Archive for 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation invites applications for the position of Outreach & Events.
For further details and for applying, please click the following link: https://smrtr.io/dDgrw
The closing date for all applications is 5th May 2023.
Kind regards,
Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation
2. La 7ème séance du séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » aura lieu le jeudi 11 mai 2023
17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’INALCO : 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
Pour cette séance, nous recevons Rostislav Oreshko (CNRS/UMR 8761 Orient et Méditerranée & Center for Hellenic Studies – Harvard University) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Les Perses en Anatolie : trois études épigraphiques sur la Lycie, la Lydie et la Phrygie »
Résumé :
Suite à la conquête de la Lydie par Cyrus vers 546 av. J.-C., l’Asie Mineure devint une partie intégrante de l’Empire perse et, à l’exception des villes grecques de la côte égéenne libérées à la suite des guerres médiques, le resta par la suite pendant plus de deux siècles. Cette longue période de domination achéménide a laissé une empreinte remarquable sur le paysage culturel de la région (cf. Briant 2020 et Dusinberre 2020). Sur le territoire anatolien divisé en cinq satrapies, Cyrus et ses successeurs établirent des colonies militaires – notamment dans les parties occidentales toujours menacées par les Grecs – et introduirent des éléments du système administratif perse (e.g., Dusinberre 2013), et des terres furent données en apanage aux nobles perses (Briant 1986 et Sekunda 1986). Tout cela, peut-on supposer, généra un important afflux de la population iranienne en Anatolie. Pourtant, la situation n’était pas identique dans toutes les régions. Par exemple, à Sardes, la capitale de la satrapie la plus importante d’Anatolie, et dans toute la plaine lydienne l’influence iranienne était forte (cf. Dusinberre 2003), tout autant que dans la région de Daskyleion, la capitale de la satrapie de la Phrygie hellespontique (cf. Bakır 2003 et Kaptan 2002). En revanche, en Carie (proprement dite), dont la gouvernance fut placée dans les mains d’une dynastie locale, les éléments iraniens sont moins apparents, et en Phrygie centrale on ne trouve des traces de la présence perse que dans l’ancienne capitale, Gordion.
Nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide se fondent principalement sur trois types de témoignages bien connus. Les aspects essentiels de l’histoire politique ont été établis surtout grâce aux sources classiques allant des témoignages contemporains d’Hérodote, Thucydide ou Xénophon aux récits historiques de Strabon, Diodore ou Arrien. L’archéologie y ajoute des détails mineurs concernant la culture matérielle et la vie quotidienne. Les inscriptions grecques de la région, pour leur part, en évoquant des noms de dieux et de personnes d’origine iranienne, fournissent de précieux indices sur la religion et le tissu social au temps de l’Empire perse (cf. Mitchell 2007, entre autres). Ces témoignages épigraphiques sont malheureusement très rares et souvent trop fragmentaires. Pourtant, les inscriptions grecques ne sont pas les seules contenant du matériel pertinent : les inscriptions en d’autres langues de l’Anatolie comportent elles aussi des références à la présence iranienne qui, si interprétées correctement, peuvent considérablement enrichir nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide.
Dans cette conférence, je présenterai trois cas d’études concernant les corpus épigraphiques en trois langues anatoliennes – le lycien, le lydien et le phrygien – qui mettent en évidence le potentiel de ce matériel pour éclairer l’histoire de l’Anatolie achéménide. Le premier (reprenant Oreshko 2021, cf. Hyland 2021) se concentrera sur l’inscription trilingue de Xanthos et sur des aspects militaires et politiques de la présence iranienne en Anatolie du Sud à la fin du 5ème siècle av. J.-C. Le deuxième portera sur l’engagement des Perses dans les questions religieuses et le culte en Lydie au 4ème siècle av. J.-C. Enfin, dans la troisième étude, je présenterai une nouvelle inscription phrygienne trouvée en 2022 à Gordion (Oreshko-Alagöz à paraître) qui, entre autres, jette une lumière inattendue sur la présence de la noblesse iranienne dans la région de Pergame en Mysie au début de la période hellénistique.
Orientation bibliographique
- Bakır, T. 2003 : « Daskyleion (Tayaiy Drayahya) Hellespontine Phrygia Bölgesi Akhmenid Satraplığı », Anatolia 25, p. 1-26 [en allemand et en turc].
- Briant, P. 1986 : « Dons de terres et de villes : l’Asie mineure dans le contexte Achéménide », Revue des Études Anciennes, tome 87 (1985), n°1-2, Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 53-72.
