Archive for June 15th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1. SOAS: Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival
Daryush Mehrjui: Making The Cow
4.00pm, Sunday 16 June 2024
This is the eighth session in the Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival at SOAS.
This feature documentary examines the making of The Cow (1968) and how it became regarded as one of the most important films of the Iranian New Wave, and its impact on Iranian films before and after Iran’s 1979 revolution. The film was smuggled to Venice and won FIPRESCI Prize (1971).
This documentary was shot by twelve different cinematographers in eight cities (Tehran, Rome, London, Paris, Toronto, New York, Denver, Washington DC) in six countries from 2002 to 2022. s
2. SOAS: Abbas Kiarostami: A report
4.00pm, Saturday 22 June 2024
For the penultimate screening in the Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival director, writer and executive producer Dr Maghsoudlou himself will join us. Following the film, there will be a Q&A session and an opportunity to engage in a conversation with him.
An analysis of the style and vision of Abbas Kiarostami, the world’s most iconic Iranian filmmaker, through the lens of his earliest work, including his first short film (Bread & Alley, 1970) and, particularly, his first feature, The Report. This early example of Kiarostami’s work gives insight into his poetic, humanistic tendencies, combining allegorical storytelling with a documentary, neo-realist sensibility, and often exploring the very nature of film as fiction, that have pervaded his work ever since, including such recent international sensations as A Taste of Cherry and Certified Copy.
3. SOAS: Razor’s Edge: The Legacy of Iranian Actresses
3.00pm, Sunday 23 June 2024
In the final session of this Film Festival Dr Bahman Maghsoudlou, the director, writer and executive producer will join us for this screening. Following the film, there will be a Q&A session and an opportunity to engage in a conversation with him.
The culture and art of Iran, like those of nations throughout history, have always been inextricably tied to its societal problems, including its attitudes and treatment of women. Its cinema was not an exception.
In a traditional, religious and male-dominated society, actresses dared to assert themselves within the relatively new art form, sacrificing to force acceptance of their presence in the cinema and subsequently bring modernity to the culture.
This documentary approaches its subject on four levels: the biographical, the historical, the socio-political and the theoretical. Through interviews with many leading actresses of the time and unprecedented access to rare film clips of their work, filmmaker Bahman Maghsoudlou sheds a light on the important and controversial role women played in the development of Iranian cinema during the secular period from the 1930s right up to the Islamic revolution of 1979, examining the evolution of women’s roles, the difficulty of making films that broke from the patriarchal mode and the darkness that descended upon the arts when a new fanaticism began to take hold of the nation.
4. SOAS : Book Launch
Translating Ulysses into Persian: Pleasure or pain, is it?
6.30pm, Friday 21 June 2024
Launching the fourth volume of Ulysses in Persian, Chapters 13-14. This edition of Ulysses is translated by Akram Pedramnia into Persian and published by Nogaam publishing in London. This project is a combination of research and translation presented in six volumes supported by Literature Ireland. The first volume was released in May 2019, the second volume was published in November 2020 and the third volume in June 2022. This project will be completed by the end of 2026.
Please note that this event’s proceedings will be held in Persian language.
5. Treasure of Persian Ceramics | The Hague Municipal Museum
(Photo & Video):
https://persiandutch.com/2018/12/12/persian-ceramics-treasure-of-the-hague-municipal-museum/
6. AKU-ISMC: 19 June 2024 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day at 12:00 -13:00 (London Time) to explore educational study options at AKU-ISMC (Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations) and discover the various opportunities we have to offer.
Any queries should be directed to: ismc.marketing@aku.edu
The Aga Khan University Institute’s for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Handyside Street
London, | N1C 4DN United Kingdom
7. New article on the classification of the sciences in the Islamicate world
“Classification of the sciences in Islamic cultures” is now available online at
https://www.isko.org/cyclo/islamic (ISKO Encyclopedia of Knowledge Organization). It currently includes the description of about 50 Arabic, Persian and Turkish classifications.
This article is a sort of companion to M-Classi, the digital tool recently created to store, catalogue, search, and visualize the classifications of science in the Islamicate world. M-Classi is freely available at: https://www.m-classi.eu/.
To get access, send an email to:
gdecallataycontacts@listes.uclouvain.be
8. The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts
EuQu: The European Qur’an
Alya KARAME, Umberto BONGIANINO
24 June 2024
Part 1 at 9am
Part 2 at 11am
Information at:
https://euqu.eu/2024/05/14/the-materiality-of-pious-texts-the-quran-and-devotional-manuscripts/
9. Sanabel Abdelrahman: Palestinian Magical Realism as Resistance Literature, Monday, 17 June, 6:15 pm (CEST)
Institut für Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft, Universität Münster
Schlaunstr. 2, 2nd floor, RS 225
For online attendance via Zoom, please contact Barbara Winckler (barbara.winckler@uni-muenster.de).
[https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/aktuelles/aktuelles.html]
10. HYBRID “Three Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship Lectures”, Durham University, 20 June 2024, 13:00 – 16:00 BST
Lectures: “Finance, Technology, and Politics in Egyptian Railways during the Reign of Abbas Hilmi II” by Dr Xiaoyue Li. – “Egypt’s Borders and Their Crossers, 1875-1937: A History of Mobility, State, and Society” by Prof. Lucia Carminati. – “Mohamed Ali Pasha’s Waqfiyyah and His Endowment as a Testimony to His Indissoluble Bond with His Motherland Kavala” by Dr Dimitrios Lamprakis.
Information and registration:
https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EXldlUPjTUqxQLSJ6hEZ8g#/registration
11. Articles for the Journal “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 6 (2024)”
The Journal is accepting submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for submissions: 24 June 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20032371/yillik-annual-istanbul-studies-6-2024-and-7-2025-call-papers
- June 15, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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