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Shii News – Academic Items

1.HYBRID Book Launch and Discussion “Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith: Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania” by Hansjörg Dilger, Berlin Anthropology Seminar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Free University Berlin, 8 June 2022, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST

The author explores the emerging entanglements of faith, morality, and the educational market in Dar es Salaam, thereby shedding light on processes of religious institutionalisation and their individual and collective embodiment. By analysing the politics of Christian-Muslim relations in postcolonial Tanzania, this book shows how the field of education has shaped the positions of highly diverse religious communities in diverging ways.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/learning-morality-inequalities-and-faith

2. ONLINE Lecture “‘Authoritarian Democracy’ and the late Ottoman Empire: State, Power, and Civil Society in the Second Constitutional Period” by Erol Ülker (Işık University, Istanbul), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Free University Berlin, 13 June 2022, 4:00 pm CEST

This lecture aims to discuss the political and ideological character of the single-party rule that prevailed in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. It addresses this topic by focusing on the formation of a corpo-ratist movement in the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1918).

Information and registration: https://hisdemab.hypotheses.org/seminarprogramme/2022-06-13-erol-ulker

3. HYBRID Webinar “Cryptocurrencies: How Will Islamic Finance and Law (fiqh) Adapt to the New Economic Paradigm?”, Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, SOAS, London, 15 June 2022, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm GMT

Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cryptocurrencies-how-will-islamic-law-adapt-to-the-new-economic-paradigm-tickets-335163812987?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

4. ONLINE Symposium “The Art of Incredible: Strategies Employed by Early Arab Poets to Sur-pass the Competitors” by Dr. Maxim Yosefi, University of Göttingen, 15 June 2022, 18:15-19:45 h CEST

Early Arab poets used to describe each quality in its completeness, and each function fulfilled in the poem got infinitely close to the limit. Poets tried to be most effective in conventional descriptions of ideal beauty, perfect she-camels and absolute hospitality and pugnacity of their tribes. The art of playing with the listeners’ imagination will be in the centre of discussion.

Information: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/657724.html

Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/68191031818?pwd=Q0FiR2w4cklkTEg0OWQxRnlFajFhQT09

5. International Conference “Mediterranean Mobility between Migration and Colonialism (19th-20th Centuries)”, University of Bologna, 11-12 November 2022 Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-mobilities-between-migrations-and-colonialisms-11-12-november-bologna?e=82aeb6c61d

6. Symposium “Animals as Worshippers of God First of All. On Animal Piety in Islam”, Paris, 16-17 November 2022

This symposium aims to consider the religious figure of the animal in Islam, neither as an object of worship (an idol) nor a means of worshipping (sacrificial offering), but rather as a fully-fledged subject, a worshipper of God and a model for all worshippers.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information: https://apam.hypotheses.org/4200

7. Communications Coordinator for the Middle East Centre, LSE, London

The Centre seeks to hire a Communications Coordinator to work on all aspects of the Centre’s communi-cations, online presence (including developing a social media strategy) and designing publications. The post-holder will play a key role in regularly updating and improving the quality and reach of the Centre’s commu-nications work and impact.

Closing Date for Applications: 19 June 2022.

Information: https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/7372/0/349856/15539/communications-coordinator-mec

8. Summer Course “Romanization and Islamization in the Western Mediterranean”, Casa Árabe Córdoba, 18-22 July 2022

Experts from multiple international and national academic institutions would lead a selected group of students through the exciting history of the romanization and islamization of the Western Mediterranean over the course of a week. The courses would be taught in English.

Deadline for applications: 25 June 2022. Information: https://en.casaarabe.es/event/summer-course-romanization-andislamization-in-the-westernmediterranean

9. Summer Course “Arabic & Moroccan Arabic”, Al Minbar Institute, Rabat, 11 July – 19 August 2022

You can choose between Modern Standard Arabic or Colloquial Moroccan Arabic (Darija) or a hybrid solution.