- Briant, P. 2020 : « On ‘Achaemenid impact’ in Anatolia (reading notes) », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 9-35.
- Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2003 : Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis, Cambridge.
- Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2013 : Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, Cambridge.
- Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2020 : « Impacts of Empire in Achaemenid Anatolia », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 37-63.
- Hyland, J. 2021: « Between Amorges and Tissaphernes: Lycia and Persia in the Xanthos Stele », dans: Annick Payne – Šárka Velhartická – Jorit Wintjes (éd.), Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC (OBO 295), Leuven, p. 257-278.
- Kaptan, D. 2002 : The Daskyleion Bullae: seal images from the western Achaemenid empire I–II, Leiden.
- Mitchell, S. 2007 : « Iranian Names and the Presence of Persians in the Religious Sanctuaries of Asia Minor », dans : Elaine Matthews (éd.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics, Oxford, p. 151-172.
- Oreshko, R. 2021 : « Observations on the Xanthos Trilingual: Syntactic Structure of TL 44a, 41-55 and the Lycian Terminology of Art and War », Hungarian Assyriological Review 2/1, p. 95-144.
- Oreshko, R. – Alagöz, U. à paraître : « A new Phrygian Inscription from Gordion: A Pergamene contingent in Phrygia in the early reign of Antiochus I », Belleten 87, août 2023.
- Sekunda, N. V. 1986 : « Achaemenid colonization in Lydia », Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 87, 1985, n°1-2. Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 7-30.
3. The Worlding of Arabic Literature
by Anna Ziajka Stanton
Fordham U P, 2023
https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531503222/the-worlding-of-arabic-literature/
Iman Abdulfattah, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Hybrid Talk – Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:30pm EDT, New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
A great advantage to working on the Mamluk period is the plethora of surviving sources on the material and social history of Egypt and Syria. Representative of this bounty is the trove of literature available on the reign of Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dīn Qalāwūn (r. 678 689/1279-1290), the seventh Mamluk ruler, under whom the sultanate was stabilized. He was a prolific builder who ordered the construction or restoration of several buildings throughout the Mamluk realm. However, most are no longer extant, making the massive urban complex that he commissioned in Cairo (684/1285) important to understanding the material culture and built environment of medieval Cairo.
There are other factors that make this building worthy of discussion: construction was supervised by Amir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī (d. 693/1294), an ambitious and influential Mansūrī amir, giving us insight into the relationship between a patron and project supervisor; it was built in 14 months on the site of a 10th century Fatimid palace, factors that contributed to the wealth of material reuse incorporated in the building process; and it set a new precedent for later complexes in Cairo.
To register to attend, either on Zoom or in person, please use the links provided on the webpage for the event:
5. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:00 GMT
ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/91491257407
The Women and Memory Forum: A Feminist Archive
Professor Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University
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Shii News – ADHRB: ‘Release of Ahmed Mansoor’
- April 26, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Book Talk “Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia” by Prof. Janet Watson, Prof. Dawn Chatty, Dr Jack Wilson, British-Yemeni Society, Warrington, 26 April 2023, 17:30 h GMT
The edited book explores the way in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between peo-ple and their environment. It presents case studies dealing with language, gesture and ecology, the signifi-cance of naming, the role of narratives in the language-ecology relationship, and the conservation and revi-talisation of bio-diversity in Arabia. They will look at the central role that language plays in facing the chal-lenges and threats to bio-cultural diversity.
Information and registration: http://b-ys.org.uk/event/language-and-ecology-southern-and-eastern-arabia.
2. Conference: “Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire”, Gotha Research Centre, Germany, 27-29 April 2023
The conference will provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between scholars of Ottoman, Iranian and Arabic studies and beyond, who are concerned with the interactions of the three languages in the Ottoman Empire (elsine-i s̱elās̱e) and examine their functions as well as the interrelationships between lan-guages, (literary) genres and disciplines.
See conference brochure with the detailed program at https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/arabistikislam/translapt/multilingualism__translation__transfer_gotha_april_2023_brochure.pdf
Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/news/index.html
Registration: veranstaltungen.fb@uni-erfurt.de
3. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Quelle est la place de la falsafa dans le kalām tardif ? Faḫr al-dīn al-Rāzī comme étude de cas” avec Mohammed Essadki (Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdalla, Fès), Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, 28 avril 2023, 16h
Information:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=597503159079790&set=a.545005850996188
Inscription : https://zoom.us/j/99515073675
4. Special Session on “Shifting Perspectives on Muslimness and Islam in Contemporary Fiction” during the PAMLA Conference, Portland, OR, 26-29 October 2023
The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2023. Information: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18844
5. University Assistant (PhD Position, 4 Years), Department of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, University Innsbruck, Austria
Main tasks: Dissertation in the field of Islamic religious education; independent research in the field of Islamic religious education; independent teaching; training and further education; administrative tasks. Required qualifications: completed relevant Master’s, Magister or Diplom degree; please include written reflections on your dissertation project (max. 5 pages) with your application; ability to work in a team.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Information: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=13411 (EN)
6. Coordinator of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences with a substantive background in Muslim studies, and four years of experience in budget management, event management, outreach and engagement, or additional graduate training.
