Archive for February, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE International Workshop “(Islamic) Reform and Iǧmāʾ in Ignaz Goldziher’s Oeuvre” by Dr. Katalin Franciska Rac (University of Florida), Dr. Aysun Yaşar (University of Basel), Moderated by Dr. Katja Thörner (EZIRE, University Erlangen-Nürnberg), 2 March 2023, 16:00-18.00 CET
The workshop analyzes the concepts of reform and Iğmāʾ in the works of the Hungarian Jewish Orientalist Ignaz Goldziher. The two speakers propose a historical reading and offer a theological reading of Goldziher’s selected works.
Registration: https://unibas.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Arf-GgrDMsGNLkfWIj4KoEJuCn0KsZhe20
2. HYBRID Lecture “Beyond Sectarianism: Rural-Urban Relations and the Future of the Syrian Conflict” by Dr. Wassim Naboulsi (University of Sussex), Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS), 15 March 2023, 17:00-18:30 GMT
The lecture will show how Syrian society is far more dynamic and diverse than its stereotypically sectarian representation in Western discourse that is often based on an Orientalist understanding of the region. Dr Naboulsi will explore the importance of unpacking the multiple socio-economic cleavages in the country to better understand the Syrian crisis as he focuses on rural-urban tensions and grievances explaining why they should be considered in any future settlement of the Syrian conflict.
Information and registration: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/about/newsandevents/events/?id=60095
3. ONLINE Webinar “Women`s Worlds in Qajar Iran” by Afasamej Najmabadi (Harvard University), Universities of Toronto and Oxford, 20 April 2023, 12:00 pm Toronto Time
This is part of the monthly seminar Series “Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents” convened by Arezou Azad & Mohamad Tavakoli
Information and registration:
https://iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/event/rethinking-history-returning-to-archives-and-documents/
4. ONLINE Presentation “Tell Me Everything” by Homeira Qaderi, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 17 May 2023, 12:00 pm ET
Homeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer, activist, and educator. She is writing a novel, based on her lived expe-rience, that covers the last three decades of political turmoil, military invasions, and social upheaval in Afghanistan.
Information and registration:
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-homeira-qaderi-fellow-presentation-virtual
5. Conference “Women and the Politics of Translation in/of the Middle East”, University of Leuven, Date to be Announced
This conference will provide a scholarly forum to discuss how on the one hand, women in the Middle East fulfill their transformative roles as authors, translators, publishers, and/or social (political) activists by means of translation, and on the other hand to reflect on the (mis)representation of Middle Eastern women in Western media (i.e. news, literature, movies, etc.).
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/02/24/women-and-the-politics-of-translation-in-of-the-middle-east
6. HYBRID Session on “Migration, Religion, and Religious Groups” at “The Migration Conference”, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, 23-26 August 2023
Main topics: Migration and Religion in Theoretical Approaches. – Migration and Religious Ritual Changes. – Transnational Religious Groups. – Religious Minorities and Migration. – New Religious Movements. – Religious Organizations. – Religious Conflicts and Religious Radicalization. – Religious Diversity. – Religion, Migration and Pluralism, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2023.
Information:
7. HYBRID International Conference “Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)”, University of Konstanz, 21-23 March 2024
By exploring Christian-Muslim relations through the changing lens of methodologies, this conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate that, through comparison and collaboration between scholars from different fields, bridges rigid geographical and temporal frameworks. Main themes: Innovative approaches to the source material. – Revised, new, experimental methodologies. – Macro-historical perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023.
8. PhD Student, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO), University of Bern
The doctoral student will write a dissertation within the framework of the interdisciplinary project “The Flow” and will work with a corpus of Arabic legal sources from Harar (Eastern Ethiopia) from the late 19th century. Candidates must hold an excellent MA degree or equivalent in Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies, or in History or similar Humanities with an emphasis on Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies.
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2023. Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/e596f0ed-4899-43a1-8f64-1ceea5ed3621
9. Assistant Professorship in Islamic Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
The postholder will be expected to contribute to academic teaching, research, service, and outreach in the field of Islamic Studies, especially of the intellectual and social history of Islam and being Muslim in the modern Middle East.
