Archive for April, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Monash University in Australia is hiring a PhD student who will specialise in Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), his work, heritage, later influence, and/or reception.
You can find the call here: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/633252/phd-scholarship-in-islamic-intellectual-history-through-the-lens-of-sufism-global-dissemination-of-knowledge-in-islam
Deadline: May 20, Friday 2022
Enquiries: aydogan.kars@monash.edu
2. Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning’
Essays in Honour of Carole and Robert Hillenbrand (2 volumes)
Edited by Ali Ansari and Melanie Gibson
April 2022 by Gingko Library, London
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-carole-hillenbrand/
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-robert-hillenbrand/
3. “Melodies of Unity: A Discussion on Sufi music with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble” (AFSACK) – May 4
Join us on Wednesday May 4th for our next American Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture and Knowledge (AFSACK) Salon Series Conversation with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble. This discussion explores the eclectic sounds of their new album, Melodies of Unity, diving into their creative process and inspirations from Sufi poetry. The conversation further examines their experiences of recording and making new music remotely during the pandemic across four countries.
This event will take place on Zoom. Register here.
4. In Memoriam – Karel Otavský (11 June 1938, Prague – 12 April 2022, Prague)
by Shireen Ellinger
It is with great sadness that I would like to share the passing of a prominent art historian, Dr. Phil. Karel Otavský, who passed away on the 12th of April 2022.
A renowned Czech specialist in the history of liturgical objects and textiles, Karel Otavský studied art history with Prof. Jaroslav Pešina in the Department of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. His dissertation completed in 1966 was entitled ‘Paintings of the Klementinum Anthology of Thomas of Štítný’. At the same time, he was employed in the National Gallery of Prague; first, as assistant curator of Graphic Arts, and later, for Sculpture. In 1967-1968, he worked at the National Museum of Prague, but shortly after the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to Switzerland. In 1968, he began to work as a research assistant at the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, where he soon became curator of their collections of Western and Oriental arts. In 1991, he received a PhD degree from the University of Bern, with a published thesis entitled Die Sankt Wenzelskrone im Prager Domschatz und die Frage der Kunstauffassung am Hofe Kaiser Karls IV. [The St. Wenceslas Crown from the St. Vitus Dom in Prague and the question of the art notion at the Court of Emperor Charles IV.] (Bern, 1992). He met his Czech wife MgA (magister artis) Vendulka Sudková, a textile conservator, at the Abegg-Stiftung. In 2001, they returned to the Czech Republic and from 2004 to 2015, he taught the history of medieval liturgical art at the Institute of Christian Art History in the Charles University in Prague.
It was the field of Islamic textiles and our common Czech background that brought us together, for the first time, in 2018. We discovered that we had both begun not only with the study of music in the Prague Conservatory, but also shared our general studies at the High School of Jan Neruda (Gymnazium Jana Nerudy) in Prague. As an Islamic art historian specialising in silk textiles of the Mamluk period (1250-1517), I had the privilege to spend some precious moments with Karel Otavský at his home in Černošice, where we shared our enthusiasm for textiles and our discussions taught me much. Although he had most recently focused on liturgical objects in particular, his detailed knowledge of medieval textiles, including their technical aspects and techniques of manufacture, was extraordinary. Besides his numerous publications on liturgical and medieval arts, major contributions to the field of textiles include: Alte Gewebe und ihre Geschichte: Ein Lese- und Bilderbuch (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1987); Mittelalterliche Textilien I: Ägypten, Persien und Mesopotamien, Spanien und Nordafrika (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1995, in collaboration with Muhammad ʿAbbas Muhammad Salim); and Mittelalterliche Textilien II: Zwischen Europa und China (Abbeg-Stiftung 2011, in collaboration with Anne E. Wardwell).
Karel Otavský was a humble and generous man, with a fine sense of humour and an immense spirit of curiosity and wonder. The art historical world has lost a remarkable scholar, author and teacher, who was greatly loved by his students and colleagues.
