Categories : Academic items

1.Hybrid: Making it Count: Women’s Rights and Suffrage in Iran with Dr. Kashani-Sabet (U Penn)

Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3-4:45 PM EDT, St. Mary’s Hall, UMD, Multipurpose Room

 Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Speaker Series.

https://go.umd.edu/3OUdRaA

 

 

 

2. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: the Journal of Middle East Medievalists announces a thematic dossier entitled “From the Margins, From Below: Theoretical and Analytical Interventions in Premodern Middle Eastern Studies,” guest edited by Kristina Richardson and Matthew Thomas Miller, to be published in 2026.

We are soliciting original research articles from any discipline that challenge dominant scholarly narratives in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies through the application of particular theoretical schools of thought (e.g., feminist, affect theory, ecocriticism, narratology), analytical categories (e.g., race, gender, disability), or perspectives (e.g., history from below, literature of the margins) that have not been typically privileged as objects of study. We also welcome articles that interrogate the disciplinary formation of Islamic and Middle Eastern studies in the non-Islamic world and how these enduring institutional arrangements have centered certain languages, regions, and modes of analysis as worthy of study and relegated others to the margins. We are committed to assembling a diverse slate of scholars for this dossier, representing a wide range of topical, geographical, and theoretical/analytical perspectives.

Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists is the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. To be considered, please submit a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to mtmiller@umd.edu by April 15, 2024. The dossier’s guest editors will invite selected authors to an online workshop in May 2025 where they will present drafts of their articles. The workshop will be an opportunity for all to receive constructive feedback. Complete articles will be due by August 1, 2025. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s peer review process.

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop “Ibn Khaldun: Universal Thougt and Shared Heritage”, Tunis, 27-28 May 2024

This workshop aims to contribute to deeper research on the life and thoughts of this eminent figure. Its aim is to understand how political and intellectual circles, both in the East and in the West, have received Khaldunian thought since the Middle Ages, but especially after its “rediscovery” in the contemporary era. A particular focus will be placed on ‘The Muqaddimah’ and the work of Ibn Khaldun as shared and contested heritage.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-ibn-khaldun-universal-thought-and-shared-heritage-tunis-may-27-28?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

4. International Conference: “Musical Heritage Across Borders – Materiality as an Indication of Distribution Channels”, Hamburg, 28-30 May 2024

The conference explores the materiality of manuscripts on music in Latin, Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and Chinese languages. By tracing the routes of distribution of musical and music-theoretical manuscripts, we gradually come closer to an overview of cultural exchange relations, even beyond the dependence on political conditions. We are looking for a total of five early stage researchers (Master, Phd) to add further impulses to the presentations of the Scientific Board.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024.

Information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.uni-hamburg.de/hm/uber-das-institut/aktuelles/2024-02-12-conference-musical-heritage/cfp-musical-heritage.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA): “Mediterranean Sexualities”, New Orleans, 9-12 January 2025

How do Mediterranean sexual epistemologies challenge common approaches to the history of sexuality? Especially encouraged are papers considering queer sexuality and erotics with (in)visibility of/in archives, empire, slavery, race, migration, and nation.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-sexualities-mla-912-january-new-orleans?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

6. Conference “Travellers in Ottoman Lands”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 9-12 April 2025

The speakers will explore many fascinating subjects relevant to travel in the region during the Ottoman period, including: . Horticulture and botany; Memorials, cemeteries, places of worship of various faiths; Women travellers; Cuisine; Art and Culture; Travel and exile; Archaeology; Explorers and photographers; Modes of travel; Famous travellers; Architecture.

Deadline for abstacts: 15 November 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025364/travellers-ottoman-lands-tiol-conference-announcement

 

 

 

 

7. Research Software Engineer (Digital Humanities; V-L 13, part-time 50% or 75%) at “Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”, Leipzig

Candidate Profile: University degree (Master’s/Diploma, PhD) in Computer Science or Digital Humanities; Proficiency in at least one programming language; Experience in developing and implementing complex applications; Experience in Digital Humanities projects or interdisciplinary communication with domain ex-perts; Proficiency in English.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2024. Information:

https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/projekte/bibliotheca-arabica/bibarab_stellenausschreibung_it_2024_en.pdf

 

 

 

8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (5 Months), CEDEJ, Cairo

CEDEJ offers a fellowship (April-August 2024) to a recent Ph.D. graduate working on contemporary Egypt from a humanities or social science perspective. The fellow will reside in Egypt and participate in the academic life of the center. He will receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 41,000 EGP.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/join-us/?lang=en

 

 

 

 

9. Visiting Assistant Professor (1-2 Years) in Any Aspect of the Contemporary Middle East (Except Egypt), Colgate University

The candidate will be expected to teach an introductory course in the Core Communities component that is part of Colgate’s Liberal Arts Core Curriculum, a course on “The War on Terror,” and a course of their own design. There is a preference for geographical focus on Palestine, Iran, or Yemen. A Ph.D. is required at the time of hire or shortly after hire.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/141922

 

 

 

 

10. Fellowships of the “Max van Berchem Foundation” (Genève) to Promote the Study of Islamic and Arabic Archaeology, History, Geography, Art History, Epigraphy, Religion and Literature

The Foundation awards grants for research carried out in these areas by scholars who have already received their doctorate.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2024. Information:

https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/max-van-berchem-foundation-fellowships?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

11. ONLINE Hebrew, Arabic, Pashto, and Iranian Cinema Summer Courses, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, 6 June – 19 August 2024

 

– Hebrew Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/hebrew-summer-institute.html

– Arabic Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/arabic-summer-institute/

– Pashto Summer Institute:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/summer-language-institutes/pashto-summer-institute.html

– Iranian Cinema Course:

https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/languages/persian/iranian-cinema-summer-course-prs-329.html

Deadline for registration: 15 April 2024

 

 

12. Bi-annual Book Award of the Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA)

This award is given to an anthropological work (single- or co-authored, but not edited volumes) that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. We solicit books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East. Books submitted for the 2024 award must have a publication date in 2022 or 2023.

Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2024. Information: Contact Anne Meneley: ameneley@trentu.ca

 

 

 

13. Yaron Klein

The Poetry of the One Thousand and One Nights

Monday Majlis Online on the 11^th of March, 17:00-18:30 (UK time)

Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.

Register please on this link:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdOCgrTIoGdSN0tFJuZ2SqYtdec6d8gde

 

1. TEXTILES ACROSS TIME

A 14th-Century Asian Silk in a Monastic Manuscript with Dr. Nikolaos Vryzidis

Nikolaos Vryzidis offers an interdisciplinary examination of a silk fabric that survives on the

cover and spine of a late Medieval Greek manuscript binding, now on display at the Great

Meteoron Monastery in Thessaly, Greece.

Link: https://vimeo.com/903797919

 

Two Velvet Letter Pouches and Their Role in Safavid Diplomacy with Dr.Anna Jolly and Dr. Corinne Mühlemann

Anna Jolly and Corinne Mühlemann examine two Iranian letter pouches from the Danish

National Archives. Sewn from two differently patterned, cut, voided velvets, these pouches are exquisite works of Safavid textile art. Jolly and Mühlemann’s research suggests that they

originally contained two letters from Shāh Ṣafī I (r. 1629-1642) addressed to Duke Frederick III

of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp (r. 1616-1659), and received by him in 1639.

Link: https://vimeo.com/906100824

 

 

 

 

2. College of William and Mary – Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor (Non-Western Art History)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66961

March 11, 2024

 

 

3. Call for Papers : Mediterranean Review Vol.17, No.1

Mediterranean Review, issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Busan University of Foreign Studies, is calling for papers.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST).
MR widens the scope of Mediterranean Studies by publishing academic articles
on the diverse ‘mediterraneans’ distributed all around the world  where
civilization exchange occurs, including the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea, or the
Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences
as well as Science and Technology Studies in relation to a Mediterranean
setting.
A special emphasis is on the past and present modes of interactions and
exchange in global mediterraneans.
* Date of Submission : April 1st , 2024 (Monday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
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4. The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures

Ceyhun Arslan (Koç University)

Edinburgh, 2024

 

 

 

5. The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus is now available in an OpenAccess edition.  The entire volume can be downloaded as a single PDF, or the individual chapters may be downloaded separately to make it easier to assign them as readings in university courses.

This volume is of particular interest regarding the origins of the muwashshah, the role of medieval “singing slave girls” (qiyan), interactions between Arabic and Hebrew poetry, and the complexities of cultural contact and transformations in al-Andalus and the broader Mediterranean.

https://www.routledge.com/The-Musical-Heritage-of-Al-Andalus/Reynolds/p/book/9780367653613

Winner of the 2022 Premio del Rey book Prize (American History Association) and the 2022 Early Music prize (American Musicological Society)

“. . . The twelve chapters of The Musical Heritage of al-Andalus track the pernicious politics of ‘influence’; interreligious and intercultural negotiations beyond the traditional, narrow tripartition of Muslims, Christians, and Jews; gender roles and sexual identities; the development of ‘revolutionary’ Arabic and Hebrew lyric genres in Iberia; and the complex intertwining of social status, ethnicity, enslavement, and music professionalization (alongside much more). . . Reynolds makes accessible a rich body of work that may be unfamiliar to the wider readership that the book invites, and offers compelling new arguments for specialized readers.”

This is the companion volume to Medieval Arab Music and Musicians (Brill 2022) that was released as an OpenAccess edition earlier this month:

https://brill.com/display/title/61295?language=en

 

 

 

 

6. Muslim Contributions to Civil Society and Philanthropy in the Caribbean 

  SUBMISSIONS DUE: 15 March 2024  

In collaboration with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative (MPI) at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), LACISA is hosting an online colloquium on Muslim contributions to civil society, philanthropy and activism in the Caribbean.

This colloquium brings together scholars and practitioners to conceptualize overarching patterns, offer case studies, and suggest possible avenues forward in the study of Muslim communities in the Caribbean. For more on what we mean by “Caribbean” and/or “Muslim philanthropy,” please see the attached document setting out the colloquium’s parameters and points of discussion.
We welcome proposals that investigate Muslim contributions to civil society, philanthropy, and activism from historical, anthropological, literary, sociological, cultural, and religious perspectives. Colloquium presentations based on interviews, autoethnographies, and primary source translations would also be enthusiastically received. We are also open to participation by activists, organizations, and individuals directly involved in projects, whether in the form of interviews or as first-person/third-person essays.
Once we have selected from the proposals, we will convene an online colloquium in May 2024. Those who present will be remunerated in the amount of $250, thanks to generous support from MPI. In addition, select papers will be included in a special volume, edited by Ken Chitwood, Ph.D. (MPI) and Harini Kumar, Ph.D. (Princeton University).
We are inviting proposals due 15 March 2024. The proposal should be 250-300 words long and address any one, or combination, of the following themes:

• How have Muslims in the Caribbean made contributions to civil societies or engaged with social, political, and cultural orders in the Caribbean?
• What philanthropic activities or activist programs have been undertaken by Muslims in the region and how have they been interpolated by broader Caribbean social, political, and cultural orders?
• What themes, issues, or people groups are Muslims focusing on and what kinds of institutions and organizations are they creating (e.g., hospitals, nonprofit newspapers and publications, disaster relief programs, refugee and migrant aid, etc.)?
• At what levels is this activity carried out: the local, national, regional, and/or trans- national/regional? What transregional networks and/or connections are fostered, or frustrated, by this work?
• What partnerships—intrafaith, interfaith, or between Muslims and other actors in civil society—are being created?
• How does dawah factor into their work?
• How are concepts like zakat, sadaqa, and waqf interpreted and applied by Muslims in the Caribbean?
• How do Muslims in the Caribbean mix, combine, or remix classic notions of giving, charity, and aid from both Caribbean and Islamic cultures and histories?
• Are there any accents or emphases that are unique to, or particularly pronounced among, Muslims in the Caribbean?

**Submissions, inquiries, and other communication related to the colloquium should be sent to lacisanews@gmail.com.

 

 

 

7. Spring 2024 funding: Laura Bassi Scholarship

The Laura Bassi Scholarship was established in 2018 with the aim of providing editorial assistance to postgraduates and junior academics whose research focuses on neglected topics of study, broadly construed. The scholarships are open to every discipline and the next round of funding will be awarded in Spring 2024:
Spring 2024
Application deadline: 24 March 2024
Results: 10 April 2024

All currently enrolled master’s and doctoral candidates are eligible to apply, as are academics in the first five years of full-time employment. Applicants are required to submit a completed application form along with their CV through the application portal by the relevant deadline. Further details, including previous winners, and the application portal can be found at: https://editing.press/bassi

 

 

 

8. Missionaries in Persia

Cultural Diversity and Competing Norms in Global Catholicism

C Windler,

Bloomsbury, 2024

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/9780755649365/?mc_cid=8e06ad706b&mc_eid=cf8726f727

 

 

 

9. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce the provisional programme for its 2024 Annual Conference, hosted by the University of Leeds on Monday 20 and Tuesday 21 May 2024. The full programme is available to view online here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2024

With keynote lectures from Prof. Tahera Qutbuddin (Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic, University of Oxford), and Prof. Stefan Weber (Director of the Museum for Islamic Art in the Pergamon Museum, Berlin) this year’s conference looks set to be a truly memorable gathering of scholars and students from across the globe.

The conference is open to anyone with an interest in any aspect of Islamic Studies, and registration is now possible online HERE

If you have any questions at all about the conference, they may be answered on our conference FAQ page HERE. If not, please do not hesitate to contact us via this email address.

 

 

 

 

10. WEBINAR SERIES – ANTISEMITISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA: THEN AND NOW, ONLINE

Tuesdays in March (5, 12, 19, and 26)

12 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET

Hartford International University for Religion and Peace will host a four-part lunchtime webinar series that explores the roots – and the current manifestations – of hatred and bigotry toward Jews and Muslims. Two scholars will focus on what’s happening today and two will delve into ancient and scriptural connections. LEARN MORE

 

 

 

 

11. The Global Academy Call for Applications for the 2024-2025 academic year is now open! 

The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced.
The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and faciliates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the United States, publication opportunities, mentoring, and professional development workshops.
Eligibility criteria for the fellowships include: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English, French, a native MENA language, or principal research language of the field).

The deadline for applications is May 1, 2024. 
For more information and to apply, click here. 

 

 

 

12. Mo Habib Translation Prize Deadline Extended to May 1

https://melc.washington.edu/news/2023/09/06/call-poetry-translators-second-cycle-mo-habib-translation-prize

 

 

 

13. Prince Dr. Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships

https://iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/fellowship-prince-dr-sabbar-farman-farmaian-0

With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and economic history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.

