Archive for July 20th, 2024
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
- July 20, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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