5. Religions, Volume 13, Issue 4 (April 2022), Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy, one may find several contributions dealings with Islam among 106 articles.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/271
Topics range from culture, politics, museum studies, sociology to theological aesthetics. Here is a sample of articles (open access):
Stéphane Lacroix
Religions 2022, 13(4), 316; doi:10.3390/rel13040316
Article: Muslim YouTubers in Turkey and the Authoritarian Male Gaze on YouTube
Esma Çelebioğlu
Religions 2022, 13(4), 318; doi:10.3390/rel13040318
Kamaluddin Abu Nawas, Abdul Rasyid Masri and Alim Syariati
Religions 2022, 13(4), 320; doi:10.3390/rel13040320
Article: The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display
Valerie Gonzalez
Religions 2022, 13(4), 281; doi:10.3390/rel13040281
Article: Beyond Theological Aesthetics: Aesthetic Theology
Sixto J. Castro
Religions 2022, 13(4), 311; doi:10.3390/rel13040311
6. Book Launch
What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field
6 May 2022 17:30-19:00
Aga Khan Centre
Aga Khan Centre (1st floor)
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
Book ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-what-is-islamic-studies-tickets-321304278747
7. The Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 3 – April 2022
This edition of the newsletter reflects these global/local processes in various ways as well, via news reports from Texas, new research on philanthropic networks, and a new logo for our network.
In this edition, you will find:
* The launch of new LACISA logos to match the vibrancy of our growing network of scholars, journalists, and those interested in the study of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
* New opportunities for studies on Muslim philanthropy, including a fall colloquium and new edited volume.
* A research presentation that asks whether we might conceptualize a “Bahamas-to-Bengal Complex.”
* News items from Chile and California, Costa Rica and Argentina.
* New opportunities and calls for a new LACISA Newsletter Editor, a Brill book series, and a higher diploma in South-South relations.
* Fresh translations of our original research articles, essays, and interviews in Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and more below. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter
** Read more about our newsletter and network (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=1519b51275&e=f70992245e)
8. Call for Papers: A Workshop on Citation
Modeling Attribution and Acknowledgement in the Digital Humanities: Citation Practices and the Pre-Modern Arabic Book
For some time, the KITAB team has been dealing with the practice of citation in the pre-modern Arabic written tradition. In doing so, we are building on extensive work in Arabic and Islamic studies that deals with how authors cite, and particularly their use of isnads (that is, chains of transmission). Digital Humanities, moreover, offers us new and exciting methods for the identification and analysis of citations within our texts.
Through this informal workshop, we hope to present some of our research and also to hear from other researchers who are working on citation (case studies from both Arabic and non-Arabic contexts are very much welcomed). If you are working on any of the topics below, we invite you to present a proposal for a 20-minute paper:
– Digital methods used to identify and interpret citations within large textual traditions.
– Digital methods used to parse citations (particularly isnads) and convert them into transmission networks.
– Terminology: what do authors mean when they use certain transmission terms? How does the use of these terms differ diachronically and spatially?
– Correspondences between text reuse and citation: can we trace cited text within a corpus? Can we identify instances of uncited text?
– Theories of citation: what constitutes plagiarism? What forms are citation expected to take? How does written citation intersect with oral practices?
The workshop will take place in two halves. In the first half, participants will be invited to give a paper to a panel with a respondent. In the second half, there will be an informal (and we hope lively) conversation about citation practices. This will take place in person with the number of offline participants kept low to enable a lively and productive conversation.
If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract of less than 300 words to kitab@aku.edu by 13th May 2022.
Date and Time
25-26 July 2022, 10:00 – 17:00 London Time.
Address
Aga Khan Centre
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
9. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 15.1 is out now.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
10. Two publications from Stanford University Press:
Media of the Masses, Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Andrew Simon
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31649&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
Street Sounds, Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29380&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
11. The second presentation in the series of lectures about the exhibit “From Qarajalu (Persia) to Santa Clara County: An Assyrian Family’s Multiple Atlantic Crossings in Search of a Home at the turn of the Century” takes place this Sunday, May 1, 2022, 1 pm.