Deadline for application: 20 March 2023. Information: https://career012.successfactors.eu/career?company=C0000956575P&career_job_req_id=25519&career_ns=job_listing&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH
10. Tenure-Track Position for International Studies (Focus Middle East), Centre College, Danville, KY
The ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to offer an introductory International Studies course and upper level thematic, regional, and interdisciplinary courses. The committee will prioritize candidates with expertise in the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/121557
11. Instructor for (Military) History of the Middle East (2 Years), United States Air Force Academy
U.S. applicants should possess and demonstrate the ability to teach in one of the core (general-education) military and world history courses offered to all USAF Academy students.
Deadline for applications: 30 March 2023. Information: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/706208700
12. British-Yemeni Society Research Grant
As part of its educational mission, the British-Yemeni Society (http://b-ys.org.uk/) offers a of up to £1,000 annually to assist with academic study related to Yemen. Applications are invited from anyone carrying out research in, or on Yemen, at a university, preferably one that is based in Britain or Yemen. Applicants’ na-tionality is irrelevant.
Applications at any time. Contact the Secretary of the Society at sec@b-ys.org.uk
13. Bourse pré-doctorale ou doctorale Idéo-Ifao 2023-2024
L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao) et l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales (Idéo) s’associent pour financer une bourse pré-doctorale ou doctorale de 10 mois, du 1er septembre 2023 au 30 juin 2024. Cette bourse inclut également la résidence à l’Idéo et des cours d’arabe à raison de deux heures de cours particulier par jour, cinq jours par semaine, au cours de cette période.
Le dossier de candidature devra être envoyé pat courriel avant le 30 avril 2023.
Information : https://www.ifao.egnet.net/annonces/emplois/
14. Awards of the “Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies” for Books, Dissertations, Graduate Student Papers, and Graduate Student Travel
Submissions open for the 2023 AGAPS Biennial Book Award (May 15), Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award (July 15), Graduate Paper Prize (July 15), and Student Travel Award (Sept. 1). Work must primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula but can be inclusive of the transnational flows of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean.
Information: https://agaps.org/agaps-awards
15. History Graduate Symposium, Bilkent University, 4-5 May 2023
We welcome diverse, innovative, and creative approaches to Byzantine, European, Ottoman, American, and Global History, with no chronological limits. We particularly encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the topics in question.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2023. Information:
16. Fall Semester 2023 – 2024 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies, Language Center, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support is available.
Deadline for applications: 30 March 2023. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Academics/LanguageCenter/Programs/arprog/Pages/Doha-Residence-Program.aspx
17. SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes
On Saturday March 4, 2023 at 11:00AM-4:00PM US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event. Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our efforts together to finally develop a dependable program that will allow texts using Arabic script to be machine readable. This work in checking and reviewing documents will allow scholars to access, search and explore historical and contemporary documents like never before. No knowledge of coding or programming is needed but knowledge of Arabic script is a must to train the machine learning program to recognize them. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. Drop by for however long you can to meet, chat, and transcribe!
18. Publish your critical edition and/or translation with MIDEO
MIDEO — the Miscellanies of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies — is accepting, in addition to articles and book reviews, critical editions of primary texts in Arabic, Persian, and other languages relevant to understanding the intellectual history of Islamicate societies throughout the centuries. We also accept translations of such works into English or French.
As a non-commercial, internationally peer-reviewed research journal of Islamic studies, we consider critical editions and/or translations of any length, i.e. also those that might be either too long for commercial journals or too short for a book project. The deadline for submission for the next issue of MIDEO is June 30, 2023.
We would be delighted to receive your proposal. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
With best wishes,
Dr. Dennis Halft, OP
Directeur de la publication / Editor / رئيس تحرير المجلّة
MIDEO (Miscellanies of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies)
Secrétariat | 1 street al-Ṭarābīchī | ʿAbbāssiyya P.O.B 18 |
11381 Cairo |Egypt
19. Seminar – CALLFRONT Calligraphy on the Frontiers of the Islamic World, Finbarr Barry Flood – March 14
We are pleased to welcome Finbarr Barry Flood for the next session of the seminar CALLFRONT Calligraphy on the Frontiers of the Islamic World, which will take place on March 14th, 2023, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Par-delà la lecture : médias et médiations dans l’épigraphie islamique
Finbarr Barry Flood (Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
Organization : Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Maxime Durocher
Abstract : La lecture et l’interprétation des inscriptions ont été fondamentales pour écrire l’histoire de l’architecture islamique médiévale. Dans quelle mesure le “tournant matériel” dans les sciences humaines et l’intérêt pour les questions de médiation, ouvrent-ils de nouvelles perspectives pour comprendre les multiples registres par lesquels les inscriptions véhiculent du sens dans ce contexte précis ? Remettant en question la dichotomie moderne entre la forme matérielle et la signification immatérielle, cette conférence discutera de la nécessité d’une approche qui met en évidence la matérialité des inscriptions et leur capacité à engager le spectateur, au-delà du regard et de la lecture.
