Shii News – Academic Items
1.Conference “(Un)growing Into Generational Roles”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2023
The conference aims at understanding intergenerational relations as a key intersection where the transformation of family relations, social power relations, and translocal transformation processes can be observed. It brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, and history presenting research extending across Euro-American, Middle Eastern, Central, South and Southeast Asian and other localities and migratory trajectories.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/ungrowing-into-generational-roles
2. ONLINE Book Presentation “The Mosul Incident of 1909 – Its Sociopolitical, Judicial and Military Consequence” by Nurkan Sever (Pavia University), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Ber-lin, 13 June 2023, 1:00 pm, CET
The banishment and murder of Sheikh Said Barzanji who was the family head of Sadaat al-Barzanjiyya as the most influential religious organization of region, created a critical threshold in the history of Mosul. As the urban shootout on January 5 turned into a provincial bloodshed, Kurdish Sayyids, tribes and religious orders consolidated and revolted against the Ottoman authorities.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/the-mosul-incident-of-1909
3. ONLINE Webinar “The Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khorasan” by Geoffrey Khan (Pro-fessor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge), University of Oxford, 15 June 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time
The speaker describes the Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan, which he published in 2007 and will discuss their importance for the understanding of the development of Arabic documentary culture. The corpus is datable to the 8th century AD. The documents exhibit innovations in formulae that appear in the Arabic papyri from Egypt several years later.
Information and registration: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-arabic-documents-from-early-islamic-khurasan
4. Conference “Anti-Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics in Authoritarian Regimes. The Role of the State, Religion, and Feminist Counter-Strategies in the Near and Middle East and Eastern Europe”, Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), University Marburg, 21-23 June 2023
The purpose of this conference is to compare the anti-feminist politics of authoritarian regimes in the Near and Middle East and Eastern Europe. To that end, it brings together two strands of research – the study of anti-feminism and anti-gender politics and the study of authoritarian populism – and focus on two regions that have previously been under-researched from a comparative perspective.
Deadline for registration: 18 June 2023. Information and program:
5. ONLINE Webinar “The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th Century)” with Arezou Azad, University of Oxford, 20 July 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time
Dr Azad presents samples of documents in the Bamiyan Papers written in 11th to 13th century-Khurāsān (in today’s Afganistan), some of which are the oldest pieces of Perso-Arabic writing in the original in the world. We will see how this archive has been reconstructed, what sorts of documents are in it, and how closely they are aligned with prescriptions in administrative manuals (inshāʿ).
Information and registration: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-village-and-the-archive-on-documents-in-iranian-languages-11th-13th-century
6. ONLINE 52nd Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS): “Creating Islamic Spaces and Places”, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 19 October 2023
Papers are invited papers from professors and advanced Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences on the themes: The Quest for Muslim Spaces and Places in Travelogue Literature; How Migration and Trade Shape Muslim Experiences of Space & Place; African Muslims Experience of Slavery in the USA; Being an American Muslim Woman in the Workplace; American Muslims in the Public Sphere; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 June 2023. Information: https://naaims.org/52nd-annual-conference/
7. Workshop “The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East”, SUR-Project and the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (MEDIT), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 27-29 October 2023
The workshop seeks to understand how political violence becomes “urbanized” and transformed within cities in the Middle East. The organizers are hosting a workshop for postgraduate students and young scholars to present and develop their research using georeferenced datasets. The workshop will include training on mapping and visualization skills, provided by Beirut Urban Lab.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2023. Information: https://sur-project.com/workshop
8. Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2023 Workshop on “Mediterranean Studies, Present & Future: The “California School” Twenty Years On”, UC Santa Cruz, 3-4 November 2023
Contributions are invited that reflect the depth and breadth of Mediterranean Studies and its approaches, whether applied to the Mediterranean itself or adjacent or comparable regions, from the earliest historical period up to today.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediter-ranean-studies-present-future-med-sem-fall-2023-workshop-santa-cruz-34-november
9. Panel on “Muslims in America”, SAMLA 95 Conference, Atlanta, GA, 9-11 November 2023
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2023. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12686252/muslims-america-panel-samla-95
10. Assistant Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University
Qualifications: PhD or the corresponding research expertise that is of value in view of the subject matter of the post (Islamic Studies); ability to teach in English; research expertise and progression in Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies; demonstrated ability to obtain external research grants; ability to carry out high-quality research on Islam in the contemporary Middle East ; ability to conduct research in at least one lan-guage of the contemporary Middle East.
Deadline for application: 17 August 2023.
Information: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:616354/type:job/where:4/apply:1
11. New Research Program “Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages”
Le projet ERC HornEast a pour objectif de documenter les relations entre les sociétés chrétiennes de la Corne de l’Afrique (Éthiopie, Nubie) et leur environnement islamique aux échelles locale et régionale (Égypte, Palestine, péninsule Arabique), afin de mieux comprendre les modalités du processus d’islamisation à l’oeuvre dans la région au cours du millénaire médiéval (VIIe – XVe siècle).
Information: https://horneast.hypotheses.org/presentation-du-programme-2
12. “Schools” Comprising Reading Classes and Excursions for Turkish and German Students/Postdoctoral Researcher in the DAAD-Project “Aesthetic Approaches beteen the Early Christian, Byzantine and Early Islamic World”
This project aims to connect different disciplines and bring students from Turkey and Germany together through scientific and cultural dialogues. It is open to advanced BA and MA students, PhD candidates as well as Early Career Researchers of disciplines such as Art History, Byzantine Studies, Archaeology, Islamic Studies, Sociology, etc. The common language will be English; knowledge of Turkish would be advantageous.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12871505/call-student-applications-aesthetic-approaches-between-early
13. Health and health policies in the Mediterranean region [CALL FOR PAPERS]
This issue of Confluences aims to examine the state of health systems around the Mediterranean, in a com-parative perspective, as health issues will have to be placed in their political, economic and social context. It aims to gather contributions addressing different aspects of implemented policies and their impact, as well as the behavior and expectations of the populations, not to mention the situation and strategies of health professionals.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information:
https://iremmo.org/contribuer-a-la-revue/health-and-health-policies-in-the-mediterranean-region/
14. 18th Annual UMAA Conference 2023: Islam in America : Challenges, Opportunities and Advocacy
June 30 – July 2, 2023
https://www.umaamerica.com/?mc_cid=f793ae7313&mc_eid=745ddc2b63
15. The Islamic College (London)
Monthly Seminar: Islamic Medicine- the cases of Prayer and Hijama: Some Critical Considerations
A Talk by Professor John Mayberry
Thursday 22 June 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW10 2SW
Register to attend:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-islamic-medicine/
16. Conference
The migration of objects between Islam and Christianity in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean: new uses, new meanings
June, 15-16 2023
University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Philosophy
Franje Račkog 1. 71000 Sarajevo – Bosnia and Herzegovina
Details:
17. La 9ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 15 juin 2023
17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
Pour cette séance, nous recevons Nina Soleymani Majd (Maître de conférence, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Récits de voyageuses britanniques en pays bakhtiyāri (XIXe-XXe siècle) »
Résumé
Respectivement en 1890 et en 1927, Isabella Lucy Bird-Bishop puis Vita Sackville-West se rendirent en pays bakhtiyāri et en tirèrent des récits de facture fort différente, entre relation épistolaire scientifique, et voyage d’inspiration romantique.
