Shii News – Academic Items

1.ONLINE “6th Annual Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society”, Indiana University, 31 October – 4 November 2022

Information and registration: https://philanthropy.iupui.edu/machform/view.php?id=312627

2. ONLINE Lecture “Violence and Care: The Basij and Disabled Afghan Foreign Fighters in Iran”, Iranian Studies Initiative, New York University, 3 November 2022, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm EST

Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with paramilitary members of the Basij as well as Afghan disabled in low-income neighborhoods of Iran, in this talk Ahmad Moradi maps out the ways in which people solicit the very techniques of power to seek legibility, care and recognition.

Information and registration: https://as.nyu.edu/neareaststudies/events/fall-2022/Nov.html

3. HYBRID Book Presentation “Les études sur les domaines turc, kurde et ottoman en France”, CNRS-GIS MOMM (Scientific Interest Group on the Middle East and Muslim Worlds), Paris, 9 November 2022, 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm Paris Time

The book was written by written by Élise Massicard, Alexandre Toumarkine and Julien Boucly. The authors will be present.

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/11378517/presentation-event-november-9th-%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Cturkish-kurdish-and-ottoman

4. HYBRID Conference “Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events”, University of London, 8-9 March 2023

How does coloniality pathologize experience? How does it use trauma to silence revolutionary experience? Does the movement of liberation away from coloniality imply a reversal of speech from a logic of the traumatic to the somatic? What is this unactual that events speak in their actual? How does revolutionary temporality de-envelop itself from coloniality and its repressive function?

Deadline for abstracts: 17 December 2022.

Information: https://postcolonialpolitics.org/decolonial-thinking-and-revolutionary-events/

5. Early-Career Scholars Workshop “Researching Forced Migration in the Middle East,” University of Glasgow, 23-24 March 2023

The workshop will provide an opportunity to early career scholars to present, discuss, and receive critical feedback on their research projects with senior academics in the field. In addition to focused discussions on each paper, the workshop will address strategies and advice for publishing on forced migration in peer-reviewed international journals.

Deadline for abstracts: 11 November 2022. Information:

https://cbrl.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/CBRLGlasgow-Workshop-March-2023-Updated-Call.pdf

6. Conference “Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS)”, Hacettepe University & Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, 12-15 July 2023

The conference invites researchers studying the early modern Ottoman lands, their surroundings and the Mediterranean world (between 1500 and 1800), including all fields of history and related fields of social sciences and humanities.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/11409161/call-papers-early-modern-ottoman-studies-emos-%E2%80%93-conference-i

7. Part-Time (0.8FTE) Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David

Applicants should have a further specialisation in another field relevant to the study of the Muslim World. We are particularly keen to receive applications from those able to teach and research in the field of Islamic Philosophy, particularly its relevance to intercultural and interfaith dynamics in the contemporary world.

Deadline for applications: 2 November 2022.

Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CUH141/lecturer-in-islamic-studies

8. Fellowships for Students and Scholars of the Near East (Prehistory – 21st Century), W.F.Albright Institute of Archaelogical Research, Jerusalem

Awards are one to four months and come with a stipend and board at our institute in the heart of Jerusalem. Applications are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies, including archaeology, assyriology, anthropology, biblical studies, art history, epigraphy, historical geography, literature, religion, museum studies, cultural heritage, and preservation, pursuing projects that focus on contemporary engagement with the pre-modern past.

Deadline for applications: 15 November 2022. Information: www.aiar.org/fellowships

9. Assistant/ Associate Professor of History, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Applicants should be specialized in medieval Islamic history. Priority is given to those interested in the history of the Arabian Peninsula and to candidates who are proficient in the Arabic language and/or have a special interest in research and practice in the Arab world.

Deadline for applications: 16 January 2023.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64397

10. Assistant Professors in Arabic / Islamic Studies, American University of Sharjah, UAE

A PhD in Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies or related areas is required. The willingness and ability to teach entry-level Arabic heritage classes is essential. Successful applicants will have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. Familiarity with Western models of higher education is preferred.

Deadline for applications: 20 November 2022. Information:

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/26/faculty-positions-in-arabic-islamic-studies

11. Tenured/Tenure-Track Assistant/Associate Professor of Iran Studies, University of Oklahoma

Qualifications: Full research proficiency in Persian/Farsi. – Ph.D. by the time the appointment begins on August 16, 2023. – Active and dynamic research agenda on Iranian politics / US-Iran relations. – Evidence of teaching excellence / experience.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2022. Information:

https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/28/assistant-associate-professor-of-iran-studies

12. Zahedi Family Fellowship in Iranian Archive Studies (12 Weeks), Stanford University

The fellowship is open to scholars and artists working on the modern history of Iran, particularly the period of 1941 to 1979. Preference will be given to scholars who have worked on aspects of modern Iranian foreign policy, history, and culture.

Deadline for applications: 2 December 2022.

