1.ONLINE Book Talk: “The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East” by Dina Georgis (University of Toronto), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1 December 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00pm ET
Georgis turns to story as a method for thinking about how those affected by colonial traumas and losses narrate their survival. Her method in the concept of the “better story” offers an emotional lens through which to think about how the past is narrated and how collective histories and identities are shaped by and are a response to difficult and traumatic experiences.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/dina-georgis-better-story
2. ONLINE Introduction of the “Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Open Access Series” and Launch of “A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic”, Open Book Publishers, 1 December 2021, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm GMT
This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way. Split into a Handbook and a Reader section, the book provides a historical introduction to Ottoman literacy, translation studies, vernacularisation processes, language policy and linguistic pluralism.
Information and registration: https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4KlVCw4oQ3W4-JC2XjlyyQ
3. ONLINE Symposium: “From Representation to Inspiration: The Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century”, Ankara, 1-2 December 2021
Inspired by the painting “View of Ankara”, academic lectures will enlighten the different aspects of the painting (social life, women, trade and transportation) and give a general insight on the illustrated historical time period. The symposium will pave the way for the new discussions, studies and collaborations.
Information and registration: https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/en/events/fromrepresentationtoinspiration/
4. ONLINE Book Launch: “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 10 December 2021, 12:00 pm EST
This edited book (Brill, 2021) is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman Empire and home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse urban populations, as an early modern metropolis. This event brings together the editors, as well as a number of contributors, of the volume to discuss also the field of urban studies within Ottoman history.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpd-6vqToqHNbAfK8D5pKY8SSht99dPKx-
5. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022
Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pilgrims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 December 2021.
Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.word-press.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf
6. Assistant/Associate Professor of Middle East History before 1800, The American University in Cairo
Applicants must have a PhD in Islamic History, Middle East History, Arabic Studies, or a related discipline from a reputable university by 1 September 2022, preferably with a record of an active research agenda and teaching experience.
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2021.
7. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
Applications are open to candidates from across the social sciences, who are conducting research related to the Middle East and its diasporas on issues that can be understood in a comparative global context.
Deadline for application: 24 January 2022.
Information. https://apply.interfolio.com/98927
8. Islamic Studies MA and Dual Degree MA in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia University (New York) and Aga Khan University (London)
The Islamic Studies Master’s Program focuses on the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim communities around the world.
Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/ma-program.
Information on the Dual Degree Program: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-masters-degree .
Application deadline: 17 February 2022.
9. New Publication –
The Louvre Museum and the Institut français d’Archéologie orientale are pleased to announce the publication of the book :
GASTON WIET ET LES ARTS DE L’ISLAM (GASTON WIET AND ISLAMIC ART)
edited by Carine Juvin – Louvre Museum
(IFAO/ Musée du Louvre, 2021, ISBN: 9782724708028, 1 vol. 248 p.)
Gaston Wiet (1887-1971), an outstanding historian of medieval Islam, was also a prominent figure of the French scientific presence in Egypt. A perfect Arabist, he was interested in many aspects of Egyptian history and culture. His work at the head of the Arab Museum in Cairo (now the Museum of Islamic Art) between 1926 and 1951 was decisive for the enrichment, publication and outreach of its collections, and led him to become one of the best connoisseurs of Islamic art of the first half of the 20th century. Moreover, his membership of the Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe further enhanced his interest in the architecture from the Islamic period. This book, copublished with the Louvre Museum, and the support of the Museum of Islamic Art (Cairo), focuses on Gaston Wiet’s decisive contribution to the study of Islamic art by addressing, beyond his career and his personality, his work at the Arab Museum and the Comité, as well as the wide extent of his research and curiosity, from Persian art and textiles to the productions of modern Egypt, while also underlining his particular passion for epigraphy. This volume brings together the contributions of French and Egyptian specialists and intends to recall, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his passing, the essential contribution of this eminent scholar and friend of Egypt.
