Categories : Academic items

1.Call for Papers: “Channels of Transmission of Astronomical Knowledge in the Ottoman World (14th-18th centuries)” in Istanbul, Türkiye, November 21-24, 2023

The Department of the History of Science at Istanbul University and Institut Français d’Etudes Anatoliennes (IFEA) organize an international congress. Below please find a CfP, theme 5 is related to medicinal, botanical and agricultural knowledge: https://ottomanastronomy.org/theme5/

See also: https://ottomanastronomy.org/

Deadline for abstracts: June 25, 2023

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Symposium “New Culinary Landscapes in Turkey and the Levant: Global Perspective”, Birkbeck, University of London, 18 May 2023, 10:00 h – 17:00 h

We seek in this symposium to understand and evaluate the nature and driving forces of the changing gastronomic landscape through concepts drawn from the academic disciplines of politics, economics, sociology, anthropology, geography and area studies.

Information and registration: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_event_view?id=36910

 

 

 

 

3. 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

 

 

 

 

4. Poster Session of the 2nd GlobalMed Meeting, Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence, 22-23 June 2023

The GlobalMed network brings together researchers from international partner institutions working on a global approach to the Mediterranean, i.e., attention to the human, cultural, social, material, and environmental connections between the Mediterranean and the world, from prehistory to the present. The poster exhibition will allow the different partners to present ongoing or completed research projects related to the GlobalMed themes.

Deadline for proposals: 22 May 2023.

Information:

https://www.mmsh.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Globalmed_rencontre-2023_AMI_Posters_FR_ENG.pdf

 

 

 

 

5. Conference ” “Muslim Intellectual History in Mughal South Asia”, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California-Berkeley, 6-7 October 2023

The conference invites current research on Muslim intellectual history in Mughal South Asia across areas like philosophy, theology, astronomy, rhetoric, jurisprudence, hadīth, tafsīr, Perso-Sanskrit interactions, infra-structures of knowledge production.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2023.

Information: https://cmes.berkeley.edu/mughal-conference

 

 

 

 

6. Conference “The Cloven Dukes: The Mediterranean Diplomacy of the Small Italian Powers (1530-1730)”, Haifa Center for Mediterranean Diplomatic History, 7-8 November 2023

This conference intends to explore the diplomatic strategies, models, agencies, and practices adopted by Italian duchies and republics when negotiating with the Ottomans, the Safavids or the various Muslim polities of North Africa, and to compare them with those traditionally deployed in the European context.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-the-mediterranean-diplomacy-of-the-small-italian-powers-1530-1730-november-7-8-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

7. Conference “Recited Ink: Written Representations of the Oral Aspects of the Qur’ān”, Università l’Orientale di Napoli, 21-22 May 2024

The word Qur’ān primarily indicates recitation. Despite this, when we think about the Sacred Book of Islam, we picture a manuscript or a printed copy. In the last century, recordings and “study Qur’āns” have in a certain way standardized the process of learning and the performance of qirā’a. Orthoepic signs, often colorized, are a common presence in muṣḥafs printed for recitation schools. What we know less about is how these signs developed and how they were used before the 20th century.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2023.

Information: https://euqu.eu/2023/05/02/call-for-papers-recited-ink-written-representations-of-the-oral-aspects-of-the-quran/

 

 

 

 

8. Scholarships on Projects Related to the Departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era Studies, and “Istanbul and Music” Research Program, Istanbul Research Institute

The grants fall into three categories: One scholar will be awarded Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; Five scholars will be awarded Travel Grants; Five scholars will be awarded Conference Grants. Applications can be prepared in English or Turkish.

Deadline for applications: 3 July 2023. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18

 

 

 

 

9. Articles on “Alī al-Qūshjī” for Special Issue of “Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Science”

Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024.

Information: https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/ali-kuscu-ozel-sayisi

 

 

 

10. P/T – Teaching Fellow (Arabic)

University of Edinburgh

Closing date : 26/5/23

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/job/7403

 

 

 

11. Conference – The Art and Architecture of Mapping: Visual and Material Approaches to Cartographic Objects – London, 20-21 June

The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW, 20-21 June, 2023

Despite the attentions of cultural historians since the 1980s, maps still tend to escape close and critical study as fundamentally visual and material forms of communication, with histories of cartography remaining predominantly disconnected from these dimensions of the subject matter. This two-day symposium addresses this interdisciplinary challenge from a diverse range of perspectives that foreground such questions as: how do maps operate as representations, and how do culturally situated understandings of space shape how they are created, seen and read? How does the study of maps within specific historical or cultural contexts connect to broader issues in visual/material history? In what ways are coloniality and/or indigeneity made visible/material in maps? How can art-historical approaches inform other disciplinary analyses and uses of maps? Invited speakers will offer new perspectives through studies of cartographic objects from around the world, from early modern India, Iran, and China to the Atlantic world and contemporary South Africa.

Organised by Emily Mann (Bartlett School of Architecture) & Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld)

Speakers:

Zoltan Biedermann, Department of History, University College, London
Alexandria Brown-Hejazi, Department of Art History, Stanford University
Tristan Brown, Department of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chanchal Dadlani, Department of Art History, Pomona College
Georges Farhat, Daniels School of Architecture, University of Toronto
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Department of Art History, Emory University
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Department of History, Boğaziçi University
Olanrewaju Lasisi, School of Architecture, University of Virginia
Emily Mann, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London
Matthew Francis Rarey, Department of Art History, Oberlin College
Rose Marie San Juan, Department of History of Art, University College, London
Samira Sheikh, Department of History, Vanderbilt University
Stephen H. Whiteman, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

Free and open to the public, please register here.

