Shii News – Academic Items

1. The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary,

Hamid Keshmirshekan

Edinburgh University Press, 2023

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-art-of-iran-in-the-twentieth-and-twenty-first-centuries.html

2. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2022 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2023.

An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome.

Deadline for nominations: Friday, September 8, 2023

Award Committee:

Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, University of Central Florida
Ekrem Karakoc. Binghamton University
Nikola Mirilovic, University of Central Florida

3. AMECYS Call for Papers: Graduate Student Paper Prize

AMECYS Call for Papers:

Graduate Student Paper Prize

Submission deadline: September 1, 2023

The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 2-5, 2023

Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:

The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.

Requirements for submission:

Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
AMECYS membership in good standing
Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2023-2024 academic year may be requested at a later date

AMECYS graduate student representatives Atacan Atakan, Reda Rafai, and Melis Sulos will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of September 1.

Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.

For any queries, email AMECYS program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.

4. One Year CEDEJ Fellowship to a PhD Student Working on Contemporary Egypt from a Humanities or Social Science Perspective (September 2023 – August 2024), Cairo

The fellow will reside in Egypt, participate in the academic life of CEDEJ, receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 25,000 EGP. Applications will include: A Curriculum Vitae, a cover letter, a research project (2,000 words maximum), including a note on methodology.

Please email your application in one single PDF file before 31 July 2023 to communication@cedej-eg.org

5. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle East History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

We are interested in candidates whose research and teaching focus on the history of the Middle East (broadly conceived) working in the Early Modern to Modern era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Empire (Mediterranean), Global History of the Middle East, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Gender, Religion, Political Theory, History of Science, Economic History

Deadline for applications: 30 October 2023. Information:

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/13/assistant-professor-in-middle-east-history

6. International Winter School “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources”, Organized by the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), with University of Halle-Wittenberg, Ifpo, CETOBaC, IREMAM, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Heidelberg, ASBÜ An-kara, Orient Institut Beirut, Cairo, 18-23 February 2024

The programme will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and Ph.D. candidates, though postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era. Materials from the 16th through the 20th centuries will receive most of our attention, but explorations into earlier archives are welcome. No tuition fees; selected students will be offered full coverage of the winter school costs.

Deadline for application: 31 August 2023.

Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1542/

7. “OTSA Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies”, Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association

This award is meant to support work by promising advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and schol-ars who have completed their Ph.D. within the last three years. The award will be given to the applicant who can best demonstrate potential for a major scholarly contribution using available tools and methods of digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies.

Deadline for applications extended to 1 August 2023.

Information: https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/#jump06

8. Photo Contest of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association

We encourage submissions from anthropologists especially from the MENA region. Each person is limited to one submission of five photographs. We ask that those submitting be members of the Middle East Section, except for students, non-tenure track faculty or scholars in the Global South if membership imposes a signif-icant hardship.

Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2023.

Information: https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/07/04/call-for-submissions-for-mes-photo-contest/

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