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1.ASPIRANTUM offers three enriching online courses designed to immerse you in the beauty and complexity of the Persian language and Iranian linguistics.
Here are the details of the courses:
Learn Persian through Saadi’s Golestan: This three-week course, running from February 12, 2024, to March 1, 2024, allows you to learn Persian through the exploration of Saadi’s Golestan.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-saadi-golestan
Introduction to Iranian Languages: This two-week course, from March 4, 2024, to March 15, 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of the Iranian languages.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/introduction-to-iranian-languages
Learn Persian Through Rumi’s Masnavi: This three-week course, running from March 18, 2024, to April 5, 2024, offers an engaging way to learn Persian through the study of Rumi’s Masnavi.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi
2. ONLINE Seminar “Americans’ Technological Empire in Arabia” by Karine Walther (Georgetown Qatar), Centre for Gulf Studies, Exeter, 23 January 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 h, GMT
This talk examines the role that Western technology, in the forms of medicine, industrial development, agricultural training, and military weaponry and training, played in advancing American interests in Saudi Arabia in the period between 1889 and 1952, as differing groups of Americans helped forge the United States’ “special relationship” with the kingdom.
Information and registration: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=13315
3. ONLINE Seminar “Narratives of Protection: Gendered Power Structures and Statecraft in Qatar and the UAE” by Dr Haya Al-Noaimi (Northwestern Qatar), Centre for Gulf Studies, Exeter, 6 February 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 h, GMT
The talk challenges modern Emirati and Qatari notions of ‘security’, analyzing instead moments where the provision of protection operates as a ‘racket’ in and through nation-building processes. Gender, acting as a vehicle and crucial link, can help us understand how narratives of protection translate into political and security conditions and why they become weaponized by the state whenever the trajectory of state development is faced with potential disruption.
Information and registration: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=13316
4. ONLINE Book Talk “Provincial Jews and Ottoman Power” by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 29 February 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
This talk seeks to understand the ways in which Jewish communities commented on the politics, histories, and religions of the Ottoman Empire. Bashkin looks at Jewish communities in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, where many Jews, she argues, not only favored Ottoman and autonomous and semi-autonomous Arab rule, for geopolitical reasons but also perceived Muslim military victories as components of a Jewish Divine plan.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2024/orit-bashkin-provincial-jews-ottoman-power
5. Conference of the “Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS)” on the “Political Economy of the Muslim World”, Harvard University, 19-20 April 2024
Nominations for presentations by advanced PhD students can be made up to 31 January 2024.
Program: https://aalims.org/aalims-harvard-conference-on-the-political-economy-of-the-muslim-world-2024/
6. PhD Research Grants for Research in Turkey (10-12 Months, 2024/25) to PhD Candidates not Living in Turkey, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Prefered themes: Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. – Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire. – Past and contemporary forms of religious expression in the regions investigated at the OII (since the 11th century). – Turkology (Linguistics and Literary Studies), – Iran. – Entanglements between Turkish or Ottoman society, culture and literatures on the one, and the Mediterranean, Iran, etc. on the other side. – Ottoman modernities.
Deadline for applications: 2 January 2024. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/scholarship/
7. PhD Candidate for Study on “Migrant Muslim Foodways”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
How does food mediate social encounters in diverse migratory contexts? And how do such exchanges impact Muslims’ practices and beliefs? Under this framework, we invite you to identify your own research questions, theoretical lens, methodological tools, and case studies. Profile: You have an MA degree in religious studies, anthropology, migration studies, or another discipline related to your project. You have a demonstrated inter-est in food and food-related practices.
Deadline for applications: 26 February 2024. Information:
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidate-migrant-muslim-foodways
8. Fellowships in Jordan and the Middle East of the “American Center of Research (ACOR)” for Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, and Postdoctoral Researchers
– ACOR-Jordanian Graduate Student Fellowships:
https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/acor_-_jordanian_graduate_student_fellowships/
– ACOR Named Fellowships: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/GkH7nSD7mWw75Mf7wc69/
– ACOR-NEH Fellowship: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/G4z5kMr2fCZmVdBcCS6f/
– ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/NpTdQGNWxsk6D65pgKxV/
Deadline for application: 15 February 2024
9. Fellowship for Scholars of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
The fellowship is open to all disciplines – particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology – for the 2024-2025 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s publications.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2024.
Information: https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/26475
10. Senior Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies (Arabic), Trinity College, Hartford, CT
We are seeking candidates with a PhD in Arabic Language, Literature and culture studies, Music and Art in the Middle East and North Africa, or another related field (degree received by the time of appointment) with an excellent record in undergraduate teaching (minimum of five years of teaching experience), native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in the use and implementation of classroom technologies.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information: https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/3177
11. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic (Modern Languages and Literatures), Swarthmore College
We encourage applications from candidates with expertise in cinematic and cultural productions addressing diverse issues in the Arab world, war narratives, refugee literature, and other significant subfields of modern and contemporary Arabic literature and culture. Successful candidates must be able to teach at all levels in our language sequence, including advanced content courses in Arabic literature and culture in the target language, as well as courses in English.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/136156
12. Prix de thèse “Islam, Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans”, GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans. 2024-1
Sont éligibles des travaux soutenus en français ou en France entre le1er janvier 2022 et le 31 décembre 2023, dans toutes les disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales. L’organisation de ces prix de thèse entend distinguer des travaux de recherche portant sur l’Islam, le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans, caractérisés par leur excellence et leur caractère particulièrement innovant en sciences humaines et sociales.
Envoyer un dossier complet au plus tard le s12 janvier 2024.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/11/Appel-prix-de-these-2024-1.pdf
13. Articles on “Middle East Critique: Situating the Gulf’s Anti-Imperialist Currents in History and Theory” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Middle East Critique”
Deadline: 15 September, 2024
14. Articles for New Journal Transmediterranean History
This open access journal publishes articles with a keen focus on source material covering various aspects of transmediterranean history in the period between c. 600 and 1650. The contributions provide access to excerpts of primary sources in their original language alongside translations and commentaries on the author and their work;. etc.. Additionally, each entry gives revised bibliographies of editions, translations, and secondary literature. The anthology appears biannually in German, English, and Arabic.
Information: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index
15. AKU-ISMC: 13 Dec 2023 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day on Wednesday 13 December at 12:00 -14:00 (London Time) to learn about our MA in Muslim Cultures, find out about admissions, quiz current students on academic life, and have the opportunity to ask your own questions.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aku-ismc-virtual-open-day-tickets-741533455527?aff=oddtdtcreator
16. Islamic Art Circle at SOAS
10 January 2023
Michael Rogers Memorial Lecture
Sovereignty materialized: Sartorial presence and perpetuity
in Ottoman Kingship
Dr Ünver Rüstem
Second Decade Society Associate Professor of Islamic Art and
Architecture at Johns Hopkins University
Islamic Art Circle
at SOAS
7 February 2024
Courtly mediators: Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk gift
exchanges
Dr Leah Clarke
Kellogg College/Associate Professor in History of Art, Director of Studies,
History of Art, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
13 March 2024
The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture
in Islamic Art and Culture
The role of the architect in designing spaces for women
in mosques
Professor Bernard O’Kane
American University of Cairo
24 April 2024
Legacies of art, architecture and culture in historic Mosul:
A story of resistance and resilience in the context of
adversity
Prof. Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem
Chair in Architecture & Director, Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and
Global Heritage. Nottingham Trent University
8 May 2024
Image and frame in Late Antiquity and early Islam: An
exploration of visual strategies
Dr Marcus Milwright
British Academy Global Professor in the Department of History of Art,
University of York and Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the
University of Victoria, Canada
12 June 2024
The iconography of Qajar As Nas cards
Dr Natasha Morris
Lecturer in Islamic Art
School of Arts, SOAS
All lectures start at 1900 hours and will be held in the Khalili
Lecture Theatre (KLT), under the Library in the Phillips
Building
17. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting applications for its intensive Arabic immersion program.
Based on the principles of the National Arabic Flagship Program, Indiana’s program offers 3 levels of intensive Arabic, featuring 20 hours of instruction a week plus daily one-on-one skills training, tutoring, daily cultural events, Arabic-only dorm living, and opportunities to specialize in Darija, Shami, or Masri, in addition to Fusha.
Funding is available. See http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/funding for details.
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Special in 2024: Qatar Foundation Scholarships for high-school students embarking on Arabic majors in college.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2 and Winter Break is an ideal time to apply for summer study!
Courses are proficiency oriented and intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and feature regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/arabic
18. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting applications for an online summer course in Professional Academic MSA. Led by Dr. Attia Youseif, the course is aimed at very advanced speakers and heritage speakers wishing to improve their command of formal, academic Arabic.
Funding is available. See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/languages/online-hybrid/arabic for details.
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2 and Winter Break is a perfect time to apply.
The course is intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and features regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu.
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/arabic
19. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting scholarship applications for Online Intensive SORANI KURDISH, PERSIAN (FARSI), and TURKISH until February 2, 2024. Please remind your colleagues and students that Winter Break is an ideal time to apply for summer funding.
For scholarship details, see http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/funding .
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2.
Courses are proficiency oriented and intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and feature regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Articles of interest in the 50th volume of The Textile Museum Journal, now available through https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal.
‘Two Velvet Letter Pouches and Their Role in Safavid Diplomacy’ by Anna Jolly and Corinne Mühlemann
‘Professor Wace’s Turkish Sampler: Ottoman Women Embroiderers and Continental Collectors of Woven Archaeologies’ by Deniz Türker
‘Yusuf and Zulaikha in Sufi Poetry and Safavid Silks’ by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe
For subscriptions to The Textile Museum Journal 50 and access to earlier issues, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal. For submissions, more information or questions, please contact The Textile Museum Journal editorial team at tmjournal@gwu.edu or check https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal.
2. British Library Endangered Archives Project:
Iranian Performance Arts Journals Pre-1979 (EAP1200)
The journals scanned in Tehran as part of the British Library Endangered Archives Project are now accessible on the British Library Endangered Archives Project site at: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1200.
We have also begun uploading these journals in an indexed fashion on the Golistan Project site in the printed matter section at: https://www.golistan.org/collection/?type=Read&sub_type=Journals.
3. Thijl Sunier, author of the recently published Making Islam Work, is giving a lecture at Leiden University on Islamic authority among Muslims in Western Europe.
The lecture is part of the ‘What’s New?!’ lecture series, organized by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies to focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East. Sunier will present his new book and discuss how Islamic authority plays a role in public debates about (sometimes) controversial issues related to the presence of Muslims in Europe.
Thursday 14 December 2023; 17:15 – 18:15; Lipsius Building
Find out more and register here.
4. Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire
Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s-1880s)
Gülseren Duman Koç
Brill, 2023
5. The Book of the Cow
An Early Qur’ānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem
Brill, 2023
6. Qur’anic Scientific Cultural Tourism (QSCT) 2024 Spring Program
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/62//
QSCT program welcomes those interested in Qur’anic Academic tourism in QSCT network of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, and Turkey
Notes:
1. IQP (Int. Qur’anic Parliament) members can join QSCT 2024 program and receive exclusive member benefits. To become IQP member you can join us via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/c/main.php
2.Applicants can apply for the 7-day 2024 Spring period
3.Applicants can send their application attached with a short cv to: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
4.The results of approval of applications will be announced by the end of February 2024
For more information
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Program type (A, B, C, D)
A) Visiting of Qur’anic Scholars
B) Visiting of Qur’anic Academic centers
C) Candidate delivering Academic Lectures in Qur’anic Academic centers
D) IQP special Program for IQP members
Candidates:
1) Full professor in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
2) Assistant/associate professor Qur’anic / Islamic studies
3) PhD students in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
4) Hafiz (Memorizer) / reciter of the Holy Quran
5) Qur’anic activists
أمانة تأسيس المجلس الدولي المستقل للقرآن الکریم
Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament (IQP)
7. Online Event ~ TRANSNATIONAL PERSIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE
13.12.23
The MESA Global Academy
and
The History Department of the
University of Pennsylvania
present
Dr. Nasir Ahmad Arian
Penn State University
and
Dr. Khalilullah Afzali
UCLA
Moderated by Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, December 13
Noon Eastern
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mrfjc96h
Please email mimi@mesana.org to receive the Zoom passcode for the event
8. 5th Spatial Humanities conference will be held in
Bamberg on September 25th to 27th 2024.
Abstract submission deadline: 15th Feb 2024
Spatial Humanities 2024 welcomes submissions on all aspects of using geospatial
technologies in humanities research, methodological innovations, and applied research that
develops our understanding of the geographies of the past. We welcome contributions from
anyone working on computational approaches to spatial questions in the humanities and
arts. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, history (including fields from social
history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, heritage and
conservation studies, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and
religious studies, as well as from interdisciplinary and/or technical fields including GIS, digital
humanities, computational linguistics and computer science. Abstracts should be between
750–1000 words for full papers and 500–750 words for posters.
This year the conference will take place in Bamberg, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site. Accordingly, the conference will feature a special session with a focus on Spatial
Humanities and Heritage. Heritage has spatial dimensions and heritage processes are
linked to place: architecture and urban conservation, the listing of historic buildings, sites,
cultural landscapes or heritage districts. Maps of heritage ‘assets’ and archaeological sites
shape the way we perceive and understand places, as well as their cultural identity. How can
these be studied to reveal cultural boundaries and exclusivity in heritage discourses? How can
innovative multi-layered maps show alternative and diverse aspects of heritage?
