Archive for September, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies 2024: University of Leeds, Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 May 2024 – Call for Papers and Panels
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies will be hosted by the University of Leeds in their stunning Cloth Hall Court conference venue on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 May 2024.
The Call for Papers is now live and can be viewed here: www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2024/cfp
We welcome proposals for individual papers or whole panels from across the many sub-disciplines of Islamic Studies and look forward to welcoming you all to what promises to be a very memorable two days of presentations and conversations in a truly exceptional venue.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday 14 December 2023, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require any guidance on submitting your proposal.
2. The Praxis of Digital Humanities: Expanding Horizons and Transforming Scholarship in the Arab/Islamic World
6-7 March 2024
The American University of Sharjah
First Call for Papers
The emergence of digital humanities has revolutionized the landscape of academic research, providing unprecedented opportunities for scholars to explore, analyze, and interpret literary texts and media in ways that were previously unimaginable. Particularly in the context of the Arab/Islamic world, the application of digital technologies has become increasingly crucial in expanding the horizons of scholarship, whether in exploring the power of computations and machine learning of languages such as Arabic, or in applying new methodologies in the analysis and interpretation of different kinds of data (textual, visual, audio, geospatial, network, etc). Digital humanities not only enable the preservation and dissemination of Arabic/Islamic literature and cultural heritage but also facilitate interdisciplinary collaborations and offer new insights into the intricate connections between literature, media, religious studies, history, translation, computer science, and other fields of study.
The Department of Arabic and Translation studies at the American University of Sharjah (AUS) is pleased to invite you to participate in a two-day symposium on the Praxis of Digital Humanities. The symposium aims to bring together scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines to explore the ways in which digital humanities approaches and technologies are revolutionizing the study, interpretation, and dissemination of literary texts and cultural production in the Arab/Islamic world. It also aims to emphasize the importance of digital humanities and its transformative impact on the study of Arabic/Islamic literature and media in the present and the future. By focusing on an array of topics, including digital archives, computational analysis, close and distant reading methods, digital editions, spatial analysis, translation, storytelling, cultural heritage preservation, lexicography, and dialects, this symposium seeks to illuminate the multifaceted ways in which digital technologies are reshaping our understanding and interpretation of the Arab/Islamic literary and cultural traditions. Through this interdisciplinary exploration, we aim to address the challenges, opportunities, and limitations associated with digital approaches, and to foster innovative research collaborations that expand the frontiers of knowledge in the Arab/Islamic context.
The symposium invites original contributions which explore the intersection of digital humanities and literature/media in the context of the Arab/Islamic world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Digital archives and databases of historical Arabic/Islamic literature and media
- Computational analysis and visualization of Islamic religious texts
- Digital tools and platforms for analyzing Arabic/Islamic literature and media data
- Close vs. distant reading methods of Arabic/Islamic literature and media
- Digital editions and critical editions of Arabic/Islamic texts
- Digital mapping and spatial analysis of Arabic/Islamic literary landscapes
- Digital storytelling and oral history of Arabic/Islamic content and/or its translation
- Digital humanities and Arabic/Islamic cultural heritage preservation and sustainability
- Digital methodologies in Arabic/Islamic lexicography
- Digital humanities approaches to Arabic dialects
- Data management and ethical considerations in digital humanities projects relating to Arabic/Islamic texts.
- NLP techniques in Arabic/Islamic digital humanities (sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, dialect identification, etc)
- Digital humanities and Arabic/Islamic literature in translation
- Machine Translation and algorithmic bias in Arabic/Islamic digital content
- Digital humanities and gamification, and the use of augmented/virtual reality (AR/VR) applications for Arabic/Islamic literature and culture.
Submission Guidelines:
We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit abstracts of original research relevant to the symposium’s themes. Submissions can be in English or in Arabic (abstracts in Arabic also need to have an abstract in English). Abstracts should be informative and well-structured (250-300 words) outlining the paper’s objectives, methodology, and key findings. All abstracts will be double reviewed by members of the scientific committee.
You can send your abstract to atsconference@aus.edu (please enclose also a copy of your passport)
Publication Opportunity:
Papers presented at the symposium (and which will not be under review for publication elsewhere at the time) will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (published by Brill) and/or Dragoman: International Journal of Translation Studies (published by ATI & Garant). Authors will be notified about the publication process after the symposium.
Important Dates:
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 15th October 2023
- Notification of Acceptance: 1st November 2023
- Symposium Dates: 6-7 March 2024
Registration:
Registration fees: $150
(includes coffee breaks and lunch for 2 days and the symposium dinner)
Reduced rate for full-time students: $100
Accommodation:
Presenters and attendees need to make their own accommodation reservations. AUS has contracted a discounted rate for conference attendees at Centro Sharjah (closest hotel to AUS). AUS will provide transportation to/from the hotel and the university. More information will be provided on the conference website.
Contact Information:
For inquiries and submission of abstracts, please send an email to atsconference@aus.edu.
3. Workshop /: Taller: Practicing Autonomy to Think-Feel Decolonially/ Practicar la Autonomía, Senti-Pensar Decolonial
Title: Practicing Autonomy to Think-Feel Decolonially: decolonial methods for creating knowledge and practice.
Deadline: First selection- September 20th, 2023, and then, until filled.
