Archive for December, 2022

We invite you to attend our IDHN Conference on Shī’ī Ḥadīth and Legal Studies: Digital Perspectives which will take place on Thursday, January 26, 2023.

We will hear three exciting presentations:

Robert Gleave (University of Exeter) & Kumail Rajani (University of Exeter): Twelver Usul Bibliography: Data Analysis

Edmund Hayes (Radboud University, Nijmegen): Tracking Epistolary Formulae Over Time: Comparing Digital Corpora and Physical Documents 

Mohammad Reza Mousavi (King’s College London) & Kaveh Ariyanpoo (independent researcher): Searching for the Tenets of Ghuluww in al-Kāfī: A Data-Analytic Approach 

Researchers are invited who work in the fields of history, linguistics, philology, literary studies, social sciences, anthropology, and political sciences in Turkey and the Turkic world.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2022.

Information: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/

2. Five Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Academic Year 2023/2024, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin

Main themes: Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures; Cities Com-pared: Governance, Consultative Mechanisms, and Plurality; Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secu-larism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives; Politics and Processes of Change, Archaeologies of the Present, and Imaginations of the Future.

Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023. Information: https://application.trafo-berlin.de/proce-dure/b14743f7-dad8-4b09-9054-749dd9f3991e

3. Two Research Assistants (Praedoc or Postdoc, 50 %, 13 TV-L, 12 Months), Department of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany

Qualification: terminated or ongoing doctoral studies in the field of Iranian Studies; experience in the field of modern Persian/Iranian literature; strong skills in textual analysis and theoretical engagement with literary texts; very good knowledge of Persian and English; working knowledge of German is an advantage.

Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023.

Download further information (Eng and German) from:

https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/aktuelles/artikel/aktuelle-stellenausschreibung-wissenschaftliche-projektmitarbeiterin/

4. Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem 2023-2024

The research base includes all aspects of Near Eastern studies, especially biblical studies as well as cultural, historical, philological, archaeological, and art-historical research in Israel and Palestine, including the pre-historic periods, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, and Medieval periods.

Extended deadline for applications: 10 January 2023. Information: https://aiar.org/available-fellowships/

5. Travel Awards for Scholars Interested in Research in the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads Collections, Ney York University of Abu Dhabi, 1 March – 15 June 2023

These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other projects.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/14/nyuad-humanities-research-fellowships-for-the-study-of-the-arab-world

6. Articles on “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”

This issue will critically examine, first, several modern discourses of maqāṣid in a variety of fields, such as politics, economics, health, family, etc., and second, the Šāṭibī’s concept of maqāṣid in its traditional textual, legal, and social contexts. The issue will raise some critical questions that concern several contradictions within the modern discourses of maqāṣid.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.

Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/CDRV61514K

 7. The Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities seeks a Lecturer for the spring 2023 semester to teach RELS 3704: Exploring the Qur’an, An Intellectual Odyssey with Islam’s Holy Scriptures.

This is a three credit, upper division undergraduate course. In addition to teaching, other duties include 1) holding office hours to assist and advise students, and 2) participation in department meetings and service to the department. This course may be taught in person or remotely (through zoom).  The salary for this course is $10,000 and does not include benefits.

Course description:

This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about, and critically reflect on, the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws, parables, and arguments, 2) the historical context in which the Quran was first promulgated and codified, 3) the relationship between the Quran and the preceding literary traditions of the ancient world, in particular, the Bible and post-biblical Jewish and Christian writings, 4) Muslim utilization of the Quran towards intellectual, social, religious, cultural, and political ends, and 5) the pre-modern and modern scholarly traditions of interpreting the Quran.

For details and to apply, see Job ID number  352001 in the University of Minnesota’s employment system: https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/352001

Inquiries can be directed to Jeanne Kilde at jkilde@umn.edu

8. Save the dates for Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures. Spring 2023

The object of this lecture series is to bring together scholars and librarians engaged with collections of correspondences and/or include related projects that use appropriate digital tools to map and analyze such corpora. It is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).

January 20 – Sabine Schmidtke, Scholarly Correspondence: The Case of Oriental Studies During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century.  Pre-register: bit.ly/3Fnabbw.

