Archive for November, 2021

 

1.The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. In this year’s competition, social science and humanities articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals in 2020 were considered. The winning article is  awarded $500. The selection committee was composed of Ceren Belge (Concordia University), Ozlem Goner (City University of New York), and Güneş Murat Tezcür (University of Central Florida).

Winner

The committee has unanimously found the following article worthy of the award.

Fırat Bozçalı (2020). Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno‐legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey. American Ethnologist, 47(1), 72-85.

The armed conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish insurgents has been a central focus of scholarship. While the conflict waxes and wanes, Kurdish civilians in contested zones navigate multiple layers of judicial control and administrative surveillance in pursuit of a living. In his article, Bozçalı brings a refreshing perspective about how ordinary people engage in cross-border economic activities while aiming to avoid charges of smuggling. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in judicial and commercial settings, Bozçalı demonstrates how the state’s attempts to curtail oil smuggling via the adoption of new technologies are effectively challenged by Kurdish traders and lawyers. The latter utilize uncertainty inherent to chemical tests and exploit the ambiguity between scientific and legal knowledge production  to counter charges of smuggling. While these activities do not involve an alternative political sovereignty claim, they involve mundane forms of resistance and disrupt the state’s ability to control its borders. Bozçalı’s article is a splendid example of how an immersive approach could reveal counterintuitive empirical findings, generate new theoretical insights, and demonstrate the ability of Kurdish Studies to enrich broader scholarly debates about the scope and limits of the state power in borderlands.

Honorable Mention

The committee has also unanimously found the following article worthy of an honorable mention.

Zozan Pehlivan. (2020). El Niño and the nomads: Global climate, local environment, and the crisis of pastoralism in late Ottoman Kurdistan. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 63(3), 316-356.

In this fascinating article, Zozan Pehlivan traces the climatic changes in late 19th century Ottoman Kurdistan, first linking these to the global El Nino Southern Oscillation, then tracing how the ensuing drought, extreme cold, and lack of forage affected the livelihoods of local pastoralists, whose conflicts with peasants increased. Thoroughly original, and scrupulously researched, the article promises to open new avenues of research in the intersection of environmental and Kurdish studies, and inspire new approaches to the study of communal conflict in this critical period and beyond.

 

 

 

2. The Master’s program Cultural Studies of the Middle East, jointly hosted by the Universities of Bamberg and Erlangen, invites applications for the Visiting Professorship 2022-23!

The deadline to apply is January 07, 2022.

 

 

 

3. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event

November 10, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

The Study of Pre-modern Hebrew Philosophical and Scientific Terminology as a new Chapter in the Intellectual History of Europe and the Islamicate World:  PESHAT in Context. 

Speakers: Giuseppe Veltri (University of Hamburg), Reimund Leicht (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Michael Engel (University of Hamburg) and Florian Dunklau (University of Hamburg).

PESHAT in Context (www.peshat.org) is a long-term research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and located at the University of Hamburg and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It investigates the formation and development of pre-modern philosophical and scientific terminology in the Hebrew language in its multi-cultural and multi-linguistic context(s). From a historical point of view, Hebrew philosophical and scientific terminology evolved from various attempts to re-formulate the intellectual culture that had developed among Jews in the Arabic-speaking Islamicate world in a new linguistic form and to make it accessible to new audiences. The formation of the “philosophers’ Hebrew” is thus a border-transcending phenomenon with roots in the Arabic-speaking world and reaching out to the intellectual history of medieval Europe. It is one of the major aims of PESHAT in Context to document and analyze the migration of philosophical and scientific concepts and idea through the study of the development of Hebrew terminology within its multilinguistic background. For this purpose, PESHAT in Context has created a multilingual digital thesaurus of philosophical and scientific terms accessible online, which is technologically founded on a newly developed database program. As a project in modern digital humanities, it provides tools and a unique platform to access a wide range of digital resources relevant for the linguistic, terminological and conceptual study of philosophy and science in Europe and the Islamicate world.

Register in advance here https://bit.ly/2Y9MAtv. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar.

Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information email ds@ias.edu.

