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1.ONLINE Book Talk “Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia” by Prof. Janet Watson, Prof. Dawn Chatty, Dr Jack Wilson, British-Yemeni Society, Warrington, 26 April 2023, 17:30 h GMT
The edited book explores the way in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between peo-ple and their environment. It presents case studies dealing with language, gesture and ecology, the signifi-cance of naming, the role of narratives in the language-ecology relationship, and the conservation and revi-talisation of bio-diversity in Arabia. They will look at the central role that language plays in facing the chal-lenges and threats to bio-cultural diversity.
Information and registration: http://b-ys.org.uk/event/language-and-ecology-southern-and-eastern-arabia.
2. Conference: “Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire”, Gotha Research Centre, Germany, 27-29 April 2023
The conference will provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between scholars of Ottoman, Iranian and Arabic studies and beyond, who are concerned with the interactions of the three languages in the Ottoman Empire (elsine-i s̱elās̱e) and examine their functions as well as the interrelationships between lan-guages, (literary) genres and disciplines.
See conference brochure with the detailed program at https://www.uni-muenster.de/imperia/md/content/arabistikislam/translapt/multilingualism__translation__transfer_gotha_april_2023_brochure.pdf
Information: https://www.uni-muenster.de/ArabistikIslam/translapt/news/index.html
Registration: veranstaltungen.fb@uni-erfurt.de
3. HYBRIDE Séminaire “Quelle est la place de la falsafa dans le kalām tardif ? Faḫr al-dīn al-Rāzī comme étude de cas” avec Mohammed Essadki (Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdalla, Fès), Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, 28 avril 2023, 16h
Information:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=597503159079790&set=a.545005850996188
Inscription : https://zoom.us/j/99515073675
4. Special Session on “Shifting Perspectives on Muslimness and Islam in Contemporary Fiction” during the PAMLA Conference, Portland, OR, 26-29 October 2023
The panel invites papers discussing texts that shape the perception and representation of Muslimness and/or Islam in contemporary literature. Global, transnational, and comparative perspectives are welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2023. Information: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/18844
5. University Assistant (PhD Position, 4 Years), Department of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, University Innsbruck, Austria
Main tasks: Dissertation in the field of Islamic religious education; independent research in the field of Islamic religious education; independent teaching; training and further education; administrative tasks. Required qualifications: completed relevant Master’s, Magister or Diplom degree; please include written reflections on your dissertation project (max. 5 pages) with your application; ability to work in a team.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023
Information: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=13411 (EN)
6. Coordinator of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies (CCMS), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in the Humanities or Social Sciences with a substantive background in Muslim studies, and four years of experience in budget management, event management, outreach and engagement, or additional graduate training.
Deadline for applications: Open until filled. Information:
https://tre.tbe.taleo.net/tre01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=SIMOFRAS&cws=37&rid=5046
7. ONLINE Short Course “Introduction to the Study of Islam and Muslims” by Prof. Philip Wood (AKU-ISMC), Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, 24, 25, 26 April 2023, 14:30 – 16:30 GMT
This course aims to give an overview of some important moments in medieval and modern Islamic history and in different theoretical approaches to the study of Islam and Muslims, such as the works of Edward Said and Talal Asad. It focuses on the Middle East and South Asia. It aims to introduce key concepts and events that will be of relevance for anyone studying or teaching Islam. The course takes a social scientific perspec-tive and does not assume any prior knowledge.
Information and registration:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/introduction-to-the-study-of-islam-and-muslims-tickets-526545460647
8. HYBRID Summer Language School (Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian), Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 3 July – 18 August 2023
The program is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as conversation tables and study hours, seminars by top scholars on history, politics, literature, and arts, and cultural events includ-ing movie screenings, and field trips to historical sites and archives. The scientific directors are Jun.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Henning (JGU Mainz), Dr. Andreas Helmedach (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Pahlitzsch (JGU Mainz).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
9. Articles on “Contemporary Changes and Transformations in the Islamic World” for Special Issue of the Open-Access Academic Journal “Religions”
The goal of this issue is to present readers with multidisciplinary scholarship, utilizing approaches from the humanities and social sciences to provide a deep understanding of contemporary developments in the Islamic World and, by extension, minority Muslim communities in the West. The participant authors can be specia-lized in religious studies, sociology, history, political science, law, media studies, or other disciplines.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_ issues/M0G655E4F3
10. In-person conference, UC Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies
April 28-29, 2023
Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the Silk Roads
https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/128257-nexus-of-knowledge-science-medicine-and-technology
11. Podcast: Muslim Subjectivity in Soviet Russia
The Memoirs of ‘Abd Al-Majid Al-Qadiri
Alfrid Bustanov and Vener Usmanov
Brill 2022
https://newbooksnetwork.com/muslim-subjectivity-in-soviet-russia
12. Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther,
Achaemenid Court Culture in the Hebrew Bible
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/ancient-persia-and-the-book-of-esther-9780755603022/
13. LSE Master’s Mohammed Al Fahim Scholarship – deadline 27/4/2023
The LSE Middle East Centre is offering a full (£33,333) scholarship for a national of the Middle East or North Africa (Arab League member states, Iran, Israel and Turkey) to support the costs for any taught LSE Master’s degree programme in the 2023/24 session. The applicant’s undergraduate degree should have been taken in a MENA state, an element of the Master’s programme should be relevant to the study of the MENA region, and the applicant must be accepted to the programme to be eligible for funding.
for more information, visit https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/fees-and-funding/Mohammed-Al-Fahim-Scholarship
14. NYUAD Travel Grant – Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads collections
The Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program, in collaboration with the Archives and Special Collections of the NYUAD Library, is awarding a limited number of travel awards to scholars interested in research within the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads collections along with the relevant thematic holdings of the NYUAD Library.
These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other research projects.
Grant awards include travel (airfare – up to $1500), accommodation funding up to $100 per day, and a $100 per diem for days spent conducting research at the NYUAD Library. Applications must include an estimated cost of travel (airfare), the number of days required for research at the NYUAD Library, and the total number of days for research and travel for a maximum of two weeks. Airfare should be based on the most economical fare available. The amount awarded cannot be increased after the recipient receives the notification of the grant, and grants are not awarded retroactively for research already completed.
Prior to submitting a grant proposal, applicants must contact the NYUAD Library’s Archives and Special Collections department (nyuad-asc.group@nyu.edu), and consult the library’s Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads department’s website at https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/library/collections/archives-and-special-collections/arab-heritage-and-gulf-crossroads.html, to ensure the availability of the documents and their relevance to the research project. The Reading Room is open for research Monday through Friday by appointment and is closed on public holidays. Both in their application and outreach to Archives & Special Collections, applicants should state clearly and precisely how the book, map, and archival holdings of the NYUAD Library will contribute to the completion of the proposed project.
Required materials are to be sent to nyuad.humanities.fellowships@nyu.edu
Resume: a maximum of 2 pages that include current and past positions, education and degrees, relevant awards and honors, up to 5 publications, other relevant professional activities and accomplishments, and level of competence in relevant foreign languages.
Research proposal: a maximum of 4 double-spaced pages that include (1) the title of the project; (2) a brief description of the project, including scope, objective of the research, methodology, and possible conclusions or results; and (3) relation of the NYUAD Library holdings to your research.
List of three references and their contact information.
Spring Term: September 1 – December 15, 2023. The application deadline is May 15, 2023.
*See PDF link for the Arabic version of the call for applications
Documents & Links
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15. CFP: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”
Conference: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”
American University in Cairo (AUC)
July 25, 2023 (Deadline: May 15, 2023)
For many centuries in Egypt various religious groups and architectural sites have been in dialogue. We seek short papers for a workshop, particularly with regard to architecture from all periods (up to the present) regarding Christian, Jewish and Muslim (including Sunni and Shi‘a) interactions.
Topics might include but are not restricted to the following: mutual influence of Coptic and Islamic architecture; heritage preservation (especially perceived biases); shared sacred spaces; shared practices of worship; contestation of sites; use of spolia, architectural rivalry of churches and mosques.
Please submit a brief expression of interest by April 20 to bokane@aucegypt.edu and cc sandov65@msu.edu. A 200-word abstract and CV will be due on May 15, 2023.
https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/trt-conference-auc/
16. La 8ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 1er 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/
17. First AIS Online Symposium, 2023
The Association for Iranian Studies is the leading international scholarly association for the study of the culture, society, and history of Iran and the greater Iranian world. The Association is made up of a wide range of scholars from around the globe who contribute to the society’s goals of promoting Iranian studies through their teaching and research. This includes presentations of their work at the Association’s biennial in-person conferences that have been held in various locations around the world, as well as the publication of their research in the Association’s official journal, Iranian Studies. However, due to personal and professional circumstances, some members of the AIS community have been prevented from participating in the biennial conference. As such, AIS is launching its first online symposium scheduled for the weekend of October 20-22, 2023.
This call for papers is open to all due-paying members of AIS from all disciplines who wish to submit panels or individual papers for consideration. The deadline for the submission of proposals is 15 June 2023. Proposals should be submitted through the AIS online Symposium submission portal. Individual proposals should be no longer than 300 words and proposals for prearranged panels should be no longer than 500 words.
