Shii News – Academic Items
1.Job: Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences – Researcher, History
and Society of Pakistan
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=56406
2. Gorgias Press’ international Classical Islamic World Book Prize(CIW) will now close on MONDAY 12th MARCH 2018. The CIW prize will recognise three exceptional early career contributions to the academic study of the classical Islamic world. In particular, the CIW will invite scholars from across the world to submit unpublished monographs that are either revised PhD theses or first Postdoctoral monographs, written in English or German.
The winners of the CIW will be announced in September 2018. The winning submission will be awarded an inscribed glass plaque, offered a contract to publish their monograph under Gorgias Press’ Islamic History and Thought Series, and $500 worth of Gorgias Press publications. Prizes will also be awarded to the second and third place submissions. The panel of judges is as follows:
- Professor Maher Jarrar – American University of Beirut
- Dr. Harry Munt – University of York
- Professor Ahmed El Shamsy – University of Chicago
- Professor Adam Talib – University of Durham
See: https://www.gorgiaspress.com/classical-islamic-world-book-prize
3. Annual Conference: “Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS)”, University of Pittsburgh, 24-28 October 2018
The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 March 2018. Information: http://www.centraleurasia.org/annual-conf#CFP
4. Articles for “CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East”
The aim of the journal is to provide research and theoretical considerations on the representation of Islam and the Middle East in cyberspace, as well as the impact of the internet and new media in Muslim and Middle Eastern contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 April 2018. Information: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682
5. Articles for Special Issue on “Critical Kurdish Studies: Interrogating Practices of Knowledge Production in Representations of the Kurds and Kurdistan”
We seek original and thought-provoking contributions that problematize essentialisms in scholarship, literature, and popular/social media.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 March 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1348168/call-papers-special-issue-critical-kurdish-studies
6. The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce that it will be offering its intensive summer Arabic programs in Beirut between June 20 and August 8, 2018
The Summer 2018 CAMES Arabic Programs will be directed by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor of Arabic at AUB, and will feature an outstanding team of instructors from AUB and other educational institutions in Lebanon, Europe, the US, and the Arab world.
The application deadline is April 10, 2018.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application forms, cost, and financial support available, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/.
If you have any questions, do contact us at cames@aub.ed.lb
7. THE QUR’AN: MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXTUAL CRITICISM (IQSA)
Call For Papers: This year the programming unit will schedule a thematic session entitled “Reading and Accessing Manuscripts of the Qur’an and of Qur’anic Commentaries”. We invite papers that deal with all eras and regions of the manuscript tradition encompassing manuscripts of the Qur’an, Qur’anic commentaries, and qira’at works, as well as the variety of palaeographic, art historical, codicological, philological, historical, and text-critical issues that one encounters in this discipline in terms of access to collections and new technologies for manuscript study. For example, papers may focus on presenting a particular manuscript or collection of manuscripts, on introducing future and past projects for accessing, digitising and displaying collections or on describing new technologies for reading or analysing manuscript texts and exploring issues of textual criticism. Papers on any topic within the range of the interests of The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism programme unit are welcome. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of approximately 400 words.
8. CFP – Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (Indiana University Press) -2018 issue
by Hussain Ahmad Khan
The editors of Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies (PJHS) invite scholars to submit articles on any aspect of history of any region and period. Published by Indiana University Press (Bloomington, USA), the semi-annual scholarly journal aims to develop critical ideas on less explored and innovative themes in the discipline of History.
Deadline for submission for 2018 issues is 15 April 2018.
To submit a manuscript for consideration, please use the following link for registering an account or log-in to your existing account and then click the ‘new submission link:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/pjhs/login
For style-sheet, visit the following link:
http://hak3408.wixsite.com/khaldunia/guidelines-for-contributors
For more information and queries, send an email to hak@khaldunia.org (and cc to pjhs@khaldunia.org)
Journal’s website: http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?cPath=4&pID=97
9. Call for Applications to the MA program in Turkish Studies at Sabancı University
Sabancı University is now accepting applications for the MA program in Turkish Studies.
The deadline for applications is 20 April 2018.
All students are admitted on scholarship.
Our program offers a rich and highly flexible interdisciplinary curriculum that capitalizes on the intellectual and scholarly resources available at one of Turkey’s leading institutions of higher education. During the program, students choose from a broad range of courses in History, Political Science, Economics, Cultural Studies, Conflict Resolution, Visual Arts, and other fields pertinent to their chosen area of focus. In addition, the curriculum seeks to address the needs of those international students who aspire to learn or improve their command of the Turkish language.
The program gives several opportunities for advancement. Graduates will be competitive candidates for PhD programs in various fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, especially History and Political Science. The MA degree in Turkish Studies is also a vital asset for students interested in a career in the public sector (government positions, diplomacy, etc.), the private sector (international business, media, tourism), and NGOs.
Students carry out their studies in the city of Istanbul with its inexhaustible opportunities for linguistic, cultural, and intellectual immersion.
For further information about the program, please visit the website: http://ts.sabanciuniv.edu
For additional details about the application process: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-the-graduate-school-of-social-sciences
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/117968741561686/
10. Call for Applications to the MA and PhD programs in History at Sabancı University:
Sabancı University is now accepting applications for its MA and PhD programs in History.
The deadline for applications is 20 April 2018.
All students are admitted on scholarship.
Sabancı University’s Graduate Program in History concentrates on Ottoman and Modern Turkish History. It aims to foster fresh, unbiased and critical visions of the Ottoman past that are informed by broad-minded and novel theoretical insights and comparative sensibilities characterizing leading-edge practice in historical studies. At the same time, the program is also aimed to provide students with a deep and comprehensive familiarity with primary sources, as well as the necessary skills to deal with them. In its rigorous but also innovative and comprehensive approach to Ottoman and Modern Turkish studies, the History Programs benefits from the wide-ranging professional capabilities of its academic staff as well as from the interdisciplinary make-up of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The separate MA and PhD trajectories in the program are envisaged as constituting a total and integral course of study that promotes research in diverse areas ranging from political and legal to intellectual and cultural history as well as nationalism studies. This is carried out through close cooperation between faculty and students, faculty members attaching great importance to mentoring and one-on-one consultation.
Students pursue their studies in the city of Istanbul with its inexhaustible opportunities for linguistic, cultural, and intellectual immersion.
For further information about the program, please visit the website: http://hist.sabanciuniv.edu/
For additional details about the application process: http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/en/admission-requirements-for-the-graduate-school-of-social-sciences
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/117968741561686/
For further information, please contact the program coordinator, Prof. Tülay Artan: tulay@sabanciuniv.edu
11. MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the medieval period. The program is characterised by a strongly research-driven, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research.
The primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions in Cordoba and Berlin per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for discussion, teaching and examination. Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students, many of whom are from the region of the Middle East. The language of instruction is English.
Application period for the academic year 2017/18 is from 15 April until 31 May 2018.
For more information: www.ihiw.de
For direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
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