Archive for September 17th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1. MERIP is hiring for a new social media coordinator! https://mailchi.mp/0efa0abac2b3/merip-is-hiring?e=88dd2708f5
2. The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region
Feminist Fieldwork and the Production of Knowledge
S Joseph, et al., eds.
IB Tauris, 2022
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/politics-of-engaged-gender-research-in-the-arab-region-9780755645220/
Enter the code BTU22UK at the checkout for 25% off
3. Call for Applications for Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2023/2024
The Dan David Society of Fellows aims to support outstanding postdoctoral research in the study of the past. The Society’s two-year postdoctoral fellowship provides generous funding for international and Israeli scholars, to pursue innovative research at the highest level while enjoying the professional mentorship of faculty members at Tel Aviv University. Candidates who have completed their PhD in any discipline involved in the study of the human past, including but not limited to history, archaeology, history of the arts, history of education, history of science and medicine, physical anthropology, literature, philosophy and digital humanities are eligible to apply.
Researchers who have completed their PhD at Tel Aviv University are not eligible for the Fellowship. Candidates must have their PhD degree in hand no earlier than October 1, 2018 and no later than September 1, 2023. (applicants who were on maternity leave are entitled to add an extra year for each child born since receiving the PhD degree). The fellowship will be awarded without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender or age.
Up to four fellowships will be awarded for a maximum of two years each, beginning October 1, 2023. Those accepted to the program must commit to completing a full two-year term. Fellows will be asked to spend at least three days a week at Tel Aviv University and be active members of the university’s scholarly community. They will be required to fully participate in the activities of the Dan David Society of Fellows, including a twice-monthly seminar dedicated to cutting-edge methodologies and historiographic approaches, and to present their research to the other fellows once a year. The program’s academic activities will all be conducted in English.
Fellows will receive an annual scholarship of $40,000. Non-Israeli fellows will also be eligible to partially subsidized on-campus housing.
Applications should include the following documents in English: CV (including a list of publications and a list of research languages); a statement of research plans (max. 5 pages); summary of PhD dissertation (max. 1 page); and 2 letters of recommendation (one from the applicant’s doctoral supervisor)
The deadline for applications for the 2023/2024 academic year is December 1, 2022.
4. 2023 Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship, Durham University, call for applications
Applications for the 2023
The Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship is hosted by Durham University and is awarded to early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars. The Mohamed Ali Foundation is a UK charity whose aims include advancing the education of the public in the history of the Islamic World, of Egypt and of the Mohamed Ali Family in particular, especially the period of the reign of Khedive Abbas Hilmi II (1892-1914).
In June 2018 the Mohamed Ali Foundation announced the launch of this Fellowship Programme, and which is established to devote scholarly attention to the Abbas Hilmi II Papers held at Durham University and to make the collection’s strengths more widely known to scholars. It is hoped that the fellows’ work will foster deeper understanding of an important period of Egyptian history, and of a transformative era in East-West relations.
The fellowship programme is based at Durham University and managed by an international Advisory Panel comprising academic subject specialists. The programme began in 2019 with the residency of the first fellow Dr Pascale Ghazaleh of the American University in Cairo: her inaugural lecture is now available online. Fellowships will be awarded over the next 5 years. An Advisory Panel, chaired by Professor Anoush Ehteshami will appoint one or two fellows each year.
Fellows will be early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars. The nature of the collection will often require good reading knowledge of Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, French, and English. The online catalogue of the collection indicates the languages of each file of material.
Fellows will research the Abbas Hilmi II Papers, on an agreed topic, and deliver a lecture at Durham University. Each lecture will ultimately form a chapter in a volume of high quality and original research to be edited by Dr Ghazaleh. In the interim the lectures will be published in the university’s Middle East Papers series. The breadth of material in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers will reward an interdisciplinary approach. In order to guide candidate fellows an outline of the collection’s subject strengths is now provided in the fellowship application documentation. This is not intended to be prescriptive and the Advisory Panel will consider alternative suggestions so long as they are well-grounded in the Abbas Hilmi II Papers and this is evidenced in the application proposal.
The Fellowship, tenable in the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, entitles the holder to full access during their residency to departmental and other University facilities such as Computing and Information Services and the University Library. Accommodation is provided at Durham during the Easter term (late April-late June), but fellows may request to reside elsewhere for the duration of the fellowship. All fellows will visit Durham, if only briefly, in order to deliver their lecture. Lectures and other activities elsewhere during the fellowship will be encouraged.
Fellows who do reside at Durham will also be encouraged to take a full part in academic and collegiate life, delivering the already mentioned lecture and perhaps also contributing to seminars.