1.The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University invites applications for two Postdoctoral Fellowships in Disaster Studies. The fellowships extend for 12 months, from September 1, 2023, to August 31, 2024. These fellowships and the activities organized by and with the fellows are intended to launch a long-term project, triggered by present concerns arising from the recent devastation in Turkey and Syria as well as the urgent need to develop our understanding of the history of seismicity in the region.

Closing date: 31 May, 2023

More information at:

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65397

 

 

 

 

2. Three items of interest regarding Omar Ibn Said, the African Muslim scholar enslaved in North Carolina during the early nineteenth century.

The Pulitzer Prize in music has been awarded to Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels for the opera “Omar”. This is a remarkable treatment of a previously marginalized figure, presented in a central American cultural arena. Numerous reviews, including in the current edition of the New York Review of Books make it clear that this opera is having a major impact. ‘Tell Your Story, Omar’ | Edward Ball | The New York Review of Books (nybooks.com);

For those who are interested in the book on Omar written by Mbaye Lo and myself, I cannot write my life: Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America (University of North Carolina press, https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674674/i-cannot-write-my-life/), printed copies will be available in August, and instructors interested in getting an e-exam copy can do so now at Request an Electronic Exam Copy – University of North Carolina Press (uncpress.org);

Mbaye Lo and I have set up a website at the Digital Repository at UNC Library, “Enslaved Scholars: A Website Repository for Editions of Arabic Texts and English Translations of writings by Enslaved Muslims in the Americas, including works they quote.” This contains open-source pdf copies of our critical editions of 18 Arabic texts with English translations of Omar’s writing, and links to URLs with images of the original manuscripts. We plan to add some other figures in the near future, beginning with Abdurrahman ibn Ibrahima (d. 1829)  and Shaykh Sana See (Panama, 1860s). Anyone interested in participating in this project, please let us know.

Carl W. Ernst

William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

carlwernst.web.unc.edu

cernst@email.unc.edu

 

 

 

3. We now are thrilled to invite you to a supplementary session of the Harb al-Basus Seminar on May 23rd at 8 a.m. ET/ 2p.m. Central European Time, and 8 p.m. in Perth Australia, whence  Dr. Said al-Ghanimi will deliver his presentation on the diachronic cultural and literary connections between the story of Harb al-Basus and major heroic tales across the eras of the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean.   We are thrilled that he has agreed to offer his presentation to us on Zoom, and we hope to engage him in fruitful discussion of his ideas concerning the core narrative of Harb al-Basus and its relation to other heroic tales.   Please join us if you can.

We will record this session, and post it to the al-Zir Salim@ Harb al-Basus channel on Youtube, where the rest of our sessions are archived, here: https://www.youtube.com/@HarbalBasus

And here is the webpage of the seminar:

https://www.usna.edu/Harb-al-Basus-Seminar/index.php

If you can join us, we would be thrilled to see you there and to have you join the discussion.

Here is the Zoom link to the May 23rd session:

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81553406270?pwd=bFpZdnQwMUpXdE5yYlBZemFEMEVtUT09

Meeting ID: 815 5340 6270

Passcode: 031802

Sincerely,

Clarissa Burt                                                   Johan Weststeijn

burt@usna.edu   j.k.weststeijn@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

4. Afghanistan,Volume 6, Issue 1
Find out more:

https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-89W2D-MWI2D5-559S7V-0/c.aspx

 

 

 

5. Call for Applications: The Iraj Khademi Residency in Persian Literature at the UW

The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of Washington enthusiastically invites poets and other creative writers, scholars (including doctoral students), and translators of Persian literature to apply for a two-week residency in Seattle during spring 2024. For more information, please see here.

 

 

 

6. ’Processes of the circulation of Chinese wares in the Middle East during the Abbasid-Chinese ceramic exchange, eighth–tenth centuries ce’

Wen Wen,

Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2023

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-royal-asiatic-society/article/processes-of-the-circulation-of-chinese-wares-in-the-middle-east-during-the-abbasidchinese-ceramic-exchange-eighthtenth-centuries-ce/ACF8905808997F0257DDF6DF68DA39E8?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

 

 

 

7. Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography, hybrid workshop at Vanderbilt University, 18-20 May, 2023

You are welcome to a hybrid workshop on South Asian maps, digital mapping projects, conceptions of space, and map epistemologies, to be held in person and over Zoom next week. Please use the form linked below to receive a Zoom link.

Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University.

Finding Ways: Stakes and Strategies in South Asian Cartography

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, and online via Zoom

May 18th – May 20th

Registration link: https://forms.gle/95eeYrsffY3R1J2S6

The workshop will run from 8 AM – 12 AM US Central Time in Nashville

6 AM-10 AM US Pacific Time                       9 AM – 1PM US Eastern Time

6:30 PM – 10:30 PM Indian Time                 2 PM – 6 PM UK Time

3 PM – 7 PM Central European Time

All times below are in local Nashville time (CT)

Thursday, 18th May 

8-8:30 Introduction and welcome, Samira Sheikh

8:30-9:30 Maps and margins 

Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) “Drawing Margins: Inscriptions, Sketches and Marginalia in Pattahs and Titles”

Eric Gurevitch (Vanderbilt University) “Cosmograms, Centers of Calculation, and the Creation of the Many-Headed Knower: Maps in the Historiography of Science”

