Archive for October 7th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Fall 2023 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Form for Islamic Art & Architecture:
October 12, 2023 6:00pm
“An Epigraphic (Re)assessment of 9th–10th Century Southern Mesopotamian Luster Ceramics”
Rebecca Wrightson, AKPIA Fellow; former Kluger Fellow, Trinity College (2022-2023)
November 2, 2023 6:00pm
“Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Melis Taner, AKPIA Fellow; Associate Professor, Özyeğin University
November 16, 2023 6:00pm
“Ruins, Reuse, and Memory in Early Islamic Architecture”
Alexander Brey, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Co-sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge, MA.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.
Visit the website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events.
2. Prochaine (première) séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” mardi 10 octobre 2023, 17h, INALCO salle 3.15
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine (première) séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” 2023-2024, qui se tiendra le mardi 10 octobre 2023, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir le professeur Touraj Daryaee, Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture et directeur du Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine, pour une conférence intitulée : « From the Achaemenid Empire to Medieval Persia: ‘Earth & Water’ in the Iranian Conceptual World ».
Résumé
According to Greek sources the Achaemenid Persians accepted the submission of lands/city-states through receiving of a handful of land and water. The Greeks gathered the symbolic meaning of such an act, but what the Persians really thought of this ritual has not give a proper answer. One may be able to understand Persian actions against some of the Greek city-states, but also in later history vis-à-vis Armenia by looking at the Persian literature throughout history. The key to understanding the Persian idea of this concept is to delve into time in the Middle Persian literature of late antiquity and that of Classical Persian literature in the medieval period. This talk attempts to answer why was ‟earth & water” so important to the Iranian imaginary and its symbolic significance which pervaded till the twentieth century.
Bibliographie indicative
- Balcer, Jack Martin. “The Persian Wars Against Greece: A Reassessment”, Historia 38 (1989), p. 127-143.
- Klinkott, Hilmar. „Dem König Erde und Wasser bringen“ – Persisches Unterwerfungsritual oder herodoteisches Konstrukt? in A. Luther, H. Börm (ed.). Diwan. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens und des östlichen Mittelmeerraums im Altertum(Festschrift für Josef Wiesehöfer). Duisburg, 2016, p. 133-182.
- Kuhrt Amélie. “Earth and water” in A. Kuhrt, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg (ed.). Achaemenid History III. Leiden, 1988, p. 87-99.
- Momigliano Arnoldo. “Terra marique,” Journal of Roman Studies32, 1942, p. 53-64.
- Rung Eduard. “The Language of the Achaemenid Imperial Diplomacy towards the Greeks: The Meaning of Earth and Water,” Klio97(2), 2015, p. 503–515.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez ci-joint le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” au format pdf. Pour plus de détails, veuillez vous reporter au site web du CeRMI :
3. ‘Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze’
Yasmin Barselai Shaham, Orr Levental & Anat Kidron
Middle Eastern Studies, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2022.2155949
4. Workshop – Materiality of hygiene, purity and the senses in Islam, 5th Hajar Workshop – October 27
Friday, October 27th, 2023 – 17:00-20:15 (Brussels)
Materiality of hygiene, purity and the senses in Islam
Chairs: Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Archaïos and Institut catholique de Paris) and Hagit Nol (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
PROGRAMME
17:00 Case studies
Louise Blanke, The University of Edinburgh/Israel Institute of Advanced Studies
“Hygiene and social practice in the Central Bathhouse in Jarash, Jordan”
Roland-Pierre Gayraud, CIHAM (CNRS, Lyon)
“Public and private hygiene in Islamic Egypt (9th-11th centuries). An archaeological overview”
Elisa Pruno, University of Firenze
“Materiality of hygiene: the raw materials and the productive cycle of soap factories in the Middle Ages in the Middle East”
18:30 Break
18:45 Discussion
Discussant: Roxanne Brame, Seattle University
Discussant: Adam Bursi
General debate and questions
For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until October 25th.
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5. Weekly seminars, Thursdays 5.15pm, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford. All welcome.
12 October: Scott Redford, SOAS, London | Temporal Authority and Divine Knowledge: Two Late 13th-Century Bookstands Gifted to the Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Konya
19 October: İrvin Cemil Schick, EHESS, Paris, and Gizem Tongo, Middle East Technical University, Ankara | Islamic Art, Modern Warfare, and the End of the Ottoman Empire
26 October: Vivek Gupta, University College London | In Paper and Stone: Scribal Bodies and the Gulbarga Qurʾan, ca. 1400
2 November: Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Inscribed Histories: West African Arabic Script Styles, their History and Palaeography
9 November: Zahra Kazani, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford | Thinking in Lines and Circles: Script Patterns and the Visualization of Knowledge in the Kitab al-Diryaq (BnF Arabe 2964)
16 November: Julien Loiseau, Aix-Marseille Université | Under the Seal of Solomon: New Research on Arabic Funerary Epigraphy in Ethiopia (10th-14th centuries)
23 November: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul | Hagia Sophia to Theotokos Mouchliotissa: Structures and Narratives of Possession and Erasure in Early Modern Istanbul
30 November: Nahid Assemi, Bodleian Library, Oxford | Staging Piety: Takkiyya Mu‘aven al Mulk in Kermanshah
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6. Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
Mikael Muehlbauer
Harvard U Press, 2023
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024972
7. The 15th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (IRTP) Conference will take place in Korpo | Nagu | Pargas, Finnish Archipelago Finland from 26-29 June 2024.
