Archive for June, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.HIAA Call for Online Workshop Proposals
HIAA is again pleased to announce a call for Online Workshop proposals on diverse topics pertaining to our field, encompassing scholarship, teaching, and professional development. These workshops will provide excellent opportunities for members to engage in conversations on pressing issues that have bearing on the study of Islamic art and contribute to the advancement of the discipline and our community. HIAA will assist the workshop organizers in designing, staging, and promoting the event. Any current HIAA member in good standing may submit a proposal. The workshops will be held online. Proposals may encompass conventional panel-style workshops, but we also encourage our members to propose workshops in alternative formats allowing for an interactive and engaging conversation.
Deadline:
July 15, 2024
Required Documents:
- Title & Description: A 200-word description outlining the workshop’s content, objective and format.
- Potential Discussants (when relevant to the format): A list of 4-5 potential discussants
- Curriculum Vitae: A 2-page cv of the organizer
Please submit your proposal to HIAA Secretary Emily Neumeier at sec.hiaa@gmail.com
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Additionally, some follow-up resources that have been produced after our two HIAA Online Workshops this academic year (“Researching and Publishing the Provenance Histories of Islamic Art” and “Career Diversity Resources”) have now been published on the HIAA website: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/resources-and-pubs/Onile-Workshops-Resources
Please note that you need to log in to the website in order to access this section. The materials include video recordings, bibliographies, and lists of resources both for those seeking a diversity of careers after the Islamic Art Ph.D. as well as their graduate advisors.
2. Nokhostineh chāp-hā-ye Iran, Persian Incunabula (Tehran: Pouyā-namā, 2024).
The book, Nokhostineh chāp-hā-ye Iran, Persian Incunabula, offers an exhaustive study of Persian incunabula, with a focus on books printed with movable type in Iran from 1233 AH/1818 AD to 1275 AH/1858 AD. The book is organized into four primary chapters and is supplemented by seven appendices. The opening chapter presents a historical survey of printing with movable type in Iran, drawing from a rich array of previous sources, research, and new discoveries. Following chapters delve into the specifics of the printing houses that produced these books, categorized by their city of operation. This section examines various facets of the printing process, including size, page layout, typeface, catchword and page counter, array (signs and headings), image, and watermark. The “Subjects” chapter scrutinizes the topics and authors of the books, while the “Appearance Characteristics” chapter discusses the images, decorations, and typefaces used in these prints. The appendices encompass a “Bibliography,” “First and last pages of the book,” “Images,” “Chapter Headings,” “Quran clichés 1265 AH,” “Typefaces,” and “Watermarks.” The book was published to mark the 200th anniversary of book publication in Tehran.
This book will be available in the Tehran Book Fair or those interested from abroad can contact the author (Ali Boozari ) or publisher.
3. CFP – ‘Interaction vs. Isolation: Development of Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin’, SAH 2025
CFP for “Interaction vs. Isolation. Development of Settlements in the Mediterranean Basin,” a proposed panel for the 2025 Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians to be held April 30th–May 4th in Atlanta, Georgia.
Proposals are due on 5 June.
Abstract:
The Mediterranean region has been a historical hub of trade and cultural exchange for millennia, and settlements have often been impacted by the circulation of people and goods. This panel considers the degree of connectivity between human habitats has molded both urban and rural spaces.
Experts in archaeology, history, and geography have studied how interaction or isolation influenced the cultural, economic, social, and political development of these communities. Those located along trade routes or coastal areas are most likely to be transformed by incorporating external influences, fostering cosmopolitan societies. In contrast, remote regions less frequently came into contact with different cultures, and sometimes faced challenges such as the scarcity of resources. Though not entirely insulated, remote settlements have proven more likely to maintain distinct local cultures.
Analysis of the interplay of internal and external forces—climate change, resource availability, trade networks—reveals complex factors shaping settlement growth and decline. This panel on the built environment of the Mediterranean offers insights into the development of settlements at different scales through isolation and circulation since the rise of Islam in the 7th century.
Focusing on architecture and material evidence from interdisciplinary approaches, contributions to this panel will enhance the understanding of Mediterranean settlements. Although the period we propose to consider begins with Islam’s arrival in the region, essays need not be limited to consideration of Islamic aspects.
Questions to be considered include, but are not limited to:
- Diversity within religious traditions and the interaction of those traditions with other cultures;
- How local and external markers of identity shaped the built environment;
- How building materials and techniques were shaped by the local environment, commerce, and interaction across long distances;
- Theological and cultural considerations shaping structures and communities;
- How a given area’s cultural and physical characteristics shaped settlements;
- How the interaction between broader social factors such as economics, demographics and local conditions has changed over time.
