Archive for August, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Dunhuang Foundation is excited to announce the first lecture of our new online series, “Curating the Silk Roads”, which will feature seven esteemed curators from US institutions, each offering unique insights into the field of Silk Roads studies.
Our first speaker is Dr. Courtney A. Stewart, Senior Research Associate with the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Her lecture, “A Cut Above: Diamond Faceting at the Mughal Court” will take place on Thursday, September 5 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET on Zoom.
The lecture examines the fascinating narrative of diamond cutting and trade through the overlooked perspective of Indian and Middle Eastern gemological history. The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes long with a 15-minute Q&A.
To read a more detailed abstract of the lecture topic or to find out more about the lecturer, click here: https://mailchi.mp/e2b09861c025/webinar-invitation-from-the-dunhuang-foundation-dr-courtney-a-stewart
To register for this webinar, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7itLyKrR1mA_-pZsZCRfA#/registration
Contact Information
Dr. Rachel Parikh, Deputy Director, Dunhuang Foundation
Contact Email
URL
https://dunhuangfoundation.us/
2. Islamic Archaeology Conference (ISAC) 2024
07-09 November, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Casino building, Campus Westend, Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1
Islamic Archaeology as a discipline has seen a spectacular growth in complexity and number of themes in the last two decades. Islamic Archaeology Conference 2024 celebrates this growth, focusing on the material culture of the Early and Middle Islamic periods (600-1500 AD). The conference aims to provide a platform for contributions from diverse groups of people and for exchanging ideas, methodologies, and discoveries in Islamic archaeology.
The conference keynote speakers:
Mahmoud Hawari, Andrew Petersen and Marie-Odile Rousset
Registration:
until 20.10.24 at isac.arc2024@gmail.com
Fees: up to € 25
Program and further information:
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/131497284/Islamische_Arch%C3%A4ologie_und_Kunstgeschichte
Contact Email
URL
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/131497284/Islamische_Arch%C3%A4ologie_und_Kunstges…
3. ISHMap Symposium and Workshop 2025
Mapping the Cultural Crossroads
Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France 08-11 July 2025
We are delighted to welcome proposals to participate in the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium and Workshop that will take place in Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France, from 8 to 11 July 2025. Symposium is organized in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary laboratory Géographie-cités (member of French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)). The Symposium is open to all working in the history of cartography. The Workshop welcomes applications from professionals at the early stages in academic and public careers.
Applications are open to 31 October 2024 for individual papers, panels and roundtables or other proposed sessions; review and acceptance will occur by January 2025. Additional details about the symposium program and associated activities are forthcoming.
A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium. Hands-on activities led by four experts in the field may include work with the collection of Asian maps kept in National Library of France, discussion on curating digitalized and digital-born maps, sessions ocusing on the themes on post-colonial mapping and local knowledge, materiality and production of the maps as well as use and circulation of maps.
The Symposium (10 and 11 July) focuses on mapping the cultural crossroads. We particularly welcome proposals that address cultural aspects of cartography, particularly cross-cultural exchanges and global circulation of knowledge. Proposals that address or inspire comparative approaches in map history will be especially welcome.
Post-event trip to Vincennes with guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July.
Building on the successful 2023 Symposium and Workshop held in Berlin, Germany, we are pleased to plan an in-person event.
EVENT CALENDAR
31 October 2024: Application deadline for Symposium and Workshop.
15 January 2025: Acceptances delivered.
1 May 2025: Registration for participants closes.
15 May2025: Final program available online
1 July 2025: Registration for non-participants (attendees) closes.
8-9 July 2025: ISHMap III Workshop (in person)
9 July 2025 evening: ISHMap 2025 Keynote (hybrid) and General Meeting (hybrid)
10-11 July 2025: ISHMap VIII Symposium (in person)
12 July 2025: Tentative post-event field trip to Vincennes
Co-Chairs:
Mirela Altic, Institute of Social Sciences (Croatia), Chair, ISHMap Trustees
Nicolas Verdier, Géographie-Cités, UMR 8504 (France);
Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans, laboratoire POLEN, EA 4710 (France)
Additional information is available at the website of the International Society for the History of the Map (https://ishmap.com)
Contact Information
International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap)
Mirela Altic, Chair of ISHMap
4. Library of Congress Event: Mapping in the Islamic Tradition
The Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress and Philip Lee Phillips Society will be holding an event on September 19, 2024: Mapping in the Islamic Tradition.