Fellows will be awarded an honorarium and accommodation and all meals will be provided for the duration of the fellowship; a research travel grant is also available to each fellow.
Applicants are advised to familiarise themselves with the online catalogue of the Abbas Hilmi II Papers, or the collection itself, and to review the outline of the collection’s subject strengths provided below. More detailed information on the fellowship programme is also provided.
Applicants for the 2023 Fellowship (24 April-23 June 2023) should send a CV (of no more than 2 pages), a two to three-page outline of their proposed research and contact details for two referees, preferably by e-mail, by Tuesday 1 November 2022 to:
The Secretary
Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship programme
Durham University Library
Palace Green
DH1 3RN
United Kingdom
Email: maf.fellow@durham.ac.uk
For further details please see the online notice
5. DePaul University – The Department of Religious Studies at DePaul University invites applicants for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 2023. We are looking for a candidate who specializes in Contemporary Islam in the Americas.
Full info at: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63947
For full consideration please upload a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a research statement, a recent writing sample, one sample syllabus, and the names and addresses of three referees by October 15, 2022.
6. University of Pittsburgh – Assistant Professor, Modern Islam, and Race
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63916
In order to ensure full consideration, applications should be received by October 24, 2022.
7. Tenure Track Professor of Iranian-Persian Linguistics and Literature, Open Rank
The Department of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington announces an Open Rank, Tenure Track search for a Professor of Iranian-Persian Linguistics and Literature focusing on Persian (Farsi) and its historical developments.
Applicants should be capable of conducting research and teaching on topics relating to the literatures and linguistics of Persian or its earlier versions. Candidates should demonstrate commitment to excellence in research, teaching, public engagement, and program development of Iranian-Persian Studies within Indiana University’s world-class Central Eurasian Studies faculty as well as within the Hamilton Lugar School. Candidates are expected to teach courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels as determined by the department. The appointment begins August 1, 2023.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled, with all applications received by October 11, 2022 being assured full consideration.
Interested candidates should review the application requirements and submit their application at: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/13663
Departmental Contacts for Questions:
Professor Jamsheed Choksy
Interim Chair and Distinguished Professor
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
jchoksy@indiana.edu
Ms. April Younger
Administrative Assistant to the Chair
Department of Central Eurasian Studies
ayounger@indiana.edu
Fuller information:
8. The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) is seeking a new Editor-in-Chief for its flagship journal, Iranian Studies: Journal of the Association for Iranian Studies. This multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Iran and the Persianate world from the pre-Islamic period to the present. As the official publication of the Association for Iranian Studies, it has served as the leading forum for the exchange of ideas and promotion of discipline-based and interdisciplinary research in all fields of Iranian Studies since 1967.
The Editor-in-Chief oversees the journal’s online peer review and editorial processes and gives strategic direction to the journal. As an officer of the Association for Iranian Studies, the Editor-in-Chief receives, annually, an honorarium of $10,000 USD, funding up to $10,000 for two course releases, support for travel to the AIS biennial conference, and a $10,000 USD operating budget to support the editorial process with the expectation of additional support from the scholar’s home institution. The position is a five-year appointment and renewable for a second term.
Applicants should be active and published scholars in fields covered by the journal; demonstrate an interest in, and ability to work with, a diverse team of editors and AIS council members; and build relationships with researchers in the field of Iranian Studies. Some previous editorial work and familiarity with digital media are preferred. We especially welcome applications from tenured mid-career scholars and institutional applications from scholarly research centers. The disciplinary field and period of scholarly concentration of the Editor-in-Chief remain open. We also invite inquiries from members of underrepresented groups in the field.
The deadline for applications is October 15. Applications should include a CV and a letter of intent explaining your vision for the journal and the resources your home institution can provide to support your efforts for augmenting the operating budget. Please send application materials to Sussan Siavoshi (Chair, Iranian Studies Search Committee) at ssiavosh@trinity.edu . Informal queries are welcome and encouraged.
9. Call for Contributions to the 8th IDHN Conference
The 8th IDHN Conference which will take place on Thursday, November 17, 2022.
We are now calling for contributions from both members and guests, who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam and Muslim communities and languages. Our conference is open to participants from both humanistic and scientific disciplines. We would also like to encourage Master’s and PhD students to share their Digital Humanities research with our forum.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Thursday, October 13, 2022.
