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1. Transportation & Technology in Iran, 1800–1940
W Floor
Mage, 2023
2. 2024 Learning Tours and a Unique Course
Hikmat International
https://hikmat-ins.com/learning-tours/tour9/
3. Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
H Yücesoy
Columbia U Press, 2023
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/disenchanting-the-caliphate/9780231209410
4. SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM: ENTANGLED HISTORIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
CATALIN-STEFAN POPA (ROMANIAN ACADEMY)
Hybrid Event: October 25, 2023 12:00 noon, White-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study
The lecture introduces the audience to the process of interaction of one of the most important Middle Eastern Church traditions, Syriac Christianity, with the Holy City and the Holy Land. Even if scholars have often argued that the late antique pilgrimage to the holy places was not of interest in Syriac Christianity, the sources have demonstrated the opposite. At the end of Late Antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, the Holy City acted in Syriac Christian canon as a matrix for encountering holiness, and a standardized process of pilgrimage became part of a recurrent devotional custom of monks and lay people.
Registration is required for both in-person or virtual attendance.
To register visit https://bit.ly/3CPZc9W
5. Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series Video Available: Anahita Mittertrainer
‘Symbols of Royal Authority? Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran’, February 2023
6. “Learn Persian through the Shahname” online course, the Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM.
This course runs for a total of two weeks, but students also have the option to participate in the first week only. The online course is scheduled to commence on September 25, 2023, and conclude on October 6, 2023. We look forward to helping you further your Persian language skills.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname
7. The International Journal of Islamic Architecture is pleased to announce the 2024 Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) offers this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The criteria on which papers will be judged are: innovation in approach(es) to posed research question(s), originality, written clarity and style, and the overall impact on research in the field. Articles should provide new insights into the field, making a distinct or significant scholarly contribution to the understanding of architecture, architectural heritage, and the built environment in the Islamic world (both historic and contemporary), especially in marginalized geographies. This award, offered every two years, is judged by a jury that includes three members of the academic community. The second award will be given in 2024 and we are delighted that Professors Kishwar Rizvi, Leïla el-Wakil, and James L. Wescoat Jr. will serve on the jury. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2022 or 2023 will be eligible for this round of the award.
Nominations should be submitted by scholars or journal editors to the chair of the award, IJIA Associate Editor Mehreen Chida-Razvi, at HUKaward@gmail.com by 15 November 2023. Self-nominations are permitted, of a single article. The nominations should include a PDF of the published paper, full details of publication, and the author’s affiliation and contact information. The winner and runner-up will be announced in March 2024 on the IJIA website, social media platforms, and in the journal’s July issue. The winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a two-year subscription to IJIA; the runner-up will receive a two-year subscription to IJIA.
Contact Information
Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Associate Editor & Chair, Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award
International Journal of Isamic Architecture
Contact Email
URL
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
8. ONLINE Symposium „Mass Violence in the (Post-)Ottoman Lands“, University of Newcastle (Australia), 6 September 2023
From the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire came under the increasing strains of both internal upheavals and external pressure from great power rivals. Increasing acts of mass violence accompanied this political instability, most notably the Armenian Genocide. This Symposium interrogates the causes, pro-cesses and consequences of mass violence in the (Post-)Ottoman lands.
Information, program and registration:
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/csov/conferences/mass-violence-in-the-postottoman-lands
9. “First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023)” Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore, 7 December 2023
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is stand-ard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case.
Deadline for conference papers: 5 September 2023. Information: https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/
10. International Conference of the Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes IV: “Spaces of Familiarity, Spaces of Difference in the Mediterranean”, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-19 March 2024
The conference will examine the nature of this “space.” The theme encourages scholars to analyze how peoples interacted with the sea basin in their political, social, economic, cultural, and religious activities and exchanges. The theme also invites researchers to explore “familiarity” and “difference” in the study of the Mediterranean from locations, cultural backgrounds, and contexts in East Asia and elsewhere.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-asian-federation-of-mediterranean-studies-institutes-18-19-march-taipei?e=82aeb6c61d
11. HYBRID Workshop “La construction de l’islam en problème public et ses effets sur l’expérience des personnels scolaires minorisés’”, à Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers 26-27 octobre 2023, et à l’UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-26 avril 2024
Cet atelier de travail ― littéralement ― vise moins à exposer des résultats qu’à mettre en discussion, entre chercheur.es intéressé.es par ces problématiques, des recherches en train de se faire. Cet espace de ren-contre sera ainsi particulièrement ouvert à la mise en débat d’enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques (points de vue situés, construction de l’objet et des questions, accès et construction des terrains, etc.).
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 8 septembre 2023. Information : https://www.iremam.cnrs.fr/sites/defa ult/files/2023-07/appel_participation_workshop_personnels_scolaires.pdf
12. Chapters for “Springer Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas”
This handbook welcomes scholars from all social and human science disciplines to contribute to linguistic anthropological studies. The scope of this handbook is vast and encompasses a wide range of topics and areas of investigation.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2023.
13. Articles on “US Imperialism from the Middle East to Latin America after the Cold War” for Special Issue of the Journal “Middle East Critique”
Themes: How racism works globally in representations of the populations of Latin America and the Middle East as threats. – The arms trade and security connections between the regions, in particular, the role played by Israel. – Securitization processes against immigrants and refugees from Latin America and the Middle East. – Solidarity with the Palestinians and the transnational movement for boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions against Israel. – Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2023.
- August 26, 2023
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1. Postdoctoral Fellowship (4-8 Months) at the American Center of Research (ACOR), Amman
Applicants must be U.S. citizens or foreign nationals living in the U.S. three years immediately preceding the application deadline. Fields of research include modern and classical languages, linguistics, literature, his-tory, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, heritage studies, comparative religion, ethics, and the history, criticism, and theory of the arts. Social and political scientists are encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2023. Information: https://acorjordan.org/neh-fellowship/
2. Teaching Faculty Position in Middle Eastern History, Open Rank (Focus on Gender), School of Foreign Service in Qatar, Georgetown University in Qatar
The successful candidate is expected to hold a PhD in Middle East history at the time of the appointment and to be able to teach required undergraduate courses in introductory and regional history, as well as upper-level electives in the candidate’s area of research specialization.
Deadline for application: 1 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/128995
3. Tenure-track Position at the Level of Assistant Professor in Political Science (Focus Middle Eastern Studies und Islamic Civilization), Macalester College, Minneapolis-Saint Paul
We invite applications from International Relations scholars with a primary teaching and research emphasis in the subfield of global political economy.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2023. Information: https://www.macalester.edu/politicalscience contact Bonnie Berger bberger@macalester.edu
4. ACLS Marwan M. and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowships (6-12 Months) in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America, American Council of Learned Societies
This year, the fellowships will support early-career scholars who earned their PhDs on or after September 29, 2015, and who are pursuing research on the Arab and/or Latin American worlds, with a special interest in supporting comparative or transnational approaches across these regions.
Deadline for applications: 28 September 2023.
5. Islamic History / Studies
University of Utah – Assistant Professorship in Pre-Modern Middle East/North Africa and Islamic World History, 600-1400 CE
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65770
closing date: 3.11.23
6. Call for Applications: ACOR-NEH 2024 Postdoctoral Fellowship
ACOR (The American Center of Research, located in Amman, Jordan) is pleased to inform you that we have an NEH fellowship opportunity available for use in 2024. Funding for this fellowship is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutes (FPIRI).
We have opened application for a fellowship that is a minimum of four months. Applications will be accepted until October 1st, 2023. All applicants will be notified of the results by November 2023. For full details, please see: https://acorjordan.org/neh-fellowship/ , and applications should be submitted here: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/G4z5kMr2fCZmVdBcCS6f/ .
Some details: An award for four months is expected to be $20,000; funds are adjusted proportionately for other terms. Fellowship tenure must be continuous and last at least four months. Short departures (e.g., to attend conferences, conduct research in neighboring areas) are possible, but must be approved in advance. NEH-funded fellows must be United States citizens or foreign nationals who have lived in the United States for three years immediately preceding the application deadline for the fellowship. This fellowship is for individuals who have completed their formal professional training; consequently, degree candidates and individuals seeking support for work in pursuit of a degree are not eligible to hold this fellowship. Advanced degree candidates must have completed all requirements, except for the actual conferral of the degree, by the application deadline for the fellowship. Every NEH fellowship cycle, an external peer review committee is reconstituted in full. So, all applications are seen anew.
We encourage everyone eligible to apply. Robust application to this opportunity helps ensure it remains available to the field in future years.
