Archive for 2022

“More than Mourners: Women and the Shaping of the Iranian Taʿziyeh”
Eleanor Lucy Deacon (University of Edinburgh)

Apr 21, 2022
12:30pm-2:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

On Zoom:
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/97438384705
Meeting ID: 974 3838 4705

Webinar Series – From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture – Spring 2022
For further information and to register, see the above site.

1.Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East

The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East is a reference work to expand both scholarly and educated public understanding of a critical period of human history. HIMME provides search and browse interfaces for accessing tens of thousands of entries about medieval Middle Eastern people, places, and cultural practices (such as Qur’an recitation, funerals, or taxation).

2. ONLINE Roundtable ” Rethinking Land, Labor, and Capital in Egypt”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 6 April 2022, 11:00 am EST

Leading scholars of Egypt will challenge conventional histories of the modern Middle East and rethink the categories of land, labor, and capital. Aaron Jakes will revisit the long history of the Suez Canal to question concepts central to rentier state theory. Ahmad Shokr will reconceptualize the institutions that dominated the production and trade of Egyptian cotton as a type of hybrid monopoly.

Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQndZCstQUKX6Wbj-rWn1w

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Can Gulf States End the Yemen War?”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 6 April 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT

This webinar will discuss the latest developments in the Yemen war and their broader implications for the region – be it in terms of terrorism trends, Gulf-Iran relations or US security policy towards the Middle East.

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/can-gulf-states-end-the-yemen-war/

4. ONLINE Webinar: “The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodifica-tion, Translation, and the Culture Industry” with Prof. Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 8 April 2022, 2:15-3:30 PM CEST

Al-Musawi shows how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.

Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/the-arabian-nights-in-contemporary-world-cultures-.html

5. International Research Workshop: „Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space“, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, Ger-many, 14-15 October 2022

This workshop will gather translators, publishers and other experts in the field of

Qur’anic Studies presenting their works on the following issues: • Debates around the production of Qur’an translations after 1991. • Securitisation & the Qur’an: State-supported and independent projects. • The most important transnational actors in the field of translations. • The Qur’anic audience and the specific features of Post-Soviet readership. Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2022. Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CfP_Quran-Post-Soviet.pdf

6. Panel on “Muslims in America” during “SAMLA 94”, the Annual Conference of the “South Atlantic Modern Language Association”, Jacksonville, FL, 11-13 November 2022

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, per-formers, filmmakers, and visual artists. Panelists might consider how these writers and artists employ different media in their mapping of modifications in cultural, political, and religious landscapes.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10025577/muslims-america

7. PhD Studentship (Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2025, Fully Funded) in Art History, Project LAHWA “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad”, Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Orient-Institut Beirut

LAWHA aims to identify new methods on how to interrelate context and artistic production, to serve as a model for revisiting art histories in contexts where institutionalized local art histories have largely been absent. LAWHA is concerned mainly with the time period between Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943 and the official end of its civil war in 1990. Research proposals within the overall frame of LAWHA’s research questions will be considered.

Deadline for applications: 2 May 2022. Information: https://lawha.hypotheses.org/346

8. Postponed:

Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.

9. [CeRMI] Rappel Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI jeudi prochain 7 avril

Nous vous rappelons que la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, aura lieu le jeudi 7 avril 2022 en mode hybride. Nous y accueillerons Frantz Grenet (professeur au Collège de France, « Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique ») et Anca Dan (chargée de recherche, Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC), CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée :

« La connaissance de la littérature gréco-romaine reflétée sur quelques vases d’argent d’Asie centrale (IIIe-VIe s. de n.è.) ».

(Résumé et bibliographie en fichier joint)

Veuillez noter qu’à l’occasion de la réception d’accueil des universitaires et étudiants afghans organisée par la Fondation Inalco, le présentiel de cette séance de séminaire se tiendra exceptionnellement au 2, rue de Lille, dans l’auditorium, de 17h à 18h30.

ATTENTION : les inscriptions pour le présentiel sont closes

Participez à ce séminaire en distanciel  sur la plateforme Zoom:

https://zoom.us/j/99773774662?pwd=YmRwbW4zbGQyeUZ3QmUwYzMzMk5yUT09

ID de réunion : 997 7377 4662

Code secret : CeRMI

10. ANN: Mapping Ottoman heritage in Greece – new interactive map site

This interactive new web map site also provides bibliographies for specific places via Zotero links. Worth looking at. Also offers link to webside CARTO for building similar maps.

https://otheritages.efa.gr/index.php/ottoman-heritage-in-greece-map-and-bibliography/?fbclid=IwAR33esEPRUn8ZQKXp9zTsfYHM8bj4BBPw5hfRAbrHz6z4Ji-20bN4Fx90E0

11. Webcast “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt”

On Tuesday 12 April, Dr. Panos Kourgiotis, Hellenic Open University, will deliver a lecture online entitled “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt: Al-Jamʿiyyāt al-Islamiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood”; this event will be hosted by the University of Religions and Denominations. Dr. Kourgiotis’s presentation is based on his recent paper which has been accepted for publication in the journal of Islamic Inquiries. For further details, please follow the links below:

Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1mXhu2GM0

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/urbanizationand-re-islamization6916319527559454721/about/

You are cordially invited to attend this webcast.

With kind regards

Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab

Editor-in-Chief /President of the University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran

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1.RESCHEDULED: ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’: Wednesday 13th April, 2pm GMT (online via Zoom)

The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to announce that our postponed event ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’ has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 13th April at 2pm GMT.

We have now created a new event webpage for the rescheduled event which can be accessed here: https://contemporary-egypt.eventbrite.co.uk.

2. [CeRMI] Rappel : XXIIIème Journée du Monde iranien 1er avril 2022

Nous vous rappelons que vous êtes cordialement invités à la XXIII^ème Journée du Monde Iranien, qui se tiendra vendredi prochain, 1^er avril 2022 de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Vous pouvez retrouver le programme actualisé et les résumés des interventions de cette Journée en pièce-jointe ou sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxiiie-journee-monde-iranien/

Nous vous rappelons que le port du masque dans les espaces clos reste fortement recommandé et qu’il sera donc nécessaire de le porter lors de cette Journée et en particulier dans l’Auditorium. Nous espérons vivement que cette contrainte ne vous découragera pas d’assister en présentiel à cet événement qui pourra également être suivi sur l’espace Youtube de l’Inalco : merci de vous inscrire via ce formulaire

En espérant vous voir nombreux pour cette XXIII^ème Journée qui, cette année, est organisée par Julien Thorez (CNRS, CeRMI).

Maria Szuppe

Directrice de recherche CNRS

Directrice du Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI)

3. Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.

4. Online Workshop – Early Islamic Agriculture and Water Management: Talking about a “Revolution” (Hajar Archaeology, April 28th)

In the workshop, three archaeological case studies which relate to agriculture and/or water management during Early Islam will be presented, followed by responses and a discussion. These will enable another examination of Andrew Watson’s arguments from the 1980s about an “Arab agricultural revolution” or “green revolution” – this time from an archaeological perspective.

Program

15:45 Case studies (speakers: 30 minutes each)

• Helena Kirchner, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The Green Revolution between technique transfer and local adaptation: The making of a new agricultural landscape in al-Andalus
• Vladimir Dabrowski, CNRS-National Museum of Natural History (Paris), What Islamic agricultural revolution in eastern Arabia? Recent archaeobotanical discoveries (1st millennium CE)
• Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, A “Eurasian exchange”? The penetration of new agricultural and water management technologies into the southern Levant, 6th-10th centuries CE

17:15 Break

17:30 Discussion (discussants: 25 minutes each)

• Discussant: Chris Wickham, University of Oxford
• Discussant: Seven Ağır, Middle East Technical University (Ankara)

General debate and questions (40 minutes)

Chairs:

• Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Institut Catholique de Paris),
• Hagit Nol (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Practicalities

For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until April 27th.

For more information about Ḥajar: https://hajar.hypotheses.org

5. We are pleased to launch our fourth series of From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture. You can sign up here: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration

To widen our reach to audiences in India the Deccan Heritage Foundation and the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge, have joined forces with the Bangalore International Centre. Our organizing team has also been fortunate to be joined by our eminent colleague and curator, Dr Marika Sardar.

