Archive for November, 2021

Saturday 4th of December 2021
5:00 pm – 7:30 pm (UK Time)
The Islamic College
on Zoom
‘Fiqh and Expedience’
Ayatollah Abolghasem Alidoust
Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

Ayatollah Abolghasem Alidoust (Qom Seminary, Iran)
A senior Iranian cleric and legal scholar and professor of Fiqh at the Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought. He is a recipient of the Iranian Book of the Year Award for his book entitled Fiqh and Maslaha.

Prof. Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im (Emory University, USA)
An internationally recognized scholar of Islam and human rights, Prof. An-Na’im teaches courses in international law, comparative law, human rights, and Islamic law. He is the author of Islam and the Secular State (Harvard University Press, 2008)

For more information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/2021/11/2nd-webinar/

‘Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shi’i Islam’
Nebil Husayn, 22.11.21 2 pm EST
Islam’s fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. His nearly universal portrayal in Muslim literature as a pious authority obscures a centuries-long process that entailed the rehabilitation of his character. For many years, some Muslims disliked Ali and considered him an illegitimate ruler. In his new book, Opposing the Imam, Nebil Husayn considers the diverse ways in which early Muslims remembered Ali and contextualizes the rise of both Sunnism and Shi’ism. This presentation discusses key findings from this recent publication.
For more info and to register:
https://shiism.wcfia.harvard.edu/event/deconstructing-memories-ali-sunni-and-shi%CA%BFi-islam

‘Afghanistan’s Shiite Minority Cautiously Embraces Taliban Rule, Seeking Protection,Shiite Taliban fighters now patrol Yakawlang, the site of past atrocities committed by the country’s rulers’
Wall Street Journal, 16.11.21
This article is behind a paywall. There is a link on the page to a free audio of the opening paragraphs of the story.

1.Scriptural Sexuality in the Three Traditions: A Call for Papers

An edited volume in memory of John Tracy Greene

Edited by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Nirmal Fernando, Keren Abbou Hershkovits

Professor John Tracy Greene (May 05, 1944 – March 25, 2021) was a religious studies scholar, a biblical scholar and an archaeologist. Together with the late Prof. Mishael Caspi, they founded and coordinated the “Biblical Characters in the Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)” ISBL seminar.

The volume Scriptural Sexuality is dedicated to the memory of John. In line with his interreligious, comparative approach to the study of religions and the Bible, it will comprise of new scholarship on the broader theme of sexuality in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The volume will explore the presentation, or mis-presentation, of sexual/ised characters through one, or more, of the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Such characters may vary, and include, for example, divine, human, animal, vegetal, and other characters.

Articles are invited that examine expressions, in relation to such characters, of sexuality in various scriptural texts.These expressions might include, but are not limited to, sexual views; literary and visual portrayals; laws; ritual, medical, or other relevant practices; sexual orientation; gender; non/marital sexual relations; asexuality; or the denial of sexuality. They might be an early feature (e.g., in scripture) or a later development (as part of reception history or legal theory), up to current times.

Articles might use a single or several perspectives, such as theology, art, literature, history, archaeology, law, medicine, or other disciplines.

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by 15th January 2022 to:

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche hadromiz@tcd.ie

Nirmal Fernando curlsu@hotmail.com

Keren Abbou-Hershkovits kabbou@gmail.com

Potential contributors who wish to present their contribution in the “Characters in the Three Traditions” seminar (ISBL 2022, Salzburg), please contact Zohar Hadromi-Allouche.

 

 

 

2. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »

Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI

 

Séance du 18 novembre 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 18 novembre 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) : Inscription obligatoire via ce formulaire
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Amin Moghadam (Senior Research Associate, Ryerson University, CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto), pour une conférence intitulée :

 

« Chanter les rivages, s’ancrer dans la ville : autonomie et initiatives culturelles des Iraniens à Dubaï »