A panel of AIS experts will read and evaluate the proposals and inform all applicants of the results by 31 July 2023. While the symposium is open to all themes and periods, the organizing committee has a special interest in panels and papers addressing the following themes as guiding criteria for the online symposium: environment and ecology, women and society, media and cultural production, identity and identity formation, and the study of pre-modern Persianate world. Panels incorporating one or more of these themes are particularly encouraged to apply.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Applications for the English-Arabic Summer School in Münster/Germany on:
“South-South at Center Stage: Representations, Relations and Interactions Beyond the West in Arabic Studies”
الجنوب-الجنوب في وسط المسرح: تمثيلات وعلاقات وتفاعلات تتخطّى الغرب في
الدراسات العربية
Summer School: 28-30 August 2023
Deadline for Applications: 20 May 2023
Additional information:
https://agya.info/publications/calls/south-south-at-center-stage-representations-relations-and-interactions-beyond-the-west-in-arabic-studies
http://arabic-philologies.de/en
2. Online: ‘Fayzi’s Planetary Poetics: a Theory of Poetry’
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies @ UMD
this coming Sunday, April 23rd at 2:00 pm ET
for Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali speaker Series
A Lecture by Jane Mikkelson
‘Fayzi’s Planetary Poetics: A Theory of Poetry’
3. Les Sassanides en conflit : Géopolitique de l’empire perse tardo-antique
Dirigé par Philip Huyse (EPHE, SHP, UMR CeRMI) et Samra Azarnouche (EPHE, SR, UMR CeRMI), un dossier consacré à l’Iran sassanide vient de paraître dans Antiquité tardive (Revue internationale d’histoire et d’archéologie), n° 30, 2022 https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503603544-1
4. The 2nd lecture in University of Chicago’s Franklin Lewis Lecture Series: Prof. Dick Davis, May 4 at 5:00-7:00 CT
“The Convent and the Cave, or The Getting of Wisdom: Reflections on Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin”.
Abstract: “The talk will explore aspects of the complexity of Nezami’s Khosrow and Shirin, in terms of its relationship with its sources, the ambiguity of its rhetoric, and the importance given to the role of art in the developments of its plot”.
The event will be held in person in the Social Science Research Building, the Tea Room, and online in the link below. Please register to get the zoom link.
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/j/99924872091?pwd=dFNFR2ZmeVl0MEErOWE4Ty9UTTFiQT09
5. AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Iconographies of change: currency and medals of Iran’s Pahlavi regime
Start date: 1st October 2023
Application Deadline: 19th May 2023
Interviews will take place in mid-June
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.
For more information:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/prospective/cdp-studentship/
6. Call for Papers : Mediterranean Review Vol.16, No.1 (extended)
Mediterranean Review, issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan
University of Foreign Studies, is calling for papers.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST). MR has widened the scope of
Mediterranean Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse
‘mediterraneans’ distributed all around the world where civilization exchange
occurs including the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea, or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in global mediterraneans.
* Date of Submission : May 7th, 2023 (Sunday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr (either)
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
(click to move)
– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
move)
– Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.
– All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process.
– Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to be
published.
7. New Permanent Galleries of Islamic Art – The Walters Art Museum – Opening weekend April 22-23, 2023
It is with great pleasure and pride that I share with you the news of the imminent opening of the new permanent galleries of Islamic art at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. Reinstalled and reconceptualized in conjunction with the arts of Asia writ large, the new space is titled Across Asia: Arts of Asia and the Islamic World.
For more information on the new installation: https://thewalters.org/exhibitions/asia/
For more information about the opening celebrations and upcoming events: https://thewalters.org/events/?category=celebrations
Many thanks to everyone involved, especially my fellow curators Adriana Proser and Dany Chan, and to everyone who has advised or supported our work on this incredible project.
Ashley Dimmig
8. Yerevan, Armenia – 16-Week Persian Language Semester Program
16-week semester program and internship beginning August 20th, 2023!
For more details:
https://aspirantum.com/courses/study-persian-language-semester-abroad
9. Wisdom of the Prophet Muhammad: A Compendium of Prophetic Hadith
Author: M Muhammadi Rayshahri
Translators: Afzal Sumar and Muhammad Reza Tajri
ICAS Press, 2023
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/shop/wisdom-of-prophet-muhammad-2-volume-edition-1554-pages/
10. Call for Session: May Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies
To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 59th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9–11, 2024. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2023.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $800 maximum for scholars traveling from North America and up to $1400 maximum for those traveling from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. Participants must participant in the conference in-person to receive funding. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/59th-icms.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
11. Online Lecture: The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia
East of Byzantium is pleased to announce the final lecture in its 2022–2023 lecture series.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom
The Öngüt Connection: Christianity among the Turks of Medieval Eurasia
Joel Walker | University of Washington, Seattle
Early and influential allies of Chinggis Khan, the Öngüt Turks of Inner Mongolia played a pivotal role in the rise of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368). Their adoption of “Nestorian” Christianity represents the culmination of a broad stream of Turkic Christian tradition in medieval Eurasia. The careers of the ascetic Marqos of Koshang, who became the East-Syrian patriarch Yahballaha III (1281–1317), and the ruler Giwargis, the Mongol-appointed “Prince of Gaotang” (d. 1298 or 1299), help reveal the distinctive contours of the Öngüt Christian tradition.
Joel Walker is the Lawrence J. Roseman Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle. Trained as a historian of Late Antiquity, his publications include: The Legend of Mar Qardagh: Narrative and Christian Heroism in Late Antique Iraq (2006); “From Nisibis to Xi’an: The Church of the East in Late Antique Eurasia” (2012); and “Luminous Markers: Pearls and Royal Authority in Late Antique Iran and Eurasia” (2018). Current projects include Witness to the Mongols: A Global History Sourcebook (co-authored with Stefan Kamola) and a history of cattle in the Ancient World.
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.
12. A Connected history of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy: The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th century)
6 full-time (100%) doctoral scholarships in the field of History
The Mediterranean is often seen as a dividing border between two worlds: North and South; Christian and Muslim. This pattern has been mostly influenced and supported by nationalist historiographies, which tended to create borders and accentuate differences between areas that were originally connected. DiplomatiCon-project aims precisely to break free from this one-sided view on the history of the region and to present the first example of History of Diplomacy that truly reflects the late medieval context of interactions and exchanges between the Islamic and Christian worlds. Based on the approaches and methodologies advocated by the New Diplomatic History and Connected History, the project will focus on the three most important actors of the late medieval world — the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo on the Islamic side and the Italian polities as well as the Crown of Aragon on the Christian side— and it will challenge the common narratives of political and cultural antagonism between the two worlds by pointing at the spheres of contact and interaction where an informal type of diplomacy could be performed. This approach will allow to reveal the whole set of actors and agents involved in the diplomatic process, as well as the huge and extended network they built throughout the entire Mediterranean sphere. Finally, it will show how this network facilitated a broad range of cultural transfers among the various participants.
DiplomatiCon is a research project funded by the EOS (Excellence of Science) programme of the F.R.S.-FNRS and the FWO-Flanders. It is a collaboration between UAntwerp (Malika Dekkiche and Iason Jongepier) and ULiège (Frédéric Bauden), with the UniMol, UniBo (Isabella Lazzarini), and the IMF – CSIC (Roser Salicrú I Lluch).
Diplomatic Network
The history of diplomatic contacts of the Italian polities and the Crown of Aragon with the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo has so far concentrated on the history of the trade treaties concluded between the state actors, which are usually presented as competing powers in the Mediterranean basin. Following the trend within the New Diplomatic History, WP2 will switch the focus from these state actors to the various agents working with them in order to rewrite a history of diplomacy on a Mediterranean scale that not only crosses the classical borders set by the various fields of study, but simultaneously highlights the multi-layered structure of diplomacy. Such an approach is facilitated by the DiplomatiCon database that makes available all sources from the various groups studied, and that will allow to identify all agents (Christian and Muslim) who have contributed to the exchanges, all the way from home to destination.
Three relevant cases have been chosen for such analysis. On the one hand, we selected the Venetian case (Profile 1, ULiège/Unibol), and that of the Crown of Aragon (Profile 2, ULiège/Barcelona), both of which represent the continuity in the contacts with the Mamluk Sultanate during the 14th and 15th centuries. On the other hand, another PhD will focus on the broader Italian networks (Profile 3; UA/Unibol).
These extended networks represent a fluid and flexible mosaic of episode and trends and will supposedly best illustrate the evolution of the diplomatic networks over time. The case of the papacy has been excluded from this study as the stakes and modes of interaction were very different in comparison with those of the considered political actors. Diplomatic papal initiatives, however, will be taken into account every time they cross the action of the Italian powers and the Crown of Aragon. Genoa has also been excluded due to their more active role in the Western Mediterranean. Their archives however will be consulted as well, since Genoese agents were also involved in the Eastern trade on the behalf of other actors.
Mapping Diplomacy
The history of diplomacy that involved the Mamluk sultanate, the Italian polities and the Crown of Aragon is one that has so far been written from state actors’ perspective and therefore has been restricted to the contacts and negotiations taking place in Cairo and, to a lesser extent, Alexandria and Damascus. However, these diplomatic processes already started in the Italian and Iberian home basis and developed along the road. Going against the common assumption of a strict religious and political divide between the Muslim and Christian actors, WP3 “Mapping Diplomacy” will study the various diplomatic spaces created along the way that constituted favourable spheres of contacts and interactions and that allowed an informal kind of diplomacy to be performed by the various agents. Using the shared corpus collected in the DiplomatiCon database, this WP will use all the locations mentioned by the various agents highlighted in WP2 and apply Spatial Analysis (using GIS) to them. This will allow us to map and connect all locations and hubs, to find spatial patterns and influence spheres, and to draw a diplomatic geography and space. More importantly, WP3 aims to understand how those spaces were produced and experienced by the Italian (Profile 4, UA/Unibol) and Iberian (Profile 5, UA/Barcelona) agents themselves, which institutions and structures facilitated those productions and how those spaces were perceived and communicated to a broader audience.