Fellowships are awarded for six months (1 October 2024 – 31st March 2025). This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2024/2025.
Deadline for applications is 1 May 2024.

Fellows receive a monthly stipend of € 1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation. Cost of health insurance in Amsterdam will be reimbursed.

Minimum requirements/selection criteria:
– An MA degree or higher,
– An updated CV,
– A Research proposal in not more than 500 words
– Academic level English

The fellow’s research plan should fit the Institute’s focus on social history.

Fellows are expected:
– To write a report on their research activities at the end of the fellowship period,
– To be present at the institute customarily,
– To take part in the activities of the Institute’s Research Department,
– To interact with other fellows and the IISH’s research staff in the English language,
– To give at least one public lecture.

Selection will be made based on the quality and novelty of the proposed research project, its affinity to social history research conducted at the International Institute of Social History, and the applicant’s qualifications.

Outcome:
Fellows are expected to present the results of their work both orally to the other members of the Research Department, and in writing with a paper of min. 5000 and max. 8000 words (including notes). It is envisaged that the PDF version of the paper will be published as an occasional paper on the website of the IISH.

Applications:
Applications should be submitted before 1 May 2024 to jacqueline.rutte@bb.huc.knaw.nl

General information about the IISH can be obtained via http://socialhistory.org.
More information about the fellowship can be obtained from Professor Touraj Atabaki, e-mail: tat@iisg.nl

 

 

1.ONLINE Webinar “Public Diplomacy and New Leadership of Civil Society Organisations: DSA NGOs in Development Study Group”, 29 February 2024, 12:00 – 14:00 GMT

Bringing together case studies from Cameroon, Egypt, Poland, Palestine, Lebanon and Libya, this webinar reflects on how external calls for proposals in the fields of women’s empowerment, community development, education, training, exchange programmes, democracy, human rights and peacebuilding influence the way civil society organisations contribute, deliver, intervene and position themselves in various societies.

Information and registration:

https://nomadit-co-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvcu6prTMpH9I40Wjbz0FB9RUnQoYczOpn

 

 

 

 

2. Colloque « Généalogies arabes des dynasties non arabes : une quête de légitimité inattendue en Islam médiéval et moderne ? (IXe-XVIIIe s.) » – MMSH (Aix-en-Provence), 5-6 mars 2024

Programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2024/02/Colloque-genealogies-Programme.pdf

 

 

 

 

3. ENIS Spring School 2024 “Peripheral Islam: Muslims on the Geographical, Normative, Political and Religious Margins”, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, 4-7 June 2024

This Spring School focusses on Muslims living, working and writing in the periphery and welcomes papers that show how, where and why peripheral Muslims – varying from marginalised areas and controversial scholars to ostracised politicians and heterodox sects – have shaped this periphery and have been shaped by this periphery.

Deadline for registration: 1 May 2024.

Information: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2024/02/09/call-for-papers-enis-spring-school-2024

 

 

 

 

4. Workshop „Religion, Race, and Concepts of Difference in the Modern Middle East”, Oxford University, 14-15 June 2024

We are especially interested in contributions that engage with the history of concepts of difference across the 19th and 20th century Ottoman Empire and post-Ottoman Middle East: The transformation (or persistence) of concepts of difference rooted in terms like the Arabic jins, the Turkish millet; the colonial racialization of Islam, Judaism, Eastern Christianity, and other traditions; theoretical reflections on the relationship between race and religion in Middle Eastern contexts; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 7 March 2024.

Information: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/b1ccebda-68f8-4ea5-98de-debee0911478

 

 

 

 

5. International Conference “Evliya Çelebi and Eastern Croatia under Ottoman Rule”, University of Osijek, Croatia, 14-15 November 2024

Themes: The period and/or events immediately preceding the establishment of Ottoman rule in eastern Croatia and immediately following the retreat of the Ottoman Empire; Evliya Çelebi’s Seyahatname as a source for the history of eastern Croatia and the neighboring regions; comparative cases of historical inter-actions between eastern Croatia and the neighboring regions, especially during the 17th century. The working language of the conference will be English.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20025046/international-conference-evliya-celebi-and-eastern-croatia-under

 

 

 

 

6. 15th Conference of the Asian Federation of Middle East Studies Associations (AFMA): “Towards an Optimal Framework for Middle East Studies: Asian and Middle Eastern Perspec-tives in an Era of Global Challenges”, Doshisha University, Kyoto, 7-8 December 2024

Themes: Politics and society in the Middle East. – Religious and intellectual lives in the Middle East. – Society and environment in the Middle East. – Historical experiences of the Middle East seen from Asian per-spectives. – Changing energy situation in the world and the future of the Middle East. – Economic rela-tionships between Asian and Middle Eastern countries. – Cultural interactions between Asia and the Middle East. – Middle East studies in the West and Middle East studies in Asia. Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2024. Information: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s1l3d5b5w7k5v8dyq9iay/h?rlkey=5t8nqp8weocj9cl3ix1uq7w11&e=1&dl=0

 

 

 

 

7. International Conference of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group TRANSLAPT: “Empire in Translation: Perso-Arabic Knowledge and the Making of Early Modern Ottoman Civilisa-tion”, University of Münster, Germany, 15-17 January 2025

The Research Group “Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Pro-cesses in the Eastern Mediterranean (1400-1750)” aims to investigate the transregional transfer of knowledge by focusing on translation as a concept, process, and product. We invite contributions that focus on early modern translation processes between Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, with particular attention to the study of manuscript copies of these translations.

Deadline for abstracts: 17 March 2024.

Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/call_for_papers/index.html

 

 

 

 

8. Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 Years) in the History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Duke University, Durham, NC

We seek candidates with broad knowledge of the history of the region in its global context. Teaching experien-ce is a must. The successful candidate will teach one introductory lecture course on the Modern Middle East in the fall of 2024, and a gateway or advanced undergraduate seminar in the Spring of 2025.

Deadline of applications: 1 April 2024. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27206

 

 

 

 

9. Visiting Lecturer of Persian Language (1 Year +), Indiana University, Bloomington

Qualifications: A doctoral degree in a relevant field, such as Persian Language pedagogy, second language acquisition, linguistics, or language education. Experience developing Persian language materials, including web-based materials; experience using digital instructional technologies; experience in conducting pedago-gical research on the Persian language is highly desirable, but not required.

Deadline for applications: 1 March 2024. Information: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/22568

 

 

 

 

10. Scholarships for MA Iranian Studies at SOAS, University of London

The scholarship is open for UK/EU and overseas fee-paying SOAS students, normally providing a contribu-tion towards fees or a full fee waiver.

Deadline for applications: 29 April 2024. Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/student-life/finance/scholarships/kamran-djam-scholarships , Contact; Dr. Ali Alavisa137@soas.ac.uk

 

 

 

11. Articles on “Trans, Queer and « Third Gender » People in Muslim Countries” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Anthropology of the Middle East” (20.1, 2025)

Anthropologists are invited to contribute to this issue, but also contributors from various disciplines as histo-rians, sociologists and jurists. Proposals could also come from literary scholars working on a corpus (novels, short stories, poetry, etc.) from Muslim countries of a certain period that feature a trans, queer or third-gender character. Researchers in visual, theatrical or film studies are also invited to analyze one of these countries’ films featuring a trans, queer or third-gender character.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2024.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2024/02/Call-for-papers.pdf

 

 

 

 

12. Articles on “Infidels, Enemies or Humanists? The European-Italian “Renaissance” and the Fictional Imaginary of the Muslim-Ottoman Turk” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”

This issue focuses on the inter-connection between the Ottoman world and the Western Europe in the Quattrocento and Cinquecento; in specific, the idea is to work on the reciprocal imaginary that the Ottoman sulta-nate and the European-Italian potentates reciprocally played in this specific age. The argument is open to a multi-disciplinary approach able to consider the historical, religious, political, artistic, and literary approaches as international relations topics.

Deadline for manuscripts: 30 September 2024.

Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Z3H162B632

 

 

 

 

13. “NEXUS” – New Online Platform on Religions and Politics in the Middle East, Created by the Haifa Laboratory for Religious Studies

NEXUS will feature a blend of scholarly articles, research contributions, and semi-popular essays, creating a space where complex ideas are presented in a manner that resonates with a diverse audience. We aim to transcend traditional boundaries, making our platform a valuable resource for policy-makers, practitioners, scholars, and students alike.

Information: https://nexus.haifa.ac.il

 

 

 14. Harvard University – Harvard University AKPIA Postdoctoral Fellowships

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66959

 

 

 

 

15. Call for Submissions | BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship

Submissions are invited for the 2024 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. The aim of this award is to support activities geared towards strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. Two awards of £3,000 each are available. The deadline for submissions is midnight (UK time) on 31 March 2024.

More Information

 

 

 

 

 

16. Call for Papers | Building Past, Present and Future

First International Conference on Iranian Studies, University of Bucharest, 2-4 October 2024

The Persian Language and Literature Section at the University of Bucharest is pleased to announce its inaugural conference, “Bridging Past, Present, and Future”, dedicated to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Persian Language and Literature Section and honoring its founder, Professor Viorel Bageacu (1936-2015). We invite scholars and researchers to submit abstracts for papers in all subfields of Iranian Studies, exploring the connections between the past, present, and future.

Deadline | 25 March 2024 

More information

 

 

 

 

17. Call for Applications | BIAA Grants & Scholarships

Funding Call, British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)

In recent years, the BIAA has launched a range of scholarships aimed at supporting students from undergraduate to doctoral level embarking on fieldwork and research in Türkiye and the Black Sea region.  Applications are invited for the following:

• BIAA David Edwin Jameson Scholarship
• BIAA David French Scholarship
• BIAA Doughty-Wylie Scholarship
• Turkish and Black Sea Scholar’s Fund

Deadline | 17 April 2024

More information

 

 

 

 

18. Call for Papers | Societies in Transition: Law, Culture and Politics in the Middle East

30th International DAVO Congress, University of Göttingen, 26-28 September 2024

This congress invites submissions on topics in the humanities and social sciences that deal with research on the Middle East, North Africa and other states influenced by Islam or their relations with other regions. You can register individual presentations as well as panels (with 3-4 contributions). As a separate category, the workshop talks provide space for the presentation of final theses and doctoral projects.

Deadline | 30 April 2024

More information

 

 

19. Iranian Kurdistan Since 1979
Workshop | LSE Middle East Centre | 6 March 2024
This day-long workshop will bring together scholars from across disciplines to explore contemporary Iranian or ‘Rojhelati’ Kurdistan. Panels will explore Kurdish identity and gender, history writing and politics, and representation and resistance. Researchers will present their ongoing work for constructive feedback and discussion.
More information

 

 

20. Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic
Conference | University of Cambridge | 18 April 2024

Registration is open for the 4th Biennial Conference on Arabic Language Teaching and Learning in HE which will be hosted at the University of Cambridge. The conference aims to delve into Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic, and provide a platform for robust discussions and networking opportunities. The deadline for registrations is 28 March 2024.
More information

 

1. Milkvetch & Violets: Poems (Expanded Bilingual Edition)

Mohammad Reza Shafi’i-Kadkani

Mage, 2024

https://magepublishers.com/milkvetch-violets-poems-expanded-bilingual-edition/

 

 

 

2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians (Brill, 2022) is now available in an OpenAccess edition. The volume includes complete annotated translations of three medieval texts that may be of interest to a broad audience among scholars and students of the Middle East:

1)      The Biography of Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī

2)      The Biography of Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān’s Kitāb al-Muqtabis

3)      Ibn Sanā’ al-Mulk’s treatise on the muwashshaḥ, Dār al-Ṭirāz

Each section is available for download separately to make them easier to use as assigned readings in university courses.  An additional option to download the entire work as a single PDF will be added to the website soon:

https://brill.com/display/title/61295

Additional Information:

The biography of the famous 8^th-century musician and courtier Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī offers an intimate portrait of life in the ‘Abbasid court in Baghdad during the reigns of the caliphs al-Mahdī, al-Hādī, and Hārūn al-Rashīd.  This translation contains an introduction, the complete text in translation, including isnāds and musical indications, along with explanatory annotations, and therefore allows readers to get a sense of how Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī gathered and organized his materials.  In many ways, this single biography is a miniature version of the Kitāb al-Aghānī as a whole.  Since substantive complete translations from KA into English are few in number, this text may be useful in courses on medieval Islamic history, the history of Arabic literature, and of course the history of Middle Eastern music.  Passages on the purchase, selling, and training of “singing girls” (qiyān) may also be helpful in addressing issues of gender in medieval Islamic society.

The Andalusi historian Ibn Ḥayyān’s 11^th-century biography of the most famous of all Andalusian singers, Ziryāb, is the longest and most detailed account of the life of a figure who has become legendary in recent centuries.  The modern “mythic Ziryāb,” however, emerged entirely from the rather hyperbolic account penned by al-Maqqarī in his Nafh al-Ṭīb in the 17^th century.  While al-Maqqarī’s text paints an entirely laudatory portrait of Ziryāb, Ibn Ḥayyān’s much earlier text preserves conflicting versions of who Ziryāb was and how he was viewed by his contemporaries.  It is also a fascinating portrayal of the 9^th-century Cordoban court of the Emir ‘Abd al-Raḥmān II.

Ibn Sana’ al-Mulk’s 12^th-century treatise Dār al-Ṭirāz is the single most important medieval source on the emergence and spread of Andalusi muwashshaḥ poetry and song.  Although a Spanish translation was published some 60 years ago, that translator misunderstood, and therefore dismissed, the musical information contained in the text.  This translation thus offers a significant re-interpretation of a very significant text in the history of Arabic literature and music.

Dwight F. Reynolds

 

 

 

3. Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter:

Austin O’Malley,

The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr

Monday Majlis Online on the 26^th of February, 17: 00-18:30 (UK time)

Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter.

Register please on this link:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkfu6spjoqHNaVnyqf46nrm_nhZIkepjtD

 

 

 

 

4. A Story of Islamic Art,

Routledge, 2024

Marcus Milwright

More information about the book can be found at:

https://www.routledge.com/A-Story-of-Islamic-Art/Milwright/p/book/9781032448152

 

 

 

5. Lecture – 2024 Calderwood Lecture on Islamic and Asian Art, Dr. Marianna Shreve Simpson, Boston College – April 2

Paintings as Prelude and Postscript in Deluxe Persian Manuscripts of the Early Modern Period

Deluxe Persian manuscripts of the early modern period often open, and sometimes
close, with double-page paintings of court receptions, literary gatherings, hunts and
other scenes. While such ubiquitous compositions are generally thought to be
independent of specific literary texts, closer consideration suggests fascinating
thematic connections, and also points to particular centers of artistic production.