Deadline for applications: Open until filled. Information:
https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=SIMOFRAS&cws=37&rid=5046
7. ONLINE Short Course “Introduction to the Study of Islam and Muslims” by Prof. Philip Wood (AKU-ISMC), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, 24, 25, 26 April 2023, 14:30 – 16:30 GMT
This course aims to give an overview of some important moments in medieval and modern Islamic history and in different theoretical approaches to the study of Islam and Muslims, such as the works of Edward Said and Talal Asad. It focuses on the Middle East and South Asia. It aims to introduce key concepts and events that will be of relevance for anyone studying or teaching Islam. The course takes a social scientific perspec-tive and does not assume any prior knowledge.
Information and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-the-study-of-islam-and-muslims-tickets-526545460647
8. HYBRID Summer Language School (Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 3 July – 18 August 2023
The program is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as conversation tables and study hours, seminars by top scholars on history, politics, literature, and arts, and cultural events includ-ing movie screenings, and field trips to historical sites and archives. The scientific directors are Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Henning (JGU Mainz), Dr. Andreas Helmedach (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Pahlitzsch (JGU Mainz).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
9. Articles on “Contemporary Changes and Transformations in the Islamic World” for Special Issue of the Open-Access Academic Journal “Religions”
The goal of this issue is to present readers with multidisciplinary scholarship, utilizing approaches from the humanities and social sciences to provide a deep understanding of contemporary developments in the Islamic World and, by extension, minority Muslim communities in the West. The participant authors can be specia-lized in religious studies, sociology, history, political science, law, media studies, or other disciplines.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_ issues/M0G655E4F3
10. In-person conference, UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies
April 28-29, 2023
Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the Silk Roads
https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/128257-nexus-of-knowledge-science-medicine-and-technology
11. Podcast: Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
The Memoirs of ‘Abd Al-Majid Al-Qadiri
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov
Brill 2022
https://newbooksnetwork.com/muslim-subjectivity-in-soviet-russia
12. Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther,
Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ancient-persia-and-the-book-of-esther-9780755603022/
13. LSE Master’s Mohammed Al Fahim Scholarship – deadline 27/4/2023
The LSE Middle East Centre is offering a full (£33,333) scholarship for a national of the Middle East or North Africa (Arab League member states, Iran, Israel and Turkey) to support the costs for any taught LSE Master’s degree programme in the 2023/24 session. The applicant’s undergraduate degree should have been taken in a MENA state, an element of the Master’s programme should be relevant to the study of the MENA region, and the applicant must be accepted to the programme to be eligible for funding.
for more information, visit https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/fees-and-funding/Mohammed-Al-Fahim-Scholarship
14. NYUAD Travel Grant – Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads collections
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program, in collaboration with the Archives and Special Collections of the NYUAD Library, is awarding a limited number of travel awards to scholars interested in research within the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads collections along with the relevant thematic holdings of the NYUAD Library.
These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other research projects.
Grant awards include travel (airfare – up to $1500), accommodation funding up to $100 per day, and a $100 per diem for days spent conducting research at the NYUAD Library. Applications must include an estimated cost of travel (airfare), the number of days required for research at the NYUAD Library, and the total number of days for research and travel for a maximum of two weeks. Airfare should be based on the most economical fare available. The amount awarded cannot be increased after the recipient receives the notification of the grant, and grants are not awarded retroactively for research already completed.
Prior to submitting a grant proposal, applicants must contact the NYUAD Library’s Archives and Special Collections department (nyuad-asc.group@nyu.edu), and consult the library’s Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads department’s website at https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/library/collections/archives-and-special-collections/arab-heritage-and-gulf-crossroads.html, to ensure the availability of the documents and their relevance to the research project. The Reading Room is open for research Monday through Friday by appointment and is closed on public holidays. Both in their application and outreach to Archives & Special Collections, applicants should state clearly and precisely how the book, map, and archival holdings of the NYUAD Library will contribute to the completion of the proposed project.
