Shii News – Academic Items

1.Conférence – Être femme et peintre sous les Taliban : Le cas des femmes artistes à Herat (Afghanistan) aujourd’hui, Mardi 15 nov 2022, Inalco

Conférence

INALCO – Fondation INALCO

Être femme et peintre sous les Taliban :

Le cas des femmes artistes à Herat (Afghanistan) aujourd’hui

par Nazir Rahguzar

(Chaire de préfiguration Art et Patrimoine afghans, INALCO / CeRMI)

mardi le 15 novembre 2022, 17h-18h30, salle 5.12

INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, 75013 Paris / www.inalco.fr

La conférence sera donnée en persan, avec traduction simultanée

Contacts:

salome.kierbel@inalco.fr

isabelle.konuma@inalco.fr

francoise.robin@inalco.fr

2. Oxford:

Associate Professorship in Islamic Studies and Law

Asian and Middle Easterns Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford

We are seeking an outstanding scholar and teacher who studies Islamic thought, literature and/or practice in the pre-modern period (up until c. 1800 CE), based on primary sources in Arabic and other languages if appropriate. The successful applicant will have strong expertise in Islamic law. In addition, the postholder will have further expertise in Sufism, the hadith literature or Shi’i Islam. This is an exciting and demanding post in which you will conduct advanced research; give lectures, classes and tutorials; supervise, support and examine students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Islamic studies; and play a part in the administrative work of the Faculty and College.

The start date for this vacancy will be: 1 October 2023

Interviews expected to take place on 13th & 14th March 2023

For more information:

https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=161778

3. Programs at Hikmat for 2023

Registration for Hikmat Learning Tours for the spring of 2023 is now open. These unique tours are a combination of sightseeing and touring and informative meetings and workshops.
Like the previous tours, the seats on these special tours are extremely limited and registration is based on a first come, first served basis.
In addition to our classic Hikmat tour that will be held in April 2023, we will also have a tour to the west of Iran for the first time. On this tour you can see and experience some of the most beautiful natural, historical, and cultural sights of the western parts of Iran.
To learn more about the dates, itinerary, testimonials from the past participants and other details of the tours, please visit Hikmat website at the address below:

https://hikmat-ins.com/tours/

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com

4. SULTAN WALAD: In The Footsteps of Rumi and Shams

Authors: Hülya Küçük, Ibrahim Gamard, Omid Safi

Editor: Ibrahim Gamard

Translator: Hülya Küçük

Fons Vitae 2022

https://fonsvitae.com/product/sultan-walad-in-the-footsteps-of-rumi-and-shams/

5. BRISMES lecture

Rethinking the Empirical Reality of Statehood in the MENA Region

Date: 23 November 2022, 16:00-18:00 (GMT)

This panel examines how post-colonial states in the Middle East became a site of hybrid sovereignties, porous borders, identity politics, and liminality impacting everyday life. Informed by ethnographic data collected from fieldwork in the region, the panel members will draw attention to the empirical reality of statehood in the region affecting everyday life and to the role of particularity (empirical) in drawing the horizon of the politics in the contemporary MENA region. Please note that this event is a research development seminar and will be open to BRISMES members only.

More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/outreach-and-pedagogy/empirical-reality-of-statehood

6. Online Lecture: Dynastic Change, Family Networks and Female Genealogies in Medieval Armenia (11th–13th c.)

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 | 12:00 PM EST | Zoom
Dynastic Change, Family Networks and Female Genealogies in Medieval Armenia (11th–13th c.)
Zara Pogossian, University of Florence

This lecture will focus on a period of medieval Armenian history – eleventh to late thirteenth centuries – that was characterized by a gradual deterioration and break-down of its until then traditional social structure based on land-holding military families known as nakharars. In this context a number of new military men, mostly with no illustrious lineage and/or previous connection to certain specific regions, rose to power. As they sought ways of legitimizing their control of recently conquered land and resources in various parts of historical Armenia, marriage alliances and, hence, the building of new family networks via women acquired increasing importance. This is especially true in the case of wives that came from older, prestigious dynasties which had lost or were about to lose their significance. There are also cases of women who were themselves from ‘new families’ but who played a key role in entering local networks of power in different ways. These general considerations will be illustrated on specific cases bringing to the audience’s attention the significance of women from (new or old) élite families, particularly from the end of Bagratid rule, and through Seljuk and Mongol (particularly Ilkhanid) periods. The inter-religious aspects of such family networks will be equally highlighted. Although the talk will address various regions of historical Armenia, greater attention will be paid to Syunik‘, reflecting my on-going research-in-progress.

Zara Pogossian is a specialist in medieval Armenian history, culture and religion, especially in relation to other peoples, cultures and religions in the Near East and Asia Minor. She is Associate Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Florence, and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Project ArmEn: Armenia Entangled: Connectivity and Cultural Encounters in Medieval Eurasia 9th–14th Centuries.

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

7. Online Lecture: “The Egyptian Delta Between Revolt and Allegiance” (15 Nov)

You are cordially invited to the second talk of the winter 2022/23 term of our online lecture series ‘Rethinking Social Contention’, which will take place on 15 November 2022 at 4:00 pm CET. Noëmie Lucas (Edinburgh) will present a paper on “When the Arabs Refused to Pay Taxes. The Egyptian Delta Between Revolt and Allegiance in the Abbasid Period”. We hope to see many of you there!

To register and receive the Zoom link, just send an email to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. The full programme for the winter 2022/23 term can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/2022-06-14-lecture-series-ii.html. And finally, if you’d like to read more about our research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE), please visit https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html.

