Archive for November 22nd, 2022
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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