Archive for November, 2022
Shii News – CfP: ‘The Eighth Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies’ (London, 13.5.23)
Call For Papers: The Eighth Annual Conference on Shi’i Studies
Abstracts due by 31.1.23
- November 30, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehabuddin,
University of California Press, 2021.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342514/sisters-in-the-mirror
2. The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities.
Isabel Käser,
Cambridge University Press, 2021.
3. HYBRID Annual Business Meeting of the “Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies [AGAPS]” (Open to Public), Denver, CO, 1 December 2022, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm MST
We will discuss the current activities and future plans of AGAPS and answer questions from members and other participants.
Information and registration: https://agaps.org/agapsatmesa/
4. ONLINE Session “Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chro-nicle of Naima” with Gül Şen (University of Bonn), Ottoman &Turkish Studies Association (OTSA), 8 December 2022, 9:00 am Pacific Time
The author will introduce her recently published book. Selim Kuru (University of Washington) and Claudia Römer (University of Vienna) will provide commentary. The session will be moderated by Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University).
Information and registration:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfuCqrD0vGN3pk4p2rs21EvTY947YMXDD
5. Research Seminar “Crossed Gazes: Publishing and the Oltremare between Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Focus MENA)”, University of Pavia, Italy, 8-9 June 2023
The Seminar focuses on the history of colonial publishing and aims to create a space for scholars of contem-porary, colonial and African history to meet and discuss, in order to enhance the specificity of different ap-proaches to the discipline – considering its linguistic plurality (texts in Italian, English, Arabic, Trigrinya…) as well as its social and political aims.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 December 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discus-sions/11725436/cfp-crossed-gazes-publishing-and-oltremare-between-colonialism
6. Traineeship in International Humanitarian Law and Islamic Law (12 Months), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva
Qualification: Advanced degree in Islamic law (sharia); good knowledge of Public International Law, particu-larly IHL; familiarity with common law and/or civil law systems and Experience with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement would be an advantage; excellent written and oral expression in English and Arabic are required; knowledge (verbal and written) of French and/or other languages would be an advantage; etc.
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2022.
7. Chapters for the “The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media”
This anthology is a reference book that brings together a rigorous and expansive study of the developments of roughly a century of cinema histories of this region including other media (radio, television musalsalat and other programs, music and internet). It spans a wide geographic and cultural range across Asia and Africa that includes immigrant, migrant and diasporic cultures, and bridges the 20th and 21st centuries.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023. Information:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/273814852778897/posts/2270457429781286/?mibextid=6NoCDW
8. Articles on “The Afterlives of Revolution” for Special Issue of the Journal “Oxford Middle East Review”
We use the concept of “afterlives” to avoid the imaginaries of new beginnings after revolutions, and illustrate the continuity amidst rupture, and the perseverance of human experiences during turbulent times. From the fall of empires to the events of the Arab Spring eleven years ago, in what ways have the impact of revolutions affected the lives of the people of the Middle East and North Africa, including policies related to different nation-states within the region?
Deadline for submissions: 10 December 2022. Information:
9. The 4th lecture of the University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series:
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95663271964
Approaches to the Study of Sufi Women (sufiyyat ) in Islamic History Texts
Professor Omayma Abu Bakr (Cairo University)
10. CONFERENCE | A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE)
12-14 December, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
The IE team is thrilled to announce its upcoming conference exploring landowning and the organisation of agricultural production in the Medieval Islamic world.
The conference features speakers from the most important institutions around the world to discuss all aspects of land management between 622-1250 CE.
Registrations are open and free of charge. Visit the conference page for more information, registration, and the conference programme.
11. The 24th Association of University Language Communities (AULC) annual conference
The call for abstracts is now open.
The 24th Association of University Language Communities (AULC) annual conference Language for All in Higher Education: Inclusion, Diversity, and Sustainability, will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Open Learning on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of April 2023. This event will be held in person.
This will be an opportunity for us to come together to share practice, pedagogies, research, and reflections in our context. Please review the information at the link below.
https://aulc.org/2022/11/aulc-annual-conference-2023/
12. Alwalweed Centre, Edinburgh
Islam in Indonesia’s Contemporary Foreign Policy and Global Diplomacy (online via Zoom)
Monday 5 December 2022, 1pm GMT, online via Zoom
A special online conversation between Prof. James B. Hoesterey (Emory University), Yanwar Pribadi (Indonesian International Islamic University) and Prof. Delphine Allès (University of Paris-Est) exploring Islam and Indonesia in foreign policy and global diplomacy. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Siti Sarah Muwahidah (Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh).
CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND FREE TICKETS
13. ‘Index of Islamophobia’ report
On Monday 21st November was published a report in Parliament titled, “Index of Islamophobia: Proposing an Enforcement and Prosecution Framework.”
The launch event was a great success, with Lord Wajid Khan and Baroness Glenys Thornton opening with powerful remarks. This is the first time an index, which is a tool to measure Islamophobia, has been proposed. We hope that the index can be widely employed, and we will certainly be working with the government and legal and police professionals to enable this.
A pdf copy of the report can be found here.
14. Repenser la calligraphie en caractères arabes : enjeux et défis
Eloïse Brac de la Perrière (INHA – Sorbonne Université – UMR 8167)
Time : 6 PM, 5 December 2022
Venue : Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris. Salle Vasari.
Abstract :
Strictement codifiée à Bagdad aux alentours du Xe siècle de notre ère, la calligraphie en caractères arabes a connu des développements originaux dans les régions éloignées du berceau historique du monde islamique. Le manque de données relatives à ces calligraphies a largement contribué à concentrer l’attention des chercheurs sur les styles canoniques, bien mieux documentés. Pourtant, l’analyse des vestiges matériels portant de telles formes d’écriture, manuscrits, objets divers ou architectures, éclairent d’autres évolutions, ainsi que d’autres fonctions, de la calligraphie en caractères arabes et permet d’affiner le récit de cet art fondateur dans l’histoire de la civilisation islamique.
15. The Great Mongol Shahnama
by Professor Robert Hillenbrand
HPL, 2022
https://www.greatmongolshahnama.com/
16. Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
by Evelyn Alsultany
NYU Press, 2022
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479823963/broken/
- November 29, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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- November 28, 2022
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Shi News – Academic Items
1.Call for papers for 2023 BRISMES Conference ‘Ecology, Crisis and Power in the Middle East’
The deadline for the call for ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East’ is 7 December 2022.
The event will be held in person at the University of Exeter on 3-5 July 2023.
For a full exploration of the theme please read here: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference
And
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/call-for-papers
2. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World
Video Library Announcement: The World of Ancient Iran and the West Panel II Now Available
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the first panel of the conference, The World of Ancient Iran and the West, “Achaemenid Persia and the West II,” hosted at UCLA on May 19, 2022.
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum convened an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. Held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), it marked the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium included invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium were: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods.
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/
3. Perspectives on Early Islam, Dec 9 at 11:00am, EST
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4. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Translation (with Arabic)
Queen’s University Belfast
The School of Arts, English and Languages is currently seeking to appoint an exceptional candidate to the post of Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Translation (with Arabic). The successful applicant will undertake research in line with the School’s research strategy, to teach primarily at postgraduate level, to undertake doctoral research supervision (where appropriate), and to contribute to School management, administration and outreach.
Deadline | 12 December 2022
5. World Cultures Curator (Arabic and Persian)
University of Edinburgh
We are looking for a curator to oversee the curatorial management and understanding of the University’s collections that have come from the Islamicate world and South East Asia, researching into their provenance and contexts including languages. The postholder will work with archivists, librarians, curators to improve finding aids and contextual information about holdings. It will also develop relationships with academic and local communities to disseminate research findings, scope out work required for further understanding these collections and lay foundations for future activity.
Deadline | 16 December 2022
6. Call for Applications – Visiting Fellowship
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2023-24. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects including the Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book.
Deadline | 2 December 2022
7. Call for papers – “Once again – Where are the women?”: Economic sanctions through the lens of gender, race, sexuality, and class
Workshop | University of Warwick | Spring 2023
This workshop aims to bring together feminist, queer, and post/decolonial scholars working on sanctioned countries to discuss various ways in which economic sanctions work through and reproduce the gendered, racialised, classed, and sexualized relations of power within and among nation-states.
Deadline | 15 December 2022
8. Call for Contributions – Decolonising Knowledge and Practice
Journal | Gender & Development
This issue of Gender & Development will examine the colonial and patriarchal power dynamics that undergird our knowledge and research institutions, publishing realm, development policy and practice and our everyday lives. We invite research articles, shorter practice-based essays as well as critical and innovative methodologies in the ‘global South’ and ‘North’ which could include photo-essays, illustrations, short audio and video submissions, as well as poetry and stories that offer a feminist decolonial/post-colonial analysis of these institutions and practices and propose creative solutions or ways ahead to tackle institutionalised colonialism, casteism, racism and patriarchy in knowledge production, dissemination and practice.