Tuesday April 2, at 5:30 pm

Hill Family Conference Room

McMullen Museum

2101 Commonwealth Avenue

Brighton, MA 02135

Reception to follow

Sponsored by the Calderwood Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art

Art, Art History and Film Department, Boston College

Contact Information

Emine Fetvaci

Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art

Boston College

Contact Email

fetvaci@bc.edu

 

 

 

6. Zoom- Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies

The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies is pleased to present two events in the Spring 2024 semester:

Friday, March 1 – “The Military Origins of the Persian Language (6th-9th Cent.)” a lecture by Étienne de la Vaissière, professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris

Friday, April 5 (TBC) – Panel discussion on numismatics in late antique and medieval studies.

Date & Time

Mar 1, 2024 05:00 PM

Apr 5, 2024 05:00 PM

London times

Register at:

https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0vc-2hrT0oH9HkUY0X__Me1Rlc3wlzB_Yl#/registration

 

 

 

7. INTENSIVE English-Arabic TRANSLATION COURSE

This in-depth program caters to students and colleagues interested in developing expertise in translation theories, techniques and cultural nuances.

Course Content: This course aims at training students of translation and translators on the translation of journalistic, political, commercial, legal, and scientific texts from Arabic into English and vice versa. The course includes the presentation of linguistic and cultural issues affecting meaning transfer from the original text into target language. Personalised one-on-one guidance and practical exercises ensure skillful navigation of cultural and linguistic nuances, empowering participants to excel in this dynamic field.

Course Dates & Duration: Two weeks 21st April – 2 May 2024 (5 hours a day, total of 50 hours).

Tuition: 1520 USDS

For more information please contact us at: info@jordanla.com

We look Forward to welcoming your students to this unique learning experience.

Sincerely,

JLA team

Jordan Language Academy

Mobile: +962 779502220

Tel: +962-6-5820985
info@jordanla.com
www.jordanla.com
twitter: www.twitter.com/jlaarabic

facebook: www.facebook.com/jlaarabic

 

 

 

 

8. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 18.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Interventions in Film Studies’

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-iraq-the-arab-world

 

 

 

9. CfP Cross-Points: A Cambridge–Stanford Graduate Conference in Arabic Literature

We are looking for papers for a conference on Arabic Literature to be held at the University of Cambridge, UK on 12th and 13th September 2024

This two-day conference, hosted jointly by the PATH+ Research Unit at Stanford University and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, will bring together doctoral students of Arabic literature, with the aim of building an inter-institutional community, fostering collaboration, and imagining new directions and methodologies for research. Conscious of the limitations imposed by adherence to temporal, geographical, and generic boundaries, we shall arrange our panels thematically. This approach will allow us to tease out connections between customarily diverse subfields. As such, we encourage applicants to engage with the broader implications of their research when submitting abstracts. Potential themes include but are not limited to:

• Textual ecologies
• Formulaic transgressions
• Canon (trans)formation
• Con-, sub-, and inter-textualities
• DisOrienting theory

We invite submissions for ten-minute papers on any aspect of Arabic literature. Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words and brief biographical information to camstan.arablit@gmail.com by 31st March 2024. Participation is restricted to doctoral students. Funding will be available to offset travel and visa costs, and accommodation will be provided. Further information on travel reimbursements will be sent to participants upon acceptance of their proposal.

 

 

 

 

10. Symposium: Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World 

March 1-2, 2024, Online and in Person

• Symposium title: “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World”
• Conference dates: March 1 – 2, 2024
• Venues: The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

The symposium “Challenging Empire: Women, Art, and the Global Early Modern World,” part of the project Global Makers: Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe and Asia, is intended to extend and expand knowledge of cultural production by and for early modern women – particularly those associated with the courts – on a global scale. While numerous conferences, symposia and resulting publications in the past several decades have addressed women as producers, consumers and subjects of European art during the early modern period (c. 1400-1750), less consideration has been given to women’s roles in the courts – particularly as informed by the steadily increasing cross-cultural interactions (i.e. between Europe and Asia, the Americas, Africa, etc.) that characterized the period. This symposium aims to address this lacuna while de-centering the traditional Euro-centric model of study in the analysis of women’s cultural production, presentation and consumption surrounding courts and empires (institutions associated with ruling power). The goal is to encourage a more equitable view of early modern women’s experiences of and with art globally, across traditionally held national and continental boundaries.

For information and registration, please visit: https://art.ua.edu/challenging-empire-symposium/

 

 

 11. MLA 2025 LLC West Asia Call for Papers

Between Land and Sea: Literatures in the Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula
Literary cultures of the Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf beyond citizenship and monolingualism. Topics may include petrofiction and ecocriticism; Gulf futurism; Indian ocean; diasporic writing; race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality; neoliberal cultural industries.

~ 250 word abstracts to alon@umn.edu by March 15, 2023

 

 

1. Hybrid – “End-of-Time Trends in Contemporary Thought & Messianic Beliefs”

Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) in collaboration with the Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, is holding a meeting entitled “End-of-Time Trends in Contemporary Thought and Messianic Beliefs” on Wednesday 21 February 2024 from 2pm to 4pm (Tehran Time).

The meeting will take place in Hannaneh Hall, Faculty of World Studies, Northern Campus of University of Tehran and will be streamed live on Zoom too.

This program includes a panel discussion with distinguished experts

• Mohmmad Nahavandian,
• Seyyed Mohammad Kazem Sajjadpour,
• Mahdiyeh Pakravan,

moderated by Sareh Taromirad.

Please note that the program is in English.

For more information:

https://iric.org/events/end-of-time-trends-in-contemporary-thought-and-messianic-beliefs/

 

 

 

 

2. Dick Davis Talk at Georgetown University about Khosrow and Shirin

Monday 26 February, 2024 at 3:30pm McGhee Library, ICC

to attend in person

RSVP here

The event will also be live streamed HERE

 

 

 

 

3. Washington and Lee University: Middle East and South Asia Studies

Location Lexington, VA

Open Date

Feb 14, 2024

Description

The Middle East and South Asia (MESA) Studies program at Washington and Lee University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic for the 2024-2025 academic year.  We seek candidates with native or near-native fluency in Arabic, and fluency in English, who have teaching experience at the university level.  The teaching load for this appointment is six courses per year.  The successful candidate will teach undergraduate Arabic at the introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels.

The Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic will be a core member of the university’s interdisciplinary MESA program.  Participation in this program includes attendance of the cohort’s monthly meetings, as well as contributions to student-focused extracurricular activities (e.g., film screenings, cooking classes, poetry readings).  Members of the cohort are actively engaged in research relating to the Middle East and South Asia.  Though research is not a formal requirement of this position, opportunities for scholarly engagement and collaboration with existing faculty will be available.

Washington and Lee is a top-ranked, highly selective university devoted to the liberal arts.  We are committed to excellence in teaching and to the research and professional activity that support it.  Situated in the Shenandoah Valley, three hours southwest of Washington, DC, the university enrolls approximately 1,860 undergraduates and 380 law students.

Washington and Lee affirms that diverse perspectives and backgrounds enhance our community.  We are committed to the recruitment, enrichment, and retention of students, faculty, and staff who embody many experiences, cultures, points of view, interests, and identities.  In keeping with the University Strategic Plan, we encourage applications from underrepresented minority candidates and members of other communities that are traditionally underrepresented in academia.

Qualifications

Applicants must have a PhD (or ABD status) in Arabic or a related field (e.g., Middle Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies) by the time of appointment, which begins July 1, 2024.

Application Instructions

All application materials must be submitted online through Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/140901.  Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript (unofficial is acceptable for initial application), student evaluations, and contact information for three professional references.  At least two of these references should be able to speak to your teaching abilities.  Women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply.  Please send any inquiries about the position to Seth Cantey at canteys@wlu.edu.

Review of applications will begin on March 11 and will continue until the position is filled.

 

 

 

 

4. Workshop: Aesthetics, Rituals, and Narratives in Islamic Mobilization

Date: 24th October 2024

Venue: The Middle East Centre, University of Oxford, Woodstock Rd, Oxford OX2 6JF (UK)

Workshop funded by Sasakawa Peace Foundation

For over four decades, the Middle East has witnessed the (re)emergence of Islamic mobilization—a multifaceted phenomenon that involves diverse groups advocating for visibility, political legitimacy, and resonance in response to social and political grievances. When analysing Islamic narratives of resistance, it is imperative not to underestimate the importance of aesthetic, ritualistic, and entertainment characteristics. These elements play a pivotal role in capturing people’s attention and motivating them to participate in collective actions.

In this workshop, we will investigate how art, rituals, performances, music, and symbolic meanings contribute to creating a cohesive narrative that shapes various forms of Islamic mobilization across the Middle East. We invite abstracts that explore aesthetics, rituals, and narratives within the context of Islamic movements in the Middle East. Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

1. The Aesthetic of Armed Resistance:

 _Analysing the expressive dimension of Islamic militant activism, focusing on the interplay between symbolic meanings, visual representations, and emotions in influencing militant groups to challenge their antagonists.

 _Examining the contribution of art, slogans, graffiti, and music in shaping narratives of armed resistance.

2. Rituals and Islamic Mobilisation:

 _Investigating the incorporation of religious festivals, communal rituals, and traditions in Islamic mobilization.

 Examing the role of rituals in the identity formation of Islamic movements.

3. Narratives in Action:

 _Investigate how activists construct narratives about memories of past struggles and current experiences of grievances to foster or resist political changes.

 _Examine the role of oral histories, art, literature, and cultural expressions as essential components of collective action frames, elucidating how activists express their grievances.

4. Digital Storytelling:

 _Exploring the role of digital platforms in enabling Islamic groups to share the experiences of activism through multimedia representations.

 _Analysing the impact of digital activism on mobilization by unfolding the relationship between online campaigns and aesthetics of protest in the digital era.

How to Apply:

Applicants must submit an abstract of 400-words, a 100-words biography, and a two-page CV to info_workshop_mena2024@area.ox.ac.uk by 22 March 2024.

Please note that we will be selecting only 15 abstracts for presentation. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 2024. Papers to be submitted after the notification of acceptance will be 4000-words for work in progress and 8000-words for full articles.

Partial funding is available to support accommodation in Oxford for participants, with priority given to individuals with limited institutional support. If you require funding for accommodation, please indicate your request in your submission.

Conveners: Dr Antonella Acinapura (Antonella.acinapura@area.ox.ac.uk ) and Dr Kenichi Tani (kenichi.tani@area.ox.ac.uk )

 

 

 

5. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University are pleased to announce the next lecture in the 2023–2024 East of Byzantium lecture series.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) | Zoom
Political Rituals and Urban Communities in Cilician Armenia
Gohar Grigoryan, University of Fribourg

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

 

 

 

6. A new documentary THROUGH THE MIRROR OF CHESS: A CULTURAL EXPLORATION which explores the remarkable impact of chess on culture, art, literature, science and more in an attempt to comprehensively address the question of what makes the game so unique.

The viewer is taken on an exhilarating journey across a wide range of times and places, touching on Asian studies, Islamic art, Medieval romance, Enlightenment philosophy, psychology, linguistics, game theory, gender bias, literature, computer science, educational theory, empirical economics, sporting culture, penal reform, social empowerment and more.
Part 2 of the film provides a detailed exploration of the history and widespread social and cultural impact of chess over its first thousand years, from roughly 500–1500 CE. Beginning in Northern India, the film follows the evolution of the game into the Sasanian Empire, its incorporation into the Islamic world through the Arab Conquest, and its eventual penetration into Medieval Europe, highlighting its many influences on art, literature and politics throughout a broad range of very different societies.

Professor Antonio Panaino, University of Bologna, examines the strong cultural role that games played in the Sasanian world, reflecting prevailing societal norms, while describing the very real activities that young noble warriors were engaged in as a means of training and education.
Professor Jenny Adams, UMass Amherst, is featured in the film and talks about what medieval literary representations can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities.
The film explores how a careful investigation of chess pieces over the ages sheds highly revealing light on the artistic and courtly values of many different civilizations. At the same time, a close examination of the many chess-related literary references, from epic Persian poems to medieval romances and political allegories, provides an additional array of unique insights into a tapestry of distinct yet overlapping traditions.
On the film page, https://ideasroadshow.com/libraries_chess/, you can find more details. Attached is a detailed study guide with additional information. Feel free to contact me directly, irena@ideasroadshow.com , for more information about this film and upcoming films on the Italian Renaissance.

Contact Email

irena@ideasroadshow.com

URL

https://ideasroadshow.com/libraries_chess/

 

 

 

7. The Al Babtain-Leiden University Centre for Arabic Culture will offer the sixth Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, with lectures by experts, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from its famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers. It will take place from August 19 to 30, 2024. More information will soon be available on the website mentioned below (page Summerschools.) Or send an e-mail to Fons Hooft for more information.

The deadline for applications is Wednesday May 1, 2024. Participants will be informed about the selection by Friday May 3, 2024.

Contact Information

Mr Fons Hooft, student-assistant.

Contact Email

a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl

URL

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/institute-for-area-studies/arab…

 

 

 

8. Cambridge Blue Story of Muhammad Hanafiyyah from Java

Majid Daneshgar’s article on a rare copy of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah kept at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. This work is inscribed on a BLUE paper from the mid-17th century.

This copy was produced in Java, and it contains more Persian poetic accounts. Here is the online article:

https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=27592

 

1.The Mediterranean Seminar Summer Skills Seminars are intensive, interactive four-day workshops that provide students, scholars and professionals with foundational training in technical skills related to Mediterranean Studies. The Seminars, run by leading scholars, emphasize hands-on reading complemented by  supplementary and contextual topics.

All Skills Seminars are held synchronously by remote client (i.e.: Zoom, Teams. etc.), and are open to all. Meeting times are set to accommodate the most possible participants taking into account the effects of time zones. The meeting times noted below are given in MDT (Mountain Daylight Time), which is EDT -2, CDT -1, PST +1, GMT -8, and WET -9.

 “Mediterranean Magic: An Introduction” 10–13 June  2024

This Summer Skills Seminar provides participants with an overview of magic and its ability to intersect with religion, ethnicity, gender, and more across transnational networks. While anchored in the premodern cultural and literary past we will also explore some contemporary echoes.