Information: https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/research/zahedi-family-fellowship

13. Manuscripts and Book Proposals for “The Ottoman Empire and the World Series” under New Editorship and Advisory Board (I.B.Tauris)

The series welcomes work which transcends the traditional boundaries between approaches, including those between political history, gender studies, social history, Islamic studies, environmental history, and literary studies to understand how the empire worked and how it fit in a wider world.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/23/call-for-book-proposals-the-ottoman-empire-and-the-world-series

14. Chapters for Edited Book on “Archaeologies of Displacement: Heritage, Memory, Materiality” (Focus MENA), Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

This edited book aims to understand how and why the voices of displaced people are so often forgotten in the narratives of globalisation. We will focus on how the trauma of forced migration creates interconnections between material objects, memories, oral histories and people and explore the potential for creating sustain-able archaeologies of displacement.

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/27/archaeologies-of-displacement-heritage-memory-materiality

15. Chapters for Edited Book on “Technologies and Digital Activism in Authoritarian Contexts” (Focus Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey), Deakin University, Australia

Questions: How do technologies affect the prospects of democracy and authoritarianism? How do current and emerging technologies facilitate or challenge democracy? How do political activists and organizations devise strategies to circumvent the suppression from authoritarian regimes mediated by technologies? How do the concept and practice of digital authoritarianism evolve in response to the rising authoritarian power?

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2022. Information: http://www.mesf.org.au/call-for-book-chapters/

16. Articles on “Islamic Leadership: Towards a New Paradigm” for Special Issue of the “Australian Journal of Islamic Studies”

Questions: Is contemporary Islamic and Muslim crisis a crisis of Islamic leadership? Do Muslims need a new leadership to bring them and their societies out of crisis? Why is new Islamic leadership paradigm so impor-tant in the modern world? Are there role model Muslim leaders that stand out as an exception to the crisis we are seeing in the Islamic leadership?

Deadline for submissions: 30 December 2022.

Information: https://ajis.com.au/index.php/ajis/announcement/view/13

17. AKU-ISMC

Wednesday 30 November is the closing event of Football and Religion: Tales of Hope, Play and Passion exhibition.

The event will include a panel discussion about football and religion with a particular emphasis on women’s football. The event will take place at the Aga Khan Centre, London, as well as online and will be followed by a viewing of the exhibition.

18. The Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore encounters between Islamic law and other legal traditions from the 18th through mid-20th centuries.

Scholarship on encounters mostly focuses on colonial history, presenting a defeating view of shari’a, seen as having “died” against the intruding forces of colonialism. Indeed, European colonialism greatly affected the operation of Islamic law. Colonial officials, targeting the ulema and the courts, transformed the foundational practices and institutions on which the Islamic legal tradition rested. Yet, it is worth revisiting how Islamic law operated given its flexible nature and the agency of its actors. For example—with some exceptions—we know little about processes of negotiation, dependence, borrowing, jurisdictional jockeying, forum shopping, and entanglements between Islamic legal practices and those of other legal systems. Furthermore, a scholarly understanding of encounters between Islamic law and other legal traditions would greatly benefit from explorations of other regional and temporal spaces—and not just European colonialism—where legal encounters unfolded. This special issue is interested in hosting works on such legal encounters broadly from the 18th to the mid-20th century. Thematically, it seeks to present scholarship that looks at metamorphosis, borrowing, and dialogue between Islamic law or shari’a and other legal traditions in the context of foreign/external influences, colonial powers, and imperial interactions.

We seek articles of up to 25,000 words. To signal interest, please submit a proposed title and abstract of 250-500 words by November 18, 2022, using our online submissions portal. Once accepted, soon thereafter, the deadline for the submission of full drafts is February 1, 2023, after which we will go through a process of peer review, a final decision on acceptance, and editing and publication. This special issue of the Journal of Islamic Law is edited by Dilyara Agisheva (dagisheva@law.harvard.edu ), Research Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law, and will be published in Spring/Summer 2023. For further questions, please contact us at pil@law.harvard.edu .

19. Join the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) for its Fifteenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 5 – 7, 2022.

We will host a dynamic crowd of academics, scholars, and policymakers from around the globe. View our schedule of events and list of paper presentations.

The 2022 Conference will feature:

Opening remarks by H.E. Shaikh Abdulla Bin Rashid Al Khalifa, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States.
Networking cocktail reception.
Special Session: “When Magic Failed: The Life and Legacy of Prof. Fouad Ajami.”
Keynote: “A Conversation on the State of Middle East Studies Today” led by Dr. Martin Kramer.
Book Discussion: Prof. Jeffrey Herf, Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, will talk about his recent publication, Israel’s Moment.
Awards banquet luncheon.
Awards ceremony and reception for the 2022 Bernard Lewis Prize.
Roundtable: “Edward Said and the Colonization of Western Middle Eastern Studies.”
Panel sessions including: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa: Nationalism, Urban Spaces, Womanhood and Science; Arabic Poetry Fragments in the Cairo Genizah: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Analysis; Security Issues in the Middle East and Africa; Narratives and Ethos in the Middle East: Similarities and Differences; A Hundred Years of States and Minorities in the Middle East: What Has Gone Wrong?