Archive for October 23rd, 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Book Launch (London, 8.11.21)
An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol. II: On Women
We are delighted to invite you to attend this book launch in-person at the Aga Khan Centre in London, and online from around the world, for this long-awaited and highly anticipated volume, published in partnership with Oxford University Press.
This work offers a thematic overview of the subject of women in the Qur’an and in the commentarial tradition known as tafsir. In this special event, the editors Dr Karen Bauer and Dr Feras Hamza will be in discussion with a panel of discussants including Dr Sarah Savant, Dr Walid Saleh, Dr Yasmin Amin, and Dr Anna Chrysostomides.
Registration is essential (via Eventbrite or Zoom). Please note the event will be filmed and livestreamed.
Date: Monday 8 November, 5:00pm-7:15pm (GMT)
Venue: Aga Khan Centre (register on Eventbrite)
For more information and to register, visit:
2. The University of Oslo invites applications for the MA program in Middle East Studies.
Tuition-free two year graduate program at a leading European University. Courses are taught in English. Student visas give work permit up to twenty hours per week. See program page here for more information.
3. Lecturer in Arabic Language, University of Pennsylvania
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania announces a position at the rank of full-time Lecturer in the Arabic Language Program starting in the academic year 2022-23. The appointment will be for an initial year with the possibility of annual renewal for up to two additional years, contingent upon a satisfactory performance review and approval of the Dean. Employee benefits are provided. Applicants for the position should demonstrate a primary focus on language education, and should have received at least a Master’s degree, and preferably a Ph.D., in Education, Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics, or a related field. Native or near-native competency in Arabic language, and fluency in English, are required. Preference will be given to applicants who have significant teaching experience at all levels of Arabic language at post-secondary American institutions. Demonstrated proficiency in current second/foreign language teaching methodologies (especially content-based instruction) and meaningful application of technologies in language instruction are highly desirable. Duties include teaching Arabic language classes (five classes per academic year) at any assigned level, holding regular office hours and attending meetings of the Arabic Language Program. Additional responsibilities could include working with the appropriate faculty to develop and design the curriculum, and to evaluate teaching goals, student outcomes and programmatic effectiveness.
We seek a language educator interested in furthering the study of Arabic language and culture at Penn, and who values interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and collegiality and the promotion of a culturally diverse intellectual community. Candidates should apply online at: https://apply.interfolio.com/96530.
Please submit: a cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample syllabus for the most advanced language course taught (including content courses), and contact information for a minimum of three individuals who have agreed to provide a recommendation letter. The University will contact the recommenders with instructions on how to submit their letters. We also encourage applicants to upload additional documents if available: 1) recent teaching evaluations including written comments, 2) a link to a video recording of a class, and 3) a description of the video and relevant materials. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.
4. Ḥajar invites you to the first Online Workshop on the topic:
“Muslim and non-Muslim identities through material culture in the medieval Islamic world“, 29 October 2021.
Ḥajar is a collective of archaeologists working in different parts of Islamic history and geography and on different topics (https://hajar.hypotheses.org/about).
The program of the first workshop:
Muslim and non-Muslim identities through
material culture in the medieval Islamic world
Friday, 29th of October 2021
15:45 – 19:00 UTC+2 (Paris/Brussels time)
Chairs: Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Institut Catholique de Paris) and José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester)
First Part (speakers: 25 min each)
Marcos García-García (University of York): Eat not its flesh: food and Islamic identity during the emergence of al-Andalus (8th-11th c.)
Atiyeh Taghiei (University of California): Porous boundaries and unexpected practice: aninterdisciplinary lens on identity in early Islamic Iran
Robert Carter (Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities): Material culture, identity and faith at the Christian sites of the Arabian Gulf region (ca. 6th-9th centuries AD)
Question session (15 minutes)
Break (15 minutes)
Second Part (discussants: 25 min each)
Uriel Simonsohn, University of Haifa
Delphine Ortis, ceias-EHESS/INALCO
Open debate (30 minutes)
Public invited to participate
Free registration at hajararchaeology@gmail.com
A link will be sent in due course
Deadline: 26th of October 2021
In each event there will be a particular topic brought up for discussion. Three speakers will present a brief lecture each (no more than 25 mins long) and after a break, two discussants of different disciplines will have the same time to develop their thoughts on the topic and the presentations added. Finally, the event will close with a 30-min debate in which the public will be allowed to address questions and comments to the speakers and to the discussants.
