Archive for August, 2022
Shii News – Sectarian dimensions to New Mexico killings?
The possible sectarian dimensions to the recent killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, NM, have not been universally noticed in the media.
See, for example, Reuters, but also local media and CNN. See also alJazeera.
But, see Vice News and a recent statement by the American Muslim Bar Association (AMBA). See also the AP.
This very tragic story is fast moving, however.
August 17, 2022: See The New York Times
August 23, 2022: See alJazeera
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- 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
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Shii News – ‘Shiites targeted in Kabul’
Washington Post, 8 August, 2022
‘…In the capital, Kabul, Taliban authorities have been struggling to contain a rash of terrorist attacks on the Shiite Muslim community over the past week. The attacks, mostly claimed by Islamic State militants, have sown panic in the Shiite Muslim community as it observes a period of religious mourning for a revered figure: Imam Hussein, a grandson of the prophet Muhammad slain in battle in the 7th century.’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/08/pakistan-taliban-leader-strike-afghanistan-shiite/
- August 08, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies
S Mulder, ed.
2. The British Association for Islamic Studies and De Gruyter are delighted to announce that Dr Elizabeth Grace Price has been awarded the 2022 BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize.
Dr Price’s thesis ‘The Barāhima’s Dilemma: Ibn al-Rāwandī’s Kitāb al-Zumurrud and the Epistemological Turn in the Debate on Prophecy’ was praised by the Prize committee and reviewers as a truly pioneering study, and we are full of anticipation for her monograph which will follow in due course.
You can read more about Dr Price’s submission here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2022
We would also like to congratulate Dr Aziza Shanazarova (Indiana University-Bloomington) who received this year’s Honorable Mention for her submission ‘A Female Saint in Muslim Polemics: Agha-yi Buzurg and her Legacy in Early Modern Central Asia’.
The 2023 Prize will be open for submissions in September, and we will be in touch again soon with further details.
Many congratulations again to Dr Price and Dr Shanazarova, and very best wishes from us all at BRAIS.
Tom Lea
Secretary
British Association for Islamic Studies
The Alwaleed Centre
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
07776146944
3. Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis
Jaan Islam, Adem Eryiğit
Routledge, 2022
4. Brown University – Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
The Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in modern Arabic literature at the rank of Assistant Professor. The Ph.D. must be completed by the time of employment, and native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English is required. The field of specialization within modern Arabic literature is open, though we especially encourage applications from candidates whose work is comparative in nature, engaging with literary texts and traditions in addition to Arabic.
Demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching is essential, as is a commitment to fostering an academic community based on the principles of diversity and inclusion. Interested candidates should address these three areas in a letter of application, submitted alongside a curriculum vitae, a dissertation abstract, an article-length sample of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation.
All materials should be submitted via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin on November 1st, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. The Department is keenly interested in diversifying its faculty and encourages candidates from historically underrepresented groups in higher education to apply.
Apply via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/110013
5. Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y HebraicosSección Árabe-Islam(MEAH-AI) is one of the oldest journals on Arabic and Islamic Studies in Spain. A multilingual and interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes scholarship on all subjects pertaining to Arabic and Islamic Studies, from the Middle Ages to the present.
Languages: You may submit your contributions in English, Spanish French or Arabic.
Peer Review: Implementing a double-blind peer review process all submissions will be sent to at least two external scientific referees.
Committed to facilitating research and promoting the exchange of knowledge MEAH-AI is an open-access journal (see most recent volume here) and indexed in relevant scientific databases, directories and evaluation platforms such as ESCI, ERIHPlus, EBSCO.
MEAH-AI is published annually. It accepts articles about very diverse topics in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the broadest sense, whether the classical period (al-Andalus and the Orient) or the Modern and Contemporary periods.
Deadlines: Articles and miscellanea may be submitted throughout the year. The deadline for the issue of the following year is May 31st (e.g. for 2023 this would have been May 31, 2022).
6. The Islamic College
Arabic Online Language Course
Beginner (Saturday), Intermediate (Sunday), Advanced (Friday)
Starting: 4th October 2022
Registration Deadline: 15th September 2022
For further information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/
7. Once a year the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase.
The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches (please note the current reference below) or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. Placements (at most one month per host country, shorter stays are possible) are to be used for research, especially in libraries and archives. Academics are expected to produce transnational and transregional studies, providing research with new and original ideas.
Funding
Funding covers:
- travel costs for travel to the foreign institute and back;
- daily rates between € 28.00 and € 62.00 depending on the host country;
- lodging in one of the institute’s inexpensive guest rooms depending on the host country chosen and on
availability.
Countries and regions
Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, Turkey, USA
When planning the travel, the continuously updated information from the authorities, in particular from the Robert Koch Institute, and the relevant travel information from the Federal Foreign Office must be observed. The travels are at the recipients of Feldman travel grants own responsibility. Depending on the situation, the start of the travel can be postponed.
Please note: Due to the current situation, it is not possible to apply for travel grants for Russia and China this year.
Conditions for application
Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (highest degree must be at least a Master, M.A., state examination or German Diplom) who have already published and can present a research plan. Applications for projects related to research priorities pursued by the Foundation’s institutes/branches will take precedence.