The exhibit and lecture location is:
Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
570 East Remington Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Dr. Samir Johna will address the topic “Joseph D. Joseph, MD: A Link in the Assyrian Chain of Medicine.”
Below is Dr. Johna’s brief biography. He is imminently qualified to discuss a topic about which he has published widely in medical journals.
Samir Johna, MD, is a Clinical Professor of surgery who has held many positions in southern California and is author of many medical articles as well as books. Born in Iraq, and conscripted into the Iraqi military, he advanced his educational training at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles following his bachelor’s degree from the University of Baghdad College of Medicine. He is active in community service related to his profession but also takes the time to provide frequent interviews on Assyrian media.
A summary of the exhibit is available at the website qarajalutosantaclara.com as is information for the purchase of the catalogue.
12. To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 11–13, 2023. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies will include traditional in-person sessions, virtual sessions, and new blended-format sessions that make it possible for speakers to present and audiences to attend both in-person and online.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms). The deadline for submission is May 16, 2022.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse participants for conference registration.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
13. Afghanistan, Volume 5, Issue 1
Read the free featured article ‘“Citizen Martyrs”: The Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade in Iran’ by Kevin L. Schwartz: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOY9-0/c.aspx
Browse the Table of Contents: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOYA-0/c.aspx
14. UCLA: “An Epic Tribute to the Lyric Poem” | Justine Landau, Iranian 250 Public Lecture for CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
9:00 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time
Register here for online attendance on Zoom.
Poetry does things with words. In the premodern world, this fact is perhaps nowhere acknowledged more unanimously than in the Persianate sources. Chief among the arts of language, lyric poetry is associated with “licit magic,” after the Arabic saying, since its mastery is said to conduce to “the accomplishment of great things in the order of the world” (Nezâmi ‘Aruzi, Chahâr maqâle, II). The philosophers of the classical period discussed the powers of the poetic art and its unique effect on the imagination. In Arabic and in Persian, the successors of Fârâbi developed the doctrine of the “poetic syllogism” to account for its workings. Writing in the mid-thirteenth century, Nasir al-Din Tusi provides a striking account of why “good poems are more effective than sermons” in impressing the minds of the listeners. Yet, from Beyhaqi and Ghazâli to Jâmi and Mollâ Sadrâ, poets, critics, historians, theologians and prose writers all pay homage to the art of the poet in some way. Unsurprisingly, the Shâhnâmeh itself honors the lyric poets. In several instances in his great epic, Ferdowsi stages episodes of lyric performance, and their consequences on the narrative. Whether depicting the craft of minstrels at court, the boasting of heroes or the lament of warriors after a defeat, these scenes sound a distinctive note within the epic verse in which they are embedded. How can a song inform, or deflect, the destiny of kings? And how does Ferdowsi pay tribute to lyric poetry? The philosophers’ perspective might help us elucidate the far-reaching consequences of some remarkable poems in the Book of Kings.
This lecture is part of the Spring 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Iranian 250, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” a graduate course taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC), offering a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation including nine public lectures by scholars in the field. More information about these lectures is on our website.
15. CONF: International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas (Iran, online)
The registration for the International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas which will be held virtually on 17-18 May 2022 is open now for all the participants from all over the globe.
The conference registration is free of charge for all the participants and authors.
DDPLS welcomes professionals, researchers, and librarians from all over the world to participate in this international conference.
The conference is organized by the Iranian Public Libraries Advancement Association, Iranian Sociological Association & the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. The conference language is Persian and English.
More than 20 National & International Distinguished Professors, Professionals, Associations Presidents, and Public library directors will speak at this important event.
