Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics
January 2024 Meeting, Call for Papers
Submission Deadline August 4
(Re-)imagining Muslim Ethics in Times of Transformation
We welcome paper, panel, or roundtable proposals dealing with all aspects of Muslim/Islamic ethics broadly defined. Areas of interest include but are not limited to Islamic/Muslim ethics of science, politics, gender and sexuality, economics, race, bioethics, medicine, animals and the environment, and recently published books on any of these topics.
Information: www.SSMEthics.org
Graduate students and early career scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.
2. 4th Biennial Conference for Arabic Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: “Linguistic Diversity & Translanguaging in Arabic Language Teaching”, University of Cambridge, 18 April 2024
We are inviting the submission of evidence-based abstracts for papers, panels and workshops relating to the conference theme, but not limited to the following sub-themes: Perceptions of Translanguaging – The varieties we teach – Approaches to assessment.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 July 2023. Information: https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers-4th-biennial-conference-for-arabic-teaching-learning-in-higher-education/
3. Researcher in Middle East Politics (18 Months), Middle East Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford
We welcome applications from early career researchers who have completed a first degree and/or a PhD/DPhil in a relevant subject area, with experience of collecting data from the MENA region. The ideal candidate will use the data collected to advance their own research agenda. Knowledge of Arabic-language OCR engines and the R/Python programming languages is desirable, although training can be provided.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2023.
4. Fully Funded COSIMENA Summer School “Cross-cultural Communication: How Can We Understand Each Other?” Organized by DAAD Egypt, Freie Universität Berlin and Ahram Canadian University, Cairo, 10-17 September 2023
Junior researchers from the MENA region as well as from Germany are invited to apply, with the aim of achieving regional diversity and fostering intercultural cooperation between the two regions. Disciplines include: Mass communication – Cultural Studies – History – Political sciences and economics – Sociology – Film Studies – Middle East Studies – Information technology, and other fields related to the topic.
Deadline for applications: 20 July 2023. Information and applications: https://www.daad.eg/en/2023/07/03/c osimena-summer-school-2023-on-cross-cultural-communication-how-can-we-understand-each-other/
5. Online Program “Master of Arts in Kurdish Studies” (2 Years), Zahra Institute, Chicago
The program highlights: A unique focus on the humanities aspects of Kurdish Studies including literature, music, visual arts, and cinema. – Covers a topic area long overlooked by traditional Middle Eastern Studies programs. – Gain access to the language and culture of approximately forty million people. – Flexibility of an on-line program with the highest American academic standards.
Deadline for applications: 12 August 2023. Information: www.zahrainstitute.org
6. Articles for “Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies”, Issue De-cember 2023
Afkaruna aims to promote excellent articles on Islam that present original findings, new ideas or concepts that result from contemporary research projects in Islamic studies, area studies (especially Southeast Asia and the Middle East), social sciences, and humanities.
Deadline for articles: 15 October 2023. Information: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/afkaruna
7. CfP: Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, Oct 2023
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its seventh annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 7-8, 2023. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 30, 2023. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. All participants should plan to cover their own costs.
All applicants can expect to hear back from us by early September.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
8. WHOME (Women Historians of the Middle East) 2023 Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Nominations
2023 Call for Nominations
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to highlight the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The journal article (not to exceed 8,000 words, including citations and bibliography) can be published, under review, or submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The article must be published in English or translated into English; it may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline of history. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The applicant must not have been awarded a doctorate prior to October 1, 2022.
Articles may be submitted by the author (self-nomination) or as nominations by academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journal editors may nominate up to three articles. (Authors must confirm by email that they accept the nomination before the submission deadline.) Jointly published articles are accepted for submission, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified by October 26, 2023 and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author will also receive a $250 monetary award.
Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2023. To apply, please follow the following link:
Questions? Please contact contactwhome@gmail.com
9. SCORE lecture series: “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”
11 July, 4 pm CEST, Philip Wood (Aga Khan University) will discuss “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”.
To join via Zoom, simply send an email to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de and you’ll receive the access details.
10. An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia
Jonathan Brack
University of California Press, 2023
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520392908/an-afterlife-for-the-khan
Discount flyer (30%): https://www.academia.edu/98957250/An_Afterlife_for_the_Khan_Muslims_Buddhists_and_Sacred_Kingship_in_Mongol_Iran_and_Eurasia_30_discount_
11. CfP: Online Conference and Special Issue on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA)
This is a call for papers for an online conference (hosted by Charles Sturt University and Georgetown University) followed by a journal special issue (in Comparative Islamic Studies) on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies.
The organising committee invites papers from a range of scholarly perspectives to address this significant and contested area of study. The overall aim is to provide a ‘state of the art’ appraisal of ICMA within hadith studies and related academic disciplines.
Papers are requested on topics addressing questions such as:
- How has ICMA been received in hadith studies in the past three decades?
- What is the epistemic status of ICMA analysis?
- What does ICMA reveal about the common links of hadith?
- What are the advantages and limitations of the technique, and the scope of its application?
- Are there similar techniques to the ICMA in classical Muslim scholarship and have they yielded the same results?
- What are the challenges of conducting ICMA and can technology, such as electronic databases and AI generated tools, contribute to the development of reliable tools?
- How does ICMA relate to the historiographical reception of hadith in academic circles and the hadith canon in Islamic religious tradition?
The full background to the conference and how to submit an abstract can be found at: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/research/icma-conference. Details about attendance will be publicised at a later date.
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