Archive for October 1st, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Edinburgh’s “Oriental” manuscript collection renamed “Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia” and now searchable on ArchiveSpace
We now have entries for 168 items up on the ArchiveSpace platform, with titles digitally searchable in Arabic and Latin script. More entries will be coming soon!
You can visit the “Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia” collection page and search the entries below:
https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/86063
The “Scope & Content” section will give you background on the collection, it’s provenance, and why we have gone with this new name.
If you click on the Additional Description tab at the foot of the page, you will see other fields including Custodial History and Immediate Source of Acquisition that are also well worth a read.
2. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous adresser en pièce-jointe le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de ces séances, qui se dérouleront en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
La première séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le mardi 18 octobre 2022 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Valentina Bruccoleri (Université Ca’ Foscari de Venise) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Au-delà de la collection d’Ardebil : nouvelles perspectives sur la porcelaine chinoise dans le monde iranien »
3. The Islamic College
An online short course on
Tawhid (Monotheism) in Qur’an
1st Session: 28th Oct 2022
2nd Session: 4th Nov 2022
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Registration Deadline: 20th October 2022
*Free but registration is mandatory
Further information at:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/tawhid-in-quran/
4. Position in Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant Professor – Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture
Open August 24, 2022 through Saturday, Oct 15, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
5. Harvard Islamic Finance Conference
The Annual Harvard University Muslim Alumni (HUMA) International Islamic Finance Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 21st and 22nd. This year’s conference is going to be the Silver Jubilee year of the conference with the theme of being “Waqf and Philanthropic Foundations: Shared Values for Socio-Economic Development”. The aim of the conference is to build the bridges across the communities in their endeavor towards humanity.
This year’s keynote speakers will be Dr. Omar Suleiman, the Founder and President of Yaqeen Institute and Professor Asim Khwaja, the Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School. Other prominent speakers and panelists include representatives from The Templeton Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Khalil Center, Fidelity, Boston Islamic Seminary, Islamic Finance Guru, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, The World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists, religious leaders from various communities and several academic institutions.
You can register at this link. Please note that your registration does not guarantee you a seat. The auditorium will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Learn more about the HUMA IFC conference at the following website: https://humaifc.com/.
Please reach out to jennaalbezreh@college.harvard.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
6. “Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments” is A 30-month research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe).
The project team includes colleagues working in five European countries, and the UK team is looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher.
The successful candidate will have the option of working at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Lampeter Campus, or remotely.
The deadline for applications is 10th October, and further information can be found here: https://jobs.uwtsd.ac.uk/JobDescription/9q162YnH2h8
7. Online Event: Contemporary Arabic Literature and Literary Translation
Registration is open for this exciting panel organised by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Subcommittee. The 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. Panel members will also discuss their writing experience, the challenges they face and the reception of their work in the Arab and Western worlds.
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Time: 16:00-18:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom
8. *Change of Date* 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture
The 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture will now take place online on Thursday, 17 November from 17:30 to 19:00 (GMT). Professor Nadje Al-Ali will be speaking on Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East.The lecture will be chaired by Dr Paola Rivetti.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change of date. If you have already registered to attend, you do not need to re-register and you will receive an email confirming the new details. If you have any questions/problems registering, please get in touch by emailing office@brismes.org.
9. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum is seeking to recruit an exceptional post-doctoral researcher to a three-year Research Fellowship to work on the extensive photograph collection of Sir Wilfred Thesiger in the Gulf Cooperation Countries region. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in the humanities or social sciences, have spoken and written proficiency in Arabic, as well as demonstrable knowledge of the histories and cultures of the Middle East.
Deadline | 7 October 2022
10. University College Dublin
The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) is looking for a full-time research assistant with fluency in Arabic. The candidate will be expected to work independently to collect and analyze secondary interviews and other primary sources in Arabic. The candidate will conduct online research in Arabic to identify secondary interview data with Arabic- speaking conflict participants.
Deadline | 20 October 2022
11. SOAS University of London
SOAS wishes to appoint a Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute and MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies. The person appointed will split their time approximately 50/50 in carrying out activities as the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and as the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.
Deadline | 21 October 2022
12. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of History invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in the history of the Middle East at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2023. We welcome research that focuses on any time period, although candidates should also be qualified to teach courses on the modern Middle East.
Deadline | 1 November 2022
13. Aga Khan Centre
The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is seeking a part-time, hourly-paid Persian Language Instructor to teach 6 hours per week over the 30 weeks of the academic year, beginning on 26th September or as soon as possible thereafter. The ideal candidate will be suitably qualified and experienced in teaching Persian as a foreign language at university level.
Deadline | 27 November 2022
14. Prize | BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD)
Applications are invited for this prize aimed at supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline. In addition to being invited to present their paper at the annual BISA conference, the prize winner will be mentored through the review process at RIS.
Deadline | 18 November 2022
15. Panel | 5 October 2022, 18:00 | LSE Middle East Centre
Students at all levels and institutions are invited to this careers panel where practitioners in various Middle East-related fields will talk through their career paths. The panel will be followed by an informal reception with the opportunity to meet fellow students, academic staff and the Middle East Centre team.
More information
16. Research Seminar | 6 October 2022, 17:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
A special research seminar featuring one of the world’s leading experts on Islamist thought in Turkey. Dr Katerina Dalacoura (LSE) will discuss her research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled ‘The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilisation and Nation’ – an intellectual history that engages with the concept of a ‘global International Relations’.
17. Film Screening | 12 October 2022, 18:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
‘In the wake of unimaginable loss, three Syrian refugees turn to their love of Sufi music’. This special screening of ‘Wajd: Songs of Separation’ will be followed by a discussion featuring Professor Jonathan Shannon and Dr Ezgi Guner. Refreshments will be available before the screening begins.
18. CFP – “Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to Tabriz to Venice” (Annual Conference of The Association for Art History) – DUE 4 November
ANNUAL CONFERENCE of The Association for Art History
12-14 APRIL 2023
University College London
To offer a paper: Please email your paper proposals direct to the session convenor(s). You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name and institutional affiliation (if any). Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper because the title is what appears online, in social media and in the digital programme. You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks.
Deadline for submissions: 4 November 2022.
Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to Tabriz to Venice
Sussan Babaie The Courtauld, University of London sussan.babaie@courtauld.ac.uk
Shane McCausland SOAS, University of London sm80@soas.ac.uk
Stunning objects, wonderous new materials and technologies, and novel ideas constitute what was the shared Mongol taste for splendour across the four khanates that made up the Great Mongol State from its foundation by Genghis Khan (r. 1206-27) on the Mongolian steppe heartlands, and between eastern China and Korea to Western Asia and Eastern Europe. In spite of their reputation as cannibals and philistines who sowed terror, how did the Mongol overlords reveal themselves to have also forged a dynamic, creative, and aesthetic empire which valued the highly sophisticated cultures of the settled peoples they conquered and in which the arts featured prominently? This panel focuses on the crosspollinated artistic landscapes that fashioned through local technologies, styles and tastes a distinctively Mongol-inflected regional identity. We invite papers that address through objects and analytics of transcultural possibilities the ways Mongol khans in China, Persia, Central Asia or Russia championed their own local artists to fashion favoured regional styles. How do the extraordinary richness and diversity of the arts produced to serve the local elites reflect and embody the wealth and power of the Mongol state? We envision a panel that contributes to developing of critical new ways to re-evaluate the Eurasian localities—Europe to East Asia, Northern Steppes to insular Southeast Asia—of artistic production in light of the overarching Mongol predilections for prestige conveyed through the charisma of the object.z
- October 01, 2022
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