Surveying the Surveyors: Modern Maps of Afghanistan, and Their Critics
Speaker: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Professor, Department of History, James Madison University
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is Professor of History at James Madison University where he teaches courses on the Middle East and South Asia. Hanifi’s publications have addressed subjects including colonial political economy and intellectual history, the Pashto language, photography, cartography, animal and environmental studies, and Orientalism in Afghanistan.
Ṣūrat al-Arḍ: Ways of Seeing Islamic Depictions of the World and Beyond
Speaker: Karen Pinto, Associate Scholar, Religious Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder
Time: 3:00 – 4:00pm EDT
From Karachi, Pakistan, of South Asian, Russian, French, and 16th century Goan-Portuguese heritage, educated at Dartmouth and Columbia, Karen Pinto specializes in the history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman, European, and other worldly cartographic traditions.
Click here to register for the virtual program on Zoom.
Contact Email
URL
https://www.loc.gov/item/event-414534/mapping-in-the-islamic-tradition/2024-09-…
5. University of Edinburgh
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series, Fall 2024 (Online)
6. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 4, no. 3 | Summer 2024
https://www.lacisa.org/newsletter
7. The Islamic College, London
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Open EVENING
Our Open Days and Open Evenings offer you the perfect opportunity to experience The Islamic College first hand and gather all the information you need to make an informed decision. After our Welcome Talk, where you’ll be introduced to The Islamic College, its history, and our flexible study options, you will be able to visit the site, get expert advice on applications, meet our friendly staff and students, and discover how we can support your academic journey.
Next chance to meet us
September 10th 6.00- 8.30.
Book your place to join us
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/open-evening/
8. Freer Research Center Spotlight: Fall 2024
‘Sneak Peek’ online series
Staff members present brief, personal perspectives and ongoing research, followed by discussion. This popular online lunchtime series returns with a new season of events focused around this year’s theme of word and image. Staff members present brief, personal perspectives and ongoing research, followed by discussion. This popular online lunchtime series returns with a new season of events focused around this year’s theme of word and image.
Sneak Peek | Exhibiting a Book like No Other: The Great Mongol Shahnama
Tuesday, September 17
12–12:40 p.m.
Online
Register in advance (required)
Simon Rettig, Associate Curator for the Arts of the Islamic World
9. Call for Papers: 11th IDHN Conference on Digital Methods in Islamic Studies
11th IDHN Conference will take place online on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam, Muslim communities, and languages to contribute to our conference. This is a unique opportunity to share your research, methodologies, and innovations with a diverse, interdisciplinary audience from around the world. Our conference is open to participants from humanistic, social scientific, and scientific disciplines.
To participate, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a title, an abstract (150-300 words) outlining your objectives and methodology, and your academic affiliation by Friday, October 11, 2024.
We will select approximately four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes. We will hold the meeting online on Zoom; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
10. From Marrakesh to Isfahan:
A discussion with Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood about the new books by Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami
Friday, September 13, 12 PM EST/11 PM CT/5 PM GMT
Please join us for the joint book event From Marrakesh to Isfahan, a discussion between Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami regarding their recent publications in the “Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies” series with Penn State Press, moderated by Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood. Spanning the medieval to the early modern, and reaching across the breadth of the Islamic world, Stockstill and Emami take innovative approaches to studying urban space, drawing on phenomenological experiences and novel readings of historical source material. In doing so, they question traditional paradigms of urbanism in the Islamic lands, and explore alternative models for understanding metropolitan development. Stockstill’s book, Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib, explores the city’s emergence as a North African capital under the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, and the powerfully resonant role the surrounding landscape played in expressing authority and belonging on an urban scale. Emami’s Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran develops the nature of Safavid cosmopolitanism as the product of a variety of individual and communal urban experiences, and expressed through the sensorial as much as the architectural. Join us on Friday, September 13, at 12 PM EST/11 PM CT/5 PM GMT for a discussion of these new contributions to architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world.
