Archive for 2024
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Workshop “Teaching Islam in the Contemporary World”, Shenandoah University, Leesburg, VA, 7-8 August 2024
The workshop addresses pedagogical approaches and techniques in teaching various topics in contemporary Islam. These may include, but are not limited to, teaching scriptures, Islamic law, history, social and political issues, theology, and gender. Workshop faculty will present successful teaching strategies in their respective field and lead the discussion on topics related to teaching contemporary Islam.
Application deadline: 31 May 32024.
Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/teachingcontemporaryislamworkshop.html
2. HYBRID “10th International Congress on Turkology”, Research Institute of Turkology, Istanbul University, 12-13 November 2024
The primary objective of the congress is to evaluate the scholarly and institutional trajectory of Turkology studies while reflecting on the past century of the institution.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2024.
Information: https://turkiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/turkology-congress/about-congress
3. Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 Year) on “Primary Sources in Early Arabic Grammatical Texts”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca` Foscari University of Venice
Using a text-based approach, the project will study key Arabic linguistic works from the 7th to the 10th century, considering both local Arab-Islamic frameworks and external influences. Ultimately, the project seeks to develop a new understanding of the origin and formation of the Arabic linguistic tradition, tracing origins and reception of the linguistic themes and identifying the factors that contributed to the process of language
standardization of Classical Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2024.
Information: https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/662116de21adf
4. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Challenges of ChatGPT in English Language Teaching, Learning, and Academic Publications
https://awej.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AWEJ-ChatGPT-April-2024-Full-Issue.pdf
5. Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) seeks to fill two PhD positions (4 years) in the field of Arabic Philosophy and History of Knowledge and ask you to forward this information to promising students who are in the process of completing their MA degree.
The ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (short: ALIVE, more information here) investigates the intellectual development of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and studies some documents of his teachers and students in relation to his philosophy. A good or very good grasp of the classical Arabic language is required, as both sub-projects are dedicated to sources that have not yet been translated and have been little researched.
Some details:
- Available are two fully funded doctoral positions for a total of four years.
- The monthly gross salary is €2.770 in the first year and increases annually to €3.539 in the fourth year.
- The positions also include a travel allowance, which can be used to offer lectures or attend conferences and workshops.
- Various academic skills are also trained during the project period, such as organising one’s own academic events.
- The project and the positions are integrated into the “Center for the History of Philosophy and Science” (CHPS) and participate in its internal and external activities.
- Application deadline: 31 May 2024 // envisaged starting date: 01 September 2024
For further information on the positions, please visit the website: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidates-history-of-philosophy-in-the-islamic-world-alive-project. A direct application can be submitted via this link: https://ru.varbi.com/en/apply/positionquick/719989.
6. Courtauld Institute of Art – Postdoctoral Fellow: Mongol Connections
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67172
Closing date: May 20, 2024
7. Course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data”
On 16-20 September 2024, the School of Arabic Studies (EEA, CSIC) will host the course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data (with the programming language R)”, organized by Mayte Penelas (EEA, CSIC) and Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg).
Víctor Ropero (EEA, CSIC) is the secretary of the course. It will be taught by Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg), with the collaboration of Covadonga Baratech Soriano (ILC, CSIC), Alicia González Martínez (Universität Hamburg) and Hamid Reza Hakimi (Universität Hamburg).
This course is designed to provide a practical introduction to the R programming language, with a specific focus on analyzing prosopographical data for historians. The primary dataset we will study in this course is the Prosopografía de ulemas de al-Andalus (PUA) Project (https://www.eea.csic.es/pua/), which contains the most extensive information on Muslim scholars from al-Andalus. It is is organized within the framework of the projects Al-Andalus and the Magrib in the Islamic East: mobility, migration and memory, AMOI-II (PID2020-116680GB-I00, funded by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History (funded by the German Research Foundation [DFG] within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program).
For further information, please contact us at course.amoi-eis@eea.csic.es.
https://www.eea.csic.es/actividades-eea/course-digital-analysis-of-prosopographical-data/
https://www.csic.es/es/node/126208
With our best regards,
Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas
Contact Information
Maribel Fierro, Mayte Penelas, Maxim Romanov
Contact Email
URL
https://www.eea.csic.es/actividades-eea/course-digital-analysis-of-prosopograph…
8. Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500-1500 CE).
In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral research in the field, MEM will award the second biennial prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, which will be held virtually in November 2024.
Requirements for submission:
- Dissertations must have been filed and defended between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2024.
- Applicants must be current members of Middle East Medievalists. To join MEM or renew your membership please go to: https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/membership-form./
Submission instructions:
- Please send a PDF of the dissertation to Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg at asteinberg@fas.harvard.edu.
- No external nominations or letters of support are required.
- Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024.
About MEM: Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences, at some point between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. As part of its effort to promote scholarship and facilitate communication among its members, MEM publishes a peer-reviewed, open access journal, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: the Journal of the Middle East Medievalists.
9. The 2024 E-International Relations Article Award
E-International Relations invites PhD students and early career academics to prepare articles outlining novel ideas that contribute to a better understanding of international relations.
The deadline: 2nd August 2024
The prize: publication on the E-International Relations website and £1000 in book vouchers from Edinburgh University Press and other academic publishers!
