Shii News – Academic Items
1.British Institute for Persian Studies webinar
‘Making and Unmaking Community: Urban Life in Persianate Rajasthan’
with Elizabeth Thelen
Wednesday, 18 January, 2023 5pm UK Time
Register to attend at:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/urban-life-in-persianate-rajasthan-thelen/
2. University of Florida, International Studies Program
Lecturer, Non-Tenure Track, International Studies (Middle East/North Africa)
Closing date: Feb 6, 2023
3. New funded PhD on Arab cultural and intellectual history at the University of Northumbria (UK) under Dr Peter Hill.
‘While Dr Hill is an expert on nineteenth-century Ottoman Syria and Egypt, and this studentship is associated with his AHRC RDE Fellowship project ‘Reason and Religion in Ottoman Syria’, the focus of the proposed PhD need not fall within these areas. Any historical period from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and any subject area involving substantial use of Arabic-language sources will be considered. The project must demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge. Projects which evidence methodological innovation are encouraged. Preference will be given to candidates who already possess a good level of linguistic competence in Arabic.’
For full information, see:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/arabic-cultural-and-intellectual-history-17th-20th-centuries-rdf23-humanities-hill/?p151714
Starts October 2023.
The deadline to apply is 27 January 2023.
4. CFP: Panel on scientific manuscripts (deadline: 28 Feb 2023)
Frank Coulson and I are putting together the 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, to be held at Saint Louis University June 12–14, 2023. In addition to the Call for Papers posted online [https://www.smrs-slu.org/manuscript-studies-mini-conference.html ] we are currently soliciting 20-minute papers for a panel(s) on ancient, medieval, and renaissance scientific manuscripts—that is, Western and non-Western copies that expound on topics including astronomy, cosmography, mathematics, medicine, natural history, cartography, agriculture—often accompanied by visual components such as maps, diagrams, charts, and other types of illustrations.
Please send titles and abstracts to susan.lengle@slu.edu and coulson.1@osu.edu , as well as posting your proposals online at https://www.smrs-slu.org/submit-511920-494771.html . We would appreciate your forwarding this email to other colleagues of your acquaintance with expertise in the same fields. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 February 2023, although there may be some flexibility in this date. For any questions about the conference or panels, do not hesitate to write to us.
5. CfP: 2nd AMI Graduate Conference
Following the success of the inaugural Al-Mahdi Institute Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, the second conference will be held between Saturday the 6th and Sunday 7th May 2023. The conference is aimed exclusively at students studying for a masters degree (taught or research) in any discipline and at any university or institution who are working on any topic in Islamic studies, broadly conceived as the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Recent graduates who are not yet enrolled on a doctoral programme are also encouraged to submit abstracts.
The deadline for submissions is 23.59 GMT on the 6th of March 2023.
Further information can be found here: https://ami.is/gc23.
6. Journée d’étude ‘Nouveautés sur les manuscrits philosophiques et scientifiques grecs et arabes’
On behalf of Jawdath Jabbour and Aude Cohen-Skalli (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université):
Lundi 23 janvier 2023, De 9h30 à 18h
Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (salle Duby)
5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, 13100, Aix-en-Provence
JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE
Journée inaugurale de l’équipe « Manuscrits d’Orient et d’Occident » du TDMAM
NOUVEAUTÉS SUR LES MANUSCRITS PHILOSOPHIQUES ET SCIENTIFIQUES
GRECS ET ARABES
Organisation Aude Cohen-Skalli et Jawdath Jabbour
9.30-9.45 | OUVERTURE Emmanuèle Caire (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS) – Aude Cohen-Skalli (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université) – Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université)
MATINÉE : MANUSCRITS GRECS
PRÉSIDENCE : Anne Balansard, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
9.45-10.30 | Inmaculada Pérez Martín, CSIC Madrid
Vers une typologie des manuscrits philosophiques byzantins
10.30-11.00 | discussion
11.00-11.30 | Pause café
PRÉSIDENCE : Sabine Luciani, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
