Categories : Academic items
Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP – Sohbat-Yaji-Gathering: On the Frontiers of Asian Arts, Graduate Students Symposium, Yale University – deadline: September 15, 2023
Sohbat-Yaji-Gathering: On the Frontiers of Asian Arts
Call for Papers | Graduate Students Symposium | Department of the History of Art
Yale University
The Second Biennial Graduate Student Sohbat-Yaji (i.e., gathering), to be held at Yale University on January 19-20, 2024, invites submissions from graduate students working on all areas of Asian art (for example, but not limited to Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) and their diasporas (for example, in Al-Andalus, North and East Africa, Oceana) that focus on sites, materials, and histories, and engage with new and underrepresented geographies, archives, and methodologies. We intend to bring together graduate students at any level of their study to connect and share their research and ask them to consider critically in their submissions the structural biases, canons, and disciplinary boundaries imposed upon the study of Asian art by colonial/Euro-American modes of knowledge. Interested participants should submit a working title and a maximum 250-word abstract by Sept 15, 2023, to: singleslidesohbat@gmail.com.
Logistics
- The symposium will provide meals and two nights of accommodation; travel subsidies are possible depending on funding availability. We encourage students to apply for additional funding from their institutions for expenses related to travel.
- Each student speaker will present their paper for 15 minutes. There will be time for Q&A in each panel.
Submission Guidelines
Please send your abstract (250 words), a working title, CV, and the images of two artworks related to your proposed paper to singleslidesohbat@gmail.com by 11:59 PM on September 15, 2023. Please title your email “Submission.” Please send inquiries and submissions to singleslidesohbat@gmail.com.
Symposium Organizers
Graduate Student Organizers: Ankush Arora, David Cambronero Sanchez, Yagnaseni Datta, Sharon Mizbani, Hasan Nisar, and Julia Qingye Wang.
Faculty Advisors: Quincy Ngan and Kishwar Rizvi
2. The San Diego Museum of Art – Research Assistant for South Asian and Islamic Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65586
Department: Curatorial Affairs
Reports To: Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art
Classification: Full-Time, Non-Exempt (1-year Assignment)
Position Summary
The Research Assistant for South Asian and Islamic Art’s primary responsibility will be to assist the Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art in implementing the September 2024 exhibition, Wonders of Creation: Art, Science, and Innovation in the Islamic World with exhibition administration and related programming. In addition, the Research Assistant will assist the Curator with ongoing duties related to the SDMA South Asian and Islamic collections, including gallery rotations, updating database records, acquisitions, and upcoming projects. Working closely with and coordinating between the curator, other museum staff, and external stakeholders, this is an opportunity to gain firsthand experience in exhibition planning and general curatorial practice, including methods of display and interpretation, as well as knowledge of object storage, handling, installation, and conservation techniques.
Duties and Responsibilities
Assisting Lead Curator with the following:
- Managing exhibition checklist.
- Administration of loans and exhibition-related travel.
- Conducting research on objects and themes for display.
- Organizing the accompanying publication.
- Organizing and participating in workshops and meetings with other departments, academic committee, and external consultants.
- Developing public programming and liaising with community stakeholders.
- Writing labels/didactic text.
Qualifications
- MA in Art History, History, History of Science, Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies, or related field.
- Reading knowledge of Arabic and/or Persian preferred.
- Knowledge/background in the histories of Islamic art and material culture, literature, or science.
- Two years museum experience preferred, with some experience of exhibitions or collections administration.
- Excellent organizational skills, detail oriented.
- Eagerness to work both independently and collaboratively in an innovative manner.
- Ability to take initiative, work well under pressure, and manage multiple tasks.
- Ability to be culturally sensitive and respectful of diversity.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and in writing. At ease corresponding with multiple individuals representing American and international private and public collections or research institutions.
- Experience using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and collections databases (i.e., EmbARK, TMS, etc.).
Physical Requirements
- 75% time spent sitting at the computer.
- The position requires time working outside the Museum; may involve considerable time sitting or standing; and some climbing of stairs and reaching.
- Daily walking, which includes stairs.
Work Environment
- Ability to work remotely if necessary.
- Office space may be shared.
- Noise level in office ranges from quiet to moderately noisy.
Salary: $23.00 per hour
APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2023
Contact Information
Call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
Contact Email
URL
3. Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
In-house
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Fees: £1500 (Limited scholarship is available)
Starting: 6 November 2023
Application Deadline: 15 September 2023
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences/
4. UNCG (University of North Carolina Greensboro) has a position available for an Arabic instructor to teach Arabic 101 in Fall 2023.
The class meets M/W/F 10-10:50 and can be taught in person or likely via zoom. Applicants should apply ASAP to the Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Dept at UNCG, with attention to the Department Head, Dr. Mariche Bayonas, megarcia@uncg.edu.
5. The Islamic College
Traditional Hawza Programmes
Hawza Study – Full Time (4 years)/Part Time (5-6 years)
Pre-Hawza Study – Saturday (1 year)
Starting: 20 September 2023
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/traditional-hawza-programmes/
6. The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: Studying East of Byzantium IX: Communities.
Studying East of Byzantium IX: Communities is a three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral students and very recent PhDs studying the Christian East to reflect on how to reflect on the usefulness of the concept of “Community” in studying the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with workshop respondents, Michael Pifer, University of Michigan, and Salam Rassi, University of Edinburgh. The workshop will meet on November 17, 2023, February 9, 2024, and June 6–7, 2024, on Zoom. The timing of the workshop meetings will be determined when the participant list is finalized.
We invite all graduate students and recent PhDs working in the Christian East whose work considers, or hopes to consider, the theme of communities in their own research to apply.
Participation is limited to 10 students. The full workshop description is available on the East of Byzantium website (https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/). Those interested in attending should submit a C.V. and 200-word abstract through the East of Byzantium website no later than September 13, 2023.
For questions, please contact East of Byzantium organizers, Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Harvard University, and Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at contact@eastofbyzantium.org
7. Iznik Ceramics at the Benaki Museum
By John Carswell and Mina Moraitou
with Melanie Gibson
Published 19 June 2023 by GINGKO
https://www.gingko.org.uk/publishing/books/benaki-iznik/
8. New Issue Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
an open access publication of the Aga Khan University and the Aga Khan Museum, in partnership with Brill.
https://brill.com/view/journals/mcmw/mcmw-overview.xml?language=en
9. HYBRID International Conference „Bridging the Gap – Texts, Commentaries and the New Audience”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (BIT), Humboldt-University Berlin, 27-29 July 2023
The study of commentaries (sharḥ, ḥawāshī, nukat) has steadily increased in recent years. The conference looks into the role of the commentator as mediator who keeps a text relevant, both by commenting on it and adding to it, and by connecting that text to the ever-changing environment that studied it.
Information, program and streaming link:
10. Tenure-track Position in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies: “The Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamic World (ca. 1000-1700)”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The position is open to highly qualified scholars with expertise in the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history of the Islamicate world in the relevant historical periods. Candidates are expected to have high research proficiency in the Arabic language. Knowledge of additional languages, such as Persian and Ottoman Turkish, is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 12 August 2023. Information: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#
11. Articles for the Project “Foundations for a New Afghan Social Contract”, Institute for Law and Society in Afghanistan, Paderborn University
What direction is Afghanistan and its people taking? How can Afghans overcome the divisions of the past? How can they act together in the face of the challenges the nation is faced with? We invite Afghans aged up to 25 years to share their views, hopes and demands. Please send your essay in Dari, Pashto or English to info@ilsaf.org. We will not publish your name if you prefer so. The best contributions will be awarded (10.000 AFN).
Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2023. Information: https://www.ilsaf.org/projects/#Foundation
- July 22, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Religion and Secularism in Turkey: Problems and Prospect
A Talk by Dr Caroline Tee
Thursday 21 September 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW10 2SW
Register:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-religion-and-secularism/
2. Ibn Khaldun in the 21st Century: Is He Still Relevant?
A Talk by Dr Farid Al-Attas
Thursday 2 October 2023
6 pm – 7:30 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW10 2SW
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-ibn-khaldun/
3. 10 Scholarships to Learn Persian in Winter 2023, Yerevan, Armenia
ARMACAD is pleased to announce scholarships – https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad for eligible students in Iranian Studies and associated disciplines to attend ASPIRANTUM’s winter school for the Persian language, which lasts for 4-8 weeks.