Deadline | 15 January 2023
More information
9. A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy
Book Talk | 1 December 2022, 17:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
In this special public lecture, Dr Ravza Altuntaş-Çakır will provide an overview of her monograph A Political Theory of Muslim Democracy (Edinburgh University Press) which offers a conceptualisation of Muslim democracy based on pluralist principles.
10. Networks of Trade, Mocha to Asia
| Online Talk | 12 December, 18:00 | British Yemeni Society
In this talk Dr Um will reflect on the Yemeni port city of Mocha and its history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, drawing on the research that she conducted for her book, The Merchant Houses of Mocha: Trade and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port (University of Washington Press, 2009). She will also share new findings and interpretations that have emerged since its publication. |
11. Patriarchal Hierarchy: Market Capitalism and Production in Afghanistan
Book Talk | 10 January, 18:00 | Institute of Middle Eastern Studies
The book is the product of Dr Rafi’s nearly four years of research which analyses extensive empirical data gathered in the field during a year in Afghanistan in 2018. The book’s theoretical contribution takes aim at the methodological foundations of market-led economic policy. This approach to economic development has been advocated by international financial institutions since the 1970s-80s, and was implemented in Afghanistan as part of the state institution (re-)building during 2001–2021.
12. CfP: The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian Muslim rule. The journal covers a large temporal period, spanning from 7th century Arabia to 1922 (the end of Ottoman rule), in addition to a large geographic area from North Africa and al-Andalus in the West to Iran, some Central Asian lands, well into Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia in the East. The focus includes minority-minority, minority-majority, and minority-state relations. In addition to its broad temporal and geographic reach, this is an interdisciplinary journal which will appeal to those working in specific disciplines, including history, religious studies, literature, legal studies, and archaeology.
https://brill.com/view/journals/rmmr/rmmr-overview.xml
13. ATINER’s 2023 Mediterranean Studies Conference in Athens Greece
I would like to bring to your attention the organization of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 3-6 April 2023, Athens, Greece. You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation by 5 December 2022. As we did last year, we will accept both remote (online or pre-recorded) and onsite presentations. If you need more information, please let me know, and our administration will send it to you including the conference website and abstract submission form.
My best regards,
Nick
Dr Nicholas Pappas
14. A treasure saved and to be explored: The Mohamed Tahar Library in Timbuktu, Mali. Monday Majlis with Martin Nixon, the 5th of December. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Martin Nixon
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocOirqDMvHdfsKHkG6aAJkE2lSIEUx9Pb
15. Gender and Number Agreement in Arabic
Simone Bettega and Luca D’Anna
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/63560
16. The American University in Cairo
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Middle East History
Close: Dec 2, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64636
- November 26, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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- November 25, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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- November 24, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Colloquium: “The Trajectory of Islamization of Knowledge Movement: Its Past and Relevance Today” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Imtiyaz Yusuf (Kuala Lumpur), Centre of Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University, Australia, 24 November 2022, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm AEDT
This colloquium contains also a presentation by Omar Mohamed on “Political Islam Through Muslim Brotherhood” from 13:00 – 13:45 pm AEDT.
Information and registration: https://www.isra.org.au/events/cisac-islamic-studies-research-colloquium/
2. ONLINE Webinar “A Conversation on Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon” with Maya Mikdashi (Rutgers University), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Stud-ies, University of Oslo, 25 November 2022, 14:15 pm – 15:30 pm CEST
Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnography of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference. She presents state power as inevitably contingent, like the practices of everyday life it engenders, focusing on the regulation of religious conversion, the curation of legal archives, state and parastatal violence, and secular activism.
Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday-seminar/2022/a-conversation-on-sextarianism-sovereignty-secular.html
3. ONLINE Third Research Forum of the Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO): “Towards #KnowledgeJustice? Addressing Asymmetries in Global Know-ledge Production”, Bonn, 30 November 2022, 15:00-17:00 CET
The Forum discusses the underrepresentation of the so-called Global South in global knowledge production. Which persisting asymmetries of knowledge production prevail? How can these inequalities in the system of global knowledge production be reduced or even eliminated? And what is the role of different actors from different world regions in this process towards knowledge justice?