Contact Email

mailbox@mediterraneanseminar.org

URL

https://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/overview-mediterranean-magic-2024

 

 

 

2. Archaeology, Text, Narrative, and the Usable Past in Global Perspective (Session #1108, EAA Rome)

The concept of the/a “usable past” was coined by Van Wyck Brooks in 1918 in an attempt to retrospectively bind together disparate cultural elements in the USA. The instrumentalising of the past to shape collective memory is a feature of all human collectivities. Salient examples of this in the politics of the present and the past are to be found in the use of the shared-but-exclusive heritage of perceived golden ages from around the globe—e.g., the Rashidun Caliphate, Roman Empire, Gupta Empire, Tawantinsuyu, Mali Empire or Tang era, among many other points in space and time—to justify contemporary political systems, social stratification and inter-polity relations. However, it would be difficult to argue that the deployment of a usable past by established social groups this is ever totalising, with individuals and groups having complex relationships with the past and narratives associated with it.

This session seeks to take stock of the research being done across the globe on these issues, both in the present and the use of the past in the past. Papers are encouraged in relation to both case-studies where textual and archaeological evidence intersect and contradict, and on areas for which documentary narratives do not survive. Studies treating these processes outside Europe are particularly encouraged, as are comparative treatments of the problematic. Research questions that could be posed include—but are not limited to—why usable pasts are so often linked to military highpoints; the use of the past by groups writing against one another in narrative complexes; gatekeeping and selectivity and the past; the removal of the past in colonial relations; archaeology shaping and being shaped by narrative; and on the past as a socio-political and cultural resource more widely.

Session #1108, The European Association of Archaeologists, 30th annual meeting in Rome, 28-31 August 2024

Additional details:

• Presentations are planned for 15 minutes each.
• Abstracts need to have between 150 and 300 words. 3-6 keywords should be added.
• The maximum number of authors is 10, the main author.
• For submitting an abstract, consult https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/
• Please note that ultimately all Annual Meeting delegates must be current EAA members (paid-up for 2024) and pay the Annual Meeting registration fee.

Contact Information

Russell Ó Ríagáin, University College Dublin (Ireland)

Hagit Nol, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main (Germany)

Contact Email

h.nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de

URL

https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/

 

 

 

3. Edinburgh – Hybrid: Islam and Christian Muslim Relations (ICMR) Research Seminars

The talks will take place on Tuesdays in the Martin Hall at New College from 16:10 until 17:30 (unless otherwise stated), in hybrid form. Those wishing to attend online may do so by following this link: https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/83079577369 and entering passcode cWg5iQ5U.

30 Jan

Professor Nahyan Fancy (University of Exeter)

‘The Brain Never Shuts Down’: Sleep Theory and Practices in Premodern Islamic Societies

20 Feb

Professor Andrew Peacock (University of St Andrews)

Translating the Bible in Mongol Tabriz: Persian manuscripts, Syriac Translators and European Patronage.

5 Mar

Professor Emily Selove (University of Exeter)

Book Talk: The Donkey King: Asinine Symbology in Ancient and Medieval Magic

19 Mar

Dr Sofia Rehman (independent scholar)

Book Talk: Gendering the Hadith Tradition: Recentring the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers

*** Online only from 10am to 11:30am ***

2 Apr

PhD Student Panel in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

 

Speakers TBA

All best wishes,

Salam Rassi

Contact Email

srassi@ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

4. Book: Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage

GINGKO has published Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, a beautiful two volume book including twenty seven essays responding to objects associated with the arts of pilgrimage, from the remarkable collection of Professor Sir Nasser David Khalili.

Each of the essays are written by prominent specialists in the field. The volumes are beautifully illustrated with full-colour images of objects from the collection, some of which have never been seen before. Together, the essays in Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage provide a comprehensive overview of Hajj, illustrating the religious, spiritual, cultural, and artistic aspects of pilgrimage to the Holy Sanctuaries of Islam and the cosmopolitan nature of Hajj itself.

Edited by Qaisra M. Khan with Nahla Nassar
Foreword by Julian Raby
Essays by Bilal Badat, Sergio Carro Martín, Sami De Giosa, Sabiha Göloğlu, Alastair Hamilton, Edmund Hayes, Qaisra Khan, Janie Lightfoot, Jan Loop, Michael Christopher Low, Ulrich Marzolph, Richard McGregor, Luitgard Mols, Harry Munt, James Nicholson, Nahla Nassar, Seif el Rashidi, Yousuf Saeed, Saarthak Singh, John Slight, Mehmet Tütüncü, Aram Vardanyan, Arnoud Vrolijk, Michael Wolfe, Muhammad Isa Waley, Peter Webb.

Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage is available to buy from our website: https://www.gingko.org.uk/publishing/books/hajj-and-the-arts-of-pilgrimage/

 

 

 

5. Online summer course in Persian at UT: Iranian Cinema

Re-initiation of the online, higher-intermediate/advanced summer courses in Persian at UT Austin.

Our first summer course will be IRANIAN CINEMA, to be taught entirely in Persian in summer session 1 (June 6-July 11, 2024).

Enrollments are open to any language learners anywhere in the world, with the condition of taking the placement exam.

You can read more about this summer course on the attached flyer or by clicking on (or copy/pasting) this link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/languages/persian/iranian-cinema-summer-course-prs-329.html.

Fellowships available.

 

 

 

 

6. SOAS Iranian Women Visual Artists – 27 February 2024

SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies

Iranian Women Visual Artists – NOW!

5.30pm-7.00pm, Tuesday 27 February 2024

More info and register at:

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/iranian-women-visual-artists-now

 

 

 

 

7. Islamic Theology and Extraterrestrial Life: New Frontiers in Science and Religion

Bloomsbury, 2024

Jörg Matthias Determann and Shoaib Ahmed Malik, eds.

More information:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/islamic-theology-and-extraterrestrial-life-9780755650880/

 

 

 

8. Prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 29 février 2024, 17h, à l’INALCO

Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 29 février 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3^e étage).

Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir M. Yavuz Aykan, spécialiste de l’histoire du droit et de l’histoire sociale de l’Empire ottoman, Maître de conférences en histoire moderne à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, pour une conférence intitulée: “L’Empire et son madhhab: vers une relecture de l’impérialisation ottomane“.

Résumé

Cette communication a pour point de départ la question suivante : quel rôle a joué le droit musulman dans l’intégration des périphéries à l’empire ottoman à l’époque moderne ? Pour éclairer le problème dans sa complexité, je me concentrerai sur le déploiement de la doctrine juridique hanafite dans la ville d’Amid (aujourd’hui Diyarbakır), limitrophe des territoires safavides, et interface du monde iranien. J’examinerai en particulier le sort du terme juridique de hakk-ı karar, comparable au principe romain de l’usucapio, qui désigne littéralement le droit du cultivateur sur la terre agricole “en vertu de la résidence”. Jusqu’au XVIIe siècle, ce principe était régi par les règles du kanun, sorte de code administratif imposé par le souverain. Avec l’intégration de ce principe dans les textes hanafites, on observe l’interpénétration progressive des règles du kanun et de la doctrine sunnite-hanafite, et le déploiement de cette dernière dans les pratiques juridiques ottomanes. En me fondant sur l’analyse d’un procès complexe concernant le destin d’une terre vacante dans la ville d’Amid au XVIIIe siècle, je soutiendrai qu’en s’appropriant les principes du kanun ottoman, la doctrine sunnite-hanafite s’est constituée en soutien aux prérogatives d’État sur les terres agricoles, notamment en période de crise. Ma conclusion mettra en perspective ce processus dans le contexte des politiques sunnites dans la région, pour mieux comprendre le renforcement du hanafisme ottoman aux frontières de l’empire safavide.

Orientations bibliographiques

• Aykan, Yavuz, Rendre la justice à Amid: procédures, acteurs et doctrines dans le contexte ottoman du XVIIIe siècle, Leyde, Brill, 2016 (en part. p. 183–84).
• Abou Al-Hajj, Rifaat, “Power and Social Order: the Uses of Kanun”,dans Irene A. Bierman, Rifaat Abou-El-Hajj et Donald Preziosi (dir.), The Ottoman City and its Parts: Structures and Social Order, New Rochelle, N.Y., A.D. Caratzas, 1991, p. 77–99.
• İnalcık, Halil, The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600, Londres, Phoenix, 2000 (en part. p. 179–85).

Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :

https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2023-2024/

Dans l’attente du plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de ces séances, qui se déroulent en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII), nous vous adressons tous nos vœux les meilleurs pour la nouvelle année.

Contact: justine.landau@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr

 

 

 

 

 

9. A Stroll in the Enchanting Sphere of Persian Wisdom, Language, and Culture
A Series of Courses Introducing Masterpieces of Persian Literature
Course 1:
With Sa‘di in the Delightful Gardens of Golestan
Lecturer: Dr Isa Jahangir
April 16 – July 16
Tuesdays 6-7:30 pm
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW

To register:

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/persian-language-culture/

 

 

 

10. Webinar:

Silk in Ottoman Safavid Trade, Warfare, and Urban Life in the Early Modern Period,”

Professor Fariba Zarinebaf

4 March, 5 pm EST

https://unc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ss4GNLt9TamA9rTT9vRjkQ#/registration

 

 

11. GINKO Grants

GINGKO provides grants to support academic research into the history, art history and religions of MENA. GINGKO also offers grants for people organising transformative interfaith and intercultural encounters between people from MENA and the West.
In 2023 successful applications included a workshop entitled ‘From West Africa to South East Asia: The History of Muhammad al-Jazuli’s Dala’il al-Khayrat Prayer Book (15th-20th centuries)’ to be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York Public Library and a conference entitled ‘Searching for the light: The life and work of Mahmoud Saïd, pioneer of Egyptian and Arab Modernism’ to be held at the Università La Sapienza in Rome.
If you have a research project or an encounter that you would like to pursue, pleases consider applying.
We are open for applications until 6 April 2024. You can read more about the GINGKO Grants Programme and find information on how to apply by visiting:
gingko.org.uk/how-to-apply

 

 

 

12. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programoffers over 400  unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries, including projects in the areas of study of Islamic art. Explore awards available in the 2025-26 competition. You can join the more than 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come  away with enhanced skills, new connections and greater mutual understanding.

We encourage you to visit our website for application resources:
– Getting Started
– Application Guidance
– Open Awards in the 2025-26 Competition, searchable by discipline, country/region, etc.
– Webinar Schedule and Archive
– Office Hours, a great way to get your questions answered live by Fulbright staff
View our webinar schedule for presentations throughout the year, sharing opportunities for specific regions, countries, and disciplines.
We look forward to receiving your application by our deadline of September 16, 2024.  To receive program updates and application resources, connect with Fulbright.

 

1.HYBRID Presentation of Research Project “Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the MENA Region”, CEDEJ, Paris, 13 February 2024, 11:00 am CET

The Cairo Congress of Arab Music in 1932 brought together musicians and musicologists from across the post-Ottoman world and involved the participation of eminent Western composers, orientalists and musicologists. Its underlying aim was to share ‘best practice’ in performance, pedagogy and research, to unify and connect. Martin Stokes, Yara Salahiddeen, Sophie Frankford, and Rim Irscheid will consider 1932 in retrospect and consider the fate of postcolonial politics and culture across the entire Arab and post-Ottoman world.

Information and registration:

http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2024/02/04/cedej-seminar-on-tuesday-february-13-2024-at-11am/?lang=en

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Byzantium as Europe’s Black Mirror” by Anthony Kaldellis (University of Chicago), Havard University, 16 February 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST

In the course of its long self-fashioning, “the West” (later “Europe”) set itself off as a superior alternative to a number of imagined Others, including the infidel world of Islam, the primitive nature of the New World, and even its own regressive past, the Middle Ages. This lecture will explore the unique role that Byzantium played in this process.

Information and registration: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/byzantium-as-europes-black-mirror

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “From True “History” to the “He-Story” of Truth: Al-Mawqif as Narration of the Beginnings” by Chafika B. Ouail (Nizwa University, Oman), Centre for Islamic Theology (ZIT), University of Münster, 28 March 2024, 6:00 pm CET

In this first lecture of the online lecture series “Sufism and Suprarationality: The Cognitive Aspects of Islamic Mysticism”, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chafika B. Ouail will investigate the mystical experiences of an early Islamic Sufi wanderer, Abd al-Gabbar an-Niffari (d. 965). Al-Niffarī’s main Work “Spiritual Stations and Addresses” is considered as one of the most ambiguous sufi texts.

Information and registration: https://www.uni-uenster.de/ZIT/Aktuelles/2024/Sufism_and_Suprarationality_ The_Cognitive_Aspects_of_Islamic_Mysticism.html

 

 

 

 

4. Max Weber Foundation Conference on „Harmful Entanglements“, Orient-Institut Istanbul, 14-15 May 2024

The concept of entanglement enables researchers to avoid dealing with clearly (pre-)defined social or political entities. What kind of entanglements have been regarded as sufficiently “bad” to provoke attempts at disentanglement? As dependencies involve power inequalities, the question of agency in disentanglements becomes crucial: What regimes of power trigger decolonialisation and neo-colonialisation processes?

Deadline for abstracts: 25 February 2024. Information:

https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/cfc-harmful-entanglementsblocksatz.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Early Career and Postgraduate Conference “Theology & Religious Studies, the Global and the Local”, Durham University, 16 July 2024

We welcome papers from postgraduate students and other early career scholars interested in theology and religion from multiple disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 April 2024. Information: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/catholic-studies/about-us/events/early-career-and-postgraduate-conference/

 

 

 

 

6. Symposium “Women and Power between the Mediterranean and the Nordic World in Harald Hardrada’s Times”, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 8-11 September 2024

This symposium explores how powerful women shaped Harald’s formative travels, from Ingegerd of Sweden in Kievan Rus’ to Empress Zoe of Byzantium and Rasad in Fatimid Egypt. Yet This symposium will also be an opportunity to develop a wide-raging discussion and comparison on the broad theme of women and power across the varied cultures with which Harald interacted.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 March 2024.

Information: https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hardrada/2023/07/09/event-2-women-and-power/

 

 

 

 

7. Conference “Exploring the Middle East: Dynamics, Challenges, and Perspectives”, Christopher Newport University, VA, 7-9 February 2025

Themes: • 1. Politics and Governance, • 2. Socioeconomic Development, • 3. Culture, Arts and Heritage, • 4. Migration and Refugees, • 5. Media and Communication, • 6. History and Historical Perspectives, • 7. Religion, Identity and Cultural Pluralism, • 8. Environment and Sustainability.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 July 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/02/05/exploring-the-middle-east-dynamics-challenges-and-perspectives

 

 

 

 

8. Postdoctoral Research Associate (5 Years) in the History of Islam and Muslims in Europe (16th–20th c.), Leipniz-Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz

Your profile: outstanding PhD; high quality academic publications in the field of early modern or modern European Islamic and Muslim History; internationally oriented academic track record; very good command of English; good knowledge of German or willingness to learn German.

Deadline for applications: 25 February 2024.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66864

 

 

 

 

9. PostDoc Position (“Oberassistenz”) in Islamic Studies (2 Years +, 80%), Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich

Your profile: PhD in Islamic Studies or adjacent fields (history, religious studies, anthropology); Excellent knowledge of Arabic; Knowledge of another language relevant to the field (Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Urdu) appreciated; Teaching experience; Administrative skills; Interdisciplinary research agenda focusing on dis/continuities between the pre-modern and the modern world; Motivation to further advance on the academic career path via “Habilitation”.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2024. Information: https://jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-oberassistenz-islamic-studies/421121a8-a963-4a3c-a535-07833de4221a

 

 

 

 

10. International Fellowships (24 Months) for Young Foreign Postdoc Researchers, Offered by of the British Academy and the Royal Society, UK

The applicants must: Have a PhD or be in the final stages of their PhD; Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application; Be working outside the UK; Not hold UK citizenship; Be competent in oral and written English; Have a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research proposal agreed with a UK host researcher.

Deadline for applications: 13 March 2024.

Information: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/international-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

11. 2 Postdoctoral Positions (3 Years) on Feminism and Mobilisation of Law in Gulf Countries, University of Oslo

Applicants must hold a PhD degree in a relevant field: 1) the first postdoc (sociological studies, sociology of gender, and gender studies); 2) the second postdoc (qualitative and quantitative legal analysis). The two postdocs are expected to conduct in-depth fieldwork within courtrooms in Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Emirates. They should have excellent oral and written communication skills in English and advanced oral and written communication skills in Arabic.

Deadline for applications: 14 February 2024. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/254652/postdoctoral-positions-on-feminism-and-mobilisation-of-law-in-gulf-countries

 

 

 

12. Call for Abstracts: Memory Studies in Turkey and Beyond. A Handbook

edited by Erol Gülüm (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim (Boğaziçi University & Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey) Brill

Sections: • Transcultural memories: Ottoman past and post-imperial memories etc. • Painful memories: Difficult pasts, conflicts, traumas, and resolutions etc. • Memory politics: Identities, ideologies, diplomacies, diasporas etc. • Migrating memories: Circulations, transmissions and reproductions etc. • Ecological memories: Geographies, (disputed) territories, cultural landscape etc. • Cognitive psychological memories: Individual memory, autobiographical memory, (collective) future thinking, flashbulb memories etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2024. Information: https://www.memorystudies-frankfurt.com/2024/01/22/call-for-abstracts-memory-studies-in-turkey-and-beyond-a-handbook/

 

 

 

 

13. Arab Media & Society,the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, is seeking submissions for our next issue on “Media & Artificial Intelligence.”

The advent of artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era that promises significant changes in the field of communication and media. As nation-states and organizations invest substantial resources in advancing artificial intelligence, it becomes essential to explore the potential outcomes of this revolutionary digital mechanism. While artificial intelligence is often presented within a utopian framework, there are also cautious voices raising concerns. This call for papers aims to critically analyze the impact of artificial intelligence on media and communication, particularly in the Arab world and its diaspora.

Specifically, we seek to examine how artificial intelligence will contribute to and shape the production of media and communication. Additionally, we aim to investigate the downstream effects of artificial intelligence on media audiences and consumers, as well as the potential alterations in communication dynamics between individuals and entities. This call encourages deep reflection on the opportunities, risks, ethical and moral implications, potentialities, and transformations that may arise in the imminent age of artificial intelligence.

In light of the pressing need to address the complexities presented by artificial intelligence, Arab Media & Society dedicates its upcoming publication, issue 37, to this theme. We welcome diverse submissions on various subtopics related to media and artificial intelligence. Some suggested subtopics include, but are not limited to:

• The role of artificial intelligence in media production and content creation
• AI-driven algorithms and their impact on media consumption patterns
• Ethical considerations and challenges in introducing artificial intelligence in media and communication
• The future of media and its content: journalism, advertising, public relations, strategic communication, broadcast, etc., in an era of artificial intelligence

Journalism and Communication programs in Higher Education

• in the era of Artificial Intelligence
• Digital Divide / (In)equitable access to technologies
• Social Media Algorithms and User Behavior
• AI and Media Consumption Patterns
• AI, Propaganda, and Information Warfare
• AI in Entertainment and Creative Industries
• Economic Impact of AI on Media Industries
• Regulatory and Policy Perspectives on AI in Media

Authors interested in submitting their work for peer-review consideration should send their manuscripts by June 15, 2024. Other submissions, including book and conference reviews, shorter research papers, and columns, should be received by July 1, 2024.

All submissions must be in Microsoft Word format (.doc or .docx), adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style, and have a maximum length of 10,000 words (including footnotes and citations). Please include the author’s name (as it will be published), affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words.

Please direct your articles and ideas to editor@arabmediasociety.com .

For further information regarding our publishing policies, kindly visit www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/.

 

 

 

 

14. Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

Leiden University will host the first round of a series of online talks about Yemen. The series, running from January 2024 till June 2025 and sponsored by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN, brings together experts on various aspects of Yemen’s history, art and archaeology, politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, and literature, creating an interdisciplinary dialogue about the region.

All talks take place online (zoom) at 16.00 Central European Time, registration is available through the individual pages of the events on the series webpage.

The schedule for the spring is the following:

January 22, 2024 – Bernard Haykel (Princeton University), Keynote lecture: Zaydis, Salafis and Houthis and their Engagement with the Islamic Tradition in Yemen.

February 19, 2024 – Ewa Strzelecka (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Reimaging Peacemaking: Gender, Diaspora, and Peace Democratization in Yemen / discussant: Elham Manea (University of Zurich)

March 25, 2024 – Mahmood Kooria (Edinburgh University), Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century / discussant: Roxani Eleni Margariti (Emory University)

April 22, 2024 – Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont (University of Liège), Blessed Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen (6th-9th/12th-15th c.) / discussant: Vincent Cornell (Emory University)

May 20, 2024 – Ingrid Hehmeyer (Toronto Metropolitan University), History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study / discussant Daniel Varisco (American Institute for Yemeni Studies)

June 24, 2024 – Marieke Brandt (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Mapping the Past, Imagining the Future: Heritage Politics in Ḥūthī Yemen / discussant Noha Sadek
Contact Email

e.pukhovaia@hum.leidenuniv.nl

URL

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/leiden-yemeni-studies-lectur…

 

 

 

15. Workshop and Special Issue: Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World

The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal invites submissions for a
workshop and an ensuing special thematic issue on the Internationalism of the
Decolonizing World in the Cold War.
In recent decades, Cold War historiography has paid growing attention to the
autonomy and agency of the players beyond the US-Soviet dichotomy. In the wake
of Westad’s seminal The Global Cold War (2005), scholars have increasingly
explored the episodes, events, and institutions that demonstrate the agency of the
Global South. From the Bandung Conference to Pan-African networks, the so-called
Third World assumes a pivotal role in the latest historiographies. Newly independent
states, among others, are recast as actors in their own right and not mere pawns in a
game played by two superpowers.
Cold War Internationalisms of/in the Decolonizing World advances this recentering of
the narrative by focusing on decolonizing or newly independent states, along with
related actors, as the makers and breakers of the Cold War world order. This special
issue thus seeks to reframe the Cold War from the standpoint of Latin American,
Middle Eastern, African, or Asian actors – where the US and Soviet Union appear
not as the protagonists but as the dependent variables of decolonial world-making.
In addition, we seek contributions to highlight the decolonizing world’s agency in
defining and/or shaping various ideologies – including, but not limited to,
Communism, Socialism, Social Democracy, Nationalism, or Liberalism. We want to
explore how actors from the postcolonial sphere assigned new meanings to the
political vocabulary of the Cold War and created their own vocabularies.

Submissions including, but not limited to, the following topics are welcome:
● Anti-imperialist networks
● South-south diplomacies
● Biographical or multi-biographical studies
● Revolutionary organizations linked to post-colonial powers
● Women’s organizations, labor, intellectual, cultural, medical, educational, and
humanitarian groups
● Politics of anti-colonial nationalism
● Non-Soviet communisms

• International repercussions and transnational afterlives of novel variations of
  ideologies or stand-alone ideologies emerging from the decolonizing world
  (Maoism, Nasserism, Juche, Jamahiriyya, Latin American Developmentalism,
  Nkruhmaism, Nehruvianism, etc.)
  Contributions from all levels, including graduate students and independent scholars,
  are greatly encouraged.
  To Apply:
  Prospective authors should send a short abstract (300 words) and a short bio (one
  paragraph) directly to Burak Sayim (burak.sayim@nyu.edu ) and Severyan Dyakonov
  (sd3196@nyu.edu ) by March 30, 2024. We will be in touch about the results by April
  15.
  The workshop will take place on June 5-6, 2024 at Geneva Graduate Institute.
  Financial support for travel and accommodation is limited.
  If you are invited to submit a paper for the envisioned publication afterwards, the
  submission deadline for a completed manuscript is October 30, 2024.
  The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal is the only academic, peer-reviewed
  journal to focus solely on this transformative impact and legacies of this decade in
  our history. Originally launched in 2008 as The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics,
  and Culture, it was renamed in 2022 to account for the broader and more globally
  inclusive trajectory of scholarship in this area.
  Generally focusing on the concept of “the long Sixties” and welcoming approaches
  from all disciplines, the journal addresses how this period continues to be examined
  and redefined across the world, encouraging global, regional, and local perspectives,
  as well as transnational and comparative analyses.
  For more details, please visit:

https://www.globalsixtiesjournal.com/workshop-special-issue-internationalism-of-the-
decolonizing-world

Contact Information

burak.sayim@nyu.edu

sd3196@nyu.edu

 

 

 

16. Searching for the Deputy Editor of Iranian Studies Journal

The Deputy Editor of Iranian Studies, appointed for an initial period of three years (July 1, 2024-June 30, 2027), is responsible for evaluating all submissions on the Cambridge University Press electronic platform, ScholarOne, ensuring that they conform to the journal’s word-limit, citation, and transliteration styles.  Following this initial review, the Deputy Editor will make a recommendation to the Editor-in-Chief about the appropriate course of action. The Deputy Editor will also monitor the review assignments for timely processing and, when necessary, send reminders to the Associate Editors and reviewers.

The Deputy Editor receives an honorarium of $2,500 per annum from the Association for Iranian Studies.

Please submit a 2-page letter of application, in which you describe past experience and/or  aptitude for this role, to the Editor-in-Chief, Professor Nasrin Rahimieh (nasrin.rahimieh@uci.edu), by April 15, 2024.  A selection committee will conduct brief interviews with the short-listed candidates.

 

 

 

17. The First Reading Comprehension Texts of Persian,” Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari – February 17, 2024, 12:00 PM EST

lease join us for the second lecture in the “Literature in Persian Language Pedagogy” webinar organized jointly by the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago, entitled, “Ḥekāyāt-e Laṭīf: The First Reading Comprehension Texts of Persian and their Literary Sources” by Prof. Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Persian at the University of Tehran.

The lecture will be this coming Saturday, Feb 17 at 12:00 EST and 11:00 CST. Please register below to receive the zoom link.

Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday!

Best wishes,

Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Ph.D. (she/her/hers)  پونه شعبانی جدیدی

Instructional Professor of Persian  

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

5828 South University Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, Room 303

Email: pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu  Webpage

Persian Language Program at the University of Chicago

 

1.New book: Love at a Crux

explores the emergence of the Persian romance genre (the dastan-e asheqana) in a comparative context (Arabic, Greek, Georgian, French, and German), with Vis & Ramin as its focal point.

It is available to order at the University of Toronto Press website in a variety of formats, but as it has been published Open Access, you can directly download the PDF of the book here.

Cameron Cross

Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies

University of Michigan | Middle East Studies

 

 

 

2. Andreas Görke and Gregor Schoeler,

THE EARLIEST WRITINGS ON THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD
The ‘Urwa Corpus and the Non-Muslim Sources
Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, volume 27
Gerlach Press, ISBN 9783959941266, 2024
HC, 328 pages, with Index
EUR 145         GBP 135      USD 167

https://gerlachpress.com/index.php?art_no=9783959941266

 

 

 

3. UCLA Hybrid event: Pourdavoud Lecture Series with Christian Sahner

How Zoroastrians Argued with Muslims in the Early Islamic Period

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 at 4:00pm Pacific

Royce Hall 314

Hybrid Zoom Option Available

Registration Required

 

 

 

 

4. Call for Paper – Deadline March 1, 2024

Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Premodern Islamic Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses

On 26 June 2024, I am organising an international conference entitled “Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Premodern Islamic Legal, Medical, and Literary Discourses” at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. This conference is part of the Veni Grant “Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Islamic Legal Tradition.” 

While, on the one hand, numerous studies have currently focused on the history of Islamic doctrines and cultural traditions concerning gender and sexuality, such as effeminacy, transgenderism, and homosexuality, the questions regarding intersex topics in Islam and Muslim culture, despite having great visibility in terms of how they are publicly debated and invoked in polemical contexts, have hardly been tackled comprehensively by scholars of Islam.

On the other hand, presently, traditional Muslim scholars and public preachers often advocate for Islam as intolerant of trans-genderism or non-binary sex/gender divisions (see, for example, Assim al Hakeem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0DE7tI7No; Yasir Qadhi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCsUXGz1_6I; Amer, Jamil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWF-b_rXwpU). Not surprisingly, this dominant approach has reinforced orientalist narratives insisting that the male-female binary conception of humanity in Islamic teaching is a monolithic rigid code without room for discussion and historical developments. For example, Paula Sanders, in “Gendering the Ungendered Body,” argued for the following two notions: (1) premodern Islamic legal and medical texts demand sex and gender dimorphism that strictly define males and females as true opposites; (2) medieval Muslim jurists could not tolerate intersex ambiguity and imposed a gender on such (“unsexed-ungendered”) bodies to protect against social disorder and preserve male-dominated sexual hierarchy (Sanders 1991). Astonishingly, she drew such a broad conclusion primarily based on an examination of four mainly eleventh-century legal manuals, dominantly Kitāb al-mabsūṭ of the Ḥanafī jurist Muḥammad Ibn Aḥmad al-Sarakhsī (d. 1090). Despite the limitation of Sanders’s study, her thesis has been championed by various scholars of Islamic, Middle Eastern, and gender studies in the last three decades.

By contrast, Muslim discourses on sex or gender are oftentimes surprisingly dynamic. Therefore, some scholars have challenged Sanders’s position and upheld that the recognition of the intersex category as a non-binary possibility is particularly significant as classical Muslim jurists and physicians acknowledged the complex identification of such individuals, even when assigning them a specific legal sex/gender (Gesink 2018, Alipour 2017, Geissinger 2012). Moreover, contemporary grassroots-level activists and Muslim reformist scholars lobby for a more accepting attitude, referring to Islam’s inbuilt tolerance of both biological sex fluidity and non-binary conceptions of gender.

This conference thus offers a scholarly assessment of the premodern Muslim medical practice, Islamic law, and Persian and Arabic literary trajectories demarcating the space between the two poles of acceptance and rejection of the third sex and/or gender in premodern Muslim discourses. Its enquiry thus relates to the sex and/or gender identity(ies) of intersex individuals in Islamic legal, medical, and literary debates.

Paper proposals that examine – but are not limited to – the following questions are welcome:

• What are the discursive spaces on intersex topics in Islamic legal, medical, and/or literary debates?
• How did Muslim premodern medical experts perceive intersex bodies and behavioural characteristics?
• How have intersex topics shaped Muslim legal and/or medical discourses concerning binary/non-binary debates?
• How were intersex people illustrated in premodern Persian and Arabic literature in terms of their behavioural and biological characteristics?
• What was the reception of intersex people in premodern Muslim culture?
• What is the correlation between intersex (khunthā) and effeminate (mukhannath) in premodern Muslim vernacular culture as depicted by Persian and/or Arabic poetry and prose?

The conference is a primary step towards an edited volume on the theme. I thus invite accepted contributors to submit their papers to this volume for publication in a peer-reviewed university press after the conference.

Please send your abstract (no more than 300 words) and CV (no more than 150 words) in one document by email to m.alipoorkalaei@uu.nl before March 1, 2024

Conference date: 26 June 2024

Organizer: Mehrdad Alipour

Venue: Drift 21, room 0.05 (Sweelinckzaal), Utrecht University

Costs of the Conference: Reservations for the conference hall, lunch, and conference dinner (only for the speakers) will be covered by the organisation. Applicants should cover their own travel expenses and accommodations.

For more information on the conference and the project “Beyond Binaries: Intersex in Islamic Legal Tradition” go to the following link: https://beyondbinaries.nl

 

 

 

5. Events on Islamic Law at Wolfson College, Oxford, 22 February 2024

The first event is a panel discussion at 2.30 pm titled “Islamic Law and the Modern State: Rupture or Continuity?” with Rob Gleave (University of Exeter), Morgan Clarke (University of Oxford), and Dominik Krell (University of Oxford).

Later on the same day, Baudouin Dupret (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) will give a talk titled “Is There Such Thing as Islamic Law”.

Between the panel discussion and the lecture, all participants will be invited to join us for coffee, tea, cakes, and snacks. More information can also be found here.

 

Please register by using this link.

 

We look forward to welcoming you to both events.

Law in Societies Cluster, Wolfson College

 

 

 

 

6. UCLA Iranian Studies

Forugh Farrokhzad: A Journey Along the Line of Time

فروغ فرخ زاد: سفری در خط زمان

A Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Sunday, March 3, 2024 at 3:30pm Pacific Time | Royce Hall 314

Alternate live stream on Zoom:

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/94371748384

(No need to register in advance, just click the link at 3:30pm on March 3 to join.)

 

 

 

 

7. L. Chamankhah, ‘Hall ul-fusus and its Main Tenets: A Reading into Mīr Sayyid `Alī Hamadānī’s Commentary on Fusus ul-Hikam’

The Muslim World, 2024

Open Access at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/muwo.12477

 

 

 

8. University of Chicago’s Heshmat Moayyad Lecture Series 2024

Please Join us for Prof. Kathryn Babayan’s Talk on Wednesday 2/28 at 5pm CST as part of the University of Chicago’s Heshmat Moayyad Lecture Series 2024.

This talk spotlights a rant ascribed to a woman from the Bakhtiari tribal group of Lurs living in the vicinity of Isfahan in southwestern Iran. The letter is undated. It finds its way to Isfahan as a collector’s item recorded in several late seventeenth-century anthologies. The vernacular language deployed in the letter ascribed to a Bakhtiari woman uses sexual insults to publicize the infidelity of her husband. I will read this rant to project the female voice excluded from epistolary collections of seventeenth century anthologies.

Prof. Kathryn Babayan specializes in the social history and culture of the early-modern Persianate world, gender studies, and the history of sexuality. She is the author of two award winning books, Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2003), and The City as Anthology: Eroticism & Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021). Prof. Babayan has also co-authored Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavi Iran, with Sussan Babaie, Ina Baghdiantz-McCabe, and Massumeh Farhad (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004), and co-edited two books Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Cambridge M.A.: Harvard University Press, 2008), and An Armenian Mediterranean: Words and Worlds in Motion with Michael Pifer (Cham, Switzerland: Palgarve Macmillan, 2018).

To join on Zoom (registration required)

https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/92591319924?pwd=UUxacGZnSlA5U2UwL1Njd3NJN0JRdz09

 

 

 

9. The Rebellion of Forms in Modern Persian Poetry: Politics of Poetic Experimentation

Farshad Sonboldel, Bloomsbury, 2024

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebellion-of-forms-in-modern-persian-poetry-9798765103593/

 

 

 

 

10. M-Classi, a new digital tool in knowledge organization

Dear colleagues, dear friends,

I am happy to announce the creation of “M-Classi”, a new digital tool to catalogue and interrogate the classifications of the sciences in Islam. Its development will be focused by priority on Arabic, Persian, and Turkish classifications, but for comparative purposes it will also integrate taxonomies in languages such as Syriac, Greek, Latin, or Hebrew. The current Beta version of the program is now available on request at https://sites.uclouvain.be/erc-philand/dissemination/m-classi/, where a short demo video is also to be found.

Godefroid de Callataÿ

Prof. of Arabic and Islamic Studies

UCLouvain

PI of PhilAnd Advanced ERC grant

https://sites.uclouvain.be/erc-philand/

 

 

 

 

11. Leibniz Institute of European History – postdoctoral position (research associate) (m, f, x) in the History of Islam and Muslims in Europe (16th–20th c.)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66864

 

 

 

 

 

12. Spring 2024 AMECYS Digital Series

Friday February 23, 11 am CDT

Dr. Heidi Morrison

Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin- La Crosse,

Editor of Lived Resistance against the War on Palestinian Children

(forthcoming, University of Georgia Press, August 2024)

F March 8, 11 am CDT

Rusha Latif

Independent researcher

Author of Tahrir’s Youth:  Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution

(American University of Cairo, 2022)

Wednesday March 20, 1 pm CDT 

Dr. Jessica M. Marglin

Professor of Religion and

Ruth Ziegler Chair in Jewish Studies

Author of The Shamama Case: 

Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean

(Princeton University Press, 2022)

Links/registration info for series will sent to all AMECYS listserv members, so make sure signed up for the listserv! Digital medium for series is Zoom (https://zoom.us/download).

 

 

 

 

13. Edinburgh – The Alwaleed Centre has a number of public seminars taking place in February to which all are warmly welcome.

Fakes and Forgeries in the Islamic Art Market: A Study of Two Problematic Pieces of Mina’i Ware

Friday 16 February, 3pm, Room G06, 50 Geroge Square + online

A special seminar by Richard Piran McClary (University of York) exploring the ways in which fakes and forgeries present in Islamic ceramic wares in both public and private collections. This event is free to attend either in-person or online but registration is necessary. Click here for further information and free registration

Book Talk: On Muslim Democracy

Friday 23 February, 3pm, Room G06, 50 George Square + online

Join Andrew F. March (University of Massachusetts Amherst/Harvard University) as he discusses his and Rached Ghannouchi’s new book ‘On Muslim Democracy’. This event is free to attend either in-person or online but registration is necessary. Click for further information and registration.

SAVE THE DATE: Prof. Saul Takahashi on Palestine

Tuesday 27 February, 5:30pm, Appleton Tower Lecture Theatre

The Alwaleed Centre is  to be welcoming Prof. Saul Tahahashi (Osaka Jogakuin University) to discuss his time as Deputy Head of Office in Occupied Palestine (Ramallah), United Nations High Commission for Human Rights. Further details + registration to follow in due course. For now, please save the date.

Islam and the Spice Trade: Towards a New History of Global Commerce

Wednesday 28 February, 4pm, Screening Room, 50 George Square (in-person only)

An in-person lecture by Professor Joel Belcher (George Washington University) on lesser-known ports and practices of the 15th century spice trade. This event is in collaboration with the Edinburgh Centre for Global History and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.

Free to attend, in-person only – no need to register. Click here for further information.

With very best wishes,

The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam

in the Contemporary World

University of Edinburgh

16 George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

0131 650 4615

thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk

www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

14. Fri. Feb. 23, 12pm EST: Literary Modernity and Anticolonial Revolution in the Muslim World: A Conversation Between Nergis Ertürk, Sam Hodgkin, and Annette Damayanti Lienau

Arabic, Persian, and Turkic, as shared literary languages of the Muslim world, provided a means of communication and a basis for political coordination to the early generations of radical anticolonial writers and thinkers from Jakarta, Cairo, and Timbuktu; Bukhara, Lahore, and Tabriz; Istanbul, Kazan, and Kashgar. These revolutionaries read each other’s newspapers, spent years of exile in each other’s regions, and developed rich literary subcultures based on their shared cultural traditions. Ultimately, these activists’ shared projects of independence, vernacularization, and national modernization produced a far less continuous linguistic and cultural space, with new patterns of coordination and solidarity. Three new books explore this transnational world of literary and political revolution, providing different vantage points on the ways that world contributed to the making of the national literatures and world literature that we have inherited today. This will be a public conversation between Nergis Ertürk (Writing in Red: Literature and Revolution Across Turkey and the Soviet Union, Columbia, April 2024), Sam Hodgkin (Persianate Verse and the Poetics of Eastern Internationalism, Cambridge, December 2023), and Annette Damayanti Lienau (Sacred Language, Vernacular Difference: Global Arabic and Counter-Imperial Literatures, Princeton, January 2024), in which the three scholars will reflect on the politics of literary form and language in the circuitries of literary internationalism.

You can register for the webinar here.

 

 

 

 

15. From Konkan to Coromandel: Societies and Cultures of the Deccan World

Webinars co-organized by the Center of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore, presenting the pioneering scholarship across various fields of knowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.

FEBRUARY

The Rise and Fall of the Goan Temple

Amita Kanekar (Architectural Historian) on February 16th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York and 6:30 PM India)

MARCH

Mughal Burhanpur: Dynamic Urbanism at the Edge of Empire

Rachel Hirsch (Harvard University) on March 22nd at 1 PM London (9 AM New York and 6:30 PM India)

APRIL

Translating Dakani Poetry and Nusrati’s Gulshan-i ‘Ishq

Makoto Kitada (Osaka University) on April 19th at 11 AM London (4:30 PM India/8 PM Japan)

MAY

Exploring the Library of Tipu Sultan

Ursula Sims-Williams (The British Library) on May 17th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York and 6:30 PM India)

All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory.

Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/ to register and receive the Zoom link.

If you have issues signing up please email Neil Cunningham, nc524@cam.ac.uk.

 

 

 

 

16. Iran Heritage Foundation Grants

MISSION STATEMENT OF THE IHF ACADEMIC COMMITTEE

The Iran Heritage Foundation is pleased to announce that, after a lapse of several years due to Covid and administrative disruptions, its Academic Committee will be reconstituted. Like its predecessor, its overall aim will be to foster knowledge and appreciation of Iran’s rich cultural heritage by awarding research-related grants. It will, however, have a fuller agenda than was previously the case. It will operate two cycles each year, the first disbursing £15,000 and the second £20,000. The Trustees will review the awards process and may consider occasional support over and beyond the annual grant budget in exceptional circumstances.

In this, the initial year, the deadlines for receipt of applications are 30 May 2024 and 29 August 2024. As before, the Committee will assess applications for research grants in various academic disciplines, with a particular emphasis (in alphabetical order) on archaeology, arts, history, linguistics, and literature, though applications from other disciplines may be considered. Projects to be supported may include the most various academic initiatives, from fieldwork to workshops to building databases and digitising images, and will – as previously – privilege new research such as editions and translations of key texts. In order to support multiple initiatives in each cycle, grants will preferably not exceed £3,000.

The application process and conditions for such grants will shortly be laid out on the website of the IHF https://www.iranheritage.org/. In its second cycle, the Committee will also award two book prizes each year; one in memory of Iradj Bagherzade, the late founder of I.B. Tauris Publishing (now a subsidiary of Bloomsbury Publishing), as an enabling prize to defray some of the costs of a book still to be published; and the other for an already published book making a significant contribution to the world of Iranian studies. The terms and conditions for these book prizes will also be laid out on the website of the IHF.

The Committee’s mandate includes advice to the Trustees on the merits of major academic conferences, exhibitions and cultural events of value which the IHF has historically helped support or has itself organised in the past.  This will involve advice on the selection of institutional partners such as prestigious universities and museums, and collaboration with other charities dedicated to the celebration and preservation of Iranian culture.  We shall seek to support endeavours covering Prehistoric, Ancient, Islamic, Modern and Contemporary Iran.

The five members of the Academic Committee will meet at regular intervals throughout the year.  The membership of the Committee is as follows:

Hassan Hakimian, former Director of the London Middle East Institute at SOAS, is Professor of Economics and currently the Interim Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at HBKU University, Qatar. He is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA). One of the programs he directed at SOAS won the Queen’s Prize for Higher and Further Education in 1996.

Professor Robert Hillenbrand, FBA (Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews) has published 11 books, edited or co-edited 14 books, published some 200 articles, organised ten symposia and held ten visiting professorships. His specialties are Islamic architecture, painting and iconography with a special emphasis on Iran.

Professor Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria, Canada) is currently British Academy Global Professor at the University of York (2023-27). His research focuses on the art and archaeology of the Islamic Middle East, labour and traditional craft practices, and cross-cultural interaction. He has written six books and 82 papers.

Andrew Peacock is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews and a Fellow of the British Academy. His research focuses on the history and culture of Iran and the Persianate world. He has written or edited twelve books and published some 55 papers.

Dr Julian Raby, art historian and long-term Director of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., has been founding editor of Oxford Studies in Islamic Art (14 volumes) and General Editor, Khalili Collection of Islamic Art (over 30 volumes). He has written numerous books and articles and mounted multiple exhibitions.

Applications are now invited.

 

 

 

17. The Text Pre Exegetical Test ( TPET ) has just been published in Iran. This book is an interdisciplinary relationship between Qur’anic studies and engineering; Machine learning and Digital Humanities (DH) TPET tries to methodize the type of encounter with the text as the most important event in the field of text-oriented Islamic studies. The pre- Exegetical nature of these rules means that the researcher must define his position regarding the results of these tests before interpreting the text. Testing the text before interpretation practically provides the researcher with the prepared and processed text. The result of this test of the text is not necessarily the interpretation of the text; Rather, putting all the possible possibilities of the text on the table is on the interpreter’s desk; so as to provide the context for a better judgment of the commentator and a more accurate interpretation of the text. It is clear that the more the number of these tests on the text; The percentage of error probability (Tafsir-e- be Ray) is reduced.

TPET book is the first book-length publication emerging from the IQP project “Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament”.

https://iict.ac.ir/1402/10/pishatafsiri-3/

 

 

 

 

18. This year, the Iranian Studies Program at the Yale MacMillan Center is hosting the major Afghan novelist and memoirist Homeira Qaderi as our Writer in Residence.

Over the course of this year, Qaderi is conducting several conversations with other Persian-language writers about their craft. These are online webinars conducted in Persian, and we invite Persian-speakers from all over the world to tune in.

Following up on a fascinating conversation with Aliyeh Ataei in November, we are pleased to announce two more upcoming conversations with Qaderi:

Tues. Feb. 20, 12-1:30pm EST: A reading and conversation with Prof. Fatemeh Shams on the art of poetry, moderated by CMES fellow Bezhan Pazhohan

Tues. Mar. 26, 12-1:30pm EST: A reading and conversation with Mujib Mehrdad on Afghan literature, moderated by the Yarshater Fellow in Iranian Studies, Latifeh Aavani

To register for the event, follow this link. This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Jaleh Esfahani Cultural Foundation.

 

 

1.ONLINE Conference “Researching Muslim America: Intersecting Identities, Methodological Advances, and Lingering Challenges”, Muslim Studies Program, Michigan State University, 8-9 February 2024

Information, program and registration: https://events.islamicity.org/events/theme-researching-muslim-america-intersecting-identities-methodological-advances-and-lingering-challenges/

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Book Talk “The Kurdish Nobility in the Ottoman Empire: Loyalty, Autonomy, and Privilege” by Nilay Özok Gundogan (Florida State University), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 9 February 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST

This book is a study of the rise and fall of Kurdish nobility in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Focusing on one noble Kurdish family based in the emirate of Palu, a fortressed town in the eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire, the book provides the first systematic analysis of the hereditary nobility in Kurdistan between 1720 and 1895.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/nilay-ozok-gundogan-kurdish-nobility

 

 

3. ONLINE Working Group Race & Gender in the Global Middle Ages: “The Racialized Scentscape of Fatimid Automata” by Dr. Holley Ledbetter (Oberlin College), Medieval Academy of America, 9 February 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST

This paper explores the eight life-size mechanical sculptures stationed in the majlis of the early twelfth-century Fatimid vizier al-Afḍal Shāhanshāh (r. 1094-1121) as technological embodiments of enslavement. Performing for viewers, the jewel-bedecked female figurines purportedly bowed their heads when al-Afḍal entered the hall and returned to their upright position when he found his seat. Etc.

Information and registration: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/raceandgenderglobalmiddleages/

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar “The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line Between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to Present” with Professor Youshaa Patel, Muslim Studies Program, Michigan State University, 21 February 2024, 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm EST

Information and registration: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links/

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRIDE Seminaire “De poète de la tribu à poète de la rue – les transformations de statut et de conditions de vie des poètes arabophones à l’époque prémoderne” avec Hakan Özkan (IREMAM – Aix-Marseille Université), MMSH/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 25 April 2024, 14h00 heure de Paris

Nous accorderons une attention particulière à la notion de mobilité sociale des poètes, c’est-à-dire à la capacité de ces auteurs à s’élever au-delà de leur statut socio-économique initial, à travers leurs carrières en tant que poètes mais également dans d’autres domaines professionnels. Nous explorerons en outre la thématique de la précarité, qu’elle soit d’ordre économique ou physique.

Information et inscription : https://www.iremam.cnrs.fr/en/node/101905

 

 

 

 

6. 17th Pan-European Conference on International Relations: RG Section 13 “Islam in Inter-national Affairs: Theories and Practices of Diplomacy”, 27-31 August 2024, Lille Catholic University, France

The section analyses both theoretical approaches of Islam in International Relations and concrete historical experience of diplomacy in Islam: – Theoretical Approaches of Diplomacy in Islam. – Worldviews of Muslim Thinkers and Practitioners vis-á-vis Diplomacy. – Diplomacy and Islamic Polity/Governance. – Diplomacy of Transnational and Political Islamist Movements. – The Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Phenomenon and Diplomacy.

Deadline for abstracts: 13 March 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20021931/cfp-panels-section-s13-islam-international-affairs-theories-and

 

 

 

 

7. Workshop “Aesthetics, Rituals, and Narratives in Islamic Mobilization”, University of Oxford, 24 October 2024

We will investigate how art, rituals, performances, music, and symbolic meanings contribute to creating a cohesive narrative that shapes various forms of Islamic mobilization across the Middle East. We invite abstracts that explore aesthetics, rituals, and narratives within the context of Islamic movements in the Middle East.

Deadline for abstracts: 22 March 2024. Information: https://www.cfplist.com/CFP/40739

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference on “Digital Archiving in the Arab World (DA|AW)”, Abu Dhabi, 29-31 October 2024

The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners for discussions about archiving challenges in the Arab world, hence no discipline or approach is proposed. The questions are broad, and all possible responses are appreciated.

Deadline for abstracts: 18 February 2024.

Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwMxdXGdz5eumFI6yS-4KWyUI1EpJLY4/view

 

 

 

 

9. Fellowship of the American Center of Research in Amman in the Fields of Ancient History, Anthropology, Middle East History / Studies and Political Science (2024-2025)

Extended deadline for applications: 15 February 2024.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20016945/call-applications-american-center-research-amman-2024-2025-fellowships

 

 

 

 

10. Articles on “Contemporary Issues of Capitalism in the Middle East”, for a Special Issue of “Middle East Critique” with Guest Editors Stella Morgana and Kayhan Valadbaygi

What does the term ‘capitalism’ imply when it is applied to the Middle East and North Africa? How do dy-namics of class, gender and ethnicity shape contemporary issues of capitalism? This special issue tackles these questions by exploring the gaps in current mainstream literature.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024. Information: http://tinyurl.com/MEC-CapitalisMENA

 

 

 

11. Gulf International Forum is pleased to invite nominations for our Gulf book award, a recognition celebrating exceptional scholarly works. Both authors and publishers are eligible to nominate, and while there is no restriction on the number of submissions per author, we encourage thoughtful and selective nomination.

Eligibility Criteria
* The book should be a scholarly monograph grounded in original research.
* Publications must be in English, released between January 2023 and December 2023.
* The content should be centered around one or more of the nine Gulf states: the six nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Iraq, Iran, and Yemen. It should comprehensively delve into one or more pertinent themes, such as political, economic, social, security, or cultural aspects relevant to the Gulf region.
* This award accepts submissions of original works. Please note that this award does not consider edited volumes, new editions of previously published books, bibliographies, or textbooks.
Nomination Deadline and Application
Nominations must be submitted by February 14, 2024.
Please apply by completing the <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ZUP1wkDuvmctLaWUVf7cvn18q8oPdgXFeW3iBWRu7OJC49qwSCX9h5Ny8JNUsTEWAF9MiViGmEXuYOBJPPgE5QBEhHmJ-yiJC8GzvexucmjU7nJ4sAhxEX8nj0PzIh2DD5-H2wImJxhnyELUGKPJ-wl4pYE1sv-NpBwdowCUvw5Ku1r_WDga6fQxhTEIPHGfmRYgsmDAN9lKNDXp5sHgdeLGZ2vm-ra6j06RHJDfR99R4orD_YiVjtKndWO7TxPedbtgrB99s7WTXPbww2HrdQ==&c=AcJmH9ndQj19Z02S_CSPEvre_B7JwE8OgFx6wxbaa6h5adHtBVQPRA==&ch=fQCp5qsBzFAzJfjS0brxnBkMU0A2DVsT1ULGCKw0AEBgkT5qdeex1w==>following form <https://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ZUP1wkDuvmctLaWUVf7cvn18q8oPdgXFeW3iBWRu7OJC49qwSCX9h5Ny8JNUsTEWAF9MiViGmEXuYOBJPPgE5QBEhHmJ-yiJC8GzvexucmjU7nJ4sAhxEX8nj0PzIh2DD5-H2wImJxhnyELUGKPJ-wl4pYE1sv-NpBwdowCUvw5Ku1r_WDga6fQxhTEIPHGfmRYgsmDAN9lKNDXp5sHgdeLGZ2vm-ra6j06RHJDfR99R4orD_YiVjtKndWO7TxPedbtgrB99s7WTXPbww2HrdQ==&c=AcJmH9ndQj19Z02S_CSPEvre_B7JwE8OgFx6wxbaa6h5adHtBVQPRA==&ch=fQCp5qsBzFAzJfjS0brxnBkMU0A2DVsT1ULGCKw0AEBgkT5qdeex1w==>. APPLY NOW!
Prizes
* The author(s) of the winning book will receive a $1,000 award. In the case of multiple authors, the prize will be divided equally.
* Winner will be awarded a certificate of recognition, a trophy and announced on social media.
* Winner will be announced and awarded at the GSS Opening Ceremony on March 4, 2024, at Georgetown University Campus in Washington DC.
Selection Committee
Dr. Dania Thafer, Senior Fellow and Executive Director at Gulf International Forum
Dr. Yagoub Alkandari, Advisory Board Member at Gulf International Forum and Director of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Center in Kuwait University
Dr. Courtney Freer, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Gulf International Forum and Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University
Dr. Khalid Al-Jaber, Director of MENA Center
Dr. Gawdat Bahgat, Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Gulf International Forum and Professor at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University
For additional information or any queries, please contact us at gss@gulfif.org.

 

 

 

12. Call for Submissions | 2024 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship

Submissions are now open for the 2024 BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship. The aim of this award is to support activities geared towards strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. This year, two awards of £3,000 each are available.

In order to be eligible for this award, applicants must be members of BRISMES, must have submitted a PhD dissertation in the last 2 years in any disciplinary field, on a topic related to the study of the Middle East and North Africa and must not have a permanent academic position when they receive the grant.Priority will be given to applicants with limited or no access to institutional support (whether time or funding) for research-focused activities.

Eligible activities include (but are not necessarily limited to):

• Developing an article for a peer-reviewed journal
• Developing a book chapter
• Transforming a PhD thesis into a book manuscript
• Developing pilot research for a new project
• Preparing a grant proposal for their own postdoctoral work
• Developing an exhibition, a film, multi-series podcast, a workshop or some other creative practice that helps share your research with academic and/or non-academic audiences
• But also, please feel free to be more creative than we are 🙂

The deadline for submissions is midnight (UK time) on 31 March 2024.

More information: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ecds

 

 

 

13. The next online Monday Majlis of the Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter:

Monday, the 12^th of February, 17:00-18:30 (UK time). Dalal S al-Baroud with Sayed Ismail A al-Behbehani, Rewilding Arabic Literature

Registration is required. Register please on this link:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwrc-6vrDIsH9F8tiIAVnpPomDPFr4f5ts8

 

 

 

 

14. The Gibb Memorial Trust

Scholarships

The Gibb Memorial Trust offers two annual scholarships to students undertaking doctoral research in the field of the Trust’s activities.

The Gibb Memorial Trust’s Centenary Scholarship of up to £2,000 is available to postgraduate students at an advanced stage of their doctoral research in any area of Middle Eastern Studies (7th century to 1918) at a British university.

Centenary Scholarship application form & past recipients

The A. H. Morton Memorial Scholarship for Doctoral Research in Classical Persian Studies is for a maximum of £3,000 and can be applied to any year of a course of doctoral study at a British university, including for an approved period of study abroad.

H. Morton Scholarship application form & past recipients 

Applicants may apply for only one of the scholarships in any one year. Previous winners may not re-apply for the same scholarship.

Terms and Conditions

The Gibb Centenary Scholarship

The Gibb Memorial Trust’s Centenary Scholarship of up to £2,000 is available to any doctoral research student in any area of Middle Eastern Studies (7th century to 1918) at a British university, with preference given to students at an advanced stage of their research, working with materials in Arabic, Persian or Turkish, and with an established financial need. Those unable to take up an award will need to reapply.

Applications must be submitted by 29 March 2024. The result will be announced by 30 June 2024.

For more information: https://www.gibbtrust.org/scholarships/

For any questions, please contact the Secretary, Zuher Hassan, at secretary@gibbtrust.org.

 

 

 

15. 2024: International Symposium, University of Arizona: Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Miracles and Wonders, Science and Faith in the Pre-Modern Age: The Experience of Transcendence – Reality or Imagination

22nd International Symposium on the Middle Ages and the early modern age, to be held at the University of Arizona, Tucson, May 3-4, 2024

For the first social get-together, please try to arrive already on May 2.

Ca. 24 papers can be included. We invite close readings of artworks, literary texts, legal documents, medical treatises, etc., all dealing with the broad complex of faith, miracles, science, and wonders in the pre-modern world. This symposium wants to challenge naive modern perspectives of the pre-modern world as having been determined by simple-mindedness, foolish belief in miracles and wonders, and hence ignorance. Science was a major factor already then, and belief in miracles is still with us today. Hence, the papers ought to address the two sides of the same coin and unearth the dialectics of the two dimensions, miracles and science.

Program (tba)

Abstracts

Contact: Prof. Albrecht Classen, aclassen@arizona.edu

Registration (which will cover all meals, refreshments, social gatherings, the meeting room, equipment, materials, and local transportation: $110.

Hotel accommodations:

Ramada by Wyndham TUCSON

777 West Cushing Street, Tucson, AZ  85745      520-239-2300     520-239-2329 FAX; or contact the sales manager, Wes Clark, dWes Clark wes@tucsonramada.comirectly with email: Wes Clark <wes@tucsonramada.com>

$99.00 + $11.93 Sales Tax + $4.00 Bed Tax = $114.93 (extremely competitive; please book early b/c there is a mariachi competition going on at the same time, with lots of people coming to Tucson at the same weekend).

This rate is for 1-2 occupancy and includes our complimentary American Breakfast Buffet, free WiFi and free parking.  This rate is valid 3 days pre- and post-event.  NOTE:  Tax rate subject to change.

Guests will call to make their own reservations.  Please call our reservation number (520-239-2300) and ask for the “Miracles and Wonders Conference” Rate.  The group rate is not available online or thru travel agents – guests must call the hotel directly.

As per sales manager: “The cut-off date for the May 2-4, 2024 conference is April 15^th.  We will continue to honor the $99 rate after the cut-off on a space available basis. Please let your attendees know that the Tucson Mariachi Festival is that week at the TCC, so we may be sold out if they wait until the last minute.”

Payment: Guests will pay for their own rooms.  The University of Arizona is not responsible for any charges.

Cancellations: Must be made at least 48 hours prior to avoid a penalty.

Cut-Off Date: May l1, 2024 – Rooms Subject to Availability After Cut-Off Date

Contact: Prof. Albrecht Classen, aclassen@email.arizona.edu

 

1. In person event: INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES

School of Advanced Study • University of London

Julia Hartley’s Iran and French Orientalism: Panel Discussion and Book Launch

15 February 2024, 17:30-19:00 GMT

Woburn Suite, G22/26, University of London Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

All are welcome to attend this event which is being held in person only. Please register in advance: https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/iran-and-french-orientalism-panel-discussion-and-book-launch

 

 

 

 

2. Gender, Governance and Islam,

edited by Deniz Kandiyoti, Nadje Al-Ali & Kathryn Spellman Poots

Edinburgh, 2019

Open Access at:

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gender-governance-and-islam.html?utm_source=Edinburgh%20University%20Press&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=14303762_IMES%20Open%20Access%20January&utm_content=Find%20out%20More%20%20Gender%2C%20Governance%20and%20Islam&dm_i=CEQ,8IKUQ,MWI2D5,Z80IB,0

 

 

 

 

3. Khorshid Khanom: A Study in the Origin and Development of the Shir-o Khorshid Motif

W Floor, F Sajadi,

Mage, 2024

https://magepublishers.com/khorshid-khanom-a-study-in-the-origin-and-development-of-the-shir-o-khorshid-motif/

 

 

 

4. Veil Obsessed: Representations in Literature, Art, and Media

Edited by Umme Al-wazedi and Afrin Zeenat

Paper $44.95s | 9780815638414

Ebook 9780815657118

To order: https://press.syr.edu/supressbooks/6267/veil-obsessed/

 

 

 

 

5. NEAR EASTERN STUDIES PUBLIC EVENT

The astral sciences and early cultures: why do we study them, and how do we share our interest with the public?
Alexander Jones (ISAW, NYU) in conversation with Sonja Brentjes (IAS, MPIWG)

Sponsor: Sabine Schmidtke, IAS; Convenor: Sonja Brentjes, IAS and MPIWG

Hybrid Event: 14 February, 6:00-6:45 pm

White-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Registration is required for both in-person and online participation.
Register at: https://bit.ly/4b9DbTp

 

 

 

6. 2 PhD Scholarships – University of Edinburgh – Dept of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Deadline: Monday 6 May 2024

Full information at:

https://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/uk-eu/humanities/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern-studies

 

 

 

 

7. The Fourth Biennial Arabic Language Teaching Conference at the University of Cambridge approaches.

Key Conference Details:

• Date:April 18, 2024
• Theme:Translanguaging and Linguistic Diversity in Arabic
• Subthemes:Perceptions of Translanguaging, The Varieties We Teach, Pedagogical Approaches, and Approaches to Assessment
• Registration Link: HERE
• Deadline:March 28, 2024.

For more information, visit the conference website: https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/fourth-biennial-arabic-language-teaching-and-learning-higher-education-conference

 

 

 

8. UCLA Iranian Studies Outreach

Bilingual Lecture Series

Reza Shah’s Exile in Mauritius

Houchang Chehabi

Sunday, February 25, 2024 at 4:00pm, Royce Hall 314

Alternate live stream on Zoom:

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/92711078735

(No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on February 25 to join.)

 

 

 

 

9. Spring 2024 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

February 8, 2024, 6:00pm
“To the Baroque and Back Again: Architectural Renovation in the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey”
Emily Neumeier
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Temple University

February 29, 2024, 6:00pm  (please watch the AKPIA website, this event may be rescheduled)
“The Sufi Shrines of Khuldabad”
Mohit Manohar
Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, The University of Chicago
Presented with support from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund for Asian Studies

March 28, 2024, 6:00pm
“Textiles and the Temporary in Early Modern South Asia”
Sylvia Houghteling
Associate Professor of History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Presented with support from the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund for Asian Studies

April 4, 2024, 6:00pm
“At the City’s Edge: The Shrines of Mosul”
Ethel Sara Wolper
AKPIA Fellow; Associate Professor, Department of History, University of New Hampshire

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge, MA

Please check the website for the latest information on these events: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events

Contact Email

agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

URL

https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events

 

 

 

10. Lecture – ‘Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World’, IJIA Dialogues, February 21

On behalf of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture, it’s my pleasure to invite you to our upcoming and fourth journal-sponsored Dialogues session. We have three guests joining us from North Africa for a conversation on colonial-era heritage in the contemporary Islamic world. We’ll do this event via Zoom on Feb. 21 at noon EST (GMT-5).

Below is more information on the session and the necessary registration link. We hope you’ll join us and share this invitation with anyone who you think may be interested.

IJIA Dialogues
21 February 2024 | 12:00–13:15 Eastern Time (US and Canada, GMT-5)

Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World

Remnants of nineteenth- and twentieth-century European colonialism dot the streetscapes of cities throughout the postcolonial world. Tangible links to the past, these historic built environments also play a vital role in the function and identity of the contemporary postcolony. Within the Islamic world, as globally, such buildings may include government offices, religious structures, schools, and other forms of infrastructure that often stand out amidst examples of recognized ‘traditional’ cultural heritage. What do these inherited colonial-era artifacts mean now, and how have they been contested, conserved, interpreted, and put to use since the advent of independence? What lessons can be learned from them, and what challenges come with preserving the products of such difficult histories in today’s globalizing context?
Join the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) for its annual Dialogues session, a webinar that brings together scholars and practitioners from varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history. In this year’s session, “Colonial Heritage in a Postcolonial World,” IJIA Associate Editor Daniel E. Coslett will be joined by Leila Ben-Gacem, Alaa El-Habashi, and Lahbib El Moumni for a lively discussion on architectural history, heritage preservation, and postcolonial identity, across North Africa and beyond.

Zoom registration: https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-isqDspEtIzBtAH0d1wokaU6YXtT8LZ

Leila Ben-Gacem is a social entrepreneur and Ashoka Fellow based in Tunis, Tunisia. She is the general manager of TUNISTORIC and has founded several cultural heritage organizations, including Dar el Harka, Dar Ben Gacem, and Blue Fish.
Alaa El-Habashi is a Cairo-based professor of architecture and heritage conservation at Menoufia University. His research and practices embrace the specificities of local identities and traditions in historic built environments.
Lahbib El Moumni is an architect based in Casablanca, Morocco. He is the co-founder of MAMMA, an association that aims to highlight and preserve Morocco’s modern architectural and urban heritage, and a doctoral candidate at ETH Zürich.

Additional information on IJIA can be found here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture

Contact Information

Daniel E. Coslett, Ph.D.
Drexel University

Contact Email

dcoslett@drexel.edu

URL

https://drexel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkf-isqDspEtIzBtAH0d1wokaU6YXtT8LZ

 

 

 

11. The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections is accepting applications for the summer 2024 field trip led by Dr. Glaire Anderson in collaboration with Dr. Rafael Blanco (Universidad de Córdoba). Córdoba In the Age of the Caliphs is a 5-day experience focused on the architecture, archaeology, and art of the Umayyad capital of al-Andalus for those interested in the Digital Lab’s work across video games, immersive technologies, GLAM, and education.

Based at the University of Edinburgh, the Digital Lab brings researchers and students together to work on creative, interdisciplinary projects in collaboration with partners in the games and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) sectors.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until remaining places are filled, or until the final deadline of 31 March. Prospective applicants are encouraged to apply early.

For more info please contact: info@digitallabivcc.com

https://glairedandersonphd.ck.page/cordoba2024

Dr. Glaire Anderson,

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art & Founding Director, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections, University of Edinburgh

Contact Information

Dr. Glaire Anderson,

Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art & Founding Director, Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections, University of Edinburgh

Contact Email

info@digitallabivcc.com

URL

https://glairedandersonphd.ck.page/cordoba2024

 

 

 

12. CFP – HIAA Biennial Symposium, 2025, Boston College and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, April 3-5, 2025

Call for Papers: HIAA Biennial Symposium, 2025

Art Speaks (Back) 

Boston College and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Boston, MA

April 3-5, 2025

Today, as they have in the past, new technologies and new media are bringing about radical changes in art and society. Reflecting on both the current political moment and new technologies of knowledge and artistic production such as AI, we are calling for paper, panel, and round table discussion proposals with the theme “Art Speaks (Back).” Art has been used to represent and to misrepresent, to subvert or uphold power, to speak back to power, to technology, to Orientalism, to politics, etc. For example, the illustrations in medieval or early modern manuscripts sometimes subvert the messages of the text or go beyond it to include other interpretations; architecture at times embodies messages for the patron that speak back at a rival or enemy; artists and designers often speak back to holders of power whether in explicit or hidden ways. And sometimes, neither art, nor artists, nor historians, have the freedom to voice their opinions.

The capacity or incapacity of art (and artists) to “speak” may be a useful heuristic/analytical tool to examine both contemporary and historical artistic production. By examining the social and political roles art and artists have played in the past, we may be able to assay the dangers and opportunities presented by new media and technologies. We envision the theme “Art Speaks (Back)” to be explored through attention to technologies of production, to patronage and collecting, to the role of art and artists in society, to art created in times of crisis or change. These are only some examples of the way in which the rich and suggestive theme “Art Speaks (Back)” can be examined.

We invite individual papers, complete panels, or pre-organized round-table discussions that address any aspect of this theme. In this year’s symposium, we will have one session dedicated to 5-minute lightning talks. We also encourage individual applications to this session.

To submit individual papers and lightning papers, please submit a title, an abstract, and a 100-word bio, and indicate whether you are applying to present a 20-minute or a 5-minute paper. For complete panels with three or four 20-minute papers, please include a panel abstract and title as well as individual titles and abstracts for all the papers, and short (100 word) bios for all participants. For round table discussions, please submit an abstract and a title for the roundtable, and the names and 100-word bios of all participants.

Accommodations will be provided for all presenters and travel expenses of students and contingent scholars presenting at the symposium will be covered by HIAA and the Norma Jean Calderwood Professorship Funds at Boston College. Presenters must be HIAA members in good standing.

Please email all submissions to: HIAA.2025.Boston@gmail.com by April 15, 2024. The program committee plans to announce its selections by June 15^th.

 

 

13. Call for Papers: Muslim Contributions to Civil Society and Philanthropy in the Caribbean

Due date: 15 March, 2024

More information:

https://www.lacisa.org/post/call-for-papers-muslim-contributions-to-civil-society-and-philanthropy-in-the-caribbean

 

 

14. The Middle East in Cambridge

Cambridge-Brown Persian Poetry Reading Group

Tue 6^th February 2024 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM (Time zone: London)

Led by:

Dr. Annabel Keeler (Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies)

Dr. Michelle Quay (Lecturer of Persian at Brown University, Center for Language Studies)

On Tuesday 6^th February, please join us for this term’s first meeting of the reading group. We will meet on Zoom this term on alternate Tuesdays for three sessions of reading Persian poetry in the original.

New members, please register here to receive the Zoom invite.

If you have registered previously, no need to sign up again as you will remain on the mailing list.

Reading Group schedule: 

Alternate Tuesdays 12 – 1:00pm EST / 5 – 6:00pm UK Time

Session 1:  Tues Feb 6th

Session 2:  Tues Feb 20th

Session 3: Tues March 5th

Texts for first session: 

We will be reading the following story from Rumi’s Mathnavi:

https://ganjoor.net/moulavi/masnavi/daftar2/sh25

The translation is attached.

Group details: 

The group is designed for students with some background in reading Persian. We will be reading, translating and discussing some fantastic specimens of Persian verse. Meetings are primarily intended for Brown and Cambridge affiliates. Interested students with an intermediate knowledge of Persian (i.e. those who have completed at least first-year Persian) are very welcome to join. Students below this level may join as auditors. Preparation of the texts before the sessions is ideal, but not obligatory.

This reading group is jointly convened by Dr. Annabel Keeler (Affiliated Researcher at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies) and Dr. Michelle Quay (Lecturer of Persian at Brown University, Center for Language Studies). It has been coordinated by Dr. Keeler at Cambridge for many years, and it is Brown’s great pleasure to participate for a third year running.

 

 

 

 

15. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies (May Issue 2024)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the  May Issue 2024.  We are honored to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Assoc. ProfessorRania M Rafik Khalil, Acting Vice Dean for Research and Postgraduate Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at The British University in Egypt.
The submission deadline is February, 29.2024. The issue publication date is May Issue 2024.
The papers can address but are not limited to, the following areas: click here.

Please send your submission to tls@awej.org

We have the pleasure of sending the full issues of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies    February, May, August, and October 2023

Regards,
Arab World English Journal for
Translation and Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/

 

 

 

 

16. Zahra Institute’s Kurdish Studies’ Lecture Series for the Spring semester is open to the public and will be given via Zoom.

You can access the Spring 2024 Kurdish Studies’ Lecture Series via our website: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/

 

 

 

17. Digital Scholarship Conversations@IAS: February 16, 12-1pm: DAMAST – an interactive research environment

DAMAST – an interactive research environment

Prof. Dr. Dorothea Weltecke and Dr. Florian Jäckel
Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Friday, February 16, 12:00-1:00 pm (EST)

Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS)
and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS).
Damast is an interactive research environment for visualizing the multi-religious situation in the Islamicate world from 600 to 1400 CE. For the first time, all the existing geographical and chronological data about communities of Dhimmis under Muslim rule have been gathered together into one Database. Over 8,300 pieces of evidence at more than 440 locations are part of the database. They are visualized on a map, a timeline and displayed in various tables. Various filters, such as time, location, religious community and source allow detailed inspection of the data. Results of the research remain accessible as a report and can be referenced. Our presentation will introduce the research environment and the underlying concepts, explains some of its features – and its shortcomings.

Register in advance for this virtual event at https://bit.ly/3SDY4ie. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.

For additional information please email ds@ias.edu.