Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Applications, 2022-2023 Faculty Leave Fellowship
The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is accepting applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for scholars of the contemporary Middle East. The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology—for the 2022-2023 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s /Middle East Brief/ series.
*Eligibility
*The 2022-2023 faculty leave fellowship is open to *all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured*, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
*Terms
*The faculty leave fellowship is an academic year appointment beginning September 1, 2022 and ending May 31, 2023. The fellowship is designed to supplement the scholar’s faculty leave salary from their institution and will provide a stipend plus funding for research, travel, and related expenses. The fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank (or rank equivalency based on scholarly attainment): $40,000 for assistant professor or career equivalent; $50,000 for associate professor or career equivalent; and $70,000 for full professor, emeritus, or career equivalent. The Crown Center will determine the level based on the candidate’s rank or equivalent rank as of the application deadline. Fringe benefits, when not provided by the scholar’s home institution, can be made available during the appointment period.
Fellows are required to be *in residence* at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship and be fully relieved of teaching and service responsibilities at their home university. During their residence, fellows write a /Middle East Brief/ and participate in all Crown Center events, including seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.
*Application Materials
*1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
*Application Submission*: *https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/19416* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/spwxdq>
*Application Deadline
*January 1, 2022
*Notification
*April 1, 2022
*Inquiries
*You may direct inquiries to Kristina Cherniahivsky at crowncenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-5320. For more information, please visit *brandeis.edu/crown* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/8hxxdq>.
2. ONLINE Lecture: “Representations of Iran by the Western Film Industry” by Angeliki Coletsou, Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – A Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig, 3 November 2021, 7:30 pm CET
The speaker compares Iran’s representations by the media before and after the Arab Spring and focuses on the portrayal of 2009 protests by comparing the American and some German cinematic representations of the country.
Information and registration: https://kiaradiekritischen.wordpress.com/ak-10-jahre-sogenannter-arabischer-fruehling/
3. HYBRID “3rd Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference of the American Society of Islamic Phi-losophy & Theology”, Harvard and Brandeis Universities, 3-5 December 2021
The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context.
Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/
4. ONLINE Book Launch: “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 10 December 2021, 12:00 pm EST
This edited book (Brill, 2021) is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman Empire and home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse urban populations, as an early modern metropolis. This event brings together the editors, as well as a number of contributors, of the volume to discuss also the field of urban studies within Ottoman history.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpd-6vqToqHNbAfK8D5pKY8SSht99dPKx-
5. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022
This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africam, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sacred-spaces-winter-2022-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-11-12-february-fresno-924964?e=82aeb6c61d
6. Workshop: “Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond”, Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS), Royal Holloway University of London, February 2022
Organised by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) and Thomas Pierret (Aix-en-Provence). Scholars are invited with various disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of the many utopias that have shaped (or, at least, strove to shape) the Middle East and adjacent regions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Information: https://utopiasinthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/
7. International Conference: “Silk Roads by Land and Sea”, GUtech German University of Technology, Muscat, 9-12 March 2022
The conference will be organised by the RIO Research Centre Indian Ocean (www.rio-heritage.org). It seeks to contribute to the emerging field of “mobility studies”, shedding new light on the overland and sea networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean and East Africa to East Asia from the earliest times to the present day.
Information: http://silkroads.rio-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/210729_Call-for-Papers_v2.pdf
8. 24th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 May 2022
Proposals are invited for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any Mediterranean language.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-studies-association-25-28-may-lisbon?e=82aeb6c61d
9. Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, University of Marburg, 4-9 July 2022
The themed portion of the conference on 7July will be “Environment and Nature in the Mamluk Sultanate”. We welcome papers related to land use, hydrology and irrigation, disease and famine, flora and fauna, crops and food, and anything related to these topics.
Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
10. Assistant Professor in Digital Culture (Focus MENA), Northwestern University Qatar
We seek candidates with an active research program on digital culture in the West Asia and North Africa region, particularly Arab countries. Preference given to scholars whose research is comparative or transna-tional, who investigate questions of identity, values, aesthetics, affect, ethics, and who have linguistic com-petence and field experience in their research area.
Deadline for applications: 11 November 2021. Information: https://careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hr857prd_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=42217&PostingSeq=1
11. Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards of the American Center for Research, Amman, 2022-2023
Information: https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/
12. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for North African Francophone Studies, Connecticut College
All thematic approaches are welcome, with particular attention to expertise in the fields of colonialism/impe-rialism, migration, feminism, gender, sexuality, Arabic, and Islamic Studies. Candidates will have demon-strated experience in the reading and analysis of a variety of cultural modes of production particularly litera-ture in many genres, but also film and screen, music, visual and graphic art, and possibly others.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/97248
13. Assistant Professorship in the History of the Middle East (Tenure Track), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
The period of specialization is open. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to re-search and to research-informed teaching at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in History or a related field at the time appointment begins (August 10, 2022). Previous experience in teaching and mentoring successful undergraduate research is preferred.
