Archive for February 3rd, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1. In person event: INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Julia Hartley’s Iran and French Orientalism: Panel Discussion and Book Launch
15 February 2024, 17:30-19:00 GMT
Woburn Suite, G22/26, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
All are welcome to attend this event which is being held in person only. Please register in advance: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/iran-and-french-orientalism-panel-discussion-and-book-launch
2. Gender, Governance and Islam,
edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots
Edinburgh, 2019
Open Access at:
3. Khorshid Khanom: A Study in the Origin and Development of the Shir-o Khorshid Motif
W Floor, F Sajadi,
Mage, 2024
4. Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media
Edited by Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat
Paper $44.95s | 9780815638414
Ebook 9780815657118
To order: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6267/veil-obsessed/
5. NEAR EASTERN STUDIES PUBLIC EVENT
The astral sciences and early cultures: why do we study them, and how do we share our interest with the public?
Alexander Jones (ISAW, NYU) in conversation with Sonja Brentjes (IAS, MPIWG)
Sponsor: Sabine Schmidtke, IAS; Convenor: Sonja Brentjes, IAS and MPIWG
Hybrid Event: 14 February, 6:00-6:45 pm
White-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Registration is required for both in-person and online participation.
Register at: https://bit.ly/4b9DbTp
6. 2 PhD Scholarships – University of Edinburgh – Dept of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Deadline: Monday 6 May 2024
Full information at:
7. The Fourth Biennial Arabic Language Teaching Conference at the University of Cambridge approaches.
Key Conference Details:
- Date:April 18, 2024
- Theme:Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic
- Subthemes:Perceptions of Translanguaging, The Varieties We Teach, Pedagogical Approaches, and Approaches to Assessment
- Registration Link: HERE
- Deadline:March 28, 2024.
For more information, visit the conference website: https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fourth-biennial-arabic-language-teaching-and-learning-higher-education-conference
8. UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach
Bilingual Lecture Series
Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius
Houchang Chehabi
Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 4:00pm, Royce Hall 314
Alternate live stream on Zoom:
https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735
(No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.)
9. Spring 2024 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
February 8, 2024, 6:00pm
“To the Baroque and Back Again: Architectural Renovation in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”
Emily Neumeier
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Temple University
February 29, 2024, 6:00pm (please watch the AKPIA website, this event may be rescheduled)
“The Sufi Shrines of Khuldabad”
Mohit Manohar
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago
Presented with support from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund for Asian Studies
March 28, 2024, 6:00pm
“Textiles and the Temporary in Early Modern South Asia”
Sylvia Houghteling
Associate Professor of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Presented with support from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund for Asian Studies
April 4, 2024, 6:00pm
“At the City’s Edge: The Shrines of Mosul”
Ethel Sara Wolper
AKPIA Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of New Hampshire
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
Please check the website for the latest information on these events: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
Contact Email
URL
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
10. Lecture – ‘Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World’, IJIA Dialogues, February 21
On behalf of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our upcoming and fourth journal-sponsored Dialogues session. We have three guests joining us from North Africa for a conversation on colonial-era heritage in the contemporary Islamic world. We’ll do this event via Zoom on Feb. 21 at noon EST (GMT-5).
Below is more information on the session and the necessary registration link. We hope you’ll join us and share this invitation with anyone who you think may be interested.
IJIA Dialogues
21 February 2024 | 12:00–13:15 Eastern Time (US and Canada, GMT-5)
Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World
Remnants of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European colonialism dot the streetscapes of cities throughout the postcolonial world. Tangible links to the past, these historic built environments also play a vital role in the function and identity of the contemporary postcolony. Within the Islamic world, as globally, such buildings may include government offices, religious structures, schools, and other forms of infrastructure that often stand out amidst examples of recognized ‘traditional’ cultural heritage. What do these inherited colonial-era artifacts mean now, and how have they been contested, conserved, interpreted, and put to use since the advent of independence? What lessons can be learned from them, and what challenges come with preserving the products of such difficult histories in today’s globalizing context?
Join the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) for its annual Dialogues session, a webinar that brings together scholars and practitioners from varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history. In this year’s session, “Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World,” IJIA Associate Editor Daniel E. Coslett will be joined by Leila Ben-Gacem, Alaa El-Habashi, and Lahbib El Moumni for a lively discussion on architectural history, heritage preservation, and postcolonial identity, across North Africa and beyond.
Zoom registration: https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-isqDspEtIzBtAH0d1wokaU6YXtT8LZ
Leila Ben-Gacem is a social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow based in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the general manager of TUNISTORIC and has founded several cultural heritage organizations, including Dar el Harka, Dar Ben Gacem, and Blue Fish.
Alaa El-Habashi is a Cairo-based professor of architecture and heritage conservation at Menoufia University. His research and practices embrace the specificities of local identities and traditions in historic built environments.
Lahbib El Moumni is an architect based in Casablanca, Morocco. He is the co-founder of MAMMA, an association that aims to highlight and preserve Morocco’s modern architectural and urban heritage, and a doctoral candidate at ETH Zürich.
Additional information on IJIA can be found here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
Contact Information
Daniel E. Coslett, Ph.D.
Drexel University
Contact Email
URL
https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-isqDspEtIzBtAH0d1wokaU6YXtT8LZ
11. The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections is accepting applications for the summer 2024 field trip led by Dr. Glaire Anderson in collaboration with Dr. Rafael Blanco (Universidad de Córdoba). Córdoba In the Age of the Caliphs is a 5-day experience focused on the architecture, archaeology, and art of the Umayyad capital of al-Andalus for those interested in the Digital Lab’s work across video games, immersive technologies, GLAM, and education.
Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Digital Lab brings researchers and students together to work on creative, interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with partners in the games and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sectors.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until remaining places are filled, or until the final deadline of 31 March. Prospective applicants are encouraged to apply early.
For more info please contact: info@digitallabivcc.com
https://glairedandersonphd.ck.page/cordoba2024
Dr. Glaire Anderson,
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art & Founding Director, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections, University of Edinburgh
Contact Information
Dr. Glaire Anderson,
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art & Founding Director, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections, University of Edinburgh
Contact Email
URL
https://glairedandersonphd.ck.page/cordoba2024
12. CFP – HIAA Biennial Symposium, 2025, Boston College and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April 3-5, 2025
Call for Papers: HIAA Biennial Symposium, 2025
Art Speaks (Back)
Boston College and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
April 3-5, 2025
Today, as they have in the past, new technologies and new media are bringing about radical changes in art and society. Reflecting on both the current political moment and new technologies of knowledge and artistic production such as AI, we are calling for paper, panel, and round table discussion proposals with the theme “Art Speaks (Back).” Art has been used to represent and to misrepresent, to subvert or uphold power, to speak back to power, to technology, to Orientalism, to politics, etc. For example, the illustrations in medieval or early modern manuscripts sometimes subvert the messages of the text or go beyond it to include other interpretations; architecture at times embodies messages for the patron that speak back at a rival or enemy; artists and designers often speak back to holders of power whether in explicit or hidden ways. And sometimes, neither art, nor artists, nor historians, have the freedom to voice their opinions.
The capacity or incapacity of art (and artists) to “speak” may be a useful heuristic/analytical tool to examine both contemporary and historical artistic production. By examining the social and political roles art and artists have played in the past, we may be able to assay the dangers and opportunities presented by new media and technologies. We envision the theme “Art Speaks (Back)” to be explored through attention to technologies of production, to patronage and collecting, to the role of art and artists in society, to art created in times of crisis or change. These are only some examples of the way in which the rich and suggestive theme “Art Speaks (Back)” can be examined.
We invite individual papers, complete panels, or pre-organized round-table discussions that address any aspect of this theme. In this year’s symposium, we will have one session dedicated to 5-minute lightning talks. We also encourage individual applications to this session.