Enter now: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fddlnk.net%2Fc%2FAQjSfRCUsPMGGPmorJQFIOWq1J0BEvWHjvf1cogV2CCqhDWrvei9gYBhONzV97vnIHrtQ-U&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cd1f1f1abe72e4834036008dc6e7caf27%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638506728994901756%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dmz9gXHA9Zb9XwiG8Jsk%2FsoB89oGtN3jPPKMNe9QmxE%3D&reserved=0
10. The Society for the History of Discoveries is putting out its annual call for exemplary student research.
Are you an undergraduate or graduate student who has written about frontiers and expansion or other discovery-related topics? Read on!
Do you have particularly promising students who have written relevant papers or work broadly in these categories? Send them our way!
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history of geographic discoveries, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The awardee in the graduate student category will receive a prize of $500.00 (US) and the awardee in the undergraduate category will receive a prize of $250 (US). The Society will invite both winners to present a version of their paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. SHD will provide information about the conference to the awardee upon notification of the award, including details concerning costs and travel funding. Acceptance of the prize is not contingent upon your ability to attend the conference. Additionally, SHD will invite the awardees to submit their winning papers to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information on submission format and eligibility see https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Committee Chair, at mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June, 2024
Contact Information
Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona
Contact Email
URL
https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
11. Opan Access: Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions
Editors Leone Gazziero, Laurent Cesalli, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio
Book series: Ad argumenta, 4
Place: publisher, year: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2023
Pages: 272 p.
- May 07, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Zoom: ‘Oxford Political Thought Seminar – Alids’ (8 May, 4pm, UK time)
Oxford Political Thought Seminar on 8 May.
Tahera Qutbuddin and Nebil Husayn as speakers, addressing the theme of “Alids.”
Speaker 1: Tahera Qutbuddin
Title: Just Governance in the Teachings and Practice of Imam Ali
Speaker 2: Nebil Husayn
Title: The Family of Ali as Political Thinkers
Date: 8 May, 2024
Time: 4-5.30pm (UK time)
Venue: Online Zoom
Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7o2XvHfAT9CNFYoHI5K53g
- May 06, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. CFP: Project Conference: ESRC Digital British Islam
The ESRC Digital British Islam research team is delighted to announce our project conference. Over the last two years we have been using a variety of methods to collect data on how Muslims in Britain use cyber Islam environments. Our conference is an opportunity for you to engage with our research findings, as well as to showcase cutting edge research in this field from across the world.
Details of the call for papers are available on our project website (link below). The conference will be held on 5th and 6th February at Coventry University and the deadline to receive abstracts is 15th July 2024. Please submit your abstract via the online form.
We look forward to hearing from you and ultimately welcoming you to the conference.
With best wishes
The ESRC Digital British Islam team
Professor Gary Bunt, Professor Frederic Volpi, Professor Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Dr Sadek Hamid, Dr Khadijah Elshayyal, Dr Alamgir Ahmed and Dr Laura Jones
2. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 4, no. 2 | Spring 2024
Note:
Colloquium: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S. – May 29-30, 2024 – Online via Zoom
Deadline for Registration: May 27, 2024
At
3. Mevlevi Manuscripts, 1268–c. 1400: A Study of the Sources
by Cailah Jackson
The e-book will shortly be available at the following link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-48367-7.
Hard copies will be available from June 2024.
4. ONLINE Muslim Worlds Network Seminar Series: “The Foreignness of Writing Recon-textualizing the Anthropology of Islam” by Emilio Spadola (Colgate University), European Association of Social Anthropologists, 8 May 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET
Drawing on my current book project, this talk revisits the decade from the Iranian Revolution to the end of the Cold War, a key period of Islamic revival and expanding global commerce and communications, on the one and, and anthropologists’ theorization of Islam’s modernity and conceptual incorporation of Islamic texts, on the other.
Registration: https://univr.zoom.us/j/89405417840 ; Meeting ID: 894 0541 7840
5. International Conference “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Postimperial, Deimperial” (Including Ottoman and Islam Studies), University of Rijeka, Croatia, 15-17 May 2024
6. “Second Kurdish Studies Conference”, LSE and University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 22-23 May 2024
Deadline for registration: 10 May 2024.
7. “DAVO-Werkstattgespräche” to Promote Young Scholars during the “Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, University of Goettingen, 26-28 September 2024
Young scholars will have the chance to present their scientific theses (Master thesis, PhD) in progress in German or English language. Since the general idea of the workshop is not to present finished works, young scholars are explicitly invited to contribute their projects in an early stage of conception or implementation.
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 2024.
Information: Contact Dr. Tobias Zumbrägel (tobias.zumbraegel@uni-heidelberg.de )
8. HYBRID Workshop “Iran and China: Common Heritage and Contemporary Relations”, University of Groningen, 27-28 September 2024
Themes: Books, manuscripts, art works and first hand materials about Iran and China produced in either countries. – Travelogues, diaries, and cultures of travel. – The historical position of Iran on the Silk Road and its connection to China. – Emigration and immigration of Iranian and Chinese communities across Central Asia. – Contemporary mobilization of these themes in international relations, public discourse, and academic debates. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024.
9. Colloque international « Sur les routes d’Arabie : itinéraires terrestres et maritimes », Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 12-14 décembre 2024
Le colloque a pour objectif d’étudier les routes de la péninsule Arabique, qu’elles soient terrestres ou maritimes, et les échanges qu’elles ont favorisés via l’archéologie, les sciences historiques, philologiques et religieuses mais aussi les sciences de la vie. Cette approche s’effectuera sur la longue durée, depuis l’âge du Bronze jusqu’à la période islamique.
Date limite : 17 Mai 2024.
