Shii News – Academic Items
1.Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A.C.S. Peacock Brill, 2024
2. The Invisible East programme in Oxford is looking for a new Postdoctoral Researcher and for a Programme Co-ordinator to join the team!
We are looking for driven and organised individuals who can help us grow an exciting academic project with direct links to the wider public.
The job descriptions for the two positions can be seen at this link. The deadline to apply is 25 March 2024. We look forward to receiving your application!
3. In-person symposium on Literature and Religion in Modern Iran, sponsored by the Program for the Study of Religion and co-hosted by the UC San Diego Library and Middle East Studies program at UCSD, on March 12th.
Commencing at 2:30 p.m., the symposium kicks off with a compelling keynote address by Professor Nasrin Rahimieh from UC Irvine. Professor Rahimieh’s speech, Fictions of Self in Contemporary Iranian Women’s Writing, promises to offer intriguing insights into the literary landscape of Iran.
The symposium continues with a series of illuminating presentations by esteemed scholars. Dr. Domenico Ingenito (UCLA) will explore the intriguing relationship between mysticism and sexuality in the literary and critical works of Forugh Farrokhzad. Dr. Aria Fani (University of Washington) will present his recent publication, “Reading Across Borders: Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism,” which offers fresh perspectives on literary nationalism within the region. Additionally, Dr. Farshad Sonboldel (UC San Diego Library) will examine the profound impact of religious poetic forms on the process of literary modernization in Iran. Throughout the event, discussions will be expertly moderated by Dr. Babak Rahimi (UC San Diego).
Registration is not required.
Geisel Meeting Room
University of California San Diego, Geisel Library
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla
Contact:
Jen Cormier
4. King’s College London and the University of Kent are jointly offering up to fifteen fully-funded PhD studentships in medieval history, literatures and other disciplines (including up to three studentships for international students, and up to three Master’s Plus studentships available for low-income and/or ethnic minority applicants) through the new £2M Leverhulme doctoral training centre Knowledge Orders before Modernity.
Applicants can submit their own project through an open call, provided it falls broadly within the themes of the project (transmission, selection, production, reproduction and/or technologies of knowledge); or they can apply for particular projects proposed by potential supervisors at King’s and Kent.
For more information and on how to apply: https://www.komldsp.org.uk/about-us/ . The deadline this year will be 8 May 2024.
5. The Center for Research on the Iranian World (CeRMI, UMR8041 CNRS) is pleased to invite you to the XXV Iranian World Day, which will be held on Friday, March 22, 2024 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Auditorium of the INaLCO Languages and Civilizations Center, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris (Reception-café from 9:30 a.m.).
You will find information online on the CeRMI website: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxve-journee-monde-iranien/
6. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à laprochaine séancedu séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 14 mars 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Yury Karev, spécialiste de l’histoire politique et sociale de l’Asie Centrale à l’époque pré-mongole et de la culture matérielle, Chargé de recherches au CNRS (UMR 8546 AOROC – CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée: “Les Qarakhanides au Māwarā’annahr: traits identitaires de la dynastie centre-asiatique à travers leur art et les textes de l’époque (fin Xe – début XIIIe s.)“.
7. UCLA – Legacies of Ancient Persia: New Episode Available
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/legacies-of-ancient-persia/
https://linktr.ee/legaciesofancientpersia
8. IIS: Applications for the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship Programme are now open
Closing date: 31 March, 2024
https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/2024/february/iis-doctoral-scholarship-programme-2024/
9. IIS: The Central Asian Studies Unit is pleased to invite you to register in-person to attend “Historical and Contemporary Migrations of Central Asian Muslims: History, Culture and Identity”, which will take place 3-4 April 2024 at Aga Khan Centre (London).
The conference will bring together scholars from various disciplines to discuss and exchange ideas on a wide range of topics related to the historical and contemporary regional and transnational migrations of Central Asian Muslims. There are limited spots available to attend in-person, so register soon.
https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/migrations-of-central-asian-muslims/
10. The Oxford Handbook of Modern Egyptian History
11. Interreligious Interactions in South Asia: Second Colloquium, April 3–12, 2024
We are delighted to announce our second colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” which will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2024. The speakers for our colloquium are as follows:
Afsar Mohammad | Vernacular Sufi Texts and Hindu-Muslim Contexts
April 3, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST
Purnima Dhavan | Resisting Religious Labels in Early Modern Punjab: Why Place Matters
April 4, 2024 | 18:00–19:30 BST / 13:00–14:00 EDT / 22:30–00:00 IST
Abdul Manan Bhat | Postures of Tradition: Corporeality and Islamic Ethics in Modern Urdu & Persian Poetry
April 5, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST
Kashshaf Ghani | Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
April 8, 2024 | 15:00–16:30 BST / 10:00–11:30 EDT / 19:30–21:00 IST
Tilak Parekh | Religious Leadership in Interfaith Interactions
April 9, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST
Sumaira Nawaz | Reform Unbound: Afghanistan’s Sirāj-ul Aḳhbār (1911-19) and its Global Publics
April 10, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST
Supriya Gandhi | Persianate Hinduism in Colonial India: Revisiting Rammohun Roy’s Tuhfat al-muwahhidin
April 12, 2024 | 16:00–17:30 BST / 11:00–12:30 EDT / 20:30–22:00 IST
Website: www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/south-asia-24
Registration Link: https://forms.office.com/e/Z4kN3ahf1i
We envision our colloquium to be brainstorming sessions for examining how interreligious interactions are analysed and theorised in diverse disciplines today, and in what ways do historical sources and ethnographic data from South Asia elaborate such interactions. Some of our presenters have pre-circulated reading materials that would be helpful in understanding their arguments. If you would like to consult these reading materials, please email: trinbarua@gmail.com.
