Archive for 2023
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Free online course “Learn Persian through Qabus-Nameh,” offered by the Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM. This course will start on February 5, 2024, and run until February 9, 2024. The application deadline for this free course is October 31, 2023.
For more details and to apply, please visit https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-qabus-nameh
2. The submission process for themed day papers for the 10th School of Mamluk Studies Conference in Kuwait has closed; we are extending the deadline for panel submissions to October 31.
Reminder – the deadline to register for the Intensive Course: To What Degree Can Mamluk Artifacts be Interrogated? is November 30.
We are pleased to announce The Tenth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies that will be held at Kuwait University, Kuwait, March 5-7, 2024.
The conference, which will be exclusively in person (no online presentations will be accepted), will be conducted in two parts (March 5-7, 2024), and will be preceded by a three-day (March 2-4, 2024) intensive course on Mamluk archaeological material taught by Professor Bethany Walker, University of Bonn.
Paper Panels: The remaining two days of the conference (March 6-7) will be structured in preorganized panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized into presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes with a discussion at the end of each panel. Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for the panel’s organization. Please note that in case of cancellation of two papers out of the three (or three out of the four) composing the panel, the panel will have to be withdrawn from the program.
Language: The official languages of the conference will be English and Arabic.
Proposals: Panel proposals must be submitted electronically through the conference webpage (http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html) by October 31, 2023. No proposal will be accepted after the deadline. Those who would like to express their intention to attend the conference as listeners must fill in the registration form by October 31, 2023.
Paper proposals require the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional title, and an abstract of a maximum of 300 words per paper. Panel proposals must be submitted as such, including the relevant information for each component paper as well as the name of the panel’s chair (the chair can be one of the panelists).
Acceptance: Panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by December 2023 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.
Fees: The conference registration fees will be $60 for all participants and attendees. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (March 7) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by January 15, 2024 (information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular, which will be sent in December 2023).
Cancellations received in writing by January 31, 2024, will secure a full refund, minus 20% of the registration fee. Refunds of fees (registration and farewell dinner) will not be made under any circumstances for cancellations after January 31, 2024. Participants must make their own travel arrangements; information and suggestions for accommodation will be provided in the first circular.
Publication:
- Themed Day: the papers will be published in a volume of proceedings. Further details will be announced in due course.
- Panels: selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Intensive Course: To What Degree Can Mamluk Artifacts be Interrogated?
A three-day intensive course in Mamluk archaeology intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants will be offered by Professor Bethany Walker (University of Bonn) and will be held immediately before the tenth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Kuwait University, in collaboration with Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (March 2-4, 2024). The course will serve as an introduction to what is now a mature discipline within Mamlukology: Mamluk Archaeology. It is also a venue for exploring ways in which archaeology could serve as a primary source for historical studies during the Mamluk period. Participants will be exposed to both theory and methods, and emphasis is placed on “learning by doing”, making use of the Mamluk-era holdings of the unique al-Sabah Collection of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah and artifacts from excavations.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 20), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms10kuwait24@ku365.onmicrosoft.com by November 30, 2023. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of December 2023, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
The course fee is $350, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (March 5-7). The fees must be paid by January 15, 2024. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Cancellations received in writing by January 31, 2024, will secure a full refund, minus 20% of the course fee. Refunds of course fees will not be made under any circumstances for cancellations received after January 31, 2024.
Participants must make their own travel arrangements. Information and suggestions for accommodation will be provided in the first circular.
We look forward to meeting you in Kuwait.
Amenah Abdulkarim, Kuwait University (local organizer) – sms10kuwait24@ku365.onmicrosoft.com
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago
Contact Information
Amenah Abdulkarim, Kuwait University (local organizer)
Contact Email
sms10kuwait24@ku365.onmicrosoft.com
URL
https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
3. CFP: The Female Voice in Philosophical Conversations
Location: Australian Catholic University’s Rome Campus (Villa Maria)
Dates: May 30-June 1, 2024
Confirmed Speakers: Virginia Cox (Cambridge), Jana Matuszak (University of Chicago), Katarzyna Jażdżewska (Warsaw), Julia Hairston (Rome)
Organizer: Dawn LaValle Norman (Australian Catholic University)
At various times and places in history, it was attractive to write philosophy as a conversation between characters. Only very rarely are any of the philosophical speakers female. When the female voice was used by male or female authors, it frequently leaned on gendered associations, such as women’s expertise in certain ‘female’ topics such as love and reproduction.
Yet, the story is not always so simple. This conference will explore when the female voice was used, how it was deployed, and what it can illuminate about changing gender norms and views about the definition and limits of philosophy.
The conference will bring together scholars on philosophical dialogues (as either genre or discourse mode within other genres) from various time periods and languages, from the 2nd millennium BCE to the modern day, who are working on theoretical issues around the use of the female voice in philosophical discussion and drama. The concept of a philosophical dialogue is meant to be an inclusive one, encompassing conversational literature dedicated to intellectual inquiry and wisdom across cultures and periods.
We welcome papers dealing with the use of the female voice in philosophical dialogues especially outside of the area of Classical and Renaissance literature, for which we already have some coverage (although abstracts about these areas will certainly be considered). Non-western topics are especially welcome, as are papers dealing with the 18th century and later.
We expect to be able to cover housing and meal costs during the conference for accepted participants but are unable to subsidize travel to Rome. We hope to gather approximately fifteen scholars together for the workshop, and plan to publish the papers as a special issue of a journal, subject to peer review.
This conference is sponsored by Dawn LaValle Norman’s Australian Research Council’s Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) on ‘The Female Voice in Ancient Philosophical Dialogues’.
For consideration, please send your name, affiliation, and a 200-300 word abstract to dawn.lavallenorman@acu.edu.au by Dec. 15th.
Contact Information
Professor Dawn LaValle Norman
Contact Email
4. Call for Papers for an upcoming edited volume, “Latin and Eastern Catholicism in Ottoman Anatolia: social, economic, and religious inquiries from the fourteenth to the twentieth centuries.”
While recent years have seen an increase in scholarly interest towards the history of Catholicism in the European provinces of the Ottoman Empire, with emphasis on Hungary, Bosnia, Istanbul, and the Greek Archipelago, Anatolia (Asia Minor) remains a less explored setting. With the forthcoming 300th anniversary of the Melkite Catholic Church of Antioch, it is time to examine more closely the history of Catholicism in places such as Antakya, Iskenderun. This is also a perfect occasion to examine the history of Catholic Churches and communities across Anatolia, from Izmir to Trabzon, and from Mersin to Samsun across the longue durée. With original and innovative interdisciplinary perspectives from established as well as early-careers scholars and postgraduate researchers, this volume will go beyond a simple positivist history of the Communion of Eastern Churches with Rome and to provide in-depth social, economic, and religious inquiries into the Catholic communities of Asia Minor from the late Byzantine to the early Republican periods.
We invite contributions from a variety of perspectives and fields that include but are not limited to:
- The evolution of ecclesiastical organisation of Anatolia across the centuries
- Its interaction with Ottoman local and central authorities
- The impact of the Ottoman conquest of Anatolia on local Catholic communities
- The perception of the Ottoman administration of Catholic communities in Anatolia in relation to those in other provinces
- The impact of foreign missionaries and the Communion of Eastern Churches with Rome on the local Catholic communities
- Relations between different Catholic communities and with their Orthodox counterparts
- Muslim intellectuals and religious scholars’ interest in polemics between Catholics and Eastern Christians
- Support received by Catholic communities in Anatolia from Western European powers and its connection to their commercial interests in the area
- The role of women within Catholic ecclesiastical and lay communities of Anatolia
- The impact of late-Ottoman and early Republican conflicts and forced migrations
- The status and preservation of former Catholic Church properties in Anatolia.
- Catholic churches as shared spaces.
Submission Guidelines and Deadlines
- Abstract submission in English, French, or Italian (250 words) & biography (150 words): 01 December 2023
- Notification of acceptance or rejection: 15 January 2023
- Workshop (hybrid in English): March 2024
- Full text submission (English, French, or Italian): 30 June 2024
- Publication (The Isis Press): December 2024
Contact Information
Vanessa R. de Obaldía, MAMEMS – JGU of Mainz
Radu Dipratu, Institute for South-East European Studies
Anaïs Massot, EHESS, Casor
Padraic Rohan, Quincy University
Contact Email
catholicism.anatolia@gmail.com
5. Registration Open: Online Workshop, ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’, 7–8 December 2023
Dear colleagues, the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg is delighted to announce that registration is now open for the online workshop ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’, 7–8 December 2023.
This workshop will consider the social history of Armenia in the period between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the Bagratuni Kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries AD/first to third centuries AH. Contributions will cover a diverse range of topics including church councils, epigraphy, the environment and cross-cultural marriage.
Confirmed participants include Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge), Tim Greenwood (St Andrews), Ani Honarchian (Saint Louis), Nik Matheou (Edinburgh), Leone Pecorini Goodall (Edinburgh/St Andrews) and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna). Each talk will be followed by a response from a dedicated discussant and a public Q&A.
To register, please contact the convener, Alasdair Grant, at alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de . Registration will be open until the end of the event, but advanced registration is encouraged. The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and will take place in the afternoon only (CET). The finalised programme will be published soon.
For more information on our research group, please visit http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/score
6. Medieval Academy Summer Research Program for graduate students (deadline: 22 Jan 2024)
| About: The Medieval Academy of America (MAA) is excited to announce the 2024 Summer Research Program for PhD-track students. Organized by the MAA’s Mentoring Program Committee, the Summer Research Program is designed to foster the growth of essential skills and mentorship relationships and improve educational experiences and outcomes for graduate students in fields intersecting with Medieval Studies. Our primary goals are to facilitate the development of successful dissertation projects, foster networking and community-building, and improve competitiveness for grants and academic positions.
Format: The 2024 Summer Research Program will convene via Zoom over the course of six weeks in June, July, and August and culminate in a hybrid event in early August. Participants will learn about the range of available grants, develop successful strategies for securing these funding opportunities, and begin to work with mentors and one another to produce their own grant proposals (with specific attention on identifying the broader contributions of their research, developing budgets, and proposing viable schedules). In the latter sessions, participants will break into two cohorts, and leaders will help them each develop a targeted written work relating to their dissertation project: ideally a dissertation prospectus, a grant proposal, or an introduction to an article addressing and contextualizing the broader goals of the project. The workshop series also will feature guidance on library and archival research, writing strategies and techniques, networking, community-building, and other vital professional skills. The in-person event for US, Canadian, and Mexican participants will take place at the University of California at Berkeley on August 1-4. During this long weekend, participants will continue their collaborations, meet and learn from mentors and other invited experts, and finalize and ultimately present the work they have been developing and sharing virtually in their workshops. Participants from other countries will attend this event virtually. Eligibility: We seek twelve graduate students who are currently enrolled in U.S., Canadian, or Mexican PhD programs, and five graduate students from other countries, who will have finished their second year but not yet completed or defended their dissertations. There are no disciplinary or geographical limitations. The only restriction is that the applicant’s research project intersects somehow with Medieval Studies. The MAA seeks to incorporate and enable access to resources for people from underrepresented groups. We especially encourage applicants from communities and backgrounds that have been traditionally underrepresented or marginalized within Medieval Studies. Preference will also be given to applicants who do not already have access to the resources this program provides. Funding: Participants from the US, Canada and Mexico will receive a stipend of $1000 and reimbursement for round-trip travel costs up to $500 to attend the in-person culminating event. Those from other countries attending only via Zoom will also receive a stipend of $1000. All participants will receive a one-year free membership to the MAA. Application: Applications are due by January 22, 2024. Use this link to access and submit the application. Applicants will be notified of decisions via email by April 1, 2024. For help with any questions or further information, please email maamentorship@gmail.com. |
7. The Allard Pierson has launched a new fellowship programme to promote academic research into the unique and extensive collections of the University of Amsterdam, including its very rich collection of maps and atlases. As of 2024, the Allard Pierson will be offering several stipends each year for national and international researchers, for a maximum of three months. Applications for the year 2024 are now open; the closing date is 1 December 2023.
Please feel free to contact one of the members of the Explokart research group if you would be interested to apply for an Allard Pierson fellowship. It replaces the former Explokart fellowship, whose call is now closed.
Guidelines and application form can be found here.
URL
https://allardpierson.nl/en/research/fellowships/
8. Call for Papers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to People, Power, and Place
Thursday 18th – Friday 19th April 2024
The world of Antiquity is vast. It encompasses Greco-Roman, Near Eastern, Asiatic, African, and ‘Celtic’ cultures, across centuries of history, spanning geographical regions traditionally stretching from the western Mediterranean to the far reaches of China. It is therefore critical that historians do not limit themselves to understanding it through a single perspective.
For this reason, the organising committee is looking for papers that tackle the topics of people, power, or place ranging from the Archaic period until the end of Late Antiquity.
Possible topics might include, but are not limited to:
- Reception of People, Power, and Place
- Archaeological Approaches to People, Power, and Place (Art, Architecture, Epigraphy, Rock Reliefs)
- Political and Military History (Rulers, Elites, Generals, etc.)
- Literary Approaches to People, Power, and Place (Biography, Criticism, Traditions)
- Narrating People, Power, and Place through Gender and Sexuality
- Religious Outlooks within the Ancient World
- Identifying Ethnicity and Mobility in Antiquity
- International Relations and Geopolitics
- Social Constructs of People, Power, and Place
- Beyond Greece and Rome
Those wishing to have a paper considered, please send a title, 300-word abstract, short bio, and their institution to ampahconference@gmail.com by Friday 1st December 2023.
As with previous conferences, selected papers will be published in an edited volume. Submissions should aim to be as close to the theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited.
The conference will have a hybrid format, with papers delivered at the Cardiff University John Percival Building and livestreamed for a remote audience. Online papers will be accepted.
Keep up to date:
Website: https://ampahconference.wixsite.com/annual-meeting-of-po
Twitter/X: @AMPAHistory
9. Fellowship – Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship, HIAA – deadline: December 15, 2023
Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December 15, 2023
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to support post-doctoral scholars at an early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:
* To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.
* To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Applicants should have completed their Ph.D. within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or for supplies.
All materials should be submitted by email to the chair of the Grabar post-doctoral fellowship committee chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2023. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
10. Award – The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture Deadline, HIAA – deadline: December 15, 2023
The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: December 15, 2023
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2023. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture
11. Association of Iranian Studies (AIS)
21 – 22 October 2023
The Association of Iranian Studies (AIS) is holding its inaugural online symposium this weekend, which a number of colleagues at SOAS are participating in.
Please note that registration is only open to members of the AIS, and that the Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS is not involved in this event.
Please contact symposium@associationforiranianstudies.org for any queries about the symposium.
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12. Lecturer (Education and Research) in Arabic Studies
University of St Andrews
The School of Modern Languages is seeking to recruit a Lecturer in Arabic Studies. You will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation and commitment to delivering high quality in Arabic language studies and the broader field of Arabic literary and cultural studies. The position is available for a period of 3 years to cover a staff secondment.
Deadline | 2 November 2023
13. Research Fellowships
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies invites applications for up to two Research Fellowships open to post-doctoral candidates in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences which contribute to a more informed understanding of the Islamic world – its history, economy, politics, culture and contemporary life.
Deadline | 30 November 2023
14. Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professorship for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) and Magdalen College intend to appoint to the Khalid bin Abdullah al Saud Professorship in the Study of the Contemporary Arab World with effect from 1 October 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. This post is a statutory professorship, which is the most senior academic grade at Oxford.
Deadline | 4 December 2023
15. Call for Applications | BIAA Study, Research and Large Research Grants
The British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) is offering a range of grants for UK Higher Education Institution-affiliated scholars at all stages of their career from postdoctoral researcher to senior academic:
- BIAA Study Grants (up to £2,000) enable researchers to undertake short periods of study in Türkiye and the Black Sea region.
- BIAA Research Grants (up to £5,000) co-finance research projects relating to all historical periods up to and including contemporary Türkiye, with a particular focus on comparative and cross-disciplinary approaches.
- BIAA Large Research Grants (up to £10,000) are aimed at directors of large-scale research projects.
Deadline | 29 October 2023
16. CBRL Andrea Zerbini Awards 2023-24
CBRL is delighted to announce the call for applications for CBRL Andrea Zerbini Awards. Applications are invited for grants of up to £4,000 from registered doctoral students (up to a maximum of 12 years since the completion of their Master’s degree) at EU and UK Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to travel to the countries of the Levant. Two awards are available in 2023/24.
Deadline | 31 October 2023
More information
17. Call for Leadership Proposals – 2024 APSA MENA Workshop
The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for proposals from political scientists interested in serving as co-leaders for the 2024 MENA Workshop program. This research development workshop will be a 6-day in-person program held in the MENA region in summer 2024.
Deadline | 5 November 2023
18. Call for Proposals – International Writing Workshops
Funding | British Academy
The British Academy is inviting proposals for Writing Workshops in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries. These workshops should aim to develop the skills of early career researchers, including supporting and promoting the uptake of their research in journals and publications.
Deadline | 6 December 2023
19. 2024-2025 Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian Women Pursuing PhDs
The Palestinian American Research Center announces the inauguration of The Tanya Baker-Asad Scholarship for Palestinian women pursuing PhDs in the humanities and social sciences. The Scholarship was established in honor of the late Tanya Baker-Asad, an anthropologist, a feminist, and a strong supporter of the Palestinian cause.
Deadline | 08 January 2024
20. Nahrein Network-UCL Graduate Studentship
The Nahrein Network is pleased to announce our next fully funded MA/MSc + PhD studentship for Iraqi nationals, to be held at University College London in the Department of History, the Institute of Archaeology, or the Bartlett Institute for Sustainable Heritage. The scholarship covers full university tuition fees plus an annual maintenance grant of £23,995.00 and access to research funds.
Deadline | 15 January 2024
21. Autumn School – Arab World Institute
Workshops | Arab World Institute (IMA) | 23-27 October 2023
The Arabic Language and Civilization Center (CLCA) of the Arab World Institute (IMA) is organizing its first Autumn School, EDIMA, a series of conferences and workshops around didactics and teaching Arabic as a foreign language. The Autumn School’s full content will be given in Arabic.
22. Iran’s Struggle for Sovereignty, 1828-1928
Gholam-Reza Nikpay Lecture | LSE International History Department | 26 October 2023
This year’s speaker will be Professor Houchang Chehabi. This talk will explore questions like: Was Iran a fully sovereign country in the age of empires? How did the Iranians preserve their independence when much of Asia was colonised?
More information
23. New Area Studies: Under Construction
Symposium | University of East Anglia | 8 November 2023
This one-day conference will bring together international leaders of the discipline to spark an important discussion about New Area Studies, how we understand and conceptualise the field in theory and action, and how we imagine it will evolve in coming decades.
More information
24. Assistant Professor of Literature
New York University: NYU – NY: Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Location New York; Open Date: Oct 17, 2023
Description
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University (NYU) invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Literature focusing on the literary cultures of global antiquity in periods before approximately the 7th century CE, including the literatures of Ancient Iran, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Tibetan Himalayas. Linguistic expertise could include Sanskrit, Old Tibetan, Old and Middle Persian, or Iranian languages such as Bactrian, Saka, and Parthian. Successful candidates for this position will present strong evidence of excellence in interdisciplinary teaching and research and will have the Ph.D. in hand by the start date of September 1, 2024.
We seek a scholar with a Ph.D. in Literature or a related discipline committed to teaching and studying works across genres—epic, drama, oral literature, commentaries, or sacred texts—and across languages, traditions, and historical contexts.
The teaching load for this position is four courses per year (two in the fall and two in the spring). Additionally, faculty carry an advising load up to 20-25 students. Successful applicants will have evidence of an ongoing research program, teaching effectiveness, and commitment to increasing diversity and fostering inclusion in academia.
Candidates must be eager to teach courses in the literature of ancient cultures that encourage students to engage with these topics and to guide them in thinking about how studying this literature can historically and globally deepen their individual and interdisciplinary concentrations.
Founded in 1972, NYU Gallatin is a liberal arts college of 1,600 undergraduate students and 160 graduate students who are part of New York University. Its innovative B.A. and M.A. Programs in individualized study encourage students to develop an integrated, interdisciplinary program of study that combines courses taken in the various schools of NYU with independent studies, internships, and Gallatin’s own interdisciplinary seminars, writing courses, and arts workshops. The School emphasizes excellent teaching, top level faculty research, intensive student advising and mentoring, and a unique combination of program flexibility and academic rigor. To learn more about the Gallatin School, please visit our website at gallatin.nyu.edu.
In compliance with NYC’s Pay Transparency Act, the annual base salary range for this position is $70,000 to $110,000.
Review of applications will begin on November 10, 2023, and will continue until the position is filled.
For questions, please contact Gallatin Human Resources at gallatin.hr@nyu.edu.
Qualifications
Candidates should have a comparative and interdisciplinary research program, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and a commitment to increasing diversity and fostering inclusion in academia.
Application Instructions
Applicants should include a CV, a cover letter that outlines their research, teaching, and service experience, a research statement of no longer than two pages, and a list of three referees. Applicants should upload material to the Interfolio link by November 10 (https://apply.interfolio.com/134353) to receive full consideration. We will ask selected candidates for further material including a writing sample, a description of three dream courses, teaching and diversity statements, and reference letters. For questions, please contact Gallatin’s Office of Human Resources at gallatin.hr@nyu.edu, or the chair of the search committee, Professor Gregory Erickson, at gte1@nyu.edu.
25. The Pourdavoud Center, UCLA
Legacies of Ancient Persia: New Episode Available
We are excited to announce the release of a new podcast episode of Legacies of Ancient Persia! A legacy consists of three critical elements: a past, a present, and a future. Join the Pourdavoud Institute as we explore elements of the many legacies of ancient Persia and their relevance to global patrimony. Learn how the ancient Iranian civilization impacted its neighbors and how the interconnectivity of ancient cultures influenced Persia. Featuring interviews with thought leaders in academia, conversations with specialists in the entertainment industry who reimagine ancient worlds for modern society, and round-table discussions that bring together a multiplicity of perspectives, we highlight Persia’s interactions with the wider ancient worlds and explore how this entangled history is received in the modern era.
Episodes will air bimonthly on Thursdays, and are available wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple and Spotify.
26. Workshop | Persian Manuscripts between East and West
| 3 November 2023; from 9AM |
Ancient India and Iran trust, Cambridge
This workshop, financed by BIPS with the support of the Sufi Manuscript Cultures research project, is part of the project Persian Manuscripts between East and West: Britain, India and the Circulation of the Persianate Literary Heritage led by Prof Andrew Peacock, Dr Ursula Sims-Williams and Dr Mahmood Alam.
More information about the project and the workshop, including how to register, can be found at this link.
Register by 30 October 2023.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. HYBRID International Conference “The Sanctuary of the Kaʿba and Its Symbolism”, MMSH, IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 19 October 2023, 9h – 17h
This workshop will demonstrate that it is possible to sketch an intellectual landscape by taking the sanctuary of the Kaʿba and its sacredness as entry points. Theoretical approaches, particularly symbolic ones, contributing to the sacralization of the sanctuary of the Kaʿba will be discussed. This hallmark of Islamic identity is indeed the locus of esoteric, occult and/or metaphysical speculations stemming from various intellectual cur-rents in Islam, among which Sunnism, Sufism, and Shiisms (“exaggerating” Shiism (ghulāt), Ismailism, Nuṣayrism).
Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/87534
2. ONLINE Workshop “Creative Ethnographic Methods in the Middle East”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 20 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
Hosting four panelists working with different communities of the Middle East, this webinar will unravel diverse uses of creative and experimental methods in anthropology beyond the conventional modes of academic writing – such as poetry, graphic novel and documentary. Through examples from the panelists’ works, the webinar will explicate how using such methods facilitate and complicate ethnographic knowledge production. It will also provide insights to people interested in utilizing creative methods in their analytical thinking.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/panel-creative-ethnographic-methods
3. HYBRID Conference “Iberian History as Global History”, American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain (AARHMS) and CMRS Center for Early Global Studies (CEGS), Los Angeles, 20-21 October 2023
Our participants will consider how the Global Middle Ages paradigm might inspire new inroads for exploring the interrelationship of variegated societies and cultures within the Mediterranean context. Pushing beyond geographical boundaries in this way and eschewing Eurocentrism implicitly destabilizes ingrained periodizations, such as medieval/early modern and premodernity/modernity.
Information, program, abstracts and registration:
https://cmrs.ucla.edu/conference/the-western-mediterranean-and-the-global-middle-ages/
4. HYBRID Lecture “Catalin-Stefan Popa: Syriac Christianity and the Holy City of Jerusalem: En-tangled Histories in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages” by Catalin-Stefan Popa (Romanian Academy), Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 25 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
The lecture introduces the process of interaction of Syriac Christianity with the Holy City and the Holy Land. At the end of Late Antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, the Holy City acted in Syriac Christian canon as a matrix for encountering holiness, and a standardized process of pilgrimage became part of a recurrent devotional custom of monks and lay people.
Information and registration: https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/events
5. ONLINE Webinar: “The Challenges of Universal Fraternity”, PLURIEL University Platform for Research on Islam, Lyon, 27 October 2023, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET
In 2019, Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayeb signed the Document on Human Fraternity and the coexistence between Christians and Muslims. The webinar is designed as an introduction to the international conference in Abu Dhabi (4-7 February 2024) on the socio-legal and geopolitical impacts of the document. Speakers are Laurent Basanese (Rome), Wael Saleh (UAE), Franziska Honsowitz-Friessnigg (Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
Information and registration: https://pluriel.fuce.eu/27-october-2023-at-3pm-the-challenges-of-universal-fraternity-webinar__trashed/?lang=en
6. HYBRID Conference: “Islam and Fraternity”, PLURIEL University Platform for Research on Islam, Abu Dhabi, 4-7th February 2024
The 4th international PLURIEL congress examines the impacts and prospects of the Document on Human Fraternity, signed by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayib in February 2019. The congress features three main areas of analysis: The socio-legal impacts of the document, its geopolitical aspects, and the consequences for coexistence and dialogue between Christians and Muslims. A focus will be on the question of citizenship in multicultural and multi-religious societies, with particular emphasis on the legal protection of religious minorities.
Information, program and registration: https://pluriel.fuce.eu/du-4-au-7-fevrier-2024-congres-islam-et-frater-nite-a-abu-dhabi/
7. ONLINE Book Talk “Arabic Printing for the Christians in Ottoman Lands. The East-European Connection” by Ioana Feodorov, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, 10 November 2023, 4:00 pm, Romanian Time
Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88213965766?pwd=dWV2QUh4cnJsODY3U25FczJFeFV6dz09
8. Conference “Being Muslim in Europe – Orienting Oneself in the Context of “Good” and “Bad” Diversity”, Academy for Islam in Research and Society, Goethe University Frankfurt, 17-18 November 2023
Looking at discourses on diversity and orientation in the fields of public discourse, education and youth as well as Islamic theology the aim of the conference is to discuss the questions of how diversity is constructed in present time, what allocations are attributed from internal and external perspectives and along with this what boundaries and belongings are constructed. PhDs and Postdocs can apply for travel-accommodation funds by emailing ahmed@aiwg.de by 18 October.
Information and program:
https://agenda.unifr.ch/e/download.php?id=14141&tg=18380d2b4b3c111ffac575a0137eb383547c663a
9. Atelier international « La protection diplomatique et consulaire en Méditerranée moderne, XVIe-XVIIIe siècle », Institut National Universitaire Jean-François Champollion, Albi, 20-21 sep-tembre 2024
L’atelier entend aborder les multiples questions liées à la protection, à travers des études de cas clairement situées dans l’ensemble de l’espace méditerranéen. Les contributions prendront en compte les dimensions politiques, économiques, sociales, matérielles et institutionnelles de la protection, dans une perspective qui favorise les comparaisons et les échanges entre les différents terrains.
Date pour propositions : 15 janvier 2024. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/91026
10. Hybrid Conference: ‘Rethinking Texts and their Contexts in Muslim Societies: Interrelations between Textual Practice, Human Agency and Technological Shifts’
23rd and 24th October at Aga Khan Centre, London.
The conference seeks to explore the diverse trajectories and contexts of texts
in Muslim societies from oral cultures to the digital age. Over two days,
scholars from a variety of disciplines will discuss how texts have shaped
knowledge production, dissemination, and consumption in Muslim societies. The
conference will feature a keynote address by Professor Wendy Doniger, a
leading scholar of the history of religions.
For registration to attend in-person and online, please visit:
https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/rethinking-texts-and-their-contexts-in-muslim-societies/
11. Announcing the BRAIS 2023 Prize Winner & Honorable Mentions – 2024 Prize now open for submissions
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Naz Yücel (George Washington University) has been awarded the 2023 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World.
Dr Yücel’s submission ‘Sustaining the Empire: Transformation of Property Regime in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1876-1913’ was praised by the Prize committee and reviewers as a truly outstanding study. We offer our sincere congratulations to Dr Yücel and wish her well as she prepares her manuscript for publication.
You can read more about Dr Yücel’s winning submission here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2023/brais-2023-winner
We would also like to congratulate this year’s two honorable mentions: Dr Dominik Krell for his submission ‘Islamic Law in Saudi Arabia: Concepts, Practices and Developments’ and Dr Meia Walravens for her submission ‘Networked Diplomacy: Maḥmūd Gāwān’s Bahmani Sultanate and the Fifteenth-century Islamic World’.
We received a record number of submissions for the 2023 Prize and would like to offer our sincere thanks to all those who reviewed submissions and the Prize Committee who gave so generously of their time. A particular thanks to Prize Chair, Dr Saeko Yazaki, and Prize Coordinator, Adam Ramadhan, for overseeing the process.
BRAIS PRIZE 2024 NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS
The 2024 round of the BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions and further information can be found here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2024
Please do circulate the call to anyone who might wish to submit their manuscript and do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions at all. The deadline for submissions is 5pm GMT on Friday 12 January 2024.
12. Christelle Jullien, Les liens du sol. Images du pouvoir et identités des chrétiens sous Khusrō Ier, collection des Cahiers de Studia Iranica n° 63, VIe volume de la sous-série “Chrétiens en terre d’Iran”, Leuven: Peeters, 2023, 348 p. ISBN: 9782910640491.
https://www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?search_key=9782910640491&series_number_str=63&lang=fr
13. Worldview and the Theory of Knowledge: An Islamic Perspective
Saeid Sobhani
CTP, 2023
14. Assistant Professor, Full-Time Tenure Track
New York University: NYU – NY: Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS): Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Closing date: 12.1.23
https://apply.interfolio.com/134031
15. Online Lecture – The Glory of European Narratives and Themes in Qajar Tiles from Nineteenth-Century Palaces of Tehran, Kianoosh Motaghedi, VIAHSS – October 20
The next VIAHSS lecture will take place on Friday, October 20, 2023, at noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey/7:30PM Tehran. Kianoosh Motaghedi (Independent Scholar, Tehran) will present “The Glory of European Narratives and Themes in Qajar Tiles from Nineteenth-Century Palaces of Tehran.”
To attend, please make sure to register in advance here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvdOmtrz0tH9JDoeNLjH1NdlIthiTo3t4Z
Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
You can find a full schedule of upcoming talks on our website. You can also follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page.
16. Award – Call for the Ernst Herzfeld Award for MA Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology – deadline: November 13
The Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft für Islamische Kunst und Archäologie | Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology is pleased to announce the 2023/24 call for the Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology.