Contact : callfront@inha.fr
20. Call for Contributions to our 9th IDHN Conference
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are excited to announce our 9th IDHN Conference which will take place on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
We are now calling for contributions from both members and guests, who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam and Muslim communities and languages. Our conference is open to participants from both humanistic and scientific disciplines.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
We will select four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes. We will hold the meeting online on ZOOM; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
Please share our announcement with your colleagues and students, and please forward this call to your networks and listservs as well.
With warm wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
21. CFP: The Urgency of the Digital (IJIA special issue) – Deadline: June 1, 2023
Please see (linked here) a Call For Papers for “The Urgency of the Digital,” a special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture to be published July 2025. We welcome submissions from practitioners, urbanists, art historians, specialists in literary and religious studies, archivists, librarians, data scientists, software developers, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, and historians whose work resonates with the topic. Proposal submissions (due by June 1, 2023) and queries should be sent to IJIA25Digital@gmail.com.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
Special Issue: The Urgency of the Digital
Thematic volume planned for July 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2023
We are announcing the fifth Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, from August 21 to September 1, 2023. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers. The programme will be published later. This is just to let you know that the deadline for application is Friday June 16, 2023. For more information about the application and the possibility of scholarships you can already send an e-mail to Fons ‘t Hooft, a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
2. Call For Contributions: “Medieval Borders and the Environment”
Proposals for essays in English (c. 8000-12000 words) are warmly welcomed on the topic “borders, the elements, and the environment”.
This volume, provisionally titled Medieval Borders and the Environment, will be submitted to Brill to be included in the new series “Elements, Nature, Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the Ancient to the Early Modern World” edited by Dr. Marilina Cesario and Dr. Andreas Lammer. The volume’s goal is to provide a venue for interdisciplinary research on the time period between about 500 and 1500 or slightly later. It intends to promote study on underrepresented parts of the medieval world, broadly construed, as well as articles that examine interconnections across regions and cultures.
The volume aims at covering topics from the following regions, broadly intended: Europe, including Northern and Eastern Europe Central Asia, South Asia, India, Japan, China, North and South Africa, East and West Africa, Oceans and Seas, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania.
The book aims to respond to the following questions:
What fundamental characteristics did borders have during the Middle Ages?
What did the word “boundary” mean in general?
Were boundaries separating one thing from another real or imaginary?
How did borders affect the environment? What effects did boundaries have on the local environment, as well as the cultures and people that inhabited it? And how have borders changed or been defined in relation to the environment?
Have toponymy and borders been influenced by elemental theory, or vice versa?
What impact had the environment on the spread of epidemics? Did it promote its expansion or serve as a barrier? And how did disease affect borders?
What effects have the environment and borders had on culture, the dissemination of knowledge (including that pertaining to science, engineering, and currents in the arts and architecture), dietary customs, clothing, trade, and movement in general?
All other contributions have been confirmed, and they include real and imaginary borders in medieval Rus’, the transmission of the Old Norse materia medica between Scandinavia and the continent, material mobilities within commercial markets as political and cultural boundary crossings between medieval Korea and Mongolia, and the spread of iconographic motifs with artistic, magical, and political purposes in the Baltic Sea region, among others. Final contributions will be due in May 2024.
Proposals might include but are not limited to:
– Border Studies;
– Old and Middle German Studies;
– Lombard language, history and culture;
– Gothic language, history and culture;
– Celtic Studies;
– Medieval Romance Studies (including French);
– Medieval Islamic Studies;
– Pre-Columbian cultures;
– Geography and Cartography, including Human Geography;
– Toponymy (especially in connection with environmental features and elemental theory);
– History of Science;
– Landscape Epidemiology;
– History of Medicine;
– Environmental History;
– Sociology;
– Anthropology;
– Etc.
Please send a 200-300 word abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the editor: Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it). The deadline for the submission of proposals is March 15, 2023.
3. Harvard Art Museums – Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian or
Islamic Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65102
Closing : April 3, 2023.
