Categories : Academic items

 

 

1. Journée d’étude (Conférence bilingue, français et anglais): « La Patrimonialisation du Religieux dans le Monde Méditerranéen », Sciences Po Paris, 22 juin 2023, 9h30 – 19h30

Programme : https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/lab/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/22062023_prog.pdf

 

 

 

 

2. Two German-Yemeni Workshops for German and Yemeni Students on “Science Communica-tion for Social Cohesion in Yemen”, Amman, 14-18 August & 23-26 October 2023

This is a joint project of Sana´a University and the “Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient” (CARPO) in Bonn funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The workshops will bring together German and Yemeni students with a civil society background, representatives of civil society organizations from Germany and Yemen, as well as Yemeni artists.

Deadline for application: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://carpo-bonn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Ausschreibung-Artists-Yemen.pdf

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop “The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East”, SUR-Project and the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (MEDIT), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 27-29 October 2023

The workshop seeks to understand how political violence becomes “urbanized” and transformed within cities in the Middle East. The organizers are hosting a workshop for postgraduate students and young scholars to present and develop their research using georeferenced datasets. The workshop will include training on mapping and visualization skills, provided by Beirut Urban Lab.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2023. Information: https://sur-project.com/workshop

 

 

 

 

4. 50% Acting Professor in Islamic Studies for History and Culture of the Pre-Modern Middle East (Oct. 2023 to March 2024), University of Hamburg

The successful applicant is expected to have international research experience. The University places particular emphasis on the quality of teaching and therefore requests applicants to provide details of their teaching experience and objectives.

Deadline for applications: 13 July 2023. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=05443483922c241098ece0df46a5d39a6b0b2bb5

 

 

 

5. Teaching Fellow in Religious Studies and Islam (1 Year), University of Leeds

You will have submitted your PhD thesis (or be very close to submitting it) in Religious Studies, Islamic Studies or another demonstrably relevant area and have relevant subject expertise and teaching experience in the areas of the sociology and anthropology of Islam and Muslim religion, culture, politics and society, especially in the UK context, and Religious Studies more broadly.

Deadline for application: 30 June 2023. Information: https://jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=AHCPR1057

 

 

 

 

6. PhD Fellowship (3 Years) at EHESS (Paris) and IFEA (Istanbul) for Research on the 19th-Century Ottoman Translation Bureaus

The PhD research will focus on the archives of the “translation bureaus” (tercüme odaları) established within the Ottoman administration of the time, both in the provinces and in the capital. Language requirements: Proficiency in Ottoman Turkish and French (or another working language used in Ottoman archives) must be demonstrated by certificates, transcripts or own publications.

Deadline for application: 14 July 2023.

Information: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR8032-MARAYM1-001/Default.aspx

 

 

 

 

7. Continuing Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Political Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies with a Focus on the Arabic Speaking World, Australian National University

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.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/06/15/lecturer-senior-lecturer

 

 

 

 

8. Assistant Professor on Contemporary Islam, Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University

We seek a scholar with preferred subspecialties in any of the following: Islam and racial identity; Islam and gender/sexuality; Islam in the US; Islam and Migration; Transnational Islam; Islamic Thought; Qur’anic Her-meneutics; Islam and new technologies; Digital Islam; and Islam and non-profit leadership. Our preferred time frame is the 20th and 21st centuries.

Deadline for applications: 16 August 2023. Information: https://careers.msu.edu/en-us/job/515244/assistant-professortenure-system

 

 

 

 

9. Arab Language and Political/Social Sciences Courses, Palestine and Arabic Studies Program, Birzeit University, 3 July – 31 August 2023

The courses offer international students the opportunity to combine the study of the Arabic language with social sciences courses about Palestine and the Arab World, with immersion in the culture.

Deadline for applications: 26 June 2023. Information: pas-isp@birzeit.edu.

Registration: https://ritaj.birzeit.edu/be1/en/admission/international-students/pas

 

 

 

10. Articles for New “Druze Studies Journal (DSJ)”

DSJ is an open-access interdisciplinary journal that aims to advance scholarly understanding of the Druze communities, including their history, society, and faith. We seek submissions that focus on the Druze as a whole, or on specific Druze communities, or include a comparison between the Druze and others or a com-parison between several Druze communities.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2023. Information: https://journals.ku.edu/druze/announcement/view/124

 

 

 

 

11. Articles on “75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: What Are the Trajectories of Human Rights Movements Amid Changing Global Dynamics?” for Journal “Rowaq Arabi”

This peer reviewed journal of human rights studies, calls for submissions of abstracts of original research articles that discuss the trajectories of human rights in the region 75 years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disciplines of social sciences, humanities and law are welcome, and will be financially compensated.

No deadline, submissions are processed until the issue is complete. Information:

https://cihrs-rowaq.org/call-for-papers-on-the-75th-anniversary-of-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-what-are-the-trajectories-of-human-rights-movements-amid-changing-global-dynamics/?lang=en

 

 

 

12. Islamic Texts Society – Hajj Discount 2023

In celebration of the Hajj and the Eid al-Adha, the Islamic Texts Society would like to offer readers a 15% discount on all titles*. In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website https://its.org.uk and enter the coupon code, HAJJ23, on the purchase page.

The offer is valid from 19th June to 2nd July.

 

1.Metadata Librarian for Middle Eastern Languages

The University of Chicago: The Library

Location : Chicago, IL

Open Date: Jun 09, 2023

Description

The University of Chicago Library is seeking an innovative and forward-thinking individual for the position of Metadata Librarian for Middle Eastern Languages. The University of Chicago is home to one of the world’s great collections for the study of the Middle East. The Middle Eastern collection in Regenstein Library is recognized by scholars throughout North America, Europe, and the Middle East as one of the premier research collections in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in the world. The collection supports undergraduate, graduate, and faculty research and teaching in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities including history, literature, language, religion, philosophy, bibliography, art, political science, anthropology, music, sociology, and film.

The collection, amounting to over one million items, consists of monographs, serials, microformat materials, lithographs, maps, films, photographs, video and audio tapes, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and electronic resources, covering the area between Central Asia and the Atlantic Ocean and from Asia Minor to sub-Saharan Africa. It includes materials in the principal languages of the Middle East—Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and their dialectical variants—as well as the relevant materials produced in various languages in North America, Europe, Japan, the states of the former Soviet Union, and elsewhere in the world. The successful candidate will be responsible for original and complex copy cataloging of monographs, serials, electronic resources and visual materials in all subjects, in Middle Eastern and other languages as necessary.

Working in the central Metadata Management Services Unit, and working closely with the Librarian for Middle Eastern Studies, the Metadata Librarian for Middle Eastern Languages will provide leadership and coordination for the metadata provision for the University of Chicago Library’s extensive collection of Middle Eastern resources that is responsive to the needs of the user community and supports the Library’s vision and goals.

The position reports to the Head of Metadata Management Services, a section of the Technical Services Department that provides leadership and expertise for the Library’s cataloging activities and creation and management of metadata. Metadata staff are involved in national and local activities related to implementation of BIBFRAME and linked data, and provide strategic direction on metadata standards for the Library’s resources and the University’s institutional repository.

The University of Chicago Library is a long-time member of the Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) and contributes to BIBCO/NACO/SACO/CONSER programs. The Metadata Management Unit is also active in the Big Ten Academic Alliance Cooperative Cataloging Partnership (BTAA CCP), and the Library of Congress’ Electronic Cataloging in Publication Program (ECIP), which provides pre-publication metadata for the University of Chicago Press publications as well as those of other scholarly publishers.

The successful candidate is expected to combine a thorough understanding of cataloging and metadata standards, Middle Eastern resources, library user needs and behaviors with technical and interpersonal skills. As a member of the library’s professional staff, the Metadata Librarian for Middle Eastern Languages is expected to contribute to the library by serving on committees and by participating in library-wide programs and activities, and is expected to be active professionally both locally and nationally.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Performs metadata creation and management through original and complex copy cataloging with all associated authority work, according to the following standards:
  • Resource Description and Access (RDA) via RDA Toolkit
  • Library of Congress-PCC Policy Statements
  • Library of Congress Program for Cooperative Cataloging (BIBCO/NACO/SACO/CONSER)
  • Library of Congress classification via Classweb
  • MARC 21 formats for Bibliographic and Authority data
  • National standards pertaining to providing access to resources in non-Latin scripts
• Contributes to metadata activities related to Middle Eastern materials, such as digital library metadata development and remediation and enhancement of existing metadata
• Proposes and reviews workflows and policies around the metadata creation for Middle Eastern materials, and trains staff, as needed.
• Participates in departmental projects and initiatives experimenting with new forms of metadata creation
• Engages in professional service and research activities in areas appropriate to the position and to academic librarianship
• Participates in grant management, including in leadership roles, promoting improved access to hidden collections and digital access initiatives.
• Contributes to the development of local, national, and international metadata standards and applications.

Qualifications

Required:

• Library/Information Science degree from an ALA accredited institution OR advanced degree in Middle Eastern studies.
• Study of, or background in Middle Eastern Studies
• Demonstrated knowledge of current national cataloging/metadata standards, knowledge of subject analysis and classification systems.
• Advanced reading knowledge of Arabic and Persian
• Ability to communicate effectively in English

Preferred:

• Previous cataloging experience in an academic/research library, applying current standards and systems including MARC21, RDA, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Subject Headings, OCLC Connexion, and library management and discovery systems
• Reading knowledge of Turkish, Ottoman Turkish or Hebrew
• Experience contributing to the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (BIBCO, NACO, SACO, CONSER)
• Knowledge of current trends, resources, and methodologies in cataloging and metadata as they relate to description and discovery of materials in Middle Eastern languages
• Experience applying non-MARC metadata standards (e.g., Dublin Core)
• Understanding of linked data principles, including RDF and ontologies as well as emerging metadata standards (e.g., BIBFRAME) and identity management systems (e.g., ISNI, VIAF, ORCID)

Application Instructions

To Apply: Submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, and reference contact information online through the University of Chicago’s Academic Recruiting website: apply.interfolio.com/126668. Review of applications will begin after July 9, 2023. Screening of applications will continue until the position is filled or the search is closed.

Salary and Benefits: Appointment salary based on qualifications and experience. Benefits include retirement plan, insurance, and paid time off.

Questions: Contact University of Chicago Library Human Resources, libraryhr@uchicago.edu

 

 

 

 

2. ASPIRANTUM, the Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, is delighted to present four exceptional online courses. Please take a look at the course descriptions below for more information.

1. Learn Persian through Early Classical Persian Prose
Three weeks, from Oct 30, 2023, to Nov 17, 2023

https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-early-classical-persian-prose

2. Learn Persian through Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat

Three weeks, from Oct 09, 2023, to Oct 27, 2023

https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-omar-khayyam-rubaiyat

3. Learn Persian Through the Shahname

Two weeks, from Sep 25, 2023, to Oct 06, 2023

https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname

4. Middle Persian Online School

Three weeks, from Sep 04, 2023, to Sep 22, 2023

https://aspirantum.com/courses/middle-persian-pahlavi-school

 

 

 

3. Celebrating Journal of Abbasid Studies‘ 10th Volume

Brill is celebrating Journal of Abbasid Studies reaching its 10th volume. We are happy to share with you a selection of outstanding and remarkable articles published in the journal in recent years.
These articles were specially selected by the Editors-in-Chief and will be offered as free access until 31 December 2023. No need to sign up for an account.

https://www2.brill.com/JAS10

 

 

 

4. CFP: Session at the 36^th conference of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA), Lyon, France, 23 to 26 June 2024

Dressing Bodies, Dressing Spaces: Challenges and New Approaches to Textiles and Adornment (300-1600) / Habiller le corps, Habiller l’espace: Enjeux et approches aux textiles et à l’adornement (300-1600)

Organizers: Patricia Blessing (Princeton University), Eiren Shea (Grinnell College), and

Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks)

Chair: Maximilien Durand (Musée du Louvre)

To submit an abstract, please visit https://www.cihalyon2024.fr/fr/appel-a-communications and create a new submitter account.

Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2023.

With any questions about the session, please contact Elizabeth Dospel Williams, williamse@doaks.org

Holistic consideration of the interrelationships of pre- and early modern bodies and spaces across Eurasia (300—1600) has been limited by conceptual frameworks divided into geographic, temporal, and methodological specialization. Thus, work on dress has dealt with personal appearance, highlighting questions about identity through clothing, jewelry, and accessories. Likewise, scholarship on interior decoration has considered the relationship of ephemeral design elements to permanent architectural forms through function and placement. Further, scholarship on the body’s presence in space has tended to work with movement, placement, and perception of abstracted bodies, rather than concrete figures weighed down by clothing and jewels.

These approaches, divided largely by medium, reflect art historiographical biases and technical specializations which silo, on the one hand, experts in textiles (weaving), jewelry (metalwork), and sculpture (architecture), or of art historians, archaeologists, and architectural historians, on the other. Similar divisions of body and interior also occur in the broader perspective of material culture theory, while modernist aesthetics have further obscured the interrelatedness of human form and spatial environment. Museum contexts reinforce this divide: objects tend to be isolated within cases, leading to a view of these pieces as context-free, while the museumification of historical spaces means that attendant furnishings are often displayed in special exhibition spaces, whereas historical rooms lie empty.