Contact Information
China Shelton, 209 Commerce St., Alexandria, VA 22314
Contact Email
URL
https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/
7. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
Excavating the Archives: David Stronach’s fieldwork in Iran with the British Institute of Persian Studies
with Gareth Brereton
6 September, 2023, 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9016891531489/WN_XfAL2rIwTSuGvFqVSUi4ug#/registration
8. University of Chicago
Outreach Coordinator Opening at CMES
https://uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Chicago-IL/Outreach-Coordinator_JR23528-1
Job Summary
Under the supervision of the Director and Associate Director, the Outreach Coordinator will be responsible for working with faculty, staff, students, and various units at the University to plan and implement CMES programming on and off campus. The Outreach Coordinator will primarily work with constituencies in K-12 and community college environments (including Chicago Public Schools and City Colleges of Chicago) to enhance learning opportunities relating to the Middle East and Islam. Additional engagements involve public libraries, non-profits, and businesses. The primary tasks of the position are event planning, grant administration, and community outreach. Additional tasks include public speaking and educational resource development.
This position is full-time with benefits and a hybrid schedule. The Outreach Coordinator is expected to spend time working on-campus and off-site at various locations. Additionally, the outreach coordinator must be able to commit time for weekend events throughout the academic year.
Interested applicants, please upload all required documents listed in the job posting to be considered for this position, including a resume, cover letter addressing interest in this position and interest working with diverse populations, and references.
Responsibilities
- Maintains and expands ties with national and Chicago-area cultural institutions, local K-12 and post-secondary schools and community organizations as well as other University of Chicago units to collaborate in outreach programming.
- Establishes linkages with local and national educational institutions and initiates collaborative programming: conferences, lectures, teacher-training workshops, identify speakers. Stewards existing and new partnerships.
- Manages all logistics for outreach programming, e.g., develops and distributes publicity, arranges travel, secures venue, etc. This includes the annual International Education Conference (IEC), Summer Institute for Educators (SIE), regular professional development events for K-12 Arabic teachers, and other events as assigned.
- Provides administrative and logistical support for other CMES events, such as with lectures, conferences, receptions, and MA student activities and programming.
- Supports CMES communications through website and social media management, newsletters, online content development, overseeing CMES Ventures podcast and blog production, curating educational outreach resources online and offline, drafting and editing outreach components of internal and external reports.
- Manages the Middle East Education Initiative (MEEI) and Chicago Arabic Teachers Council (CATC) outreach programs. This includes fulfillment of grant planning, responding to needs of teachers and other outreach partners with innovative programming and events, and attention to grant budget regulations and limits.
- Contributes to the Center’s full range of grant writing, management, and reporting.
- Ensures stability and growth of the CMES program by focusing on accomplishing strategic objectives of the program, especially in support of the CMES MA program in Middle Eastern Studies.
- Analyzes program budgets and uses a moderate/high level of authority to recommend or makes budgetary recommendations.
- Interacts with faculty, researchers and staff for committee work or information.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through < 2 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Certifications:
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Degree in area related to Middle Eastern studies.
Experience:
- Working with teachers and other educators to support international education and global competencies.
- Event planning.
- Public speaking.
- Grant writing, management, and reporting.
- Familiarity with the city of Chicago and the University of Chicago.
- Familiarity with higher education.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Website design/management and graphic design abilities.
- Audio and video production and editing skills.
- Proficiency in Arabic.
Preferred Competencies
- Strong organizational and administrative skills.
- Strong writing, editing, and presentation skills.
Working Conditions
- Hybrid work: on-campus and off-site at various locations.
- Weekend events throughout the academic year.
Application Documents
- Resume/CV (required)
- Cover letter, addressing interest in this position and interest working with diverse populations (required)
- References Contact Information (3)(required)
When applying, the document(s) MUST be uploaded via the My Experience page, in the section titled Application Documents of the application.
Job Family
Administration & Management
Role Impact
Individual Contributor
FLSA Status
Exempt
Pay Frequency
Scheduled Weekly Hours
37.5
Benefits Eligible
Yes
Drug Test Required
No
Health Screen Required
No
Motor Vehicle Record Inquiry Required
No
- August 22, 2023
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1.The Islamic College (London)
Autumn 2023 Courses
Undergrad, Postgrad, PG Certificate Courses, Distance Learning, Short Courses
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/
2. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalistsannounces a thematic dossier on Indian Ocean histories guest edited by Jyoti Balachandran, to be published in 2025. To that end, we are soliciting original research articles that employ the Indian Ocean as their analytical framework to trace and recover the multiple histories that shaped the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500 and 1500 CE. Articles that extend the timeline will also be considered based on conceptual connections with other submissions. By emphasizing the significance of the Indian Ocean as a historical category, we are particularly interested in research that goes beyond solely commercial connections to highlight the political, social, cultural, and intellectual dimensions of transoceanic interactions. Building upon the growing scholarly recognition of the importance of expanding our linguistic and archival base to write such histories, we encourage articles that employ archives and texts in one or more regional/inter-regional language(s) of the Indian Ocean in a substantial way. By focusing on a multiplicity of histories and perspectives, we hope to underline the complexity and heterogeneity of the maritime context of the Indian Ocean.
Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists is the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. To be considered, please submit a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to jzb461@psu.edu by September 30, 2023. An informal draft workshop will be held in Spring 2024, and complete articles will be due by September 15, 2024. All submissions will be subject to the journal’s peer review process.
3. CALL FOR PAPERS: Medieval Ritual Representations: Model of or Model for?
CAA’s 112th Annual Conference | Chicago | February 14–17, 2024
Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA)
Session co-organizers:
Robert S. Nelson | Yale University
Alice Isabella Sullivan |Tufts University
This session considers illustrations of medieval secular and/or religious rituals in any media and from any region or religious group. The goal is to understand the function and agency of representations, starting from the opposite poles of model or model for, as Clifford Geertz interpreted ritual. Some images may be evidence of “wie es eigentlich gewesen,” as von Ranke put it, and the reality of medieval performances; others may be aspirational, describing ideal rituals overlayed with the ideological and political. How can we discern the function of medieval illustrations? Are illustrations faithful to textual sources, and if not, why? To whom are these images addressed? Who sees them, when, and how? In sum, why illustrate medieval rituals? Papers may address representations of rituals from any corner of the medieval world, from all parts of Europe, the Mediterranean, and beyond, and from any religion, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and others.
Please submit a title, abstract (max. 500 words), and a brief 2-page CV by August 31, 2023 to: robert[dot]nelson[at]yale[dot]edu and alice[dot]sullivan[at]tufts[dot]edu.
Please indicate “CAA proposal” in the subject line.
4. Visualizing Dyes and Drugs, conference at Basel, 4-6 Sep 2023
5. HYBRID “Fifth Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference”, American Society of Islamic Philoso-phy and Theology, Harvard University, 1-3 December 2023
We are particularly interested in proposals that relate to the theme: “After Mustafa Sabri: What Does a Robust Kalam Engagement with Contemporary Philosophy and Theology Look Like Today?” This year’s conference aims to continue to explore the interface between Islamic Philosophy and Theology and contemporary issues.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2023. Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/conference-paper/
6. Workshop “Territories, Peoples, Nations — Decolonial Approaches to Foundational Concepts in Political Theory”, Northwestern University Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 10-11 January 2024
This workshop explores how the theories, experiences, and stories of postcolonial societies and Indigenous peoples contribute to and reorient debates about territorial sovereignty, political community, and self-deter-mination in political theory and philosophy. We are particularly interested in contributions that discuss the workshop themes as they apply in the Middle East and the Indian Ocean region, but we welcome discussions anchored in other contexts as well.
