Shii News – Academic Items

 

1.Conference: “Narrative and Ethics: The Morals of the Qurʾanic Stories and Beyond”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, 27-29 January 2020

This conference aims at calling the attention to the narratives of the Quran and their rich potential as sources of moral orientation and ethical reasoning. The ethical study of the qurʾanic narratives is per se an interreligious and interdisciplinary enterprise. The ethical study of the religious narrative is not only useful for the moral theory, but for several growing fields, like psychotherapy, bioethics and environmental ethics, not to mention education and pastoral care.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 August 2019. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/deadline-extended-call-research-papers-narrative-and-ethics-morals-quranic-stories

 

 

 

 

2. Five Full-time Positions as Research Associate and Visiting Faculty for Women’s Studies in Religion Program 2020-21, Harvard Divinity School

Proposals for book-length research projects utilizing both religion and gender as central categories of analysis and focusing on any religion are welcomed. Applicants must have received their PhD by 1 October 2019.

Deadline for application: 15 October 2019.

Information: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply

 

 

 

 

3. Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in the Study of Islam in Africa, University of Chicago

We are particularly interested in candidates with scholarly expertise in Islamic religious thought and practice in Africa who are also deeply engaged in one or more of the following areas of inquiry: interactions between Islam and other African religious traditions (such as Ifá or Christianity) or between different Islamic traditions (Sufism, Salafism, Shi’ism, Ahmadiyya, etc); poetic, literary, and artistic expression; race and ethnicity; gender; colonialism and post-colonialism; and globalization.

Review of applications will begin on 15 September 2019 and continue until all positions are filled or the search is closed. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/66490

 

 

 

 

4. Part-Time Position, Gender Studies with a Focus on South Asia, Columbia University

The Columbia University invites applications for a part-time position from scholars working on gender issues in South Asia in any field – history, anthropology, public health, religion, literature and the arts, etc. This is an adjunct appointment for up to two terms, beginning in Spring 2020, or Fall 2020 (one class per term, up to two terms). Interested candidates must hold a PhD at the time of appointment.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58857

 

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