Required materials are to be sent to nyuad.humanities.fellowships@nyu.edu
Resume: a maximum of 2 pages that include current and past positions, education and degrees, relevant awards and honors, up to 5 publications, other relevant professional activities and accomplishments, and level of competence in relevant foreign languages.
Research proposal: a maximum of 4 double-spaced pages that include (1) the title of the project; (2) a brief description of the project, including scope, objective of the research, methodology, and possible conclusions or results; and (3) relation of the NYUAD Library holdings to your research.
List of three references and their contact information.
Spring Term: September 1 – December 15, 2023. The application deadline is May 15, 2023.
*See PDF link for the Arabic version of the call for applications
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15. CFP: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”
Conference: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”
American University in Cairo (AUC)
July 25, 2023 (Deadline: May 15, 2023)
For many centuries in Egypt various religious groups and architectural sites have been in dialogue. We seek short papers for a workshop, particularly with regard to architecture from all periods (up to the present) regarding Christian, Jewish and Muslim (including Sunni and Shi‘a) interactions.
Topics might include but are not restricted to the following: mutual influence of Coptic and Islamic architecture; heritage preservation (especially perceived biases); shared sacred spaces; shared practices of worship; contestation of sites; use of spolia, architectural rivalry of churches and mosques.
Please submit a brief expression of interest by April 20 to bokane@aucegypt.edu and cc sandov65@msu.edu. A 200-word abstract and CV will be due on May 15, 2023.
https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/trt-conference-auc/
16. La 8ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 1er juin 2023
17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’ INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
Pour cette séance, nous recevons Jaroslava Obrtelovà (Uppsala University) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Linguistic means for expressing epistemological stance and perspective shifts in the Wakhi language »
Résumé :
Wakhi is one of the minority East-Iranian languages spoken in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Analysis of the narrations collected among the Wakhi speakers in their natural environment revealed that expressing the speakers’ attitude towards knowledge and their stance in relation to what they tell is, if not more important, at least as important as expressing the temporal and aspectual properties of the narrated events.
For example, when telling a story, Wakhi narrators always choose between telling it either from the perspective of an eye-witness or from a non-witnessed perspective. The witnessed narrations are told exclusively in the past tense, while the non-witnessed narrations, be it a re-telling of past real events, fictional stories or even future events, are told in the non-tense/non-past. Thus, the choice of the verb form informs the listener/reader of the individual (subjective) speaker’s epistemological stance rather than the (objective) situation of the event on the time-line.
In addition to this ‘witnessed versus non-witnessed’ distinction, Wakhi speakers can further nuance their stance by either reinforcing or distancing themselves from the credibility claim. Different Wakhi speakers can narrate the same event or parts of it differently, depending on the speaker’s stance, which is reflected in the use of different linguistic means.
Orientation bibliographique
Mock, John Howard. 1998. The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan . Berkeley: University of California PhD Thesis.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2017. Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 32). Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2019. From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives . Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology PhD Thesis.
Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
17. First AIS Online Symposium, 2023
The Association for Iranian Studies is the leading international scholarly association for the study of the culture, society, and history of Iran and the greater Iranian world. The Association is made up of a wide range of scholars from around the globe who contribute to the society’s goals of promoting Iranian studies through their teaching and research. This includes presentations of their work at the Association’s biennial in-person conferences that have been held in various locations around the world, as well as the publication of their research in the Association’s official journal, Iranian Studies. However, due to personal and professional circumstances, some members of the AIS community have been prevented from participating in the biennial conference. As such, AIS is launching its first online symposium scheduled for the weekend of October 20-22, 2023.
This call for papers is open to all due-paying members of AIS from all disciplines who wish to submit panels or individual papers for consideration. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 15 June 2023. Proposals should be submitted through the AIS online Symposium submission portal. Individual proposals should be no longer than 300 words and proposals for prearranged panels should be no longer than 500 words.
A panel of AIS experts will read and evaluate the proposals and inform all applicants of the results by 31 July 2023. While the symposium is open to all themes and periods, the organizing committee has a special interest in panels and papers addressing the following themes as guiding criteria for the online symposium: environment and ecology, women and society, media and cultural production, identity and identity formation, and the study of pre-modern Persianate world. Panels incorporating one or more of these themes are particularly encouraged to apply.