11.30-12.15 | Victor Gysembergh, CNRS, Centre Léon Robin, Sorbonne Université / Emanuel Zingg, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Centre Léon Robin
Fascination palimpseste : nouveaux textes scientifiques et philosophiques grecs et « Nouvel Apulée » de Vérone
12.15-12.45 discussion
13.00-14.45 | DÉJEUNER
APRES-MIDI : MANUSCRITS ARABES
PRÉSIDENCE : Julien Loiseau, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IREMAM
14.45-15.30 | Silvia Di Vincenzo, IMT Lucca
La philosophie dans les marges : l’enseignement et l’apprentissage de la logique aristotélicienne dans les marginalia d’Avicenne
15.30-16.00 discussion
16.00-16.30 Pause café
PRÉSIDENCE : Christian Boudignon, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
16.30-17.15 | Teymour Morel, FNS, Université de Genève
Les copies de la Logique de Buṭrus al-Tūlāwī (1657-1746) : réflexions sur l’approche stemmatique des manuscrits arabes à grande diffusion
17.15-17.45 | discussion
17.45-18.00 | CONCLUSION DE LA JOURNÉE
Avec la participation de l’équipe Manuscrits d’Orient et d’Occident du TDMAM
Téléchargez le programme
https://cpaf.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/je-ms-orient-occident-23-01-22_prog.pdf
Organisation
Aude Cohen-Skalli & Jawdath Jabbour, TDMAM, CNRS, AMU
Contacts / Inscriptions : skalli@phare.normalesup.org / Jawdath.jabbour@cnrs.fr
7. The Islamic College (London)
Online Postgraduate Studies Certificate programme in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Fees: £1500 (Upto 50% scholarship is available)
Starting: 20th March 2023
Application Deadline: 15 February 2023
Information at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences-online/
8. The Islamic College (London) Monthly Seminar:
Building the “Silk Road” From Below: Arab Traders Between East and West Asia
A Talk by Dr Paul Anderson
Tuesday 10 January 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: 133 High Road, The Islamic College London
Information and register at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-new-silk-road/
9. Richard Talbert has prepared an online exhibition for Princeton University Libraries:
Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923
Its origin lies in Prof. Talbert’s interest in the historical mapping of ancient and medieval Asia Minor by Heinrich Klieppert, which were based on travels in the region by Klieppert and others. The exhibition continues with later German mapping of Asia Minor, including WWI operations map by the German general staff. The coda provides a freely accessible link to Prof. Talbert’s explanatory essay on the collection and its significance.
Overall, it provides a great example of the kinds of work produced by German geographers at the height of their powers prior to WWI.
The large images link to the Princeton Library catalog and IIIF viewer.
If the embedded link above fails, try https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/3afc128a641e47eb90b3268c5ffb8d54
10. Online Lecture – “Islamic Archaeology in context: Occupation, Territories, and Material Culture in the piedmont of Zagros mountains in Northern Iraq (Sulaymaniyah province as an example)” – January 11 3PM (Rome), 4PM (Iraq)
For further information:
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/
For registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdemurT8uGt0pMq3C9hhlo6ht8enLN7rs?_x_zm_rtaid=3a-ZJ6a8…
11. Recordings of Exeter Majlis
Therecording of the last Monday Majlis of 2022:
Kamran Talattof, Demystifying the Mystic: Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqv85Pxlttk&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=9&t=10s
You can watch the recordings of all the CSI Monday Majlises of the autumn at this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-
including
Mehdy Shaddel, Universal Empire, Supersessionist Ideology: The Emergence of Islam in Umayyad Syria
Rahim Gholami, The Hermeneutics of Nāṣir-e Khusraw’s Esoteric Guidance
Isabel Toral, Jens Scheiner, Baghdad: Insights into a city and the making of a book
Alexandra Hoffmann, What makes a man a man? Neẓāmi’s Majnun in a network of masculinities
Nikola Pantic, Is It Religion or Magic, and What Is Between Them?
Letizia Osti, Beyond the chessboard: adventures in Abbasid literature and historiography
Aurora Magliozzi, Love for Beardless Boys in the Erotic Arabic Literature
Martin Nixon, A Treasure Saved and to Be Explored: The Mohamed Tahar Library in Timbuktu, Mali
12. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series with Anne Hunnell Chen
Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 314
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
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