Résumé

Cette présentation est le résultat d’une réflexion approfondie sur les relations de l’Iran avec son environnement régional à travers le champs culturel et artistique, mais surtout d’une enquête de terrain récente (de mars à juin 2021) qui a porté sur les initiatives culturelles des Iraniens dans la ville de Dubaï. Elle mettra l’accent sur les conditions matérielles et institutionnelles des circulations culturelles(Kaufmann et al. 2015) afin d’examiner d’une part la relation entre des individus et des communautés diasporiques avec l’Etat et la société d’origine, et d’autre part la reconfiguration des relations centre/périphérie à travers les dynamiques transnationales. Ces questions seront abordées principalement à travers le portrait et le parcours de la poétesse iranienne, Silviana Salmanpour, originaire du sud de l’Iran (de la région de Lârestân) et installée à Dubaï depuis les années 1980. L’étude de cette trajectoire migratoire et artistique révèle en premier lieu l’autonomie de l’espace migratoire qui conduit parfois à la redéfinition des relations centre/périphérie du contexte national. Par ailleurs, elle démontre à travers ce parcours les multiples relations d’interdépendance qui se situent à des échelles géographiques et institutionnelles variées, y compris avec la société émirienne et les dynamiques globales qui caractérisent la ville de Dubaï.  C’est par le biais de cette approche relationnelle que les notions de la « culture » et de la « circulation culturelle » seront abordées dans cette présentation afin de mieux comprendre les modalités de formation et de circulation d’une œuvre littéraire au sein et au-delà des frontières nationales (Levitt 2010; 2020).

 

Orientations bibliographiques

• Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, Catherine Dossin, et Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (eds.), Circulations in the global history of art. Studies in art historiography. Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
• Levitt, Peggy, « Taking Culture Seriously: The Unexplored Nexus between Migration, Incorporation and Development », Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 26/2 (2010): 139‑53. https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.5149
• Levitt, Peggy, « Explaining Variations in Scale Shifting: The Role of Spatiality, Topography and Infrastructure in Global Literary Fields », Poetics 79 (2020): 101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101397

Organisateurs : Amr Ahmed (INALCO, CeRMI), Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE PSL, CeRMI)

 

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Participer à la réunion Zoom :

 

https://zoom.us/j/94600699663?pwd=bWxRYy9YU2thdkcrZ0JlNFBhcGxlZz09

 

ID de réunion : 946 0069 9663

Code secret : CeRMI

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Queering the Middle East and its Diasporas – Queer States: Geopolitics and the Art of Government” by Sima Shakhsari (University of Minnesota), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 17 November 2021, 12:00 pm EST

Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DtyHnn8wSLKduiTSUAPaiw

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar: “Perfect Imperfection: Socio-cultural and Religious Reforms in Saudi Arabia” by Dr Stéphane Lacroix (Science Po Paris), Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 17 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm SGT

Social change is one aspect of MBS’ vision. Religion is another target. The crown prince has said that Wah-habism is akin to “deifying human beings”. This follows his championing of “moderate Islam” reining in the clerical class and resetting the role of religion in the state. How successful has this religious re-orientation been? What are the implications for Riyadh’s role as the gatekeeper of the global Muslim community?

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/perfect-imperfection-socio-cultural-and-religious-reforms-in-saudi-arabia/

 

 

 

5. HYBRID Colloque international : « Les disputes théologiques entre ašʿarites et ḥanbalites et leurs représentations du XIe/Ve siècle jusqu’au wahhabo-salafisme contemporain », Inalco, Paris, 18-19 novembre 2021

Information and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/56372.

Programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/11/programme_colloque_discordia_0.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Graduate Student Research Presentations, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 19 November 2021, 12:00 pm ET

Moderated by Joseph Leidy. Presenters: Mairéad Smith, Anthropology; Yasemin Bavbek, Sociology; Dima Nasser, Comparative Literature.

Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKfiU-NDdkInYmzLqXy5Tto8Xrc49x0H33TYMqP_VQF8FOGA/viewform

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE Workshop: “Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies”, Organized by Dagmar Riedel (OCIS & Columbia University) and Talal Al-Azem (OCIS & University of Oxford), 20 November 2021, 10:00 am GMT

This workshop will explore how scholars in Islamic studies engage with the Digital Humanities in order to confront the question of how repositories of digital surrogates together with computational methods are changing the meaning of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences.

Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wc1P9kT9QziZBNmsjEIG5w

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Conference: “Citizenship, Sectarianism and Belonging (Focus MENA)”, University of Lancaster, 16-17 December 2021

The study of citizenship has received renewed attention in Middle East and North Africa studies across recent years. How do citizenship and nationalism interact in the Middle East, and to what effect?

Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/citizenship-sectarianism-and-belonging

 

 

 

 

9. Conference for Graduate Students in Western Universities, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 26-28 March 2022

The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers rooted in their graduate studies. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discussions with their peers and with established Arab academics.

Deadline for applications: 4 December 2021.

Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/Graduate-Students-in-Western-Universities-3rd-Round-Upcoming/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

10. International Conference: “Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion: Memory Politics, Governance and Protests”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 29-31 March 2023

The conference will shed new light on the main factors shaping Iraqi politics and society since the US invasion of 2003. It will take stock of the scholarship on Iraq’s modern history, post 2003 transformations and current developments, with a special focus on questions of govern ance, institutions, protest movements, and the politics of memory.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2022.

Information: https://assets.ctfassets.net/jlhgjubhhjuo/zyEJeiPxdToX4x847e97W/33aa3be68313842f1255711c5cfa9fc0/Iraq_conf_2023_CfP_FINAL.pdf

 

 

 

 

11. HYBRID 12th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Gulf Research Center Cambridge, UK, 14-16 July 2022

Scholars are invited to apply to direct a workshop focusing on political, economic, security or social issues related to the Gulf region.

Deadline for proposals of workshops: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/11/12/12th-annual-gulf-research-meeting-call-for-workshop-proposals

 

 

 

12. Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

The field of specialization is open and includes any area of Islamic art and architectural history from the early Islamic period to the present.

Deadline for applications: 1 January 2022.

Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19323

 

 

13. Visiting Fellowships for Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, 2022–2023

We are particularly interested in applicants whose work focuses on human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, animal welfare and rights, constitutional law, food law, environmental law and climate change in particular, migration and refugee studies, LGBTQ issues, and related areas.

Dealine for applications: 15 January 2022.

Information: https://plsmw.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/

 

 

14. “Moving Biography Summer School”, Orient-Institut Beirut with American University of Beirut and Global (De)Centre, Beirut, 1-8 June 2022

We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to explore the various etymologies and connotations that the term “biography” carries in different languages. The Summer School will focus on three main themes: ques-tions of data, the act of creation, and the importance of the social and historical context of biographies.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/call-for-applications-moving-biography/

 

 

 

 

15. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year

Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618

 

 

 

16. Call for Proposals: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Special Issue on Digital Ottoman Studies

Themes may include: creation of text or image corpora, development of language resources, entity recognition, progress in OCR/HTR, digital textual methods, gazetteer creation, network analysis, GIS, geocoded datasets, image analysis, advances in technology and cultural heritage (digital GLAM) as well as examples of open scholarship, open source softwares, crowdsourcing and digital community building.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2021.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/8244720/call-proposals-journal-ottoman-and-turkish-studies-association

 

 

 

17. CfP:  Levantines of the Ottoman World

We welcome chapters that engage in current topics such as Levantine cosmopolitanism, hybridity, marginal-ity, ambiguity, and transnationalism, but we also encourage submissions which critique the centrality of such terminology and theoretical frames in historical scholarship. Editors: Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr (Colombia Uni-versity) and Burhan Çağlar (Sakarya University).

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.

Information: https://levantinestudies.wixsite.com/book

 

 

 

18. The Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Zoroastrian Languages and Literature.

For the job posting link.

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-FEZANA-Professorship-in-Zoroastrian-Languages-and-Literature-ON/552521517/

All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by December 20, 2021  

 

 

19. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Associate/Associate Research Scholar

The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate or more senior researcher position(s) in the relevant fields of Iran and the Persian Gulf studies in the 19th – 21st century.

Anticipated to start in September 2022, the position is open to scholars of all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This full-time, twelve-month position is renewable annually for up to three years, subject to satisfactory performance and available funding. The center promotes interdisciplinary approaches to advancing the study of Iran and the Persian Gulf, with special attention to the region’s role and significance in the contemporary world. The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.