- April 25, 2023
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Shii News – Vacancy: Research Associate in Shi‘i Studies (Institute of Ismaili Studies, London)
Application closing date: 15 May, 2023
- April 24, 2023
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Shii News – ‘The Clergy and the Modern Middle East’ – M Kalantari
The Clergy and the Modern Middle East
Shi’i Political Activism in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/clergy-and-the-modern-middle-east-9780755644872/
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Applications for the English-Arabic Summer School in Münster/Germany on:
“South-South at Center Stage: Representations, Relations and Interactions Beyond the West in Arabic Studies”
الجنوب-الجنوب في وسط المسرح: تمثيلات وعلاقات وتفاعلات تتخطّى الغرب في
الدراسات العربية
Summer School: 28-30 August 2023
Deadline for Applications: 20 May 2023
Additional information:
https://agya.info/publications/calls/south-south-at-center-stage-representations-relations-and-interactions-beyond-the-west-in-arabic-studies
http://arabic-philologies.de/en
2. Online: ‘Fayzi’s Planetary Poetics: a Theory of Poetry’
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies @ UMD
this coming Sunday, April 23rd at 2:00 pm ET
for Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali speaker Series
A Lecture by Jane Mikkelson
‘Fayzi’s Planetary Poetics: A Theory of Poetry’
3. Les Sassanides en conflit : Géopolitique de l’empire perse tardo-antique
Dirigé par Philip Huyse (EPHE, SHP, UMR CeRMI) et Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, SR, UMR CeRMI), un dossier consacré à l’Iran sassanide vient de paraître dans Antiquité tardive (Revue internationale d’histoire et d’archéologie), n° 30, 2022 https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503603544-1
4. The 2nd lecture in University of Chicago’s Franklin Lewis Lecture Series: Prof. Dick Davis, May 4 at 5:00-7:00 CT
“The Convent and the Cave, or The Getting of Wisdom: Reflections on Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin”.
Abstract: “The talk will explore aspects of the complexity of Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin, in terms of its relationship with its sources, the ambiguity of its rhetoric, and the importance given to the role of art in the developments of its plot”.
The event will be held in person in the Social Science Research Building, the Tea Room, and online in the link below. Please register to get the zoom link.
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/99924872091?pwd=dFNFR2ZmeVl0MEErOWE4Ty9UTTFiQT09
5. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Iconographies of change: currency and medals of Iran’s Pahlavi regime
Start date: 1st October 2023
Application Deadline: 19th May 2023
Interviews will take place in mid-June
The British Museum, and the University of St Andrews are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2023 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Dr Tom Hockenhull at the British Museum and Professor Ali Ansari and Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi at the University of St Andrews. The student will be expected to spend time at both The British Museum and University of St Andrews, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The studentship can be studied either full or part-time.
For more information:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/
6. Call for Papers : Mediterranean Review Vol.16, No.1 (extended)
Mediterranean Review, issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan
University of Foreign Studies, is calling for papers.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST). MR has widened the scope of
Mediterranean Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse
‘mediterraneans’ distributed all around the world where civilization exchange
occurs including the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea, or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in global mediterraneans.
* Date of Submission : May 7th, 2023 (Sunday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr (either)
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
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– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
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– Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.
– All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process.
– Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to be
published.
7. New Permanent Galleries of Islamic Art – The Walters Art Museum – Opening weekend April 22-23, 2023
It is with great pleasure and pride that I share with you the news of the imminent opening of the new permanent galleries of Islamic art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Reinstalled and reconceptualized in conjunction with the arts of Asia writ large, the new space is titled Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World.
For more information on the new installation: https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/asia/
For more information about the opening celebrations and upcoming events: https://thewalters.org/events/?category=celebrations
Many thanks to everyone involved, especially my fellow curators Adriana Proser and Dany Chan, and to everyone who has advised or supported our work on this incredible project.
Ashley Dimmig
8. Yerevan, Armenia – 16-Week Persian Language Semester Program
16-week semester program and internship beginning August 20th, 2023!
For more details:
https://aspirantum.com/courses/study-persian-language-semester-abroad
9. Wisdom of the Prophet Muhammad: A Compendium of Prophetic Hadith
Author: M Muhammadi Rayshahri
Translators: Afzal Sumar and Muhammad Reza Tajri
ICAS Press, 2023
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/shop/wisdom-of-prophet-muhammad-2-volume-edition-1554-pages/
10. Call for Session: May Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies
To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9–11, 2024. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2023.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $800 maximum for scholars traveling from North America and up to $1400 maximum for those traveling from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. Participants must participant in the conference in-person to receive funding. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/59th-icms.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
11. Online Lecture: The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia
East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom
The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia
Joel Walker | University of Washington, Seattle
Early and influential allies of Chinggis Khan, the Öngüt Turks of Inner Mongolia played a pivotal role in the rise of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368). Their adoption of “Nestorian” Christianity represents the culmination of a broad stream of Turkic Christian tradition in medieval Eurasia. The careers of the ascetic Marqos of Koshang, who became the East-Syrian patriarch Yahballaha III (1281–1317), and the ruler Giwargis, the Mongol-appointed “Prince of Gaotang” (d. 1298 or 1299), help reveal the distinctive contours of the Öngüt Christian tradition.
