Archive for October 29th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Presentation “ARSHEEF: Getting Closer to Libraries and Archives” by Athena Pfeiffer and Mathias Ghyoot, Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, 8 November 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
ARSHEEF is a collaborative project and a website that makes available up-to-date guides to libraries and archives across North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia, as well as digital options for those who cannot travel. We will also discuss political and practical problems associated with research in these regions.
Information and registration:
https://theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYtf-ytqzMoGtJpFRoDJDB5oxMigAbcCHCe#/registration
2. Colloque international « Liberté et féminisme dans la pensée arabe des XIXe et XXe siècles. Avancées et blocages », Université Paris Nanterre, 14 novembre 2024, 9h00 – 17h30 CET
Information et programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/108756
3. Symposium “Braudel’s La Méditerranée (1949): Paradigms and Possibilities after 75 Years”, Stanford University, 15-16 November 2024
Information and program:
https://cmems.stanford.edu/sites/cmems/files/media/file/braudel-symposium-program-15-oct-2024.pdf
4. ITS-Colloquium “Islamic Feminism – Exploring Boundaries and Embracing Possibilities”, Frankfurt am Main, 22-23 November 2024
The workshop explores Islamic feminism as one of the most discussed intellectual movements in the Islamic world, examining its diversity and reflecting on its boundaries and theoretical potential for further development. Speakers: Sedigheh Vasmaghi (Tehran), Ravza Altuntaş Çakır (Istanbul), Randa Aboubakr (Cairo), Marzieh Bakhshizadeh (Reutlingen), Aicha Barkaoui (Casablanca), Clara Bauer (Freiburg), Kata Moser (Göt-tingen), and Mansooreh Khalilizand (Freiburg).
Deadline for registration: 10 November 2024.
Information and program: https://aiwg.de/colloquium_islamic_feminism/
5. Assistant Professor of Medieval Jewish Literature and Thought in the Islamic World, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Applicants must have a strong command of medieval Hebrew and Arabic and be versed in the philology, aesthetics, and history of both languages and literary traditions. Knowledge of additional relevant languages (Aramaic, Persian, Latin) will be considered an asset.
Deadline for applications: 25 November 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/157195
6. Saturday, 2 November, 12:00 p.m. ET: Teaching Persian Grammar through Literature: Bringing Language to Life in Persian Second Language Classrooms
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
in collaboration with the
Department of Middle Eastern Studies and the
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
jointly present:
Teaching Persian Grammar through Literature: Bringing Language to Life in Persian Second Language Classrooms
Azita H. Taleghani, Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, University of Toronto
Saturday, 2 November 2024, 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time (Canada and US)
Zoom Meeting Registration:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdO2qpjMuGNwq5LZUoaVQ1W2expF2RC-0
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Abstract:
The term grammar has been interpreted as a set of arbitrary rules about fixed structures in language such as verb paradigms and rules about linguistic forms. Grammar is unquestionably much more than this. As Batstone (1994) states, grammar is a broad and diverse phenomenon that characterizes three interdependent dimensions: form, meaning, and use. Teaching grammar is significantly essential for second or foreign language learning. Its main purpose is to help students carry out either verbal or written communicative tasks. This paper explores the use of literature in teaching grammar in second-language classrooms in general and Persian second-language classes in particular. After a brief discussion of various theories and methods of teaching grammar, the benefits, and challenges of using different genres of literature in Persian second-language classes will be examined by answering the following questions: Why are literary texts useful for teaching grammar in Persian second-language classes? What kind of literary texts should be selected and how to use them in Persian second language grammar classes?
7. Online Event at Cambridge:
Fri 1 Nov, 1:00pm – 2:00pm UK time
Istanbul in the 16th Century An Online Specialist Art Short Course
(Convened by Chiara De Nicolais)
8. AKU-ISMC: ‘The Rise of Islam in a Multicultural Setting’ Lecture by Professor Ilkka Lindstedt
London, 20.11.24, 5.30 pm UK time
Inperson only.
