Archive for June 18th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Annual Conference of the Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 25 June 2024, 9:00 am – 4:00 pm SGT
This conference aims to examine the pivotal role of education in driving social reforms across the Gulf region.
By delving into the root causes of the education-labor market mismatch and exploring lessons learned from both Gulf countries and Singapore, we seek to foster dialogue and identify actionable strategies for harnessing the potential of the region’s burgeoning youth population.
Information, programme and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/mei-annual-conference-2024/
2. ONLINE Research Seminar “French Colonial Psychiatry`s Views on North African Women” by Nina S. Studer (University of Geneva), CEDEJ, Cairo, 26 June 2024, 5:00 pm CET
In this presentation, the speaker will provide an introduction into how Orientalist theories about non-patient Muslim women influenced psychiatric theories and practices in the first half of the 20th century, and how this differed from the treatment of Muslim men in colonial institutions.
Information and registration:
3. HYBRID International Symposium “Phanariot Materialities: Domestic Architecture, Urban Culture, and Social Mobility”, ANAMED, Koç University, Istanbul, 29-30 June 2024
The Symposium focuses on the material and social history of the Greek-speaking, Orthodox Christian, Istanbul-based Ottoman mercantile elites who served in the Ottoman administration as imperial dragomans and rulers of Moldavia (Boğdan) and Wallachia (Eflak) under Ottoman suzerainty, the Phanariots. The symposium, will host Christine Philliou, Shirine Hamadeh and Constanta Vintilă as keynote speakers.
Information and registration:
4. Workshop “Philosophie und Ethik in der Islamischen Welt”, Department Islamisch-Religiöse Studien, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen, 19. Juli 2024
In Verbindung mit der Abschiedsvorlesung von Prof. Dr. Reza Hajatpour „Abschied vom islamischen Theozentrismus – Plädoyer für einen ethischen Selbstentwurf“.
Anmeldung bis 10. Juli 2024.
Einladung und Programm:
https://www.dirs.phil.fau.de/2024/06/12/workshop-philosophie-und-ethik-in-der-islamischen-welt/
5. Workshop “Cooperations Across Religious and Ethnic Boundaries in the Study of the Qurʾan”, ERC Synergy Project the European Qur’an (EuQ), University of Amsterdam, 6-7 March 2025
This workshop examines how the Qur’an was studied between different religious groups and individuals. How did such encounters come about? Who determined places and times? What was voluntary collaboration and what was done under duress? Who decided in such settings about the process, which sorts of texts were used (e.g. tafsīr, asbāb al-nuzūl, polemical sources)? What were the social and political fields in which these encounters took place? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2024.
6. Postdoctoral Researcher (80 %) for the Project “Participation in Islamic-social-ethical Reflections”, Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (SCIS), University of Fribourg/Switzerland
Requirements: Doctorate in Islamic Studies, Islamic Theological Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology or anothersocial/cultural science discipline; • Research interest in the topic of the project; • In-depth knowledge of relevant research methods; • Knowledge of German and/or French.
Deadline for applications: 30 August 2024.
Information: https://www.unifr.ch/webnews/content/159/attach/12508.pdf
7. Membership at the School of Historical Studies 2025-26 (Focus Islamic World), Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton
Scholars (with a Ph.D.) are invited who are concerned with research on the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon the Greek and Roman world, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, art history, history of science, and musicology.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024.
8. Invitation to Join the “Global Turkology Academic Network” Hosted by Virginia Tech University
This network facilitates academic interaction, exchange, and cooperation among students and scholars working on any aspect of global Turkic communities. It provides an interdisciplinary academic venue for a non-Orientalist, critical, and nuanced understanding of the Turkic world’s histories, cultures, politics, languages, and societies.
If you would like to share your new book or article, conference or panel information, or other academic activities, contact Tugrul Keskin: global-turkology-g@vt.edu
9. Exhibition “TYPARABIC. Les premières imprimeries arabes chrétiennes en Orient”, BULAC, Paris
This ERC-funded project has been developed in Bucharest. The exhibition presents Arabic books printed in the 17th-19th centuries in Western European presses and those of Aleppo and Khenshara (Mount Lebanon), in the Ottoman epoch. Free entry.
Information on the exhibition and a virtual tour on the BULAC website: https://www.bulac.fr/typarabic-les-premieres-imprimeries-arabes-chretiennes-en-orient
10. HYBRID Lecture Series “Humanity, Sufi Thought, and Healing”, Institute for Sufi Studies, Üsküdar University, Istanbul, 10-14 July 2024
It is a paid certificate program organised by the Institute of Sufi Studies. Participants will receive a program certificate from Üsküdar University. The program includes 20 lectures by 15 scholars. Participants will have the opportunity to meet the scholars in person and raise questions. All conferences will be simultaneously translated into Turkish and English.
Deadline for applications: 3 July 2024.
Information:
https://tasavvuf.uskudar.edu.tr/en/announcement/588/humanity-sufi-thought-and-healing-lecture-series
11. Great Lakes Adiban Workshop CfP
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its seventh annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on October 19–20, 2024. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 19, 2024. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. By default, all participants should plan to cover their own costs; however, graduate students may apply for financial support to cover travel and lodging expenses.
All applicants can expect to hear back from us by late August, and we plan to have the schedule finalized by mid September.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
- June 18, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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