January 27 – Rukayyah Reichling and Kotoz Abdelhafiz Ahmed, Goldziher between European Orientalism and the Arab Nahda: Digitally Mapping a Far-Reaching Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3URpvmL.

February 17 – Stefan Dumont, CorrespSearch–Connect and Search Scholarly Editions of Correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YfkiI8.

March 3 – Kinga Dévényi, “So far away, yet so close”: The correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher between 1863 and 1922. Pre-register: bit.ly/3Hy66nE.

March 10 – Paul Babinski, A Taste for the Difficult and Abstruse: A Seventeenth-Century Paris Librarian and His Orientalist Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3hcUFqY.

March 17 – Isolde Lehnert, The Life of Max Meyerhof through his correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/OrXJB.

March 31 – Gianni Celeste, A library lost in translation: Paul Sbath’s correspondence with Eugène Tisserant. Pre-register: bit.ly/3FKurFt.

April 7 – Garrett A. Davidson, The Correspondence between the orientalist and manuscript dealer Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951) and the Cairo-based publisher and manuscript dealer Mohammad Amin Khanji (d. 1938). Pre-register: bit.ly/3iP5WxP.

April 14 – Ahmed Khan, Orientalists and ‘Ulama’ in Egypt in the 20th Century. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YtrOPZ.

Additional information: https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044

Sabine Schmidtke scs@ias.edu

María Mercedes Tuya ds@ias.edu

9. Women in the Ottoman Empire

S Faroqhi

Bloomsbury, 2023

About the Prize

The prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. This prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.

Eligibility

Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University in 2022 is eligible to apply. We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.

How to Apply 

To enter, please send the following to office@brismes.org:

• An electronic copy of your thesis
• A letter of nomination from your supervisor

Deadline: Midnight on 31 January 2023

https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/submissions-open-for-2023-leigh-douglas-memorial-prize

2. PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)

The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna offers students an array of programs in interdisciplinary and comparative historical research. The CEU History Department is recognized for its innovative approaches to historical studies and graduate education. Our international faculty offer expertise that extends from the early modern period to the study of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, as well as the post-communist period; from numerous aspects of social, cultural, political, and intellectual history to religious, visual and archival studies.

CEU is an English-language, student-focused research university located in Vienna and accredited both in Austria and the United States. CEU attracts talented students and scholars from around the world. Our student/faculty ratio (7:1) allows for small research-driven and discussion-based seminars and close guidance from faculty members.

Scholarships and Application Deadline

The majority of our students receive financial aid regardless of nationality. Research grants are available for all students. We also offer a fully-funded merit scholarship in our MA programs, the Gerd Bucerius History Scholarship. The deadline to apply for admission and financial aid for the 2023-24 academic year is February 1, 2023 (23:59 CET).

Programs Offered

• Master of Arts in Comparative History (One Year)
• Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to the Present (Two Years)
• Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History [MATILDA] (Two Years)
• Master of Arts in “History in the Public Sphere” [HIPS] (Two Years)
• Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History

Additional Certificates in Various Specializations

Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Thought, Religious Studies, Visual Theory and Practice, Archives and Evidentiary Practices (in collaboration with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives), Central European Studies, and Romani Studies.

Selected Areas of Research

o          Comparative history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires

o          Religious studies

o          History of nationalism and national movements

o          Comparative history of fascism

o          Comparative history of communism

o          Early modern history

o          Diplomatic history

o          Gender history

o          Art history

o          History of political thought

o          Social and labor history

o          Soviet and post-Soviet history

o          History of Central Asia

o          Urban studies

o          Visual studies

o          History of Medicine

o          History of science

Follow this  link or write to Daniela Munteanu (history@ceu.edu) for further information.

3. We are writing to solicit applications from doctoral students and other researchers for our seventh Political Economy Summer Institute to be held 1-4 June 2023 hosted by George Mason University on the political economy of the Middle East. The aim of the Political Economy Summer Institute(PESI) is both to provide graduate level engagement and instruction as well as to connect doctoral students and independent researchers with mid-career and senior scholars working in the field of critical political economy. The Summer Institute will consist of three main parts: (1) doctoral students presenting their research and receiving written and verbal feedback from the participants, (2) methodological and theoretical workshop sessions led by faculty scholars, and (3) small break-out group discussions that build on the faculty-led sessions.