Deadline for submissions: 20 September 2023. Information: https://easychair.org/cfp/TPN2024
7. International Conference “The Long Twentieth Century of Kurds and Kurdistan”, Yale Univer-sity, 31 March – 1 April 2024
2023 marks the centenary of the Treaty of Lausanne, the agreement that established new borders and rec-ognized the sovereignty of the Turkish state, shaping the geopolitical landscape of the region for decades to come. The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary scholarly platform to examine the experiences of Kurds during a time of profound changes that accompanied total war, colonial occupations, shifting territorial borders, and the emergence of new nation-states.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/events/call-papers-long-twentieth-century-kurds-and-kurdistan
8. Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (3 Years) in “Environmental History in the Medieval Islamicate Mediterranean, c. 600-1100 CE”, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
The research will focus on water and landscapes and will be based on Arabic sources, such as geographical accounts and cartography, legal texts as well as scientific treatises. Excellent knowledge of Arabic is required; the knowledge of other languages relevant to this area (such as Latin, Hebrew, Greek) is desirable but not essential.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/job-environmental-history-in-the-medieval-islamicate-mediterranean-c-600-1100-ce-ca-foscari-university-venice?e=82aeb6c61d
- August 19, 2023
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1. Early Career Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
Early Career fellowships are available to researchers from any nationality and discipline based in Freiburg, Germany and abroad. The fellowships enable the researchers up to eight years after completion of their PhD to carry out their own research projects. Applications are welcome from all disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/funding-programmes/frias-fellowships?set_language=en
2. Senior Fellowships at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg
Senior fellowships are available to researchers from any nationality and discipline based in Freiburg, Ger-many and abroad. The fellowships enable scholars with at least eight years of postdoctoral research experience, holders of tenure-track professorships, and full-time professors to carry out their own research projects. Applications are welcome from all disciplines that can be supported at the University of Freiburg.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/funding-programmes/frias-fellowships?set_language=en
3. Faculty Position in Arabic Language or Linguistics Associate Professor / Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar
The ideal candidate should have stature and experience in programmatic leadership with qualifications in applied linguistics or language pedagogy and experience in an American university context. Candidates should have native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic; experience in proficiency-based, communicative approaches to teaching the language; and be familiar with proficiency testing and ACTFEL standards.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/129108
4. Articles for ZDMG
The Zeitschrift der deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG), one of the oldest academic journals publishing on the Near East, Asia and Africa, calls for new and innovative articles on Islamic Studies of various length to be published in issues 174.2 (2024) und 175.1 (2025).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023.
Information:
https://www.dmg-web.de/page/aktuelles_en
5. Registration Open for 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture
Marking the 20-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, BRISMES invites members and non-members to attend the 2023 BRISMES Annual Lecture Re-membering Iraq: On the Wounds of War by Sinan Antoon.
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq and left after the 1991 Gulf War. He earned a doctorate in Arabic literature at Harvard. He has published three collections of poetry and five novels. Antoon’s translation of Mahmoud Darwish’s last prose book, In the Presence of Absence, won the 2012 American Literary Translators’ Award. His scholarly works include The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry: Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf and articles on Arabic poetry and modern Iraqi culture and politics. His essays have appeared in The Guardian, Washington Post, The Nation, The New York Times, and many pan-Arab newspapers and journals. He is co-founder and co-editor at Jadaliyya.com. Antoon is associate professor of Arabic Literature at New York University.
Date: Thursday, 16 November 2023
Time: 17:30-19:00 GMT
Location: Online (via Zoom)
More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2023
The BRISMES Annual Lecture provides an opportunity to hear from a distinguished scholar or expert within the field of Middle Eastern Studies and is a major event in the BRISMES calendar. The lecture is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential.
6. Online Conference – Prospects for Democracy and the Muslim Subject: Reflecting on the Raba’a Massacre Ten Years On
15 – 16 August, 2023
7. On-Line Persian Courses
Hikmat International Institute
- August 15, 2023
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1. CfP: ‘Half the World Away – Cultural Circulations between Isfahan and the Early Modern Low Countries’
at Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference 2024 (click here for more details). Cambridge, UK, 10–13 July 2024. Organised by Dr Adam Sammut and Dr Ahmad Yengimolki, University of York.
When Shah ‘Abbas I made Isfahan his imperial capital in 1597, he wished to put Safavid Persia at the centre of the global economy, building the Image of the World Square (Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan) with the royal bazaar to the north. This feat of urban planning was praised by an English traveller as ‘as spacious, as pleasant and aromatic a market as any in the universe’, noting that it was ‘six times larger’ than equivalent squares in Paris or London.
The seventeenth century was a golden age of Euro-Safavid diplomacy, transcending political and religious differences on a war-torn continent. Persian ambassadors actively solicited military support from Catholic powers and vice-versa, against their mutual enemy, the Ottoman Turks. At this time, Catholic missionaries including Jesuits were permitted to reside in Isfahan. The relationship was also mercantile. Between 1617–65, the Dutch, English, French and Portuguese all signed trade agreements with the Shahs, entangling Persia in European colonial enterprises and giving new meaning to the saying “Isfahan, Half the World” (esfahan nesf-e jahan).
The European fascination with Persia has been the subject of exhibitions, most recently Rembrandt’s Orient (2020–21). This panel seeks to explore cultural exchange between the Low Countries and Isfahan from both sides. Works of Netherlandish art were acquired by the Safavids as diplomatic gifts but also through trade and Catholic global mission, through which channels engravings and illustrated books also arrived in Isfahan’s bazaars. Armenian merchants were key mediators, importing portraits of contemporary European rulers that were highly prized at the Safavid court. With bases in Amsterdam, Livorno and Rome as well as New Julfa, what cultural presence did Persian Armenians have in the early modern Low Countries?
On the back of commerce and missionary work, at least eleven Netherlandish artists travelled to Persia in the seventeenth century. Jan Lucasz. van Hasselt became master painter to ‘Abbas I, decorating the royal palace at Ashraf, while ‘Abbas II took drawing lessons from Hendrick Boudewijn van Lockhorst. Famously, ‘Abbas II rescued Philips Angel from legal conviction by the VOC, employing him as a court artist on 4,000 guilders per year and presenting Angel with a robe of honour upon his departure. Encounters with Netherlandish art led to a new, “hybrid” style of painting known as Farangi-sāzi, which saw Persian miniaturists adopt European painting techniques and iconography.
To paraphrase Barbara Fuchs, the story of Isfahan in the seventeenth century ‘compromises the narratives of national distinction by emphasizing inconvenient similarities and shared heritages’. The same could be said of Catholic Europe. In Antwerp, Rubens painted the Levantine merchant Nicolas de Respaigne standing on a Herat-type Persian carpet. The same artist copied a corpus of Persian miniatures, annotating the costumes in detail. As for Van Dyck, he painted the English envoy of Shah ‘Abbas I, Sir Robert Shirley, in pendant portraits with his Circassian wife, Terezia Sampsonia, whose habitually magnificent attire helped them negotiate the silk trade in tandem with military alliances. Just how fluid was cultural identity in this period?
Please send proposals of c. 500 words, along with a 1-page CV, to adam.sammut@york.ac.uk and ahmadyengimolki@gmail.com by Friday 29 September 2023.
2. The Exile’s Cookbook
Daniel Newman, transl.
Saqi, 2023
https://saqibooks.com/books/saqi/the-exiles-cookbook/
3. Persian Second Language Pedagogy Fall 2023 Virtual Lecture Series
Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies
in collaboration with
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
present
Persian Second Language Pedagogy
Fall 2023 Virtual Lecture Series
Zoom Registration
https://utoronto.zoom.us/…/tZMkf-yoqDwrEtRnTBB…
Saturday, 9 September 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
“Discourse Markers in Persian: Description and Instructional Implications for Learners of Persian”
Ali Abbasi, Associate Professor of Persian, University of Maryland
Saturday, 07 October 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
“Relative Difficulty in the Acquisition of the Persian Uvular Stop by English Speakers”
Reza Falahati Ardestani, Lecturer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Saturday, 11 November 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
“Innovative Technology in Language Classroom: Using Virtual Reality in Task-Based Language Teaching”
Peyman Nojoumian, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Persian, University of Southern California
Saturday, 2 December 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
“ABC or BCA: What to Teach First: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Teaching Persian as a Second Language”
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Instructional Professor of Persian, University of Chicago
4. CFP – Contested Art Histories and the Archive in Britain and the British Empire
14-17 February, 2024, Chicago
Full info at:
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12893.html
5. For the International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 9-11, 2024 Kalamazoo, MI) the Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks papers discussing the interconnected “lives of great languages” from across the Afro-Eurasian landmass before 1820.
By “great languages,” we refer to translocal tongues that connected ideas, power, and peoples among overlapping geographies of the pre-modern world. Such languages include Arabic, Aramaic, Bantu languages, Chinese languages, Greek, Hindi languages, Jewish languages, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, Slavic, and Turkic. Among these traditions and many others, multilingual authors wrote, recited, and crafted texts that reroute current conceptions about politics, religion, and belonging. Analyses of such translocal linguistic and cultural regimes provide scholars ability to understand how classes of professionals, educated elites, and local thinkers produced interconnected social practices at near global scale.
We invite papers from scholars focused on culture, religion, literature, trade, linguistics, and visual arts that explore connections, divergences, and parallel frames among histories of translocal peoples, languages, and texts. By addressing broad categories of power, geography, and creativity, we seek to foster dialogue and points of comparison among scholars whose research concentrates on the linguistic traditions of the globalized pre-modern world.
