Archive for August 30th, 2022
- August 30, 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
- by Andrew Newman
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