Joel Walker is the Lawrence J. Roseman Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. Trained as a historian of Late Antiquity, his publications include: The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq (2006); “From Nisibis to Xi’an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia” (2012); and “Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia” (2018). Current projects include Witness to the Mongols: A Global History Sourcebook (co-authored with Stefan Kamola) and a history of cattle in the Ancient World.
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
12. A Connected history of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy: The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th century)
6 full-time (100%) doctoral scholarships in the field of History
The Mediterranean is often seen as a dividing border between two worlds: North and South; Christian and Muslim. This pattern has been mostly influenced and supported by nationalist historiographies, which tended to create borders and accentuate differences between areas that were originally connected. DiplomatiCon-project aims precisely to break free from this one-sided view on the history of the region and to present the first example of History of Diplomacy that truly reflects the late medieval context of interactions and exchanges between the Islamic and Christian worlds. Based on the approaches and methodologies advocated by the New Diplomatic History and Connected History, the project will focus on the three most important actors of the late medieval world — the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo on the Islamic side and the Italian polities as well as the Crown of Aragon on the Christian side— and it will challenge the common narratives of political and cultural antagonism between the two worlds by pointing at the spheres of contact and interaction where an informal type of diplomacy could be performed. This approach will allow to reveal the whole set of actors and agents involved in the diplomatic process, as well as the huge and extended network they built throughout the entire Mediterranean sphere. Finally, it will show how this network facilitated a broad range of cultural transfers among the various participants.
DiplomatiCon is a research project funded by the EOS (Excellence of Science) programme of the F.R.S.-FNRS and the FWO-Flanders. It is a collaboration between UAntwerp (Malika Dekkiche and Iason Jongepier) and ULiège (Frédéric Bauden), with the UniMol, UniBo (Isabella Lazzarini), and the IMF – CSIC (Roser Salicrú I Lluch).
Diplomatic Network
The history of diplomatic contacts of the Italian polities and the Crown of Aragon with the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo has so far concentrated on the history of the trade treaties concluded between the state actors, which are usually presented as competing powers in the Mediterranean basin. Following the trend within the New Diplomatic History, WP2 will switch the focus from these state actors to the various agents working with them in order to rewrite a history of diplomacy on a Mediterranean scale that not only crosses the classical borders set by the various fields of study, but simultaneously highlights the multi-layered structure of diplomacy. Such an approach is facilitated by the DiplomatiCon database that makes available all sources from the various groups studied, and that will allow to identify all agents (Christian and Muslim) who have contributed to the exchanges, all the way from home to destination.
Three relevant cases have been chosen for such analysis. On the one hand, we selected the Venetian case (Profile 1, ULiège/Unibol), and that of the Crown of Aragon (Profile 2, ULiège/Barcelona), both of which represent the continuity in the contacts with the Mamluk Sultanate during the 14th and 15th centuries. On the other hand, another PhD will focus on the broader Italian networks (Profile 3; UA/Unibol).
These extended networks represent a fluid and flexible mosaic of episode and trends and will supposedly best illustrate the evolution of the diplomatic networks over time. The case of the papacy has been excluded from this study as the stakes and modes of interaction were very different in comparison with those of the considered political actors. Diplomatic papal initiatives, however, will be taken into account every time they cross the action of the Italian powers and the Crown of Aragon. Genoa has also been excluded due to their more active role in the Western Mediterranean. Their archives however will be consulted as well, since Genoese agents were also involved in the Eastern trade on the behalf of other actors.
Mapping Diplomacy
The history of diplomacy that involved the Mamluk sultanate, the Italian polities and the Crown of Aragon is one that has so far been written from state actors’ perspective and therefore has been restricted to the contacts and negotiations taking place in Cairo and, to a lesser extent, Alexandria and Damascus. However, these diplomatic processes already started in the Italian and Iberian home basis and developed along the road. Going against the common assumption of a strict religious and political divide between the Muslim and Christian actors, WP3 “Mapping Diplomacy” will study the various diplomatic spaces created along the way that constituted favourable spheres of contacts and interactions and that allowed an informal kind of diplomacy to be performed by the various agents. Using the shared corpus collected in the DiplomatiCon database, this WP will use all the locations mentioned by the various agents highlighted in WP2 and apply Spatial Analysis (using GIS) to them. This will allow us to map and connect all locations and hubs, to find spatial patterns and influence spheres, and to draw a diplomatic geography and space. More importantly, WP3 aims to understand how those spaces were produced and experienced by the Italian (Profile 4, UA/Unibol) and Iberian (Profile 5, UA/Barcelona) agents themselves, which institutions and structures facilitated those productions and how those spaces were perceived and communicated to a broader audience.