12. Call for Papers: National, Transnational, and Antinational Circuits in Literature
Our special issue aims to investigate the multifaceted developments of approaches to and accounts of the national concept as well as its inter-, trans-, and antinational inverses as they are manifested in literary texts across diverse geographies and cultures from the 19th century to the present. We invite contributors who engage with questions of the national, the international, transnational, and antinational, exploring their intricacies, challenges, and transformative potential within the broad field of literary studies.
We are interested in canonical works of internationalism, connected to Soviet ideology as well as to the non-aligned movement. But we are most interested in those works that explicitly speak to global capitalist exploitation on the conjuncture of other forms of violence, such as colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, white supremacy, environmental exploitation, queer- and transphobia, and ableism. Importantly, we encourage authors to focus on those aspects, that are often ignored within analysis of internationalisms for example by Indigenous movements and individuals, or people with disabilities.
Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Literary representations of transnational, international, and antinational solidarity movements, and activism.
- Comparative analysis of literary texts exploring and theorizing different forms and concepts of nationalisms, nationhood, and belonging.
- Critical approaches of national narratives in literature, as well as ethical considerations and dilemmas.
- International solidarity in postcolonial and decolonial literature.
- Intersectional perspectives on antinational discourses.
- Transnational and/or antinational feminist alliances and solidarities in literature.
- The role of literature in fostering empathy and cross-cultural understanding.
- Literary responses to global capitalist exploitation on the conjuncture of other forms of violence, such as colonialism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-migrantism, white supremacy, environmental exploitation, queer- and transphobia, and ableism.
- Literary engagements with global justice and human and non-human rights issues.
- International solidarities that are often ignored within analysis of internationalisms for example by Indigenous movements and individuals, or people with disabilities.
Submission Instructions:
Interested authors should submit a 250-word abstract and a short bio (250 words) by e-mail to the guest editors of this special issue of Comparative Literature (contact below). We aim for a special issue of 5-7 original articles, preceded by an introduction by the editors. Selected authors are expected to submit an original article of 6,000-8,000 words (likely early 2025). The deadline for abstract submissions is April 20th, 2024. Decisions will be communicated shortly thereafter. Accepted papers will still go through the regular peer-review process of the journal, therefore a selection doesn’t necessarily guarantee the publication of your article.
Guest editors:
Dr. Viktoria Pötzl at poetzlvi@grinnell.edu
Dr. Katharina Wiedlack katharina.wiedlack@univie.ac.at
13. Publication – Corinne Mühlemann, Complex Weaves: Technique, Text, and Cultural History of Striped Silks. Affalterbach: Didymos-Verlag, 2023.
Silk fabrics in the form of wearables and soft furnishings were omnipresent in medieval Islamic society, yet their presence has not always been acknowledged within the field of art history. Complex Weaves considers the interwoven historiography of textile studies and Islamic art history through focusing on lampas fabrics produced in the Mongol (Ilkhanate, Chagatai Khanate) and Mamluk territories during the 13th and 14th centuries. Attending to these complex striped silks offers new perspectives on the production, consumption, and intended use of medieval textiles. By analyzing the different weaving techniques, the Arabic inscriptions in the patterns of the striped silks as well as their representation in pictorial and written sources, Complex Weaves critically examines the technological knowledge and divisions of labour required to produce lampas fabrics. The iconography, materiality, and inscriptions of striped silks are placed in conversation with 13th century metal vessels and contextualized through the varied uses of wearable silks. From robes of honour (khilʿa, tashrīf) for the Sāqī (cup-bearer) to the textile propaganda of the Abū Saʿīd silk, the incorporation of specific silks was instrumental in constructing talismanic power and political messages. Silks affected both those who wore them, and those who observed them, offering researchers insight into Islamic art history.
Corinne Mühlemann is the Assistant Professor for the History of Textile Arts (Abegg-Stiftung professorship) at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She has been a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen. Her research contributes to the fields of textile studies and Islamic art history.
URL
https://www.didymos-verlag.de/produkt/complex-weaves-technique-text-and-cultura…
14. ITS Ramadan Discount 2024
In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid, the Islamic Texts Society is offering a 15% discount on all titles.
Books from the ITS are an aid to deepening one’s worship in this holy month, and also make an ideal Ramadan and Eid gift for family, friends and loved ones.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website https://its.org.uk and enter the coupon code RAMADAN24 on the purchase page. This offer is valid from 9 March to 14 April 2024.
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