DEADLINE: All materials must be received by Friday, December 10, 2021, 11:59 p.m. EST. Preferred start date is September 1, 2022. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

For further info,

https://iran.princeton.edu/about/open-positions/postdoctoral-research-associate

Registration is now open for “Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion” (Dec 6-9, 2021), an online conference which aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions. We welcome researchers and scholars with an interest in these areas to join.
For further information and to register:

1.Call for Submissions – HIAA Winter Newsletter – Member News (Due December 3)

Please remember to submit entries (recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honours) for the Member News section of our upcoming Winter newsletter.

 

The winter newsletter also includes a section for dissertations in progress in Islamic art.

We highly encourage all graduate students to share their information. Dissertation supervisors are requested to share this information with their students regardless of membership status.

 

For your convenience, we have created a form in which all this information can be compiled: https://forms.gle/3AHFBrfZY3L1CEsD9

 

We request that you complete this form by Friday, December 3, 2021 to ensure its inclusion in the newsletter

 

 

 2. EuQu Panels on ‘The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe’

A Series of Panel Discussions

Organized by Paul Babinski, Asaph Ben-Tov, and Jan Loop

Mondays from 15 November to 6 December; 17.00 to 19.00 CET

Sign up: https://teol.ku.dk/afd/the-european-quran/conference-2021/

This series of panel discussions examines the nexus between wars with the Ottoman Empire and the study of Islam and the Qur’an in early modern Europe. It sketches a broad historical trajectory from the fall of Constantinople into the eighteenth century, tracing how conflict informed popular views of Islam and impacted the material conditions and practices of orientalist scholarship, through looted orientalia (manuscripts, coins, textiles, metalwork) and prisoners who assisted orientalists as scribes and amanuenses. Each panel focuses on a particular stage of conflict, with papers exploring the interrelations between knowledge production and armed conflict from a variety of perspectives. Following these moments over time, we will consider how intensifying coordination between the agents of orientalist scholarship—those who procured, copied, collected, and interpreted the objects of orientalist interest – contributed to shifting views of Islam across Europe.

See also:

https://euqu.eu/2021/10/04/the-turkish-wars-and-the-study-of-islam-in-early-modern-europe/

 

 

 

3. Full-time open-rank faculty positions at the Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University

Koç University

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature at Koç University invites applications for several full-time open-rank faculty positions to begin September 2022. We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas:

•  Early modern Turkish literature;
• Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender;
• Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.

The successful candidates will have active research agendas and demonstrable records of original research in their fields. The candidates are expected to engage in the intellectual life of our Department with diverse theoretical, methodological, and linguistic interests, and to teach broadly on the Department’s curriculum as appropriate.

Junior appointments are at the rank of Assistant Professor and initially for a period of four years with opportunities for renewal and advancement. The teaching load is four courses per year. ABD candidates must be on track to complete their PhD before the start date.

The Department of Comparative Literature is expanding and has launched an MA program in 2021. Therefore, the successful candidates are also expected to complement the Department’s existing strengths and actively participate in further curriculum development. For more information, please visit the Department’s website: https://cssh.ku.edu.tr/en/education/comparative-literature/about/

Located in Istanbul, Turkey, Koç University is an internationally recognized, English-instruction research university. The university actively supports faculty members who apply for European Union and TÜBİTAK research grants, and it offers a competitive benefit package (e.g., housing support, private insurance, K12 package, research funding).

Interested applicants should submit the following documents online at this website: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Research statement
• Writing sample (no more than 30 pages)
• Two sample course syllabi
• Three letters of reference

 

The deadline for the application is December 29, 2021. 

