Archive for August, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies (1-3 Months), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early stage researchers in Turkish studies. We welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna and expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10730863/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2023
2. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics/International Relations (Africa, Including North Africa), Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in political science. They should be specialised in African politics and topical specialization in one or more of the following: political economy and development; ethnic conflict, transitional justice, and post-conflict processes; migration, immigration, and diaspora studies; and/or post-colonial studies and state building.
Deadline for application: 26 September 2022. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/112095
3. Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Research on Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
We are seeking an excellent scholar who engages race, structural racism, and racial disparities and inequities. The successful candidate will complement the interdisciplinary nature of the department with strong disciplinary (or multi-disciplinary) training, native or near-native fluency in at least one language of the Middle East, passion for teaching, and a commitment to forging alliances within the department, university, and the larger community.
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://provost.wustl.edu/2022-cluster-hire/
4. Assistant or Associate Professor for the History of the Modern Arab World, Arab American Educational Foundation (AAEF), Rice University, Houston, Texas
Candidates must have a PhD in History or related field. They may work in a variety of geographic regions within the modern Arab world, broadly defined, from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, the former territories of the Ottoman Empire, and the eastern Mediterranean countries of the Levant, including Palestine.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/112001
5. Network for the Documentation, Preservation and Enhancement of Monuments in the Euro-Mediterranean Area (Including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt): “Egeria – Mediterranean Medieval Places of Pilgrimage”
The project focuses on pilgrimage sites, the immovable and movable pilgrimage monuments that are interspersed in the Mediterranean landscape but also in time, from antiquity to the present. The main objective of the project is the establishment of a network of cooperation for the documentation, preservation, enhancement and promotion of pilgrimage monuments.
Information: http://www.egeriaproject.net/main_network.aspx
6. MIAS Ibn ‘Arabi Translation Prize
Entries should be in the form of original translations of the works of Ibn ‘Arabi, either of complete minor works or of key sections or chapters from major works. Where possible, translations should be based on critically edited Arabic texts already in print. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of 3000 USD, and their translation will be published in the “Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society”.
Deadline for entries: 1 September 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/27/final-call-ibn-arabi-translation-prize
7. Online Workshop – Applying for Academic Jobs
Panelists: Hala Auji (Virginia Commonwealth University), Finbarr Barry Flood (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria)
Friday, September 9, 2022
12 pm EDT on Zoom
Register here
This event will not be recorded
Hala Auji recently joined Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Richmond as the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art. Previously she was at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Her research explores the visual dimensions of modernity in the eastern Mediterranean, including print culture, book history, and museum practices. She is the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth Century Beirut (Brill, 2016), and currently serves as the HIAA Board’s International Representative.
Finbarr Barry Flood is director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. His most recent publications include Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’islam: pèlerins, reliques, copies (Musée du Louvre/Hazan, 2019) and Archives of Flotsam – Objects and Early Globalism, co-written with Beate Fricke, University of Bern, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Marcus Milwright is professor and department chair in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria. He has created the Crafts of Syria and Crafts of Iraq websites. His books include: Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 2017); and The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea (Edinburgh, 2021).
8. We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the symposium Advances and New Perspectives in Central Asian Archaeologyas part of the SAA 88th Annual Meeting, taking place in Portland, Oregon, from March 31- April 2, 2023.
This symposium will bring together researchers who focus on the wider Central Asian space, including the five post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, as well as the Volga-Ural region to discuss current approaches and questions in Central Asian archaeology. By addressing a wide range of topics that are relevant to Central Asia, we aim not only to connect scholars working across Central Asia, but also highlight the work of new researchers and methodologies being employed in the region. We welcome papers that approach Central Asian archaeology from a variety of perspectives and methodologies that focus on archaeological research from across all periods of our human past.
If your research relates to this theme, you can contribute to this session with a 15-minute oral presentation in English. In order to participate in the session you must pay a conference registration fee and be a member of SAA during 2023. Current members must renew their memberships for 2023 by January 30, 2023, and nonmembers must join the Society no later than November 15, 2022. For details of these fees, you can consult the information on the SAA website.