The proposed panel considers adorned human bodies in their spatial environments to forge new theoretical frameworks drawn from decorative arts historiography, ornament studies, sensory archaeology, anthropology, and material spatiality. An intermedial approach is essential, such as advocated in Luke Lavan and Ellen Swift’s (2009) work on late antique dress and interior decoration and in Jonathan Hay’s (2010) explorations of the somatic experiences of surfaces in early modern Chinese decorative arts objects. Recent efforts to draw together diverse Eurasian experiences of dress and furnishing textiles include a conference on medieval wearables at the Bard Graduate Center (2022) and a panel on embodied movement and interior decoration at the ICMS-Kalamazoo (2023). We seek papers that:

• articulate new theoretical approaches that treat pre- and early modern dress and furnishings as coherent visual and material systems;
• consider the concept and metaphor of “dress,” viewing bodies as structures for adornment and decor, and buildings as immersive environments that respond to the embellished body;
• evaluate dress and furnishings in a cross-cultural or comparative global framework, particularly in terms of status, value, ritual, identity, and somatic experience;
• include contributions that draw from museum collections, given the history of textile research and collections in Lyon.

 

 

 

5. Graduate Study Day – “Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade”, Dumbarton Oaks Museum – October 13

October 13, 2023 | In conjunction with the ongoing interdepartmental project “Passage Between Worlds: Exchanges Along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages.”

Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade

Friday, October 13, 2023
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Applications due: July 17, 2023

In conjunction with the ongoing interdepartmental project “Passage Between Worlds: Exchanges Along the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean in the Middle Ages,” the 2023 Dumbarton Oaks Museum Graduate Study Day Egyptian Textiles and Medieval Indian Ocean Trade will consider Indian cotton textiles found in Egypt, India, and Indonesia and emblematic of a vibrant maritime trade network found east of the Mediterranean Sea in the late antique and medieval periods.

The workshop will be co-taught by Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Dumbarton Oaks), Anna Kelley (University of St. Andrews), Sumru Belger Krody (The George Washington Museum and The Textile Museum), and Arielle Winnik (Yale University), who will discuss the trade, manufacture, and use of textiles across the Indian Ocean in the premodern periods.

In the morning, these scholars will present their current research, with a particular focus on recent exhibitions featuring Indian textiles. After lunch, participants will spend the afternoon studying textiles from the Dumbarton Oaks Collection in object storage and the Cotsen Textiles Collection at the Textile Museum.

Funding 

Dumbarton Oaks will reserve participants’ accommodation in its on-site Guest House for one night (October 12) and will arrange for Friday lunch in the Refectory. Participants should book their own travel to Washington, to be reimbursed up to $600 upon submission of receipts.

Applications 

Currently enrolled graduate students in good standing are eligible to apply. Dumbarton Oaks does not sponsor J1 visas for Study Day attendees. We encourage applicants from graduate programs in art history, archaeology, history, classics, religious studies, and other fields who might benefit from close engagement with our collections and from training in material culture approaches.

To apply, please submit a CV and cover letter with a brief summary of the candidate’s research interests, plans for future research, and an explanation of why attendance is important to the candidate’s intellectual and professional development. All materials should be submitted as one pdf to museum@doaks.org . Applications are due July 17, 2023.

 

 

 

6. ‘Muslim Minorities and Application of Islamic Law in Europe’

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 42/4, 2022

Asif Mohiuddin & Abd Hadi Bin Borham

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13602004.2023.2191911

 

 

 

 

7. ‘Do discriminatory laws have societal origins? The diffusion of anti-Ahmadiyah regulations in Indonesia’

Politics and Religion, online 8.6.23

M Buehler

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-religion/article/do-discriminatory-laws-have-societal-origins-the-diffusion-of-antiahmadiyah-regulations-in-indonesia/C9336EE2262060876F561ACDE4D4AE90?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

 

 

 

 

8. CFP: Arts of the Indian Ocean
Toronto, Canada
May 2-4, 2024
Conveners: Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum) – Zulfikar Hirji (York
University) – Ruba Kana’an (University of Toronto)
Keynote Speakers: Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) – Stephen Murphy
(SOAS) –
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Fiction Author, Kenya) – Samira Sheikh (Vanderbilt University)
Collaborators: Deepali Dewan (Royal Ontario Museum) – Kajri Jain (University of Toronto) – Pedro Machado (Indiana University) – Chantal Radimilahy (University of Antananarivo) – Fahmida Suleman (Royal Ontario
Museum) – Nancy Um (Getty Research Institute) – Richard Vokes (University of Western Australia) – Aga Khan Museum – Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Conference Call for Papers
The ‘global turn’ in academia brings a renewed focus on the Indian Ocean and its diverse histories of mobilities and interactions. The ocean’s unique climatic systems of seasonal monsoon winds and currents and its geographic contours whose littoral shapes the shorelines of Africa, Asia, Australia, and Antarctica have over millennia facilitated and sustained movements of human and non-human animals, plants, minerals, things, and ideas.
The historical formation of the Indian Ocean’s ecologies, mobilities, and economies have been regular subjects of scholarly enquiry and research, and the focus of numerous publications, conferences, and workshops. By contrast, there has been limited attention on the study of the Indian Ocean’s distinctive materialities and artistic expressions, both past and the present, and their roles in forging connections between the region’s peoples and generating new visual and expressive cultures. Additionally, scholarship on the Indian Ocean’s material and artistic worlds is often siloed by disciplinary approach, medium of production, periodization, ethnicity, religious affiliation, nationalism, or geographical demarcation.
Arts of the Indian Ocean will bring together knowledge producers from diverse backgrounds and scholarly arenas to present and discuss research and work on the materialities and artistic expressions in the Indian Ocean world, across geographies — from eastern and southern Africa, through the Gulf and Red Sea to South and Southeast Asia and the south China Sea — as well as across temporalities — from antiquity up until the present-day. The conference aims to gather emerging and established researchers from the fields of archaeology, art history, history, architecture, museum studies, anthropology, visual studies, material culture, and fashion studies, as well as practicing artists from around the Indian Ocean region.
Arts of the Indian Ocean seeks to open up new questions on the multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the Indian Ocean through the examination of the creation, production, and circulation of material culture in a wide range of forms including the visual arts, portable objects, manuscripts and maps, ships and navigational instruments, landscape, architecture, and the built environment, textiles and dress, photography and film, as well as the digital and plastic arts.
We welcome the submission of individual papers presenting case-based object studies as well as full panel proposals that engage in one or more of the following topics: production, materials, circulation, reception, transformation, connectivity, exchange, encounter, mobility, fluidity, transmediality, pilgrimage, ecology, faith and the spiritual, intimacy, materiality, heritage, imaginaries, (dis)placement, marginialities, resistance, violence, collecting and collections, decolonization, futurity, or the sensory.
The conference will be held in a hybrid format (virtual and in-person) to facilitate the participation of colleagues from around the world. The in-person gathering will be held in Toronto, Canada. Travel scholarships may be available for graduate students and colleagues working in the Indian Ocean region. Selected papers will be included in an edited volume.
Submissions of Individual Paper Abstracts and Panel Proposals
Individual Paper Submissions should include:
• Name, affiliation, and contact information • Abstract of 200-300 words • 1 to 2 images (related to proposed paper) • 100-word author bio
Panel Proposal Submissions should include:
• Names, affiliations, and contact information of panel organizer and panelists • Panel title and abstract of 100 words • Abstract of 200-300 words for each paper • 1 to 2 images (related to each proposed panel paper) • 100-word bio for each panelist
Send all Submissions by email attachment in a single pdf to:
ArtsOfTheIndianOcean@gmail.com
Deadline for Submissions: September 15, 2023
Notification of accepted Abstracts and Panel Proposals: October 5, 2023
Send all inquiries to: ArtsOfTheIndianOcean@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

9. CIHA 2024 Congress call for Papers 

The Call for papers for the 36th Congress of the Comité international d’histoire de l’art (CIHA) is open!

• Deadline :15 September 2023
• Over 90 sessions with chairs from all over the world!

The CIHA conference is open to researchers from all professional backgrounds in the broad field of art history. Proposals from young researchers are welcome.

Submissions should be written in English or French. Papers may be presented in either language.

Proposals must be submitted on the submission platform only: find the access below.

Papers will be presented in person in Lyon at the Centre de Congrès – Cité internationale, from 23 to 28 June 2024.

Speakers are responsible for their own registration, travel and accommodation fees.

We invite you to get in touch with your institutions of affiliation to find out how to finance your participation in the Congress. The organising committee is actively seeking support for the mobility of researchers. Please check regularly the the “Call for Grants” section of the website.

The 36th CIHA Congress Lyon 2024 will host more than 90 parallel sessions over the 4 days of conferences, from 23 to 28 June 2024.

To submit your proposal, consult the texts of the calls for papers below. An index of the names of the session chairs is included at the end of the document.
Download the list of calls for papers

The submission of your proposals is only possible on the submission platform: find the access below.
Submit your paper proposal

To find out more, download the submission procedures below and visit our FAQ page.

 

 

 

10. Hybrid Conference – STUDIES IN INDO-PERSIAN CULTURAL EXCHANGES AND THE POZZI COLLECTION, Museum of Art and History in Geneva – June 29

Since the beginning of the 20th century, Switzerland, particularly Geneva, has been home to artistic treasures that witness rich cultural exchanges between peoples and regions. Among these treasures is the exceptional Pozzi Collection of Persian paintings housed at the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire in Geneva. This collection represents one of the most significant collections of Persian paintings assembled by European private collectors during the 20th century. It was bequeathed by Jean Pozzi (1884-1967) the French Plenipotentiary Minister to the museum.

Transmission of knowledge and exchange of expertise are notably discernible in the Indo-Persian world, where languages, religions and cultural materials have been shared over several centuries. Art amateurs from Europe, fascinated by Indo-Persian and more generally by Islamicate arts and material cultures, assembled rich collections from the end of the 19th century. To what extent have these exchanges and fascination been reciprocal, and in which domains are they more perceptible today? Moreover, while gender studies have received ample attention in several subfields of global studies in art and literature, they have been overlooked in Indo-Persian studies.

This hybrid international colloquium aims to show the importance of these exchanges and to offer a critical dialogue to contribute to the understanding, knowledge, preservation and respect of material and immaterial heritage.

For Zoom registration:  https://www.mahmah.ch/colloque-international

1. Iran at War, Interactions with the Modern World and the Struggle with Imperial Russia

M Behrooz,

Bloomsbury, 2023

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/iran-at-war-9780755637379/

 

 

 

 

2. 7th International Symposium on „Politics and Society in the Islamic World”, University of Lodz, Poland, 26-28 October 2023

We invite researchers from different disciplines: science, sociology, cultural studies, regional studies and who combine various disciplines. Presentations will analyze various parts of the Islamic world to explore domestic policies of the states inhabited by Muslims as well as foreign policies and international relations, and issues connected with the presence of Muslims in the West.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 July 2023.

Information: https://www.kbwipa.uni.lodz.pl/en/islamic-symposium/islamic-symposium-2023c

 

 

 

 

3. ISAR Ottoman Sciences Symposium Series IX: “Ethics in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, Istanbul Center for Research and Education (ISAR), 15-16 December 2023

The symposium aims to illuminate the works, sources, methods, tendencies, aims, and theories of individual scholars who dealt with ethics on one hand, and to illuminate the principles, various aspects, and stages of the contemplation on ethics in the Ottoman Empire on the other.

Deadline for abstracts: 25 June 2023. Information:

https://www.isar.org.tr/en/symposiums-workshops/ethics-in-the-ottoman-period/call-for-papers-13

 

 

 

4. Conference “Women and the History of State Building in Postcolonial African Countries”, Department of African Studies, University of Vienna, 6-7 June 2024

The conference aims to retrieve histories of African women’s contribution to the postcolonial politics of state building. Who were the women who vied for positions of power, how/why did they campaign, for which ideas? What did they achieve during their political mandates? What impact did they have? What are the methodo-logical challenges that emerge when writing these histories?

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/12874833/cfp-women-and-history-state-building-postcolonial-african

 

 

 

 

5. Two PhD Positions (3 Years) in the Research Project “Bibliotheca Arabica – Towards a New History of Arabic Literature”, Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig

Requirements: MA in Islamic Studies, Arabic philology or a related discipline; excellent knowledge of Arabic and preferably one other primary language of the Islamicate world; experience in working with Arabic manuscripts; proficiency in academic English as well as the ability to work with secondary literature in modern European languages as well as Arabic.

Deadline for applications: 31 July 2023.

Information: https://www.saw-leipzig.de/de/ausschreibungen/stellenausschreibungen

 

 

 

 

6. Faculty Position in Classical Ottoman History (1300-1700), Department of History, Bilkent University, Ankara

Preference will be given to those who can demonstrate excellence in research, publications and teaching. The Department of History particularly welcome applications from scholars who will enhance standing thematic and interdisciplinary strengths in the department. Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by 1 September 2023.