To register for the webinar, please visit:
https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmp6S3qwTJurXEsp1fMIoA
11. The fall 2024 program of New York University’s Silsila: Center for Material Histories.
ALL EVENTS ARE IN-PERSON ONLY – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
All events take place at NYU in Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York 10003. It is imperative that all those who wish to attend register in advance – this is currently a mandatory condition of entry into NYU buildings. Details and registration links can be found on our website at the end of the page for each event. The program is now available on our website:
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila.html
September 18th (Wednesday), 6:30-8:00pm
“I AM NOT THE RIVER JHELUM”
Film screening and discussion with the director, Prabhash Chandra, artistic director of Alpana Cinema, Delhi
October 25th (Friday), 10.00am-6:00pm
“THE MATERIALS OF MAGIC: BETWEEN COEXISTENCE AND RESISTANCE”
Workshop
Speakers:
Jean-Charles Coulon, CNRS-IRHT, Paris
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
Eyob Derillo, Former Curator of the Ethiopian Collections, The British Library
Hagos Abrha Abay, University of Toronto
Supriya Gandhi, Yale University
Ahmed AlMaazmi, Princeton University
Amila Buturović, York University, Canada
Alexandra Cook, Durham University
Lyla Halsted, Davidson College
November 6th (Wednesday), 6:30-8:30pm
“AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Lecture by Mahmood Kooria, Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday November 22nd (Friday) 10:00am-6:00pm
“MEDIEVAL ETHIOPIA IN A GLOBAL FRAME”
Workshop
Speakers:
Marie-Laure Derat, CNRS (Orient et Méditerranée), Paris
Claire Bosc-Tiessé, CNRS, Paris
Mikael Muehlbauer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Awet Teklehimanot Araya, University of East Anglia
Michael Gervers, University of Toronto
Jacopo Gnisci, University College London
Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hamza Zafer, University of Washington & Princeton University
12. Persian Printing in Comparative Context: The Place of Iran in Three Technological Diffusion Zones
Wednesday, ZOOM 5 September 2024, 12:00pm EDT
Professor Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Zoom Registration
https://utoronto.zoom.us/…/tZ0pd-uorjMvGNQtfHpS…
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Conference: “The Qur’ān and the Turkic World: Context and Interpretation”, Center for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, 5 February 2025
Main themes: Transmission and Translation of the Qur’ānic Text among the Turkic World. – The Qur’ān’s Impact on the Development of Islamic Culture and Identity in the Turkic States. –The Qur’ānic Interpretive Methodology (Hermeneutics) and Frameworks in the Turkic World.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024.
Information: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/research/the-quran-and-the-turkic-world
2. Assistant Professor of Arabic (Tenure-Track), Department of Classical Mediterranean and Middle East, Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota
Candidates should demonstrate passion and ability for teaching Modern Standard Arabic at all levels, conversance with Arabic dialects, as well as research and teaching interests in the literature, history, cultures, and/or societies of the classical Arab world.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28020
3. NYUAD Winter Writing Retreat at the New York University Abu Dhabi, 6-24 January 2025
this retreat aims to foster a scholarly community for up to 6 scholars from around the world and to advance research projects in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. Scholars will have the opportunity to work on any type of academic writing, including a research article, book manuscript, chapter or essay.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024. Information and registration: http://apply.interfolio.com/146981
4. Postdoctoral position in ERC project “ALiDiM” on Classical Arabic @ Ca’ Foscari
We are currently seeking to fill a postdoctoral position in the ALiDiM project at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2024. The contract (“assegno di ricerca”) will be initially issued for one year with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years.
The successful candidate will contribute to the work package on the specialized linguistic lexicon in early Arabic linguistic works. Further information on the position is available at this link. The application deadline is September 20, 2024, 12:00 CEST.
Please check the call for applications published on the university website for details on the application and selection process.
5. Workshop – Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Hatem Arafa (Online) – September 15– October 2
The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC), University of Edinburgh will be hosting an online Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Hatem Arafa.
A calligrapher with a degree from the Traditional Islamic Arts Faculty at FSMV University in Istanbul, Arafa’s projects include interior calligraphy for the Cary Mosque, USA (2022), commemorative coins for Djibouti (2023) and Qatar’s World Cup (2022), and the logo and interior calligraphy artworks for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage (2023).
- Duration: 3 weeks, with two 2-hour lessons per week (total of 6 lessons)
- Schedule: 15 September – End: 2 October. Each 2-hour session will be held Sundays/Wednesdays between 7-9pm BST.