Deadline for applications: 5 November 2021. Information: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/120720
14. Assistant Professor in Early Modern Mediterranean Religion, Northwestern University, Evanston
The successful candidate will be interested in the varied routes of religious, philosophical, and material exchange connecting Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and/or the Americas from 1500-1800. May specialize in Christianity, Islam, and/or Judaism.
Deadline for application: 15 November 2021. Information: https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/about/open-faculty-positions/early-modern-search-2021.html
15. Intensive Course: “A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Studies in Pre-Modern Egypt”, University of Marburg, 4-6 July 2022
The course will be instructed by Ghislaine Alleaume, Allison Gascoigne, Nicolas Michel, and Yossef Rapoport. It will include an introduction to archaeological methods in environmental history, historiography and research methods for the environmental history of pre-modern Egypt, an introduction to GIS, and the use of map resources generally.
Deadline for application: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
16. Articles for Journal “Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico” in English, French, Italian or Spanish
Essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, mi-gratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.
Deadline for articles: 15 November 2021. Information: https://blogperle.unical.it/wp/rivistaocchiali/cfp-no-9
17. Call for Papers
The journal Forum for Islamic-Theological Studies (FITS) is a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, principally in Europe. FITS aims to provide an open space for academic dialogue within and across disciplinary and confessional boundaries to advance debates in the various sub-disciplines of Islamic theology and religious education as well as in the sociology of religion concerning ‘Islam’ and Muslims. Papers can be submitted in the following areas: Qur’anic Studies and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr); Hadith Studies; Sufism; Islamic Legal Theory and Hermeneutics (fiqh); Islamic Ethics; Islamic Philosophy; System-atic-Discursive Theology (kalām); Islamic Religious Education; Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe; Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe; Interreligious Studies: etc.
Deadline for contributions: 1 March 2022. Information: https://www.uibk.ac.at/islam-theol/docs/call-for-papers_fits_de_en-002.pdf
18. Chapters for edited volume on ‘Assessing Canada’s Footprint in the Middle East and North Africa. This book will be open to various scholarly approaches, such as from the fields of political science, diplomatic history, cultural studies, and more. Papers are invited to explore either bilateral relationships or thematic issues, and will be done in the broadest geographic understanding of MENA.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021. Information: Canada.MENA.Research@gmail.com
19. Exeter’s Monday Majlis: November programme
The Monday Majlis from the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI) at Exeter continues with meetings in November (see the programme below). All members of the Islamic Studies community are welcome to attend – pre-registration is required – here is the blurb:
The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. They take place Mondays, online 1700-1830 UK time.
To register, click on the links below (separate links and separate registration for each Majlis).
1st November: Dr Bianka Speidl (Budapest) will talk about her new book Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (Routledge 2020).
To register click here: https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-qvqT8oHtySTlXHEhcmPRlFPOtmJtTb
8th November: Dr Emily Selove (Exeter) and Professor Geert Jan Van Gelder (Oxford) talk about their newly published translations and commentary: The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. Parental guidance: prepare for some explicit medieval Arabic material from this fascinating 11th century text.
To register click here:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucumsqTkpGtz3ZmD5Oh33I34LRAV1hAIQ
15th November: Professor Peter Morey (Birmingham) will talk about his research around Islamophobia and the novel.
To register click here:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuqoqDwoHNYfMNRevBWwHvfd8gTca5Ph
22nd November: Professor Mirjam Kunkler (Swedish Collegium) will talk about her research on gender and Islam, with a focus on her programme “Wither Female Religious authorities?”
To register click here:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpduqqqD4iHdYL4zzTe9rINLcAoW1toQ9A
29th November: Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed, in the second of his sessions, studies passages from Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam with us.
To register click here:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcuqtrz0uHN2nKsNij9e6llnbWyYp5ke3
In line with University of Exeter online seminar regulations:
- Registration is open until 1700 UK TIME on the day BEFORE of the seminar.
2. You will receive the link to join the seminar on the morning of the seminar.
3. You will need to use the same email to join the seminar as you did to register.
4. Please add the date to your calendar now, as you will not receive a confirmatory email (and link) that you have registered until the day of the seminar.
20. Professor Roshanak Kheshti, “The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema,” Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST Zoom Registration: https://uoft.me/6VQ
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series
presents
The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema
an online lecture by
Professor Roshanak Kheshti
University of California, Berkeley
Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST
Zoom Registration:
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Bio:
Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance amd Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She is an anthropologist, feminist, queer and race theorist, born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work sits at the intersection of sound, the senses, film and performance studies with an emphasis on diaspora and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She is currently completing her third book, tentatively titled “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics”. She has previously published in the Radical History Review, American Quarterly, Current Musicology, Feminist Media Histories, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Theater Survey, and Sounding Out!
Abstract:
This talk explores the question of diegetic film sound in diasporic Iranian cinema. Through Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Mitra Tabrizian’s Gholam and Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats, I consider how the commonly held understanding of diegetic sound (or sounds that emanate from the story world of the film) becomes a troubled notion in this genre, challenging how the narrative world of the film is contained.
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