 

 

 

4. Global Performance Studies Journal – Call for Proposals – Issue 5.1: “Decolonisation and Performance Studies” (September 2022)

Call for Proposals
Issue 5.1: “Decolonisation and Performance Studies” (September 2022)
Proposal Deadline: 15 November 2021

This issue is multilingual. Proposals are accepted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. See links below for the CFP in the three languages:

CFP IN ARABIC

CFP IN SPANISH

CFP IN ENGLISH

Issue Editor

Dr. Nesreen N. Hussein (Middlesex University, London)

Co-Editors

Dr. Kevin Brown (University of Missouri)

Dr. Felipe Cervera (LASALLE College of the Arts)

 

 

 

 

5. Panel: Writing a Dissertation in Islamic Art & Architcctural History

Panelists: Catherine Asher (University of Minnesota), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest University), Zohreh Soltani (Ithaca College)

Date & Time: Monday, November 15, 2021 at 12 pm (Eastern)

Register at: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdeyuqDkoG9PjMJJFMDvn8LI_pQ2rXtM1

 

This panel discussion is open to all graduate students working in topics related to Islamic art.

 

We encourage faculty members to circulate this announcement to their students.

 

To make the discussion as relevant as possible, we ask participants to complete this questionnaire in advance: https://forms.gle/7PpkdiVoZ9VhC3E39

Please submit responses by Monday, November 8, 2021.

 

 

 

6. New Exhibition – Cartier et les Arts de l’Islam: Aux sources de la modernité/Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity – MAD/DMA 2021-2022

Heather Ecker:

I wanted to announce the opening of our exhibition in Paris at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs (October 21, 2021 – February 20, 2022) and in Dallas at the Dallas Museum of Arts (May 14, 2022 – September 18, 2022). The exhibition, a culmination of a project of more than three years, is co-organised between the MAD and the DMA with the special collaboration of the Louvre and with Cartier. Diller, Scofidio + Renfro is the scenographer. It is a project in which archival materials (drawings, plaster casts, prints for glass plate negatives, books from Louis Cartier’s design library and notebooks of ideas) take pride of place alongside the jewels that emerged from those studies. It is a study of one firm’s creative response to the ornamental designs copied, catagorised and reprinted by theoreticians of the 19th century including Owen Jones, Jules Bourgoin, Collinot and Beaumont, Prisse d’Avennes and others, and its frank admiration for artists from the Islamic lands whose work was available in exhibitions, catalogues and Louis Cartier’s personal collection of manuscripts, paintings and objects. Indeed, inspirations from the ornaments produced by these artists appear to be at the root of Cartier’s modern style, including what became known as Art Deco. At each venue, the exhibition includes a partial reconstruction of Louis’ dispersed collection, much of it now at Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by MAD, in two editions, English and French, edited by the four curators: Evelyne Possémé, Judith Henon-Raynaud, Sarah Schleuning, and myself. The English edition will be released in April 2022, distributed by Thames & Hudson.

https://madparis.fr/Cartier-et-les-arts-de-l-Islam-Aux-sources-de-la-modernite

 

 

 

7. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/

 

 

 

8. New National Book Critics Circle translation prize

Starting with the 2022 publishing year, the National Book Critics Circle is launching a new Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize to honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States (including publishing houses based abroad but which distribute in America). The prize recognizes books for their excellence and artistry and is open to translations of books authored by living or deceased writers; new translations of previously translated books will also be considered (this is a game changer for classicists — a new Beowulf or Iliad would count, as would any premodern title in any language tradition). The prize will judge the translated English-language book as a work itself.

 

As a member of NBCC, I’m thrilled to be on the prize committee along with Adam Dalva, Tara Wanda Merrigan, Shelly Frisch, Jane Ciabattari, and other talented authors, translators, and reviewers. Please reach out with any questions!