A re-application is only possible if this has been explicitly stated in the rejection letter.
Employees and scholarship holders of the MWS are excluded from the application process.
Application papers
All application papers must be submitted in German or English. A complete application will comprise the following information:
- completed application form;
- a detailed presentation (max. 3–5 pages) of the intended research project, stating the sources which
justify the stay in the specific host countries or at the institutes;
- copies of certificates (examinations, PhD certificate);
- list of publications;
- a reference opinion from an expert which should provide information on the applicant’s status and the
progress of work and be sent from the reviewer by e-mail (feldman@maxweberstiftung.de) directly to
the Max Weber Foundation’s central office;
a letter confirming supervision by the host institution in Germany, if applicable.
Selection criteria
- Academic excellence
- Transnational and/or comparative topic
Submitted project contributes to further academic qualification
Further information and contact:
www.maxweberstiftung.de/travel-grants
The next deadline for applications is 7 October 2022.
The selection committee is expected to meet at the beginning of December 2022. The grants can be called forward from January 2023.
8. Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World
British Institute of Persian Studies Mediaeval Research Programme Conference
7-8 September 2022, University of St Andrews
Registrations are open to attend the conference of the BIPS Mediaeval Research Programme, on the 7th and 8th September 2022 at St Andrews University. The conference is organised with additional support from the Honeyman Trust and the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews.
If you wish to attend, please contact Professor Andrew Peacock.
The deadline for registrations is 1st September 2022.
For more information, including the programme:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/medieval-programme-conference/
9. We would like to make an announcement regarding to the academic journal ‘Mediterranean Review’, issued by the IMS.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST).
Concluding long consideration of academic concentration of the institute, we
would like to announce that the MR aims to widen the scope of Mediterranean
Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse ‘mediterraneans’
distributed all around the world where civilization exchange occurs including
the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea, or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in one of the global
mediterraneans.
We look forward your submission.
Thank you. We hope you all the best.
Sincerely,
Institute for Mediterranean Studies Busan
Busan University of Foreign Studies,
Republic of Korea.
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea. (46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
- August 06, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.
Colloquium to be held online, December 7-8, 2022
While the literatures on Muslim philanthropy and on Latinx philanthropy are continuously expanding, they lack perspectives on how Latinx Muslims and Muslims in Latin America are part of a wider matrix of generosity, volunteering, and mutual aid within, and beyond, both constituencies. On the one hand, Muslims give to organizations and participate in philanthropic activism at local, national, and global levels, hoping to make the world a better place in accordance with Islam. On the other hand, people who identify as Latinx or who live in Latin America have historically engaged in acts of solidarity and mutual assistance among vulnerable populations, addressing issues related to poverty, education, health, and culture.
This colloquium and the resulting special edition of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society (Indiana University Press) will help pave the way to move research on the intersections between Muslim and Latinx philanthropy further.
Full information at:
https://www.lacisa.org/post/call-for-papers-muslim-philanthropy-in-latin-america-the-latinx-u-s
Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to editor@lacisa.org no later than October 1, 2022.
Those accepted will be notified by October 15, 2022, with the offer of a $250 honorarium for participation in the colloquium and for presentations delivered online between December 7-8, 2022.
Questions, comments, or other queries can be made to Dr. Ken Chitwood at editor@lacisa.org.
2. International Conference “Islamic Succession Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 30-31 March 2023
The conference addresses the intergenerational transfer of property in various historical and regional contexts by bringing together different methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives (especially from law, history, economics, anthropology, Middle Eastern/regional studies, gender studies and sociology).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1543907/20220729-call-for-papers-succession-in-islamic-law?c=1013904
3. Post-Doc Resident Fellowships for 2023/24 (1-12 Months), RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University of Hamburg
Applicants should work on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The theme is ‘Architecture and Materials of Prestige’, i.e. exploring the representation of political rule in material culture and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2022.
Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cfa-fellows-2023-new.pdf
4. Lecturer in Contemporary Islam (0.8fte, until 30/09/2023), University of Chester
Applicants will bring scholarly expertise in Contemporary Islam and will assist with the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate modules as well as some administrative duties and the pastoral support of students.
Deadline for applications: 4 August 2022.
Information: https://jobs.chester.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=00014804
5. Scholarships for the Italian National PhD Program in Religious Studies (Islam, Judaism etc.), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Other Italian Universities
This program with a three-year duration is starting from 1 November 2022.
Deadline for applications: 25 August 2022.
Information: https://www.unimore.it/AZdoc/CallPhDEnglishXXXVIIIReligiousStudiesWeb.pdf
6. Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics (Tenure-Track, Focus Politics of the Middle East or Africa), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Qualification: Doctorate in Political Science; Specialization in one or both of the following: Politics of the Middle East or Africa; Ability to effectively teach introductory and upper division courses in Comparative Politics; Ability to develop and sustain a high quality research program.
Deadline for applications: 16 September 2022.
