Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture Series “The Politics of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 18 April 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm CET
Speakers: “Institutionalising Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” by Ibrahim Malazada (Soran University, KRI, Iraq). – “Carrots and Sticks: The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Use of Minorities in the Drive for Statehood (2003–2017)” by Gregory Kruczek (Penn State University, USA).- “Food Security, the Public Dis-tribution System and Cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil” by Eckart Woertz (GIGA and Universität Hamburg).
Information and registration: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation
2. ONLINE Lecture “Lives and Letters. The Correspondence of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) by Jan Just Witkam, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 21 April 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
This lecture is part of the series “Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists During the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source”; it is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and Maria Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).
Registration: https://theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoceqvqTIoEtADCxv5nqVvAEv5fhMvSBZI#/registration
3. Conference “30 Years After Richard M. Frank: Ghazālī and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam”, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, 28-29 April 2023
Information and program: https://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/events/30-years-after-richard-m-frank-al-ghazali-and-avicenna-post-classical-islam
4. Early Career Workshop on “Islamic Thought and Anglophone Philosophy”, Princeton University, 17-19 May 2023
We invite abstracts from many disciplines including Philosophy, Near Eastern and Islamic studies, Religion and Theology, and History that are intellectually rigorous and focus on theoretical analysis of philosophical arguments while remaining conscious of historical context.
Submissions are open to advanced graduate students and early career recent PhD recipients.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12702158/cfp-princeton-university-early-career-workshop-islamic-thought
5. Workshop “Productions and Exchanges : New Research on the History of Syro-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and early 16th Centuries”, Institut des Civilisations, Paris, 22-23 May 2023
This workshop will focus on the circulation and transmission of artistic models. It seeks to identify the motifs shared between different artistic productions of the Syro-Egyptian territory, but also with neighbouring areas, particularly Turkish and Persian. In this perspective, a specific interest is given to the modes of formal or aesthetic appropriation and transformation of patterns that connect or differentiate these artistic productions.
Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/83236
6. Doctoral Research Associate in Ottoman Studies / Turkish Studies or History of Islam (3 Years), Research Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War”, University of Mainz
Applicants must have an above-average MA degree in Ottoman Studies, Turkish Studies, History of Islam or a related subject, proficiency in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and/or Arabic, and a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary work.
Deadline for applications: 20 May 2023. Information: https://grk-byzanz-wars.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/04/20 23_job-advertisement_RTG-2304.pdf
7. Research Associate (Wiss. MitarbeiterIn) in Pre-modern Islamic History, Possibility of Further Qualification (PhD), RomanIslam Center, Middle Eastern Department, University of Hamburg
Requirements: MA degree in Islamic Studies with a focus on the wider Arabic speaking world, which reaches eastern Iran in the early Islamic period. Confident command of the English and Arabic language. French or Spanish as well as knowledge of GIS methods and familiarity with geographic approaches to history or Is-lamic material are an asset.
Deadline for applications: 28 April 2023. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=54faa7e6956f336cca57d980ea538833b4357a11
8. Professorial Chair in Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
This is a UNESCO Chair position, and a professorial role in Level E (the highest academic level in Australia).
The successful applicant will have a distinguished research record, an international reputation, and demon-strated expertise in any disciplinary area pertaining to intercultural and inter-religious exchange and social inclusion.
Deadline for applications: 25 April 2023. Information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/645109/chair-in-intercultural-and-interreligious-relationsprofessor
9. ONLINE “International Online School in Forced Migration”, Refugee Study Center, Oxford University, 10-17 July 2023
Subjects include: Conceptualising Forced Migration, The Moral Foundations of Refugee Protection, Interna-tional Law and Refugee Protection, and Future Directions in International Displacement, as well as a choice of optional modules. All the sessions will be run and organised by experts in the field of forced migration studies.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school/online-school-overview
10. Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism
Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) will organize an “International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism” on November 1-3, 2023. This symposium invites contributions that explore these terrains of Orientalism in the contexts of scholarly exchanges, political developments, and cultural border crossing in both directions east and west, hoping to attract a wide range of papers from scholars in all fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations particularly.
This symposium, which will be attended by invited speakers from Turkey and abroad [Cemil Aydın (University of North Carolina) Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University) Murteza Bedir (İstanbul Üniversitesi) Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds) Siraj Ahmed (City University of New York)]. We hope to discuss the changing configurations of Orientalism and colonialism along with new forms of Orientalism, their impact on the arts and sciences with participants from different fields such as history, sociology, philology, cultural studies, mythology, history of religions, Islamic and postcolonial studies.
Detailed information about the Symposium can be found at: http://oryantalizm2023.yalov
11. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
The Society for the History of Discoveries announces its 2023 Student Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate student research papers in the history of geographic discoveries.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June, 2023
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The awardee in the graduate student category will receive a prize of $500.00 (US) and the awardee in the undergraduate category will receive a prize of $250 (US). Both winners will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Information about participation in the conference will be provided to the awardee upon notification of the award, including details concerning costs and travel funding. Acceptance of the prize is not contingent upon your ability to attend the conference. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information on submission format and eligibility see https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Committee Chair at mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu
12. Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE) A Sourcebook
Kristi Upson-Aaia, Heidi Marx, Jared Secord
UC Press, August 2023
13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
On Wednesday 19 April at 17:00 BST ( Greenwich +1)
Iranian Women’s Revolution: Analysis of Some Commonly Used Symbols
(turban/stick/beard versus hijab/scissors/hair)
By Prof Amal Grami, Manouba University, Tunisia
On Zoom, please register at: https://zoom.us/j/91798780125
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