Archive for July 19th, 2022
Shii News – Lecture (online and in-person) – ‘Ṭarz-i Tāze [The Fresh Style] in the Safavid Inshā Literature’ – M Moosavi (Oxford, 21.7.22, 5-6pm UK time)
The lecture will also be livestreamed. If you wish to attend online, please bookmark the event’s page. The livestream link will be added the day before the event.
- July 19, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Applications and Nominations
We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2021.
Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.
Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2022.
To apply or submit a nomination, click here.
Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com or t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Warmly,
WHOME 2022 Prize Committee
2. CfP International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 3-6 July 2023 (‘networks & entanglements’)
The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval studies, including those related to the premodern Islamicate world. Proposals on any topic are welcome, but every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2023 this is ‘Networks and Entanglements’ (co-ordinator Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).
Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2022
Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2022
Format: Coronavirus restrictions permitting, the IMC is planning to host an in-person gathering in Leeds, with virtual involvement possible for those who are unable to attend in person.
For all information, see https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/
3. HYBRID International Conference “Uneasy Neighbours: Conflict and Control in the Colonial City, c. 1870–1940” (Including Beirut and Fes), University of Bremen, 21-22 July 2022
The conference explores ideas, experiences, and memories of neighbours and neighbourhoods in the colonial city. It brings together historians, sociologists, and urban scholars of the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia to discuss new avenues in the research of living together and living apart in colonial cities.
Program and registration: https://uneasyneighbours.wordpress.com/
4. Mediterranean Seminar Fall Workshop on “The Mediterranean Origins of the West”, University of Colorado Boulder, 21-22 October 2022
We seek to explore questions relating to the role of the Islamicate world and of peoples of Africa and West Asia in the evolution of modern science, theology, art and literature; the nature and significance of political and commercial engagement between the Islamic and Christian spheres; the role of gender, class and social affiliations; and the status and role of ethnic and religious minorities in pre-Modern and Modern Mediterranean societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.
5. ONLINE Congress on “Gender Studies: Appearances of Violence”, Karadeniz Technical University etc., 16-18 November 2022
The Congress aims to provide a forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, students, and educators to discuss issues linked to gender studies from a violence perspective. Theoretical, empirical, conceptual, experimental, descriptive, and constructive studies focusing on gender are invited to highlight the issues, challenges, and opportunities that have developed as a result of the violence.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 September 2022.
6. Fellowship Program (2 Years) for Early Career Scholars from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, or Tunisia for Research on “The Maghrib from the Peripheries: Property, Natural Resources, and Social Actors in North Africa”
The fellowships from the “Council of American Overseas Research Centers / Carnegie Corporation of New York” are designed to serve scholars who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who completed their PhD in the past ten years.
Deadline for applications: 22 July 2022. Information:
https://www.caorc.org/post/call-for-applications-critical-research-and-scholarship-in-north-africa
7. Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, Providence RI
The primary focus should be on the Islamic World and Jewish-Muslim relations in any period prior to the First World War. The department places a high priority on research excellence, high-quality teaching, and a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community.
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108842
8. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants (Max Weber Foundation) to Academics in the Qualification Phase with an International Focus (Including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey etc.)
Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (with at least a M.A.) who have already published and can present a research plan. The total term of funding shall not exceed three months.
Deadline for applications: 7 October 2022.
Information: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/foerderung/feldman-travel-grants.html
9. Chapters on Languages Spoken and Taught in the Ottoman Empire for Edited Book on “Ottoman Minorities, Their Languages, and the World” (Bloomsbury)
Articles are invited on trade, culture, education, religion, and tourism as reasons for which these languages were spoken and they were taught, explaining the peculiarities of these languages, differentiating from previous studies on them; for instance, journal articles, recipes, folkloristic tests, exhibitions, auctions, etc. may be analyzed from global perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10485434/call-chapters-languages-spoken-and-taught-ottoman-empire
10. Call for articles: The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries)
Chapters are sought for a collection of essays entitled, “The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries)”
Topics: The origin of the idea of crusade; Crusades historiography: eastern and western sources; Battles: The Crusades of 1096-1291; Alliances and Conflicts; Settlements: Crusader States (County of Edessa, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Cyprus); Roads: Crusades army route: sea and land roads from Clermont to Jerusalem; Byzantine Empire, Constantinople and the crusades.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-the-crusades-historiography-settlements-people-and-roads-11-14th-centuries?e=82aeb6c61d
11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450–1850)”
Main themes: Migration as a result of religious dissent and lack of a toleration towards religious diversity; Migration as a result of contested political positions, actions of political opposition, or state of war in the country of origin; Migration as a result of environmental conditions; Methodological reflections that elaborate the concept of migrant agency in a historical and long-term perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 2 September 2022. Information: https://ithacahorizon.eu/event/call-for-papers-migration-narratives-in-the-global-mediterranean-1450-1850/
12. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et representations (Special issue of REMMM)
Proposed by Farid Bouchiba and 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.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.
Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764#tocto1n3
13. Exilium Revista de Estudos da contemporaneidade / Journal of Contemporary Studies of the Edward Saïd Chair, at Federal University of São Paulo – Brazil, is inviting submissions for unpublished articles on Orientalism, especially involving History, Literature and Culture of Africa and Asia of Portuguese language and culture or in connection with them.
For more information, including information for authors and the submission process, please see the journal’s website.
- July 19, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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