Translating Culture
Next to the agents and spaces, WP4 “Translating Culture” will move the focus to the way people actually interacted. The translators and the documentary witnesses of their work will thus be at the centre of the analysis. While they are often mentioned, translators in the medieval period remain quite enigmatic. They are usually known to us through their title of tarjumān or dragoman, but their identities, origins and functions are too often kept silent in official records. Their working methods too still stay rather obscure to us. The Italian and Spanish archives, however, have kept many witnesses of their works, since the Arabic documents are often completed with the translation that was made at the time of the conclusion of the agreement. While some of those documents have been the object of a few studies, scholars have traditionally restricted to issues of language and linguistic features. Even less studied are the so-called brokers, although they have also facilitated contacts beyond the sole practice of language. DiplomatiCon offers a unique opportunity to shed light upon those mysterious figures. (Profile 6, ULiège/Barcelona).
13. YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies invites contributions for its fifth and sixth volumes to be published in December 2023 and December 2024. YILLIK is a peer-reviewed, open access, international academic journal featuring cutting-edge research on Istanbul’s past and present, published by the Istanbul Research Institute in print and online (via DergiPark). YILLIKis indexed by SCOPUSand the MLA International Bibliography.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 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.
Articles submitted for publication in the journal are first evaluated by the Editorial Board. Articles deemed suitable by editors in terms of subject matter and quality will be sent to two anonymous reviewers elected in accordance with their expertise from the Advisory Boardor from the larger field. Reports from the double-blind reviewers are combined with the comments of the editors and sent back to the author. Depending on their quality and relevance, articles may be accepted or rejected, or the author may be asked to revise the work.
The review process is mandatory for research articles, while book and exhibition reviews along with the Meclis pieces only require editorial evaluation. The editors of the YILLIK pledge to complete the submission process as quickly and constructively as possible. Our aim is to limit the duration of the evaluation process, from the submission to the journal to the forwarding of reviewer reports to the author, to six weeks.
The deadline for the submission for the fifth volume, to be published in December 2023, is June 20. Some of the accepted articles with revisions may be published in the sixth volume in December 2024.
Every year, one of the articles written by a student or recent PhD will be awarded the YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Early Career Article Prize. For details, click here.
Those who wish to submit a book or exhibition review are strongly recommended to ask for the opinion of the Editorial Board in order to avoid duplicate reviews.
YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies conforms to Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition. Before submitting your article, please refer to our submission & publishing style guide.
For the “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies Publishing Ethics and Peer Review Statement” click here.
Peer-reviewed article submissions must be made through Dergipark.
For other submissions and questions: istanbulstudies@iae.org.tr
14. “IN THE TREASURE ROOM OF THE SAKRA KING: VOTIVE COINAGE FROM GANDHARAN SHRINES”
Waleed Ziad, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hybrid Talk – Wednesday, April 26th, 6:30pm EDT, New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
SilsilaSpring 2023 Program
In a lush valley within the Sakra peak in Gandhara (northwestern Pakistan, towards the Afghanistan border) is a vast limestone cave temple, part of an ancient Hindu sacred complex. From the 4th to 12th centuries, this cluster of shrines produced hundreds of varieties of their own votive coinage – a unique case in Central and South Asia. These were miniscule copper coins, issued for pilgrims, featuring eclectic and original combinations of Greco-Roman, Iranian, Indic, and Islamic iconography. The book on which the talk is based relates the remarkable story of transculturation and artistic innovation during the most neglected yet formative years of the region’s history.
To register to attend, either on Zoom or in person, please use the links provided on the webpage for the event:
- April 22, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture Series “The Politics of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 18 April 2023, 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm CET
Speakers: “Institutionalising Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq” by Ibrahim Malazada (Soran University, KRI, Iraq). – “Carrots and Sticks: The Kurdistan Regional Government’s Use of Minorities in the Drive for Statehood (2003–2017)” by Gregory Kruczek (Penn State University, USA).- “Food Security, the Public Dis-tribution System and Cooperation between Baghdad and Erbil” by Eckart Woertz (GIGA and Universität Hamburg).
Information and registration: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/iraq-20-invasion-politics-memory-transition-dictatorship-occupation
2. ONLINE Lecture “Lives and Letters. The Correspondence of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) by Jan Just Witkam, Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 21 April 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm ET
This lecture is part of the series “Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists During the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source”; it is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and Maria Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).
Registration: https://theias.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAoceqvqTIoEtADCxv5nqVvAEv5fhMvSBZI#/registration
3. Conference “30 Years After Richard M. Frank: Ghazālī and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam”, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University, 28-29 April 2023
Information and program: https://cmes.macmillan.yale.edu/events/30-years-after-richard-m-frank-al-ghazali-and-avicenna-post-classical-islam
4. Early Career Workshop on “Islamic Thought and Anglophone Philosophy”, Princeton University, 17-19 May 2023
We invite abstracts from many disciplines including Philosophy, Near Eastern and Islamic studies, Religion and Theology, and History that are intellectually rigorous and focus on theoretical analysis of philosophical arguments while remaining conscious of historical context.
Submissions are open to advanced graduate students and early career recent PhD recipients.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12702158/cfp-princeton-university-early-career-workshop-islamic-thought
5. Workshop “Productions and Exchanges : New Research on the History of Syro-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and early 16th Centuries”, Institut des Civilisations, Paris, 22-23 May 2023
This workshop will focus on the circulation and transmission of artistic models. It seeks to identify the motifs shared between different artistic productions of the Syro-Egyptian territory, but also with neighbouring areas, particularly Turkish and Persian. In this perspective, a specific interest is given to the modes of formal or aesthetic appropriation and transformation of patterns that connect or differentiate these artistic productions.
Information, program and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/83236
6. Doctoral Research Associate in Ottoman Studies / Turkish Studies or History of Islam (3 Years), Research Group “Byzantium and the Euro-Mediterranean Cultures of War”, University of Mainz
Applicants must have an above-average MA degree in Ottoman Studies, Turkish Studies, History of Islam or a related subject, proficiency in Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and/or Arabic, and a willingness to engage in interdisciplinary work.
Deadline for applications: 20 May 2023. Information: https://grk-byzanz-wars.uni-mainz.de/files/2023/04/20 23_job-advertisement_RTG-2304.pdf
7. Research Associate (Wiss. MitarbeiterIn) in Pre-modern Islamic History, Possibility of Further Qualification (PhD), RomanIslam Center, Middle Eastern Department, University of Hamburg
Requirements: MA degree in Islamic Studies with a focus on the wider Arabic speaking world, which reaches eastern Iran in the early Islamic period. Confident command of the English and Arabic language. French or Spanish as well as knowledge of GIS methods and familiarity with geographic approaches to history or Is-lamic material are an asset.
Deadline for applications: 28 April 2023. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=54faa7e6956f336cca57d980ea538833b4357a11
8. Professorial Chair in Inter-Cultural and Inter-Religious Relations, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
This is a UNESCO Chair position, and a professorial role in Level E (the highest academic level in Australia).
The successful applicant will have a distinguished research record, an international reputation, and demon-strated expertise in any disciplinary area pertaining to intercultural and inter-religious exchange and social inclusion.
Deadline for applications: 25 April 2023. Information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/645109/chair-in-intercultural-and-interreligious-relationsprofessor
9. ONLINE “International Online School in Forced Migration”, Refugee Study Center, Oxford University, 10-17 July 2023
Subjects include: Conceptualising Forced Migration, The Moral Foundations of Refugee Protection, Interna-tional Law and Refugee Protection, and Future Directions in International Displacement, as well as a choice of optional modules. All the sessions will be run and organised by experts in the field of forced migration studies.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/international-summer-school/online-school-overview
10. Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism
Yalova University (Yalova-Turkiye) will organize an “International Symposium on Rethinking Orientalism” on November 1-3, 2023. This symposium invites contributions that explore these terrains of Orientalism in the contexts of scholarly exchanges, political developments, and cultural border crossing in both directions east and west, hoping to attract a wide range of papers from scholars in all fields of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations particularly.
This symposium, which will be attended by invited speakers from Turkey and abroad [Cemil Aydın (University of North Carolina) Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University) Murteza Bedir (İstanbul Üniversitesi) Salman Sayyid (University of Leeds) Siraj Ahmed (City University of New York)]. We hope to discuss the changing configurations of Orientalism and colonialism along with new forms of Orientalism, their impact on the arts and sciences with participants from different fields such as history, sociology, philology, cultural studies, mythology, history of religions, Islamic and postcolonial studies.
Detailed information about the Symposium can be found at: http://oryantalizm2023.yalov
11. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
The Society for the History of Discoveries announces its 2023 Student Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate student research papers in the history of geographic discoveries.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June, 2023
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The awardee in the graduate student category will receive a prize of $500.00 (US) and the awardee in the undergraduate category will receive a prize of $250 (US). Both winners will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Information about participation in the conference will be provided to the awardee upon notification of the award, including details concerning costs and travel funding. Acceptance of the prize is not contingent upon your ability to attend the conference. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information on submission format and eligibility see https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Committee Chair at mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu
12. Medicine, Health, and Healing in the Ancient Mediterranean (500 BCE–600 CE) A Sourcebook
Kristi Upson-Aaia, Heidi Marx, Jared Secord
UC Press, August 2023
13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
On Wednesday 19 April at 17:00 BST ( Greenwich +1)
Iranian Women’s Revolution: Analysis of Some Commonly Used Symbols
(turban/stick/beard versus hijab/scissors/hair)
By Prof Amal Grami, Manouba University, Tunisia
On Zoom, please register at: https://zoom.us/j/91798780125
- April 18, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Angels Tapping at the Wine-Shop’s Door
A History of Alcohol in the Islamic World
Rudi Matthee
Hurst, 2023
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/angels-tapping-at-the-wine-shops-door/
2. Disabled Clerics in the Late Middle Ages
Un/suitable for Divine Service?