Notice of Acceptance in the Workshop: September 27th, 2023
Payment Deadline: October 6th, 2023
Sessions: October 7th, 2023 – November 25th, 2023, 10am to 12pm, Mexico City Time
Location: Online
Languages: English and Spanish with simultaneous interpretation
Description: Decolonial and Anti-Colonial thought could be characterized as incorporating a great diversity of ways of knowing and experiencing the world that is not limited by classic western thought / philosophy. Many of these forms of knowledge have been preserved in form and practice by indigenous communities in the Americas. However, decolonial thought is not limited to only these communities, rather, it also incorporates ways of knowing / being that derive from diasporic experiences, diverse genders and sexualities, racialized communities, neuro- and physically diverse lived experiences as well as the many other forms of knowledge that have been devalued by capitalism / coloniality. Because much of the violence imposed on these communities is structural, build into governance by the state and multi-national corporations, the need to construct, to practice autonomy becomes more urgent everyday. From the macro-scale of the crisis of capitalism that threatens to destroy life on Earth to daily forms of brutality that so many of us experience in our bodies and sense of self, the desire to minimize our precarity, create communities of care and live a life free of violence is driving more and more people around the world to recognizing our responsibility to transform our history and present so that we may have a future. Autonomous practice recognizes that we can’t wait for someone else to create change; we must do it ourselves. It also recognizes that we create interdependencies across communities of practice so that we may learn from each other, grow and deepen our ability to create well-being.
This workshop brings together a group of thoughtful practitioners working across scales to transform the day to day lives of their communities and contribute to renewing our ability to realize our lives in environments with access to critical infrastructures, health and care. On the other hand, for our present and future to flourish it is also necessary to develop and recognize an inclusive history that dignifies the experiences of the many peoples of the Earth whose cultures have persisted in spite of the massive drive of modernity to annihilate them. From Philadephia, USA to Cusco, Peru we will look at the work, struggles and successes involved in creating autonomy from a de- / anti- colonial perspective.
For more info and to register: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/04/online-workshop-practicing-autonomy-to-feel-think-decolonially-taller-practicar-la-autonomia-senti-pensar-decolonial/
To download the workshop description directly: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/files/2023/09/description-practicing-autonomy-1.pdf
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Título: Practicar la Autonomía, Senti-Pensar Decolonial: Métodos Decoloniales Para Crear Conocimiento Y Práctica
Cierre Convocatoria: Primera Selección- 20 de septiembre, 2023. Y después, hasta agotar plazas.
Aviso de los Resultados: 27 de septiembre, 2023.
Fecha Límite para Pagar la Inscripción: 6 de octubre, 2023.
Sesiones: 7 de octubre, 2023 – 25 de noviembre, 2023, 10am á 12pm, Horario de la Ciudad de México.
Donde: En Línea
Idiomas: Castellano e Inglés
Descripción: El pensamiento decolonial y anticolonial podría caracterizarse por incorporar una gran diversidad de formas de conocer y experimentar el mundo que no están limitadas por el pensamiento / filosofía occidental clásica. Muchas de estas formas de conocimiento han sido preservadas en forma y práctica por las comunidades indígenas de las Américas. Sin embargo, el pensamiento decolonial no se limita sólo a estas comunidades, sino que también incorpora formas de conocer / ser que se derivan de experiencias diaspóricas, diversos géneros y sexualidades, comunidades racializadas, experiencias vividas neuro- y físicamente diversas, así como las muchas otras formas de conocimiento que han sido devaluadas por el capitalismo / colonialidad. Debido a que gran parte de la violencia impuesta a estas comunidades es estructural, construida en la gobernanza por el Estado y las corporaciones multinacionales, la necesidad de construir, de practicar la autonomía se hace cada día más urgente. Desde la macro-escala de la crisis del capitalismo, que amenaza con destruir la vida en la Tierra, hasta las formas cotidianas de brutalidad que tantos de nosotres experimentamos en nuestros cuerpes y en nuestro sentido del yo, el deseo de minimizar nuestra precariedad, crear comunidades de cuidado y vivir una vida libre de violencia, está impulsando a cada vez más personas de todo el mundo a reconocer nuestra responsabilidad de transformar nuestra historia y nuestro presente para que podamos tener un futuro. La práctica autónoma reconoce que no podemos esperar a que otre cree el cambio; debemos hacerlo nosotres mismes. También reconoce que creamos interdependencias entre comunidades de práctica para que podamos aprender unes de otres, crecer y profundizar en nuestra capacidad de crear bienestar.
Este taller reúne a un grupo de practicantes pensadores que trabajan a distintas escalas para transformar el día a día de sus comunidades y contribuir a renovar nuestra capacidad de realizar nuestras vidas en entornos con acceso a infraestructuras críticas, salud y cuidados. Por otro lado, para que nuestro presente y nuestro futuro florezcan también es necesario desarrollar y reconocer una historia inclusiva que dignifique las experiencias de los muchos pueblos de la Tierra cuyas culturas han persistido a pesar del impulso masivo de la modernidad por aniquilarlas. Desde Philadelphia, EE.UU., hasta Cuzco, Perú, examinaremos el trabajo, las luchas y los éxitos en la creación de autonomía desde una perspectiva decolonial/anticolonial.
Para más info y entrar en la convocatoría: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/post/2023/09/04/online-workshop-practicing-autonomy-to-feel-think-decolonially-taller-practicar-la-autonomia-senti-pensar-decolonial/
Para descargar la descripción del taller en pdf: https://cambalache.noblogs.org/files/2023/09/practicar-la-autonomia.pdf
4. History at SUNY Buffalo is hiring this fall:
Open-rank, tenure-track position in the History of Science, Health, or Disability in South/Southeast Asia or Latin America.
https://h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65521
Open-rank, tenure-track position in the History of Science, Health, or Disability, with focus on Africa
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65520
This is part of a cluster of interdisciplinary hires in this field. Specialty may be in any time period (including the medieval period).
Review of applications will begin October 2, 2023. Please consider applying or spreading the word
5. En 2023, les GIS Asie, Études africaines en Franceet Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmansfêteront leurs 10 ans. À cette occasion, l’unité CNRS Études aréales (UAR2999) organise le mercredi 27 septembre 2023 à l’Humathèque Condorcet une journée dédiée à ces trois GIS aréaux et au consortium DISTAM (Digital Studies Asia, Africa, Middle East).
Une table ronde, des cartes blanches, des cérémonies de remise de prix, une exposition et un cocktail seront autant d’occasions d’échanger sur le rôle des GIS et du consortium DISTAM dans les études aréales.
Retrouvez le 📑 Programme complet de l’événement
et le lien d’inscription pour 📩 la visite guidée de l’Humathèque !
Et n’hésitez pas à diffuser cette information autour de vous !
Au plaisir de vous retrouver nombreux et nombreuses,
L’équipe organisatrice, Unité CNRS Études aréales (UAR 2999), Campus Condorcet, Bât. Sud
Contact : sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
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Shii News – NPR: Bahraini human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja Returns to Bahrain
National Public Radio: Bahraini human rights activist Maryam al-Khawaja is going back to her country knowing she may be arrested upon arrival. But she says she is taking the risk to make sure her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, is getting the medical treatment he needs in prison. He’s been there for 12 years, sentenced to life for his role in pro-democracy demonstrations in the midst of a wave of uprisings in the Middle East. Those demonstrations were suppressed, and her father is among hundreds of political prisoners in the Gulf Kingdom who’ve been demanding better treatment. Maryam al-Khawaja didn’t share the date of her arrival for her safety, but before her trip home, she said this: “I’m terrified of going back to prison. But I think that saving my father’s life is more important than my fear.”
- September 15, 2023
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Shii News – ‘The Qur’ānic Codices and Fragments Ascribed to Imām `Alī and Other Shī`a Imāms’ – M Karimi-Nia
- September 13, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID “Sheikh Zayed Book Award – Publishing and Technology”, SOAS, London, 14 September 2023, 2:00 pm UK Time
Known as the Arab World’s Nobel Prize, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award showcases outstanding contributions to Arabic literature, the humanities, science, and culture. The Award’s nine prize categories, ranging from children’s literature to literary and art criticism, and its translation grant, moreover, showcase the dynamic fields of translation from and into Arabic, and of European and North American Arabic studies.
Information and registration:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/publishing-and-technology-arabic-simultaneous-translation-english
2. HYBRID Lecture “Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406): A New Vision of History from the Maghreb” by Prof. Ali Benmakhlouf, Center for Maghrib Studies (CMS), Arizona State University, 22 September 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm, AZ Time
The lecture will show how the Maghribian reality is for Ibn Khaldun a historical scheme that contains univer-salizable parameters at the height of a history world.
Information and registration:
https://centermaghribstudies.org/ibn-khaldun-1332-1406-a-new-vision-of-history-from-the-maghreb/
3. ONLINE Book Talk on “Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West: Orthodoxy, Spirituality and Politics” by Dr. Walaa Quisay, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoa University, Leesburg, 26 September 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Examining Muslim neo-traditionalist scholars in the West and their community of young seekers of sacred knowledge, Walaa Quisay explores the emerging trend within Anglo-American Islam that emphasises the importance of ‘tradition’. This book focuses on spiritual retreats hosted by three main shaykhs – Hamza Yusuf, Abdal Hakim Murad and Umar Faruq Abd-Allah – to examine how religious authority is formed and affirmed.
Information and registration: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/walaaquisaytalk.html
4. HYBRID Conference “Encounters in Islamic Theology: Texts and Practices”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Berlin, 10-13 October 2023
The international conference brings together Muslim theologians and scholars of Islam. It focuses on inter-disciplinary and synthetic methods that combine textual approaches to the study of Islam and approaches that examine lived religion, whether contemporary or historical.
Further information and registration: www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/international-conference-encounters-in-islamic-theology-theory-and-practice-10-13-october-2023
Deadline for registration for online participation: 6 October 2023.
5. HYBRID International Conference “The Sanctuary of the Kaʿba and Its Symbolism”, MMSH, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 19 October 2023, 9:00 h – 17 h
This workshop will demonstrate that it is possible to sketch an intellectual landscape by taking the sanctuary of the Kaʿba and its sacredness as entry points. Theoretical approaches, particularly symbolic ones, contrib-uting to the sacralization of the sanctuary of the Kaʿba will be discussed. This hallmark of Islamic identity is indeed the locus of esoteric, occult and/or metaphysical speculations stemming from various intellectual currents in Islam, among which Sunnism, Sufism, and Shiisms (“exaggerating” Shiism (ghulāt), Ismailism, Nuṣayrism).
Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/87534
6. ONLINE Book Talk on “The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam” by Dr. Tazeen Ali, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoa University, Leesburg, 7 November 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Situating the US at the center rather than at the margins of debates over Islamic authority and showing how American Muslim women assert themselves as meaningful religious actors in the US and beyond, Ali’s work offers new insights on Islamic authority as it relates to the intersections of gender, religious space, and national belonging.
Information and registration: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/tazeenalitalk.html
7. Conference “Arab Genealogies for Non-Arab Dynasties: An Unexpected Quest for Legitimacy in Medieval Islam (10th – 17th Centuries CE)”, MMSH, Aix-Marseille University, 5-6 March 2024
When and through what means did certain political powers perceived as non-Arab, along with their literary proponents, seek to establish an Arab and tribal lineage for themselves? Do these strategies intersect, and if so, how and when, with the attempts of some ruling families to affiliate themselves with the Ahl al-bayt? Are they parallel, preceding, or subsequent? How do they reconcile these fictitious claims with the maintained relationships within their regional and ethnic solidarity networks? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 September 2023. Information: https://diwan.hypotheses.org/28071
8. Seminar on “Bodies in Crises, Crises as Bodies in the Middle East and North Africa” during the “American Comparative Literature Association 2024 Conference”, Montréal, 14-17 March 2024
We invite proposals that engage with texts and visual and performing arts with a particular focus on the MENA and its diasporas. Papers that focus on how bodies in crisis were conceptualized in earlier periods are also welcome. We welcome papers on a diverse range of topics, including affect, animal bodies, AI, bodies of water, agency, biopolitics, ethics of care, prosthetic senses, tactility, transcorporeality, and trauma.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.
Information: https://www.acla.org/bodies-crises-crises-bodies-middle-east-and-north-africa
9. Research Associate (3 Years) in Arabic Literature (Classical, Pre-modern, Modern, or Contemporary), Orient Institut Beirut
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023. Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/OI_Beirut/Ausschreibung_WiMi_Arabistik_englisch_FINAL_4.9..pdf
10. Appel à candidatures : UMIFRE Bourses de recherche en islamologie Master 2 et Doctorants/Jeunes docteurs
Date limite : 22 septembre 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/APPEL_MASTER 2023.pdf et https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/APPEL_DOCTORANTS_DOCTEURS2023.pdf
11. 5-6 Postdoctoral Fellowships in Social Sciences (2 Years) at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
The awards are open to recipients of PhD or comparable doctoral degrees (within two years of the 1 August 2024 start date) and advanced doctoral candidates in the social sciences. Scholars nearing dissertation com-pletion must be able to submit degree conferral documentation issued by their university registrar’s of-fice by 30 June 2024 for an 1 August 2024 start date.
Deadline for applications: 22 September 2023.
12. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor in Byzantine History, Princeton University, NJ
We are especially interested in candidates whose work connects Byzantium to other areas, either geograph-ically, through connections to the Islamic world, the Silk Road (i.e., Caucasus and Central Asia), or Slavic societies; or methodologically, including (but not limited to) environmental history, the study of material cul-ture, or the history of science.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=31761
13. Chapters on “Colonialism and Development” for the “Yearbook for the History of Global Development”
Methodological goals: 1) Promoting the cross-fertilization of historiographies focused on (colonial) develop-ment and those dealing with human rights, humanitarianism, philanthropy, welfare, security, and business. 2) Incorporating local voices and arguments, expanding the number of individuals and communities (men and women) understood as contributing to the dynamics of development.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20004605/new-deadline-15-september-2023-call-papers-colonialism-and-development
14. Lecture Series – Silsila: Center for Material Histories at New York University, Fall 2023
We are delighted to announce the fall 2023 program of Silsila: Center for Material Histories at New York University. Unless stated otherwise, all events will be hybrid – accessible both in person and online via Zoom for those who register. The program is now available on our website. Registration links for each event can be found at the end of the webpage for each event. All timings are given in EDT.
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila.html
Sept 13th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm (Online only)
“THE POLITICS OF ART: DISSENT AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN LEBANON, PALESTINE, AND JORDAN”
Hanan Toukan, Bard College Berlin
Sept 20th (Wed), 6:30-8:30pm
“REPRESENTATIONS OF PILGRIMS AT THE HOLY SITES OF MECCA AND MEDINA IN FUTUH AL-HARAMAYN MANUSCRIPTS”
Marika Sardar, Independent Scholar
Sept 29th (Friday), 12:30-3:00pm (Workshop)
“ISLAMIC LAW AND MATERIAL CULTURE – CONVERGING TRAJECTORIES”
Finbarr Barry Flood – NYU, Corinne Mühlemann – University of Bern, Ruba Kana’an – University of Toronto, and Leor Halevi – Vanderbilt University
Oct 4th (Wed), 6:30-8:30pm
“A STONE THAT BREATHES: MOSQUES, MATERIAL CULTURE, AND SENSORY LIFE IN SOUTH INDIA”
Harini Kumar, Princeton University
Oct 11th (Wed) 6:30-8:30pm
“COCO-DE-MER KASHKULS, MATERIALITY, AND OCEANIC JOURNEYS”
Peyvand Firouzeh, Independent Scholar
Oct 18th (Wed) 6:30-8:30pm
“TRACING THE PATHS OF MAGIC: TALISMANIC CHARTS AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN SARAJEVO AS CULTURAL ARTIFACTS”
Amila Buturović, York University
Oct 25th (Wed) 6:30-8:30pm
“ISLAMIC CERAMICS AND INVISIBLE HANDS: CRAFT SKILLS IN A COLONIAL MARKETPLACE”
Margaret S. Graves, Brown University
Nov 1st (Wed) 6:30-8:30pm
“VANMOUR IN AMERICA: THE “DRESSED PICTURES” FROM THE JEROME IRVING SMITH COLLECTION”
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Hunter College
Nov 29th (Wed) 6:30-8:30pm
“THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COLLECTIONS IN THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, TBILISI”
Irina Koshoridze, Tbilisi State University
Dec 8th (Friday) 12:00-3:00pm (Workshop)
“A PALESTINIAN ARCHIVE OF HEALING AND PROTECTION: THE LEGACIES OF TAWFIQ CANAAN”
Rana Barakat – Birzeit University, Beshara Doumani – Brown University, James Grehan – Portland State University, Khaled Malas – NYU, Salim Tamari – Birzeit University
15. The French Institute of Islamic Studies, the Dominican Institute of Oriental Studies (IDEO), and the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology (IFAO) are pleased to announce a call for applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship in the field of Islamic Studies.
Objective of the Fellowship
This fellowship aims to provide an opportunity for a researcher, hereinafter referred to as “the recipient”, to pursue research in Islamic Studies and/or to benefit from a sabbatical semester in residence in Cairo, Egypt. The fellowship has a minimum duration of 5 months and can extend up to 7 months, between November 1, 2023, and July 30, 2024.
Fellowship Conditions
The fellowship covers round-trip transportation expenses from the recipient’s place of residence to Cairo.
Accommodation for the recipient is provided for the duration of the fellowship, either at the Scholars’ House of IDEO or at IFAO, subject to availability.
