Archive for January 25th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.HIAA Biennial Symposium CFP – Deadline April 8
Call for Papers
Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium
“Expanding Contexts”
The Museum of Fine Arts and Rice University, Houston
March 2-4, 2023
As historians of Islamic art and architecture, we often deal with objects and edifices that are spatially and temporally removed from their contexts. Artworks are displayed in glass cases in museum galleries and heavily restored monuments offer little clue of the social life that once unfolded in and around them. The discussion of context has long been dominated by politics, dynasties, and patronage. Recent scholarship, however, has immensely expanded the definition of the context to include urban, sensory, perceptual, social, and global settings, to name a few trends. We no longer discuss works of art and architecture as reified creations but consider them in the context of labor, craft, and everyday practices. We construe artworks not as neutral reflections of their historical settings but as agents that actively inform their contexts. Rather than seeking a definite provenance, we write transregional narratives of objects and their dynamic (cross-) cultural lives.
For the next biennial HIAA symposium, we invite panels and papers that explore the question of context in Islamic art and architecture from new methodological and theoretical perspectives. We seek papers that engage new conceptual models, strategies, and technologies for reconstructing, narrating, and visualizing the historical contexts. What are the promises and pitfalls of the digital age for reconstructing the original contexts of artworks and architectural fragments? What approaches and conceptions can we take to invoke the context and intimate the embodied experiences of historical audiences for the public in museums, academic settings, and online platforms? Is it possible to redress the acts of transmission and dislocation that have led to the creation of major collections by means of reconstructing their contexts? How can we use the context to expand the global reach of the field and narrate the past in ways that speak to broader audiences?
There are two categories of submission: Pre-arranged panels (3-4 papers and a discussant) and individual papers. Please submit your abstract/s and a brief curriculum vitae to hiaa.symposium.2023@gmail.com, by April 8, 2022.
The 2023 Symposium Organizers:
Aimée Froom (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Farshid Emami (Rice University)
Committee Members:
Stephennie Mulder, Nada Shabout, Abbey Stockstill, and Heather Ecker
2. Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies
Fall Semester 2022
A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support
The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Fall semester 2022 – 2023 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies. The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.
The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community. The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) and their international non-native or heritage peers.
The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha (world health conditions permitting). It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.
The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and
develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.
The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Public Administration and Development Economics. For more detailed
information about the DI, please go to:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx
To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:
https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/znatdf40sd7rqv/
Semester Program Features:
- 6 credits of Intensive Arabic;
- A language partner;
- Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible;
- Option to have an academic partner;
- Access to the DI rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.
Admission Requirements:
- Advanced level in Arabic;
- Housing: 11,000 per semester (approximately $3000 or 2,650)
- Program Dates:
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2022
- Start of Classes: July 31, 2022
- End of Classes: November 3, 2022
3. ONLINE Lecture: “Hunger, Heresy and Rebellion in ʿAbbasid Arabia” by Peter Webb (Univer-siteit Leiden), University of Hamburg, 15 February 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CET
This is a part of the lecture series: “Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World” hosted by the Emmy Noether Research Group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)”.
Information and registration: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/2021-12-lecture-series.html
No lecture in March –
12 Apr 2022
Antonia Bosanquet (Universität Hamburg): Was it a Berber Rebellion? Ethnic and Religious Labels in Histories of the 740 Uprising
17 May 2022
Teresa Bernheimer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): ʿAlid and Kharijite Revolts in the First Two Centuries of Islam a Comparative Re-Assessment
14 Jun 2022
Maribel Fierro (CSIC Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo): How Rebellions End: A View from the Medieval Islamic West
The online lecture series will take place during Spring Term on Tuesdays from 4.00 to 5.30 pm CET on Zoom. To register, please contact the SCORE team at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.
4. ONLINE Conference: “The Concept of Protology/Cosmology and the Concept of Eschatology in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” in the Series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses” (KCID), Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 16-17 February, 2:00 pm CET
Speakers on Protology/Cosmology: Prof. em. Dr. Philip Alexander and Prof. Dr. Daniel Langton, University of Manchester/UK, on Judaism; Prof. Dr. Dirk Ansorge, Frankfurt/Main, on Christianity; Prof. Dr. Mira Sievers, HU Berlin, on Islam. Speaker on Eschatology: Prof. em. Dr. Todd Lawson, University of Toronto/CA, on Islam; etc.