If interested, please reach out to the organizers – Catherine Klesner (klesnerc@nyu.edu) and Ann Merkle (ammerkle@wustl.edu) – for instructions on submitting to the session. Abstracts are due by September 8th, 3 pm EST to the SAA portal, so please reach out no later than September 4th for information and instructions for abstract submissions to this organized session. Research on any material, period, or region within Central Asia is most welcome! If you have any questions, please direct them to klesnerc@nyu.edu.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
All the best,
Catherine Klesner
Ann Merkle
9. World Premiere of the Documentary Film
“Derbent: What Persia Left Behind”
Biennial of the Iranian Studies Association
1 Sep. 2022, 9:30 AM, University of Salamanca
The film explores the unique history and architecture of the 6th-century fortification system which is considered the largest defensive structure of the Sasanian Empire in the Caucasus.
Watch trailer here:
https://derbentonline.com/doducmentary-film/
Directed by Pejman Akbarzadeh
Funded by Persian Heritage Foundation and Soudavar Memorial Foundation
- August 30, 2022
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- August 29, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.A new journal by Brill: The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)
https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?rskey=yeG37d&result=10
2. The eminent Armenologist and Byzantinist Prof. Nina G. Garsoïan passed away on August 14. She broke a number of glass ceilings in academia, both as a woman and as a specialist in Armenian Studies.
More about here life history and achievements may be accessed here: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/de-vita-sua
3. Postdoctoral or advanced PhD position, Aristotle’s ‘On the Soul’ in Arabic (Tuebingen, Germany)
A position for a postdoctoral or an advanced PhD researcher is available at
the University of Tuebingen (Germany). The vacancy is connected to the award
of an ERC Advanced Grant, entitled “TIDA – Text and Idea of Aristotle’s
Science of Living Things” directed by Prof. Klaus Corcilius (Dept. of
Philosophy). The researcher will be working with Klaus Corcilius and with me
(Dept. of Oriental and Islamic Studies).
The period of employment will be for 2 years, beginning in January 2023.
Review of the applications will begin on November 1, 2022, and continue until
the position is filled.
information in the link below:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/stellenangebote/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/postdoctoral-or-advanced-phd-researcher-m-f-d-75-e13-tv-l/
Applications should be sent to klaus.corcilius@uni-tuebingen.de . If you have
any questions, please feel also free to contact:
(heidrun.eichner@uni-tuebingen.de ).
4. Call For Proposals – Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
Series Editors: Jocelyne Cesari and Mirjam Künkler
This series of monographs provides a platform for the burgeoning scholarship on religion and politics from either religious studies, political science, or the social sciences in general. Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
seeks to examine topics that are intensely debated in the public space such as violence and politics, human rights, or democracy and secularism from multidisciplinary theoretical and data-driven perspectives.
The series welcomes manuscripts based on recent original research (whether involving fieldwork, archival work, surveys, or other methods) in a particular national or regional setting or in a comparative way across religions or political contexts. Manuscripts typically range from 35,000 to 40,000 words, but could also extend to 80,000 words. The book series does not publish edited volumes.
All proposals must contain an overview of the work and a description of its contribution to existing scholarship, as well as a description of the prospective readership of the work.
Proposals should be sent to the series editors:
Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham, UK, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA: jcesari@hds.harvard.edu
Mirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden: mirjam.kuenkler@gmail.com
For more information, please contact Brill’s Acquisitions Editor for Religious Studies, Laura Morris: laura.morris@brill.com
5. Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
Keele University
The School of Social, Political and Global Studies is currently recruiting a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. The successful candidate will be a multi-faceted academic with an interdisciplinary politics and international relations specialism in the Middle East across teaching, research, media impact, and outreach.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
6. Lecturer in Translation Studies (Arabic)
University of Strathclyde
As part of a wider collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and the Middle East University (Amman, Jordan), a new MSc Applied Translation will launch in October 2022. The School of Humanties seeks to appoint a Lecturer to join the Translation and Interpreting subject team, on a full-time open-ended contract. The post holder will teach primarily on the MSc Applied Translation programme and will be located at MEU in Amman during the teaching semesters.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
7. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Middle East Studies
University of Oxford
The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies invites applications from candidates in a social science discipline with reference to countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for a fixed-term postdoctoral position, funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) for 24 months commencing 1st January 2023.
Deadline | 9 September 2022
8. Lectureship in the History of the Global South
Aberystwyth University
The Department of History and Welsh History invites applications for a full-time Lectureship in the History of the Global South (nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries), tenable from 1 September 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. We will be particularly interested in applicants who specialise in one or more of: East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, or Latin America.