10. PhD Position in the Project “ALiDiM – Arabic Linguistic Discourse in the Making”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca` Foscari University of Venice
Applicants should hold a master’s degree in a field pertinent to the PhD program and possess a keen interest in Arabic linguistics and text analysis. A background in Arabic studies and knowledge of Arabic and English are essential, while additional experience in linguistics, philology and DH is advantageous. Candidates shall submit a proposal for research that they aim to pursue.
Deadline for applications: 23 May 2024.
11. Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 Year) on “Primary Sources in Early Arabic Grammatical Texts”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca` Foscari University of Venice
Using a text-based approach, the project will study key Arabic linguistic works from the 7th to the 10th century, considering both local Arab-Islamic frameworks and external influences. Ultimately, the project seeks to develop a new understanding of the origin and formation of the Arabic linguistic tradition, tracing origins and reception of the linguistic themes and identifying the factors that contributed to the process of language standardization of Classical Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 21 May 2024.
12. Chapters for Edited Volume “A Critical Reader on Translating Cultures”, UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures, King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), Saudi Arabia
This reader aims to reconceptualize the history and processes of translation by starting from Arabic and the Middle East, rather than Europe. This approach seeks to move beyond a Western-centric research paradigm, advancing South-South cultural and conceptual exchanges and uncovering concepts and discussions previously overlooked in Anglo-centric translation studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2024.
- May 04, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – ‘Nahj al-Balāghah: The Wisdom and Eloquence of ʿAlī’ – T Qutbuddin, ed and transl.
The book is Open Access, and the PDF may be downloaded from Brill’s website and shared freely.
- May 02, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – CfP: “Nizārī Ismailis and Spiritual Resurrection” (London, IIS, 8 August 2024)
- May 01, 2024
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Hybrid: Prof. Nahyan Fancy “What kind of ‘ilm is medicine?”
Mon 13 May 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
KCL Kings Building K-1.14 (London)
Join the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine project for our first colloquium in our series ‘Ancient Philosophy of Medicine’.
On the May 13th, Professor Nahyan Fancy will join us from The University of Exeter to speak on “What kind of ‘ilm is medicine? Reflections of the Canon and Epitome Commentators on Avicenna’s Definition of Medicine and its Implications”.
The talk can be attended in person in London ( Kings Building K-1.14, Strand Campus) or online on Zoom (link will be sent on the day of the event).
Abstract: Ibn Sīnā begins the Canon of Medicine by defining medicine as “a science (ʿilm) through which one knows (yataʿarraf minhu) the states of the human body from the perspective of what makes [the body] healthy and [what] makes it leave [the state] of health.” In the course of this opening discussion he also stresses that all of medicine is a theoretical science, including its practical parts. Yet, later in the same lesson, Ibn Sīnā maintains that for some medical matters the physician qua physician may only conceptualize them (taṣawwur) without passing judgment (taṣdīq) on whether they exist. The physician qua physician should accept such judgments from the scholar of natural science (al-ʿilm al-ṭabīʿī). Dimitri Gutas, in his oft-cited chapter from 2003, cited this latter passage as a reason for why physicians in Islamic societies were unable to critique or overthrow Galenic humoral theory since it was deemed off-limits to them. In this presentation, I shall examine the discussions of four Canon commentators and four Epitome commentators on the definition of medicine and what types of investigations fell under the purview of those engaged in medicine (whether as practicing physicians, teachers, or commentators on medical works). We shall see that the thirteenth century commentators had already come to understand the Avicennan definition and passage on what is permissible for physicians qua physicians in a way that did not limit their investigations into medical theory. We will see how this led them to revise humoral theory and even engage in debates over the connection of the soul to the body, and its implications for the number and role of chief organs.
Location
KCL Kings Building K-1.14
to register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/sowerbyproject/1238399
2. Art of the Book: Persian Miniatures of Shahnameh (1977)
A documentary film by Iraj Gorgin
PERSIAN DUTCH NETWORk
3. The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures
Ceyhun Arslan
4. ONLINE Muslim Worlds Network Seminar Series: “The Foreignness of Writing Recontextualizing the Anthropology of Islam” by Emilio Spadola (Colgate University), European Association of Social Anthropologists, 8 May 2024, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm CET
Drawing on my current book project, this talk revisits the decade from the Iranian Revolution to the end of the Cold War, a key period of Islamic revival and expanding global commerce and communications, on the one hand, and anthropologists’ theorization of Islam’s modernity and conceptual incorporation of Islamic texts, on the other.
Registration: https://univr.zoom.us/j/89405417840 ; Meeting ID: 894 0541 7840
5. Panel “Vernacularising Law & Order in the Eastern Mediterranean (1791-1849)”, SeSaMO Conference, Cagliari, Italy, 3-5 October 2024
The panel intends to explore those spaces of hybridasation and contamination in the Eastern Mediterranean where law and order were vernacularised in their various forms. In doing so, the panel aims at bringing back into a shared conversation Modern Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Egyptian and Levantine Arabic.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/sesamo-2024-cfp.pdf
6. HYBRID International Conference “Zakāt: Implementation & Impact in the Contemporary World”, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 21-23 February 2025
Topics: Qualitative and quantitative studies of the impact of zakāt in a defined region or community. – Does the intention to pay zakāt affect or interrupt consumer spending? – Perceptions and realities of the relationship between zakāt and modern taxation. – Case studies on the spiritual, psychological impact and financial impact on the receivers of zakāt. – Positive and negative social and spiritual impact of various means
of zakāt solicitation. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 June 2024. Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/zakatconference.html
7. Eight Presidential Internships at the Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
The program provides recent graduates of US-type Liberal Arts colleges and universities with the opportunity to work in a university setting while learning about and experiencing the cultures and languages of Morocco.