- Format: Online on Zoom
- Focus: Teaching Diwani calligraphy, starting from individual letters to forming words and sentences
- Places are limited
For details and registration link please visit our website.
Questions? info@digitallabivcc.com
Contact Information
Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC)
School of History of Art
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Contact Email
URL
https://digitallabivcc.com/calligraphyworkshophatemarafa/arabic-calligraphy-wor…
- August 27, 2024
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) is pleased to announce our Fall 2024 program. Please note that all talks will now take place on Tuesdays instead of Fridays at 12 noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey (unless otherwise noted). Registration links for individual events will be sent out approximately one week before the program.
To receive these links, please sign up for our mailing list at www.viahss.org .
Fall 2024 Presentations
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Özlem Yıldız (Temple University)
Bringing the Heavenly Down to Earth: Nature, Bodies, and Objects as Symbols of the Divine in the Illustrated Qisas al-AnbiyaManuscripts from the Sixteenth-Century
Tuesday, September 17, 204
[Please note this talk will be one hour earlier than usual, at 11:00 am NYC]
Muhammad Hadi bin Osni (Community Researcher, My Community Limited)
Positioning Singapore’s Early Modernist Mosques in Southeast Asia Architectural History (1977-1981)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto)
Architecture of Anxiety: Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Cailah Jackson (Independent Scholar)
Mevlevi Manuscript Culture in the Late Medieval Period
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Mahnam Najafi (Shahid Beheshti University)
The Evolution of Squares in Qajar Tehran: A Study of Urban and Social Changes
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500-1639
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Amber Elisabeth Peters (Ca’Foscari University)
The Ocean in Early-Modern South Asian Art
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Ahmad Rafiei (Toledo Museum of Art)
Beyond Allegory to Prosody: Unraveling Reza Abbasi’s Artistic Odyssey Through Yul Quli Beg’s Influence
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 [postponed from August 20]
Caroline Angle Maguire (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ashley Miller (University of Michigan Museum of Art)
Elizabeth Rauh (American University of Cairo)
A Roundtable Discussion:
Exhibiting MENA Cultural Heritage: Post-colonial Interventions
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at www.viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
Contact Information
Dr. Alexander Brey and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
https://viahss.org/upcoming-talks/
2. Princeton University – Assistant Professor in South Asian Art History (tenure-track)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67461
Closing date: Jan 15, 2025
3. Italy and the Islamic World,
From Caesar to Mussolini
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Edinburgh, 2024
‘To celebrate the publication of this essential volume, we are offering £10/$10 off until the end of September.’
Visit our website to order your copy – no code needed!
4. ONLINE Webinar “Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism” by Ivan Kalmar & Audrey Truschke, „Democracy and Ethnonationalism Lecture Series”, Rutgers Law School, 15 October 2024, 12:00 pm EDT
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ThhPNVrQSO2SPM9NIcXkUA#/registration
5. International Conference on ‘Qur’anic Readings in AI Era’, Kerala, India, 20 October 2024
Themes: • Qur’anic Guidance for Human Life in the Age ff AI. • AI and Social Justice in the Light of the Qur’an. • Relevance and Authenticity of Interpretations of Qur’an. • Perfection of Holy Qur’an throughout Centuries. • Legal and Regulatory Aspects of AI in Islamic Jurisprudence. • Quranic View on Ethical Framework of AI. • Areas of Engagement with Islamic Law.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 September 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/seminar-brochure-1.pdf
6. Postdoctoral research fellow (m/f/d), with expected full-time employment, limited to max. 3 years – E 13 TV-L HU
Your profile: Doctoral degree in Islamic Theology or Islamic Studies with excellent grades; advanced knowledge of German, English, and Arabic; knowledge of Turkish is preferred; experience in research and teaching, as well as aptitude and motivation for independent interdisciplinary work.
Deadline for application: 4 September 2024; Information:
7. PhD Candidate Related to the Project “The Conceptual History of Ethics in Modern Arabic”, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherland
Profile: MA in Islamic Studies, Arabic, History, Philosophy, or another discipline related to your project; demonstrated interest in conceptual history or Arabic intellectual history; knowledge of conceptual historiographical theory and method and other background knowledge necessary to complete your proposed project; excellent command of written and spoken English, written Arabic, and preferably command of additional languages relevant to the field.
