Archive for July, 2024
- July 31, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Lecture “The Concept of Sympathy in Greek Heritage” by Dr Maria De Cillis, Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre, London, 24 October 2024, 17:00 BST
The speaker will look at the Stoic and Neoplatonic notion of sympátheia. Within Islamic traditions, the notion was adapted, inter alia, in the intellectual systems of Abū Maʿshar (d. 886) and al-Kindī (d. 873); traditions “sympathy” was employed by Fatimid scholars such as Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī (d. c. 1021), who integrated it into the concept of “The Balance of Religion” (mīzān al-diyāna).
Information and registration: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/the-concept-of-sympathy-in-greek-heritage/
2. Workshop “Friends, Enemies, Frenemies: Ambivalences of Jewish-Muslim Relations”, Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, 26-28 January 2025
We invite contributions that cover a wide regional focus of Jewish-Muslim relations, including the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, and the various diasporic settings, especially in Europe and North America. In which contexts did Jews portray Muslims as role models? When and how did Muslims learn from Jewish culture or attempt to emulate it? How did political conflicts shape the dynamics of learning about the respective “other”?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2024. Information: https://www.hfjs.eu/en/university/profile/events/friends-enemies-frenemies-ambivalences-of-jewish-muslim-relations-workshop-at-the-hfjs.html
3. Conference “Aesthetics of Solidarity by Arab American and Arab/SWANA Diaspora Artists in the US, 1948 – Present”, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 9-12 April 2025
This conference interrogates the way that Arab American and Arab/SWANA diaspora artists use their work to highlight contemporary injustices and show solidarity with those facing sociopolitical challenges. Specifically, we consider solidarity from an aesthetic perspective while redefining solidarity within a creative, transnational context.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2024. Information: https://forms.gle/uCBie7ERuomhBwAH9
4. Book Manuscripts for New Book Series “Gender and Islam: Critical Approaches to History, Society and Culture” (Bloomsbury / IB Tauris)
The Series Editors Nadia Al-Bagdadi (Central European University), Randi Deguilhem (National Institute of Scientific Research) and Bettina Dennerlein (University of Zurich) encourage contributions from all relevant disciplinary backgrounds to stimulate new and cutting-edge debates on gender, sex and sexuality across historical, linguistic and geographic boundaries.
Information: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/gender-and-islam/ .
Contact: Gender_and_Islam@ceu.edu
5. 4th European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) Conference
Call for Papers
8–13 September 2025
University of Lisbon, Portugal
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024
Notification of acceptance: 31 January 2025
Further information: https://ea-aaa.eu/4th-conference-lisbon/
The Board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 4th EAAA Conference to be held at the School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon (Portugal) between 8 and 13 September 2025. The 4th Conference is jointly organised by the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA), the UNIARQ – Centre for Archaeology (School of Arts and Humanities), the CH-ULisboa – Centre for History of the University of Lisbon, ARTIS-Institute of Art History and ACN-Asia Collections Network. The School of Arts and Humanities – University of Lisbon is the largest scientific school of Arts and Humanities in the country and has the only existing first cycle programme in Portugal dedicated to the study of Asia as a whole.
6. A short course on:
Islimi (Arabesque) Designs (inhouse)
11th September – 13th November 2024
Wednesdays (10 sessions): 6pm – 8pm
Registration Deadline 25th August 2024
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW
Information at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/islimi-arabesque-designs/
7. Virginia Military Institute – Assistant Professor of Middle East/North African History (tenure-track)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67388
Applications will be accepted until Close of Business, 1 October, 2024
8. Extended Deadline for Applications: 15.08.2024 (US style dates)
Exploratory Workshop
Diaspora as a (Re)Source
Interactions and Interdependencies between Arab Diaspora Communities in Latin America and their Communities/Countries of Origin
Convenors: Katrin Köster, Roberto Cruz Romero
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Lily Pearl Ballofet (UC Santa Cruz)
Date: 01.+02. November 2024
Format: Hybrid
Location: Research Centre Global Dynamics, Leipzig University (and Zoom)
Context
Latin American countries and especially the Arab diaspora communities in these countries are an important political, socioeconomic, and cultural resource for Arab communities in the Levant and the wider Middle East. In recent months, the world has been reminded of this by the numerous Latin American expressions of solidarity with Gaza. Similarly, during the past few years, Arab diaspora communities have rallied to support Syrian refugees and economically drained Lebanese communities. These acts of solidarity are not singular in nature, but are part and parcel of long-lasting and deep-rooted ties between Middle Eastern and Latin American communities.
