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1. IFRI Webinar SERIES : Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que la première séance 2022 du Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES)
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies
coorganisé par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) et le CeRMI,
aura lieu
le mardi 25 janvier 2022, de 15h à 17h (heure de Paris) / 17h30-19h30 (heure de Téhéran).
Cette première séance s’articulera autour du thème “Regards sur les arts du métal / Insights into Metalwork“, avec les interventions suivantes :
- Metalwares from the Medieval Iranian World: Archaeometallurgy, Actors and Systems of Production
Annabelle Collinet (Musée du Louvre, Paris), David Bourgarit (Centre de recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Paris/UMR 8068 TEMPS)
- Medieval Metalwork from Afghanistan: Preserving the Memory of Lost Collections
Valentina Laviola (University of Bologna)
Pour suivre cette séance online (sur Skyroom), inscrivez-vous avant le 22 janvier sur le lien suivant : https://webquest.fr/?m=111505_regards-sur-les-arts-du-monde-iranien-periodes-islamiques
>> Pour plus d’informations sur le Webinaire
N’hésitez surtout pas à faire circuler l’information !
Au plaisir de vous retrouver nombreux ;
Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI)
pour le comité d’organisation
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI), CNRS UMR 8041
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine
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CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr
2. Smith College – Lecturer in Modern Middle East History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62862
Closing date: 4.14.22
3. Workshop series: Afghanistan through Afghan Voices: Society, Literature & the Arts
https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/article/251182
Afghanistan through Afghan Voices: Society, Literature & the Arts
Talks | Conversations | Readings | Visual Inspirations
Organizers: Aria Fani (University of Washington), Domenico Ingenito (UCLA), Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University)
Afghanistan through Afghan Voices is a series of virtual workshops that highlights and critically engages with recent scholarship on one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. It aims to open an inclusive and multidisciplinary space where Afghan scholars and artists come together in conversation with broad audiences to publicly reflect on their research endeavors and creative trajectories. Monthly programs include Afghan artists from around the globe in dialogue with scholars of literature, art, and history; panels featuring conversations on visual culture and media; and poetry readings in Persian/Dari, Pashto, and English.
The monthly series is hosted via Zoom by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, as well as the Center for India and South Asia.
Schedule
Each meeting is held on the listed date from 9:30 to 11:00 AM Pacific time.
Session 1 | Mr. Blinken’s “Play List”: War, the State, and Empire in Afghanistan in the Age of Neo-liberal (Dis)Order
Thursday, January 27
Wali Ahmadi (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Munazza Ebtikar (University of Oxford)
Session 2 | Invisible Persons, Invisible Texts: Translation and Translators in Medieval and Modern Afghanistan and the West
Thursday, February 17
Book Panel on Zrinka Stahuljak’s Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge – Histoire et littérature connectées
Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), Jawanshir Rasikh (University of Toronto), and Arezou Azad (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)
Session 3 | What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?
Friday, March 11
Panel with Marjan Wardaki (Yale University), Neelam Khoja (University of Pennsylvania), and Nicolas Roth (Harvard University)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
Session 4 | Media, Feminism, and Resistance in and Beyond Afghanistan
Thursday, April 7
Panel with Wazhmah Osman (Temple University), Helena Zeweri (University of Virginia), and Hosai Qasmi (University of Ottawa)
Discussant: Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University)
Session 5 | How to (Not) Read Afghan Literature?
Thursday, May 5
Panel with Ahmad Rashid Salim (UC Berkeley), Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford), and Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
Session 6 | Inside/Outside the Line: Reading and Translating Afghan Poetry
Thursday, June 2
Panel with Parwana Fayyaz (University of Cambridge), Rahman Arman (Indiana University), Elyas Alavi (Adelaide, Australia), Julie Ershadi (UCLA), and Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)
https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/article/251182
4. Online Talk – “Islamic Ceramics: Archaeology, The Art Market and the Creation of Taste,” with Scott Redford (SOAS) – February 1
Online Talk Announcement:
The 52 William Cohn Lecture, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford – Tuesday 1 February 2022, 5-6pm
Islamic Ceramics: Archaeology, The Art Market and the Creation of Taste
With Professor Scott Redford, Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
In the West, the collecting of Islamic ceramics has traditionally taken a back seat to east Asian ceramics. Why is this so? This lecture explores the roles played by dealers, collectors, and museums in creating a body of material known as “Islamic ceramics.” What constitutes this body, and how did it come to be? How might it have been different?