Karen Pinto (University of Colorado, Boulder) “South Asian Connections with Islamicate Cartography”

9:45-10:45 Access and heritage  

Afifa Khan, Rebecca Roberts, Cameron Petrie (University of Cambridge) “Introducing MAHSA: the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia project”

Rahul Chopra (FLAME University) “Towards an open access platform of maps of India”

11-12 Digital experiments

Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University) “Going Global in Mughal India”

Deborah Sutton (Lancaster University) “(M)apping Strategies for Digital Heritage: The Safarnama App Framework”

Friday, 19th May

8-9  Fluid boundaries 

Bhavani Raman (University of Toronto) “Drawing the Language of the Sea: How Fisher Science Unsettles Weather Maps”

Ian Barrow (Middlebury College) “Finding Time in Colonial-Era Maps of South Asia: Possibilities for Teaching and Research”

Eduardo Acosta (University of Chicago) “Fluvial Temporalities: Thinking Time through Early Colonial Maps”

9:15-10:15 Envisioning the land

Mark Hauser (Northwestern University) “A Tale of Two Maps: Colonial Cartography, the Archaeological Record, and Agrarian Transition”

Ashish Koul (Northwestern University) “Reimagining a geography of conflict”

David Ludden  (New York University)”Mapping South Asia as Mobile Historical Space”

10:30-11:30 Representing Delhi 

Yuthika Sharma (Northwestern University) “Manuscripts to Maps: Cartography as a model of artistic change in eighteenth-century Mughal South Asia”

Iqtedar Alam (University of Cambridge) “GIS-based Modelling of Shahjahanabad’s Hydrological Landscape: Challenges in Interpretation of Pre-Colonial Maps of Delhi (1750-1850)”

Abhishek Kaicker (University of California, Berkeley) “A first look at the Delhi Canal map”

11:30-12 Discussion

Saturday, 20th May

8-9  Space and place

Dipti Khera (New York University) “Drawing Together Maps and Moods: Localizations of Knowledge, Power, and Emotions, Udaipur, c. 1700”

Sumit Guha (University of Texas, Austin) “Symbolic Geography, Pragmatic Geography and Visual Representation”

Caleb Simmons (University of Arizona) “Territorial Dominion/Cartographic Dominance: Colonial Mapping and the Work of Creating Space and Making Place”

9:15-10:15   Coloniality and beyond 

Shailka Mishra (Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum, Hyderabad) “Maps and Mapping in the Courts of Rajasthan: Production, Collection and Consumption”

Charlotte Evans (Lancaster University) “Using the digital humanities to map water histories in the Kaveri catchment: methodologies and considerations”

Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris) ” Epistemic Divides and the Faculty of Translation: Rendering Space Intelligible in 19th-Century South Asia”

10:30-11:30 Himalayan ways 

Diana Lange (Humboldt University) “Tibetan Mapping and the Mapping of Tibet”

Abeer Gupta (Achi Association) “Global-digital cultural construction, agency, and the formal-informal archives of knowledge”

Aniket Alam (IIIT, Hyderabad) “Mapping the Himalayas through Historical Texts: An NLP and GIS Approach”

11:30-12 Closing Discussion

 

 

 

 

8. Online Lecture – “Potters’ workshops and their productions in the Arabian Peninsula between 10th and 15th AD”

Fabien Lesguer (Phd student University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne; CNRS Dadan Archaeological Project)

May, 17th (4 PM Paris; 5 PM Riyad)

For further information: 

https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/

 

 

 

 

9. The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program offers over 400 unique awards for U.S. citizens to teach, research, and conduct professional projects in more than 130 countries. 

In the 2024-25 competition, many awards around the world welcome applications in Islamic Art and Architecture, such as opportunities in  Kuwait, Tunisia, Jordan and Pakistan.  Explore awards available in the 2024-25 competition on our site, where you can search by country, discipline and other criteria.  You can join the more than 400,000 Fulbrighters who have come away with enhanced skills, new connections and greater mutual understanding.

We encourage you to visit our website for application resources:

• Getting Started (new to Fulbright? Start here!)
• Application Guidance
• Open Awards in the 2024-25 Competition, searchable by discipline, country/region, etc.
• Webinar Schedule and Archive
• Office Hours, a great way to get your questions answered live by Fulbright staff

We look forward to receiving your application by our deadline of September 15, 2023.  To receive program updates and application resources, connect with Fulbright.  Know someone who could benefit from a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award? Refer a colleague!

Here’s to another year of global action, opportunity, connections — and creating a brighter future.

Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program

Contact: scholars@iie.org

 

 

 

10. The editors of Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists are looking for submissions that will help diversify the journal’s contents as well as the authors and audiences it attracts. We are currently interested in submissions from disciplines other than history and/or that engage non-Arabic sources, the post-Umayyad period, or non-Muslim peoples. We particularly encourage women and scholars of color to submit.

A peer-reviewed, open access journal since 2015, UW defines the medieval Middle East expansively to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. We seek previously unpublished articles featuring original research and analysis, including those that push the boundaries of the medieval Middle East as defined above.

UW publishes research articles on a rolling basis, and we pride ourselves on a friendly, efficient, and substantive editorial process. For more reasons to publish with UW and additional information about submissions, please visit the journal’s website or contact the editors directly.