Before Friday September 15, 2023, please apply for our sponsored hybrid panel by selecting one of the following links:
- To be considered for virtual presentation, apply via this link
- For in-person presentation, follow this link.
We welcome proposals from scholars across all career paths.
For questions and inquiries, please write to us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com or at the address noted below.
Contact Information
Nathan L.M. Tabor, Dept. of History, WMU
Contact Email
6. Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran
D T Potts
Mage, 2023
https://magepublishers.com/albert-houtum-schindler-a-remarkable-polymath-in-late-qajar-iran/
7. ‘A Forgotten Money Heist: The 1746 Mission of Nadir Shah’s Chief Merchant in Russia Revisited’
K Ghereghlou
IRAN, 61, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/05786967.2020.1829983
8. Middle Eastern Studies – Prize
We are pleased to announce that the Elie and Sylvia Kedourie Prize for Outstanding Article from Volume 58 (2022) of Middle Eastern Studies has been awarded to Siavush Randjbar-Daemi for his article, ‘The Tudeh Party of Iran and the land reform initiatives of the Pahlavi state, 1958–1964’, vol. 58:4, pp.617-35.
Saul Kelly and Helen Kedourie would like to thank the judging panel, drawn from the editorial board, for their work in judging all the submissions and for reaching a decision on the winning article.
We also thank Taylor & Francis for their continuing support. Founded in 2018, the prize is named for Elie Kedourie (1926–1992) founder and editor-in-chief of Middle Eastern Studies until his death in 1992, and Sylvia Kedourie (1925–2016) who took on the editorship of the journal from 1992 until 2016. The award includes a prize payment of £500 and a year’s complimentary subscription to Middle Eastern Studies, with the article free to access on the journal’s website.
The next prize for an outstanding article published in the 2023 volume of Middle Eastern Studies will be awarded in June 2024. Please email your nomination to Saul Kelly (saul.kelly@kcl.ac.uk) or Helen Kedourie (hkedourie@gmail.com), with the subject line ‘Middle Eastern Studies – Nomination for Elie and Sylvia Kedourie Prize’, and include the following in your message: title of article, name of author, and volume and issue number; a brief reason for your nomination (no more than 200 words); your name and affiliation.
9. Articles for “Keshif E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions”, Volume 1, Number 2
Our vision for Keshif is to provide a forum (and medium) for researchers to make these fragments accessible to a wider audience, including non-Ottomanists, i.e. to bring together the many pieces of the mosaic, such that complete pictures gradually emerge. Keshif is an electronic journal dedicated to collecting and editing small, fine texts and providing easy, free access to the material through a database with sound search functions.
Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2023. Information: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/keshif
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ‘In the Aura of the Prophet: Dreaming of Fāṭima and the Tropes of Connectedness in Iranian Women’s Pious Circles’
S Chavosian
in
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
Edited by Nelly Amri, Rachida Chih and Stefan Reichmut
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9789004522626/BP000015.xml
2. The American Association of Teachers of Arabic (AATA) is delighted to announce this year’s Arabic Translation Contest. We kindly ask you to encourage your eligible students to participate in the contest.
Details on the topics, eligibility, requirements, submission date, submission email address, prizes, etc. can be found HERE. Entries will be evaluated by judges who will focus on accuracy in rendering both meaning and style.
The winners will be recognized during AATA’s annual meeting to be held in Montreal, Canada, in conjunction with MESA on 02 November 2023.
All entries must be submitted no later than August 15, 2023 to be eligible for consideration.
- August 08, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Part-time Urdu lecturer, U of Chicago
The Department of South Asian Languages & Civilizations invites applications for a part-time lecturer in the Urdu language program for the Autumn, Winter, and Spring Quarters of the 2023-24 academic year. Responsibilities include preparing and teaching Urdu language courses at the introductory, intermediate, and/or advanced levels. Depending on the curricular needs of the department, the successful candidate may teach up to three courses per academic year. In 2023–24, the per-course minimum salary is $7,538. This position is not benefits eligible.
Qualifications
Minimum qualifications are a master’s degree or equivalent in Urdu or a related field, advanced mid proficiency in Urdu according to ACTFL guidelines or equivalent language competency, and at least one year of experience teaching at the college or post-secondary level.
Application Instructions
To apply for this position candidates must submit their application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment jobs board at: http://apply.interfolio.com/128948.
2. Call for Abstracts. Conference: Perfume Production in the Ancient World.
6-8 November 2023. Prague.
Call for Abstracts.
Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought
Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
Prague, Czechia
Website: https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/conference-2023
Part of Alchemies of Scent, a research group in the history of science funded by the Czech Science Foundation.
Confirmed Speakers
Maria Rosaria Belgiorno (CNR)
Roberto Dario (Treviso)
Eduardo Escobar (Bologna)
Barbara Huber (Tübingen / MPI Geo-anthropology)
Anya H. King (Southern Indiana)
Giacomo Montanari (Bologna)
Klara Ravat (Berlin)
Jay Silverstein (Nottingham-Trent)
Giuseppe Squillace (Calabria)
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff)
Problems and Aims
The topic of this conference is the production of scented materials (“perfumes”) in the ancient world from multiple perspectives: historical, archaeological, natural scientific, artisanal, cultural, religious. We intend the temporal scope of “ancient” to be fuzzy. The central question of the conference is this: how do we, and how should we, describe and trace the ways perfumes were made within and across cultures of the ancient world?
Specific guiding questions include:
Do familiar linguistic, ethnic, and religious categories used to delineate traditions of ancient perfume production and use—“Egyptian,” “Greek,” “Arabic,” “Buddhist,” “Christian,” “Chinese,” etc.— accurately distinguish such traditions and cultures? To what extent can we speak of, for example, “Roman” perfumery, or are there rather many “Roman” traditions across different times, regions, and intentions?
Are there correlations between the manufacture of scented materials and other goods? How were those correlations categorized and understood, e.g., luxury goods, medical, magical, divine, etc.?
Were natural scents compared with, even opposed to, artificial or synthetic ones?
Can we demarcate traditions of ancient perfumery by means of trade networks, equipment, manufacturing techniques? Did know-how and theories of perfume production travel along trade networks?
Did the introduction of new botanical, animal and mineral goods, like musk, camphor, ambergris, etc., coincide with different production techniques?
What do approaches like practical exegesis or experimental archaeology and digital humanities contribute to these questions in a way that might complement traditional ones found in archaeology, archaeometry, philology, classics, history and philosophy?
For this call, we are especially interested in work on scented materials and manufacturing in traditions beyond Europe and the Mediterranean shores. We also believe such a project would benefit immensely by engaging practitioners of perfumery, scent and the senses. For this reason, we are opening the call to scholars, perfumers, artists, and practitioners alike.
Format
The conference will be in-person. Sessions will be 30 minutes: 20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Speakers are expected to be present, as the conference will involve practical exegesis and demonstrations. Hybrid will only be possible in exceptional circumstance. Talks will be broadcast online.
A conference fee of 1.000 CZK (~40 EUR) will be used to cover materials, lunches, and a conference dinner. Unfortunately, we are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs for all participants, but we are happy to help find possible funding sources, especially for graduate students and early career researchers.
Output
The output of this conference will be an edited volume with provisionally titled, Perfume Production in the Ancient World. The 2023 conference is being organized as the first stage of this process. Participants will present an initial draft / talk of their work. Selected participants will then revise their papers to approximately 7–10.000 words (max), and we will come together again (in person or in a hybrid session) in late 2024 or early 2025 to present final drafts. These will be assembled and reviewed by the editors and submitted for publication in late 2025.
Submission Details
To apply, send an abstract of 300 to 500 words prepared for blind review to the organizers at alchemiesofscent@flu.cas.cz before the submission deadline.
Dates
Submission Deadline: 30 August 2023
Reviewers’ Decision: 7 September 2023
Arrival and Registration: 6 November 2023
Conference: 7–8 November 2023
The Organizers
Heike Wilde (Prague / Heidelberg)
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff)
Sean Coughlin (Prague)
3. ‘Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia’
M Buehler,
Politics and Religion, 2023
4. ‘Military Medicine in the Islamicate World’
Zsuzsanna Csorba
https://www.societyancientmedicine.org/the-rootcutter/military-medicine-in-the-islamicate-world
https://www.societyancientmedicine.org/home
5. CFP – Symposium of Shahnama in the International Culture and Art, Istanbul – Deadline: August 31, 2023
Shahnama, which has numerous copies in various collections, either illustrated or non-illustrated, is considered one of the greatest works of world classics. Written by the poet Ferdowsi to be presented to Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, Shahnama is an epic that blends the mythical and real history of Iran from the creation of the first human being to the domination of the Arabs.