BOOKING:
Please book by emailing eastern.art@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
This free event will take place on Zoom and a link to join will be shared in advance by email.
5. Postdoctoral position at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) as part of the FNRS Incentive Grant for Scientific Research “Prisca Alchimia. The Beginnings of Arabic Alchemy in the East (8th-10th centuries) and its Transmission to al-Andalus and to the Latin World” conducted by Prof. Sébastien Moureau.
Prisca Alchimia is a two-year F.R.S.-FNRS project to start in January 2022 at the UCLouvain (UCL) under the supervision of Prof. Sébastien Moureau. This research project focuses on the history of the Arabic alchemy of the first centuries (8th-10th centuries) approached as the starting context of the alchemical ideas that were transmitted to al-Andalus in the 10th century and then to the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries. The aim is to study the first of the three stages in the transfer of alchemy from the Arab-Muslim East to the Latin world through al-Andalus. In order to do so, research will be oriented towards the sources of alchemical literature of al-Andalus and Latin Europe.
As part of this project, a postdoc position of two years (to start before 1 July 2022) is offered for the second sub-project, i.e. a profound re-evaluation of the manuscript tradition of the corpus of alchemical texts attributed to Jābir b. Ḥayyān, the creation of an inventory of witnesses and the acquisition of copies of the most important manuscripts. This position will involve numerous stays in countries where little or poorly catalogued Arabic alchemical manuscript collections are found (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, etc.).
The qualifications required are:
- a PhD in Islamic Studies, in Middle Eastern Studies, or related fields, granted within the last 6 years (i.e. after 1/7/2016);
- an excellent command of Classical Arabic;
- excellent skills in codicology, Arabic paleography, and manuscript tradition studies;
- a first-rate track record and research experience;
- publications of articles in peer-reviewed international journals or monographs with recognised academic publishers;
- academic writing and presentation skills in English;
- the ability to work both individually and as part of a team.
This postdoc position is full-time equivalent. It is offered initially for a period of 12 months, renewable for another 12 months (two years in total) upon good performance. The postdoc retained will be required to reside in Belgium for the whole period of the fellowship, with many trips and stays abroad, and will be asked to contribute to the intellectual life of the project and of the UCLouvain.
How to apply?
Applications should be made via PDF files and contain the following:
(1) a cover letter setting out the candidate’s qualifications and motivation for applying for the position (maximum 2 pages);
(2) a curriculum vitae (maximum 3 pages);
(3) a list of publications;
(4) two samples of published work (articles, chapters) in pdf (preferably in English or French);
(5) a transcript of grades and/or copy of the PhD certificate;
(6) the name (with title, affiliation and email) of three people having accepted to be contacted as potential referees.
Applications should be made electronically (PDF files only) and sent to the following address:
sebastien.moureau@uclouvain.be
The application deadline is 28 February 2022.
Candidates selected for the interviews will be contacted by March 4 and asked to write a short research design on a topic to be announced at that moment.
Online interviews will be arranged between 14 and 18 March 2022.
Employment must become effective before 1 July 2022.
6. Lecture Series – NYU, Silsila: Center for Material Histories – Spring 2022
Silsila: Center for Material Histories
Spring 2022 Series
We are delighted to announce the spring 2022 program of New York University’s Silsila: Center for Material Histories. The full details of our spring program are listed below and can also be found on our website:
https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html
Only registered attendees will be able to access the events. Links to register for each event can be found on the webpage for each, accessed through the website.
