Archive for 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
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Shii News – Hybrid: ‘The Alevisation of Karacaahmet and his Shrine in Istanbul’ – G Beyinli (23.11.22, 18.15-20.15 CET)
This talk is part of the lecture series “Religious Places in Turkey: Change and Continuation”.
See the site for informnation and registration.
- November 21, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
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 24th November at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 23rd 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.”
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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.”
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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
- November 19, 2022
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Shii News – ‘Ismaili Studies Conference: The State of the Field ‘ (London, 21-23.11.22)
On-line and in person.
- November 18, 2022
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- November 18, 2022
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- November 17, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.El-Shakry, O., ‘Rethinking Arab Intellectual History: Epistemology, Historicism, Secularism’, Modern Intellectual History (2021), 18, 547–572.
2. HYBRID Book Talk “About Ummah: A New Paradigm for a Global World” by Katrin Jomaa, Brown University, Providence, RI, 15 November 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm
Jomaa examines the moral, political, and spiritual understanding of the Qur’anic term “ummah”. Drawing on theology, history, philosophy, and political science, Jomaa argues that ummah, while often defined as a group of people united by ethnicity or religion, is, in its ideal sense, a community that demands active commitment and a conscious and continuous dedication to the highest moral ideals of that community.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/katrin-jomaa-ummah
3. Journée d’étude « Femmes musulmanes engagées dans la cité : prédicatrices, aumônières et imames », MMSH Aix-en-Provence, 15 novembre 2022
En quoi les femmes musulmanes engagées dans le champ religieux, prédicatrices, aumônières et imames participent elles aux mutations sociales et politiques du champ islamique contemporain ? Cette journée d’étude se propose d’apporter quelques éclairages à cette question brûlante en analysant l’insertion au sein d’organisations religieuses de femmes musulmanes impliquées dans le culte musulman, qu’elles soient sa-lariées ou bénévoles.
Information et programme: https://iremam.cnrs.fr/fr/journee-detude-femmes-musulmanes-engagees-dans-la-cite-predicatrices-aumonieres-et-imames
4. ONLINE Lecture “How to Conquer a Province: Salons and the Incorporation of Ottoman Arab Lands (16th Century)”, SOAS, London University, 16 November 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT
In 1516-7, Ottoman armies conquered large parts of the Arab Middle East. In the wake of this conquest, the Ottomans faced an administrative challenge as the new territories had to be incorporated into the imperial bureaucracy. This talk examines interactions between Ottoman elites and Arab notables as they occurred in informal gentlemanly gatherings in salons.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/how-conquer-province-salons-and-incor-poration-ottoman-arab-lands-16th-c
5. ONLINE Webinar “Fictive and non-Fictive Life Writings of Muslim Women: Solidarity for Strength and Survival” by Professors Doaa Omran and Feroza Jussawalla (University of New Mexico, USA), University of Manchester, 17 November 2022, 17:00 UTC
The speakers illustrate that Muslim women are empowering figures socially, politically, and academically. While Doaa will base her critique on a selection of work by Arab authors, Feroza will explore how the recent Iranian women’s movement shows that when women come together to support each other, their chances of survival and empowerment are greatly strengthened.
Registration: https://zoom.us/j/97038599926
6. ONLINE Lecture “Multilingualism and Language Planning in the Period of the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic” by Dr. Nevry Lischewski (University of Munich), Ori-ent-Institut Istanbul, 17 November 2021, 7:00 pm Turkish Time
The Ottoman Empire was a fundamentally multilingual society. In the course of the late Ottoman and early Republican period, certain policies, rules and practices were introduced in order to influence the linguistic situation and to establish the dominant language in the society, without a perspective for maintaining its linguistic diversity. The speaker introduces a conceptual framework of language planning.