Information and registration: https://carpo-bonn.org/en/towards-knowledgejustice-addressing-asymmetries-in-global-knowledge-production/
4. Conference “Post-Conflict Reconstruction of Cultural Heritage in MENA”, Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, Doha, 7-8 March 2023
Papers are invited on the following themes: protection and rebuilding of built heritage; cultural management in post-conflict settings; re-production and promotion of cultural memory; silenced and marginalized narra-tives and contested memories; reconciliation, transitional Jusic and prosecuting heritage criminals; impact of reconstruction on refugees, etc. Travel expenses will be covered.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2022. Information: https://chs-doha.org/en/News/Pages/Call-for-Pa-pers-Post-Conflict-Reconstruction-of-Cultural-Heritage-in-MENA-.aspx
5. Workshop “Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean (Focus North Africa and Near East)”, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 27-28 April 2023
Questions: How does the Mediterranean past – real and imagined – shed light on contemporary concerns around immigration, citizenship, and the allocation of natural resources? How are diasporas such as those caused by the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1609 remembered? What impact do they continue to have in the modern era?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-di-asporic-legacies-of-the-mediterranean-university-of-minnesota-twin-cities-27-28-april-2023?e=82aeb6c61d
6. “Mamluk Symposium II: Science, Thought, Art and Institutions”, Istanbul University, 1-2 June 2023
The rich endowments established by the Mamluks and the institutions and activities those endowments sup-ported played an essential role in developing the scientific and intellectual heritage of Islam across the Muslim world. We invite scholars to present papers on this legacy, on the intellectual and artistic activities of the Mamluk lands and their effects on other regions and later periods. Financial support for travel and accommo-dation.
Deadline for submission of papers in Turkish, Arabic, or English: 1 December 2023. Information:
7. Panel on “Place of No Place: Utopias between Europe and the Middle East” during the 6th Conference of the European Academy of Religion, St Andrews, Scotland, 19-23 June 2023
The panel through historical and sociological lens aims at assessing the meaning of utopia and its implications for the relationship between the Islamic world and Europe. It analyses utopias either from the viewpoint of Muslims or European intellectuals who have developed nostalgic images of the Other.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2022. Information and contact: Minoo Mirshahvalad mirshah-valad@fscire.it . See also https://it.europeanacademyofreligion.org/conference-schedule
8. Panel on “Religious Conversions in Multicultural Societies” during the 6th Conference of the European Academy of Religion, St Andrews, Scotland, 19-23 June 2023
The panel aims to be a venue for encounter between different disciplines. This encounter is fundamental to create new theories suitable for understanding the complexity and variety of conversion trajectories. Studies of this phenomenon from psychological, historical, ethnographic, textual, and theological perspectives are welcomed. Reflections should be based on case studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2022. Information and contact: Sebastian Rimestad sebastian.rime-stad@uni-leipzig.de . See also https://it.europeanacademyofreligion.org/conference-schedule
9. Ibrahim Dakkak Award for Outstanding Essay on Jerusalem
It is awarded to an outstanding submission/nomination (in English or Arabic) that addresses either contem-porary or historical issues relating to Jerusalem. The author will be awarded a prize of U.S. $1,000, and the essay will be published in the Jerusalem Quarterly.
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2023. Information: https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/jour-nals/jq/Ibrahim-Dakkak-Award
10. New Online Portal “Islamic·Art“ at the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin
The Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum of Islamic Art) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has published its online portal „Islamic·Art“. It is the first digital platform in the German-speaking world that presents Islamic cultures in a technically sound, innovative and entertaining manner. The online portal is now available free of charge in German, English and Arabic.
Information: https://islamic-art.smb.museum/?lang=en
11. Dual Degree Master’s Program of Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures, Columbia University/New York and Aga Khan University/London
During this unique program students focus on the critical academic study of Islamic religious and intellectual traditions and on the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim communities around the world.
Deadline for application: 9 February 2023. Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-masters-degree
12. Chapters for Edited Book on “Family and Social Change in the Global South: A Gendered Perspective” by Aylin Akpinar and Nawal Ammar (Emerald Publisher)
Contributions must examine changes in gendered family context in relation to different dimensions such as: technology, economy, migration, climate, war/political violence, religion, generations, sexuality/reproduction, social care & networks as well as other emerging themes in the context of social change in different regions in the Global South.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/11741952/family-and-social-change-global-south-gendered-perspective
13. Applications Open for the MA in Muslim Cultures
Applications are welcome for the MA in Muslim Cultures at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London.
