Archive for August 30th, 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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