Anyone interested in submitting an application to attend the workshop should provide the following: [If you are not a Ph.D. student, you may still apply.] 

1. Title of your current research project.
2. Institutional affiliation along with name and contact information for your thesis/dissertation advisor (and any additional committee members if possible).
3. Research narrative (2500 words maximum, not including bibliography). Please lay out your primary research question, scope of your research, methodology, and where you are in the research process.
4. Personal narrative (500 words maximum). Please explain how your attendance at the Political Economy Summer Institute can support your current research project and how you hope to benefit from participating.
5. Expected completion date of Ph.D., if applicable.
6. Funding. Please indicate whether you are able to secure funding from your department or home institution.
7. List of any relevant publications.

Please submit all applications by 31 January 2023 to the Pedagogy Working Group at the Political Economy Project through the following online form:
Apply here:

https://www.politicaleconomyproject.org/pesi-application.html?utm_source=Arab+Studies+Institute+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=589c23a02d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_27_08_02_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa9122f438-589c23a02d-202364209&mc_cid=589c23a02d&mc_eid=a35a78d59b

4. The Islamic College

Monthly Seminar: The Future of Interfaith (Towards Universal Fraternity)

A Lecture by Revd Jon Dal Din

Tuesday 20th December 2022

6.00 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. (LONDON TIME)

Register at:

Monthly Seminar: Future of Interfaith

5. UCLA

The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:00am Pacific via Zoom

6. The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science. The successful candidate will be appointed to one of the eight departments in the Division: Asian Languages and Literature, French and Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies.

The successful candidate for this position, researching and teaching primarily in one or several languages other than English, will be expected to :

• create, analyze, use, present and communicate data, broadly understood, in disciplines of language, literature, and/or culture
• explore a variety of forms of data including large historical or contemporary corpora, textual archives, digital media and genres, or online datasets and their uses
• engage a range of analytical techniques and methods of analysis
• investigate questions and challenges posed by data science and by data, such as the role of bias in algorithms, uncertainty in artificial intelligence, and/or the use of ever-larger datasets in machine translation
• engage in an active research agenda

Since this is a cross-disciplinary position, the successful applicant will also be expected to work across departmental and disciplinary boundaries, and contribute to the development of existing cross-disciplinary initiatives (e.g., Translation Studies Hub, Textual and Digital Studies, Global Literary Studies) and to new curricula and programs in areas of inquiry such as human and machine translation, computational text analysis, AI and creativity, the future of language learning.

In particular, this position has been created in conjunction with the establishment of a new minor in Data Science intended for Social Science and Humanities students (http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/single-pages/data-science-minor/). The candidate hired into this position will dedicate 25% of their teaching and service responsibilities to this program, with the remainder determined within the context of the appointing department. The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the minor, including developing and teaching courses in the required Data Skills and Data Studies categories, and serving on the Steering and Curriculum Committees of the Data Science minor.

Candidates should in addition be prepared to take full advantage of the rich array of resources at the UW for research and teaching in data science as well as in the digital humanities, including the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the eScience Institute, the Open Scholarship Commons in the UW Libraries, and the Humanities Data Lab.

The candidate is also expected to actively contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their potential department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in departmental statements and in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. This position has an anticipated start date of September 2023, and will have a 9-month service period.

Qualifications

Applicants must, by the start of the appointment, have a PhD, or foreign equivalent, in a field consistent with an appointment in a department in the Division of the Humanities.

