Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Interdisciplinary Symposium: “Druze Studies – Past, Present, and Future”, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 15-16 November 2023
We seek submissions of original, unpublished research projects that focus on the Druze as a whole, a specific Druze community or communities, or a comparison between the Druze and others. Presentations can be from a discipline-specific approach or those who employ an interdisciplinary approach. Panels and papers can be in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2023. Information: https://druze.ku.edu/symposium-2023-cfp
2. Conference “Order Contestation in the Eastern Mediterranean: Causes, Nature, and Consequences”, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel, 12-13 December 2023
The Conference will examine how, to what extent, and why the liberal script is challenged and contested in the Eastern Mediterranean, and to what effect. It seeks to examine variations on these questions both among the countries of the region, as well as between this region and other regions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/18/cfp-order-contestation-in-the-eastern-mediterranean
3. ONLINE Symposium: “Muhammad Iqbal: The Relevance of a Legacy”, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, 9-10 February 2024
The intellectual legacy of the “Indian-Pakistani” philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) stands as a landmark in modern Islamic thought. The aim of this symposium is to bring together junior and senior Iqbal scholars in order to revisit his intellectual legacy and investigate the potentials in his thought for new philosophies and theologies from an Islamic perspective and in conversation with other non-Islamic intellectual traditions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://mohammedhashas.com/call-for-papers-muhammad-iqbal-the-relevance-of-a-legacy-symposium/
4. HYBRID Kentucky Foreign Language Conference “Research on Arabic and Islamic Studies”, Lexington, Kentucky, 18-20 April 2024 Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of Arabic and Islamic Studies, including Arabic Literature, Film, and Culture • Arab Mythology and Folklore • Gender and Women’s Studies • Arab History and Thought • Arabic Language Pedagogy • Islam in America • Islamic History, Culture, and Thought • Islamic Law.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2023.
Information: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/AIS%20CFP%202024.pdf
5. Interdisciplinary Conference “Personal Stories from the Literary Landscapes of the Agitated (Post-)Byzantine World (13th to 16th c.) – Intercultural Perspectives”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 17-19 April 2024
This conference aims to look at texts telling personal stories from the later Middle Ages, taking as its starting point the (formerly) Byzantine territories in the European East and Anatolia. This conference thus has a deeply interdisciplinary focus and intends to include papers on a wide range of languages (such as Greek, Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkic, Latin, Romance languages, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic languages, He-brew.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/19/call-for-papers-personal-stories-from-the-literary-landscapes-of-the-agitated-post-byzantine-world-13th-to-16th-c.-intercultural-perspectives
6. Symposium on Fakhr al-Din al-Razi”, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 26-28 April 2024
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210) position as a preeminent figure of Postclassical Islam was influential in nearly all areas of knowledge, this symposium welcomes proposals for presentations on any of the fields to which Rāzī dedicated himself, e.g., philosophy, logic, the sciences, magic and sorcery, theology, Qurʾānic exegesis, and jurisprudence. Presentations may also focus on Rāzī’s life and legacy.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/15/symposium-on-fakhr-al-din-al-razi
7. 2 Fellowships in Political Economy (1 Senior Research Fellow and 1 PhD student) for Research Project “Economic and Political Self-determination in the Global South”, Bard College Berlin
The research project studies the history and present of attempts at structural economic transformation after colonialism, anti-imperialism in theory and practice and contemporary organizing around socio-ecological transformation, reparations and delinking.
Deadline for application: 15 August 2023. Information: https://berlin.bard.edu/about-us/employment/
8. Junior Professor Chair (5 Years): “Arts and Heritage of Afghanistan”, University of Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris
Key words: Afghanistan (ancient, medieval, modern); tangible and intangible heritage; area studies; endan-gered languages and dialects / linguistic identities.
Deadline for applications: 23 August 2023. Information:
http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/chaire-professeur-junior-arts-patrimoine-afghanistan
9. Website Manager and Publicity Officer for the “Persian Manuscripts Association” (Unpaid)
The PMA is a new international academic membership organization that aims to support and promote re-search on Persianate manuscript studies. The Association hopes to organize regular events, publish new research and facilitate increased communication and cooperation across its membership base.
Deadline for applications: 30 July 2023. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/news/
10. Oman Research Grant for Visiting Research Fellowships in Fields Related to Omani Studies, Three Months at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
The Grant comprises funding for a research stay in Berlin of up to 3 months in 2024 at ZMO, as well as travel costs to Berlin, for the successful candidates. We are seeking to attract outstanding postdoctoral scholars at junior or senior levels of their career who are engaged in projects in research fields related to Omani Studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/Ausschreibungen_2023/CfP_Oman_Research_Grant_2024.pdf
11. Articles on “Contemporary Challenges in Islamic Studies” for First Issue of the New “Islamic Studies Journal”
Articles on “Research methods, objectivity, and change in renewing Islamic Studies” and “Challenges caused by specialization in terms of affiliation, academic discipline, discourse narrative or divergent worldviews” are invited for initial issues of this journal published in cooperation with Brill and Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Humanities, Abu Dhabi.
Deadline for abstracts in Arabic or English: 1 September 2023.
Submissions and contact: Islamic.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae .
12. Articles for “Journal of Islamic Studies”, University of South Africa
Articles are invited on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Articles on Islam in Africa and contemporary Islam are especially welcomed.
Deadline for articles: 30 September 2023. Information. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/JIS/an-nouncement/view/142
13. Articles for “Diyâr 5.1: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”, 9th Issue, Spring 2024
We welcome original and as yet unpublished contributions from all research areas of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies. Papers should not exceed a length of 60,000 characters (including spaces and foot-notes). Diyâr accepts contributions in German, English, and French.
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2023. Information: https://www.nomos.de/en/journals/diyar/
14. The Fintry Trust
Al-Ghazali
Major Muslim Intellectual of the Middle Ages
with Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Friday 29th September 2023 6.00pm –7.15pm(London)
This session on the eminent Muslim philosopher al-Ghazali will begin with a brief survey of his life. Wewill discuss his early years in Iran, his education and his celebrated career in Baghdad and then his later life back home in Iran. Al-Ghazali wrote about many aspects of the Muslim faith:-Islamic law, theology, philosophy, ethics, statecraft, political thought and Sufism. In short, he was a polymath.Professor Hillenbrandwill talk about his works, in both Arabic and Persian,on these crucial topics.
Speaker Professor Carole Hillenbrandwas educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh and she spent most of her career teaching Arabic and Islamic History at Edinburgh University. She has published seven books and fifty-five articles.One of her major scholarly interests is the life and work of al-Ghazali. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2019she received, with her husband Robert, the medal of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Society’s highest award. The Queenawarded her an OBE for her services to higher education in 2009 and a CBE for promoting a better understanding of Islam in 2018.
Tickets: £12 for an invitation on Zoom Book online on the Fintry Trust website: https://thefintrytrust.org.uk/events/al-ghazali
15. CFP: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE:
Panel at College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago Feb. 14-17, 2024.
Deadline for submission: August 31, 2023 (Please use link below to submit a proposal)
Panel Abstract:
With the passing of fifty years since the initial publication of Oleg Grabar’s The Formation of Islamic Art, this panel invites/presents papers that reflect on the recent developments in the history of early Islamic art and architecture from the time of the Prophet through the “Age of the Caliphates” (ca. 650–1050 CE). Significant archaeological discoveries, a broader geographical range, and the introduction of new methodological and theoretical approaches have expanded, challenged, or otherwise engaged Grabar’s pioneering synthesis of debates about the first four centuries of Islamic art and architecture. This is a field that was and, in many ways, still is defined by a series of binaries including courtly/religious, continuity/change, public/private, and aniconic/figural. We invite papers that seek to reconsider or deconstruct these dichotomies. Topics may include processes of adaptation from various visual practices of Late Antiquity; new chronological frameworks based on material/socio-technical regimes; new areas of inquiry, including the performative object, space, or gaze; alternative ways of thinking through materiality, spectacle, audience, and authorship; as well as the complicated legacies of colonialism within the field. This panel offers a chance to evaluate how the study of early Islamic visual and material culture have changed since The Formation of Islamic Art and map out new futures for the field.
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12698.html
Contact Information
Theodore Van Loan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Art
Washington and Lee University
Contact Email
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12698.html
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