Shii News – Academic Items
1. HYBRID Annual Research Workshop “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7 October 2023
The workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
Extended deadline: 12 May 2023. Information:
2. ONLINE Lecture “Between Stigma and Necessity – Paradigm Shift Among Muslims in the West” by Rania Awaad (Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab, Stanford University), Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, 2 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 h CET
Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/
3. HYBRID Colloquium of the Mediterranean Platform: “Translating Arabic Crusade Chronicles in 19th Century France” by James Wilson, University of Konstanz, Germany, 3 May 2023, 15:15-16:45 h CET
The colloquium serves to discuss new and ongoing MA, PhD and postdoctoral research projects on Mediter-ranean Studies across the ages and disciplines. Interested persons are invited to join the colloquium at the University of Konstanz, within which both pre- and postgraduate students (MA Students, Doctoral and Post-doctoral fellows) and scholars could partake.
Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-platform-colloqui um-konstanz-summer-2023?e=82aeb6c61d. Contact for link: jovo.miladinovic@uni-konstanz.de
4. ONLINE Book Launch “Islamophobia in Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global” by Ali Kassem (Nation University of Singapore), MENACS and BRISMES, University of Sussex, 3 May 2023, 16:00 -17:30 BST
The author offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolo-nial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World.
Registration: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98982730778 , Meeting ID: 989 8273 0778.
5. HYBRIDE Conférence Publique de l´IISMM : « L’exploitation des références eschatologiques dans la propagande du groupe État islamique » avec Othman El Kachtoul (Docteur en islamo-logie, Université de Strasbourg. GEO), BULAC, Paris, 9 mai 2023, 18h30 – 20h CET
Information : http://iismm.ehess.fr/index.php?2388
Inscription : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvnGy-LrSdA
6. HYBRIDE Atelier IISMM “Normativité en islam : enjeux politiques de la déconstruction du sacré” avec Stéphane Valter (Professeur en langue et civilisation arabes, Université de Lyon 2), 25 mai 2023, 10h – 12h
L’ouvrage de Ma‘rûf al-Rusâfî (1875-1945), poète iraqien arabophone d’origine kurde, „La personnalité muhammadienne“ n’est nullement un pamphlet anticlérical. Pour un philosophe athée, il n’y a en fait dans ce livre rien d’extraordinaire, si ce n’est l’intérêt provenant de la description de croyances et pratiques à une période donnée. Mais pour des pratiquants un peu étriqués, il est probable que le livre, comme la traduction, soient considérés comme ineptes, ou pire, blasphématoire.
Information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WroeienWoEWqj7IoDFlyCpW03jsjCalL-psIgf0J8WalURDlNOEdSMU03MTNZQ0FaSDY5TjZSOVlKTy4u . Inscription: https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/fra-lzk-hvs-wue
7. Symposium “Islamic Ethics & Living in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”, Ghent University, Belgium, 21 June 2023
The goal is to reflect on current approaches in the anthropology of Islam, particularly by foregrounding Islamic faith, spirituality and ethics, and the conditions of life in super diverse contexts. How can anthropologists study everyday life but also the role of Islamic ethics in environments marked by multiple forms of cultural and religious difference? More generally, how can both disciplines – Islamic theology/ethics and anthropology – be brought into a productive dialogue and conversation?
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2023, send to an.vanraemdonck@ugent.be
8. International Conference “Women and Leadership in the Middle East and Africa”, CLAS LAB, Ibn Zohr University, Ait Melloul, Morocco, 12-13 October 2023
The conference aims to provide an intellectual venue for scholars (from various disciplines), practitioners, feminists, activists and policy makers working on women’s rights and gender studies to explore the factors behind the gender leadership gap in so many public life sectors and cultural contexts and investigate the harm it does to societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2023.
Information: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-conference-gender-politics-icgp-2023-women-darhour
9. Postdoctoral Position in the Research Project “Constructing the Indian Ocean” (Focus Muslim Communities, Dubai), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
We are looking for an innovative scholar with an academic background in either Anthropology, Global Stud-ies, the Sociology of Religion or similar, preferably with a specialization in the Indian Ocean world and/or the study of Islam and Muslim communities.
Deadline for applications: 9 May 2023.
10. 2 Research Associates for “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922”, University of Cambridge
Candidates should propose a research project that foreground especially marginalized communities in Ana-tolia (e.g., Kurds, Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians) or the Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire (e.g., the Syrian Provinces). Applicants must hold (or show evidence of nearing completion of) a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., music, history, history of science, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies), and show a devel-oping profile of publications.
Deadline for applications: 14 May 2023 Information: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40476/
11. Articles for Journal “Revue Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)” in French or English
ESMA is a journal that promotes empirically grounded social science research on contemporary Egypt, Su-dan, and other MENA countries. The journal welcomes articles from sociology, anthropology, political sci-ence, geography, urban studies, history, political economy, legal studies, development studies, etc. and en-courages new theoretical contributions.
Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/revue-egyptemonde-arabe/
12. American University in Cairo: Scanlon Award & Keynote Lecture
You are cordially invited to attend this year’s George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Saturday 6 May, 2023, 6.00-8.00pm, Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square Campus, American University in Cairo. This year’s awardee will be announced at the ceremony.
If you’re not in Cairo you can also attend online. Please register here:
https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_raIWxG4nREOzqMsDxxCBig
We are honored that this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Tarek Swelim ’86, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, under the title: “Al-Mu’ayyad: From Mamluk to Sultan.”
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2TPlHvbS0
The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by a student of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the University, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues, and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly.
13. University of Oxford – Departmental Lecturer, Persian Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65365
This is a part-time, fixed-term position until 31 August 2024.
The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 10 May 2023.
14. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
‘Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India’
with Sara Honarmand
31 May 2023, 5PM UK time
For more information and to register, see:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516801746030/WN_5Am9d6aET8m2taAqTcwCmQ#/registration
15. In Person Lecture | “You are fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers
Event co-organised by the Iran Society and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).
Sean Strong, winner of last year’s Iran Society study grants, discusses some critical aspects of the lives of military men in Late Antique Roman and Sasanian armies.
18 May 2023, 7PM. In person.
Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall London, SW1Y 5JN.
Register on Eventbrite.
16. ONLINE Webinar ‘Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office’
with Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto
18 May 2023, 5PM, on Zoom.
This is part of the monthly seminar Series “Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents” convened by Arezou Azad & Mohamad Tavakoli
Information and registration:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocuuhpz8iEtZ-L4819TcSD47Uh7mRt8tK#/registration
17. The Islamic College: Arabic Online Language Course
Beginner (Friday), Intermediate (Sunday)
12th May – 16th July (10 sessions)
Registration Deadline: 5th May 2023
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/
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