The deadlines for this conference are as follows:
- Last Date of Registration: 14 May 2022
- Conference Date: 17 & 18 May 2022
More details regarding the conference can be found at:
16. Inaugural Calderwood Lecture at Boston College – Prof. Nancy Um, “Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water” – May 5
“Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water”
Prof. Nancy Um, Binghamton University
The past twenty years have witnessed the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a watery rubric that eludes and exceeds the continental and religious limits defined by the conventional subfields of African, Asian, and Islamic Art. In this talk, Prof. Um will consider the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a vibrant area of study that productively forges visual and material connections across the eastern and southern hemispheres, while also positing objects as fundamental sources for the writing of oceanic histories. The talk will be grounded by two works dating to the late 17th and early 18th C. Both objects present complex itineraries of creation and far-flung itineraries of travel, even if their journeys were not, ultimately, successful. Taken together, they chart a path for Indian Ocean art history, exemplifying how this area has developed as a field of study and where it might be going in the future.
Thursday May 5th at 5:30 pm. lecture attendees will be asked to wear masks.
Outdoor reception to follow
Hill Family Conference Room
McMullen Museum of Art
2101 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135
For details see: Calderwood Lecture, BC Events Calendar
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Book Talk “Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean” by Dr. Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan), Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 26 April 2022, 10:00 am EST
Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis, Khan argues for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean.
Information and registration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejBK0CvvTo0
2. ONLINE Lecture “The Nation and Its Imagined Past among the Levantine Diaspora, 1900-1936” by David Hannah, Victoria University of Wellington, 27 April 2022, 5:00 pm New Zealand Time
This talk will deal with the contingency and choice within “diaspora nationalism” as it manifested among Levantine communities overseas, in particular those in the United States, Brazil and Egypt. It will examine the three dominant nationalist positions pertaining to the Levant; Lebanism, Syrianism and pan-Arabism.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10121102/nation-and-its-imagined-past-among-levantine-diaspora-1900
3. ONLINE Webinar “The Impact of Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in the Middle East and North Africa: What Should be Done?”. Arab Center Washington DC, 28 April 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
The panelists will discuss the details of the current and projected future impacts of climate change in the region, the challenges to addressing the growing climate crisis in MENA countries, and recommendations for adaptation and mitigation strategies to be taken by the region’s countries individually and collectively to curb these impacts from further intensifying.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116505656493/WN_QTLkmuAYR-adH_q2Q_MSpg
4. ONLINE Two Lectures “Steps of Remembrance and Historiography of the Crusades in Egypt from the 1800s to the 1970s” by Dr. Ahmed M. Sheir (University of Marburg) and “Between Historiography and Media: The Crusades in Yousef Shaheen Films” by Dr. Mohamad Rahil (University of Matrouh), Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), University of Marburg, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/lecture-series-rethinking-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-january-may-2022-remote-925604?e=82aeb6c61d
5. ONLINE Incubator Conference on “Philosophy in the Islamic World”, Princeton University, 25-26 May 2022, 9:00 am ET
The Incubator is open to submissions on all topics related to Philosophy in the Islamic world. We invite abstracts from philosophy, near eastern and Islamic studies, religion and theology, and history provided that they are intellectually rigorous. Submissions that bring Islamic thought in conversation with Anglophone philosophy of religion are especially encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information and zoom registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10149079/online-incubator-conference-philosophy-islamic-world-hosted
6. ONLINE Digital Orientalist`s Virtual Conference on “Infrastructure” in the Context of Digital Humanities in the Study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 25 June 2022
We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research and data are organized, stored and shared; what are the considerations behind starting and coordinating DH projects; and what could institutions do to accommodate such projects.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2022/03/04/call-for-papers-the-digital-orientalists-virtual-conference-2022/
7. 9th International Islam & Liberty Conference “Religious Pluralism, Civil Freedoms and Economic Progress” in Muslim Majority Societies, Artuklu University, Mardin, 27-28 October 2022
Topics: Religious freedom and pluralism; Civil society, secularism and tolerance; Innovation, property rights and development; Free markets, commerce and prosperity; Political pluralism in contemporary societies; Refugee crisis, freedom of movement and immigration; Islamophobia, multi-culturalism and democracy; Corruption and rule of law; Violence and prospects of peaceful transitions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://islamandlibertynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Call-for-Papers_ILN-9th-Conference-vf.pdf
8. 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Research Project “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, Academic Year 2022/2023
The fellowships are addressed to scholars who are interested in the methodological perspective of dealing with regions or cultures not as closed entities or polarities, but by looking at processes of transfer, exchange and interaction in the sense of entangled or shared histories and cultures.
