Archive for May 18th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Pourdavoud Lecture Series Video Available: Elspeth Dusinberre
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lecture of Dr. Elspeth Dusinberre (University of Colorado-Boulder). She presented “The Collapse of Empire: Gordion’s Transition from the Achaemenid to the Hellenistic World” for the Pourdavoud Institute on February 21, 2024.
2. Call for Papers – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies deadline 31st May 2024
Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC)
Aga Khan Centre, London and online
3-5 October 2024 Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present.
We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working on history writing in Arabic. Papers might elucidate the following sorts of questions:
How did adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, men and women, and members of different social classes within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community? Which ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating did they develop?
How can marginalised communities and varieties of Arabic be given due attention?
How can we broaden our scope beyond just textual historiography?
In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organisations and proponents of heritage use history writing to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in society?
How can works of fiction contribute to our understanding of the past?
How is the past used in creative arts, re-enactment, games, and augmented reality?
How can we explore the past algorithmically? Can digital methods enhance our understanding of the past? Can they also limit or even alter it? Which new digital tools are being developed? What seem to be particularly promising approaches? What is lacking?
How does, or could, artificial intelligence alter historiographical work?
Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined. This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Khan Centre in London with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK.
Arabic Pasts is co-convened by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Friday, 31 May 2024to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu . Please specify whether you wish to participate in London or online.
The workshop dates: 3-5 October 2024. For more information, please click here.
The workshop is held in English.
3. “Wondrous intricacy: the place of ‘carpet pages’ in Islamic art” by Dr Umberto Bongianino
Time: 5.30pm – 7.30pm BST
Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Venue: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 22A Old Court Place, W8 4PL, London
Register to attend in-person: https://Alfurqan-Bongianino-talk.eventbrite.co.uk
4. Journée d’étude “Panorama sur la littérature pashto contemporaine en exil” – 21 mai 2024 – Maison de la recherche de l’Inalco
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter à la journée d’étude “Panorama sur la littérature pashto contemporaine en exil“, qui se tiendra à la Maison de la recherche de l’INaLCO, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris (Salle LO.01), le 21 mai 2024 (10h-17h30).
Cette journée est organisée par :
- Sarah Hermann, doctorante en socio-anthropologie (INaLCO, UMR 8041 – CeRMI)
- Matteo De Chiara, Professeur de pashto, (INaLCO, UMR 8041 – CeRMI)
Avec le soutien de l’école doctorale de l’INaLCO et du projet ANR PLIC (Pashto Literature between Identity and Contact / La littérature pashto entre identité et contact)
Vous retrouverez le programme et les informations détaillées de la journée sur le site web du CeRMI :
https://cermi.cnrs.fr/journee-detudes-panorama-sur-la-litterature-pashto-contemporaine-en-exil/
Accès aux locaux
L’INaLCO a mis en place des mesures supplémentaires d’accès au bâtiment (voir les détails : http://www.inalco.fr/actualite/communique-inalco-passe-posture-vigipirate-urgence-attentat)
Toute personne extérieur à l’établissement, devra se munir d’une pièce d’identité valable, et présenter le programme imprimé de la journée à l’accueil si nécessaire.
5. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and the Invisible East Programme at the University of Oxford present a new series of monthly online seminars about archives and documents.
Convened by Arezou Azad and Mohamad Tavakoli, the seminars are held monthly online, via Zoom.
Register for the full series at this link.
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd-GvqjgoGdM0BEPAFqUSCvO6E-57kwAp#/registration
6. Christian C. Sahner, The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam, Monday Majlis Online, 20th of May, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)
Christian C. Sahner
The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam
Monday Majlis Online on the 20th of May, 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/tJMude6urjooGN0CQOy5AXHdP5ucq6RcGx3Z
7. Course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data”
On 16-20 September 2024, the School of Arabic Studies (EEA, CSIC) will host the course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data (with the programming language R)”, organized by Mayte Penelas (EEA, CSIC) and Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg). Víctor Ropero (EEA, CSIC) is the secretary of the course. It will be taught by Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg), with the collaboration of Covadonga Baratech Soriano (ILC, CSIC), Alicia González Martínez (Universität Hamburg) and Hamid Reza Hakimi (Universität Hamburg).