We will select four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes. We will hold the meeting online on ZOOM; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
With warm wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
10. On-line Wed 21 Sep, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Book Launch: Rethinking Islam and Space in Europe
(Dr Tobias Muller (Woolf), Prof. Esra Özyürek (University of Cambridge) Prof. Sarah Bracke (University of Amsterdam
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
11. CFP/Institute for Mediterranean StudieS: Dictionary of Mediterranean Inter-Civilization Exchanges
We are writing to find authors for the second edition of the Dictionary of
Mediterranean Inter-Civilization Exchange.
Its first edition was published in 2020, demonstrating its academic
significance by being awarded as “Achievement of Excellence” by the Ministry
of Education in Korea.
And in the year 2022, we would like to expand the authors to scholars and
institutes of international society, who are interested in civilization
exchange based on their relationships.
If you are interested, please feel free to contact us by Oct, 31st, 2022.
(We do have a guide and reference for your understanding)
Thank you. We hope you all the best.
Sincerely,
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Busan University of Foreign Studies
E-mail : icims@ims.or.kr/imsmr@ims.or.kr
Phone : + 82-51-509-6695
11. Ibn Arabi PhD Scholarship
Monash University in Australia is hiring a PhD student who will specialise in Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), his work, heritage, later influence, and/or reception. You can find the call here: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/640536/phd-scholarship-in-islamic-intellectual-history-through-the-lens-of-sufism-global-dissemination-of-knowledge-in-islam
Deadline: Sunday 16 October 2022, 11:55pm AEDT
Enquiries: aydogan.kars@monash.edu
13. In-Person Lecture – “The Külliye as Hypotext: A New Reading of Histories of Imperial Mosques and Tombs,” Nebahat Avcıoğlu – October 25
Lecture by Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Hunter College and Graduate Center/CUNY
Date: October 25th 2022, 6:15 to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
The Külliye as Hypotext: A New Reading of Histories of Imperial Mosques and Tombs
Universally described as a ‘city of mosques and minarets’, Istanbul is invariably symbolized in literature and visual arts by its Ottoman skyline as a means to make people see and imagine the glorious or oppressive histories and cultures of the empire. Nowhere are these two classic city-features, urban landscapes and iconic shapes, so tightly knit than in Istanbul. But when and how exactly did this form—the mosque—, once an integral part of a building complex commonly known as külliye, the Ottoman version of an urban unit combining three key functionalities for nomadic conquerors—the spiritual (a praying room), the practical (lodgings for travellers and sufis) and the communal (soup-kitchen)—become the sum and substance of an entire city? By the end of the eighteenth century, külliyes were everywhere and everything to the city, however, the proliferation of this ideal type, highly codified, could not be replicated without modification or distortion. As ‘Istanbul’ became the key-metonym of the Ottoman empire itself, its cityscape and urban fabric evolved into the new scale of the külliye-practice, and came to be reimagined mostly through self-standing singular buildings amidst growing neighborhoods and ceremonial sites, with the mosque and the tomb in particular becoming separated and made self-sufficient. Focusing on imperial complexes exemplary of Istanbul’s urban expansion from the conquest to the Tanzimat, this talk will make use of Gérard Genette’s theoretical toolbox and show how this process of reduction took place through excision, condensation, and concision of the original külliye prototype. In turn, this methodology activates a critical paradigm of Istanbul as palimpsest.
14. Fellowships – American Research Institute in Turkey, Fellowships for 2023-2024 – Due November 1
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2023-2024 fellowship programs for graduate students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada:
ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey support projects in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and doctoral dissertation fellowships may be held from one month to one academic year.
ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, art, archaeology, anthropology, literature, and linguistics as well as all aspects of history. The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training, for terms ranging from four months to one year.
Applications for ARIT and ARIT-NEH fellowships must be submitted by November 1, 2022.
ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language offer intensive advanced study at Bogazici University in Istanbul during the summer 2023. Partiipants must have two years of Turkish language study or its equivalent. The application deadline will be in early February 2023. The fellowships provide airfare, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend.
Additional information at https://aritweb.org/fellowships/
15. 2022 Riggsby Lecture: “A Mediterranean Divide: Islamic versus Christian Experiences of the Black Death”, 22 September 2022 – Monica H Green
The lecture will be virtual and open to the public. It will be held at 5pm Eastern Time (US) on Thursday, 22 September. Here is the link for further information and registration: https://marco.utk.edu/riggsby-lecture/.
Monica H. Green, PhD
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8978-9631
Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
Independent Scholar
https://independentscholar.academia.edu/MonicaHGreen
Twitter: @monicaMedHist
16. 14th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) on 21st June – 24th June 2023 Medjugorje/Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at our web site: www.irtp.co.uk
- September 17, 2022
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