Archive for 2023
- May 23, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Issue 95 MELA Notes (Available Now!)
I am delighted to announce the publication of Issue 95 (2022) of MELA Notes, the esteemed journal of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA). As the Editor, it gives me great pleasure to present this latest edition, which showcases a collection of outstanding research and insightful contributions in the field of Middle East studies, librarianship, and archival studies.
Within the pages of this issue, readers will discover a diverse range of articles that delve into various aspects of Middle East Studies, shedding light on significant topics and offering fresh perspectives. The dedicated efforts of our esteemed authors have resulted in a rich and engaging compilation, making this edition a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.
I invite you all to explore the thought-provoking articles and engage in the intellectual discourse presented in MELA Notes, Issue 95. The journal is available, free of charge, for access on our official website https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.
Warm regards,
Farshad Sonboldel
Editor, MELA Notes
2. HYBRIDE Journée d’études “Prophète(s), prophétie, prophétologie”, École pratique des hautes études, Les Patios Saint Jacques, Paris, 5-6 juin 2023 Programme et inscription : https://www.ephe.psl.eu/prophetes-prophetie-prophetologie
3. Journée d’étude : « Normes et pratiques dans la documentation juridique islamique », Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers, 7 juin 2023
The workshop aims to analyse the relation between norms and practices in Islamic legal documentation. From a comparative perspective, it seeks to bring out similarities and explain divergences between different Islamicate empires where Islamic law prevailed. It addresses how the legal doctrine of different schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i, etc.) was implemented by legal authorities to shape normative practices in diverse circumstances.
Program: http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?8656
4. ONLINE Book Talk “Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism” with Hanaa Almoaibed, Steffen Hertog and Nora Derbal, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, 13 June 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST
In this study of everyday charity practices in Jeddah, Nora Derbal employs a ‘bottom-up’ approach to chal-lenge dominant narratives about state-society relations in Saudi Arabia. Exploring charity organizations in Jeddah, this book both offers an ethnography of associational life and counters Riyadh-centric studies which focus on oil, the royal family, and the religious establishment.
Information and registration:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2023/charity-in-saudi-arabia-nora-derbal
5. HYBRID 2023 PhD Global History of Empires Conference: “Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices”, University of Turin, 14-15 September 2023
We want to bring together doctoral students and early career scholars from different geographical areas, historical periods and methodologies. Diversity is a necessary step to ensure that our discussions show the complexity of theory and practices of empire without recurring to the usual worn-out tropes. A more varied base will also enable us to make better use of comparisons and highlight lesser-known case studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646040/cfp-governing-lives-others-global-histories-empires-theories
6. 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate and 2 Doctoral Research Associates (4 Years), Arabic-Persian-Turkish Translation Processes, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster Uni-versity
The positions are part of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “TRANSLAPT: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1750)” (https://go.wwu.de/translapt). Good reading skills in Arabic (or Persian) and Ottoman Turkish are es-sential.
Application deadline: 9 June 2023.
Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/call/index.html
7. Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Position (80-100%) at the Chair of the History of Archi-tecture and Preservation (Focus MENA), University of Bern
Starting 1st September 2023 (or as agreed) for two years (with an option for extension). Specialization should be in the field of the history and theory of architecture and preservation (Europe or other regions, e.g. South-ern/Eastern Europe, Latin America, MENA region) from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period.
Deadline for application: 15 June 2023.
Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/862d0ac4-7d3b-4d44-a934-a1d8511400ab
8. New PhD in Islamic Studies Starting Fall 2023, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha
This PhD is an interdisciplinary program that cultivates a detailed understanding of Islamic studies and a mastery of a chosen disciplinary pathway. This expertise is acquired by undertaking dynamic and innovative research that facilitates the analysis and production of contemporary Islamic discourses, engages with diverse themes and topics, and supports the human development goals of the State of Qatar and broader global needs.