Table of contents :
– Gaston Wiet (18 décembre 1887 – 20 avril 1971), d’Égypte et de France
Carine Juvin
-Le Musée arabe : un directeur, une collection
Mohamed Ahmed Abd el-Salam, Étienne Blondeau
– L’engagement d’un savant dans la politique de « conservation des monuments de l’art arabe »
Dina Ishak Bakhoum
– Gaston Wiet et l’art du monde iranien
Judith Henon-Raynaud
– Les arts de l’Islam par l’épigraphie
Carine Juvin
– Des Fatimides à la dynastie khédiviale, une histoire de l’Égypte islamique incarnée par ses monuments, ses objets, ses images
Mercedes Volait
10. International Symposium: “Cappadocia through Time: From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire”
Conveners: P. Androudis, P. Papadopoulou, A. Tantsis
Program: Eastern European Time (EET)
Saturday 4 December
14:45 Welcome
16: 50 Pagona Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Cappadocia through Time: An Introduction
Cappadocia, A Byzantine Province
17:00 Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)
Imagining a Cappadocian Future
17:30 Anastasios Tansis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Architectural Planning in the Built and Rock-cut Churches of Cappadocia: Construction and De-construction
17:50 Break
18.10 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)
Hypogeal Works of Defence Among the Rock-cut Churches of Göreme
18.30 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)
Updated Report on Hydric Facilities in the Rocky Cappadocia
18.50 Sophia Germanidou (Newcastle University)
Covering Subsistence Needs in Byzantine Cappadocia: Comments on Its Agro-pastoral Products
19.10 Discussion
Sunday 5 December
Medieval Cappadocia: Between Two Worlds
17.00 Scott Redford (SOAS University of London)
The Human Geography of Medieval Cappadocia
17.30 Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University)
New Institutions for Ancient Topographies: Danishmendid Architectural Ventures in Twelfth-Century Caesarea/Kayseri
17.50 Suzan Yalman (Koç University)
Of Saints and Fairies: A Seljuk Queen Mother’s Patronage in Cappadocia
18.10 Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
In Search of Greek and Greek-Origin Patrons, Painters and Craftsmen in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Cappadocia
18.30 Sara Nur Yıldız (Università degli studi di Firenze)
Mongol Qishlaqs in the Cappadocian Steppe
18.50 Discussion
Zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/97406174472
1.The Seventh Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the seventh round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.
The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a nine-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field. The winning candidate will be notified by July 2022.
*Deadline 5pm GMT on the Friday 7th January 2022*
For more details including past prize winners, visit: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize
2. Call for Papers: International Journal of Latin American Religions
Special Issue: Islam and Muslim Socialities of Latin America
**Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022**
In recent decades, global Islamic studies expanded to include geographies and cultures beyond a conventional Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) core. Research in South Asia, Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa widened the field’s scope, introducing fresh, critical understandings into scholarly discourses about Islam and Muslims’ lived realities across the world. Nonetheless, global Islamic studies’ scope still fails to fully incorporate marginal geographies and the study of Islam beyond the MENA remains underrepresented. This is particularly evident when it comes to Latin America.
Likewise, research on religion in Latin America has grown to appreciate the changeability and variety of religious expression in the region over the last several decades. Studies on various traditions thickened scholarly understanding of the region’s religious diversity and introduced new ways of understanding transformations in culture, society, and politics across the Americas. Still, the study of Islam and Muslim socialities in relation to this evolution remains negligible when compared to that of other traditions.
This thematic issue invites articles presenting research results from various disciplines, geographies, and historical periods — from the “long” 16th century to today — dealing with the broad theme of “Islam and Muslim socialities of Latin America.” Through case studies and original research, articles should move beyond population surveys, overviews of immigrant communities, and questions of conversion to address theoretical and methodological gaps in the respective fields of global Islam and/or Latin American religion. Especially welcome are submissions dealing with questions of (post)coloniality, gender, race, interreligious encounter, precarity, resilience, transregionalism, materiality, and/or affect.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022
Please direct questions to guest editor: Dr. Ken Chitwood (mailto:k.chitwood@fu-berlin.de?subject=IJLAR%20Special%20Issue)
Read more about the submission guidelines (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=93f11104a4&e=f70992245e)
3. CfP: Theory and Practice of Rebellion (Hamburg, 22-24 Sep 2022)
The Hamburg-based research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)’, is thrilled to announce the CfP for our team’s first conference on themes of rebellion in the early Islamicate world. The conference will take place at Hamburg (pandemic permitting) on 22-24 September 2022. Papers will be pre-circulated; the deadline for abstracts (300 words) is 1 February 2022. Travel and four nights’ accommodation will be covered for accepted speakers.
The CfP and further details can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/…/news/2021-11-23-cfp.html. Abstracts should be sent to hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de. You can also follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on our events and activities: https://twitter.com/rebellionUHH.
4. Corrected weblink:
From 6-8 December the Embedding Conquest team (Leiden) will organize an online conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). We have been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms.