Extended deadline for applications: 1 September 2024. Information:
8. International Winter School “Outer Space Cooperation in the Middle East”, Institute for International Cooperation, Technological Diplomacy and Communication, UN City of Bonn, 6-8 December 2024
The international Winter School offers students from the Middle East and Germany a platform for exchange on space cooperation in the Middle East. High-ranking international experts provide participants with input so that they can then develop innovative approaches to cooperation potential in workshops. A UN simulation offers the opportunity to put theoretical knowledge into practice. All costs are covered by the ICI.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2024.
Information: https://www.ici-institute.de/winter-school-2024-outer-space-cooperation-in-the-middle-east
9. Residence Program in “Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies”, Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 12 January – 1 May 2025
Deadline for applications: 1 September 2024. Information: https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/mkvqolg1id49pf
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Spring 2025 Workshop of the Mediterranean Seminar: “The Multilingual Mediterranean”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 28 February 28 – 1 March 2025
Our theme encompasses such topics as language contact zones, multilingual art forms and media, and the relationships between language and identity. Our hope is to attract contributions from scholars working on several geographical contexts and historical periods in the Mediterranean world. We also hope to encourage contributions from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives – including the interplay and intersection of visual, musical, and material “languages” in the Mediterranean world.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024. Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSZBJaWnpb6Bd1gHNyzfAMhgQbM9mJvfRLsBPPY4PPYiOM7Q/viewform
2. Research Fellow for Project “Encounters and Mixing between the Red Sea and Asia Regions (1800-2000s)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin
Qualifications: MA or PhD in one of the following fields: History of Africa, History of Asia, History of International Relations, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable scientific/professional track record. In addition to English and possibly a second European language, knowledge of a language from the Red Sea region or Asia appropriate to the case study to be investigated within the project is also required.
Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Contatti-e-ascendenze-miste-tra-Mar-Rosso-e-regioni-asiatiche.pdf
3. Research Fellow for Project “Towards a Digital Archive of Mixedness in the Red Sea (1800-2000)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin
Qualifications: MA or a PhD in one of the following fields: History, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Digital Humanities, Digital Engineering, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable professional track record. In addition to an excellent knowledge of English, knowledge of other European languages is required, while knowledge of non-European languages is highly valued.
Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Verso-un-archivio-digitale-della-mixedness-nel-Mar-Rosso.pdf
4. Postdoctoral Researcher (80 %) for the Project “Participation in Islamic-Social-ethical Reflec-tions”, 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
5. ONLINE Fall Semester 2024 in Arab Studies, University of Birzeit, 16 September – 10 December 2024
Courses: 1. Colloquial Arabic. – 2. Standard Arabic. – 3. The Palestine Question. – 4. Modern & Contemporary Arab Thought.
Deadline for applications: 5 September 2024.
Information: https://pas.birzeit.edu/news-events/call-application-online-fall-semester-2024-2025
6. Proposals for Books in the Lexington Series on “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World”
Topics in the series include, but not limited to, queerness in the Arab novel, political violence in the context of gender, how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return, the interaction between violence and its gendered representations in cinema, and the portrayal of gender in graphic novels. The series welcomes contributions of monographs and edited volumes from various disciplines related to women, gender, and sexuality in the Arab world.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/13/calls-for-book-proposals
7. Articles on “Mediterranean Food” for the New Journal “I.S. Med: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean”
Submissions are invited on the topic of food and hospitality in and of the Mediterranean from interdisciplinary perspectives (humanities, social sciences, international law, media studies, art, and other fields of research). Any historical period of reference is welcome though we strongly encourage presenters to focus on the early modern to contemporary times.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 September 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/submissions-interdisciplinary-studies-on-the-mediterranean-mediterranean-food?e=82aeb6c61d
8. Chargé de mission “chercheur” (F/H) – Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) – Antenne de Beyrouth – Liban
Compétence : Titulaire d’un diplôme de doctorat dans l’une des disciplines des études arabes, médiévales et modernes d’un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français, d’un autre pays de l’Union européenne. – Expérience dans le monde de la recherche en archéologie et histoire. – Bonne capacité d’organisation et d’animation des réseaux scientifiques, et capacité à conduire ses propres recherches et à rédiger les textes de présentation de ses travaux et d’expertise.
