Migration
- Islamic Feminism
- Men and Masculinities
More details on fees, application process, the programme structure, lecturers and guest speakers are available at the website.
Please do direct any queries to joseph.barnes@aku.edu
12. CFP – Religion and Bioethics: A Sociological Perspective
For further information, see:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/25414/religion-and-bioethics-a-sociological-perspective
Submission deadlines are 31 January 2022 (for Abstracts) and 04 July 2022 (for full manuscripts).
- September 04, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- September 03, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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- September 03, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Webinar: ‘A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books’ (London, 30.9.21, 2-4 PM GMT)
‘A Neo-Fatimid Treasury of Books: Arabic Manuscripts among the Alawi Bohras of Baroda’
Speaker: Dr Olly Akkerman (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Discussants: Dr Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Date: 30 September 2021
Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm GMT
Location: Online (Zoom)
More info and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/neo-fatimid-treasury-books-arabic-manuscripts-among-alawi-bohras-baroda?utm_source=D0821&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=IHTLS&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_11_9_2019_15_48_COPY_01)&mc_cid=c42416a85b&mc_eid=a1df03829b
- September 02, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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