To find out more about the conference go to: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/12/ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire
Keynote: Hugh Kennedy
Speakers: Sobhi Bouderbala; Ana Echevarría Arsuaga; Shounak Ghosh; Matthew Gordon; Ahmad Khan; Pia Maria Malik; Karen Moukheiber; Shirin Naef; Cecilia Palombo; Leone Pecorini-Goodall; Ekaterina Pukhovaia; Janina Safran; Eline Scheerlinck; Petra Sijpesteijn; Josef Ženka.
To register and receive the ZOOM-link mail to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl
5. Central Connecticut State University – Assistant Professor, History of the Islamic World
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62483
Dec 1, 2021 closing date.
6. Research Project – Historian/Researcher – Tudor Period/Elizabethan
Era, AND the Ottoman Empire during the Suleiman the Magnificent Period
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62547
Feb 17, 2022 closing date.
7. HIAA-Sponsored Panel at MESA – Islamic Art and the Politics of Museum Display – November 30
Virtual panel at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)
Organized by Philip Geisler and Constance Jame
Chair & Discussant: Dr. Fahmida Suleman, Curator, Islamic World, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto & Assistant Professor (status only cross-appointments), Departments of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Art History, University of Toronto
Online – November 30, 2021 – 11:30 AM (EST), registration required
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Since the early 2000s, many Islamic art museums and galleries around the world have reorganized their displays. During the same period, methodological interventions building on post-structuralist and post-colonial theory began to challenge long-standing formal and regional categories defining the field of Islamic art history. These new developments have impacted the display strategies of new museums and exhibitions of Islamic art. As a central interface between the academic study of the Middle East, its global representation, and the general public, the approaches these museums use to mediate between art, material culture, and Islamic/regional cultures play a central role in shaping discussions about the region. This includes its designation through religious and/or cultural, national, ethnic, and geographic parameters. At the same time, Islamic art displays are also embedded in heterogeneous local politics and social discourses. This particularly concerns how museum making is entangled with cultural diplomacy and the production of alterity, diversity, and collective identity that serve regional or national agendas and negotiate the recognition of local diasporas as well as minority and/or majority communities.
Based on museum case studies from Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Western Europe, and Canada, this panel of doctoral students examines the politics of museum display and art discourses from 2000 until today. Rather than interpreting Islamic art displays as passive and neutral representations of the past, this panel theorizes them as a contemporary cultural practice that stages spatialized and immersive, ideological narrations of culture. Through bridging the gap between the often-separated realms of art historical research, curatorial practice, and critical museology, this panel aims to examine the new ways, in which museums of Islamic art communicate broader ideas about the region in various global contexts. For this, the panel assesses curatorial practices and displays in both public and private museums including the Malek National Library and Museum (Tehran), the National Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Istanbul), the Louvre Museum (Paris), the Alhambra Museum (Granada), and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Grounded in these accounts, the panel illuminates the politics of these displays and narrations vis-à-vis their local environments and shifted forms of national and/or religious self-fashioning. Through fostering an interdisciplinary and critical discussion, this panel ultimately argues that Islam has become a decisive global marker that enables states across the world to pursue local needs and actualize constitutive socio-political paradigms through cultural institutions and art displays.
Papers
“Between the Transnational and the Local: Assessing the Changing Profile of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul”
Beyza Uzun, Doctoral Student, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca
“The Cultural Diplomacy and Contested Modernity of Museological Development in Qatar: A Case Study on the Museum of Islamic Art and the Qatar National Museum”
Abdelrahman Kamel, Doctoral Student, Queen’s University, Kingston
“Hybrid Objects in the Louvre: Witness of French Transcultural Identity”
Constance Jame, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg
“Islamic Art as a Multicultural Mythology in Spain and Canada”
Philip Geisler, Doctoral Student, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
“The Malek National Library and Museum: Negotiating Curatorial Agency in an Iranian waqf”
Leila Moslemi Mehni, Doctoral Student, University of Toronto
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Panel link and abstracts: https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session.php?sid=346cfbc1467051348469531b5e172c0d
Registration:
This panel is part of the virtual program of the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting. The panel takes place online on November 30, 2021 at 11:30 AM (EST). For information about the registration, please visit MESA’s website: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/registration
8. Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme and call for nominations to “Afghanistan regime change (2021) and the international response web archive collection”
Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme (deadline: 2 Dec 2021)
Please can you reach out to your Afghan colleagues — whether they live inside Afghanistan or outside — to let us know whether they would like to suggest a project to work with us in the Invisible East team that they would like to submit in response to the Bodleian Library’s Afghan Scholars Fellowship call. The incumbent does not need to hold a PhD. The project should be in line with our Invisible East activities and goals, which our website describes: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk. They can contact our director, Dr Arezou Azad at arezou.azad@orinst.ox.ac.uk.
