Archive for October 14th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Short Course: Islamic Manuscripts & Digital Codicology at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 26-27 October 2023
For more information and to book:
2. Second Biannual Conference of the Persian Manuscripts Association on “Timurid and Safavid Music in Manuscripts”, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 24-24 February 2024
This conference aims to bring together scholars from various fields, working on music, philosophy, theology, mysticism, history, literature and art history, as reflected in Persian and Arabic manuscripts. We would love to hear about your studies and discoveries about music, musicians, instruments, court repertories, performance practices, musical patronage, music circles etc., during the Timurid and Safavid periods in Greater Iran, Central Asia, South Asia and the Ottoman world.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2023. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/news/
3. ACHAEMENIDS AND SELEUCIDS
In honour of the work of Amélie Kuhrt
Convened by Lindsay Allen and Mark Weeden. Mostly Mondays, 6.15pm in Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK, except the last lecture in the series, see below.
Mon Oct. 16th Kathryn Stevens (Oxford): Hellenism revisited: the case of Babylonia
Mon Oct. 30th Mateen Arghandehpour (Oxford): Persian religion in the Greco-Persian Wars: the case of Athens
Mon. Nov. 20th Josef Wiesehöfer (Kiel): Cyrus, Mirrors of Princes, and Christoph Martin Wieland
Mon. Dec. 4th Eleanor Robson and Parsa Daneshmand (UCL): Debts, dates and donkeys: exploring the archives of Achaemenid Kish
Thurs. Dec. 14th Wouter Henkelmann (Paris): Achaemenid Babylonia and the building of Persepolis LOCATION: Senate House, G 35 – in collaboration with the Ancient History Seminar, Institute for Classical Studies. www.lcane.org.uk , https://www.facebook.com/groups/LCANE/ , @londoncentrene
4. Assistant Teaching Professor – Horn of Africa Languages and Cultures
University of Washington, Seattle
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures is hiring an assistant teaching professor in Horn of Africa languages and cultures.
The successful candidate for this position:
- will, by the start of the appointment, have in hand a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent), in African Studies, Linguistics, History, Anthropology, Education, or other relevant fields. A PhD (or foreign equivalent) in these fields is also acceptable.
- will demonstrate advanced skills in teaching one or more Horn of Africa languages (such as Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, Oromo, or Ge’ez), as demonstrated by teaching reviews.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received by November 17, 2023.
https://apply.interfolio.com/131114
5. Journée d’étude “Canons, règles et pénitences dans les mondes monastiques (IVe-XVIe siècles)” – 18 octobre 2023
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer qu’une Journée d’étude sur le thème :
Canons, règles et pénitences dans les mondes monastiques (IVe-XVIe siècles)
aura lieu mercredi prochain 18 octobre à la Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris), de 9h–16h en salle Claude Simon.
Vous trouverez en pièce jointe le programme détaillé de cette Journée.
Informations sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/canons-regles-et-penitences-dans-les-mondes-monastiques-ive-xvie-siecles/
6. ONLINE Webinar “Slavery in Eastern Iranian Regions: The Case of Late Antique Bactria” with Reza Huseini (Cambridge University), Invisible East Programme, University of Oxford, 16 October 2023, 5:00 pm BST
Information and registration:
7. ONLINE Lecture “Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside” by Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, Harvard University, 17 October 2023, 12:00 pm EDT
The medieval Middle Eastern countryside was a dynamic space populated by groups uniting around powerful patrons, distinct religious practices, and a variety of languages. These groups were often destabilized, negotiated, dismantled, and reconfigured. As a way to capture this dynamism, in light of literature and epigraphy, this talk explores a group of demographic categories that are often sidelined in our conventional taxonomies of the medieval Middle Eastern society – such as rulers and subjects, clergy and lay people, elite and non-elite.
Information and registration: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/daughter-healer-soldier-spy-finding-communities-in-the-medieval-middle-eastern-countryside/
8. ONLINE Lecture “Cyrenaica on the Eve of the Islamic Conquest through Epigraphy and Nu-mismatics” by Khaled ELHADDAR (University of Benghazi, Libya), The Mediterranean Semi-nar, 18 October 2023, 18.00 h CET
This is part of the Webinar “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th Centuries) Sources, Analyses, Projects”.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
9. ONLINE Lecture “The Archaeology of the Past and the Future of the Bedouin in the Late Otto-man and British Mandate Levant” by Maggie Freeman (MIT), W.F. Albright Institute of Archae-logical Research, 18 October 2023, 9:30 pm EDT
In the eyes of both late Ottoman authorities and their British Mandate successors, the nomadic pastoralist Bedouin tribespeople of the Levant posed a threat to state legitimacy and security. Authorities looked to the past for solutions to a contemporary “problem,” seeking to emulate earlier imperial modes of “Bedouin control.” This talk identifies how archaeologists and archaeological knowledge informed state solutions for “the Bedouin problem.”
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/announcement-maggie-freeman?e=4b7f78b915
10. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
Qualification: At least three years of experience teaching Arabic to non-native speakers at the university level; familiarity with contemporary second language teaching methodologies; knowledge of instructional technologies; and OPI or other types of assessment, such as the Flagship reading and listening tests.
Deadline for applications: 24 October 2023. Information:
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/527244/visiting-assistant-professor-of-arabic
- October 14, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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