Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE International Conference: “Race and Islam: Global Histories, Contemporary Legacies”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 23-24 March 2022
The conference aims to explore not just how Islam responds to questions of race, but also the ways Islam, as a faith tradition, has encountered, engaged with, and reflected particular understandings and experiences of race (not least of all through Islam’s own history with racialized slavery).
Information, program and registration: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/13079
2. ONLINE Seminar: “Experiences of Space and Spaces of Experience in (Post)Ottoman Societies” by Nathalie Clayer (EHESS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 24 March 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET
In this seminar, starting from the presentation and discussion of current research on Ottoman and post-Ottoman space, we will question, using different objects of study (from individual and collective trajectories to places of activity and production), the spatial practices and visions, but also evolutions, of social spaces and landscapes and their temporalities.
Information and registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1752161259609665806
3. ONLINE “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul: A Book Panel in Loving Memory of Yavuz Sezer”, 25 March 2022, 9:00 am PT
This commemorative panel focuses on the book “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul” that touches upon the material environment of Istanbul, a theme very close to the heart of Yavuz Sezer whom we lost to COVID. The panel participants include the co-editors of the volume, Shirine Hamadeh (Koç University) and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi University), as well as two of the contributors, Selim Kuru (University of Washington) and Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University).
Information and registration:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdO2gqT0jGdfCk1jJjjQTj0ZsC8zJG5n3
4. ONLINE Webinar: “Navigating War, Migration and the Taliban – Sufi Survival Strategies in Afghanistan” by Dr. Annika Schmeding (Harvard Society of Fellows), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 25 March 2022, 2:15 pm -3:30 pm CET
This talk offers an ethnographically-embedded view of various navigational strategies employed by Sufi lead-ers in Afghanistan over the past four decades, adaptations that have not only allowed Sufi thought and practice to continue but have affected the very concept of what it means to be a Sufi leader in Afghanistan.
Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/navigating-war-migration-and-the-taliban-%E2%80%93-sufi-su.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature” by Tarif Khalidi (AUB), Orient-Institut Beirut, 30 March 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm TRT
This is an attempt to examine the biographical tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature from the eighth century to the fifteenth centuries A.D. It will endeavour, first, to explore the various technical terms of this tradition, then sketch a short his history of its evolution and, finally, will seek to consider issues of style, content and dimensions of the human personality.
Information and registration: https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/tarif-khalidi-the-biographical-tradition-in-pre-modern-arabic-literature/
6. Colloque : « L’étude de l’islamisme entre l’Occident et le Monde arabe : vers un dialogue constructif pour mieux comprendre l’islam politique », Université de Laval Canada, 13 mai 2022
Information et programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/61644
7. Conference: “Kurdish Family Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Berlin, 2-4 June 2022
Objectives: The questions surrounding the origins of Kurdish family laws and their application will be ad-dressed in addition to the family legal status of the religious Kurdish minorities, the customary family law among Kurdish communities, the application of family law on the Kurdish communities in the diaspora and related questions of private international law, and also the application of family law among Kurdish commu-nities in the European diaspora, especially Germany, Italy and France.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.
Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1491935/20220314-call-for-papers-kurdish-family-law-conference
8. 32nd Exeter Gulf Conference: “Liberalism and Its Paradoxes in the Arabian Peninsula”, University of Exeter, UK, 28-29 June 2022
The regimes of the Arabian Peninsula are in the midst of a self-induced reincarnation into the liberal, ‘mod-erate’, and free-market social orders that have lost currency elsewhere. Contributions are welcome from political economy, political philosophy/theory, history (20th and 21st centuries), gender studies, anthropology and sociology, political science and international relations, migration and diaspora studies, environmental and urban studies.
Deadline for the abstracts: 22 April 2022. Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12080
9. Conference of Early Career Scholars on “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Morifs, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 5-7 December 2022
The event will bring together an international group of specialists in Syriac Christianity as well as scholars of the Qurʾān to explore how the Qurʾān reacts to Syrian Christian traditions and the extent of which it serves as a historical witness to Syriac Christianity in Arabia. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.
Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.
10. Conference: “A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1000)”, Leiden University, 8-10 December 2022
How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in the early Islamicate empire? We want to examine how relationships between individuals, and between and within groups, are referred to, and how other forms of solidarity underwriting social cohesion are cultivated and perpetuated.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.
11. Postdoctoral Fellowships (2-3 Months) in France 2022 for Young Researchers from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and 140 Universities Members of UNIMED
This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. Laureates will receive a financial support of 1 600 euros per month.
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2022. Information: https://www.uni-med.net/wp-content/up-loads/2022/01/English-Call-Unimed-2022.pdf
12. 3 Doctoral and 3 Postdoctoral Positions for Research Group “REVENANT – Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia Tribulation” (Focus MENA), University of Rijeka, Croatia
For doctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748740
For postdoctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748788
For the project: https://revenant.uniri.hr
Deadline for applications: 27 March 2022.
13. Lecturer in Arabic, Stony Brook University/SUNY, New York
Preferred qualifications include a doctoral degree in a field relevant to the teaching of Arabic, and at least 3 years of university-level teaching experience.
Deadline for applications: 7 April 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/102909
14. Intensive Summer School of Arabic Dialects & Modern Standard Arabic
From June 6th to July 13rd 2022
Information: http://www.inalco.fr/en/intensive-summer-school-arabic-dialects-training-on-site
15. Learn Arabic at Ibn Ghazi Arabic Institute
Information: https://www.igai-fez.com/
16. Webinar Symposium – Qur’anic Manuscript Traditions: Readings From the Qatar National Library Collection – March 30
The symposium, organized in the framework of the Arab Manuscript Day (Alesco), will gather a number of international experts dealing with the traditions of the production of Qur’anic manuscripts over 14 centuries, covering a vast geographical area. Our journey will start in the Arabian Peninsula and will continue through the kingdoms of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, up to the lands of China and the Malay world. Focusing on the periphery of the Islamic World, we aim to contribute to an exciting but less-researched and less popular theme. The symposium’s contributions will be based on the rich inventory of the Library’s manuscripts which will be presented in relation to important, relevant manuscripts from various other collections around the world.
Program, Doha’s time (GMT+3)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Hijazi Qur’anic Manuscripts (Ahmed Shaker)
12:00 – 12:10 PM: Mus’haf Al Zubarah (Mahmoud Zaki)
12:10 – 1:10 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Sub-Saharan Africa (Dr. Mohameden Ahmed Salem)
2:00 – 3:00 PM: The Art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia (Dr. Annabel Gallop)
3:00 – 3:45 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts from China: Initial Observations on an Unexplored Tradition (W. Sekulova and M. Zaki)
4:15 – 5:15 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Indian Subcontinent in Bihari Script (Dr. Saima Syed)
Program and registration : https://events.qnl.qa/event/Q2VV9/EN
For more information sipert@qnl.qa
17. CfP Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies deadline Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Co-hosted by the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and
SOAS, University of London
Aga Khan Centre, London and online
6 to 8 October 2022
This annual exploratory and informal workshop not only offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic, but also invites contributors to explore more broadly how people relate to the past. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies related to Arabic in any region and in any period from the seventh century to the present.
Papers might elucidate questions such as:
How and in which terms do people refer to the past? How and in which terms do they refer to memory? What is the relation between history and memory, and between memory and space? How does the past sit in people’s bodies – and in the body politic?
Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts? At different times and places, was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?
From what perspective have histories been written and what makes them coherent? How have past events been rendered intelligible? When do particular views of the past start to fall apart? Which categories and boundaries are seen as primordial and which are not? Which beings have been seen as capable of influencing events and when?
How do people connect the/their living and the/their dead conceptually? When are past events really over and when can they be laid to rest? Under which circumstances is the past revived? Why do some past lives or events inspire action and others do not? How does unresolved conflict inform thinking about and using the past?
How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community?
How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history?
In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organizations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe? How do recent discourses in the West shape discussions of history in the Middle East?
How can digital methods now enhance or change our understandings of the past? What additional information and perspectives do they offer? (How) do they limit our understanding? What are practical challenges when we apply digital methods to Arabic history? What seem to be particularly promising approaches?
Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Centre in London, with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK. As in past years, there is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.
Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Tuesday, 19 April 2022 to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu .
18. “Malcolm X, Islam and the Souls of Black Folk”
A Talk by
Dr. Zain Abdullah
Temple University
Friday, March 25, 2022 | 5:00 PM EST (Zoom)
Malcolm X is one of the 20th century’s most intriguing figures, becoming a standard in Black Studies, street culture and global affairs, with Turkey recently changing its new American embassy’s street to “Malcolm X Avenue.” Still, his deep encounter with religion is routinely ignored. Dr. Zain Abdullah places Malcolm X in the context of Islam and the fight for Black liberation, as both consistently informed his worldview and his struggle to free oppressed peoples.
Register in advance to receive the Zoom link:
https://go.rutgers.edu/MalcolmX
Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Departments of African American and African Studies, English, and Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers-Newark.
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