Qualified graduates from all nationalities and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 5 May 2024. Information: https://aui.ma/presidential-internship-program
8. HYBRID Summer 2024 Intensive Program of the “Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture”, Amman
Our summer program moves beyond pure language study by fully incorporating Arab cultures into the curriculum with lectures, film screenings, cultural activities and language partnerships. Our communicative, proficiency-based curriculum integrates Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Levantine dialect to get students
interacting as native speakers do, even from the earliest proficiency levels.
Information: https://www.sijal.org/summer-intensive
9. Articles on “Constructing the ‘European Muslim Crisis’: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
We are currently in search of scholarly articles that explore the ways in which Muslims residing in Europe navigate their religious identities and engage in religious practices within the context of varying national models of secularism, church-state relations, and multiculturalism.
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/7R53832XG8
10. Articles on “Gulf Nationalism” for a Special Issue of the “Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN) “, Guest-edited by Dr Betul Dogan Akkas and Dr Hamdullah Baycar
SEN invites scholars to submit their empirical or theoretical pieces for the special issue of Nationalism in the Gulf. This special issue will consider traditional and new studies about Gulfi/Khaliji nationalism and will target being a reference source for scholars studying the region.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2024.
Information: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/17549469/call-for-papers/gulf-nationalism
11. Zahra Institute: Speaker Series: The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege
For the final event of the Spring Speaker series, Zahra Institute welcomes Nilay Özok-Gündoğan (Florida State University), a historian of the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East whose research centers on the questions of modern state-making, property regimes, and intercommunal conflict and coexistence in the borderlands of modern empires. In this talk, she will discuss the nature of Kurdish nobles’ dominion over their territories. She will illustrate how the original agreement between the Ottoman state and Kurdish nobles manifested on the ground from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Speaker Series: The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege
When: 2:00 pm Eastern (1 p.m. Central), Wednesday, May 1st
Where: https://zoom.us/j/98030942408?pwd=aU1aaGw4V0F6T2hQenI0YnlJeGR2QT09
12. Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium 24 June, Cambridge UK
We are extending our deadline for submissions to our forthcoming symposium ‘Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate ‘ until the 3rd of May. We are looking for submissions from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims of the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on Monday 24th June 2024 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. Papers should present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend all sessions. Expenses within the Uk will be fully covered by the Centre.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 3 May 2024.
Successful candidates will be notified by 10 May 2024 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 10 June 2024.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Regards
Neil Cunningham
Programmes Manager
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
13. Orsolya Varsányi
Arabic Christian Notions of Human and Divine Free Will: In ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-masāʾil wa-l-ajwiba
Monday Majlis Online on the 6th of May, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwldequqz4iH9bYCtALGH1wZeqjwx_c-ZT8
14. Prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 16 mai 2024, 17h, à l’INALCO
Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à laprochaine séancedu séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 16 mai 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Simon Berger, historien spécialiste de l’Eurasie centrale médiévale et de l’Empire mongol, et chercheur postdoctorant CNRS au CeRMI (Sociétés et cultures de l’Afghanistan), pour une conférence intitulée : « Sources persanes et historiographie mongole: Écrire et réécrire l’histoire des débuts de l’empire gengiskhanide ».
Résumé
Le récent travail de critique des sources de l’histoire de l’Empire mongol a mis en lumière, par-delà les cloisonnements artificiels en corpus linguistiques, l’existence d’un substrat historiographique en langue mongole, plus ancien. Contrairement à l’idée reçue, la célèbre Histoire Secrète des Mongols n’aurait donc pas été le seul texte historique rédigé en mongol, par des Mongols. D’autres sources mongoles ont existé et ont été employées par les chroniqueurs, tant persans que chinois, pour rédiger leurs œuvres dans leurs langues respectives, bien souvent sur commande des élites gengiskhanides. La comparaison de deux textes écrits en persan, le Tārīkh-i Jahāngushā de ‘Alā’ ad-Dīn ‘Aṭā Malik Juvaynī et le Majma‘ al-ansāb de Muḥammad Shabānkāra’ī, permet d’accéder indirectement à l’une de ces sources. Celle-ci donne à voir de la fondation de l’Empire mongol et de Chinggis Khan une image bien différente de celle forgée par l’historiographie impériale officielle à partir des années 1250 et passée ensuite dans les travaux des historiennes et des historiens.
Orientations bibliographiques
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « How the Secret History of the Mongols Was Written », Mongolica 49, 2016, p. 22-53.
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « The Indictment of Ong Qa’an: The Earliest Reconstructable Mongolian Source on the Rise of Chinggis Khan », Historical and Philological Studies on China’s Western Regions 9, 2017, p. 272-306.
- Christopher P. ATWOOD, « Rashīd al-Dīn’s Ghazanid Chronicle and Its Mongolian Sources », in May, D. Bayarsaikhan et C. P. Atwood (dir.), New Approaches to Ilkhanid History. Leyde : Brill, 2020, p. 53-121.
- Jean AUBIN, « Un chroniqueur méconnu : Šabankara’i’ », Studia Iranica10, no 2, 1981, p. 213-224 ; reéimpr. in Jean AUBIN, Études sur l’Iran médiéval. Géographie historique et société (éd. Denise Aigle). Paris : Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes, 2018, p. 143-154.
