Shii News – Academic Items
1.Symposium – Living Line, Living Legacy: Arabic-script Calligraphy Symposium – May 7
Please join us for a symposium on Arabic-script calligraphy taking place at the Qatar America Institute for Culture in Washington DC on Saturday, May 7 from 10am to 2pm.
Organized by the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, internationally renowned calligraphers Mohamed Zakariya (USA), Davut Bektaş (Turkey), and Nuria Garcia Masip (France) among others, will be in conversation with Islamic art curators and scholars.
Inscribed by UNESCO onto its list of intangible cultural heritage in December, 2021, Arabic-script calligraphy has a centuries-old tradition as the preeminent art form in Islamicate societies, yet contemporary work of traditionally trained calligraphers does not fit easily into present day conceptions of global art. Symposium speakers will discuss their journeys to calligraphy, how calligraphy is supported and collected globally and the manner in which their work is bridging binaries between the contemporary and traditional.
This is an on-site event which will be recorded for viewing later. Symposium space is limited; please register early at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-line-living-legacy-symposium-tickets-271262522507. (The ticket price includes lunch.)
The symposium is held in conjunction with the calligraphy exhibition titled Living Line, Living Legacy which opens April 11 and runs through June 17, 2022 at the Qatar America Institute for Culture, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. The exhibition highlights the work of Mohamed Zakariya and seven of his students and colleagues. You may schedule a visit at the QAIC’s website.
2. A Scholar for our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob
Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins., eds.
3. Film Screening and Panel Discussion “A Moment of Bliss: The Story of Love and Hate Between a Country and Its People”, FES, Berlin, 21 April 2022, 5:30 pm
The film, which is written and produced by the FES in Beirut, highlights different facets of social and political injustice in the lives of people in Lebanon through four personal stories. It also shows the relevance of civil society engagement for democratic change and the importance of electoral participation for a better future. Arabic version with German subtitles.
Deadline for registration: 15 April 2022. Information: https://www.fes.de/newsletter/newsletter-referat-naher/mittlerer-osten-und-nordafrika/newsticker-01/20-2-4-1
4. ONLINE Lecture “An Impossible Promise? Sociology of Religion in Arab Countries” by Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Sociological approaches to religion in Arabic do have a longer history and feature more widely than is often assumed. This talk will provide glimpses into the history and presence of these approaches and their charac-teristics, addressing both structural and theoretical questions.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/mr29m9mp
5. 21st Beirut Exchange Conference (in Person), 5-12 June 2022
The Beirut Exchange is an immersive research conference that offers participants a unique exposure to lead-ing scholars, politicians and activists representing a range of different points of view on Lebanon. It is aimed at NGO practitioners, foreign diplomats, researchers, journalists and professionals in general who are inter-ested in gaining a deeper understanding of Lebanon.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2022. Deadline II: 10 May 2022 (20 slots ony; rolling acceptance).
Information: https://www.globalpoliticalexchange.org/beirut
6. American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference: “New Landscapes in MENA Politics”, Amman, 28-30 July 2022
This conference aspires to identify new research landscapes and build conscious research agendas for the coming years that can align our discipline with the contemporary realities and challenges that citizens of the region are experiencing. Looking back at the Arab Spring, through wars in Libya, Yemen, and Syria and massive human displacement, considering regime change and resiliency, advancements in women’s rights, and current implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022. Information: https://web.apsanet.org/mena/2022-conference/
7. Workshop on “Social Contracts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Drivers of Change”, German Development Institute, Bonn, 24-26 August 2022
Papers should identify drivers of contemporary transformations of social contracts in the MENA-region, as-sess the drivers’ respective contribution to change – both in ‘objective’ terms and in the perception of the social contract stakeholders, gauge the options of less powerful actors (e.g. vulnerable groups in society) to bring about change in social contracts.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/events/details/social-contracts-in-the-mena-drivers-of-change/
8. International Conference “Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia”, Organised by ZMO and CSDS, New Delhi, 12-14 October 2022
Contributions are invited on the history of temporality in early modern and modern South Asia. We are inter-ested in going beyond the conception of time as a homogeneous substratum of all being and re-conceiving it more as a dynamic object and medium of historical processes, practically entangled with varying modes of time reckoning and temporal cultures, techniques and epistemes.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karri-ere/Ausschreibungen_2022/CfP_Timely_Histories_10-22.pdf
9. International Workshop: “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region.” Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022
The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The workshop intents to explore the trajectories of post-colonial Occidentalist discourses in the MENA region. It aims to reflect on their various genealogies, forms, and contents.
