Archive for September 6th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1. HYBRID International Workshop “Travelling Matters: Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects across the Mediterranean”, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History, University of Haifa, 8 September 2022, 9:00 am – 6:00 pm IST
The workshop intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways focusing on the “second-handedness” of displaced objects across the Mediterranean with a broad chronology, extending from antiquity to the present-day intersecting different time frames.
Program and registration: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/2022/06/30/travelling-matters-rereading-reshaping-reusing-objects-across-the-mediterranean/
2. 3rd Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey (NEHT) Workshop: “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World – The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 8-10 September 2022
The workshop will discuss the ways of integrating the concept of the Anthropocene into the field of Otto-man/post-Ottoman environmental history. It will open a space for analysing the role of human activities in transforming the Ottoman/post-Ottoman landscapes in the age of the Anthropocene.
Information and program: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2022/
3. ONLINE Webinar “A Persianate Japanology? The Reach and Limits of Inter-Asian Exchange” by Nile Green (Professor of History at UCLA), British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), London, 21 September 2022, 6:00 pm GMT
In the wake of the Japanese defeat of Russia in 1905, intellectuals from Iran, India, and Afghanistan looked to Japan as a model for achieving military and industrial modernization without adopting Western culture. Probing the secrets of Japan’s success, they wrote poems, travelogues, and histories of Japan in Persian.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2916534763519/WN_BdqxsryTQ5O53W0ymUkbYQ
4. “Workshop on the Heritage of Indigenous Knowledge for the Persian Qanat (Aqueduct)”, Institute of Geography, University of Tehran, 12-15 October 2022
In addition to teaching the basic concepts of aqueduct and Qanat construction in Iran and studying the geography of the desert, the participants will visit the Qanat rehabilitation methods in Ardestan, Ardakan, Meybod, Zarch, Yazd and Bayazeh.
Deadline for registration extended to 15 September 2022.
5. “56th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA)”, Denver, Colorado, 1-4 December 2022
The preliminary program is now available with over 250 sessions on a wide range of topics, a number of roundtables, and several special sessions.
Deadline to pre-register: 8 November 2022. After that date, individuals must register on-site at the higher, on-site rate starting 1 December 2022.
Program: https://mesana.org/pdf/MESA2022_preliminaryprogram_FINAL.pdf
6. Visiting Research Fellowship for Omani Studies (3 Months), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
The Grant comprises funding for a research stay in Berlin of up to 3 months in 2023 at ZMO, as well as travel costs to Berlin, for the successful candidate. We are seeking to attract an outstanding postdoctoral scholar who is engaged in projects in research fields related to Omani Studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/Ausschreibungen_2022/CfP_Oman_Research_Grant_2023.pdf
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Stanford University
We seek candidates specializing in pre-modern Islam (7th–15th centuries), with a preference for the early period. Regional focus and disciplinary approach are open. A PhD is required at the time of appointment.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2022.
Information: https://facultypositions.stanford.edu/cw/en-us/job/493443/assistant-professor-in-islamic-studies
8. Program Officer Iraq, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington DC
Qualifications: B.A. in international affairs, politics, or a related discipline required; Master’s level education or equivalent knowledge is desired; 2+ years of living or working in the Iraq/MENA region; 2+ years of experience in democracy-related work is required; fluent Arabic (reading, writing and speaking) is required.
Information: https://www.ned.org/about/jobs/#op-487262-21157-program-officer-iraq
9. New Publication – Scenes From The 16th Century Ottoman Empire Vol. 2 COECKE VAN DER AELST Moeurs et Fachons des Moeurs Turcz
SOTA PUBLICATIONS / SOTA YAYINLARI
CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr.51
SAMPLE PAGES: https://www.academia.edu/86084014/Coecke_brochure
FOR ORDERING AND MORE INFO WRITE TO: sotapublishing@gmail.com
NORTHERN EUROPEAN RENAISSANCE AND TURKISH IMAGE
This second volume of our series “Scenes from the 16th Century Ottoman Empire” collects some of the very early illustrations of Ottoman Empire and its people by Northern Artists. (Netherlandish, Flemish, German, Austrian and Swiss) It consists of 4 main parts with in every part an art object or an artist. We have given this volume the name of Coecke van der Aelst because his Customs of fashions of Turks is the main object of this book.
The four objects are accompanied by earlier published articles by different authors.
- Mercenaries and Turks 1530 (Museum Booijmans van Beuningen)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has since 2010 exceptional set of prints from 1530 called “Landsknechten en Turken” or in english Mercenaries (lansquenets) and Turks, In terms of subject, the lansquenet set (20 woodcut prints) and the Turks is a set of 18 prints. (16 Turks and 2 Muscovites)
We will repint in this book the complete Turkish set with additional few specimens of
Lansquenets. This chapter is introduced by an article by Peter van der Coelen who is curator of Prints and drawings of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam:
- Jan Swart van Groningen, Süleyman and His Cortege, 1526
Second chapter of the book consists of 4 drawings made by Jan Swart van Groningen Netherlandish, ca. I500-ca. 1560. - Pieter Coecke van Aelst Customs and Fashions of Turcs and (1553)
The set of Turks from Museum Booijmans van Beuningen, meanwhile, has a splendid counterpart in Pieter Coecke van Aelst’s 1553 frieze, more than four metres wide, depicting the customs and practices of the Turks.4. The Wall map of the Turkish Campaign of 1529 - The Wall map of the Turkish Campaign of 1529
The last work of art we present in this volume is a Map of an Ottoman Campaign. This map by Johann Haselberg (1514-1537) is a very remarkable map which was recently discovered wall map by swiss artists which is now housed in England is our closing.
- September 06, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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