Informal inquiries about the position may be directed to the search coordinators:

Dr. C. Ceyhun Arslan (cceyhunarslan@ku.edu.tr) or Dr. Meliz Ergin (mergin@ku.edu.tr)

Inquiries concerning the application procedure and related matters may be made to the faculty administrator Ms. Merve G. Dalyaprak (mdalyaprak@ku.edu.tr)

 

 

 

4. The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an

Edited By George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, Daniel A. Madigan

Routledge, 2021

 

 

 

 

5. Call For Pitches – Manuscripts and Material Culture (Hazine)

Why are manuscripts critical to Islamic and Islamicate studies, and how do they impact pedagogy? How does material culture help us venture into the past, and how do manuscripts affect religious practice, be it Muslim, Coptic, Armenian, etc? Hazine is seeking 3-4 pieces on manuscripts and material culture from the Mashriq, Maghreb, East Africa, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean broadly that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Miniatures, calligraphy, and other forms of Islamicate art
• Talismans, amulets, and other items from the occult sciences
• New findings that challenge established notions, such as variant readings
• Technical aspects of handling and preserving manuscripts; innovations in the field of conservation and preservation
• Efforts on decolonizing western manuscript collections, including archive reviews

Send pitches to hazineblog[at]gmail.com. This is an open-ended call.

Pitches should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a few sentences telling us who you are. Pitches (and pieces) are accepted in English; we accept essays and are open to different forms such as resource guides, archive reviews, as well as creative formats like zines and comics. We welcome different forms of style as we expand the essay category of the site but do have a look at the essays we’ve run previously, like this one on typography and this one on archivy, because they demonstrate what we’re really looking for: a strong point of view. Completed essays –if accepted– will be 2000 words or less. Deadlines for completed pieces are flexible. Each piece is paid at least 100 USD upon publication; we are in the process of adjusting our fees.

All pitches will receive a response.

https://hazine.info/call-for-pitches-manuscripts-and-material-culture/

 

 

 

6. Scenes From the 16th-Century Ottoman Empire, Book 1 

Türkische Manierenbuch From Kassel University Library 40 Ms. Hist. 31

ISBN: 978-90-6921-30-8,

Edited by: Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem with contributions from Magnus Reesel (Frankfurt) & Zeynep Öztürk (Istanbul) and Paul Brood (Groningen) Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem

© Copyright 2021, SOTA  Haarlem, 366 pages, 21×27 cm full colour.

Sample pages: https://www.academia.edu/59941085/

 

 

 

7. Virtual Conference – The II International Conference on the History and Culture of Perfume – Open Registration

The II International Conference on the History and Culture of Perfume will be held from December 1 to 3, 2021, entirely in virtual format through the Microsoft Teams platform.

The celebration of the II International Conference on History and Culture of Perfume aims to continue the work begun with the previous edition and expand the scope of its objectives: the vindication of perfume as an object of study in the Humanities, the interdisciplinary and international exchange of research results related to perfume and smell, as well as the growing expansion of the field of sensory studies, beyond visuality. This conference will bring together academic contributions from a range of specialists from different areas of knowledge, together with the invited intervention of professionals from outside the field of research, but linked to the professional development of perfume and associated artistic manifestations.

The central thematic axis will be based on academic reflection on the cultural values of perfume—historical, artistic, scientific, technological, experiential, social…—through which it is intended to build a multidisciplinary identity with which to approach this current object of study.

Keynote speakers: David Howes (Concordia University), Annick Le Guérer (Independent), Mª. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual (Universitat de València), Cecilia Bembibre (University College London), María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) and Héctor Manuel Enríquez Andrade (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia).

Registration open until: November 30th.

Reduced fees by early registration until: November 20th.

Check the conference programme and the reduced and special fees through the following link: https://www.ucm.es/capire/perfume21

 

 

 

 

8. ASPIRANTUM – Armenian School of Languages and Cultures

Learn Persian through Saadi’s Golestan
3 weeks, from Jan 10, 2022 to Jan 28, 2022

Online from Yerevan, Armenia

Apply by Dec 15, 2021

Price: $900

https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-saadi-golestan
This course will be organized on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays each week (4 days each week, 12 days over three weeks) and will include 42 hours of intensive Persian teaching (3.5 hours during each day).
In addition to reading and discussing the Golestan every day, students will read an article in Persian by an Iranian scholar about a unique aspect of the Golestan. These readings are available in our syllabus. Every day the class will start with a discussion of the homework and the mentioned article. Following this, students will read, interpret and decipher one or several stories from the Golestan. Finally, each day’s class will end with a discussion and questions.