Ninon Dubourg
Amsterdam Univ Press, 2023
https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463721561/disabled-clerics-in-the-late-middle-ages
(This is a study focusing on Europe)
3. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh is looking to appoint a Fellow in Contemporary Indonesia as a Global Muslim Society.
This is a full time, two year post and further details can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CYQ884/fellow-in-contemporary-indonesia-as-a-global-muslim-society
Closing date: 19 April, 2023
4. COLLOQUE
Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen?
Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)/
Conference “What is the European Qur’ān?”
11 – 12 Mai 2023
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme
Nantes – France
5. Brill – Bibliography of Arabic Books Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/BABO/
6. Brill – Index Islamicus Online
https://bibliographies.brill.com/IIO/
7. Workshop “al-Sirat al-Mustaqim: Methods of Perfection in Akbari Thought” | UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, April 29, 2023
With Claude Addas, Pablo Beneito, Denis Gril, Alexander Knysh, James W. Morris
(in French and English)
More info and registration here:
https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/isp/cdwm/evenements/al-sirat-al-mustaqim-methods-of-perfection-in-akbari-thought.html
8. Vacancy for Managing Editor for the Review of Middle East Studies
https://www.academia.edu/100139155/Managing_Editor_for_the_Review_of_Middle_East_Studies_RoMES_
9. Edinburgh University Press: Free access to issue 1 of Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics
https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/arabic/1/1
Arabic is the sole or joint official and/or national language of 23 countries, and the number of native speakers of Arabic in the Arab world exceeds 300 million. The Journal of Arabic Sociolinguistics is the first journal to focus exclusively on the relation between language and society in the Arab world.
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10. Hybrid Conference – “Taking the Past into the Future: Studying, Preserving, and Understanding Islamicate Manuscripts”(CRC+IASH) – May 11-12, University of Edinburgh
Event date: Thursday 11 May, 10am-5pm and Friday 12 May 10am-4.30pm (UK time)
This two-day symposium hosted between the Centre for Research Collections (CRC) and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) will feature presentations and discussions on topics including:
- Curating and Preserving Islamic Manuscripts Today
- Colonial Contexts: Questions of Provenance and Related Material Evidence
- Buying, Selling and Dismembering Islamicate Manuscripts
- The Texts and Subtexts of Early Islamicate Manuscripts
- Creating and Reading Manuscripts as Devotional Materials
With contributions from specialist guests both local and international.
Please join us online. You will find the full programme, including Zoom registration links here (opens as PDF).
Event information: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/event/taking-past-future-studying-preserving-and-understanding-islamicate-manuscripts
11. Hybrid: The Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies presents a discussion with Professors Almut Hintze, Martin Schwartz and Peter Jackson Rova on the oral traditions in Zoroastrianism.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:00 pm — 1:30 pm (EST)
For information and to register on Zoom:
12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to circulate the final programme for its 2023 Annual Conference taking place at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 May.
With keynotes from Professor Sarah Bowen-Savant and the KITAB Project Team (ISMC), and Professor Ousmane Kane (Harvard University), our two-day programme features a wide variety of papers reflecting the rich diversity of Islamic Studies sub-disciplines.
You can view the full programme here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023
You can register for the conference online here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-registration
13. Scholarship on the Middle East in Political Science and International Relations: A Reassessment
Andrea Teti and Pamela Abbott
This article maps and analyses publication patterns of Middle East Studies-related scholarship in 13 ‘top’ Political Science & IR journals, providing a more precise analysis of the marginality of ‘regional’ scholarship in Political Science. This marginalisation particularly stark at three different levels: 1. the use of qualitative evidence, 2. the use of qualitative methods and 3. the use of non-positivist or Marxian theoretical frameworks, all of which are rare-to-non-existent. Read more
14. Research Associate in Kurdish Language and the History of Northern Mesopotamia (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the field of Kurdish Language and History of Northern Mesopotamia. The Postdoctoral Research Associate would work in the research team of the ERC-funded project ‘Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East’ (ALHOME) supervised by Professor Geoffrey Khan.
Deadline | 19 April 2023
15. Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Middle Eastern and Islamic History, c. 600-1700
University of St Andrews
We wish to appoint an Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) within the School of History. The position will be full-time (36.25 hrs per week), on a fixed term contract held from 1 September 2023 to 31 December 2024. You will be a scholar with a growing international reputation in the Islamic history of the Middle East (c. 600-1700) and a commitment to delivering high-quality teaching.
Deadline | 24 April 2023
16. Research Associate “Gender, Family, Life-writing: Narratives of Religious Identity in the Global Middle East”
University of Oxford
The Faculty of History proposes to appoint four postdoctoral researchers for the fixed-term period of thirty-six months, starting from 01 June 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter, to work on the ERC Consolidator Grant ‘Moving Stories – Sectarianisms in the global Middle East’. The project aims to explore a number of new approaches in the examination of this topic under the leadership of the Principal Investigator (PI), Professor John-Paul Ghobrial.
Deadline | 1 May 2023
17. Call for Applications – Middle East Mediterranean Summer Summit
Seminar & Forum | 17-26 August 2023 | Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)
The Middle East Mediterranean (MEM) Summer Summit, ogranized by Università della Svizzera italiana, offers the opportunity to bring together young people from the MEM region, who do not usually have opportunities to meet, by providing them with a safe space to imagine and experiment with common projects, to develop new narratives and to transform challenges into opportunities.
Deadline | 30 April 2023
18. The History and Development of Kurdish Studies
Keynote Lecture & Reception | 24 April 2023, 16:00 | LSE Middle East Centre
Professor Martin van Bruinessen will deliver a keynote lecture on the history and development of Kurdish Studies followed by a drinks reception with live music. This event is part of a series of activities surrounding the LSE Middle East Centre’s inaugural Kurdish Studies Conference.
19. Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia
Zoom Lecture | 26 April 2023, 17:30 | IASA, the British Yemeni Society and the MBI Al Jaber Foundation
Professor Janet Watson, Professor Dawn Chatty and Dr Jack Wilson will speak on their contributions to the recently published book Language and Ecology in Southern and Eastern Arabia (eds: Janet Watson, Jon Lovett and Roberta Morano) which explores the way in which indigenous languages reflect the close relationship between people and their environment.
20. The 2023 Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture
Lecture | 3 May 2023, 18:00 | Cambridge University Italian Society
To honour the memory of Giulio Regeni 7 years after his kidnap and murder in Cairo, the Cambridge University Italian Society invites Prof. John Chalcraft – Professor of Middle East History and Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – to deliver the annual Giulio Regeni Memorial Lecture.
The topic of the lecture will be ‘Popular Mobilisation in Gramscian Perspective’.
- April 15, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College (London)
Cities in the Premodern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
A Talk by Professor Amira K. Bennison
Wednesday 26 April 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW102SW
2. HYBRID Seminar “How Not to Read the Earliest Latin Life of Muhammad” by Professor Kenneth Wolf (Pomona College), Seminar on Religion & Writing, Columbia University, New York, 25 April 2023, 5:00 pm EST
The “Istoria de Mahometh” is arguably the earliest Latin “biography” of Muhammad, written in Iberia sometime between the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth centuries. In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”, In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-how-not-to-read-the-earliest-latin-life-of-muhammad-25-april-new-yorkzoom?e=82aeb6c61d
3. Meeting of the “European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE)” in Conjunction with the “European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)”, Univer-sity of Copenhagen, 25-28 June 2023
The ENSIE meeting will feature panels on “Reviving Muḥyiddīn: The contemporary uses of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought and the reinventions of Islam” and on “Spiritism and Esotericism from Nahḍa Egypt to the USSR,” and the ESSWE panels will be on “Practical Esotericism in Islam, Ancient and Modern, West and East, and In Between” and “Core Esoteric Practices of the Sufis”.
Information: http://ensie.site/conferences.html
4. 10es Journées d’étude de la “Association des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences sociales sur les mondes musulmans modernes et contemporains (Halqa)” : « Au-delà des frontières : circulations, échanges et transferts dans les mondes musulmans contemporains (XIXe – XXIe siècles) », Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers, 29 et 30 juin 2023
L’appel à communications est ouvert aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses de
toutes universités et institutions, spécialistes de l’islam et des mondes musulmans contemporains, quels que soient leur discipline (sciences humaines et sociales, art et littérature, islamologie…) et leur terrain de recherche.
Elles doivent être adressées avant le 23 avril 2023 à l’adresse halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com. Les propositions seront ensuite examinées par le comité d’organisation, et les réponses seront données début mai. La Halqa couvrira les éventuels frais de voyage (jusqu’à 150 euros), de restauration et d’hébergement.
More at:
https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5936
5. 4th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW): “Networks and Networking in the Ottoman Empire”, Princeton University, New Jersey, 27-28 October 2023
From Sufi-guild networks in early-modern Istanbul, to the army-civilian networks in the early twentieth century, a dense matrix of relations linked the Ottoman state to its subjects and connected the Ottoman world with people, ideas, and commodities from other geographic regions. This workshop will seek to understand how social, cultural/cross-cultural, diplomatic, entrepreneurial, and geo-spatial networks, influenced the course of Ottoman history.
Deadline for applications: 1 June 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12682617/cfp-4th-mid-atlantic-ottomanists-workshop-maow-princeton
6. Conference “Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging”, Dutch Association for the Study of Religion, Nijmegen, 1-3 November 2023
This conference aims to broaden the theoretical and methodological repertoires for future studies of religion in motion whereby mobility and religion are analyzed not as separate themes, but as critical axes of people’s religious experiences across traditions, times, and spaces, with mobility and religion acting as co-constitutive of beliefs, practices and socialities.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/cfp-religion-in-motion-between-borders-and-belonging
7. Symposium: “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. The languages of the symposium are Tur-kish, Arabic, and English.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2023.