Information and registration: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/program/cis/phdis
9. La Révolution des féminismes musulmans
Élaboration théorique et agir féministe (2004–2014)
de Malika HAMIDI (Auteur)
Peter Lang, 2023
https://www.peterlang.com/document/1294509
10. 3 x 36-month postdocs at University of Venice
1) Science and the environment in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE
36 months with possible renewal for 12 months
Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET
https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/6467847cba87a
“The post-doctoral researcher will carry out original research into the history of science in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and the connections between the study of pre-modern science and the environmental contexts of the writers. …”
2) Society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE
36 months
Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET
https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b165de51fc
“The postdoctoral researcher will be an environmental archaeologist interested in socio-ecological systems. They will carry out original research into the relationships between society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE. …”
3) Water, landscapes and environmental history in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean, c. 600-1050 CE
36 months
Deadline: 14th June 2023, 12.00 CET
https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b2dc52057b
“The post-doctoral researcher will examine the social and intellectual history of water in the Muslim-ruled territories around the Mediterranean from the seventh century to the early eleventh.”
11. Love in the Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabī
Hany T. A. Ibrahim
Equinox, 2023
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/love-teachings/
12. Brill: Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online
https://brill.com/display/db/etlo
13. Introducing Feminist Futures
Introducing /Feminist Futures/. In a world ignited by the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî”-inspired women*-led uprising in Iran, the notion of revolution takes on new dimensions. We pause to ponder: what does revolution truly mean? Is it only about the usurpation of state power to change regimes? How can we redefine it to reflect the power and impact of global feminist uprisings? Join us as we bring together brilliant minds from across the globe: leading scholars, writers, and artists who are at the forefront of reshaping our societies. Through a collection of bilingual (English and Persian) critical reflections and provocations, /Feminist Futures/ invites us to engage in meaningful deliberations about the intersections of global feminist liberation movements.
/Feminist Futures/ is our response to the call of feminist scholarship to take stock of the global movements for change that are being led by women and queers, embracing the invitation posed by our current historical moment. It is an opportunity to explore the often-overlooked power within global feminist uprisings, to challenge conventional definitions of revolution.
We’ll be releasing new content every few weeks until the end of 2023.
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*SAREH AFSHAR* is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender Studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. They hold a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, and their research interests include the aesthetics of everyday life, materiality of visuality, minoritarian memory and trauma theory, and digital and new media. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TDR: The Drama Review, e-misférica, Text & Performance Quarterly, Interventions, Khayyam, Ravagh, and edited book volumes. She has lost two cities—lovely ones, Montréal and Tehran—but deems New York a most soothing compromise.
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*NARGES BAJOGHLI* is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. She is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator, and cultural curator. Trained as a political anthropologist, media anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker, Narges’ academic research is at the intersections of media production, power, and resistance. She is the author of the award-winning book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press 2019; winner 2020 Margaret Mead Award; 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; 2021 Silver Medal in Independent Publisher Book Awards for Current Events); and the director of The Skin That Burns, a documentary film about survivors of chemical war. In addition to her academic work, Narges is a community organizer and creator of educational programs for middle school, high school, and college students rooted in social justice pedagogy. She has worked with cultural and educational collectives in the Middle East and Latin America, and organized cultural programming and exchanges in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean for over two decades. Narges is the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, which houses the /Feminist Futures/ platform.