Silsila Spring 2022 Series
Feb 2nd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“ILLUMINATING THE HISTORY OF PRIVATE DEVOTION IN THE MUSLIM WEST” Hiba Abid, Silsila/NYU
Feb 9th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“SILSILAS FROM THE ISLAMIC EAST: MIRACLES AND MATERIAL LIFE” Teren Sevea, Harvard University
Feb 23rd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE FABRIC OF THE CITY: SPACES OF SILK WEAVING AND MASS PRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN KASHAN” Nader Sayadi, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mar 2nd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“REVISITING THE GREAT MOSQUE OF DAMASCUS” Alain George, University of Oxford
Mar 9th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE THEATRE-CARAVANSERAI OF TBILISI. A HETEROTOPIA FROM THE CAUCASUS” Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
Mar 30th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“MODERN MEN AND AMATEURS OF ANTIQUITIES: COLLECTING PRACTICE IN 19th OTTOMAN TUNISIA” Ridha Moumni, Harvard University
Apr 6th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“ARCHIVE WARS: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA” Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Apr 13th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“‘ABOU FARID’S WAR’ AND OTHER LOVE STORIES – ARTIST OMAR MISMAR IN CONVERSATION WITH JOAN RETALLACK” Omar Mismar, American University of Beirut & Joan Retallack, Bard College
Apr 20th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE QUR’AN IN PRACTICE” Anouk Cohen, CNRS Paris
Apr 27th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“BLOCK-PRINTED AMULETS FROM THE QUBBAT AL-KHAZNA IN DAMASCUS: DISCOVERY, TECHNIQUE AND TEXTS” Arianna D’Ottone Rambach, La Sapienza University, Rome
May 4th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“SLAVES AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN” Lamia Balafrej, UCLA; M’hamed Oualdi, Sciences Po-Paris & Meredith Martin, NYU
7. New Publication – Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities
Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq, is available as an ebook, paperback and hardback.
The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world.
This book seeks to explore the profound and complex ways that architecture and landscape design were impacted by historical epidemics around the world, from North America to Africa and Australia, and to convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership. The chapters analyse the development of urban infrastructure, institutions and spaces in western and eastern societies in response to historical pandemics. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and their responses, exploit and amplify social inequality in the urban contexts and communities they impact. The contributors to this new study are historians, public health experts, art and architectural historians, sociologists, anthropologists, doctors and nurses. In researching their contributions, all have spoken to an audience that includes the public, practitioners and academic readers; the resultant case studies reveal a diverse range of urban interventions that are connected to the impact of epidemics on society and urban life, as well as the conceptualization of and response to disease.
8. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh/IASH (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities)
IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship
The application deadline for the 2022/23 IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship is 25th February 2022.
The Fellowship includes a stipend of up to £3500 to enable a scholar to visit Edinburgh for up to four months during the 22/23 academic year. Further details can be found here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-alwaleed-research-fellowship
Especially for those whose research fits with the Alwaleed Centre’s focus on the contemporary/globalised Muslim world. IASH are particularly keen to welcome scholars whose work links to their Institute Project on Decoloniality.
9. Teaching Fellow – Languages for All (Arabic)
University of Birmingham
Languages for All in the Department of Modern Languages is looking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Arabic. As part of the University’s strategic vision for Languages for All, the Teaching Fellow will contribute to an innovative digital-first year-round programme which maximises the opportunities of digital language learning through a curriculum aligned with the University’s global community.
Deadline | 6 February 2022
10. Call for Papers – Post-Millennial MENAWA Conference
Online conference | 21-22 June 2022 | MENAWA
Papers are invited for this multidisciplinary conference which seeks to examine MENAWA (Middle East/North Africa/West Asia) creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms. The organisers aim to identify emergent trends across literature and visual media as well as networks of production, reception, and circulation (pedagogy, literary translation & criticism, publishing) in order to illuminate new approaches to understanding creative cultural expression from these regions.
Deadline | 28 February 2022
More information
11. British Yemeni Society Research Grant
As part of its educational mission, the British–Yemeni Society offers a £500 grant annually to assist with academic study related to Yemen. Applications are invited from anyone carrying out research in, or on Yemen, at a British or Yemeni University. Applicants’ nationality is irrelevant. Applications may be made to assist with study in any subject or field, so long as it is concerned with Yemen, and is for a specific qualification (e.g., BA, MA, PhD etc.). Post-doctoral researchers may apply but will only be considered should no more junior applicant approach the Committee.