Deadline | 15 September 2022
9. Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (SLLCS) warmly welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations based in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. The successful candidate will be a specialist in an aspect of Islamic Civilisations, particularly Islamic culture in the Middle East, and will have a PhD in a cognate discipline, relevant teaching experience and a publication track-record appropriate to an appointment at this level.
Deadline | 23 September 2022
10. Call for Proposals – Urban Politics in the MENA
Workshop | Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) | Beirut | 17 February 2023
Political and social scientists have increasingly turned to the study of urban politics, with a growing literature on local and regional governance and institutions, political geography and territoriality, the politics and processes of spatial production, urban infrastructural politics and the role of urban space in political mobilization. To explore these issues, POMEPS invites proposals for short papers (approximately 2,500 words) exploring urban politics in the MENA region.
Deadline | 26 September 2022
11. AKU-ISMC – 6-8 October 2022 Event – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
Full info at:
12. U of British Columbia call for Applications in Classical Persian Lit. & Culture
The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Classical Persian Literature and Culture. Applicants with expertise in the history and practice of classical Persian literature and culture are welcome to apply; applicants with a commitment to the broader notion of ‘Persianate’ literary culture are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants are expected to have full professional proficiency in English and in Persian, and proficiency in at least one other language of the Persianate cosmopolis. A strong track record of participation in team work and program affairs, and experience in community outreach and program building is a plus.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field or expect to have successfully defended the dissertation before July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate excellence in research and undergraduate and graduate teaching, and to maintain an active program of research, publication, teaching, graduate supervision, and service. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with tenure-stream Asian Studies faculty in South Asian and Persianate and Islamic history and culture, and with any future hires in the area of Persian/Iranian Studies. Further information about the Department can be found on its website, www.asia.ubc.ca.
The application dossier should include:
- a letter of application;
- a curriculum vitae;
- a 1-page statement identifying the applicant’s contributions, or potential contributions, to diversity, and ability to work with a culturally diverse student body;
- one writing sample (maximum 30 pages);
- two sample course syllabi, preferably one at the undergraduate-level and one at the graduate-level;
- evidence of teaching effectiveness; and
- names and contact information of three referees who could provide confidential letters of recommendation should the candidate be long- or short-listed.
The deadline for receipt of complete applications is October 7, 2022. The anticipated start date of employment is July 1, 2023.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
All application materials should be submitted electronically through the Department’s careers website, https://asia.ubc.ca/department/careers/ by October 7. Inquiries may be sent to asia.jobsearch@ubc.ca.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Given the uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, applicants must be prepared to conduct interviews remotely if circumstances require. A successful applicant may be asked to consider an offer containing a deadline without having been able to make an in-person visit to campus if travel and other restrictions are still in place.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Novel Workshop of the South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) Feminist Working Group, 27-30 October 2022, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
This novel workshop aims to provide participants with various methodological tips and tools that focus on fostering genuine researcher/participant relations that are meaningful and respectful from the conception of the research design to the research output and beyond.
Deadline for registration: 15 September 2022. Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V-ETeRAy88dT4oItQvWnT0JZ2_mh4gMZCrDsoslWQdc/viewform?edit_requested=true
2. Session on “Piracy and Captivity in the Medieval Mediterranean”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
Mediterranean Studies is helping the field think more comparatively and bring into dialogue scholars working in many fields from Spanish, French, Arabic and Italian. This panel aims to explore how medieval Mediterranean authors crafted the image of the pirate – as well as the journey of their captives – and made sense of this dangerous and ubiquitous enterprise.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 September 2022.
Information: https://events.tc.umn.edu/premodern-studies/event/8467-1
3. Session on “Translation in Islamicate Contexts: Portals, Frames, and Epistemes (ID# 3707)”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
When – and when not – to translate? This panel intends to explore these complex dynamics by posing the notion of translation as the transmutation of epistemological, corporeal, and literary frames between worlds and ways of knowing.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.
Information: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3707
4. Session on “Prosimetrum in Islamicate Literatures: Bridges, Representations, and Dialogues, (ID#3711), International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
Islamicate prosimetra constructed productive and complex links between poetics and politics and across visual and textual registers to structure memory, community, and civic life. This panel seeks papers that both unpack the interaction of prose and poetry and consider the broader uses of prosimetrum among single works, scribal traditions, and performative settings.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.