From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture, Spring 2022

Cloth that Changed the World: Histories and Contemporaneity of Kalamkari Making, Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum) and Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur) on April 8th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)

The City of Haidar as a Shiʿi Paradise: Divine Sovereignty, Built Space, and Shiʿi Materiality in Qutb Shahi Hyderabad, Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto) on April 29th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad, Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London) on May 6th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

The Vīraśaivas / Liṅgāyats of 12th century Karnataka: Conflict, Transformation, and the Genesis of a New Creed, Tiziana Lorenzetti (International Institute of South Asian Studies, Rome) on May 20th, at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

Reflections of Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in the Art and Architecture of Karnataka, Julia AB Hegewald (University of Bonn) on June 3rd at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

A Cosmopolitan yet Local Tradition: Glazed Tiles in the Deccani Sultanates, Arthur Millner (Art Consultant) on June 17th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

6. H-Islamart: HIAA Panel (Online) – Research and Resources in Islamic Art History – April 8

Join us in conversation with scholars Jake Benson (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Fine Arts Library, Harvard University) to discuss how to develop productive research methods and how to best utilize relevant resources, such as manuscript repositories, museums, and libraries. The panel discussion will be followed by an open Q&A.

Friday, April 8, 2022

12 pm EST on Zoom

Register here!

And take the pre-event survey here.

Jake Benson (Ph.D. Leiden University, August 2022) is Research Associate for Persian Collections at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester. Inspired by his training in bookbinding and conservation, he has conducted research on manuscripts held in museums, libraries, and archives in the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Europe.

Martina Rugiadi is Associate Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-director of the Towns of the Karakum archaeological project in Turkmenistan. Her research is situated at the intersection of archaeology and art history. Current projects explore craft technologies, spolia, notions of cultural heritage, and implications of collecting.

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg has been the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library since 2018. Prior to that, she was the MENA Librarian at George Washington University, and received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Working with researchers in the early stages of their projects is her favorite part of librarianship, and she is glad for this opportunity for discussion!

Questions may be directed to Courtney Lesoon (HIAA Graduate Student Representative) at clesoon@mit.edu.

7. BRAIS 2022 at the University of Edinburgh: Provisional conference programme now live

Dear BRAIS Members,

We are delighted to announce that the provisional programme of the 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies is now live!

The programme can be viewed in full here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022

Please note, this programme is provisional and is likely to change significantly over the course of the next few weeks. Do keep your eye on our website for updates.

Registration for the conference is now possible here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-registration

We hope to see you on Monday 6^th and Tuesday 7^th June in the beautiful surroundings of Scotland’s capital for our first in-person conference in three years. We would also be very grateful if you could circulate the programme through your networks.

With very best wishes,

The BRAIS 2022 Conference Team

8. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes

D Fairchild Ruggles

University of Pennsylvania Press | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture | March 2022

9. Invitation to Sarah Bowen Savant’s Inaugural Lecture; A Close and Distant Reading of Writerly Practices

Professor Bowen Savant’s inaugural lecture tells the story of a set of written practices and cultural expectations that helped make the Arabic written tradition (ca. 700-1500) one of the largest written traditions up to its day. The growth of the tradition is often narrated in terms of the adoption of paper in the ninth and tenth centuries in the Middle East. Without denying the importance of this medium, Sarah Bowen Savant will emphasise practices that filled paper. This story, of practice, has not been told – or at least, it has not been told in ways that benefit from new and emerging digital methods.

The lecture is based on data generated by the KITAB project, including a collection of Arabic texts exceeding 2 billion words, more than 1.5 million files documenting relationships between pairs of texts, and evidence for how authors cited earlier works. Team members are working to develop and use digital methods focused on the detection and analysis of text reuse, citation practices, and the networks through which writings passed.
Date and Time 

5 May 5:30-7pm BST.
Booking

This event is free and can be booked here

10. The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Islamic studies beginning in August 2022. The fellowship is open to scholars in the Humanities or Social Sciences who have competed their PhD within the past three years. The fellow will be expected to teach one semester-long course, participate in the activities of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and reside in the greater Boston area for the duration of the 10-month academic calendar year. The fellow will receive a $65,000 stipend, a $3,500 research fund, and $1,500 in relocation expenses.

A complete application includes: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, sample syllabi, and a letter of recommendation. The final candidate is required to submit a second letter of support. Complete applications are due no later than April 15, 2022.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63244

11. The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Islamic Studies, to begin August 2022. Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Teaching responsibilities include RELI 100, Introduction to the Qur’an; RELI 201, Islam; RELI 256 Islam in America; and other courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. by start date.

Closing date: June 21, 2022

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63228

12. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce two upcoming lectures:

Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 5:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
Disentangling Alchemy
Alexandre Roberts, University of Southern California

Alexandre Roberts considers alchemy within the intellectual and artisanal activity of western Afro-Eurasia in the premodern period.