 

Best wishes,

Kevin

 

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Kevin Blankinship, PhD

Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Literature

Contributing Editor, New Lines Magazine

Brigham Young University, 3058 JFSB

Provo, UT 84602 | (801) 422-4684
kevin_blankinship@byu.edu | Homepage

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9. Call for papers: The Coalescence of Arabic, Turkic,and Persian Spheres (900–1900).
Deadline: 30 November 2021

The purpose of this call is to assemble contributions from scholars – both established as well as early career – for an academic conference exploring the cultural exchanges between Arabic, Turkic, and Persian-speaking peoples and traditions across the medieval and early modern eras.
Prospective contributors should apply with a 200-word abstract of their proposed presentation/essay by 30th November 2021.
Twelve successful applicants will be notified before the end of the year, and invited to partake in a digitally held conference held on Tuesday 4th May 2022.
More information is available at this link.

 

 

 

 

10. Fellowship: Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book.
Deadline 30 November 2021
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during the academic year 2022-23. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects.
Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage. Please note that this year’s Bahari Visiting Fellowship applicants will be required to submit an article-length sample of their work along with their application.
Former Bahari Visiting Fellows presented their studies at the Persian Arts of the Book Conference in July 2021, and some of them are included in a series of short films created for the Bodleian.
The films can be watched on the YouTube channel of the Bodleian Librariesand one of them features Dr Arezou Azad, BIPS Trustee and former Bahari Visiting Fellow. The video can be watched here.

 

 

 

11. The seventh (2022) round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize is now open for submissions, with the deadline set for 5pm GMT on Friday 7th January 2022.

For further information, including how to submit, please click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2022.

 

 

 

12. Call for Book Manuscripts: The Early and Medieval Islamic World Series

I.B.Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking manuscripts and book proposals for The Early Medieval and Islamic World  book series. For more information, including, series description, new and forthcoming titles and how to submit a proposal, please see the series page on our website and read below, or contact Rory Gormley, Commissioning Editor for Middle East history & culture (rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com).

Series Description

As recent scholarship resoundingly attests, the medieval Mediterranean and Middle East bore witness to a prolonged period of flourishing intellectual and cultural diversity. Seeking to contribute to this ever-more nuanced and textured picture, The Early and Medieval Islamic World academic book series promotes innovative research on the period 500–1500 AD with the Islamic world, as it ebbed and flowed from Marrakesh to Palermo and Cairo to Kabul, as the central pivot. Thematic focus within this remit is broad, from the cultural and social to the political and economic, with preference given to studies of societies and cultures from a socio-historical perspective. The series showcases unique voices on the medieval Islamic world, shining light into its lesser studied corners.

Key areas of focus are:

• Transition to the ‘medieval’ world, especiallyarchaeological approaches
• Close textual readings and translations
• Trade and the economy
• Travel and exploration
• Government and warfare
• Societies and communities
• Material culture and art
• History of ideas
• Inter-religious contact, conflict and exchange
• Prominent and influential figures

The series is published in collaboration with the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. The society is dedicated to all aspects of the academic study of Mediterranean history and culture, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries AD. It aims to foster cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary investigation, create a forum of ideas and encourage debate on intercommunal and transnational crosspollination within the medieval Mediterranean. For more information see: http://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com

For more information see the series website https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/early-and-medieval-islamic-world/, or to submit a proposal, please contact:Rory Gormley, Editor, Middle East history & culture rgormley@ibtauris.com

 

 

The department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite you to an online conversation with Dr Lloyd Ridgeon on Thu, 18 November 2021, 17:00 – 18:00 GMT. We will discuss his new book, Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives.
The event is free but you need to register via the link below:
https://hijabbooklaunch.eventbrite.co.uk
Dr Lloyd Ridgeon’s book addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It focuses on three representative thinkers: Murtaza Mutahhari who held veiling to be compulsory, Ahmad Qabil who argued for the desirability of the hijab, and Muhsin Kadivar who considers it neither necessary nor desirable.
Join Lloyd in conversation with Professor Nacim Pak Shiraz, Personal Chair of Cinema and Iran at the University of Edinburgh, to discuss the book and its themes.