- Stefan KAMOLA, « Chapter 3: Mongol Dynastic History, 1302-1304 », in Idem, Making Mongol History. Rashid al-Din and the Jami‘ al-Tawarikh. Édimbourg : Edinburgh University Press, 2019, p. 59-90.
- Charles MELVILLE, « Jahāngošā-ye Jovayni », Encyclopædia Iranica XIV, fasc. 4 (2008), p. 378-382 ; disponible en ligne : http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/jahangosa-ye-jovayni
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
15. Lecture – “The Garden of Laylī-u-Majnūn’s Phantasma: Temporal Architectonics in the Illustrations of a Bodleian Copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī,” Mahroo Moosavi, VIAHSS – May 3
The next VIAHSS lecture will take place on Friday, May 3, 2024, at 12:00 New York/17:00 London/18:00 Firenze and Berlin/19:00 Istanbul/19:30 Tehran.
Mahroo Moosavi (Max-Planck Institute, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Museum of Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin) will present “The Garden of Laylī-u-Majnūn’s Phantasma: Temporal Architectonics in the Illustrations of a Bodleian Copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī.”
To attend, please make sure to register in advance here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtd-6rqDMqG9No4bWPS-Fmnkd8cdrY2MPM__;!!HXCxUKc!zIaa0WL-QcmUel9nIt2aQpAfaKmUKyAIJWLsLoYnJAUteHVshmzxGVDrMS3_L6CW_0qyCaPsg01jMKyp$. Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
16. The International Journal of Islamic Architectureand its Award Jury are pleased to announce the 2024 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award:
Award Winner
Roberto Fabbri, ‘The Contextual Linkage: Visual Metaphors and Analogies in Recent Gulf Museums’ Architecture’, The Journal of Architecture 27: 2-3, 2022, pp. 372–97.
Honourable Mention
Sami Zerari, Vincenzo Pace, and Leila Sriti, ‘Towards an Understanding of the Local Interpretations of the Arab Mosque Model in the Saharan Regions. Re-exploration of the Ziban in South-Eastern Algeria’, ArcHistoR 10, 2023, pp. 97–129.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is pleased to offer this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The Award winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a 2-year subscription to IJIA, and the honourable mention winner will receive a 2-year subscription to IJIA. We are extremely grateful to the members of the 2024 jury, Professors Kishwar Rizvi, Leïla el-Wakil, and James L. Wescoat Jr., for their time and expertise in judging submissions for this year’s award, and to the chair of the Award Committee, Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
The Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award will be offered every two years. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2024 or 2025 will be eligible for the 2026 award. For the criteria by which papers will be judged and the submission process, see our website.
Contact Information
Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Chair, Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award
International Journal of Islamic Architecture
Contact Email
URL
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
17. The American University in Cairo – Assistant, Associate or Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67153
Closing date: July 22, 2024
18. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67163
Incl Islamic Art
Closing date: July 24, 2024
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Shii News – Online: ‘Rethinking the Global History of Sunni-Shii Relations and Confessionalisation in Islam’ – T Matthiesen (Cambridge, UK, 2.5.24, 5pm)
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ‘Climate Change and the Built Environment in the Islamic World’, International Journal of Islamic Architecture13.2 (Special Issue)
This special issue of IJIA focuses on the impact of the current climate crisis on built environments in the Islamic world. Covering a diverse number of chronological and geographical contexts, the articles herein consider the effects of climate change on structured landscapes through the lenses of material, design, and architectural practice.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
and
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijia
2. ‘Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics’
PMLA , Volume 139 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 172 – 183
Hany Rashwan
3. ‘Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul’
Ted Good
Religious Studies, Volume 60 / Issue S1, May 2024, pp S60 – S73
doi: 10.1017/S0034412523000641 Published Online on 2 August 2023
4. 2024 Sir William Luce lecture at Durham University (and online), 12 June 12:00 BST
“Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones” Dr Altea Pericoli
You are warmly invited by Durham University’s Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies to attend the 2024 Sir William Luce public lecture at 12.00pm on Wednesday 12 June at the Al-Qasimi Building on Elvet Hill Rd, Durham DH1 3TU. The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom (links below).
Dr Altea Pericoli will deliver a lecture on “Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones”. If you do intend to attend in person RSVP by 3 June.
Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones
Summary: Dr Altea Pericoli’s research has the overall objective to provide a broader understanding of humanitarian aid in conflict zones as implemented by Gulf actors and to improve the dialogue between Western and Gulf donors. The research examines foreign aid interventions of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their implementation in Yemen, Sudan, and Syria (including the Syrian refugee issue) in the period 2015-2022. The study combines international relations theories and the anthropological approach to humanitarian aid analysis, embedding a top-down and bottom-up observation of aid interventions.
Dr Pericoli is currently a Postdoctoral research fellow in geopolitics and regional cooperation at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She was previously an academic visitor at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies and a visiting research fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Institutions and Policies (2019-2023) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and she conducted many visiting periods at Vienna University, Durham University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. In July 2023, she obtained the BRISMES Award “Early Career Development Scholarship” to elaborate her first monograph with a university press. Her research interests include Islamic philanthropy and aid interventions implemented by Islamic actors and the Gulf States in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
To attend online via Zoom (you will be asked to register as an attendee): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nYjAYQinR168Ctlftr9Icg
5. Lecturer in Political Geographies of the Middle East
Newcastle University
We welcome applicants whose work advances one or more of the following areas through a focus on the Middle East and its shifting political geographies: conflict and displacement; resource colonialism; mobility politics; war and terrorism; human rights; security; borders and boundaries.
