Archive for December 24th, 2022
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Invisible East (Oxford)
Programme Finance Co-ordinator
Closing date: 20.1.23
Full information at:
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/work-us
2. Islam in the classroom: Diversity instead of stereotypes!
The Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art – State Museums Berlin) is now launching a wide range of digital and analogue educational materials free of charge for schools and extracurricular places of learning. These offers aim to sensitise teachers, youth workers ad pupils, as well as editors of educational media, to stereotypes and facilitate a diversity-oriented and professionally sound presentation of topics related to Islam in educational media and the classroom.
The materials are available in German and conform to German school curricula. Discover the educational offers from the project „Shared Past – Shared Future“ now in the e-learning section of the museum‘s new digital platform Islamic·Art. The project „Shared Past – Shared Future“ is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
https://islamic-art.smb.museum/digitales-lernen
3. News for non-Latin script specialists: Archive.org will take advantage of new advancements in OCR to reprocess printed multi-script manuscript catalogues, which currently misinterpret non-Latin scripts as gibberish. They just reprocessed one volume of Rieu’s British Museum catalogue https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008986313 and Sachau and Ethé’s for the Bodleian https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01bodluoft as well.
Should any encounter specific books that lack functional non-Latin script, write to support@archivesupport.zendesk.com , send them the URL along with any relevant 3-letter Library of Congress language codes https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_name.html so they can drop that in and re-run OCR.
4. Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam
Emran Iqbal El-Badawi
5. From Samarqand to Toledo: Greek, Sogdian and Arabic Documents and
Manuscripts from the Islamicate World and Beyond,
eds., Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki
6. Koç University Libraries are organizing The 4th International Library Staff Week in Istanbul, between 8-12 May 2023. This event brings together professional Library staff with varied backgrounds working in universities or other research orientated libraries with an interest in sharing ideas and networking with colleagues.
The main theme of the 4th International Library Staff Week is Open Knowledge to Share: Access, Culture, Scholarship. Library and Information Science is a key sector that contributes to the development of open knowledge. Through this week, together we will investigate and analyze the following sub-themes, access, culture and scholarship.
During this week, library staff and visitors will have the chance to engage into fruitful discussions and exchange of professional and personal experiences, which will broaden their perspective on issues related to Information Science, strengthen their skills and hopefully plant the roots for future collaboration on joint projects.
You can find more information in the related Libguide.
To apply for the program, register here and pay here.
Find more about our past events in our Blog and Flicker.
Should you require any additional information, do not hesitate to contact us at intllibweek@ku.edu.tr.
http://staffmobility.eu/staffweek/4th-international-library-staff-week
7. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) Spring 2023
The Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States and Canada who work to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the late thirteenth century to the twentieth century.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) will host the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) in Vancouver, Canada on April 28-29, 2023. Among other events, the workshop will include a keynote panel titled “The History of Ottoman Armenians Revisited” featuring Professors Elyse Semerdjian (Whitman College) and Richard Antaramian (University of Southern California). Some panels may be offered in hybrid form depending on the circumstances.
We are currently accepting submissions for the workshop. The organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply using this form. Funding may be available to support graduate student participation.
University faculty and independent scholars interested in attending should also register using the same form: https://forms.gle/wzRWK6SsVvr4qLQ17
Deadline for Applications: January 26, 2023
Please direct all inquiries to Professors Thomas Kuehn (SFU) and Pheroze Unwalla (UBC) at thomas_kuehn@sfu.ca.
We urge all prospective participants from outside Canada to familiarize themselves ASAP with visa requirements to enter the country: https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/visa.asp
- December 24, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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