Shii News – Academic Items
1. Review of Middle East Studies
‘Special Focus: MERIP and the Politics of Knowledge Production in MENA Studies’
Volume 55 – Issue 2 – December 2021
2. Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests
Editors: Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan Weststeijn
Brill, 2022
3. Persian Literature, A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
Volume VI: Index
Francois de Blois
Brill, 2022
4. ReOrienting Histories of Medicine, Encounters along the Silk Roads
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
5. New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures,
Interpretive essays on Islamic artifacts, texts, and phenomena entwining over fourteen centuries.
S Bashir,
MIT Press, 2022
Now available on the web freely.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/publications/new-vision-islamic-pasts-futures/
6. Research Associate position for the Project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History”
Dear friends and colleagues,
We would like to share with you a very exciting position for a research associate advertised by the research project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600) in Hamburg University.
The project looks for a researcher with proven computer science expertise. The position is for 1,5 + 1,5 years. The deadline for applications is August 30, 2022. The successful candidate will work on computational analyses, the development of online interfaces, and data management. The successful candidate will also conduct research at the intersection of their areas of expertise and the research subjects of the project as well as will contribute to the project research, teaching, and publication activities.
Requirements: A university degree in a relevant field. Applicants must have a degree (M.A.) in Computer Science and/or Middle Eastern Studies. Candidates with Ph.D. degrees are most welcome to apply. The ideal applicant must have skills in some or, preferably, all of the following areas: Arabic NLP, machine learning/ deep learning, front-end and back-end development, and continuous integration. Additionally, ideal candidates will have excellent classical Arabic skills. Prior experience of work in digital projects on Arab language, culture, and history will be considered an added advantage, but not strictly required. Applicants must have an excellent command of English (both spoken and written); knowledge of German is preferred, but not required. As this is a collaborative team project, strong communication and interpersonal skills are a prerequisite.
The job advertisement is available on the Universität Hamburg website: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=109697a3e3f6e8e3f342713dee0c0b95371f05ab . Applications must be submitted through the link given on the page. Feel free to email Maxim Romanov (maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de ), if you have any questions.
Best wishes,
Dr. Alicia González Martínez
Research Associate | Computational Linguist
DFG/AHRC project InterSaME
www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de
Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut
7. CFP: Leeds 2023 session on Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World (deadline: 15 Sept 2022)
Disease in the Medieval
Islamicate World
Sessions proposed for:
Leeds International Medieval Congress
3-6 July 2023/2023 Theme: “Networks & Entanglements”.
Topics may include, but are not limited to,
any of the following:
• Newly discovered or edited texts on plague or
other infectious diseases
• Commentaries and paratexts of plague
treatises, showing their continued uses
• Networks of discourse within and beyond the
Islamicate world that shared information about
medicine or disease events
• Biographical approaches that set the medical
writings or practices of individuals into larger
intellectual frameworks
• Routes and roads: networks of trade that
contributed to infectious disease proliferation
• Social impacts of epidemics
• Infectious diseases in medical historiography:
why we tell the stories that we tell
Joint presentations are welcome, even
encouraged, as a way to expand our comparative
understanding of disease networks.
IMC 2023 is currently planning to offer hybrid
options; please indicate on your abstract whether
you plan to attend in person or virtually.
For further details on the setup of the Leeds conference, see the organizer’s website: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/. The conference will take place 3-6 July 2023; at the present time, organizers are planning to do a hybrid option, allowing presenters to attend in-person or remotely. Please indicate on your abstract which option you prefer.
Questions? Need bibliographical suggestions on
the latest work in the field? Feel free to write.
Contact either me (monica.h.green@gmail.com) or my co-organizer, Nahyan Fancy (nahyanfancy@depauw.edu). We need to receive abstracts (250 words) by 15 September 2022 to finalize organization of the panels. If you are interested, it would be ideal if you could write as soon as possible to signal your interest.
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