Archive for September, 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
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: Seminar on Harb al Basus and its Offspring
Call for papers to an online small online conference dealing with literary and cultural productions related to the Arabic source texts on the War of al-Basus and/or the saga of al-Zir Salim. We hope to pique your interest in joining this gathering to discuss works related to Harb al-Basus/ al-Zir Salim with others who also delve into this material from a variety of perspectives. Presentations may be in either Arabic or English.
We call for abstracts of contributions to be submitted to us by October 23rd, 2022. Please submit abstracts to harbalbasus@gmail.com .
2. University of California – Berkeley – Assistant Professor – Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63830
Application deadline: October 15, 2022
3. University of Tennessee – Knoxville – Assistant Professor of Premodern Islamic History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63825
Closing date: October 26, 2022
4. ERC EuQu Upcoming events
Article about the Qur’an heritage in Europe in CSIC review
CSIC Investiga. Revista de Ciencia. Número especial
July 2022 – https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/14696
This special issue of ‘CSIC Investiga. Journal of Science’ shows the performance of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) within the EU R&D framewok programme Horizon 2020. It presents reportages on various research projects and on the Qur’an heritage in Europe, among others.
The QUR’AN, in the heart of Europe
Article by Esther M. García Pastor
In this article, Mercedes-García Arenal, who is leading an ambitious project funded with almost ten million euros by the European Commission to investigate the Qur’anic legacy in Europe, explains the role played by the Islam’s sacred text in European culture from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
You can read it online (p7-9 of the PDF) : https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/275159
5 septiembre – 7 septiembre de 2022
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, CONICET
Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales
John Tolan, participará en la conferencia plenaria en el marco de las XVII Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Medievales y XXVII Curso de Actualización en Historia Medieval, organizados por el Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (IMHICIHU) del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales (SAEMED), que se llevarán a cabo los días 5, 6 y 7 de septiembre del 2022.
John Tolan « Leer el Corán en Europa cristiana en la edad media »
7 de septiembre de 2022
17h00 a 18h00
IMHICIHU – CONICET
Saavedra 15, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History
12 September – 15 September 2022
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Keynotes: Vera Keller (University of Oregon) and Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Two of our PhD students working within our ERC Project EuQu are going to participate in the conference :
- Loriana Salierno (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) : «The Qur ʾāninto Latin: the Translation of Ludovico Marracci »
- Javier de Prado (Nantes Université) : «The Qur’an and the Propaganda Fide. Shared themes in the De procuranda salute omnium gentium (1613) and the Apologia pro christianareligione (1631) »
https://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=6723
6. BRISMES-Balfour Project Event: Peace Advocacy Fellowship Presentation and Q&A
Date: Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
Register to Attend: tinyurl.com/BPfellowship
This event is an opportunity for students who have already read about the Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship to meet the team, learn about the fellowship and ask questions about it.
The Fellowship is open to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students based in the UK who are committed to the Balfour Project Approach. As a fellow, you will be given the opportunity to make a tangible contribution to the work of the Balfour Project by campaigning for peace on the basis of the charity’s approach within your academic institution and more generally. To find out more about the content and expectations for the 2022/23 Fellowship programme, please read the Balfour Project Call for Fellows. Applications for the 2022/23 Fellowship close on Friday, 16th September at 5PM (UK time).
Please feel free to share the details with any students who may be interested in attending this event.
Best wishes,
Amy
Amy Brickhill
Manager, BRISMES
Email: office@brismes.org
Website: www.brismes.ac.uk
7. Contemporary Arabic Literature and Literary Translation
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Time: 16:00-18:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Register to Attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvce2orTwoH9SjXV5MIpb0_8cSKkEJQrCN
This panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers within the Arabic literary (translation) field will discuss and reflect on recent developments as well as publishing trends and practices. The panel will situate these developments within the changing socio-cultural and political contexts of the Arab world and reflect on the extent to which these contexts and events have affected the production, distribution and reception of Arabic literature in translation. The panel will also examine some of the recently published translated Arabic literature, survey its predominant contemporary narratives and showcase their own recent award-winning novels, plays and research projects. Additionally, the speakers will share their inspirations and motivations as well as discuss the social, cultural and political contexts informing their particular work. Panel members will also discuss their writing experience, the challenges they face and the reception of their work in the Arab and Western worlds.
Chair: Dr Hanem El-Farahaty (Associate Professor of Arabic Translation and Interpreting, University of Leeds and BRISMES Council Member)
Discussant: Dr Abdel-Wahab Khalif (Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting, Cardiff University)
Speakers:
- Leila Aboulela (Fiction Writer, Essayist, Playwright)
- Prof Reem Bassiouney (Professor of Linguistics, American University in Cairo)
- Alice Guthrie (Translator, Editor, Curator)
- Prof Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London)
- Yussef El Guindi (Playwright)
The event is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential. Please do share the details with any colleagues who may be interested in attending.
8. Symposium – Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Prof. Gülru Necipoǧlu – September 8 & 9
The event program can be found here: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/events
The event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Please contact Emine Fetvacı, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College at fetvaci@bc.edu
9. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, History
History of the Middle East, Assistant Professor
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63863
closing date 1/11/22
10. Washington University in St. Louis, Jewish Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63859
closing date: 28/11/22
11. Call for Articles: Alif 44 (2024)
Food as Culture: Literary and Artistic Approaches
Abstract deadline: October 1, 2022
Article submission deadline: May 1, 2023
Food is the center of our lives. Beyond being the most basic means of survival, it is also a communal activity. Cultural and religious practices are suffused with food preparation rituals, and social gatherings inadvertently revolve around food or drink. While food enriches social bonds, it can also deepen social and cultural rifts. In the words of Guatemalan activist and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, “We only trust people who eat what we eat.” While the delight of an exquisite meal can lead to a heightened state of almost spiritual ecstasy, it can also expose grave inequalities, with the excess of ancient Roman feasts as a striking example. Food can create a sense of cultural belonging, but it can also be used as a form of obliteration/discrimination and appropriation/exclusion. A simple meal consumed contains layers of history, social commentary, and memory.
