Archive for April 19th, 2025
Shii News – Academic Items
1.UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Touraj Atabaki & Lana Ravandi-Fadai
Fallen in the Whirlwind:
The Odyssey and Destiny of Iranian Victims of Stalinist Great Repression in the Soviet Union
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 11:30 am PST via ZOOM
Zoom Registration:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_rBjt0ANzRrSrmOOM7chltg
2. Call for Papers – Digital Methodologies
Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion
25th June 2025, Coventry University
A Knowledge Exchange Symposium organised as part of the ESRC-funded Digital British Islam Project
Deadline for Abstracts: 15th May 2025
https://digitalbritishislam.com/call-for-papers-digital-methodologies/
3. Hybrid: UCLA – Pourdavoud Lecture Series with Gunvor Lindström
The Denavar Satyrs as Time Travelers:
From Ancient Persia to Greece, Rome, and 20th Century Collections
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 306
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
4. Hybrid: UCLA – Global Antiquity Distinguished Speaker Series
Climate Change along the Silk Road?
Sitta von Reden
Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 4:00 pm Pacific Time
Royce Hall 306 and Via Zoom
5. Hybrid: UCLA – Pourdavoud Lecture Series with Wu Xin
Imperial Foundations of the Silk Road: Persian Roads and Han Walls
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 306
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
6. IIS London – Hybrid: Conceptual Photography and the Craft of Reading Islamic Historical Texts Lecture
Please join us at 5 pm on Thursday, 24 April, for the next Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series session organised by the Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Professor Shahzad Bashir’s talk is titled “Conceptual Photography and the Craft of Reading Islamic Historical Texts”, with Prof. Amanda Lanzillo as discussant.
The event can be attended in person at the Aga Khan Centre in London and online (on Zoom). To join, please register at https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/conceptual-photography/
Abstract:
When historical texts are read, readers rely on their intellectual conditioning to understand and judge what such texts are conveying. In this experimental talk, Dr Shahzad Bashir utilises 19th-century Indian Islamic texts to suggest that anamorphism highlighted in concept-driven photography provides a useful analogy for seeing how historians’ narratives become containers for irreducibly complex worlds. Historians’ claims about the past are always equally valid and distortive, mirroring the way a two-dimensional image in a photograph captures a three-dimensional world. The analogy helps scholars appreciate historical knowledge as a particular form of truth that cannot be mapped to basic notions of objectivity, subjectivity, normativity, and so on.
7. The Spring 2025 issue of Journal18, an online journal dedicated to eighteenth-century art and culture, may be of interest to historians of Islamic art. The theme of the issue is Africa: Beyond Borders.
It can be accessed at:
ARTICLES
Between Europe and Africa: A Gift of Prestige in the Era of the Trade in Enslaved Africans
Ana Lucia Araujo
From Harar to Diu: Circulation and Reception of a Qur’anic Manuscript across the Indian Ocean
Sana Mirza
The Indian Madras Cloth and Elite Self-Fashioning in the Bight of Biafra
Eguono Lucia Edafioka
SHORTER PIECES
Forging Swahili Muslim Style: Material Culture from Pate Island (ca. 1750-ca. 1850)
Zulfikar Hirji
The Ujumbe of Mutsamudu, an Eighteenth-Century Swahili Stone House in the Comoros
Stéphane Pradines and Olivier Onezime
Arts of the Maghreb: North African Textiles and Jewelry – Curatorial Reflections
Helina Gebremedhen
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8. ONLINE Webinar on “Their Religion Was a Real and Living Thing”: Alan Villiers’ Interactions with Islam and Arabian Culture, 1938-39″ by Taibah Al-Fagih, Royal Museums Greenwich, 22 April 2025, 18:15 – 19:30 CET
Alan Villiers was a celebrated Australian author, photographer, and seafarer who spent his life seeking to extensively document maritime traditions around the world throughout the 20th century. He documented especially the rich sea-faring heritage in the Arabian Gulf in 1938-39. His photographic collection was studied by Taibah Al-Fagih.
