Archive for October 11th, 2022
- October 11, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.10th Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies in Paris
(Xe Conférences d’études iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater)
To be held on November 7, 9, 14, 16 and 21, 2022
at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and the Collège de France
Our speaker this year, M. Rahim Shayegan (Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Professor of Iranian at UCLA, and director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World) will deliver five lectures (in French) on the theme:
Achéménides et Sassanides: Continuités et ruptures
Attached, please find the invitation, together with the program and details regarding the time and venue for the lectures. This information is also available online at https://cermi.cnrs.fr/events/xeme-serie-de-conferences-detudes-iraniennes-ehsan-et-latifeh-yarshater/
Since 2001, the Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien is the recipient of an endowment provided through the Persian Heritage Foundation for a biennial lecture series in Iranian Studies – the Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies in Paris.
Information regarding past lectures can be found here: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/evenements-periodiques-du-cermi/conferences-detudes-iraniennes-ehsan-et-latifeh-yarshater/
2. HYBRID Seminar “Devotional Songs and Narratives in Iranian Khorasan” by Dr. Ameneh Yous-sefzadeh, Columbia University, 27 October 2022, 5:00 pm
Drawing on her ethnographic research, the scholar will focus on two important genres in the sung poetry of Khorasan: monājāt (to whisper or talk confidentially with someone; a sung prayer) and me‘raj (ladder, ascent; especially referring to the Prophet Mohammad’s ascension to heaven). There are many different ways of performing and listening to monājāt and me‘raj in the Islamic world, and they have many social settings and ceremonial uses.
Information: https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLfe3WP68n-BmnMySalD2KHpfCUCZhebv7Jf5XgRH6DiXKDA/viewform
3. Mediterranean Seminar on “From Mediterranean to Atlantic World”, University of Miami, 3-4 February 2023
We invite abstracts on any subject (historical, economic, cultural, literary, artistic, religious, or historio-graphical) relating to either the historical moment “From Mediterranean to Atlantic world” or to the historio-graphical advantages or disadvantages of either method – Mediterranean Studies/History or Atlantic Studies/History; including the Near East and North Africa and the Red Sea.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2022.
4. Seminar “New Directions in Ottoman Studies: Comparativism, Translation, and Temporality”, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, 16-19 March 2023 This seminar seeks to understand how the histories, images, and legacies of the Ottoman Empire appear when perspectives from the Global South and the disadvantaged populations of the empire are foregrounded. How was the Ottoman rule experienced and evaluated by those who were at the margins of imperial power structures around the world? Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2022. Information: https://www.acla.org/new-directions-ottoman-studies-comparativism-translation-and-temporality
5. International Conference “Arabic in Africa: Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives”, Universität Bayreuth, 12-14 April 2023
“Arabic in Africa” will consider Arabic from different approaches, perspectives and disciplinary frameworks and in quite different sociolinguistic situations. Parameters include demographic weight (e.g. “national non-standard standard” or very local small variety), institutional status (e.g. official language, national language, minority with no state support) and historical provenance.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2022.
Information: https://www.arabistik.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/Arabic-in-Africa-2023-CFP2.pdf
6. Research Associate in Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Hamburg
Requirements: A university degree in Islamic Studies or a related subject. Confident command of the English and Arabic language. French or Spanish as well as knowledge of GIS methods and familiarity with geographic approaches to history or Islamic material are an asset.
Deadline for applications: 21 October 2022. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=5588d6d1c33258d3fdb96a047ad5933bab115434
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in International (Focus Middle East), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
We invite applicants with disciplinary training in History, Economics or Anthropology, and research focused on issues of security and conflict, governance, or development in the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2022.
8. Adjunct Assistant Professor in History: Jews in the Muslim World (1 Year), University of California, Irvine
Basic qualifications: Ph.D. in any relevant Humanities discipline or an interdisciplinary field. Applicants nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered. Ph.D. must be completed by the date of appointment (July 1, 2023).
Deadline for applications: 23 October 2022. Information: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07890
9. Omar Khayyam Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Iranian Studies (Maximum 2 Years), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
The position is open to all the humanities and social science disciplines. Scholars who received PhDs within three years of the application deadline are eligible to apply.
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2022. Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/news/2022/omar-khayyam-post-doctoral-research-associate-iranian-studies
10. IIMPOP Public Scholar Fellowship, Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES), George Washing-ton University, Washington DC
The Fellowship seeks to engage and inform the broader public about the contemporary Middle East. During the fellowship, scholars develop multimedia web pages to amplify and disseminate their work to a broader audience. This fellowship is open to both established scholars and emerging researchers.
Deadline for applications: 30 October 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/07/iimpop-public-scholar-fellowship
11. 2023-2024 Middle East Initiative (MEI) Research Fellowships, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambrigde, MA
The Middle East Initiative is now accepting applications for one-year Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellow-ships for research related to governance and public policy in the Arab world and broader Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2022. Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
12. Chapters for the “Handbook of Chinese in the Middle East and Africa” Edited by Emilie Tran & Yahia H. Zoubir
This call for chapters is addressed primarily to academics at all levels, including PhD candidates, interested
in Chinese and MEA studies. Proposed chapters can deal with a general issue such as Chinese traders in North Africa; the life of Algerian Chinese mixed couples; intercommunal disputes between Chinese and locals; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2022. Information: Emilie Tran (emilietran@hkbu.edu.hk )
13. New Journal “KESHIF: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Edition”, Institute for Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
Ottoman Studies is a manuscript science, and all scholars who work on manuscripts know this situation: one “discovers” (Turkish keşif means “discovery”) accidentally short texts in manuscripts – single poems, letters, contracts and marginal notes of different, often private matters. Keshif is to provide a forum (and medium) for researchers to make these fragments accessible to a wider audience.
Deadline for articles: 5 December 2022. Information: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/keshif
14. Demons: Good and Bad is an interdisciplinary conference that will take place in Trinity College Dublin on 28thand 29thOctober 2022.
Speakers include a number of Islamicists.
The conference is free yet registration is required. For details and registration, please visit:
https://www.tcd.ie/religion/conference-seminars/demons22/index.php
The Keynote Address (27.10.2022, 4.00–5.30pm Dublin Time) will also be livestreamed online. For free registration to this online event please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-rule-a-magical-world-europe-14001700-tickets-423178828267
15. The Middle East in Cambridge
King’s Silk Roads – Persian Literary Culture and Book Exchange between Central Asia and Mughal India
Fri 14 Oct 2022 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Time zone: London)
https://teamup.com/event/show/id/Qs4djc4bZLNxgEPJAx8yQm1QFTGWrZ
for more info and Zoom link.
16. Webinar Series – From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art, and Culture is back by popular demand in October 2022. We are pleased to announce that the Deccan Heritage Foundation and the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge are collaborating with the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, and the Bangalore International Centre for these events. From Konkan to Coromandel presents the pioneering work of scholars in various fields of knowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.
“Translating the New Taste: Rasa, Movement, and Multilingualism in Ibrahim Adil Shah II’s Kitāb-i nauras,” by Zoë Woodbury High (University of Chicago)
October 22, 2022, 2pm, London time
“A Missionary Enterprise: Old Goa’s Christian Religious Architecture (16th to 18th centuries),” by Sidh Losa Mendiratta (Universidade de Coimbra)
November 18, 2022, 2pm, London time
“The Qalamkari Textiles of Golconda: Searching for Histories of Production, Patronage, and Place,” by Sylvia Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College)
December 2, 2022, 2pm, London time
More information and our registration can be accessed here: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/about
- October 11, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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