Information: https://alminbar-institute.ma/mesana-6-weeks-july-application-form/

10. Articles on “Forces and Order. Police, Security and Surveillance in North Africa” for Journal “L` Année du Maghreb”, Research Dossier 30, Vol. II, 2023

This special issue aims to highlight sociological, anthropological and historical analyses of the various security systems: from the police institution to the more opaque surveillance mechanisms fostered by various institutionalised security professions (informers, militias, neighbourhood agents, etc.). Articles in English and French.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://journals.openedition.org/anneemaghreb/10465

11. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et représentations

Projet de publication proposé par Farid Bouchiba et Myriam Laakili

Axe 1. Débats doctrinaux autour du mawlid à travers l’histoire; – Axe 2. Pratiques du mawlid : une approche socio-anthropologique; – Axe 3. Productions littéraires et artistiques Propositions d’article sont à envoyer avant 1er septembre 2022, Information : https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764?fbclid=IwAR0z6y08ptPUf7QW1WBh7KLHv9KWePGWusVRMVbRKypSkZqPmqEjzgVkGC8

12. Articles on “Speech, Speak Out, Crisis” for First Issue of Journal “Mutations en Méditerranée (MEM)”

We submit various lines of thought ranging from the Arab uprisings to the place speech occupies in social movements. Our contemplation of this topic ranges from the hierarchy of languages to the hierarchies of discourse, to the role of scientific discussion in society and within the restitution of an interviewees or respondents spoken word within the framework of research investigation in the humanities.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2022, Information: https://somum.hypotheses.org/7810

13. Call for SAMSA Book Award and a symposium

A call for submissions for the second SAMSA Biennial Book Award and a call for abstracts for a symposium organized by the Tasavvur Collective.

The South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) announces its second biennial SAMSA Book Award for a monograph published on the subject of South Asian Islam and Muslim societies during the calendar years of 2020 and 2021. Books from all disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences will be considered. Only single-authored monographs are eligible; edited volumes, works of translation, literary fiction and short stories, or collections of poetry are not eligible. Monographs focused on all regions of South Asia (including Afghanistan) and time periods will be considered. Awards will be decided on the basis of the novelty of the book’s intervention in the field, its intellectual rigor and its clarity and quality of writing. Award recipient will be recognized at a SAMSA meeting and will be featured at a panel discussion. The award does not carry any monetary compensation. Submissions may be made by an author or by a publisher. To apply, please mail a copy of the book to Dr. Raisur Rahman, Department of History, P.O. Box 7806, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC 27109, USA no later than July 15, 2022. Additional copies of the monographs will be requested in due time. Applicants must also email rahmanmr@wfu.edu with the following information: book title, author email and phone contact, and publisher’s email and phone contact. Award will be announced in Spring 2023. For more information on SAMSA and a list of previous winners, click here.

The Tasavvur Collective is organizing a symposium in the summer of 2022 (provisionally August 5-6, 2022) titled ‘Writing Muslim Women in South Asia’. The symposium aims to make interventions in the monolithic discourse surrounding Muslim women by expanding on notions of self, identity, politics, agency, resistance, and much more, with particular reference to the experiences and representation of Muslim women in South Asian countries. Please send 300 word abstracts/presentation outlines including a short bio of not more than 100 words to tasavvurcollective@gmail.com. The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2022. More information can be found here.

In addition, the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies will be held in Boston, MA during March 16-19, 2022. The call for proposals is not out yet, but feel free to get in touch in due course, if you would like to propose a panel or a paper.

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14. AMECYS Call for Papers:

Graduate Student Paper Prize

Submission deadline: August 1, 2022

The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A, December 1-4, 2022

Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:

The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.

Requirements for submission:

Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
AMECYS membership in good standing
Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2021-2022 academic year may be requested at a later date

3 prior winners/honorable mentions of the award (Caroline Kahlenberg, Tory Brykalski, and Nada Berrada) will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of August 1.

Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.

For any queries, email program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.

15. Zoom – The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971 Spotlighting an Author with Dr. Robert Steele

In this first comprehensive academic study of the 2500th Anniversary Celebrations, Robert Steele looks beyond the pomp and splendor to examine the events’ origins, the goals the organizers set out to achieve with them and the extent to which these goals were accomplished. The book seeks to place the Celebrations in the context of the Shah’s rise, rather than his fall, uncovering the unparalleled international cultural and scholarly operation that was spurred by the Iranian regime for the occasion, exploring the effects the event had on Iran’s tourism industry and questioning narratives of the event’s cost.

Join Dr. Robert Steele as he talks about his book “/The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971”.

Friday, 10 June, 1 pm EST

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SGXdVrrsRD-qCBj-NF7GKA

16. Video: Persia Exhibition @ Getty Museum

The Getty Museum in Los Angeles is currently displaying over 200 objects from ancient dynasties of Persia.