The call details and simple application requirements are here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/afghan-scholars-programme
We’d also like to draw your attention to a UK-wide library initiative seeking nominations for Afghan websites to be preserved and archived. Please do send your suggestions to them!
Details are provided in this blog:
9. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity.
Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022
The global history of slavery and dependency has flourished in recent years, as scholars have deployed new theories and methodologies to explore the varieties of unfreedom across a range of regions and societies. Studies of the premodern period have been part of this expansion, revealing nuanced analyses of how unfreedom intersected with gender roles, labour patterns, economic networks and religious values before the growth of the early modern trans-Atlantic slave trade. In spite of this work, the periods prior to European colonial expansion remain comparatively understudied, but present enormous opportunities to explore key questions and to push the boundaries of the wider history of slavery and dependency. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Slavery, Servitude and Captivity in Comparative Perspectives seeks to bring together scholars studying a wide range of regions and periods to address common themes and questions in the history of slavery, and to build towards a comparative and collaborative global approach.
Unfreedom in the Premodern World will be held over two days (June 23rd & June 24th, 2022) at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin’s Arts and Humanities research centre. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) and Prof. Stefan Brink (University of Cambridge/University of the Highlands & Islands). Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers which explore any aspect of the history of unfreedom, slavery, servitude or captivity in the period before 1492. Papers are welcome from any academic discipline and with any geographical focus. Interdisciplinary papers and studies of regions outside of Western Europe are particularly encouraged. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):
Proposals, consisting of a title, an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short academic biography, should be sent to nosuille@tcd.ie by Friday, 17th December 2021. It is expected that this conference will be held in-person in Dublin, subject to the global public health situation. Limited funding will be available to assist early-career, precariously-employed and independent researchers with travel and accommodation costs.
For any queries and further information, please contact the conference organiser, Dr. Niall Ó Súilleabháin (nosuille@tcd.ie).
10. The Aziz Foundation is awarding 100% tuition fee Masters scholarships to five exceptional British Muslims lacking the financial means to complete postgraduate degrees, at the University of Sussex for the 2022/23 academic year.
These scholarships aim to empower British Muslims to bring positive change to their communities and beyond. For further information, please visit the university website: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/masters-scholarships/view/1349-Aziz-Foundation-Scholarship.
11. Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts
Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.
The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social changes taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.
The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students and the general public, with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, will start on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.
The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialist. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University. Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants for everywhere in the world.
Lecture 1: Women of the Arabian Gulf: Tokens of modernity, symbols of piety, or victims of patriarchy?
By Dr Hasnaa Mokhtar
Rutgers University’s Center for Women’s Global Leadership
Wednesday 01 Dec 2021, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/94322283750
12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its 2022 Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June 2022.
The Call for Papers is now live and can be viewed here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-call-for-papers. Please note, the deadline for submissions is Monday 31st January.
After two years without an in-person BRAIS conference, we are really looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues working across the disciplines and we hope many of you will consider submitting a paper or panel.
Further information about the conference will be circulated in due course, including delgate fees and packages. In the meantime, if you have any questions at all, please contact us directly on: brais2022@ed.ac.uk .
13. The Market in Poetry in the Persian World
Shahzad Bashir,
14. Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies at SF State
The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies is pleased to announce the third year of the Azar Hatefi Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies. San Francisco State University will be awarding two graduate fellowships ($10,000) to admitted students pursuing a Master’s degree at San Francisco State University in 2022-2023. The goal of this fellowship, named in honor of Azar Hatefi, mother of SF State alumna and donor, Neda Nobari, is to support two graduate students for the academic year in the College or Liberal & Creative Arts or the College of Ethnic Studies pursuing a research project in Iranian Diaspora Studies.
The fellowship (awarded to two students) to develop research that engages and fosters new directions in Iranian diaspora topics (everything from art, film, anthropology, sociology, race and resistance studies, history, ethnic studies, etc.). The student must be admitted to an SFSU graduate program and have a stated project that they will pursue for a thesis. The fellowship is renewable for a second year, pending progress on the student’s studies and the culminating project as they advance to candidacy.