Zayde Antrim: Zayde.Antrim@trincoll.edu

Alison Vacca: av3096@columbia.edu

 

 

 

11. Please join us for the next Maps & Society lecture on May 18, 5 – 7pm (GMT). Leonardo Ariel Carrió Cataldi (CNRS Researcher, LARHRA, Lyon) will be talking on ‘Magnetism Matters: Early Modern Commerce, Practices and Frameworks in the Iberian Empires’.

The meeting will be held online on Zoom. To receive a link, please register via the Warburg Institute: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/maps-and-society-magnetism-matters-early-modern-commerce-practices-and-frameworks-iberian

Everyone is warmly welcomed.

Catherine Delano-Smith and Philip Jagessar

 

1.ONLINE Lecture: “Women and the Intersection of political roles in Power, the Ilkhanate of Persia (1206 – 1335 CE), a Historical Study” (in Arabic) by Dr. Reem Soud Alrudainy (Kuwait University), University of Manchester, 10 May 2023, 17:00 BST

What are the most important political changes and the political effects that accompanied Mongol Ilkhanate women of Persia? And how were the different intersections that represented their experiences reflected in political life? The present study presents the Mongol women’s experiences and political life and tests the ways which enabled them to have power and to have a role in politics.

Information and registration: https://forms.office.com/e/CLzeCLXw7q

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Before the Nabataeans: Arabian Traders in the Negev Highlands” by Tali Erickson-Gini and Martin David Pasternak, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaological Research, Jerusalem, 11 May 2023, 16:00 IDT

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/erickson-gini-pasternak-lecture2023?e=4b7f78b915

 

 

 

 

3. 4th Graduate Colloquium in Middle Eastern and Ottoman Studies, Marmara University and George Mason University, Istanbul, 11-12 August 2023

The Colloquium welcomes papers related to the Middle East Islamic Studies in historical and contemporary contexts, including Ottoman Studies. It is open to all disciplines as well as multidisciplinary and cross-disciplinary fields, including history, history of arts and architecture, literature, religious studies, cultural studies, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 May 2023. Information: https://istanbulcolloquium.com

 

 

 

4. “Postclassical Philosophy in the Muslim World: A Symposium on Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210)”, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, 26-28 April 2024

Rāzī’s position as a preeminent figure of Postclassical Islam (ca. 1200-1900 CE) was influential in nearly all areas of knowledge. This symposium welcomes proposals for presentations on any of the fields to which Rāzī dedicated himself, e.g., philosophy, logic, the sciences, magic and sorcery, theology, Qurʾānic exegesis, and jurisprudence. Presentations may also focus on Rāzī’s life and legacy. Presentations with a strong phil-ological focus are encouraged.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements /12778902/cfp-symposium-fakhr-al-din-al-razi-d-6061210

 

 

 

 

5. Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought
Turkish and Egyptian Thinkers on the Disruption of Islamic Knowledge

Andrew Hammond

CUP. 2022

https://www.cambridge.org/eg/academic/subjects/history/middle-east-history/late-ottoman-origins-modern-islamic-thought-turkish-and-egyptian-thinkers-disruption-islamic-knowledge?format=HB&isbn=9781009199506

 

 

 

 

6. SCORE lecture series: “Egyptian Historiography of the First and Second fitnas” (16 May)

The second talk in the summer 2023 term of our online lecture series ‘Rethinking Social Contention’, which will take place on Tuesday, 16 May, at 4:00 pm CEST.

We’re excited to host Ed Zychowicz-Coghill (King’s College London), who will present his research on “The Historiography of the First and Second fitnas in Egypt”.

If you’d like to attend, please email score.aai@uni-hamburg.de to receive the access details. We look forward to a stimulating paper and discussion and hope to see many of you there! For more information on our project, “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE), please visit our website at www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/score

 

 

 

7. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 7th Forum Medieval Art/Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Jena, September 25–28, 2024. The biannual colloquium is organized by the Deutsche Verein für Kunstwissenschaft e.V.

The theme for the 7th Forum Medieval Art is Light: Art, Metaphysics and Science in the Middle Ages.

The Mary Jaharis Center invites session proposals that fit within the Light theme and are relevant to Byzantine studies.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website. The deadline for submission is May 29, 2023.

If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and session chair) up to $500 maximum for participants traveling from locations in Germany, up to $800 maximum for participants traveling from the EU, and up to $1400 maximum for participants traveling from outside Europe. 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. The Mary Jaharis Center regrets that it cannot reimburse participants who have last-minute cancellations and are unable to attend the conference.

For a complete description of the theme, further details, and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/7th-forum-medieval-art.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, with any questions.

 

 

 

8. Call for Middle-East Paper/Session Proposals for Medieval Academy Meeting, March 2024

Jack Tannous will be one of three plenary speakers at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, March 14-16, 2024 at University of Notre Dame.

We’d love to have a strong showing of Middle-Eastern/Islamic content to complement him.  Please consider proposing a paper or session.  CfP is just below:

Updated Call for Papers
2024 Annual Meeting of
The Medieval Academy of America
Hosted by the Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame
MARCH 14–16, 2024

The 99th Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America will take place on the campus of the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, Indiana).  The meeting is hosted by The Medieval Institute, St. Mary’s College, Holy Cross College, and Indiana University, South Bend.  The conference will be entirely in person, though the plenary lectures and some other events will also be live-streamed.
The Program Committee invites proposals for papers on all topics and in all disciplines and periods of medieval studies. Any member of the Medieval Academy may submit a paper proposal; others may submit proposals as well but must become members in order to present papers at the meeting. Exceptions can be given to individuals whose specialty would not normally involve membership in the Medieval Academy.
Location: The Medieval Institute has one of the preeminent library collections for medieval studies in North America. Notre Dame is located about two hours’ drive from Chicago, with commuter train service available. Scholars may wish to extend their visit and take advantage of opportunities for research or sightseeing.