Deadline for applications: 1 August 2023. Information: https://history.bilkent.edu.tr/job-opportunities/

 

 

 

 

7. Visiting Lecturer in Modern Hebrew and Middle East Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (MESALC), University of Virginia

The successful applicant will have native or near-native fluency in Israeli Hebrew, experience in second-language pedagogy at the university level, and an active scholarly engagement with Israel and/or Palestine in its Middle Eastern context.

Deadline for applications: 3 July 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/06/08/visiting-lecturer-in-modern-hebrew-middle-east-studies

 

 

 

 

8. Prizes of the “Syrian Studies Association” for an Outstanding Dissertation and an Article on Syria

In 2023, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding dissertation published between July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023, and the most outstanding article or book chapter published between July 1, 2022 and July 1, 2023.

Deadline for applications: 15 July 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12875629/syrian-studies-association-call-2023-prize-submissions

 

 

 

 

9. MA in “Mediterranean Studies” 2023/2024, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of the Peloponnese, Corinth

The MA is designed to be a flexible and dynamic umbrella program that covers an array of pressing issues, such as: Conflict, security and nationalism in the Mediterranean; democratization and civil society; human rights and activism; inter-cultural dialogue; energy security and environmental challenges, etc.

Deadline for applications: 30 June 2023. Information: https://med.pedis.uop.gr/

 

 

 

 

10. Persian International Summer School, Center for Persian Studies, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 3-21 July 2023

Instructors: Native Persian-speaking university professors. – Levels: Beginners, Intermediate, Advanced. – Hours per week: 20 hours per week / 60 hours in total.

Information and registration: https://farsi.fil.bg.ac.rs/summer-school/

 

 

 

 

11. Fifth International Winter School on “Social Media, Surveillance and Societies of Control”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 6-11 January 2024 The Winter School will address the interaction between social media, surveillance, and control by governments and corporations and the vulnerability of popular culture to manipulation and control through social media. The School welcomes submissions from advanced PhD students and early career scholars special-ized in different social science and related computer science and engineering disciplines across the globe. Funding for travel expenses is available on a competitive basis. Deadline for applications extended to 8 July 2023. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/winter-school-5th-round-2024/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

 

 

12. Articles for the “Syrian Studies Association Bulletin”

The Journal invites feature, news, and research article proposals, as well as book reviews, for its Fall 2023 issue, covering issues of contemporary or historic interest in Bilad al-Sham and modern Syria in the disciplines sociology, religion, journalism, history, anthropology, international relations, archeology, media studies, environmental studies, music / art studies, etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12875628/cfp-syrian-studies-association-bulletin-fall-2023-issue

 

 

 

 

13. Articles Featuring Research on Istanbul’s Past and Present for the Journal “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies”

The journal is accepting submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English, by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.

Deadline for submissions: 20 June 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/12741885/yillik-annual-istanbul-studies-5-2023-and-6-2024-call-papers

 

 

14. Research project RE-VISUALIZE ” “Gender in Islam in the Francophone Digital World.”

We are pleased to announce the launch of our website: Home | Re Visualize , as part of our research project on “Gender in Islam in the Francophone Digital World.”

(Women | Re Visualize , French version)

“Re-Visualize: Muslim Women Digital Empowerment” is a research project co-funded by the ERASMUS+ program of the European Union, and is carried out by a consortium consisting of the Université Saint Louis in Brussels, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Lorraine, the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, and the PLURIVERS’ELLES Studies and Training Association.

The project stems from the desire to create a dynamic of collaborative research and knowledge sharing between universities and associative structures, in other words, to combine scholarly perspectives with field expertise.

The website provides a detailed presentation of the project, its activities under “Re-Visualize,” and upcoming productions. It also includes information about the research team members and the university partners involved in the project.

Our goal is to establish an online platform to disseminate the results of our research, share reflections, and engage in debates with the academic community and stakeholders in the field of gender in Islam.

We are grateful to the European Commission for their financial support and to our university partners for their collaboration and commitment to this project.

Malika Hamidi

 

 

 

 

15. The University of Sydney (Australia) is opening up to 40 new positions for early career researchers (= less than 10 years since PhD or equivalent). The subject areas are Climate change, health, and sustainability–any discipline.

Full details here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/research/research-funding/research-fellowships/sydney-horizon-fellowships.html.

                Research challenges

Climate change, health, and sustainability are three of our most pressing contemporary challenges. Drawing on and developing their disciplinary and multidisciplinary skills, Fellows will address these challenges and advance potential solutions. The latter may include the development of novel technologies, biomedical, legal, business, design, policy, and political instruments.

Fellows will be supported to join existing Centres and form new communities of practice across the schools and faculties of the University, working together to address the three grand challenges.

                Eligibility

Applicants must:

• be less than ten years since the award of their PhD (or equivalent) at the closing date of the application, relative to opportunity,
• commit to working on the Fellowship from the agreed start date of the award,
• obtain and maintain the right to work in Australia,
• apply via the Sydney Horizon Fellowships application page – applications, including attachments and questionnaire responses will not be accepted via other methods.

Applicants will be asked to provide their ORCID iD (where available) in their application to assist with the assessment process.

The Sydney Horizon Fellowships are open to all disciplines. Applicants must propose research that addresses at least one of the challenges of climate change, health or sustainability.

Applications close 11:59pm on Wednesday 5 July 2023 AEST.

 

 

 

16. Recording of the 10th IDHN Conference is online!

Dear friends and colleagues,

The recording of our 9th IDHN Conference from May 30, 2023 is online: https://youtu.be/cTah_2hLmZ0.

It is also posted on our IDHN forum: https://idhn.org/forums/topic/9th-idhn-conference-recording/

We thank our presenters for their generosity in sharing their inspiring research with the IDH Network and look forward to seeing you at our upcoming 10th IDHN Conference in the fall of this year!

 

 

 

17. Persian Art in Qajar Period (Video: Exhibition in Armenia)

Exhibition at Matenadaran Museum, Yerevan (Armenia)

VIDEO:

https://youtu.be/5CqXhFzPZgA

 

1. Jameel Scholarships

The Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK is a leading academic institution for research and teaching about Islam and Muslims in Britain.

We have 1 International PhD Jameel Scholarship and 2 UK PhD Jameel Scholarships in British Muslim Studies available for suitably qualified students with an innovative and significant PhD proposal.

The PhD is based at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion and supervised by the Islam-UK Centre at Cardiff University.

We are seeking exceptional applicants with a First Class or high Upper Second Class Honours Degree or Masters’s Degree (or equivalent).

Research proposals are invited on topics that clearly align with the research interests and expertise of staff at the Islam-UK Centre. Proposals must demonstrate exceptional academic merit, potential and relevance to Muslims in the UK.

Relevant areas of research interest include:

• Islam and Public Life
• Islam in Prison and Rehabilitation
• Islam and the Media
• Muslim Religious Professionals including Chaplaincy and Imams
• Mental Health and Islam
• Pastoral Care and Pastoral Theology
• Imams and Religious Leadership
• Islamic Law in Britain
• Religious Authority, Revival Movements, Tradition, and Modernity in Britain
• Islam and Muslims in Wales, British Muslim History
• Socio-economic inequality amongst British Muslims
• Mixed methods research
• Muslim Women and Islam

The scholarship is funded by the Jameel Foundation.

How to apply

For further details on the scholarship and information on how to apply, please visit the PhD studentships and projects webpage.

The deadline for receipt of applications is 23:59 Monday 3 July 2023.

https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/centre-for-the-study-of-islam-in-the-uk/study/jameel-scholarships

 

 

 

 

2. Science Communication, Islam and Muslim Communities

A lecture on Muslim perceptions of science hosted by the Institute for STEMM in Culture and Society (ISTEMMiCS) and the Science and Technology Cluster in the Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Policy, University of Birmingham
29.6.23, 6.30 pm UK time.

While there have long been lively discussions about gender and racial inclusiveness in science communication, Muslims, one of the UK’s most marginalised populations, have largely been ignored. This is despite Muslims being a group whose members are often described as being especially resistant to science, with news media regularly claiming they stand in opposition to everything from evolution to COVID regulations.

In this public lecture, Stephen H. Jones will use a range of data to look at what British Muslims really think about science and at the question of whether, and how, science communicators should engage Muslim members of the public. Drawing on a new research project hosted at the University of Birmingham, ‘Science and British Muslim Religious Leadership’, the lecture will offer particular insight into Islamic authorities’ role in arguing for and against scientific theories and how they approach issues such as human origins, organ donation, and engaging with secular society.

This lecture is free to attend. Refreshments and snacks will be provided. You can register at the following link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-communication-islam-and-muslim-communities-tickets-643681236907

 

 

 

3. CHSTM working group on Medieval European Medical Manuscripts, Monday 12 June: Ayman Atat on Arabic manuscripts as witnesses of pharmaceutical knowledge

CHSTM working group on Medieval European Medical Manuscripts takes place next week, Monday, 12 June, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm BST/11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT. We are very pleased to welcome Dr Ayman Yasin Atat (Technical University of Braunschweig).

* Please note that we are meeting on a Monday rather than our usual Thursday slot! *
To join the working group and receive the Zoom link, visit

https://www.chstm.org/groups

Ayman Yasin Atat (Technical University of Braunschweig), ‘Manuscripts as Storytellers. What Could Manuscripts as Witnesses of Pharmaceutical Knowledge Tell Us? A Case Study of Rawḍat al-ʿiṭr Manuscript’

 

 

 

4. Bloomsbury Webinar:

‘Presentism in Teaching History: A Live Webinar with Professional Historians’

26 June, 10 am ET/3pm UK time

The trend of presentism in history has caused sufficient controversy over the past year to garner mainstream media coverage in The Atlantic, The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and more.

Join six professional historians and go beyond the headlines to explore the trend of presentism in teaching history. Drawing on their teaching experience as well as their recent exclusive articles in the digital resource ‘Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method’, each historian will discuss their article in turn, including how its subject matter lends itself to presentism, before turning to a panel discussion with all six participants about the overall trend of presentism in teaching.

This event is chaired by Associate Professor Tyson Retz, who is a member of the editor team for ‘Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method’.

For more information and to register:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9716850295599/WN_PEMb5t30Tpa20WkyzsLraw#/registration

For the texts to be discussed (free access), see:

https://www.bloomsburyhistorytheorymethod.com/featured-content

 

 

 

 

5. Doha Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies

Spring Semester 2024

A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support

The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Spring semester 2023-2024 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies.

The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic- speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) and their international non-native or heritage peers.

The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha. It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.

The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.

The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Public Administration and Development Economics. For more detailed information about the DI, please go to:

https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx

The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community. The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.

To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:

https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/zvlz3kp0kd4036/

Semester Program Features:

• 6 credits of Intensive Arabic,
• A language partner,
• Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible,
• Option to have an academic partner,
• Access to the DI rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.

Admission Requirements:

• Advanced level in Arabic,
• Tuition fees: 9,000 QAR (approximately 2,250€ or 2,465$),
• Housing: 11,000 per semester (approximately 2,650€ or $3000).

Program Dates:

• Application Deadline: August 15, 2023
• Start of Classes: January 07, 2024
• End of Program: April 25, 2024

 

 

 

6. Zoom: SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies

Pallonji Shapoorji Mistry Memorial Lecture – The Sassanian Empire: A Fire That Was Extinguished

6.00pm, Tuesday 13 June 2023

This lecture is about the Sassanian Dynasty which ruled Persia for over 400 years and was a bulwark against the Roman Empire, which could never cross the Euphrates river because of the resistance put up by the Persians.

The lecture takes the audience through a series of remarkable Monarchs, some of whom ruled a vast empire with justice and sagacity. Zoroastrianism was the state religion for these 400-odd years, which was finally put out by the invading Arabs who imposed Islam on this great nation. Two earlier dynasties had ruled Persia for 200-odd years, and 400-odd years respectively.

To register:

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/pallonji-shapoorji-mistry-memorial-lecture-sassanian-empire-fire-was-extinguished

 

 

 

7. Leighton House

Imagination Unbound: An Evening of Persian Poetry

7.00pm-8.30pm, Thursday 22 June 2023

Poetry is the art par excellence of Iran and the Persian speaking world. For more than a thousand years, poetry has enhanced and sustained the lives of Persian speakers, and for many centuries now, these rapturous expressions of love, longing, and acceptance of providence are enjoyed by Western audiences through translation.

Join Narguess Farzad, author and Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies, as she discusses how Persian poetry remains the unrivalled means of encapsulating experiences and emotions, memories, traumas, and delights.  The evening will include a selection of classical and contemporary poetry, recited in Persian and in English translation, by British actor Matt Addis.

To attend:

https://leightonhouse.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/49169?catID=48518&

 

 

 

8. The British Museum

Luxury and power: Persia to Greece

04 May – 13 August 2023

Drawing on dazzling objects from Afghanistan to Greece, this exhibition moves beyond the ancient Greek spin to explore a more complex story about luxury as a political tool in the Middle East and southeast Europe from 550–30 BC. It explores how the royal Achaemenid court of Persia used precious objects as markers of authority, defining a style of luxury that resonated across the empire from Egypt to India. It considers how eastern luxuries were received in early democratic Athens, self-styled as Persia’s arch-enemy, and how they were adapted in innovative ways to make them socially and politically acceptable. Finally, it explores how Alexander the Great swept aside the Persian empire to usher in a new Hellenistic age in which eastern and western styles of luxury were fused as part of an increasingly interconnected world.

