Archive for June 21st, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Workshop “The Abbasid Capital at Samarra: The Current Situation and Its Research Potential”, Durham University, 27 June 2022, 13:00 – 16:00 BST
Samarra is one the largest archaeological sites in the world and the most important evidence available for the nature of Abbasid urban layout. The site also holds the answers to many important questions about the nature of Abbasid society and power. This workshop is intended to take a look at the current condition of the site and to discuss plans for future research.
Information and registration: https://hajar.hypotheses.org/300?fbclid=IwAR0xbeA5N7LNQkcBIosx4J0jK17WL6rau0P5mT3tA6mLhpfXuIX0Ma-SBr4
2. HYBRID International Conference “Epigraphy, the Qur’an, and the Religious Landscape of Arabia”, Tuebingen University, Germany, 8-10 September 2022
The conference will bring together specialists in epigraphy as well as scholars of the Qurʾān with the aim of exploring how recent epigraphic and archaeological findings and research have been changing our understanding of the Qurʾān and the Arabian religious, cultural, and political landscape.
Information and registration:
3. ONLINE Panel on “Narrative-Image Relationships: The Classical Illustration Tradition in Iranian Art History” for Conference of the “Universities Art Association of Canada”, University of Toronto, 4 November 2022
This session will encourage interdisciplinary dialogues concerning the relationship between verbal/written narratives and their visual adaptations and appropriations in the classical Iranian tradition of illustration. Ab-stracts that explore the text-image relationship in all forms of theoretical, visual, material culture are invited to problematize the current views on the art of illustration.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2022. Information:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_hFmUq_r2yXbyx4ybf_V-08xLn3vkubP/edit#heading=h.2dlolyb
4. ONLINE Annual Meeting “European Muslim Eco Lab (EMEL)”, Interdisciplinary Research Center Islam and Muslims in Europe, Sigmund Freud Private University, Vienna, 17 December 2022 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET
We cordially invite you to present on environmental issues in Muslim lifeworlds in the form of a scientific paper or a report: a) Europe-related • a research project, a scientific institution, or a final thesis • an organi-zation, NGO or initiative • a (popular) scientific or literary publication. b) worldwide • organizations and initia-tives of a country of your choice.
Deadline for abstract: 30 September 2022.
Information: https://www.sfu.ac.at/wp-content/uploads/Call-EMEL-2022.pdf
5. 17th Edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award 2023
In advancing Arabic literature and culture, authors, translators, researchers, publishers and institutions can submit across nine categories including Literature, Translation and Arabic Culture in Other Languages. Each winner receives a career-changing prize of AED 750,000 (165,220 GBP / 204,190 USD).
Deadline for submissions: 1 October 2022.
Information: https://www.zayedaward.ae/en/how.to.nominate.aspx
6. HYBRID Scholarship Funded “MENA Digital Summer School” for Graduate Students and Young Entrepreneurs, Age 20-40 Years, Who Care about Digital Transformation and Who Live in the MENA Region, Online Program 7-10 September 2022; in Person in Berlin 25 September – 3 October 2022
It is envisioning a MENA Digital School to educate experts on digital transformation so that they can – in the near future – understand the complexity and interactions of digitisation in the fields of technology, economy, civil society, media, and public administration.
Deadline for applications: 6 July 2022.
Information: https://www.mena-ds.com/application-2022
7. Chapters for Book on “Under the Hammer. Trafficking, Trading, and Salvaging the Middle Eastern and North African Written Heritage”, Edited by Stephane Ipert, Grigory Kessel, Sabine Schmidtke and Jack Tannous
We invite contributions that showcase the fate of individual manuscripts and written artifacts, or entire collections of such materials, that have been auctioned or otherwise sold during recent decades. Papers that ad-dress instances of forgeries of manuscripts, broken books or fragmentology are also encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2022.
8. Paid Research Articles on “Interdisciplinary Studies on Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa” for Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
This peer reviewed journal of human rights studies, is planning for a general issue that aims at providing original interdisciplinary research on a variety of topics. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disci-plines of social sciences, humanities and law, which intersect with topics of human rights in the MENA region are welcome.
No deadline, however, researchers are encouraged to submit their manuscripts in the near future.
- June 21, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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