Deadline for applications: 5 May 2022. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/news-presse/aktuelles/news-detail/call-for-applications-eume-fellowships-20222023.html
9. Assistant Professor for Historical Literatures: Arabic, University of Amsterdam
Qualification: PhD in Arabic studies/literatures, and/or histories of coloniality, Islam, and slavery; strong publication record; broad teaching experience in Arabic Literatures and Languages and/or Middle Eastern Studies at BA and MA level; excellent command of Arabic and English. If you are not fluent in Dutch, an active and passive command must be acquired within two years of the employment.
Deadline for applications: 12 May 2022. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/311587/assistant-professor-historical-literatures-arabic/?utm_source=ATemailalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_click&fbclid=IwAR0fO2ut5Kq7ng_mY9REEeYvXjBT-7TVpzDQm57Jn7xCYHYO1BcwFujsEgo
10. (Hagiographies and Biographies) about Slavery 18th/19th Century, ERC Project “Slave-Voices”, Sciences Po Paris
The successful candidate will have a PhD in hand or will have defended a PhD before September 2022. He or she will have a major expertise in the history of North Africa and will have a command of Arabic, French and English.
Application deadline: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/actualites/postdoctoral-recruitment-north-african-sufi-islamic-sources-centre-history-sciences-po.html
11. Two Visiting Fellowships (9 Months) of the “Bourse & Bazaar Foundation”, London, Focussing on Economic Diplomacy, Economic Development, and Economic Justice in the Middle East/Iran
Applications are open to individuals with a doctoral degree in an area of the social sciences and humanities relevant to the understanding of political and economic issues in the Middle East and Central Asia. Ideal applicants will have demonstrable experience in analytical writing and policy research.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.bourseandbazaar.com/opportunities/bourse-amp-bazaar-foundation-visiting-fellowship-2022
12. Instructor in Islamic Religion (9 Months), College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Oregon State University
Applicants should have a PhD in Religious studies or other closely related field, teaching experience at the college or university level, and a commitment to educational equity and the promotion and enhancement of diversity.
Deadline for applications: 11 May 2022. Information: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/117127
13. Grants of the Istanbul Research Institute 2022-2023
The scholarship programs are for researchers working on projects related to the departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era studies, and the “Istanbul and Music” Research Program. They include; a Post-Doctoral Research and Writing Grant; a Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; 5 Travel Grants; 5 Conference Grants.
Deadline for applications: 17 July 2022. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18
14. Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internationals, 4-8 July 2022
The first part will consist of a number of short courses on the politics and international relations of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, taught by experts of international repute. The second part will include interactive roundtables focused on the various policy challenges the two regions face. This unique dual structure will enable the programme to cater to the needs of students and practitioners.
Deadline for applications: 23 June 2022. Information: https://www.ibei.org/en/introduction_252624
15. Articles for the 9/11 Legacies Project of the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Digital Publication “9/11 Legacies: Vol. I” Contributions are invited that map the untold, forgotten, and marginalized legacies of how 9/11 and the Global War on Terror continue to impact politics, culture, and societies around the world today. Main categories: Muslim Networks; Counterinsurgency Strategies; Knowledge and Cultural Production; Capital Flows and Patronage Networks; Rise of Authoritarianism; Semantics and the Language of Terror; Islamism and Internationalism.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://orient.cas.cz/export/sites/orientalni-ustav/.content/files/9.11-Legacies_Call-for-Submissions_Spring-2022-NEW.pdf
16. The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions
Ahmad al-Jallad
17. Arab Stages is seeking submissions from you, your colleagues, and your students. We plan to return to two issues a year and are adding peer-adjudication for longer papers. (Book reviews and performance reviews will be approved by the book review and performance review editors.) We are focusing on a rapid review cycle, so it’s an opportunity for topical work in particular.
Arab Stages is a peer-adjudicated on-line journal publishing original research on theatre and performance in the Arab-Islamic world and the Arab diaspora.
We are calling for the submission of papers.
1) Original papers and play translations (4000 to 8000 words preferred). Review cycle: 4-6 weeks.
2) Short papers: book reviews, performance reviews, translation extracts, short research reports etc. (800 to 2000 words). Review Cycle: 2 weeks.
Find more information on the journal at https://arabstages.org/about/
Submit your article or inquiry to ted.ziter@nyu.edu
18. We are happy to announce that our 7h IDHN Conference will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022. We cordially invite you all to attend our conference. Please find the full program of the conference as an attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Program (10:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT)
Boǧaç A. Ergene (Ohio State University) and Atabey Kaygun (Istanbul Technical University): Thematic Change in Ottoman Fetvas
Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Digital Maktaba: AI perspectives for automatic text extraction and catalogation of volumes in non-Latin alphabets volumes (Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani): challenges of La Pira digital archive
Leonora Sonego (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) and Johannes Thomann (University of Zurich): Measuring the development of early Arabic script in non-literary texts
Joseph Baxley (St. Mary’s College): Mapping Intellectual Networks in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s biographical dictionary of physicians
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We eagerly look forward to your attendance and participation in the conference.
19. Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico
Author: Jonathan Benzion
20. Janet O’Brien and Azfar Moin on Empire – Wednesday 27 April 3pm Onlin
Faisal Devji and I would like to welcome you to register for the first of our online seminar series at St Antony’s College, Oxford, this term. The first panel will be held at 3pm this Wednesday afternoon (27 April).
In the first of four panels this term, we will be hosting Janet O’Brien (The Courtauld) and Azfar Moin, (University of Texas-Austin) in a discussion on the theme of Empire.
Lecture titles:
Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin, ‘The Mughal Exception: New Perspectives on Sulh-i Kull or Peace with All Religions.’
Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, ‘Embodying Empire in the Portraits of Nadir Shah.’
To register, please follow the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iT24JLVXRm2i_DulgAViBA
Dr Usaama al-Azami
Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies
The Middle East Centre
St Antony’s College
Oxford OX2 6JF
21. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, seeks applicants for the position of Associate Director and Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum (OIM).
Close: July 17, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63322
22. Zoom: Spotlighting an Author – Mateo Farzaneh
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
6 May, 2022, 1 pm EST
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OK_FMghwQyqPEGbahb1h0A
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP: ‘Fragile Ecologies’, Middle Eastern Literatures
CFP for a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures, ‘Fragile Ecologies: Environmental Urgency in the Literatures of the Middle East’.
This special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures proposes a reading of literatures that give voice to this agency of nonhuman ecologies, destabilising traditional geographic, historical, and generic boundaries. We welcome papers that address literary expressions of ecological urgency, in which the human is decentred, made vulnerable, and marked by an awareness of End Times or apocalypse. Over the past century, this may be related to growing tensions over water scarcity, the oil “curse”, waning biodiversity, worsening toxicity, and global warming. Yet previous literatures, too, have evoked climate-driven migration and warfare, and we are keen to explore the comparative possibilities they offer.
