Archive for September 24th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.30th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Assocciation (DAVO): “Society in Transition: Law, Culture and Politics in the Middel East”, University of Goettingen, 26-28 September 2024
Programme and abstracts:
https://gesellschaften-im-wandel30.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=37220&v=List&day=5294
2. Conference “Endgame of Empires: Post-Imperial Transitions, Incomplete Transformations and Imperial Legacies (Focus Post-Ottoman Period)”, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Week of 21 April 2025
Themes: a. What were the legacies of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the immediate aftermath of imperial collapse? – b. How did the transition transform the lives of workers, peasants, migrants, and revolu-tionaries? – c. What were some of the long-term institutional legacies of empire across Soviet and post-Ottoman space? – d. How was the transition from imperial to post-imperial statecraft reflected in the new sciences (environmental, physical, and social) that emerged in Soviet and post-Ottoman states?
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2024.
3. Conference “Islam in the Modern World: Dialogues on Faith, Culture and Society”, American University of Sharjah, 21-22 April 2025
Themes: Islamic Jurisprudence and Modern Law. – Islamic Thought and Ethics. – Qur’anic and Hadith Studies in the Modern Era. – Mysticism and Spirituality. – Islamic Art and Architecture. – Islamic Education. – Gender Studies in Islam. – Islamic Economics and Finance. – Interfaith Dialogue. – Islamic Political Thought. – Islam and Digital Humanities. – Islam and Media. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024. Information: https://info.aus.edu/islam-in-the-modern-world
4. Workshop Proposals for the “Gulf Research Meeting (GRM) 2025”, University of Cambridge, UK, 22-24 July 2025
The GRC seeks to invite scholars and specialists to apply to direct a workshop focusing on societies and culture, economies, politics, international relations, defense and security, energy, sustainable development, and environment.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2024.
Information on the GRM: https://gulfresearchmeeting.net/ .
Link to workshop proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcEZP0K3NaxdsCJ4e8e6yKTRtOKFMk5kkoTNvDv8S2-7OE6A/viewform
5. “5th Annual Conference on Syrian Studies”(All Topics in Social Sciences and Humanities), Harmoon Centre for Contemporary Studies, Istanbul, 25-27 July 2025
The conference aims to contribute to the establishment of a Syrian research community by bringing together researchers who engage with topics related to Syria. It builds and enhances interaction between Syrian scholars and their counterparts from other nationalities.
Deadline for Abstract: 30 October 2024.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/yy2xjfwf
6. The Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (BIT) invites applicants for a
Full Professorship “Islamic Beliefs and Philosophy” (W3)_
Your profile: Completed degree in Islamic theology; Islamic sciences or other relevant subjects; pedagogical aptitude and the ability to carry out in-depth independent academic work, proven by an outstanding relevant doctorate in the field; research and teaching experience in Islamic foundations of faith and Islamic philosophy.
Deadline for application: 2 October 2024. Information:
7. Assistant Professor in Assyriology (3 Years), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Applicants must have earned a PhD in Linguistics, Modern Turkish Language and Literature, or a related field by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter. We seek candidates whose teaching interests comple-ment our existing departmental strengths. Candidates must possess a demonstrated commitment to excel-lent pedagogical practices.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/06/assistant-professor-assyriology
8. Assistant Professor for a Full-Time Teaching Stream Position in Turkish Language, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Assyriology by the time of the appointment. We are seeking a candidate who specializes in the Akkadian language and written culture, with a focus on the later periods of Mesopotamian civilization (late second and first millennium BCE). We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and advance our existing departmental strengths.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/05/assistant-professor-teaching-stream-turkish-language
9. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Tenure-Track), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Qualification: PhD in Religious Studies or similar field required by start of appointment. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of creativity and excellence in teaching and scholarly research. In addition, the successful candidate will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster a teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive.
Deadline for applications: 20 October 2024. Information:
https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-religious-studies-madison-wisconsin-united-states
10. Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies 2025, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The Seed Money Grant will be awarded to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers in Turkish studies for the preparation of third-party fund applications. The Grant aims to support applicants in the application process and integrate them into the Turkish Studies academic community. The fellow will have a workplace and will receive a scholarship of 3,000 / 5,000 euros (doctoral candidates / postdoctoral researchers) to cover the living costs in Vienna.