Elles y rapportent leurs observations avec le tranquille sentiment de leur supériorité d’Européennes, laissant transparaître une adhésion au projet interventionniste anglais dans le pays qu’elles appellent encore la Perse à cette époque. Voilà comment il faut comprendre les constantes associations de « l’Occident » avec la « civilisation », au point que les deux termes sont souvent utilisés par elles comme de parfaits synonymes, et de l’autre côté l’assimilation de « l’Orient » à un ensemble de pays figés dans un passé immuable, et a fortiori incapables d’un progrès qui les ferait entrer dans la modernité attribuée à l’âge industriel. À cet égard, le nomadisme fait à première vue figure de preuve irréfutable de ce fossé qui sépare à leurs yeux Orient et Occident, en ce qu’il est le mode de vie le plus éloigné de l’idée qu’elles se font de la civilisation. Et pourtant, grâce à cette position qui le place à l’extrême opposé du spectre s’étendant de la civilisation à l’état de nature, le nomadisme est paradoxalement pour ces voyageuses la meilleure porte d’entrée vers la découverte d’un monde radicalement différent, dépouillée des vaines comparaisons entre habillement, architecture, ou encore système politique occidental et oriental. Ainsi naît l’opportunité d’une véritable ouverture à l’autre, opportunité dont elles se saisissent à des degrés divers, en fonction des contraintes littéraires ou scientifiques qu’elles se sont fixées.
Orientation bibliographique
- Isabella L. Bird-Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Londres, John Murray, 1891, 2 vol. [Online]
- Laurence Chamlou, Mirages persans : Les récits de trois voyageuses au tournant du XXe siècle, Grenoble, UGA Éditions, 2022.
- Jean-Pierre Digard, Une Épopée tribale en Iran : Les Bakhtyâri, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2015.
- Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days : An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia, Londres, Hogarth Press, 1928. [Oline] ; trad. fr. Une Aristocrate en Asie : Récit d’un voyage en pays bakhtyar, dans le sud-ouest de la Perse, trad. Isabelle Di Natale, Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 2000 [rééd. Payot/Rivages 2006]. [Online]
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/
18. Elements and Environment in the Middle Ages: A Multidisciplinary Workshop
Belfast, Thursday 29 June 2023
Queen’s University Belfast
The Graduate School, ROOM TR6
Programme and to Register to attend online:
19. Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) is thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature: Dr. Michelle Quay, for her translation of Reza Ghassemi’s novel Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime (Hamnava’i-ye shabaneh-ye orkestr-e chubha). Dr. Quay and Mr. Ghassemi will be awarded $10,000 and $5,000 respectively while the novel will be published by Deep Vellum Publishing in 2025. The judges would like to recognize Hajar Hussaini for her translation of Khosraw Mani’s Death and Its Brother as an honorable mention.
The second cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize will be announced in September and will focus on Persian poetry.
More information at:
https://melc.washington.edu/news/2023/06/05/announcing-winner-inaugural-mo-habib-translation-prize
20. Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges, Mandana Barkeshli (Oxford) – June 27
Tuesday 27 June 2023
11–12pm
At the Weston Library, University of Oxford
Persian artisans are known for their contributions to the field of bookbinding, with the lacquered bookbinding technique being one of their notable breakthroughs. This intricate technique involves multiple layers, each with their own materials, methods, and motifs that have been used from the Safavid to Qajar periods.
Professor Barkeshli will delve into the details of each layer and explore the various treatments used during manufacture, as well as providing insight into the environmental enemies of the lacquered bookbinding.
Prof. Dr. Mandana Barkeshli is Head of Research and Post Graduate Studies of De Institute of Creative Arts and Design in UCSI in Malaysia and Principle Fellow at University of Melbourne. Her current research project is titled, ‘Paper Dyes Used in Persian Medieval Manuscripts: Creating a Materials Construction Digital Database’.
21. Hybrid conference “Empires of Language in Islamicate Eurasia” on June 9-10 at Simon Fraser University
Please join us at our hybrid conference at Simon Fraser University titled “Empires of Language in Islamicate Eurasia on June 9-10 (this Friday and Thursday.
Here is a link to the program with the zoom link through which both the paper presentations and Nile Green’s (UCLA) keynote address can be listened to.
https://events.sfu.ca/event/35260-empires-of-language-in-islamicate-eurasia
https://events.sfu.ca/event/35292-keynote-by-nile-green-from-but-to-buddha-the
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