We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Francesca Ammon
(University of Pennsylvania) and Ross Purves (University of Zurich).
Themes
Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following themes:
– Gazetteers, e.g. urban, regional, national and international
– Artificial intelligence, e.g. computer vision, NLP, deep learning, etc.
– Spatial explorations of narratives, literary and imaginary places
– GIS and spatial analysis including 3D modeling and spatial statistics
– Deep mapping, experiences of places
– Territorial representations, transgressions, subalternity and boundaries
– Mapping mobility, spatial connections and networks
– Linking the map and the text: mixed-method approaches
– Geospatial ‘collections as data’, enrichment and annotation
– Historical maps and georeferencing
– Environmental humanities: landscapes, waterscapes and the blue humanities
– Linked Open (Geo)Data
– IIIF applications for maps and spatial data
– Labs notebooks, workflows and infrastructure
– Data mining, visualisation and the challenges of geolocation
– Building, mapping and spatially analysing heritage inventories
Venue
:Bamberg University, Markusstraße 8a, D-96047 Bamberg, Germany. The conference will be
held in person.
Early Bird Rates
Full registration costs 170 €, reduced to 120 € for students including teas & coffees and
lunches days. The conference dinner can be booked in addition.
Student Bursaries
To help support PhD students attend the conference we will be offering fee waivers to the
three abstracts judged by the organisers to be the best. If you would like to be considered for
this please mark this in the appropriate place on your submission. Note that we may require
proof that when the abstract was submitted that you were registered as a PhD student.
We plan to offer a childcare service.
For further information see https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de/
Email of the conference: spathum@uni-bamberg.de
Organisers
The Spatial Humanities Conference Association
Institutions organizing: Bamberg University, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and
Technologies (KDWT), Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Lancaster University Centre for
Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Northumbria
University Architecture & Built Environment and the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.
9. Call for Proposals
‘Women in Religious and Civic Leadership’
AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference
George Mason University
April 25-26 | Fairfax, VA
Recent decades have witnessed the increasing presence and prominence of Muslim women in a variety of civic and professional contexts, as well as in charitable, educatonal, and culturalorganizations. At the same time, explicitly religious roles for Muslim women, as religious scholars, mosque leaders, chaplains, and legal authorities also continue to expand in number, scope, and influence.
This year, the AbuSulayman Center’s annual conference will bring together both scholars and practitioners for an extended discussion of the many ways in which Muslim
women are leading, shaping, and supporting their communities. It will examine the challenges they face in these leadership roles in a world where Muslim women continue to struggle against both patriarchal and Islamophobic assumptions about their agency and influence. What are the structural and cultural obstacles they navigate in these roles, and how do these obstacles vary across different Muslim contexts? What are the religious, intellectual, ideological, or practical developments that have encouraged or facilitated the expansion of women’s engagement in public leadership roles? How has women’s leadership changed the communal dynamics, social expectations, and cultural landscape of different Muslim contexts? Are there important historical precedents for women’s leadership in premodern Muslim communities, and what is the importance of those precedents in contemporary Muslim contexts?
We invite proposals from scholars and advanced graduate students that explore the leadership
roles of women in either majority or minority Muslim communities, engaging the questions and issues raised above. We also invite presenta=ons from Muslim women community leaders, activists, and practitioners currently serving in either religious or civic roles.
Those interested should submit:
- a 300-word abstract describing their proposed presenta=on
- a brief CV/Resume (2 pages max)
Please submit your abstract to avacgis@gmu.edu by January 9, 2024.
Selected proposals will be announced by January 30, 2024.
The AbuSulayman Center will cover travel and accommodation expenses for all selected conference presenters.
10. CSMBR Winter School – early bird deadline is 12thof December.
Studiolo: Digital Humanities Lab
12-15 February 2024
Organised by
Fabrizio Bigotti and Manuel Huth
Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new Winter School format designed to meet the needs of those who, both inside and outside of academia, are faced with the digital revolution and want to make the most of it.
Its interdisciplinary format allows participants to get a feel for the potential of new media, while acquiring basic coding skills, knowledge of 3D modelling, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and key concepts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), as well as tools for communicating with experts in the field.
INFO AND REGISTRATION AT
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-digital-lab-2024/
Should you have any queries as to the registration process or the organisation of the event do not hesitate to make them known.
Kindest regards,
Andreas Hylla
Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) – Assistant Coordinator
Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203
Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
11. Reading visual devices in early books
International conference in Turku, Finland / 15-17 May 2025
Visual or graphic devices, such as images, diagrams, charts and tables, often operate between visual and verbal modes to convey information. In books these devices may be used, for example, to illustrate and expand upon the text, to support or distract from the message conveyed by the text, or to aid in the comprehension of complex concepts which would be difficult to express through words alone. Although graphic devices may also communicate through textual elements, their main communicative tools are structure, symbolism, and cultural imagery.
How are graphic devices used, framed and understood? How were innovations and conventions of data visualization transmitted across texts and languages? How did the diachronic or geographical spread of graphic devices progress in different parts of the world?
The Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) project organises an international conference on the study of visual/graphic devices in late medieval and early modern books in May 2025. We invite contributions from book studies, philology and historical linguistics, textual scholarship, literary studies, history of science, art history, and other related fields, including interdisciplinary approaches.
Relevant topics and themes include:
* Graphic devices (e.g. images, tables, and diagrams) and their design and use (as part of text/supplementing text)
* Emerging practices and changing conventions: aesthetics, design, technologies
* Paratext and metatext: linguistic framing and presentation of graphic devices
* Visualising knowledge and information
* Different audiences, readers, and literacies: lay/professional, learned/vernacular
* Use of graphic devices in different domains and genres: instructional and technical writing, literature, scientific writing, popular texts, religion
* Late medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed books, including various physical formats (also broadsheets, pamphlets, scrolls, letters), also early books from non-European regions and languages
* Theoretical and methodological approaches to visual devices: opportunities and challenges (including digital humanities approaches)
Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) is a four-year research project funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021-25) and based at the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. The project maps the use of graphic devices in early English printed books (1473-1800) to study the development of vernacular graphic literacies and early strategies of data visualization.
Stay tuned for the Call for Papers, which will be circulated in Spring 2024.
For more information, please email us at VisualBookConf@utu.fi .
Best wishes,
Early Modern Graphic Literacies Project
Matti Peikola, Mari-Liisa Varila, Aino Liira & Sirkku Ruokkeinen
12. Exhibition – Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting, LACMA – Dec. 17, 2023-Aug. 4, 2024
Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is on view from December 17, 2023 to August 4, 2024. The exhibition then travels to the Detroit Institute of Art, where it will be on view from September 22, 2024 to January 5, 2025.
This is the first exhibition to explore Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions. Featuring some 250 works from 30 public and private collections across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, the exhibition celebrates how gustatory discernment was a fundamental activity at the great Islamic courts. We are also unveiling for the first time in the United States our 18th-century reception room from Damascus. The exhibition features as well a newly commissioned multimedia installation by Sadik Kwaish Alfraji recalling his mother’s homemade bread.
The multi-author exhibition catalogue is available here. More information about the exhibition can be found on the exhibition webpage or contact ame@lacma.org.
Contact Email
URL
https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/dining-sultan-fine-art-feasting-0
- December 09, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Seminar “Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes: Contacts and Continuities in the Ancient Desert Cults and Beliefs of Northern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant”, University of Oxford, 5-6 December 2023
This seminar aims to study the sacred landscapes of northern Arabia and the southern arid margins of the Levant in ancient times throughout the longue durée, adopting an interdisciplinary approach at the intersec-tion between archaeology, history, epigraphy, rock art research, and digital humanities. Scholars will present several case-studies with synchronic and diachronic analyses of the cultic and mortuary traditions of the region from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period.
Information, program and registration: https://www.ames.ox.ac.uk/sitefiles/crossing-sacred-landscapes-1.pdf-0
2. HYBRID Lecture “What Language Tells Us about Communal Interactions in Medieval Egypt” by Dr Miriam Wagner (St Edmund’s, Cambridge), Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Exeter, 6 December 2023, 6:00 pm GMT
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-what-language-tells-us-about-communal-interactions-in-medieval-egypt-6-december-exeter-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
3. Journée d’études : “Rituels en islam/Islam”, Institut d’islamologie de l’Université de Stras-bourg, 8 decembre 2023, 8h30 – 18h00 CET
Information et programme : https://evenements.unistra.fr/agenda-unistra/detail-evenement/22301-journee-detudes-rituels-en-islam-islam
4. Winter Workshop “Intermediaries, Middle Grounds, Middle Sea”, Mediterranean Seminar and UCLA Center for Early Global Studies, 9-10 February 2024
Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-intermediaries-middle-grounds-middle-sea-mediterranean-seminar-2024-winter-workshop-9-10-february-ucla?e=82aeb6c61d
5. Islamic Studies Conference: “Muslim Debates and Contestations”, Princeton University, 5-6 April 2024
Proposals covering different time periods and employing a variety of disciplinary and methodological per-spectives are welcome from graduate students and early-career scholars. Proposals approaching the cate-gory of debate in an expansive way and across its social, historical, religious, political, and other registers are encouraged to apply. We are also particularly interested in proposals that contribute more broadly to methods and approaches in the study of Islam and Muslim societies.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20013964/princeton-islamic-studies-conference
6. ONLINE Event “Erasures in Iraq”, Institute for Middle East, Central and Caucasus Studies, University of St Andrews, 15 April 2024
The objective is to highlight under-researched, under-assisted, and under-recognised communities in con-temporary Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan. We are open to presentations or discussions surrounding any communities and any themes. ‘Communities’ and ‘erasure’ can be broadly defined.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023.
Information: https://cmr.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/call-for-papers-and-contributions-erasures-in-iraq/
7. International Conference “Creating Holiness: Books, Scrolls and Icons as Carriers of Sacredness (in Muslim Cultures)”, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany, 17-20 June 2024
This conference will address the questions of what turns a book – or an icon of the Eastern churches – into a sacred object in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist cultures, and how is sacredness connected to the material.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information: https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/materialisierte-heiligkeit/News/CfP_-Creating-Holiness_-Books_-Scrolls-and-Icons-as-Carriers-of-Sacredness.html
8. “3rd Annual Critical Muslim Studies Conference: ReOrienting the (Global) South”, University of Leeds, 24-26 June 2024
This conference seeks to explore the intricate intersections between anti-colonialism, ethno-nationalism, and the emergence of Muslim political identities following the de facto abolition of the Caliphate in 1924. The conference seeks to investigate the processes that have firmly positioned Muslimness and the Muslim Ques-tion as a critical aspect of the global South.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2024. Information: https://criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/3rd-interna-tional-conference-on-critical-muslim-studies/
9. Conference of Early Modern Ottoman Studies (EMOS): “Institutions, Networks, and Economic Change in the Early Modern Ottoman World”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 27-28 June 2024
Scholars, historians, and researchers are invited to contribute papers that shed light on the economic dy-namics from the 16th to the 19th century. This conference aims to gather a diverse range of perspectives, methodologies, and scholarly research to foster a comprehensive understanding of the Ottoman economic landscape during this period.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2024. Information: https://historiansnet.com/call-for-papers-emos-2024/
10. 2nd International Conference on “Digital Archiving in the Arab World (DAAW)”, Sorbonne University in Abu Dhabi, 29-31 October 2024
We aspire to address the suject through the more focused standpoint of the digital management and preser-vation of data and documents, without foregoing a broader reflection, concerning both historical and future documents and data in danger whether physical or natively digital.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 February 2024.
Information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwMxdXGdz5eumFI6yS-4KWyUI1EpJLY4/view
11. Visiting Postdoctoral Fellowships (6-12 Months) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The visiting fellowships are beginning no later than 1 March 2024 for junior scholars in the early stages of the postdoctoral research, in support of excellent projects in the humanities and social sciences. Proposals are encouraged to articulate the contemporary stakes of the research project, encompassing historiographical, cultural, religious and/or political dimensions. Applicants must demonstrate how their projects will benefit from an extended stay in the region and contribute to the institute’s overall research environment.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2023.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html
12. 2 Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowships in Armenian Studies (2024-25) at the Center for Armenian Studies, University of Michigan
Eligibility: PhD required. Research and proposed courses should be related to Armenian Studies (literature, culture, visual arts, and politics).
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2023.
Information: https://ii.umich.edu/armenian/manoogian-fellowships.html
13. University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point – Assistant Professor of History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66554
Including Middle East
Closing date: Jan 4, 2024
14. CfP for a special edition of Religions entitled Muslim women in the 21st Century: Agency, influence, lived experience.
Religions is a Q1-ranked, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, and we feel your contribution to the series would be particularly beneficial.
Muslim women are often portrayed monolithically in popular as well as political discourse. Even the academe has, at times, been dominated by an Orientalist gaze that exoticises the “Muslimwoman” to use miriam cooke’s neologism. This special edition aims to challenge this homogenizing discourse by featuring a range of diverse voices and perspectives.
Eager to move beyond the dichotomy of the pitiably oppressed or apologetically elevated “Muslimwoman”, this special edition explores the lived realities of Muslim women in majority or minority contexts, and the intersection of faith, culture, and agency (or lack thereof) that Muslim women negotiate in myriad ways.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to, the experiences of Muslim women in education and the workplace; women’s leadership roles in business, community, faith, politics and more; negotiating religious and cultural expectations—be it in national, ethnic, faith, or family contexts; Muslim women’s spirituality; contending with patriarchal interpretations of sharia and fiqh in either majority or minority contexts; addressing stereotypes, discrimination and Islamophobia; issues for Muslim women of colour within the ummah; and the complexity around hybrid and transnational identities.