Information: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3711
5. Tenure-Track Position on Governance and Humanitarian Crisis in the Middle East, American University (AU), Washington, DC
We welcome applicants who work at the intersection of governance, human rights, and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. We are especially interested in candidates who work on gender and sexuality; forced and irregular migration; political economy, social mobilization, and community development; political and state responses to crisis and conflict; and environmental and climate change.
Deadline for applications: 10 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/109607
6. Josephine Hildreth Detmer & Zareen Taj Mirza Tenure-Track Professorship in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
The ideal candidate will be an expert in Islam as a global religious tradition, with interdisciplinary research that highlights trans-regional or transnational connections between the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, or beyond. Some undergraduate teaching experience and a record of scholarship are considered strengths.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2022. Information: https://careers.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/497122/josephine-hildreth-detmer-zareen-taj-mirza-professorship-in-islamic-studies
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies in the MENA Prior to 1800, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
We particularly welcome applicants whose work is innovative and interdisciplinary. Discipline open.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22309.
8. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for History of the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World, Seattle University
The ideal candidate will have a primary teaching and research field in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World (ca. 500-1600) broadly defined. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in History at time of appointment.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/job-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean-world-university-of-seattle?e=82aeb6c61d
9. Articles on “Islamic Leadership: Towards a New Paradigm” for Special Issue of the “Australian Journal of Islamic Studies”
Questions: Is contemporary Islamic and Muslim crisis a crisis of Islamic leadership? Do Muslims need a new leadership to bring them and their societies out of crisis? Why is new Islamic leadership paradigm so important in the modern world? Are there role model Muslim leaders that stand out as an exception to the crisis we are seeing in the Islamic leadership?
Deadline for submissions: 30 December 2022.
Information: https://ajis.com.au/index.php/ajis/announcement/view/13
10. Manuscripts and Book Proposals for “The Ottoman Empire and the World Series” under New Editorship and Advisory Board (I.B.Tauris)
The series welcomes work which transcends the traditional boundaries between approaches, including those between political history, gender studies, social history, Islamic studies, environmental history, and literary studies to understand how the empire worked and how it fit in a wider world.
11. Registration is now open for the Muslims in Britain Research Network annual conference.
Wed, 14 Sep 2022, 10:30 –Thu, 15 Sep 2022, 16:00 BST Cardiff University.
The conference explores more than 50 years of British Muslim Studies. We reflect on the contributions of scholars who laid the foundation for this discipline. And we consider the future – what new areas of scholarship are being explored and what new frontiers does the discipline need to delve into.
To register please use this link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-muslim-studies-at-fifty-retrospect-and-prospect-tickets-388878364657
12. HIAA Events & Opportunities – CFP Sponsored Panel at CAA 2023 & Online Workshop on Applying for Fellowships
CFP: HIAA Sponsored Panel at CAA
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Challenges and Opportunities for the the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture – Round Table Discussion
Political sanctions, travel bans, and racial profiling often define the experience of those working in and on the Middle East and Islamic world. Compounded to that have been recent restrictions in movement imposed by the global pandemic. Under such severe conditions, how have scholars and students negotiated doing fieldwork and getting access to archives? What are the implications for the discipline, which has in recent years attempted to expand its geographical borders beyond West and South Asia, even as movement has been harshly curtailed? And most importantly, in what ways have historians of Islamic art and architecture found ways to not only produce new scholarship, but to create a global community? The aim of the roundtable is to share experiences and also strategies for doing research, even as states and geopolitical realities impose limitations on what is possible.
Session chair: Kishwar Rizvi (kishwar.rizvi@yale.edu)
Interested applicants should follow the instructions on the CAA website to submit a proposal
13. Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada
Cultural Preservation as Game Wins GEE Learning Awards
London – The developing indie PC game, Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada, won the 2022 GEE Learning Awards bring attention to the hidden art of Islamic tilemaking.
In an endeavour to revive the long-admired tradition of Islamic Art that has permeated many architectural and artistic designs all over the world, independent game developer Louis Torres and his team managed to bring the experience of being a tilemaker during 14th Century Al-Andalusia to your PC. Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada is a meditative and artistic 3D PC game in which the player is tasked to design a single tile for the nobleman’s palace and the game engine tessellates the player’s original design into the walls of the palace.
“When I first thought of the idea of the game, I was very intrigued by the notion of tessellation that tilemakers implemented back then. I wanted to learn as much as I can about it and see if I can make it a game function. I never thought back then that my own desire to learn would earn me an educational game award,” said Torres.
