Archive for March 5th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Hybrid: Making it Count: Women’s Rights and Suffrage in Iran with Dr. Kashani-Sabet (U Penn)
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3-4:45 PM EDT, St. Mary’s Hall, UMD, Multipurpose Room
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Speaker Series.
2. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: the Journal of Middle East Medievalists announces a thematic dossier entitled “From the Margins, From Below: Theoretical and Analytical Interventions in Premodern Middle Eastern Studies,” guest edited by Kristina Richardson and Matthew Thomas Miller, to be published in 2026.
We are soliciting original research articles from any discipline that challenge dominant scholarly narratives in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies through the application of particular theoretical schools of thought (e.g., feminist, affect theory, ecocriticism, narratology), analytical categories (e.g., race, gender, disability), or perspectives (e.g., history from below, literature of the margins) that have not been typically privileged as objects of study. We also welcome articles that interrogate the disciplinary formation of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in the non-Islamic world and how these enduring institutional arrangements have centered certain languages, regions, and modes of analysis as worthy of study and relegated others to the margins. We are committed to assembling a diverse slate of scholars for this dossier, representing a wide range of topical, geographical, and theoretical/analytical perspectives.
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists is the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. To be considered, please submit a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to mtmiller@umd.edu by April 15, 2024. The dossier’s guest editors will invite selected authors to an online workshop in May 2025 where they will present drafts of their articles. The workshop will be an opportunity for all to receive constructive feedback. Complete articles will be due by August 1, 2025. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s peer review process.
3. Workshop “Ibn Khaldun: Universal Thougt and Shared Heritage”, Tunis, 27-28 May 2024
This workshop aims to contribute to deeper research on the life and thoughts of this eminent figure. Its aim is to understand how political and intellectual circles, both in the East and in the West, have received Khaldunian thought since the Middle Ages, but especially after its “rediscovery” in the contemporary era. A particular focus will be placed on ‘The Muqaddimah’ and the work of Ibn Khaldun as shared and contested heritage.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-ibn-khaldun-universal-thought-and-shared-heritage-tunis-may-27-28?e=82aeb6c61d
4. International Conference: “Musical Heritage Across Borders – Materiality as an Indication of Distribution Channels”, Hamburg, 28-30 May 2024
The conference explores the materiality of manuscripts on music in Latin, Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Chinese languages. By tracing the routes of distribution of musical and music-theoretical manuscripts, we gradually come closer to an overview of cultural exchange relations, even beyond the dependence on political conditions. We are looking for a total of five early stage researchers (Master, Phd) to add further impulses to the presentations of the Scientific Board.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024.
5. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA): “Mediterranean Sexualities”, New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025
How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-sexualities-mla-912-january-new-orleans?e=82aeb6c61d
6. Conference “Travellers in Ottoman Lands”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2025
The speakers will explore many fascinating subjects relevant to travel in the region during the Ottoman period, including: . Horticulture and botany; Memorials, cemeteries, places of worship of various faiths; Women travellers; Cuisine; Art and Culture; Travel and exile; Archaeology; Explorers and photographers; Modes of travel; Famous travellers; Architecture.
Deadline for abstacts: 15 November 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025364/travellers-ottoman-lands-tiol-conference-announcement
7. Research Software Engineer (Digital Humanities; V-L 13, part-time 50% or 75%) at “Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”, Leipzig
Candidate Profile: University degree (Master’s/Diploma, PhD) in Computer Science or Digital Humanities; Proficiency in at least one programming language; Experience in developing and implementing complex applications; Experience in Digital Humanities projects or interdisciplinary communication with domain ex-perts; Proficiency in English.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2024. Information:
8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (5 Months), CEDEJ, Cairo
CEDEJ offers a fellowship (April-August 2024) to a recent Ph.D. graduate working on contemporary Egypt from a humanities or social science perspective. The fellow will reside in Egypt and participate in the academic life of the center. He will receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 41,000 EGP.
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/join-us/?lang=en
9. Visiting Assistant Professor (1-2 Years) in Any Aspect of the Contemporary Middle East (Except Egypt), Colgate University
The candidate will be expected to teach an introductory course in the Core Communities component that is part of Colgate’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, a course on “The War on Terror,” and a course of their own design. There is a preference for geographical focus on Palestine, Iran, or Yemen. A Ph.D. is required at the time of hire or shortly after hire.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/141922
10. Fellowships of the “Max van Berchem Foundation” (Genève) to Promote the Study of Islamic and Arabic Archaeology, History, Geography, Art History, Epigraphy, Religion and Literature
The Foundation awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information:
https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/max-van-berchem-foundation-fellowships?e=82aeb6c61d
11. ONLINE Hebrew, Arabic, Pashto, and Iranian Cinema Summer Courses, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 6 June – 19 August 2024
– Hebrew Summer Institute:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/hebrew-summer-institute.html
– Arabic Summer Institute:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/arabic-summer-institute/
– Pashto Summer Institute:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/pashto-summer-institute.html
– Iranian Cinema Course:
https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/languages/persian/iranian-cinema-summer-course-prs-329.html
Deadline for registration: 15 April 2024
12. Bi-annual Book Award of the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA)
This award is given to an anthropological work (single- or co-authored, but not edited volumes) that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. We solicit books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East. Books submitted for the 2024 award must have a publication date in 2022 or 2023.
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2024. Information: Contact Anne Meneley: ameneley@trentu.ca
13. Yaron Klein
The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights
Monday Majlis Online on the 11th of March, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdOCgrTIoGdSN0tFJuZ2SqYtdec6d8gde
- March 05, 2024
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