4. The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism,
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Austin O’Malley
5. Turcica 53/2022 (new issue)
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=TURC&issue=0&vol=53
CONTENT
Articles:
Whitehead (Christopher), The Reluctant Pasha: Çerkes Dilaver and Elite Localization in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Whaiton-Durgaryan (Alyson), Armenian Elites, Architectural Transference, and Restoration of Order in the Civil Architecture of Post-Massacre Bitlis and Erzurum
Special Feature:
-The ‘Ahdnâme “Revisited:” Some New Approaches and Perspectives
(Articles by P. Guena, I. Hathaway, G Işıksel, A. Sekulic, T. Steffini)
-Pour une histoire des émotions dans L’Empire ottoman
(Articles by H.G. Özkoray, M. Sariyannis, N. Vatin, C. Römer, M. Ursinus)
Notes and Documents:
-Vatin (Nicolas), Hayr Ed-Dîn Barberousse, Zorzi Gritti et les relations franco-ottomanes en août 1533 : une « Lettre d’amitié » du Grand Vizir Ibrâhîm Paşa
6. Nahyan Fancy, Depauw University
Annual Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine
McGill, Dept of Social Studies of Medicine
March 15, 2023, 4.30 – 6pm
Arabic Writings on Plague: Revising the Chronologies of the First and Second
Plague Pandemic Using Evidence from Islamic Societies
Further info at:
https://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcoming-events
7. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Merits of the Plague, introduction, edition, translation, and notes by Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed
(New York: Penguin-Random House, 2023),
8. Deadline for Panels and Papers for DAVO Congress in Vienna 28 February 2023
Please note that the panels and papers for the next DAVO Congress – which will be combined with the “Turkologentag 2023” at the University of Vienna on 21-13 September 2023 – have to be registered until the deadline of 28 February 2023.
Please register via the Website of the “Turkologentag 2023” at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at.
The organizers of every panel are kindly requested to enter the names of all presenters of papers and the abstracts of their papers (up to 300 words) and keywords in the registration form for the specific panel.
In addition, all paper presenters of a specific panel are kindly requested to register individually. Please include the paper abstract (up to 300 words) plus keywords and add the name of the panel in the field “Remarks” (Part of Panel).
For paper presenters especially from the Middle East and North America, who have no chance to attend the conference in person, the Congress organizers will try to arrange some hybrid panels with online presentations.
Papers are invited for the following open panels:
1) Social and Labour Market Policies in the MENA: Strong Enough to Cushion Global Economic, Health and Climate Crises?
2) Nation Building across Religious and Continental Boundaries: (Counter-) Islamic References in Print, Diasporic Networks, and Communal Formations
3) Extractivism and Natural Resource Degradation in MENA: Drivers of Change for State-Society Relations?
4) The Diaspora as a Transformative Experience: Critical Engagement of Kurdish Women Activists Moving between Different Countries
Please see the summaries of these panels in the attachment. If you want to present a paper in these panels, please send the abstract of your proposed paper to the organizer of the specific panel until 26 February 2023.
These are the registration fees for different groups of participants:
– 50 € for regular members of DAVO
– 10 € for members of DAVO who are students, unemployed or registered as low-income members
– 100 € for non-members of DAVO
– 40 € for students who are non-members of DAVO
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After 1 May 2023 the registration fee will rise according to the list at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/.
9. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
An Ugly, Lovely Town’: Dylan Thomas in Tehran (and beyond)
with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Part of ‘Wales Week/Iran’
1 March, 2023 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/iran-and-wales/
10. Spring 2023 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series
The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) welcomes you to listen and engage with graduate students who will present on their research on young people in the Middle East and North Africa, and its diasporic communities. The format of the sessions is thirty minutes of presentation by the speaker followed by thirty minutes of discussion and Q&A with the audience. The AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series is intended to be a space for graduate students to share their cutting-edge research as well as workshop their dissertation material.
Friday March 3rd, 11 am CST
Reda Rafei, Texas Tech University
The Winner of the 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Paper Prize
“Ottoman Children and Dhurri Waqf : A Legal and Gendered Perspective”
Friday May 12th, 11 am CST
Eyüp Ensar Dal, Middle East Technical University
“Single Motherhood and Childcare in Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Üsküdar”
Friday June 9th, 11 am CST
Nour Mohamad J Hodeib, The Graduate Center – CUNY
“By Songs and Fire; Counterculture, Rock’n,Roll, and the Lebanese Left during 1970s.”
