Archive for September 27th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Webinar “Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today“, University of California, Davis, 30 September 2022, 9:00 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time
Nihat Çelik (San Diego State University), Dilyara Agisheva (Harvard University), and Oleksandr Halenko (İstanbul Üniversitesi) will speak about “The Russian Annexation of Crimea in 1783,” “The Making of Colonial Space in Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries,” and “History or Life: The Ottoman Past that Tempted Russia to Invade Ukraine.” Victor Ostapchuk (University of Toronto) will chair the panel and moderate the open discussion.
Information and registration: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOCupjMoH9QOyjHHq7Xc96uylaO6ea8M
2. HYBRID Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference of the American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology on “Islamic Philosophy and Theology in Contemporary Engagements”, Harvard University, 2-4 December 2022
We invite academic studies of scholars, methods, institutions, texts, and topics typically considered within the domain of philosophy, as well as those that treat kalam-theology, Islamic legal philosophy (usul al-fiqh), or other intellectual trends that at times may be seen as distinct from philosophy. Papers may be within specific disciplines (Philosophy, Islamic Theology, Religious Studies, etc.) or may be interdisciplinary.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/09/23/annual-islamic-philosophy-conference
3. Workshop “Theorizing Jewish-Arab Transculturation”, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, 7-9 February 2023
Co-organized by the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, the workshop will bring together scholars interested in Jewish-Arab relations from a transcultural perspective – from medieval times to the present.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022. Information:
4. 10 PhD Students in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Area Studies for the Doctoral Program of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. Applications with a focus on strategies of negotiating diversity, difference, and distinction, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims are especially encouraged. Our language of instruct-tion and communication is English.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2022.
Information: https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/application/call_for_applications/index.html
5. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of History in Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
We are particularly interested in scholars with research agendas focusing on comparative empire, mobility, race and gender. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. in History or an adjacent field by the time of appoint-ment, or shortly thereafter.
Deadline for applications: 20 October 2022.
Information: https://history.northwestern.edu/about/news/late-medievalearly-modern-middle-east.html
6. New International MA Program in Middle East Studies (MAPMES): “Intertwined Worlds: Jews, Christians, and Minorities in Islamic Societies”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
One year MA program, with a special focus on minority religious communities and inter-religious relations taught in English.
Program launch in October 2023. Registration will open in January 2023.
Information: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/international/Pages/Middle-East-Studies.aspx
7. Chapters for Edited Book on The Crusades : Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11th– 14th Centuries)
Topics: The origin of the idea of crusade; Crusades historiography: eastern and western sources; Battles: The Crusades of 1096-1291; Alliances and Conflicts; Settlements: Crusader States (County of Edessa, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Cyprus); Roads: Crusades army route: sea and land roads from Clermont to Jerusalem; Byzantine Empire, Constantinople and the crusades.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-the-crusades-historiography-settlements-people-and-roads-11-14th-centuries?e=82aeb6c61d
8. Race and the Middle East/North Africa Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Marie Grace Brown: “Finding Black Joy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”
Thursday, September 29 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Skylight Room on the 9th Floor, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue, New York NY 10016)
Where do we find Black joy in the archive? How do we evaluate claims of interracial affection or friendship made by white imperialists? Using case studies of servants, sex, and food, Marie Grace Brown addresses these questions and more in her examination of everyday life in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She argues that the search for Black joy—whether we find it or not—is a new, critical responsibility for today’s racially conscious scholars.
Marie Grace Brown (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is a cultural historian of the Modern Middle East with a special interest in questions of intimacy, gender, empire, and the body as historical text. Her award-winning book, Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces gestures, intimacies, and adornment to give a history of northern Sudanese women’s lives under imperial rule. Brown’s second book-length project, “A World of Color: Adventures in Romance in Imperial Sudan,” continues the exploration of the relationship between bodies and imperial power. Brown’s work has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
This event will also have a Zoom option for those unable to attend in person, registration is required: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-6grTIrGNb5MCa-AS3hOcvtUy2Uncic
https://racemena.gc.cuny.edu/event/09-29-2022-finding-black-joy-in-the-anglo-egyptian-suda…
- September 27, 2022
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