Shii News – Academic Items
1. Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2023
We are announcing the fifth Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, from August 21 to September 1, 2023. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers. The programme will be published later. This is just to let you know that the deadline for application is Friday June 16, 2023. For more information about the application and the possibility of scholarships you can already send an e-mail to Fons ‘t Hooft, a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
2. Call For Contributions: “Medieval Borders and the Environment”
Proposals for essays in English (c. 8000-12000 words) are warmly welcomed on the topic “borders, the elements, and the environment”.
This volume, provisionally titled Medieval Borders and the Environment, will be submitted to Brill to be included in the new series “Elements, Nature, Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the Ancient to the Early Modern World” edited by Dr. Marilina Cesario and Dr. Andreas Lammer. The volume’s goal is to provide a venue for interdisciplinary research on the time period between about 500 and 1500 or slightly later. It intends to promote study on underrepresented parts of the medieval world, broadly construed, as well as articles that examine interconnections across regions and cultures.
The volume aims at covering topics from the following regions, broadly intended: Europe, including Northern and Eastern Europe Central Asia, South Asia, India, Japan, China, North and South Africa, East and West Africa, Oceans and Seas, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania.
The book aims to respond to the following questions:
What fundamental characteristics did borders have during the Middle Ages?
What did the word “boundary” mean in general?
Were boundaries separating one thing from another real or imaginary?
How did borders affect the environment? What effects did boundaries have on the local environment, as well as the cultures and people that inhabited it? And how have borders changed or been defined in relation to the environment?
Have toponymy and borders been influenced by elemental theory, or vice versa?
What impact had the environment on the spread of epidemics? Did it promote its expansion or serve as a barrier? And how did disease affect borders?
What effects have the environment and borders had on culture, the dissemination of knowledge (including that pertaining to science, engineering, and currents in the arts and architecture), dietary customs, clothing, trade, and movement in general?
All other contributions have been confirmed, and they include real and imaginary borders in medieval Rus’, the transmission of the Old Norse materia medica between Scandinavia and the continent, material mobilities within commercial markets as political and cultural boundary crossings between medieval Korea and Mongolia, and the spread of iconographic motifs with artistic, magical, and political purposes in the Baltic Sea region, among others. Final contributions will be due in May 2024.
Proposals might include but are not limited to:
– Border Studies;
– Old and Middle German Studies;
– Lombard language, history and culture;
– Gothic language, history and culture;
– Celtic Studies;
– Medieval Romance Studies (including French);
– Medieval Islamic Studies;
– Pre-Columbian cultures;
– Geography and Cartography, including Human Geography;
– Toponymy (especially in connection with environmental features and elemental theory);
– History of Science;
– Landscape Epidemiology;
– History of Medicine;
– Environmental History;
– Sociology;
– Anthropology;
– Etc.
Please send a 200-300 word abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the editor: Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it). The deadline for the submission of proposals is March 15, 2023.
3. Harvard Art Museums – Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian or
Islamic Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65102
Closing : April 3, 2023.
4. The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism,
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Austin O’Malley
5. Turcica 53/2022 (new issue)
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=TURC&issue=0&vol=53
CONTENT
Articles:
Whitehead (Christopher), The Reluctant Pasha: Çerkes Dilaver and Elite Localization in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Whaiton-Durgaryan (Alyson), Armenian Elites, Architectural Transference, and Restoration of Order in the Civil Architecture of Post-Massacre Bitlis and Erzurum
Special Feature:
-The ‘Ahdnâme “Revisited:” Some New Approaches and Perspectives
(Articles by P. Guena, I. Hathaway, G Işıksel, A. Sekulic, T. Steffini)
-Pour une histoire des émotions dans L’Empire ottoman
(Articles by H.G. Özkoray, M. Sariyannis, N. Vatin, C. Römer, M. Ursinus)
Notes and Documents:
-Vatin (Nicolas), Hayr Ed-Dîn Barberousse, Zorzi Gritti et les relations franco-ottomanes en août 1533 : une « Lettre d’amitié » du Grand Vizir Ibrâhîm Paşa
6. Nahyan Fancy, Depauw University
Annual Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine
McGill, Dept of Social Studies of Medicine
March 15, 2023, 4.30 – 6pm
Arabic Writings on Plague: Revising the Chronologies of the First and Second
Plague Pandemic Using Evidence from Islamic Societies
Further info at:
https://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcoming-events
7. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Merits of the Plague, introduction, edition, translation, and notes by Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed
(New York: Penguin-Random House, 2023),
8. Deadline for Panels and Papers for DAVO Congress in Vienna 28 February 2023
Please note that the panels and papers for the next DAVO Congress – which will be combined with the “Turkologentag 2023” at the University of Vienna on 21-13 September 2023 – have to be registered until the deadline of 28 February 2023.