The successful candidate must have a record of innovative and effective teaching and student mentoring; and a record of contribution to departmental or institutional diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

Instructions

Priority will be given to applicants who submit the following materials by January 9:

• A cover letter that describes the candidate’s suitability for this position and explains how the candidate’s experiences, activities, and goals will lead to success in a cross-disciplinary position
• CV
• Research statement, not to exceed one page, describing present projects and future directions
• A representative example of research (such as a chapter, article, or a link to an online project or a digital tool)
• A teaching portfolio, which should provide evidence of teaching excellence and may include such items as: example syllabi, lecture videos, website links for courses or student activities, or digital tools created by the candidate
• A statement, not to exceed one page, on how their work would contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/)
• Three letters of recommendation

Because applicants are expected to come from a variety of disciplinary orientations, traditional and nontraditional backgrounds, resulting in different professional profiles, applicants are welcomed in any of the above materials to provide details that can help to contextualize their dossier. Such details might include experiences, aspects of training, outreach, teaching or research that are felt to contribute to a distinctive professional profile. Contact Prof. Gina Levow for questions regarding this position (levow@uw.edu).

7. ANN: List of 2022 Books on Map History (and some from 2020 and 2021, and earlier)

https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2022/12/16/map-history-books-published-in-2022

Sponsored jointly by The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto, The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Chicago. This lecture series will run through the 2023 winter and spring quarters. The second part of the lecture series will be in 2023 fall quarter.

Saturday, 14 January 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Linguistic Data-Driven Approach to Persian Language Pedagogy: Practical Application to Compound Verbs

Karine Megerdoomian, Georgetown University

Saturday, 11 February 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Grammaticalisation of “Dāshtan”

Mahbod Ghafari, University of Cambridge

Saturday, 11 March 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Language Classroom: Towards Critically Engaged Practices in Teaching Persian as an Additional Language

Nahal Akbari, University of Maryland

Saturday, 8 April 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Leaky Grammars and Language Pedagogy

Masoud Jasbi, University of California Davis

Saturday, 13 May 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time

Acquisition of Persian Differential Object Marker “Râ”:  A Challenge for the Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers

Azita H. Taleghani, University of Toronto

Zoom Registration

https://utoronto.zoom.us/…/tZAtfu2qqjkvHdYeuES1McyTARE2…

2. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Middle East History, American University of Beirut

The position is open to scholars of all sub-regions and thematic interests. The department especially welcomes applications of candidates working on questions of social, intellectual, or economic history in the Arabic speaking world.

Deadline for application: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/06/faculty-position-in-modern-middle-east-arab-history-AUB

3. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Early Modern and Modern Middle East History, American University of Beirut

The department especially welcomes applications of candidates working on the Arabic speaking world in its Mediterranean context particularly in such areas as the history of trade, migration studies, as well as cultural and intellectual exchange.

Deadline for application: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/06/faculty-position-in-early-modern-modern-history-of-the-mediterranean-world

4. Associate Professor/Professor of Sociology of Development with a Specialization in Development Policy, University of Sharjah, UAE

Qualification: PhD in Sociology of Development from an English-speaking University, specializing in Devel-opment Policies. – Consistency in the academic field of the earned university degrees. – Published peer-refereed research. – Ability to teach courses and supervise theses in Arabic and English. – Distance-learning and blended-teaching skills.

Deadline for applications: 19 December 2022. Information: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37351414/associ-ate-professor-professor-of-sociology-of-development-with-a-specialization-in-development-poli/

5. Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Associate in Iranian and Persian Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT

Applicants in all fields of humanities and social and political sciences who have recently received their PhDs or are in the early stages of their academic career may apply.

Deadline for applications: 9 January 2023. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64721

6. Chapters for “Routledge Handbook on LGBTQI+ in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)” Edited by Serena Tolino and Arash Guitoo

This book shall primarily address the academics and university students of different levels as well as NGO-workers who are interested in LGBTQI+ issues in the WANA region. The aim is to provide the readers with an overview of both the current social and legal situation and the historical development of treatment and reception of non-heterosexual non-cis-gendered identities (or acts) in the WANA societies

Deadline for abstracts: 28. February 2023. Information: Arash Guitoo (guitoo@islam.uni-kiel.de ).

7. Positiones_Research Assistants_Iranian Studies_Uni Bamberg

Two research positions have become available for the project The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense: Dynamics of Representation and Subversion in Iranian War Literature at the department of Iranian Studies of the University of Bamberg. The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and directed by me. The applicants should be doctoral candidates or postdocs with a research focus on contemporary Persian/Iranian literature. For more information, please see the extended job announcement here.