Please see the fellowship application requirements and criteria here:https://sfsu.academicworks.com/opportunities/12839
Deadline: 03/30/2022
15. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » (2 décembre 2021 – 17h15-19h)
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 2 décembre 2021 de 17h15 à 19h. Vous pourrez suivre la séance :
– en présentiel : Salle 5.05, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, [Attention : le “Pass sanitaire” sera demandé]
– ou en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Éloïse Brac de la Perrière (professeur d’histoire de l’art et d’archéologie islamiques, Sorbonne Université), pour une conférence intitulée :
Vers une nouvelle histoire de la calligraphie en caractères arabe. Enjeux et perspectives.
Résumé
La calligraphie en caractères arabes est un art fondateur, et fédérateur, dans l’histoire de la civilisation islamique. Omniprésente dans le paysage visuel depuis les débuts de l’Islam jusqu’à la période contemporaine, la calligraphie a été très tôt soumise à des règles précises, un canon défini par des textes, transmis jusqu’à nos jours par des générations de calligraphes. Mais elle a également connu des développements inédits, notamment dans les régions les plus éloignées des centres historiques du monde islamique, où elle s’est développée en un extraordinaire foisonnement de formes, comme un langage à part entière, témoignant de liens historiques complexes entre des zones parfois très éloignées.
Orientations bibliographiques
Participer à la réunion Zoom :
https://zoom.us/j/91304904337?pwd=UytNZUVhOUZWZ3NIWFNQaTF6V1RtUT09
16. Association for Iranian Studies – Awards
Two NEW AWARDS are open for your online nominations on the AIS website. The deadline for both awards is Feb. 15, 2022.
Hamid Naficy Book Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/hamid-naficy-book-award
Neda Nobari Dissertation Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/neda-nobari-dissertation
Please go to the AIS website awards pages https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards for the existing awards listed below. The deadline for your nominations unless stated otherwise on the award description page is December 8th.
The Lifetime Achievement Award
The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award
The Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award
The Parviz Shahriari Book Award
Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award
La première séance du séminaire « Medieval Kâshi Online » aura lieu ce mardi 30 novembre à 15h00-17h00.
Yves Porter (Aix Marseille Université/CNRS-LA3M/Institut Universitaire de France) y donnera une conférence intitulée :
Pour s’inscrire à la séance en ligne : Agenda de l’INHA : https://agenda.inha.fr/events/les-potiers-de-kashan-et-la-chiite-connexion-reseaux-dapprovisionnement-et-de-distribution?nc=eyJpbmRleCI6NiwidG90YWwiOjIzfQ%3D%3D
Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam
Past and Present
Edited by Mirjam Künkler and Devin J. Stewart
Edinburgh, 2021
Patterns of Wisdom in Safavid Iran
The Philosophical School of Isfahan and the Gnostic of Shiraz
J. Esots
Bloomsbury, 2021
1. ONLINE Webinar: “Building New Academic Communities in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Near East” by Gülşah Şenkol ( Orient-Institut Istanbul), ANAMED, Koç University, 23 November 2021, 6:30 pm TRT
The talk will also introduce a new gender research and networking platform which will promote accessible, innovative scholarship and foster global interaction and cooperation among scholars and institutions engaged in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies across disciplinary lines in the Near East.
Information and registration: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/events/anamed-talks-building-new-academic-communities-in-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies-in-the-near-east/
2. HYBRID Conference: “Digitizing Jerusalem’s Archives: Urban Heritage in the Age of Digital Culture”, Jerusalem, 2-4 January 2022
The conference will focus on three main themes: Cultural heritage in the digital age: Digitizing Jerusalem Archives; Digital heritage and the Historic Urban Landscape Approach; Democratizing/interpreting Jerusalem’s heritage.