Application Deadlines:
Applications for full and part time study are open from the beginning of September to the last Friday in January for admission in the autumn semester. Applications for part time study only are also open in the spring from April to the last Friday in June.
Find out more about the MA: www.aku.edu/ismc/ma
Education Office: ismc.admissions@aku.edu
14. CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND BOOK PROPOSALS: I.B.Tauris and the British Institute at Ankara are seeking book proposals for the Contemporary Turkey academic book series.
The Contemporary Turkey monograph series is a joint initiative by the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA), internationally renowned for its support of independent academic research, and leading publisher of Middle East and Turkish Studies I.B. Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Academic.
The series publishes cutting-edge research monographs and edited collections from a new generation of scholars working on modern Turkey across the social sciences and humanities. In bringing to light new data and insights directly from the field, this series is distinguished by its emphasis on innovative approaches that challenge established ways of examining Turkey.
Key areas of focus include (but are not limited to):
- Society and politics
- Political economy
- Alternative histories
- Gender studies
- Contentious politics and social movements
- Nationalism and politics of identity
Find out more about the BIAA at www.biaa.ac.uk, and their joint series with I.B. Tauris at www.bloomsbury.com/biaa-series and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/contemporary-turkey/.
If you have a book project or idea that you’d like us to consider for the series, please contact the lead editor Dr Ceren Lord at the University of Oxford, UK – ceren.lord@politics.ox.ac.uk , or Rory Gormley, Commissioning Editor at I.B.Tauris – rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com – both of whom will be pleased to give you feedback on your idea.
- November 22, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Hybrid: ‘The Alevisation of Karacaahmet and his Shrine in Istanbul’ – G Beyinli (23.11.22, 18.15-20.15 CET)
This talk is part of the lecture series “Religious Places in Turkey: Change and Continuation”.
See the site for informnation and registration.
- November 21, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online Seminar – “Rare and Complex Wares: A Study of Vessels and Sherds Decorated with both Mina’i and Lustre Techniques,” Research Seminar in Islamic Art, SOAS (ReSIA) – November 24
The seminar will be delivered by Dr Richard Piran McClary.
ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art, convened by Professor Anna Contadini, will be presented on Zoom on Thursday 24th November at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 23rd November to receive the link to the talk.
2. Publication – Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan
To commemorate its bicentenary, the Royal Asiatic Society has commissioned a limited edition re-issue of Lt.-Col. James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han, with a new Companion Volume by Norbert Peabody (to be co-published by the Society and Yale University Press in Summer 2023). The two volumes of his now classic text remain essential reading for anyone interested in the history and culture of Rajasthan and the early colonial encounter in India. Tod was a founding member of the Society and its first librarian. While librarian, he completed his Annals (originally published in 1829 and 1832), which was the literary fruit of his 23-year East India Company career, during which he served as the first Political Agent to the Western Rajput States of Rajasthan (1818–22).
One of the principal contributions of the Companion Volume lies in its exploration of how Tod’s Annals is a vibrantly collaborative text in which his authorship is continuously supplemented, and not infrequently destabilised, by the voices of his numerous Indian informants and interlocutors. The resultant cacophony renders Tod’s text surprisingly multivalent and discrepant in its significance and potential uses. In re-articulating the variety of Indian voices that simultaneously inhabit Tod’s Annals, the Companion Volume makes a larger argument for a conjunctural, contingent, and open-ended reading of colonial history.
We are delighted to offer the opportunity to subscribe to the anniversary re-issue in advance of its publication for the discounted price of £725 (the standard list price will be £850). To qualify for the reduced price, full payment must be received by 16 December 2022. Subscribers will have their names published (if they so wish) in the List of Subscribers that will appear in the Companion Volume. More information may be obtained from the link below.
https://royalasiaticsociety.org/tod-subscription-2023-2/
Key Features of the Re-issue
- a complete restoration of the two volumes of Tod’s original text and the 80+ original copperplate engravings, woodblock prints, and lithographs to its first edition state. All the illustrations have been digitally restored from proof prints in the RAS. Reproductions of five additional, previously unpublished engravings from the Tod collection supplement the restored text.