The ties between these two world regions go back to the late nineteenth century, the era of worldwide labor migration to the Americas. Impoverished Arabs, predominantly Christians but also Druze, Alawis, and Sunni Muslims from the Levant, migrated to the Americas, especially drawn to Latin America. During the 1920s and 1930s, they were joined by a second wave of migrants dominated by intellectuals fleeing from oppression and censorship. Today, particularly Argentina and Brazil, as well as some smaller Latin American countries, are home to huge Levantine Arab communities who have great influence on political, socioeconomic, and cultural developments in both their “new” and “old” home countries.
The ways diaspora communities have influenced and continue to influence their Arab communities or countries of origin are varied and manifold. For instance, politicians try to rally diaspora communities to affect election outcomes at home or international politics pertaining to developments in the Middle East, while Arab intellectuals in the diaspora frequently make decisive contributions to discourses in the region. The economic solidarity of diaspora communities has often played a significant role in softening the hardship of economic crises for specific communities and villages, and mahǧar (diaspora) literature and diaspora film productions have profoundly influenced the Arab cultural scene. Furthermore, sociocultural practices like St. Mary’s shrines, Salsa music, and first and foremost Mate tea consumption enjoy immense popularity in Arab countries, especially the Levant.
Existing Research
The past few decades have seen increased scholarly interest in Middle Eastern migration studies in general and Arab diaspora communities in Latin America in particular. This interest was primarily kindled and stoked by the works by Akram Khater, Reem Bailony, Lily Pearly Ballofet, Roberto Khatlab, Stacy D. Fahrenthold, and John Tofik Karam as well as the Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East and North African Migration Studies, which is edited by Fahrenthold and Khater and published by the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies. Additionally, individual studies, for example by Ottmar Ette and Frederike Pannewick, have highlighted literary entanglements between the Americas and the Middle East. Most of the existing studies, however, pertain to one of these three areas of research: connections between diaspora communities and their home countries during the first decades of the migration movement (i.e., the late nineteenth and early twentieth century up the 1940s), the significance of diaspora literature for Arab language literature, and diaspora communities within the context of their “new” home countries. Significantly less has been published on the interactions and interdependencies between Arab diaspora communities in Latin America and their communities/countries of origin during later decades of the twentieth century and the early twenty-first century.
Workshop Design
This workshop sets out to explore these interactions and interdependencies on the personal, political, social, economic, and cultural level, with a focus on the time period from the 1940s to the 2020s. We are especially interested in investigating how these various kinds of entanglements have been influencing and shaping Middle Eastern communities and countries and how diaspora communities function as a catalyst or as (re)sources for political, socioeconomic, and cultural transformations in the Arab world.
Possible research topics and questions include but are not limited to:
- Latin American Arab diasporas as a resource in times of political and economic crises,
- Latin American Arab diasporas as advocates of Arab interests within international politics,
- Economic entanglements and trade connections between Latin America and the Middle East,
- Intellectual and cultural transfers between Latin America and the Middle East, and
- Cold War solidarities and Peronism’s influence on Nasserism
In the course of the workshop, we would also like to discuss the specifics of research on Arab diasporas in Latin America and their entanglements with their respective communities and countries of origin. In how far does this research relate to diaspora studies in general and in how far can it open up new avenues of investigation and/or contribute to existing research on a theoretical and methodological level?
This workshop is designed as an exploratory workshop and intends to bring together scholars who want to further research on Latin American–Middle Eastern entanglements. The workshop is also designed as a first step in a longer process and therefore primarily serves to set the stage for future empirical and theoretical research by shaping the research parameters and developing methodological approaches appropriate for investigating Latin American–Middle Eastern entanglements.
Application and Funding
If you are interested in participating in our workshop, please send a short abstract (250–350 words) and a short biography (max. 100 words) to Katrin.koester@uni-leipzig.de by 1 August 2024. Early career scholars are especially invited to apply.
Participants are expected to attend the entire workshop (either online or in person) and give a 20-minute presentation on a research topic related to the themes of the workshop. Presentations in English, Arabic, and Spanish are welcome, but we kindly ask you to provide an English abstract.
Limited funding is available for this workshop. We will organize accommodation at a nearby hotel for the participants for the duration of the workshop and will cover transportation costs as far as possible.
Please indicate in your application whether you want to participate online or in person and, in the latter case, from where you will be travelling to Leipzig. This will not have any effect on the selection process but will facilitate the workshop logistics.