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at: www.irtp.co.uk
8. The journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeologyis organizing a special issue focused on the relationship between infectious disease spread and climate change in the ancient world (broadly construed). More information on the special issue, including the call for papers, can be found at this link. Abstract submissions are due on November 17, and accepted contributors will be notified by mid-December. Abstracts are welcome from anyone who has a complete manuscript ready to go and is looking for a place to publish. Complete manuscripts from all contributors are due in March. The volume will be Open Access, and there is an APC charge, but there is some potential funding assistance available. If there are enough contributions, the special journal issue will become an e-book.
9. Legacies of Ancient Persia: A New Pourdavoud Podcast Production
We are excited to announce a new podcast developed by the Pourdavoud Institute: Legacies of Ancient Persia! A legacy consists of three critical elements: a past, a present, and a future. Join the Pourdavoud Institute as we explore elements of the many legacies of ancient Persia and their relevance to global patrimony. Learn how the ancient Iranian civilization impacted its neighbors and how the interconnectivity of ancient cultures influenced Persia. Featuring interviews with thought leaders in academia, conversations with specialists in the entertainment industry who reimagine ancient worlds for modern society, and round-table discussions that bring together a multiplicity of perspectives, we highlight Persia’s interactions with the wider ancient worlds and explore how this entangled history is received in the modern era.
Episodes will air bimonthly on Thursdays, and are available wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple and Spotify.
Episode 0, an introduction to ancient Persia provided by the staff of the Pourdavoud Institute, is available as a starting point for anyone new to the study of the ancient Iranian world and its reception in the medieval and modern periods.
Episode 1 features Daniel T. Potts (ISAW, New York University). With podcast host Lexie Henning, Professor Potts discusses his personal challenges of not being able to travel to Iran for fieldwork and provides the listener with a brief recap of the Elamites and Persian prehistory. The episode also highlights his new book, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran (2023), published with UC Press as part of the Pourdavoud Institute’s new Iran and the Ancient World (IAW) series.
A free ebook version of Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program: <www.luminosoa.org>.
The publication date is set for October 10, 2024. Pre-orders can be placed at the University of California Press website.
10. Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is organizing the sixth 16-week Persian language semester program in Yerevan, Armenia. The sixth 16-week semester program of Persian language will start on January 14, 2024, and will last till May 4, 2024 (111 days, 300 hours of Persian language instruction).
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/study-persian-language-semester-abroad
11. Lecture – The Planetary Court of Humayun Padshah, Second Mughal Emperor (1508–1556), Ebba Koch, Department of Islamic Art at The Met – October 12
Ebba Koch (Emerita, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna)
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 11 AM ET
After following briefly Humayun’s travels and campaigns in Afghanistan, India and Iran during the political and social disturbances of the early sixteenth century the lecture will draw attention to the padshah’s deep involvement with literature, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, astrology and occultism and then focus on his extraordinary inventions, his planetary court and its settings. We will look at the Cosmic Carpet and its use as a gameboard, at the Floating Market and the Floating Palace, and at Humayun’s patronage of painting. The presentation will conclude with Humayun’s mausoleum as the posthumous sum of his visions and dreams.
Please reach out to helen.goldenberg@metmuseum.org for Zoom link or more information.
12. ONLINE Lecture “A Roman in Islamic Egypt: Memory and Identity in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu” by Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (University of Tennessee), 20 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
The Chronicle written in Coptic in the 7th century is often treated as an expression of an Egyptian identity rooted in miaphysite Christianity and some degree of antipathy towards and alienation from the Roman state. These readings are informed by a preconceived notion that there was a great degree of continuity between the Coptic church of the Early Islamic period and the Alexandrian church of the Roman empire, and a tacit belief that the Council of Chalcedon created an ideological rift between Alexandria and Constantinople.
Information and registration: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/raceandgenderglobalmiddleages/
13. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Politics in the Modern Islamic World, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Qualification: Applicants must have Ph.D. in hand by August 1, 2024. Geographical focus open. Applicants should be able to teach survey courses on the Middle East as well as more specialized courses in their area of expertise. We expect the successful applicant to demonstrate a broad knowledge of the cultural and historical context of modern politics in the Islamic world and to have excellent relevant language skills.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/133613
14. Research Associate (3 Years) in Arabic Literature (Classical, Pre-modern, Modern, or Contemporary), Orient Institut Beirut
Requirements: Doctorate in the subject spectrum of Arabic studies, translation studies, comparative literature; Excellent knowledge of Arabic and research experience with Arabic language sources; A stellar publication record (German, Arabic or English) in academic journals, or monographs; Innovative research projects that are locally grounded have appeal throughout the MENA region; Experience with academic supervision of students.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023. Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_uplo ad/OI_Beirut/Ausschreibung_WiMi_Arabistik_englisch_FINAL_4.9..pdf
15. Junior Research Fellowship (2Years) at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
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.
Deadline for applications: 27 October 2023. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25760
16. Appel à contributions | Bulletin d’études orientales (BEO 71) « Pour une histoire sonore dans les sociétés de l’islam médiéval » — LIMITE : 15/10/2023
A sound history of medieval Islamic societies
The aim of this issue is to bring together contributions on social and political history, on the history of the senses and the sensible, on anthropology, literature, law, philosophy, art history, musicology. The study of sound and its environment allows an exploration of subjects as diverse as commercial communication, social conflicts, spatial and social control, political communication, urban expansion (through the saturation of sound space), rituals, revolts and war, from a new angle and at different scales.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/89199
17. ONLINE Webinar “The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar” with Maziar Behrooz, British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 18 October 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time
After a difficult century of civil wars and foreign intervention, population loss and economic contraction, Iran was finally reunified under the Qajar and the unique leadership of Aqa Muhammad Shah in 1796. This presentation discusses the road to Qajar reunification and the brief reign of Aqa Muhammad and his legacy, leading to his assassination in Shusha-Qarabagh in 1797.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316879475313/WN_PofzQbNcSnWslMt2yKhkRA#/registration
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