Advance registration required. Register: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/disentangling-alchemy

Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 12:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
The Rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Arabian Gulf
Robert Carter, Qatar Museums

Robert Carter discusses the rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Gulf during the mid-20th century.

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

An East of Byzantium lecture. East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

13. Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

Mahmood Kooria

Cambridge, 2022

14. The UT Austin Persian Film Club is hosting an event that might be interesting to some of you. Free access to the documentary “Iran-e kuchak-e man (My Little Iran), or, Persian New Yorker Stories,” and then a Q&A meeting with the director of the film Hassan Solhjou via zoom on Tuesday, April 5, at 12 PM (American Central Time). 

The film is a bittersweet documentary about a group of Iranian immigrants in New York who desperately want to celebrate their cultural identity in a parade. The director is the host and producer of a famous program on BBC Persian: Aparat.

You can access the film for free and “register” for the event by clicking on this link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/events/persian-film-club-meeting-filmmaker-hassan-solhjou

15. UCLA Panels

Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran (Panel in Persian)

Bilingual Lecture Series

Sunday, April 10, 2022
11:30 AM (Pacific Time)
Zoom

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15544

Idioms of Resistance in the Middle East

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15529

16. New York University, Silsila: Center for Material Histories

ARCHIVE WARS: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA
Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 6th, 12:30pm EST
[Webinar] Silsila Spring 2022 Lecture Series

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. Archive Wars explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.

Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:

https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_adE-dQXxRoC9gSQXzvoZMA

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.

17. Middle East Librarians’ Association

MELA Notes 94 (2021) ) is now posted and available on MELA website at https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.

Bahrain: Human rights defender at risk of blindness due to denial of medical care

This talk explores Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth century household anthologies (majmu’a). Thousands of manuscripts produced in Isfahan assembled urban objects ranging from portraits and letters from friends, to poems depicting the central square, to marriage contracts and talismans. Authors collected, curated, and bound together material generated by Isfahan’s culture of adab to learn how to act and relate to other residents of a diverse and ever-growing capital city. With these family collections, Professor Babayan tells a new history of Isfahan at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people’s lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Kathryn Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover the dialogic relationship between the city and its residents.

US Congress Calls for Report from State Department on Political Prisoners in Bahrain

For ADHRB Weekly Newsletter 438, click here. This includes the following ADHRB note:

‘ADHRB would like to thank the UN High Commissioner for her statement condemning the mass execution of 81 individuals by beheading in Saudi Arabia on 12 March. 41 of those belonged to the Shia minority and had participated in the pro-democracy demonstrations of 2011. We support the declaration that their execution may amount to a war crime in light of the lack of guarantees for fair trial.
On the other hand, we are raising caution about the fate of Sadeq Majeed Thamer and Jaafar Mohamed Sultan who face imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. The two Bahrainis were previously sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain on terrorism-related charges. Saudi authorities arrested them on 8 May 2015 and forcibly disappeared them for 115 days, while allegations of torture and violations of due process rights were ignored. They were sentenced to death on 7 October 2021 on the same charges. They face imminent risk of execution.’

The Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University, Massey University in New Zealand, and the Middle East and Islamic Studies Aotearoa/New Zealand are delighted to invite you to the virtual zoom conference, “Shia Studies in Twenty-First Century,” to be held in 5/30-31/2022 (Eastern US Time) / 5/31-6/1/2022 (NZ time).This conference is intended to bring together scholars of Shi’ism across the world to share their research. It intends to create a scholarly network from Europe and North America to Oceania.
The themes of the conference are; Theology and Philosophy of Shia Islam, Shia Islamic Metaphysics, Shi’ism and Sufism, Modern Political Thought in Shia Islam, Shia Shariah: Private or Public?, Equality and Economics in Shia Islam, Equality in Shia Islam, Contemporary Shi’ism and Gender Equality, non-Twelver Shias, Shi’ism and the environment, Atheism Skepticism and Apostacy in Shia Islam, Rights in Shia Islam, Ultra-Shia, Shia Islam and Democracy, Shia Islam and Art, Shia Islam and Technology.
We would very much appreciate your contribution to the conference, as we understand your contributions already made to the field. Please send your 250 word abstract by Friday April 21st. We will announce speakers by the first of May. After the conference, we will select papers for publication by September. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at Shiaconference2022@gmail.com
We dearly hope you are able to participate in our zoom conference, thank you so much for the consideration and your outstanding work in Shia Studies.
Sincerely
-Mr. Alexander Shepard.

-Dr. Negar Partow.

-Dr. Carl Pearson.