To submit individual papers and lightning papers, please submit a title, an abstract, and a 100-word bio, and indicate whether you are applying to present a 20-minute or a 5-minute paper. For complete panels with three or four 20-minute papers, please include a panel abstract and title as well as individual titles and abstracts for all the papers, and short (100 word) bios for all participants. For round table discussions, please submit an abstract and a title for the roundtable, and the names and 100-word bios of all participants.
Accommodations will be provided for all presenters and travel expenses of students and contingent scholars presenting at the symposium will be covered by HIAA and the Norma Jean Calderwood Professorship Funds at Boston College. Presenters must be HIAA members in good standing.
Please email all submissions to: HIAA.2025.Boston@gmail.com by April 15, 2024. The program committee plans to announce its selections by June 15th.
13. Call for Papers: Muslim Contributions to Civil Society and Philanthropy in the Caribbean
Due date: 15 March, 2024
More information:
14. The Middle East in Cambridge
Cambridge-Brown Persian Poetry Reading Group
Tue 6th February 2024 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Time zone: London)
Led by:
Dr. Annabel Keeler (Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)
Dr. Michelle Quay (Lecturer of Persian at Brown University, Center for Language Studies)
On Tuesday 6th February, please join us for this term’s first meeting of the reading group. We will meet on Zoom this term on alternate Tuesdays for three sessions of reading Persian poetry in the original.
New members, please register here to receive the Zoom invite.
If you have registered previously, no need to sign up again as you will remain on the mailing list.
Reading Group schedule:
Alternate Tuesdays 12 – 1:00pm EST / 5 – 6:00pm UK Time
Session 1: Tues Feb 6th
Session 2: Tues Feb 20th
Session 3: Tues March 5th
Texts for first session:
We will be reading the following story from Rumi’s Mathnavi:
https://ganjoor.net/moulavi/masnavi/daftar2/sh25
The translation is attached.
Group details:
The group is designed for students with some background in reading Persian. We will be reading, translating and discussing some fantastic specimens of Persian verse. Meetings are primarily intended for Brown and Cambridge affiliates. Interested students with an intermediate knowledge of Persian (i.e. those who have completed at least first-year Persian) are very welcome to join. Students below this level may join as auditors. Preparation of the texts before the sessions is ideal, but not obligatory.
This reading group is jointly convened by Dr. Annabel Keeler (Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) and Dr. Michelle Quay (Lecturer of Persian at Brown University, Center for Language Studies). It has been coordinated by Dr. Keeler at Cambridge for many years, and it is Brown’s great pleasure to participate for a third year running.
15. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies (May Issue 2024)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the May Issue 2024. We are honored to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Assoc. ProfessorRania M Rafik Khalil, Acting Vice Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at The British University in Egypt.
The submission deadline is February, 29.2024. The issue publication date is May Issue 2024.
The papers can address but are not limited to, the following areas: click here.
Please send your submission to tls@awej.org
We have the pleasure of sending the full issues of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies February, May, August, and October 2023
Regards,
Arab World English Journal for
Translation and Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
16. Zahra Institute’s Kurdish Studies’ Lecture Series for the Spring semester is open to the public and will be given via Zoom.
You can access the Spring 2024 Kurdish Studies’ Lecture Series via our website: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/
17. Digital Scholarship Conversations@IAS: February 16, 12-1pm: DAMAST – an interactive research environment
DAMAST – an interactive research environment
Prof. Dr. Dorothea Weltecke and Dr. Florian Jäckel
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Friday, February 16, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS)
and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS).
Damast is an interactive research environment for visualizing the multi-religious situation in the Islamicate world from 600 to 1400 CE. For the first time, all the existing geographical and chronological data about communities of Dhimmis under Muslim rule have been gathered together into one Database. Over 8,300 pieces of evidence at more than 440 locations are part of the database. They are visualized on a map, a timeline and displayed in various tables. Various filters, such as time, location, religious community and source allow detailed inspection of the data. Results of the research remain accessible as a report and can be referenced. Our presentation will introduce the research environment and the underlying concepts, explains some of its features – and its shortcomings.
Register in advance for this virtual event at https://bit.ly/3SDY4ie. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.
For additional information please email ds@ias.edu.
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