- May 23, 2023
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Shii News – Hybrid – ‘Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shiʿi Islam’ – N Husayn (12.6.23, 17.00 UK time)
- May 22, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.History of Glass & Ceramics in Iran, 1500–1925
W Floor
Mage, 2023
https://magepublishers.com/history-of-glass-ceramics-in-iran-1500-1925/
2. Kurdistan Memory Programme
https://kurdistanmemoryprogramme.com/
3. Recrutement lecteur/lectrice de persan – Inalco (date du dépôt de candidature le 23 mai 2023)
L’Inalco, département Eurasie, recrute un(e) enseignat(e) contractuel(le) – lecteur/lectrice de persan
Date de dépôt de candidature: avant le 23 mai 2023
Profil de l’emploi, conditions du recrutement et procédure du dépôt de candidature :
http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/appel-candidatures-lectrice/lecteur-persan
Contact: Madame Julie Duvigneau, Directrice du Département Eurasie : julie.duvigneau@inalco.fr
4. Announcing the launch of UTL crowdsourcing OCR correction project
The University of Texas Libraries is launching a crowdsourcing effort to correct the OCR (optical character recognition) output for the Egyptian periodical, جريدة البلاغ الاسبوعي (Jaridat al-Balagh al-Usbu’i). A pilot set of issues of Jaridat al-Balagh is available through the UTL Digital Collections Portal, and this crowdsourcing project seeks to gather the data necessary to make those images full-text searchable.
If you are interested in participating, please visit the project at FromThePage and follow the instructions to create a collaborator account. At present, there are two issues of the periodical with rough OCR available for correction. We will be adding more issues in the coming weeks.
Please share widely! I’m leading this effort so that we can make more UTL digital collections––and more non-English, non-Roman script digital collections––accessible and useful for researchers. I sincerely appreciate your participation and feedback.
Best wishes,
Dale
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DALE J. CORREA (pronounce) PhD, MS/LIS | Middle Eastern Studies Librarian & History Coordinator
The University of Texas at Austin
Middle Eastern Studies Research Guide
Fellow, RBS-Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage
Past Chair, Digital Scholarship Interest Group Steering Committee of the Middle East Librarians Association
Recent edited book: Maturidi Theology: A Bilingual Reader (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022)
5. CFP – Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University – deadline: June 15, 2023
October 14th, 2023, 10 AM – 5:30 PM (in-person)
Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
2001 N. 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
Accepting papers from art history graduate students based in the mid-Atlantic/Northeastern United States
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023
Accepted papers will be notified via email in July 2023.
The Art History Graduate Organization at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University invites art history graduate students in the mid-Atlantic region to submit to an open call for papers. Submissions may relate to any time period, geography, and media visual arts and culture and should be submitted in the form of 250-word abstracts, with the full presentation running to approximately 20 minutes.
This is an opportunity to connect with a community of graduate students and professors from other universities in the region, and to share your ongoing research. This call for papers is intentionally open-ended and inclusive in order to welcome the widest possible cohort of presenters to share their work. Presentations could focus a developing chapter of your dissertation, a completed seminar paper, or a piece of
independent research.
To apply:
Please send the following materials to AHGOtylerschoolofart@gmail.com by June 15, 2023
with the subject line: “The First Graduate Student Symposium in Art History.”
● Presentation title and abstract (250 words or less)
● CV, 2 pages
● Summary of graduate studies progress, including research interests, dissertation progress, etc. (250 words or less)
See all of the details on submiting here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQrSaKVZWA3KDkqRERbgPRYrPtLCCX-L/view.
6. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court, Yael Rice – May 23
May 23 at 6:30pm BST at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, in connection with monograph The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court (University of Washington Press).
To attend via Zoom, please email Matty Bradley (mb@royalasiaticsociety.org). You’ll find additional information about the publication, including discount codes for purchasing, below.
The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
By Yael Rice
PUBLISHED: May 2023
SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies / South Asia, Art History / Asian Art
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 272 Pages, 7 x 10 in, 86 color illus., 1 map, 3 tables
ISBN: 9780295751092
Publisher: University of Washington Press
** DISCOUNT CODES: 40% off and free domestic shipping – WARM23 (USA only), order online at https://uwapress.uw.edu/; 30% off – FFS23 (outside USA), order online at https://combinedacademic.co.uk
7. Teaching Fellow – The University of Edinburgh
Fixed Term: Tenable from 6th September 2023 (Maternity cover) for 9 months
Part Time, 10.5 Hours per Week (0.3 FTE)
Closing date: 12/6/23
8. From The Bosporus to the Southern Sea Travel book from 1793
Gaspard Testa/Mehmet Tütüncü
Published : SOTA; 1e editie (14 november 2022)
Language : Dutch
Hardcover : 204 pagina’s
ISBN-13 : 978-9069210476
size : 17.6 x 1.7 x 24.7 cm
Introductory pages and cover: https://www.academia.edu/87639237/Van_de_Bosporus_naar_de_Zuiderzee
ORDERS to be placed by email : sotapublishing@gmail.com
9. Fellowship | MECAM Postdoctoral Researchers
Université de Tunis/Tunisia
The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for three long- term fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2023 to August 2026. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia.
Deadline | 31 May 2023
10. Assistant Professor in History
University of Nottingham
The Department of History is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor with specialist knowledge in the history of Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East and/or Central Asia. You will have a PhD in history or relevant subject area, with research expertise on social and political networks across the region and related expertise in material culture.
Deadline | 8 June 2023
11. BIAA Assistant Director
British Institute at Ankara
The Assistant Director supports and reports to the Director. Responsibilities include the management and facilitation of Contemporary/ Ottoman Türkiye-related aspects of the BIAA’s research programme and public events and outreach, managing the library staff and the daily running of the library. The Assistant Director also collaborates with the BIAA IT Manager to further develop BIAA’s IT digital framework.
Deadline | 15 June 2023
12. PhD | SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa: Unveiling the politics of welfare in post-uprising societies
Institute for Research on Arab and Muslim Worlds (IREMAM)
Applications are invited for a PhD position (36 months) within the ANR-funded project SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa. The SUBLIME project, which started ́in January 2023, studies the change that is undermining one of the pillars of the social state in the Arab world: consumer subsidies, especially on food and energy. The PhD proposal will focus on one of the countries within the scope: Algeria (priority), Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt or, possibly, Morocco.
Deadline | 23 June 2023
13. Call for Applications – APSA MENA Mentoring Initiative
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in the MENA Mentoring Initiative. The program is an opportunity to receive feedback and comments from senior colleagues on a project-specific activity that is at an advanced stage of development. The mentoring duration will be between 3 and 6 months, depending on the activity and planned outcome.
Deadline | 11 June 2023
14. Call for Applications – New Directions in the Study of the Arab World
Graduate Student Research Workshop | 4-6 March 2024 | NYU Abu Dhabi
The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for the upcoming Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2024 at NYU Abu Dhabi. We welcome applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.
Deadline | 4 September 2023
15. Zoom – Monday Majlis Series Programme 2022-2023
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
5 June. Hassan Abbas, The Return of the Taliban:Afghanistan after the Americans Left
12 June. Nebil Husayn, Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shiʿi Islam
16. ONLINE EVENT: ‘Identity and Aspiration: Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf’ – Dr Yuting Wang (Thursday 25 May, 13:00 BST)
The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to be hosting Dr Yuting Wang (American University of Sharjah) for a special online seminar exploring Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf.
The event will take place online via Zoom on Thursday 25 May at 1pm BST. The event is free to attend but registration is essential.
For further information and to register please click here: https://chinese-muslims-in-the-gulf.eventbrite.co.uk
With very best wishes,
The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam
in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
0131 650 4615
17. ‘Unearthing Rabi`a’s Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan’
Shamim Homayun
IJMES online, 2023
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Shii News – ‘Practices of Devotion to the Ahl-e Bait’ (Aubervilliers, 23.5.23)
PRACTICES OF DEVOTION TO THE AHL-E BAIT
AT HOME AND IN DIASPORA:
MATERIALITY, RITUAL, AND THE DIGITAL SENSES
Tuesday, May 23 2023
9:00 am – 7:00 pm
A one-day workshop co-organized by
Michel Boivin (CNRS-CESAH) and Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto)
Campus Condorcet – Bâtiment de Recherche Sud
Room 0.015 – 5 cours des Humanités – 93300 Aubervilliers
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/05/Ahl-e-bait.pdf
- May 17, 2023
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Shii News – ADHRB: Saudi Imminent Executions of Two Bahrainis
End the Death Sentence against Sultan and Thamer and Bring Them Back to Bahrain
See also Amnesty International here.