The aim of the Award is to encourage and support emerging scholars in Europe who are working on visual and material culture of Islamic countries in the fields of Art History, Archeology, and Historical Building Research. The Ernst Herzfeld Award highlights the diversity and innovation of current research in these growing fields.
The successful candidate is honored at the annual colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society, offered a full travel grant to present her/his master thesis at the colloquium, and is granted publication of the presented paper in the series of the Society, Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie (BIKA).
Eligibility: – Outstanding master thesis (MA, Master, M.phil., and similar) on a topic situated within the research fields of History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Islamic Archeology, or Historical Building Research on Islamic Architecture.
– The thesis must have been written and supervised at a European university. Reviewing and grading the thesis must have taken place within the last two years, between January 1, 2021 and November 13, 2023.
– Accepted languages of the thesis are: German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. – A thesis can be submitted only once to an Award Call. Application procedure: – An applicant is proposed by the supervisor of the MA thesis.
– Applications include: 1) the complete MA thesis as it was submitted to the university (PDF); 2) a summary in English (5 pages); 3) the recommendation form filled out by the proposing supervisor in English; and 4) the original official review/evaluation of the thesis for/by the university, at which it was submitted.
Review Procedure: – The review procedure is jointly organized by the Award and the Steering Committees as well as the Advisory Board of the Ernst Herzfeld Society.
– Proposing supervisors are excluded from the review procedure and the peer-review.
– Applications fulfilling the criteria of eligibility will undergo peer-review by the Award committee and by external reviewers. Submission: Please send the complete application by November 13, 2023 to award@ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com The recommendation form to be filled out by the proposing supervisor is available here: https://ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com/wpcontent/uploads/2023/10/EHG_Award_Supervisor_Recommendation_Form_2023_updated.docx
Contact Email
award@ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com
17. Lecture – National Museum of Asian Art: Freer Medal Honoring Gülru Necipoğlu – October 27
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC on Friday, October 27, 6–8 p.m. for The Charles Lang Freer Medal lecture and award ceremony honoring Gülru Necipoğlu.
The Freer Medal is a lifetime achievement award that honors individuals who have made substantial contributions to the understanding of the arts of Asia throughout their career. This fall, the honor will go to Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, for her lifetime work in the arts of the Islamic world. The lecture and award ceremony will be held in the Meyer Auditorium. A reception in the Freer courtyard will follow.
Gülru Necipoğlu earned her doctorate from Harvard University in 1986 and has served there as the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture since 1993. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Wesleyan University and a master of arts degree from Harvard University. Necipoğlu specializes in the arts and architecture of the pre-modern Islamic lands, with a focus on the Mediterranean world and the cross-cultural and artistic exchanges between the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Grounded in rigorous archival research, her multidisciplinary studies have addressed the aesthetic interconnections of Byzantium and Renaissance Europe, pre-modern architectural practices, and the role and function of ornament in the Islamic world and beyond, offering new and highly original perspectives on the arts and architecture of the region. Throughout her illustrious career, Necipoğlu has also trained and mentored numerous students who have continued to transform the field.
Since 1993, Necipoğlu has also served as editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World and its supplements, the preeminent publication in the field, which has transformed the study of the arts and architecture of the Islamic world. Her own publications comprise a range of subjects, from studies in monumental architecture to intricate designs on portable objects, and have changed the understanding of the arts of the Islamic world. They include Architecture, Ceremonial, and Power: The Topkapı Palace (1991), The Topkapı Scroll–Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995), The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005, 2011), Treasures of Knowledge: An Inventory of the Ottoman Palace Library (1502/3–1503/4) (2 vols, coedited by Cemal Kafadar and Cornell H. Fleischer, 2019), The Arts of Ornamental Geometry: A Persian Compendium on Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures (2017), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, in the Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Art History (coedited by F. Barry Flood, 2017), and Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local (coedited by Alina Payne, 2016).
In recognition of her distinguished scholarly career, Necipoğlu is an elected member of the British Academy, the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, Italy.
Register here
Visit the event page and award page for more information.
Contact Information
Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications
National Museum of Asian Art
Contact Email
URL
https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:164268011/
18. Call for applications – Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during academic year 2024-25. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects. Of particular interest might be the Bahari Visiting Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book
Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage: Bodleian Visiting Fellowships | Bodleian Libraries (ox.ac.uk).
Applications for these Fellowships should be made by the deadline of Friday 1 December 2023, 5pm GMT.
For further information, please email: fellowships@bodleian.ox.ac.uk.
19. Open Access: New Publication: Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East
Helsinki University Press is pleased to announce the publication of ‘Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East’, edited by Rick Bonnie, Marta Lorenzon, and Suzie Thomas. The book is freely available in open access: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-19
20. CfP: Objects of Law in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Proposals Due: November 1, 2023
International Conference at the University of Bern, Switzerland, August 29-30, 2024
Organized by Corinne Mühlemann (University of Bern) and Fatima Quraishi (University of California, Riverside)
Materials and texts function in a variety of ways in legal contexts, they forge diplomatic ties, grant gifts of land, levy taxes, and regulate markets. In the medieval and early modern worlds, these objects took on many different guises. Some were highly ornate objects, such as Fatimid marriage contracts where text was embroidered on woven silk, or tablets of authority produced in gold, silver or wood which allowed travelers to cross the Mongol Empire with ease, or wax seals imprinted with imperial images protected in textile bags. Other objects facilitated the execution of law in everyday life; glass weights, stamps for marking loaves of bread, length standards embedded in architecture, volume standards, etc. The connection between the materiality of these artefacts and the law are multiple, their very nature conveyed information, performed authority, and communicated authenticity.
Legal objects fall between disciplinary categories and their texts have been the main subject of scholarship. The conference, Objects of Law, proposes thinking more deeply about the artistic practices that shaped the materiality, iconography, and texts of legal objects in the medieval and early modern period. What forms did these objects take? How did their form confer authenticity and legal authority? What training or knowledge are evident in the objects? Objects of Law seeks dialogue between scholars working in art history, history, archaeology, legal history, and related disciplines that deal with legal objects. We welcome contributions from all geographical regions that relate to the medieval and early modern period. We invite contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- The role of objects in legal practices
- The aesthetics of objects of law
- The artistic practices of crafting legal objects
Proposals should consist of an abstract in English for 30-minute papers (max 2000 characters incl. spaces) and a brief biography (max 1500 characters incl. spaces) in a single document (pdf or word). They should be submitted to: Corinne Mühlemann (corinne.muehlemann@unibe.ch) and Fatima Quraishi (fatimaq@ucr.edu) by November 1, 2023. Graduate students are highly encouraged to apply. Conference participants will be provided with accommodation in Bern for 3 nights and some travel expenses will be covered.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Short Course: Islamic Manuscripts & Digital Codicology at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 26-27 October 2023
For more information and to book:
2. Second Biannual Conference of the Persian Manuscripts Association on “Timurid and Safavid Music in Manuscripts”, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, 24-24 February 2024
This conference aims to bring together scholars from various fields, working on music, philosophy, theology, mysticism, history, literature and art history, as reflected in Persian and Arabic manuscripts. We would love to hear about your studies and discoveries about music, musicians, instruments, court repertories, performance practices, musical patronage, music circles etc., during the Timurid and Safavid periods in Greater Iran, Central Asia, South Asia and the Ottoman world.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2023. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/news/
3. ACHAEMENIDS AND SELEUCIDS
In honour of the work of Amélie Kuhrt
Convened by Lindsay Allen and Mark Weeden. Mostly Mondays, 6.15pm in Lecture Theatre G6, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, UK, except the last lecture in the series, see below.
Mon Oct. 16th Kathryn Stevens (Oxford): Hellenism revisited: the case of Babylonia
Mon Oct. 30th Mateen Arghandehpour (Oxford): Persian religion in the Greco-Persian Wars: the case of Athens
Mon. Nov. 20th Josef Wiesehöfer (Kiel): Cyrus, Mirrors of Princes, and Christoph Martin Wieland
Mon. Dec. 4th Eleanor Robson and Parsa Daneshmand (UCL): Debts, dates and donkeys: exploring the archives of Achaemenid Kish
Thurs. Dec. 14th Wouter Henkelmann (Paris): Achaemenid Babylonia and the building of Persepolis LOCATION: Senate House, G 35 – in collaboration with the Ancient History Seminar, Institute for Classical Studies. www.lcane.org.uk , https://www.facebook.com/groups/LCANE/ , @londoncentrene
4. Assistant Teaching Professor – Horn of Africa Languages and Cultures
University of Washington, Seattle
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures is hiring an assistant teaching professor in Horn of Africa languages and cultures.
The successful candidate for this position:
- will, by the start of the appointment, have in hand a Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent), in African Studies, Linguistics, History, Anthropology, Education, or other relevant fields. A PhD (or foreign equivalent) in these fields is also acceptable.
- will demonstrate advanced skills in teaching one or more Horn of Africa languages (such as Amharic, Tigrinya, Somali, Oromo, or Ge’ez), as demonstrated by teaching reviews.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but preference will be given to applications received by November 17, 2023.
https://apply.interfolio.com/131114
5. Journée d’étude “Canons, règles et pénitences dans les mondes monastiques (IVe-XVIe siècles)” – 18 octobre 2023
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer qu’une Journée d’étude sur le thème :
Canons, règles et pénitences dans les mondes monastiques (IVe-XVIe siècles)
aura lieu mercredi prochain 18 octobre à la Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris), de 9h–16h en salle Claude Simon.
Vous trouverez en pièce jointe le programme détaillé de cette Journée.
Informations sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/canons-regles-et-penitences-dans-les-mondes-monastiques-ive-xvie-siecles/
6. ONLINE Webinar “Slavery in Eastern Iranian Regions: The Case of Late Antique Bactria” with Reza Huseini (Cambridge University), Invisible East Programme, University of Oxford, 16 October 2023, 5:00 pm BST
Information and registration:
7. ONLINE Lecture “Daughter, Healer, Soldier, Spy: Finding Communities in the Medieval Middle Eastern Countryside” by Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania), Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, Harvard University, 17 October 2023, 12:00 pm EDT
The medieval Middle Eastern countryside was a dynamic space populated by groups uniting around powerful patrons, distinct religious practices, and a variety of languages. These groups were often destabilized, negotiated, dismantled, and reconfigured. As a way to capture this dynamism, in light of literature and epigraphy, this talk explores a group of demographic categories that are often sidelined in our conventional taxonomies of the medieval Middle Eastern society – such as rulers and subjects, clergy and lay people, elite and non-elite.