The scholarship:
ARMACAD offers up to 10 scholarships to eligible students interested in learning Persian in Armenia. Please have a look at the criteria below to determine if you qualify. The cost of the Persian Language course ranges from $3490 to $5490 depending on the duration, which can be between 4 to 8 weeks. The fee for 8 weeks is $5490, 7 weeks is $4990, 6 weeks is $4490, 5 weeks is $3990, and 4 weeks is $3490.
If the student is awarded the ARMACAD scholarship, they will receive a $1200 discount on the course fee, which means they will have to pay $1200 less than the original cost.
Who is eligible?
Only apply for this scholarship if you satisfy the eligibility requirements.
Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs in Iranian Studies and related fields, who are enrolled in universities or academic institutions in the countries specified below, can apply for the ARMACAD scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.
This scholarship is only available to citizens of the following countries.
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.
If you have already received funding from other sources, please refrain from applying for this scholarship.
Deadline to apply:
Please apply for this scholarship by July 31, 2023.
Application:
To apply, please go to this scholarship announcement on ARMACAD’s webpage and fill in the online application form there.
Before applying, please make sure you have already applied to winter school for the Persian language.
Before you apply, you can check the testimonials of ASPIRANTUM language school alumni.
Contact Information
For questions and inquiries, please get in touch with khachik@aspirantum.com or WhatsApp Dr. Khachik Gevorgyan at +374-91-557978
4. Nigāristān by Mu‘īn al-Dīn Mu‘īnī Juvainī: A Facsimile Edition.
Edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce
Mazda, 2023
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/nigristn-a-facsimile-edition
- July 18, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – CfP: ‘Shia Islam and Modern Society’ (Hybrid – 30.11.23-1.12.23, Indiana University)
For futher information, see the above link.
Abstracts of 150-200 words should be submitted to Dr. Carl Pearson by email, pearsonc@iu.edu, by August 1, 2023.
Accepted authors will be notified by August 31, 2023, and are expected to submit a full paper by October 30, 2023.
Papers should not exceed 6,000 words (including references) and should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition).
- July 17, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Art of Iran in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries; Tracing the Modern and the Contemporary,
Hamid Keshmirshekan
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
2. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies
This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2022 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The winner will be awarded $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2023.
An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome.
Deadline for nominations: Friday, September 8, 2023
Award Committee:
- Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, University of Central Florida
- Ekrem Karakoc. Binghamton University
- Nikola Mirilovic, University of Central Florida
3. AMECYS Call for Papers: Graduate Student Paper Prize
AMECYS Call for Papers:
Graduate Student Paper Prize
Submission deadline: September 1, 2023
The Association of Middle East Children’s and Youth Studies (AMECYS) calls graduate students engaged in the study of children and youth in the region to submit papers to the AMECYS graduate student paper prize. A cash prize of $100 will be awarded to the winner at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) of North America’s annual meeting in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, November 2-5, 2023
Papers can be submitted in any capacity that aligns with AMECYS’ mission statement:
The AMECYS is a private, non-profit, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.
Requirements for submission:
- Papers should be original scholarship. However, papers readying for journal submission are acceptable (i.e., not yet submitted for publication or published).
- No more than 7,500 words (excluding endnotes and bibliographies)
- Standard font, Double-spaced, 1” margins, IJMES standards for endnotes and transliteration
- AMECYS membership in good standing
- Proof of registered graduate student enrolment for the 2023-2024 academic year may be requested at a later date
AMECYS graduate student representatives Atacan Atakan, Reda Rafai, and Melis Sulos will review all papers submitted by members of AMECYS that are received by the deadline of September 1.
Send submissions as a pdf or word doc to dylan.baun@uah.edu.
For any queries, email AMECYS program chair at dylan.baun@uah.edu.
4. One Year CEDEJ Fellowship to a PhD Student Working on Contemporary Egypt from a Humanities or Social Science Perspective (September 2023 – August 2024), Cairo
The fellow will reside in Egypt, participate in the academic life of CEDEJ, receive office space and be granted full access to the library. The monthly stipend is 25,000 EGP. Applications will include: A Curriculum Vitae, a cover letter, a research project (2,000 words maximum), including a note on methodology.
Please email your application in one single PDF file before 31 July 2023 to communication@cedej-eg.org
5. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle East History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
We are interested in candidates whose research and teaching focus on the history of the Middle East (broadly conceived) working in the Early Modern to Modern era. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Empire (Mediterranean), Global History of the Middle East, Intellectual History, Cultural History, Gender, Religion, Political Theory, History of Science, Economic History
Deadline for applications: 30 October 2023. Information:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/07/13/assistant-professor-in-middle-east-history
6. International Winter School “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources”, Organized by the French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), with University of Halle-Wittenberg, Ifpo, CETOBaC, IREMAM, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universität Heidelberg, ASBÜ An-kara, Orient Institut Beirut, Cairo, 18-23 February 2024
The programme will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and Ph.D. candidates, though postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era. Materials from the 16th through the 20th centuries will receive most of our attention, but explorations into earlier archives are welcome. No tuition fees; selected students will be offered full coverage of the winter school costs.
Deadline for application: 31 August 2023.
Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1542/
7. “OTSA Award for Digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies”, Ottoman & Turkish Studies Association
This award is meant to support work by promising advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and schol-ars who have completed their Ph.D. within the last three years. The award will be given to the applicant who can best demonstrate potential for a major scholarly contribution using available tools and methods of digital Ottoman and Turkish Studies.
Deadline for applications extended to 1 August 2023.
Information: https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/#jump06
8. Photo Contest of the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association
We encourage submissions from anthropologists especially from the MENA region. Each person is limited to one submission of five photographs. We ask that those submitting be members of the Middle East Section, except for students, non-tenure track faculty or scholars in the Global South if membership imposes a signif-icant hardship.
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2023.
Information: https://mes.americananthro.org/2023/07/04/call-for-submissions-for-mes-photo-contest/
- July 15, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics
January 2024 Meeting, Call for Papers
Submission Deadline August 4
(Re-)imagining Muslim Ethics in Times of Transformation
We welcome paper, panel, or roundtable proposals dealing with all aspects of Muslim/Islamic ethics broadly defined. Areas of interest include but are not limited to Islamic/Muslim ethics of science, politics, gender and sexuality, economics, race, bioethics, medicine, animals and the environment, and recently published books on any of these topics.
Information: www.SSMEthics.org
Graduate students and early career scholars are encouraged to submit proposals.
2. 4th Biennial Conference for Arabic Teaching & Learning in Higher Education: “Linguistic Diversity & Translanguaging in Arabic Language Teaching”, University of Cambridge, 18 April 2024
We are inviting the submission of evidence-based abstracts for papers, panels and workshops relating to the conference theme, but not limited to the following sub-themes: Perceptions of Translanguaging – The varieties we teach – Approaches to assessment.
Deadline for abstracts: 14 July 2023. Information: https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/call-for-papers-4th-biennial-conference-for-arabic-teaching-learning-in-higher-education/
3. Researcher in Middle East Politics (18 Months), Middle East Studies Programme, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, Oxford
We welcome applications from early career researchers who have completed a first degree and/or a PhD/DPhil in a relevant subject area, with experience of collecting data from the MENA region. The ideal candidate will use the data collected to advance their own research agenda. Knowledge of Arabic-language OCR engines and the R/Python programming languages is desirable, although training can be provided.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2023.
4. Fully Funded COSIMENA Summer School “Cross-cultural Communication: How Can We Understand Each Other?” Organized by DAAD Egypt, Freie Universität Berlin and Ahram Canadian University, Cairo, 10-17 September 2023
Junior researchers from the MENA region as well as from Germany are invited to apply, with the aim of achieving regional diversity and fostering intercultural cooperation between the two regions. Disciplines include: Mass communication – Cultural Studies – History – Political sciences and economics – Sociology – Film Studies – Middle East Studies – Information technology, and other fields related to the topic.