Information: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=499957
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Eastern Mediterranean or Near East History, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Applicants should specialize in the years between 600 and 1500 and begin on 1 July 2023. We are especially interested in scholars, who work across regions, languages, cultures, and religions. We welcome applications from historians who already hold teaching positions, as well as recent PhDs and those who expect their PhD or equivalent degree by the time of appointment.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108402
8. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer for Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking World, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS), Australian National University, Canberra
Research informed by fieldwork and close engagement with the region is highly desirable. Proficiency in Arabic is also highly desirable.
Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.
9. EN LIGNE Cours de langues : « Arabe standard, Darija et Amazigh 2022-2023 », Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat
Consultez l’offre et les modalités d’inscription sur le lien ci-dessous: https://www.cjb.ma/evenement/offre-des-cours-darabe-standard-darija-et-amazigh-2022-2023/
10. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Memory and Historiography of the Crusades in the Middle East”
With a focus on the modern memory and historiography in the Arab World, the chapters should address: • The academic memory of the crusades as reflected in the Middle East or Arab crusade historiography; • Analysing the content, context and contextualisation of the Modern Arab scholarship on the crusades and Islamic Jihad; • The impact of the crusading memory on the Arab perception of the Modern West; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-volume?e=82aeb6c61d
11. Paid Research Articles on “Transformations in Authoritarianism and in Resilience Mechanisms of Human Rights in the Arab Region” for Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
This issue will focus on recent transformations in authoritarianism in the Arab region in the past decade, changes in geopolitical alliances, as well as changes in the mechanisms of coping and resilience of human rights and political movements. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disciplines of social sciences, humanities and law are welcome, and will be financially compensated.
Deadline for full manuscripts: 2 October 2022.
12. To celebrate the inaugural issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS), a journal published by Liverpool University Press (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/111/), the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS) will host a two-day symposium on oceanic approaches to nineteenth-century culture, ecology, economics, history, and politics in a range of global contexts. Intentionally broad in scope, the symposium seeks to cross-map nineteenth-century studies with key currents of the blue humanities, the Black and circum-Atlantic, Indian Ocean studies, oceanic ecologies, post- and decolonialism, maritime globalization, and beyond. We welcome participants from any discipline and at any stage of their scholarly career.
The majority of the panels and events will be held in Los Angeles at the Doheny campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University. To facilitate global connections and conversations, the symposium will also feature live panels and audience participants in several sites around the world, including Australia, China, and South Africa.
PANELS AND POSSIBLE TOPICS
The symposium will feature three thematic panels and several open panels. The three thematic panels take inspiration from a trio of articles in the first issue of GNCS.
Panel 1: “Hydrographies: (Re)writing Oceanic Spaces”
inspired by Charne Lavery’s article, “The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South”
Possible topics include…
— the blue humanities
— Indian Ocean studies
— the global / oceanic South
— navigation, exploration, and “discovery”
— naval geopolitics and hydrocolonialism
— living “in the wake” of empire
— oceanic ecologies and the nonhuman sea
— oceanic zones; the littoral and the submarine; surface and depth
— shorelines and seascapes
Panel 2: “Maritime Mercantilism: Oceanic Exchanges and Microhistories”
inspired by Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert’s article, “Maritime History, Microhistory, and the Global Nineteenth Century: The Edwin Fox”
Possible topics include…
— globalization and maritime circulations and exchanges
— shipping, infrastructure, and logistics
— maps, charts, and logbooks
— DH approaches to global / oceanic / nineteenth-century history
— maritime materialisms and object histories
— micro / macro scales of oceanic history
— labor and leisure at sea
— maritime economies (including piracy)
Panel 3: “Home and Away: Oceanic Circulations and Travellers”
inspired by Humberto Garcia’s article, “The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders: Inaugurating a Hospitable World Order in Mid-Victorian Britain”
Possible topics include…
— maritime mobility and immobility
— lascars on land and at sea
— the Black and circum-Atlantics
— enslavement and diaspora
— immigration and emigration
— Indigenous / subaltern knowledge of the ocean
— dockside geopolitics
— oceanic imperialism, patriotism, and xenophobia
Panels 4 and beyond: “Cross-Currents: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century”
inspired by all three articles, but opening space for new topics and debates
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the listings above, as well as…
— feminist oceanic studies
— women sailors and sailors’ women
— queering maritime history
— philosophy / theology and the sea
— oceanic forms
— shipwreck and salvage
— pollution and waste
— floods and tides
— pedagogy and teaching oceanic texts
Each session will feature 3-4 panelists and 1-2 respondents. (Papers will be sent to the respondents in advance.) Panelists will have 15 minutes to present their work. Afterward, the respondents will reflect upon and synthesize common threads before opening up discussion to a wider audience.
WORKSHOP AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
As we celebrate the first issue of GNCS, the Society for the Global Nineteenth-Century Studies also looks ahead to future publications. Selected symposium participants will be invited to a collaborative online writing workshop in 2023. Across several structured rounds of peer and self-review, each participant will give and receive feedback, ask questions, and make further connections.Afterward, revised papers may be considered for publication in GNCS or in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century book series by Liverpool University Press.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply to the symposium, please submit a 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to globaloceanic19c@gmail.com by September 1.
Contact Email:
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- August 02, 2022
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