Information and registration: https://www.bafid.fau.eu/research/conference-series-kcid/
June 22-24, 2022: The Concept of Emotion and the Concept of Morality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Emotion:
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University Jerusalem/IL, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. John Corrigan, Florida State University/USA, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Paul Heck, Georgetown University/USA, on Islam - Morality:
Prof. Dr. Alan Mittleman, Jewish Theological Seminary/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins, University of Munster, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Hamad Bin Khalifa University/QA, on Islam
September 21-23, 2022: The Concept of Mysticism and the Concept of Divine-Human Communication in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Mysticism:
Prof. em. Moshe Idel, Hebrew University Jerusalem/IL, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame/USA, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Erdal Toprakyaran, University of Tübingen, on Islam - Divine-Human Communication:
Prof. Dr. Aaron Hughes, Indiana University Bloomington/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University/USA, on Christianity
Dr. Ghassan El Masri, BaFID/FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, on Islam
February 15-17, 2023: The Concept of Religion and the Concept of Rationality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Religion:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky/USA, on Judaism
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gregor-Maria Hoff, University of Salzburg, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Moncef Ben Abdeljelil, University of Sousse/TUN, on Islam - Rationality:
Prof. Dr. Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University/USA, on Judaism
Dr. Dr. Martin Breul, University of Erfurt, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, on Islam
June 21-23, 2023: The Concept of Authority and the Concept of Modernity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Authority:
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, McGill University/CA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibert, University of Hamburg, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Vincent Cornell, Emory University/USA, on Islam - Modernity:
Prof. Dr. Allan Arkush, Binghamton University/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides, University of Erfurt, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika, University of Frankfurt/Main, on Islam
October 11-13, 2023: The Concept of Suffering and the Concept of Happiness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Suffering:
Prof. Dr. Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto/CA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter/UK, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Ghaly, Hamad bin Khalifa University/QAT, on Islam - Happiness:
Prof. em. Dr. Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University/USA, on Judaism
Prof. em. Dr. Paul J. Wadell, St. Norbert College/USA, on Christianity
Dr. Raid al-Daghistani, University of Munster, on Islam
The last conferences were held from October 6th to 7th, 2021 on “The Concept of Education and the Concept of Family in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (Program), from June 23th to 24th, 2021 on “The Concept of Sin and the Concept of Redemption in Judaism, Christianity and Islam“ (Program) and from February 17th to 18th, 2021 on “The Concept of Will and the Concept of Predestination in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (Program).
5. ONLINE Lecture: “The Politics of Jihad in Early Crusading Period among the Turkmen and Kurds” by Prof. Dr. Taef El-Azhari (Helwan University), University of Marburg, Germany, 24 February 2022, 5:00 pm CET
This is part of the Lecture Series “Rethinking Memory and Historiography of the Crusades in the Middle East”. Moderator: Prof. Dr. Umar Ryad (University of Leuven). Organised by Dr. Ahmed M. Sheir.
Information and registration: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w00onNuGTJiDFSoQ3gfE1cBsJF7zINd-/view?usp=sharing
6. 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 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.
7. ONLINE Conference: “Islamic Perspectives on Exotheology”, Zayed University, 10-11 May 2022
Organised by Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Zayed University and Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, etc.. Questions to be asked: Are extraterrestrials even metaphysically or hermeneutically possible in Islamic thought? If extraterrestrials exist, how would this impact Islamic jurisprudence and/or ethics? What philosophical implications could there be for Muslims if extraterrestrial life exists? Etc.
Information: https://www.academia.edu/51090491/Call_for_papers_Islamic_Perspectives_on_Exotheolgy
8. Panel on “Liberalism and Islam in Contemporary Global Literature”, Conference of the British Association of Islam Studies (BRAIS), University of Edinburgh, 6-7 June 2022
Topics include: “Every day Islam” in Literature; Liberalism and Orientalism; The relation between piety and its performance in Muslim everyday life in literature; Neo-Orientalism in global literature; Muslim identity pol-itics and liberalism in western spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 January 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/9554601/liberalism-and-islam-contemporary-global-literature-brais
9. HYBRID Conference: “Mercenaries and Crusaders (1202-1480s)”, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 22-24 June 2022
Panels and papers are welcome on the topics: Mercenaries in the Holy Land; Mercenaries in Byzantine Armies; Mercenaries in the Crusades against the Ottomans; Crusades in the Holy Land, the Baltics, the Iberian Peninsula; against the Ottomans; Crusades against Christians; Perception of Mercenaries in Narra-tive Literature; etc.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://mercenariesandcrusaders.com/?page_id=51
10. Conference: “Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity”, Trinity College Dublin, 23-24 June 2022
Papers will 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.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/9058439/unfreedom-premodern-world-com-parative-perspectives-slavery
11. 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”. Papers will focus on 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
12. “Twelfth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies” by the “Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES)” on “The Middle East in Myth and Reality”, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22-24 September 2022
Paper proposals are encouraged to explore and discuss social, political, geographical, historical and religious myths and realities from all fields and disciplines of the Middle Eastern studies, including the following fields: Middle Eastern history, anthropology, archaeology, religion, politics, sociology, language, and literature. Papers on other relevant themes pertinent to current Middle Eastern Studies are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022. Information: https://vigdis.hi.is/en/events/nsmes-conference-2022/
13. Conference: “Balance of Justice in the Ottoman Empire. Non-Muslims as Agents in an Islamic Imperial Legal Context”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 13-15 October 2022
Focusing on the period from the early modern to the modern era papers are invited on the followind questions: How can we reveal non-Muslims’ agency in the Ottoman legal context? What notions and practices of insti-tutionalization, authority, and coercion did non-Muslims have? And what new, dynamic models can we de-velop in their place to better understand the varying ways non-Muslims participated in Ottoman society?
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2022.
