Archive for November 25th, 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1.‘Marshall Hodgson’s ideas on cores and modernity in Islam: a critique’
R M Eaton,
JRAS, Series 3 (2023), 33, 1029–1039
2. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series:
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Azadeh Kian
Monday, December 4, 2023, 2:00pm Pacific via Zoom
3. Online/Inperson:
THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COLLECTIONS IN THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, Irina Koshoridze, Silsila, NYU – November 29, 6.30 pm EST
This lecture will focus on the history of collecting Islamic art in Georgia, which started in 1852 when the first museum institution, the Caucasian Museum, was established in Tbilisi. Important collections from almost all periods of Islamic art between the seventh to the twentieth centuries, and from various artistic schools, are preserved in Georgian museums. Their abundance is largely due to Georgia’s centuries-old political and cultural relations with the Islamic world. Among the highlights of the Georgian collections are one of the most extensive collections of Persian oil paintings of the Qajar period, along with unique examples of medieval Islamic ceramics, metalwork, and textiles. The lecture will introduce some of these materials, the circumstances in which they were collected, and discuss a forthcoming new catalogue, which will show highlights of Islamic materials in the collections of the Georgian National Museum.
For full details, including forms to register to attend online or in person, please visit the Silsila website:
Contact Email
URL
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/from-the-history-o…
4. Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalism,
Beate Fricke, Finbarr Barry Flood
Princeton University Press, 2023
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215150/tales-things-tell
PUP have offered a 30% discount for a limited time – to obtain the discount, enter code P325 on the Princeton UP site at checkout.
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier aux séances du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendront le jeudi 14 décembre 2023, 17h-19h, à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5e étage).
Le jeudi 14 décembre 2023 à 17h (INaLCO, salle 5.28, 5e étage), nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Mélisande Bizoirre, Docteure en histoire des arts de l’Islam, agrégée d’histoire et chargée de cours à l’INaLCO, pour une conférence intitulée: “Le manuscrit MS 363.2007 du musée d’art islamique de Doha : un exceptionnel exemple de Coran illustré”.
Résumé
Le Coran MS 363.2007 du musée de Doha pourrait être un exemple typique de production qājāre du milieu du XIXe siècle : un beau manuscrit richement enluminé, doté d’une reliure laquée, probablement fabriqué à Shirāz entre 1830 et 1860. Il présente pourtant une caractéristique très inhabituelle : cinq doubles pages sur lesquelles ont été ajoutées, à une date ultérieure à sa réalisation, des peintures en rapport avec le texte coranique. Cela en fait l’un des très rares exemples de Coran illustrés connus jusqu’ici.
Mais là n’est pas la seule spécificité de ce manuscrit illustré. Aux peintures en pleine page répondent des marges elles aussi figuratives, créant une disposition quasi unique dans les manuscrits du monde islamique. Un dialogue se noue donc entre plusieurs types d’images, créant des cycles iconographiques inhabituels.
Comment expliquer la présence de ces décors ? Quand, où et par qui ont-ils été réalisés ? Quelles étaient les intentions de l’artiste ? Faut-il y voir un simple faux destiné à en augmenter le prix, ou une réalisation artistique à part entière ? Quel lien avec des manuscrits comportant des images à caractère religieux, comme les Qisas al-Anbiya, ou les Falnama ? Autant de questions auxquelles l’histoire de l’art ne peut répondre qu’en partie, par l’observation de la stratigraphie des interventions, le décryptage de l’iconographie et l’analyse stylistique. .
Orientations bibliographiques
– Richard GOTTHEIL, « An illustrated copy of the Koran », Revue des études islamiques, 5, 1931, p. 21-24 et pl. I-VI.
– Manijeh BAYANI, Anna CONTADINI, Tim STANLEY, The Decorated Word : Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th centuries, London/Oxford: The Nour Foundation, Azimuth, Oxford University Press, 1999.
– Axel LANGER, « Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting. Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration », À l’Orientale. Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020, p. 15-27.
– Rachel MILSTEIN, La Bible dans l’art islamique, Paris : PUF, 2005.
– Nabil SAFWAT, Golden pages: Qur’ans and other manuscripts from the collection of Ghassan I. Shaker, Oxford University Press pour Azimuth éditions, 2000.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
6. DEADLINE EXTENDED – In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies [Announcement]
Do you study the premodern world? Do you consider subaltern perspectives, labor, the environment, ecology, or non-human life? Is infrastructure the object and method that you work with – perhaps in conjunction with ecocritical approaches? If the answer to any two of these questions is ‘yes,’ then this in-person conference would benefit from hearing about your work! The deadline to submit abstracts to In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies has been extended to December 1, 2023, and scholars of the premodern (ancient, medieval) and early modern world are specially invited!