More information:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/luxury-and-power-persia-greece

 

 

 

9. Frontline Club

Screening +Q&A: Nazanin with Richard Ratcliffe

7.00pm-8.30pm, Thursday 06 July 2023

The behind-the-scenes account – part love story, part thriller – of how Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was thrown into a Tehran jail, and how her family battled to get her home.

Chaired by Ramirta Navai, an Emmy and Robert F. Kennedy award-winning British-Iranian journalist, documentary producer and author. She has reported from over forty countries and has a reputation for investigations and work in hostile environments.

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-qa-nazanin-with-richard-ratcliffe-tickets-641440805717

 

 

 

10. ‘Current debates and emerging trends in the history of science in premodern Islamicate societies’

History of Science, 2023

N Fancy, et al.,

This roundtable brings together contributions from nine senior, mid-career and junior scholars who work on the history of science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies. The contributions reflect upon some of the challenges that have historically constrained the subfield, how they have sought to overcome them, and what they see as some of the more productive and fruitful turns the field has taken and/or should take in the future. A central trend in all contributions is how they seek to confront the combined weight of colonialism, Orientalism, and the teleological history of science that continues to haunt contemporary discussions in both academia and the general public with regards to science in pre-1800 Islamicate societies.

Without diminishing the pioneering achievements of the generations of historians who have preceded us, and upon whose work we continue to rely, this combined weight has tended a) to marginalize the study of occult sciences in Islamicate societies; b) to emphasize investigations of content from an etic perspective of how we got to the present, which is primarily seen as how the scientific content is connected to the rise of modern science in Europe; and c) to concomitantly marginalize the study of science in post-1200 Islamicate societies, particularly those with little to no connection to the rise of “Western” science. The contributions build upon conversations that took place among participants in December 2019 at a workshop at New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi Institute in New York City, funded by a grant from NYU Abu Dhabi.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00732753231154690

 

 

 

11. Early Sciences 2023 Essay Prize

Early Science and Medicine and the Early Sciences Forum of the History of Science Society are joining together to run a prize competition for the best essay focusing on early science, medicine, technology, and other forms of natural knowledge across the globe before 1800. We especially welcome submissions from early career scholars. The author of the winning essay will receive a $200 award and the piece will be published as an article in Early Science and Medicine 29 (2024) subject to peer review; the committee will provide mentorship throughout the process. The winner will be strongly encouraged to attend the 2023 History of Science Society Conference meeting on November 9-12 in Portland, Oregon as the prize will be awarded at the Early Sciences Forum Meeting.

We invite you to submit unpublished essays between 8,000 and 15,000 words in English that are not under consideration at another journal. Please follow the ESM style guide and make sure that your paper has been anonymized. ESM publishes images in color and black-and-white; the author will handle permissions. Please submit essays by August 1, 2023 via this form (https://forms.gle/5bzAJigAaAruSRfQ9). For questions, please email earlysciencesforum@gmail.com.

 

 

 

12. Position: UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies Associate Director

Job Title: Associate Director, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies

Start date: Monday, August 7, 2023

Hours: 40 hours per week

Pay: $64,500 – 79,100

Mode: Hybrid, Monday-Friday 8-4:30, occasional evening/weekends

Apply online here – due Thursday, June 22

Position Description:

This position is located in the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies within the College of Arts and Sciences. The staff and programs of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies work to provide the University and the people of North Carolina with a campus hub to promote an understanding of the Middle East through teaching, research, and community outreach, and to explore and promote cross-regional approaches to Middle East and Islamic studies, including sponsorship of a wide variety of activities that bring together interested faculty and students from a large number of academic disciplines. The Associate Director will be involved in all aspects of Middle East and Islamic studies program development, including management of the Center’s Title VI and Foreign Language and Area Studies award from the U.S. Department of Education while organizing and overseeing day-to-day center programs such as workshops, conferences, and lecture series. The Associate Director will also work closely with the Center’s Director, Outreach Manager, and Business Manager, as well as the Center’s partners at Duke University and Durham Tech.

Required Qualifications:

M.A. or Ph.D. in a Social Science or humanities field required, with academic background and experience in Middle East or Islamic Studies; candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity or comparable background in independent academic or instructional activities, will accept a relevant bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution. The candidate will have expert knowledge of Middle East or Islamic studies, well-developed communication skills, experience in writing and administering grants, and administrative experience.

Preferred Qualifications

At least two years of experience in a professional capacity in the field of international studies, such as teaching in a related field, budget management, program development, grant proposal, and/or research. Basic knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language preferred

Apply online here – due Thursday, June 22

For questions about the position, please contact Claudia Yaghoobi yaghoobi@email.unc.edu

1.Conference “(Un)growing Into Generational Roles”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 8-9 June 2023

The conference aims at understanding intergenerational relations as a key intersection where the transformation of family relations, social power relations, and translocal transformation processes can be observed. It brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, and history presenting research extending across Euro-American, Middle Eastern, Central, South and Southeast Asian and other localities and migratory trajectories.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/ungrowing-into-generational-roles

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Book Presentation “The Mosul Incident of 1909 – Its Sociopolitical, Judicial and Military Consequence” by Nurkan Sever (Pavia University), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Ber-lin, 13 June 2023, 1:00 pm, CET

The banishment and murder of Sheikh Said Barzanji who was the family head of Sadaat al-Barzanjiyya as the most influential religious organization of region, created a critical threshold in the history of Mosul. As the urban shootout on January 5 turned into a provincial bloodshed, Kurdish Sayyids, tribes and religious orders consolidated and revolted against the Ottoman authorities.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/the-mosul-incident-of-1909

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar “The Arabic Documents from Early Islamic Khorasan” by Geoffrey Khan (Pro-fessor of Hebrew, University of Cambridge), University of Oxford, 15 June 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time

The speaker describes the Arabic documents from early Islamic Khurasan, which he published in 2007 and will discuss their importance for the understanding of the development of Arabic documentary culture. The corpus is datable to the 8th century AD. The documents exhibit innovations in formulae that appear in the Arabic papyri from Egypt several years later.

Information and registration: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-arabic-documents-from-early-islamic-khurasan

 

 

 

 

4. Conference “Anti-Feminism and Anti-Gender Politics in Authoritarian Regimes. The Role of the State, Religion, and Feminist Counter-Strategies in the Near and Middle East and Eastern Europe”, Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS), University Marburg, 21-23 June 2023

The purpose of this conference is to compare the anti-feminist politics of authoritarian regimes in the Near and Middle East and Eastern Europe. To that end, it brings together two strands of research – the study of anti-feminism and anti-gender politics and the study of authoritarian populism – and focus on two regions that have previously been under-researched from a comparative perspective.

Deadline for registration: 18 June 2023. Information and program:

https://www.herder-institut.de/event/anti-feminism-and-anti-gender-politics-in-authoritarian-regimes/

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Webinar “The Village and the Archive: On Documents in Iranian Languages (11th-13th Century)” with Arezou Azad, University of Oxford, 20 July 2023, 5:00 pm UK Time

Dr Azad presents samples of documents in the Bamiyan Papers written in 11th to 13th century-Khurāsān (in today’s Afganistan), some of which are the oldest pieces of Perso-Arabic writing in the original in the world. We will see how this archive has been reconstructed, what sorts of documents are in it, and how closely they are aligned with prescriptions in administrative manuals (inshāʿ).

Information and registration: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/the-village-and-the-archive-on-documents-in-iranian-languages-11th-13th-century

 

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE 52nd Annual Conference of the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (NAAIMS): “Creating Islamic Spaces and Places”, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University, Indianapolis, 19 October 2023

Papers are invited papers from professors and advanced Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences on the themes: The Quest for Muslim Spaces and Places in Travelogue Literature; How Migration and Trade Shape Muslim Experiences of Space & Place; African Muslims Experience of Slavery in the USA; Being an American Muslim Woman in the Workplace; American Muslims in the Public Sphere; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 June 2023. Information: https://naaims.org/52nd-annual-conference/

 

 

 

 

7. Workshop “The Urban and Local Dimensions of Political Violence in Syria and the Middle East”, SUR-Project and the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (MEDIT), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 27-29 October 2023

The workshop seeks to understand how political violence becomes “urbanized” and transformed within cities in the Middle East. The organizers are hosting a workshop for postgraduate students and young scholars to present and develop their research using georeferenced datasets. The workshop will include training on mapping and visualization skills, provided by Beirut Urban Lab.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2023. Information: https://sur-project.com/workshop

 

 

 

 

8. Mediterranean Seminar Fall 2023 Workshop on “Mediterranean Studies, Present & Future: The “California School” Twenty Years On”, UC Santa Cruz, 3-4 November 2023

Contributions are invited that reflect the depth and breadth of Mediterranean Studies and its approaches, whether applied to the Mediterranean itself or adjacent or comparable regions, from the earliest historical period up to today.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediter-ranean-studies-present-future-med-sem-fall-2023-workshop-santa-cruz-34-november

 

 

 

 

9. Panel on “Muslims in America”, SAMLA 95 Conference, Atlanta, GA, 9-11 November 2023

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, jazz musicians, punks, hip hop artists, filmmakers, and visual artists. Papers are invited that explore the diverse compositions of Muslim American identities in cultural texts as they challenge and engage with the canonical codes and sociopolitical norms of national, theoretical, literary, and aesthetic spaces.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2023. Information:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12686252/muslims-america-panel-samla-95

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (CTR) and Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University

Qualifications: PhD or the corresponding research expertise that is of value in view of the subject matter of the post (Islamic Studies); ability to teach in English; research expertise and progression in Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Studies; demonstrated ability to obtain external research grants; ability to carry out high-quality research on Islam in the contemporary Middle East ; ability to conduct research in at least one lan-guage of the contemporary Middle East.

Deadline for application: 17 August 2023.

Information: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:616354/type:job/where:4/apply:1

 

 

 

 

11. New Research Program “Horn & Crescent. Connections, Mobility and Exchange between the Horn of Africa and the Middle East in the Middle Ages”

Le projet ERC HornEast a pour objectif de documenter les relations entre les sociétés chrétiennes de la Corne de l’Afrique (Éthiopie, Nubie) et leur environnement islamique aux échelles locale et régionale (Égypte, Palestine, péninsule Arabique), afin de mieux comprendre les modalités du processus d’islamisation à l’oeuvre dans la région au cours du millénaire médiéval (VIIe – XVe siècle).

Information: https://horneast.hypotheses.org/presentation-du-programme-2

 

 

 

 

12. “Schools” Comprising Reading Classes and Excursions for Turkish and German Students/Postdoctoral Researcher in the DAAD-Project “Aesthetic Approaches beteen the Early Christian, Byzantine and Early Islamic World”

This project aims to connect different disciplines and bring students from Turkey and Germany together through scientific and cultural dialogues. It is open to advanced BA and MA students, PhD candidates as well as Early Career Researchers of disciplines such as Art History, Byzantine Studies, Archaeology, Islamic Studies, Sociology, etc. The common language will be English; knowledge of Turkish would be advantageous.

Deadline for applications: 15 June 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12871505/call-student-applications-aesthetic-approaches-between-early

 

 

 

 

13. Health and health policies in the Mediterranean region [CALL FOR PAPERS]

This issue of Confluences aims to examine the state of health systems around the Mediterranean, in a com-parative perspective, as health issues will have to be placed in their political, economic and social context. It aims to gather contributions addressing different aspects of implemented policies and their impact, as well as the behavior and expectations of the populations, not to mention the situation and strategies of health professionals.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information:

https://iremmo.org/contribuer-a-la-revue/health-and-health-policies-in-the-mediterranean-region/

 

 

 

 

14. 18th Annual UMAA Conference 2023: Islam in America : Challenges, Opportunities and Advocacy

June 30 – July 2, 2023

https://www.umaamerica.com/?mc_cid=f793ae7313&mc_eid=745ddc2b63

 

 

 

15. The Islamic College (London)

Monthly Seminar: Islamic Medicine- the cases of Prayer and Hijama: Some Critical Considerations

A Talk by Professor John Mayberry 
Thursday 22 June 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London  NW10 2SW

Register to attend:

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-islamic-medicine/

 

 

 

 

16. Conference 
The migration of objects between Islam and Christianity in the medieval and early modern Mediterranean: new uses, new meanings

June, 15-16 2023
University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Philosophy
Franje Račkog 1. 71000 Sarajevo – Bosnia and Herzegovina

Details:

https://euqu.eu/2023/05/22/conference-the-migration-of-objects-between-islam-and-christianity-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean-new-uses-new-meanings/

 

 

 

 

17. La 9^ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 15 juin 2023

17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris

Pour cette séance, nous recevons Nina Soleymani Majd (Maître de conférence, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) pour une conférence intitulée :

« Récits de voyageuses britanniques en pays bakhtiyāri (XIXe-XXe siècle) »
Résumé

Respectivement en 1890 et en 1927, Isabella Lucy Bird-Bishop puis Vita Sackville-West se rendirent en pays bakhtiyāri et en tirèrent des récits de facture fort différente, entre relation épistolaire scientifique, et voyage d’inspiration romantique.