We are committed to publishing an edition that amplifies the diverse voices of Muslim women and showcases the richness and complexity of their experiences. We welcome research paper submissions from the humanities and social sciences, law, medicine, education, economics, business, technology, and beyond.
If you are interested in submitting a paper to this special edition, please let us know by emailing us. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind, peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page.
If, after peer-review, your paper is approved for publication, there is an open-access publishing fee payable to Religions journal, however, we are able to waive the fee for some ECRs and contributors from lower-income countries at our discretion.
Prof Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Coventry University, Email Website
Dr Susan Carland, Monash University, Australia, E-Mail Website
Dr Rachel Woodlock, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Email Website
15. Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in International Relations
The Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at the School of International and
Public Affairs, Columbia University, will fund one postdoctoral research scholar position in
international relations during the 2024-25 academic year. Preference will be given to
backgrounds in national security, intelligence studies, or cyber and conflict studies. We
encourage applications from historically underrepresented groups including women, BIPOC, and first generation scholars.
The position will be based in New York City, within the Saltzman Institute at Columbia
University, for a 12-month term from September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2025,
encompassing the 2024-2025 academic year. To be eligible, applicants must have received and
be able to document their Ph.D. degree prior to August 31, 2024.
The position is funded by the Saltzman Institute’s Emerging Voices in National Security and
Intelligence Program, which is directed by Senior Research Scholar Peter Clement. The
postdoctoral research scholar will be expected to dedicate the majority of their time to the
completion of substantive work such as a book, article(s), or other significant publication while in residence; and to assist the Director with proposal preparation and other research projects.
They will teach one undergraduate level course in the areas of national security, intelligence
studies, or cyber and conflict studies; and will be expected to attend and participate in
Institute-sponsored events including public and private seminars, panels, conferences, research
colloquia, and meetings.
Applications from both U.S. and foreign students will be considered. The position will be
compensated at an annual salary of $76,000 plus benefits.
Application materials should include a cover letter, research statement, CV, one letter of
recommendation sent directly to us by your recommender, and a list of two additional academic references whom we will contact. Please list the name and email address of your recommender in your cover letter. Application materials may be sent via email to siwps.apply@gmail.com.
Questions may be directed to Assistant Director Ingrid Gerstmann at ig79@columbia.edu.
Review of applications will begin Monday, January 8, 2024; the posting will remain open
until filled.
- December 05, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.University of Kansas – Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies in Africa
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66536
Closing date: Jan 15, 2024
2. HIAA ONLINE WORKSHOPS
Researching and Publishing Provenance Information for Islamic Art
January 5, 2024
8–9:30 PST / 11–12:30 EST / 16–17:30 GMT / 17–18:30 CET
To register: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAscu2upzkjG9Fmb4rPQIMC4VumEC_rXNGA
Moderator: Elizabeth Dospěl Williams (Dumbarton Oaks)
Panelists: Inês Fialho Brandão (Museu Calouste Gulbenkian), Martina Rugiadi and Anne Dunn-Vaturi (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Amanda Phillips (UVA), and Eiren Shea (Grinnell College)
Provenance research is a specialized skill usually gained through firsthand experience in museum collections and archives, yet its findings have legal, ethical, and scholarly implications well beyond the institutions where such work is generally carried out, including topics related to teaching, art historical research, and cultural property. Provenance research and publishing is, furthermore, a rapidly developing field, meaning that its contours can be intimidating to those not regularly working in this discipline.
This workshop is envisioned as an introduction to researching and publishing the provenance histories of art from the Middle East and Central Asia. While it is intended as a basic account of resources and best practices for those not in museum settings, its focus on future directions means it can also serve as a point of discussion for those already specialized in these fields.
After a brief overall introduction, the workshop will offer three concurrent Zoom Room panels addressing topics including the state of the field for provenance research on Islamic art, important resources for Islamic art provenance research, and emerging best practices for publishing provenance research.
3. Note Date: Post-doctorant (24 mois) dans le champ aréal “Sociétés et cultures de l’Afghanistan”, Campus CNRS Ile-de-France, Villejuif
Compétences: Diplôme de doctorat dans une discipline des sciences humaines et sociales, avec une compétence sur l’aire culturelle de référence. – Productions scientifiques régulières (communications et publications, autres que la thèse). Compétences linguistiques : maîtrise indispensable d’au moins une des langues de l’aire culturelle de référence ; maîtrise de l’anglais; pour les candidats étrangers, compréhension du français souhaitée (B1); Qualités rédactionnelles, capacité à formuler un projet scientifique, à publier et valoriser ses recherches; etc.
Closing date 2 December 2023
Date d’embauche prévue : 5 décembre 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/92309
4. Teti, A., & Abbott, P. (2023). Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment. PS: Political Science & Politics,56(2): 259-264. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1049096522001378(free online)
5. New Podcast
Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi – Women’s Rights in Iran: Challenges, Achievements, and Misconceptions
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This episode marks the second part of a two part conversation with Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi delving into the evolving landscape of sexuality in contemporary Iran. Dr. Yaghoobi discusses the Family Protection Law, dispels common misconceptions within Iran, such as the assumption that all women share identical viewpoints, and examines the perceptions of veiling during the Pahlavi era. Furthermore, she assesses the progress made by women during the Pahlavi era, emphasizing the significant role played by women themselves, not just the government. The conversation ends on a discussion of the Islamic Republic’s views on “morality” and women’s rights in present-day Iran.
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In this episode, Dr. Yaghoobi explores the shifting dynamics of sexuality in Iran across a span of nearly two centuries. She examines the intersectionality of gender and sexuality, discussing how gender rights have fared better than sexual rights. She discusses sexual mores in Iran and the non-linear trajectory of Iran towards modernization. Furthermore, she delves into the notion of “acceptable” sexuality and draws comparisons between Iranian and Western sexual norms.
Listen <https://pdjymv.clicks.mlsend.com/te/cl/eyJ2Ijoie1wiYVwiOjE5NzkxNyxcImxcIjoxMDYxMDkyNzI3NjAyNTY0OTgsXCJyXCI6MTA2MTA5MjczODU2MDE4MzIwfSIsInMiOiI4NTk2NDBlYjhhOTA3YjJiIn0>
6. Volume 4 of Scenes from the 16th-Century Ottoman Empire
This is a facsimile of an album in the Austrian National Library Codex Vindobonensis nr. 8615
Illuminierte Turkenbuch [Illuminated Turks Book] (1573-1578)by David Ungnad von Sonnegg (gest. 1600) andHieronymus Beck Von Leopoldsdorf’sBildnisse Orientalischer Herrscher Und WürdenträgerI
formerly attributed to Johannes Lewenklau:[Bilder Türkischer Herrscher, Soldaten, Hoffleute staedte u.a.]
ISBN 978-90-6921-050-6
Edited by / : Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem
with contributions: Rudolf H. W. Stichel and decipherment of German captions by Paul Brood and Jan van den Broek
Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem: omerdem@me.com
CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr: 47
TÜRK İSLAM KİTABELERİ DİZİSİ no:
This book is a convolut with 3 parts that have been assembled.
The first part consists of 18 portraits of Ottoman sultans and viziers and other notables.
This part is part of a greater Portraitsbook so called Lamberger portraetbuch consisting of 240 portraits. This book which the owner was Hieronymus Beck von Leopoldsdorf (1525-1596) and is in 1973 obtained by KunsthistorischesMuseum of Vienna. This portraits were long time considered as work of Johannes Löwenklau (1541-1596). But as prof. Stichel has shown in the article this part of the codex with Portraits belonged to Beck on Leopoldsdorfs album.
Second part 9fo. 32-121) of scenes and dressings of Ottoman citizens, soldiers, officers and other personalities and•
third part (fol. 122-143) gives an insight in the architecture of the Palace and the etiquette and hierarchy which is depicted with careful drawings and inscriptions.
The album It was long time considered as an album that belonged to Lowenklau. the main part of the album 8615 is a copy of the lost Illumnierte Turkenbuch von David Ungnad vonSonnegg (gest. 1600), because it follows mainly the illustration of Dresden book of Zacharias Wehmr for the Kurfurst August von Sachsen. Ungnad was between 1573 and 1578 an envoy in Istanbul.
Of all Habsburg the albums, this one is the most prestigious and professionally prepared.
For sample pages, more information and how to order please follow the next link.
7. Ordering Imperial Worlds: From Late Medieval Spain to the Modern Middle East,
edited by Susan Slyomovics, Edinburgh University Press, November 2023. See https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-ordering-imperial-worlds.html
This volume of original essays invites 10 preeminent scholars to think through a rich corpus on cities, empires, images and archaeological sites produced by the distinguished architectural historian Zeynep Çelik. Awarded the prestigious 2019 Giorgio Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies by the University of California, the occasion allowed researchers from various universities, countries and disciplines to reflect on her rich body of work. Inspired by Çelik’s works, chapters travel between Muslim and Christian Spain, the Ottoman Empire and France, Europe and its overseas empire in North Africa, and more.
8. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC is now accepting applications for the Ebrahimi Fellowship for Persian Art.
The Ebrahimi Fellowship promotes excellence in research and publication on Persian art from the ancient to the contemporary period. Research proposals are evaluated in terms of merit, originality, methodology, and potential for significant publication that will advance scholarly and public understanding of Persian visual arts. Interdisciplinary proposals with a primary focus on Iranian visual arts will be considered.
The Ebrahimi Fellowship is intended to provide an environment conducive to research, writing, and collegial discourse. Fellows are expected to devote themselves full-time to the proposed project, to participate in the museum’s scholarly community and programs, and to present a research-in-progress seminar during the period of the appointment.
Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply. Meeting the requirements and obtaining the required visas for residence and research in the United States are the responsibilities of the applicant. If necessary, the Smithsonian will review the individual for participation in an Exchange Visitor Program and will support the individual, if eligible, in their application for a J-1 Visa. This fellowship is offered in partnership with the American Institute for Iranian Studies.
Doctoral candidates, early career scholars, and senior scholars are all encouraged to apply.
Term
Awards will be made for a period of up to three months and are not renewable. Appointments must take place in 2024-2025.
Stipend
The maximum stipend is $15,000. It will be prorated for shorter terms (approximately $5,000 per month). Additional support not to exceed $4,000 may be provided for approved research and travel expenses.
Application Deadline
The application deadline is February 1, 2024. Notification of awards will be sent by early March.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted in English and must include:
- Curriculum vitae with contact information and complete list of publications
- Research proposal consisting of a précis (150 words) and a narrative (maximum length 1,500 words). The proposal should address previous relevant research and published results, the significance and originality of the current project to the study of the arts of Iran (from ancient to contemporary) or related disciplines, methodology, bibliography, and the projected schedule of research and writing.
- List of up to 5 objects you would like to view at NMAA, including an explanation of why they are important to your research and the links from https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/. If you are interested in the Archives, please list particular areas of focus with justification.
- Detailed budget and justification for projected research expenses not to exceed $4,000.
- Two letters of recommendation emailed to AsiaScholarlyProgram@si.edu. Reviewers should comment on the merits of the proposal and the feasibility of the research plan as well as the candidate’s potential for original contribution to the field of art history.
The finalists may be invited to participate in Zoom interviews.
View the fellowship page on our website: https://asia.si.edu/about/jobs-opportunities/ebrahimi-fellowship-for-persian-art/
For more information or to submit application materials, please email our Scholarly Programs and Publications Department: AsiaScholarlyProgram@si.edu
Contact Information
Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications
National Museum of Asian Art
9. The next VIAHSS lecture will take place on Friday, December 1, 2023, at 12:00 NYC/17:00 London/18:00 Vienna/20:00 Istanbul.
Veronika Poier (University of Vienna) will present “Mediation between Architecture, Word, and Image: The Inscriptions of the Green Complex (1419-1424) for Sultan Mehmed I in Bursa.”
To attend, please make sure to register in advance here: https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuc-GurDMsE9QGxI29-SUoscofbiCUKGpX
Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
Contact Information
Dr. Alexander Brey and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
10. Online: Join the National Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday, December 5, 12–1 p.m. EST for the online lecture Crafting Luxury: Dress in Ancient Persia with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, professor of ancient history at Cardiff University, Wales.
In conjunction with the British Museum’s recent exhibition Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece, it was decided to attempt to create the types of garments worn by the elite of the Persian court in the Achaemenid period (559–330 BCE). Dress played a role in the Persian concept of luxury, and although textiles have not survived in the archaeological record, careful research into the representations of clothes in Achaemenid art and the traditional dress styles in the Iranian world has made recreations of court clothing possible. This talk explores the design and symbolism of Achaemenid dress and highlights the methods undertaken to recreate Persian costumes for the British Museum exhibition.
A leading expert in ancient Persian history and culture, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has served as the director of the ancient Iran research program for the British Institute of Persian Studies and is the author of many books, including Persians: The Age of the Great Kings, which has been translated into fifteen languages.
This lecture is generously supported by the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Fund.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Nf5Jhr0HQXu-RCl60dNxOg#/registration
Visit the event page here: https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:169639739/
Contact Information
Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications
National Museum of Asian Art
Contact Email
URL
https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:169639739/
11. Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies
Edited by David S. Powers & Eric Tagliacozzo
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501772399/islamic-ecumene/
Receive a 20% discount online*: LLF23
*Valid until 11:59 GMT, 30th June 2024. Discount only applies to the CAP website.