Information and registration: https://www.oiist.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/oiist_language_book-let_web.pdf
7. HYBRID International Conference on “Islamic Trust Studies: Translation and Transformation in Muslims’ Connectivity”, Osaka University, 26-27 November 2022
The conference examines the connectivity of Muslim behavior, particularly through law and human relations. How do Muslims interpret and prescribe the relationship between people and the state according to the law, human relations within the family, and the relationship found in gender in Islamic education, and what wisdom is used to enable strategic responses in doing so.
Deadline for registration: 20 November 2022.
Information and program: https://connectivity.aa-ken.jp/en/activity/874/
8. ONLINE 17th AATT Graduate Student Pre-Conference in Turkish and Turkic Studies, Stanford University, 27 November 2022, 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST
Information, program and registration: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/11/11/17th-aatt-graduate-student-pre-conference-in-turkish-and-turkic-studies
9. HYBRIDE Rencontre Revue de l’histoire des religions avec Christian Müller, Ismail Warscheid et Rainer Brunner, autour du livre “Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam”, Collège de France, Paris, 2 décembre 2022, 16h30 – 18h30
Cet ouvrage de référence change radicalement notre perception d’une immuable « charia », Loi sacrée de l’islam, et de son rôle dans l’histoire du monde musulman. Pour ce faire, cette synthèse mobilise notions sociologiques (droit, système des règles), histoire (ordres juridiques en terre d’Islam), études biographiques et juridiques pour terminer, sous un angle sociétal, par les domaines du droit couverts par la normativité islamique.
Information et registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/71969
10. HYBRID International Conference “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs”, Religionswissenschaft und Judaistik, Universität Tübingen, 5-7 December 2022
This conference pioneers in its focus on the relationship between the Qurʾān and pre-Islamic Syriac Christianity. By taking recurring themes and motifs as a starting point, the conference emphasizes differences be-tween the Qurʾān and Syrian Christian traditions as well. The conference seeks to investigate how the Qurʾān reacts to pre-Islamic Syrian Christian traditions.
Information, program and registration: https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/evangelisch-theologische-fakultaet/lehrstuehle-und-institute/religionswissenschaft-und-judaistik/religionswissenschaft-und-judais-tik/quran-project-erc/events/05-07122022-conference-the-qur%CA%BEan-and-syriac-christianity-recurring-themes-and-motifs/
11. Inaugural “Kurdish Studies Conference”, Middle East Centre, London School of Economics (LSE), 24-25 April 2023
Papers are invited with social sciences approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies: History; political movements; social movements; gender; political representation; governance; displacement; anthropology; nationalism; ethnography, ecology, political economy; international relations; diaspora; security; religion etc. A travel fund is available for those whose papers are selected for presentation.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 December 2022.
Information: https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/assets/documents/CFP-KSS-Conference.pdf
12. 4th International Congress of PLURIEL: “Islam and Fraternity: Impact and Prospects of the Abu Dhabi Declaration for the Living together of Christians and Muslims”, Abu Dhabi, 2-6 February 2024
The Congress aims to provide a forum for the discussion and evaluation of the reception of the Document on Human Fraternity on the occasion of its 5th anniversary. What has been the impact so far of the Document on Human Fraternity concerning the coexistence of Christians and Muslims around the globe? The Congress will be held in English, Arabic and French.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2023. Information:
13. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of the History of the African Diaspora with a Specialization in Migration and/or Refugee Studies (Focus Middle East), Townson University, MD
Qualifications: PhD in History or related fields required. Research specialization in migration and/or refugee studies of the African Diaspora; i.e. forced migration from African countries to Egypt and Israel; issues of race and racism in the Middle East etc.
Deadline for applications: 3 January 2023.
Information: https://www.towson.edu/provost/prospective/assistant-professor-cla-3620.html
14. Book Manuscripts for “Academica Press”, London and Washington, DC
This award-winning independent non-fiction publisher seeks manuscripts from dynamic scholars across fields and at all career stages. Academica publishes actively in political science, international relations, history, literature, linguistics, religion, philosophy, cultural and regional studies, the arts, anthropology, law, and other fields.