Speculations about this work, which also attracts attention in the West, have been examined by researchers working in different disciplines and have been the subject of many studies, each of which has brought new evaluations. Thus, the idea of organizing a symposium and exhibition to discuss the phenomenon of Shahnama in the history of culture and art has emerged. The first event, titled “Symposium and Exhibition of Shahnama in the International Culture and Art,” will be held in Istanbul in collaboration with Istanbul University, Isfahan University, and Fatih Sultan Mehmet Foundation University from October 17th to 19th, 2023.
Researchers from various fields can participate in the symposium with papers aiming to examine Shahnama under headings such as Literature, History, Art History, Cultural History, and Art, to discuss it critically and to evaluate it from different perspectives.
The symposium aims to provide a free discussion environment for new research and monographic studies on Shahnama. In addition, the symposium is open to oral history studies, intangible cultural heritage elements, and projects that utilize technology (such as artificial intelligence, 3D works, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.).
Details about the symposium are as follows:
• The language of the symposium is Turkish, English, and Persian. Simultaneous translation will be provided in all three languages.
• The duration of presentations is 20 minutes.
• Abstracts can be directly uploaded to https://shahnamehsymposium.fsm.edu.tr/Sempozyum-Basvuru
• Abstracts should be between 250-500 words. The abstract should include the title, the aim and scope of the topic, references to the main sources, the research problem, and 3-6 keywords.
• The deadline for abstract submission is August 31st, 2023.
• Accepted papers will be announced on the symposium website on September 11th, 2023, and participants will be notified by email.
• The registration fee for the symposium is 100 TL for Turkish citizens (students), 250 TL for academics and researchers; and €25 for foreign participants (students), €125 for academics and researchers. The registration fee includes symposium materials, refreshments, and lunch. If the abstract is accepted, the registration fee should be transferred to the following account:
TR 1400 2100 0000 0021 4530 0001 – TL
TR 0300 2100 0000 0021 4530 0102 – €
• Accommodation, transportation, and daily expenses are the responsibility of the participants.
• Selected papers are planned to be compiled in a book.
We look forward to your contributions to our symposium. Thank you for your interest.
Symposium Scientific Committee
https://shahnamehsymposium.fsm.edu.tr/
shahnamehsymposium@fsm.edu.tr
6. New journal, Manuscript and Text Cultures, from the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures, Oxford: https://cmtc.queens.ox.ac.uk/. The Centre is an academic hub for interdisciplinary activities related to the study of pre-modern manuscript and epigraphic traditions from around the world.
Issues 1 & 2 of the journal are now available. Issue 2, Navigating the Text: Textual Articulation and Division in Pre-Modern Cultures can be read online at: https://mtc-journal.org/index.php/mtc
This peer-reviewed, open access journal is actively seeking submissions, particularly encouraging those dealing with comparative research and innovative approaches to the digital presentation of manuscript materials: see the website for more information.
The Centre and Journal are supported by The Queen’s College, Oxford, the Clay Foundation, and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Oxford.
7. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2024-2025 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: https://aritweb.org/fellowships/
ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey support research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and doctoral dissertation fellowships may be held from one month to one academic year.
ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the Humanities, including prehistory, art, archaeology, anthropology, literature, and linguistics, as well as all aspects of history. The fellowships support applicants who have completed their academic training, for terms ranging from four months to one year.
Applications for ARIT and ARIT-NEH research fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2023.
ARIT Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language offer intensive advanced study at Bogazici University in Istanbul during the summer 2024. Participants must have completed two years of Turkish language study or equivalent. The application deadline will be in early February 2024. The fellowships cover airfare, application and tuition fees, and a maintenance stipend.
Contact Information
Nancy Leinwand, American Research Institute in Turkey
Contact Email
URL
https://aritweb.org/fellowships/
8. The Cluster of Excellence ‘Understanding Written Artefacts’ (Universität Hamburg) is glad to announce its main conference ‘Studying Written Artefacts: Challenges and Perspectives’.
This is an in-person event. The conference will take place over three days of panel presentations structured in three parallel sessions, on 27–29 September 2023. It will provide a unique forum for sharing experiences and views among the international community working on written artefacts, showcasing pioneering research, and developing new ideas.
Mirroring the multifaceted research of the Cluster and encouraging a comparative perspective in geographical and chronological terms, the conference will draw attention to emerging research topics and innovative methodological approaches from within the humanities and natural and computer sciences. Contributions will focus, for instance, on the study of creation, transmission, and archiving of written artefacts; on single written artefacts important for their revealing features or their challenging typology and categorisation; on small and large scale theoretical reflections on written artefacts; on the ethical aspects of research on written artefacts.
The full programme and the link for registration can be found here: https://www.csmc.uni-hamburg.de/uwa2023.html
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us (giulia.dovico@uni-hamburg.de).
9. ONLINE Discussion “W’OTSAp in Ottoman and Turkish Studies? Digital Ottoman Studies”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 17 August 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT
Information and registration: https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/wotsap-upcoming-events/
10. HYBRID Lecture “Envisioning Oman: Orientalism in Art” by Hilal al-Hajri, 12 September 2023, 5:00 pm
Taking its cues from Orientalist theory of Edward Said, the lecturer`s project deals with oriental themes implied by Western drawings and paintings related to Oman, as a place, people, and culture. The goal of this project is to explore the images of Oman developed within the works of Western artists.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/envisioning-oman-orientalism-in-art
11. ONLINE Webinar “New Insights on the Major Libyan Tribes from Antiquity to the Middle Ages” by Ahmed M’Charek (University of Tunis), 20 September 2023, 18:00 CET
This is the first session of the conference cycle “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries) – Sources, Analyses, Projects ” in which we will continue to explore the sources available to the historians to write, reshape and reconsider the history of medieval Libya. A special emphasis will be put on new corpuses, especially material documentation.
Link on demand at: libyemedievale@gmail.com . Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
12. ONLINE Webinar “Cyrenaica on the Eve of the Islamic Conquest through Epigraphy and Numismatics” by Khaled Elhaddar (University of Benghazi, Libya), 18 October 2023, 18:00 CET
This is the second session of the conference cycle “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries) – Sources, Analyses, Projects ” in which we will continue to explore the sources available to the historians to write, reshape and reconsider the history of medieval Libya. A special emphasis will be put on new corpuses, especially material documentation.
Link on demand at: libyemedievale@gmail.com . Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
13. Annual Congress of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2-5 November 2023
The searchable program is available at https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/program
14. International Conference “Fiqh and Justice in An ‘Abnormal’ Context: Connecting Islamic Tradition to Contemporary Challenges”, Depok, Indonesia, 7-9 November 2023
Since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Islam has been largely seen as a problem that we need to study, analyze and resolve. Instead, the objective of this conference is to place Islam in conversation with various global challenges. Rather than perceiving Islam as a problem, the conference seeks to highlight the potentiality of Islam in inspiring creative ways to address a global issue like justice.
Deadline for applications: 10 August 2023.
Information: https://fis.uiii.ac.id/activities/events/call-for-paper-1047/
15. ONLINE Webinar “The Emirate of the Banū Tellīs in the 15th c. CE” by Zakia ELGOUD (University of Benghazi, Libya), 22 November 2023, 18:00 CET
This is the third session of the conference cycle “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries) – Sources, Analyses, Projects ” in which we will continue to explore the sources available to the historians to write, reshape and reconsider the history of medieval Libya. A special emphasis will be put on new corpuses, especially material documentation.
Link on demand at: libyemedievale@gmail.com . Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
16. ONLINE Webinar “Shedding Light on Some Islamic Sites and Buildings in Cyrenaica” by Zuha Sad AL-SADIQ (Omar al-Mukhtar University, El-Beyda, Libya), 20 December 2023, 18:00 CET
This is the third session of the conference cycle “Revisiting the History of Medieval Libya (7th-16th centuries) – Sources, Analyses, Projects ” in which we will continue to explore the sources available to the historians to write, reshape and reconsider the history of medieval Libya. A special emphasis will be put on new corpuses, especially material documentation.
Link on demand at: libyemedievale@gmail.com . Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-revisiting-the-history-of-medieval-libya-7th-16th-centuries-monthly-zoom?e=82aeb6c61d
17. 3rd Meeting “Ottoman Ego-Documents: Inventory, Analysis (1500-1800)”, Organized by Istan-bul Medeniyet University etc., Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia, 24-26 May 2024
Priority will be given to texts that can be considered self-contained ego-documents from cover to cover. Such texts, in which the author’s primary motivation is self-expression, have always drawn our interest the most. Hence, we prefer detached texts written as diaries, memoirs, or autobiographies. In addition, autobiographies presented as a cohesive part of a more extensive work are highly welcomed.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2023.
Information: https://benanlatilari.medeniyet.edu.tr/en/skopje-2024/home-page-uskup-2024
18. Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies 2024 (1-3 Months), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early stage researchers in Turkish studies. We welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna and expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcemen ts/20001508/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2024
19. Azrieli International Postdoctoral Fellowship for Mediterranean Studies (2024-26), Center for Mediterranean History, Haifa
If you are studying any aspect of Mediterranean history and would like to develop your work at the HCMH during 2024-6, please send your brief CV and 1-page research plan to Ms. Ornit Tsoury at hcmh@univ.haifa.ac.il .
Deadline for application: 15 September 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/apply-azrieli-international-postdoctoral-fellowship-in-israel-2024-26?e=82aeb6c61d
20. Open Rank (Assistant / Associate / Professor) Teaching Faculty Position in Middle Eastern History (Focus on Gender), Georgetown University Qatar
The successful candidate is expected to hold a PhD in Middle East history at the time of the appointment and to be able to teach required undergraduate courses in introductory and regional history, as well as upper-level electives in the candidate’s area of research specialization. The initial academic appointment is for a 3-year term, and is renewable.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2023. Information:
21. Open Rank (Assistant / Associate / Professor) Teaching Faculty Position in Middle Eastern History (Focus on Gender), Georgetown University Qatar
The successful candidate is expected to hold a PhD in Middle East history at the time of the appointment and to be able to teach required undergraduate courses in introductory and regional history, as well as upper-level electives in the candidate’s area of research specialization. The initial academic appointment is for a 3-year term, and is renewable.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2023. Information: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/347699/teaching-faculty-position-in-middle-eastern-history-open-rank-assistant-associate-professor-/
22. Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) in the History of the Nineteenth-Century Middle East, Department of History, Yale University
We encourage applications from scholars working in any area of the Middle East, including the Persianate world, excluding Egypt. Applicants must have expertise in, and be able to teach, the long nineteenth century in the modern Middle East including knowledge of the relevant languages and societies.
Deadline for applications:1 October 2023. Information:
23. Student Paper Prize 2023 of the Middle East Section of the “American Anthropological Association”
Both undergraduate and graduate students (who have not defended at time of submission) are eligible. The winner will receive a prize of $500, plus a chance to summarize the award-winning paper at the 2023 AAA meeting in Toronto and in Anthropology News. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words and must have been completed no earlier than 1 January 2022.
Deadline for submissions: 30 August 2023. Information: https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/07/24/call-for-submissions-2023-mes-student-paper-prize/
24. Articles for the “Syrian Studies Association Bulletin”, Fall 2023 Issue
We invites feature, news, and research article proposals, as well as book reviews, for its forthcoming Fall 2023 issue, covering issues of contemporary or historic interest in Bilad al-Sham and modern Syria, including sociology, religion, journalism, history, anthropology, international relations, archeology, media studies, en-vironmental studies, music / art studies, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20002030/2nd-cfp-syrian-studies-association-bulletin-fall-2023-issue
25. Articles for the New Journal “Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean”
Interdisciplinary approaches from humanities, social sciences, media studies and other fields of research are pivotal. Any historical period of reference is welcome, though we would strongly encourage authors to look at the region’s current complexities
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/submission-is-med-interdisciplinary-studies-on-the-mediterranean?e=82aeb6c61d
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Conference “Perceptions of Justice in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean (500-1200)”, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Madrid, 14-15 March 2024
Submissions that address issues surrounding the various theoretical notions of justice that occurred in any geographical scenario in the Christian and Islamic Mediterranean between 500-1200 will be considered, especially: Religion, theology and justice. – Justice and political culture. – Discourses and literature on justice. – Cross-cultural influences on justice.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2023.
2. Conference of the Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI): “Spaces of Familiarity, Spaces of Difference in the Mediterranean”, Academia Sinica, Taipeh, 18-19 March 2023
Scholars based in East Asia and around the world working in all disciplines, thematic fields, and time periods related to the Mediterranean are welcome to present at this conference. The theme encourages scholars to analyze how peoples interacted with the sea basin in their political, social, economic, cultural, and religious activities and exchanges.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-asian-federation-of-mediterranean-studies-institutes-taipei-18-19-march?e=82aeb6c61d
3. Panel S15 on “Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World” During the Conference “Cities at the Boundaries”, University of Ostravia, Czech Republic, 4-7 September 2024
Papers may focus on a single village, planning or design of a building complex in a particular village, or any other topic relevant to rural-urban architectural interactions in the Balkans, Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia. Papers could clarify the impact of cultural, political, economic, and physical context on the develop-ment and transformation of villages; the spatial dynamics of local societies and their interrelations with the larger world; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.
Information: https://eauh2024ostrava.osu.eu/guidelines-for-participants-and-authors/
4. “Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship” (April-June 2024), Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Durham University
This residential fellowship carries a grant, accommodation and meals, and is a valuable research and publication opportunity for early career (post-doctoral) or established scholars working on the modern history of Egypt and the wider region.
Application deadline: 20 October 2023.
Information: https://mohamedalifoundation.webspace.durham.ac.uk/about-the-fellowship-programme/
5. “Averroes/Ibn Rushd Chair for Mediterranean Islam”: 5 Months Residency in the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University, Marseille
The Averroes Chair aims to foster new forms of understanding of Muslim religious phenomena and Islamic practices in the Mediterranean, in relation to other religions of the Mediterranean region (Judaism, Christianity).
Deadline for applications: 16 October 2023.
Information: https://www.imera.fr/en/averroes-chair-2024-2025-conditions/
6. Articles for „Nazhruna: Islamic Education Journal”
This is a double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Perkumpulan Dosen Tarbiyah Islam Indonesia (PDTII). The journal publishes research articles, conceptual articles, reports on field studies, and book reviews of Islamic studies (See Focus and Scope). The articles of this journal are published every six months (2 issues per year)
Information: https://dirasah.pdtii.org/index.php/i/index
7. Book Manuscripts for “Academica Press”, London and Washington, DC
This award-winning independent non-fiction publisher seeks manuscripts from dynamic scholars across fields and at all career stages. Academica publishes actively in political science, international relations, history, literature, linguistics, religion, philosophy, cultural and regional studies, the arts, anthropology, law, and other fields.
Information: https://www.academicapress.com/node/474
8. Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion in Iran
An Intersectional Approach to National Identity
Azadeh Kian,
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/rethinking-gender-ethnicity-and-religion-in-iran-9780755650255/
9. Assistant Professor in Islamicate South Asia, The University of Chicago: Humanities Division: Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Deadline
Oct 25, 2023 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the study of Islamicate South Asia to begin July 1, 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. Research expertise may be in any period between the tenth century and 1947, and may focus on any region of South Asia, including Afghanistan.
Qualifications
The successful candidate will demonstrate a wide-ranging familiarity with Islamic textual traditions and be knowledgeable in the cultural history of Islam in the subcontinent. Applicants are expected to have expertise in at least one relevant South Asian language, such as Urdu, and a solid command of Arabic and/or Persian. They will have an active research agenda leading to publication in leading venues in their area of specialization, be able to teach undergraduate and graduate level classes in English, and to teach advanced reading classes in their language(s) of expertise. Candidates must have completed all requirements for receipt of a PhD in a relevant field by the start date of the appointment.
Application Instructions
Application materials must include:
- a cover letter
- a curriculum vitae
- a research statement
- a teaching statement
- a writing sample (article/dissertation or book chapter)
- the names and contact information for three recommenders
To apply for this position, please submit your application through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruitment website at http://apply.interfolio.com/129027. All applicant materials must be received by 11pm Central Time/Midnight Eastern Time on October 25, 2023. For questions about the position, please contact salc@uchicago.edu . Position contingent on final budgetary approval.
10. Epidemics and their determinants: Past and present
Call for papers
Barcelona, February 8 – 9, 2024
COVID-19 has shown that epidemics are not solely relics of the past, nor are they exclusive to low-income countries. Consequently, there has been a surge of academic interest in studying contemporary and historical epidemics. Despite efforts to reference and employ historical epidemic management measures such as cordons sanitaires or quarantines, historical epidemics have rarely been used as a testing ground to advance our understanding of present and future outbreaks or as a foundation for future preparedness.