Please register via the Website of the “Turkologentag 2023” at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at.
The organizers of every panel are kindly requested to enter the names of all presenters of papers and the abstracts of their papers (up to 300 words) and keywords in the registration form for the specific panel.
In addition, all paper presenters of a specific panel are kindly requested to register individually. Please include the paper abstract (up to 300 words) plus keywords and add the name of the panel in the field “Remarks” (Part of Panel).
For paper presenters especially from the Middle East and North America, who have no chance to attend the conference in person, the Congress organizers will try to arrange some hybrid panels with online presentations.
Papers are invited for the following open panels:
1) Social and Labour Market Policies in the MENA: Strong Enough to Cushion Global Economic, Health and Climate Crises?
2) Nation Building across Religious and Continental Boundaries: (Counter-) Islamic References in Print, Diasporic Networks, and Communal Formations
3) Extractivism and Natural Resource Degradation in MENA: Drivers of Change for State-Society Relations?
4) The Diaspora as a Transformative Experience: Critical Engagement of Kurdish Women Activists Moving between Different Countries
Please see the summaries of these panels in the attachment. If you want to present a paper in these panels, please send the abstract of your proposed paper to the organizer of the specific panel until 26 February 2023.
These are the registration fees for different groups of participants:
– 50 € for regular members of DAVO
– 10 € for members of DAVO who are students, unemployed or registered as low-income members
– 100 € for non-members of DAVO
– 40 € for students who are non-members of DAVO
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After 1 May 2023 the registration fee will rise according to the list at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/.
9. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
An Ugly, Lovely Town’: Dylan Thomas in Tehran (and beyond)
with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Part of ‘Wales Week/Iran’
1 March, 2023 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/iran-and-wales/
10. Spring 2023 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series
The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) welcomes you to listen and engage with graduate students who will present on their research on young people in the Middle East and North Africa, and its diasporic communities. The format of the sessions is thirty minutes of presentation by the speaker followed by thirty minutes of discussion and Q&A with the audience. The AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series is intended to be a space for graduate students to share their cutting-edge research as well as workshop their dissertation material.
Friday March 3rd, 11 am CST
Reda Rafei, Texas Tech University
The Winner of the 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Paper Prize
“Ottoman Children and Dhurri Waqf : A Legal and Gendered Perspective”
Friday May 12th, 11 am CST
Eyüp Ensar Dal, Middle East Technical University
“Single Motherhood and Childcare in Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Üsküdar”
Friday June 9th, 11 am CST
Nour Mohamad J Hodeib, The Graduate Center – CUNY
“By Songs and Fire; Counterculture, Rock’n,Roll, and the Lebanese Left during 1970s.”
Please RSVP to Dylan Baun to attend (djb0035@uah.edu) and receive the zoom link
11. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)is offering multiple grant and award opportunities in conjunction with its Sixteenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 4 – 6, 2023.
Now in its tenth year, the ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it constitutes new and original research and is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas:
- Minorities and Women
- Military History
- Governance and Economy
- Faith
- Iran
Grants of $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Sixteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
ASMEA is also offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
The 2023 Bernard Lewis Prize is awarded to scholars or practitioners engaged in the study of issues on antisemitism that were of great importance to our founding chairman, Prof. Bernard Lewis. Four winners will be announced at the Annual Conference and awarded $2500 each. The deadline to submit is June 30, 2023.
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels and Call for Poster Proposals.
Grant and award opportunities are open to members only. For information on how to become a member and full guidelines on each program, visit our website at www.asmeascholars.org.
Feel free to contact ASMEA at info@asmeascholars.org with any questions
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