Information: https://www.academicapress.com/node/474
15. British Institute of Persian Studies
Hybrid Lecture: Rivalling Rome: Parthian coins and culture
with Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Monday, 28 November 2022, 6.30-7.30 UK time
This is a hybrid event, which will take place in person at the British Academy and online on Zoom. Please register for either of the two modes, in advance, at:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/bips-agm-lecture-2022/
16. Colloque international LACIM 2022
1er Colloque International sur les Langues de l’Aire Anatolie-Caucase-Iran-Mésopotamie (LACIM 2022), organisé par le réseau européen LACIM (https://en.lacim.net/), qui aura lieu du 16 au 18 novembre, à l’Inalco (65, rue des Grands moulins, 75013 – Paris).
Le site web du colloque : https://www.lacim.net/event-details/lacim-2022
Le colloque se tiendra en mode hybride. Voici les liens de connection pour chaque jour :
16 novembre (mercredi): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtceygqDIoGNX-E0f-FXWkLijrjdQmkjG-
17 novembre (jeudi): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduqhqjMtHNdtkeka69Z7DMqNcS2-rQc2
18 novembre (vendredi): https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduyrrDwjE9PxgljRq3OlB8KG9WRPtTjQ
17. Presentations from the “Demons: Good and Bad” conference (TCD, October 2022) are now available online, via the following link:
Demons Online – Recordings from “Demons: Good and Bad” conference (TCD 2022)
This interdisciplinary conference included a fair share of Islam-related presentations (about one third), which might be of interest to some.
18. Harvard:
Tenure-Track Professor of Persian Literature and Cultures
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Persian literature and cultures. While the specific area of specialization is open, the candidate must have a thorough knowledge of classical Persian literature from the eleventh century to the seventeenth century. In addition, the candidate should show some familiarity with the broader historical and cultural contexts within which classical Persian literature developed, both within and beyond Iran. The candidate will be expected to engage in teaching topics related to Persian literary cultures to a broad range of students, including undergraduates. The appointment is expected to begin on July 1, 2023. The appointee will teach and advise both undergraduate and graduate level students. Applications from historically excluded and marginalized groups are strongly encouraged.
Doctorate required by the time the appointment begins.
Please submit the following materials through the ARIeS portal
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11808
no later January 6, 2023
- Cover letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Teaching/advising statement (describing teaching philosophy and practices)
- Research Statement
- Writing sample, either an article or a chapter of a dissertation or book.
- Statement describing efforts to encourage diversity, inclusion, and belonging, including past, current, and anticipated future contributions in these areas.
- Names and contact information of 3-5 referees, who will be asked by a system-generated email to upload a letter of recommendation once the candidate’s application has been submitted. Three letters of recommendation are required, and the application is considered complete only when at least three letters have been received. At least one letter must come from someone who has not served as the candidate’s undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral advisor.
See the above site for further information.
19. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle, EPHE, INALCO)
a le plaisir de vous convier au colloque
Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan
Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022)
18 – 19 novembre 2022
Auditorium du musée Guimet
6, place d’Iéna, 75116 Paris.
Dans le cadre de la chaire de préfiguration « Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan » mise en œuvre par la Fondation Inalco, dont le CeRMI est partenaire, la Fondation Inalco et le musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, en collaboration avec la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA), organisent le colloque Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan, Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022).
Ce colloque est placé sous le patronage du ministère de la Culture.