Translating Culture
Next to the agents and spaces, WP4 “Translating Culture” will move the focus to the way people actually interacted. The translators and the documentary witnesses of their work will thus be at the centre of the analysis. While they are often mentioned, translators in the medieval period remain quite enigmatic. They are usually known to us through their title of tarjumān or dragoman, but their identities, origins and functions are too often kept silent in official records. Their working methods too still stay rather obscure to us. The Italian and Spanish archives, however, have kept many witnesses of their works, since the Arabic documents are often completed with the translation that was made at the time of the conclusion of the agreement. While some of those documents have been the object of a few studies, scholars have traditionally restricted to issues of language and linguistic features. Even less studied are the so-called brokers, although they have also facilitated contacts beyond the sole practice of language. DiplomatiCon offers a unique opportunity to shed light upon those mysterious figures. (Profile 6, ULiège/Barcelona).
13. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies invites contributions for its fifth and sixth volumes to be published in December 2023 and December 2024. YILLIK is a peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal featuring cutting-edge research on Istanbul’s past and present, published by the Istanbul Research Institute in print and online (via DergiPark). YILLIKis indexed by SCOPUSand the MLA International Bibliography.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies is accepting submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.
Articles submitted for publication in the journal are first evaluated by the Editorial Board. Articles deemed suitable by editors in terms of subject matter and quality will be sent to two anonymous reviewers elected in accordance with their expertise from the Advisory Boardor from the larger field. Reports from the double-blind reviewers are combined with the comments of the editors and sent back to the author. Depending on their quality and relevance, articles may be accepted or rejected, or the author may be asked to revise the work.
The review process is mandatory for research articles, while book and exhibition reviews along with the Meclis pieces only require editorial evaluation. The editors of the YILLIK pledge to complete the submission process as quickly and constructively as possible. Our aim is to limit the duration of the evaluation process, from the submission to the journal to the forwarding of reviewer reports to the author, to six weeks.
The deadline for the submission for the fifth volume, to be published in December 2023, is June 20. Some of the accepted articles with revisions may be published in the sixth volume in December 2024.
Every year, one of the articles written by a student or recent PhD will be awarded the YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Early Career Article Prize. For details, click here.
Those who wish to submit a book or exhibition review are strongly recommended to ask for the opinion of the Editorial Board in order to avoid duplicate reviews.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies conforms to Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition. Before submitting your article, please refer to our submission & publishing style guide.
For the “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Publishing Ethics and Peer Review Statement” click here.
Peer-reviewed article submissions must be made through Dergipark.
For other submissions and questions: istanbulstudies@iae.org.tr
14. “IN THE TREASURE ROOM OF THE SAKRA KING: VOTIVE COINAGE FROM GANDHARAN SHRINES”
Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hybrid Talk – Wednesday, April 26th, 6:30pm EDT, New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
SilsilaSpring 2023 Program
In a lush valley within the Sakra peak in Gandhara (northwestern Pakistan, towards the Afghanistan border) is a vast limestone cave temple, part of an ancient Hindu sacred complex. From the 4th to 12th centuries, this cluster of shrines produced hundreds of varieties of their own votive coinage – a unique case in Central and South Asia. These were miniscule copper coins, issued for pilgrims, featuring eclectic and original combinations of Greco-Roman, Iranian, Indic, and Islamic iconography. The book on which the talk is based relates the remarkable story of transculturation and artistic innovation during the most neglected yet formative years of the region’s history.
To register to attend, either on Zoom or in person, please use the links provided on the webpage for the event:
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture Series “The Politics of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 18 April 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm CET
Speakers: “Institutionalising Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” by Ibrahim Malazada (Soran University, KRI, Iraq). – “Carrots and Sticks: The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Use of Minorities in the Drive for Statehood (2003–2017)” by Gregory Kruczek (Penn State University, USA).- “Food Security, the Public Dis-tribution System and Cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil” by Eckart Woertz (GIGA and Universität Hamburg).
Information and registration: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation
2. ONLINE Lecture “Lives and Letters. The Correspondence of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) by Jan Just Witkam, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 21 April 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
This lecture is part of the series “Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists During the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source”; it is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and Maria Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).
