1. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies and Invisible East present a series of monthly online seminars about archives and documents.
Convened by Arezou Azad and Mohamad Tavakoli, the seminars are held monthly on Zoom.
Please join us this month to hear from Dr Roxana Zenhari on ‘The Archive of Early Illustrated Persian Books as Historical Record’. Thursday 16 January at 12PM EST / 5PM GMT. Pre-registration is essential.
2. SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies and the Persian Manuscripts Association
5.00pm, Thursday 23 January 2025
This lecture examines lajvardina vessels within the broader context of the Ilkhanid aesthetic, and investigates how the interplay between ceramics and manuscript paintings can enhance our understanding of both media.
3. Intellect is pleased to present International Journal of Islamic Architecture 14.1!
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
Aims & Scope
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. The main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of architecture.
This title is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI).
Issue 14.1
Commentary
CHRISTIANE GRUBER
Dialogues
DANIEL E. COSLETT
Design in Theory Articles
ZIAD JAMALEDDINE
MUHAMMAD NAUFAL FADHIL AND JULIE NICHOLS
ZOHREH SOLTANI
Design in Practice Articles
MUHAMAD NAQSHBANDI
CAN ÖZERDEM
Architectural Spotlight
ŞEBNEM YÜCEL
Book Reviews
ZOHREH SOLTANI
MIRIAM COOKE
JOSEPH C. WILLIAMS
ADEDOYIN TERIBA
Exhibition Reviews
BAHAR AKGÜN
SARAH ROGERS MORRIS
Conference Précis
AMALIE ELFALLAH
4. Image archive of Turkish (Anatolian) Architecture and Art
Tom Klobe of Honolulu, Hawai’i, announces that his images of Turkish (Anatolian) architecture and art are now available online at the stated url: https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/show/85
His Iranian slides are soon to follow.
Contact Email
klobetm@hawaii.edu
URL
5. I’m writing to invite you to a Hamandishi /هَماندیشی (a term roughly translating to “symposium”) we are organizing on the topic of archiving Iranian underground performances.
The symposium named Archive: In-Progress will be held online from January 7th to 14th. It is free to register via this link.
Over the past two years, a significant shift has occurred among theatre practitioners and performers in Iran. Many have chosen to forgo licenses for their performances and disregard mandatory dress codes, resulting in a burgeoning scene of unlicensed performances in small private venues and apartments. This has created a new performance landscape in Iran, unprecedented in its scale and nature.
The symposium will explore the necessity (or lack thereof), ethics, agents, and methodologies of archiving these performances. It will feature approximately 34 sessions, including roundtables, papers, video essays, and lecture-performances. We are curating this under the umbrella of the Reconnect Festival. Presenters include practitioners and scholars from Tehran and Shiraz of Iranian or Afghan heritage, and several international participants joining from East and South West Asia, Europe, and North America.
Most events will be conducted in Persian, and several in English. We have integrated an AI-powered live translation feature in Google Meet, allowing real-time translation into 50 languages.
Kind regards,
Reconnect Festival Team
6. UCLA
IRANIAN STUDIES OUTREACH
BILINGUAL LECTURE SERIES
Film Screening and Director Q&A
Mohammad Ehsani
Sunday, February 2, 2025 at 4:00 pm, Royce Hall 314
Alternate live stream on Zoom:
The Water Will Take Us (2022)
(Persian with English subtitles)
In the spring of 2019 Iran experienced a near apocalypse event that went by almost unnoticed by the world. Widespread flash flooding affected large parts of the country over the course of one month, leading to major damages countrywide and leaving the already impoverished population in utter disarray. The film is a look at how years of mismanagement, poor spatial planning and climate change are impacting civil society in Iran.
Lady Urmia (2013)
(Persian with English subtitles)
The film is a poetic documentary about Lake Urmia, in the northwest of Iran, which is drying up completely. The environmental catastrophe will affect also neighboring countries such as Iraq and Turkey. The film is narrated in the voice of the lake itself, crying for help and trying to gain international attention to its suffering.
University of Edinburgh
7. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminars,
Mondays and Tuesdays, Spring 2025
‘Taxes, taxes, taxes. All the rest is bulls*it in my opinion’
Organised by the Caliphal Finances Team
Dalia Hussein, Marie Legendre, Noëmie Lucas, Georgi Obatnin, Eline Scheerlinck
and the Edinburgh Centre for Late Antique Islamic and Byzantine Studies (CLAIBS)
Monday 13 January 5.15pm
(week 1)
Caliphal Finances Team (IMES)
‘They have come to a place where there is no one who can read them.’ The many lives of the Aberdeen papyri from Egypt to Python
Tuesday 28 January 1pm
(week 3)
Simon Loynes
(IMES)
From esoteric communication to verbatim revelation: The conspicuous absence of the root w-ḥ-y in the schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr
Monday 10 February 5.15pm
(week 5)
Nik Matheou
(History)
Crisis of accumulation in the Chinggisid world-order: Land, capital and fiscal administration in Ilkhanid Ani, 1256-1335
Tuesday 25 February 1pm
(week 6)
Caliphal Finances Team (IMES)
People and Money: The agents of Abbasid taxation from the village to the caliph
Monday 10 March 5.15pm
(week 8)
Caliphal Finances Team (IMES)
Accounting practices in the multilingual administration of the Abbasid era
Tuesday 25 March 1pm
(week 10)
Stefano Nicastro (History)
The Port of al-Iskandarīyya: The physical infrastructures and administrative roles of the Mamluk Dīwān and the Genoese funduq in shaping Egyptian-Genoese commerce and interactions (twelfth-fifteenth centuries)
All sessions take place in the Project Room (1.06) at 50 George Square, the University of Edinburgh
The Monday 5.15pm seminars will be followed by a reception
For zoom access to the sessions please email caliphalfinances@ed.ac.uk.
Caliphal Finances, The Finances of the Caliphate: Abbasid Fiscal Practice in Islamic Late Antiquity is an ERC funded project, follow our weekly posts on:
8. Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University) will be giving an online talk titled Love, Translated: Sentimental Internationalism and Nâzım’s Late Style at Boğaziçi University’s Nâzım Hikmet Research on January 15th.
For the link and abstract, please visit the link below:
https://nazimhikmetmerkezi.com/samuel-hodgkinin-konferansi-15-ocakta-love-translated/