Plenary Speakers:  Robin Fleming (Boston College), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford), and Jack Tannous (Princeton).
Themes:
Mapping the Middle Ages: Under this theme we invite explorations of how medieval people mapped their world and of how we, as modern scholars, have mapped or might map that world.  For example, sessions or individual presentations could focus on medieval cartography or the distortions of modern maps of the medieval world, but also on other kinds of medieval and modern mappings:  the creation of medieval cosmologies and cosmographies; the construction of boundaries, edges, peripheries, authorities, and jurisdictions; the positioning of marginal groups, of insiders and outsiders, of friends and enemies; the conjuring of frontiers between ‘civilizations’ across Eurasia; the figuring of past, present, and future, of ancient, medieval, and modern; the making of archives and libraries.
Bodies in Motion: This strand thematizes bodies (for example, animate bodies, celestial bodies, or material objects) as they move, whether through displacement or through movement within a space. Papers might consider celestial motion, mathematical models, music, and concepts of time; travel (e.g. for trade, pilgrimage, or war), migration and resettlement (voluntary or forced); the transmission of food, goods, art objects and diseases through patterns of human contact; bodies that transform or transcend categories; textual corpora, their material transmissions, and their transformations through translation and reception; habit, gesture, ritual, and the lived use of domestic, urban, political, or religious architectural spaces.
Communities of Knowledge: We invite papers exploring communities formed around the creation, dissemination, exchange, and preservation of knowledge in the medieval world. Papers might treat centers of learning and their students and teachers, including but not limited to the universities; virtual communities formed by epistolary networks, narrative traditions, dissident theologies, or political ideologies; communities defined in terms of medical knowledge; apocalyptic or prophetic or messianic communities bound by foreknowledge of things to come; the peripheries of knowledge, including the limits of literacy or belief; material supports for the transmission of knowledge, from shipping routes or urban spaces to fresco cycles or manuscript glosses; and the formation of political and legal knowledge in the Middle Ages and their impact on the constitution of authority.
The Medieval Academy welcomes innovative panels that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries or that use various disciplinary approaches to examine an individual topic. We encourage papers on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, or Eastern Europe and the networks and exchanges between East and West.
Proposals: Individuals may propose to offer a paper or propose a full panel of papers and speakers to fit one of the themes above.  Panels usually consist of three 25-minute papers, and proposals should be geared to that length. The Program Committee may choose a different format for some panels after the proposals have been reviewed. Panel organizers may wish to propose different formats for their panels, subject to Program Committee approval.
In order to be considered, proposals must be complete and sent in via the Submittable platform at this link:

https://bit.ly/MAA2024-ND-MI

Paper proposals will need to include the proposer’s information (name; a statement of Medieval Academy membership, or statement that the individual’s specialty would not normally involve membership in the Academy; professional status; email address; postal address; home or cell and office telephone numbers) and paper information (title, abstract of no more than 250 words, session theme for which it should be considered, and audio-visual needs).
Session proposals: If a full panel is being proposed, the above information will be required for each paper, as well as for the session as a whole.  Session proposals may also include the name of the chair (with the relevant contact information) or ask that a chair be appointed.

If the proposer will be at a different address when decisions are announced in September 2023, that address should be included.
Submissions:
The deadline is 15 June 2023.
Please do not send proposals to the Medieval Academy office or to the conference organizers. Contact MAA2024@TheMedievalAcademy.org with questions.
Selection Procedure: The Committee will review paper and panel proposals for their quality, the significance of their topics, and their relevance to the conference themes. The Program Committee will evaluate proposals during the summer of 2023 and the Committee will inform all successful and unsuccessful proposers and announce the program in September of 2023.

 

 

 

9. IDHN 9th online conference on May 31 2023

We have the great pleasure of inviting you to our 9th IDHN online conference on May 31 2023. You will find below and attached to this email the program of the conference together with the registration link. We have as always great speakers who will share their groundbreaking research with us. Do join us for these four exciting talks and share our invitation within your networks.

Ursula Hammed (Munich University): EGIPTOS – Establishing Groups, Identifying Patterns in Texts from Original Sources

Estrella Samba-Campos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Access to Knowledge: The kutub al-ʿilm and muṣannaf collections as aural databases

Julio César Cárdenas Arenas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Islamic University of Madinah): A Computational Linguistics Analysis of “Christians” and “Jews”  in Ibn Taymīyah’s Legal Verdicts

Tynan Kelly (University of Chicago): The Digital Takhrīj: Tracing the Transmission of `Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib’s Orations (khuṭub) with Text-Comparison and Algorithm-Assisted Network Graphing

In order to attend the conference please register at: https://georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfuChqD0iGdb63d_MzZq9ge9IKCrP3BPg

https://idhn.org/

 

1.In person: Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023
Co-sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) and the University of York and it is part of the York Festival of Ideas.
with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble
Rumi is one of the best loved and most influential poets in Islamic culture, and today is fame is global. Join Prof Alan Williams for a fascinating talk including a recitation and performance by Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamdel Ensemble, centring on the enigmatic story of an old musician, from the first book of Rumi’s Masnavi, a work of couplet verses in Persian and Arabic.
8 June 2023, 7:30PM. In person; registration required. National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York.