‘The Qizilbāsh and their Shah: The Preservation of Royal Prerogative during the Early Reign of Shah Ṭahmāsp’
G. Aldous
JRAS, 2021

The ‘Alawī Religion: An Anthology
M. Bar-Asher, A. Kofsky
Brepols, 2021
The ‘Alawī religion, known for most of its history by the name Nuṣayriyya, emerged in Iraq over a millennium ago. An esoteric, syncretistic religion with a close affinity to Shī‘ī Islam, its origins are shrouded in obscurity. Over time, beliefs and rituals deriving from paganism, Zoroastrianism and Christianity were grafted to the radical Shī‘ī substrate, giving the religion its distinctive character. Throughout their history the ‘Alawites were a persecuted religious minority, but in the 1970s they came to power in Syria and retained absolute rule until recently. There is also a significant population in Hatai Province in southern Turkey.
Arising from the authors’ long-standing interest in the ‘Alawī religion, this anthology offers for the first time a selection from the distinctive literature of the mysterious religion. The book opens with a detailed introduction setting the background for the themes it will cover: the mystery of the divinity in the ‘Alawī faith; rituals and ceremonies; calendar and festivals; the doctrine of reincarnation; initiation into the divine mysteries and the esoteric circle; and finally, the identity and self-definition of the religion’s followers vis-à-vis Islam and other religions.

1. Call for Applications, 2022-2023 Faculty Leave Fellowship

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is accepting applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for scholars of the contemporary Middle East. The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology—for the 2022-2023 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s /Middle East Brief/ series.
*Eligibility
*The 2022-2023 faculty leave fellowship is open to *all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured*, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
*Terms
*The faculty leave fellowship is an academic year appointment beginning September 1, 2022 and ending May 31, 2023. The fellowship is designed to supplement the scholar’s faculty leave salary from their institution and will provide a stipend plus funding for research, travel, and related expenses. The fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank (or rank equivalency based on scholarly attainment): $40,000 for assistant professor or career equivalent; $50,000 for associate professor or career equivalent; and $70,000 for full professor, emeritus, or career equivalent. The Crown Center will determine the level based on the candidate’s rank or equivalent rank as of the application deadline. Fringe benefits, when not provided by the scholar’s home institution, can be made available during the appointment period.
Fellows are required to be *in residence* at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship and be fully relieved of teaching and service responsibilities at their home university. During their residence, fellows write a /Middle East Brief/ and participate in all Crown Center events, including seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.
*Application Materials
*1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
*Application Submission*: *https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/19416* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/spwxdq>
*Application Deadline
*January 1, 2022
*Notification
*April 1, 2022
*Inquiries
*You may direct inquiries to Kristina Cherniahivsky at crowncenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-5320. For more information, please visit *brandeis.edu/crown* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/8hxxdq>.

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture: “Representations of Iran by the Western Film Industry” by Angeliki Coletsou, Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – A Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig, 3 November 2021, 7:30 pm CET

The speaker compares Iran’s representations by the media before and after the Arab Spring and focuses on the portrayal of 2009 protests by comparing the American and some German cinematic representations of the country.

Information and registration: https://kiaradiekritischen.wordpress.com/ak-10-jahre-sogenannter-arabischer-fruehling/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID “3rd Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference of the American Society of Islamic Phi-losophy & Theology”, Harvard and Brandeis Universities, 3-5 December 2021

The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context.

Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/

 

 

 

 

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. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022

This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africam, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sacred-spaces-winter-2022-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-11-12-february-fresno-924964?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond”, Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS), Royal Holloway University of London, February 2022

Organised by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) and Thomas Pierret (Aix-en-Provence). Scholars are invited with various disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of the many utopias that have shaped (or, at least, strove to shape) the Middle East and adjacent regions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Information: https://utopiasinthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

 

7. International Conference: “Silk Roads by Land and Sea”, GUtech German University of Technology, Muscat, 9-12 March 2022

The conference will be organised by the RIO Research Centre Indian Ocean (www.rio-heritage.org). It seeks to contribute to the emerging field of “mobility studies”, shedding new light on the overland and sea networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean and East Africa to East Asia from the earliest times to the present day.