 

 

 

9. American University – Sharjah – Faculty | The Ahmed Seddiqi Endowed Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62425

The application deadline is December 10, 2021.

 

 

 

 

10. The Visual Arts Working Group for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite colleagues to attend an upcoming online lecture by Prof. Margaret S. Graves (Indiana University): ‘Abbasid Painting as Process: The Shifting Status of the Image.

We will convene at 4 pm pst on November 18.
To register:

https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdu-pqzsiHNbFE2b8S8nfxCcLSDkAFEJc
Abstract
The invigorated Arabic and Persian textual traditions of the tenth to early thirteenth centuries have left us a small but important collection of descriptions of image-making, often framed within legends of painterly prowess. Images in these textual descriptions are durational, cumulative and often—though not exclusively—produced through competitive performances involving multiple artists. These medieval records of the image have often been absorbed into transhistorical theories of Islamicate image reception. However, I suggest that there is in fact a shift in the status of the image that takes place on the eve of the early modern period, prior to which we can trace a medieval fascination with image-making as process and performance that is equal to—or even exceeds—the beholder’s share of witness and wonder at the painting as a completed artefact. Bringing together textual sources, the eight known manuscript images of the famous Nizami story of the Greek-Chinese painting competition, and objects that attest to other ontologies of the pre-modern image, this lecture goes looking for the ephemeral acts that constituted the medieval image in word and deed.

 

 

11. ‘Mosque: Innovation in Object, Form and Function,’ that will take place at the King Abdul Aziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in November 24-25 2021.

Here is the link for getting access to the event by registration, and for the programme and list of speakers: https://www.ithra.com/en/programme/2021/mosque-innovation-object-form-and-function/

 

12. Two opportunities provided by Oxford’s Bodleian Library for Afghan scholars and/or scholars of all nationalities working on Afghanistan-related topics:

1. Bodleian Afghan Scholars programme (paid)

The Bodleian Library has just announced a new call for Afghan scholars to apply for project funding. There are two strands of funding, one of which is working with a programme at Oxford, such as our own. Applications are taken on a rolling basis. Details can be found here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/afghan-scholars-programme

1. Bodleian Bahari Fellowships (paid)

The new call has just been announced as well. These fellowships are given for up to 6 months for scholars to work on any of the Persian rare books and manuscript holdings in the Bodleian. They are open to scholars of all nationalities. This year, applications are especially invited for research connected to the study of Afghanistan and its history, culture and literature. Eligibility and application details can be found here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

 

 

13. The Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Dept. I: Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, at the Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures and Arts of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main invites applications for the following position as civil servant or public employee starting at the earliest possible date:

Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track)
for Islamic Archaeology and Art History

Deadline for applications: 10 December 2021.

https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45303014/Ausschreibungen_von_Professuren___Fachbereich_09___Sprach__und_Kulturwissenschaften

5e journée d’études sur le chiisme contemporain’
vendredi 19 novembre 2021 – 10:00 – 16:00
Journée organisée avec le soutien du Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM), et du Groupe Sociétés Religions Laïcités (GSRL).
Organisateurs : Constance Arminjon (EPHE – PSL, GSRL) et Rainer Brunner (CNRS, LEM).
Lieu : Maison des sciences de l’Homme – 54, boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris, salle 20.
More information and to register:
https://www.ephe.psl.eu/agenda/5e-journee-d-etudes-sur-le-chiisme-contemporain

Hidden Empires and Muslim Sectarian Identities: The Emergence of Shi’a Sects in Early Islam (7th – 10th Centuries CE)
Mohammad Sagha, Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago
Date: Monday, November 15, 2021, 3:00pm to 4:30pm, EST
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
To Register:
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_elngLU1kRAaHwlgqf8nMMA

1.ONLINE “Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches”, Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), University of Warwick, 10-12 November 2021

Program and registration:

https://hakluytsociety.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/programme-hakluyt-society-symposium-2021-decolonising-travel-studies-sources-and-approaches/

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Webinar: “Reflections on Afghanistan” with Professor Noam Chomsky, SOAS, London, 12 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT

Professor Chomsky will address some of the most pressing concerns surrounding the ongoi ng conflict in

Afghanistan, including Taliban rule, US policy in Afghanistan post 9/11, drone warfare, the refugee crisis, and

future solutions. He will also be taking questions from an online audience.

Information and registration: 

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/2021/12nov2021-soas-icop-presents-reflections-on-afghanistan-with-professor-noam-chomsky.html

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings” by Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 16 November 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT

In her account of the Arab uprisings, Caroline Rooney outlines the importance of aesthetic strategies and creative expression in the left’s critique of authoritarian and Islamic extremist discourse during the revolutions. Using a wide array of texts and sources she offered a way for the left to reclaim ethical and progressive ‘radical’ values co-opted by political leaders and extremists in the Middle East.

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/16nov2021-creative-radicalism-in-the-middle-east-culture-and-the-arab-left-after-the-uprisings.html

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Workshop: “Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires, 1840s–1970s”, Munich Centre for Global History and German Historical Institute Washington, 18-19 November 2021

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8859007/colonial-baggage-global-tourism-age-empires-1840s%E2%80%931970s-zoom

 

 

 

 

5. 19th Media Workshop on “Aesthetics and Material Cultures: New Approaches within Islamic Studies” with Dr. Alina Kokoschka (Berlin/Lübeck), Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich, 13-14 January 2022

Up to ten participants will be chosen to discuss selected academic articles about aesthetics and material culture in the Middle East in n an intense reading session of four hours.The texts will b distributed in advance. Deadline for application: 1 December 2021.Contact Dr.Bettina Gräf (b.graef@lmu.de ).

Information:

https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosaminstitut/veranstaltungen/cfp-19mws/index.html

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9-10 April 2022

We invite paper proposals from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address topics relating

to travel and mobility in, to, and from the Middle East and North Africa (region in any historical era.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0

 

 

 

 

7. Resident Fellowships (Post Doc, 1-12 Months in 2022) at the “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies”, University of Hamburg

Fellowships are available for scholars who have completed their doctoral degree and established an inde-pendent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project related to the Center’s interests in Romanization and Islamication in the period and area in question.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cffellows-2022.pdf

 

 

 

8. PhD Student Position (36 Months) in the Project “Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)”, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Vienna

Your profile: Completed studies in history; Experience in archive work, especially with handwritten early modern sources; Working experience with TRANSKRIBUS, TEI and other editing tools are advantageous; Flexibility, communication skills, creativity, team spirit.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/I.H.B/IHB136DOC121_e.pdf

 

 

 

9. Director of Modern Language Programs (Focus Near Eastern Languages), Harvard University

The Director will head and coordinate all aspects of the program, which currently consists of Arabic, Persian,Turkish, Hebrew, Yiddish and Armenian. The ideal candidate must be able to teach all levels of Arabic language and have a record of successful experience with American academic institutions.

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.

Information https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10792

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Requirements: Ph.D. in modern Persian Literature; ability to teach courses in English about modern Persian Literature in English Translation, History of Modern Persian Literature, Modern Persian Society and Culture through Literature and Film, and/or Iranian Cinema. Applicants are expected to have native or near native proficiency in Persian,

Deadline for applications: 3 December 2021.

Information: https://asia.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/copy-2/

 

ONLINE Mathieu Terrier (CNRS, LEM) : « L’opposition au pouvoir dans le shi’isme imâmite à la période prémoderne : de la révolte armée au contre-pouvoir spirituel », IISMM, Paris, 9 novembre 2021, 18h30 – 20h CET
Ses recherches portent principalement sur les ouvrages de « vies et doctrines des sages » dans le monde arabo musulman, l’évolution des idé es théologiques et philosophiques en islam shî‘ite de l origine à l ’époque moderne et la formation de la « philosophie shî‘ite » entre le XIVe et le XVIIe siècle.
Information et inscription https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e5Lagn9jhY