Elles y rapportent leurs observations avec le tranquille sentiment de leur supériorité d’Européennes, laissant transparaître une adhésion au projet interventionniste anglais dans le pays qu’elles appellent encore la Perse à cette époque. Voilà comment il faut comprendre les constantes associations de « l’Occident » avec la « civilisation », au point que les deux termes sont souvent utilisés par elles comme de parfaits synonymes, et de l’autre côté l’assimilation de « l’Orient » à un ensemble de pays figés dans un passé immuable, et a fortiori incapables d’un progrès qui les ferait entrer dans la modernité attribuée à l’âge industriel. À cet égard, le nomadisme fait à première vue figure de preuve irréfutable de ce fossé qui sépare à leurs yeux Orient et Occident, en ce qu’il est le mode de vie le plus éloigné de l’idée qu’elles se font de la civilisation. Et pourtant, grâce à cette position qui le place à l’extrême opposé du spectre s’étendant de la civilisation à l’état de nature, le nomadisme est paradoxalement pour ces voyageuses la meilleure porte d’entrée vers la découverte d’un monde radicalement différent, dépouillée des vaines comparaisons entre habillement, architecture, ou encore système politique occidental et oriental. Ainsi naît l’opportunité d’une véritable ouverture à l’autre, opportunité dont elles se saisissent à des degrés divers, en fonction des contraintes littéraires ou scientifiques qu’elles se sont fixées.

Orientation bibliographique

• Isabella L. Bird-Bishop, Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Londres, John Murray, 1891, 2 vol. [Online]
• Laurence Chamlou, Mirages persans : Les récits de trois voyageuses au tournant du XXe siècle, Grenoble, UGA Éditions, 2022.
• Jean-Pierre Digard, Une Épopée tribale en Iran : Les Bakhtyâri, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2015.
• Vita Sackville-West, Twelve Days : An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia, Londres, Hogarth Press, 1928. [Oline] ; trad. fr. Une Aristocrate en Asie : Récit d’un voyage en pays bakhtyar, dans le sud-ouest de la Perse, trad. Isabelle Di Natale, Monaco, Éditions du Rocher, 2000 [rééd. Payot/Rivages 2006]. [Online]
  Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/

 

 

 

18. Elements and Environment in the Middle Ages: A Multidisciplinary Workshop

Belfast, Thursday 29 June 2023

Queen’s University Belfast

The Graduate School, ROOM TR6

Programme and to Register to attend online:

https://bit.ly/3BoV7sB

 

 

 

19. Winner of the Inaugural Mo Habib Translation Prize

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) is thrilled to announce the winner of the inaugural cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature: Dr. Michelle Quay, for her translation of Reza Ghassemi’s novel Woodwind Harmony in the Nighttime (Hamnava’i-ye shabaneh-ye orkestr-e chubha). Dr. Quay and Mr. Ghassemi will be awarded $10,000 and $5,000 respectively while the novel will be published by Deep Vellum Publishing in 2025. The judges would like to recognize Hajar Hussaini for her translation of Khosraw Mani’s Death and Its Brother as an honorable mention.

The second cycle of the Mo Habib Translation Prize will be announced in September and will focus on Persian poetry.

More information at:

https://melc.washington.edu/news/2023/06/05/announcing-winner-inaugural-mo-habib-translation-prize

 

 

 

20. Persian lacquered bookbinding: A journey through its layers and conservation challenges, Mandana Barkeshli (Oxford) – June 27

Tuesday 27 June 2023

 11–12pm

  At the Weston Library, University of Oxford

Persian artisans are known for their contributions to the field of bookbinding, with the lacquered bookbinding technique being one of their notable breakthroughs. This intricate technique involves multiple layers, each with their own materials, methods, and motifs that have been used from the Safavid to Qajar periods.

Professor Barkeshli will delve into the details of each layer and explore the various treatments used during manufacture, as well as providing insight into the environmental enemies of the lacquered bookbinding.

Prof. Dr. Mandana Barkeshli is Head of Research and Post Graduate Studies of De Institute of Creative Arts and Design in UCSI in Malaysia and Principle Fellow at University of Melbourne. Her current research project is titled, ‘Paper Dyes Used in Persian Medieval Manuscripts: Creating a Materials Construction Digital Database’.

 

 

21. Hybrid conference “Empires of Language in Islamicate Eurasia” on June 9-10 at Simon Fraser University

Please join us at our hybrid conference at Simon Fraser University titled “Empires of Language in Islamicate Eurasia on June 9-10 (this Friday and Thursday.

Here is a link to the program with the zoom link through which both the paper presentations and Nile Green’s (UCLA) keynote address can be listened to.

https://events.sfu.ca/event/35260-empires-of-language-in-islamicate-eurasia

https://events.sfu.ca/event/35292-keynote-by-nile-green-from-but-to-buddha-the

1. Zoom: The British Institute of Persian Studies/The British Museum

‘Open Sesame: Ancient Persia and the Greek Imagination’

with James Fraser & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

Tuesday, 13 June, 2023, 5pm UK time

For information and to register:

https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/ancient-persia-and-greek-imagination/

 

 

 

 

 

2. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 3, no. 3 | Spring 2023

Available at:

https://www.lacisa.org/newsletter

 

 

 

3. BATA 2023 Conference: Registration and Provisional Programme

We are delighted to announce that registration for the 2023 BATA 3^rd Annual International Conference, 6^th – 7^th  July, University of Manchester, is now OPEN!

The Conference will feature a wide range of themes covering different aspects of Arabic language, culture and pedagogy, linguistics, literature and translation. The programme consists of over 58 papers delivered by over 60 presenters from 60 institutions in 23  countries, in addition to two eminent keynote speakers, Professor Hussain Al-Qarni, King Saud University, and Dr. Ruba Khamam, University of Leeds.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME: A copy of the provisional programme can be found  HERE.

REGISTRATION (conference in-person)

To attend the conference, please register at: bit.ly/3BZKTiu. In order for your paper to feature in the final conference programme, please register as soon as possible and no later than 5pm on Saturday 10^th June.

For further information on the registration and the categories, please check BATA website. If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to drop us a line at bata.conference.2023@outlook.com

 

 

 

4. Open Access articles on Ibn Batuta and medicine

• Tresso, Claudia Maria. “India’s Epidemics in the Riḥla of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa: Plague, Cholera or Lexical Muddle?,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, published online 29 May 2023, 1-30. doi:10.1017/S0041977X23000204, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/bulletin-of-the-school-of-oriental-and-african-studies/article/indias-epidemics-in-the-rihla-of-ibn-battuta-plague-cholera-or-lexical-muddle/36992C41ABCF7658A275114DBE812AB7.
• Tresso, Claudia Maria. “Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s ‘Prayer of Damascus’: A Window on to Damascus in the Hell of the Black Death (Part One),” Kervan: International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies 25, no. 1 (2021), 131-161, https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/5785.
• Tresso, Claudia Maria. “Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s ‘Prayer of Damascus’: A Window on to Damascus in the Hell of the Black Death (Part Two),” Kervan: International Journal of African and Asiatic Studies 25, no. 2 (2021), 207-235, https://iris.unito.it/retrieve/e27ce433-e084-2581-e053-d805fe0acbaa/The%20Prayer%20of%20Damascus%2C%20Kervan%2025.2%2C%20207-235.pdf.
• Tresso, Claudia Maria. “A Two-year Journey under the Arrows of the Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic in Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Travels,” Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 21 (2021), 137-189, https://journals.uio.no/JAIS/article/view/9292.

 

 

 

 

5. CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS

XXIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA)
April 4 – 7, 2024

We are happy to announce that the XXIst Biennial Symposium of the American Council for Southern Asian Art (ACSAA) will be held in Ann Arbor, MI. It will be hosted by the University of Michigan with generous support from the Department of the History of Art.

ACSAA symposia occur in alternating years and serve as opportunities to meet colleagues, reconnect with mentors and graduate school cohorts, and share one’s current research with the field. From senior scholars to graduate students, ACSAA symposia are one of the primary ways ACSAA members gather and support one another, develop ideas in a collegial environment, and participate in the ACSAA community.

This is a call for:

1. Individual paper submissions
2. Proposals for pre-formed panels

Individual papers and panels alike should reflect original and unpublished scholarship in the history of South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Himalayan art. All members are welcome to propose ideas for new papers or panels, even if they presented a paper or chaired a panel at ACSAA XX held in Georgia in 2022. To encourage a diversity of voices, an individual scholar’s participation in the symposium will be restricted to no more than two formal roles (e.g. as a speaker in one panel and as a chair/discussant of another panel).

All presenters, panel chairs, and discussants must be ACSAA members in good standing. To join or renew your ACSAA membership, please visit https//acsaa.us/membership/

The Organizing Committee welcomes proposals on a broad range of topics in our field. The Committee would especially like to encourage submissions informed by new archaeological research, ethnographic fieldwork, careful attention to primary textual sources, as well as those that are informed the study of race, caste, and Indigeneity, and by ecocriticism and materiality, irrespective of medium, region, and time period. Individual papers and/or panel proposals honoring the life and work of ACSAA’s founding members and the organization’s supporters, especially those who have passed away recently, are also welcome.

Individual paper proposals should include a title, abstract (250 words maximum), and one-page CV of the presenter. Pre-formed panel proposals should include a panel title and abstract (250 words maximum), individual paper titles and abstracts (each 250 words maximum), and a one-page CV for the panel chair and each presenter. Panels may include a minimum of three and a maximum of five speakers. Each panel will have an allocated time of ninety minutes.

Submit all materials and inquiries to: acsaa2024@gmail.com

A symposium website will be launched in the coming weeks and be updated periodically.

Individual Paper Proposals due: August 1, 2023 

Pre-Formed Panel Proposals due: August 1, 2023 

Final Selection Announcement: December 1, 2023

 

 

 

 

6. Scents of Religious Authority

https://www.alchemiesofscent.org/events/workshop-scents-of-religious-authority

At this workshop, we take a cross-cultural look at the scents of religious authority in sources from Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Medieval Europe. We will read about and smell the scent of divinity and death as they pertain to religious figures and their claims to authority.

Guest Speaker: Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Rhode Island, “The Fragrance of Authority: Did Medieval Folks Smell Power? And Did Power Want to be Smelled?”

Abstract: “Growing from research undertaken for my latest book, The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417: Performing Legitimacy, Performing Unity (CUP, 2022) my new project emphasizes the sense of smell as a vehicle to inculcate political authority. While seeing, hearing, tasting, and touching are overly emphasized by the historiography, smell has not been fully considered. Looking at the ceremonials surrounding the granting of the Golden Rose, a precious object that the pope offered to the most ardent defensor of Christianity of his time, I will discuss how the rose taught its audience (via its aroma) how to recognize legitimate authority, and maybe how authorities “controlled” this smell to assert themselves.”

Hosted by Alchemies of Scent, Department for the Study of Ancient and Medieval Thought & Centre for Medieval Studies, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences.

Programme

MONDAY 5 JUNE 2023

Location: Alchemies of Scent, FLU AVCR Husova 7, 110 00 Prague 1

10.00–10.30. Scent in the Egyptian Temple: Worshipping the Gods with Fragrance in the Daily Ritual (Heike Wilde)

10.40–11.10. “Death seems to me today like the fragrance of myrrh”: Scent and stench in the Egyptian realm of the dead (Diana Míčková)

11.20–11.50. Later Greek Medical Sources of Religious Scents (Sean Coughlin)

12.00–13.30. Lunch

(Note change of location)

*Location: Center for Medieval Studies, FLU AVCR Jilska 1, 110 00 Prague 1

14.00–16.00. The Fragrance of Authority: Did Medieval Folks Smell Power? And Did Power Want to be Smelled? (Joëlle Rollo-Koster)

18.00. Dinner

TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2023

Location: Alchemies of Scent, FLU AVCR Husova 7, 110 00 Prague 1

10.00–12.00. Smelling: rose, “musks,” balsam

12.00–13.30. Lunch

13.30–17.00. Blending and experiment

ONLINE (via Zoom)

Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/640737070827

Zoom link (direct): https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98787379977?pwd=Yk9HSytrVFlULzAxVUczVjRFNERKQT09

Meeting ID: 987 8737 9977

Passcode: 253969

 

 

 

 

7. Prelude to a History of Naqḍ (Inconsistency and Untenable Entailment) in Islamicate Dialectics

Dr. Walter Edward Young,

Lecture, June 8 at 8:00 pm (Moroccan time) and 3:00 pm (Montreal time).

