Shii News – Academic Items

1.Call for Papers: “Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th centuries)” in Istanbul, Türkiye, November 21-24, 2023

The Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) organize an international congress. Below please find a CfP, theme 5 is related to medicinal, botanical and agricultural knowledge: https://ottomanastronomy.org/theme5/

See also: https://ottomanastronomy.org/

Deadline for abstracts: June 25, 2023

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Symposium “New Culinary Landscapes in Turkey and the Levant: Global Perspective”, Birkbeck, University of London, 18 May 2023, 10:00 h – 17:00 h

We seek in this symposium to understand and evaluate the nature and driving forces of the changing gastronomic landscape through concepts drawn from the academic disciplines of politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography and area studies.

Information and registration: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=36910

 

 

 

 

3. 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

 

 

 

 

4. Poster Session of the 2nd GlobalMed Meeting, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, 22-23 June 2023

The GlobalMed network brings together researchers from international partner institutions working on a global approach to the Mediterranean, i.e., attention to the human, cultural, social, material, and environmental connections between the Mediterranean and the world, from prehistory to the present. The poster exhibition will allow the different partners to present ongoing or completed research projects related to the GlobalMed themes.

Deadline for proposals: 22 May 2023.

Information:

https://www.mmsh.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Globalmed_rencontre-2023_AMI_Posters_FR_ENG.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Conference ” “Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia”, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 6-7 October 2023

The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infra-structures of knowledge production.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://cmes.berkeley.edu/mughal-conference

 

 

 

 

6. Conference “The Cloven Dukes: The Mediterranean Diplomacy of the Small Italian Powers (1530-1730)”, Haifa Center for Mediterranean Diplomatic History, 7-8 November 2023

This conference intends to explore the diplomatic strategies, models, agencies, and practices adopted by Italian duchies and republics when negotiating with the Ottomans, the Safavids or the various Muslim polities of North Africa, and to compare them with those traditionally deployed in the European context.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-mediterranean-diplomacy-of-the-small-italian-powers-1530-1730-november-7-8-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

7. Conference “Recited Ink: Written Representations of the Oral Aspects of the Qur’ān”, Università l’Orientale di Napoli, 21-22 May 2024

The word Qur’ān primarily indicates recitation. Despite this, when we think about the Sacred Book of Islam, we picture a manuscript or a printed copy. In the last century, recordings and “study Qur’āns” have in a certain way standardized the process of learning and the performance of qirā’a. Orthoepic signs, often colorized, are a common presence in muṣḥafs printed for recitation schools. What we know less about is how these signs developed and how they were used before the 20th century.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.

Information: https://euqu.eu/2023/05/02/call-for-papers-recited-ink-written-representations-of-the-oral-aspects-of-the-quran/

 

 

 

 

8. Scholarships on Projects Related to the Departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era Studies, and “Istanbul and Music” Research Program, Istanbul Research Institute

The grants fall into three categories: One scholar will be awarded Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; Five scholars will be awarded Travel Grants; Five scholars will be awarded Conference Grants. Applications can be prepared in English or Turkish.

Deadline for applications: 3 July 2023. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18

 

 

 

 

9. Articles on “Alī al-Qūshjī” for Special Issue of “Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science”

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024.

Information: https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/ali-kuscu-ozel-sayisi

 

 

 

10. P/T – Teaching Fellow (Arabic)

University of Edinburgh

Closing date : 26/5/23

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/7403

 

 

 

11. Conference – The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects – London, 20-21 June

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW, 20-21 June, 2023

Despite the attentions of cultural historians since the 1980s, maps still tend to escape close and critical study as fundamentally visual and material forms of communication, with histories of cartography remaining predominantly disconnected from these dimensions of the subject matter. This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read? How does the study of maps within specific historical or cultural contexts connect to broader issues in visual/material history? In what ways are coloniality and/or indigeneity made visible/material in maps? How can art-historical approaches inform other disciplinary analyses and uses of maps? Invited speakers will offer new perspectives through studies of cartographic objects from around the world, from early modern India, Iran, and China to the Atlantic world and contemporary South Africa.

Organised by Emily Mann (Bartlett School of Architecture) & Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld)

Speakers:

Zoltan Biedermann, Department of History, University College, London
Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Tristan Brown, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chanchal Dadlani, Department of Art History, Pomona College
Georges Farhat, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Department of Art History, Emory University
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Department of History, Boğaziçi University
Olanrewaju Lasisi, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Emily Mann, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
Matthew Francis Rarey, Department of Art History, Oberlin College
Rose Marie San Juan, Department of History of Art, University College, London
Samira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Stephen H. Whiteman, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Free and open to the public, please register here.

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