3. Colloque : « Le Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al‑ʿArabī (m.543/1148) : Parcours, héritage et transmission » à l’occasion du 900e anniversaire de son décès, Centre Jaques-Berque, Rabat, 28 et 29 jan-vier 2021
Ce colloque international a pour objectif de dresser un bilan de la recherche académique réalisée sur la figure, l’oeuvre et la postérité d’un des savants les plus influents de l’Occident Musulman. En effet, depuis près de cent vingt-cinq ans, les nombreux travaux d’édition et études thématiques autour de son oeuvre se sont succédé à un rythme effréné, traduisant un fort intérêt des chercheurs pour cette figure riche et complexe du Ve/ XIe siècle.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/10/colloque-internationnal-janvier-2022.pdf
4. Conference: “The Coptic Educational Systems and Institutions (11th Century – Present)”, French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, 17-18 February 2022
Contributions are invited on: Between Islamic and Coptic Institutions: Sources and Approaches; Ways of Transferring Religious and Liturgical Knowledge; Manuscripts Traditions, Copying, Revising, Editing; Sources of Non-Religious Teaching; Modern and Missionary Schools; Charitable Foundations and Their Educational Roles; Current Educational and Research Centers; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1359/
5. Workshop: “Da’wa and Qur’an Translation in the First Decades of the 20th Century”, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15-16 March 2022
We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop that will deal with the globalisation of Muslim Qur’an translation in the first decades of the 20th century, until the 1960s, against the backdrop of migration and increasing daʿwa activities. Travel costs and accommodation during the conference will be fully funded.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CfP_Workshop-dawa.pdf
6. Roundtable Workshop: “The Arab-majority and Muslim-majority Worlds in/and Contemporary Decolonisation Debates”, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2022
This workshop seeks to specifically think through the decolonising movement and an engagement with it from the histories, experiences, perspectives, traditions, and problematics of the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority worlds (broadly defined) as a contribution toward growing decolonial scholarship and movement.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021.
7. Middle East Initiative Research Fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School
Offers for one-year fellowships for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy from political scientists, historians, econo-mists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Applications from women, minorities, and citizens of all countries are encouraged.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021.
Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
8. Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor for Middle Eastern Literature or Film, Johns Hopkins University
Qualifications: A Ph.D. is required, but we will accept applications from doctoral students expected to fulfill Ph. D degree requirements by 1 July 2022.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98144
9. Faculty Fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University
The ideal candidate is an outstanding junior scholar with an in-depth understanding of the modern Middle East, knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and a PhD in one of the following fields: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern History, Cultural Studies, Politics/Political Economy, Sociology, Urban Studies/Geography, or similar.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98325
10. “Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 2022, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers studying a specific subject in Turkish studies. We particularly welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna – especially in environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage.
Deadline for application: 31 December 2021.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9007203/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2022
11. Call for Papers – PLATFORM
PLATFORM is a digital venue for public conversations about architecture, the built environment, and landscape. It features timely short essays organized into eight sections—Conversations, Finding, House Histories, Opinion, Photo Essay, Reading /Listening/Watching, Specifying, and Teaching/Working—that serve as entry points into different realms of discussion, and address different constituencies and interests. We invite writers working in diverse regions across the world and from across multiple professions and disciplines. We are committed to publishing bilingual articles, in order to bring timely and exciting new research to as many people as possible.
PLATFORM, explicitly outward facing, is a work of public humanities, designed to allow writers in diverse fields to shed light on a range of contemporary concerns. As a digital forum, it leverages the capabilities of new media to facilitate this conversation. PLATFORM is broad in perspective and interdisciplinary in orientation. We want to attract novices as well as old hands. We are not a closed or finite group. Unsolicited work is welcome. We value the diversity of opinions about how we view, read, experience, and engage with the built and natural landscapes. To submit an article or pitch an idea, write to info@platformspace.net. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to any of us, we’re happy to help develop pitches, vet ideas, make suggestions.
Kishwar Rizvi, Production Editor.
Swati Chattopadhyay, Marta Gutman, Zeynep Kezer, Matthew Lasner, Acquisitions Editors.
Sara Lopez, Min Kyung Lee, Fernando Lara Luiz, Mira Waits, Contributing Editors.
Here is an example of what we do:
Kabul in Two Contexts
On August 29, 2021, the United States launched rapid drone strikes on a site in Kabul, allegedly in retaliation for the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Airport three days earlier. By September 17th, the Pentagon was admitting that it was a tragic miscalculation. Instead of an Islamic State in Khorasan operative, they killed ten civilians, among them seven young children. These horrific events make clear that technology has made urban warfare, although long in use, deadlier than ever. The articles in last week’s issue of PLATFORM present Kabul in two very different contexts – as a modern city experiencing architectural development in the late twentieth century, and also an example of abstract legal calculations in contemporary urban warfare.
