Archive for August 23rd, 2022
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
- by Andrew Newman
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