The centrality of food has made it inevitably present in works of literature and art since antiquity. This interest in the significance of food is evidenced in the upsurge in culinary studies in recent academic scholarship. This issue of Alifseeks to contribute to this scholarship from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It welcomes original articles on the varied representations and meanings of food and invites contributors to explore how literature and art expand our relationship to food and what questions they raise about it.
Article topics might include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Food, history, and memory
- Food and hunger: adequacy and scarcity
- Mythological representations of food
- Anthropological approaches to food
- The psychology of food: eating disorders, self-images and so on
- Food and emotional bonding, sensuality, and eroticism
- Food and gender
- The economy of food distribution and access
- The future of consumption, the environment, and animal rights
- Food media: cooking shows, cookbooks, and social media
- Food in/as visual art
- Cannibalism and violence
Key Dates
| Deadline for submission of abstract (300 words) | October 1, 2022 |
| Deadline for submission of full articles | May 1, 2023 |
| Publication date | Spring 2024 |
Alif is a refereed, annual, multi-lingual, and multi-disciplinary journal published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Each issue revolves around a theme or a problem, bringing together the views and approaches of scholars from all over the world.
Alif is electronically available on JSTOR and indexed on a number of prestigious databases including Scopus, MLA International Bibliography, SAGE, Index Islamicus, EBSCO, Project MUSE, and Literature Resource Center (Gale).
Submission instructions: An initial 300-word abstract should be submitted by 1 October 2022, accompanied by the author’s email address, telephone number, and postal address. Articles based on accepted abstracts should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words and may be submitted in Arabic, English, or French by electronic mail to alifecl@aucegypt.edu, together with an abstract of 100 words and a 50-word biographical note on the contributor. Authors should consult the MLA Handbook (9th edition) for style in preparing their manuscripts.
Only original articles that do not duplicate previously published work, including the authors, and are not under review by another journal or collection will be considered.
Correspondence
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
American University in Cairo
113 Kasr Al Aini Street, PO Box 2511
Cairo 11511, Egypt
t: +2.02.2797.5107
alifecl@aucegypt.edu
To visit the website, click here.
12. Chapter proposals are invited for A Cultural History of Reproduction in the Early Modern Age (1500 – 1765) under contract with Bloomsbury for their Cultural History Series.
This volume will form part of a 6-volume series that covers the history of reproduction from antiquity to the present. We seek authors for the following thematic chapters focusing on the early modern period:
- Legal and Political Contexts
- Beliefs and Rituals
- Science and Medicine
- Materialities and Technologies
- Spaces and Practitioners
- Fertility Control
- Experiences and Emotions
- Meanings and Representations
This volume takes a thematic and transnational approach to the history of reproduction, with synthetic chapters addressing the above themes. Rather than addressing reproduction from a single perspective (such as medicine, culture, religion, etc.), the aim of this series is to emphasize the ways reproduction brings into focus the intersections between areas like science and medicine, law, cultural representations, lived realities, popular culture and so forth. This collection highlights both a global perspective and newer research themes in the history of pregnancy and birth, such as LGBTQ+ lives, disability, the senses, bodily experiences such as pain, and emotions. Although grounded in historical research and historiography, the series hopes also to feature the essential interdisciplinary scholarship in the field, including Archaeology, Religious Studies, Public Health, Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
The particular focus of each chapter within the general themes outlined above is up to the individual author, but topics covered may include fertility (including attempts to promote fertility, infertility, and fertility control), abortion, pregnancy and birth, the post-partum period, and/or infant care and feeding. Each chapter should provide an overview for readers of the key issues, problems, questions, methodologies, and debates in the field. If/when appropriate, each chapter also will survey the available primary sources and discuss a sample of these sources. This volume focuses on the Early Modern Period (from about 1500-1765), and it takes a global view; scholars who propose chapters centering comparative and transnational history and engaging with the Global South are particularly welcome. Chapters may adopt a global and comparative focus or may focus on one or two regions while making reference to global developments. Proposals from scholars who live and work in the Global South are encouraged. If a proposal is accepted, completed chapters of between 8,000 and 10,000 words will be due on August 15, 2023.
Interested authors should submit short proposals of 500 words and a CV by November 1, 2022 to Jennifer Kosmin at jfk0027@auburn.edu. Inquiries may also be addressed to jfk0027@auburn.edu.
13. The Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature at the University of Washington
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures is thrilled to launch the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature. This prize has been established in partnership with the Mo Habib Memorial Foundation and Deep Vellum Press to enable the publication and dissemination of Persian literary works that stand on their own in engaging English translation. It seeks to expand the readership of Persian literature in English, beyond academic audiences.
We anticipate that there will be multiple cycles. For its inaugural cycle, we welcome submissions in modern Persian fiction (novel and short story collection) from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and their diaspora. The winning translation will receive a prize of $10,000 ($2,000 once the award is announced in July 2023, and $8,000 once the work is turned in by the deadline May 2024). This prize comes with a commitment by Deep Vellum to publish the translated work. Please submit the following materials in a single PDF file by March 1, 2023:
- A one-page cover letter that describes the work to be translated, and speaks to its larger import
- An up-to-date CV (no more than 3 pages)
- A bilingual sample of the proposed translation (no more than 20 pages, double spaced, in both languages)
- Proof of copyrights (if applicable)
Fuller info at:
- September 03, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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