In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies
Dates: March 8th & 9th 2024
Place: University of California—Irvine (IN PERSON)
Keynote Speakers: Dr. John Hopkins (NYU: IFA+ISAW) & Dr. Lisa Parks (UCSB: FMS)
This work is a rhizome, a burrow…We will enter, then, by any point whatsoever; none matters more than another, and no entrance is more privileged even if it seems an impasse, a tight passage, a siphon.
— Deleuze & Guattari, Toward a Minor Literature
This conference seeks to bring together early career scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are particularly encouraged) to encounter one another’s infrastructural interests and perspectives. Papers which take an infrastructural approach to the ancient and premodern technologies are especially welcome, alongside those on modern and contemporary material. Authors who take up infrastructure as object, method, both, or otherwise in their work on archaeology or media archeology, art history, classics, anthropology, and literary studies, as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences are all encouraged to participate.
Burrowing describes a laborious process of moving through a dense medium — a somatic confrontation with the world rooted in mundane materiality. The burrow maps the void left by an organism through time within a subterranean, subaltern, or otherwise subliminal environment. Burrowing requires the adoption of an infrastructural disposition towards the world. It is a point of entry into the subaltern lived experience.
From a desertified minor literature to the phatic labor of human speech acts to water conduits and digital media, the study of infrastructure has drawn upon, brought together, and absorbed a wide variety of discourses across the humanities and social sciences. Infrastructure encourages perspectives ‘from below,’ it excavates subsumed and alternative landscapes; it sublimates parallel biological and material worlds, giving breath to their underlying possibilities for life. As aqueducts, drains, roads, fiber optic cables, and the labor attendant upon these — as minor literatures, artifacts, and temporalities — infrastructures offer us conceptual burrows with which to overhaul and undermine scholarly perspectives and methods which are often rooted in the nodes and networks articulated from positions of power and historical privilege.
Papers might address topics ranging from (but not limited to):
– Premodern economies, gift exchange
– Premodern archaeologies: beyond empires and networks
– Subaltern studies and critical approaches ‘from below’
– The living body as landscape; the urban landscape as body; body politic
– Sublimated material relations, labor
– Word of mouth, gossip, and hubbub
– Practices of minor mapping
– Making and growing: living infrastructures
– Environmental time in the premodern cultural landscape
Send 250-500 word abstracts to uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com by 12/01/2023. Please direct any questions to the above email as well. We hope to return decisions by 12/15/2023. Written papers (20 minute presentations) will be due a week prior to the conference. Panels will be assembled by theme rather than by discipline, and will be chaired by UCI faculty respondents who will facilitate discussion across talks within a panel. Organizers have a preliminary agreement with the editors of AfterImage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism to construct a special issue based on the presentations made at this conference.
Contact Information
Nastasya Kosygina, nkosygin@uci.edu , PhD Candidate in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; she/her/hers
Alexander Rudenshiold, PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine; he/him/his
Contact Email
uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com
7. Join Georgetown’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies for our ongoing Theology in Arabic seminars. These seminars are intended to foster a deeper understanding of theology directly from works in Classical Arabic:
- “Epistemology and Theology in a Later Work of Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240): Kitāb al-Ifāda.”
Dr. Aydogan Kars, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University .
Zoom seminar: Monday Nov. 27 4PM EST / 9PM GMT ( = Tuesday Nov. 28 8AM AEDT):
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8. Hybrid: ‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’
‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’ is the Leicester Lit and Phil’s Arthur and Jean Humphreys Lecture on Monday 4th December.
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, the Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, University of Cambridge will tell of how the medieval Persian authors and their patrons described the dangers of love and the lure of friendship by spinning attractive, magical tales that concealed grim warnings.
Christine van Ruymbeke is Professor of Persian Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, and is a literary critic of Persian literature specialising in non mystical narratives of prose or verse written during the long medieval period.
The lecture is at 7.30 pm at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk.
Non-members may attend either on Zoom or in-person on payment of £5 (student non-members £3) by booking through EventBrite:
Zoom: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/675994145687
In-person: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/676003493647
For Further Information: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk
- November 25, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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