Deadline | 12 May 2024
More information
6. Roundtable Call for Submissions | Iranian Studies
The journal of Iranian Studies invites submissions for roundtables. Topics may include any subject in the social sciences related to Iran, the Persianate world, minoritized communities, and transnational diasporas. If interested, please submit your proposal to Dr Paola Rivetti, the journal’s associate editor for the social sciences (paola.rivetti@dcu.ie).
Deadline | 17 June 2024
7. Call for Applications | BIAA-University of Oxford Martin Harrison Memorial Fellowship
With funds donated in memory of the late Professor Martin Harrison, the University of Oxford has instituted a scheme of short-term Fellowships to enable Turkish scholars to come to the United Kingdom and Oxford for a period of research. The Fellowships are open to Turkish citizens resident in Türkiye who are working in any area of the material and visual culture of Anatolia, from the Prehistoric to the Ottoman period.
Deadline | 31 May 2024
8. Middle East Studies Senior Editor needed for Cogent Social Sciences
Fully Open Access (OA) journal Cogent Social Sciences is currently recruiting for a Senior Editor within its Area Studies section, to take the lead on a new strand focusing on Middle East Studies (North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and the Arabian Peninsula). This role reports to the Editor-in-Chief, and you will be joining the Senior Editors for African Studies, Asian Studies, and Central Asian, Russian and East European Studies.
Deadline | 31 May 2024
9. Call for Applications | BIAA Postdoctoral Fellowship
The British Institute at Ankara welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship relating to research that fits within one of its Strategic Research Initiatives. The Fellowship will be tenable for 12 months from September 2024. The Fellow will be based at the Institute in Ankara and will be required to spend at least two-thirds of the period of their Fellowship at the Institute. The remaining one-third can be spent outside Ankara for research purposes, in consultation with the Institute’s Director.
Deadline | 30 April 2024
10. Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors (Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival)
Film Screening | SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies | 3 May 2024
“A Mosaic of Metaphors” delves into the life and artistic journey of renowned master of Iranian theatre and cinema, Bahram Beyzaie.
11. Alternative Imaginaries: Feminist Transformative Politics in the Global South
Conference | UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | 18 May 2024
This conference is organized to examine the ways in which feminist imagination is changing the face of the Global South by challenging gendered political structures, legal systems, and development trajectories in the Global South.
More information
12. Upcoming Events at St Antony’s College Middle East Centre, Oxford
Upcoming events include:
- Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights | 7 May 2024
- The transformation of the Ottoman-Iranian boundaries at the “Idea of Iran” symposium | 13 May 2024
- Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East | 28 May 2024
13. The Religious/Secular Divide in Turkish Television Drama: Three Media Platforms
Hybrid Event | British Institute at Ankara | 8 May 2024
After briefly explaining the embedding of the re-emergence of religiosity in Türkiye’s socio-political history, the lecture will supply a short overview of the development towards the presentation of religiosity in television drama. Then, it will zoom in on three case studies, analysing how conservative/religious lifestyles and modern/secular lifestyles are presented.
More information
14. ASPIRANTUM’s 2024 Persian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia.
Deadline to apply: May 15, 2024.
To apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
Students may select a 4-10 weeks (80 – 200 hours) program starting from June 23, June 30, or July 7, 2024 (please mention the preferred start date in your application form).
10 weeks – 200 contact hours (1 hour = 60 minutes)
9 weeks – 180 contact hours
8 weeks – 160 contact hours
7 weeks – 140 contact hours
6 weeks – 120 contact hours
Registration for the 4-week and 5-week course is now closed.
5 weeks – 100 contact hours
4 weeks – 80 contact hours
The Persian Summer School 2024 will have two groups (upper elementary and intermediate).
The intermediate syllabus covers various topics, including Economic Persian, Military Persian, Legal Persian, Cultural Persian, Technological Persian, Medical Persian, and more. You can find the daily topics in the syllabus: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/persian-intermediate-syllabus
During our summer school, we have planned exciting trips to some of Armenia’s most renowned cultural heritage sites. These include the Quba Mere Diwane Yezidi Temple, the Garni Pagan Temple, the Geghard Monastery, the Mausoleum of Kara Koyunlu Emirs, the Amberd Fortress, and the picturesque Lake Sevan. We will also visit Martuni, Ayrivank on Lake Sevan, Ejmiatsin, Tsaghkadzor, Bjni, Khor Virap, Noravank, and more.
These tours offer students a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in local culture. They will have the chance to milk and shear a sheep, savor cheese under a shepherd’s tent, and sample the finest Armenian cuisine in traditional restaurants. Additionally, they can enjoy a refreshing swim in Sevan Lake, which is 1900 meters above sea level, and Kari Lake, which is at an elevation of 3185 meters.
To get a glimpse of what these tours entail, you can watch a recap of our previous excursions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3PmyCWDsvg and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4JlteBOxw
The deadline to apply to the 4-10 weeks 2024 Persian language summer school is May 15, 2024.
The participation fee is:
$6390 – 10 weeks
$5890 – 9 weeks
$5490 – 8 weeks
$4990 – 7 weeks
$4490 – 6 weeks
Registration for the 4-week and 5-week course is now closed.
$3990 – 5 weeks
$3490 – 4 weeks
To apply for summer school, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
15. Professor Richard Bulliet speaking about Caravans on 10 May 2024 (in person )
‘Thinking about Caravans’
Friday, 10 May 2024, 5:30PM GMT
Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
16. Links for Recordings of the Exeter Monday Majlises of the spring term from the 15 of January to the 18th of March:
Monday Majlis Online Series, Recordings of the Majlises of the Spring Term
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter
(We don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free)
15th of January. Zoltán Szombathy, Islamic Discourses in a Local Context: A Traditional Ritual in Eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia
22nd of January. Neguin Yavari, Sufis Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDT1bb-R8_s&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=9&pp=iAQB
29th of January. Stefan Kamola, Everything under Heaven, and the Heavens Too: Universal History and Astrology in Mongol Iran
5th of February. Dženita Karić, Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (conversation about the book and beyond)
12th of February. Dalal S al-Baroud with Sayed Ismail al-Behbehani, Rewilding Arabic Literature
19th of February. Andrew F. March, On Muslim Democracy: A Book Talk
26th of February. Austin O’Malley, The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr
4th of March. Yusuf Ünal, ‘Our State in the End Times:’ The Safavid Rule and a Shi’i Theory of Sovereignty
11th of March. Yaron Klein The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBJaG4kqQI&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=2&pp=iAQB
18th of March. Phillip Bruckmayr, Islamic Reform as a Family Affair: The Tariq Shah Wali Ullah in Modern Malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1peidWXyAoE&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=1&pp=iAQB
In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please contact the CSI Manager: Sarah Wood (s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk).
17. Understanding Carpets and Rug Weaving is a four-day workshop organized and hosted by The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. It will be held from October 21 through October 24 at the museum’s Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center, the workshop will be led by Walter B. Denny (The Textile Museum Research Associate, The University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Sumru Belger Krody (Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection) with support from the museum’s curatorial staff. The workshop will address professional concerns of museum curators and academic scholars from all levels of experience including those currently undertaking graduate study.
The program will include a mixture of formats: illustrated lectures giving an overview of the history and development of rug and carpet weaving; group discussions; and practical exercises in the analysis of weave structures, including an up-close study of a selection of rugs and other textiles from The Textile Museum Collection. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic weave structures in the context of various carpet cultures (Anatolia, Iran, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia), weaving traditions (nomadic and settled), eras (from Early Modern times to the 19th century) and economic spheres (court and commercial production), as well as methods for analyzing and documenting rugs and carpets. We will also discuss the storage, conservation, and display of carpets in a museum context.
The museum will provide lunch and coffee, as well as all materials necessary for the workshop. Participants will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and dinner expenses. Registration for the workshop closes on September 1, 2024 and is limited to 10 participants. To register, please complete this form. The Museum will provide a syllabus, some basic documentary materials to be read in advance, and detailed accommodation recommendations upon registration.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
The museum is happy to provide a scholarship covering accommodation and dinner allowance to one graduate student for the workshop. Graduate students who are in good standing and currently enrolled in a U.S. higher-education institution are eligible to apply. We welcome applicants from graduate programs in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collection and training in material-culture approaches.
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter with a summary of your research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of how the workshop would benefit your intellectual and professional development. All materials should be submitted as a single PDF document to museumcuratorial@gwu.edu. Applications are due by July 1, 2024.
Applicants are also encouraged to explore other sources of funding support within their own institutions, and from various professional organizations that support research in the area of carpets, textiles, and the history of Islamic art.
Contact: MuseumCuratorial@gwu.edu
Contact Information
Sumru Belger Krody or Ella Jones
Contact Email
URL
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft9Pf4919gd1XlhTAXq3LL-fgb327YtbXxbrP…
18. HYBRID Lecture “The Mystical Appeal of a Revolution: Classified Documents, Islamic Third Worldism, and Iran in 1983” by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Hebrew University Jerusalem), University of Erfurt, 29 April 2024, 16:15 CET
For a moment in 1979 and 1980, post-revolutionary Iran emerged as the torch bearer of Third Worldism. This talk draws on several hundreds of pages of top-secret Persian documents, gathered during fieldwork in Iran in 2019, to shine light on how elements within the Iranian regime tried to test the waters in 1983. Despite logistical mishaps and poor intelligence, the Iranian message of anti-imperialism and Muslim solidarity still found eager takers in the early 1980s.
Participation via Webex:
https://uni-erfurt.webex.com/uni-erfurt/j.php?MTID=mcb96a5b35fd94adaac08049ee2aac48f ;
Meeting-Code: 2730 634 2262, Meeting-Password: X8Ty5TFQ6ZJ
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRIDE Seminaire “De poète de la tribu à poète de la rue – les transformations de statut et de conditions de vie des poètes arabophones à l’époque prémoderne” avec Hakan Özkan (IREMAM, Aix-Marseille Université), MMSH/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 25 April 2024, 14h00 heure de Paris
Nous accorderons une attention particulière à la notion de mobilité sociale des poètes, c’est-à-dire à la capacité de ces auteurs à s’élever au-delà de leur statut socio-économique initial, à travers leurs carriers en tant que poètes mais également dans d’autres domaines professionnels. Nous explorerons en outre la thématique de la précarité, qu’elle soit d’ordre économique ou physique.
Information et inscription : https://www.iremam.cnrs.fr/en/node/101905
2. HYBRID Lecture “The Politics of Anti-Judaism: Religious Co-production and Sectarian Polemics in the Fatimid Caliphate” by Mohamed Ballan (Stony Brook University), Kevorkian Center, New York University, 25 April 2024, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm EST
The shared histories of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were integral to the shaping of all three traditions during the medieval period. This lecture seeks to shed new light on how such religious co-production illustrates the ways in which the figures of Judaism (and, to a lesser degree, Christianity) played a key role in how medieval Muslims articulated their own theological and religious claims.