Schedule and Further Plans
15.08.2024 Deadline for applications
22.08.2024 Notification of accepted applicants
11.10.2024 Deadline for extended abstracts
01.+02.11.2024 Workshop
01.08.2025 Deadline for finalized papers
10–12.09.2025 Second Meeting in the form of a panel at the 8th European Congress on Universal and Global History in Växjö, Sweden (attendance is self-funded by participants, online attendance is possible)
2026 Publication of a special issue
9. UCLA Pourdavoud Center:
Video Library Announcement: Achaemenid Workshop 2 Day 3 Videos Now Available
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the third day of the Second Achaemenid Workshop, The Achaemenid Persian Empire and Imperial Transformations in the Ancient Near East, hosted at the University of Innsbruck and co-sponsored by the Pourdavoud Institute in Obergurgl, Austria on July 3–7, 2023.
All videos at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/videos/
10. Kurdish Language Instruction: Deadline Extended for Fall 2024
Fall 2024 Kurdish Language Instruction Program
Interested in learning Kurdish? As a key part of our humanistic approach to Kurdish studies, Zahra Institute is committed to offering Kurdish language instruction. We aim to tailor our offerings to student needs and interests while maintaining the highest academic standards.
Students can enroll in our Kurdish language offerings (Kurmanji and Sorani) as standalone courses or take them as electives in our MA and Certificate programs.
Application deadline is extended to August 15 and financial aid is still available. To apply, visit our webpage: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/KLIOverview.html
- July 30, 2024
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Shii News – Shooting in Shii Mosque in Oman
See also:
https://amwaj.media/media-monitor/rare-sectarian-shooting-in-oman-stokes-fears-of-is-resurgence
https://apnews.com/article/oman-islamic-state-mosque-shooting-07f93df5bbe9bbb454da92f73a2a1499
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/24/oman-mosque-attack-whats-isils-game-plan
- July 29, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Qur’anic Scientific-Cultural Tourism for 2024 Summer course (QSCT3rd)
Iraq- August 20 – 25, 2024
The Int. Ind. Parliament of the Holy Quran (IQP), holds the 3rd of Qur’anic Scientific-Cultural Tourism(QSCT) program joint with The Arbaeen Int. Festival in Iraq. All applicants must apply no later than August 4, 2024 via sending their application including the CV to the following email address:
info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
Notes:
• The approved applicants will be announced by August 11, 2024.
• All expenses of this program (QSCT3rd) are covered by IQP for IQP members. To join IQP, follow the below link:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/?142-Join-Us/
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www.zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvyUpqDXcKWAtIz2yxLwu6
2. Call for Papers Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable Leeds IMC 2025
We invite abstracts for 5 minute talks for the roundtable. We understand disability in the broadest sense, incorporating visible and invisible impairments, chronic illness and mental health, to name but a few.
Topics might include:
· Your own circumstances in a HE institution
· Pinpointing a particular issue that needs addressing
· Highlighting an example of good practice in your own institution
· Issues of intersectionality: how disability might interact with other factors that have an impact on marginalized people e.g. gender, class, sexuality, and/or race
· Interactions between your scholarly interests as a medievalist and modern representations of disability
You can participate in a roundtable as well as presenting a paper, so please do consider submitting an abstract for this roundtable if you’re already planning to present. You don’t have to identify as disabled to participate, for example if you’d like to share an example of good practice, but priority will be given to disabled scholars.
Please submit a title for your talk as well as a brief summary (no more than 150 words) to Alex Lee (al6598@nyu.edu) by 13 September 2024.
We are also seeking a chair for the session, so please let me know if you’d like that role.
You can watch 2023’s video here: https://mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Play/ee5aaa926dcd42b998c7dbd36852980f1d
Dr Alex R. A. Lee (she/her) FHEA FRHistS
Liberal Studies Lecturer, New York University London
3. ONLINE Conference “Agricultural and Administrative Reforms in Ottoman Syria and their Impact on the City of Salamiyya and its Ismaili Population” (in Arabic), Institute for Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre, London, 6 August 2024, 16:00 BST
We will examine the agricultural reforms represented by the Land Code of 1858 (Arazi Kanunnamesi), the land registration law of 1861 known as the tapu, and others. We will explore how these laws played an important role in the expansion of the agricultural area in Salamiyya and its surroundings, land ownership and the types of crops that were grown there, in addition to other contributions that helped making Salamiyya a distinct town in Ottoman Syria in the last decade of Ottoman rule.
Information: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/agricultural-and-administrative-reforms-in-ottoman-syria/
4. Tenure Track Position in International Relations (Focus Middle East), Government Department, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
The rank will be Assistant Professor or Instructor depending on qualifications. Applicants should possess or be close to completing a doctorate degree. The position is in international relations and we are particularly interested in candidates whose scholarship and teaching combine that expertise with a regional focus on the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 7 October 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/149720
- July 27, 2024
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- July 24, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Mediterranean Seminar Winter 2025 Workshop: “The Multilingual Mediterranean”, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 28 February – 1 March 2025
The theme encompasses such topics as language contact zones, multilingual art forms and media, and the relationships between language and identity. We invite contributions from scholars working on several geographical contexts and historical periods in the Mediterranean world – including the interplay and inter- section of visual, musical, and material “languages” in the Mediterranean world.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-multilingual-mediterranean-mediterranean-seminar-winter-2025-workshop-28-february-1-march-urbana-champaign?e=82aeb6c61d
2. National Museum of African Art – Contract Provenance Researcher
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67354
3. Conference – ‘Objects of Law in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds’, University of Bern, August 29-30
The international conference “Objects of Law in the Medieval and Early Modern Worlds” proposes to reflect on the artistic practices that shaped the materiality, iconography, and texts of legal objects in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. What forms did these objects take? How did they confer authenticity and legal authority? What education and knowledge are evident in the objects? The conference seeks an interdisciplinary dialogue among scholars from art history, legal history, history, archaeology, and related disciplines who engage with legal objects.
Organized by Corinne Mühlemann (University of Bern) and Fatima Quraishi (University of California, Riverside).
Location: Institute of Art HIstory, University of Bern, Mittelstrasse 43, 3012 Bern, Room 120, First Floor
For registration, please contact: janina.ammon@unibe.ch
The conference will be held in person.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY | August 29th, 2024
9:00-9:30 ARRIVAL | COFFEE
9:30-10.15 Introduction by Fatima Quraishi and Corinne Mühlemann
10:30-12:00
PANEL 1 | FORMATIONS OF AUTHORITY
Moderated by Omar Anchassi, University of Bern, SNSF Project “Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies”
Zahir Bhalloo (University of Hamburg)
Social and Spatial Dynamics of Bukharan Fatwas as Written Artefacts
Stella Wisgrill (University of Cambridge)
Testing Virtue, Forging Nobility: Emperor Frederick III’s 1462 Augmentation of Arms for the Margravate of Moravia and the Performance of Legal Authority
12:00-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-15:00
PANEL 2 | CIRCULATION AND FORMATION OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE
Moderated by Irina Dudar, Institute of Art History, University of Bern
Phillipa Byrne (Trinity College, Dublin)
The Materiality of Medieval Judicial Ordines
Niko Munz (Oxford University)
Bildnisrecht: Legal Aspects of Early Portraiture
15:00-15:30 COFFEE
15:30-17:30
PANEL 3 | MULTIPLE MATERIALITIES
Moderated by Corinne Mühlemann, Institute of Art History, University of Bern
Subah Dayal (New York University)
From Golkonda to Siam: Secret Letters, Envelopes, and Governing Freight Trade in the Mughal Port-city
Masha Goldin (University of Basel)
Weapon of Justice? Medieval Swords as Objects and Images
Nino Zchomeldise (John Hopkins University)
Aesthetics of Illusion and Authenticity in Ottonian Legal Documents
19:00 DINNER
FRIDAY | August 30th, 2024
8:30-10:30
PANEL 5 | LEGAL PERFORMANCE
Moderated by Fatima Quraishi, University of California, Riverside
Shounak Ghosh (Vanderbilt University)
Epistolary Texts as Legal Objects: Querying the Mughal Farmān in Diplomatic Contexts
Daniela Maldonado Castaneda (Queen’s University, Canada)
Between Sacred and Script: Examining Legal Objects in Promises, Vows, and Oaths as Defined by Alfonso X in The Seven-Partidas
Jordan Skinner (Princeton University)
The Medieval Curfew Bell: Sonority and the Voice of Law
10:30-11:00 COFFEE
11:00-12:30
PANEL 5 | LONGUE-DURÉE STUDIES
Moderation TBA
Krisztina Ilko (Queens College / University of Cambridge)
The Chess-Knight Seal
Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto)
“God Protect us from One Finger under Twenty!” The Abbasid Nilometer Column as a Legal Object
12:30-14:00 LUNCH
14:00-15:30
PANEL 6 | EVERYDAY LAW
Moderated by Moïra Dato, Institute of Art History, University of Bern
Gül Kale (Carleton University, Toronto)
The Material and Social Implications of Measuring Tools in Ottoman Legal History
Lorenzo Paveggio (University of Padua)
What Does a Bribe Look Like? Carolingian munera in Literary Texts
15:30-16:00 COFFEE
16:00-17:30
PANEL 7 | OBJECTS IN COURT
Moderated by Carlos Rojas Cocoma, Institute of Art History, University of Bern
Nathalie Miraval (Yale University)
The Sacred Suspended: Martha, Law, and Image in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic
Linda Mueller (Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome/Harvard University)
Drawings, Courtroom Practices, and Juridical Decision-Making at the Edges of the Spanish Empire
17:30-18:00 CLOSING REMARKS
Contact Email
4. CFP – ‘Making the Subject of Portraiture in a Trans-Asian Context ca. 1000-Present Day’, SOAS London, December 5-6, 2024
Dates
Call for Papers Deadline: 29 July 2024
Conference: 5-6 December 2024
Portraits have commonly been understood as naturalistic likenesses of human beings, centred on the face. The work of scholars such as Jean Borgatti, Richard Brilliant (1990) and Joanna Woodall (1997) opened the field in conceptualising portraiture as a truly multi-local genre, foregrounding relational and performative processes. Following their research, this symposium defines portraiture as a process where subjectivities are constructed as a result of the collaboration between artists, patrons, subjects, and viewers living in a specific time and space, This call for papers therefore is addressed to scholars of art, cultural, visual and material culture but also anthropology and literature at any career level who explore how notions of subjectivity are constructed in text and images created roughly between the fifteen century and the present day in Asia and its diasporas. The symposium organisers will consider papers analysing literary and pictorial processes of embodiment through the production of objects and artefacts such as paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, ceramics, jewellery, and currency; and of designed spaces including gardens and architecture.
Portraits have long been studied as documents or biographies of a person that once existed. Without denying the capacity of a portrait to index a living person, the symposium wishes to address the varied performative elements that portraits display in the Asian context. These performances reveal the enactment of class, gender and race of specific societies and cultures of Asia and its diasporas. The performative function of portraiture in Asia, we argue, reveals important cultural, social, religious, and philosophical ideas to understand the region.
The symposium focuses on the portraiture of Asia with two specific purposes in mind. First, to decentre studies of Asian portraiture from Eurocentric conceptions of subjecthood and thus to expand the field of portraiture studies; second, to foreground the connections, transfers and tensions articulated by portraiture within the trans-Asian context. The focus on Asia should not be read as exclusionary, but rather as the intent to initiate a dialogue with existing research on the portraiture of other regions such as Africa and Europe. Thirty-five years after Borgatti, Brilliant and Woodall’s contributions to the field of portraiture studies, the symposium ‘Making the Subject of Portraiture in a Trans-Asian Context ca. 1000-Present Day’ proposes to take stock of a changing field by contributing the scholarship of art, cultural and literary historians, anthropologists and specialists in gender and critical race theory whose research interests focus on the embodiment of selfhood in portraiture from Asia. We therefore invite papers which develop our core concern with ‘Making the Subject’ and with the performative dimensions of portraiture in Asia.
Suggested topics (but not limited to):
- Dimensions of reality in portraiture
- Issues of re-/presentation
- Issues of materiality, style and making
- Portraiture and authority: imperial, monastic, patriarchal or cultural
- Cults of personality
- Portraiture and changing notions of beauty
- Religious and philosophical dimensions of portraiture, including rituals and ceremonies
- Issues of display and viewing – notions of theatricality and performance
- Gendered dimensions of portraiture, including theorisations of gender performance
- Self-portraiture of female and male artists
- Race and ethnicity in portraiture
- Portraiture as currency and commodities
- Fashion and material culture in embodied images
- Non-anthropomorphic portraiture, such as sacred geographies, depictions of nature,
non-human subjects, and gardens - Cross cultural exchange – i.e. portraits of Asians by non-Asians and vice versa, and similarly within the Asian region.
Please send a 300-word abstract plus a short bio (150 words max) for 20-minute presentations to the organisers: Mariana Zegianini – mz15@soas.ac.uk and Conan Cheong – 656531@soas.ac.uk, by Monday 29 July 2024.
Limited funds are available to sponsor train and bus journeys within the UK and they will be allocated on a first come first serve basis after the CfP deadline. A selection of the conference papers will be included in a proposal for a peer-reviewed edited volume. Further details will be announced at the conference.