Information: https://www.ottolegal.net/thebalanceofjustice
14. Doctoral Research Fellowship (3 Years) in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
The doctoral project, designed by the applicant, is expected to explore the relationship between cultural pro-duction and social changes in the Middle East and beyond. Qualification: Master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies, comparative literature, or other related fields; Fluent oral and written communication skills in English, fluency in Arabic; Competency in other Middle Eastern Language.
Deadline for application: 28 February 2022. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215412/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-middle-eastern-studies
15. Wissenschaftl. MitarbeiterIn (3 Jahre) in Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Dienstort Kairo, Orient-Institut Beirut
Voraussetzungen: MA-Abschluss oder BA-Abschluss und fortgeschrittenes MA-Studium in den Fächern Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft oder verwandten Fächern der Nahost-Studien; Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift in Deutsch, Arabisch und Englisch; Bereitschaft zu Dienstreisen.
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Februar 2022. Informationen: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/people/vacancies/wmoibkairo/
16. Senior Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of Islamic Governance, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Islamic Studies (Governance, Politics and/or Public Policy), Political Islam, Islamic Law (Applied Shari’ah) or related field from a recognised university; Demonstrate outstanding record of re-search output, particularly on the conceptualisation and application of Shari’ah or policies within the context of Islamic or Muslim societies; Record of teaching excellence.
17. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) of History with Specialisation in the Middle East, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
Candidates must be either ABD or have a PhD in history or closely related field. The successful candidate will teach four courses per semester (two sections of introductory classes, survey classes and upper division classes in areas of specialization).
Deadline for application: Open until filled. Information: https://jobs.naz.edu/postings/2779
18. CEST Summer School “Cultural Exchange and Heritage (Related to Turkey)”, University of Vienna, 11-22 July 2022
The CEST Summer School is open to graduate students (enrolled in advanced MA and PhD programs) and early career scholars (within four years of receiving their PhD) in Turkey and Europe whose research interest is relevant to cultural exchange and heritage in the context of Turkey.
Deadline for applications: 25 February 2022. Information: https://cest-graduateschool.univie.ac.at
19. ONLINE Summer Course “Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies”, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN, 13-24 June 2022
For graduate students, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and independent scholars with a research interest in Arabic manuscripts. The program welcomes international applicants.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2022. Information: https://hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies/
20. The Qatar National Library, as the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Regional Center, for MENA region, is organizing this online training on “Combating Art Trafficking: A special focus on manuscripts“: Course will be offered in English, with translation into Arabic, Persian and Turkish under the framework of the Himaya project to counter the trafficking and illegal circulation of the documentary heritage.
Registration: https://events.qnl.qa/event/d175A/EN
This course is organized in the franwork on the HIMAYA
For more information contact Stephane Ipert sipert@qnl.qa
Starts:
21.02.2022 04:00 PM
Ends:
23.02.2022 06:00 PM
21. Siyah Zibast, Black is beautiful
Date: 25 January 2022Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 25 January 2022Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Virtual Event
Type of Event: Webinar
Hidden Histories Seminar Series
A seminar series curated by the Library Decolonisation Operational Group, led by Farzana Qureshi, Dr Ludi Price, Amma Poku and Angelica Baschiera.
Hidden Histories seeks to highlight stories from African, Caribbean and Asian communities in the UK and beyond, bringing to light a shared vision of decolonising knowledge production, and documenting the unique voices and experiences of diasporas in Britain and across the world.
About this event
With Siyah Zibast, Black is beautiful, the Collective for Black Iranians invites you for a conversation about the importance of language in identity formation and in seeing ourselves. Black is beautiful, Siyah Zibast is the first call in the Iranian community to see and say that Blackness lives in Iranian identity and vice-versa, a call to say that “Black is beautiful”. Co-founders, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda, Alex Eskandarkhah, Norman Soltan Salahshour and resident historian Beeta Baghoolizadeh, as well as residents from Iran, will join us for an evening of conversations on the myriad ways in which the Collective creatively says the Persian words, “Black is Beautiful”, through its work.
About the panellists
The Collective for Black Iranians is a creative and critically conscious initiative proposing an Iranian culture that stands fully at its Black and African intersections. Founded out of the necessity to be heard, seen and understood, the Collective has been trailblazing conversations around race, Blackness, belonging, anti-Blackness and the importance of listening to stories we may not have known existed.
The event will be chaired by Dr Ida Hadjivayanis (Lecturer in Swahili and Head of Africa section, School of Languages, cultures and linguistics, SOAS), and Dr Narguess Farzad (Senior lecturer in Persian studies and Chair of the Centre for Iranian studies, SOAS).
Registration
This event is free and open to public. If you would like to attend the event please register. Please register via Zoom.
Organiser: SOAS Decolonising Working Group (DWG)
Contact email: cas@soas.ac.uk
22. Call for Contributions to the 7th IDHN Conference
The 7th IDHN Conference will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
We are now calling for contributions from both members and guests, who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam and Muslim communities. Our conference is open to participants from both humanistic and scientific disciplines. We would also like to encourage Master’s and PhD students to share their Digital Humanities research with us.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Friday, March 25, 2022.
We will select four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes.
We will hold the meeting online on ZOOM; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
- January 25, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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