Session Chairs: Michael Toler, Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries; and Beniamino Polimeni, University of Hertfordshire
Submission guidelines: The deadline for abstract submission is June 1. Proposals must be submitted through the conference website.
Contact Information
Michael A. Toler, Archnet Digital Librarian
Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries
Contact Email
URL
https://www.sah.org/2025/call-for-papers
4. ONLINE Webinar: ‘Historiographical Controversies Involving the Rise of the Achaemenid Empire’
with Reza Zarghamee
British Institute of Persian Studies, 19 June 2024, 5PM (UK time).
On Zoom.
The political background to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire remains elusive and the subject of important shifts in scholarly consensus over the past four decades. Specifically, scholarly perceptions regarding the importance of the Medes as imperial predecessors of the Persians, the dynastic unity of Cyrus II and the Darius I, and the Iranian character of the pre-Darian kings have been called into question. This presentation provides an overview of the changing paradigms, and counter theories, along with a call for a more synthetic and less radical approach to the sources.
5. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library – Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Research Fellowships
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67227
6. Columbia University – Visiting Professor/Asst Professor/Lecturer (Armenian Studies)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67220
7. Les Unités mixtes de recherche CeRMI et IREMAM, ont le plaisir de vous inviter au :
3rd Research and Training Workshop / 3e Atelier de recherche et de formation
Reading Sources in Area Studies / Lire les sources en études aréales
Privacy Uncovered: Daily Life in the Turco-Iranian World through Archival Documents, 8th-18th Centuries
Dévoiler le privé : le quotidien à travers les documents d’archives du monde turco-iranien, VIIIe-XVIIIe siècle
Wednesday 12 June 2024 / Mercredi 12 juin 2024
Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne nouvelle
4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Salle Athéna, 9h30 – 18h
PhD candidate students and advanced MA students are invited to participate
Doctorants et étudiants de master sont encouragés à participer
Convenors/Responsables : Simon Berger (CNRS, CeRMI), Camille Rhoné-Quer (AMU, IREMAM) et Maria Szuppe (CNRS, CeRMI)
Détails et informations sur le site du CeRMI
Contacts: simon.berger@cnrs.fr
8. The Spiritual Vernacular of the Early Ottoman Frontier
The Yazıcıoğlu Family
Carlos Grenier
9. HYBRID Book Presentation and Panel Discussion “Seidener Handel (Silk Trade). Basel and the Ottoman Empire in the 19th Century” by Dr. Yiğit Topkaya (University of Zurich), Orient-Institut Istanbul, 6 June 2024, 19:00 h, Turkish Time
Basel, at the beginning of the 19th century the largest and most prosperous city in German-speaking Switzerland, owed its wealth primarily to the worldwide export of silk ribbons. The book tells the story of merchants, manufacturers, trading houses, agents and bankers and traces the transformation of urban living and trading spaces in the course of industrialization and urbanization.
Information and registration: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/einzelansicht-veranstaltungen/detail/News/seidener-handel-silk-trade-basel-und-das-osmanische-reich-im-19-jahrhundert.html
10. ONLINE International Workshop “Digging Up the Past: Aspects of a Multi-Layered Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire from the Late 19th to the Early 20th Century”, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 6-7 June 2024
The aim of this workshop is to initiate an international dialogue on contentious provenances of antiquities in international museum collections, with a focus on historical excavation campaigns and the trade and export practices in place at the time. Furthermore, the workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss some of the ethodologies, challenges, and outcomes of provenance research on archaeological objects from the Ottoman Empire.
Information, programme and registration:
11. HYBRID International Conference “Modern Challenges to Islamic Law: Exploring New Pathways”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 6-7 June 2024
This international conference in honour of Prof. Shaheen Sardar Ali (University of Warwick, UK) takes up the urgent issues of modernity that Islamic law is faced with in various ways, including Islamic constitutionalism, family law reform in the Muslim world, and the epistemology of Islamic law by looking at how Islamic law is
being taught.
Information and registration: https://www.mpipriv.de/1790969/6-7-june-2024-modern-challenges-to-islamic-law-exploring-new-pathways.html
12. Workshop “Race and Racialization in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Spaces”, Queen Mary University of London, 6-7 June 2024
This workshop aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines and from diverse geographical and thematic perspectives who are interested in questions of race and racialization in the Balkans, North and Northeast Africa, and Southwest Asia from Ottoman to contemporary times.
Programme and abstracts of the presented papers:
https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/race-racialisation-workshop-program.pdf
- June 01, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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