Deadline | 31 May 2022
More information
12. NES Lecture: FROM COMPILATION TO INDEXING: TRACING THE PRACTICE OF EARLY MODERN ORIENTALIST SCHOLARSHIP, February 16, 12:00 PM
Near Eastern Studies Lecture
February 16,12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
From Compilation to Indexing: Tracing the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship
Paul Babinski (University of Copenhagen)
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).
How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing the sources they used, their methods of deciphering texts and comparing manuscripts, and their collaboration with amanuenses. Annotations also afford us a view of development over time, charting practices of early modern orientalist scholarship through shifting patterns of note-taking. This talk will trace that history in the early modern period, giving an overview of the conventions of orientalist annotation and focusing on a comparison between manuscripts from the two premier Western European Arabists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively: Jacob Golius and Johann Jacob Reiske. Both scholars’ libraries remain largely intact, and, viewed broadly, offer a perspective onto questions of scholarly specialization, the character of philological progress, and the changing social contexts of orientalist learning.
Register in advance here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
13. Storey Online– Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
C.A. Storey’s Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language.
“Charles Ambrose Storey’s (1888-1968) Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey is a standard reference work about the Persian literary tradition. Storey’s Survey originally consisted of 5 volumes (1.1; 1.2; 2; 3; and 4), but not all volumes were actually published. A new volume (no. 5) was published later by François de Blois. Based on Storey’s handwritten legacy preserved by the Royal Asiatic Society, Brill has published the missing volumes, completing the Survey in 2020 and 2021.
Explicitly intended as a counterpart to Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Storey’s Survey offers entries on Persian authors as well as their works, listing their manuscripts and editions.
Storey Online makes available all 6 volumes of Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, as well as the new cumulative index volume, as an online resource. Its publication in Open Access was made possible by the Persian Heritage Foundation.”
14. The 8th Yemen Exchange Conference (Online), February 28 – March 11, 2022
The Eighth Yemen Exchange February 28-March 11 (Monday-Friday, 16:00-19:000 Sana’a Time) is an intensive online version of the Yemen Exchange organized by the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies and The Exchange Foundation since 2017. The conference is designed to provide unique access to information, perspectives, updates and analyses on Yemen for both those seeking to develop a working background on the country as well as those already thoroughly versed in its dynamics. During the ten-day program conducted via Zoom, participants from around the world will listen to Yemeni analysts, academics, politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and international experts to gain insight and rare first-hand knowledge about the country from a wide range of perspectives. Participants will have the chance to both virtually engage with speakers during the sessions and connect with speakers individually after the Exchange.
The sessions themselves – totaling more than 30 hours – will dive into several specific areas, including but not limited to: Yemen’s multifaceted conflicts, socio-political dynamics, internal divisions and alliances among parties to the conflict, developments in the southern governorates and the Red Sea, military and political developments on the ground, the status of various armed groups, gender issues, the Yemeni diaspora, the regional battle for Yemen, the humanitarian response, the state of the economy, the UN-led peace process and a variety of other topics.
All information at: https://sanaacenter.org/event/the-eighth-yemen-exchange
15. Lecture on “The Metaphysical Dimension of the Prophet in Avicenna’s Thought” at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
This upcoming lecture is the eighth in the ‘Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series’ convened by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, and the first to be hybrid. Scholars are warmly invited to register to attend online via Zoom, or in person at the Aga Khan Centre in Kings Cross, London.
Date: 3 February, 2022
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm GMT
Speaker: Dr Meryem Sebti (CNRS)
The prophet has a major metaphysical function. This is a fundamental thesis of Avicenna’s prophetology, and one of the main theses that will be explored in this lecture. The Metaphysics of the Kitāb al-Šifā’ closes with a treatise on prophetology, and one must give a reason for that. The prophet is not only the one who transmits the revealed Law to mankind, nor merely the one who ensures the best possible government of the city: he is also a model of perfection for men. This exemplarity of the prophet has its foundation in the very structure of Avicenna’s metaphysics. The intellect, soul and body of the prophet – in their mutual relationship – present a perfect correspondence with the intellect, soul and body of the ten celestial entities that structure the cosmos according to Avicenna.
Find out more and register (in person or online): https://bit.ly/3nBHM9w
About the lecture series: https://bit.ly/31VxnLb
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