Please RSVP to Dylan Baun to attend (djb0035@uah.edu) and receive the zoom link
11. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)is offering multiple grant and award opportunities in conjunction with its Sixteenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 4 – 6, 2023.
Now in its tenth year, the ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it constitutes new and original research and is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas:
- Minorities and Women
- Military History
- Governance and Economy
- Faith
- Iran
Grants of $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Sixteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
ASMEA is also offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
The 2023 Bernard Lewis Prize is awarded to scholars or practitioners engaged in the study of issues on antisemitism that were of great importance to our founding chairman, Prof. Bernard Lewis. Four winners will be announced at the Annual Conference and awarded $2500 each. The deadline to submit is June 30, 2023.
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels and Call for Poster Proposals.
Grant and award opportunities are open to members only. For information on how to become a member and full guidelines on each program, visit our website at www.asmeascholars.org.
Feel free to contact ASMEA at info@asmeascholars.org with any questions
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Shii News – Online: ‘The Hadith of `Ā’isha’s Marital Age’ – J Little (25.2.23, 3pm EST)
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Seminar “Why Failed Protests are Politically Significant: Insights from Jordan” with Jillian Schwedler in Conversation with Daniel Neep, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 1 March 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST
Prof. Schwedler will explore the political effects of routine protests on state and society in Jordan, drawing from her new book, “Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent”.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IlKr94YWSqaNeSpaPvNWog#/registration
2. International Conference “Succession in Islamic Law”, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 30-31 March 2023
The conference brings together scholars and researchers from various fields of social sciences, the humanities and law to share and exchange their experiences and research results with respect to the intergenerational transfer of property in Muslim jurisdictions. We are looking forward to offering new perspectives on the role of succession law in Muslim communities in the past and in the present, looking as well at its role for future generations.
Deadline for registration: 20 March 2023.
Information and program: https://www.mpipriv.de/1602926/30-03-2023-succession-in-islamic-law.html
3. Conference “Decolonising Gender and Sexuality: Learning from Other Voices”, University of Zurich, 11-12 May 2023
This conference will explore the theme of decolonisation through different modalities of learning from and generating knowledge with communities located in former colonies of the Global South.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2023. Information: https://www.decolgender.uzh.ch/en.html
4. Conference “Confronting Feminist Co-optation and Backlash: Colonial Legacies, Imperial Neoliberalism, and Antifeminisms”, Birzeit University, 17 June 2023
Papers are invited for the sessions: 1) Embedding feminism within globalized discourse and practice. 2) Possibilities of liberatory feminist popular mobilization. 3) Liberatory feminist visions and models.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information: Contact women-inst@birzeit.edu
5. Conference “Iran’s Look East Policy”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 14-15 August 2023
The conference will explore the policy’s origins, implications, challenges, and opportunities, as well as Iranian and other perspectives on the Islamic Republic’s international relations with countries to its geographic east and in the global south more broadly.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/02/09/call-for-papers-annual-conference-of-the-iranian-studies-unit-irans-look-east-policy
6. Postdoc, History of the Middle East (3 Years +), Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern
The postdoc will devote 50% of her/his time to one`s own research, on any topic related to the modern or contemporary history of the Middle East (particularly its social, political or economic dimensions). The rest of the postdoc’s time will be devoted to supporting the activities of the Institute with teaching and administration.
Deadline for application: 20 March 2023. Information:
https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/cc402f32-0ed4-4616-a4d2-af0ea17afce8
7. Professor OR Reader in Arabic Studies, Department of Arabic and Persian, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Applications are invited from outstanding Arabic studies scholars with an international research reputation for this high profile position. Candidates must have a proven track record of securing significant grant funding and leading high quality externally funded research projects.
Deadline for application: 10 March 2023. Information: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5541/0/380458/889/professor-or-reader-in-arabic-studies-ac7974sb
8. Assistant Teaching Professor (Full Time, 3 Years), Arabic Language, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
Ph.D. in hand by Summer 2023 is preferred. Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and an Arabic dialect; thorough grounding in classical Arabic language (including syntax and morphology) and culture; and experience in proficiency-based, communicative methods of teaching Modern Standard Arabic. Experience in proficiency testing is a plus.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/121369
9. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-2024, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University
AKPIA Fellows are a full-time, immersion research appointment, to result in a lecture delivered to the AKPIA community, and a submission to the journal Muqarnas (published by Brill).