Information and registration: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/daughter-healer-soldier-spy-finding-communities-in-the-medieval-middle-eastern-countryside/
8. ONLINE Lecture “Cyrenaica on the Eve of the Islamic Conquest through Epigraphy and Nu-mismatics” by Khaled ELHADDAR (University of Benghazi, Libya), The Mediterranean Semi-nar, 18 October 2023, 18.00 h CET
This is part of the Webinar “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th Centuries) Sources, Analyses, Projects”.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
9. ONLINE Lecture “The Archaeology of the Past and the Future of the Bedouin in the Late Otto-man and British Mandate Levant” by Maggie Freeman (MIT), W.F. Albright Institute of Archae-logical Research, 18 October 2023, 9:30 pm EDT
In the eyes of both late Ottoman authorities and their British Mandate successors, the nomadic pastoralist Bedouin tribespeople of the Levant posed a threat to state legitimacy and security. Authorities looked to the past for solutions to a contemporary “problem,” seeking to emulate earlier imperial modes of “Bedouin control.” This talk identifies how archaeologists and archaeological knowledge informed state solutions for “the Bedouin problem.”
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/announcement-maggie-freeman?e=4b7f78b915
10. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech
Qualification: At least three years of experience teaching Arabic to non-native speakers at the university level; familiarity with contemporary second language teaching methodologies; knowledge of instructional technologies; and OPI or other types of assessment, such as the Flagship reading and listening tests.
Deadline for applications: 24 October 2023. Information:
https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/527244/visiting-assistant-professor-of-arabic
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- October 12, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID “Christian Theological Engagement with Islam: A Study Day at PISAI”, Rome, 26 October 2023, 14:30 h – 19:00 h
Topics covered included current academic debates about Islamic origins, Muslim approaches to the Bible, and the death and resurrection of Jesus in the Qur’ān. The first session will feature a panel discussion involving Muslim and Christian scholars on “Muslims, Christians and Law” prompted by Joshua Ralston’s “Law and the Rule of God: A Christian Engagement with Sharīʿa” (Cambridge University Press, 2020). In the second session Gavin D’Costa will deliver a lecture.
Information and registration: https://pluriel.fuce.eu/christian-theological-engagement-with-islam-a-study-day-at-pisai/?lang=en
2. “Afghanistan Regional Symposium: Confronting the Impasse”, Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS), Georgetown University Qatar, 11 November 2023, 9:00 am – 7:00 pm
The symposium gathers leading experts, scholars, and policymakers in a collective pursuit of exploring and addressing the intricate challenges surrounding Afghanistan and its neighboring region. Through insightful panels, including discussions on the Afghan peace process, climate change, food security challenges, education, and humanitarian concerns, the symposium fosters a nuanced understanding of ongoing challenges and paves the way for informed impactful solutions.
Information, program and registration: https://cirs.qatar.georgetown.edu/afghanistan/
3. Journée d’études ReLRace 6 « Lexique racial et religions. Traduction des textes sacrés, encyclopédisme, textes normatifs contemporaines (XVIe-XXIe s.), Le Mana Université, 18-19 mars 2024
Le premier axe consiste à travailler sur les traductions en langues vernaculaires de la Bible et du Coran. Afin de scruter précisément les phénomènes de translation, un travail lexicologique et philologique pourra être effectué à travers un corpus numérisé de traductions de la Bible et du Coran étalé du XVIe au XXIe siècle, et pris dans plusieurs milieux (catholique, protestant, juif, musulman) et plusieurs langues (espagnol, portugais, anglais, allemand, français, italien, arabe).
Limite des propositions de communication: 10 décembre 2024.
4. Visiting Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies 2024-2025
We welcome fellowship applications from scholars conducting research on a diverse range of topics: Muslim Societies Past and Present; Identity and Citizenship: Muslims in Britain and the West; Classical Islamic Sciences; Economic and Human Development and Islamic Finance; Science, Technology, Environment and Muslim Societies.
Deadline for applications: 9 January 2024. Information: https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships
5. Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies/Islamic Humanities, School of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane (AUI), Morocco
Qualification: Ph.D. in Islamic Studies or a closely related field. – The ability to teach in English. – Experience in the US and US-inspired global liberal arts system. – A good working knowledge of Arabic and other Islamic languages. – Regional research interest in Africa and the Middle East, or the Global South.
Deadline for applications: 23 October 2023. Information: https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=178559012&Title=Islamic%20Studies%20%2F%20Islamic%20Humanities
6. ADF Fellowship in Druze and Arab Studies (9 Months), Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University
The fellowship will be awarded to a doctoral graduate (Ph.D.). The fellowship is based on an international competition. Applicants must have a record of relevant research in the disciplines of history, political science, sociology, economics, anthropology, and archaeology. Applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.
Deadline for applications: 5 January 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/133436
7. Associate Professor / Professor in “Arabic Language or Linguistics”, Georgetown University in Qatar
ideal candidate should have stature and experience in programmatic leadership with qualifications in applied linguistics or language pedagogy and experience in an American university context. Candidates should have native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic; experience in proficiency-based, communicative approaches to teaching the language; and be familiar with proficiency testing and ACTFEL standards.
Deadline for applications: 15 October
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/129108
8. New Journal of Reviews “Orientalia Antiqua et Nova”, A Different Look at Eastern Issues
The ambition of the review is to propose a different look at both the ancient and modern history of the Middle East, and the current developments occuring in these regions.
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/09/Orientalia-A-et-N-brochure-2023-English.pdf
9. Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs
Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.)
D Aigle
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64599
10. Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500–1800
M K Mumtaz
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/65073
11. Bahrain 1975/76 – 2020
Editors: Anthony Axon and Susan Hewitt
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/edcollbook/title/60031
12. Call for Papers: Femininity and Masculinity in Persian culture and literature
On 11 and 12 April 2024, we are organising an international conference on Femininity and Masculinity at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The conference is part of the ERC Advanced Grant Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is 20 October 2023.
Conveners
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Zhinia Noorian, Arash Ghajarjazi, Leila Rahimi Bahmany, Maarten Holtzapffel, Amin Ghodratzadeh, Alexandra Nieweg, Fatemeh Naghshvarian
Why a Conference on Femininity and Masculinity in Persian Classical Romances?
Gender and sexuality are among the most controversial yet understudied areas in Persian culture and literature. As an indispensable part of Persian culture, poetry has played a major role in shaping concepts such as femininity and masculinity. For example, one of the major genres of Persian poetry in which male Persian poets have created their masterpieces is the genre of romance. This genre centres around the two key concepts of masculinity and femininity and the interplay between them. Such literary heritage informs us about the male poets’ perspective about gender and power dynamics. The other players of the arena of poetry, female poets, bring in a different perspective into the scene. One example is the Īnjūʾīd princess, Jahān-Malik Khātūn (d. about 1393). With a Dīvān of 15 thousand couplets, three times larger than that of her contemporary world-renowned poet, Ḥāfiẓ (d. 1390), she complained about being ostracised. In the preface she wrote to her Dīvān, she excused herself for entering the craft of poetry as a woman. Parvīn Iᶜtiṣāmī (d. 1941) is a more contemporary example of being subject to gender bias in the world of Persian literature. Being disbelieved as a female poet, she wrote a poem to assert that she was a woman. The paradoxical overview of gender in the Persian literary tradition brings to mind questions such as: How does this imbalance crystallise in Persian poetry? How do Persian poets incorporate the patriarchal gender construct into their narratives? How does such a liminal gender construct influence the particular dynamics of genres such as the romance in Persian poetry? How did male Persian poets contribute to perpetuating the biased gender construct of femininity in their work? How did female poets deal with gender-biased power dynamics? If the patriarchal gender norms promote leaving women out of the arena of poetry, how does the communication of the genders take place in a genre like romance?
Aim of the Conference
This conference brings together scholars who have worked or are working on various aspects of Persian poetry, and the problem of gender and sexuality. The conference is organised to encourage discussion on understudied the formation of concepts such as femininity and masculinity in the Iranian-Muslim cultural context through Persian poetry.
Call for Abstracts
We would like to invite abstracts of maximum 300 words together with one paragraph CV (maximum 250 words) by 20 October 2023. Research master and PhD students are encouraged to apply as we would like to create a mixture of early-career and mid-career scholars. Accepted contributions will be asked to submit the draft paper of about 2000 words before 15 February 2023. After the conference, we shall invite a selected number of scholars to submit their papers for publication in a peer-reviewed university press.
Timeline
20 October 2023: Deadline abstract submission
15 November 2023: Decision on accepted abstract
15 February 2024: Submission of the draft papers (2000 words)
15 March 2024: Submission of the final paper
11-12 April 2024: Conference at Utrecht University
How to submit
Please send your abstract and CV in one document to Femininity@uu.nl
If you are interested to join the conference online or on location, please contact us via
For more information see Beyond Sharia – The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam
13. The Invisible East programme in Oxford is looking for a new Programme Coordinator to join the team!
We are looking for a driven and organised individual who can help us grow an exciting academic project with direct links to the wider public. The job description can be seen at this link. The deadline to apply is 26 October 2023. We look forward to receiving your application!
14. Open Access – The Cooing of the Dove and the Cawing of the Crow: Late `Abbāsid Poetics in Abū al-`Alā` al-Ma`arrī’s Saqt al-Zand and Luzūm Mā Lā Yalzam
Suzanne Stetkevych
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/61169
15. 2024 Critical Language Scholarship Program Application Now Open!
The application is now open for the U. S. Department of State’s 2024 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and its virtual initiative, CLS Spark! We welcome your students to apply now to learn a critical language on a funded virtual or overseas summer program. The application is available at https://clscholarship.org/apply. The deadline for applications is 8:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.
The CLS Program provides intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains. Depending on language and level, U.S. students can either apply for the overseas CLS Program or its virtual initiative, CLS Spark. The CLS Program offers in-person cohort-based programs at partner institutions abroad that provide instruction at various levels for U.S. graduate and undergraduate students in 13 critical languages: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu
The CLS Program, through its CLS Spark initiative, provides beginner-level virtual instruction for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian for competitively selected U.S. undergraduate students whose home campuses do not offer these languages. More information on eligibility is available at: https://clscholarship.org/applicants/eligibility.
The CLS Program will host webinars, Q&A sessions, and alumni panels for students and advisors throughout the fall. A full calendar with these events and corresponding registration links is available at: https://clscholarship.org/events.
The CLS Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by American Councils for International Education. It is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security, economic prosperity, engagement with the world.
If you have any questions, please contact the CLS Program team at: cls@americancouncils.org.
16. Open Rank Professor of Native and Indigenous Feminisms & Colonial Studies Application Deadline: Jan 5 2024
Location: Occidental College: Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice
The Department of Critical Theory and Social Justice at Occidental College is committed to fostering critical and interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with pressing issues of social justice, inequality, and power dynamics. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to our vibrant academic community, work alongside dedicated colleagues, and shape the future of our department.
