Archive for October 25th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Baghdād, From Its Beginnings to the 14th Century
Volume Editors: Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral
2. ECIS 10 – Tenth European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, 21-25 August 2023
ECIS is one of Europe’s largest conferences in Iranian Studies. It is held every four years and organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE). ECIS 10 will cover a wide range of topics related to Iranian Studies
including philology, linguistics, literature, history, religious and cultural studies, art and architecture, archae-ology, philosophy and anthropology.
Deadline for abstracts of panels and individual papers : 1 December 2022.
Information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/ecis10/
3. ONLINE Webinar Book Launch: “Public Freedoms in the Islamic State” by Rached Ghannouchi, Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Geogetown University, 27 October 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm Tunis Time
Rached Ghannouchi has long been known as a reformist or moderate Islamist thinker. In his most influential book, he argues that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should be widely accepted by Muslims under the correct interpretation of Islamic law and theology. Under his theory of the purposes of Shari‘a, justice and human welfare are not exclusive to Islamic governance, and the objectives of Islamic law can be advanced in multiple ways.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_djQoiGTQT_azER6vpwh8Kg
4. HYBRID Session on Islam during the “66th International Congress of Phenomenology: Eco-Imagination for a Sustainable Future”, IULM University, Milan, Italy, 27-29 October 2022
Papers: Cornelis van Lit: Imagination as a Cure Against the Boredom of Science: Ibn Arabi’s Path towards Self-Realization. – Hamidreza Ayatollahy: Divine Ownership and Resourcefulness as Basic View of Islamic Eco-Imagination. – Taghrid Elhanafy: Recycled Imaginations, Resource and The One According to Ikhwan Esafa. – Konul Bunyadzade: Eco-Imagination and Sufi Phenomenology.
Information, program and registration: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61fc317a001a71712c19193d/t/634a219f461c9a5780d090ac/1665802657488/Milan-2022-Program+001.pdf; http://phenomenology.org
5. HYBRID Workshop “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”, Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022
The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. We seek to bring together empirical case studies on particular Occidentalist debates, including their historical trajectories with theoretical reflections on Occidentalism and Orientalism in the MENA region.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11350485/international-workshop-religion-and-secularism-problem-space
6. HYBRID Roundtable „Writing Social Theory in Arabic“ and Workshop (in Person), Institute of Islamic and Middle East Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 3-5 November 2022
The Roundtable “Global Social Theory” is moderated by Florian Zemmin (FU Berlin). Participating in the discussion are Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburgh; President of the Board of Trustees of the Arab Council of the Social Sciences), Claudia Derichs (HU Berlin) and Sari Hanafi (American University Beirut; President of the International Sociological Association).
Deadline for registration: 31 October 2022.
Program: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/aktuelles/Workshop-Writing-Social-Theory.html
7. Asst. Prof. Social Psychology of Religion (Focus on Islam or Muslim Societies), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in Psychology or related field. We seek a candidate who has a research focus on Islam or Muslim societies, and a strong track record of blind peer-reviewed publications in internationally-reputed journals. The successful candidate will be encouraged to develop and maintain an active, extramurally funded research program.
Deadline: Open until position filled. Information: Prof. Dr. Üzeyir Ok, uzeyir.ok@ihu.edu.tr.
8. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia
You will be a highly qualified and engaging educator with demonstrated specialisation in Islamic politics and/or another area of interest to the program such as gender studies, Islam in minority contexts, interreligious relations and modern Islamic thought. You have a strong record in research with a developing publication profile, and the potential to attract competitive research grants and consultancies.
Deadline for applications: 10 November 2022. Information:
9. Visiting Assistant Professor in Islam Studies (1 Year), Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
We seek a broadly trained scholar of religion who can teach Islam in a range of historical and geographic contexts engaging with material culture, textual analysis, and/or ethnography.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2022.
Information: https://careers.kenyon.edu/en-us/job/492899/visiting-assistant-professor-in-islam
10. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature / Modern Arabic Literature, Brown University, Providence, RI
The field of specialization within modern Arabic literature is open, though we especially encourage applications from candidates whose work is comparative in nature, engaging with literary texts and traditions in addition to Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/110013
11. Fellowship (9 Months) in Druze and Arab Studies of the American Druze Foundation (ADF), Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University, Washington DC
The purpose of the ADF Fellowship is to promote research on the Druze and Arab minorities with a concentration in the political, economic, and social history of the Druze. Applicants must have a record of relevant research in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology, and archaeology.