8. Lecture (in person) – “Exploring Recreative Practice Methodologies in Islamic Art: Writing on Stone at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World” (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris) – 23 November

Exploring Recreative Practice Methodologies in Islamic Art – Writing on Stone at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World

Elizabeth Lambourn (De Montford University), Nuria Garcia Masip (Sorbonne Université – Observatoire des Patrimoines)

Time : 5:00 PM, 23 November 2022

Venue : Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris. Salle Walter Benjamin.

Abstract :

Recreative practice – the process of re-making an object or image – is widespread in the arts and humanities as a technique for retrieving haptic and tacit forms of knowledge or lost technologies. Nevertheless, it is dress and fashion historians who have led the field in the development of clear methodologies of recreative practice and sophisticated reflection on the merits and pitfalls of such an approach. This paper presents the early stages of a collaborative project between Elizabeth Lambourn, a historian of material culture, and Islamic calligrapher Nuria Garcia Masip which was sparked by contact with this practice and the resulting literature. Building on the pioneering work of dress historians Jane Malcolm-Davies (University of Copenhagen) and Jenny Tiramani (The School of Historical Dress, London) our project explores the way that these now well-articulated and theorised approaches might be translated to the study of Islamic calligraphy on stone. This project focuses on calligraphic panels on marble produced at the port of Khambhat (Cambay) in Gujarat during the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries CE but offers the potential for much wider application.

9. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series (AMES)

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts (EMWHLA)

Thursday 17 November 2022, 17:00 UTC/GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97038599926

Lecture 3: Fictive and non-Fictive Life Writings of Muslim Women: Solidarity for Strength and Survival

Professors Feroza Jussawalla & Dr Doaa Omran

University of New Mexico USA

10. American University in Cairo

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations

Annual History Seminar

3-4 March, 2023

Cities in Context(s)

One of the often-repeated statements about Islamic history is that this was very much an urban civilization. Since the Arab conquests of the seventh century, Muslim rulers and regimes often established and confirmed their power through urban projects. Urban expansion and the establishment of new cities were a main way in which regimes practiced their power. These urban centers were in turn loci of cultural and economic production, creating new hubs in various regions and establishing connections beyond their hinterland. These networks and connections would change over different periods of history. With modernization, cities were among the first areas to experience sharp change both in their scales, expansion, development as well as in their connections with the worlds beyond them. New cities were built to serve new functions and new classes reflecting the change both within and without. Despite this, cities and neighborhoods within them are sometimes studied in isolation as coherent but self-contained entities.

This round of the Annual History Seminar aims to focus on studying cities and urban centers in their relation with their wider contexts; their environs, hinterland, trade networks and imperial contexts.

The Annual History Seminar meets at the Oriental Hall of the Tahrir Campus of the American University in Cairo. Participants should plan to present their research, in either English or Arabic, in 15-20 minutes to allow time for discussion. Young scholars, including graduate students and doctoral candidates, are encouraged to apply. The seminar particularly encourages multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to history, so scholars from disciplines other than history are also welcome to participate.

Interested scholars should send an abstract of around 300 words in English or Arabic, no later than 1 December, 2022. Participants will be informed by early January 2023.

For more information please contact: Professor Nelly Hanna Email: nhanna@aucegypt.edu

Or Dr Amina Elbendary Email: abendary@aucegypt.edu

11. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle, EPHE, INALCO)

a le plaisir de vous convier au colloque

Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan
Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022)

18 – 19 novembre 2022

Auditorium du musée Guimet

6, place d’Iéna, 75116 Paris.

Dans le cadre de la chaire de préfiguration « Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan » mise en œuvre par la Fondation Inalco, dont le CeRMI est partenaire, la Fondation Inalco et le musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, en collaboration avec la Délégation archéologique française en Afghanistan (DAFA), organisent le colloque Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan, Cent ans de recherches archéologiques (1922-2022).

Ce colloque est placé sous le patronage du ministère de la Culture.

Organisation

Sandra Aube (chercheuse au CNRS, CeRMI/Fondation INaLCO)

Nicolas Engel (conservateur des collections Afghanistan-Pakistan, MNAAG)

Philippe Marquis (directeur de la DAFA)

Programme et information sur le site du CeRMI

Nous vous invitons également à réserver vos places (gratuites, bien sûr) depuis le lien suivant : https://www.guimet.fr/event/colloque-arts-et-patrimoine-de-lafghanistan/

12. “WORKING METALS, MOVING BODIES: MORTARS AND DRUMS FROM AFGHANISTAN TO ANATOLIA IN THE 12^THAND 13^THCENTURIES
Persis Berlekamp, University of Chicago
Webinar, Wednesday, November 16th, 12:30pm EST
Part of the NYU Silsila Fall 2022 Series, Body and Senses

Pre-modern bronze production depended not only on specialized technical knowledge, but also on access to ores with chemically viable combinations of metals. Accordingly, areas with rich mines, such as Afghanistan and Anatolia, held special importance for the history of medieval Islamic bronze. In the turbulent twelfth and thirteenth centuries, contact between these very regions intensified as waves of refugees flooded westwards. What implications did this have for the facture, form, and function of bronze objects? Considering surviving mortars and drums in relation to the bodies that effected them, as well in relation to the bodies effected by their use, yields a multivalent, yet socially situated view of bronze, foment, and resonance in a turbulent era.

Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee either online or in person can be found at:

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/working-metals–moving-bodies–persis-berlekamp.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this even

13. The previous five Monday Majlis-es at the Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter have been recorded and are now available online. We have not recorded and we will not record, however, the discussions following the talks, as we want these to remain free, without the pressure of being recorded. So, while the recording will be accessible, please still come and attend the Majlis-es live : )

The five recorded Majlis-es are: