Archive for October 3rd, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Book Talk “Re-imagining the Female Figure in War and Conflict” by Sama Alshaibi (Brown University), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 October 2023, 12:00 pm –1:00 pm ET
In conversation with conceptual artist Sama Alshaibi, Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali and Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots will discuss her art and the significance of war, exile, borders and environmental destruction in her work. What role do gender and her body play in her work? And how does her art draw on historical sources and contemporary realities to express exploitations of freedom?
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/sama-alshaibi-reimagining-female-figure-war-conflict
2. Conference “Humanities and Social Sciences in Times of Crises: Back to Provincialism (Focus MENA Region)”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 20 October 2023, 15:00 h – 18:00 h
Information, program, and registration: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/bilder/Forum/Fellow_Event_2023/Fellow_Event_2023_Programmheft_WEB.pdf
3. HYBRID Book Launch “Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East” by Uriel Simonsohn, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 26 October 2023, 17:00 h – 19:00 h
Lectures: Prof. Avner Giladi: “Female Power and the Status of the Mother in Medieval Muslim Societies”. – Prof. Ana Echeverria Arsuaga: “New Insights on Female Conversion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period”. – Prof. Jack Tannous: “The Subject of History and the 51%”.
Information: https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/book-launch-female-power-and-religious-change-medieval-near-east. Zoom link: https://huji.zoom.us/j/82556326202?pwd=TnNZaW4zbXZVdVRxcWtlRFl6UmJodz09#success
4. Workshop “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea”, Mediterranean Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, 9-10 February 2024
The Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. This engagement is the product of continuous dialectical processes of translation, transculturation, colonization, and syncretism across the gamut of human experience and expression: in art, literature, language, music, religion, media, material culture, and folk practices, as well as in social, economic, political, and institutional dynamics.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2023.
5. Conference “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial” (Focus Ottoman Empire), University of Rijeka, Croatia, 15-17 May 2024
We welcome contributions from a host of disciplines, including Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Liter-ature, Gender Studies, History, International Relations, Memory Studies, and Sociology, that interrogate inter-imperiality.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 November 2023. Information: https://revenant.uniri.hr/?page_id=1143
6. 25th Symposium of the “International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIÉPO)”, Tirana, Albania, 21-25 June 2024
Subject fields: Early Modern History and Period Studies – Eastern Europe History Studies – Humanities, Islamic History Studies – Middle East History Studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/2 0007256/call-panels-and-papers-ciepo-25-tirana-albania-21-25-june-2024
7. Conference “Gender and Religious Agency in the Muslim World”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Summer 2024 (Date to be Determined in Cooperation the Participants)
The conference explores the intersection of gender with religious agency in the broadest sense, including religious authority, knowledge production, practice, performance, and community formation and representa-tion, both from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective. We take religion as a practice and category of thought seriously and ask how members of various religious communities negotiate gender in public and personal settings from a believer’s perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2023. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/Ausschreibun gen_2023/CfP_Gender_and_Religious_Agency_ZMO.pdf
8. Three PhD Positions at the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern
Candidates must have an MA degree in Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Studies or cognate fields. Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of Ottoman Turkish is an advantage. A proven interest in current debates in gender and/or labour history is expected. Previous experience of working with legal sources is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 29 October 2023. Information:
9. Tenure-track Position in Iranian Studies or Gulf Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Applications may be in Iranian studies (or “the Persianate World”) or Gulf studies (including one or more of the Arab Gulf states) in the medieval, early-modern, or modern periods.
Deadline for application: 8 October 2023. Information:
https://bgu-academic-recruitment.my.site.com/Recruiters/VF_BGUPositions?Id=02i5I00000F6KsJQAV
10. Funding of Digitisation Projects by the “Endangered Archives Programme” at the British Library
The Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, man-uscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings. All applications must involve at least one archival partner in the country where the material is based.
Deadline for applications: 13 November 2023. Information: https://eap.bl.uk/grants
11. Articles for New Journal “Transmediterranean History”
This open access journal publishes articles with a keen focus on source material covering various aspects of transmediterranean history in the period between c. 600 and 1650. The contributions provide access to ex-cerpts of primary sources in their original language alongside translations and commentaries on the author and their work;.etc.. Additionally, each entry gives revised bibliographies of editions, translations, and sec-ondary literature. The anthology appears biannually in German, English, and Arabic.
Information: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index
12. Northwestern University – Assistant Professor in Islam
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66082
Review of applications will begin on Nov. 1, 2023
- October 03, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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