For ADHRB Weekly Newletter 441, click here.
- May 16, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: “Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th centuries)” in Istanbul, Türkiye, November 21-24, 2023
The Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) organize an international congress. Below please find a CfP, theme 5 is related to medicinal, botanical and agricultural knowledge: https://ottomanastronomy.org/theme5/
See also: https://ottomanastronomy.org/
Deadline for abstracts: June 25, 2023
2. HYBRID Symposium “New Culinary Landscapes in Turkey and the Levant: Global Perspective”, Birkbeck, University of London, 18 May 2023, 10:00 h – 17:00 h
We seek in this symposium to understand and evaluate the nature and driving forces of the changing gastronomic landscape through concepts drawn from the academic disciplines of politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography and area studies.
Information and registration: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=36910
3. Workshop “Productions and Exchanges : New Research on the History of Syro-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries”, Institut des Civilisations, Paris, 22-23 May 2023
This workshop will focus on the circulation and transmission of artistic models. It seeks to identify the motifs shared between different artistic productions of the Syro-Egyptian territory, but also with neighbouring areas, particularly Turkish and Persian. In this perspective, a specific interest is given to the modes of formal or aesthetic appropriation and transformation of patterns that connect or differentiate these artistic productions.
Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/83236
4. Poster Session of the 2nd GlobalMed Meeting, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, 22-23 June 2023
The GlobalMed network brings together researchers from international partner institutions working on a global approach to the Mediterranean, i.e., attention to the human, cultural, social, material, and environmental connections between the Mediterranean and the world, from prehistory to the present. The poster exhibition will allow the different partners to present ongoing or completed research projects related to the GlobalMed themes.
Deadline for proposals: 22 May 2023.
Information:
https://www.mmsh.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Globalmed_rencontre-2023_AMI_Posters_FR_ENG.pdf
5. Conference ” “Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia”, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 6-7 October 2023
The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infra-structures of knowledge production.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023.
Information: https://cmes.berkeley.edu/mughal-conference
6. Conference “The Cloven Dukes: The Mediterranean Diplomacy of the Small Italian Powers (1530-1730)”, Haifa Center for Mediterranean Diplomatic History, 7-8 November 2023
This conference intends to explore the diplomatic strategies, models, agencies, and practices adopted by Italian duchies and republics when negotiating with the Ottomans, the Safavids or the various Muslim polities of North Africa, and to compare them with those traditionally deployed in the European context.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-mediterranean-diplomacy-of-the-small-italian-powers-1530-1730-november-7-8-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d
7. Conference “Recited Ink: Written Representations of the Oral Aspects of the Qur’ān”, Università l’Orientale di Napoli, 21-22 May 2024
The word Qur’ān primarily indicates recitation. Despite this, when we think about the Sacred Book of Islam, we picture a manuscript or a printed copy. In the last century, recordings and “study Qur’āns” have in a certain way standardized the process of learning and the performance of qirā’a. Orthoepic signs, often colorized, are a common presence in muṣḥafs printed for recitation schools. What we know less about is how these signs developed and how they were used before the 20th century.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.
Information: https://euqu.eu/2023/05/02/call-for-papers-recited-ink-written-representations-of-the-oral-aspects-of-the-quran/
8. Scholarships on Projects Related to the Departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era Studies, and “Istanbul and Music” Research Program, Istanbul Research Institute
The grants fall into three categories: One scholar will be awarded Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; Five scholars will be awarded Travel Grants; Five scholars will be awarded Conference Grants. Applications can be prepared in English or Turkish.
Deadline for applications: 3 July 2023. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18
9. Articles on “Alī al-Qūshjī” for Special Issue of “Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science”
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024.
Information: https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/ali-kuscu-ozel-sayisi
10. P/T – Teaching Fellow (Arabic)
University of Edinburgh
Closing date : 26/5/23
https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/7403
11. Conference – The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects – London, 20-21 June
The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW, 20-21 June, 2023
Despite the attentions of cultural historians since the 1980s, maps still tend to escape close and critical study as fundamentally visual and material forms of communication, with histories of cartography remaining predominantly disconnected from these dimensions of the subject matter. This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read? How does the study of maps within specific historical or cultural contexts connect to broader issues in visual/material history? In what ways are coloniality and/or indigeneity made visible/material in maps? How can art-historical approaches inform other disciplinary analyses and uses of maps? Invited speakers will offer new perspectives through studies of cartographic objects from around the world, from early modern India, Iran, and China to the Atlantic world and contemporary South Africa.
Organised by Emily Mann (Bartlett School of Architecture) & Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld)
Speakers:
Zoltan Biedermann, Department of History, University College, London
Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Tristan Brown, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chanchal Dadlani, Department of Art History, Pomona College
Georges Farhat, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Department of Art History, Emory University
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Department of History, Boğaziçi University
Olanrewaju Lasisi, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Emily Mann, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
Matthew Francis Rarey, Department of Art History, Oberlin College
Rose Marie San Juan, Department of History of Art, University College, London
Samira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Stephen H. Whiteman, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Free and open to the public, please register here.
- May 16, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies. The fellowships extend for 12 months, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024. These fellowships and the activities organized by and with the fellows are intended to launch a long-term project, triggered by present concerns arising from the recent devastation in Turkey and Syria as well as the urgent need to develop our understanding of the history of seismicity in the region.
Closing date: 31 May, 2023
More information at:
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65397
2. Three items of interest regarding Omar Ibn Said, the African Muslim scholar enslaved in North Carolina during the early nineteenth century.
The Pulitzer Prize in music has been awarded to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for the opera “Omar”. This is a remarkable treatment of a previously marginalized figure, presented in a central American cultural arena. Numerous reviews, including in the current edition of the New York Review of Books make it clear that this opera is having a major impact. ‘Tell Your Story, Omar’ | Edward Ball | The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com);
For those who are interested in the book on Omar written by Mbaye Lo and myself, I cannot write my life: Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America (University of North Carolina press, https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674674/i-cannot-write-my-life/), printed copies will be available in August, and instructors interested in getting an e-exam copy can do so now at Request an Electronic Exam Copy – University of North Carolina Press (uncpress.org);
Mbaye Lo and I have set up a website at the Digital Repository at UNC Library, “Enslaved Scholars: A Website Repository for Editions of Arabic Texts and English Translations of writings by Enslaved Muslims in the Americas, including works they quote.” This contains open-source pdf copies of our critical editions of 18 Arabic texts with English translations of Omar’s writing, and links to URLs with images of the original manuscripts. We plan to add some other figures in the near future, beginning with Abdurrahman ibn Ibrahima (d. 1829) and Shaykh Sana See (Panama, 1860s). Anyone interested in participating in this project, please let us know.
Carl W. Ernst
William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3. We now are thrilled to invite you to a supplementary session of the Harb al-Basus Seminar on May 23rd at 8 a.m. ET/ 2p.m. Central European Time, and 8 p.m. in Perth Australia, whence Dr. Said al-Ghanimi will deliver his presentation on the diachronic cultural and literary connections between the story of Harb al-Basus and major heroic tales across the eras of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. We are thrilled that he has agreed to offer his presentation to us on Zoom, and we hope to engage him in fruitful discussion of his ideas concerning the core narrative of Harb al-Basus and its relation to other heroic tales. Please join us if you can.
