Archive for August 9th, 2022
- August 09, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.In memoriam: Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)
2. Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Archive, 2000-2006
is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies from 2000-2006, which contains many publications by renowned authors. For a full overview, go to their dedicated web page.
3. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire
P Blessing
Cambridge, 2022
4. The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks abstracts for two sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-13, 2023. Abstracts are due before Sept. 15, 2022, via the ICMS website.
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Panel One: Translation in Islamicate Contexts: Portals, Frames, and Epistemes, ID# 3707
When—and when not—to translate? Historically, many of the landmark texts of Islamic knowledge and tradition, notably the Qur’an and Sa’di’s Gulistan, were studied in the original language. Other influential cycles, like fables, stories of the Prophets, romances, and narratives of travel and history, were repeatedly translated and adapted into new forms and genres. In the past, translation was part of the everyday processes of literary production and circulation, and today translation strategies continue to open meaning among texts geared for both specialists and the wider public, from monographs to comics or films. 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.
The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks papers that consider translation in and translation of the pre-modern Islamicate world. Multilingual writers working across traditions were constantly “moving” topics, ideas, and motifs from one context to another, bridging time, space, materials, and even the senses themselves. Through this approach, we aim to host a variety of scholars studying Islamicate literary, visual, historical, and material traditions of the pre-modern world for a discussion on how translation both broadens and creates epistemological and artistic frames.
The format for this panel is blended: both in-person and virtual. If you cannot visit Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 we encourage you to apply.
Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Translation: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3707
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Panel Two: Prosimetrum in Islamicate Literatures: Bridges, Representations, and Dialogues, ID#3711
Islamicate prosimetra constructed productive and complex links between poetics and politics and across visual and textual registers to structure memory, community, and civic life. The admixture of prose and poetry in Islamicate writing is so widespread that it often becomes invisible — a textual feature we simply take for granted. Says the poet,
From salons to serais, both base and sublime
the bounds of genre blurred.
As speech both measured and unrhymed
built bridges with the word.
Within these contexts, scholarly boundaries of genre often blurred, as history, lyric, prose, and panegyric easily inhabited the same textual, auditory, and visual registers among authors composing for the court, the Sufi hospice, or the literary marketplace.
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. By exploring these aspects of prosimetra as a form of conceptual bridge-building, we hope to generate a discussion that will help scholars approach the use of this textual form with newfound insight and appreciation. To facilitate a broad engagement with Islamicate prosimetra from the pre-modern world, this panel has an interdisciplinary focus, seeking scholars with backgrounds in languages, literature, music, history, art, religions, and philosophy.
This panel will be in-person.
Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Prosimetra: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3711
5. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Denver, Colorado, 1-4 December 2022
The full program, all sessions, and abstracts of the paper are available at https://my-mesa.org/program
6. ONLINE Inaugural International Conference of the “Qurʾanic Linguistics Research Group”, Swansea University and SOAS University of London, 14-15 March 2023
Topics: 1. Application of linguistic theories and approaches to analyzing the Qurʾānic text. – 2. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic discourse types such as narratives, dialogues, polemics, and hymns. – 3. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic themes and textual structures. – 4. Qurʾānic grammar and syntax. – 5. Analyses of phonology and morphology in the Qur’an. – 6. Time and aspect issues (e.g. gnomic present). – Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022.
7. Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
MESA invites submissions of unpublished graduate student research papers on any aspect of Middle East studies since 600 CE for this Prize. The author of the winning paper receives a certificate and $250.
Deadline for submission: 15 August 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/awards/category/mesa-graduate-student-paper-prize
8. Chapters on “History of the Qur’ān: Critical Concepts” for Edited Volume (Kube Publishing and the Markfield Institute of Higher Education)
Topics may include but are not limited to: Qur’ānic manuscripts, compilation an,d codification of the Qur’an, Non-Uthmānic codices, Aḥruf, Qiraʿāt, the question of tawātur, Pre-modern and contemporary Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.
Information and submissions: https://www.mihe.ac.uk/index.php/news-events/4593-2/
9. Articles for the “Syrian Studies Association Bulletin”, Fall 2022 Issue
The Bulletin invites feature, news, and research article proposals, as well as book reviews, for this issue, covering issues of contemporary or historic interest in Bilad al-Sham and modern Syria from scholars and practitioners who work in or on Syria and related issues, including sociology, religion, journalism, history, anthropology, international relations, archeology, media studies, environmental studies, music/art studies, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10580697/cfp-2nd-call-syrian-studies-association-bulletin-fall-2022
10. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639
Review of applications will begin October 1, 2022.
11. Call for a postdoctoral position with a focus on Arabic pharmacology
(in particular, the Kitāb al-ḫawāṣṣ by Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr) has opened at the University of Bologna, in the frame of the ERC Project UseFool – Knowledge and manipulation of nature between usefulness and deception in the Arabo-Islamic tradition (9th–15th century) (G.A. 101043939).
https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=65404
The dead line for the call is on September 15, the position will start from December 1, 2022.
12. Registration for ONLINE participation: Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)
Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)
Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Zubin Mistry
Funded by the Wellcome Trust
9-10 September 2022, University of Edinburgh
Conference programme and abstracts
This conference is a face-to-face event for speakers and chairs only.
All further participants may only attend via Zoom.
- August 09, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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