5. HIAA Graduate Programmes – Writing a Dissertation in Islamic Art & Architectural History – 15 November
The HIAA Board is pleased to announce the first event of our graduate student programming, please see the details below:
Panel: Writing a Dissertation in Islamic in Islamic Art & Architcctural History
Panelists: Catherine Asher (University of Minnesota), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest University), Zohreh Soltani (Ithaca College)
Date & Time: Monday, November 15, 2021 at 12 pm (Eastern)
Register at: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdeyuqDkoG9PjMJJFMDvn8LI_pQ2rXtM1
This panel discussion is open to all graduate students working in topics related to Islamic art.
We encourage faculty members to circulate this to their students.
To make the discussion as relevant as possible, we ask participants to complete this questionnaire in advance: https://forms.gle/7PpkdiVoZ9VhC3E39
Please submit responses by Monday, November 8, 2021.
6. PAINTING IN EARLY MODERN BAGHDAD
Wednesday, October 27th, 12:30pm ET
[Webinar] Silsila Fall 2021 Lecture Series
This talk focuses on the rise and fall of a vibrant yet short-lived art market in early modern Baghdad. From the final decade of the sixteenth to the first few years of the seventeenth century, a period of relative peace, there arose a lively art market – as witnessed by over thirty illustrated manuscripts and sundry single-page paintings, most of which show a stylistic coherence. The paintings appear to draw on elements from Ottoman, Safavid, and Indian paintings. This talk will try to contextualize this corpus of works that appeared in the frontier province of Baghdad.
Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:
https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2021-2022/painting-in-early-modern-baghdad–melis-taner-.html
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event
7. CFP – Stucco Decoration in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons (University of Bamberg, 5-7 May 2022)
Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference dedicated to research on stucco decoration in Iran and the neighbouring lands. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from several countries and to communicate the latest research finds and innovative methodology for research of stuccos.
The conference will take place in presence, possibly with extension in hybrid-remote form, at the University of Bamberg, May 5-7, 2022.
We warmly invite paper abstracts for participation at the conference by December 1, 2021
For the full CfP and further information, please refer to https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/islamart/events-and-cooperations/stucco-conference/
8. ONLINE PANEL: Open Access Week and International Resources: the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) and the Arabic Collections Online (ACO)
Next week (October 25- 31) is International Open Access Week, and we would like to invite you to a special panel entitled “Open Access Week and International Resources: the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) and the Arabic Collections Online (ACO).” It will take place 2:00-3:00pm on Tue, October 26th. In this panel, four area studies subject experts, from the Columbia University and NYU Libraries, with an expertise in the Middle East and South Asia, will discuss two collaborative open access projects, namely the CRL member based South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) project, and the inter-institutional collaborative Arabic Collections Online (ACO).
The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a collaborative partnership of 27 major research libraries and archives in the United States, India, Nepal and Pakistan. This open access initiative is aimed at addressing both the current scarcity of digital resources relevant to South Asian studies and the costliness of commercial databases by giving researchers worldwide open access to collections. More than 24,000 items (over 700,000 pages) have been made accessible thus far.
The Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a partnership of several major research libraries in the United States and the Middle East. It aims to digitize Arabic monographs in the partners’ collections and more generally, enhance access to non-Roman resources from and about the Middle East. To date over 17,000 volumes from Arabic-speaking countries, Turkey and Iran have been digitized and made available.
The panel begins with a talk by two SAOA member librarians, who will provide background on the rationale and vision of this project, and address challenges and accomplishments thus far. Then two Middle East Studies librarians will offer an overview of the ACO project, focusing on the Open Access nature of the project, international collaboration and copyright issues.
Speakers: Aruna Magier, Librarian for South Asian Studies, International Relations & Food Studies, NYU Libraries; Gary Hausman, South Asian Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries; Guy Burak, Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic and Jewish Studies, NYU Libraries; Peter Magierski, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries.
Please register for the event to receive the Zoom invitation.
- October 23, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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