Shii News – Academic Items

1.Gender, Authority, and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics

Talk by Zahra Ayubi
Jan 31, 2023, 5:00 PM EST
Gender Performance in Islamicate Contexts Speakers Series
Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Registration: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIpdeuvpjsvE9BbbjPs87rUYYYUG0l0g_sP

 

 

 

 

2. New York University Abu Dhabi, Film, New Media, and Digital and Interactive Media Studies

Professor of Film and New Media Program, Tenured/ Tenure Track (Open Rank)

Closing date: 29.4.23

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64951

 

 

 

3. Scuola Superiore Meridionale – Call for application for 16 post-doc fellowships

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64921

 

 

 

 

4. The Journal of Semitic Studies is seeking a new Assistant Editor to start work in March 2023.

The journal is published by Oxford University Press, on behalf of the University of Manchester. The Assistant Editor is paid by Oxford University Press on an hourly basis. The work required amounts to roughly a half-time (0.5 FTE) position and is paid at a rate equivalent to a Grade 7 Research Associate according to the UK university system. This amounts to £22,000–£23,000 per annum.

The main focus of the journal is research on Semitic languages of all periods. There is a large Editorial Board with whom the Assistant Editor works.

Tasks carried out by the Assistant Editor and qualifications needed:

Should have the ability to work collaboratively with editors and authors.

Uses the journal’s electronic submission system – ScholarOne – for most administrative tasks on a day-to-day basis, liaising with editors and coordinating the review process. Assistant editor is responsible for all correspondence between the journal and authors.

Needs copy editing and typesetting skills for the preparation of final copy for production. An advanced knowledge of Word is helpful.

Has some knowledge of Semitic languages and working with right to left scripts electronically.

Is responsible for scheduling and sending manuscripts to production, distributing proofs and collating corrections on pdf files, all to a tight timetable.

Assembles the two volumes of the journal each year and the Index in the Autumn.

Is responsible for flagging books for review, inviting reviewers and organising the despatch of books from publishers.

Is the public face of the journal and handles all email queries to the journal office.

If you are interested in the position, please contact Geoffrey Khan (gk101@cam.ac.uk).

Geoffrey Khan

Regius Professor of Hebrew

University of Cambridge

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA, UK

 

 

 

5. Hybrid event – Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh

This semester’s Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations Research Seminar at the University of Edinburgh.

The seminar takes place on Tuesdays, 16:10 GMT at the School of Divinity (New College, Mound Pl, Edinburgh EH1 2LX). The talks are online and in person. Those wishing to attend online should contact srassi@ed.ac.uk or use the QR code in the programme poster.

The schedule is as follows:

31 Jan — Althaus-Reid Room

Dr Nora K. Schmid (University of Hamburg) 

‘Asceticism in Sermons of Kharijites and Islamic Renunciants’

14 Feb — Elizabeth Templeton Lecture Room

Prof Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews) 

‘Translating the Bible in Mongol Tabriz: Persian Manuscripts, Syriac Translators and European Patronage’

21 March — Althaus-Reid Room

Dr Neelam Hussain (Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts)

‘Manuscripts, Readers & Reading Communities: Tracing the Career of the Sirr al-Asrār through Time and Space’

4 April — Elizabeth Templeton Lecture Room

Dr Hilary Kilpatrick (independent scholar)

‘What is al-Shābushtī’s (d. c. 999) Kitāb al-Diyārāt (The Book of Monasteries) Really 6. About?’

 

 

 

6. Hybrid event – The Jackson Lecture in Byzantine Art

Dr. Andrea Myers Achi
“Byzantium and Africa (4th—15th centuries CE)”
Friday, February 3, 2023, 3:30 PM EST

Dr. Andrea Achi will speak on the art and visual culture of Africa and Byzantium, the topic of her upcoming 2023 exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The talk is free and open to the public.

This event is hybrid: it will take place in person at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University (Arch Room 104), and simultaneously be streamed via Zoom.  An in-person reception will follow the lecture. Zoom registration is required for virtual attendees: Register here

Andrea Achi is Assistant Curator in the Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Jackson Lecture in Byzantine Art is generously sponsored by Lynn Jackson. Additional support comes from the University General Activities Fund (GAF), Temple University

 

 

 

 

7. VIRTUAL EVENT
A Moment in Time:
Egyptian Antiquities and the Early 20th Century
Tuesday, January 31 12–1:15 p.m. ET Online
Register in advance (required)
Between 1906 and 1909, Charles Lang Freer visited Egypt three times. Freer perceived and experienced Egypt differently than other contemporaneous collectors did, as he had decided to collect objects from diverse mediums to study and compare with his East Asian collection. Though Freer’s interest in Egypt was rather brief, it coincided with a period when the field of Egyptology was taking shape and new discoveries were being made. Wealthy foreign tourists and collectors included Egypt in their world tours and assembled antiquities during their travels. Cairo, with its lavish hotels and traveling agencies that facilitated trips along the Nile, became a favorite destination for affluent travelers.
This webinar brings together experts to contextualize Freer’s time and interest in Egypt by exploring some of the events that shaped the field of Egyptology, the role of dealers and collectors who helped build ancient Egyptian collections, and the establishments in which foreigners sojourned.

 

 

8. Call for papers for MIISSC (McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council) Graduate Student Symposium to be held April 27-8, 2023

Full information at:

https://www.miisscsymposium.com/current-meeting-2023

 

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