Best wishes,

Goulia Ghardashkhani

Dr. Goulia Ghardashkhani-Otter

Akademische Rätin (Senior Lecturer)

PI of the DFG-Project The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense: Dynamics of Representation and Subversion in Iranian War Literature

Otto-Friedrich-Universität-Bamberg
Institut für Orientalistik
Lehrstuhl Iranistik
Schillerplatz 17
96047 Bamberg

Webpage: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/team/dr-goulia-ghardashkhani-otter

8. Oldest Known Malay Mirror for Princes from Persian at Cambridge University Library

The Malay translation of Akhalq-e Mohseni by the famous Persian thinker and polymath, Vaiz Kashifi has been identified at Cambridge University Library. This is now the first and oldest known Malay “Mirror for Princes” from the 16^th century.

Here is my article about this manuscript:

https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23968

Dr. Majid Daneshgar

Munby Fellow

Cambridge University Library and St John’s College

University of Cambridge

A New Silk Road? Mercantile Connections across Asia 
A Talk by Dr Paul Sanderson
Tuesday 13 December 2022
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)

Register at: https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-new-silk-road/

2. Call for Papers: International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature

Qur’an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective Unit at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=42&VolunteerUnitId=518).

The conference is planned to be held between 3 – 7 July 2023. SBL plans to hold the conference in Pretoria, South Africa. It is a great and welcoming opportunity to have the International SBL hosted in the Global South. The last and only other time it was specifically hosted in Africa was in 2000 (and a lot has changed in the world since then). If you have never been to beautiful South Africa before, this is an opportunity.

The deadline for proposals is on 31 January 2023.

3. Our call for papers for the 2023 BRISMES Conference ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East’at the University of Exeter has been extended, and will close at 5 PM (GMT) on 21 December 2022.  

Please read the conference’s main theme; additionally, we encourage proposals on any topic related to the Middle East and North Africa.

We invite submissions from social sciences and humanities scholars and professionals working in the environmental field. Submissions from the Global South, from the Middle East region and from people from under-represented groups are especially welcomed. We also accept the inclusion of panels/roundtables in non-English languages spoken in the MENA region.

BRISMES will operate a Solidarity Fund for colleagues without institutional funding or facing financial hardship. So please do apply if you don’t have funds to support your attendance.

For those who are in secure positions, please donate to the fund to ensure your colleagues in more precarious jobs can join us in Exeter. The application will be made available with the opening of the registration period.

Please take a look at the instructions for submission and submit your individual/co-authored paper, panel or roundtable by the deadline.

4. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies ( February Issue 2023)

Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the February Issue – 2023.  The deadline for manuscript submission is December 30, 2022.  The issue publication date is February Issue 2023. For more information, please click here.

We have the pleasure of sending the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies Volume 6 Number 4. October 2022

For individual papers, click here  

With our best wishes,

Kind regards,
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/

5. Webinar – “The Visible and the Unseen: Reframing the Persian Tale of the Greek and Chinese Painters,” ReSIA (Research Seminar in Islamic Art, SOAS) – 15 December

Dr Domenico Arturo Ingenito

ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art, convened by Professor Anna Contadini, will be presented on Zoom on Thursday 15^th December at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 14^th December to receive the link to the talk.

The latest two ReSIA seminars have been recorded and they are now accessible on YouTube – Haris Dervišević and Richard Piran McClary.

6. Haft Paykar or the Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir

Dr. Ali Ferdowsi and Dr. Sanaz Rajabiya

Tehran, sherkat-i sahami enteshar, spring 1401/2022) in Persian. This is the first edited and annotated study of Sultan Ahmad’s Divan with a detailed and invaluable introduction to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of Sultan Ahmad’s tumultuous reign. For those interested in obtaining copies, please refer to the publisher’s website www.entesharco.com or email at info@entesharco.com.