Deadline for applications: 20 July 2023. Information and applications: https://www.daad.eg/en/2023/07/03/c osimena-summer-school-2023-on-cross-cultural-communication-how-can-we-understand-each-other/
5. Online Program “Master of Arts in Kurdish Studies” (2 Years), Zahra Institute, Chicago
The program highlights: A unique focus on the humanities aspects of Kurdish Studies including literature, music, visual arts, and cinema. – Covers a topic area long overlooked by traditional Middle Eastern Studies programs. – Gain access to the language and culture of approximately forty million people. – Flexibility of an on-line program with the highest American academic standards.
Deadline for applications: 12 August 2023. Information: www.zahrainstitute.org
6. Articles for “Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies”, Issue De-cember 2023
Afkaruna aims to promote excellent articles on Islam that present original findings, new ideas or concepts that result from contemporary research projects in Islamic studies, area studies (especially Southeast Asia and the Middle East), social sciences, and humanities.
Deadline for articles: 15 October 2023. Information: https://journal.umy.ac.id/index.php/afkaruna
7. CfP: Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop, Oct 2023
The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) invites submissions for its seventh annual workshop, scheduled to take place in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on October 7-8, 2023. We welcome works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, and especially encourage graduate students to participate.
The Society aims to provide a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab, particularly of the medieval and early modern periods, to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open in order to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful, but as a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Muslim societies across the Eastern Hemisphere. This naturally includes the major Islamicate languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others (Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew, Spanish, etc.) that participate in similar literary conventions.
Those who wish to participate can apply by filling out our online application by August 30, 2023. Please note that each accepted participant will be given 45 minutes to present and discuss their work; because of this, we have limited space and may have to turn down some submissions if we receive too many. In such an event, preference will generally be given to graduate students, junior scholars based in the Great Lakes region, and works in progress. All participants should plan to cover their own costs.
All applicants can expect to hear back from us by early September.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
8. WHOME (Women Historians of the Middle East) 2023 Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Nominations
2023 Call for Nominations
We are pleased to announce the call for submissions for our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to highlight the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The journal article (not to exceed 8,000 words, including citations and bibliography) can be published, under review, or submitted to a peer-reviewed journal. The article must be published in English or translated into English; it may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline of history. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The applicant must not have been awarded a doctorate prior to October 1, 2022.
Articles may be submitted by the author (self-nomination) or as nominations by academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journal editors may nominate up to three articles. (Authors must confirm by email that they accept the nomination before the submission deadline.) Jointly published articles are accepted for submission, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified by October 26, 2023 and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author will also receive a $250 monetary award.
Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2023. To apply, please follow the following link:
Questions? Please contact contactwhome@gmail.com
9. SCORE lecture series: “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”
11 July, 4 pm CEST, Philip Wood (Aga Khan University) will discuss “Christian Rebels in Syriac Sources, 750-850”.
To join via Zoom, simply send an email to score.aai@uni-hamburg.de and you’ll receive the access details.
10. An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia
Jonathan Brack
University of California Press, 2023
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520392908/an-afterlife-for-the-khan
Discount flyer (30%): https://www.academia.edu/98957250/An_Afterlife_for_the_Khan_Muslims_Buddhists_and_Sacred_Kingship_in_Mongol_Iran_and_Eurasia_30_discount_
11. CfP: Online Conference and Special Issue on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA)
This is a call for papers for an online conference (hosted by Charles Sturt University and Georgetown University) followed by a journal special issue (in Comparative Islamic Studies) on Isnad-cum-Matn analysis (ICMA) as a Method in Contemporary Hadith Studies.
The organising committee invites papers from a range of scholarly perspectives to address this significant and contested area of study. The overall aim is to provide a ‘state of the art’ appraisal of ICMA within hadith studies and related academic disciplines.
Papers are requested on topics addressing questions such as:
- How has ICMA been received in hadith studies in the past three decades?
- What is the epistemic status of ICMA analysis?
- What does ICMA reveal about the common links of hadith?
- What are the advantages and limitations of the technique, and the scope of its application?
- Are there similar techniques to the ICMA in classical Muslim scholarship and have they yielded the same results?
- What are the challenges of conducting ICMA and can technology, such as electronic databases and AI generated tools, contribute to the development of reliable tools?
- How does ICMA relate to the historiographical reception of hadith in academic circles and the hadith canon in Islamic religious tradition?
The full background to the conference and how to submit an abstract can be found at: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/research/icma-conference. Details about attendance will be publicised at a later date.
- July 11, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Ben-Gurion University of the Negev – Iranian studies or Gulf studies
The position will begin on 1 October 2024. The deadline for application is 8 October 2023.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65522
2. Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests
Edited by Josephine van den Bent,
Floris van den Eijnde and
Johan Weststeijn
Brill, 2022
3. A Bibliography of Islamic Criminal Law
Olaf Köndgen
Brill, 2021
4. CfP: Al-Karmil
Editor-in-Chief: Roy Vilozny,
Editors: Arin Salamah-Qudsi, Reuven Snir,
and Yehudit Dror,
Managing Editor: Rawand Sliman-Baraky
A forum for the study of Arabic language and literature as well as Islamic civilization in general, from the pre-Islamic period to the present. Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature welcomes contributions in Arabic or in English.
5. New Brill series: Iran and the Caucasus Monographs is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed book series that covers recent findings in Irano-Indian, Caucasian, Near-Eastern, Armenian, and Turkic studies. The focus will be on linguistics and philology, history, archaeology, anthropology, history of religions, art history, as well as ethnopolitical and security issues concerning the said regions.
6. New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies
Volume Editors: Aaron W. Hughes and Abbas Aghdassi
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/64129
7. Sufis and Their Lodges in the Ottoman Ḥijāz
Ḥasan b. `Alī al-`Ujaymī’s (d. 1113/1702) Khabāyā al-zawāyā “Secrets of the Lodges” & Risāla fī ṭuruq al-ṣūfiyya “Treatise on Sufi Orders”
Naser Dumairieh
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/63423
8. Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, recrutement INaLCO
Information: Recrutement Chaire Professeur Junior “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan”, INaLCO
Appel aux candidatures: clôture le 27/08/2023
Mise en place par la loi de programmation pour la recherche, la chaire de professeur junior (CPJ) constitue une nouvelle voie de recrutement permettant d’accéder à un emploi de titulaire dans le corps des professeurs de universités et assimilés ou de directeurs de recherche. Le recrutement s’effectue sur un projet de recherche et d’enseignement porté par un titulaire de doctorat ou de diplôme équivalent.
Chaque lauréat signera une convention de recherche et d’enseignement avec l’établissement ainsi qu’un contrat de pré-titularisation dont la durée ne peut être inférieure à trois ans et ne peut être supérieure à six ans.
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_CPJ.htm
Profil du poste CPJ “Arts et patrimoine de l’Afghanistan” (réf. Galaxie 4225):
=>Contrat de pré-titularisation de 5 ans (procédure de titularisation selon les conditions spécifiées dans le profil du poste)
=>Prise de fonction: le 01/12/2023
Détails (FR/ENG):
http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/chaire-professeur-junior-arts-patrimoine-afghanistan
Attention:
! Le dépôt de candidature se fait uniquement par voie électronique sur la plateforme Galaxie des personnels du supérieur:
https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/index.jsp
9. Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well
Oxford Interfaith Forum
We are deeply honoured to welcome Professor Ori Soltes from the Center for Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, USA, to lead a session of the International Interfaith Reading Group on ART in Interfaith Contexts.
Topic: Sacred Signs: How Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visual Symbols Draw from the Same Well
Abstract: This image-rich talk will introduce some of the many examples of how symbols in the visual art of the Abrahamic traditions draw from a pagan vocabulary that precedes all of them as well as from each other; how they converge and diverge across history and geography; and how they continue to appear in the modern and contemporary art of a world that often defines itself to be secular.