With this in mind, Middle Eastern Literatures seeks articles that respond to the theme of “Fragile Ecologies”. We welcome articles that address texts – whether literary or filmic – which directly concern this theme, as well as those in which it is a nagging, background concern. We welcome articles on both modern and pre-modern texts, and both poetry and prose, suggesting how we might address contemporary anxieties through the poetics of the past. Amitav Ghosh writes that “[…] the novel was midwifed into existence around the world, through the banishing of the improbable and the insertion of the everyday,” suggesting this turning away from the “improbable” as a major obstacle to writing the current climate crisis. What genres and aesthetics, then, are needed to address the improbability of climate crisis and apocalypse, the return of the nonhuman to our consciousness as an urgent, pressing agent of change, and the decentring of the human through freak weather events and imperceptible transformations to land and ecologies? Through these questions, we seek papers that address the fields of Energy Humanities and Ecocriticism from Middle Eastern perspectives, exploring the comparative possibilities of ecocritical reading, theorising genres of environmental writing, and the aesthetics of climate crisis.
Final articles due September 1, 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=came20
For any queries, please email: meliteratures@gmail.com
2. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2022
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to June 1 of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The winner of both the graduate and undergraduate categories will receive a cash prize and will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information and formatting instructions visit https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submission Deadline: June 1
Electronic submissions only to:
Dr. Anne Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
Subject line: SHD Student Prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
3. Arab American Heritage Month screening of “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People” – in person
28 April, 2022 , 6.30 – 8.30 pm (Central Time)
3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77004
For more information:
4. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event
April 27, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The Preservation of Documentary Heritage
in the MENASA Region: The Role of the QNL
Stephane Ipert (Qatar National Library)
Stephane Ipert is the director of the distinctive collections (Heritage Library) in the Qatar National Library (QNL), a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps and archival collections about Qatar and the Islamic world. Since 2015 the QNL is the IFLA PAC – Preservation and Conservation Center for Arabic countries and Middle East, (IFLA is the International Federation of Libraries Associations). Stephane has a background as conservator, art historian and lawyer. He is leading a regional project to counter documentary heritage trafficking in the MENASA region (Himaya) since 2021.
Register in advance for this event at https://bit.ly/37kIrH6
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information please email ds@ias.edu .
5. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Dr Fatemeh Shams
Author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2021)
‘The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran’
May 1, 2022 11:30 AM (PT)
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BxLDfiplTkOWcq6JhI6CEA
6. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 26 avril 2022 / Tuesday 26th April 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur l’épigraphie / Insights into Epigraphy
Chairperson: Nuria Garcia-Masip (Sorbonne Université)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Innovations in the Content and Style of Royal Epigraphy
by Viola Allegranzi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Funerary Texts as Sources for Local History
by Martina Massullo (BULAC – CollEx-Persée/CeRMI, Paris)
The quadruplet inscriptions on the commemorative pillar
of the Dorudzan dam in Ramjerd (Fars) from the Sassanid to the Qajar period
(in Farsi, with English translation)
by Emadaldin Sheikhalhokamaee (University of Tehran, Institute of Archaeology)
Language: English
To participate, please register before April 25th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=117785_regards-sur-l-epigraphie
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
7. Open Access Book – Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins
Ahmad Ali Al-Imam
IIIT, 2022
8. Book Launch
Egypt’s Football Revolution
By Carl Rommel, with discussants
Leif Stenberg and Sevgi Adak.
29 April 2022 17:30-19:00 (London)
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
9. Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies
Call For Papers
Winter/Spring 2023 Issue Call for Papers
JTMS would like to extend a warm springtime greeting to all of our readers! With the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of out to readers and the Summer/Fall 2022 issue currently undergoing editorial review, JTMS is now soliciting manuscripts for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue. Authors wishing to be considered for inclusion in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of JTMS should submit their manuscripts by September 1st, 2022.
JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on terrestrial and maritime territorial issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea, providing an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of security studies, history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and other relevant disciplines. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and covers all continental areas across the world from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are also encouraged.
Articles should be submitted electronically to jtms@yonsei.ac.kr and include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author(s) name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website by clicking “Submission Guidelines” via the site below.