Organisation
Sandra Aube (chercheuse au CNRS, CeRMI/Fondation INaLCO)
Nicolas Engel (conservateur des collections Afghanistan-Pakistan, MNAAG)
Philippe Marquis (directeur de la DAFA)
Programme et information sur le site du CeRMI
Nous vous invitons également à réserver vos places (gratuites, bien sûr) depuis le lien suivant : https://www.guimet.fr/event/colloque-arts-et-patrimoine-de-lafghanistan/
- November 15, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Conférence – Être femme et peintre sous les Taliban : Le cas des femmes artistes à Herat (Afghanistan) aujourd’hui, Mardi 15 nov 2022, Inalco
Conférence
INALCO – Fondation INALCO
Être femme et peintre sous les Taliban :
Le cas des femmes artistes à Herat (Afghanistan) aujourd’hui
par Nazir Rahguzar
(Chaire de préfiguration Art et Patrimoine afghans, INALCO / CeRMI)
mardi le 15 novembre 2022, 17h-18h30, salle 5.12
INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris / www.inalco.fr
La conférence sera donnée en persan, avec traduction simultanée
Contacts:
2. Oxford:
| Associate Professorship in Islamic Studies and Law |
| Asian and Middle Easterns Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford |
| We are seeking an outstanding scholar and teacher who studies Islamic thought, literature and/or practice in the pre-modern period (up until c. 1800 CE), based on primary sources in Arabic and other languages if appropriate. The successful applicant will have strong expertise in Islamic law. In addition, the postholder will have further expertise in Sufism, the hadith literature or Shi’i Islam. This is an exciting and demanding post in which you will conduct advanced research; give lectures, classes and tutorials; supervise, support and examine students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Islamic studies; and play a part in the administrative work of the Faculty and College. |
The start date for this vacancy will be: 1 October 2023
Interviews expected to take place on 13th & 14th March 2023
For more information:
3. Programs at Hikmat for 2023
Registration for Hikmat Learning Tours for the spring of 2023 is now open. These unique tours are a combination of sightseeing and touring and informative meetings and workshops.
Like the previous tours, the seats on these special tours are extremely limited and registration is based on a first come, first served basis.
In addition to our classic Hikmat tour that will be held in April 2023, we will also have a tour to the west of Iran for the first time. On this tour you can see and experience some of the most beautiful natural, historical, and cultural sights of the western parts of Iran.
To learn more about the dates, itinerary, testimonials from the past participants and other details of the tours, please visit Hikmat website at the address below:
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com
4. SULTAN WALAD: In The Footsteps of Rumi and Shams
Authors: Hülya Küçük, Ibrahim Gamard, Omid Safi
Editor: Ibrahim Gamard
Translator: Hülya Küçük
Fons Vitae 2022
https://fonsvitae.com/product/sultan-walad-in-the-footsteps-of-rumi-and-shams/
5. BRISMES lecture
Rethinking the Empirical Reality of Statehood in the MENA Region
Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00-18:00 (GMT)
This panel examines how post-colonial states in the Middle East became a site of hybrid sovereignties, porous borders, identity politics, and liminality impacting everyday life. Informed by ethnographic data collected from fieldwork in the region, the panel members will draw attention to the empirical reality of statehood in the region affecting everyday life and to the role of particularity (empirical) in drawing the horizon of the politics in the contemporary MENA region. Please note that this event is a research development seminar and will be open to BRISMES members only.
More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outreach-and-pedagogy/empirical-reality-of-statehood
6. Online Lecture: Dynastic Change, Family Networks and Female Genealogies in Medieval Armenia (11th–13th c.)
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom
Dynastic Change, Family Networks and Female Genealogies in Medieval Armenia (11th–13th c.)
Zara Pogossian, University of Florence
This lecture will focus on a period of medieval Armenian history – eleventh to late thirteenth centuries – that was characterized by a gradual deterioration and break-down of its until then traditional social structure based on land-holding military families known as nakharars. In this context a number of new military men, mostly with no illustrious lineage and/or previous connection to certain specific regions, rose to power. As they sought ways of legitimizing their control of recently conquered land and resources in various parts of historical Armenia, marriage alliances and, hence, the building of new family networks via women acquired increasing importance. This is especially true in the case of wives that came from older, prestigious dynasties which had lost or were about to lose their significance. There are also cases of women who were themselves from ‘new families’ but who played a key role in entering local networks of power in different ways. These general considerations will be illustrated on specific cases bringing to the audience’s attention the significance of women from (new or old) élite families, particularly from the end of Bagratid rule, and through Seljuk and Mongol (particularly Ilkhanid) periods. The inter-religious aspects of such family networks will be equally highlighted. Although the talk will address various regions of historical Armenia, greater attention will be paid to Syunik‘, reflecting my on-going research-in-progress.