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2023. Infor mation: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65075
10. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Loyola University, New Orleans
Contemporary Middle Eastern history (Twentieth Century to the Present) is preferred; however, applicants must be able to teach both parts of the Middle Eastern History Survey as well as a Global History survey. Applicants with research and teaching specialties that would contribute to our international studies concen-tration are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2023. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65062
11. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Asia and Global History, Loyola University, New Orleans
Applicants must be able to teach a variety of courses on Asia and courses relevant to the applicant’s area of expertise. Applicants with research and teaching specialties that would contribute to our international studies concentration are strongly encouraged to apply, particularly applicants with experience in diplomatic history from an Asian point of view are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65063
12. Faculty Fellow (Non-Tenure Track) in Islamic History before 1850, New York University
The successful candidate should have a demonstrated record of teaching and research in history, Islamic Studies, religious studies, or other related fields. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than five years before the date of appointment and have a strong commitment to teaching.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/120687
13. Zoroastrianism Summer School: “Zoroastrianism as a Religious Minority in Modern and Contemporary Iran”, SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, Norwegian Institute, Rome, 26-30 June 2023
This course is a fantastic opportunity to immerse yourself in the study of Zoroastrianism. Students will be given an intensive learning experience consisting of lectures, discussions and interactive workshops. The course will be delivered by leading academics from Norway, the UK and the US.
Application deadline: 19 March 2022.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/zoroastrianism-summer-course
14. HYBRID Summer Language School 2023, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 3 July – 18 August 2023
The Program offers intensive instruction in Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Chinese students and professionals. A wholly immersive experience is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as conversation tables and study hours, seminars by top scholars on history, politics, literature, and arts, and cultural events including movie screenings, and field trips to historical sites and archives.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
15. Summer Internship Opportunities at the Arab Center Washington DC, May – August 2023
We currently offer four paid internship opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent college graduates. Each intern will be considered for one of four available positions: Congressional Affairs Intern; Editing Intern; Research Intern; Multimedia Intern.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023.
Information: https://arabcenterdc.org/about/acw-careers/internship-opportunities/
16. Articles on “Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production” for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Amazigh Studies (JAS)”
Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. This issues will engage the whole sweep of Amazigh orality, with issues and examples drawn from (oral) literature, social media, films, music, and then, literacy in general. JAS is trilingual (French, English, and Tamazight).
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12347750/amazigh-orality-contemporary-production
17. HIAA Symposium Details – March 2-4
See below for details of the upcoming HIAA Biennial Symposium, co-hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Rice University, from March 2-4, 2023.
The symposium will be streamed live via Zoom. Please find links to register for and access the Zoom webinars below:
Thursday, March 2, and Friday, March 3: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-dmTMqWnRJKKGUCzIAMuPQ
Saturday, March 4: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nX7EP7_SRieMGTDKsGRatQ
The full schedule of the symposium can be accessed here: https://arthistory.rice.edu/hiaa-symposium-2023-program.
While the symposium is free and open to the public, we ask that all in-person attendees register for the conference here: https://arthistory.rice.edu/hiaa-symposium-2023-registration.
We look forward to seeing you in March!
Aimée Froom and Farshid Emami, HIAA Biennial Symposium 2023 Co-organizers
Julie Timte, HIAA Biennial Symposium 2023 Managing Organizer
18. Lecturer in Comparative Literature
University of St Andrews
The School of Modern Languages invites applications for the position of Lecturer in Comparative Literature. You will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation in comparative literature, as well as a commitment to delivering high quality teaching. Ideally, your comparative research will include expertise in studies relating to at least one of the eight languages taught in the School (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish).
Deadline | 8 March 2023
19. CBRL Grant Applications 2023/2024
Funding | Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL is happy to announce their 2023-24 call for grant applications. Grants available:
- Project grants, up to £10,000.
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs.
- Travel grants, up to £1,200.
- Research support grants, up to £1,200 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 10 March 2023
20. Call for Papers – The Qur’an and Late Antiquity
Annual Meeting | 18-21 November 2023 | San Antonio, Texas
For the 2023 SBL / International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, the Qur’an and Late Antiquity program unit invites proposals that utilize various types of material or evidence—be that literary, documentary, or epigraphic—to illuminate the historical context in which the Qur’an was revealed and the early Islamic polity emerged. We are especially interested in papers that present and discuss new and comparative methodologies to approach the interplay between Late Antique phenomenon and the Qur’an.
Deadline | 14 March 2023
21. The Mosque of the Prophet and the Palace: Urbanism and Architecture in Early Islamic Medina
Online Lecture | 7 March 2023, 17:30 | London Society for Medieval Studies
By applying a focus on topography, geography and architectural history to the study of the source material on Medina, this lecture will provide a comprehensive picture of the urban landscape of the Prophet’s City in the early Islamic period with particular emphasis on the Mosque of the Prophet and its surrounding area.
22. MLA 2024 Calls for Papers: CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Disease and Health in the Global Arab Imaginary
Healing rituals and embodied wellness practices, celebrations of health and death, representations of illness (Covid, plagues, etc.) in literary and artistic works from the Arab region and global Arab diaspora. 250-word abstract & CV.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Penn State U, University Park (azstanton@psu.edu)
Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies
Reimagining Arab American studies via relationalities to other communities/areas of study: e.g., Arab American history as narrative of settler colonialism and enslavement, Arabness in relation to American Latinx, Indigenous, Muslim cultures. 250-word abstract & CV.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Penn State U, University Park (azstanton@psu.edu) & Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U (danielle.haque@mnsu.edu)
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Free online conference: Relating Islam and Science: Frameworks and Methodologies, 3-4 April 23
Details below of an upcoming two-day online conference organised jointly by the University of Chester, University of Birmingham and Cambridge Muslim College.
The event is free to join and you can register here:
2. Society for the History of Discoveries 2023 Conference
Worlds of Exploration
The James Ford Bell Library, with its extensive collection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and archival collections, documenting the history and impact of trade and cultural exchange before the 19th century, offers an ideal venue to host the 2023 SHD conference. This year’s conference locale aligns with the global breadth of the Society’s mission by supporting research into the expeditions, biographies, history, cartography, as well as the technologies of travel, the impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery. With its expansive resources, the James Ford Bell, and other collections associated with the University of Minnesota’s libraries, offers members of the Society and presenters an ideal opportunity to conduct research prior to and after the conference. The rich and fascinating collections emboldens the inspiration for our conference.
The Society for the History of Discoveries invites papers, 20 minutes in length, on all points of view of this theme, Worlds of Exploration, including: “discovery,” encounter, exploration, conquest, resistance, settlement, economy, daily life, and all aspects of socio-cultural and political encounter, as well as on the teaching of the history of exploration, broadly defined.
SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, as well as established scholars and members of the Society. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings, photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience, all visuals have to be presented as PowerPoint-compatible projection. The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various professions.
Where: Minneapolis-St-Paul, Minnesota
When: 21 September – 23 September, 2023 (With an optional excursion on Sunday, 24)
Venue: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
Please provide a proposal that includes the following components:
- the title of the presentation
- the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation
- an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words)
- a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.
- a statement indicating whether PowerPoint or other digital media will be used and whether internet access is necessary for the presentation
- a brief biographic sketch of the author(s)
Paper proposals are due 17 April 2023, and must be submitted via the SHD website – an online submissions portal.
Inquiries via Dr. Lydia Towns, SHD secretary: lydia.towns@sfasu.edu
3. La cinquième séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 2 mars 2023 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Francis Richard (BULAC) pour une conférence intitulée : « Le roi et sa cour dans l’iconographie des manuscrits du Shāhnāmeh »
Résumé
Le Shāhnāmeh a une grande importance dans tout le monde iranien. Il transmet notamment, par son texte même, une image de la royauté qui a exercé une grande influence dans l’imaginaire des peuples de culture persane mais a peut-être aussi contribué à élaborer au travers des différentes figures de souverains une image de la souveraineté qui s’est répandue sur une très vaste aire géographique. Certains des souverains iraniens préislamiques ont fourni des modèles ou un idéal pour différents peuples iranisés. Transmis par de nombreux manuscrits, le texte de l’épopée a été illustré dès le milieu du xiiie siècle dans beaucoup d’exemplaires destinés à des amateurs illustres ou fortunés. Parmi les miniatures, réalisées en différents endroits et dans des styles divers, un nombre important montrent des souverains trônant dans leur palais, rendant la justice, guerroyant ou chassant.