Deadline for application: 12 December 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/115602
12. Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1 Year), Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC
The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of Arab Studies, U.S.-Arab relations, or Islamic Studies.
Deadline for application: 3 January 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/115601
13. Award for a European Ph.D. Thesis in Iranian Studies
The Societas Iranologica Europea (SIE) invites applications and nominations for the Fifth Round of the “European Award of Iranian Studies”. With this Award the SIE recognizes outstanding theses in any field of Iranian Studies defended at European universities. The award is given every four years and conferred during the European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS).
Deadline for nominations/applications: 15 January 2023.
Information: https://www.societasiranologicaeu.org/ph-d-thesis-award/
14. Entries for Dictionary on “The Everyday Politics of Language in Humanitarian Practice: An Arabic-English Glossary”, Edited by Estella Carpi and Lama Mourad
This dictionary aims to document the humanitarian experience as lived by local populations, who have used the English language to deal with aid donors, international partners, or, at times, even to access aid. We intend to (re)collect the human experience with these terms and the ways in which such experiences reveal alternative or contested meanings in Arabic in countries that have turned into “areas of humanitarian intervention” during or after war.
Deadline for entries: 30 October 2022. Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nOlhz29PIUWHxRP7IzvTVJLGieKZPIWI/view?usp=sharing
15. Monographs and Edited Volumes for New Book Series “Encounters in the Middle East & Asia” by Edinburgh University Press and Archiv Orientalni
This series fosters a new understanding of ‘Oriental Studies’ by publishing works of an interdisciplinary nature in which the non-Western world takes centre stage. “Encounters” include cultural, economic, intellectual, linguistic, literary and political exchanges between, and within, the Middle East and wider Asia, and presents a more nuanced perspective on global thought, artistic currents and financial flows.
Information: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-encounters-in-the-middle-east-and-asia
16. CfP Forming Words, Forming Things (2-3 March 2023, Cambridge and Online)
Forming Words, Forming Things: Changeable Forms across the Mediterranean, 500-950
A Postgraduate and ECR Conference and Workshop
2-3 March 2023, University of Cambridge and Online via Zoom
From 500 to 950 CE, the Mediterranean witnessed extensive political, religious, and demographic shifts which allowed for new modes of interaction. As a result, populations gained access to and developed previously unfamiliar written and material forms. Deviations from what we view as typical uses of form can help us understand the dynamics and impact of demographic change, but the characterisation of what made a form ‘typical’ in the first place is questionable.
This conference aims to question the limits and flexibility of written and material form. We invite papers which discuss use of form and challenge our perspectives and assumptions regarding form from 500 to 950 CE. The conference will ask why a certain form is available to one person and not to another, and to what extent societal markers of identity impact one’s use of and access to poetic, prosaic, and artistic forms. What happens when these boundaries and our understanding of them are transgressed? Are certain forms afforded more flexibility in practice?
The first day of the conference will address the questions above in a panel format and the second day will be in a workshop format with pre-circulated discussion papers. The workshop aims to question our scholarly engagement with the sixth to tenth century. There is a tendency to see form as static: if a literary form moves from one language to another, for instance, it is assumed stable at the point of origin. Yet many of these boundaries are constructed and projected by modern scholars in attempts to categorise. Who defines the terms on which a form may be used and how is a form made exclusionary? How are these boundaries created in and across varied disciplines?
We invite abstracts for papers of 15 to 20 minutes and for workshop papers of 3000 to 6000 words. Graduate students and early career researchers (within four years of receiving a PhD and without a permanent position) are welcome to apply. We especially encourage those working on topics which cross multiple boundaries to apply, along with those working on North Africa and West Asia.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Peculiarities of form across spatial and linguistic boundaries
- Form and representation, particularly of underrepresented groups in the source material
- Popularisation of form and barriers to access
- The impact of physical movement and transport of materials on form
- The use of the same or a similar form in two or more languages or geographic locations
- Critical or theoretical writing from the sixth to tenth century which attempts to define a form
- Modern scholarly efforts to understand and define form
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and brief biographical details to fwft2023@gmail.com by 28 October 2022. Limited funds are available to facilitate participation; please see our website to apply for a travel bursary.
17. Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism
Nora Derbal
Cambridge, 2022
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/charity-in-saudi-arabia/72E41BE24D7D8ACA80EDEBDE1084938F
18. National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution – Ebrahimi Fellowship for Persian Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64352
Closing date: Dec 1, 2022
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