Shii News – Academic Items
1. ‘Climate Change and the Built Environment in the Islamic World’, International Journal of Islamic Architecture13.2 (Special Issue)
This special issue of IJIA focuses on the impact of the current climate crisis on built environments in the Islamic world. Covering a diverse number of chronological and geographical contexts, the articles herein consider the effects of climate change on structured landscapes through the lenses of material, design, and architectural practice.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
and
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijia
2. ‘Muqāranah: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics’
PMLA , Volume 139 , Issue 1 , January 2024 , pp. 172 – 183
Hany Rashwan
3. ‘Consubstantial dualism: a Zoroastrian perspective on the soul’
Ted Good
Religious Studies, Volume 60 / Issue S1, May 2024, pp S60 – S73
doi: 10.1017/S0034412523000641 Published Online on 2 August 2023
4. 2024 Sir William Luce lecture at Durham University (and online), 12 June 12:00 BST
“Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones” Dr Altea Pericoli
You are warmly invited by Durham University’s Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies to attend the 2024 Sir William Luce public lecture at 12.00pm on Wednesday 12 June at the Al-Qasimi Building on Elvet Hill Rd, Durham DH1 3TU. The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom (links below).
Dr Altea Pericoli will deliver a lecture on “Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones”. If you do intend to attend in person RSVP by 3 June.
Aid from Gulf donors in conflict zones
Summary: Dr Altea Pericoli’s research has the overall objective to provide a broader understanding of humanitarian aid in conflict zones as implemented by Gulf actors and to improve the dialogue between Western and Gulf donors. The research examines foreign aid interventions of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and their implementation in Yemen, Sudan, and Syria (including the Syrian refugee issue) in the period 2015-2022. The study combines international relations theories and the anthropological approach to humanitarian aid analysis, embedding a top-down and bottom-up observation of aid interventions.
Dr Pericoli is currently a Postdoctoral research fellow in geopolitics and regional cooperation at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She was previously an academic visitor at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies and a visiting research fellow at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. She obtained her Ph.D. in Institutions and Policies (2019-2023) at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, and she conducted many visiting periods at Vienna University, Durham University, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, and Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway. In July 2023, she obtained the BRISMES Award “Early Career Development Scholarship” to elaborate her first monograph with a university press. Her research interests include Islamic philanthropy and aid interventions implemented by Islamic actors and the Gulf States in fragile and conflict-affected contexts.
To attend online via Zoom (you will be asked to register as an attendee): https://durhamuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nYjAYQinR168Ctlftr9Icg
5. Lecturer in Political Geographies of the Middle East
Newcastle University
We welcome applicants whose work advances one or more of the following areas through a focus on the Middle East and its shifting political geographies: conflict and displacement; resource colonialism; mobility politics; war and terrorism; human rights; security; borders and boundaries.
Deadline | 12 May 2024
More information
6. Roundtable Call for Submissions | Iranian Studies
The journal of Iranian Studies invites submissions for roundtables. Topics may include any subject in the social sciences related to Iran, the Persianate world, minoritized communities, and transnational diasporas. If interested, please submit your proposal to Dr Paola Rivetti, the journal’s associate editor for the social sciences (paola.rivetti@dcu.ie).
Deadline | 17 June 2024
7. Call for Applications | BIAA-University of Oxford Martin Harrison Memorial Fellowship
With funds donated in memory of the late Professor Martin Harrison, the University of Oxford has instituted a scheme of short-term Fellowships to enable Turkish scholars to come to the United Kingdom and Oxford for a period of research. The Fellowships are open to Turkish citizens resident in Türkiye who are working in any area of the material and visual culture of Anatolia, from the Prehistoric to the Ottoman period.
Deadline | 31 May 2024
8. Middle East Studies Senior Editor needed for Cogent Social Sciences
Fully Open Access (OA) journal Cogent Social Sciences is currently recruiting for a Senior Editor within its Area Studies section, to take the lead on a new strand focusing on Middle East Studies (North Africa, the Levant, the Gulf, and the Arabian Peninsula). This role reports to the Editor-in-Chief, and you will be joining the Senior Editors for African Studies, Asian Studies, and Central Asian, Russian and East European Studies.
Deadline | 31 May 2024
9. Call for Applications | BIAA Postdoctoral Fellowship
The British Institute at Ankara welcomes applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship relating to research that fits within one of its Strategic Research Initiatives. The Fellowship will be tenable for 12 months from September 2024. The Fellow will be based at the Institute in Ankara and will be required to spend at least two-thirds of the period of their Fellowship at the Institute. The remaining one-third can be spent outside Ankara for research purposes, in consultation with the Institute’s Director.
Deadline | 30 April 2024
10. Bahram Beyzaie: A Mosaic of Metaphors (Bahman Maghsoudlou Film Festival)
Film Screening | SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies | 3 May 2024
“A Mosaic of Metaphors” delves into the life and artistic journey of renowned master of Iranian theatre and cinema, Bahram Beyzaie.
11. Alternative Imaginaries: Feminist Transformative Politics in the Global South
Conference | UCL Institute for Global Prosperity | 18 May 2024
This conference is organized to examine the ways in which feminist imagination is changing the face of the Global South by challenging gendered political structures, legal systems, and development trajectories in the Global South.
More information
12. Upcoming Events at St Antony’s College Middle East Centre, Oxford
Upcoming events include:
- Reflections on Tunisian Women’s Continued Fight for Respect, Dignity and Rights | 7 May 2024
- The transformation of the Ottoman-Iranian boundaries at the “Idea of Iran” symposium | 13 May 2024
- Economic Diversification and Climate Change in the Middle East | 28 May 2024
13. The Religious/Secular Divide in Turkish Television Drama: Three Media Platforms
Hybrid Event | British Institute at Ankara | 8 May 2024
After briefly explaining the embedding of the re-emergence of religiosity in Türkiye’s socio-political history, the lecture will supply a short overview of the development towards the presentation of religiosity in television drama. Then, it will zoom in on three case studies, analysing how conservative/religious lifestyles and modern/secular lifestyles are presented.
More information
14. ASPIRANTUM’s 2024 Persian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia.
Deadline to apply: May 15, 2024.
To apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
Students may select a 4-10 weeks (80 – 200 hours) program starting from June 23, June 30, or July 7, 2024 (please mention the preferred start date in your application form).
10 weeks – 200 contact hours (1 hour = 60 minutes)
9 weeks – 180 contact hours
8 weeks – 160 contact hours
7 weeks – 140 contact hours
6 weeks – 120 contact hours
Registration for the 4-week and 5-week course is now closed.
5 weeks – 100 contact hours
4 weeks – 80 contact hours
The Persian Summer School 2024 will have two groups (upper elementary and intermediate).
The intermediate syllabus covers various topics, including Economic Persian, Military Persian, Legal Persian, Cultural Persian, Technological Persian, Medical Persian, and more. You can find the daily topics in the syllabus: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/persian-intermediate-syllabus
During our summer school, we have planned exciting trips to some of Armenia’s most renowned cultural heritage sites. These include the Quba Mere Diwane Yezidi Temple, the Garni Pagan Temple, the Geghard Monastery, the Mausoleum of Kara Koyunlu Emirs, the Amberd Fortress, and the picturesque Lake Sevan. We will also visit Martuni, Ayrivank on Lake Sevan, Ejmiatsin, Tsaghkadzor, Bjni, Khor Virap, Noravank, and more.
These tours offer students a unique opportunity to immerse themselves in local culture. They will have the chance to milk and shear a sheep, savor cheese under a shepherd’s tent, and sample the finest Armenian cuisine in traditional restaurants. Additionally, they can enjoy a refreshing swim in Sevan Lake, which is 1900 meters above sea level, and Kari Lake, which is at an elevation of 3185 meters.
To get a glimpse of what these tours entail, you can watch a recap of our previous excursions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3PmyCWDsvg and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R4JlteBOxw
The deadline to apply to the 4-10 weeks 2024 Persian language summer school is May 15, 2024.
The participation fee is:
$6390 – 10 weeks
$5890 – 9 weeks
$5490 – 8 weeks
$4990 – 7 weeks
$4490 – 6 weeks
Registration for the 4-week and 5-week course is now closed.
$3990 – 5 weeks
$3490 – 4 weeks
To apply for summer school, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
15. Professor Richard Bulliet speaking about Caravans on 10 May 2024 (in person )
‘Thinking about Caravans’
Friday, 10 May 2024, 5:30PM GMT
Leonard Wolfson Auditorium, Wolfson College, Oxford
16. Links for Recordings of the Exeter Monday Majlises of the spring term from the 15 of January to the 18th of March:
Monday Majlis Online Series, Recordings of the Majlises of the Spring Term
Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter
(We don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free)
15th of January. Zoltán Szombathy, Islamic Discourses in a Local Context: A Traditional Ritual in Eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia
22nd of January. Neguin Yavari, Sufis Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDT1bb-R8_s&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=9&pp=iAQB
29th of January. Stefan Kamola, Everything under Heaven, and the Heavens Too: Universal History and Astrology in Mongol Iran
5th of February. Dženita Karić, Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (conversation about the book and beyond)
12th of February. Dalal S al-Baroud with Sayed Ismail al-Behbehani, Rewilding Arabic Literature
19th of February. Andrew F. March, On Muslim Democracy: A Book Talk
26th of February. Austin O’Malley, The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr
4th of March. Yusuf Ünal, ‘Our State in the End Times:’ The Safavid Rule and a Shi’i Theory of Sovereignty
11th of March. Yaron Klein The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYBJaG4kqQI&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=2&pp=iAQB
18th of March. Phillip Bruckmayr, Islamic Reform as a Family Affair: The Tariq Shah Wali Ullah in Modern Malaysia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1peidWXyAoE&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=1&pp=iAQB
In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and to make the talks even more interesting, our speakers present the topic discussed as embedded in their own journey. You can watch the previous Majlises here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-, but we don’t record the Q&A in order to keep the discussion free. If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please contact the CSI Manager: Sarah Wood (s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk).
17. Understanding Carpets and Rug Weaving is a four-day workshop organized and hosted by The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum. It will be held from October 21 through October 24 at the museum’s Avenir Foundation Conservation and Collections Resource Center, the workshop will be led by Walter B. Denny (The Textile Museum Research Associate, The University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Sumru Belger Krody (Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection) with support from the museum’s curatorial staff. The workshop will address professional concerns of museum curators and academic scholars from all levels of experience including those currently undertaking graduate study.
The program will include a mixture of formats: illustrated lectures giving an overview of the history and development of rug and carpet weaving; group discussions; and practical exercises in the analysis of weave structures, including an up-close study of a selection of rugs and other textiles from The Textile Museum Collection. Participants will come away with an understanding of basic weave structures in the context of various carpet cultures (Anatolia, Iran, Transcaucasia, and Central Asia), weaving traditions (nomadic and settled), eras (from Early Modern times to the 19th century) and economic spheres (court and commercial production), as well as methods for analyzing and documenting rugs and carpets. We will also discuss the storage, conservation, and display of carpets in a museum context.
The museum will provide lunch and coffee, as well as all materials necessary for the workshop. Participants will be responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and dinner expenses. Registration for the workshop closes on September 1, 2024 and is limited to 10 participants. To register, please complete this form. The Museum will provide a syllabus, some basic documentary materials to be read in advance, and detailed accommodation recommendations upon registration.
SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
The museum is happy to provide a scholarship covering accommodation and dinner allowance to one graduate student for the workshop. Graduate students who are in good standing and currently enrolled in a U.S. higher-education institution are eligible to apply. We welcome applicants from graduate programs in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collection and training in material-culture approaches.
To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter with a summary of your research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of how the workshop would benefit your intellectual and professional development. All materials should be submitted as a single PDF document to museumcuratorial@gwu.edu. Applications are due by July 1, 2024.
Applicants are also encouraged to explore other sources of funding support within their own institutions, and from various professional organizations that support research in the area of carpets, textiles, and the history of Islamic art.
Contact: MuseumCuratorial@gwu.edu
Contact Information
Sumru Belger Krody or Ella Jones
Contact Email
URL
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft9Pf4919gd1XlhTAXq3LL-fgb327YtbXxbrP…
18. HYBRID Lecture “The Mystical Appeal of a Revolution: Classified Documents, Islamic Third Worldism, and Iran in 1983” by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Hebrew University Jerusalem), University of Erfurt, 29 April 2024, 16:15 CET
For a moment in 1979 and 1980, post-revolutionary Iran emerged as the torch bearer of Third Worldism. This talk draws on several hundreds of pages of top-secret Persian documents, gathered during fieldwork in Iran in 2019, to shine light on how elements within the Iranian regime tried to test the waters in 1983. Despite logistical mishaps and poor intelligence, the Iranian message of anti-imperialism and Muslim solidarity still found eager takers in the early 1980s.
Participation via Webex:
https://uni-erfurt.webex.com/uni-erfurt/j.php?MTID=mcb96a5b35fd94adaac08049ee2aac48f ;
Meeting-Code: 2730 634 2262, Meeting-Password: X8Ty5TFQ6ZJ
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