7. Zoom seminar: ‘Contemporary Islamic Philosophy of Religion: An Anthropocentric Approach to Evil and Suffering’

Dec 16, 2022 02:00 PM ET

Speaker:

Mohammed Rustom, Professor of Islamic Thought, Carleton University

Register here: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy

Learn more: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy1

8. The “BIBLICAL CHARACTERS IN THREE TRADITIONS (JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM)” unit of the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting will dedicate its 2023 sessions to concept of characters and colours in the three traditions. 

Paper are invited that examine the use of colours in the context of biblical characters within various religious traditions and reception histories, from antiquity to contemporary times — from qur’anic yellow cow to white and black faces (and their opposing meanings in different languages); as well as biblical characters and colours, and their reception within the Islamic context.

Please submit your proposal here:

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st January 2023.

For details and abstract submission (SBL members):

https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=42&VolunteerUnitId=318

Any questions, or if you are not a member of SBL, please contact hadromiz@tcd.ie

9.  The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies presents:

The Formation of Adabiyat as a Modern Literary Discourse
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ Noon

Register for this webinar

Free and open to the public

10. Call for paper proposals for a pre-arranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland (21-25 August 2023)

The Wulff Archive:  An Encyclopaedia of the Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture, and Art of Iran 

Convenors

Dr Mahroo Moosavi (University of Oxford, UK)

Dr Roxana Zenhari (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)

Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Powerhouse Museum/Western Sydney University, Australia)

Background

Johannes Eberhard Wulff was born in 1907 in Westphalia, Germany. In 1936, he was given an official position to go to Iran at the request of Reza Shah Pahlavi the king of Iran (r.1925-1941), to plan and set up the first ever schools of technical engineering, as foreign aid of the German government to the Iranian government. The first technical college was established by Wulff in Shiraz in 1937, and it was during the official opening of this school that he received a royal order from Reza Shah, to collect the necessary data for the preparation of an encyclopaedia of the “Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture and Art of Persia”.

In parallel with administering and teaching at the Technical Colleges in Shiraz, later in Isfahan and finally in Tabriz, from 1937 to 1941 Wulff travelled all around the country observing, interviewing, and photographing master craftsmen of many different guilds to record their techniques of production and tool making, to teach at his new schools and to use them as primary resources in his royal project. However, with the Second World War outbreak, and the invasion of Iran by the British and Soviet Armies in 1941, Wulff and many other Germans who were employed in Iran, were accused of being Nazi associates and sent to the Australian internment camps.  In 1950 and following the release of the civilian internees in 1947 Wulff joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney, as a lecturer. In 1953 he retrieved all his research materials from Iran, including his notes, diaries, and photographs. In 1963 the Department of Industrial Arts at the University of New South Wales accepted Wulff as a doctoral candidate to work on a thesis based on his work on the traditional crafts of Iran. To complete his field research, Wulff returned to Iran twice during 1964 and 1965, and published a small part of his research in a book entitled The Traditional Crafts of Persia (MIT press, 1966). Having finished the project of documentation of the traditional crafts, art, science, and technology of Iran, Wulff died in 1967. His archive – the bulk of which are unpublished – was retrieved from his family in 2019 in Australia by Dr Pedram Khosronejad, is currently in his custody, and will be collectively used by the research project group in different modes and manners.

This is a call for papers for a prearranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland on 21-25 August 2023. The panel and the parallel/consequential collaborative project aim to shed light on the significance of Wulff’s project as a basic research tool from different disciplinary angles, his potential agency in the development of the field of Iranian Studies, and his grand yet mainly understudied project of the documentation of the traditional art, craft, science, and technology of Iran. Identification, printing, and digitisation of Wulff’s archive with the goal of making this valuable collection available to the wider audience, publishing Wulff’s encyclopaedia of Persian traditional art, craft, technology, and science, and republishing his 1966 book is within the larger scope of the collaborative project.

Please send your abstracts (1500 characters), your CV, and your academic status and affiliation for being considered for this panel. Early career scholars and PhD candidates in art and architectural history, anthropology, and history of technology are also encouraged to apply. Interdisciplinary approaches towards the topic are welcome. The convenors are planning to run an online session soon, with the potential panel participants to further explain the direction/s of the project and possible avenues for collaboration.