Registration: https://theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoceqvqTIoEtADCxv5nqVvAEv5fhMvSBZI#/registration
3. Conference “30 Years After Richard M. Frank: Ghazālī and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam”, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, 28-29 April 2023
Information and program: https://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/events/30-years-after-richard-m-frank-al-ghazali-and-avicenna-post-classical-islam
4. Early Career Workshop on “Islamic Thought and Anglophone Philosophy”, Princeton University, 17-19 May 2023
We invite abstracts from many disciplines including Philosophy, Near Eastern and Islamic studies, Religion and Theology, and History that are intellectually rigorous and focus on theoretical analysis of philosophical arguments while remaining conscious of historical context.
Submissions are open to advanced graduate students and early career recent PhD recipients.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12702158/cfp-princeton-university-early-career-workshop-islamic-thought
5. 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
6. Doctoral Research Associate in Ottoman Studies / Turkish Studies or History of Islam (3 Years), Research Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War”, University of Mainz
Applicants must have an above-average MA degree in Ottoman Studies, Turkish Studies, History of Islam or a related subject, proficiency in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and/or Arabic, and a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary work.
Deadline for applications: 20 May 2023. Information: https://grk-byzanz-wars.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/04/20 23_job-advertisement_RTG-2304.pdf
7. Research Associate (Wiss. MitarbeiterIn) in Pre-modern Islamic History, Possibility of Further Qualification (PhD), RomanIslam Center, Middle Eastern Department, University of Hamburg
Requirements: MA degree in Islamic Studies with a focus on the wider Arabic speaking world, which reaches eastern Iran in the early Islamic period. Confident command of the English and Arabic language. French or Spanish as well as knowledge of GIS methods and familiarity with geographic approaches to history or Is-lamic material are an asset.
Deadline for applications: 28 April 2023. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=54faa7e6956f336cca57d980ea538833b4357a11
8. Professorial Chair in Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
This is a UNESCO Chair position, and a professorial role in Level E (the highest academic level in Australia).
The successful applicant will have a distinguished research record, an international reputation, and demon-strated expertise in any disciplinary area pertaining to intercultural and inter-religious exchange and social inclusion.
Deadline for applications: 25 April 2023. Information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/645109/chair-in-intercultural-and-interreligious-relationsprofessor
9. ONLINE “International Online School in Forced Migration”, Refugee Study Center, Oxford University, 10-17 July 2023
Subjects include: Conceptualising Forced Migration, The Moral Foundations of Refugee Protection, Interna-tional Law and Refugee Protection, and Future Directions in International Displacement, as well as a choice of optional modules. All the sessions will be run and organised by experts in the field of forced migration studies.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school/online-school-overview
10. Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism
Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) will organize an “International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism” on November 1-3, 2023. This symposium invites contributions that explore these terrains of Orientalism in the contexts of scholarly exchanges, political developments, and cultural border crossing in both directions east and west, hoping to attract a wide range of papers from scholars in all fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations particularly.
This symposium, which will be attended by invited speakers from Turkey and abroad [Cemil Aydın (University of North Carolina) Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University) Murteza Bedir (İstanbul Üniversitesi) Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds) Siraj Ahmed (City University of New York)]. We hope to discuss the changing configurations of Orientalism and colonialism along with new forms of Orientalism, their impact on the arts and sciences with participants from different fields such as history, sociology, philology, cultural studies, mythology, history of religions, Islamic and postcolonial studies.
Detailed information about the Symposium can be found at: http://oryantalizm2023.yalov
11. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
The Society for the History of Discoveries announces its 2023 Student Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate student research papers in the history of geographic discoveries.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June, 2023
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The awardee in the graduate student category will receive a prize of $500.00 (US) and the awardee in the undergraduate category will receive a prize of $250 (US). Both winners will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Information about participation in the conference will be provided to the awardee upon notification of the award, including details concerning costs and travel funding. Acceptance of the prize is not contingent upon your ability to attend the conference. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information on submission format and eligibility see https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Committee Chair at mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu
12. Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE) A Sourcebook
Kristi Upson-Aaia, Heidi Marx, Jared Secord
UC Press, August 2023
13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
On Wednesday 19 April at 17:00 BST ( Greenwich +1)
Iranian Women’s Revolution: Analysis of Some Commonly Used Symbols
(turban/stick/beard versus hijab/scissors/hair)
By Prof Amal Grami, Manouba University, Tunisia
On Zoom, please register at: https://zoom.us/j/91798780125
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