A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, 4,000 words for essays, and approximately 2,000 words for a book review. Authors wishing to be considered for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than September 1st, 2022. Inquiries may be sent via the email address above.
For more information:
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/9eO0Z5XKV?languageTag=en
10. Isfahan Exhibition in Ireland (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjx8ogoGrQ
(In Persian with English subtitles)
11. Annonce conférence publique La Grande muraille de Gorgan et la défense de la Perse sassanide, Louvre, 28/04/22, 12h30
Pour information: Conférence publique
Eberhard Sauer (Université d’Edimbourg), le 28 avril 2022, 12h30
12. Departmental Lecturer, Classical Arabic Literature
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Oriental Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Classical Arabic literature. The Departmental Lecturer will support the teaching of the literatures of Arab societies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, providing cover for some of the duties of the current AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic (Julia Bray), who is retiring and being replaced by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin from summer 2023.
Deadline | 6 May 2022
13. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
SOAS University of London
The School of History, Religions and Philosophies is looking for a one-year replacement covering the History of the Middle East for a colleague who will be on research leave during the 2022-2023 academic year. The preferred candidate will hold a PhD in History or a closely related discipline, be proficient in the regional languages relevant for their research, and have gained some initial teaching and supervision experience
Deadline | 8 May 2022
14. Call for Papers – Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World
Graduate Student Virtual Symposium | University of Alberta | 31 May 2022
Papers are invited for this interdisciplinary graduate-level online symposium that aims to bring together graduate students from all disciplines to critically examine a variety of topics relating to the MENA region and the larger Muslim contexts. All Master’s and PhD students with a research project on any aspect of socio-cultural, historical, religious, art and political issues in MENA and Muslim contexts are invited to submit an abstract of their presentation.
Deadline | 30 April 2022
15. 2022-23 CBRL open call grant applications
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL are accepting applications for the following:
- Project grants, up to £8,000;
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs;
- Travel grants, up to £1,000;
- Research support grants, up to £1,000 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 20 May 2022
More information
16. ECHOES OF ORIENTALISM Arab-Islamic Sexuality through European Eyes: Burton and Beyond
DR FERAS ALKABANI (SUSSEX)
DeCol Collective Seminar Series
University of Brighton Wednesday, 4 May 2022, at 13.00-14.00
17. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (Monday, 23rd May 2022)
City, University of London
11:00 – 20:30
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
18. Call for Submissions – HIAA Majlis and HIAA Newsletter
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars.
HIAA invites submissions from graduate students at ABD level or recent PhDs to present at its next Majlis, to take place in New York during CAA’s Annual Conference. [Note: Although we hope that the conference and associated programming will be held in person, in the event of continued restrictions on large gatherings, the Majlis will be held virtually]
HIAA invites proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology.
Proposals should be submitted by email to HIAA secretary Fatima Quraishi at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a single document which includes the following:
** a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation
** an abstract of no more than 300 words
Proposals are due by June 15, 2022.
Please note that those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA at the time of presenting.
19. Roshan Institute and Mona Farjad on May 1
Please join Roshan Institute for Persian Studies on Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m. EST for a special conversation with Iranian actor Mona Farjad. Farjad will present an innovative series of monologues she has performed over the past year in dialogue with traditional Iranian theatrical practice and contemporary Iranian drama. Roshan Institute lecturer Dr. Marjan Moosavi will moderate this conversation as well as the following Q&A session.
To register, visit go.umd.edu/monafarjad or click on this link.
20. Syria Report, which is otherwise a commercial, subscription based resource has made 300 articles available free of charge.
“For the past 18 months The Syria Report has been covering housing, land, and property (HLP) rights stories across Syria. We have published news stories, analyses, a glossary of terms and expressions and interviews on various HLP aspects across all areas of control in Syria.
You can read them all on the following page:
https://syria-report.com/category/hlp/
As all Syria Report content, HLP section is searchable through our search engine. The same 300 articles are also available in Arabic. “
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