Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Lecture “Experiences with and Expectations of Islamically Integrated Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy” by Dr. Rasjid Skinner, Interdisziplinäre Forschungsstelle “Islam und Muslim*innen in Europa (IFIME), Siegmund Freud PrivatUniversität, Vienna, 30 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 CET
Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/
2. ONLINE Webinar “#IranFutures – A Multidisciplinary Look at Iran’s Protests and Future Trajectory“ with Azadeh Pourzand, Dr. Shirin Hakim, Dr. Behrooz Bayat und Dr. Dr. Mahdi Ghodsi, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), Berlin, 31 May 2023, 6:00 pm CET
Moderated by Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad. Registration: https://cmeg.org/iranfutures-webinar
3. ONLINE Panel “Remembering Sarah Hegazi: Queer Mourning and Militancy in the MENA”, BRISMES, London, 14 June 2023, 13:00-15:00 (BST)
This online panel brings together queer feminist scholars and activists from the MENA to reflect on Hegazi’s political legacy, the weaponization of sexuality from above and below that has alienated and killed many like her, and the political potential of grief and mourning.
Information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/remembering-sarah-hegazi
4. Panel “Religious Charisma in the MENA and Its Diasporas: Authority, Succession, and Devotion” at the Conference of the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of the Middle East, Istanbul, 5-8 September 2023
We invite papers with ethnographic approaches to charismatic authority and/or community in religious contexts in the MENA and its diasporic communities that refine our understanding of the variety of forms of religious commitment and belonging, as well as emotional attachment to a religious leader, community or movement, in order to establish a productive dialogue between the various perspectives and ethnographic contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information: lizadumovich@gmail.com
5. Conference “Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Communities in a Transnational World”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 25-27 January 2024
Is there indeed a shared Oriental and Eastern ‘global Orthodoxy’ that at least some of the Orthodox con-sciously are contributing to? How do Oriental and Eastern Orthodox migrant communities forge a social im-aginary (expressed in textual and visual cultures) that sustains their diasporan lives? How can the study of the varieties of Orthodoxy contribute to the study of religion in the contemporary world?
Deadline for abstracts: 4 June 2023.
Information: https://www.ru.nl/ftr/@1378195/rewriting-global-orthodoxy-oriental-orthodox/?reload=true
6. “Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), Doha, 2-4 March 2024
The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers based on their PhD theses and receive critical feedback. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discus-sions with their peers and with established academics.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/24/acrps-conference-for-arab-graduate-students-in-western-universities
7. Head of the Program “Mediterranean, Middle East And Africa”, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
Requirements: Ph.D. or at least six years of professional experience in research at national and/or interna-tional research institutions; specialization in the MENA region, with strong knowledge of case studies aca-demic/policy publications in English and Italian on Middle Eastern and/or African topics; excellent English writing and communication skills; fluency or proficiency in Italian.
Deadline for application: 30 June 2023.
Information: https://www.iai.it/en/news/job-opportunity-mediterranean-middle-east-and-africa-programme
8. Three Postdoctoral Research Associates (Byzantine Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Italian Literature with Arabic, 5 Years), Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padua
The project aims to address the complexities of medieval Sicilian literature by studying the totality of the court poetry produced in Sicily in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian between the 10th and the 13th cc. Qualification: PhD in Greek, Latin, or Italian Studies (depending on application), chronologically focused on the medieval period. Expertise in two or more of these languages: medieval Arabic, Greek, Latin, Italian, Hebrew. Proficiency in English and Italian.
Deadline for applications:20 June 2023.
9. Summer Intensive Courses in Western Armenian, Center for Western Armenian Studies, Larnaca, Cyprus, July/August 2023
Elementary Western Armenian: 3 July – 28 July 2023; Intermediate Western Armenian: 31 July – 25 August 2023. A number of full scholarships are available to cover students’ tuition fees.
Information: https://cfwas.org.uk/courses/summer-intensive-courses/
10. La 8ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 1er juin 2023
17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’ INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
Pour cette séance, nous recevons Jaroslava Obrtelovà (Uppsala University) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Linguistic means for expressing epistemological stance and perspective shifts in the Wakhi language »
Résumé :
Wakhi is one of the minority East-Iranian languages spoken in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Analysis of the narrations collected among the Wakhi speakers in their natural environment revealed that expressing the speakers’ attitude towards knowledge and their stance in relation to what they tell is, if not more important, at least as important as expressing the temporal and aspectual properties of the narrated events.
For example, when telling a story, Wakhi narrators always choose between telling it either from the perspective of an eye-witness or from a non-witnessed perspective. The witnessed narrations are told exclusively in the past tense, while the non-witnessed narrations, be it a re-telling of past real events, fictional stories or even future events, are told in the non-tense/non-past. Thus, the choice of the verb form informs the listener/reader of the individual (subjective) speaker’s epistemological stance rather than the (objective) situation of the event on the time-line.
In addition to this ‘witnessed versus non-witnessed’ distinction, Wakhi speakers can further nuance their stance by either reinforcing or distancing themselves from the credibility claim. Different Wakhi speakers can narrate the same event or parts of it differently, depending on the speaker’s stance, which is reflected in the use of different linguistic means.
Orientation bibliographique
Mock, John Howard. 1998. The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan . Berkeley: University of California PhD Thesis.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2017. Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 32). Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2019. From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives . Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology PhD Thesis.
Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
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