Information and registration: https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/neareaststudies/events/the-politics-of-anti-judaism–religious-co-production-and-sectar.html
3. Six Positions for Doctoral Research Associates (3 Years, TV-L13, 2/3 FTE) for Project “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War. Exchange, Differentiation and Reception”, University of Mainz, Germany
Participating in this Research Training Group are the disciplines of Ancient History, Ancient Church History/Theology, Byzantine Studies, Medieval History, Eastern European History, History of Islam, Classical Archaeology, Christian Archaeology and Byzantine Art History, Early and Prehistorical Archaeology (with a focus on Medieval Archaeology) and Musicology.
Deadline for applications: 22 May 2024. Information: https://grk-byzanz-wars.uni-mainz.de/
4. NEW DATE
Valparaiso University – Visiting Assistant Professor in History
https://apply.interfolio.com/144147
Incl Middle Eastern History
Closing date: May 1, 2024
5. PhD Studentship (4 Years) on “Islamist Movements in Exile”, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University
We are seeking candidates for this position. The project will assess the evolution of activism of moderate Islamist social movements in exile in Europe since the so-called “Arab Spring”. Outstanding PhD candidates will be offered fee waiver and a tax-free scholarship of €22,000 per annum for four years.
Deadline for applications: 7 May 2024.
Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHE136/phd-studentship-on-islamist-movements-in-exile
6. Conference – ‘From Sicily to Sumatra’, Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford – May 17-18
From Sicily to Sumatra
Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
Friday 17 – Saturday 18 May 2024 at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD).
We are delighted to announce that ‘From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns’ hosted by Khalili Research Centre (KRC) will take place on Friday 17 – Saturday 18 May 2024 at Wolfson College, University of Oxford (Linton Road, Oxford OX2 6UD). This in-person two-day conference will start at 10:00am.
Over the last four decades, Professor Jeremy Johns has been a leading researcher on the history of the Islamic Mediterranean, particularly Sicily, and a pillar of the advanced study of Islamic art and archaeology at Oxford. This conference, organised to mark his retirement, brings together speakers from among his former students and closest colleagues to celebrate his career. The topics, ranging from Europe to Southeast Asia and from early Islam to the modern era, reflect the breadth of his interests and his impact on the field. We hope the event will be a fitting testament to a scholar – to quote Malaterra’s words about Roger I of Sicily – “most eloquent in speech and cool in counsel”.
For further details and to purchase tickets, please see the attached poster or visit the registration page. Tickets include lunch and refreshments on both days. There is an early bird offer which ends on Sunday, 25th April.
7. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series
“Heroes to Hostages: US—Iran Diplomacy through Race Relations and Human Rights”
Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 11:30am
Zoom Registration:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aieHlTjSSJa2-tL__Bf22g
This presentation appraises US-Iranian diplomacy through race relations and human rights. Intellectuals of the post-Mosaddeq era gave voice to an anti-colonial rhetoric that burst wide open during the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Many writers, some with socialist leanings, watched with interest political happenings in formerly colonized states. These conflicts were often rooted in experiences of racial discrimination and social inequality. At the same time, the Iranian state also engaged with some of these themes and expanded its diplomatic relations with a range of countries in the Global South. Although state-to-state ties between Iran and America were strengthened during the two decades preceding the 1979 revolution, social dissent also grew strident. The debate on human rights gave voice to these concerns as Iran’s politicians and writers reflected on the legacy of human rights and reassessed the country’s ties to the United States and the West. Race relations provided an unanticipated and often missed opportunity for collaboration.
8. Imago Mundi journal at the International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 2024
The editors of Imago Mundi are looking forward to attending ICHC 2024 in Lyon, France. Imago Mundi turns 90 years old in 2025 and ICHC 2024 offers us a chance to reflect on and connect with our community. They are eager to speak with researchers about prospective submissions, as well as to discuss the journal’s scope and reach.
The editors will lead a workshop on Wednesday, 3 July. Attendees will tackle questions that include how, in the next decade, Imago Mundi might:
- foster debate on methodological and conceptual questions, advance pedagogy, increase public impact?
- ensure a full range of maps and mapmaking practices are presented?
- contribute to connecting researchers, collectors, librarians and archivists?
In short, we invite the map history community’s thoughts on what a flagship journal should strive for as it looks towards a second century.
Additionally, the editors will be available for discussions and one-on-ones during the lunch session each day during the conference. Please feel free to approach Jordana Dym or Katie Parker at the ICHC to chat about possible article topics, how to write an article, special issues, or other matters. Alternatively, reach out ahead of time to plan a time.
Questions? Please contact editor.imagomundi@gmail.com. We will see you in Lyon and remember, early bird registration ends April 20! Learn more at https://ichc2024.univ-lyon3.fr/registration
Contact Information
Katie Parker and Jordana Dym, editors
Contact Email
9. Sami De Giosa, Text and Stone: A history of Christian Symbols in Mamluk Architecture in Cairo (1250-1517AD). Monday Majlis online, the 29th of April, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)
Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter, opening the summer term:
Sami De Giosa, Text and Stone: A history of Christian Symbols in Mamluk Architecture in Cairo (1250-1517AD)
Monday Majlis Online on the on the 29th of April, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.
Register please on this link:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYoceqoqDktE9DWrSxb4MX7x-9Ctqy68Sz6
- April 23, 2024
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