Archive for February 4th, 2025
Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Ibn Haldun University (IHU) Summer Language School Program (Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian), Istanbul, 30 June – 15 August 2025
Ibn Haldun University offers two types of summer school programs every year; Intensive language and subject-specific academic summer schools. Students can benefit from all university facilities.
Deadline for applications: 21 March 2025. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
2. ONLINE Webinar ‘Book Launch: The I.B. Tauris Handbook of Iranian Cinema’
with Maryam Ghorbankarimi, Michelle Langford, Zahra Khosroshahi, Laudan Nooshin, Lindsey Moore, Kaveh Abbasian, and Max Bledstein
The book is organised around eight broad themes including cinema before and after the revolution, stylistic innovation, documentary, gender, and genre. Encompassing a diverse range of methodological approaches and disciplinary frameworks including film studies, cultural studies, and political economy, each chapter is a self-contained study on a specific topic engaging with the national and transnational history of Iranian cinema which combined provide readers with original new insights into Iranian film and filmmakers, from fiction films to art house and popular cinema. The Handbook includes analysis of the works of established filmmakers such as Bahram Beyzaie, Rakhshan Banetemad, Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, as well as the output of emerging voices such as Ida Panahandeh and Shahram Mokri. Covering well-known topics as well as cutting edge ones such the sonic and visual manifestations of the urban environment in Iranian films, this book is a vital resource for understanding Iran and its unique cinematic culture
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS),
26 February, 2025, 5:00 pm UK Time
Information and registration:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/book-launch-the-i-b-tauris-handbook-of-iranian-cinema/
3. German and Persian Encounters in History, Philosophy, and the Arts
German Studies Association Conference, September 25-28, 2025; Arlington, VA
Beyond Goethe’s famed West-östlicher Divan, the relationship between the German-speaking and Persianate world spans centuries, ranging from historical encounters to literature, art, theater, translation, philosophy, and film. This panel invites participants to explore intersections between these linguistic realms from ancient to contemporary times, across Afghanistan, Austria, Germany, Iran, Switzerland, Tajikistan, and their global diasporas.
Through travel both real and imagined, scholars, writers, filmmakers, and artists have engaged with one another in historical encounters, cultural exchanges, translations, and other shared intellectual pursuits, for example, in Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall’s metrically faithful translations of classic Persian poetry into German, which introduced new rhythms to German prosody in the early nineteenth century. We see further exchanges in the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s influence on Christian Petzold and the Berlin School of filmmakers or the interpretation of classic German literature in Iranian cinema, such as Postchi (The Postman), Dariush Mehrjui’s 1962 adaptation of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck. Additionally, the Afghan German director Burhan Qurbani explores German immigrant experiences through his film adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz.
Recently, prominent voices in contemporary fiction have narrated experiences of growing up Iranian German and Afghan German, including Hengameh Yaghoobifarah’s 2021 Ministerium der Träume and Aria Aber’s 2025 Good Girl. This panel, we hope, will highlight work on the points of contact between German and Persian cultures and the arts as well as on lived experiences between these realms.
Possible topics include:
- Literature: Comparative studies of German and Persian literary traditions, influential authors, and the exchange of literary styles and/or genres.
- Film: In addition to examining the contributions of German Iranian and German Afghan filmmakers, papers might explore how German, Austrian, Swiss, Iranian, Afghan, and Tajik filmmakers have responded to each other’s work.
- History: Historical connections, including diplomacy and political relations. Papers might investigate the role of Iranian and Afghan exiles in German-speaking countries, or the impact of Nazism, World War II, and its aftermath on both regions.
- Philosophy and Intellectual Exchanges: Shared intellectual heritage, including the impact of German philosophers on Persian intellectual thought, or the influence of Persian-speaking philosophers, scientists, or mystics on German thinkers.
- Translation: The role of translation and transmission in shaping the reception of Persianate culture in the German-speaking world, and vice versa.
- Orientalism: The role of German Orientalists (philologists, archaeologists, historians, etc.) in studying Persian culture, language, and artifacts, and/or possible connections to the “Aryan” myth.
Please submit an abstract of 350 words to Annie Pfeifer (ap750@columbia.edu) and Michael Swellander (mswellander@skidmore.edu) by March 1st.
Contact Information
Michael Swellander (mswellander@skidmore.edu) and Annie Pfeifer (ap750@columbia.edu)
4. Nationalism in the Architecture of Modern Iran
N Kakhi, Gingko, 2024
https://www.gingko.org.uk/publishing/books/nationalism-in-the-architecture-of-modern-iran/
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du Monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 20 février 2025, 17h-19h, en salle 4.15 à l’INaLCO(65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4eétage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme. Eva Zahiri (IFI-CNRS), pour une conférence intitulée: “Pour un droit islamique de notre temps: le renouvellement de la pensée juridique en Iran“.
Résumé:
Cette présentation a pour visée d’examiner la transformation du droit islamique en Iran depuis les années 1990-2000. À rebours de l’interprétation traditionnelle des foqahā, ancrée dans le droit naturel objectif et dans une perspective apologétique, certains juristes iraniens contemporains privilégient la méthode de l’historicité et l’approche critique, en vue de consacrer la subjectivité et l’égalité juridiques. Bien que n’appartenant pas à un mouvement établi, ils incarnent unprocessus historique embryonnaire mais durable de restructuration en cours.
Leurs innovations doctrinales s’inscrivent dans la tradition usūlī rationaliste tout en la renouvelant au regard des besoins de la société iranienne qui se recompose. Malgré les diversités de tendances et les nuances, tous soulignent la nécessité de penser le contrat social à partir d’une théorie du droit et d’un système de droit renouvelés garantissant la sécurité juridique dans la législation nationale. Leur objectif est d’actualiser et perpétuer le principe cardinal de justice pour refléter le mode de vie iranien actuel et maintenir l’universalité de l’islam.
Orientations bibliographiques:
– Dâvud FEYRAHI, Fiqh va siyâsat dar Irân-e mo‘âser, vol. 1. et 2, Téhéran, Nashr-e ney, 1392/2013.
– Mohsen KADIVAR, Haqq al-nâs. Eslâm va hoquq-e bashar, Téhéran, Kavir, 1387/2008.
– Mohammad RÂSEKH, “Sharia and Law in the Age of Constitutionalism,” Journal of Global Justice and Public Policy, vol. 2, n° 2, 2016.
– Sedigheh VASMAGHI, Zan, fiqh, eslâm, Téhéran, Samadiyeh, 1386/2007.
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 :
6. “Persianate Studies: Research Institutions, Reference Works and Digital Sources”
Instructor: Peyman Eshaghi
In this workshop, a large number of websites, databanks, search engines, online material, and research institutions with digital services that can assist learners in doing their research on Persianate studies are discussed. It will not only identify these crucial research tools, but will also equip the students and researchers with the practical knowledge to effectively navigate Persian databases — both archival and modern — and locate rare, primary sources.
This workshop is free to attend, but participants must register in advance.
Date and Time:
Saturday, February 22, 2025
08:00 – 10:00 Pacific Standard Time; 11:00 – 14:00 Eastern Standard Time; 17:00 – 19:00 Central European Time; 21:00-23:00 Indian Standard Time
Registration deadline:
February 15, 2025
More information and registration:
https://tinyurl.com/persianlecture
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