Zara Pogossian is a specialist in medieval Armenian history, culture and religion, especially in relation to other peoples, cultures and religions in the Near East and Asia Minor. She is Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Florence, and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Project ArmEn: Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia 9th–14th Centuries.
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
7. Online Lecture: “The Egyptian Delta Between Revolt and Allegiance” (15 Nov)
You are cordially invited to the second talk of the winter 2022/23 term of our online lecture series ‘Rethinking Social Contention’, which will take place on 15 November 2022 at 4:00 pm CET. Noëmie Lucas (Edinburgh) will present a paper on “When the Arabs Refused to Pay Taxes. The Egyptian Delta Between Revolt and Allegiance in the Abbasid Period”. We hope to see many of you there!
To register and receive the Zoom link, just send an email to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. The full programme for the winter 2022/23 term can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/2022-06-14-lecture-series-ii.html. And finally, if you’d like to read more about our research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE), please visit https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html.
8. Lecture (in person) – “Exploring Recreative Practice Methodologies in Islamic Art: Writing on Stone at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World” (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris) – 23 November
Exploring Recreative Practice Methodologies in Islamic Art – Writing on Stone at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World
Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montford University), Nuria Garcia Masip (Sorbonne Université – Observatoire des Patrimoines)
Time : 5:00 PM, 23 November 2022
Venue : Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris. Salle Walter Benjamin.
Abstract :
Recreative practice – the process of re-making an object or image – is widespread in the arts and humanities as a technique for retrieving haptic and tacit forms of knowledge or lost technologies. Nevertheless, it is dress and fashion historians who have led the field in the development of clear methodologies of recreative practice and sophisticated reflection on the merits and pitfalls of such an approach. This paper presents the early stages of a collaborative project between Elizabeth Lambourn, a historian of material culture, and Islamic calligrapher Nuria Garcia Masip which was sparked by contact with this practice and the resulting literature. Building on the pioneering work of dress historians Jane Malcolm-Davies (University of Copenhagen) and Jenny Tiramani (The School of Historical Dress, London) our project explores the way that these now well-articulated and theorised approaches might be translated to the study of Islamic calligraphy on stone. This project focuses on calligraphic panels on marble produced at the port of Khambhat (Cambay) in Gujarat during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries CE but offers the potential for much wider application.
9. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series (AMES)
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts (EMWHLA)
Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:00 UTC/GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97038599926
Lecture 3: Fictive and non-Fictive Life Writings of Muslim Women: Solidarity for Strength and Survival
Professors Feroza Jussawalla & Dr Doaa Omran
University of New Mexico USA
10. American University in Cairo
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Annual History Seminar
3-4 March, 2023
Cities in Context(s)
One of the often-repeated statements about Islamic history is that this was very much an urban civilization. Since the Arab conquests of the seventh century, Muslim rulers and regimes often established and confirmed their power through urban projects. Urban expansion and the establishment of new cities were a main way in which regimes practiced their power. These urban centers were in turn loci of cultural and economic production, creating new hubs in various regions and establishing connections beyond their hinterland. These networks and connections would change over different periods of history. With modernization, cities were among the first areas to experience sharp change both in their scales, expansion, development as well as in their connections with the worlds beyond them. New cities were built to serve new functions and new classes reflecting the change both within and without. Despite this, cities and neighborhoods within them are sometimes studied in isolation as coherent but self-contained entities.
This round of the Annual History Seminar aims to focus on studying cities and urban centers in their relation with their wider contexts; their environs, hinterland, trade networks and imperial contexts.