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024. Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/
11. “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
12. Spring School “Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Qurʾān (CARMe 2025)”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 17-21 March 2025
Early career researchers (Master’s, PhD, post-docs) are invited to participate in this program.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024. Information: https://ceres.rub.de/de/aktuelles/call-for-applications-spring-school-carme-2025-comparative-analysis-of-religious-metaphors/
13. Articles on “Marriage and Migrations: Emerging Perspectives on Conjugal Relationships in the Middle East and North Africa” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Mashiq Mahjar”
This special issue seeks to examine how different forms of mobility shape understandings of family structures and relationships within historical and contemporary religious and socio-economic contexts. This themed issue will: a) link two currently distinct MENA research areas together: women in Islam and migration studies; and b) consider issues such as family, sexuality, love, law, and citizenship through new perspectives beyond religious and gender essentialism and neo-orientalist stereotypes.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 November 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20044015/cfp-marriage-and-migrations-emerging-perspectives-conjugal
14. ANN: Maps and Society 2024-2025
34th Maps and Society Series (2024 – 2025)
We’re pleased to invite you to this year’s Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will be held at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person.
For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the new Auditorium at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB)
For those wishing to attend online, please register here to receive a Zoom link on the day: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/maps-and-society-lecture-series.
Programme
October 31, 2024
Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY). ‘Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936’.
December 12, 2024
Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): ‘Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century’.
February 27, 2025
Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité). ‘Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625)’. Hakluyt Society Speakers.
March 13, 2025
James Cheshire (University College London). ‘Discoveries from the UCL Map Library’.
April 3, 2025
Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku). ‘Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000’.
May 8, 2025
Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust): ‘Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections’.
Any enquiries, please email c.delano-smith@sas.ac.uk or philip.jagessar@kcl.ac.uk
15. CfP Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions
Since its foundation in 2002, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has emerged as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Following seven successful congresses in Leipzig, Dresden, London, Paris, Budapest, Turku, and The Hague, the next ENIUGH congress will be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The congress will be on site only, although panel chairs may in exceptional cases allow participants to present their papers remotely.
Under the overall theme of “Critical Global Histories” we aim to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. Over the past decade, global history has expanded internally (quantitatively and thematically, as well as methodologically and theoretically) and has, in doing so, influenced many other fields of research in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, the expansion has led to debate and criticism, not least within the field. Objections have been raised against global history’s alleged macro-historical emphasis, connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. Global history has also been accused of being imbued with neo-imperial, teleological, globalizing, exoticizing and neoliberal leanings. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources for global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history.
At the Eighth ENIUGH Congress, we aim to pick up on these discussions and take a step forward by opening a space of dialogue, both between global historians and between global historians and their colleagues in other disciplines who are involved in the study of the global human pasts or who work with transnational, transregional, transcultural approaches in their respective fields. The Eighth ENIUGH-Congress will be a meeting place for scholars from all of the fields that go beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. We believe that critical thinking – both in the sense of impartial and intellectually disciplined thinking and in the sense of an augmented awareness of the many pitfalls associated with global history – can provide some of the means by which the field can evolve and retain its intellectual vigor and contemporary relevance. By framing the theme in terms of “global histories” in the plural, we aim to promote the inclusion of a broad range of voices, perspectives and orientations within the field, while forcefully rejecting the possibility of insisting on a single, dominating story or grand narrative of global history. The overall theme of the congress will be explored in a series of keynote events, roundtables, and panel discussions and in several of the regular panels and presentations at the congress.
Aside from the events related to the overall theme of the congress, we expect the congress to reflect the entire span of current research in global history, and we look forward to welcoming to Växjö scholars from all over world working on global and world history and related fields of study. Proposals can include a wide range of topics related to global, entangled, and transnational historical processes and phenomena, with no geographic or chronological limitations. While we expect most of the congress delegates to be historians, we also welcome scholars from other disciplines engaged in the study of humanity’s global pasts.
We invite contributions consisting of presentations of original research and empirically grounded work in progress, as well as theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections. We particularly encourage contributions that reflect on how critical thinking can be applied in global historical investigations. Although the main language of the congress will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated (see further below).
In particular, we welcome contributions (both panels and individual papers) tailored to one of the following themes:
- Temporalities and periodizations in global history
- Ethical aspects of doing global history
- Expanding the global archive
- Multivocality in global history
- Global history and decoloniality
- Transdisciplinary approaches
- Indigenous perspectives and methodologies
- Challenging modernity from the perspective of global history
- National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics
- Global environmental history
- Nordic colonialism
In addition to the main conference themes, we also invite proposals dealing with relations, transfers and entanglements between states, peoples, communities and individuals located in or spanning different parts and regions of the world.
Proposals
We invite proposals for panels, double panels, roundtables, and individual papers. Papers and presentations may be in any language, but abstracts for all panels, roundtables, and papers must be provided in English. Panel chairs must ensure the openness, accessibility, and coherence of their panel, and it is recommended that Q&A sessions be held in English regardless of the language of the presentations. All congress delegates are expected to participate on site in Växjö. In exceptional circumstances, panel chairs may allow a minority of presentations to be held remotely.