The recipient will have access to IDEO’s library resources, including books, specialized journals, and necessary databases for research, as well as 24/7 access to IFAO’s library.
The recipient will receive a stipend of €5,000 for the duration of the fellowship.
Responsibilities of the Selected Researcher
The recipient will participate once a week in the internal seminar of the research team at IDEO and/or IFAO.
The recipient will successfully complete a writing project during the fellowship period, such as a scholarly article, book manuscript, or the finalization of a scientific paper.
The recipient is required to acknowledge the support of IFI/IDEO/IFAO at the time of publishing their research.
Selection Criteria
The recipient holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies or a related field. He or she demonstrates a relevant research interest and experience in the field of Islamic Studies. Proficiency in Arabic is required. The recipient should also show the ability to work independently and integrate into an international research environment.
Application Guidelines
Interested candidates should submit the following documents:
- Detailed Curriculum Vitae.
- Motivation letter.
- Research project summary (maximum 2 pages).
- An academic recommendation letter.
Applications must be sent via email to secretariat@ideo-cairo.org and direction-etudes@ifao.egnet.net / direction@ifao.egnet.net before the application deadline, set for October 1ˢᵗ.
A committee consisting of representatives from IDEO, IFAO, and IFI will be responsible for reviewing the application files and selecting the successful candidate.
- September 12, 2023
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Shii News – Hybrid talk: ‘The Ziyarat of Imam al-Husayn as Liturgical Text’ – V Khetia (15.9.23., 1.30pm, EST)
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Archival History of Iran’s Relations With Saudi Arabia (1913-1979)
September 2023
Banafsheh Keynoush
2. CSMBR Webinar Series 12. Sept., 5 p.m. (CET): From Dangerous Drug to Miraculous Medicine Uses, Abuses and Medical Rationale of Opium in the Early Modern Period
Edoardo Pierini
12 September 2023 – 5 PM (CEST)
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/from-dangerous-to-miraculous-medicine/
3. The Bahmani Sufis: Their Spiritual, Intellectual and Sociopolitical Role in Medieval Deccan, AD 1300 to 1538
M S Siddiqi
Primus Books, 2023
4. University of Chicago – Assistant Professor – Classical Arabic Literature
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65864
All materials from each applicant must be received by 11:00 PM Central Time/Midnight Eastern Time on November 1, 2023.
5. The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) Mentorship Committee is pleased to announce a new graduate student workshop/research award.
Interested students should submit a brief proposal; the requested amount of funding and an overall budget; as well as a letter confirming acceptance to a workshop or a comparable academic research venue for participation. Demonstrated financial need will be prioritized. A letter from an advisor is also required and should speak to the relevance of the workshop to the student’s research and financial need.
Deadlines will be September 15th and February 15th annually. We are allotting $6,000 a year, which will be split evenly for the two cycles. Each award will be worth up to $1,000. Following the completion of the workshop/research, awardees will be asked to submit a brief report highlighting their work and the ways in which the award assisted them. Applications should be sent to: mentorship@associationforiranianstudies.org
6. Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India
Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
Y Porter
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/65144
7. Mirzā `Ali-Qoli Kho’i: The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period. Vol. 1
Ulrich Marzolph and Roxana Zenhari
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/60564
8. Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs
Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.)
D Aigle
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64599
9. The Fatimids
Select Papers on Their Governing Institutions, Social and Cultural Organization, Religious Appeal, and Rivalries
P Walker
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/65057
10. CfP: Objects of Law in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (University of Bern, 29–30 August 2024)
International Conference at the University of Bern, Switzerland, 29–30 August 2024
Organized by Corinne Mühlemann (University of Bern) and Fatima Quraishi (University of California, Riverside)
Objects of Law proposes thinking more deeply about the artistic practices that shaped the materiality, iconography, and texts of legal objects in the medieval and early modern period. What forms did these objects take? How did their form confer authenticity and legal authority?
What training or knowledge are evident in the objects? Objects of Law seeks dialogue between scholars working in art history, history, archaeology, legal history, and related disciplines that deal with legal objects. We welcome contributions from all geographical regions that relate to the medieval and early modern period.
We invite contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- The role of objects in legal practices
- The aesthetics of objects of law
- The artistic practices of crafting legal objects
Proposals should consist of an abstract in English for 30-minute papers (max 2000 characters incl. spaces) and a brief biography (max 1500 characters incl. spaces) in a single document (PDF or Word).
Abstracts should be submitted to: Corinne Mühlemann (corinne.muehlemann@unibe.ch) and Fatima Quraishi (fatimaq@ucr.edu) by 1 November 2023.
Graduate students are highly encouraged to apply. Conference participants will be provided with accommodation in Bern for 3 nights, and some travel expenses will be covered.
11. Call to Poetry Translators: Second Cycle of Mo Habib Translation Prize
MELC enthusiastically calls for submissions for the second cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature. Established in partnership with the Mo Habib Memorial Foundation and Deep Vellum Publishing, the prize seeks to enable the publication and dissemination of Persian literary works that stand on their own in engaging English translation. Dr. Michelle Quay was its inaugural winner for her translation of Reza Ghassemi’s novel Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime.
Deadline: March 1, 2024
12. CfP: CHARISMA, POPULARITY, POWER: GRACE, RELIGIONS AND BELIEF THROUGHOUT HISTORY UNTIL THE PRESENT
The Interdisciplinary “Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society” (JRAT) is an interdisciplinary, international, online open-access journal with a double-blind peer-review process. It was established in 2015, since 2019 it is published with BRILL. Every issue has a distinct thematic focus which is approached from different disciplines. The journal aims at investigating the contribution of religions to the cultural, political, juridical, and aesthetic dynamics in present-day pluralistic societies. Vice versa, it examines the influence of the contemporary processes of social transformation on religions and religious expressions. The mutual impact of religious and societal transformation processes requires the collaboration of different academic disciplines, which creates an interdisciplinary research space both for theologians of different religious and confessional traditions (Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Islamic, etc.), as well as for researchers in the field of Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, Social Sciences, Law, Jewish Studies, Islamic Studies, Indology, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Philosophy and Pedagogy, etc. JRAT is included in SCOPUS and WEB OF SCIENCE.
Call for Abstracts
In comparative religious studies, notions of grace (charis) and charisma are widely used, but often in a routine manner. Despite ample criticism of this usage, popular interpretations of the term “charisma” as an indicator of personal appeal can still be found even in scholarly work. Ever since Max Weber attributed sociological significance to the term, charisma has mostly been studied in relation to the leadership skills and appeal of authoritative figures. However, its frequent historical connection with the alleged mystical attributes and powers of individuals, places, and objects, as acknowledged by Weber himself, remains understudied.
The upcoming JRAT Special Issue explores possible theoretical connections, and methods to align historical notions and beliefs in mystical grace (appearing under many names, such as mana, pumba, orenda, etc.) with sociological theories of charisma, addressing the scholarly challenges that arise from studying charismatic individuals and institutional religious authorities in monotheistic traditions and beyond. Studying the charismatic quality of certain people, locations, and items as a socio-anthropological marker, the Special Issue aims for a more nuanced understanding of the history of various religious traditions. JRAT is accepting papers approaching charisma/grace to analyze the emergence, institutionalization, and growth of religious offices tasked with addressing popular religious needs, the strengthening of the exclusivity of the religious profession, sharply distinguished from heresies and sorcery, and the influence of grace on political power. Understanding the influence of grace on rulership could more thoroughly explain the connection between charismatic rulers and priestly hierarchies, and the lasting monopoly over grace among charismatic confraternities as a means of social, economic, jurisprudential, and at times political control.
The Special Issue aims to explore how the supposed monopoly over grace allowed for the emergence and growth of establishmentarian corporate hierarchies that evolved within religious offices over time. Such a comparative historical process can be observed across religious traditions, where the charisma of religious authorities was continuously reinforced by the charisma of their respective offices. These offices often represented specific niches with distinct corporate identities, prerogatives, privileges, and duties, monopolizing access to mystical powers and facilitating charismatic transactions. As a result, religious professionals became exclusive socio-political entities responsible for dispensing institutional divine grace to the rest of the population.
In many regions, the charismatic quality attributed to certain individuals over time became directly associated with the ability to cause praeternatural feats, further enhancing the exclusivity of the profession responsible for matters of faith. These feats included, but were not limited to walking on water, resurrections, thaumaturgical healing, controlling the elements, charming animals, flying, teleportation, opposing malevolent or infernal forces, or displaying superhuman physical feats. Thaumaturgy was a fundamental element of many religious traditions, both Abrahamic and beyond, and religious professionals endeavored to maintain their monopoly over it.
The JRAT Special Issue welcomes articles from various fields, including (but not limited to):
- History
- Religious Studies
- Philosophy
- Sociology and Anthropology
- Political sciences and International Relations
- Law
- Theology
It also welcomes contributions from other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, with open criteria of the period and location. The articles may include empirical cases as well as methodological debates that reflect on both the post-Weberian theories of charisma and other scholarship inspired by these phenomena for the scientific study of religious practices, the relationship between religious authorities and social/political power, the dynamics between religion, orthodoxy, and heterodoxy, as well as the interplay between religion, thaumaturgy, and magic. Papers analyzing ancient, medieval, early modern, modern, and contemporary religions are all welcome. In addition, JRAT is accepting proposals dealing into contemporary esoteric and mystical groups which are founded on similar principles, in order to broaden its comparative perspective.
Contact Information
Proposal: Paper proposals will be reviewed by the Principal Investigators of the Critical Humanities Assembly for Religions in Societies (CHARIS), a collaborative effort of researchers from Central European University, University of Vienna, and University of Navarra. Interested academicians are encouraged to submit applications, which should include an academic CV and a short paper abstract (200-300 words), to Nikola Pantić at nikola.pantic@univie.ac.at by October 31th 2023.
Queries: For any further questions, please contact Rüdiger Lohlker at ruediger.lohlker@univie.ac.at. For any questions or problems relating to your manuscript, please contact the editorial team (jrat@univie.ac.at). For questions about Editorial Manager, authors can contact the Brill EM Support Department: em@brill.com.
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13. Association of East Asian Arabists
Inaugural Symposium
Teaching Arabic in East Asia
Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies in East Asia
Dates
24 and 25 November 2023
Venues
On Site at National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei
Online via Zoom or Teams
Languages
Arabic and English
Call for Interest and Participation
Abstract Deadline
15 October 2023
Association email address
Introduction
Association of East Asian Arabists (AEAA) is a forum with three sets of objectives. First and foremost, it welcomes scholars from East Asia specialized in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies and invites them to critically reflect on the pedagogy of teaching Arabic to speakers of East Asian languages at different levels, to share their research priorities, agenda, approaches, and methodologies, and to discuss any problems arising from their professional careers. Second, the Association fosters sharing experiences and mutual enrichments in two aspects of pedagogy and curriculum design in the East Asian context: Arabic language pedagogy; enhancement of the curricular connection between language and content courses; and the challenges of Arabic language teaching in the digital age. Finally, and most importantly, the Association will build a support network for East Asian scholars around the world. The Arabists of East Asian backgrounds face triple marginalization. In North America, Europe and the Middle East, they are pushed out both by North American and European orientalists and scholars of Arabic and Islamic backgrounds. In East Asia, the fields they partake in are marginal to mainstream disciplines and areas of study. AEAA offers space for them to engage with each other’s research and teaching and career concerns. The Association will engage its members through regular online and in person meetings, workshops, lectures, and reading sessions, and trigger further questions for discussion and opportunities for future collaboration such as annual meetings.
Background
The Arabic language, which originated from the sixth-century north Arabia, became the lingua franca of the Near East with the spread of Islam. The Arabic language and its literary productions are highly imbued with religious ideas and cultural norms of Arabs. Students from East Asian linguistic, cultural, and religious backgrounds without adequate prior knowledge of the region and religion would encounter challenges when they study more advanced texts. The cultural barrier and lack of relevant knowledge also impede them from appreciating the literary conventions, rhetorics, and poetics of the Arabic language.
While language teaching itself is inseparable from introducing the peoples and societies using the language, the need to combine both into a systematic curriculum is hardly realized in Taiwan. At present, Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in East Asia follows the agenda and pedagogy of either Orientalism or pre-modern knowledge traditions of the Arabic-Islamic world. A coherent curricular structure that takes into consideration the lingual and cultural backgrounds of East Asian students is currently missing.
Technology exerts an unneglectable impact on language teaching. As online Arabic classes and learning tools abound, the efficiency of the traditional teaching methods is called into question. Furthermore, students’ dependence upon technology products such as translation tools and AI programmes for their coursework also undermines the validity of the traditional way of evaluation.
The Inaugural Symposium and Call for Participation
The Association’s Inaugural Symposium will address three main topics that concern teaching and research in Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies. It will in addition host a graduate student forum.
First: Textbooks for teaching Arabic written by academics of East Asian backgrounds, and Arabic language pedagogy in the classroom at East Asian universities.
Convenor: Sumi Akiko (Kyoto Notre Dame University)
- What are challenges in teaching Arabic to speakers of East Asian languages?
- What distinguishes Arabic texts written by East Asian academic from those used in the Arab world, Europe and North America?
- How do East Asian languages, cultures and knowledge traditions play a role in textbook objectives and design?
- Are East Asian learning environments Arabic friendly?
- What role does new technology, such as digitization and AI, play in textbook design and classroom pedagogy?
- Can social media, IT, and AI help to foster a better interconnected Arabic language world for East Asian students?
Second: Curriculum Design for the Humanities
Convenor: Tsung Pei-Chen (NCCU)
- What are the challenges of teaching Arabic-Islamic culture, history, literature, politics and religion to students of East Asian backgrounds?
- What role do local knowledge traditions play in how Arabic, Islamic and Middle East studies are received by East Asian students?
- How do teaching teams manage the diverse knowledge traditions (Arab, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, Indonesian, European, North American, etc.) in which they are trained?
- What are the objectives and anticipated outcome of degree programmes?
- Are there sufficient textbooks in East Asian languages?
Third: Challenges and Creativity in Research
Convenor: Su I-Wen (NCCU)
- Facing triple marginalisation, what are the difficulties and challenges for East Asian Arabists in terms of their research?
- What would East Asian Arabists do differently outside European knowledge traditions, such as Orientalism, and academic convention?
- How can they do research creatively, and foster interests in Arabic, Islamic and Middle East Studies in academe and among a general audience?
- What might some strategies be for East Asian Arabists to adopt to generate impact in local research cultures?
Fourth: The Graduate Student Forum
Convenor: Ouyang Wen-chin (Academia Sinica and SOAS, University of London)
- Where do students choose to pursue MA and PhD degrees? Locally, in the Arab world, in other East Asian countries, in Europe or North America? Why?
- What might some of the challenges students face? Mastery of Arabic and research languages? Adjusting to new research traditions? Disciplinary training? Marginalization and isolation?
- Do PhD students publish while pursuing their degrees? What are the challenges?
- What do they think of their career prospects?
- How can AEAA help?
All East Asian Arabists are invited to the inaugural symposium. If you are interested in giving a presentation on one of the three topics identified above, please send an expression of interest to us at <AEAAInternational@gmail.com>.
Ouyang Wen-chin (歐陽文津)
Sumi Akiko ( 鷲見朗子)
Su I-Wen (蘇怡文)
Tsung Pei-Chen (叢培臻)
14. Call for Submissions: 2024 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize
About the Prize
The prize was established jointly by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. It is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University between 1 January and 30 September 2023 is eligible to apply. If you are submitting your thesis after the deadline in 2023, you will be eligible for the following year’s prize.
We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
Please send an electronic copy of your thesis and a letter of nomination from your supervisor to office@brismes.org.
Deadline for submissions: Midnight on 1 November 2023
More information: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
15. CFP: The Smith Center First Book Workshop in Map History
The Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library invite applicants for the inaugural First Book Workshop in Map History. Any scholars who are working on their first book about the history of maps and mapping or on a topic that substantially engages the history of maps and mapping may apply. Scholars who have written a previous book or books are eligible so long as those books did not engage substantively with maps. The workshop is open to all periods, locations, and fields.
The workshop will last two days, in person at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Ahead of time, all participants and respondents will read everything the writers submit—whether that is a full manuscript or a subset of chapters and a book proposal. Each scholar will be paired with a senior scholar with expertise relevant to their manuscript. Each day will consist of a series of workshops on specific portions of each writer’s submission and presentations of Newberry material. For 2024, we will be able to accept three participants, at least one of whom is working in the Medieval or Early Modern period. The costs of travel, housing, and meals will be covered for all participants.
To apply, please submit your application online through the Newberry Library portal.
Dates:
- Applications Due: 1 November 2023
- Workshop: 22 and 23 February 2024
Location:
- Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Eligibility:
- You have at least three chapters of a manuscript and a proposal at the time of submission
- You have not already published an academic book on the history of maps
- You are engaging substantively with the history of maps and mapping
- Your manuscript is in English
Evaluation Criteria:
- The project will make a significant contribution to our understanding of map history
- The project engages substantively with existing scholarship on the history of maps and mapping
- The project has a likelihood of successful completion and publication
Application Materials:
- Abstract (300-600 words)
- One chapter
- One letter of recommendation
- CV
Contact Information
David Weimer
Director, Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography and Robert A. Holland Curator of Maps
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URL
https://newberry.slideroom.com/#/permalink/program/75078
16. Workshop – The 2nd Doha Workshop on Countering the Trafficking of Cultural Property with a Focus on Documentary Heritage
September 12, 2023 – September 14, 2023
The phenomenon of illegal trafficking in cultural heritage has grown in the Arab region and the Middle East over the last decade, mainly due to civil unrest, armed conflicts, and natural disasters in the region. Special awareness, attention, and global coordination is paramount to combatting artifact smuggling and transit in the region and beyond.
Following the successful 2022 Cultural Heritage Workshop, QNL is proud to team up with its partners (in the framework of Himaya project) to host this year’s Cultural Heritage Workshop, featuring top international multidisciplinary experts to mitigate and combat this phenomenon.
PROGRAM
Tuesday – 12 September 2023
09:00 – 09:45 AM Official opening of Doha’s workshop
09:45 – 10:10 AM Session# 1, A Summary of QNL Projects since the 1ST Doha Workshop in 2022. By Stephane Ipert, Director of Distinctive Collections at Qatar National Library; Director of IFLA PAC Regional Center for Arab Countries and Middle East.
10:30 – 11:15 AM Session# 2, International Legal Framework and Sanctions – A Legal Perspective on the Restitution of Cultural Artifacts. By Dr. Luigi Marini, Secretary General of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation, Italy.
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Session# 3, Illicit trafficking of Cultural Property in the MENA Region: Cultural Assets most at Risk: Typology and available Tools. By Dr. Vincent Michel, Archaeologist, professor of Near Eastern archaeology, University of Poitiers, France; Director of the French Archaeological Mission in Libya
1:00 – 1:45 PM Session# 4, Provenance Research, Repatriations, and Shared Stewardship: One Future for Museums by Dr. Chase Robinson, Director of the National Museum of Asian Art NMAA (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D. C.
1:45 – 2:30 PM Session# 5, The 1995 UNIDROIT Convention – The Core Question of “Due Diligence” by Marina Schneider, Principal Legal Officer and Treaty Depositary, UNIDROIT, Rome, Italy.
2:30 – 3:15 PM Session# 6, Develop Legal and Institutional Frameworks: Case Studies from Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon, by Dr. Sultan Barakat, Professor, College of Public Policy, Hamad Bin Khalifa University HBKU; Director of the Global Institute for Strategic Research (GISR)
Wednesday – 13 September 2023
08:30 – 09:15 AM Session# 7, Traceability and Provenance of Documentary Heritage: Improve Registration through Information Sharing, Co-operation and Building up Knowledge. By Arda Scholte, Chair of Expert Group Against Theft, Trafficking and Tampering (EGATTT) , International Council of Archives
09:15 – 10:00 AM Session# 8, Professional and Ethical Consideration for Cultural Goods Restitution., by Nathalie Bondil, Museum and Exhibitions Director, Arab World Institute, Paris.
10:30 – 11:15 AM Session# 9, The Role of the Italian Carabinieri Department in the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Return of Cultural Objects – Case Studies. By Gen. Brig. Vincenzo Molinese, Head of the Carabinieri Department for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Italy.
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Session# 10, The Role of FBI Art Crime Team in the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property. By Kristin Koch, Supervisory Special Agent with the FBI Art Crime program, U. S.
1:00 – 1:45 PM Session# 11, INTERPOL’s Capabilities in the Fight against Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property. By Gonzalo Giordano, Criminal Intelligence Officer – Works of Art Unit, INTERPOL
1:45 – 2:30 PM Session# 12, Creation the digital platform “Turathi.dz” for the police and customs in Algeria to fight the illegal trafficking in cultural property. By Nawal Dahmani, Director of Foresight Studies, Documentation and Automated Media, Ministry of Culture and Arts, Algeria.
2:30 – 3:15 PM Session# 13, “Practical Measures and Tools UNESCO Tools, World Customs Organization ARCHEO, International Council of Museums Red Lists”. By Maxim Nasra, Head of Preservation and Conservation at Qatar National Library and the IFLA PAC Regional Center for Arab Countries and Middle East.
Thursday 14 September: Special training for customs officials from Qatar and the region.
08:30 – 09:15 AM Session# 14, The Loot: Investigation of a Smuggled Syrian Mosaic (Case Study). By Razmik Madoyan, Assistant Attaché for the Department of Homeland Security at U.S. Embassy Abu Dhabi, UAE.
09:15 – 10:00 AM Session# 15, Customs Techniques for the Fight against Smuggling (Part 1) by Amélie PHA, Investigator at National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (DNRED) – France.
10:30 – 11:15 AM Session# 16, Customs Techniques for the Fight against Smuggling (Part 2), by Amélie PHA, Investigator at National Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation (DNRED) – France.
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM Session# 17
Practical Session: Handling and Taking Pictures of the Objects (Part 1) by Haitham Othman, Multimedia and Photography Specialist at Qatar National Library.
1:00 – 1:45 PM Session# 18, The Role of the World Custom Organization WCO in Combating the Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage. by Matthew Ciesla, Special Agent with the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations and HSI Liaison to the World Customs Organization.
1:45 – 2:30 PM Session# 19, Practical Session: Handling and Taking Pictures of the Objects (Part 2)by Haitham Othman, Multimedia and Photography Specialist at Qatar National Library.
2:30 – 2:55 PM Conclusion of the Workshop by Dr. Amr Al Azm, Associate Professor at Qatar University and Director of the Antiquities Trafficking and Heritage Anthropology Research (ATHAR) Project.
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