The Annual History Seminar meets at the Oriental Hall of the Tahrir Campus of the American University in Cairo. Participants should plan to present their research, in either English or Arabic, in 15-20 minutes to allow time for discussion. Young scholars, including graduate students and doctoral candidates, are encouraged to apply. The seminar particularly encourages multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to history, so scholars from disciplines other than history are also welcome to participate.
Interested scholars should send an abstract of around 300 words in English or Arabic, no later than 1 December, 2022. Participants will be informed by early January 2023.
For more information please contact: Professor Nelly Hanna Email: nhanna@aucegypt.edu
Or Dr Amina Elbendary Email: abendary@aucegypt.edu
11. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle, EPHE, INALCO)
a le plaisir de vous convier au colloque
Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan
Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022)
18 – 19 novembre 2022
Auditorium du musée Guimet
6, place d’Iéna, 75116 Paris.
Dans le cadre de la chaire de préfiguration « Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan » mise en œuvre par la Fondation Inalco, dont le CeRMI est partenaire, la Fondation Inalco et le musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, en collaboration avec la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA), organisent le colloque Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan, Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022).
Ce colloque est placé sous le patronage du ministère de la Culture.
Organisation
Sandra Aube (chercheuse au CNRS, CeRMI/Fondation INaLCO)
Nicolas Engel (conservateur des collections Afghanistan-Pakistan, MNAAG)
Philippe Marquis (directeur de la DAFA)
Programme et information sur le site du CeRMI
Nous vous invitons également à réserver vos places (gratuites, bien sûr) depuis le lien suivant : https://www.guimet.fr/event/colloque-arts-et-patrimoine-de-lafghanistan/
12. “WORKING METALS, MOVING BODIES: MORTARS AND DRUMS FROM AFGHANISTAN TO ANATOLIA IN THE 12THAND 13THCENTURIES
Persis Berlekamp, University of Chicago
Webinar, Wednesday, November 16th, 12:30pm EST
Part of the NYU Silsila Fall 2022 Series, Body and Senses
Pre-modern bronze production depended not only on specialized technical knowledge, but also on access to ores with chemically viable combinations of metals. Accordingly, areas with rich mines, such as Afghanistan and Anatolia, held special importance for the history of medieval Islamic bronze. In the turbulent twelfth and thirteenth centuries, contact between these very regions intensified as waves of refugees flooded westwards. What implications did this have for the facture, form, and function of bronze objects? Considering surviving mortars and drums in relation to the bodies that effected them, as well in relation to the bodies effected by their use, yields a multivalent, yet socially situated view of bronze, foment, and resonance in a turbulent era.
Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee either online or in person can be found at:
Only registered attendees will be able to access this even
13. The previous five Monday Majlis-es at the Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter have been recorded and are now available online. We have not recorded and we will not record, however, the discussions following the talks, as we want these to remain free, without the pressure of being recorded. So, while the recording will be accessible, please still come and attend the Majlis-es live : )
The five recorded Majlis-es are:
- Mehdy Shaddel, Universal Empire, Supersessionist Ideology: The Emergence of Islam in Umayyad Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7jJSoH_zEs&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=1
- Rahim Gholami, The Hermeneutics of Nāṣir-e Khusraw’s Esoteric Guidance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE-TRJ3uMhs&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=2&t=2s
- Isabel Toral, Jens Scheiner, Baghdad: Insights into a city and the making of a book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_IxyyzIQxQ&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=4&t=3749s
- Alexandra Hoffmann, What makes a man a man? Neẓāmi’s Majnun in a network of masculinities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MHgPFbL_s&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=4&t=1639s
- Nikola Pantic, Is It Religion or Magic, and What Is Between Them?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwxfagqAPPQ&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=5
The titles are abridged, but the original titles are in the descriptions.
Enjoy the talks and attend the coming ones if you can: )
If you would like to be included in the CSI mailing list, please contact the CSI Manager: Sarah Wood (s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk).
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