This workshop aims to create a platform for interdisciplinary debate bridging the gap between past and present epidemics. It aims to bring together historians, demographers, epidemiologists, geographers, and related disciplines that deal with the study of infectious diseases. The workshop will focus on epidemics and their dynamics, both past and present. Possible topics to be addressed are:
– Socioeconomic and environmental determinants in the spread of epidemics.
– Role of non-pharmaceutical interventions on health and economic outcomes.
– Long term consequences for socioeconomic status, health and well-being.
– Marginalized groups as risk factors.
– New and old theoretical approaches to epidemics.
– Methodological contributions will be welcomed.
Please submit your abstract (300 – 500 words) to jpujadasmo@uoc.edu by December 1, 2023. Accepted proposals will be notified by December 15, 2023.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Sasanian Persia, The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Touraj Daryaee
2nd edition,
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sasanian-persia-9780755618415/
2. A History of the Tajiks, Iranians of the East
Richard Foltz
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-tajiks-9780755649655/
3. ‘Scientific Knowledge and Religious Milieu in Qajar Iran: Negotiating Muslim and European Renaissance Medicine in the Subtleties of Healing’
Hermann, D, and F Speziale,
IRAN, 61/1, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WJ56P7IIAPVPDZRPC9RW/full?target=10.1080/05786967.2020.1857939
4. Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Agesis soliciting paper proposals for the 2024 Leeds International Medieval Congress on July 1-4 which has the special thematic strand of “crisis.”
Exploring Medieval Health Crises: Authority, Practice, & Knowledge:
From epidemics and famine to barber surgeons and midwives, healing during the Middle Ages represented the ultimate response to social and personal crises. While the medieval medical experience was often a tale of hardship and loss, historians of medicine continue to demonstrate that healing knowledge and practice in this period also revealed remarkable resilience, practicality, and innovation. In these sessions, Medica hopes to explore how society and individuals coped with health crises and the healing interventions that resulted from these events. We, therefore, invite papers that explore the many varied types of crises found within the scope of medieval health and healing. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to:
- Conflict and change within the profession of healers, midwives, barber surgeons, and/or physicians
- Approaches to epidemics and famine
- Emotional, physical, or mental responses to a crisis of personal health
- Gendered approaches to health crises
- Responses to medical crisis within medieval society including treatments, techniques, and remedies
- Governmental and Church reactions to health crises
- Health crises and healing in visual or material culture
- Interdisciplinary studies in premodern healing
Please send your proposals of 250 words to Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages at medievalmedica@gmail.com before 15 September.
Nichola Harris, Ph.D.
President, Medica: the Society for Healing in the Middle Ages
Professor of European History
Department of History
SUNY Ulster
(845) 687 1577
5. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Astong University
The Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR) Department are looking to make one appointment from 1 January 2024 at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level. You will be able to contribute to the teaching of various sub-disciplines within International Relations and, ideally, have an area studies specialism in either Africa or the Middle East.
Deadline | 10 August 2023
6. Research Associate in the Department of Music (Literary Studies, including Comparative Literature, with Medieval Arabic and/or Hebrew)
King’s College London
The Music Department invites applicants for a 3-year position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work with Professor Emma Dillon and two further PDRAs on the project Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100-1300 [MUSLIVE] (a UKRI Frontier Research Grant, previously ERC). For this post we seek a candidate with background in literary studies, including comparative literary studies, or related fields. The candidate should have experience working with medieval Arabic and/or Hebrew literature.
Deadline | 21 August 2023
7. Lecturer in International Relations (Education and Research)
University of Exeter
The Department for Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology (SPSPA) invites applications for this full-time permanent post. Though the thematic, theoretical, and methodological specialisations for the position are open, we would be particularly interested in candidates with expertise in International Relations in the specific regional areas of East Asia, the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, or the Middle East.
Deadline | 18 September 2023
8. Call for Papers – Conceptualizing Sacred Languages and Their Visual Inimitability
AGYA Conference | SOAS, University of London | 7-8 December 2023
This conference explores the dynamic relationship between sacred languages and their visual elements, highlighting the interplay between language, writing, and spirituality. It focuses on the shapes of letters and patterns created by word arrangement, shedding light on how these writing systems evoke a profound sense of awe and reverence. The organisers welcome contributions exploring languages in the Middle East and beyond.
Deadline for Abstracts | 31 August 2023
9. Call for Papers – Sustainable Water Management: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
Conference | British International Research Institutes (BIRI) | London, 15-16 March 2024
The world is facing an unprecedented water crisis due to increasingly extreme weather patterns, unsustainable water management practices, overuse of available resources, and exponential population growth. In order to bring scholars from different disciplines working on similar topics together to share results and learning and form collaborative networks for the future, BIRI are inviting papers for this 2-day interdisciplinary conference.
Deadline | 15 September 2023
10. Call for Proposals – 2024 Travel Research Engagement Grants
The Project on Middle East Political Science has announced a call for proposals for POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) grants for 2024. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research travel to the broader Middle East in support of an ongoing academic research project or the development of new research projects. Given the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the unusual difficulty of conducting research in the region, they will continue to consider proposals for research which does not involve travel to the Middle East.
Deadline | 30 September 2023
11. Upcoming Short Courses with AKU-ISMC
Registration is open for following short courses:
- Introduction to Arabic Translation (Arabic to English)
3-31 October 2023 (Online) - Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology
4-5 October 2023 (Online)
12. 2024 Sir William Luce fellowship: call for applications
The Sir William Luce Memorial Fund welcomes applications for the 2024 Sir William Luce Fellowship, 22 April-21 June 2024.
The Sir William Luce Fellowship is awarded annually to a scholar at post-doctoral level, diplomat, politician, or business executive, working on those parts of the Middle East to which Sir William Luce devoted his working life (the Gulf states, South Arabia, Iran and Sudan and South Sudan). The fellowship is hosted by Durham University during the Easter term of each academic year. Recent fellows have included Professor Mark Katz, Edward Thomas, Helen Lackner, Richard Barltrop, Ambassador John W. Limbert and Dr Leben Moro.
The Fund is looking for research proposals that provide fresh perspectives on urgent regional issues that particularly affect the Gulf States, South Arabia and Iran. The Fund notes that the University holds several collections relating to the MENA region, including the Gulf, and also the Sudan Archive; applicants are encouraged to reference these historical collections in their research proposals. The Committee administering the Sir William Luce Memorial Fund reserves the right not to make an appointment to a Fellowship.
The Fellowship, tenable jointly in the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies and Trevelyan College, entitles the holder to full access to departmental and other University facilities such as Computing and Information Services and the University Library. The Fellowship also carries a grant, accommodation and all meals for the duration of the Fellowship. Fellows reside at Trevelyan College and are warmly encouraged to take a full part in the life of the Senior Common Room during their residence.
The Fellow is expected to deliver a lecture on the subject of his or her research which will be designated ‘The Sir William Luce Lecture’, and should be cast in such a way as to form the basis of a paper to be published in a special edition of the Durham Middle East Papers series.