Information and registration: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/online/alan-villiers-interactions-islam-arabian
9. 2025 Assyrian Studies Symposium”, Arizona State University, 24-26 October 2025
By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration, we aim to push the boundaries of critical Assyrian Studies and contribute to a deeper and more just understanding of Assyrian history, culture, and identity. This is an
opportunity to challenge conventional perspectives, explore new research avenues, and elevate the field of Assyrian Studies to a central position in academic discourse.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2025. Information: https://www.assyrianstudiesassociation.org/2025symposium
10. 4th Biennial Conference on Contemporary Iranian Studies: “Iranian Studies in the Contemporary Era”, University of Tehran, 27-28 October 2025
Main Topics: Contemporary history – Political science & international relations – Sociology & social transformations – Religions & theology – Art & cultural studies – New media & communication studies – Diaspora studies. Interdisciplinary and comparative studies are highly encouraged. Conference Languages: Persian & English.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2025. Information: https://iranianstudies.ut.ac.ir/
11. Conference “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800)”, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Münster, 20-22 November 2025
We aim to explore the diverse strategies used to produce, convey, and disseminate knowledge through poetry. This may include, for example, the composition and structure of the poem, the choice of meter, stylistic devices, sonic and performative aspects, and the use of a specific technical lexicon. We hope this shift in perspective will instead enable a comprehensive analysis of the stylistic, structural, and functional features of the poems.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2025.
Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/Forschen/Tagungen/poetry-and-knowledge.html
12. International Symposium: “A Century of Revolutions – Centennial of the Great Syrian Revolt (1925-2025)”, Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (MMSH), Aix-en-Provence, 8-10 december 2025
We invite researchers from all disciplines in the humanities and social sciences (history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, political science, etc.) to submit proposals for papers (in English, French or Arabic) on the main themes: Anti-colonial ṯawrāt: rebels and locations of revolt. – Questions at a time of profound changes between two worlds (1918-1946. – From one ṯawra to another. – Rediscovering sources.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2025. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20066275/cfp-century-revolutions-centennial-great-syrian-revolt-1925-2025
13. University Assistant Predoctoral (4 Years), Department of Islamic-Theological Studies, University of Vienna
Qualification: Completed Master’s degree in Islamic Theology or Religious Education or a comparable discipline. – Willingness and ability to engage in interdisciplinary and international discourse. – Didactic skills, experience in student supervision. – Good IT skills. – Excellent knowledge of English (C1) – High level of written and oral commu-nication skills.
Deadline for applications: 24 April 2025. Information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral-at-the-Department-of-Islamic-Theological-Studies/1186314001/
14. University Assistant Postdoctoral (4 Years), Department of Islamic-Theological Studies, University of Vienna
Qualification: Outstanding dissertation in Islamic-Theological Studies or a comparable discipline. – Research in the field of Islamic theology with a focus on its relevance for European societies. – Critical reflection on socio-political discourses on Islam. – Experience in research management. – Didactic skills and experience in e-learning – Good IT skills. – Excellent knowledge of English (C1).
Deadline for applications: 24 April 2025. Information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral-at-the-Department-of-Islamic-Theological-Studies/1186325501
15. “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Postdoctoral Fellowship” (12-24 Months), Institute for Mediter-ranean Studies / Foundation of Research and Technology – Hellas (IMS/FORTH), Rethymno, Crete
Research fields: Ottoman History: preferably (but not exclusively) cultural, economic, political, and social Ottoman history. – Maritime History: maritime history in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, 17th-20th century. – Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History: Social history of the 19th and 20th centuries, preferably in Mediterranean and Balkans and in topics relevant to labour history. Etc.
Deadline for applications: 10 May 2025. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20065744/institute-mediterranean-studiesforth-pre-call-applications-marie
16. ONLINE “11th Yemen Exchange – An Intensive Online Course on Yemen” Hosted by the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies (SCSS), 5-16 May 2025
The course is designed to provide unique access to information, perspectives, updates, and analysis on Yemen for those seeking to develop a working background on the country as well as those already thoroughly versed in its dynamics. Participants will listen to Yemeni analysts, academics, politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders, and international experts to gain insight and rare first-hand knowledge about the country from a wide range of per-spectives.
Deadline for application: 30 April 2025. Information: https://sanaacenter.org/event/the-11th-yemen-exchange
17. Articles on “Within and Beyond Islam. Stories and Engagement of Young Muslims in Italy” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico”
We invite both theoretical and empirical contributions that address a diverse array of themes and contexts pertaining to the lived experiences of second-generation Muslims in Italy. Key areas of exploration include: The dynamics of their relationship with Islam and Islamic communities; interactions with the broader Italian population; and engage-ments with media and political landscapes. Contributions may examine the implications of rising Islamophobia, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2025. Information: https://rivistaocchiali.com/cfp-no-17/
- April 19, 2025
- by Andrew Newman
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