12. AKU ISMC
‘Celestial & Maritime Grids & Circles: Digitising Cosmographical Manuscripts’
Monday 4 December 2023, 17:30- 19:30 (London).
Venue
Aga Khan Centre ,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN
Booking
The event is free, but booking is essential. Book your ticket now to join us in person.
13. Call for Submissions | 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World
The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is delighted to announce the 2024 round of the BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.
Deadline | 12 January 2024
14. Webinar | Persian Qutbshahi Documents from India
With Eva Orthmann
In this talk, Eva Orthmann discusses bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from India and the Qutbshahi dynasty.
Event organised by the Invisible East Programme.
14 December 2023, 5PM GMT. On Zoom. Information and registrations at this link.
15. Instructional professor (open rank) in Urdu language
The University of Chicago: Humanities Division: Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Location
Chicago IL
Open Date
Dec 01, 2023
Deadline
Jan 04, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College of the University of Chicago seek an experienced teacher of Urdu language to help grow its existing offerings in South Asian languages. We invite applications for a position as an Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu language. The position begins in academic year 2024-25, with a start date of September 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor, depending on qualifications and educational background. The initial appointment will be for a minimum of two years, with longer initial terms possible depending on previous experience and initial rank, with review and progression schedule determined by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union.
Responsibilities include both teaching and service duties. Teaching normally consists of seven courses across three quarters, at least 6 of which are Urdu language courses, at all levels of the language. One additional course may include non-language offerings in the College Core or in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, to be determined in consultation with the Department and College. Service duties may include advising undergraduate theses, creating and overseeing Urdu placement exams and graduate language exams, teaching independent studies, and engaging in outreach, or other program-specific duties. Instructional Professors of all ranks are required to engage in regular professional development.
Qualifications
Applicants are required to have at least one year of previous experience teaching Urdu at the college or post-secondary level, preferably at a North American institution. An M.A. degree or equivalent is required. A Ph.D. in a related field is desirable. Applicants must demonstrate sufficient language ability for teaching Urdu in a university context. Preferred qualifications include:
- Experience teaching students with differing experience and goals, e.g., heritage and non-heritage learners, undergraduate and graduate students
- specialized training in second language acquisition, second language pedagogy, and/or assessment
- proficiency with digital pedagogical tools and methods.
Application Instructions
To apply for this position, please submit your application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment website at http://apply.interfolio.com/137341. An application must include:
- a cover letter
- curriculum vitae
- a teaching statement
- one sample syllabus for Introductory Urdu
- a second sample syllabus for a non-language course
- the names and contact information for three recommenders.
Application deadline: All applicant materials must be received through the application system by 11pm Central Time/Midnight Eastern Time on Jan 4, 2024. Candidates may be asked to submit additional material following the initial review of applications.
This position is contingent upon budgetary approval. The terms and conditions of employment for this position are covered by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union. For information on the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, please go to https://salc.uchicago.edu/.
For questions about the position, please contact Isaac Rainey at idr@uchicago.edu.
- December 02, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID “Fifth Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference” of the American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, Harvard University, 1-3 December 2023
Panels will include presentations on Islam and AI, Postclassical Islamic Philosophical Debates, Kalām Jadīd from the Indian Context, the Divide between Shaykh Musṭafā Ṣabrī and the Akbarī School, Marjānī’s (1818-1889) Synthesis of Kalam and Falsafa, Ethics as Islamic Philosophy, and more.
Information and registration:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/11/22/fifth-annual-islamic-philosophy-conference
2. HYBRID Workshop “Muslim Immigrant Entrepreneurs in Western Countries: Obstacles and Regulation”, European University Institute, Florence, 15 December, 9:45 am – 14:30 pm CET
In some European and Western countries, religious concerns about interest-based financing prevent Muslim populations from engaging in business activities and restrict their ability to seek formal funding for their pro-jects. This workshop aims to explore the Shariah-compliant products available in Western countries and their regulations, with a particular focus on the Norwegian case.
Information, program and registration: https://www.eui.eu/events?id=559353
3. Workshop “Caricatures as a Sphere of Communication in the Late- and Post-Ottoman Context”, Istanbul, 25 March 2024
Organized by Dr. Veruschka Wagner (University of Bonn / Bilgi University Istanbul) and Prof. Dr. Anna Kollatz (University of Heidelberg). We believe that caricatures published in journals of different languages and from different parts of the region are a valuable source for gaining insights into different aspects of daily life. We are interested in the meaning of discourses on political, historical, and social questions, and also in national stereotypes and dealing with the “other”.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2023. Information: https://www.ori.uni-heidelberg.de/md/ori/islamwissenschaft/veranstaltungen/cfp_caricatures_workshop_istanbul_2024_final.pdf
4. Assistant Professor / Associate / Professor open Rank-in the History of the Gulf, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar
Candidates specializing in the history of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula, and the broader Indian Ocean region are invited. Priority will be given to candidates who are proficient in the Arabic language and/or have a specific interest in research and practice in the Arab region.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/Pages/Job-Application.aspx?JobID=DIAC_2023_016
5. Assistant Professor / Associate / Professor Open Rank in the Medieval Islamic History, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar
Candidates specializing in medieval Islamic history are invited. Priority will be given to candidates who are proficient in the Arabic language and/or have a specific interest in research and practice in the Arab region.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/Pages/Job-Application.aspx?JobID=DIAC_2023_015
6. Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor and Endowed Chair in Kurdish Political Studies (9 Months), University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
The ideal candidate will have an established research program in Kurdish political studies with broader inter-ests in Middle Eastern and comparative politics or international relations. They will demonstrate strong po-tential for excellence in research with a focus on Kurdish politics, as well as a demonstrated record of teaching excellence, and leadership experience.
Deadline for applications: Open until filled.
7. Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellowship Program in Regional Political Economy, Princeton University
The program was created with the goal of developing a new generation of scholars able to analyze and make policy recommendations about the regional political economy in the Middle East, East, South or Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
– Postdoctoral Fellowship Program https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/30944
– Visiting Fellowship Program: https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/31262
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2023.
8. “Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics”, University of Notre Dame, Rome, 2-15 June 2024
This is a two-week program for graduate students, scholars and practitioners working at the crossroads of religion and global politics which is designed to draw on the unique religious and geopolitical resources of the city of Rome. The Seminars will begin with a 2-day policy dialogue for senior scholars and practitioners followed by a 10-day writing workshop for students. A limited number of scholarships is available.
Deadline for abstracts: 13 February 2024. Information:
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1.‘Marshall Hodgson’s ideas on cores and modernity in Islam: a critique’
R M Eaton,
JRAS, Series 3 (2023), 33, 1029–1039
2. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series:
Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
Azadeh Kian
Monday, December 4, 2023, 2:00pm Pacific via Zoom
3. Online/Inperson:
THE HISTORY OF ISLAMIC COLLECTIONS IN THE GEORGIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM, Irina Koshoridze, Silsila, NYU – November 29, 6.30 pm EST
This lecture will focus on the history of collecting Islamic art in Georgia, which started in 1852 when the first museum institution, the Caucasian Museum, was established in Tbilisi. Important collections from almost all periods of Islamic art between the seventh to the twentieth centuries, and from various artistic schools, are preserved in Georgian museums. Their abundance is largely due to Georgia’s centuries-old political and cultural relations with the Islamic world. Among the highlights of the Georgian collections are one of the most extensive collections of Persian oil paintings of the Qajar period, along with unique examples of medieval Islamic ceramics, metalwork, and textiles. The lecture will introduce some of these materials, the circumstances in which they were collected, and discuss a forthcoming new catalogue, which will show highlights of Islamic materials in the collections of the Georgian National Museum.
For full details, including forms to register to attend online or in person, please visit the Silsila website:
Contact Email
URL
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/from-the-history-o…
4. Tales Things Tell: Material Histories of Early Globalism,
Beate Fricke, Finbarr Barry Flood
Princeton University Press, 2023
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691215150/tales-things-tell
PUP have offered a 30% discount for a limited time – to obtain the discount, enter code P325 on the Princeton UP site at checkout.
5. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier aux séances du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendront le jeudi 14 décembre 2023, 17h-19h, à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5e étage).
Le jeudi 14 décembre 2023 à 17h (INaLCO, salle 5.28, 5e étage), nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Mélisande Bizoirre, Docteure en histoire des arts de l’Islam, agrégée d’histoire et chargée de cours à l’INaLCO, pour une conférence intitulée: “Le manuscrit MS 363.2007 du musée d’art islamique de Doha : un exceptionnel exemple de Coran illustré”.
Résumé
Le Coran MS 363.2007 du musée de Doha pourrait être un exemple typique de production qājāre du milieu du XIXe siècle : un beau manuscrit richement enluminé, doté d’une reliure laquée, probablement fabriqué à Shirāz entre 1830 et 1860. Il présente pourtant une caractéristique très inhabituelle : cinq doubles pages sur lesquelles ont été ajoutées, à une date ultérieure à sa réalisation, des peintures en rapport avec le texte coranique. Cela en fait l’un des très rares exemples de Coran illustrés connus jusqu’ici.
Mais là n’est pas la seule spécificité de ce manuscrit illustré. Aux peintures en pleine page répondent des marges elles aussi figuratives, créant une disposition quasi unique dans les manuscrits du monde islamique. Un dialogue se noue donc entre plusieurs types d’images, créant des cycles iconographiques inhabituels.
Comment expliquer la présence de ces décors ? Quand, où et par qui ont-ils été réalisés ? Quelles étaient les intentions de l’artiste ? Faut-il y voir un simple faux destiné à en augmenter le prix, ou une réalisation artistique à part entière ? Quel lien avec des manuscrits comportant des images à caractère religieux, comme les Qisas al-Anbiya, ou les Falnama ? Autant de questions auxquelles l’histoire de l’art ne peut répondre qu’en partie, par l’observation de la stratigraphie des interventions, le décryptage de l’iconographie et l’analyse stylistique. .
Orientations bibliographiques
– Richard GOTTHEIL, « An illustrated copy of the Koran », Revue des études islamiques, 5, 1931, p. 21-24 et pl. I-VI.
– Manijeh BAYANI, Anna CONTADINI, Tim STANLEY, The Decorated Word : Qur’ans of the 17th to 19th centuries, London/Oxford: The Nour Foundation, Azimuth, Oxford University Press, 1999.
– Axel LANGER, « Safavid Revival in Persian Miniature Painting. Renewal, Imitation and Source of Inspiration », À l’Orientale. Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2020, p. 15-27.
– Rachel MILSTEIN, La Bible dans l’art islamique, Paris : PUF, 2005.
– Nabil SAFWAT, Golden pages: Qur’ans and other manuscripts from the collection of Ghassan I. Shaker, Oxford University Press pour Azimuth éditions, 2000.
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 :
6. DEADLINE EXTENDED – In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies [Announcement]
Do you study the premodern world? Do you consider subaltern perspectives, labor, the environment, ecology, or non-human life? Is infrastructure the object and method that you work with – perhaps in conjunction with ecocritical approaches? If the answer to any two of these questions is ‘yes,’ then this in-person conference would benefit from hearing about your work! The deadline to submit abstracts to In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies has been extended to December 1, 2023, and scholars of the premodern (ancient, medieval) and early modern world are specially invited!
In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure Studies
Dates: March 8th & 9th 2024
Place: University of California—Irvine (IN PERSON)
Keynote Speakers: Dr. John Hopkins (NYU: IFA+ISAW) & Dr. Lisa Parks (UCSB: FMS)
This work is a rhizome, a burrow…We will enter, then, by any point whatsoever; none matters more than another, and no entrance is more privileged even if it seems an impasse, a tight passage, a siphon.
— Deleuze & Guattari, Toward a Minor Literature
This conference seeks to bring together early career scholars (graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are particularly encouraged) to encounter one another’s infrastructural interests and perspectives. Papers which take an infrastructural approach to the ancient and premodern technologies are especially welcome, alongside those on modern and contemporary material. Authors who take up infrastructure as object, method, both, or otherwise in their work on archaeology or media archeology, art history, classics, anthropology, and literary studies, as well as other fields in the humanities and social sciences are all encouraged to participate.
Burrowing describes a laborious process of moving through a dense medium — a somatic confrontation with the world rooted in mundane materiality. The burrow maps the void left by an organism through time within a subterranean, subaltern, or otherwise subliminal environment. Burrowing requires the adoption of an infrastructural disposition towards the world. It is a point of entry into the subaltern lived experience.
From a desertified minor literature to the phatic labor of human speech acts to water conduits and digital media, the study of infrastructure has drawn upon, brought together, and absorbed a wide variety of discourses across the humanities and social sciences. Infrastructure encourages perspectives ‘from below,’ it excavates subsumed and alternative landscapes; it sublimates parallel biological and material worlds, giving breath to their underlying possibilities for life. As aqueducts, drains, roads, fiber optic cables, and the labor attendant upon these — as minor literatures, artifacts, and temporalities — infrastructures offer us conceptual burrows with which to overhaul and undermine scholarly perspectives and methods which are often rooted in the nodes and networks articulated from positions of power and historical privilege.
