Archive for October 15th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.An Encounter with Dylan Thomas,
by Ebrahim Golestan ed. Abbas Milani
2. UCLA Iranian Studies Program
Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran
Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Discussion in Persian
3. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Invites you to attend a memorial service in honor of Franklin D. Lewis
Friday, October 28th, 2022
4:30pm Central Time
Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute 1155 E58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Or via Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOChrzMoHNOtAl3ombp0u8NnwheK2F5s Reception immediately following in the Oriental Institute galleries
Please RSVP no later than Friday, October 21st
4. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the 2023 Virtual Language Workshop, a professional development forum tailored to the needs of post-secondary Middle East language educators.
March 2-3, 2023
Featuring sessions about aspects of Middle East language teaching and program administration in higher education settings, the workshop aims to enhance the quality of language programs and to provide opportunities for inter-institutional collaboration.
Proposals are invited for presentations describing research and descriptive reports on Middle East language learning and pedagogy as well as undergraduate and graduate program innovations. We welcome presentations on:
- strategies for student recruitment and retention
- approaches to curriculum development including multi-literacies, intercultural communicative competence, open pedagogy, experiential learning, and language for specific purposes
- integration of heritage learners
- TA training and instructors’ professional development
- inter-institutional collaborations and exchanges
- testing and assessment
Other topics of relevance to Middle East language teaching and program administration are also welcome.
Deadline and Notification of Acceptance: The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Monday, November 11, 2022.
All abstract proposals should be submitted via the 2023 ME NRS Virtual Language Workshop Abstract Submission Survey.
Notifications of acceptance will go out in late December 2022.
Questions? Write to Olla Al-Shalchi (olla@austin.utexas.edu ) or Jeannette Okur (jeannette.okur@austin.utexas.edu ).
5. BRISMES event:
What is Transnational Feminist Solidarity Today? A dialogue with and of Iranian feminists
17 October 2022, 17:00-18:30 (BST) on Zoom
6. Isabelle Eberhardt: A Western Woman’s Empowering Journey through Islam
We have the pleasure to invite you to lecture 1 of Round 2 of the ‘Women and Gender Forum’ run by the University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series titled, Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93989064958
7. The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, seeks to hire an Assistant Research Professor to serve as the Assistant Director of a 3-year, Mellon Foundation-funded Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project Phase II (AOCP Phase II). This individual will be a scholar practitioner of digital humanities who will provide operational and intellectual leadership to the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (Open ITI) and Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (AOCP) Phase II. The initial 12-month appointment period, beginning preferably in January 2023 but possibly later, with a salary of $80,000 (plus benefits, as described here:
https://uhr.umd.edu/benefits/), will be renewable across two additional years.
The Assistant Director will work closely with Principal Investigator (PI) Matthew Thomas Miller on ensuring smooth implementation of the AOCP Phase II plan at an operational level. In this leadership role, they will also function as a bridge to the broader digital humanities community and help cultivate AOCP Phase II’s relationships with other projects.
Applicants with a PhD in humanities, social sciences, or library/information sciences who have extensive experience in Digital Humanities will be preferred. All applicants must have demonstrated capacity to co-lead projects and programming. Applicants with expertise in text encoding will be especially welcomed, as they will be collaborating on developing Handwritten Text Recognition workflows and OpenITI mARkdown/TEI adaptations for manuscripts and digital text dissemination.
Post is open until filled.
Full info at:
https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/100180
8. CIRCLE FOR LATE ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES PRESENTS: “From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins” A lecture by: Richard Bulliet Professor Emeritus, Middle Eastern History Columbia University
October 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
“From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins”
Segal Theater The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
via Zoom webinar and in person at the Graduate Center, CUNY, at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
For more info:
9. History of Paper in Iran, 1501–1925
Willem Floor, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
10. A handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts
by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani ; translated by Rebecca Stengel ; edited, revised and extended by Shervin Farridnejad.
11. The School of Modern Languages at the University of St. Andrews warmly invites applications to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC DTP studentship competition for 2023 entry. Successful applicants will receive home tuition fees and stipend at UKRI rates (£4,596 and £ 17,668 in 2022-23.) Full details are available on the SGSAH website.
How to Apply:
We welcome PhD applications in a wide range of research areas across our seven language departments (Arabic & Persian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish) and Comparative Literature programme. We encourage you first to make contact with a potential supervisor within the School of Modern Languages, prior to applying. The application process involves several stages and we recommend that you contact us as early as possible to discuss your ideas.
Applicants to SGSAH must be nominated by their host institution.
To be considered for SGSAH/AHRC funding you must apply to the University of St Andrews by submitting the research application form before 5pm on 25 November 2022.
Please note this very early deadline
To facilitate our nomination process, we also ask you to complete the SGSAH pre-selection template available from the School of Modern Languages (modlangs@st-andrews.ac.uk) and submit it to us by the above date.
The School is also delighted to offer a range of other scholarship opportunities to support doctoral research including fee waivers.
Any general questions can be addressed to Professor Derek Duncan, Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Modern Languages (langsdopgr@st-andrews.ac.uk).
12. Mediterranean Review, issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, is calling for papers.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST).
Since the upcoming issue (Vol.15, No.2), MR widens the scope of Mediterranean
Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse ‘mediterraneans’
distributed all around the world
where civilization exchange occurs including the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea,
or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in global mediterraneans.
* Date of Submission : November 5th 2022 (Saturday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr (either)
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
(click to move)
– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
move)
* Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.* All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process.
* Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to b
published.
The Editorial Board, Mediterranean Review
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Busan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea
(46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695 / +82-51-509-6670
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
13. Le grand Satan, le shah et l’imam. Les relations Iran / États-Unis jusqu’à la révolution de 1979
Y Richard
14. The Islamic College, Monthly Seminar
Prophet Mohammad in the Eyes of Westerners
By Prof Ali Paya
Friday 21 October 2022
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
133 High Road
Willesden
London
NW10 2SW
+44 (0) 20 8451 9993
info@islamic-college.ac.uk
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