Nombre d’études concernent l’iconographie du Shāhnāmeh. On voudrait simplement ici montrer certaines de ces miniatures en tentant de s’interroger sur les attitudes plus ou moins stéréotypées que les peintres adoptent pour figurer les rois, sur la façon dont leur personne est mise en valeur et sur les attributs du souverain (couronne, vêtement, etc.). Le roi combat-il personnellement ? La cour est souvent représentée ; son étiquette varie-t-elle d’une époque à l’autre ? Qu’en est-il des différents dignitaires ? Quelle est la façon de rendre la justice ?
Les rois président des célébrations de fêtes (Nowrūz, Mehregān) et on peut parler parfois de « figure sacrée du souverain », mais cela apparaît-il dans les images produites par les peintres ?
Le palais ou le jardin sont les lieux de réception royale. Beaucoup de scènes de réception d’ambassadeurs ou parfois des délibérations d’un roi avec ses généraux sont présentes dans les manuscrits. Au-delà des stéréotypes qui sont fréquents, certaines scènes sont des allusions aux évènements contemporains de la réalisation du manuscrit et représentent de la manière la plus glorieuse possible le souverain dédicataire du manuscrit. On pourra dès lors essayer de comprendre pourquoi les différentes dynasties se sont approprié le Shāhnāmeh et ses images pour y trouver une représentation idéale de la royauté correspondant aux aspirations des populations familières des récits épiques iraniens.
Orientations bibliographiques
- Barbara Brend ; Charles Melville (éd.), Epic of the Persian Kings. The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, London / New York, I. B. Tauris, 2010.
- Anna Caiozzo. Le roi glorieux. Les imaginaires de la royauté d’après les enluminures du Shāh Nāma de Firdawsī aux époques timouride et turkmène, Paris, Geuthner, 2018.
- Pierre Lecoq (trad.), Shâhnâmeh. Le Livre des Rois, Paris, Les Belles Lettres / Geuthner, 2019.
- Shahnama project : https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/shahnama/1
- Stuart Cary Welch, (ed.), A King’s Book of Kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976 (en ligne sur Google Books)
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de cette séance, qui se déroulera en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
Ci-joint le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” en format pdf. Retrouvez également les détails sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
4. The Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 2 – February 2023
https://mailchi.mp/e0a54b6d9be6/latin-america-caribbean-islamic-studies-newsletter-vol3-no2
5. 27 April 2023 Event – Book Launch: Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
AKU-ISMC
To celebrate AKU-ISMC’s publication of Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present, please join Professors Stéphane Pradines and Farouk Topan and their guests Dr Farah Faizal, High Commissioner of the Republic of the Maldives, and Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, Head of Southeast Asia at the British Library, for a discussion of this rich crossroads of Muslim cultures.
Date and Time
Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:30 – 19:00 (London).
Venue
Aga Khan Centre (Atrium Conference Room),
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN
Booking
The event is free, but booking is essential. Book your ticket now and join us in person.
6. Registration: 2023 Islamic Archaeology Day, March 11th, London@UCL
We are delighted to announce the programme for the 7th annual Islamic Archaeology Day co-hosted by SOAS and UCL and held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on Saturday March 11th 2023 between 11 and 6pm.
We invite you to register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-archaeology-day-2023-tickets-539224654457. Please make sure that you register before February 24th as there is an early-bird registration fee of £18 (£12 for students – limited numbers). Registration will cover a sandwich lunch, refreshments and a wine reception.
There will be a dinner afterwards at the Life Goddess on Store Street for anyone who would like to attend at a cost of £45pp (including 3 courses, plenty of wine) so please indicate on the registration form if you are interested in joining us. We’ll confirm final numbers and the main course options with all those interested in late February.
Finally, please do pass this onto others who may be interested in attending. Everyone is welcome!
All best wishes,
Corisande Fenwick (UCL) c.fenwick@ucl.ac.uk, Tom Fitton (UCL), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS/ UCL), Scott Redford (SOAS), Aila Santi (SOAS), Paul Wordsworth (UCL)
All imformation is at the above site.
7. British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World: 2023 round open for submissions
We are delighted to announce that the 2023 round of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. The award includes a cash prize of £1000 which will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS.
The deadline is Tue 28 February 2023, 5pm GMT.
For further information about the Prize, including all terms and conditions, click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2023
For any queries, please email brais.prize@ed.ac.uk .
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Shii News – Recording of IDHN Conference on “Shi’i Hadith and Legal Studies: Digital Perspectives” – 26.1.23
- February 17, 2023
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