Archive for September 21st, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Publication of MELA Notes Journal No. 96 (2023-24)
MELA (Middle East Librarians’ Association) Notes is dedicated to advancing knowledge in Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies librarianship, archival studies, and beyond. The journal continues its commitment to providing a platform for rigorous academic discourse, now with the added benefit of open access.
You can explore and access the full issue through the following link: https://escholarship.org/uc/melanotes
2. ARSHEEF – GUIDES TO LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN NORTH AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE CAUCASUS, AND SOUTH ASIA
Launch of an exciting and useful collaborative project, ARSHEEF (arsheef.org), which aims to promote research in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia. Based on first-hand experiences of scholars and graduate students, ARSHEEF offers up-to-date guides to libraries and archives in these regions. The project is run by graduate students, edited by Athina Pfeiffer and Mathias Ghyoot, funded by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Council at Princeton University.
Recognizing that financial, political, or personal circumstances may restrict travel for some, ARSHEEF also provides links to digital libraries and archives in and beyond North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia.
They welcome ideas for new guides, updated information on libraries and archives, as well as contributions from scholars and students: https://www.arsheef.org/contribute.
3. Call for Papers: Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series, Spring/Fall 2025
Founded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) has brought together a diverse community of researchers from around the world interested in the history of art and visual culture in the Islamicate world. The series’ monthly virtual seminars and workshops have successfully filled a new niche in academic discourse. While travel has resumed and in-person events have begun again, the need for a forum which brings together international and intergenerational audiences in an inclusive and supportive fashion remains. We are now inviting proposals for paper presentations on topics related to the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of any time period from the Islamic world for spring and fall of 2025. We welcome submissions from current graduate students, faculty, curators, and independent scholars.
The virtual seminar series will take place on zoom from mid-January onwards. Each session will include a 20-30 minute presentation followed by a 20 minute discussion in a constructive and friendly manner. In addition to individual proposals we are also open to workshop proposals, which might include moderated discussions of pre-circulated papers, roundtables, discussions with practicing architects or artists, or other formats.
If you are interested in presenting, please upload an abstract detailing your topic (not more than 500 words) and your CV or resume by Friday, November 15, 2024, to this Google form: https://forms.gle/tpKmCqEmgZSez2Ym8. Additionally, you will be asked to include information about your location and time zone as we will have to find a time that works well for most participants. You may also express a preference or dispreference for a specific month based on your anticipated activities.
If you have any questions, please contact co-organizers Dr. Alexander Brey (alexander.brey@wellesley.edu) and Dr. Rachel Winter (winterr6@msu.edu ) with the phrase “VIAHSS 2025 proposal” in the subject line.
To learn more about the series, take a look at our website (http://viahss.org) or our Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/viahss/videos). You can also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/viahss) or Instagram (@theviahss ).
Contact Information
Dr. Alexander Brey and Dr. Rachel Winter
Contact Email
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4. Fall 2024 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University
In person, and via Zoom Webinar
September 19, 2024
“The Age of Science and Design: A New Survey of Seljuq Dome Chambers in the Isfahan Region and Treatises on Practical Geometry”
Soheil Nazari
PhD Candidate, Department of Construction History, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KMvUWA_9QfCPUlIxYpzNmQ#/registration
October 17, 2024
“Revisiting the Chihil Sutun Wall Paintings: Silsila, Slave Hegemony, and the Safavid Body Politic”
Janet O’Brien
Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian and Islamic Art, Harvard Art Museums
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0S2k3FjxRziwNefrdqVeiQ#/registration
November 7, 2024
“‘The Likeness of the Grand Vizier Beside the Sultan’: The Expanded Patronage Networks of Sultan Selim III’s Reign (1789-1807)”
Deniz Türker
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Webinar registration information forthcoming
November 14, 2024
“Yeni Bāġçe and the Agricultural Transformation of Istanbul During the Reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512)”
Aleksandar Shopov
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Early Modern Ottoman History, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton
Webinar registration information forthcoming
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway (HAA Lower Lecture Hall), Cambridge, MA.
Lectures will also be streamed via Zoom Webinar, registration is required.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events for registration information
Contact Information
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
485 Broadway, HAA Lower Lecture Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2355
Contact Email
URL
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
5. Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize – Submissions Open
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Details of the prize are included below and in the attached PDF poster. The annual deadline for this prize was changed in 2023 to allow the winner(s) to be invited to attend the BRISMES annual conference.
About the Prize
The prize was established jointly by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. It is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 is eligible to apply. If you are submitting your thesis after the deadline in 2024, you will be eligible for the following year’s prize.
We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
Please send an electronic copy of your thesis and a letter of nomination from your supervisor to office@brismes.org.
Deadline for submissions: Midnight on 15 November 2024
More information: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
6. University of Edinburgh
Alwaleed Fellow: Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World
The Alwaleed Centre is recruiting for a new Fellow in Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World, and it would be great if you could help spread the word.
This is a fixed term, three-year fellowship and further information can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJS984/alwaleed-fellow-in-contemporary-muslim-societies-in-a-globalised-world
The deadline for applications is Friday 11 October.
7. Geschichte der arabischen Welt
Kaplony, Andreas, ed.,
C H Beck, 2024
https://www.chbeck.de/kaplony-geschichte-arabischen-welt/product/36968536
8. Call for Papers – 3rd Asia Pacific International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference [APIRTP]
3rd International Asia Pacific Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (APIRTP)
will be held from 15 – 18 January 2025 at V M Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education, Goa, India.
Abstracts submissions deadline 15th October 2024.
This is the link for submitting abstracts.
Organising Committee of APIRTP conference
Dr Razaq Raj
Leeds Business School
Leeds Beckett University, 520 Rose Bowl, Portland Crescent, Leeds LS1 3HB
Email: r.raj@leedsbeckett.ac.uk | Tel: 0113 81 25877
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