- a third, companion volume including a preface, two introductory essays, 125,000 words of annotations, a full bibliography, and an extensive glossary of Indian terms used by Tod.
- high quality colour reproductions of approximately 130 Rajasthani paintings and drawings and 25 European watercolours of Rajasthan from the Tod collections in the RAS, the BL, the BM, and the V&A. This visual material is supplemented with reproductions of other Rajasthani paintings that have a direct bearing on Tod’s life in and writings on Rajasthan. A significant amount of this material has never been reproduced before.
- over-sized, fold-outs of maps (including a full-size reproduction of Tod’s historically important, hand-coloured map of Rajasthan), tables, and an additional reproduction of one of the engravings.
- Edition limited to 750, each hand numbered
3. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World
Video Library Announcement: The World of Ancient Iran and the West Panel I Now Available
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the first panel of the conference, The World of Ancient Iran and the West, “Achaemenid Persia and the West,” hosted at UCLA on May 19, 2022.
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum convened an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. Held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), it marked the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium included invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium were: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods.
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/
4. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 15.2 is out now
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
5. The Qur’an in Europe
A new 5-day short course by the Warburg Institute, University of London
16 – 20 January 2023: 11:00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU [please note, this course will not be available online]
Tutor: Prof. Alastair Hamilton (Senior Research Fellow, Warburg Institute)
Guest Lecturer: Prof. Jan Loop (University of Copenhagen)
Details and booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/short-course-quran-in-europe
6. INVITATION: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & Latinx U.S\
The second annual LACISA colloquium, in partnership with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative.
** REGISTER: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.
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While the literatures on Muslim philanthropy and on Latinx philanthropy are continuously expanding, they lack perspectives on how Latinx Muslims and Muslims in Latin America are part of a wider matrix of generosity, volunteering, and mutual aid within, and beyond, both constituencies. On the one hand, Muslims give to organizations and participate in philanthropic activism at local, national, and global levels, hoping to make the world a better place in accordance with Islam. On the other hand, people who identify as Latinx or who live in Latin America have historically engaged in acts of solidarity and mutual assistance among vulnerable populations, addressing issues related to poverty, education, health, and culture.
The presentations below — and the resulting special edition of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=23d1e84f8e&e=f70992245e) — will help move research on the intersections between these fields that much further.
We welcome you to REGISTER (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=10a743c1d5&e=f70992245e) and join us for the following events. A specialized Zoom link will be sent ahead of the event for all those who register.
NOTICE: All times are Central European Time (GMT +1). Please adjust for your own time zone.
** Day One (December 7, 2022):
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Introduction & Welcome Lecture (5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Central European Time)
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* Ken Chitwood (Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, IUPUI) – Introduction and Survey of Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.
** Panel One (6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET)
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* Steven James (University of Denver, Iliff School of Theology), “Cultural Identity Reconstruction, Religious De-Centering, and Rhetoric in Latinx Perspectives of Dawah”
* Waqas Halim & Asad Ahmad Khan (IT University Lahore), “Unpacking Structuration of Identity, Worldviews and Strategies of Islamic Philanthropic Missions in the Caribbean”
* Hazel Gómez (Rabata Org.), “Promoting Positive Cultural Change through Creative Educational Experiences, Spiritual Upbringing, and Community Care.”
** Day Two (December 8, 2022):
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Lecture (5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET)
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* John Tofik Karam (University of Illinois) – “Muslim Beneficence at a Hemispheric Crossroads of Authoritarian and Counterterrorist Rule.”
** Panel Two (6:00 pm – 7:30 pm CET)
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* Baptiste Brodard (International Islamic University Malaysia), “Islamic organizations and welfare social services in Colombia: Dawah or philanthropy?”
* Odette Marie Yidi David (Universidad del Norte, Colombia), “Bogotá, Barranquilla, and Maicao: Living, teaching, and giving ‘the Islamic way.’”
* Diogo Bercito (Georgetown University), “Remembering al-Zikra: Early Arab Migration to Brazil and Muslim Philanthropy.”
Register for the Colloquium Here (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=4a7a0ca280&e=f70992245e)
7. Lecturer in Arabic Language
Columbia University in the City of New York: Arts and Sciences Core – Academic: Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Closing date Jan 14, 2023
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64468
8. The American University in Cairo
Assistant, Associate or Full Professor of Middle East History
Close: Dec 12, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64636
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