Speaker: Professor Ori Soltes, Centre for Jewish Civilization, Georgetown University, USA.
Chair: Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt, King’s College London, UK. Revd Canon Dr Joanna Collicutt is a member of the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, an associate lecturer at Ripon College Cuddesdon, and an associate priest in an Oxfordshire parish.
Date: 10 July, 2023
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 19:00-20:00 CEST | 10:00-11:00 PDT | 13:00-14:00 EDT
Venue: Online
For registration, please, go to: https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/art-in-interfaith-contexts/sacred-signs-how-jewish-christian-and-muslim-visual-symbols-draw-from-the-same-well/
10. Cartography in the European Enlightenment — NOW ONLINE FOR FREE ACCESS
The History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the University of Chicago Press are pleased to announce the online publication of Cartography in the European Enlightenment, edited by Matthew H. Edney and Mary S. Pedley, volume 4 of The History of Cartography (Chicago, 2019). The Press has added the volume — all 1,764 pages with 1,000,000 words and 984 full-color illustrations, in 479 entries written by 214 experts — to the other volumes of the series already online for free public access (1–3 and 6).
Goto https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html to access all the volumes; the links to each volume, with volume 4 newly added, are at left.
Cartography in the European Enlightenment explores all aspects of mapping in the long eighteenth century, approximately between 1650 and 1800, give or take a decade as necessary, in Europe, Europe’s overseas empires and trading companies, in Russia, and in the Ottoman Empire. It is arranged by major mapping practices (geographical mapping, property mapping, marine charting, etc.) and by major communities of map consumers (military, civil government, the emergent public). It is the starting point for anyone seeking to learn more about mapping at a time when maps served as a foundational metaphor for the organization of knowledge.
Enjoy! And please share this FREE resource across other intellectual and social media!
Contact Information
Matthew Edney
Director, History of Cartography Project
Contact Email
URL
https://press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/index.html
11. The Islamic College – Open Evening
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/open-evening/
Date: 14th July 2023
Time: 6:30 pm – 9 pm
Venue: The Islamic College, 133 High Road, Willesden, London, NW10 2SW
12. With Brush and Qalam; Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin – July 2023 to October 2023
With Brush and Qalam
Chinese Arabic Calligraphy by Haji Noor Deen
06.07.2023 to 22.10.2023
Pergamonmuseum
With the solo exhibition of the most important contemporary representative of Sini calligraphy, the Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art) is showing selected works by Haji Noor Deen in Berlin for the first time.
Sini calligraphy is the artistic script used by the Muslim minority in China. Its history reaches back to the 14th century. The distinctive feature of Sini calligraphy is the melding of techniques and styles from the Arabic and Chinese lettering traditions.
Arabic calligraphy follows a centuries-old tradition involving strict rules with precisely defined proportions for the letters. Sini calligraphy, on the other hand, is completely free of rules. The top priority is the perceived beauty and balance of the composition. Even the direction of the writing can be freely chosen, either from top to bottom, as in Chinese, or from right to left, as in Arabic.
Haji Noor Deen is a master of Sini calligraphy. Inspired by calligraphic traditions from China to Istanbul, the artist creates works with expressive lines that at first glance appear Chinese, but on closer inspection go far beyond that.
The artist’s painting tools reflect this diversity. Haji Noor Deen paints the Arabic letters with a brush that is characteristically used for Chinese calligraphy. He equally appreciates the qalam, the reed pen of Arabic calligraphy. He also uses completely new tools, such as cloth-covered wooden spatulas that he produces himself. With masterly skill, he creates artworks of great aesthetic power that surprise and affect the viewer.
A special exhibition of the Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Link tot the exhibition https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/with-brush-and-qalam/
13. CFP – The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts, CIHA, Lyon, France – June 23 – 28, 2024
We invite paper proposals for the session “The Materiality of Pious Texts: The Qur’an and Devotional Manuscripts” at the 36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024, in Lyon, France.
Both the Qur’an and Islamic devotional manuscripts have traditionally been studied as texts and artistic achievements, but rarely as material objects. Concerns about how to handle and dispose of Qur’anic matter – how to use the manuscript, where to place it, when to touch it – or whether it is permissible to perfume it, ingest it or sell it, were among the anxieties of the first centuries of Islam. Formative to the Qur’an’s physical manifestation as codices, scrolls or inscribed artefacts, these debates shaped its sacrality in the material realm and affected the use of Islamic devotional manuscripts in which passages of the Qur’an appear next to other pious texts, prayers or illustrations of holy places. Art history has been rarely concerned with such phenomena, or with the corporeality of sacred and pious texts in general.
This session aims to interrogate the materiality of pious texts and the roles they played in shaping artistic forms embedded in a diverse range of practices, at the time of their production or in their afterlives: Qur’anic calligraphy, calligrams, and emblematic inscriptions in books and scrolls, but also on tablets and panels of various materials, interspersed or combined with devotional texts and images presented in diagrammatic or iconified forms. By moving away from archaeological taxonomies and the study of styles and repertoires, we hope to create space for approaching pious texts through their materiality, their use, and the range of physical reactions they elicited. Meanings – whether religious, political, or aesthetic – can be found not just in how texts looked, but also in how they functioned, and it is through the lens of materiality that previously neglected ideas and behaviors can be examined.
With that in mind, we call for papers that explore the materiality of pious texts of any kind, focusing on how they were shaped, what aesthetic ideas were embedded in them, and what kind of engagement their forms triggered, be it at the time of their making, consumption, alteration, or reuse. As their meanings shifted throughout their spatial and temporal circulation, within and beyond Muslim communities, these texts projected multifaceted statements of faith and efficacy that are yet to be unpacked. Later interventions such as manipulations of their constitutive elements, amendments to their illustrations, or smudging and erasures, also reflect practices and beliefs, often echoing ideologies. In no way limited to these aspects, this session seeks papers that re-instate the role of makers, beholders and users of texts within art history. As such, it encourages cross-disciplinary research – bridging religious studies, anthropology and visual culture – to re-establish the relation between art history, material culture and religion.
Submission:
Please submit your proposal by 15 September 2023 via this link: https://livebyglevents.key4register.com/key4register/AbstractList.aspx?e=148
- Title of the proposed paper (concise and reflecting the contents of the paper).
- Paper Proposal: An abstract of 350 to 500 words, in English or French, including 4 to 6 key words and a possible short bibliography.
- CV of 500 characters with first name, last name, title, status, institution of affiliation and the link to the personal or professional page.
Funding:
Applicants are responsible to secure their own funding. Please consult this page regularly: https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/en/call-for-grants
- July 08, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Annual Congress of the Middle East Studies Association of North America: “MESA 2023”, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2-5 November 2023
The preliminary program includes over 350 sessions on a wide range of topics. It is now available and search-able at https://my-mesa.org/program
2. 31st I.R. “Iran`s World Book Award”
Books to be considered can be in any language, while need to be on either Islamic Studies or Iranian Studies. They also have to be published (in their first edition) outside of Iran in 2022.
Deadline for scholars, writers, translators, and publishers to nominate book(s) for consideration: 22 October 2023. Information:
http://www.bookaward.ir/NewsDetails-En/2059/Call-for-The-31st-I-R–Iran%60s-World-Book-Award-issued
3. CfP, IFPO: Pour une histoire sonore des sociétés de l’islam médiéval/ A sound history of medieval Islamic societies
The aim is to bring together contributions on social and political history, on the history of the senses and the sensible, on anthropology, literature, law, philosophy, art history, musicology, etc. This allows an exploration of subjects as diverse as commercial communication, social conflicts, spatial and social control, political com-munication, urban expansion, rituals, revolts and war, from a new angle and at different scales.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023. Information: https://www.ifporient.org/beo-71/
4. AIS (Association for Iranian Studies) Conference 2024 Announcement
The AIS 2024 Conference site is now open on the AIS website. You can now submit your Independent Paper/Panel/Roundtable/Special Session abstracts for the AIS 2024 Conference at the National Autonomous University of Mexico from Aug 12 to 15, 2024. Just login to the AIS website https://associationforiranianstudies.org/conferences/2024 and follow the instructions for submission and conference pre-registration.
