Archive for November 20th, 2021
Shii News – Academic Items
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:
- Creating and Fostering the Culture of Voluntary Activities
- Strategies and Plans for Promoting and Developing Voluntary Activities
- Contributing Factors and Barriers to Recruiting Volunteers
- Challenges and Opportunities of Volunteers in Libraries
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.
- November 20, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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