In “Modern Kabul: Legacies of Polish Architects in Afghanistan,” Muheb Esmat delves into the history of Kabul’s modern architecture. The city’s first master plan, presented in 1965, was heavily based on Modernist principles, partially fueled by municipal leaders’ desire to conceal traditional architecture. Among the new buildings constructed in this period was the Hajhda Manzila, a government tower which, despite its monumental presence in the city, has an obscure history. Esmat finds that the building was designed by a well-known Polish architect, Andrej Riabow, who along with Mieczysław Wrobel designed many other structures in Kabul. Their buildings situate Kabul’s architecture in a larger narrative of exchange that took place between the Eastern Bloc and post-colonial states, including Afghanistan. Esmat argues that there is a larger story to be told about Kabul’s urban development and that its modern past might serve as a lesson for the city’s future.
In “Law and Urban Warfare,” Craig Jones sheds light on the rise of military lawyers over the past few decades of American military presence in West Asia. These legal professionals, whom Jones calls “war lawyers,” are shaping the modern battlespace in ways we are only just beginning to understand. Ever since the Vietnam War, during which catastrophic military strikes led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians, war lawyers have worked to ensure that strikes are within the bounds of International Humanitarian Law. Yet their role has been complicated by the relatively recent phenomenon of drone strikes and remote targeting, as witnessed most recently in Kabul. Despite a suite of precision technologies and strategies that aim to minimize harm to civilians, many military strikes in cities are still deeply destructive—not only due to the increasingly compressed (and thus accident-prone) decision-making process, but also because the laws of war do not always serve to constrain violence. In a world that legitimizes military operations, war lawyers share responsibility for who lives and dies in the increasingly urban spaces of modern war.
12. The British Library:
A Tale of Two Enigmas: A Magtymguly Pyragy Manuscript in the British Library Collections
Divan-i Makhtumquli, a late 18th-early 19th-century Turkmen manuscript. (Divan-i Makhtumquli, Central Asia?, late 18th century or early 19th century CE. Or 11414 f 3v)
13. The Bakhtiari are still migrating
The Smithsonian Magazine June, 2021
14. Medicine, Magic and Healing at University of Exeter, through the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
The workshop will take place on November 29 and November 30 at Hotel Du Vin in Exeter.
The full schedule can be found here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=11747
Please note regisration is required for this event as we have a number limit at the venue. Please contact Sarah Wood s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk for further information
15. ‘A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy’
Gagan D. S. Sood
Modern Asian Studies, November, 2021
16. The Interdisciplinary Studies of Literatures, Arts and Humanities,is an academic journal recently published by the University of Birjand, Iran, in Persian.
Editor-in-Chief: Alireza Anurshiravani, Professor of Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Criticism, Shiraz University, Iran.
Editorial Board, https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board?lang=en
For your information, this is the Journal Website in English: https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/?lang=en
DFDS 8th meeting (Winter 2021)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/ChiWkBj2mW0Ln9Ld7QpAJQ
Presenter:
Dr. George Warner
Center for Religious Studies
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
The Subject:
‘Ḥadīth Compilation and Authorial Agency: The Case of al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s Kitāb al-Tawḥīd‘
Meeting Manager:
Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi, University of Tehran, Iran
Wednesday Nov.24, 2021, 4 p.m. Tehran Zone
More information via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/48/DFDS-8th-meeting-(Winter-2021-Series)/
1.University of Edinburgh – Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62467
Closing date: 3.12.21
2. Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art
Gwenaëlle Fellinger & Melanie Gibson
3. The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides: New English Translations based on the Critical Editions of the Arabic Manuscripts
G Bos
4. In November 2021 the ‘Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II’ project (UGent, 2017-21, https://www.mms.ugent.be) is organising its final conference in Cairo.
The conference sessions will be open to speakers and respondents only, but there will also be two public hybrid (online+onsite) lectures, on November 28 and 29, to which we would like to invite you all:
November, 28, 6 pm (Cairo time, GMT+2), Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent), ‘The Politics of Arabic Historical Thought’ (IFAO, Palais Mounira, Cairo) (registration/link: https://www.mms.ugent.be/closing-conference/public-lecture-محاضرة-عامة/)
November 29, 5.30 pm (Cairo time, GMT+2), Konrad Hirschler (UHamburg), ’The Textuality and Materiality of Historiography’ (AUC, Tahrir Campus, Oriental Hall, Cairo) (registration/link: https://www.mms.ugent.be/keynote-lecture-محاضرة-المتحدث-الرئيسي/)
5. From 6-8 December the Embedding Conquest team (Leiden) will organize an online conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE).
We have been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms. To find out more about the conference go to our website.