Panels may comprise up to four presentations, and double panels may comprise up to eight presentations, in addition to commentators and chairs. Panels must consist of scholars representing at least two different institutions in at least two different countries. Double panels must include participants from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
Roundtables may include up to five participants, in addition to commentators and chairs. Like double panels, roundtables must include scholars from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
We also welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be assigned to a panel by the steering committee of ENIUGH. Papers that speak to one or several of the themes listed above are particularly welcome, and the theme of most relevance to the proposal should be indicated in the submission form.
Submissions
All abstracts for panels and papers must be submitted by October 15 2024 via the registration tool on our website. Please note that all speakers of a panel must submit their papers individually in addition to the collective panel submission.
Abstracts for panels should be 250 – 300 words long and should indicate all panelists, their institutional affiliations as well as their paper titles. Additionally, panel abstracts should be pertaining to one of the conference themes.
Abstracts for papers should be 200 – 250 words long and indicate whether the paper is submitted as an individual paper or as part of a panel. In the latter case the abstract should name the panel title as well as the convenor’s name.
All abstracts should be in English. If the presentation is in a language other than English, please state this in the abstract. (Papers are selected solely on the basis of content, not linguistic criteria.)
Abstracts should also indicate whether you plan to participate in person or online. Please note that the convenor and a majority of participants in each panel must participate on site.
Selected panels and papers will be notified in December 2024.
Contact Information
Panel/Paper Submission and Registration: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration-tool/
URL
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration-tool/
16. BOOK LAUNCH PRESENTATION: Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity, 25 October 2024, 12:00‐1:00 pm EST
Edited by Rana Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes and
Stamatina Mastorakou
25 October 2024, 12:00‐1:00 pm EST
Pre‐registration required https://bit.ly/Imagining-Heavens
PROGRAM
Welcome, Sabine Schmidtke, IAS School of Historical Studies
Book introduction, Sonja Brentjes, Bergische Universität, IZWT, and Rana Brentjes, independent scholar
Chapter presentations:
John Steele, Brown University, The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Astral Imagery in Ancient Mesopotamia
Fabio Spadini, Université de Lausanne, Institute of Archeology and Classical Studies, Power, Politics, and Astrology in Rome
Dieter Blume, emeritus, Friedrich-Schiller-University, History of Art, Images of the constellations and the planets in Latin Euro
Anna Caiozzo, University of Orleans, PU Histoire médiévale, Astrological Images as the Key to the Cosmology of the Medieval Islamicate World
Günther Oestmann, Technical University Berlin, FG Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Astronomical Clocks in the Baltic Sea Region
Aida Alavi, École de Louvre, Islamic Art History, Dancing in the Sky: The Story of a Performing Goat in the Safavid Heaven
Additional information at https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/
17. ASPS/JPS Early Career Prize
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies announces a new round of the biennial Early Career Prize in order to encourage and reward scholarship about the broader Persianate world by ASPS members who are still in the early stages of their careers. Interested applicants are invited to submit original and unpublished work to the Journal of Persianate Studies by 31 January 2025.
Based on creativity of topic and source materials, originality of analysis, and overall scholastic contributions, an ASPS prize committee will select a winner, who will be announced at the upcoming ASPS conference. The winner will receive a cash prize of $250 and the paper will be published in the Journal of Persianate Studies after any revision that may be required by the editorial office. Runners-up may also be considered for publication.
The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
Eligibility: non-tenured scholars who, at time of submission, are members of ASPS and have already received their doctorate within the last seven years.
Application procedure: Paper submissions must fall within the purview of JPS and must be original and previously unpublished; they must also follow all regular JPS style and citation guidelines, found online at: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/JPS.pdf. Prize applicants should submit their papers online through Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/JPSBRILL), selecting ‘Early Career Prize’ as the article type. By submitting a paper, applicants acknowledge intent to participate in the ASPS Early Career Prize and waive the right to withdraw their paper from publication, if selected.
For questions, please contact the Associate Editor, D Gershon Lewental, at lewental@ou.edu.
18. Zoom: Sept 27 – Adab Colloquium with Austin O’Malley
Sarah R. bin Tyeer and I wish to invite you to the next installment of the
Adab Colloquium taking place this Friday, September 27th (11am-12.30pm) on
Zoom.
This event will be a discussion of Dr. Austin O’Malley’s new book, The Poetics
of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism.
Please register at the following link to receive a zoom link:
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mei.columbia.edu%2Fmei-event%2Fthe-adab-colloquium-with-austin-omalley-the-poetics-of-spiritual-instruction&data=05%7C02%7C%7C7a2b0af7d2b042f376cb08dcdc3b430c%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638627394323704696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vgpM3XgGEccBFbGzW%2BX1%2FB9T0DTGU6O85%2FYPADNroeY%3D&reserved=0
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