- July 23, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. PhD position vacancies at Leiden University
Two PhD positions for ‘Entangled Universals of Transnational Islamic Charity’, funded by an ERC Consolidator grant. One PhD position is for research in India, and the other for research in Tanzania. The candidates will be based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology & Development Sociology at Leiden University.
The deadline for applications is 10 September.
Full information at:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/2024/q3/15023-phd-position-in-social-anthropology
2. University of Maryland – College Park – Postdoctoral Positions in Islamic/ate Art and in Multiple Fields (Two Positions)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67338
3. Library of Congress – Paid Research Fellowships at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67174
4. Fellowship for translators of Persian literature
Applications will be open September 1 – November 30, 2024 and the program will begin in February 2025. Please look out for the call for applications on ALTA’s website and its social media accounts
https://www.literarytranslators.org
5. Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies
Spring Semester 2025
A number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support
The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Spring semester 2025 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies.
The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic- speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) and their international non-native or heritage peers.
The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha. It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.
The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.
The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Public Administration and Development Economics. For more detailed information about the DI, please go to:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx
The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community.
The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.
To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:
https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/mkvqolg1id49pf/
Semester Program Features:
- 6 credits of Intensive Arabic,
- A language partner,
- Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible,
- Option to have an academic partner,
- Access to the DI and Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.
Admission Requirements:
- Advanced level in Arabic,
- Tuition fees: 9,000 QAR (approximately 2,250€ or 2,465$),
- Housing: 11,000 per semester (approximately 2,650€ or 3,000$).
Program Dates:
- Application Deadline: September 1st, 2024
- Start of Classes: January 12, 2025
- End of Program: May 1st, 2025
* Midterm Break: 23-27 February, 2025
**Eid El-Fitr holidays: 31 March – 03 April, 2025
6. Lecturer in Middle East Politics and International relations.
Fixed term position in Exeter, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies from 1st October 2024 until 31 March 2026
Apply by 8.8.24
7. DFDS 4th Int. Con. (DFDS 2024) on: Islamic historical theology (IHT) as a link between local(Muslim) and orientalists
♻️ with the participation of:
– DFDS Discussion Forum on Scriptures
– IQP Independent Int. Parliament of the Holy Qur’an
Simultaneously with:
1. QSCT(Int. Scientific-Cultural Quranic Tourism) 2end Course
2. Unveiling of the Con. Book
⬅️ The Con. themes:
conceptual and theoretical framework of IHT,
Exegetical basics of IHT,
Historical foundations of IHT,
Local (Muslim) basics and Methodology of IHT,
Oriental basics and Methodology of IHT.
⏰ – Nov. 5-6, 2024
– In person and virtual
– University of Tehran, Tehran, I.R. Iran,
• Abstracts Deadline: Sep.5, 2024
• Announcement of accepted articles: Sep.23, 2024
• Full articles Deadline : Oct.21, 2024
Submit articles:
info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
Conference website address:
www.zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
Independent International Council for the Holy Quran
Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament (IQP)
https://chat.whatsapp.com/IvyUpqDXcKWAtIz2yxLwu6
8. HYBRID Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Islamophobia Beyond Borders”, University of Aberdeen, 22-24 July 2024
The workshop, organised by Professor Nadia Kiwan (University of Aberdeen) and Dr Jim Wolfreys (Kings College London) explores Islamophobia and anti-Muslim racism across France, England and Scotland.
Information, programme, abstracts of papers and registration: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sll/news/23340/
9. German-Japanese Bilateral Conference: “Textual Transmission in the Islamic Manuscript Age:
On the Variance, Reception, and Usage of Arabic and Persian Works from the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent”, University of Münster, 5-7 September 2024
The case studies to be discussed include texts from various regions of the Near and Middle East, the majority of which were written or handed down between c. 1300 and 1800, highlighting the roles of authors, copyists, and recipients in adapting texts to new contexts and needs. Key questions include: What content changes occurred and why? Who were the involved actors? How was knowledge transmitted through collected manuscripts, abridged versions, or additions? Etc.
Information and programme:
https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/events/textual_transmission.html
10. HYBRID “10th International Congress on Turkology”, Research Institute of Turkology, Istanbul University, 12-13 November 2024
The primary objective of the congress is to evaluate the scholarly and institutional trajectory of Turkology studies while reflecting on the past century of the institution.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2024.
Information: https://turkiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/turkology-congress/about-congress
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