Papers might address topics ranging from (but not limited to):
– Premodern economies, gift exchange
– Premodern archaeologies: beyond empires and networks
– Subaltern studies and critical approaches ‘from below’
– The living body as landscape; the urban landscape as body; body politic
– Sublimated material relations, labor
– Word of mouth, gossip, and hubbub
– Practices of minor mapping
– Making and growing: living infrastructures
– Environmental time in the premodern cultural landscape
Send 250-500 word abstracts to uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com by 12/01/2023. Please direct any questions to the above email as well. We hope to return decisions by 12/15/2023. Written papers (20 minute presentations) will be due a week prior to the conference. Panels will be assembled by theme rather than by discipline, and will be chaired by UCI faculty respondents who will facilitate discussion across talks within a panel. Organizers have a preliminary agreement with the editors of AfterImage: the Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism to construct a special issue based on the presentations made at this conference.
Contact Information
Nastasya Kosygina, nkosygin@uci.edu , PhD Candidate in Visual Studies, University of California, Irvine; she/her/hers
Alexander Rudenshiold, PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine; he/him/his
Contact Email
uciinfrastructure2024@gmail.com
7. Join Georgetown’s Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies for our ongoing Theology in Arabic seminars. These seminars are intended to foster a deeper understanding of theology directly from works in Classical Arabic:
- “Epistemology and Theology in a Later Work of Ibn al-ʿArabī (1165-1240): Kitāb al-Ifāda.”
Dr. Aydogan Kars, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies, Monash University .
Zoom seminar: Monday Nov. 27 4PM EST / 9PM GMT ( = Tuesday Nov. 28 8AM AEDT):
RSVP to receive Zoom Link on Day of Event
8. Hybrid: ‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’
‘Persian Tales of Love and Friendship’ is the Leicester Lit and Phil’s Arthur and Jean Humphreys Lecture on Monday 4th December.
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke, the Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies, University of Cambridge will tell of how the medieval Persian authors and their patrons described the dangers of love and the lure of friendship by spinning attractive, magical tales that concealed grim warnings.
Christine van Ruymbeke is Professor of Persian Literature and Culture at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, and is a literary critic of Persian literature specialising in non mystical narratives of prose or verse written during the long medieval period.
The lecture is at 7.30 pm at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, New Walk.
Non-members may attend either on Zoom or in-person on payment of £5 (student non-members £3) by booking through EventBrite:
Zoom: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/675994145687
In-person: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/676003493647
For Further Information: www.leicesterlitandphil.org.uk
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1.HYBRID “22nd Annual Women’s and Gender History Symposium”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 29 February – 2 March 2024
We seek graduate student paper presentations of 15-20 minutes that foreground the social, cultural, and political implications of space and place in histories of women, gender, sexuality, and/or queerness. Alter-native presentations (e.g. film, poetry, art) are welcome so long as they fit within the symposium’s format.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2023. Information: https://wghistory.web.illinois.edu/
2. “10th School of Mamluk Studies Conference”, Kuwait University, 5-7 March 2024
The conference will be conducted in two parts (5-7 March 2024), and will be preceded by a three-day (2-4 March 2024) intensive course on Mamluk archaeological material taught by Professor Bethany Walker, Uni-versity of Bonn. The preorganized panels may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, econo-mic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group
3. Colloque « Apocalypse Now ? Attentes des derniers jours dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam (du Moyen Age aux temps contemporains) », Strasbourg, 18 et 19 mars 2024
Le premier axe s’intéresse aux transferts des idées apocalyptiques dans le judaïsme, le christianisme et l’islam. Le second se penchera sur les mouvements messianiques et apocalyptiques dans une période de tensions extrêmes. Le troisième axe aborde la question des prophètes et du prophétisme. Aujourd’hui, l’image actuelle du prophète est assez floue.
Propositions de communisation: 27 novembre 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/11/Appel-a%CC%80-communication-Apocalypse-Now-.pdf
4. International Conference “Voices that Matter: Gender in Times of Crises and Natural Disasters”, Errachidia, Morocco, 20-21 May 2024
Given the critical role of gender in crisis and disaster management and its significant influence on Sustainable Development Goals, this conference seeks to address the health, social, economic, natural, and political dimensions of crises and disasters. It also aims to question why gender inequalities are magnified in such contexts and what actions should be taken by various actors to mitigate their impact and achieve gender justice. In collaboration with the “International Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies: Contemporary Medusa”.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 December 2023.
5. ONLINE Graduate Student Workshop of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS), 8-9 June 2024
The workshop is open to all graduate students currently in the writing/revisions stage of their PhD dissertations, writing in English. Students working in all disciplines and chronological periods are encouraged to apply, as are scholars looking at connections between the Gulf, Arabian Peninsula, and other parts of the world. Each graduate student will have their chapter discussed in depth by a senior scholar.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024.
Information: https://agaps.org/call-for-agaps-graduate-student-workshop/
6. Visiting Doctoral Fellowships (6-12 Months) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The visiting fellowships are beginning no later than 1 March 2024 for doctoral candidates engaged in out-standing research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications across disciplines, time periods, and geographic coverage outlined in our mission statement. Proposals are encouraged to articulate the contemporary stakes of the research project, encompassing historiographical, cultural, religious and/or political dimensions.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2023.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html
7. Visiting Doctoral Fellowships (6-12 Months) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The visiting fellowships are beginning no later than 1 March 2024 for doctoral candidates engaged in out-standing research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications across disciplines, time periods, and geographic coverage outlined in our mission statement. Proposals are encouraged to articulate the contemporary stakes of the research project, encompassing historiographical, cultural, religious and/or political dimensions.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2023.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html
8. Post-doctorant (24 mois) dans le champ aréal “Sociétés et cultures de l’Afghanistan”, Campus CNRS Ile-de-France, Villejuif
Compétences: Diplôme de doctorat dans une discipline des sciences humaines et sociales, avec une compétence sur l’aire culturelle de référence. – Productions scientifiques régulières (communications et publications, autres que la thèse). Compétences linguistiques : maîtrise indispensable d’au moins une des langues de l’aire culturelle de référence ; maîtrise de l’anglais; pour les candidats étrangers, compréhension du français souhaitée (B1); Qualités rédactionnelles, capacité à formuler un projet scientifique, à publier et valoriser ses recherches; etc.
Date d’embauche prévue : 5 décembre 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/92309
9. Research Groups at the “Israel Institute for Advanced Studies” 2025-2026, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
The IIAS invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group (RG) proposals for the 2025-2026 academic year. Research proposals may be submitted by initiator(s) affiliated with any academic institution in Israel or abroad. Proposals may cover any research topic from all disciplines including interdisciplinary research, and must seek to be innovative with potential impact on their research field.
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2023. Information: https://iias.huji.ac.il/rgopencall
10. Individual Fellowships at the “Israel Institute for Advanced Studies” 2025-2026, Hebrew University in Jerusalem
The IIAS invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit proposals for an individual fellowship at the IIAS for the 2025-2026 academic year. Topics may cover any research area from any discipline and must seek to be innovative, with the potential to impact research in the field. Two or three scholars who collaborate on the same project should apply individually and state clearly that they wish to work together.
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2023. Information: https://iias.huji.ac.il/open.call.individual.fellowship
11. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship (2 Years) in Near Eastern Studies, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
We invite applications from candidates whose scholarship focuses on questions of decoloniality/decolonial methods, environmental humanities, and / or migration studies. Temporal and regional focus is open, and we are especially interested in conceptually oriented work that critically reexamines and considers the Middle East beyond area studies.
Deadline for applications: 5 January 2024. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25799
12. Post-doctoral Research Associates (1-3 Years) in Studies on Iran and the Persian Gulf (19th – 21st Century), Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
The full-time position is open to scholars of all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 10 January 2024.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=32581
13. Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies (2 Years), University of Rochester, NY
Qualifications: A Ph.D. in Religion or a related field is required. Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated excellence in teaching at the undergraduate level and with demonstrated potential and/or excellence in research and publications in the candidate’s field.
Deadline for applications: 25 November 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/135710
14. Stage Intensif de Langue Arabe, Spécialisation Golfe, Niveau B2, CEFREPA-Koweit, 7-16 jan-vier 2024
Les cours d’arabe standard sont accompagnés d’immersions et de pratiques en dialectal du Golfe et d’un cours de sciences humaines et sociales (histoire, géopolitique, patrimoine archéologique et artistique). Il est destiné à des stagiaires (étudiants en master, doctorants, chercheurs, professionnels des entreprises et administrations françaises dans la région) ayant déjà acquis le niveau B1.
Date de application : 27 novembre 2023. Information : cefrepa@gmail.com
15. Stage Intensif de Langue Arabe, Niveau C1, CEFREPA-Koweit, 21-30 janvier 2024
Les cours d’arabe standard sont accompagnés d’immersions et de pratiques en dialectal du Golfe et d’un cours de sciences humaines et sociales (histoire, géopolitique, patrimoine archéologique et artistique). Il est destiné à des stagiaires (étudiants en master, doctorants, chercheurs, professionnels des entreprises et administrations françaises dans la région) ayant déjà acquis le niveau B2.
Date de application : 27 novembre 2023. Information : cefrepa@gmail.com
16. Articles for the Eighth Issue of the “Oxford Middle East Review”
We invite authors to reflect on the role of the MENA’s people, civil societies, and governments as a driver of local, regional, and global transformations. We encourage submissions to explore change from below or from above and to question what continuities persist during moments of sudden change or during periods of gradual transformation.
Deadline for submisstions: 10 December 2023.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/11/13/the-herbert-scoville-jr.-peace-fellowship-program
17. Articles for the Journal “Sociology of Islam (SOI)”
SOI provides an international scholarly forum for research related to the religion and culture of Islam, Muslim societies, and social issues related to Muslims in socio-political context. SOI publishes multiple issues per year containing original peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the sociological, political, anthropolo-gical, historical and other aspects of Islam and Muslim societies across all times and places
Information: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/SOI.pdf
18. Washington University in St. Louis – The John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics seeks applications from junior scholars and recent Ph.D. graduates for up to two postdoctoral fellowships in residence at Washington University in St. Louis.
Applicants should hold a doctorate in religious studies, politics, anthropology, law, philosophy, theology, American studies, history, Jewish studies, Islamic studies, sociology, or another relevant field. Scholars should be engaged in projects centrally concerned with religion and politics in the United States, historically or in the present day.
Closing date: Jan 8, 2024
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66503
19. ONLINE Webinar: ‘Uncovering Dr Hans E. Wulff Collection: A Life Contribution to the Study of Iran and Iranian Studies’
with Pedram Khosronejad
British Institute of Persian Studies, 06 December 2023, 5PM (UK time).
On Zoom.
This paper will present the life and research conducted by Hans E. Wulff in Iran between 1936-1941 and in 1964-65 and discusses the significance of his archive and collection for the study of the traditional craft, art, technology, and science of Iran.
20. Thinking and Believing: al-Jāḥiẓ on Religious Knowledge
Hussein Abdulsater
Thinking and Believing: al-Jahiz on Religious Knowledge | IIS lecture series
This talk, which forms part of the Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series, presents an overview of the intellectual project of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 868-9) as an introduction to the worldview of the Epistemists, while touching on their rise and fall as a theological trend. It also seeks to situate them in the formative ʿAbbasid moment of Islamic history.
Date: 30 November 2023
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm
Venue: Online (Zoom)
Registration required (follow the link above)
21. In a change to the original programme
‘Empire, Sultanate, and the Boundaries of the Persianate world in South Asia.
with Roy Fischel,
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
27 November 2023, 7pm (UK time)
The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
This is an in-person only event, which will take place at the British Academy. Registrations for the event are currently closed: people booked on the lecture by Prof Frankopan have been contacted to confirm their attendance. Should there be available places, these will be open for booking early next week.
Please check the website above.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Sufis in Medieval Baghdad
Agency and the Public Sphere in the Late Abbasid Caliphate
A. Muhammad
Bloomsbury, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sufis-in-medieval-baghdad-9780755647583/
2. CfP: EuQu (The European Qur’an) International Workshop at UCPH
Interreligious Connectivity – Digitally Explored
Location and date: University of Copenhagen, 17–19. April 2024
Organizers: Jacob Langeloh and Jan Loop
In person/online
Closing date: Dec 7, 2023
3. The Medieval Persian Gulf
Brian Ulrich
ARC, 2023
https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802700046/the-medieval-persian-gulf/
4. Open Access: MIDEO 38 (2023).
This special issue, edited by Abdessamad Belhaj (Leuven) and Haoues Seniguer (Lyon), focuses on the topic of Islamic Theologies of Disasters / Théologies islamiques des catastrophes / فقه الكوارث في الإسلام. All papers are freely available online on OpenEdition Journals.
5. Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds
A Forum for Exchanges on Ancient Studies at UCLA
December 5–6, 2023 | Royce Hall 306
Global Antiquity is convening a workshop titled (Re)envisioning Ancient Worlds. This event, held at UCLA over two days, December 5–6, 2023, will include invited speakers from the University of California and the greater Los Angeles area whose research focuses on the ancient worlds.
For more info and to register:
https://globalantiquity.ucla.edu/workshop/
6. “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, Jeudi 07 décembre 2023, 17h, INALCO salle 5.21 (5e ét.)
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 7 décembre 2023, 17h-19h, en salle 5.21 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 5e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Alka Patel, Professeur en Histoire de l’Art à l’Université de Californie à Irvine, et chercheuse invitée à l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art à Paris, pour une conférence intitulée: “Architectural Epigraphy: Ornament, Ideology and Empire“.
Résumé
The shortlived Ghurid-Shansabani empire (c. 1145-1215 CE) at its height extended from modern western Afghanistan, through the Indus’s alluvia and the Ganga-Yamuna duab, to western Bangladesh. As such, this political-cultural formation furnishes promising entrées for analyses of the aforementioned regions’ historical pasts, opening vistas on such macro processes as pre-modern state-building and Islamization, as well as granular phenomena such as the impacts of theological and juridical debates on the very mechanics of empire. This presentation plumbs the informative potential of the Ghurid-Shansabanis’ architectural patronage and its inseparable epigraphic programs for elucidating the realities of multiple societal strata, and their variegated participation in the imperial project.
Orientations bibliographiques
– Z.A. DESAI. “A New Inscription of Muhammad Bin Sam.” Epigraphia Indica-Arabic and Persian Supplement, 1968, p.1–3.
– J. HOROVITZ. “The Inscriptions of Muhammad Ibn Sam, Qutbuddin Aibeg and Iltutmish.” Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica 12, 1911, p.12–34.
– A. PATEL. “Transcending Religion: Socio-Linguistic Evidence from the Somanatha-Veraval Inscription.” In Carla M. Sinopoli, Grant Parker (eds.). Ancient India in Its Wider World. Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 2008 , p.143–164.
– A. PATEL. Iran to India: The Shansabanis of Afghanistan, c. 1145-1190 CE. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
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 :
Au 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).
7. Symposium – Islamic Art History Network (IAHN), Lectures and Initial Meeting – November 24-25
Online then inperson
the initial meeting of the Islamic Art History Network (IAHN) on 24 and 25 November 2023. The first day will be online. The second day will be held at the Centre for Medieval Studies, Kings Manor, University of York (UK) and will feature in-person and online talks. The zoom links for both days are provided in the schedule. We have also scheduled two discussion sessions, one on each day, in order to facilitate the sharing of ideas from participants and audience members about the priorities of the IAHN as it develops over the coming years. The core activity of the IAHN will be the organization of an annual two-day event highlighting current research in all areas of Islamic art history.
Richard McClary
Marcus Milwright
Department of History of Art, University of York
Islamic Art History Network (IAHN)
Islamic Art History Days 2023
Day 1
November 24th (online on Zoom) 14:30 to 19:00 UK time
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91979993532?pwd=S2YxajAra3RTSkFqOFhlU3FvaEEyZz09
14:30-15:00 Ana Marija Grbanovic
Medieval Wall Paintings in Iran, 10-14th Centuries Art Historical Research of Vanishing Cultural Heritage
15:00-15:30 Viola Allegranzi
Inscribing Authority: Fresh perspectives on monumental epigraphy from Central Asia (10th-13th century)
15:30-16:00 Bahar Özdemir
The Use of Glaze in Shah-i Zinda Tiles
16:30-17:00 Hassan Moradi
Stucco Splendours of Siraf: Exploring the Artistic Legacy of an Ancient Commercial Port
17:00-17:30 María Marcos Cobaleda
Challenge of Islamic Art History Research: The Application of New Methodologies to the Study of the Artistic Exchanges
17:30-18:00 Hala Qasqas
Coffeehouses of Damascus: Unveiling the Architectural and Historical Narratives
18:00-18:30 Gül Kale
Architect’s Tools: Items in Museum Collections in Turkey and Canada
18:30-19:00 Network Planning Discussion
Day 2
November 25th (in-person in York) 9:45 to 15:10 UK time
The Huntington Room, King’s Manor
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92019971752?pwd=REJtdlJkWEFhZ2lYemVlZ2RNVkVnUT09
10:00-10:30 Yui Kanda
Legacy of Shāh ʿAbbās’s Charitable Acts: Kufic Qurʾāns with alleged Twelver Imām signatures
10:30-11:00 Leila Danesh
The Concealed Mihrab at the Masjid-i Malik Zuzan
11:00-11:30 Zahra Kazani
Visual Analogies and the Imagination in Medieval Islamic Aesthetics
13:00-13:30 Network Planning Discussion
13:30-14:00 Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Political Identity and Power in the Architectural Layers of Lahore
14:00-14:40 Andrea Luigi Corsi & Valentina Laviola
A New Study on the Endangered Late-Ottoman City of Hodeida (Yemen) and its Architectural Decoration
14:40-15:10 Atri Hatef Naemi
On the Periphery of the Ilkhanate: Provincial Architecture in Post-Conquest Iran
8. Hybrid lecture – Tanzanian Heritage, Sites, and Museums, Aga Khan Center, London – December 7, 2023
Following the success of our exhibition Black Monuments Matter in 2020, the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is proud to announce a public talk on Tanzanian Heritage, Sites, and Museums: pilot projects on the Swahili Coast: Zanzibar, Kilwa and Mafia Islands. This event coincides with the celebration of the opening of a new site museum in Tanzania on the Island of Mafia.
Join us as we delve into African cultures and heritage. The speakers will present Africa’s contribution to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments, Museums, and architectural treasures from Tanzania. Sites and monuments are physical representations of history, heritage, and development in society. But art, architecture, sites, and monuments are more than material culture, they are an integral part of our social environment, past and present.
Our event aims to show the diversity and richness of Tanzanian cultures as part of world history through the study and conservation of African monuments, bringing awareness and pride of African roots and contributions to other cultures. During the evening, we will explore how various groups and identities shaped the Swahili culture. We hope to contribute to both awareness of Swahili identity and African heritage by making them visible, assessable, and known to as many people as possible.
Facing poverty, social challenges, and economic crisis, but also climate challenges with global warming and coastal erosion, the speakers will address the multifaceted challenges faced by Tanzanian national authorities and international NGOs to protect, restore, and promote Swahili sites. Experts will discuss tourism-heritage links and business strategies, stakeholder engagement, cultural heritage/museum management, changing heritage narratives in tourism discourse, and cultural sustainability, and what people think and feel about these conservation projects, from local communities to intellectuals and scholars
At the Aga Khan University, we recognise and promote the work of national and international organisations committed to the support of African heritage. We believe in the importance of education for the understanding and appreciation of world cultures. The African sites and monuments presented during the evening are protected by UNESCO and have been given world heritage status. These sites are protected and supported by Tanzanian authorities and international NGOs such as the World Monument Fund and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.
Programme
- 17:30–17:40 | Stephane Pradines: Welcome and introduction of speakers.
- 17:40–18:10 | Noel Lwoga: Tanzanian Heritage and Culture
- 18:10–18:25 | Revocatus Bugumba: Kilwa Kisiwani and Songo Mnara
- 18:25–18:40 | Abel Albert: Kua, Mafia Island
- 18:40–19:00 | Stephane Pradines: AKTC & AKU in Tanzania.
- 19:00–19:30 | Discussion with audience.
- 19:30–20:30 | Drinks and nibbles.
- 21:00| End of programme.
Speakers
- Dr. Noel Lwoga: Director General of the National Museum of Tanzania, Senior Lecturer at UDSM, Tourism/Heritage Specialist, researching tourism and stakeholder engagement in heritage conservation, leveraging heritage values for sustainability; heritage representation.
- Revocatus Bugumba: Director, Monuments and Sites , National Museum of Tanzania, archaeologist, Heritage management, community engagement, strategic planning in heritage, communication, and built heritage conservation.
- Albert Abel: Heritage Conservation Architect |Technical Monument Consultant NMT, Site Architect at Ancient Swahili Town of Kua Archaeological site, Juani Mafia World Monument Fund
- Stephane Pradines: Archaeologist and Professor at the AKU-ISMC, researching Indian Ocean trading networks, Islamisation in East Africa and Muslim Material Cultures of War in Egypt and Pakistan.
Join us for an enlightening discussion on the intersection of African monuments, Muslim world, and Indian Ocean cultures. Together, let’s explore world heritage sites and vibrant African cultures.
December 7, 2023
5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Aga Khan Centre, London
Hybrid Event: Zoom link will follow.
Contact Information
Professor Stéphane PRADINES (he/him/his)
Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
The Aga Khan University | Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London, N1C 4DN, United Kingdom
Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
Contact Email
URL
https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2461&Title=Tanz…
9. CFP – 25 Years After Hillenbrand: New Approaches to Sources, Translation and Perspectives
Date: 10-12 October 2024
Location: University of Groningen
Deadline: 11 April 2024
Carole Hillenbrand’s seminal work, The Crusades Islamic Perspectives was published 25 years ago. In the time since its publication, Islamic experiences of the crusading phenomenon have been repositioned as a central element of crusader studies. Yet questions remain about how the field moves onwards from here.
We aim to gather leading experts and early career researchers in the field of crusader studies (broadly defined) including specialists on Islamic written and material sources, and other linguistic traditions (Latin, Old French, Iberian dialects and vernaculars, Syriac, Greek, Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic, and Armenian) to discuss emerging research pathways. The workshop will highlight and further develop the latest advances in the study of materiality, objects and artefacts, art history, intellectual history, historiography, translation studies, the history of emotions, digital humanities, memory and remembrance, and medievalism.
The organisers plan to publish the conference proceedings either in an edited volume with a top tier publisher, or as part of a special collection in a leading journal. A limited contribution towards travel and subsistence costs is available. This will be considered on a case-by-case basis, with priority being given to early career researchers and scholars from the Global South.
Contact Information
Mohamad El-Merheb (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), m.elmerheb@rug.nl, and James Wilson (Universität Konstanz) james.wilson@uni-konstanz.de
Contact Email
URL
https://www.rug.nl/research/icog/news/2023/1113-cfp-hillenbrand-new-approaches
10. Extended: Call for the Ernst Herzfeld Award for MA Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology
The Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology is pleased to announce the 2023/24 call for the Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology. The aim of the Award is to encourage and support emerging scholars in Europe who are working on visual and material culture of Islamic countries in the fields of Art History, Archeology, and Historical Building Research. The Ernst Herzfeld Award highlights the diversity and innovation of current research in these growing fields. The successful candidate is honored at the annual colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society, offered a full travel grant to present her/his master thesis at the colloquium, and is granted publication of the presented paper in the series of the Society, Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie (BIKA).
Eligibility: – Outstanding master thesis (MA, Master, M.phil., and similar) on a topic situated within the research fields of History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Islamic Archeology, or Historical Building Research on Islamic Architecture.- The thesis must have been written and supervised at a European university. Reviewing and grading the thesis must have taken place within the last two years, between January 1, 2021 and November 13, 2023. – Accepted languages of the thesis are: German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish. – A thesis can be submitted only once to an Award Call.
Application procedure: An applicant is proposed by the supervisor of the MA thesis.
Applications include: 1) the complete MA thesis as it was submitted to the university (PDF); 2) a summary in English (5 pages); 3) the recommendation form filled out by the proposing supervisor in English; and 4) the original official review/evaluation of the thesis for/by the university, at which it was submitted.
Review Procedure: – The review procedure is jointly organized by the Award and the Steering Committees as well as the Advisory Board of the Ernst Herzfeld Society. – Proposing supervisors are excluded from the review procedure and the peer-review. – Applications fulfilling the criteria of eligibility will undergo peer-review by the Award committee and by external reviewers.
Submission: Please send the complete application by November 30, 2023 (deadline extended) to award@ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com The recommendation form to be filled out by the proposing supervisor is available here: https://ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com/wpcontent/uploads/2023/10/EHG_Award_Supervisor_Recommendation_Form_2023_updated.docx
Contact Email
award@ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com
URL
https://ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com/en/ernst-herzfeld-award/
11. Now Hiring: Stanford Iran 2040 Program Manager
The Stanford Iranian Studies Program is seeking a Project Manager to administer, support, and manage the Stanford Iran 2040 Project. The Stanford Iran 2040 Project is an academic initiative that serves as a hub for academic researchers all around the world, particularly Iranian diaspora scholars, to conduct research on issues related to the future of the Iranian economy and evaluate their possible implications in a global context.
This position will be responsible for identifying relevant speakers and collaborators, organizing an annual conference, overseeing the annual Moghadam Award call for applications and recipient selection process, and managing the relevant project databases and web pages. The successful candidate should exhibit the ability to practice sound judgment and decision-making, effective written & oral communication, strong attention to detail and respectful relationship management. This position must also exhibit knowledge of the field of modern Iranian economics, politics, public policy, as well as Persian language fluency.
12. Stanford: Zahedi Family Fellowship
Full information at:
https://iranian-studies.stanford.edu/research/zahedi-family-fellowship
Application Deadline: December 8, 2023
13. Virginia Wesleyan University – Assistant Professor of History with emphasis in African, Asian, or Middle Eastern History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66427
14. 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, December 5, 2023 | 12:00 PM (EST, UTC -5) | Zoom
Language Care and Community: The Fashioning of Middle Armenian into a Courtly Vernacular
Michael Pifer, University of Michigan
Contact Information
Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Contact Email
URL
https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/language-care-and-community-the-fas…
15. “Sickness and Healing in Byzantium” – CSMBR Forthcoming Webinar: 5 December 2023
Sickness and Healing in Byzantium
From the Imperial Court to the City Hospitals
Irene Calà
5 December 2023 – 5 PM (CET)
Greek medicine has come to us through the Byzantine civilization, as evidenced by the numerous medical works produced throughout the history of the Eastern Roman Empire.
This lecture aims at providing an overview of the medical practices offered to the citizens of Byzantium, the role of hospitals and their connection with religious and political institutions, as well as the care provided by physicians at the imperial court.
Indeed, body integrity was not only about medicine, but has deep social and political implications, the sacredness of the emperor’s body being a central theme in Byzantine medicine.
In this lecture, I shall therefore also address the question as to how medical theory and practice were transmitted and used in Byzantium. In so doing, I will use different sources, from medical manuscripts used to encode traditions into current practice to the medical works produced in Byzantium, especially the surgical work of Paul of Egina (625-690 AD) and its reception.
As well as medical texts, I will discuss a number of episodes drawing from historical works and epistolary letters, such as the historical work of John Skylitzes (1040-1101 AD), including an analysis of the illuminated manuscript from Madrid. In the final part of my lecture, I will highlight the role of the doctor in manipulating the body of the sick person, with an emphasis on anatomical knowledge and surgical operations, including mutilations and autopsy cases.
To register for this event: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/sickness-and-healing-in-byzantium/
- November 18, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Screening of the documentary film about the UNESCO World Heritage Site / Sasanian fortifications of Darband (Derbent) in Spain:
23rd International Archaeological Film Festival of the Bidasoa
Info & Trailer:
https://derbentonline.com/doducmentary-film/
2. ONLINE Webinar “The Invention of the Maghreb”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 15 November 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm ET
A lecture with Abdelmajid Hannoum, professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas, and Brian Meeks, professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/abdelmajid-hannoum-invention-maghreb
3. ONLINE Presentation “Birthing Dynasties: Concubinage and Race in Medieval al-Andalus” by Stacey Murrell, Medieval Studies Program, Emory University, 17 November 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
This chapter examines the racialization of enslaved women and its impact on mother-child relations in the medieval Islamicate Mediterranean. In order to grapple with the anonymity and violence of enslavement and its archive, at times I mark the absence of the numerous majority of enslaved women, while at others I imagine their figures onto the page.
Information and registration: https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/raceandgenderglobalmiddleages/
4. HYBRID Conference “Faith and the Environment: Muslims and Christians Responding to or Impacted by Environmental Issues”, Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, Oxford University, 1 March 2024
The conference will focus on Muslim and Christian perspectives on the environment from environmental, theological and practical points of view, and abstracts are welcomed from both those with a confessional standpoint and those with none. The scope of the conference encompasses all topics and disciplinary ap-proaches relating to the study of Islam and Christianity and their encounter around the environment as a shared natural resource.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information: https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/environment
5. Interdisciplinary Workshop “Stages of Performing in Pahlavi Iran (1925-1979)”, Munich, 11-12 April 2024
In the context of global theatre histories, understood as historiography of connections, interweavings, exchange and disconnections, the workshop seeks proposals on the following sub-topics: Transnational influences on the performing arts in Pahlavi Iran and transregional exchanges of stages; the impact of other countries and regions of the Persianate world (theatre in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Caucasus); performing arts and political propaganda; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023.
Information: https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/cnms/iranistik/aktuelles/nachrichten/theatre-workshop
6. Workshop “Misattributions and Forgeries in Middle Eastern Manuscript”, Vienna, 16-17 May 2024
The purpose of this workshop is to study misattribution of content in and forgeries of Middle Eastern manuscript cultures as intellectual history. This cross-discipline workshop aims to cover manuscripts in various languages, including, but not limited to, Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Hebrew, Persian, and Syriac, in addition to the ancient languages of Egypt and Mesopotamia. All time periods are of interest.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2023. Information: https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/memat
7. Full Professor of Cultural and Intellectual History of the Islamic World, University of Vienna
The applicant`s research focus should be on the cultural and intellectual history of the Arab-Islamic world from Early Modern Age to the present and should include the source language Arabic (and possibly Persian). In teaching, a focus on the post-classical period to the present is expected.
Application deadline: 15 January 2024. Information: https://personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/jobs-recruiting/professorships/detail-page/news/cultural-and-intellectual-history-of-the-islamic-world/
8. 130 Fully-funded Scholarships (4 Years) for the Doctoral Programmes in Economics, History, Law, and Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fie-sole, Italy
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2024. Information: https://www.eui.eu/en/services/academic-service/doctoral-programme#msdynttrid=1BEWQW9wyUn_v4KXPzeGI9LB7DgjSyosZqILpMnXTI0
9. Various Fellowships from the Emirates Leadership Initiative: “Leadership in Today`s Middle East”, Harvard Kennedy School
The Emirates Leadership Initiative (ELI) provides the critical opportunities needed for emerging leaders from the United Arab Emirates and the Middle East to confront the region’s public policy issues in question through a multi-pronged approach, including: a research fund supporting pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and faculty research; student degree fellowships; an on-site learning experience in the UAE; and Executive Education programs.
Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/project/middle-east-initiative#!emirates-leadership-initiative
10. Visiting Fellowships 2024-2025 in the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, Harvard Law School
We are particularly interested in applicants whose work focuses on constitutional law, human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, animal welfare and rights, food law, environmental law and climate change, migration and refugee studies, LGBTQ issues, and related areas. We welcome applications from scholars who have completed an advanced degree (e.g., PhD, SJD, JD, LLM, or other comparable degree).
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2024. Information: https://plsmw.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/
11. Faculty Leave Residential Fellowship (9 Months) for Scholars of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
The fellowship is open to all disciplines – particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or an-thropology. The 2024-2025 fellowship is open to all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, andemeritus professor (or equivalent) who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2024.
Information: https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/26475
12. Ernest R. May Fellowship in History and Policy (10 Months, Focus on Islamic and Middle East History), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, MA
The May Fellowship aims to help build the next generation of scholars who will bring professional history to bear on strategic studies and major issues of international affairs. The program supports resident pre- and post-doctoral historians, who are expected to complete a book, monograph, or other significant publication during their period of residence.
Deadline for applications: 30 January 2024.
Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/ernest-may-fellowship-history-and-policy
13. Book Award of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
The book award (1000) is given for for the best scholarly monograph on topics in history, society, politics, economics, and cultures related to modern Iran and the Persian Gulf, broadly defined. Nominations are ac-cepted for scholarly monographs published in English between January 2021 and April 2024.
Deadline for nominations: 1 April 2024. Information: https://cipgs.princeton.edu/funding/book-award
14. Invisible East:
‘Dynamics of Human Occupation in Khorasan during the 1st millennium CE’
with Rocco Rante
Wednesday, 15 November 2023, 4PM UK
Basement Teaching Room 1, AMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
In Person.
12. Reading across Borders
Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism
by Aria Fani
U Texas Press, 2024
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477328811/
(advance sales 40% discount, with code…see above website)
16. ‘On the Methodological Significance of a Less Known Treatise of Ibn Arabi on Irfan (Mysticism)’
A Talk by Professor Ali Paya
Friday, 8 December 2023
6 pm – 7:30 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College. 133 High Road London NW10 2SW
Register at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-talk-treatise-of-ibn-arabi/
17. The Iranian Studies Initiative at UCSB and Farhang Foundation present
‘I Speak from the Edges of the Night
Translating Forugh Farrokhzad’s Collected Poems’
a free live lecture event by Dr. Domenico Ingenito
18.11.23, 11 am PT
Register at:
https://farhang.org/workshops-lectures/translating-forugh-farrokhzad-s-collected-poems
18. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Curatorial Fellow, Art of the Islamic Worlds
1-year appointment with a one (1) year renewable option
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66460
19. Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2023
Brings together papers delivered at the 15th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society. The ten essays explore diverse aspects of geographic, confessional, political, and theoretical liminality spanning from Early Muslim Arabia to contemporary Islamic art.
It is available for purchase with Reichert Publishers: https://reichert-verlag.de/buchreihen/kunstgeschichte_reihen/kunstgeschichte_beitraege_zur_islamischen_kunst_und_archaeologie/9783752007527_beitraege_zur_islamischen_kunst_und_archaeologie-detail
20. Back in Print.
Surveyors of Persian Art:
A Documentary Biography of Arthur Upham Pope &
Phyllis Ackerman.
Compiled and Edited by:
Jay Gluck and Noel Siver
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/surveyors-of-persian-art
and
Also of Interest:
A Survey of Persian Art: From Pre-Historic Times to the Present.
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/survey-of-persian-art
21. Invisible East:
Zoom: ‘In Search of Urban Geopolitics: Deep Mapping Tehran’s Lalehzar District, 1880-1960’
with Ida Meftahi
Thursday, 16 November 2023, 5PM BST/12PM Toronto time
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Conference “Zoom with Journalists in Afghanistan”, Media in Cooperation & Transi-tion (MiCT), 16 November 2023, 4:30 pm Afghanistan Time
Despite widespread censorship and the exclusion of women from public life, it has been possible to maintain a certain representation of women in public spaces in some provinces. Against this background, we invite you to a dialogue with local media professionals from various parts of Afghanistan.
Information and registration:
https://mailchi.mp/25d71841a7fd/invite-west-africa-sudan-afghanistan?e=7d0e3dbb9c
2. Conference “Postcolonial, Decolonial, Post-imperial, De-imperial”, Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC), Paris, 15-17 May 2024
We welcome contributions from a host of disciplines, including Anthropology, Art History, Comparative Liter-ature, Gender Studies, History, International Relations, Memory Studies, and Sociology – focussing on the collective memories and ongoing legacies of three empires, the Habsburg, the Ottoman and the Romanov.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 November 2023. Information:
3. 4th Mediterranean Studies Symposium “Feeding the Mediterranean: Culinary (Re-)Inventions, Legacy and Hospitality”, University of Palermo, 13-16 June 2024
We are seeking papers on the topic of food and hospitality in and of the Mediterranean from interdisciplinary perspectives (humanities, social sciences, international law, media studies, art, and other fields of research). Any historical period of reference is welcome though we strongly encourage presenters to focus on the early modern to contemporary times. Presentations of recently published books on the Mediterranean are also welcome, if related to this year’s topic(s).
Deadline for abstracts: 25 November 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/2 0011367/call-papers-mediterranean-studies-symposium-june-2024-deadlinenov-25
4. Eighth International Conference of the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean: “Being Human: Rhythms, Actions, Interactions in the Medieval Mediterranean”, Edinburgh, 24-27 June 2024
We invite papers that examine the theme from different disciplinary perspectives, including History, Archae-ology, Literature, Linguistics, Art History, Religious Studies/Theology, among others. We welcome research papers that apply innovative approaches and stimulate debates that will enhance our understanding of indi-vidual and collective perceptions and experiences of human interactions in and across the medieval Medi-terranean.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 January 2023.
Information: www.societymedievalmediterranean.com/2024-edinburgh
5. Two PhD-Positions (50 %) in the Field of Middle Eastern Pictorial Satire, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Qualification: Above-average degree (Master′s) in Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies or History with special interest in working with multi-graphic sources (caricatures, cartoons, pictorial satires in journals) and in interdisciplinary collaboration. Very good reading knowledge of Arabic (position 1) or Per-sian (position 2). For the Arabic language region, knowledge of dialectal language forms is advantageous; knowledge of other languages of the region is of advantage.
Deadline for applications: 11 December 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33959
6. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Transit Migration: States, Migrants, and the GCC”
Using a multidisciplinary field approach to migration studies, we invite scholars from sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, and other disciplines to contribute to this edited volume in order to critically examine the GCC states’ growing economic role in shaping multiple economic regions in the Global South-North/Global South-South debates.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2023. Information: Contact Dr. Omar Bortolazzi, obortolazzi@aud.edu
7. Articles on “Religious Charisma in the MENA and Its Diasporas: Authority, Succession, and Devotion” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Antropolitica”
We invite papers with ethnographic approaches to charismatic authority and/or community in religious con-texts in the MENA and its diasporas that refine our understanding of the variety of forms of religious commit-ment and belonging, as well as emotional attachment to a religious leader, community or movement, in order to establish a productive dialogue between the various perspectives and ethnographic contexts.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 January 2023.
Information: https://periodicos.uff.br/antropolitica/announcement/view/812
8. HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND BOOK PRINTING IN THE MIDDLE EAST
– The Research Library of Dr. Geoffrey Roper (Cambridge) on Sale
Approx. 900 titles, some multi-volume, in various languages, principally English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, French, German and other European languages. They are mainly on book history with a focus on printing and publishing history in the languages and countries of the Middle East and Islam. The collection also covers the history of book printing in Arabic in other parts of the world. Mostly publications of the last 50 years, but a few are older (19th century).
Information: https://gerlachbooks.com/index.php?art_no=COL_144
9. Building an Electronic Syriac Corpus using OCR: Preserving and Digitizing Cultural Heritage
Launch of Simtho III
Friday, November 10 from 12 to 3:00 pm
Sponsored by: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton and Beth Mardutho: The Syriac Institute.
Conveners: Sabine Schmidtke, George A. Kiraz and María Mercedes Tuya
The digitization of cultural heritage materials plays a crucial role in preserving and making accessible historical and linguistic resources. The Simtho corpus is a result of constructing an electronic Syriac corpus through the application of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology and correcting the OCR results in collaboration with young women and men in the Middle East who make up Beth Mardutho’s Meltho Lab team. Syriac, an ancient language with a rich literary and religious tradition, presents unique challenges due to its complex script. The proposed approach involves a multi-step process: digitization of physical books and manuscripts (by third parties), training custom OCR models for Syriac script recognition, and creating an annotated corpus for linguistic research. This project presents the culmination of this work, a 16 million-word corpus of Syriac texts. The resulting electronic corpus provides a digital repository of Syriac texts, enabling scholars, linguists, and historians to access, study, and analyze these valuable resources.