Keynote: Hugh Kennedy
Speakers: Sobhi Bouderbala; Ana Echevarría Arsuaga; Shounak Ghosh; Matthew Gordon; Ahmad Khan; Pia Maria Malik; Karen Moukheiber; Shirin Naef; Cecilia Palombo; Leone Pecorini-Goodall; Ekaterina Pukhovaia; Janina Safran; Eline Scheerlinck; Petra Sijpesteijn; Josef Ženka.
To register and receive the ZOOM-link mail to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl
6. The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, is delighted to announce a new online lecture program, The Author’s Voice. The series of free to access quarterly talks, led by Gorgias Press authors, will showcase the latest research across history, linguistics, and religious studies. You are cordially invited to attend our fourth and final lecture of the series:
Ash‘arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf Al-Dīn Al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233) on Creation
Laura Hassan
Associate Faculty Member, Faulty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
9 December 2021 12 pm, EST
Competing theories about the origins of the cosmos have always entailed distinctive and often antithetical conceptions of who, or what, caused it. Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī developed his doctrine of creation at a particularly poignant moment in Islamic intellectual history, in which the traditions of theology (kalām) and Hellenised philosophy (falsafa) were forced into an encounter which would permanently alter the theological landscape. In this talk, taking impetus from the case of al-Āmidī, I consider the options available for intellectuals who, like him, encounter a system of thought which is both rationally and theologically compelling, but which also threatens to undermine entrenched convictions.
This is a free Zoom lecture. Register in advance for this event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and George A. Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Editor-in-Chief, Gorgias Press) in cooperation with Angelos Chaniotis (School of Historical Studies, IAS).
For more information, please contact ds@ias.edu
7. UCLA: Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran
A Panel Discussion
December 12 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, Pacific Time
Ahmad Nader Nadery
Former Chair of Independent Civil Service Commission in Kabul, and Member of the Peace Negotiation Team for Afghanistan
The Taliban’s Return to Power and Its Implications for Afghanistan and Iran
Homeira Qaderi
Afghan Writer and Women’s Rights Activist, and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University
How Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights
Farah Karimi
Head of the Dutch Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA and Former UN Consultant for Capacity Building of the Afghan Parliament
An Expert Reflection on International Responses to the Crisis in Afghanistan
This panel will be in Persian. To register for the event, please click here.
8. The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) is currently seeking a part-time Executive Officer to support its work in promoting scholarship and research excellence on all aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate world.
The successful candidate will manage the Institute’s Annual General Meetings, its Council meetings and meetings of the smaller Management, Outreach and Research Committees and be responsible for submitting annual reports on the organisation to Companies House and the Charities Commission and for the preparation and publication of an Annual Report. In addition, he or she will take a leading role in submitting funding applications and in completing formal quarterly and bi-annual reports to the Institute’s principal funder, the British Academy, in addition to managing the process of awarding research funds to academics at British higher education establishments. The role involves management of a part-time Outreach and Administrative Co-ordinator who assists in delivering BIPS’s many outreach activities: lectures, publications and social-media presence. In addition to the administration of BIPS’s London office, the Executive Officer also liaises with BIPS’s institute in Tehran and the other international schools and institutes of the British Academy.
The role would suit an applicant with a wide range of administrative experience at a senior level, an interest in academic endeavour and, ideally, some knowledge of Iran and the Persianate world. Familiarity with MS Office 365 and Excel is essential, together with an understanding of financial reporting and book-keeping. Experience of the charity and the UK higher education sectors is desirable as well as initiative and the ability to engage with the variety of interests represented by BIPS and its members.
Location: London
Salary: £34,000 pro rata, subject to annual review
Contract: Permanent
Closing date for applications: 8th December 2021
For further details please contact bips@thebritishacademy.ac.uk or download the job description.
9. Call for submissions for the 1st International Conference on Voluntary Activities in Libraries, Museums and Archives, which will be held from May 11 to 12, 2022 in Mashhad, Iran by the Organisation of Libraries, Museums and Document Centre of Astan Quds Razavi. The conference will be organised in hybrid way as it provides an opportunity for participants to attend either in person or online.
The conference aims to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of volunteering in libraries, museums and archives.
We welcome submissions relevant to the conference topics:
The deadline for proposal submissions is December 22, 2021. Please visit our website for more details:
https://volunteer.razavi.ir/volunteer/en/home
We also welcome experts to submit proposals for conducting pre-conference webinars about different aspects of volunteering in organisations. You can email us at volunteers.lib@aqr.ir to gain more details and suggest your topics as well as date/time to conduct a webinar.