This lecture is the eighth in the second season of the series of lectures organized by Philosmus. (www.philosmus.org)

You can also follow the lecture on Philosmus’ page on Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/Philosmus

For a link to attend on line, email beahmedf@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

8. Call for papers 

Symposium: The Mashrabiya Project, craft and architecture

Organizers: Museum for Art in Wood and the Center for Architecture + Design 

Date: July 20–21, 2023 

The mashrabiya is an iconic component of Islamic architecture. A scalable window lattice that facilitated ventilation while providing privacy and shade, the mashrabiya also brought ornament to severe building façades. Found across North Africa, West Asia, South Asia, and the islands of the Pacific, the mashrabiya can be made from lathe-turned or carved wood, stone, or cement.

Its porosity, material versatility, geometric patterning, and adaptability present unexplored opportunities for architecture. From Hassan Fathy, I. M. Pei, and Jean Nouvel in the twentieth century, to Farshid Moussavi, Zaha Hadid, and Senan Abdelqader in the twenty-first, architects and designers have studied this form for inspiration and found innovative ways to incorporate it.

What applications does the mashrabiya present for the future of architecture? Despite its power as a signifier for Islamic material culture, little material has been dedicated to the study of the mashrabiya. In this two-day symposium co-hosted by the Museum for Art in Wood and the Center for Architecture + Design, architects, designers, engineers, and makers are invited to discuss the potential of the mashrabiya on architecture that is sustainable, culturally meaningful, and supports the needs of our future spaces.

The Museum for Art in Wood seeks emerging scholars and practitioners to present during this symposium, held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition, The Mashrabiya Project. Selected papers will be awarded an honorarium.

Please email up to 250 words and a brief CV for consideration no later than June 15, 2023, to info@museumforartinwood.org ; subject line should read MASHRABIYA SYMPOSIUM.

 

 

9. ONLINE Webinar “Conflict and Consensus: Decision-Making and Leadership Selection in Cairo’s Guilds, Late Eighteenth / Early Nineteenth Centuries” with Pascale Ghazaleh (AUC), Historicity of Democracy Seminar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 5 June 2023, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm CET

The Ottoman courts of Egypt produced abundant documentation, which allows historians to trace some of the social dynamics that animated Cairo under Ottoman rule. The craft and trade groups of the Ottoman period appeared in court to resolve and register their disputes and agreements. The scholar looks at a specific type of document involving guilds, and examines its implications for what we know of decision-making, state intervention, and autonomy with regard to this social group.

Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/deliberation-and-self-autonomy-in-ottoman-egypts-trade-and-crafts-community

1.HYBRID Lecture “Experiences with and Expectations of Islamically Integrated Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy” by Dr. Rasjid Skinner, Interdisziplinäre Forschungsstelle “Islam und Muslim*innen in Europa (IFIME), Siegmund Freud PrivatUniversität, Vienna, 30 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 CET

Information and registration: https://www.sfu.ac.at/de/event/ifime-ringvorlesung-muslimische-patientinnen-ganz-anders-und-doch-so-gleich/

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Webinar “#IranFutures – A Multidisciplinary Look at Iran’s Protests and Future Trajectory“ with Azadeh Pourzand, Dr. Shirin Hakim, Dr. Behrooz Bayat und Dr. Dr. Mahdi Ghodsi, Center for Middle East and Global Order (CMEG), Berlin, 31 May 2023, 6:00 pm CET

Moderated by Dr. Ali Fathollah-Nejad. Registration: https://cmeg.org/iranfutures-webinar

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Panel “Remembering Sarah Hegazi: Queer Mourning and Militancy in the MENA”, BRISMES, London, 14 June 2023, 13:00-15:00 (BST)

This online panel brings together queer feminist scholars and activists from the MENA to reflect on Hegazi’s political legacy, the weaponization of sexuality from above and below that has alienated and killed many like her, and the political potential of grief and mourning.

Information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/remembering-sarah-hegazi

 

 

 

 

4. Panel “Religious Charisma in the MENA and Its Diasporas: Authority, Succession, and Devotion” at the Conference of the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of the Middle East, Istanbul, 5-8 September 2023

We invite papers with ethnographic approaches to charismatic authority and/or community in religious contexts in the MENA and its diasporic communities that refine our understanding of the variety of forms of religious commitment and belonging, as well as emotional attachment to a religious leader, community or movement, in order to establish a productive dialogue between the various perspectives and ethnographic contexts.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023. Information: lizadumovich@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

5. Conference “Rewriting Global Orthodoxy: Oriental Orthodox Communities in a Transnational World”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 25-27 January 2024

Is there indeed a shared Oriental and Eastern ‘global Orthodoxy’ that at least some of the Orthodox con-sciously are contributing to? How do Oriental and Eastern Orthodox migrant communities forge a social im-aginary (expressed in textual and visual cultures) that sustains their diasporan lives? How can the study of the varieties of Orthodoxy contribute to the study of religion in the contemporary world?

Deadline for abstracts: 4 June 2023.

Information: https://www.ru.nl/ftr/@1378195/rewriting-global-orthodoxy-oriental-orthodox/?reload=true

 

 

 

 

6. “Conference for Arab Graduate Students in Western Universities”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), Doha, 2-4 March 2024

The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers based on their PhD theses and receive critical feedback. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discus-sions with their peers and with established academics.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/24/acrps-conference-for-arab-graduate-students-in-western-universities

 

 

 

 

7. Head of the Program “Mediterranean, Middle East And Africa”, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome

Requirements: Ph.D. or at least six years of professional experience in research at national and/or interna-tional research institutions; specialization in the MENA region, with strong knowledge of case studies aca-demic/policy publications in English and Italian on Middle Eastern and/or African topics; excellent English writing and communication skills; fluency or proficiency in Italian.

Deadline for application: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://www.iai.it/en/news/job-opportunity-mediterranean-middle-east-and-africa-programme

 

 

 

8. Three Postdoctoral Research Associates (Byzantine Literature, Medieval Latin Literature, Medieval Italian Literature with Arabic, 5 Years), Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies, University of Padua

The project aims to address the complexities of medieval Sicilian literature by studying the totality of the court poetry produced in Sicily in Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin and Italian between the 10th and the 13th cc. Qualification: PhD in Greek, Latin, or Italian Studies (depending on application), chronologically focused on the medieval period. Expertise in two or more of these languages: medieval Arabic, Greek, Latin, Italian, Hebrew. Proficiency in English and Italian.

Deadline for applications:20 June 2023.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/05/23/three-full-time-postdoctoral-positions-byzantine-latin-and-italian-literature-with-arabic-5-years

 

 

 

 

9. Summer Intensive Courses in Western Armenian, Center for Western Armenian Studies, Larnaca, Cyprus, July/August 2023

Elementary Western Armenian: 3 July – 28 July 2023; Intermediate Western Armenian: 31 July – 25 August 2023. A number of full scholarships are available to cover students’ tuition fees.

Information: https://cfwas.org.uk/courses/summer-intensive-courses/

 

 

 

 

10. La 8^ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 1^er juin 2023

17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’ INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris

Pour cette séance, nous recevons Jaroslava Obrtelovà (Uppsala University) pour une conférence intitulée :

« Linguistic means for expressing epistemological stance and perspective shifts in the Wakhi language »

Résumé :

Wakhi is one of the minority East-Iranian languages spoken in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Analysis of the narrations collected among the Wakhi speakers in their natural environment revealed that expressing the speakers’ attitude towards knowledge and their stance in relation to what they tell is, if not more important, at least as important as expressing the temporal and aspectual properties of the narrated events.

For example, when telling a story, Wakhi narrators always choose between telling it either from the perspective of an eye-witness or from a non-witnessed perspective. The witnessed narrations are told exclusively in the past tense, while the non-witnessed narrations, be it a re-telling of past real events, fictional stories or even future events, are told in the non-tense/non-past. Thus, the choice of the verb form informs the listener/reader of the individual (subjective) speaker’s epistemological stance rather than the (objective) situation of the event on the time-line.

In addition to this ‘witnessed versus non-witnessed’ distinction, Wakhi speakers can further nuance their stance by either reinforcing or distancing themselves from the credibility claim. Different Wakhi speakers can narrate the same event or parts of it differently, depending on the speaker’s stance, which is reflected in the use of different linguistic means.

Orientation bibliographique
Mock, John Howard. 1998. The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan . Berkeley: University of California PhD Thesis.

Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2017. Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 32). Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology.

Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2019. From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives . Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology PhD Thesis.

Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/

1.CfP: “Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule” (Online Workshop)

The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg welcomes proposals for participation in the online workshop ‘Armenian Society under Caliphal Rule’, 7–8 December 2023.

This workshop will consider the social history of Armenia in the period between the first Muslim invasions and the establishment of the Bagratuni kingdom, i.e. seventh to ninth centuries CE/first to third centuries AH. Contributions will be warmly welcomed on any aspect of social history and its intersection with economic, environmental, cultural and religious history. Perspectives that draw upon the written word, visual culture, the built environment or any combination of the above will all be equally welcomed. Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, such themes as social hierarchies, government, church structures, labour relations, urbanism and ruralism, taxation, civic architecture, etc.

Confirmed participants include Stephanie Forrest (Cambridge), Tim Greenwood (St Andrews), Nik Matheou (Edinburgh), Leone Pecorini Goodall (Edinburgh/St Andrews), Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Vienna), and Aram Vardanyan (Yerevan).

The workshop is envisaged as a focused event running on two consecutive afternoons (Central European Time), with papers being pre-circulated two weeks in advance. If you would be interested in delivering a paper or acting as a dedicated respondent, please contact the organizer, Alasdair Grant, at alasdair.grant@uni-hamburg.de by 31 May 2023. If you are enquiring about acting as a respondent, please indicate which topic areas you would be most interested in responding to. If you are enquiring about delivering a paper, please send an abstract of around 250 words, accompanied by a brief indication of the background to your interest in and study of the topic. For more information on the workshop and subsequent publication plans, please visit https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/project-news/2023-04-21-cfp.html or email the organizer if you have any further questions.

 

 

 

2. The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391, research project no. B07 “Teaching Nature – Nature’s Teaching. Aesthetic Strategies of Knowledge Transmission in a Transcultural Perspective”, invites applications for a PhD student position / Doctoral candidate (m/f/d, 75%, E13 TV-L) in the field of Islamic Studies. The position is available from 1 July 2023 and limited to 30 June 2027.

Project B07 studies two 14th-century didactic texts about nature in a transcultural perspective. It is structured into two research areas, one focusing on al-Jildakī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ and one on Konrad of Megenberg’s Buch der Natur. These natural encyclopaedias transform Greek, Arabic, and Latin knowledge with a didactic intent. The didactics related to nature is provided with an aesthetic dimension, e.g. via rhetorical techniques, reflections on the beauty of the cosmos, and other artistic devices. The candidate will write their PhD dissertation systematically discussing the aesthetic strategies used by al-Jildakī in his Durrat al-ghawwāṣ for his epistemological ends.

Duties:

The position is allocated to Islamic Studies (principal investigator: Prof. Dr Regula Forster).

The candidate will conduct research leading to a dissertation on al-Jildakī’s Durrat al-ghawwāṣ in close cooperation and exchange with the research area in Medieval German (Dr. Jan Stellmann and a second doctoral candidate).

• organisation of and participation in project-related workshops and conferences
• participation in research events of the CRC
• (co-)editing conference proceedings, if applicable

Requirements:

• The position is open to graduates of any university who have obtained an academic degree equivalent to M.A. with excellent grades in Islamic / Arabic / Middle Eastern Studies or similar.
• very good knowledge of Arabic
• ability to conduct scholarly work independently

The position offers the chance to obtain further academic qualification (PhD).

The university seeks to raise the number of women in research and teaching and therefore urges qualified women academics to apply for these positions. Equally qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference in the hiring process. The university is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. It therefore takes individual’s situation into account and asks for relevant information.

The employment will be carried out by the central administration of the University of Tübingen.

Applications should include:

• cover letter, curriculum vitae, academic certificates, if applicable: list of publications
• proof of writing skills (published article or chapter of graduate thesis, 1–2 samples in English or German)
• names and e-mail addresses of two contact persons for references

Please send applications as one pdf-file by E-mail to Prof. Dr Regula Forster (regula.forster@uni-tuebingen.de). Review of applications will begin on 12 June 2023, and continue until the position is filled. For questions regarding project B07, please contact Prof. Dr Regula Forster (+49 7071 29 78531).

The Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 1391 “Andere Ästhetik” (“Different Aesthetics”) is a research network funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) which aims to arrive, by means of our interdisciplinary research programme, at a revised evaluation of the contribution made by pre-modern aesthetic acts and artefacts within the field of aesthetic research (more information: https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/159607).

 

 

 

 

3. Arabic Transliteration for Academics, Publishers and Librarians

AKU-ISMC’s new Centre for the Languages of the Muslim World is delighted to offer this short course as part of its Professional Development series. The course is aimed at professionals, scholars and students who work with Arabic text and would like to acquire knowledge of transliteration systems and gain or improve their practical transliteration skills under the guidance of experienced tutors. The course is a 5-hour practical workshop-style course taught in two highly interactive sessions. Both sessions incorporate tailored feedback from the tutors; prior to session II, participants are required to submit a short sample transliteration for discussion during the session. The course is equally well suited to native and non-native speakers of Arabic.