For further info and for pre-registration, required, please visit: https://bit.ly/Simtho3
10. Islamic Art and Science in European Museums: A Conversation’ – Sunday 19 November, 2pm GMT online via Zoom
To celebrate UNESCO’s International Day of Islamic Art, the Alwaleed Cultural Network is hosting a special LIVE online conversation between Professor Stefan Weber (Director, Museum of Islamic Art at he Pergamon Museum, Berlin) and Dr Silke Ackermann (Director, History of Science Museum, University of Oxford) reflecting on the ways in which their museums acquire, categorize and curate their collections of Islamic Art and Science. This unique conversation will be chaired by Abeer AlFouti, Executive Manager, Global Initiatives, Alwaleed Philanthropies.
This event is free to attend but registration is essential. For further information and to register for free, click here: https://www.alwaleedculturalnetwork.org/en/events/islamic-art/
The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh has two additional events on the horizon which may also be of interest:
Can English convey my Islamic experience? Reflecting on the presence of English in the South African madrasa
Wednesday 15 November, 5:30pm GMT in-person (50 George Square) and online via Zoom
Featuring Yasmin Ismail (Leiden University) and Jeremy Dell (University of Edinburgh).
Further information and tickets here: https://www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk/events/can-english-convey-my-islamic-experience
Book launch: Benoît Challand discusses violence and representation in Tunisia and Yemen
Monday 20 November, 50 Geroge Square Room 1.06, 5:10pm – 6:30pm (in-person only – no booking necessary)
An in-person book launch of ‘Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings’ by Dr Benoît Challand (The New School for Social Research) with a response from Dr Nida Alahmad (University of Edinburgh). Further information here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern/events/book-launch-benoit-challand
11. Journées d’étude/Workshop : Cultures orales à l’écrit : regards sur l’aire iranienne / Oral cultures in writing (16-17 novembre 2023)
Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter aux journées d’étude “Cultures orales à l’écrit : regards sur l’aire iranienne / Oral cultures in writing” qui se tiendront les 16 et 17 novembre 2023 dans les locaux de l’INaLCO :
65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIIIe
– Le 16/11 : salle RJ 24 (dans la bibliothèque, rez-de-jardin)
– Le 17/11 : salle 3.11 (3e étage)
Veuillez trouver en fichier joint le programme et les résumés des interventions.
Inscription et accès aux locaux
L’INaLCO a mis en place des mesures supplémentaires d’accès au bâtiment (voir les détails : http://www.inalco.fr/actualite/communique-inalco-passe-posture-vigipirate-urgence-attentat)
Toute personne extérieur à l’établissement, devra se munir d’une carte professionnelle (la carte lecteur de la Bulac est également valable), et présenter le programme imprimé (et la page de titre de la brochure) à l’accueil si nécessaire.
Le 16/11 les interventions auront lieu dans une salle *située à la bibliothèque*. Les agents à l’accueil de la bibliothèque seront informés pour autoriser l’accès aux locaux aux personnes inscrites à la journée et qui ne possèdent pas de carte lecteur.
Inscription : Pour assurer votre accès aux locaux, vous êtes invités à vous inscrire en écrivant à agnes.korn@cnrs.fr *avant le 15/11, 23h59*.
La liste des inscrits sera communiquée à l’accueil du bâtiment de l’INaLCO et à l’accueil de la Bibliothèque pour faciliter l’accès des participants.
12. New Issue Alert – al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 31 (2023)
We are pleased to announce the publication of the latest issue of al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, the only open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. In addition to the five research articles we have published over the course of the year, the new issue features remarks by the recipient of Middle East Medievalists’ 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award, our first ever pedagogy file entitled “Textile Mobilities across Afro-Eurasia,” three conference reports, and five book reviews. Table of Contents and downloadable PDFs (as well as all back issues) can be found here: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/index
URL
https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/index
13. University of Rochester – Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66395
Close: Dec 15, 2023
14. National University of Singapore – Assistant Professor and Associate Professor (Malay World Studies)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66416
Close: Dec 31, 2023
15. Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship
The University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence.
The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including the Islamic Manuscripts Collection held in the Special Collections Research Center.
Our fellows are awarded:
$2,000 for a project requiring domestic travel to Ann Arbor MI
$3,000 for a project requiring international travel to Ann Arbor MI
Individuals who live within a 100-mile radius of Ann Arbor, Michigan, will not typically be granted a fellowship.
The current application cycle is open from 1 November 2023 through 1 February 2024, with the residency period and award to be used between 6 May 2024 and 15 August 2025. For more information, including eligibility requirements and instructions for applying, please visit this page:
Special Collections Research Fellowships >> How to Apply
Applications are due 1 February 2024.
Questions? Contact Martha O’Hara Conway at moconway@umich.edu
16. CFP: Empire: In Theory and in Middle East History
American University in Cairo
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations
Annual History Seminar
8 & 9 March 2024
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square Campus
Call for Papers
EMPIRE: In Theory and In Middle East History
For most of recorded history, empires and imperial regimes have existed in one form or another and have shaped the lives of peoples of the Middle East. And yet the concept of Empire is often assumed to be clearly defined, almost eternal, even though empire took different shapes across history, including the history of the Middle East. Furthermore, current theories of empire tend to be Eurocentric and to focus on contemporary power structures in the post-colonial and post-modern period, with less reference to historical empires.
This coming session of AUC’s Annual History Seminar aims to look more carefully at empire as a theoretical concept and its changing definitions, and how it shaped and was shaped by interactions with peoples. How do these concepts apply to medieval, early modern of modern empires? How do they apply to world empires that ruled the Middle East?
We invite abstracts of around 300 words in either English and Arabic for presentations that would revolve around the theories and concepts of Empire as they relate to different empires with particular interest in studies, comparative or otherwise, that relate to Middle East history.
The themes that the seminar aims to tackle include:
- What is Empire? Are there features that are common to all empires? Is Empire as a concept or category of analysis useful to studying the history of the Middle East? How can we classify empires? What forms of Empire can historians distinguish in the history of the Middle East? To what extent were tributary, commercial or colonial empires different in their relations with their subject populations?
- Empire and Power: Where does imperial power lie; in the center, in capital cities, or is it more diffuse? Power within empires and the use of violence. How do empires control resources? Do power and agency lie squarely with certain elites?
- Empire and Time: How did empires change and transform over time? What influenced such changes? What role did technologies, including military technologies, play in such transformation? How do empires maintain longevity?
- Empire and Religion: Did empires impose religions? How did they make political use of Religion?
- Empire and Culture: Can we speak of imperial culture? How far did empires impose cultural change and to what extent were they themselves shaped by culture?
- Why Empire? What were the objectives behind the formation of empires, and the historical circumstances that allowed and shaped their development?
- Can Empires be compared? To what use? Many theories and studies of empire tend to be Euro-centric. Can they still shed light on historical experiences of empires based in the Middle East?
- Empire and Population/Demography: One criterion often used in defining empires is that they contain diverse populations of various backgrounds and ethnicities that are often controlled by a dominant group. Does this offer an angle into studying Middle East empires?
The sessions of the seminar are scheduled for Friday 8 and Saturday 9 March, 2024 at Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square Campus of the American University in Cairo. Participants should plan to speak for around 20 minutes in either English or Arabic. Abstracts of around 300 words, in either language, are expected by 1 December, 2023. Graduate students and PhD candidates are encouraged to apply. Participants will be informed by late December 2023. Please send abstracts to aric@aucegypt.edu with carbon copies to the organizers.
Inquiries can be directed to either of the organizers:
Dr Nelly Hanna nhanna@aucegypt.edu
Dr Amina Elbendary abendary@aucegypt.edu
17. Under the Adorned Dome, Four Essays on the Arts of Iran and India
Yves Porter
Brill, 2023
18. At the Roots of Causality
Ontology and Aetiology from Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
Francesco Omar Zamboni
Brill, 2023
19. Making Islam Work
Islamic Authority among Muslims in Western Europe
Thijl Sunier
Brill, 2023
20. Iran in Irish-nationalist historical, literary, cultural, and political imaginations from the late 18th century to 1921
Mansour Bonakdarian
Anthem, 2023
https://anthempress.com/eirinn-iran-go-brach-pdf
21. The Institute of Archaeological Sciences at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, seeks to fill in a PostDoc-position in Islamic Archaeology (part-time, 50%, TV-GU-E13) to the next possible date.
The position is for three years with a possible extension after positive evaluation.
We expect from you:
To conduct independent research in the field of Islamic archaeology and to develop your own research project, including the acquisition of third-party funding, with the aim of a Habilitation.
To teach in the BA/MA program in the Institute of Archaeological Sciences one course per year.
To participate in the activities of the Institute of Archaeological Sciences.
Your profile
You have completed a scientific university degree (diploma/master) as well as a doctorate in one of the following fields: archaeology (with a focus on Islamic archaeology), architectural history/historical building research or Art history (with a focus on Islamic art history) or Islamic Studies / Islamic Studies (with a focus on Material culture of Islam).
Your doctorate was defended on, or later than, 15.11.2020. You are scientifically active and enthusiastic to support in shaping a new field of research. You have a very good command of English; knowledge of German is advantageous.
To apply
Please send your application by email until 21.11.23 as a single PDF file (max. 10 MB) to junior professor Dr. Hagit Nol (nol@em.uni-frankfurt.de and arch.institut@uni-frankfurt.de)
The application should include:
- curriculum vitae,
- certificates of academic diplomas,
- list of publications,
- an outline for a future project or research strategy
Contact Information
Hagit Nol
Contact Email
22. ‘Cosmopolitan Artefacts, Artists, and Intellectuals across the Global Muslim World’, The Journal of Transcultural Studies Vol. 13 Nos. 1-2 (2022)
Guest-editor: Yuka Kadoi
The Journal of Transcultural Studies (uni-heidelberg.de)
Yuka Kadoi
Transcultural Mobility: Cosmopolitan Artefacts, Artists, and Intellectuals across the Global Muslim World
Nikolaos Vryzidis
Of Texts and Objects: Perceptions of “Persian” Art from Later Byzantium to Modern Greece
Alberto Saviello
Inter-pictorial Religious Discourse in Mughal Paintings: Translations and Interpretations of Marian Images
Yuka Kadoi
Embracing Islam: Okakura Tenshin at the Limits of His Alternative Orientalism
Simone Wille
The Significance of Mobility and the Artistic Practice of Zahoor ul Akhlaq
Contact Email
URL
https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/transcultural/index
23. Conference – The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, and Architecture, Max Planck Institute in Berlin – December 7,8
This is an announcement for the conference The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, and Architecture, which will take place in Berlin on December 7 and 8. https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/event/golden-horde-art-material-culture-and-architecture
If you would like to attend in person, please send an email to Qiao Yang at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin qyang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The link to attend online (via WebEx) is on the conference program website. No advance registration is required.
Contact Email
24. Production, Transmission & Interpretation
An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology
14th and 15th March, 2024
University of York
With keynote addresses by Professor Robert Hillenbrand and Professor Marcus Milwright
Islamic time begins with the Hijra; the integral responsibilities of every Muslim include the Hajj; and studies of Islamic history have traditionally followed military marches and commercial/cultural corridors that enabled the creation of the great gunpowder empires. More recently, mobility has also been manifested in the Islamic world in the fall of these empires, movement of their materials through loots and repatriations, and voluntary and forced migrations. Until recently, these themes have been predominantly researched divorced from Islam through incongruous positivist lenses and euro-centric canons, and often with underlying colonial agendas.
It is with the aim to intervene within and disrupt this context that the Department of History of Art and the Department of Archaeology at the University of York present Production, Transmission, & Interpretation, a conference on Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology. Foregrounding the voices of the historically marginalised, founded in material cultural narratives, and focussed on new sources and methodologies, this conference will bring together the latest research from scholars – doctoral to emeriti – and draw upon a range of cognate disciplines across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, to consider 1400 years of the Islamic world and society.
Submission Guidelines
We welcome abstract submissions intended to culminate into the standard format of 20-minute in-person academic paper presentations and invite applications from across disciplines, including art and architectural history, archaeology, conservation, heritage management, curation, museum studies and cultural studies, on themes that may include
Islamic heartlands, hinterlands, and frontiers
Art and architecture of mobility, routes, travels, and transfers
Patronage – imperial, sub-imperial, male, female, and non-binary
Agency of architects, artists, and craftspersons
Sources – oral histories, local archives, epigraphy, calligraphy, endangered languages
Archaeological material, bioarchaeological approaches, and conservation
Islamic approaches past and present to nature, culture, environment and sustainability
Conflicts, occupations, appropriations and adaptations
Islamic art markets – auctions, ethics, legislations
Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, indicate the target thematic cluster, and be accompanied by the researcher’s name, institutional affiliation and stage of study, location, and a brief biography not exceeding 100 words.
Deadline for abstract submission is 31 December, 2023.
All abstracts should be sent as pdf attachments to hist592@york.ac.uk
If you have any questions, please email Parshati Dutta (parshati.dutta@york.ac.uk) or Nausheen Hoosein(nausheen.hoosein@york.ac.uk).
Conversations are underway with leading university presses to publish a thematic edited volume of papers presented, therefore please declare if the material has been used before, and if not, whether you would be interested in publishing with us.
25. A pre-Mongol New Persian legal document from Islamic Khurāsān dated ah 608/1212 ce
Z Bhalloo,
BSOAS, 2023
- November 11, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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