Archive for September 10th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1. 12 Fellowships and Awards of the “W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)” for Studies on the Southern Levant
Applications are open to students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences studying any aspect of cultural development in the southern Levant from deep prehistory to the Early Modern period. Applications from related disciplines are also considered, such as museum studies or cultural heritage management.
Deadline for applications: 3 December 2024. Information: https://aiar.org/fellowships
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on the “Histories, Cultures, Societies, and Media of the Global South (Focus Arab World)”, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar
Themes: 1) Genealogies and Epistemologies of the Global South. – 2) Arab Media, Culture, and Politics. – 3) Southern Digitalities. – 4) Critical Security Studies. We welcome applications from scholars who would have completed their PhD between 1 January 2023 and 1 June 2025.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024.
Information: https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias_nuq/call-global-fellows.html
3. The Making of Contemporary Kuwait, Identity, Politics, and its Survival Strategy
Ed. M Zweiri, et al.,
Routledge, 2024
4. ITS Mawlid Discount 2024
Between 9th September and 22nd September, in celebration of the Mawlid al-Nabi, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering its readers a 15% discount on all titles.
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5. LSE – Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship
A new fully-funded PhD scholarship in modern Iranian history at LSE.
https://x.com/lsehistory/status/1833132582919184583
https://www.facebook.com/LSEHistory/posts/1055272989937789
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The Iranian History Initiative and the Department of International History welcome applications for the Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship. This studentship is tenable for four years, commencing in September 2025, and covers full fees and an annual stipend for a PhD student in the Department of International History, whose research is focused on any aspect of the modern history of Iran.
This scholarship was established with the generous support of Mr John Moghtader-Mojdehi and the LSE PhD Academy. It honours the memory of Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi, a distinguished Iranian physician, educator, and public servant. From 1966 to 1974, Dr Mojdehi served as Professor of Internal Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tehran. He was then appointed Chancellor of the University of Mashhad in 1974, before being elected to the Iranian Senate in 1976. In 1978, he served as Iran’s Minister of Health.
Applications for the Moghtader-Mojdehi Scholarship are particularly welcome from applicants who propose to work on any aspect of the history of Pahlavi Iran (1921-1979); who plan to use Persian-language primary sources in their research; and who have completed their undergraduate degree at a university in Iran.
Applicants for the Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship must submit their completed PhD application by the Department of International History’s deadline for funding consideration in January 2025 (to be announced).
Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Roham Alvandi (R.Alvandi@lse.ac.uk ) in the first instance with a CV and PhD research proposal (no more than three pages) by 1 December 2024.
All applications for the Mojdehi PhD Scholarship will be assessed by a selection committee and the scholarship will be awarded by the Department of International History’s Research Committee.
6. Call for Chapters: “Foodways to the Divine”
A call for chapters for the upcoming edited volume Foodways to the Divine: Faith and Food in the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond, tentatively to be published by Edinburgh University Press. This volume aims to explore the intersection of food, ritual, and religion in the Middle East, North Africa, adjacent geo-cultural regions, and diasporas.
Selected contributors will have the opportunity to workshop their chapters at a seminar at the Orient-Institut Istanbul in April 2025. For more information and to submit your abstract, please contact us at foodwaystothedivine@gmail.com.
We look forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
Su Hyeon Cho, University of Oxford
Stefan Williamson Fa, University of Cambridge
Esther Voswinckel Filiz, Orient Institut Istanbul
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7. The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) proudly announces the Walter Markov Prize 2025 and calls for applications
The prize honours an outstanding PhD- or MA-thesis that contributes to the research fields of Walter Markov, especially the comparative exploration of revolutions; social movements and decolonization processes in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; historiographical traditions in various national contexts; and academic internationalization in the course of the 20th and 21th centuries.
Papers that are submitted for the Walter-Markov-Prize are expected to take a global perspective on its subject, either by addressing it from a comparative point of view, by examining processes of cultural transfers, or by seeking to understand the entanglements of various spatial frameworks.
The successful applicant will receive € 1,500 which is meant to support the publication of their research.
Walter Markov (1909–1993) was a historian whose life and thinking was influenced by his opposition to National Socialism and later, during the Cold War, by his Marxist leaning and investigations of French social history around the Annales School. Markov’s way of addressing history can be best described as “history from below”. Examining revolutions and revolutionary moments in history, he became one of the most important German historians working on the French Revolution. In continuing the Leipzig tradition in world and global history, initiated by Karl Lamprecht and the Institute for Cultural and Universal History, Markov became the director of this institute in 1949 and tried to bring all area studies at his university under one roof for comparative studies. Pursuing international cooperation with scholars on the other side of the iron curtain — especially with scholars from Latin America, Africa (where he was the first German guest professor) and Asia — he hoped to stand against any withdrawal of his university from border-crossing dialogue and mutual learning.
The jury will consider manuscripts (in German, English, or French) that have been submitted to the respective institution after January 2022. Applicants should submit their manuscripts, a summarizing abstract of 250 words and a brief CV electronically and as one PDF file to: headquarters@eniugh.org.
The deadline for submissions is 15.04.2025.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
A committee nominated by the Steering Committee of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) will select the awardee among the candidates.
For further information on ENIUGH and the Walter Markov Prize please visit our website: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/
Contact Information
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
c/o Leipzig University
Research Centre Global Dynamics
(ReCentGlobe)
Contact Email
URL
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/
8. News from the 2024 BRISMES Annual Conference
https://mailchi.mp/5ce7ee17fbbe/news-from-the-2024-annual-conference-5692121?e=962739101d
9. Zahra Institute’s Fall Speaker Series Begins on 18 September
Event: Panel on Kurdish Cinema, with the popular filmmaker, Mehmet Ali Konar, and Sebahattin Şen.
When: Wednesday, 18 September, 12pm Central Time
Where: Zoom, find the link on Zahra Institute’s website.
The 2024 Fall Speaker Series begins on 18 September. We are excited to bring together a great line-up of speakers who will present on Kurdish cinema, arts, linguistics, history, culture, and politics.
Zahra Institute’s Speaker Series’ events are free and open to the public on Zoom.
https://www.zahrainstitute.org/
- September 10, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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