Information: symposium@isar.org.tr
8. Colloque sur “Circulation des normes et altération des identités : ouverture à la modernité ou repli sur soi ?” Université de Lyon 2, etc., Université d’Al-Azhar, Le Caire, 9-11 janvier 2024
L’idée première de ce colloque est de permettre à des enseignants et chercheurs occidentaux de rencontrer leurs homologues égyptiens et arabes, puis d’échanger sur un thème à la fois général et précis. Thèmes glo-bales : 1) Les évolutions du Droit dans un monde interconnecté 2) Normes et variations : langues, usages, sociétés 3) La littérature, entre normes esthétiques et créativité 4) Sacré et profane, ordre social et con-testation.
Envoi des résumés : 1 juin 2023.
Information : https://cerla.univ-lyon2.fr/activites/colloques-et-journees-detude-2
9. Kamran Djam Scholarships for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London
The scholarships are available for “MA Iranian Studies” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies), “MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Persian” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies-and-intensive-persian) and MPhil/PhD in Persian Language, Persian Literature, Iranian History, all starting in September 2023.
Deadline for application: 28 April 2023. Information:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/student-life/finance/scholarships/kamran-djam-scholarships
10. Book Prize ($1000) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
This annual prize is awarded to the most outstanding book in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies published in the previous year (copyright date of 2022). Nominations may be made by the author, colleagues, publisher, or friends.
Postmark deadline: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
11. Article Prize ($300) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
The biennial prize is awarded for an outstanding article in the field of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. The prize is awarded in odd‐numbered years to articles published in the period Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2022.
Deadline for receipt of materials: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
12. Prix Michel Seurat de thèse Islam Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans
D’un montant de 15 000 € en 2022, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, dont la recherche doctorale en cours porte sur les sociétés contemporaines du monde arabe, domaine envisagé comme ouvert et en interaction avec d’autres contextes et traditions intellectuels
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 15 avril 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/75362
13. Summer Graduate Student`s Program “Islam in the Contemporary World”, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 30 May – 13 June 2023
The objective is twofold: (1) to provide graduate students with foundational instructions in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary issues and (2) to have discussions about the lived experiences of Muslim graduate students, especially as they pertain to issues of wellness, equity, and belonging. By combining academic and mentoring sessions, we aim to provide a rounded approach to Islam in the contemporary world.
Deadline for applications: 24 April 2023.
Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2023.html
14. Summer School “Understanding Muslim Societies in Past and Present”, NOVA Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) and Aga Khan University, Lisbon, 27-30 June 2023
The summer school will address the study of Islam and Muslims in both historical and contemporary times and will include these topics, among others: History of Islam and Muslims through Digital Humanities. – Histo-riography. – Sufism. – Gender in social science and in religious studies. – Political Configurations and Islam Popular Culture. Apart from lectures, the summer course will include film screenings with discussions, panel discussions and study visits.
Information:
15. International Summer School: “Business Courses and Language/Cultural Studies”, Rabat Business School, 3-21 July 2023
The curriculum includes the following Courses: • Cross Cultural Management in International Management • Doing Business in North Africa • Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation • International Politics of the Medi-terranean and the Maghreb • Islamic Civilization & Sufism • Standard Arabic (from beginning and advanced levels).
Deadline for applications: 30 May 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/international-summer-school-program-at-rabat-business-school
16. LinguArc Language Education Program: “Ottoman Paleography”, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Istanbul, 10 July – 4 August 2023
LinguArc Education Program aims to teach archival languages needed in Social Sciences and especially research in the field of History and to improve existing language knowledge. Students participating in this program will be able to use the archival language they learned at the end of the program for academic or personal purposes. In addition, students who complete the program will be entitled to receive a certificate.
Deadline for applications: 8 May 2023. Information: https://linguarc.fsm.edu.tr/
17. Summer School “Sea of Absence? Globalisation, the Mediterranean and Beyond”, Global Dis:connect Research Centre, Munich, 24-27 July 2023
MA, doctoral students and creative professionals in all stages of their careers are invited to a summer school on the absences produced by globalisation processes, focusing on the Mediterranean, particularly on the aspects of migration, tourism and (post)coloniality, in the past, present and future. There are no participation fees. The Centre will cover accommodation and travel costs for all participants.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-sea-of-absence-globalisation-the-mediterranean-and-beyond-munich-24-27-july-2023?e=82aeb6c61d
18. Interdisciplinary Course “Mediterranean War Cultures in the Pre-Modern Era”, German Study Center, Venice, 1-8 October 2023
The course will focus on the interface between medieval and early modern history, Byzantine studies and Ottoman studies, but will also selectively include overarching topics of cultural and entangled history as well as approaches from material sciences and art history. students and doctoral candidates from Byzantine studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Ottoman studies and related subjects can participate in the course.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12640539/mediterranean-war-cultures-pre-modern-era
- April 08, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. HYBRID Annual Graduate Conference: “Diaspora, Identity and Belonging”, Transnational and Global History Seminar, University of Oxford, 5-6 June 2023
We invite early career historians and scholars in adjacent disciplines whose work engages with diaspora(s) to apply. The conference will investigate diasporic histories and identities as a way to disrupt the fiction of geopolitical borders, unsettle the nation as a unit of analysis, and destabilise colonial logic that coerces (dis)placement.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646808/cfp-diaspora-identity-and-belonging
2. 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
3. HYBRID Annual Research Workshop “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7 October 2023
The workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 April 2023. Information:
4. Sessions on “Disability in the Early Modern Mediterranean World” at the “Sixteenth Century Studies Conference”, Baltimore, MD, 26-29 October 2023
We seek papers on any aspect of disability and on any aspect of human variance in bodies, minds, and sensoria in the Mediterranean world. In particular, we welcome papers from a wide variety of disciplines and methodologies that understand and use disability studies theories to analyze history, culture, artwork, and literature.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12633840/sixteenth-century-studies-conference-scsc-2023-baltimore
5. 8th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Gulf Studies Center: “Gulf Families: Continuity and Change”, Qatar University, 19-20 November 2023
Papers are expected to have an emic view of the families in each Gulf country, and such a perspective will facilitate an in-depth understanding of the continuity and change of Gulf families within a cultural context. Gulf families include both national and non-national families in the Gulf. Travel expenses and accommodation are arranged and paid for by the organizers.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: mizan@qu.edu.qa
6. International Conference “Arabic as a Heritage Language: Issues and Approaches”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 24-25 February 2024
The conference offers an opportunity to explore current issues and trends in heritage language education, to discuss effective pedagogical approaches and strategies, and to address the complex sociolinguistic and cultural dimensions of heritage language learning and teaching.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Academics/LanguageCenter/Programs/arprog/Pages/default.aspx
7. Conference “Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global Implications”, University of Leipzig, 29 February – 1 March 2024
A conference will mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica and discuss new avenues of future research. Papers are invited on comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/ overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman World, Eurasia, MENA, Silk Roads, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Trans-ottoman, perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information: http://www.transottomanica.de/activities/calls/transottoman-retro-perspectives
8. PhD Position in Modern Turkish Studies / Alevi Studies (3 Years, 50%), Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University
We are looking for a doctoral student with a dissertation project on religion in Turkey, preferably with a historical/cultural studies approach and on a topic related to the field of Alevi Studies. Admission to the Leipzig Graduate School Global and Area Studies is possible.
Deadline for application: 15 April 2023. Information: https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Fakult%C3%A4t_GKR/Religionswissenschaftliches_Institut/Dokumente/Ph.D._position_Turkish_Alevi_Studies_EN.pdf
9. Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (5 Years), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” is interested in postgraduates in the following disciplines: Israel Studies/Jewish Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Romance Studies/Linguistics, Global Art History, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European History, Global History and Medieval History. We strongly encourage international scholars to apply!
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33061
10. 12 Predoctoral Research Fellows (4 Years), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” is interested in doctoral candidates with a background in Israel Studies/Jewish Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Romance Studies/Linguistics, Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, Global Art History, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European History, Global History and Medieval History. We strongly encourage international junior scholars to apply!
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33058
11. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships in Middle Eastern Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Ca’ Foscari is the first institution in Italy and amongst the top five in Europe for MSCA Individual Fellowships awarded since 2014. The aim of the Fellowships is to support the career development and training of researchers through international and intersectoral mobility, in collaboration with a Supervisor.
Deadline for application: 14 September 2023. Information: https://www.unive.it/pag/28536/
and contact Professor Matteo Legrenzi matteo.legrenzi@gmail.com
12. Advanced Training Course on the Study of Oriental Manuscripts “Qur’anic Manuscripts, Past and Present: Cataloging and Digital Tools”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London), Berlin, 18-23 September 2023
The focus of this course will be on hands-on sessions, in which the participants will have the opportunity to observe discussed features of Qur’anic manuscripts kept at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, one of the largest collections of Oriental manuscripts in the world. Each participant will be given the opportunity to discuss his or her ongoing research at the workshop.
Extended deadline for applications: 3 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/9927c0bb1d87/call-for-applications-quranic-manuscripts-past-and-present-cataloging-and-digital-tools?e=548be05d32
13. Chapters for Edited Volume “Oxford Handbook on Islamic Reform”
This is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume that aims to explore the diverse dimensions of Islamic reform movements and the ways in which they have shaped the contemporary Muslim world. We welcome proposals from scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to Islamic studies, history, anthropology, political science, and law.
For information contact the editors hamdehe@erau.edu and delongba@bc.edu
14. Articles for the “Journal of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage”
Submissions related to Anatolia and its neighboring regions, including the Mediterranean, Aegean, Black Sea, and Balkans, as well as Southwest and Central Asia are welcome. The Journal publishes original scholarly research articles and book reviews from the disciplines of history, archaeology, history of art, anthro-pology, epigraphy, history of architecture, archaeometry, geographical information systems, etc.
Deadline for articles: 1 June 2023. Information: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tare
15. Arabic at Jordan Language Academy
Arabic summer courses and programs at Jordan Language Academy (JLA). We have exciting full immersion programs planned to help students learn valuable Arabic language skills, immerse in the culture, make new friends and create memories that will last a lifetime. Please click here for more info about our courses and programs or visit our website at www.Jordanla.com.
Kindly note that our alumni are eligible for a 10% discount on our rates for the summer of 2023.
For more information about our summer programs, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@jordanla.com
16. Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/mediterranea/index.
An annual (it appears in March of each year), the journal has peer-reviewed research articles, review essays, and reviews of individual books. It’s actually in its 8th year now. See the “About the Journal” page for details: https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/mediterranea/about.
The deadline for submissions for the 2024 volume is October 2023.
17. “How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe”
Diana Darke
Wed, 3 May 2023 17:30 – 19:30 BST
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation,
London
Full information at:
18. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series with Anne Hunnell Chen
Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 4:00pm Pacific
Now available at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/video/dislodging-disciplinary-silos-at-dura-europos/
19. Online Workshop – “Playing in the Islamic World: Games and Toys in Archaeological Contexts”, Hajar – April 28
For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until April 26th.
20. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65278
Closing date: June 26, 2023
- April 04, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Quest for Modern Language
Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
April 13–14, 2023
Neubauer Collegium
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
About the Research Project
The Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, 1820–1948 is a collaborative, multidisciplinary initiative to examine the role of language ideologies in cultural and political discourses of modernity and modernization in and around the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The project brings together historians, literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, and sociologists to study the articulation, circulation, and mobilization of ideas about language death and revival, language reform, and language modernization in the contexts of empire, emerging nationalisms, and a modernized or quickly modernizing world. The research team is also exploring the role of developments in linguistics, philology, and adjacent disciplines in informing and shaping such ideas. Some of the questions that animate the project are: What does it mean for a language to be or become a modern language? Can, and should, a dead language be revived? How do notions of native tongue, language family, vernacular dialect, or register interact with concepts such as empire, nation, and motherland? How does the relation between language and the body figure in projects of (re)generation of modern polities and individuals? By studying authors who spoke and wrote in a variety of languages of the Eastern Mediterranean, and their interaction with the political and cultural bodies and movements that played important roles in shaping the modern Middle East, this project aims to reconstruct, and draw new insights about, the rich nexus of language, identity, and modernity.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-795-2329
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu
2. La 7ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 13 avril 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/
3. Online Lecture – “Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq”, Dr. Matt Saba – April 4
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro presents:
Tues., April 4, 5:30-6:30 Zoom,
A lecture by Dr. Matt Saba, MIT.
Register here: https://go.uncg.edu/mattsaba
In this talk, Dr. Saba offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization, this talk reveals ways in which the Abbasid court designed, decorated, presented, and documented its palaces to leave lasting legacies of imperial power with what were considered at the time to be impermanent structures. In doing so, it sheds light on an architectural concept endemic to early Islamic Iraq that challenges popular notions of the monument as permanent and unchanging. The main palace of Samarra, known as the Dār al-Khilāfa, serves as the primary case study for this phenomenon.
Dr. Saba is Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture at the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries.
Co-sponsored by HNAC, Lloyd International Honors College, and Religious Studies.
4. Call for Papers – Postgraduate Symposium – Muslims in the Uk & Europe 2023
CfP for the postgraduate symposium, taking place on Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd June 2023 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge. This will be a platform for current Masters and PhD candidates to present and exchange current research on any topic pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe (from any discipline) in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 31 March 2023.
Successful candidates will be notified by 7 April 2023 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 11 June 2023.
5. Book launch – Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe – 26 April 2023 – Warburg Institute
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Book launch and roundtable: Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669
With Nil Ö. Palabıyık (Queen Mary University of London), Philip Alexander (University of Manchester), Simon Mills (Newcastle University), Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 5.00-7.00pm
Warburg Lecture Room, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
Followed by a drinks reception.
Attendance free in person or online via Zoom with advance booking here: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/turkish-books-and-oriental-learning
6. “Counter Narratives”: A Podcast About Multicultural Heritage Collections
The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage at the Rare Book School is launching “Counter Narratives in Practice,” a podcast series about multicultural heritage collections, storytelling, and representation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and beyond. This podcast is part of a larger project to highlight the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows.
Fellows, led by Allie Alvis, worked together from across the U.S. to tell stories about the archival materials in their collections and how they prompt thinking about counter narratives in their professional practice. Here are brief summaries of these episodes.
The Pacific Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “Archiving Political Histories that Shape Education” and “Disconnection and Accessibility in the Archive.” Guests highlight the roles of Indigenous advocacy, settler colonialism, disability, and accessibility in archival collections.
The Central Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “We Were Never Silent: Immigrant Narratives & Caribbean Print Culture as Counter Narrative” and “We Were Never Silent: Bilingual Text in the Ottoman Empire & Pidgin English in Chinese Text as Counter Narratives.” Discussants explore immigration, oral history, and music as they relate to formal and informal institutions of memory.
The Eastern Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “Hidden Histories: African American, Asian American, and Afro-Asian Relationality” and “Hidden Histories: Immigrant Farm Workers and Black Intellectual Histories.” Guests discuss Florida Farmworkers, Covid-19, and the importance of documenting marginalized stories.
7. Leiden Summer school on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2023
The al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Studies is organising the fifth Summerschool on Manuscripts from the Muslim World, to be held 21 August- 1 September 2023. The course can host 12 to 14 graduate (MA and PhD) students. It consists of lectures by experts on a range of topics related to codicology and much hands-on experience with manuscripts from Leidens famous collection. See the preliminary programme and information about application and scholarships here or send an e-mail to Fons Hooft, a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for application is June 16, 2023.
8. Fellowship – MESA Global Academy – Deadline: May 1
The Global Academy Call for Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year
is now open!
The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced in North America.
The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and facilitates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the United States, publication opportunities, mentoring, and professional development workshops.
Eligibility criteria for the fellowships include: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English, French, a native MENA language, or principal research language of the field).
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2023.
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Global Academy now has its own Twitter feed and Facebook page. Follow us here and here.
9. Hybrid Lecture – “KHATAI PAPER IN IRAN,” Yusen Yu (NYU, Silsila) – April 5
Yusen Yu, University of St. Andrews
Wednesday, April 5th, 6:30pm EDT
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
In the study of Persian art, the meaning of “Khatai (Chinese) paper” remains elusive. This talk draws on a wide array of source materials and explores the following aspects: the circulation of the paper in medieval networks of exchange, its materiality in the aesthetic experience of books, and its historiography in modern Iranian codicological scholarship.
This event will be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/6GTiXk4fSmxqwTNTA
This event will also take place as a live Webinar at 6:30pm EDT (New York time). To register as a remote attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AXz5yIEgSCWYR3tEDz1qfg
Only registered attendees will be able to join this event.
10. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
‘The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry’
with Domenico Ingenito
19 April, 2023, 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1516801688417/WN_V51jqckFT3iRSEwJyq0p9Q#/registration
- April 01, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE “EHESS Spring Talks”: International Scholars and Students will Engage Directly with 30 EHESS Professors, Paris, 27 March – 21 April 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Paris Time
The 15 talks will offer space for EHESS researchers to engage in one-hour live discussions with a moderator on the topic of their research seminar, in English or in French. The speakers will also be able to present their books or the scientific journals they supervise. The format of the talks envisages some discussion time to which the audience online will be warmly invited to participate.
Information, program, and registration: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/ehess-spring-talks#eng
2. HYBRID Roundtable “Intimate and Family Histories”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 31 March 2023, 12:30 pm EST
Historians working on family/intimate histories in the Balkans, West Africa, and the Middle East, will discuss their methodology and goals in adopting this approach to research and writing, and how it can help bright to light histories that have, so far, been written out of conventional historical narratives.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12526483/roundtable-intimate-family-histories-march-31-1230-est-person
3. ONLINE Seminar “Exportability and Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West” by Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston) in Conversation with Mona Kareem, Crown Center for International Studies, Brandeis University, 19 April 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EDT
The “exportability” of Arabic literature will be discussed by looking at the work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic, French, and English versions. Aboul-Ela argues the term “exportability” speaks to the challenges of understanding the novels of Ibrahim in their original context and reimagining them in the different contexts into which they are translated.
Information and registration: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/events/2023/apr-19.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Exportability%20and%20Context%3A%20Reading%20Arabic%20Literature%20in%20the%20West&utm_campaign=test%20new%20template
4. Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2023 Workshop: “Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean”, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 27-28 April 2023
This seminar aims to bring together scholars interested in diasporas in the Mediterranean context and their impact on and representation in history, historiography, political writing, literature, and the arts. We will ex-plore how diaspora and diasporic communities and their cultural production can be read from the perspective of Mediterranean Studies.
Information, program, and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/diasporic-legacies-mediterranean-seminar-2023-spring-workshop-27-28-april-minnesota?e=82aeb6c61d
5. Conference: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”, American University in Cairo (AUC), 25 July 2023
We seek papers particularly with regard to architecture from all periods (up to the present) regarding Christian, Jewish and Muslim (including Sunni and Shi’a) interactions. Topics might include: mutual influence of Coptic and Islamic architecture; heritage preservation (especially perceived biases); shared sacred spaces; shared practices of worship; contestation of sites; use of spolia, architectural rivalry of churches and mos-ques.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/trt-conference-auc/
6. Symposium “Toward a Social History of Ottoman Languages”, University of Chicago, 10-11 May 2024
Papers are invited which demonstrate socio-linguistic realities and transformations between the 15th century and the beginning of the 19th century. We seek contributions that explore the languages spoken in and around the Ottoman domains, exploring the relationship of Ottoman languages with their particular social and cultural environment and the social connections or tensions between spoken languages, jargons, and accents.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information:
7. Assistant/Associated Professor in Islamic History or Islamic Studies, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
The successful candidates will be able to teach a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level courses covering Islamic histories, cultures, societies and Islamic humanism. A Ph.D. in History, Islamic Studies or a closely related field is required.
Review of applications started on 25 March 2023. Information: https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178325485&utm_source=03_20_23&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail
8. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Arabic Language (1 Year), Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESAS) Program, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
We seek a candidate with native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in teaching Arabic language courses of all levels as well as for specific purposes at the university level. The candidate will be expected to teach six courses per year or the equivalent.
Deadline for applications: 20 April 2023. Information:
9. Articles on “Sufism in the Modern World” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions” (Editor: Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh)
This issue analyzes various aspects of the presence of Sufism in the modern world. Scholars from different fields are invited to approach the topic from their own specialism or from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and Web of Science. All articles are published online soon after their acceptance.
Deadline for manuscript: 30 June 2023. Information: www.mdpi.com/si/97594
10. New Book Series on “Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa”, Edited by Dina Matar and Zahera Harb (Bloomsbury Academic)
This is the first scholarly series that engages with a de-colonial, non-Euro centric approach to addressing the relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the per-spective of key actors and states in the region, and its peoples.
11. CfP: “Law and Society in Saudi Arabia”, Berlin, June 19-21, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Legislation, jurisprudence, and legal mobilization have undergone epochal alterations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Historically, Saudi law has been identified predominantly with uncodified Islamic law, although legal realities on the ground have been much more complex but often little understood. With the publication of court judgments and the introduction of specialized courts, King ‘Abdallah initiated a process of legal transformation which has gained momentum since King Salman ascended the throne in 2015. One of the most recent developments is the codification of Islamic law, which many regard as a pivotal moment in the evolution of law in Saudi Arabia. How does this intersect with, impact on, and influence earlier understandings of law and legality? In this conference, we would like to take stock and reflect on the radical changes that law and society have undergone in recent years and in historic perspective.
The two-day conference addresses the role of the law in Saudi society both in the past and the present. We adopt a broad understanding of law, one encompassing both Islamic normativity as well as state-issued codes. This includes the law as it is conceptualized and applied by state institutions and legal professionals (religious scholars, lawyers, judges). It also encompasses the various ways in which people interact with the law and legal institutions in their everyday lives and how they express themselves through legal language. We believe that a better understanding of these practices can provide us with important insights into past and ongoing processes of social and political transformation in the kingdom.
With this “law and society” approach, we seek to bridge the gap between the study of social, political, and historical phenomena on the one hand, and research on the Saudi legal system on the other hand. In other words, we seek to discuss law in its social context from various perspectives: How is law socially and historically constructed in Saudi Arabia? How does law impact Saudi culture and politics? How are inequalities reinforced through differential access to and familiarity with legal procedures and institutions?
The conference aims to bring together different disciplinary perspectives. We especially welcome contributions from the fields of law, sociology/anthropology, political science, history, Islamic/Middle Eastern studies, and gender studies.
We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in the following topics:
- Law in history: law and state-building; constitutional movement; historical case studies,
- Law and equality: courts, litigation, and access to justice; legal mobilization; human rights,
- Law and Islam: morality, public decency, and Islamic law; waqf; finance and banking; fatwas and legal language,
- Law and gender: divorce and custody; women’s rights and mobilization; domestic violence, sexual harassment,
- Law and governance: constitution/the Basic Law of Governance; citizenship/nationality; laws affecting associations and civil society; law-making and state institutions,
- Law in action: legal language and its use in society; navigating the law: lawyers and legal procedures, digital technology and the law; the experience of courts; the effects of globalization on the law.
Paper Submission: Please send the title and an abstract of your proposed paper (up to 300 words) as well as a short CV as a PDF document by 15 May 2023 to Conference.Law.Society.KSA@gmail.com. For questions and queries, please contact nora.derbal@mail.huji.ac.il. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by 15 June 2023.
Organization: The conference Law and Society in Saudi Arabia is being organized by Nora Derbal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), and Dominik Krell (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law/University of Oxford). The conference will take place in Berlin at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient on 19-21 June 2024. The conference language is English.
Publication Plans: The conference papers will be published as an edited volume. We expect participants to submit a 7,500-word contribution in advance of the conference (preliminary deadline: 1 May 2024). The contributions should be based on original research and must be unpublished work.
Funding: We are seeking funding to cover some of the costs of the conference. Participants are, however, invited to use their own travel funds wherever possible.
12. Posts:
Saint Olaf College – Visiting Assistant Professor
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65246
University of Virginia – Howell Postdoctoral Research Associate in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65257
13. Hybrid Lecture – “MARHABA TO THE FUTURE,” Mounir Ayache (NYU, Silsila) – March 29
“MARHABA TO THE FUTURE”
Mounir Ayache, Independent Artist
Wednesday, March 29th, 6:30pm EDT
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
By envisioning alternate futures, Ayache proposes an image of the Arab world radically different from those circulated in the West. His sci-fi approach weaves together family histories, fictionalised re-appropriations of experiences and Arab identities. These traits situate Ayache within the unofficial movement of Arabfuturism, which derives its name from the Afrofuturism movement in the 90s. Both Afro and Arabfuturism are characterised by a turn to fiction that allows us to imagine vastly different realities.
Ayache will discuss the progress of his research at the Villa Medici in Rome where he is currently in residence: he is developing a fictional project in which Hassan al Wazzan (known as Leo the African) travels into the future in 2500.
This event will take place as a live webinar at 6:30pm EDT (New York time). To register as an online attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-XRukm9QW6MbtdII4qYlQ
This event will also be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9iEUgoNqY66Ht7VJ8
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event online or attend in person.
14. University of Cambridge, p/t post.
A new part-time job opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to work with our Research Associate, Dr Vivek Gupta. The post (based in the Fitzwilliam Museum) is to prepare full catalogue descriptions of one of the most significant manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, the Plowden album.
Made in Lucknow in 1787-88 for an Englishwoman, Sophia Elizabeth Plowden, the album contains 77 songs in Persian, Urdu and Classical Hindi, and high quality illustrations of performers, dancers, singers, courtesans, and other entertainers within the courtly or nawabi society of late eighteenth-century Lucknow. The assignment holder will describe its contents, assemble bibliographies, research objects, and liaise with external scholars.
For more details and to apply click here. Note that the closing date is 2nd April.
Regards
Neil Cunningham
Programmes Manager
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
- March 28, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.EuQu (The European Qur’an) Spring Newsletter
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c4d88e3337f7b738eb748d56a&id=d68b304790
2. Online Teaching Material – Berlin Museum for Islamic Art
Online Teaching Material in English and Arabic
Report on the Berlin Museum for Islamic Art’s new online portal that presents Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way:
https://en.qantara.de/content/berlin-museum-of-islamic-art-islamic-art-goes-digital
3. Lecture – What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri – April 18, Columbia University
Lecture by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Date: April 18th, 2023, 6:15 to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?
Monumental religious architecture is generally presumed to carry meaning relevant to its historical contexts. Such buildings are thus interpreted as architectural expressions of the structuring concepts of their times (e.g. modernity or nationalism), reflecting the identities of their respective makers and communities in relation to changing historical circumstances. But what if a space that is being monumentalized through architecture has its own structuring principles that carries meaning outside of its time and place? This talk explores the mosque—a central institution of Islam that is as old as the religion and can be found wherever its practitioners have settled—as an example of such structuring spaces. It aims to answer the question of what the mosque can tell us about the role of Islamic beliefs and practices in history by analyzing the monumental Alabaster Mosque built in the Citadel of Cairo by the influential nineteenth-century ruler of Egypt Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha.
4. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Wolf King, Abigail Balbale – March 30
Book Talk: The Wolf King: Reflections on Religion and Power in al-Andalus
Abigail Balbale
New York University
March 30 @ 2:30-4:00pm
Rutgers University-Newark
110 Warren Street, Room 312
and on zoom
5. Lecture – “Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam” (in French), Alain Fouad George – April 4
We are pleased to welcome Alain Fouad George for a lecture, which will take place on April 04th, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam
Alain Fouad George (université d’Oxford)
Abstract :
Des études éparses sur les arts de l’Islam ont révélé, dans différents contextes, une prédilection pour la polychromie, qui n’est pas sans rappeler celles de Rome et de la Grèce antiques, mieux connues. Mêlant souvent une déstabilisation des sens à une polysémie des ornements, cette sensibilité artistique met l’accent sur le sujet en mouvement. Son étude fait également ressortir en filigrane une tendance plus ou moins consciente, à l’époque moderne, à « blanchir » les arts de l’Islam.
6. NZ Waikato Islamic Studies Review new issue published
The 2023 March Issue of Waikato Islamic Studies Review published by New Zealand University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group is now available at the following link:
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review
7. Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600 – 1914
David Thomas (Anthology Editor)
September 2023
8. Missions and Preaching, Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Edited by Norig Neveu,
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Annalaura Turiano
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/59712
9. The 2023 BRISMES Early Development Scholarship aims to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar.
Deadline: 30.4.23
10. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Studies
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Islamic Studies, with a primary specialisation either in Qur’anic studies or in pre-modern (i.e., pre-1800) Islamic intellectual history (e.g., rational theology or Arabic philosophy).
Deadline | 30 March 2023
11. Lecturer in International Political Economy
University of Edinburgh
Applications are invited for a Lecturer in International Political Economy with experience in teaching at UG and PG levels, and in undertaking high quality research, to join Politics and International Relations. We invite applications in any area of IPE, but applications from high quality candidates with expertise in trade and/or an area focus on one of Africa, the Middle East or Asia would be appreciated.
Deadline | 31 March 2023
12. Margaret Anstee Research Fellowship 2023-2027
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Applications are invited from outstanding women graduates whose doctoral degrees are complete or very near completion two Research Fellowships in subjects related to economic and social development and/or international relations. The Fellowships attract a generous stipend, and an additional award of £10,000 is available to run an event to promote the research, such as a conference, workshop or seminar series.
Deadline | 3 April 2023
13. Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the ‘Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 10 April 2023
14. Lecturer in Arabic Translation Studies
University of Liverpool
The Department of Languages, Cultures & Film wishes to appoint to a permanent Lectureship in Arabic Translation Studies. You will maintain and enhance our growing research expertise in translation and interpreting, and contribute to the design, development and delivery of our new MA in Translation Studies.
Deadline | 14 April 2023
15. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
King’s College London
The Department of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer specialising in the history of the Middle East before 1918. Applications are welcome from candidates with expertise in any aspect of the history of the Middle East or North Africa in the Ottoman period (c. 1500-1918).
Deadline | 17 April 2023
16. Associate Professorship of International Relations
University of Oxford
The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), in association with St Catherine’s College, is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of International Relations. The Department has particular needs in the international relations of the Middle East, China, Russia, Africa; international political economy (IPE); and international organization.
Deadline | 26 April 2023
17. Call for Applications – Book Proposal Workshop
Workshop | 6 March 2023 | The Arab Political Science Network and the Center for Lebanese Studies
The workshop is aimed at recent PhD graduates and early career scholars in social science from the Arab world who are working on their first book project focusing on the region. The book workshop welcomes research and proposals focusing on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The workshop is divided into two parts and will be in English.
Deadline | 8 April 2023
18. Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures
Conference | 19-21 April 2023 | Durham University
The School of Modern Languages’ 2023 conference will explore the current debate around student uptake of Modern Languages, and our identity as a discipline. Modern Languages as an interdisciplinary field of study brings a spectrum of insights to urgent international challenges, such as debates around space, access, mobility, justice, and how the global and the local perspective are crucial to inform ongoing and new research in Modern Languages studies.
- March 25, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BA in Hawzah Studies Admission
Mufid Academic Seminary is now welcoming passionate seekers of knowledge to register for its B.A. in Hawzah Studies for the Fall of 2023. Our Hawzah Studies program is equivalent to a BA in Islamic Studies and is a hybrid (online and in-person) three-years program.
- In the course of each semester,the students meet with their instructors for 16 weeks online. At the end of each semester, MAS will conduct a 10 day in-person course in different cities. The previous batches have met in Dearborn, MI, Maryland, IL, Washington, DC, and Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq.
- Graduates of the program will have the opportunity to study at advanced levels in seminaries abroad and also serve the community as clergy and religious leaders.
- Those who wish to excel in academia will be given preference to receive funding for an M.A. in Islamic Studies at different high-ranking universities.
For more information and to schedule a one-on-one meeting with our admissions advisors, please email: admission@mufidseminary.org.
To apply:
https://www.mufidseminary.org/application-for-certificate-courses/
2. HYBRID Lecture “The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean” by Prof. Mathieu Grenet (Centre universitaire Jean-Francois Champollion), Haifa, 21 March 2023, 14:00 h
New interest has led to a broader reassessment of the role of ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats in both the implementation of early modern trading policies, the social and political life of foreign “nations” abroad, and the process of “bureaucratization” of Ancien Régime state institutions.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-the-local-agents-of-french-diplomacy-in-the-16th-and-17th-century-eastern-mediterranean-21-march-haifahybrid?e=82aeb6c61d
3. ONLINE Lecture “What is the Premodern?” by Professor Shahzad Bashir, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 30 March 2023, 12:00 pm – 13:00 pm EST
Using Persian works written under the aegis of the East India Company in India, Shahzad Bashir will reflect on the implications of our use of the qualifier “premodern” for certain Islamic and other contexts. Is premodern a quantitative marker on the straight line of time as it flows from the past to the future? Or is it a qualitative signifier pertaining to literary genres and presumed sociointellectual characteristics?
Information and registration: https://bit.ly/PIW33023
4. Colloque “Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen ? Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)”, Nantes Université, 11-12 mai 2023
Comment les Européens du Moyen âge et de la Modernité ont-ils perçu ce qu’est le Qur’ān ? Quelles définitions ont-ils données, et lesquelles sont sous-jacentes aux représentations qu’ils ont élaborées ? Comment l’ont-ils conçu par rapport à ce qui leur était familier et à leurs préoccupations ? De quelles manières ont-ils saisi, défini et représenté ses différentes facettes au cours des siècles ?
Programme et information : https://www.univ-nantes.fr/exceller-par-la-recherche/laboratoires/colloque-quest-ce-que-le-qur%C4%81n-europeen-definitions-descriptions-representations-xiie-xixe-s
5. “21st International Conference on Turkic Linguistics”, University of Mainz, 2-4 August 2023
We are inviting proposals for papers on all fields of Turkic linguistics, including but not limited to historical and comparative linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language contact, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, etc. Conference languages are English and Turkish.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023. Information: https://ictl.uni-mainz.de
6. International Conference on “Muslim Women’s Popular and Genre Fiction and Film across all Languages, Forms and Periods”, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network, Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023
Indicative topics: Studies of individual authors or works of popular and genre fiction. – Translation of popular and genre works by Muslim authors. – Visual culture (graphic novels, comics, film, TV) Digital culture (Instagram, YouTube, BookTok). – Decoloniality and popular fiction. – Teaching Muslim women’s popular fiction. – Publishing and production.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 April 2023. Information:
https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/
7. HYBRID Graduate Student Workshop “Muslim Qur’an Translation: History, Society, Culture, Exegesis“, GloQur: The Global Qur’an, University of Freiburg (Germany), 4-5 October 2023
This workshop will bring together graduate students who are preparing a doctoral thesis on social, historical, cultural or exegetical aspects of Qur’an translations in Muslim contexts and would like to present and discuss their thesis projects with an international group of like-minded emerging and advanced scholars.
Deadline for Application: 20 March 2023. Information and registration:
https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CfP_Workshop_Grad_students_QT.pdf
8. Workshop “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, University of Copenhagen, 25-27 October 2023
This workshop will explore a broad variety of sensory aspects of Muslim preaching, for example related to preaching practices, various forms of mediation, preaching content, bodily expressions, and reception.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information:
https://modernity.ku.dk/calendar/sensory-aspects-of-muslim-preaching/
9. Postdoctoral Researcher (Focus Jewish-Arab Interaction in 20th and 21th Century Israel/ Palestine), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The research project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence” links the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Halle. The research project brings together a variety of postdoctoral fellows who explore Jewish-Arab trans-culturation from the Middle Ages until today, with a focus on cultural, intellectual and political entanglements.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33074
10. 2 Phd Positions, (part-time, 30h per week) in the FWF-funded QhoD-project “GraViz”. The start is scheduled for September 1st, 2023.
“Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)” (qhod.net)
The position is limited to 36 months. This position requires advanced linguistic and palaeographical skills: Excellent command of Ottoman Turkish and Persian; knowledge of modern Turkish and/or Arabic and/or Urdu is an advantage. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/news/2-phd-student-positions-f-m-x
11. Intensive Ottoman and Modern Turkish Summer School (IOTSS), Ottoman Studies Foundation, Cunda, Turkey, 10 July – 18 August 2023
Application deadline: 31 March 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12wn6clzTTJly3ZJu-LCIcyE2FGHi At26CJen3S-0Les/edit?ts=63fe14d8. Information: ottomanstudiesfoundation@gmail.com
12. Articles on “Hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Australia, Asia and Beyond” for Special Issue of the “Melbourne Asia Review”
I welcome research on any jurisdiction that provides a case study of how Islam and Muslims have been securitised in the post-9/11 environment. This is a peer reviewed magazine style journal with short articles of between 1500 and 3000 words and the special issue will be published both online and in print.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: dtittensor@unimelb.edu.au
13. Articles on “Asceticism, Mysticism, and the Affirmation of the World in Christianity and Islam” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
We welcome 400-600 word abstracts on a rolling basis, and depending on submissions, we would expect full drafts by 31 August 2023.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religions_mysticism
14. Invitation to Join the International Research Working Groups (Focus Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel) of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Stockholm, Sweden
In order to strengthen its evidence-based work on peace, security and development, FBA is currently looking for scholars from around the globe who want to leverage their knowledge to inform the programming and policy work of FBA and its partners as members of FBA’s international research working groups.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://fba.se/en/newspress/nyhetsarkiv/2023/call-for-members-for-fbas-international-research-working-groups/
15. Zoom – Colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” April 3–12, 2023
“Interreligious Interactions in South Asia” that will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2023 (15:00–16:30 GMT / 10:00–11:30 EST / 20:30–22:00 IST).
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94189387595?pwd=Q0hvNDZvYjhDUVZOTHkxSWxNVGIyQT09
April 3, 2023
Speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
Title: Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
Title: A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
April 5, 2023
Speaker: Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
Title: Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
April 6, 2023
Speaker: SherAli Tareen
Title: Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
April 7, 2023
Speaker: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
Title: Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
April 12, 2023
Speaker: Shankar Ayillath Nair
Title: Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance
Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)
Hina Khalid (University of Cambridge)
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
16. National University of Singapore – Associate Professor/Professor (with Tenure) on Malay-Indonesian Region
Research accomplishments and linguistic mastery on a wider plane of studies to include Malay world connections with the Arabic-Persian, Mediterranean, East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds, including the global Malay diaspora, would be an added strength.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65237
- March 21, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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