The title of the game, Zellige, refers to the name of a specific type of geometric mosaic designs found across Southern Spain and Morocco. “The seeds for Zellige were first planted when I visited Granada and its palaces as a kid with my parents. I was utterly fascinated with the elegance and vibrance of the mosaic designs that adorn the Alhambra’s walls. A few years later, having researched the art style further, I realised that the intricate and skilled work required to create these designs could make for a great game, especially if one were to lean into the physicality and tactility of this art form. It’s this artisan’s work that I wanted to celebrate and recreate virtually in the game,” said Torres.
The developing team have gone to launch their Kickstarter campaign in order to release the game by the end of the year. Afnan Linjawi, Marketing & PR Manager, recounts that “the team was formed as part of a graduate student collaborative project. We displayed the games in a number of exhibitions in London and saw wide reception of the game. That’s when we knew that we had to try our best to actually bring the game to market.”
Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada ticks a number of categories in that it’s a cultural, meditative and artistic game. “I wanted to do my part as a fan of the artform and have people discover the tile designs they can create from the simple tools that were used back then. Everything from the palace itself, to the characters and colour palettes is inspired by the history of the Andalusian era and what it left behind,” said Torres.
Game producer Jean De Wilde explained that “we wanted to create a wholesome game that motivates your creativity. It doesn’t matter whether you were a good artist or a mere scribbler because the goal of the game is to make your own designs. It was also important for us to add the meditative element. Our hope is that people will see it as a way of getting away from the daily grind, of letting their minds wander as their eyes and hands create something new and unique to them.”
To know more about Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada, you can follow their Twitter handle where they post all their updates regarding the game: @ZelligeGame
14. #DisMed at Leeds IMC 2023
Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2023
After five successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2023.
We invite abstracts for 5 minute talks for the roundtable. We understand disability in the broadest sense, incorporating visible and invisible impairments, chronic illness and mental health, to name but a few.
Topics might include:
· Your own circumstances in a HE institution
· Pinpointing a particular issue that needs addressing
· Highlighting an example of good practice in your own institution
· Issues of intersectionality: how disability might interact with other factors that have an impact on marginalized people e.g. gender, class, sexuality, and/or race
You can participate in a roundtable as well as presenting a paper, so please do consider submitting an abstract for this roundtable if you’re already planning to present. You don’t have to identify as disabled to participate, for example if you’d like to share an example of good practice, but priority will be given to disabled scholars.
Please submit a title for your talk as well as a brief summary (no more than 150 words) to Alex Lee (al6598@nyu.edu) by Friday 16 September 2022.
We are also seeking a chair for the session, so please let me know if you’d like that role.
You can watch last year’s video here: https://mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Play/ee5aaa926dcd42b998c7dbd36852980f1d
15. The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: Studying East of Byzantium IX: Networks.
A three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral students and very recent PhDs studying the Christian East to reflect on how to reflect on the usefulness of networks in studying the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with workshop respondents, Zara Pogossian, University of Florence, and Joel Walker, University of Washington. The workshop will meet on November 18, 2022, February 17, 2023, and June 12–13, 2023, on Zoom. The timing of the workshop meetings will be determined when the participant list is finalized.
We invite all graduate students and recent PhDs working in the Christian East whose work considers, or hopes to consider, the theme of networks (microregional, regional, transregional, global, etc.) in their own research to apply.
Participation is limited to 10 students. The full workshop description is available on the East of Byzantium website (https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/). Those interested in attending should submit a C.V. and 200-word abstract through the East of Byzantium website no later than September 19, 2022.
For questions, please contact East of Byzantium organizers, Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, THarvard University, and Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at contact@eastofbyzantium.org.
EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA. It explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
- August 23, 2022
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Shii News – Indian Express (NY Times): ‘The bloody uprising against the Taliban led by one of their own’
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/afghanistan-taliban-uprising-mahdi-8098753/
‘The rumbling of engines echoed across the valley at dusk as scores of men with mismatched camouflage and mud-caked Kalashnikovs descended into the town in northern Afghanistan.
Many had driven hours down the snow-capped mountains to reach the town and join forces with Mawlawi Mahdi Mujahid, a former Shiite commander within the mostly Sunni Taliban who had recently renounced the new Taliban government and seized control of this district.’
- August 20, 2022
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