Archive for February 18th, 2025
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Workshop “Diasporas, Exiles, Migrants, and Refugees from Europe in the Middle East and North Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, 8-10 July 2025
This workshop will think about how historical, spatial, cultural or conceptual imaginations of the nations, regions and their boundaries, have been transformed by the movements of people from Europe who went to MENA. What potential might a decolonial approach to the questions of diaspora, exile, migration and refuge offer, and how does it challenge our understanding of areas or regions in Europeand MENA.
Deadline for abstracts: 12 March 2025. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/fileadmin/eume/Bilder/Veranstaltungen/Workshops/CfP-WS_European_Migration_to_MENA.pdf
2. Assistant or Associate Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology of Palestine, University of California, Davis
We seek a scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies.
Deadline for applications: 5 March 2025. Information: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996
3. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year +) of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies (Focus Middle East/North Africa, and their American Diasporas), Colgate University, New York
The candidate’s areas of research and teaching should be Arab, Arab American feminisms. The candidate should be able to teach broadly materials pertaining to the region. Completion of Ph.D. or appropriate terminal degree is required prior to or shortly after the date of hire.
Deadline for applications: 8 March 2025. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/162764
4. “RIMO Thesis Award 2024-2025” for Research of Students in Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Related to The Netherlands or Belgium
Eligibility requirements: Students who write about topics related to the Netherlands or Belgium, are eligible to apply. Submissions can include theses, journal articles, or other academic works. Participants must not have been older than 35 years at the time of writing their submission.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2025. Information: https://www.verenigingrimo.nl/english#thesisprize
5. HYBRID Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies: Decolonial Struggles and Liberation Theologies”, Granada, Spain, 13-28 June 2025
Critical Muslim Studies is inspired by a need for opening up a space for intellectually rigorous and socially committed explorations between decolonial thinking and studies of Muslims, Islam and the Islamicate. Critical Muslim Studies does not take Islam as only a spiritual tradition, or a civilization, but also as a possibility of a decolonial epistemic perspective that suggests contributions and responses to the problems facing humankind today.
Deadline for application: 30 March 2025. Information and registration: https://www.dialogoglobal.com/granada/
6. Call for Papers:
Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World (700-1000)
June 4, 2025
Workshop
This workshop aims to bring together scholars working on women, unfreedom, gender, and households in the Islamicate world (and beyond) to explore how these factors intersected and shaped women’s lives. Through an interdisciplinary lens, the workshop will interrogate the roles that enslaved and free women played in shaping power dynamics, kinship structures, and societal norms. By focusing on both the visible and invisible contributions of women, the workshop seeks to reevaluate the historical record and push the boundaries of current scholarship. Given the collaboration of the Allard Pierson (Amsterdam) we strongly encourage the participation of researchers who engage with material culture in order to shed light on the dynamics of unfreedom.
We invite applications from scholars working inside and outside the field of Islamic studies and welcome contributions investigating unfreedom and motherhood from comparative perspectives (Byzantine, Latin Christendom, Indian Ocean, Central Asia etc.)
Some guiding questions include: How did enslaved women influence family structures, societal views on marriage and sexuality, and ideologies of rulership? How did genealogical shifts challenge notions of Arab nobility?
What role did the maternal family play, and is there evidence for matrilineal influence in early Islamic society? What was the experience of unfree mothers? What legal avenues existed for enslaved women to assert agency, and how do male-written sources depict or omit their presence? How did enslavement and multi-lingualism interact?
Ultimately, this workshop hopes to open new pathways for understanding gender, slavery, and the household, contributing to a more nuanced history of early Islam.
This workshop is organized by Dr. Zahra Azhar and Dr. Leone Pecorini-Goodall, and supported by ERC Horizon Starting Grant Project, “Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shil Community 700-900 CE (ImBod),” grant number 101077946, led by Dr. Edmund Hayes with the generous support of the Allard Pierson and their collaborative partner, the National Slavery Museum.
Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words to this email address no later than
March 15th:
7. Zoom Panel: Christian, Jewish, Islamic & Secular Law in American & International History (Thurs, Feb 27, 3:30 Eastern US)
Panelists include: Deina Abdelkader (University of Massachusetts), David Novak (University of Toronto), Peter N. Stearns (George Mason University), R. Charles Weller (Al-Farabi Kazakh National University and Washington State University). MC’d by Dr. Heather Salter & Dr. David Kalivas. Sponsored by: The World History Association (WHA) & the New England World History Workshop (NEWHW)
The registration link is https://wsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/NL4vJeFORAOjAhl3A050fg
8. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Kurdish program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/kurdish
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
9. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Turkish program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Accelerate your learning with daily 1-on-1 skills training
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/turkish
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
10. Indiana University’s Summer 2025 Language Workshop is now accepting applications for its intensive online Persian program!
- Learn 1 year of language in 2 months
- Enjoy 18 hours of live instruction per week, plus cultural activities
- Combine the effectiveness of intensive study with the convenience of an online class
- Accelerate your learning with daily 1-on-1 skills training
- Speed your learning by studying alongside enthusiastic and talented language learners
Rolling Application Deadline
- May 16, 2025
Learn more and apply here: https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/persian
Questions? Email the Language Workshop at languageworkshop@iu.edu or join virtual office hours.
11. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies (May Issue 2025)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the May Issue 2025.Due to requests from many colleagues, the submission deadline is March 15, 2025. The issue publication date is May Issue 2025. Please read the submission.
- February 18, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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