This course is designed to provide a practical introduction to the R programming language, with a specific focus on analyzing prosopographical data for historians. The primary dataset we will study in this course is the Prosopografía de ulemas de al-Andalus (PUA) Project (https://www.eea.csic.es/pua/), which contains the most extensive information on Muslim scholars from al-Andalus. It is is organized within the framework of the projects Al-Andalus and the Magrib in the Islamic East: mobility, migration and memory, AMOI-II (PID2020-116680GB-I00, funded by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History (funded by the German Research Foundation [DFG] within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program).
For further information, please contact us at course.amoi-eis@eea.csic.es.
https://www.eea.csic.es/actividades-eea/course-digital-analysis-of-prosopographical-data/
https://www.csic.es/es/node/126208
8. Online: Please join the National Museum of Asian Art online on Tuesday, May 28, 12–1 pm EDT, for Ancient Yemen: Looking East and West.
Ancient Yemen was a cultural and economic hub that reached its height between the 1st millennium BCE and the turn of the CE. The ancient kingdoms that ruled in Yemen were key players in the establishment of the incense trade, which fostered economic as well as cultural exchanges between neighboring and distant regions.
This program looks at ancient Yemen’s relationship in a broader geographical context. In particular, it will discuss the recent research in Ethiopia that has shed light on the close relationship of Yemen with east Africa and will look at Yemen’s connection eastward with India.
Speakers Include:
Dr. Iris Gerlach, Head of the Sanaa Branch, German Archaeological Institute, Oriental Department, Germany
Dr. Alexia Pavan, University L’Orientale of Naples, Italy
Contact Information
Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications Specialist
National Museum of Asian Art
Contact Email
URL
https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:174268338/
9. Call for Papers: Translation and Multilingualism in the Premodern Islamic World(s), Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
focusing on the role of translation and multilingualism in the premodern Islamic world(s). The conference will be held in person from November 15th to 16th, 2024, at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. You can access the Call for Papers (CFP) through this link:
10. The Tenth Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
ASPS/Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies
August 12-16, 2025
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
CALL FOR PAPERS:
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) is pleased to announce
its Tenth Biennial Convention, to take place in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, August 12-16,
- The meeting will be hosted by Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies.
The Deadline for Submission of Abstracts is October 31, 2024.
https://www.persianatesocieties.org/abstracts_form/
11. ONLINE Table ronde « Actualités de la recherche en islamologie à l’IFEA », Institut Francais d`Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA), Istanbul, 21 mai 2024, 9h00 – 11:00 CEST
L’objectif de cette table ronde est de présenter la jeune recherche en islamologie à l’IFEA, dont les sujets, les matériaux documentaires et les méthodes ne s’inscrivent pas nécessairement dans ce cadre. Il s’agira ainsi de mettre en dialogue des pratiques de l’islamologie, en revenant sur l’apport de chacune, en interrogeant les sources et les méthodes et en réfléchissant sur les frontières entre les disciplines.
Information et inscription : https://www.ifea-istanbul.net/index.php/fr/evenements/eve-hist/table-ronde-actualites-de-la-recherche-en-islamologie-a-l-ifea
12. Journée d’études “Normes et pratiques dans la documentation juridique islamique (II)”, CRH, Paris, 4 juin 2024, 9h30 – 17h30 CEST
La journée d’études, organisée par Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy (CRH, Ladéhis-GEHM), a pour objectif d’analyser la relation entre les normes et les pratiques dans la documentation juridique islamique. Dans une perspective comparative, elle s’attachera à faire émerger et à expliciter tant les similarités que les divergences existantes entre les grandes puissances de la terre d ’Islam où prévalait le droit musulman.
Information et programme : http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9338
13. Stage intensif de langue arabe: “Option recherche sciences humaines et sociales”, IRMC Tunis, 19 juin – 16 juillet 2024
Ce cours comprend 100 heures de cours : 60 heures d’arabe littéral, 25 heures d’arabe dialectal et 15 heures de cours d’arabe appliqué aux SHS.
Inscription au plus tard le 31 mai 2024. Information : https://irmcmaghreb.org/stage-intensif-de-langue-arabe/
- May 18, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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