Applicants for the 2024 Fellowship (22 April-21 June 2024) should send a CV (of no more than 2 pages), a two to three-page outline of their proposed research and contact details for two referees, preferably by e-mail, by Monday 16 October 2023 to:
The Honorary Secretary
Sir William Luce Memorial Fund
Durham University Library
Palace Green
Durham
DH1 3RN
United Kingdom
Email: luce.fund@durham.ac.uk
Call for applications: https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/asc-sudan-archive/blog/Call-for-applications-2024-Sir-William-Luce-fellowship-Institute-for-Middle-E
Past Sir William Luce papers: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/research/fellowships/william-luce-fellowship/visiting-fellows-and-sir-william-luce-papers/
13. Four Central Asian Shrines
A Socio-Political History of Architecture
R.D. McChesney
Brill, 2021
https://brill.com/display/title/59906
14. The Mamluk Sultanate : a history
Carl Petry, Carl
Cambridge, 2022
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mamluk-sultanate/48BF079B3C0D6661BC028DAF070BADF6
15. Assistant Professor in Arab Studies (Tenure-track), Davidson College, North Carolina
We seek applications from candidates who research and teach one or more aspects of Arab culture, with preference given to candidates focused on the modern period. We welcome applications from candidates whose work falls within any field in literary, cultural, and/or media studies. Native-level fluency in Arabic is required. Research proficiency in a second language spoken in the Middle East is desirable.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/494523/assistant-professor-in-arab-studies-tenuretrack
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Interdisciplinary Symposium: “Druze Studies – Past, Present, and Future”, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 15-16 November 2023
We seek submissions of original, unpublished research projects that focus on the Druze as a whole, a specific Druze community or communities, or a comparison between the Druze and others. Presentations can be from a discipline-specific approach or those who employ an interdisciplinary approach. Panels and papers can be in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2023. Information: https://druze.ku.edu/symposium-2023-cfp
2. Conference “Order Contestation in the Eastern Mediterranean: Causes, Nature, and Consequences”, Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel, 12-13 December 2023
The Conference will examine how, to what extent, and why the liberal script is challenged and contested in the Eastern Mediterranean, and to what effect. It seeks to examine variations on these questions both among the countries of the region, as well as between this region and other regions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/18/cfp-order-contestation-in-the-eastern-mediterranean
3. ONLINE Symposium: “Muhammad Iqbal: The Relevance of a Legacy”, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, 9-10 February 2024
The intellectual legacy of the “Indian-Pakistani” philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938) stands as a landmark in modern Islamic thought. The aim of this symposium is to bring together junior and senior Iqbal scholars in order to revisit his intellectual legacy and investigate the potentials in his thought for new philosophies and theologies from an Islamic perspective and in conversation with other non-Islamic intellectual traditions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://mohammedhashas.com/call-for-papers-muhammad-iqbal-the-relevance-of-a-legacy-symposium/
4. HYBRID Kentucky Foreign Language Conference “Research on Arabic and Islamic Studies”, Lexington, Kentucky, 18-20 April 2024 Abstracts are invited in all areas and aspects of Arabic and Islamic Studies, including Arabic Literature, Film, and Culture • Arab Mythology and Folklore • Gender and Women’s Studies • Arab History and Thought • Arabic Language Pedagogy • Islam in America • Islamic History, Culture, and Thought • Islamic Law.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2023.
Information: https://kflc.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/2023-06/AIS%20CFP%202024.pdf
5. Interdisciplinary Conference “Personal Stories from the Literary Landscapes of the Agitated (Post-)Byzantine World (13th to 16th c.) – Intercultural Perspectives”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 17-19 April 2024
This conference aims to look at texts telling personal stories from the later Middle Ages, taking as its starting point the (formerly) Byzantine territories in the European East and Anatolia. This conference thus has a deeply interdisciplinary focus and intends to include papers on a wide range of languages (such as Greek, Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkic, Latin, Romance languages, Armenian, Georgian, Slavonic languages, He-brew.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/19/call-for-papers-personal-stories-from-the-literary-landscapes-of-the-agitated-post-byzantine-world-13th-to-16th-c.-intercultural-perspectives
6. Symposium on Fakhr al-Din al-Razi”, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 26-28 April 2024
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s (d. 606/1210) position as a preeminent figure of Postclassical Islam was influential in nearly all areas of knowledge, this symposium welcomes proposals for presentations on any of the fields to which Rāzī dedicated himself, e.g., philosophy, logic, the sciences, magic and sorcery, theology, Qurʾānic exegesis, and jurisprudence. Presentations may also focus on Rāzī’s life and legacy.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/15/symposium-on-fakhr-al-din-al-razi
7. 2 Fellowships in Political Economy (1 Senior Research Fellow and 1 PhD student) for Research Project “Economic and Political Self-determination in the Global South”, Bard College Berlin
The research project studies the history and present of attempts at structural economic transformation after colonialism, anti-imperialism in theory and practice and contemporary organizing around socio-ecological transformation, reparations and delinking.
Deadline for application: 15 August 2023. Information: https://berlin.bard.edu/about-us/employment/
8. Junior Professor Chair (5 Years): “Arts and Heritage of Afghanistan”, University of Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris
Key words: Afghanistan (ancient, medieval, modern); tangible and intangible heritage; area studies; endan-gered languages and dialects / linguistic identities.
Deadline for applications: 23 August 2023. Information:
http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/chaire-professeur-junior-arts-patrimoine-afghanistan
9. Website Manager and Publicity Officer for the “Persian Manuscripts Association” (Unpaid)
The PMA is a new international academic membership organization that aims to support and promote re-search on Persianate manuscript studies. The Association hopes to organize regular events, publish new research and facilitate increased communication and cooperation across its membership base.
Deadline for applications: 30 July 2023. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/news/
10. Oman Research Grant for Visiting Research Fellowships in Fields Related to Omani Studies, Three Months at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin
The Grant comprises funding for a research stay in Berlin of up to 3 months in 2024 at ZMO, as well as travel costs to Berlin, for the successful candidates. We are seeking to attract outstanding postdoctoral scholars at junior or senior levels of their career who are engaged in projects in research fields related to Omani Studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karriere/Ausschreibungen_2023/CfP_Oman_Research_Grant_2024.pdf
11. Articles on “Contemporary Challenges in Islamic Studies” for First Issue of the New “Islamic Studies Journal”
Articles on “Research methods, objectivity, and change in renewing Islamic Studies” and “Challenges caused by specialization in terms of affiliation, academic discipline, discourse narrative or divergent worldviews” are invited for initial issues of this journal published in cooperation with Brill and Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Humanities, Abu Dhabi.
Deadline for abstracts in Arabic or English: 1 September 2023.
Submissions and contact: Islamic.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae .
12. Articles for “Journal of Islamic Studies”, University of South Africa
Articles are invited on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. Articles on Islam in Africa and contemporary Islam are especially welcomed.
Deadline for articles: 30 September 2023. Information. https://unisapressjournals.co.za/index.php/JIS/an-nouncement/view/142
13. Articles for “Diyâr 5.1: Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”, 9th Issue, Spring 2024
We welcome original and as yet unpublished contributions from all research areas of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies. Papers should not exceed a length of 60,000 characters (including spaces and foot-notes). Diyâr accepts contributions in German, English, and French.
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2023. Information: https://www.nomos.de/en/journals/diyar/
14. The Fintry Trust
Al-Ghazali
Major Muslim Intellectual of the Middle Ages
with Professor Carole Hillenbrand
Friday 29th September 2023 6.00pm –7.15pm(London)
This session on the eminent Muslim philosopher al-Ghazali will begin with a brief survey of his life. Wewill discuss his early years in Iran, his education and his celebrated career in Baghdad and then his later life back home in Iran. Al-Ghazali wrote about many aspects of the Muslim faith:-Islamic law, theology, philosophy, ethics, statecraft, political thought and Sufism. In short, he was a polymath.Professor Hillenbrandwill talk about his works, in both Arabic and Persian,on these crucial topics.
Speaker Professor Carole Hillenbrandwas educated at Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh and she spent most of her career teaching Arabic and Islamic History at Edinburgh University. She has published seven books and fifty-five articles.One of her major scholarly interests is the life and work of al-Ghazali. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2019she received, with her husband Robert, the medal of the Royal Asiatic Society, the Society’s highest award. The Queenawarded her an OBE for her services to higher education in 2009 and a CBE for promoting a better understanding of Islam in 2018.
Tickets: £12 for an invitation on Zoom Book online on the Fintry Trust website: https://thefintrytrust.org.uk/events/al-ghazali
15. CFP: NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE HISTORY OF EARLY ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE:
Panel at College Art Association Annual Conference in Chicago Feb. 14-17, 2024.
Deadline for submission: August 31, 2023 (Please use link below to submit a proposal)
Panel Abstract:
With the passing of fifty years since the initial publication of Oleg Grabar’s The Formation of Islamic Art, this panel invites/presents papers that reflect on the recent developments in the history of early Islamic art and architecture from the time of the Prophet through the “Age of the Caliphates” (ca. 650–1050 CE). Significant archaeological discoveries, a broader geographical range, and the introduction of new methodological and theoretical approaches have expanded, challenged, or otherwise engaged Grabar’s pioneering synthesis of debates about the first four centuries of Islamic art and architecture. This is a field that was and, in many ways, still is defined by a series of binaries including courtly/religious, continuity/change, public/private, and aniconic/figural. We invite papers that seek to reconsider or deconstruct these dichotomies. Topics may include processes of adaptation from various visual practices of Late Antiquity; new chronological frameworks based on material/socio-technical regimes; new areas of inquiry, including the performative object, space, or gaze; alternative ways of thinking through materiality, spectacle, audience, and authorship; as well as the complicated legacies of colonialism within the field. This panel offers a chance to evaluate how the study of early Islamic visual and material culture have changed since The Formation of Islamic Art and map out new futures for the field.
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12698.html
Contact Information
Theodore Van Loan
Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Art
Washington and Lee University
Contact Email
URL
https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Session12698.html
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