5. Zoom – Invisible East
The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages, 11th-13th century
Thursday 20 July 2023, 12:00 PM Toronto Time / 5PM UK Time
For more info and to register:
6. UCLA – Pourdavoud Center
Achaemenid Workshop 1 Videos Available!
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the First Achaemenid Workshop, Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World, hosted at UCLA on April 12–14, 2023.
- July 04, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Islamization and Archaeology
Religion, Culture and New Materialism
José C. Carvajal López
Bloomsbury, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/islamization-and-archaeology-9781350006669/
2. Early Islam in Medina
Malik and His Muwatta’
Yasin Dutton
Bloomsbury, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-islam-in-medina-9781350261907/
3. Digital Scriptorium (DS) is seeking applications for a 12-month, part-time (20 hrs/week) Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Student Fellowship. Please feel free to share this announcement widely!
Funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Manuscript Data Curation Fellow will support the expansion of the DS Catalog. Working with the DS Project Manager and the Project Director, the fellow will participate in gathering, reconciling, and enriching member institutions’ data for upload into the DS Catalog’s Wikibase. PhD students in a field related to global premodern manuscript studies or MLIS students with a background in the same scope of fields are encouraged to apply.
In addition to providing general support for DS Catalog data creation, the Fellow will work with current and prospective member institutions with uncatalogued manuscript collections that do not otherwise have sufficient staff expertise or support to create basic structured manuscript descriptions in the DS Catalog spreadsheet themselves. Additionally, the Fellow will work with the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas–Austin to pilot a project to enter data on “in situ” manuscript fragments in bindings that would not otherwise be cataloged in the institutional OPAC. On completion of the pilot, the fellow will offer this service to other institutions with similar in situ fragment collections.
Required qualifications:
- Enrollment in an MLIS or PhD program in a field or area relevant to premodern manuscript studies; graduate students working in a field with a non-European focus are encouraged to apply.
- Strong facility with a classical or non-English language, including non-western languages
Preferred qualifications
- Knowledge of best practices in digital libraries, cataloging, databases, authority work and metadata management.
- Knowledge of linked open data practices and technologies in the Wikimedia environment
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work effectively with stakeholders and collaboratively with technical staff
Again, the fellowship term is part-time (20 hours/week) for 12 months, starting in late August or early September 2023, with the option of working remotely. The expected pay is $20/hour. The successful applicant must be a US citizen or have permission to work in the US if not a citizen. The position will be administered through the University of Pennsylvania Libraries. To learn more about DS and the DS Catalog, visit https://digital-scriptorium.org/about/about-ds/.
Application Process
To be considered, applicants must submit the following to Lynn Ransom (lransom@upenn.edu) by July 15, 2023:
- A cover letter stating the applicant’s interest in the fellowship and how it will support long-term career goals
- CV
- Two letters of recommendation, including one from the student’s advisor and another from an established scholar in the graduate student’s field with expertise relating to manuscript studies (to be sent separately to lransom@upenn.edu)
4. Avicenna Study Group: Fourth Meeting 2023 in France (13–15 September 2023)
It is with great pleasure that we would like to inform you that the Fourth International Meeting of the Avicenna Study Group (ASG IV) will take place 13–15 September 2023 in France, more precisely in the “Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’Homme” in Aix-en-Provence (for the first two days) and in the “Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée” in Marseille (for the final day).
The topic of the fourth meeting of the ASG is: “A Hidden Treasure: Editorial, Historical, and Philosophical Issues in Avicenna’s ‘Minor’ Works (rasāʾil)”
Confirmed speakers are Nicholas Aubin (University of Warwick) – Cristina Cerami (CNRS, UMR 7219 Sphère, Paris) – Mohammad Javad Esmaeili (Iranian Institute of Philosophy, Tehran) – Dimitri Gutas (emeritus, Yale University, New Haven) – Wilfrid Hodges (emeritus, University of London) – Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, Centre Paul Albert Février, Aix-en-Provence) – Damien Janos (Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung/LMU Munich) – Jules Janssens (De Wulf-Mansion Centre, Leuven) – Ivana Panzeca (FSCIRE/University of Palermo) – Marwan Rashed (Université Paris-Sorbonne) – Burak Şaman (Istanbul 29 Mayis University) – Yotam Schremer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Omer Michaelis (Tel Aviv University) – Meryem Sebti (CNRS, UMR 8230 Centre Jean Pépin, Paris) – Sarah Virgi (Utrecht University) – Mali Alinejad Zanjani (École normale supérieure, Paris) – Nadjet Zouggar (Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Iremam)
The provisional programme is available here: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg-iv/programme/.
If you wish to attend in person, please register online: http://www.arabic-philosophy.com/index.php/asg-iv/registration/. The registration helps us to organise the venue and everything else.
For all further questions, do not hesitate to get in touch. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Aix/Marseille.
Many thanks – and all best wishes,
Olga Lizzini and Andreas Lammer
Andreas Lammer | Assistant professor | Center for the History of Philosophy and Science | Radboud University | P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen | Room E16.03a | +31 (0) 24 36 12438 | https://www.ru.nl/english
5. Sovereign Metals
Festivities, the Hunt and the Firmament in Medieval Islam.
Part of the Liquid Frontiers and Connected Worlds exhibition programme
Exhibition curated by Veronica Prestini, The Aron Collection
16 June – 17 September 2023
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale, Turin
Press kit HERE
The second stop in the lead-up to the major autumn exhibition devoted to art from the Far East and Central Asia up to the Mediterranean shores is a small exhibit focused on exquisite metal Islamic art objects. Titled Sovereign Metals. Festivities, the Hunt and the Firmament in Medieval Islam, it is also the debut collaboration between the Museo d’Arte Orientale and The Aron Collection.
The exhibition, which is replacing Lustre and Luxury from Islamic Spain in MAO’s Islamic Gallery, features a carefully chosen selection covering the main types of Islamic metal art objects (incense burners, pen holders, candlesticks, trays, basins, bowls, perfume bottles) that, along with miniature painting, represent some of the highest expressions of Muslim artistic creativity.
Creativity that spread from Persia out into the world like a language, reaching India and China in the East and the slopes of Mount Atlas in the West. The object of admiration and imitation, it also arrived in Europe, showing that the borders of aesthetic perception are not tied to those of politics and religion.
What were the artisans’ preferred themes for these invaluable metal objects?
First and foremost, the hunt, and in particular the iconography of the king on horseback flanked by animals (often a falcon, a leopard or a camel) and a female servant, who could be an artist, a scientist or a musician.
Another major theme was astronomy, which, together with astrology, played a central role in the life of sovereigns and influenced their political, military and even romantic decisions. Popular motifs included planets, constellations and zodiac signs, as well as imagery linked to predicting the future.
Lastly, festive and banquet scenes, which were connected to the literary genre Bazm-o-Razm, meaning ‘feast and fight, encapsulating the cyclical opposition of the glories of peace to the passion of combat.
Astrology, with its scenes of court life and regal pomp, was especially able to evade Islamic iconoclasm in the Middle Ages, becoming the preferred theme for objects produced for the flourishing medieval Islamic middle class that started filling the cities of the Caliphate in the tenth century.
This extraordinary and metaphysical repertoire is joined by the rigour of the calligraphic arts, for the most part used for objects associated with producing light, like candlesticks and lamps, which were fundamental not only for secular everyday life but also for the more opulent religious and spiritual sphere.
One of the most refined objects on view in the exhibition is a silver encrusted pen holder (Mosul, Iraq, late 13th century), decorated with an image of the Sun surrounded by the planets, a typical motif for objects made for rulers and other members of the elite as well as an emblem of astrological iconography in medieval Islam. Another is a large brass basin with silver damascene and engraving (Fars, southern Iran, 14th century), the entire surface of which is decorated with highly symbolic imagery depicting scenes of hunting with a leopard, a falcon and a bow, expressive of a royal prerogative and the sovereign’s exceptional qualities as a combatant.
As with previous exhibitions at MAO, Sovereign Metals opens up dialogue between old and contemporary works, offering itself as a tool for study and in-depth analysis of cultures and materials. This time, MAO is delighted to present, within the exhibit, the work Monochrome Bleu (1959) by Yves Klein (1928–1962).
Yves Klein’s artistic experimentation with the transformation of colour into art, exalting the luminosity and intensity of ultramarine blue, was in a certain way the completion of a artistic pursuit with ancient roots. Ultramarine blue was unquestionably the most important natural pigment used in ancient Egyptian and Assyrian painting. The hue was also central to the work of Islamic miniature painters devoted to illuminating manuscripts. Ultramarine blue, also known as Persian blue, dominated these fine manuscripts and was often expertly paired with gold leaf.
With this in mind, Monochrome Bleu provides an opportunity to appreciate the development of technical, artisan and artistic knowledge and expertise, in continuous expressive tension, which became a philosophical model in Klein’s interpretation, and to fully enjoy the breathtaking depth of its colour.
The exhibition Sovereign Metals offers MAO visitors a chance to view numerous objects that are normally kept in the museum’s storage, paired with works from the Aron Collection and other important private collections.
Admission to the exhibition is included in the ticket for the permanent collection.
6. University of St Andrews – Lecturer in Global Early Modern Art
(1400-1750)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65512
We are seeking to appoint a full-time lecturer in Global Early Modern Art (1400-1750). This is a full time, position, offered on a fixed term contract until 31 December 2026, to provide cover for staff research leave. Applications are invited from candidates whose research interests lie in any field of early modern art, architecture, urbanism or visual culture, regardless of geographical focus. We encourage applications from candidates whose research and teaching focuses on issues including environment, race, gender, sexuality and politics and / or whose work takes a transnational, cross-cultural or multidisciplinary approach.
You should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. You should be able to provide evidence of your research abilities in the form of publications of internationally-recognised quality as well as a programme of on-going research that will contribute to our reputation as one of the leading Art History departments in the UK. Other indications of research activity (e.g. grants awarded, conference papers delivered, exhibitions organised) will also be taken into account, as will evidence that your research has had or will have an impact beyond academia.
You will be expected to offer attractive and accessible research-led undergraduate courses, giving students as much first-hand experience of works as possible. You will also be required to contribute lectures and tutorials on our first-year survey modules. Working with postgraduates, particularly teaching M.Litt. classes, will also be a vital part of your role.
Like other members of the School, you will be expected to take on administrative tasks as required by the Head of School.
Informal enquiries can be directed to the Head of School, Professor Laura Moretti: lm93@st-andrews.ac.uk
Applications are particularly welcome from women, people from the Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, and other protected characteristics who are under-represented in Arts posts at the University.
Equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the St Andrews experience. We strive to create a fair and inclusive culture demonstrated through our commitment to diversity awards (Athena Swan, Carer Positive, LGBT Charter, Race Charters and Stonewall). We celebrate diversity by promoting profiles of BAME, LGBTIQ+ staff and supporting networks including the Staff BAME Network; Staff with Disabilities Network; Staff LGBTIQ+ Network; and the Staff Parents & Carers Network. Full details available online: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/
Please note, there will be a short turnaround between the closing date, short-listing and date of interview.
Closing Date: 11 July 2023
Interview Date: 20 July 2023
Please quote ref: AC2042RXNB
Further Particulars: AC2042RXNB FPs.doc
School of Art History
Salary: £45,585 – £56,021 per annum
Start Date: September 2023
Fixed Term: Until 31 December 2026
7. CFP – 10th School of Mamluk Studies Conference (Kuwait University, Kuwait) – March 5-7, 2024
The conference, which will be exclusively in person (no online presentations will be accepted), will be conducted in two parts (March 5-7, 2024), and will be preceded by a three-day (March 2-4, 2024) intensive course on Mamluk archaeological material taught by Professor Bethany Walker, University of Bonn.
Themed Day: Mamluk Past Narratives and Present Artifacts: A Meeting Halfway!
The first day of the conference, March 5, will focus on the relationship between historical narratives and archaeological findings of the Mamluk period. This theme invites individual papers that shed light on this challenging relationship from various angles; this could include, but is not limited to: theories and principles of employing artifacts in historical research; fields of history where artifacts are more informative than narratives, and vice versa; fields where the relationship between artifacts and narratives is more complementary or more competitive; limitations of both artifacts and narratives when they meet in historical research.
A maximum of 12 to 15 paper proposals will be selected. Should a greater number of proposals be received, the authors of those which are not selected for the conference may be offered the possibility to publish their contribution in the proceedings. Each paper will be allocated 20 minutes with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
Paper Panels: The remaining two days of the conference (March 6-7) will be structured in preorganized panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized into presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes with a discussion at the end of each panel. Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for the panel’s organization. Please note that in case of cancellation of two papers out of the three (or three out of the four) composing the panel, the panel will have to be withdrawn from the program.
Language: The official languages of the conference will be English and Arabic.
Proposals: Paper proposals for the themed day must be submitted electronically through the conference webpage (http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html) by August 31, 2023. Panel proposals must be submitted in the same manner by September 30, 2023. No proposal will be accepted after the deadline. Those who would like to express their intention to attend the conference as listeners must fill in the registration form by October 31, 2023.
Paper proposals require the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional title, and an abstract of a maximum of 300 words per paper. Panel proposals must be submitted as such, including the relevant information for each component paper as well as the name of the panel’s chair (the chair can be one of the panelists).
Acceptance: Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by December 2023 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.
Fees: The conference registration fees will be $60 for all participants and attendees. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (March 7) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by January 15, 2024 (information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular, which will be sent in December 2023).
Cancellations received in writing by January 31, 2024, will secure a full refund, minus 20% of the registration fee. Refunds of fees (registration and farewell dinner) will not be made under any circumstances for cancellations after January 31, 2024. Participants must make their own travel arrangements; information and suggestions for accommodation will be provided in the first circular.
Publication:
- Themed Day: the papers will be published in a volume of proceedings. Further details will be announced in due course.
- Panels: selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Intensive Course: To What Degree Can Mamluk Artifacts be Interrogated?
A three-day intensive course in Mamluk archaeology intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants will be offered by Professor Bethany Walker (University of Bonn) and will be held immediately before the tenth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Kuwait University, in collaboration with Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (March 2-4, 2024). The course will serve as an introduction to what is now a mature discipline within Mamlukology: Mamluk Archaeology. It is also a venue for exploring ways in which archaeology could serve as a primary source for historical studies during the Mamluk period. Participants will be exposed to both theory and methods, and emphasis is placed on “learning by doing”, making use of the Mamluk-era holdings of the unique al-Sabah Collection of Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah and artifacts from excavations.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 20), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms10kuwait24@ku365.onmicrosoft.com by November 30, 2023. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of December 2023, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
The course fee is $350, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (March 5-7). The fees must be paid by January 15, 2024. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Cancellations received in writing by January 31, 2024, will secure a full refund, minus 20% of the course fee. Refunds of course fees will not be made under any circumstances for cancellations received after January 31, 2024.
Participants must make their own travel arrangements. Information and suggestions for accommodation will be provided in the first circular.
We look forward to meeting you in Kuwait.
Amenah Abdulkarim, Kuwait University (local organizer) – sms10kuwait24@ku365.onmicrosoft.com
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Marlis Saleh, University of Chi
8. Journal of Art Historiography, Number 28 (June 2023): A Historiography of Persian Art: Past, Present and Future (Articles can be downloaded)
https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/28-jun23/
A Historiography of Persian Art: Past, Present and Future
Guest edited by Yuka Kadoi and András Barati
Articles
Introduction
Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna), ‘A Twenty-Year Retrospect on ‘The Mirage of Islamic Art’: Polarising Islamic art, consolidating Persian art’
The Making and Remaking of Art Histories
Nile Green (University of California), ‘The rekhta of architecture: the development of ‘Islamic’ art history in Urdu, c.1800-1950’
Ebba Koch (Aga Khan Trust for Culture), ‘Discovering Mughal painting in Vienna by Josef Strzygowski and his circle: the historiography of the Millionenzimmer’
Scholars, Collectors and Agents
Henry P. Colburn (New York University, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology), ‘A brief historiography of Parthian art, from Winckelmann to Rostovtzeff’
Iván Szántó (Eötvös Loránd University), ‘West-östlich diplomacy and connoisseurship in the late Habsburg Empire: Baron Albert Eperjesy and his dispersed collection of Persian art’
A New Direction to Carpetology
Kassiani Kagouridi (Corfu Museum of Asian Art), ‘Musealisation and ethno-cultural stereotypes in Persian art: the case of Baluch carpets ca. 1870s – 1930s’
Tomasz Grusiecki (Boise State University), ‘Rethinking the so-called Polish carpets’
Dorothy Armstrong (Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford), ‘Persophilia and technocracy: carpets in the World of Islam Festival, 1976’
Revisiting the Schools of Painting
Jaimee K. Comstock-Skipp (Nizami Ganjavi Centre, University of Oxford), ‘The ‘Iran’ Curtain: the historiography of Abu’l-Khairid (Shaybanid) arts of the book and the ‘Bukhara School’ during the Cold War’
Robert Hillenbrand (University of St. Andrews), ‘Eric Schroeder: maverick polymath’
Authenticity and Falsification
Andrea Luigi Corsi (Independent), ‘A matter of timing: the modern history of a ‘Sasanian’ silver plate from Rashy’
The Problem of Terminology
Johannes L. Kurz (University of Heidelberg), ‘Dashi 大食 reconsidered’
Documentary biographies
Jens Kröger (Museum of Islamic Art – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), ‘Kurt Erdmann (1901-1964)’
Jens Kröger (Museum of Islamic Art – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), ‘Carl Johan Lamm (1902-1981)’
Joachim Gierlichs (Zayed National Museum, Abu Dhabi), ‘Ernst Cohn-Wiener (1882-1941)‘
Research notes
Paola D’Amore and Michael Jung (Museo d’Arte Orientale/Museo delle Civiltà), ‘Notes on the formation of Persian art collections at the Museo Nazionale d’Arte Orientale “Giuseppe Tucci”: research projects, exhibitions and Italian missions in Iran’
Conference report
Sandra Aube (CNRS) and Martina Massullo (Institut Catholique de Paris), ‘Through the lens of Henry Viollet: an undisclosed photographic and paper archive on Islamic monuments (1904-1913)’
Translation
András Barati (Austrian Academy of Sciences), ‘Aʽẓam Naẓarkarde, ‘Painter and artist of the Âstân-e Qods during the Afsharid period’
This publication was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [M2428-G25]
9. CFP – CIHA 2024: Indian Ocean Objects above and below the Waterline – Deadline: September 15
We invite paper proposals for the session “Indian Ocean Objects above and below the Waterline” at the 36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA), June 23 – 28, 2024, in Lyon, France.
Deadline: 15 September 2023
In the past decade, the field of Indian Ocean art history has witnessed a rapid growth, with a wealth of new research oriented around the circulation of objects across this ocean’s breadth and a rising focus on how maritime mobilities generated dynamic lives and meanings for traveling goods. While these efforts have brought into sharper focus the history of the Indian Ocean’s littoral zones, its port cities, and the objects that frequented them, interpretation has tended to cling to the coasts, implicitly prioritizing land over water. We have spent more time studying the Indian Ocean along a horizontal axis, namely the water’s surface, thus documenting and conceptualizing materials that moved or were moved across the ocean rather than those that came from the ocean itself or the detritus that rests on its floor.
Pushing against art history’s historiographical emphasis on land or the ocean’s role as a path of conveyance, this session explores the material intersections between horizontal and vertical histories of the Indian Ocean. Inspired by Isabel Hofmyer’s call for an oceanic turn that extends both “above and below the waterline,” we invite speakers to explore objects that traversed the water’s breadth or to delve into the physical qualities of those that emerged from the depths of the sea, such as shells, mother of pearl, as well as images of the underwater realm. Most poignantly, we hope to think through the ambiguities of the boundaries between water and land, by exploring sites where these arenas meet and interact. How can we understand the ocean as a “maker” of materials and objects in tandem with its role as a medium of transmission and exchange? How can we understand water as a fundamentally creative and transformative environment, which actively conjures the tactile character of things, or reshapes the materials that it comes into contact with? What new forms or material characteristics emerged from objects that had an underwater journey, alongside journeys across water? How did immersion in water change the life of objects “en route” and, as a result, their broader migrations and meanings? How was the Indian Ocean perceived, conceptualized, or visualized as an agent in shaping both the materiality and mobility of things? How did objects emerging from the ocean reshape understandings of the ocean itself?
We invite proposals for short, but rich, presentations of no more than 10 minutes. We aim to organize this session as two panels of short presentations followed by responses to papers and broader discussion. Proposals should be between 350 and 500 words in length, and engage with the questions outlined above, or themes that include but are not limited to:
– Material histories of the Indian Ocean as a space of commercial and artistic exchange across Asia, Africa, and beyond
– Matter and underwater metamorphosis
– Shifting sensory contours of objects underwater
– Drifting objects and their itinerant materiality
– Blue humanities
– Shells, marine life, ships, and shipwrecks
– Oceanic waste, debris, and material remains
Proposals should be submitted by 15 September 2023 via the CIHA platform, which includes instructions and a full description of all sessions (in English and French): https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/en/call-for-papers
Funds may be available from CIHA to assist presenters who require financial assistance to participate.
Organized by: Nancy Um (Getty Research Institute), Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney), Pauline Monginot (Institut national d’Histoire de l’art)
10. Funds Fulbright Scholar Awards for Your Network
| The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries. You can join the more than 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections and greater mutual understanding. We encourage you to visit our website for application resources: · Application Guidance and Instructions · Open Awards in the 2024-25 Competition, searchable by discipline, country/region, etc. · Office Hours, a great way to get your questions answered live by Fulbright staff |
| We look forward to receiving your application by our deadline of September 15, 2023. To receive program updates and application resources, connect with Fulbright. Know someone who could benefit from a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award? Refer a colleague! Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program Contact: scholars@iie.org |
11. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
‘Treasures of Herat: Two Timurid Khamsah of Nizami Manuscripts’
with Barbara Brend
12 July, 2023, 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/treasures-of-herat/
12. BRISMES Annual Conference: “Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East”, University of Exeter, 3-5 July 2023
See program at https://whova.com/embedded/event/aUuHwd6DHihkOs0dhkxi%403nk%40Oyem9cIRXA-VTGFeXA%3D/?utc_source=ems
13. Conference “Locating the Self, Negotiating the Other: Imperial Expansion and Conversion in the Early Modern Period”, University of Münster, Germany, 5-7 October 2023
The conference will bring together recent research on conversions and the lives of converts in different empires, to elaborate on commonalities as well as peculiarities and, in doing so, examine possible global conjunctures of conversion processes in the process. The focus is on the early modern period (emphasis on the 17th and 18th centuries), but contributions from other periods are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12887482/locating-self-negotiating-other-imperial-expansion-and
- July 01, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Virtual Book Discussion “State, Peasants, and Land in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt” with Author Dr. Maha Ghalwash (British University in Egypt), American University in Cairo Press, 5 July 2023, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm Cairo Time
Drawing on a wide array of archival sources, some only rarely utilized by other scholars, the book argues that state policy targeting the peasant land tenure regime was informed by the dual economic principles of the
Ottoman, or traditional, philosophy of statecraft, and that the workings of the relevant regulations did not produce extensive peasant land loss and impoverishment.
2. Conference “The Spirit of Laws’ in the Ottoman Empire and Its Social Practices”, Arkhé Project, Sirince, 16-23 July 2023
This program (in Turkish) is dedicated to how the law was made, practiced, and transformed in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire. It includes the legal-theoretical aspects of law-making and how it was practiced in everyday life and was adapted and transformed over the centuries.