Date limite de candidature : 26 aout 2024.
Information: https://emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/54db82cf-1403-4010-9f2c-a065f55666d4
9. Chargé de mission “chercheur” (F/H) – Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA) à Istanbul – Turquie
Date limite de candidature : 28 aout 2024
https://emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/93ec8c46-bf0d-4b26-9b06-06d1ad485a30
10. United States Naval Academy – Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67483
Applications will be reviewed beginning September 30, 2024, but applications will be accepted after that date and until the position is filled.
11. Bates College – Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Islam)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67490
Close: Oct 14, 2024.
12. “Craft Geographies: Unravelling Material Cultures and Communities in South and Central Asian History,” at the 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Please find our flyer attached here.
Speakers:
Amanda Lanzillo (University of Chicago) :: “Listen O Muslims, Especially You Blacksmiths”: Craft knowledge and Pashtun labour migration in the early twentieth century
Ping-hsiu Alice Lin (Harvard University) :: Tacit Knowledge and Moving Artisans in South Asia
Mohit Manohar (University of Chicago) :: Formal Convergences and Iconographic Ambiguities at the Tombs of Bukhara and Mandu
Benjamin James Nourse (University of Denver) :: Tibetan Woodblock Printing: Craft, Craftspeople, Networks, and Identity in 17th and 18th-century Inner Asia
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford) :: An Inquiry into the Transregional Imagination of Book Arts in Persianate Societies (12th–15th Centuries)
Fatima Quraishi (University of California–Riverside) :: Crafting a Vision of Kashmir: Painting and Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century
Amanda Respess (Ohio State University) :: Beyond the River and Below the Wind: Contextualizing Early Epigraphic Ceramic Production along the Medieval Islamicate Trade Routes
Megan Eaton Robb (University of Pennsylvania) :: Respecting the Writing, Respecting the Writer: Inheritors of Calligraphy Respectability Texts in Colonial India
Respondents:
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University)
Benjamin Hopkins (George Madison University)
Sylvia W. Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College)
Ron Sela (Indian University Bloomington)
If you are planning to attend the conference, please consider attending our symposium. Please contact Pranav Prakash (pranav.prakash@chch.ox.ac.uk ) and Amanda Lanzillo (amandalanzillo@uchicago.edu ) for additional information, including the full schedule.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture
Call for Abstracts for Volume 2
With the first issue of the Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture moving towards publication, it is time to call for abstracts for the second issue.
The Journal of Islamic Art and Architecture embraces a broad chronological scope from the 7th to the 20th century. This peer-reviewed journal, with two issues per year, aims to encourage and promote the study of art and architecture from across the Islamic world in its widest sense.
Published papers will reflect a wide range of scholarly perspectives, a diversity of approaches, and the full chronological and geographical scope of the field. It is dedicated to publishing in English the most intellectually rigorous and original papers by scholars from across the world.
Issues appear in April and October and contain a range of articles up to 8,000 words in length and up to 20 colour images each.
Following standard EUP practice, there will be no transliteration apart from distinguishing ‘ain from hamza.
The journal includes articles of major significance which together demonstrate a wide diversity of material and approaches. In addition to studies of traditional media and regions, innovative and ground-breaking research that addresses new or unusual material, areas and approaches will be included.
The Editorial Board consists of the founder editor (Robert Hillenbrand) and three lead editors: a managing editor (Richard McClary) and two associate editors (Francesca Leoni and Yusen Yu). An international advisory board aids in commissioning and performing peer-review tasks. The journal also has a designated permanent copy/desk editor.
All potential authors are requested to submit abstracts of up to 250 words that sets out the core content of their proposed article.
The three lead editors will consider the abstracts submitted, then select a number of articles to be submitted in full for peer review, considering carefully the number of articles required per issue.
Peer review for each short-listed article is anonymous, and the journal will be listed on key indexing sites such as Web of Science.
We invite abstracts to be sent to jiaa.submissions@gmail.com by the closing date of November 1st 2024, with the final articles to be submitted by March 31st 2025. The second issue is due to be published in April 2026.
2. The Art History Department at the CUNY Graduate Center invites you to attend a panel featuring the authors of two groundbreaking monographs on Mughal painting, both published in 2023: The Brush of Insightby Dr. Yael Rice and Faces of Godby Dr. Murad Khan Mumtaz.
The authors understand paintings to have been portals for dreams, visions, and sacred presence, and to have invited spiritual insight. With innovative interpretations grounded in close looking, Rice and Mumtaz deepen our understanding of Mughal visuality. Each explores the provocative question: what do Mughal paintings do? Additionally, the authors significantly advance the study of artists, patronage, and artistic processes. The panel offers a chance to learn about Indo-Muslim ontologies, the power of gazing, especially on beauty, and the expressive sophistication of Mughal pictures. We invite colleagues outside Mughal art history to engage with what these scholars have to teach us about images. Specialists are welcome too! Graduate-student organized, discussion oriented.
CUNY Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theatre
365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, United States
Friday, September 6, 2024; 5:30 PM
Contact Information
Gilad BenDavid
Contact Email
3. Southern Methodist University – Lecturer in South or Southeast Asian Islam
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67458
Closing date: Nov 15 2024
4. Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the October Issue 2024.
The submission deadline is September 5, 2024. The issue publication date is October Issue 2024.
For more details, click here.
Please send your submission as an attachment to TLS@awej.org
We have the pleasure of sending the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies Volume 8 Number 2. May 2024
For individual papers, click here.
With our best wishes,
Kind regards,
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
5. Grant – 2024 Canadian Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture, and Knowledge Research Awards Program
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Cultural History / Studies, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology
CFSACK™ 2024 Research Awards is open for applications!
The Research Awards Program is dedicated to advancing the study and appreciation of Sufi arts, culture, and knowledge by offering financial support to students and scholars affiliated with Canadian higher educational or cultural institutions to advance their research on Sufi Arts, Culture, and Knowledge.
Grants are available to support a range of academic activities, such as fieldwork, archival research, and organizing conference or workshops. Undergraduate and Master’s students are eligible for up to $2,000 CAD, while PhD and Post-Doctoral fellows may receive up to $5,000 CAD. This opportunity offers significant support for advancing your research and enhancing the understanding of Sufi art and culture.
Subject areas eligible for the CFSACK Research Awards are wide-ranging and include any research project related to Sufi Art, Culture and Knowledge in fields including, but not limited to, art history, art, fine arts, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, classics, cultural studies, ethnomusicology, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, and sociology. This diversity reflects the program’s commitment to fostering a comprehensive understanding of Sufi culture across various disciplines.
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Application Opens: August 15, 2024
- Deadline to Apply: October 15, 2024
- Awards Commencement: January 2025
AWARD HIGHLIGHTS:
- Purpose: To advance the study and appreciation of Sufi arts, culture, and knowledge by supporting research activities such as travel for conferences or fieldwork, archival research, and organizing conferences or workshops.
- Eligibility: Students and scholars affiliated with Canadian higher educational or cultural institutions.
- Exclusive Opportunity: Awarded candidates may gain exclusive access to the Musée d’Art et de Culture Soufis MTO™ in Chatou, France, including complimentary admission, consultation with curators and researchers, and privileged access to the museum’s collections.
For more details, FAQs, and application guidelines, visit our website here: https://www.cfsack.org/research-awards
Contact Information
Nooshin Esmaeili – Chair of the Research Awards Committee – nesmaeili@cfsack.org
Shahed Ejadi – Director – sejadi@cfsack.org
Canadian Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture, and Knowledge (CFSACK)™
Contact Email
URL
https://www.cfsack.org/research-awards
6. CFP – Ars Orientalis 56 – deadline: September 1
Ars Orientalis invites submissions of innovative articles on the arts of the broad geographic area of Asia, from the ancient period to the contemporary. We seek original, previously unpublished work that reflect insightful interventions, including but not limited to comparative or interdisciplinary approaches, multi-media content, and digital humanities methods.
Ars Orientalis is a digital publication with a print-on-demand option. Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 12,000 words (including endnotes).
Please refer to the submission and style guide for additional guidelines.
To submit or request more information, please email ArsOrientalis@si.edu.
Articles must be received by September 1, 2024, to be considered for AO 56.
Contact Information
Judy Lee
Scholarly Programs and Publications Specialist, National Museum of Asian Art
Contact Email
URL
https://asia.si.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/AO-Style-Guide-2024.pdf
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