Date and time
08 June | 14:00 – 17:00 (London time)
15 June | 14:00 – 16:00  (London time)
Tickets
£99 professionals | £79 students, AKU alumni and staff. The number of tickets is limited
Note
The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.
This course will not be recorded. 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arabic-transliteration-for-academics-publishers-and-librarians-tickets-528267431107

 

 

 

 

4. ‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective

C Weller

Palgrave MacMillan, 2023

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-5697-3

 

 

 

 

5. Sunni Communities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013-2021

Securitization, Secularization and Privatization

Hessam Habibi Doroh

Brill, 2023

https://brill.com/display/title/63179

 

 

 

6. Call for Papers on “Media and Women” Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, is seeking submissions for our next issue on “Media & Women.” The world is contending with challenges of global magnitude like climate change, the COVID19 pandemic, and geopolitical conflicts, where women and girls are disproportionately negatively impacted. Our mediascapes are rapidly evolving and playing increasingly pivotal roles in shaping social and political responses to these challenges. Thus, it is of essence to critically examine how women in the Arab world engage with media: how they have been portrayed by it, how they contribute in its production, how they grapple with it as consumers and audiences, and even how they resist its depictions. This, not just as an effort to expand on the scholarship that tracks how media reflects and affects (positively and negatively) social patterns of gender inequality, but also to think through how these interactions can prove productive in addressing the urgent crises of our time. To that end Arab Media & Society has decided to focus on women and media in its upcoming issue 36 (Summer/Fall 2023). Papers may address (but are not limited to) the suggested subtopics below: – Media and women’s activisms – Gendered media production in new media spaces – Feminism and the media – Women in science journalism – Gender in climate change media – Gendered labor and care work in digital cultural production – Feminist approaches to crisis journalism – Women and media education – Media coverage of gender inequality – (Under)representation of women in professional media – Women on social media platforms – Social media, gender, and mental health – Representation of women in Arab film and television – Stereotypical representations of Arab women in international media – Historical regional representations of women in media – Religion, media, and women – Women and cultural diplomacy – Media, women, and popular culture While we welcome submissions from diverse disciplines and perspectives, articles should relate in some way to the Arab world and its diaspora, and media or communication technology. Submissions for peer-review consideration should be received by September 15, 2023; and all other submissions, including book and conference reviews, shorter research papers, and columns, should be received by October 1, 2023. Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style and may be up to 10,000 words, including footnotes, and citations (author-date). All submissions should be sent as .doc or .docx files, and should include the author’s name as it will be published, their affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words. Send articles and ideas to editor@arabmediasociety.com For more information on our publishing policies please visit www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/

 

 

 

 

7. 3 Islamic Manuscripts on Astronomy

We would like to draw your attention to three manuscripts in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish which deal with Astronomy:
https://gerlachbooks.com/index.php?p=17&h=11
(1)
Tashrih al-aflak (Anatomy of the celestial spheres)
including Sharh Tashrih al-aflak (Commentary on Tashrih al-aflak)
Manuscript in Arabic , 1072 H (1656 AD)
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_142
(2)
Three Manuscripts in Ottoman Turkish Bound in 1 Volume, 1166 H [1752 A.D.]
(1) Kifayat al-waqt li-ma’rifat al-da’ir wa- fadlihi wa-‘l-samt.
(2) Tashil al-miqat
(3) Farah Faza
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_118
(3)
Observations of the Movements of Sun and Stars during the year 1287 H. [1870 AD]
for Submission to the Sultan.
Manuscript in Ottoman Turkish
Direct link: https://gerlachbooks.com/MSS_123

 

 

 

8. Career Information Days for Students of Iranian Studies, Arabic Studies, and Islamic Studies

The departments of Iranian Studies and Arabic/Islamic Studies I-II at the University of Göttingen organize a two-days Career Information event on the 2nd and 3rd of June via Zoom.

The talks are in German and English.

Link for participation:

https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/63754076924?pwd=Y0FoTGFzWl-QzWVRka0hudk1sTTZzUT09

Further information:

lara-lauren.goudarzi-gereke@uni-goettingen.de

sebastian.bitsch@uni-goettingen.de

ali.balaeilangroudi@uni-goettingen.de

 

 

 

9. Position in Arabic and ME studies : Bard College: Bard High School Early Colleges

Bard College: Bard High School Early Colleges: BHSEC – Manhattan

Location

New York, NY

Open Date

May 24, 2023

Description

Job Title: Full-time Faculty in Arabic Language/Middle Eastern Studies (Bard High School Early College Manhattan)

Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Manhattan invites applications for a faculty position in Arabic language instruction, to begin in the fall of 2023.  We seek a teacher-scholar who is passionate about Arabic, creative in engaging students, and dedicated to working with adolescents.  More information about BHSEC is available here: https://bhsec.bard.edu/manhattan

Applicants should be prepared to teach Arabic language classes at all levels, as well as courses on the civilizations of the Islamic world.  The area of specialization is open.  College teaching experience and Ph.D. (in hand by August 2023) are preferred, and experience with younger students is a plus.  The successful candidate will teach four courses per semester.

This full-time position provides the opportunity to work with a dedicated faculty of scholars, scientists and artists, most of whom hold terminal degrees in their fields.  In their four years here, BHSEC students earn an associate of arts (A.A.) degree from Bard College in addition to a New York State high school diploma.  The academic program emphasizes small class size, seminar-style discussion and a commitment to teaching a diverse student body in a liberal arts environment.

Location: Bard High School Early College at 525 Houston Street in New York City, NY

Start Date: Late August 2023

Salary Range: $55-$80K based on experience

Qualifications

• This position is open to experienced teacher-scholars who hold a Master’s or PhD in Arabic literature and culture or a related field.
• The successful candidate should be capable of teaching Arabic classes from the high school level through the college 200-level as well as literature and culture courses in translation.
• We seek teachers and scholars deeply committed to their field and creative in engaging students at both the college and high school levels.
• New York State teaching certification is a plus.
• Interest in working with high school age students who are completing a college-level course of study
• We are seeking candidates with a strong commitment to equity and social justice and desire to open up opportunities for underrepresented students
• Candidates must understand cultural difference and purposefully help to uplift ideas from underrepresented groups to improve the equity balance in education.
• A commitment to reducing and an openness to learning about potential barriers to inclusion are needed.

Application Instructions

Please apply directly with Bard College / Bard Early Colleges.  Do this by clicking on the “Apply Now” button found through the Interfolio job application link provided here:  http://apply.interfolio.com/125951

Use the Interfolio link provided to upload the following documents directly with Bard College:

• a letter of interest (including a description of a proposed course)
• a C.V.
• a teaching portfolio (including statement of teaching philosophy and a sample writing assignment for the proposed course)
• contact information for three references

REVIEW OF APPLICATIONS TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY.

Inquiries:
If you have any questions about the position, please reach out to Dean of Academic Life, William H. Hinrichs, whinrichs@bhsec.bard.edu.  Include your name and “Fall 2023 Arabic Search” in the subject line.
All materials must be submitted electronically.

 

 

 

 

10. ‘A UNIQUE RECORD OF FRANCO-PERSIAN RELATIONS IN THE REIGN OF NAPOLEON: THE MAUSOLEUM OF ANTOINE-ALEXANDRE ROMIEU (1764-1805)’

Daniel Potts

Journal Asiatique, 2022, 310/2, 229-235

link not yet available

 

 

 

11. Either Lost or Found? A Child’s Story from a WWII Australian Internment Camp

Thursday, June 1, 2023

Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm (Sydney Time)

Online / in person

https://westernsydney.libcal.com/event/5532195

Professor Pedram Khosronejad and Mrs Helga (Girschik) Griffin present the findings of a research project which explores the socio-cultural history and memories of a group of civilian German detainees and migrants in Australia through their heritage and the roles that they played in the development of the country after World War II.  This presentation is the result of a four year collaboration between Professor Khosronejad and Mrs Helga (Girschik) Griffin, the only surviving female among the civilian Germans from Persia (Iran) who were brought to Australia as families and allegedly kept in detention, but actually lived like prisoners in Tatura’s Internment Camp No. 3 (1941-46).

As many as 50,000 German, Italian, and Japanese civilians were sent to Internment camps in Australia during WWII. Until today, the lives and fates of 512 German civilians of Persia (Iran), the imprisoned inhabitants of Australian World War II confinement centres, and the roles that they and their family members played in the development of post-war Australia has been ignored by academia.

 

 

 

12. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship

‘*The British Museum, and the University of St Andrews *are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2023 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
This project will be jointly supervised by Dr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis and Dr Tom Hockenhull at the British Museum and Professor Ali Ansari and Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi at the University of St Andrews. The student will be expected to spend time at both The British Museum and University of St Andrews, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The studentship can be studied either full or part-time.
The project seeks to understand how Iran’s Pahlavi regime (1925–1979) defined and projected its identity through analysis of the circulating official iconography on coins, banknotes and commemorative medals. It will study how the two Pahlavi shahs fused Persian history and culture with western-style iconography to forge a distinct vision for modern Iran, in the process creating a political and societal divide that took full force during the 1979 Islamic Revolution, persisting to the present. The project will contextualise this highly significant body of material within what was a transformational period for Iran economically, politically and culturally.
The British Museum’s substantial and visually significant collection of coins, banknotes and medals from the Pahlavi period, will be the primary focus of this study.
*Deadline: 9th June 2023*
*For details please link to:*
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/ <https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/>

 

 

 

13. 22-23 June 2023 Islamic Manuscripts & Digital Codicology at the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

AKU-ISMC Short Course

Information and book here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-manuscripts-digital-codicology-at-the-calouste-gulbenkian-museum-tickets-629255268447

1. Issue 95 MELA Notes (Available Now!)

I am delighted to announce the publication of Issue 95 (2022) of MELA Notes, the esteemed journal of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA). As the Editor, it gives me great pleasure to present this latest edition, which showcases a collection of outstanding research and insightful contributions in the field of Middle East studies, librarianship, and archival studies.
Within the pages of this issue, readers will discover a diverse range of articles that delve into various aspects of Middle East Studies, shedding light on significant topics and offering fresh perspectives. The dedicated efforts of our esteemed authors have resulted in a rich and engaging compilation, making this edition a valuable resource for scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.
I invite you all to explore the thought-provoking articles and engage in the intellectual discourse presented in MELA Notes, Issue 95. The journal is available, free of charge, for access on our official website https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.
Warm regards,
Farshad Sonboldel
Editor, MELA Notes

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRIDE Journée d’études “Prophète(s), prophétie, prophétologie”, École pratique des hautes études, Les Patios Saint Jacques, Paris, 5-6 juin 2023 Programme et inscription : https://www.ephe.psl.eu/prophetes-prophetie-prophetologie

 

 

 

 

3. Journée d’étude : « Normes et pratiques dans la documentation juridique islamique », Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers, 7 juin 2023

The workshop aims to analyse the relation between norms and practices in Islamic legal documentation. From a comparative perspective, it seeks to bring out similarities and explain divergences between different Islamicate empires where Islamic law prevailed. It addresses how the legal doctrine of different schools (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi‘i, etc.) was implemented by legal authorities to shape normative practices in diverse circumstances.

Program: http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?8656

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Talk “Charity in Saudi Arabia: Civil Society under Authoritarianism” with Hanaa Almoaibed, Steffen Hertog and Nora Derbal, Middle East Center, London School of Economics and Political Science, 13 June 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm BST

In this study of everyday charity practices in Jeddah, Nora Derbal employs a ‘bottom-up’ approach to chal-lenge dominant narratives about state-society relations in Saudi Arabia. Exploring charity organizations in Jeddah, this book both offers an ethnography of associational life and counters Riyadh-centric studies which focus on oil, the royal family, and the religious establishment.

Information and registration:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/events/2023/charity-in-saudi-arabia-nora-derbal

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRID 2023 PhD Global History of Empires Conference: “Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices”, University of Turin, 14-15 September 2023

We want to bring together doctoral students and early career scholars from different geographical areas, historical periods and methodologies. Diversity is a necessary step to ensure that our discussions show the complexity of theory and practices of empire without recurring to the usual worn-out tropes. A more varied base will also enable us to make better use of comparisons and highlight lesser-known case studies.

Deadline for abstracts: 28 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646040/cfp-governing-lives-others-global-histories-empires-theories

 

 

 

 

6. 1 Postdoctoral Research Associate and 2 Doctoral Research Associates (4 Years), Arabic-Persian-Turkish Translation Processes, Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Münster Uni-versity

The positions are part of the Emmy Noether Junior Research Group “TRANSLAPT: Inner-Islamic Transfer of Knowledge within Arabic-Persian-Ottoman Translation Processes in the Eastern Mediterranean (1400–1750)” (https://go.wwu.de/translapt). Good reading skills in Arabic (or Persian) and Ottoman Turkish are es-sential.

Application deadline: 9 June 2023.

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

 

 

 

 

7. Post-doctoral Research and Teaching Position (80-100%) at the Chair of the History of Archi-tecture and Preservation (Focus MENA), University of Bern

Starting 1st September 2023 (or as agreed) for two years (with an option for extension). Specialization should be in the field of the history and theory of architecture and preservation (Europe or other regions, e.g. South-ern/Eastern Europe, Latin America, MENA region) from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Period.

