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1. Zoom: The British Institute of Persian Studies/The British Museum

‘Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination’

with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Tuesday, 13 June, 2023, 5pm UK time

For information and to register:

https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/ancient-persia-and-greek-imagination/

 

 

 

 

 

2. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 3, no. 3 | Spring 2023

Available at:

https://www.lacisa.org/newsletter

 

 

 

3. BATA 2023 Conference: Registration and Provisional Programme

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 2023 BATA 3rd Annual International Conference, 6th – 7th  July, University of Manchester, is now OPEN!

The Conference will feature a wide range of themes covering different aspects of Arabic language, culture and pedagogy, linguistics, literature and translation. The programme consists of over 58 papers delivered by over 60 presenters from 60 institutions in 23  countries, in addition to two eminent keynote speakers, Professor Hussain Al-Qarni, King Saud University, and Dr. Ruba Khamam, University of Leeds.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: A copy of the provisional programme can be found  HERE.

REGISTRATION (conference in-person)

To attend the conference, please register at: bit.ly/3BZKTiu. In order for your paper to feature in the final conference programme, please register as soon as possible and no later than 5pm on Saturday 10th June.

For further information on the registration and the categories, please check BATA website. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to drop us a line at bata.conference.2023@outlook.com

 

 

 

4. Open Access articles on Ibn Batuta and medicine

 

 

 

 

5. CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

XXIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)
April 4 – 7, 2024

We are happy to announce that the XXIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) will be held in Ann Arbor, MI. It will be hosted by the University of Michigan with generous support from the Department of the History of Art.

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, develop ideas in a collegial environment, and participate in the ACSAA community.

This is a call for:

  1. Individual paper submissions
  2. Proposals for pre-formed panels

Individual papers and panels alike should reflect original and unpublished scholarship in the history of South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan art. All members are welcome to propose ideas for new papers or panels, even if they presented a paper or chaired a panel at ACSAA XX held in Georgia in 2022. To encourage a diversity of voices, an individual scholar’s participation in the symposium will be restricted to no more than two formal roles (e.g. as a speaker in one panel and as a chair/discussant of another panel).

All presenters, panel chairs, and discussants must be ACSAA members in good standing. To join or renew your ACSAA membership, please visit https//acsaa.us/membership/

The Organizing Committee welcomes proposals on a broad range of topics in our field. The Committee would especially like to encourage submissions informed by new archaeological research, ethnographic fieldwork, careful attention to primary textual sources, as well as those that are informed the study of race, caste, and Indigeneity, and by ecocriticism and materiality, irrespective of medium, region, and time period. Individual papers and/or panel proposals honoring the life and work of ACSAA’s founding members and the organization’s supporters, especially those who have passed away recently, are also welcome.

Individual paper proposals should include a title, abstract (250 words maximum), and one-page CV of the presenter. Pre-formed panel proposals should include a panel title and abstract (250 words maximum), individual paper titles and abstracts (each 250 words maximum), and a one-page CV for the panel chair and each presenter. Panels may include a minimum of three and a maximum of five speakers. Each panel will have an allocated time of ninety minutes.

Submit all materials and inquiries to: acsaa2024@gmail.com

A symposium website will be launched in the coming weeks and be updated periodically.

Individual Paper Proposals due: August 1, 2023 

Pre-Formed Panel Proposals due: August 1, 2023 

Final Selection Announcement: December 1, 2023

 

 

 

 

6. Scents of Religious Authority

https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/events/workshop-scents-of-religious-authority

At this workshop, we take a cross-cultural look at the scents of religious authority in sources from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe. We will read about and smell the scent of divinity and death as they pertain to religious figures and their claims to authority.

Guest Speaker: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Rhode Island, “The Fragrance of Authority: Did Medieval Folks Smell Power? And Did Power Want to be Smelled?”

Abstract: “Growing from research undertaken for my latest book, The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity (CUP, 2022) my new project emphasizes the sense of smell as a vehicle to inculcate political authority. While seeing, hearing, tasting, and touching are overly emphasized by the historiography, smell has not been fully considered. Looking at the ceremonials surrounding the granting of the Golden Rose, a precious object that the pope offered to the most ardent defensor of Christianity of his time, I will discuss how the rose taught its audience (via its aroma) how to recognize legitimate authority, and maybe how authorities “controlled” this smell to assert themselves.”

Hosted by Alchemies of Scent, Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought & Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences.

Programme

MONDAY 5 JUNE 2023

Location: Alchemies of Scent, FLU AVCR Husova 7, 110 00 Prague 1

10.00–10.30. Scent in the Egyptian Temple: Worshipping the Gods with Fragrance in the Daily Ritual (Heike Wilde)

10.40–11.10. “Death seems to me today like the fragrance of myrrh”: Scent and stench in the Egyptian realm of the dead (Diana Míčková)

11.20–11.50. Later Greek Medical Sources of Religious Scents (Sean Coughlin)

12.00–13.30. Lunch

(Note change of location)

*Location: Center for Medieval Studies, FLU AVCR Jilska 1, 110 00 Prague 1

14.00–16.00. The Fragrance of Authority: Did Medieval Folks Smell Power? And Did Power Want to be Smelled? (Joëlle Rollo-Koster)

18.00. Dinner

TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2023

Location: Alchemies of Scent, FLU AVCR Husova 7, 110 00 Prague 1

10.00–12.00. Smelling: rose, “musks,” balsam

12.00–13.30. Lunch

13.30–17.00. Blending and experiment

ONLINE (via Zoom)

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/640737070827

Zoom link (direct): https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98787379977?pwd=Yk9HSytrVFlULzAxVUczVjRFNERKQT09

Meeting ID: 987 8737 9977

Passcode: 253969

 

 

 

 

7. Prelude to a History of Naqḍ (Inconsistency and Untenable Entailment) in Islamicate Dialectics

Dr. Walter Edward Young,

Lecture, June 8 at 8:00 pm (Moroccan time) and 3:00 pm (Montreal time).

This lecture is the eighth in the second season of the series of lectures organized by Philosmus. (www.philosmus.org)

You can also follow the lecture on Philosmus’ page on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Philosmus

For a link to attend on line, email beahmedf@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

8. Call for papers 

Symposium: The Mashrabiya Project, craft and architecture

Organizers: Museum for Art in Wood and the Center for Architecture + Design 

Date: July 20–21, 2023 

The mashrabiya is an iconic component of Islamic architecture. A scalable window lattice that facilitated ventilation while providing privacy and shade, the mashrabiya also brought ornament to severe building façades. Found across North Africa, West Asia, South Asia, and the islands of the Pacific, the mashrabiya can be made from lathe-turned or carved wood, stone, or cement.

Its porosity, material versatility, geometric patterning, and adaptability present unexplored opportunities for architecture. From Hassan Fathy, I. M. Pei, and Jean Nouvel in the twentieth century, to Farshid Moussavi, Zaha Hadid, and Senan Abdelqader in the twenty-first, architects and designers have studied this form for inspiration and found innovative ways to incorporate it.

What applications does the mashrabiya present for the future of architecture? Despite its power as a signifier for Islamic material culture, little material has been dedicated to the study of the mashrabiya. In this two-day symposium co-hosted by the Museum for Art in Wood and the Center for Architecture + Design, architects, designers, engineers, and makers are invited to discuss the potential of the mashrabiya on architecture that is sustainable, culturally meaningful, and supports the needs of our future spaces.

The Museum for Art in Wood seeks emerging scholars and practitioners to present during this symposium, held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, The Mashrabiya Project. Selected papers will be awarded an honorarium.

Please email up to 250 words and a brief CV for consideration no later than June 15, 2023, to info@museumforartinwood.org ; subject line should read MASHRABIYA SYMPOSIUM.

 

 

9. ONLINE Webinar “Conflict and Consensus: Decision-Making and Leadership Selection in Cairo’s Guilds, Late Eighteenth / Early Nineteenth Centuries” with Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC), Historicity of Democracy Seminar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 5 June 2023, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET

The Ottoman courts of Egypt produced abundant documentation, which allows historians to trace some of the social dynamics that animated Cairo under Ottoman rule. The craft and trade groups of the Ottoman period appeared in court to resolve and register their disputes and agreements. The scholar looks at a specific type of document involving guilds, and examines its implications for what we know of decision-making, state intervention, and autonomy with regard to this social group.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/deliberation-and-self-autonomy-in-ottoman-egypts-trade-and-crafts-community

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