Registration required:
9. CfA: International Summer School Towards Inclusive Global Histories
Organized by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) in collaboration with Global Diplomacy Network (GDN), Linnaeus University Center for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies (LNUC), and the Asian Center, University of the Philippines.
The Summer School
Archives and Voices have become much-debated aspects of recent research in global history. Under the overall theme of “Towards Inclusive Global Histories” the summer school aims to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. We aim to explore alternative ways of practicing global history and to meet the challenges of connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. 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 in 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.
The summer school will focus on three novel research fields within global history: Global Diplomacy, gender, and environmental questions. By framing approaches that emphasize different voices and alternative archives 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 summer school will offer plenary sessions by leading experts in the field and allow for hands-on methodological conversations among all participating scholars. Early career scholars will be encouraged to reflect on key methodological questions along the lines of the summer school themes with scholars from around the world.
We invite contributions consisting of projects based on original research and empirically grounded PhD thesis work in progress. We encourage theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections on how to make global history more inclusive. Although the main language of the summer school will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated.
In particular, we welcome contributions (individual papers) tailored to one (or more) of the following themes:
- Indigenous, subaltern, gender, LGBTQ+, non-human, and minority studies
- Expanding the global archive along and against digitization
- Diplomatic practices, languages, and concepts of Interpolity Relation, c. 1400-1900
- Global History and Decoloniality
- National history, nationalist backlash, and identity politics
- Global Environmental History
- Nordic Colonialism
With these themes in mind, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) is happy to announce its summer school in partnership with the Global Diplomacy Network and the Concurrences Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies to be held at Växjö, Sweden, on 7-9 September 2025. Early career scholars (PhD students, postdocs, and assistant professors) are invited to present on-going research exploring relations, transfers, and entanglements between actors or groups of actors located in, or spanning, different regions of the world allowing for comparative and longue durée conversations. The summer school provides the perfect platform to kick-start a week of intense discussions that will culminate in the 8th European Congress on World and Global History (10-12 September 2025).
The Application Process
The Call is open to Ph.D. students and early career scholars from history and related disciplines, who work in the interdisciplinary field of writing connected, entangled, or comparative histories that incorporate transnational or transregional perspectives or challenge the confines of national and Eurocentric historiographies.
The language of presentations will be English but papers in other languages are also accepted. Participants are expected to present a paper of 3000–4000 words in length as the basis for discussion with the whole group; the papers will be circulated among the participants beforehand.
On the final day, participants are invited to pitch their research to the audience of the ENIUGH congress, marking the end of summer school and the opening of the ENIUGH congress.
The Summer School will cover the participation fees of early career scholars from the Global South, who may not have access to institutional funding. Travel grants will be considered awarded to outstanding applicants based on availability and individual needs.
Applications should contain:
- a CV
- a summary/exposé of the dissertation
- an abstract of your planned paper
- your contact data and institutional affiliation.
Please send your applications electronically as ONE PDF DOCUMENT to Christoph Gümmer: christoph.gummer@uni-leipzig.de and headquarters@eniugh.org. The last day of submission is 31st January 2025.
10. Hybrid: Book Launch: Governance and Islam in East Africa 7 November 17:30 GMT
Join the Governance Programme of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisation (AKU-SMC) in a celebration of the publication of Governance and Islam in East Africa: Muslims and the State in Kenya and Tanzania edited by Farouk Topan, Kai Kresse, Erin E. Stiles and Hassan Mwakimako. Focusing on relations between Muslims and the State in post-Independence Kenya and Tanzania, the book brings together scholarship from both the Global North and Global South. Professor Michael Jennings will engage the book’s editors in a discussion that examines this complex topic through the three lenses of politics, institutions and the law.
The book has been published Open-Access, so please download your free copy HERE.
7 November 2024
17:30
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside St, London N1C 4D
REGISTER NOW TO ATTEND IN PERSON OR ONLINE
Further details are provided in the image below or click here.
- October 29, 2024
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