Deadline for application: 15 June 2023.

Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/862d0ac4-7d3b-4d44-a934-a1d8511400ab

 

 

 

 

8. New PhD in Islamic Studies Starting Fall 2023, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha

This PhD is an interdisciplinary program that cultivates a detailed understanding of Islamic studies and a mastery of a chosen disciplinary pathway. This expertise is acquired by undertaking dynamic and innovative research that facilitates the analysis and production of contemporary Islamic discourses, engages with diverse themes and topics, and supports the human development goals of the State of Qatar and broader global needs.

Information and registration: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/program/cis/phdis

 

 

 

9. La Révolution des féminismes musulmans

Élaboration théorique et agir féministe (2004–2014)

de Malika HAMIDI (Auteur)

Peter Lang, 2023

https://www.peterlang.com/document/1294509

 

 

 

10. 3 x 36-month postdocs at University of Venice

1) Science and the environment in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE

36 months with possible renewal for 12 months

Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/6467847cba87a

“The post-doctoral researcher will carry out original research into the history of science in the eastern Mediterranean in the first millennium CE, and the connections between the study of pre-modern science and the environmental contexts of the writers. …”

2) Society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE

36 months

Deadline: 17th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b165de51fc

“The postdoctoral researcher will be an environmental archaeologist interested in socio-ecological systems. They will carry out original research into the relationships between society and environmental change in the western Mediterranean in the first millennium CE. …”

3) Water, landscapes and environmental history in the medieval Islamic Mediterranean, c. 600-1050 CE

36 months

Deadline: 14th June 2023, 12.00 CET

https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/646b2dc52057b

“The post-doctoral researcher will examine the social and intellectual history of water in the Muslim-ruled territories around the Mediterranean from the seventh century to the early eleventh.”

 

 

 

 

11. Love in the Teachings of Ibn ‘Arabī

Hany T. A. Ibrahim

Equinox, 2023

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/love-teachings/

 

 

 

12. Brill: Encyclopedia of Turkic Languages and Linguistics Online

https://brill.com/display/db/etlo

 

 

 

13. Introducing Feminist Futures

Introducing /Feminist Futures/. In a world ignited by the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî”-inspired women*-led uprising in Iran, the notion of revolution takes on new dimensions. We pause to ponder: what does revolution truly mean? Is it only about the usurpation of state power to change regimes? How can we redefine it to reflect the power and impact of global feminist uprisings? Join us as we bring together brilliant minds from across the globe: leading scholars, writers, and artists who are at the forefront of reshaping our societies. Through a collection of bilingual (English and Persian) critical reflections and provocations, /Feminist Futures/ invites us to engage in meaningful deliberations about the intersections of global feminist liberation movements.
/Feminist Futures/ is our response to the call of feminist scholarship to take stock of the global movements for change that are being led by women and queers, embracing the invitation posed by our current historical moment. It is an opportunity to explore the often-overlooked power within global feminist uprisings, to challenge conventional definitions of revolution.
We’ll be releasing new content every few weeks until the end of 2023.
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*SAREH AFSHAR* is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender Studies at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University. They hold a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies at NYU, and their research interests include the aesthetics of everyday life, materiality of visuality, minoritarian memory and trauma theory, and digital and new media. Their writing has appeared or is forthcoming in TDR: The Drama Review, e-misférica, Text & Performance Quarterly, Interventions, Khayyam, Ravagh, and edited book volumes. She has lost two cities—lovely ones, Montréal and Tehran—but deems New York a most soothing compromise.
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*NARGES BAJOGHLI* is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS. She is an award-winning scholar, writer, educator, and cultural curator. Trained as a political anthropologist, media anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker, Narges’ academic research is at the intersections of media production, power, and resistance. She is the author of the award-winning book Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (Stanford University Press 2019; winner 2020 Margaret Mead Award; 2020 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title; 2021 Silver Medal in Independent Publisher Book Awards for Current Events); and the director of The Skin That Burns, a documentary film about survivors of chemical war. In addition to her academic work, Narges is a community organizer and creator of educational programs for middle school, high school, and college students rooted in social justice pedagogy. She has worked with cultural and educational collectives in the Middle East and Latin America, and organized cultural programming and exchanges in North America, Europe, Asia, and the Caribbean for over two decades. Narges is the co-director of the Rethinking Iran Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, SAIS, which houses the /Feminist Futures/ platform.

1.History of Glass & Ceramics in Iran, 1500–1925

W Floor

Mage, 2023

https://magepublishers.com/history-of-glass-ceramics-in-iran-1500-1925/

 

 

 

 

 

2. Kurdistan Memory Programme

https://kurdistanmemoryprogramme.com/

 

 

 

3. Recrutement lecteur/lectrice de persan – Inalco (date du dépôt de candidature le 23 mai 2023)

L’Inalco, département Eurasie, recrute un(e) enseignat(e) contractuel(le) – lecteur/lectrice de persan

Date de dépôt de candidature: avant le 23 mai 2023

Profil de l’emploi, conditions du recrutement et procédure du dépôt de candidature :

http://www.inalco.fr/concours-recrutement/appel-candidatures-lectrice/lecteur-persan

Contact: Madame Julie Duvigneau, Directrice du Département Eurasie : julie.duvigneau@inalco.fr

 

 

 

 

4. Announcing the launch of UTL crowdsourcing OCR correction project

The University of Texas Libraries is launching a crowdsourcing effort to correct the OCR (optical character recognition) output for the Egyptian periodical, جريدة البلاغ الاسبوعي (Jaridat al-Balagh al-Usbu’i). A pilot set of issues of Jaridat al-Balagh is available through the UTL Digital Collections Portal, and this crowdsourcing project seeks to gather the data necessary to make those images full-text searchable.

If you are interested in participating, please visit the project at FromThePage and follow the instructions to create a collaborator account. At present, there are two issues of the periodical with rough OCR available for correction. We will be adding more issues in the coming weeks.

Please share widely! I’m leading this effort so that we can make more UTL digital collections––and more non-English, non-Roman script digital collections––accessible and useful for researchers. I sincerely appreciate your participation and feedback.

Best wishes,

Dale

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DALE J. CORREA (pronounce) PhD, MS/LIS | Middle Eastern Studies Librarian & History Coordinator

The University of Texas at Austin

Middle Eastern Studies Research Guide

History Research Guide

Fellow, RBS-Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

Past Chair, Digital Scholarship Interest Group Steering Committee of the Middle East Librarians Association

Recent edited book: Maturidi Theology: A Bilingual Reader (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022)

 

 

 

5. CFP – Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University – deadline: June 15, 2023

October 14th, 2023, 10 AM – 5:30 PM (in-person)
Tyler School of Art & Architecture, Temple University
2001 N. 13th St. Philadelphia, PA 19122
Accepting papers from art history graduate students based in the mid-Atlantic/Northeastern United States
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2023

Accepted papers will be notified via email in July 2023.

The Art History Graduate Organization at the Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University invites art history graduate students in the mid-Atlantic region to submit to an open call for papers. Submissions may relate to any time period, geography, and media visual arts and culture and should be submitted in the form of 250-word abstracts, with the full presentation running to approximately 20 minutes.

This is an opportunity to connect with a community of graduate students and professors from other universities in the region, and to share your ongoing research. This call for papers is intentionally open-ended and inclusive in order to welcome the widest possible cohort of presenters to share their work. Presentations could focus a developing chapter of your dissertation, a completed seminar paper, or a piece of
independent research.

To apply:
Please send the following materials to AHGOtylerschoolofart@gmail.com by June 15, 2023
with the subject line: “The First Graduate Student Symposium in Art History.”
● Presentation title and abstract (250 words or less)
● CV, 2 pages
● Summary of graduate studies progress, including research interests, dissertation progress, etc. (250 words or less)

See all of the details on submiting here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fQrSaKVZWA3KDkqRERbgPRYrPtLCCX-L/view. 

 

 

 

6. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court, Yael Rice – May 23

May 23 at 6:30pm BST at the Royal Asiatic Society, London, in connection with monograph The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court (University of Washington Press).

To attend via Zoom, please email Matty Bradley (mb@royalasiaticsociety.org). You’ll find additional information about the publication, including discount codes for purchasing, below.

The Brush of Insight: Artists and Agency at the Mughal Court
By Yael Rice

PUBLISHED: May 2023
SUBJECT LISTING: Asian Studies / South Asia, Art History / Asian Art
BIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: 272 Pages, 7 x 10 in, 86 color illus., 1 map, 3 tables
ISBN: 9780295751092
Publisher: University of Washington Press

** DISCOUNT CODES: 40% off and free domestic shipping – WARM23 (USA only), order online at https://uwapress.uw.edu/; 30% off – FFS23 (outside USA), order online at https://combinedacademic.co.uk

 

 

 

 

7. Teaching Fellow – The University of Edinburgh

Fixed Term: Tenable from 6^th September 2023 (Maternity cover) for 9 months

Part Time, 10.5 Hours per Week (0.3 FTE)

Teaching Fellow in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers (oraclecloud.com)

Closing date: 12/6/23

 

 

 

8. From The Bosporus to the Southern Sea Travel book from 1793

Gaspard Testa/Mehmet Tütüncü

Published ‏ : ‎ SOTA; 1e editie (14 november 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ Dutch

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 204 pagina’s
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9069210476
size ‏ : ‎ 17.6 x 1.7 x 24.7 cm

Introductory pages and cover: https://www.academia.edu/87639237/Van_de_Bosporus_naar_de_Zuiderzee

ORDERS to be placed by email : sotapublishing@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

9. Fellowship | MECAM Postdoctoral Researchers
Université de Tunis/Tunisia

The Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) invites applications for three long- term fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in the humanities and social sciences for the period from September 2023 to August 2026. This call for applications is open to researchers from all countries, including Tunisia.

Deadline | 31 May 2023

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10. Assistant Professor in History
University of Nottingham

The Department of History is looking to appoint an Assistant Professor with specialist knowledge in the history of Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East and/or Central Asia. You will have a PhD in history or relevant subject area, with research expertise on social and political networks across the region and related expertise in material culture.

Deadline | 8 June 2023

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11. BIAA Assistant Director
British Institute at Ankara

The Assistant Director supports and reports to the Director. Responsibilities include the management and facilitation of Contemporary/ Ottoman Türkiye-related aspects of the BIAA’s research programme and public events and outreach, managing the library staff and the daily running of the library. The Assistant Director also collaborates with the BIAA IT Manager to further develop BIAA’s IT digital framework.

Deadline | 15 June 2023

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12. PhD | SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa: Unveiling the politics of welfare in post-uprising societies
Institute for Research on Arab and Muslim Worlds (IREMAM)

Applications are invited for a PhD position (36 months) within the ANR-funded project SUBLIME – Subsidies Lift in the Middle East and North Africa. The SUBLIME project, which started ́in January 2023, studies the change that is undermining one of the pillars of the social state in the Arab world: consumer subsidies, especially on food and energy. The PhD proposal will focus on one of the countries within the scope: Algeria (priority), Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt or, possibly, Morocco.

Deadline | 23 June 2023

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13. Call for Applications – APSA MENA Mentoring Initiative

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a Call for Applications from early-career scholars who would like to participate in the MENA Mentoring Initiative. The program is an opportunity to receive feedback and comments from senior colleagues on a project-specific activity that is at an advanced stage of development. The mentoring duration will be between 3 and 6 months, depending on the activity and planned outcome.

Deadline | 11 June 2023

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14. Call for Applications – New Directions in the Study of the Arab World

Graduate Student Research Workshop | 4-6 March 2024 | NYU Abu Dhabi

The NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program invites applications for the upcoming Graduate Student Research Workshop to be hosted in spring 2024 at NYU Abu Dhabi. We welcome applications from international doctoral students with the opportunity to present and thoroughly discuss their Ph.D. projects related to the Arab world.

Deadline | 4 September 2023

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15. Zoom – Monday Majlis Series Programme 2022-2023

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

5 June. Hassan Abbas, The Return of the Taliban:Afghanistan after the Americans Left

12 June. Nebil Husayn, Deconstructing Memories of Ali in Sunni and Shiʿi Islam

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16. ONLINE EVENT: ‘Identity and Aspiration: Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf’ – Dr Yuting Wang (Thursday 25 May, 13:00 BST)

The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to be hosting Dr Yuting Wang (American University of Sharjah) for a special online seminar exploring Chinese Muslims in the Arab Gulf.

The event will take place online via Zoom on Thursday 25 May at 1pm BST. The event is free to attend but registration is essential.

For further information and to register please click here: https://chinese-muslims-in-the-gulf.eventbrite.co.uk

With very best wishes,

The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam

in the Contemporary World

University of Edinburgh

16 George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

0131 650 4615

thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk

www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

17. ‘Unearthing Rabi`a’s Grave: Placemaking, Shrines, and Contested Traditions in Balkh, Afghanistan’

Shamim Homayun

IJMES online, 2023

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/unearthing-rabias-grave-placemaking-shrines-and-contested-traditions-in-balkh-afghanistan/C60CAA3E6681F3233D0F8211212C7CA5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues