Archive for November 19th, 2022

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 24^th November at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 23^rd 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