Archive for November 5th, 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1.BRAIS Prize 2024 Winner Annoucement + 2025 Call now open!
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is:
Dr Raashid S. Goyal (Cornell University) for his thesis entitled ‘War and Law in the First Islamic Polity: Arabness, Emigration, and the Dhimma of God and His Messenger’.
Very many congratulations to Dr Goyal who has kindly provided an abstract of his thesis which you can read here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2024
We are also excited to announce that the 2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 5pm GMT on Friday 24 January 2025. Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prise-2025-call-for-submissions
This international prize is awarded annually to one outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted.
2. Zoom: Dr. Joanna Bocheńska will present, “Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature”. 6.11.24.
Dr. Bocheńska is an Associate Professor and Director of the Section of Kurdish Studies at the Department of Iranian Studies at Jagiellonian University. Between 2020 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of two research projects entitled Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition, and Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundation: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora.
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 12:00 pm Central /1 pm Eastern, Wednesday, 6 November
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/92336051781?pwd=OL4HZsu8SBexwIg46ezoEmfL4qynGW.1
See also: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/.
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mapping Connections)
University of Exeter
The successful applicant will be part of the “Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 7 November 2024
4. Call for Submissions | Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars
Prize | British International Studies Association (BISA)
The prize is aimed at supporting CPD’s early career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline.
Deadline | 18 November 2024
5. Call for Papers | From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
Workshop | LSE Middle East Centre
What does Yemen’s political, economic and social history and experience, since unification and before, tell us about what is realistic for the coming decade and beyond? This workshop will provide an opportunity to develop answers to this question through exploring topics within four main themes: peace, governance, economy and society.
Deadline | 2 December 2024
6. Inperson: “AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
Silsila NYU Lecture, Wednesday, November 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
In person only, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003
Registration for all attendees is essential. Due to current university security restrictions those who have not pre-registered will not be admitted.
In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9gLpFDsTZX8ZhexD7
For full details please visit the Silsila website:
7. Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE
New York University: NYU – NY: Arts and Science (A&S): Art History
Deadline: Nov 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68101
The Department of Art History and its Urban Design and Architectural Studies program (URDS) at New York University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE.
We hope to attract candidates who can contribute to our program’s interdisciplinary, analytic approach to urban design and architecture and our emphasis on student development. We invite applications from candidates working in any of the following geographical areas: Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.
We encourage applications from candidates with enthusiasm and proven success or demonstrated potential for research, teaching, student mentoring, and program development. Candidates should be prepared to teach four courses each academic year: three undergraduate courses in the Department of Art History, consisting of a mix of core curriculum courses, departmental surveys, advanced courses, and seminars in the candidate’s area(s) of expertise and research; and one graduate course at the Institute of Fine Arts. The candidate will supervise undergraduate independent studies and honors theses, and master’s and doctoral theses.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2025. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence in scholarship and teaching.
The appointment will begin on September 1, 2025, subject to budgetary and administrative approval.
Full details are available on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/157032
8. British Institute of Persian Studies Hybrid Event:
‘Examining the origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’
21 November 2024, 5:45PM UK time
with Robert Steele
BIPS AGM Lecture and Ann Lambton Lecture 2024
This talk explores the development of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Africa policy in the final three decades of his reign, examining both geopolitical developments in the Middle East that compelled Iran to look to Africa, and the specific Iranian context.
To register for inperson/online:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/political-ties-with-africa/
9. Please join us in person or online for the symposium “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 7-8 November, 2024
The symposium investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architecture making references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic form can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or even incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how the forms and narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history inform post-colonial architectural practice.
In this symposium, UW-Madison welcomes 11 scholars from the U.S. and abroad. The talks and papers are drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and feature examples from a wide range of geographies such as the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, Europe, and South Asia. The topics are wide ranging but are united in exploring how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these kinds of projects. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Online registration is here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceyorjkrH9C34sdOpVvx_qJI-VBNi1TC#/registration
10. Honoring the great Palestinian Female Commentator:
Nāʾila Hāshim Ṣabrī And her Qurʾanic Exegesis:
Tafsīr al-mubṣir li-nūr al-Qurʾan
Qom, University of Tehran, I.R.Iran
Nov. 27, 2024 – In person and Virtual
For Registration: info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
11. Upcoming online course, “Introduction to Early Judeo-Persian: Jewish Letters from Dandan Uiliq to the Cairo Genizah.”This 2-week course will introduce participants to Early Judeo-Persian (EJP), a formative variety of Early New Persian that offers valuable insights into the development of New Persian.
Course Details:
- Dates: December 9 – December 19
- Schedule: Monday to Thursday, with 2-hour sessions each day (including a short break)
- Format: Online, with interactive classes and time for discussion
Course Overview: The course will focus on selected EJP texts, including commercial letters, legal records, and religious arguments, providing a close view into historical development of Persian in its earlier stages, as it was used by Jewish communities in regions from Xinjiang to Egypt. Participants will learn to read the EJP script and orthographic conventions, while exploring the dialectal history of Early New Persian through these unique manuscripts.
For more details or to register, please follow the link: https://ferdowsi.org/introduction-to-early-judeo-persian/
12. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaineséance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendrale jeudi 14 novembre 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi (EPHE-PSL, LEM), pour une conférence intitulée: “Poésie mystique persane et exercices spirituels“.
Résumé:
La poésie mystique de langue persane à l’âge classique (Xe-XVe siècle) se caractérise, on le sait, par l’extrême richesse de ses lexiques symboliques : de l’évocation de l’érotisme et des beautés de la nature à la beuverie, à la débauche et à l’immoralité. Le présent examen ne concerne pas ces technicités qui ont été, depuis longtemps, abondamment étudiées ; il s’attachera plutôt à recouvrer une couche de sens méconnue, cachée sous ces lexiques, qui a rapport avec les pratiques ascétiques et les exercices spirituels. Les allusions éparses dans la littérature mystique en prose ou les fables philosophiques symboliques permettent en effet de découvrir des grilles herméneutiques où « la brise du matin » peut désigner des exercices respiratoires matinaux, où « la rosée » peut évoquer la transpiration de l’ascète, et « les pétales de rose », les joues empourprées. De cette manière, chez le grand Ḥāfeẓ par exemple, une description lyrique de la nature ou la complainte du chagrin d’amour peuvent renvoyer, outre leur sens obvie exprimé dans un sublime langage poétique, à des pratiques mystiques spécifiques et à des expériences intérieures.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Naṣrallāh Pūrjavādī, Zabān-e ḥāl dar ‘erfān va adabiyyāt-e fārsī, Téhéran, Hermes, 1385 solaire/2006.
– Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, « Chanter la douceur de la prière. De quelques aspects méconnus du vocabulaire technique de la poésie mystique persane », Journal des Savants, Janvier-Juin 2014, p. 121-141.
– Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi, « Provocation, amour, liberté intérieure. De quelques aspects spirituels de l’islam iranien », Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 101.2 (avril-juin 2017), p. 187-200.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2024-2025 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
13. Jobs: Georgetown University – American Druze Foundation Fellowship
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68135
University of Arizona – Assistant Professor of Persian and Iranian History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68133
University of California Los Angeles – Call for Applications: Two Postdoc positions (early modern China and early modern Islamicate world) Ahmanson-Getty Core Program Fellowships, 2025–2026
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68123
- November 05, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
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