We seek an outstanding scholar who specializes in Native and Indigenous Feminisms and Colonial Studies. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to research, teaching, and community engagement. Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in a relevant field and have a proven track record of excellence in both research and pedagogy.
At Occidental College, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive academic environment that values equity and fosters a sense of belonging for all members of our community. We encourage applications from candidates who share our commitment to these values and who will contribute to the diversity of our department.
Should you have any questions or require further information about this opportunity, please do not hesitate to contact the Search Committee Chair, Mary Christianakis, mary@oxy.edu .
17. Female Bodies and Sexuality in Iran and the Search for Defiance: Book Talk with Author Nafiseh Sharifi, Soraya Batmanghelichi and Rassa Ghaffari
Date: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Time: 16:00-17:30 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom (registration essential)
More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/nafiseh-sharifi-book-talk
18. ‘”COCO-DE-MERKASHKULS, MATERIALITY, AND OCEANIC JOURNEYS”
Peyvand Firouzeh, University of Sydney
Webinar, Silsila, NYU, Wednesday, October 11th, 6:30pm EDT
The coco-de-mer nutshell, native to the islands of Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, is an object of various mobilities. This talk follows the real and imagined journeys of the coco-de-mer from miraculous mythological journeys to those driven by natural sea currents, as well as the trans-oceanic trade networks of the early modern world, in order to focus on the adoption of the nutshells for kashkuls (beggars’ bowls), an attribute of Sufis. Shifting the focus of Eurocentric histories of the nutshell, I explore how the materiality and metaphorical meanings of the coconut shell collided with those of the kashkul. The coalescence of coco-de-mer and kashkul, which swayed between buoyant, drifting objects, bulky containers, and monumental metaphors, brings allegories of wine and drinking vessels, boats and sea travel, light and mosque imagery into dialogue with monsoon winds and broader material histories of the Indian Ocean.
For full details and to register to attend online please visit the Silsila website:
19. Acquisitions and Provenance of Islamic Art between 1933-1945: Current Research and Networking, Berlin, October 13-14 2023
The Museum für Islamische Kunst in cooperation with the Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin and the Institute of Art History and Musicology at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz will host a workshop entitled, “Acquisitions and Provenance of Islamic Art between 1933-1945: Current Research and Networking.”
This workshop represents a pioneering initiative among researchers both within and beyond public collections in Germany. It aims to facilitate discussions about the challenges associated with tracing the provenance for objects of Islamic art history and to present ongoing projects in the field. The workshop seeks to identify parallels in collecting practices and object biographies in comparison with non-European collection contexts.
We cordially invite you to participate in this two-day workshop to be conducted in German.
A detailed program can be found here: https://kulturgutverluste.de/sites/default/files/2023-09/Workshop_Programm_13%2614.10.2023.pdf.
Please note that due to limited seating capacity, we kindly request your registration by the 10th of October 2023, via naneuman@uni-mainz.de.
For Yuka Kadoi’s public evening lecture “Lost, Found or Vanished. Three Cases of Persian Carpet Provenance in the Lands of the Former Habsburg Empire”, no prior registration is necessary.
Further information can be found here: https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/museum-fuer-islamische-kunst/events/detail/lost-found-or-vanished-2023-10-13-180000-139506/
With further inquiries, please contact us at isl@smb.spk-berlin.de.
20. International conference: Interiors Reconfigured
Vitrocentre Romont, the Swiss research center on stained glass and the art of glass, is organizing, in collaboration with French research center InVisu, an international conference on the decorative arts of the Middle East and North Africa with a special focus on material aspects and local practices. In the course of profound changes since the 18th century, local tastes and craftmanship began to mutate under Ottoman and Western influence. The conference will address these changes and emphasise the growing importance of material-based analysis in the field of Middle Eastern and Maghrebi décors.
The conference will take place in Romont on 2 and 3 November 2023.
The participation is free of charge, registration is required by 30 October 2023 at claudine.demierre@vitrocentre.ch
The programme can be accessed here: https://vitrocentre.ch/international-conference-interiors-reconfigured/
21. From Konkan to Coromandel: Cultures and Societies of the Deccan World,Autumn 2023
Webinars co-organized by the Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore, presenting the pioneering scholarship across various fields of knowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.
OCTOBER
Performance, Poetry, and Painting: Towards a History of Music in the Deccan Sultanates
Richard David Williams (SOAS, University of London) on October 20th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, and 5:30 PM Mumbai)
NOVEMBER
Penning Poetry: Prevalence of the Naskh Script in Early Modern Dakani Literary Manuscripts
Namrata Kanchan (University of Texas at Austin) on November 17th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)
DECEMBER
Transformation at the heart of tradition: Cheriyal paintings from Telangana India
Anaïs Da Fonseca (University College London) on December 1st at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, and 5:30 PM Mumbai)
All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory.
Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Fall 2023 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Form for Islamic Art & Architecture:
October 12, 2023 6:00pm
“An Epigraphic (Re)assessment of 9th–10th Century Southern Mesopotamian Luster Ceramics”
Rebecca Wrightson, AKPIA Fellow; former Kluger Fellow, Trinity College (2022-2023)
November 2, 2023 6:00pm
“Materia Medica on the Move in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Melis Taner, AKPIA Fellow; Associate Professor, Özyeğin University
November 16, 2023 6:00pm
“Ruins, Reuse, and Memory in Early Islamic Architecture”
Alexander Brey, Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Co-sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge, MA.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.
Visit the website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events.
2. Prochaine (première) séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” mardi 10 octobre 2023, 17h, INALCO salle 3.15
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine (première) séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” 2023-2024, qui se tiendra le mardi 10 octobre 2023, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir le professeur Touraj Daryaee, Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture et directeur du Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California, Irvine, pour une conférence intitulée : « From the Achaemenid Empire to Medieval Persia: ‘Earth & Water’ in the Iranian Conceptual World ».
Résumé
According to Greek sources the Achaemenid Persians accepted the submission of lands/city-states through receiving of a handful of land and water. The Greeks gathered the symbolic meaning of such an act, but what the Persians really thought of this ritual has not give a proper answer. One may be able to understand Persian actions against some of the Greek city-states, but also in later history vis-à-vis Armenia by looking at the Persian literature throughout history. The key to understanding the Persian idea of this concept is to delve into time in the Middle Persian literature of late antiquity and that of Classical Persian literature in the medieval period. This talk attempts to answer why was ‟earth & water” so important to the Iranian imaginary and its symbolic significance which pervaded till the twentieth century.
Bibliographie indicative
- Balcer, Jack Martin. “The Persian Wars Against Greece: A Reassessment”, Historia 38 (1989), p. 127-143.
- Klinkott, Hilmar. „Dem König Erde und Wasser bringen“ – Persisches Unterwerfungsritual oder herodoteisches Konstrukt? in A. Luther, H. Börm (ed.). Diwan. Untersuchungen zu Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen Ostens und des östlichen Mittelmeerraums im Altertum(Festschrift für Josef Wiesehöfer). Duisburg, 2016, p. 133-182.
- Kuhrt Amélie. “Earth and water” in A. Kuhrt, H. Sancisi-Weerdenburg (ed.). Achaemenid History III. Leiden, 1988, p. 87-99.
- Momigliano Arnoldo. “Terra marique,” Journal of Roman Studies32, 1942, p. 53-64.
- Rung Eduard. “The Language of the Achaemenid Imperial Diplomacy towards the Greeks: The Meaning of Earth and Water,” Klio97(2), 2015, p. 503–515.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez ci-joint le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” au format pdf. Pour plus de détails, veuillez vous reporter au site web du CeRMI :
3. ‘Education and a sense of security under conditions of sociopolitical uncertainty: the case of the Golan Druze’
Yasmin Barselai Shaham, Orr Levental & Anat Kidron
Middle Eastern Studies, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2022.2155949
4. Workshop – Materiality of hygiene, purity and the senses in Islam, 5th Hajar Workshop – October 27
Friday, October 27th, 2023 – 17:00-20:15 (Brussels)
Materiality of hygiene, purity and the senses in Islam
Chairs: Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Archaïos and Institut catholique de Paris) and Hagit Nol (Goethe-University Frankfurt)
PROGRAMME
17:00 Case studies
Louise Blanke, The University of Edinburgh/Israel Institute of Advanced Studies
“Hygiene and social practice in the Central Bathhouse in Jarash, Jordan”
Roland-Pierre Gayraud, CIHAM (CNRS, Lyon)
“Public and private hygiene in Islamic Egypt (9th-11th centuries). An archaeological overview”
Elisa Pruno, University of Firenze
“Materiality of hygiene: the raw materials and the productive cycle of soap factories in the Middle Ages in the Middle East”
18:30 Break
18:45 Discussion
Discussant: Roxanne Brame, Seattle University
Discussant: Adam Bursi
General debate and questions
For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until October 25th.
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5. Weekly seminars, Thursdays 5.15pm, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford. All welcome.
12 October: Scott Redford, SOAS, London | Temporal Authority and Divine Knowledge: Two Late 13th-Century Bookstands Gifted to the Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi in Konya
19 October: İrvin Cemil Schick, EHESS, Paris, and Gizem Tongo, Middle East Technical University, Ankara | Islamic Art, Modern Warfare, and the End of the Ottoman Empire
26 October: Vivek Gupta, University College London | In Paper and Stone: Scribal Bodies and the Gulbarga Qurʾan, ca. 1400
2 November: Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Inscribed Histories: West African Arabic Script Styles, their History and Palaeography
9 November: Zahra Kazani, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford | Thinking in Lines and Circles: Script Patterns and the Visualization of Knowledge in the Kitab al-Diryaq (BnF Arabe 2964)
16 November: Julien Loiseau, Aix-Marseille Université | Under the Seal of Solomon: New Research on Arabic Funerary Epigraphy in Ethiopia (10th-14th centuries)
23 November: Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul | Hagia Sophia to Theotokos Mouchliotissa: Structures and Narratives of Possession and Erasure in Early Modern Istanbul
30 November: Nahid Assemi, Bodleian Library, Oxford | Staging Piety: Takkiyya Mu‘aven al Mulk in Kermanshah
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6. Bastions of the Cross: Medieval Rock-Cut Cruciform Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia
Mikael Muehlbauer
Harvard U Press, 2023
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780884024972
7. The 15th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (IRTP) Conference will take place in Korpo | Nagu | Pargas, Finnish Archipelago Finland from 26-29 June 2024.
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at: www.irtp.co.uk
8. The journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeologyis organizing a special issue focused on the relationship between infectious disease spread and climate change in the ancient world (broadly construed). More information on the special issue, including the call for papers, can be found at this link. Abstract submissions are due on November 17, and accepted contributors will be notified by mid-December. Abstracts are welcome from anyone who has a complete manuscript ready to go and is looking for a place to publish. Complete manuscripts from all contributors are due in March. The volume will be Open Access, and there is an APC charge, but there is some potential funding assistance available. If there are enough contributions, the special journal issue will become an e-book.
9. Legacies of Ancient Persia: A New Pourdavoud Podcast Production
We are excited to announce a new podcast developed by the Pourdavoud Institute: Legacies of Ancient Persia! A legacy consists of three critical elements: a past, a present, and a future. Join the Pourdavoud Institute as we explore elements of the many legacies of ancient Persia and their relevance to global patrimony. Learn how the ancient Iranian civilization impacted its neighbors and how the interconnectivity of ancient cultures influenced Persia. Featuring interviews with thought leaders in academia, conversations with specialists in the entertainment industry who reimagine ancient worlds for modern society, and round-table discussions that bring together a multiplicity of perspectives, we highlight Persia’s interactions with the wider ancient worlds and explore how this entangled history is received in the modern era.
Episodes will air bimonthly on Thursdays, and are available wherever you listen to podcasts, including Apple and Spotify.
Episode 0, an introduction to ancient Persia provided by the staff of the Pourdavoud Institute, is available as a starting point for anyone new to the study of the ancient Iranian world and its reception in the medieval and modern periods.
Episode 1 features Daniel T. Potts (ISAW, New York University). With podcast host Lexie Henning, Professor Potts discusses his personal challenges of not being able to travel to Iran for fieldwork and provides the listener with a brief recap of the Elamites and Persian prehistory. The episode also highlights his new book, Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran (2023), published with UC Press as part of the Pourdavoud Institute’s new Iran and the Ancient World (IAW) series.
A free ebook version of Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program: <www.luminosoa.org>.
The publication date is set for October 10, 2024. Pre-orders can be placed at the University of California Press website.
10. Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is organizing the sixth 16-week Persian language semester program in Yerevan, Armenia. The sixth 16-week semester program of Persian language will start on January 14, 2024, and will last till May 4, 2024 (111 days, 300 hours of Persian language instruction).
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/study-persian-language-semester-abroad
11. Lecture – The Planetary Court of Humayun Padshah, Second Mughal Emperor (1508–1556), Ebba Koch, Department of Islamic Art at The Met – October 12
Ebba Koch (Emerita, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna)
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 11 AM ET
After following briefly Humayun’s travels and campaigns in Afghanistan, India and Iran during the political and social disturbances of the early sixteenth century the lecture will draw attention to the padshah’s deep involvement with literature, poetry, mathematics, astronomy, astrology and occultism and then focus on his extraordinary inventions, his planetary court and its settings. We will look at the Cosmic Carpet and its use as a gameboard, at the Floating Market and the Floating Palace, and at Humayun’s patronage of painting. The presentation will conclude with Humayun’s mausoleum as the posthumous sum of his visions and dreams.
Please reach out to helen.goldenberg@metmuseum.org for Zoom link or more information.
12. ONLINE Lecture “A Roman in Islamic Egypt: Memory and Identity in the Chronicle of John of Nikiu” by Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga (University of Tennessee), 20 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
The Chronicle written in Coptic in the 7th century is often treated as an expression of an Egyptian identity rooted in miaphysite Christianity and some degree of antipathy towards and alienation from the Roman state. These readings are informed by a preconceived notion that there was a great degree of continuity between the Coptic church of the Early Islamic period and the Alexandrian church of the Roman empire, and a tacit belief that the Council of Chalcedon created an ideological rift between Alexandria and Constantinople.
Information and registration: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/raceandgenderglobalmiddleages/
13. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Politics in the Modern Islamic World, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Qualification: Applicants must have Ph.D. in hand by August 1, 2024. Geographical focus open. Applicants should be able to teach survey courses on the Middle East as well as more specialized courses in their area of expertise. We expect the successful applicant to demonstrate a broad knowledge of the cultural and historical context of modern politics in the Islamic world and to have excellent relevant language skills.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/133613
14. Research Associate (3 Years) in Arabic Literature (Classical, Pre-modern, Modern, or Contemporary), Orient Institut Beirut
Requirements: Doctorate in the subject spectrum of Arabic studies, translation studies, comparative literature; Excellent knowledge of Arabic and research experience with Arabic language sources; A stellar publication record (German, Arabic or English) in academic journals, or monographs; Innovative research projects that are locally grounded have appeal throughout the MENA region; Experience with academic supervision of students.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023. Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_uplo ad/OI_Beirut/Ausschreibung_WiMi_Arabistik_englisch_FINAL_4.9..pdf
15. Junior Research Fellowship (2Years) at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology and anthropology. The fellowship’s goal is to allow untenured early career scholars the flexibility and means to advance a specific research project related to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 27 October 2023. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25760
16. Appel à contributions | Bulletin d’études orientales (BEO 71) « Pour une histoire sonore dans les sociétés de l’islam médiéval » — LIMITE : 15/10/2023
A sound history of medieval Islamic societies
The aim of this issue is to bring together contributions on social and political history, on the history of the senses and the sensible, on anthropology, literature, law, philosophy, art history, musicology. The study of sound and its environment allows an exploration of subjects as diverse as commercial communication, social conflicts, spatial and social control, political communication, urban expansion (through the saturation of sound space), rituals, revolts and war, from a new angle and at different scales.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/89199
17. ONLINE Webinar “The Reunification of Iran and the Reign of Aqa Muhammad Shah Qajar” with Maziar Behrooz, British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 18 October 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time
After a difficult century of civil wars and foreign intervention, population loss and economic contraction, Iran was finally reunified under the Qajar and the unique leadership of Aqa Muhammad Shah in 1796. This presentation discusses the road to Qajar reunification and the brief reign of Aqa Muhammad and his legacy, leading to his assassination in Shusha-Qarabagh in 1797.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316879475313/WN_PofzQbNcSnWslMt2yKhkRA#/registration
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Book Talk “Re-imagining the Female Figure in War and Conflict” by Sama Alshaibi (Brown University), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 18 October 2023, 12:00 pm –1:00 pm ET
In conversation with conceptual artist Sama Alshaibi, Brown University professor Nadje Al-Ali and Columbia University professor Kathryn Spellman Poots will discuss her art and the significance of war, exile, borders and environmental destruction in her work. What role do gender and her body play in her work? And how does her art draw on historical sources and contemporary realities to express exploitations of freedom?
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/sama-alshaibi-reimagining-female-figure-war-conflict
2. Conference “Humanities and Social Sciences in Times of Crises: Back to Provincialism (Focus MENA Region)”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 20 October 2023, 15:00 h – 18:00 h
Information, program, and registration: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/fileadmin/bilder/Forum/Fellow_Event_2023/Fellow_Event_2023_Programmheft_WEB.pdf
3. HYBRID Book Launch “Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East” by Uriel Simonsohn, Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem, 26 October 2023, 17:00 h – 19:00 h
Lectures: Prof. Avner Giladi: “Female Power and the Status of the Mother in Medieval Muslim Societies”. – Prof. Ana Echeverria Arsuaga: “New Insights on Female Conversion from Late Antiquity to the Early Medieval Period”. – Prof. Jack Tannous: “The Subject of History and the 51%”.
Information: https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/book-launch-female-power-and-religious-change-medieval-near-east. Zoom link: https://huji.zoom.us/j/82556326202?pwd=TnNZaW4zbXZVdVRxcWtlRFl6UmJodz09#success
4. Workshop “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea”, Mediterranean Seminar, University of California Los Angeles, 9-10 February 2024
The Mediterranean region served as a dynamic center of exchange from Antiquity through early modernity. This engagement is the product of continuous dialectical processes of translation, transculturation, colonization, and syncretism across the gamut of human experience and expression: in art, literature, language, music, religion, media, material culture, and folk practices, as well as in social, economic, political, and institutional dynamics.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2023.
5. Conference “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial” (Focus Ottoman Empire), University of Rijeka, Croatia, 15-17 May 2024
We welcome contributions from a host of disciplines, including Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Liter-ature, Gender Studies, History, International Relations, Memory Studies, and Sociology, that interrogate inter-imperiality.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 November 2023. Information: https://revenant.uniri.hr/?page_id=1143
6. 25th Symposium of the “International Committee for Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies (CIÉPO)”, Tirana, Albania, 21-25 June 2024
Subject fields: Early Modern History and Period Studies – Eastern Europe History Studies – Humanities, Islamic History Studies – Middle East History Studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/2 0007256/call-panels-and-papers-ciepo-25-tirana-albania-21-25-june-2024
7. Conference “Gender and Religious Agency in the Muslim World”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Summer 2024 (Date to be Determined in Cooperation the Participants)
The conference explores the intersection of gender with religious agency in the broadest sense, including religious authority, knowledge production, practice, performance, and community formation and representa-tion, both from a historical as well as a contemporary perspective. We take religion as a practice and category of thought seriously and ask how members of various religious communities negotiate gender in public and personal settings from a believer’s perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2023. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/Ausschreibun gen_2023/CfP_Gender_and_Religious_Agency_ZMO.pdf
8. Three PhD Positions at the Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern
Candidates must have an MA degree in Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Studies or cognate fields. Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Knowledge of Ottoman Turkish is an advantage. A proven interest in current debates in gender and/or labour history is expected. Previous experience of working with legal sources is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 29 October 2023. Information:
9. Tenure-track Position in Iranian Studies or Gulf Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Applications may be in Iranian studies (or “the Persianate World”) or Gulf studies (including one or more of the Arab Gulf states) in the medieval, early-modern, or modern periods.
Deadline for application: 8 October 2023. Information:
https://bgu-academic-recruitment.my.site.com/Recruiters/VF_BGUPositions?Id=02i5I00000F6KsJQAV
10. Funding of Digitisation Projects by the “Endangered Archives Programme” at the British Library
The Programme seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, man-uscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings. All applications must involve at least one archival partner in the country where the material is based.
Deadline for applications: 13 November 2023. Information: https://eap.bl.uk/grants
11. Articles for New Journal “Transmediterranean History”
This open access journal publishes articles with a keen focus on source material covering various aspects of transmediterranean history in the period between c. 600 and 1650. The contributions provide access to ex-cerpts of primary sources in their original language alongside translations and commentaries on the author and their work;.etc.. Additionally, each entry gives revised bibliographies of editions, translations, and sec-ondary literature. The anthology appears biannually in German, English, and Arabic.