Information: http://silkroads.rio-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/210729_Call-for-Papers_v2.pdf

 

 

 

8. 24th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 May 2022

Proposals are invited for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any Mediterranean language.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-studies-association-25-28-may-lisbon?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

9. Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, University of Marburg, 4-9 July 2022

The themed portion of the conference on 7July will be “Environment and Nature in the Mamluk Sultanate”. We welcome papers related to land use, hydrology and irrigation, disease and famine, flora and fauna, crops and food, and anything related to these topics.

Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor in Digital Culture (Focus MENA), Northwestern University Qatar

We seek candidates with an active research program on digital culture in the West Asia and North Africa region, particularly Arab countries. Preference given to scholars whose research is comparative or transna-tional, who investigate questions of identity, values, aesthetics, affect, ethics, and who have linguistic com-petence and field experience in their research area.

Deadline for applications: 11 November 2021. Information: https://careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hr857prd_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=42217&PostingSeq=1

 

 

 

11. Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards of the American Center for Research, Amman, 2022-2023

Information: https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/

 

 

 

 

12. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for North African Francophone Studies, Connecticut College

All thematic approaches are welcome, with particular attention to expertise in the fields of colonialism/impe-rialism, migration, feminism, gender, sexuality, Arabic, and Islamic Studies. Candidates will have demon-strated experience in the reading and analysis of a variety of cultural modes of production particularly litera-ture in many genres, but also film and screen, music, visual and graphic art, and possibly others.

Deadline for applications: 15 November 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/97248

 

 

 

 

13. Assistant Professorship in the History of the Middle East (Tenure Track), University of Utah, Salt Lake City

The period of specialization is open. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to re-search and to research-informed teaching at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in History or a related field at the time appointment begins (August 10, 2022). Previous experience in teaching and mentoring successful undergraduate research is preferred.

Deadline for applications: 5 November 2021. Information: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/120720

 

 

 

 

14. Assistant Professor in Early Modern Mediterranean Religion, Northwestern University, Evanston

The successful candidate will be interested in the varied routes of religious, philosophical, and material exchange connecting Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and/or the Americas from 1500-1800. May specialize in Christianity, Islam, and/or Judaism.

Deadline for application: 15 November 2021. Information: https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/about/open-faculty-positions/early-modern-search-2021.html

 

 

 

 

15. Intensive Course: “A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Studies in Pre-Modern Egypt”, University of Marburg, 4-6 July 2022

The course will be instructed by Ghislaine Alleaume, Allison Gascoigne, Nicolas Michel, and Yossef Rapoport. It will include an introduction to archaeological methods in environmental history, historiography and research methods for the environmental history of pre-modern Egypt, an introduction to GIS, and the use of map resources generally.

Deadline for application: 31 January 2022.

Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html

 

 

 

 

16. Articles for Journal “Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico” in English, French, Italian or Spanish

Essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, mi-gratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.

Deadline for articles: 15 November 2021. Information: https://blogperle.unical.it/wp/rivistaocchiali/cfp-no-9

 

 

 

 

17. Call for Papers

The journal Forum for Islamic-Theological Studies (FITS) is a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, principally in Europe. FITS aims to provide an open space for academic dialogue within and across disciplinary and confessional boundaries to advance debates in the various sub-disciplines of Islamic theology and religious education as well as in the sociology of religion concerning ‘Islam’ and Muslims. Papers can be submitted in the following areas: Qur’anic Studies and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr); Hadith Studies; Sufism; Islamic Legal Theory and Hermeneutics (fiqh); Islamic Ethics; Islamic Philosophy; System-atic-Discursive Theology (kalām); Islamic Religious Education; Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe; Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe; Interreligious Studies: etc.