Extended deadline for abstract: 15 April 2022.
10. Symposium “Historiography in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, ISAR, Istanbul, 16-17 December 2022
The symposium intends to illuminate the lives of these historians, their traditions, sources, methods, and objectives. In addition, it also welcomes rereading attempts of Ottoman historical texts guided by newly developing approaches, such as conceptual history, the history of emotions, environmental history, and so on.
The languages of presentations will be Turkish, Arabic, or English. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.isar.org.tr/en/sempozyum-calistaylar/historiography-in-the-ottoman-empire-scholars-works-and-problems/call-for-papers-9
11. Scientific Staff (Prae-Doc, 3 Years), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
To join the research project “Grocers of Istanbul: Tracing Food Consumption through the Inheritance Inven-tories of Grocers (Bakkals) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. Qualificaton: MA with focus on the history of the Ottoman Empire; solid philological training in reading Ottoman texts, palaeographical know-
ledge, excellent research skills, as well as good communication skills. Deadline for applications: 25 April 2022. Information:
12. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2022/23 to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the human-ities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “hu mans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/
13. Doctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year beginning in September 2022 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/
14. Post-Doc Fellowship (1 Year) for Research on “Islamophobia in Health Professions Education”, University of Toronto
Applicants must have defended their doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2022 on a topic related to contemporary experience as a North American Muslim, cross-cultural dialogue on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate, and/or using education to address Islamophobia. Deadline for application extended: 5 May 2022. Information: https://mobile.twitter.com/UofTMed_OID/status/1512152023772323840 Contact: medicine.inclusiondiversity@utoronto.ca
15. Postdoctoral Associate Position in Arabic Cultural Studies (1 Year), Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. within the past two years and will have a strong record of research and solid preparation for (or experience in) teaching at the undergraduate level in Arabic cultures,
with a focus on the modern and/or contemporary period. Deadline for applications: 23 May 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21566
16. Chapters on “Turkish Cultural Syndromes and Their Representations in Popular Culture” for Edited Collection “Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” (Routledge)
The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, cov-ering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10075052/culture-bound-syndromes-popular-culturecall-chaptersroutledge
17. 9th Edition of the Summer School “Understanding the Middle East: The Politics of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Turin, 4-8 July 2021
The summer school critically unpacks gender studies to explore the role they have in re-defining regional trajectories. It also aspires to analyse new debates to better grasp the impact these studies have on the
Middle East and North African region in historical perspective. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.tomideast.com/
18. Course “Decolonising European Modernity: Text, Paratext, Urtext”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 11-14 July 2022, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-european-modernity-text-paratext-urtext-short-course-tickets-243473765587
19. Summer School: “Religion, Mobility & Economy”, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), 28 August – 3 September 2022, Antwerp, Belgium
The interdisciplinary mentoring programme for doctoral and postdoctoral students will focus on the diversity of religions on the move and economic transformation. We welcome papers based on original research that explore these themes from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, political science, and theology. Faculty includes two assistant professors with focus on Islam.
Deadline for applications: 17 April 2022.