Deadline: January 15^th, 2023. 

Please send your abstracts to all three convenors:

roxana.zenhari@uni-goettingen.de;

mahroo.moosavi@sydney.edu.au;

pedram.khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au

The accepted speakers will be in full charge of their costs including the conference registration, travel, and accommodation.

For more information about the conference, please visit:

www.universiteitleiden.nl/ecis10 

11. Call for papers of the Journal of Palestinian Christianity, a new Palestinian-led, Palestine-based, peer reviewed, bilingual journal exploring the unique dynamics of Palestinian Christian communities throughout history and the present day. We welcome articles from a variety of fields ranging from theology and religious studies to anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and culture. Likewise, we welcome contributors from all Christian and religious/secular backgrounds, in both historical Palestine and abroad.

Call for Papers:

Articles can be written in either Arabic or English, and after a full peer review process will be translated into the other language by the editorial team. A conference will be organised to celebrate the published articles and to generate dialogue around them. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to:

– History and Heritage

– Ecumenical relations

– Christian-Muslim relations

– Christian-Jewish relations

– Identity and belonging

– Sacred space

– Worship and practice

– Biblical/textual engagement

– Palestinian contextual and liberation theology

– Migration and transnational relations

– Clergy-laity relations

– Political legacy and engagement

– Law

– Literature and the arts

– Popular culture

– Church history

– Arab Christianity in Palestine

Submission Details: 

The call for papers is for two issues: a general issue and special issue.

General: Interested authors for the general issue are welcome to submit their articles or consult the editorial committee by sending an abstract to the following email j.munayer@bethbc.edu. Please include your name and any institutional and other affiliation with your proposed title, abstract and article. The editors will contact you and discuss further details on accepted proposals and articles. Any questions may be directed to the email above. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 28th of February 2023. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.

Special: The second issue will be a special issue on the history of Christian communities in and of Palestine and the relationship with Empire – be it Ottoman, British or others – between 1850 and 1948. How did Palestinian Christian individuals and communities interact with imperial institutions and forces? In what ways have they suffered from or benefitted by imperial dynamics in the region? And what have the implications of these relations been for internal interactions within Christian communities and institutions themselves? Submissions are welcome from all historical perspectives, including political history, historical anthropology, intellectual history or theological and social histories. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 31st August 2023; initial enquiries are welcome to Dr. Sarah Irving at sarah.irving@staffs.ac.uk. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.

More information on the journal can be found at: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-for-Papers–Journal-of-Palestinian-Christianity.html?soid=1123649319126&aid=Mj8Ws0YEOcQ

12. DEC. 14-16th EVENT: Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism Conference

The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society is proud to present Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism. This event will be held in-person at Columbia University at the Italian Academy (December 14) and Faculty House (December 15-16). Registration for this event can be found here. Please note that registration is limited and that speakers on the program need not register. This program is in-person. Webinar will be available to a limited number of registrants.

The full event program can be found here.

This event is also co-sponsored by Columbia University Arabic Studies Seminar, Brill Academic Publishers, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi)

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Best,

Samantha DeNinno
Program Coordinator

Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)
Administrative Team

Email: icls@columbia.edu

Phone: 212.854.4541

13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts

Lecture 5

Female Jurists in the History of Islam between the Seventh and Seventeenth Centuries CE

Dr Rita Faraj (Al Mesbar Center for Studies and Research UAE)

Tuesday 13 December 2022, 13:00 UTC

This lecture will be delivered in Arabic on Zoom:   https://zoom.us/j/92157931375

14. ONLINE Panel “The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Arab World: Surveillance, Censorship, and Disinformation Warfare”, Arab Center Washington DC, 13 December 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET

Panelists will outline the models and toolkits of Arab digital authoritarianism. They will also assess the possibility of regulatory oversight, will discuss the implications of emerging digital superpowers, cyber power dynamics, and the role and shortcomings of social media companies, and will offer recommendations to address the growing challenges posed by the misuse of digital and social media technologies.

Information and registration:

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2416705255172/WN_6Y7zCUV2QyGeW1CHhyX3bA