Information: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index
12. Northwestern University – Assistant Professor in Islam
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66082
Review of applications will begin on Nov. 1, 2023
- October 03, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Hybrid: ‘The Image of Fatima in Sunnī and Shī`ī historiography and hadith’ – V Khetia (4.10.23, 4pm UK time)
- October 02, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Papers: The Oneness of Being (Wahdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications
Al-Mahdi Institute is pleased to announce the call for papers for its upcoming two-day conference on Monday 22nd April to Tuesday 23rd April 2024, titled: ‘The Oneness of Being (Wahdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications’ convened by Dr Zoheir Esmail. The deadline for abstracts is Monday 4th December 2023.
For further information, see
2. Open Access New Publication: “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology”
The edited volume: “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology”.is a Special Issue of Religions, and is entirely open-access.
See this link.
3. Webinar on Ibn Abī Usaybi`a, 17 October 2023
Date & Time: Oct 17, 2023 5pm CET
Description:
Scholars have been aware of the complex manuscript and textual tradition of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s Uyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ since August Müller discussed it in the introduction to his edition of the work. I revised Müller’s conclusions in one of the essays accompanying Brill’s new edition and translation, demonstrating that the ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ had circulated in three different versions (Emilie Savage-Smith et al (ed.), A Literary History of Medicine, Brill, 2020, vol. 1). In this paper, I will discuss how the scribes approached the copy of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa’s work, how they dealt with the textual problems derived from the coexistence of the different versions, and how these collation practices are reflected in the codicological, textual and paratextual features that we find in the extant manuscripts.
Registration link: https://oeaw-ac-at.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jtYw9_Y_TXCkopYHFvdnCw#/registration
4. Call for Applications | Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship Opportunities
The Newberry Library’s long-standing fellowship program provides outstanding scholars with the time, space, and community required to pursue innovative and ground-breaking scholarship.
In addition to the library’s collections, fellows are supported by a collegial interdisciplinary community of researchers, curators, and librarians. An array of scholarly and public programs also contributes to an engaging intellectual environment.
Short-Term Fellowships are available to postdoctoral scholars, PhD candidates, and those who hold other terminal degrees. Short-Term Fellowships are generally awarded for 1 to 2 months; unless otherwise noted the stipend is $3,000 per month. These fellowships support individual scholarly research for those who have a specific need for the Newberry’s collection. The deadline for short-term opportunities is December 15.
5. Eastern Michigan University – Assistant Professor, Middle East History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66002
6. Roshan Institute for Persian Studies Book Launch with Mojdeh Bahar
Please join us to celebrate Ms Bahar’s new translation book Song of the Ground Jay, Poems by Iranian Women (1960-2023) as she discusses her book with us.
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Book Launch with Mojdeh Bahar
Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023
2:30 pm Eastern Time
Zoom link:
https://umd.zoom.us/j/95589857828
7. Sunil Sharma’s talk on October 25 as part of Franklin Lewis Lecture Series 2023-2024
There will be two lectures in the Franklin Lewis Lecture Series this academic year. The first one will be on October 25 by Sunil Sharma, and the second on April 17 by Dominic Brookshaw.
Sunil Sharma’s talk will be in person, but recoded and posted online in https://nelc.uchicago.edu/news-events/franklin-lewis-lecture-series.
Abstract: Amir Khusraw of Delhi (d. 1325) was the first Persian poet to compose a quintet of poems (masnavis) in response to the one by his predecessor Nizami of Ganja (d. 1209). Khusraw’s narrative technique and style shows the influence of both Perso-Islamic and Indic storytelling traditions. I will explore this aspect of his poetry in the Hasht Bihisht (Eight Paradises) where characters use a complex variety of practical skills, logic, and sorcery, to overcome obstacles. I also suggest that the poet sought to theorize these ideas as a body of knowledge, which is often viewed as ‘aja’ib (marvels), in his later work Nuh Sipihr (Nine Spheres of Heaven).
8. CFP: Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea, Journal of Historical Geography
The Journal of Historical Geography is planning a special issue on “Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea.” It is being edited by Frederico Ferretti. The deadline for submissions is 5 January 2024.
The cfp:
… this special issue aims at addressing critical historical geographies of seas, oceans and liquid spaces as well as histories of geography and cartography related to these geographical objects, understood both as metaphors and as material places. We are additionally interested in seeing more on the relationship between historical cases and current debates on seas and oceans that are cognizant of critical geopolitics, the material turn and relational ontologies. We especially value critical contributions that question traditional and colonial understandings of the sea as a vehicle for colonisation and ‘civilisation’. Likewise, we appreciate critical views on the sea understood as a frontier, which can seek dialogues with current scholarship on critical geopolitics, critical map histories, internationalism, anti-racism and decoloniality.
For more information: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/about/call-for-papers#liquid-worlds-historical-geographies-and-cartographies-of-the-sea
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9. Drugs in the Medieval Mediterranean: Transmission and Circulation of Pharmacological Knowledge, ed. P. Bouras-Vallianatos and D. Stathakopoulos, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
10. Television and the Afghan culture wars brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists
Wazhmah Osman
Univ of Illinois Press, 2020
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p085451
11. Online events at Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) this term
Monday 9 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time): Monday Majlis, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Sharing Wives and Drinking Wine: The Mazdakites, the Ayyārs, and the Mithraists: Accusations & Realities
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpdu-sqDsoG9VhwMHgx_xbOUzGFJJdh2dc
Wednesday 11 October, 17:30-19:00, Visiting Speaker Lecture (Monday Majlis Format), Hafsa Kanjwal, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building under Indian occupation
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOqtrj4qGdDGXD4PmKN9tSJmGS5vLAX9
Monday 16 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Youshaa Patel, How to think about Muslim difference?
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfu2grTIpGtZzfCt5L23MhLjcdcGRXVbj
Monday 30 October, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Carl Ernst and Mbaye Lo, Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcuf-uoqz8rGdUDlVeU95vA0fC3rOlCAuZ1
Monday 13 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Olga Merck Davidson, Ferdowsi’s ecumenism in the Shahnama
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvfu6tqjIuGtFJdwdSjkbT6KWiTPCSwaA-
Monday 20 17:00-18:30 (UK time) November, Monday Majlis, Francesca Bellino, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen and Luca Patrizi, The adventures of Adab
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkf-yprDouGNPYoljbVMrGJWOd4Wkl0qmV
Monday 27 November, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Usaama al-Azami, Islamist Sufism: How Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s spirituality resembles mainstream Neotraditionalism
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElfu-hrj0iEtRaSX2jX-ZjibxkJXR0dfa2
Monday 4 December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Monday Majlis, Michael Bednar, Amir Khusrau and the narrative of history
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkdOqqrzspGdO3jM02oOblvPhiyEhUVdxH
Monday 11 December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time), Ferenc Csikés, Turkic martyrologies in Safavid Iran
Please register in advance at https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtf-uvrDkrHtacUFSU2H0H-uSWicJIAz9J
12. Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora
Claudia Yaghoobi
Edinburgh, 2023
Find out more: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-8F59P-MWI2D5-59OACQ-0/c.aspx
13. Nükhet Varlık, “Plague in the Mediterranean and Islamicate World,” Isis 114, Issue S1: Bibliographic Essays on the History of Pandemics: An IsisCB Special Issue (September 2023), pp. S313–S362.
Abstract:
This essay surveys the evolution of historical scholarship on epidemic diseases in the Mediterranean/Islamicate world with a particular focus on plague. Temporally, it covers the scholarship on plague epidemics during the last 1,500 years, surveyed in three major pandemics: first, second, and third pandemics of plague. Geographically, it addresses the Mediterranean basin and its hinterland, including the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the Anatolian peninsula, the Balkans, and occasionally drawing on adjacent areas such as the Black Sea region and the Persian plateau. It outlines major trends and turning points in the modern historiography; reviews prevailing paradigms, contested issues, and emergent consensuses; and identifies methodologies, sources, and approaches. Whenever possible, it highlights contributions from paleogenetic and other scientific studies, with special reference to the diversity of opinions, actors, and materials in this highly controversial but vigorous field of study. The major goal of this essay is to reunite the divided historiographies of the Mediterranean world, which are typically studied separately in the case of Europe and the Islamicate world, with a view to underscoring their shared epidemiological experiences.
14. ONLINE Book Talk “Heroes to Hostages, America and Iran 1800-1988” by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (University of Pennsylvania), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 2 October 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
This book narrates the history of America and Iran, and its diplomacy, by shifting attention to social and cultural concerns. As Iranians observed global crises such as apartheid and race riots unfold in South Africa and the United States, they sharpened their understanding of racial politics. At the same time, Iran tried to assume a prominent role in these debates by hosting the UN Human Rights Conference in 1968 at a time when the US was mired in an unpopular war in Vietnam.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/firoozeh-kashani-sabet-heroes-hostages
15. HYBRID International Conference “Scriptural Readings and Reasonings. Philology and Religious Encounter in Medieval and Early Modern Times”, NYUAD Humanities Research Fellow-ship for the Study of the Arab World, University of Copenhagen”, 9-11 October 2023
The premise of this conference is that philological practices, as essentially comparative, inform complicated identities, and are an important tool of religious differentiation. Embedded in philological practices we find shared origins, methods, and values that cross religious divides.
Information, program, and registration:
16. Minoritaires en Iran. Perspectives académiques et luttes politiques
par Ifpo · Publié 28/09/2023 · Mis à jour 22/09/2023
12 octobre 2023 | 9h – 18h
https://www.ifporient.org/minoritaires-en-iran/
17. Assistant Professor of Modern Languages & Literatures (Arabic Studies), College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Successful applicants must possess the skills to teach compelling courses in both Arabic language courses (all levels) and other lecture and seminar-style courses in English.
Deadline for applications:15 October 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/09/28/assistant-professor-of-modern-languages-literatures-arabic-studies
18. ESCWA “Digital Arabic Content (DAC) Award for Sustainable Development” in Collaboration with the World Summit Awards (WSA)
Applications are open to institutions and young entrepreneurs from Arab countries who have created digital Arabic content applications or products with a clear impact on society. Eligible institutions can either be public, private, academic or non-governmental, and young entrepreneurs can be start-up founders, teams of young people or individuals where at least one of the founders and the majority of the team are younger than 35 years old.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2023.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/un/escwa-weekly-news-218en?e=e439a54ec4
19. Articles on “Iran’s Women Life Freedom Protests” for a Special Issue of the “Digest for Middle East Studies”
Issues: The role of regional /ethnic movements, especially in Kurdistan and in Baluchistan. – The role of the labor movement in the Women Life Freedom protests. – Consequences of the protests for Iran’s regional alliances and geopolitical standing. – Security services’ response to the protests (in terms of internal restruc-turing, procurement, training, recruitment, repressive techniques). Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20006627/cfp-special-issue-digest-middle-east-studies-woman-life-freedom
- September 30, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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