Information: https://www.ucsia-summerschool.org/
20. Contributions à « Discours et pouvoir dans et sur les religions » pour un numéro thématique de Revue “Religiologique”
Ce numéro veut réfléchir aux discours sur les religions, d’un point de vue politique ou juridique, et les façons dont les sociétés entendent gérer le religieux. Il peut aussi être l’occasion de réfléchir aux façons dont les religions adaptent, ou non, leur discours, confrontés aux nouveaux impératifs sociaux, ainsi qu’à l’émergence
de discours critiques des religions et les influences de ceux-ci sur les structures religieuses. Les manuscrits sont à soumettre avant la fin du mois de décembre 2022.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/04/Appel_discours_pouvoir.pdf
21. Deadline extended:
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will offer two seven-week intensive summer Arabic programs on AUB campus between June 22 and August 10, 2022.
The Arabic Language and Culture program is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from elementary to high advanced.
The Lebanese Arabic program offers intensive instruction at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in Lebanese Arabic and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence.
Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities. Students receive 9 credit hours that they can transfer to their home institutions.
The application deadline has been extended to May 6, 2022.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application, cost, and financial support, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/ or contact us on cames@aub.edu.lb.
22. Fellowships & Grants in Iranian Studies
April 29, 2022 – 5 PM GMT
(9 AM PST, 12 PM EST)
What fellowships and grants exist out there?
What are the different options for students & postgraduates?
What do students or postgraduates need to secure one?
Mark your calendars for our next Presidential Session on “Fellowships and Grants in Iranian Studies” with AIS President, Naghmeh Sohrabi, AIS Council Member, Dr. Hosna Sheikholeslami, and Dr. Stella Morgana.
The online event will be held on Friday, April 29 at 12pm EST and will be moderated by AIS Student Representatives Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak and Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli.
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AISPresidentialSessions
23. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“African Slaves in Qajar Photographs (1840s – 1920s): Curation and Interpretation in the 21st century”
Speaker: Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Curator of Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)
Thursday, April 14th at 11 AM NYC
Email Helen Goldenberg if you like to have access to this online talk (Helen.Goldenberg@metmuseum.org )
24. The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies(BBQ+) is an independent Center dedicated to interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and mentorship in critical race, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. Our fellowshipis a year-long program that brings together a diverse group of scholars from undergraduates to postgraduates working across these fields in a collaborative and supportive environment. The fellowship meets once a week for two hours and meetings alternate between writing clinics, theory clinics, fellows circles focussed on demystifying academia for BIPOC, queer, trans, and/or first generation scholars, and a monthly colloquium with senior scholars in BBQ+ related fields.
The fellowship is open to:
- College students (including students in community colleges) and recent (3 years post-degree) BA and BSc holders
- Masters students and recent MA holders (3 years post-degree)
- PhD students
- Recent Postdoctoral scholars (not exceeding 8 years after earning a doctoral degree)
Open to undocumented and international applicants.
In all cases, parental leaves, family leaves, sick leaves and any similar circumstances will not be counted within years-post-degree. For circumstances or other related considerations that are not documented, applicants are encouraged to write to fellowships@bbqplus.org
The fellowship offers:
1. Research Stipend: Fellows are offered a $3000 research stipend. They can also apply to reimburse other research or professionalization expenses. If you have another source of funding and can waive the $5000 research stipend, please indicate so in your application.
- Mentorship and Professionalization: Each cohort of fellows works closely with a member of the Center’s leadership to develop their research project (see expectations below) and prepare for a professional career through sessions dedicated to various aspects of professionalization. Fellows also have access to the broader network of the Center and the Senior Fellowswho can offer advice and comment on work in progress.
- Community: The Center aims to foster a tightly-knit and supportive intergenerational and interdisciplinary community of scholars around shared academic interests. Regular meetings and opportunities for socializing provide both structure and support.
All applications received by May 1 will receive full consideration. For more information and to apply, go to https://www.bbqplus.org/fellowship-application
25. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Historyhttps://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63234
Closing date: 23.6.22
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