Information: https://archeprojesi.com/kamp/din-u-devlet-ii-celse-osmanlida-kanunlarin-ruhu-ve-toplumsal-pratikler/41
3. ONLINE 5th International Interdisciplinary Conference: “Postcolonialism, Postcommunism and Postmodernism”, University of Gdańsk, Poland, 27-28 July 2023
Topics include postcolonial societies, history of (post)colonialism, postcolonialism and orientalism, postcolo-nialisim and Islamophobia, postcolonialism and anti-Semitism, postcolonialism and terrorism, postcolonialism and racism, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 July 2023. Information: https://www.inmindsupport.com/post-conference
4. HYBRID 17th Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS): “Interpretation and Misinterpretation”, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24-25 November 2023
Contributions are invited that relate to the themes on any aspect of cultures or societies in Asia as well as their diasporic manifestations. We seek both synchronic and diachronic perspectives from anthropology, the arts, cultural geography, history, international relations, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, political sci-ence, religion studies, sociology, and other fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information: http://acas.upol.cz/call-for-papers/
5. 10th international Conference “Fire on the Mountain: Media, Religion, and Nationalism”, University of Colorado-Boulder, 10-13 January 2024
Proposed themes: Coloniality, imperialism, and religious nationalism; Nationalism, race, ethnicity, gender, and religious identity; The global rise of right-wing populism, religion, and media; Nation, nationalism, and globalization; Religion, nationalism, and social media; Religious nationalism, journalism, conspiracy theories, and disinformation.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 July 2023. Information: https://www.colorado.edu/cas/2023/06/20/cfp-10th-international-conference-fire-mountain-media-religion-and-nationalism
6. Workshop “Written Representations of the Oral Aspects of the Qur’ān”, Università l’Orientale di Napoli, Naples, 21-22 May 2024
Muṣḥafs provide plenty of information about the modalities of recitation of the Qur’ān before the Industrial Revolution. How this form of notation developed and if it was in a certain way regulated (regionally or globally) will be explored in this workshop.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023. Information: https://euqu.eu/2023/05/02/call-for-papers-recited-ink-written-representations-of-the-oral-aspects-of-the-quran/
7. Postdoctoral Researcher Position on “Women’s Labour in Islamic Law”, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern
Candidates must hold a PhD in Islamic, Middle Eastern and/or Arabic Studies (no more than six years prior to employment). Proficiency in spoken and written English and Arabic are required. A good understanding of current debates in gender and/or labour history is expected, and the candidate will be expected to work in an interdisciplinary way.
Deadline for applications: 7 August 2023.
8. PhD Position in “Non-Western (Islamic) Public Administration and Public Value” (4 Years, Early Stage Researcher), Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
Requirements: M.A. in political sciences, economics, sociology or public administration; excellent command of English; knowledge of the local languages of area studies; familiarity with relevant Islamic texts and tradi-tions.
Deadline for applications: 30 June 2023. Information: https://www.euraxess.ee/jobs/115688
9. Chapters for Edited Book on “Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Red Sea Region, 7th – 20th Century”
We are especially interested in essays that draw on new sources, those that adopt approaches that are sensitive to regional, transregional/translocal dimensions. Our interest is more focused on the experiences of those involved and/or impacted by slavery and the trade (the enslaved, freedmen/freedwomen, their de-scendants, as well as agents, traders, and smugglers).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2023. Information: https://www.academia.edu/103469234/Slavery_and_the_Slave_Trade_in_the_Red_Sea_Region_7th_20th_c_Call_for_papers_for_an_edited_volume
10. Youth Writing Contest for a New Afghan Social Contract, Institute for Law and Society in Afghanistan, Kardan University
What direction is Afghanistan and its people taking? How can Afghans overcome the devisions of the past? We cordially invite Afghans aged up to 25 years to share their views, hopes and demands. Please send us your essay in Dari, Pashto or English by 31 July 2023. We will not publish your name if you prefer so. The best contributions will be awarded (10.000 AFN).
Deadline for essays in Dari, Pashto or English: 31 July 2023. Information:
- June 27, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Reconstructing the Variant Generation Process of Hadith
Based on the Quantitative and the Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis
Hiroyuki Yanagihashi
Equinox, 2023
For more information and to order at 25% off quoting the code VAR visit the book page:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/reconstructing-variant-gen/
2. Funds: Research grants in History of the Book including Maps
Grants up to £4,000 for research into the history of the book, including studies of the production, transmission, circulation, dissemination, and consumption of text and graphics (i.e. maps, music, illustrations, and mass-produced prints).
The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust promotes the advancement of the History of the Book by awarding funding to researchers working within that global field of study. It is interested in studies of the production, transmission, circulation, dissemination, and consumption of text and graphics (i.e. maps, music, illustrations, and mass-produced prints). It therefore expects to serve the needs of those working in the history of authorship, publishing, reading, and archiving, including maps, music, and prints; the history of libraries including deposit of computer memory; textual studies in the widest sense; codicology, palaeography, textual biography and editorial practice, textual communication, reception studies within oral as well as inscripted cultures.
To learn more see https://willisoncharitabletrust.org/applications/guidance-for-applicants/
3. The AIS (Association for Iranian Studies) Online Symposium team is happy to announce an extension of the deadline for submission of panels and individual papers for our October 20-22, 2023 online symposium. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by *10 July 2023*. Please submit your proposals at the following link: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/ais-online-symposium-2023 <https://associationforiranianstudies.org/ais-online-symposium-2023>
4. Programs at Hikmat International Institute for Summer, Fall 2023
To learn more, visit the Hikmat website at the address below:
https://hikmat-ins.com/courses/
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com
5. 2023 BRISMES Annual General Meeting
Members are reminded that the BRISMES Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Time: 11:30-13:30 (BST)
Venue: The Forum Auditorium, University of Exeter
All members of BRISMES are invited to attend the AGM. The final agenda and associated papers will be sent by email to all BRISMES members on 26 June 2023.
6. BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize
Submissions for this prize are currently closed and will open after the annual conference in July.
About the Prize
The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
Eligibility
- The applicant must be a BRISMES student member by the time the application is submitted.
- The applicant must have registered for the Annual Conference.
- The paper must be on the same topic on which the applicant is presenting at the Annual Conference.
- The paper needs to be an original unpublished work from any discipline on any topic related to the study of Middle East and North Africa.
- The only selection criteria is academic excellence.
How to apply
Send the paper with a short biography (150 words max) and CV to office@brismes.org, indicating the disciplinary field to which the paper is contributing.
The estimated word count for a typical paper in BJMES is 10,000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions.
Deadline: Two weeks after the annual conference
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/brismes-conference-student-paper-prize
7. Departmental Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics
University of Oxford
Applications are invited for the position of Departmental Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. As well as providing teaching for the department’s core Middle East politics provision, the Departmental Lecturer will be expected to teach on research methods, including leading on research design sessions.
Deadline | 26 June 2023
8. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Political Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies
Australian National University
The Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies within the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Political Sociology of Islam and Muslim societies with a focus on the Arabic Speaking World. Research rooted in the political sociology of religion and intellectual/social trends and movements in the Arabic Speaking World, as well as informed by fieldwork and linguistic competence is highly desirable.
Deadline | 31 July 2023
9. Call for Applications – Editor of International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
The MESA Board of Directors invites applications and nominations for the next editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2024. Candidates should be internationally recognized Middle East scholars in either the humanities or the social sciences and be affiliated with an academic institution prepared to contribute space and support to an editorial office. Applications should include proposals for this institutional contribution, endorsed by the institution involved.
Deadline | 1 August 2023
10. Jalal al-Din Rumi and his Legacy: Religion, Literature and Culture between Medieval Anatolia and the Persianate World, 13th-14th Centuries
Conference | 6-7 July 2023 | BIAA and BIPS
This conference is a partnership between the British Institute at Ankara and British Institute of Persian Studies. It will take place over two days in Ankara. Please note that places are extremely limited due to the venue’s capacity. The conference will be conducted in English.
More information
11. The Islamic College – Hawza Taster Course (in House)
DATE: 30th June – 2nd July
TIME: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College, London, 133 High Road Willesden Green London
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/hawza-taster-course/
- June 24, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment