Archive for September 26th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Online Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter, opening the series in the new academic year.
Monday Majlis on the 2nd of October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Shawkat M. Toorawa, What, Where, and Whither Waqwaq?
Registration is required. Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkf-ytqTIoE9S7n5hE43ZiLJY585vvKKG-
2. The Life of John Haskell Shedd
By William A. Shedd
Mazda: Bibliotheca Iranica: Americans in Persia/Iran Collection, No. 4
MORE: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/the-life-of-john-haskell-shedd
3. Dance in the Persianate World: History Aesthetics, Performance
Edited by Anthony Shay
Mazda: Bibliotheca Iranica: Performing Arts Series, No. 14
MORE: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/dance-in-the-persianate-world
4. HYBRID “Fifth Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference”, American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University, 1-3 December 2023
We are particularly interested in proposals that relate to the theme: “After Mustafa Sabri: What Does a Robust Kalam Engagement with Contemporary Philosophy and Theology Look Like Today?” This year’s conference aims to continue to explore the interface between Islamic Philosophy and Theology and contemporary issues.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2023. Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/conference-paper/
5. Assistant Professor of Arabic, Faculty of Religion and Theology (FRT), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
We are looking for candidates with proper experience in the field of teaching Arabic on an academic level, with a relevant and competent research profile, in the context of Islamic theology and religious studies.
Deadline for applications: 9 October 2023. Information: Prof. Dr. Mirjam van Veen m.g.k.van.veen@vu.nl
6. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Applicants should possess a strong foundation in the formative or classical traditions and literatures of Islam, with appropriate language proficiency such as Arabic and/or Persian, and an understanding of later and contemporary developments within Islamic societies. The geographical area of specialization is open, though the successful candidate will also teach within the Middle East Studies program.
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/131848
7. Junior Research Fellowship 2024–2025, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The fellowship is open to all disciplines – particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology and anthropology. The fellowship’s goal is to allow untenured early career scholars the flexibility and means to advance a specific research project related to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. The Fellowship is open to both recent PhDs (as a postdoctoral position) and untenured assistant professors in Middle East-related fields.
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/132002
8. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of International Studies, Global Economy, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
We invite candidates whose research and teaching interests address issues relevant to the political economy of Africa, Asia, Latin America, or the Global South more generally. A completed or nearly completed PhD in Economics, International Studies, Political Science, Economic History, Public Administration, or a related field is required; in all cases, a strong foundation in international economics is expected.
Deadline for applications: 2 October 2023. Information: https://jobs.dickinson.edu/postings/7081
9. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Ancient Mediterranean, Classics Program, University of California, Davis
Applicants’ research interests should focus on Ancient Mediterranean culture(s) outside of Europe (e.g., An-cient Egypt, North Africa, the Levant). We are particularly interested in candidates whose research and teach-ing reorient traditional disciplinary boundaries, for instance by engaging with cross-cultural encounters within the Ancient Mediterranean world.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2023. Information: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06016
10. Non-tenure-track Assistant Teaching Professor of Persian Language and Culture, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
The successful candidate will have in hand a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in a relevant field such as Persian language, Persian culture, language pedagogy, or applied linguistics, and will have superior pro-ficiency in Persian, as demonstrated by teaching reviews. A PhD (or foreign equivalent) in these fields is also acceptable.
Deadline for applications: 16 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/131108
11. CFP: Special issue of Digest of Middle East Studies on the Woman, Life, Freedom protests
Issues: The role of regional /ethnic movements, especially in Kurdistan and in Baluchistan. – The role of the labor movement in the Women Life Freedom protests. – Consequences of the protests for Iran’s regional alliances and geopolitical standing. – Security services’ response to the protests (in terms of internal restruc-turing, procurement, training, recruitment, repressive techniques). Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20006627/cfp-special-issue-digest-middle-east-studies-woman-life-freedom
12. Open Access: Jesuits and Islam in Europe
Emanuele Colombo and Paul Shore
Brill, 2023
Open Access:
https://brill.com/display/title/60120
13. Louis Massignon et la mystique musulmane
Analyse d’une contribution à l’islamologie
Florence Ollivry
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/65026
14. CFP: Paper Abstracts for a Conference Session at EAUH 2024 (Ostrava, Czechia) and Chapters for an Edited Volume in Preparation
Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World
Co-chairs: Mohammad Gharipour, Prof., University of Maryland, mohammad@gatech.edu; Kivanç Kilinç, Assoc. Prof., Izmir Institute of Technology, kivanckilinc@iyte.edu.tr
Extended submission deadline: 20 October 2023
We invite paper abstracts around 300 words to be considered for a conference session (EAUH 2024 in Ostrava, Czechia) and for an edited volume in preparation that will feature selected papers accepted to this session as well as additional contributions. The extended deadline for submitting abstracts for both venues is October 20, 2023. Submission requirements for the conference can be found at: https://eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/guidelines-for-participants-and-authors/. For the edited volume, please submit your abstract via email.
Panel Description: The historiography of architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world has mostly focused on cities and urban communities, leaving many societies settled outside urban areas largely unnoticed or marginalized. Villages are on the radar of scholarship so far as they are a site of heritage conservation or postwar reconstruction, or when presented as a fresh approach to modern vernacular architectural practices, such as in Hassan Fathy’s New Gourna in Egypt. However, there is much to learn from these hitherto neglected sites. Travelers’ accounts as well as chronicles refer to urban centers but also to dynamic lifeways in rural areas across the Islamic world. Due to their distance from political centers, some villages remained less affected by major decisions made by central governments, and their development was primarily the result of local forms of governance and internal dynamics. In other instances, villages that were located on global trade routes played an active role in the spread of goods, artworks, and material culture similar to urban centers. Expanded over time, or developed by city planners, such as in colonial or “model” settlements, villages also reflect some of the most potent applications of architecture to the articulation of cultural identity.
This panel invites papers which examine the making of villages in the Islamic world from the medieval era to the second half of the twentieth century. Our goal is to provide a platform to discuss a much neglected aspect in urban historiography – rural forms of governance over space and how these forms have interacted with imperial or transregional edicts concerning use of resources. Papers may focus on a single village, planning or design of a building complex in a particular village, or any other topic relevant to rural-urban architectural interactions in the Balkans, Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia. Submitted papers could clarify the impact of cultural, political, economic, and physical context on the development and transformation of villages; the spatial dynamics of local societies and their interrelations with the larger world; intricate methods for governing land and water use, marital patterns, and sociomoral codes and their impact on rural development; the perception of rural life as contrasted with urban life found in travelers’ accounts and chronicles; how architecture responded to traditions and the changes within the economic or social context of villages, and how reformist ideas of urban and rural modernization reshaped existing rural settlements; and the spatial transformation of villages in frontier regions where Islamic societies encountered with non-Muslim settlers and traders. We welcome papers that employ archival materials or deploy new methodological approaches to the (comparative) analysis of villages and urban centers in the historic and contemporary geographies of Islam.
Mohammad Gharipour, Kıvanç Kılınç
15. Yale University – Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, South Asian Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66010
Review of applications will begin November 4th, 2023.
16. The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary, ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY 2023 LECTURE SERIES – October 5
ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY
2023 LECTURE SERIES
Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan
The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary
Thursday 5th October at 6.30pm
https://royalasiaticsociety.org/…/dr-hamid…/
The event will also be available on Zoom:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83898178878…
Meeting ID: 838 9817 8878
Passcode: 090813
Contact Email
URL
https://royalasiaticsociety.org/…/dr-hamid…/
17. CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: SoFCB JUNIOR FELLOWS PROGRAM
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2024–26 cohort of Junior Fellows. The deadline is Friday, 17 November 2023.
This scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.
The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become Senior Fellows in the Society.
The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, and areas of expertise.
For more information and to apply, please visit: http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/.
For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please read the SoFCB Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter.
Inquiries about the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program can be directed to SoFCB Administrative Director Kathryn Higinbotham at sofcb_staff@virginia.edu.
18. Forthcoming book discussion event on Women Imams and Women Mosques at King’s College London 11 Oct 2023
Women’s Mosques, Female Imams, and Muslim Debates: Discussing New Books
Wednesday 11 October 2023 from 17:00-19:00
Nash Lecture Theatre (K2.31), Strand Campus, King’s College London
Booking essential: https://buytickets.at/kingscollegelondon4/1012574
Contact: Dr Taushif Kara (taushif.kara@kcl.ac.uk )/ Dr Karen O’Brien-Kop (karen.obrien-kop@kcl.ac.uk )
19. WEBINAR | The Archival Remnants of Art; or an Intimate Lunch with Abu Turab Ghaffari, 28.9.23, 5pm UK time
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/archival-remnants-of-art
Tracing the production of some of the most prolific of Qajar painters requires a detour into print archives of the last half of 19th century where Sanī al-Mulk Ghaffārī Kāshānī, Abu Torāb Ghaffari kāshānī and later Mirzā Mehdī Khan Dzulfaqārī created an enviable visual repository of the life around the capital. For these talented, well-trained and innovative painters, official newspapers of the late 19th century provided a canvas for seemingly unlimited expressions of creativity. The primacy of print as the creative media of choice in the last decades of the 19th century, afforded a multiplicity of themes and designs and content that was fuelled the public’s interest in images. But the lithographic print technology that afforded these intricate designs’ widespread public reach maintained an intimate link to paper via its first drafts that connected the printed design with its more private predecessors of watercolour painting and painting on paper in general. With ‘paper’ at the heart of this presentation, we will together peruse through multiple lives of the same image across various kinds of technologies on paper to reflect upon the variety of viewerships they created and sustained.
- September 26, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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