Deadline for contributions: 1 March 2022. Information: https://www.uibk.ac.at/islam-theol/docs/call-for-papers_fits_de_en-002.pdf

 

 

 

 

18. Chapters for edited volume on ‘Assessing Canada’s Footprint in the Middle East and North Africa. This book will be open to various scholarly approaches, such as from the fields of political science, diplomatic history, cultural studies, and more. Papers are invited to explore either bilateral relationships or thematic issues, and will be done in the broadest geographic understanding of MENA.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021. Information: Canada.MENA.Research@gmail.com

 

 

 

19. Exeter’s Monday Majlis: November programme

The Monday Majlis from the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI) at Exeter continues with meetings in November (see the programme below). All members of the Islamic Studies community are welcome to attend – pre-registration is required – here is the blurb:

The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. They take place Mondays, online 1700-1830 UK time.

To register, click on the links below (separate links and separate registration for each Majlis).

1^st November: Dr Bianka Speidl (Budapest) will talk about her new book Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (Routledge 2020).

To register click here: https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-qvqT8oHtySTlXHEhcmPRlFPOtmJtTb

8th November: Dr Emily Selove (Exeter) and Professor Geert Jan Van Gelder (Oxford) talk about their newly published translations and commentary: The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. Parental guidance: prepare for some explicit medieval Arabic material from this fascinating 11th century text.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucumsqTkpGtz3ZmD5Oh33I34LRAV1hAIQ 

15th November: Professor Peter Morey (Birmingham) will talk about his research around Islamophobia and the novel.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuqoqDwoHNYfMNRevBWwHvfd8gTca5Ph

22nd November: Professor Mirjam Kunkler (Swedish Collegium) will talk about her research on gender and Islam, with a focus on her programme “Wither Female Religious authorities?”

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpduqqqD4iHdYL4zzTe9rINLcAoW1toQ9A

29th November: Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed, in the second of his sessions, studies passages from Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam with us.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcuqtrz0uHN2nKsNij9e6llnbWyYp5ke3

 

In line with University of Exeter online seminar regulations:

1. Registration is open until 1700 UK TIME on the day BEFORE of the seminar.
   2. You will receive the link to join the seminar on the morning of the seminar.
   3. You will need to use the same email to join the seminar as you did to register.
   4. Please add the date to your calendar now, as you will not receive a confirmatory email (and link) that you have registered until the day of the seminar.

 

 

 

 

20. Professor Roshanak Kheshti, “The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema,” Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST Zoom Registration: https://uoft.me/6VQ

Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series

presents
The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema
an online lecture by

Professor Roshanak Kheshti

University of California, Berkeley
Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST

Zoom Registration:

https://uoft.me/6VQ

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 Bio:

Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance amd Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She is an anthropologist, feminist, queer and race theorist, born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work sits at the intersection of sound, the senses, film and performance studies with an emphasis on diaspora and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She is currently completing her third book, tentatively titled “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics”. She has previously published in the Radical History Review, American Quarterly, Current Musicology, Feminist Media Histories, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Theater Survey, and Sounding Out!

Abstract:

This talk explores the question of diegetic film sound in diasporic Iranian cinema. Through Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Mitra Tabrizian’s Gholam and Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats, I consider how the commonly held understanding of diegetic sound (or sounds that emanate from the story world of the film) becomes a troubled notion in this genre, challenging how the narrative world of the film is contained.

 

1 November 2021
It is with a very heavy heart and great sorrow that I have to inform you of the passing away of Professor Mahmoud Ayoub today. He was a mentor, teacher, friend and colleague to many. He was also a colossal figure in Islamic Studies, having written many articles, authored and edited books and taught many, including myself. He was also a very fine human being. He will be missed. May Allah rest his soul in peace and grant him a special place with His chosen ones.

Best Wishes
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Dr. Liyakat Takim
Sharjah Chair in Global Islam
Dept of Religious Studies
McMaster University
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ONLINE Humboldt Research Award Lecture / Goettinger Orient-Symposium: “Towards a History of Libraries in Yemen” by Prof. Sabine Schmidtke, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 3 November 2021, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET
Zaydi Yemen is characterized by a religio-dynastic continuance that stretched over nearly a millenium until the abolition of the Zaydi imamate in 1962. During this periods, the production of books increased exponentially and new libraries were founded. The preserved material allows for a meticulous longue durée study of Yemen’s religio-cultural history through its libraries, the outlines of which will be sketched out in the lecture.
Information and registration: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/651367.html