We will record this session, and post it to the al-Zir Salim@ Harb al-Basus channel on Youtube, where the rest of our sessions are archived, here: https://www.youtube.com/@HarbalBasus
And here is the webpage of the seminar:
https://www.usna.edu/Harb-al-Basus-Seminar/index.php
If you can join us, we would be thrilled to see you there and to have you join the discussion.
Here is the Zoom link to the May 23rd session:
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81553406270?pwd=bFpZdnQwMUpXdE5yYlBZemFEMEVtUT09
Meeting ID: 815 5340 6270
Passcode: 031802
Sincerely,
Clarissa Burt Johan Weststeijn
burt@usna.edu j.k.weststeijn@gmail.com
4. Afghanistan,Volume 6, Issue 1
Find out more:
https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-89W2D-MWI2D5-559S7V-0/c.aspx
5. Call for Applications: The Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature at the UW
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington enthusiastically invites poets and other creative writers, scholars (including doctoral students), and translators of Persian literature to apply for a two-week residency in Seattle during spring 2024. For more information, please see here.
6. ’Processes of the circulation of Chinese wares in the Middle East during the Abbasid-Chinese ceramic exchange, eighth–tenth centuries ce’
Wen Wen,
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023
7. Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography, hybrid workshop at Vanderbilt University, 18-20 May, 2023
You are welcome to a hybrid workshop on South Asian maps, digital mapping projects, conceptions of space, and map epistemologies, to be held in person and over Zoom next week. Please use the form linked below to receive a Zoom link.
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University.
Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, and online via Zoom
May 18th – May 20th
Registration link: https://forms.gle/95eeYrsffY3R1J2S6
The workshop will run from 8 AM – 12 AM US Central Time in Nashville
6 AM-10 AM US Pacific Time 9 AM – 1PM US Eastern Time
6:30 PM – 10:30 PM Indian Time 2 PM – 6 PM UK Time
3 PM – 7 PM Central European Time
All times below are in local Nashville time (CT)
Thursday, 18th May
8-8:30 Introduction and welcome, Samira Sheikh
8:30-9:30 Maps and margins
Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) “Drawing Margins: Inscriptions, Sketches and Marginalia in Pattahs and Titles”
Eric Gurevitch (Vanderbilt University) “Cosmograms, Centers of Calculation, and the Creation of the Many-Headed Knower: Maps in the Historiography of Science”
Karen Pinto (University of Colorado, Boulder) “South Asian Connections with Islamicate Cartography”
9:45-10:45 Access and heritage
Afifa Khan, Rebecca Roberts, Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) “Introducing MAHSA: the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia project”
Rahul Chopra (FLAME University) “Towards an open access platform of maps of India”
11-12 Digital experiments
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) “Going Global in Mughal India”
Deborah Sutton (Lancaster University) “(M)apping Strategies for Digital Heritage: The Safarnama App Framework”
Friday, 19th May
8-9 Fluid boundaries
Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto) “Drawing the Language of the Sea: How Fisher Science Unsettles Weather Maps”
Ian Barrow (Middlebury College) “Finding Time in Colonial-Era Maps of South Asia: Possibilities for Teaching and Research”
Eduardo Acosta (University of Chicago) “Fluvial Temporalities: Thinking Time through Early Colonial Maps”
9:15-10:15 Envisioning the land
Mark Hauser (Northwestern University) “A Tale of Two Maps: Colonial Cartography, the Archaeological Record, and Agrarian Transition”
Ashish Koul (Northwestern University) “Reimagining a geography of conflict”
David Ludden (New York University)”Mapping South Asia as Mobile Historical Space”
10:30-11:30 Representing Delhi
Yuthika Sharma (Northwestern University) “Manuscripts to Maps: Cartography as a model of artistic change in eighteenth-century Mughal South Asia”
Iqtedar Alam (University of Cambridge) “GIS-based Modelling of Shahjahanabad’s Hydrological Landscape: Challenges in Interpretation of Pre-Colonial Maps of Delhi (1750-1850)”
Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) “A first look at the Delhi Canal map”
11:30-12 Discussion
Saturday, 20th May
8-9 Space and place
Dipti Khera (New York University) “Drawing Together Maps and Moods: Localizations of Knowledge, Power, and Emotions, Udaipur, c. 1700”
Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin) “Symbolic Geography, Pragmatic Geography and Visual Representation”
Caleb Simmons (University of Arizona) “Territorial Dominion/Cartographic Dominance: Colonial Mapping and the Work of Creating Space and Making Place”
9:15-10:15 Coloniality and beyond
Shailka Mishra (Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad) “Maps and Mapping in the Courts of Rajasthan: Production, Collection and Consumption”
Charlotte Evans (Lancaster University) “Using the digital humanities to map water histories in the Kaveri catchment: methodologies and considerations”
Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris) ” Epistemic Divides and the Faculty of Translation: Rendering Space Intelligible in 19th-Century South Asia”
10:30-11:30 Himalayan ways
Diana Lange (Humboldt University) “Tibetan Mapping and the Mapping of Tibet”
Abeer Gupta (Achi Association) “Global-digital cultural construction, agency, and the formal-informal archives of knowledge”
Aniket Alam (IIIT, Hyderabad) “Mapping the Himalayas through Historical Texts: An NLP and GIS Approach”
11:30-12 Closing Discussion
8. Online Lecture – “Potters’ workshops and their productions in the Arabian Peninsula between 10th and 15th AD”
Fabien Lesguer (Phd student University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne; CNRS Dadan Archaeological Project)
May, 17th (4 PM Paris; 5 PM Riyad)
For further information:
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/
9. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries.
In the 2024-25 competition, many awards around the world welcome applications in Islamic Art and Architecture, such as opportunities in Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan and Pakistan. Explore awards available in the 2024-25 competition on our site, where you can search by country, discipline and other criteria. You can join the more than 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections and greater mutual understanding.
We encourage you to visit our website for application resources:
- Getting Started (new to Fulbright? Start here!)
- Application Guidance
- Open Awards in the 2024-25 Competition, searchable by discipline, country/region, etc.
- Webinar Schedule and Archive
- Office Hours, a great way to get your questions answered live by Fulbright staff
We look forward to receiving your application by our deadline of September 15, 2023. To receive program updates and application resources, connect with Fulbright. Know someone who could benefit from a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award? Refer a colleague!
Here’s to another year of global action, opportunity, connections — and creating a brighter future.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program
Contact: scholars@iie.org
10. The editors of Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists are looking for submissions that will help diversify the journal’s contents as well as the authors and audiences it attracts. We are currently interested in submissions from disciplines other than history and/or that engage non-Arabic sources, the post-Umayyad period, or non-Muslim peoples. We particularly encourage women and scholars of color to submit.
A peer-reviewed, open access journal since 2015, UW defines the medieval Middle East expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. We seek previously unpublished articles featuring original research and analysis, including those that push the boundaries of the medieval Middle East as defined above.
UW publishes research articles on a rolling basis, and we pride ourselves on a friendly, efficient, and substantive editorial process. For more reasons to publish with UW and additional information about submissions, please visit the journal’s website or contact the editors directly.
Zayde Antrim: Zayde.Antrim@trincoll.edu
Alison Vacca: av3096@columbia.edu
11. Please join us for the next Maps & Society lecture on May 18, 5 – 7pm (GMT). Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS Researcher, LARHRA, Lyon) will be talking on ‘Magnetism Matters: Early Modern Commerce, Practices and Frameworks in the Iberian Empires’.
The meeting will be held online on Zoom. To receive a link, please register via the Warburg Institute: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-magnetism-matters-early-modern-commerce-practices-and-frameworks-iberian
Everyone is warmly welcomed.
Catherine Delano-Smith and Philip Jagessar
- May 13, 2023
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