 

 

 

 

2. Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres

A History of Persian Literature, Vol III

Mohsen Ashtiany (Anthology Editor)

I B Tauris, 2023

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/persian-narrative-poetry-in-the-classical-era-8001500-romantic-and-didactic-genres-9781845119041/

 

 

 

 

3. CMES Harvard is hosting the exhibit of Qajar era archives and objects covering 30 years in the life of an Assyrian-Irish family from Urmia that settled in Santa Clara County, CA: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home 

The exhibit website is https://qarajalutosantaclara.com

The next speaker (ZOOM) in the accompanying series is Dr. Mira X Schwerda who will speak about the key Ali Khan Vali photo album at Harvard’s Fine Arts library. 

An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the ‘Ali Khan Vali Album

Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, 2023-2024; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2022-2023.
Monday, May 8, 2023
12:00 to 1:30pm ET
Online; register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.

 

 

 

4. From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture

The University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies has partnered with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore to deliver an exciting program this season.

Gangaram Tambat: A Deccan Artist and a British Archive

Holly Shaffer (Brown University) on May 12th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and

6:30 PM Mumbai)

Sea a Boiling Vessel: Oceanic Imaginations of Kerala’s History

Aazhi Archives on June 9th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Shantaladevi: The History and Mythos of an “Exceptional” Hoysala Queen

Samana Gururaja (Humboldt Universität) on July 21st 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Painted Chests and Sculpted Beds: Tracing Artistic Connections Between the Malabar Coast and the Broader Indian Ocean World

Deepthi Murali (George Mason University) on August 11th 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)

All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory. Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/ to register and receive the Zoom link.

 

 

 

5. Online: Intratextuality in the Bible and the Qur’an

DFDS2023 (3rd) International Conference

Organized by the Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures and the World Religions World Church Program (Notre Dame)
May 17 2023, 8-11 am (Eastern Time – New  York)
Registration : ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
Speakers:
– Gabriel Said Reynolds , Notre Dame University
– Mun’im Sirry , Notre Dame University
– Hussein Abdulsater , Notre Dame University
– Gary Anderson , Notre Dame University
– Jennifer Grillo , Notre Dame University
– Nathan Eubank , Notre Dame University
– Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi , University of Tehran
– Abdulkader Tayob , University of Cape Town
– Ghassan Elmasri , Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses
– Mohammad Kazem Shaker , Allameh Tabataba’i University
– Mehrab Sadegh Nia , University of Religions and Denominations
– Mahmoud Sadeghi Tajar , Independent Scholar
For more information:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/53

https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSaHZjoRnZ5JNHRh18O2AV
—

Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Assoc. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website: http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228 (ٌWhatsApp)
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir

 

 

 

6. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 16.1 is out now!

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research

 

 

 

7. Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Islamic Architecture 12.2 is out now.

Special Issue: ‘Rupture and Response’

The theme for this special issue was inspired by the early months of the pandemic in 2020, when it was just beginning to disrupt and fracture lives, systems, economies, social fabrics, and many other facets of daily life around the globe.

For more information about the journal and issue click here>>

https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture

 

 

 

 

8. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a virtual lecture hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 6 at 11 a.m. PST.

“The presentation will focus on medieval Persian writers’ perception of the Other and their level of tolerance for diversity using the example of ‘Aziz al-Din Nasafi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and Sa’di of Shiraz. We will examine these writers’ perception of the Other imagined to be residing in unfamiliar/hostile political, cultural, and religious geographies. The examples will include poetry and prose.”

 

If you would like to attend, please follow this link to the event page and click ‘REGISTER’ 

 

 

 

9. CfP: Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam

Special issue of our journal on the theme of Islam and the Discourse of the Enlightenment

We welcome articles on the following themes:

Islamic conception of Subjectivity and Maturity

Islam and Reason

Islam and Political Sovereignty

Islam and Secularism

Islam and Development

and any other related themes

Book reviews on the aforementioned subjects are also appreciated.

JCSI is a peer-viewed academic journal publishing in London.

The length of the article should be between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be submitted via the journal’s website: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/

If there are any issues with submission, writers can email their paper directly to the journal’s editor at dr.emad-bazzi@contemporarystudyofislam.org  or emadbazzi@hotmail.com

Before submission, authors are urged to review the paper criteria listed on the journal’s website. We also respectfully request that authors refrain from raising any topics that can be acrimonious or offensive to Muslim or other religious communities.

The submission deadline for this special issue is 30th June 2023

Contributors are asked to include a three-line profile about themselves containing their academic affiliation and major publications

1. 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.

Extended deadline: 12 May 2023. Information:

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2321&Title=Arabic%20Pasts:%20Histories%20and%20Historiographies6-7%20October%202023

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture “Between Stigma and Necessity – Paradigm Shift Among Muslims in the West” by Rania Awaad (Stanford Muslim Mental Health & Islamic Psychology Lab, Stanford University), Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Vienna, 2 May 2023, 17:30-19:00 h CET

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

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID Colloquium of the Mediterranean Platform: “Translating Arabic Crusade Chronicles in 19th Century France” by James Wilson, University of Konstanz, Germany, 3 May 2023, 15:15-16:45 h CET

The colloquium serves to discuss new and ongoing MA, PhD and postdoctoral research projects on Mediter-ranean Studies across the ages and disciplines. Interested persons are invited to join the colloquium at the University of Konstanz, within which both pre- and postgraduate students (MA Students, Doctoral and Post-doctoral fellows) and scholars could partake.

Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-platform-colloqui um-konstanz-summer-2023?e=82aeb6c61d. Contact for link: jovo.miladinovic@uni-konstanz.de

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Launch “Islamophobia in Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global” by Ali Kassem (Nation University of Singapore), MENACS and BRISMES, University of Sussex, 3 May 2023, 16:00 -17:30 BST

The author offers rare and important insights into the lives of hijabi women in the ex-French colony of Lebanon. Through listening to everyday experiences of Islamophobia, this book masterfully engages the decolo-nial lens to articulate a principled and urgent account of coloniality in the Muslim World.

Registration: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/98982730778 , Meeting ID: 989 8273 0778.

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRIDE Conférence Publique de l´IISMM : « L’exploitation des références eschatologiques dans la propagande du groupe État islamique » avec Othman El Kachtoul (Docteur en islamo-logie, Université de Strasbourg. GEO), BULAC, Paris, 9 mai 2023, 18h30 – 20h CET

Information : http://iismm.ehess.fr/index.php?2388

Inscription : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvnGy-LrSdA

 

 

 

 

6. HYBRIDE Atelier IISMM “Normativité en islam : enjeux politiques de la déconstruction du sacré” avec Stéphane Valter (Professeur en langue et civilisation arabes, Université de Lyon 2), 25 mai 2023, 10h – 12h

L’ouvrage de Ma‘rûf al-Rusâfî (1875-1945), poète iraqien arabophone d’origine kurde, „La personnalité muhammadienne“ n’est nullement un pamphlet anticlérical. Pour un philosophe athée, il n’y a en fait dans ce livre rien d’extraordinaire, si ce n’est l’intérêt provenant de la description de croyances et pratiques à une période donnée. Mais pour des pratiquants un peu étriqués, il est probable que le livre, comme la traduction, soient considérés comme ineptes, ou pire, blasphématoire.

Information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=WroeienWoEWqj7IoDFlyCpW03jsjCalL-psIgf0J8WalURDlNOEdSMU03MTNZQ0FaSDY5TjZSOVlKTy4u . Inscription: https://bbb.ehess.fr/b/fra-lzk-hvs-wue

 

 

 

 

7. Symposium “Islamic Ethics & Living in Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”, Ghent University, Belgium, 21 June 2023

The goal is to reflect on current approaches in the anthropology of Islam, particularly by foregrounding Islamic faith, spirituality and ethics, and the conditions of life in super diverse contexts. How can anthropologists study everyday life but also the role of Islamic ethics in environments marked by multiple forms of cultural and religious difference? More generally, how can both disciplines – Islamic theology/ethics and anthropology – be brought into a productive dialogue and conversation?

Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2023, send to an.vanraemdonck@ugent.be

Information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-islamic-ethics-living-in-ethnic-and-cultural-diversity-tickets-623489492857?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&keep_tld=1

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference “Women and Leadership in the Middle East and Africa”, CLAS LAB, Ibn Zohr University, Ait Melloul, Morocco, 12-13 October 2023

The conference aims to provide an intellectual venue for scholars (from various disciplines), practitioners, feminists, activists and policy makers working on women’s rights and gender studies to explore the factors behind the gender leadership gap in so many public life sectors and cultural contexts and investigate the harm it does to societies.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2023.

Information: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-conference-gender-politics-icgp-2023-women-darhour

 

 

 

 

9. Postdoctoral Position in the Research Project “Constructing the Indian Ocean” (Focus Muslim Communities, Dubai), School of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark

We are looking for an innovative scholar with an academic background in either Anthropology, Global Stud-ies, the Sociology of Religion or similar, preferably with a specialization in the Indian Ocean world and/or the study of Islam and Muslim communities.

Deadline for applications: 9 May 2023.

Information: https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/postdoctoral-position-within-the-research-project-constructing-the-ocean-at-the-school-of-culture-and-society-1

 

 

 

 

10. 2 Research Associates for “Ottoman Auralities and the Eastern Mediterranean: Sound, Media and Power, 1789-1922”, University of Cambridge

Candidates should propose a research project that foreground especially marginalized communities in Ana-tolia (e.g., Kurds, Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians) or the Arab regions of the Ottoman Empire (e.g., the Syrian Provinces). Applicants must hold (or show evidence of nearing completion of) a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline (e.g., music, history, history of science, anthropology, Middle Eastern studies), and show a devel-oping profile of publications.

Deadline for applications: 14 May 2023 Information: https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/40476/

 

 

 

11. Articles for Journal “Revue Egypte Soudan Mondes Arabes (ESMA)” in French or English

ESMA is a journal that promotes empirically grounded social science research on contemporary Egypt, Su-dan, and other MENA countries. The journal welcomes articles from sociology, anthropology, political sci-ence, geography, urban studies, history, political economy, legal studies, development studies, etc. and en-courages new theoretical contributions.

Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/revue-egyptemonde-arabe/

 

 

 

12. American University in Cairo: Scanlon Award & Keynote Lecture

You are cordially invited to attend this year’s George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award Ceremony on Saturday 6 May, 2023, 6.00-8.00pm, Oriental Hall, Tahrir Square Campus, American University in Cairo. This year’s awardee will be announced at the ceremony.

If you’re not in Cairo you can also attend online. Please register here:

https://aucegypt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_raIWxG4nREOzqMsDxxCBig

We are honored that this year’s keynote lecture will be delivered by Dr Tarek Swelim ’86, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, under the title: “Al-Mu’ayyad: From Mamluk to Sultan.”

Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2TPlHvbS0

The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by a student of the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC). The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the University, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues, and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly.

 

 

 

13. University of Oxford – Departmental Lecturer, Persian Studies

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65365

This is a part-time, fixed-term position until 31 August 2024.

The closing date for applications is 12 noon on 10 May 2023.

 

 

 

 

14. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)

‘Feeling Mission Hospitals in Persia and British India’

with Sara Honarmand

31 May 2023, 5PM UK time

For more information and to register, see:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7516801746030/WN_5Am9d6aET8m2taAqTcwCmQ#/registration

 

 

 

15. In Person Lecture | “You are fired”: A Comparison of Roman and Sasanian Military Careers

Event co-organised by the Iran Society and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).
Sean Strong, winner of last year’s Iran Society study grants, discusses some critical aspects of the lives of military men in Late Antique Roman and Sasanian armies.
18 May 2023, 7PM. In person.

Army & Navy Club 36-39 Pall Mall London, SW1Y 5JN.
Register on Eventbrite.

 

 

 

16. ONLINE Webinar ‘Presence and Silence: The Iran Archives in the German Foreign Office’

with Jennifer Jenkins, University of Toronto

18 May 2023, 5PM, on Zoom.

This is part of the monthly seminar Series “Rethinking History: Returning to Archives and Documents” convened by Arezou Azad & Mohamad Tavakoli

Information and registration:

https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocuuhpz8iEtZ-L4819TcSD47Uh7mRt8tK#/registration

 

 

 

17. The Islamic College: Arabic Online Language Course

Beginner (Friday), Intermediate (Sunday)
12th May – 16th July (10 sessions)
Registration Deadline: 5th May 2023

https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/

 

1. Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation invites applications for the position of Outreach & Events.

For further details and for applying, please click the following link: https://smrtr.io/dDgrw

The closing date for all applications is 5th May 2023.

Kind regards,

Al Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation

 

 

 

2. La 7^ème séance du séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » aura lieu le jeudi 11 mai 2023

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

Pour cette séance, nous recevons Rostislav Oreshko (CNRS/UMR 8761 Orient et Méditerranée & Center for Hellenic Studies – Harvard University) pour une conférence intitulée :

« Les Perses en Anatolie : trois études épigraphiques sur la Lycie, la Lydie et la Phrygie »

Résumé :

Suite à la conquête de la Lydie par Cyrus vers 546 av. J.-C., l’Asie Mineure devint une partie intégrante de l’Empire perse et, à l’exception des villes grecques de la côte égéenne libérées à la suite des guerres médiques, le resta par la suite pendant plus de deux siècles. Cette longue période de domination achéménide a laissé une empreinte remarquable sur le paysage culturel de la région (cf. Briant 2020 et Dusinberre 2020). Sur le territoire anatolien divisé en cinq satrapies, Cyrus et ses successeurs établirent des colonies militaires – notamment dans les parties occidentales toujours menacées par les Grecs – et introduirent des éléments du système administratif perse (e.g., Dusinberre 2013), et des terres furent données en apanage aux nobles perses (Briant 1986 et Sekunda 1986). Tout cela, peut-on supposer, généra un important afflux de la population iranienne en Anatolie. Pourtant, la situation n’était pas identique dans toutes les régions. Par exemple, à Sardes, la capitale de la satrapie la plus importante d’Anatolie, et dans toute la plaine lydienne l’influence iranienne était forte (cf. Dusinberre 2003), tout autant que dans la région de Daskyleion, la capitale de la satrapie de la Phrygie hellespontique (cf. Bakır 2003 et Kaptan 2002). En revanche, en Carie (proprement dite), dont la gouvernance fut placée dans les mains d’une dynastie locale, les éléments iraniens sont moins apparents, et en Phrygie centrale on ne trouve des traces de la présence perse que dans l’ancienne capitale, Gordion.

Nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide se fondent principalement sur trois types de témoignages bien connus. Les aspects essentiels de l’histoire politique ont été établis surtout grâce aux sources classiques allant des témoignages contemporains d’Hérodote, Thucydide ou Xénophon aux récits historiques de Strabon, Diodore ou Arrien. L’archéologie y ajoute des détails mineurs concernant la culture matérielle et la vie quotidienne. Les inscriptions grecques de la région, pour leur part, en évoquant des noms de dieux et de personnes d’origine iranienne, fournissent de précieux indices sur la religion et le tissu social au temps de l’Empire perse (cf. Mitchell 2007, entre autres). Ces témoignages épigraphiques sont malheureusement très rares et souvent trop fragmentaires. Pourtant, les inscriptions grecques ne sont pas les seules contenant du matériel pertinent : les inscriptions en d’autres langues de l’Anatolie comportent elles aussi des références à la présence iranienne qui, si interprétées correctement, peuvent considérablement enrichir nos connaissances de l’Anatolie achéménide.

Dans cette conférence, je présenterai trois cas d’études concernant les corpus épigraphiques en trois langues anatoliennes – le lycien, le lydien et le phrygien – qui mettent en évidence le potentiel de ce matériel pour éclairer l’histoire de l’Anatolie achéménide. Le premier (reprenant Oreshko 2021, cf. Hyland 2021) se concentrera sur l’inscription trilingue de Xanthos et sur des aspects militaires et politiques de la présence iranienne en Anatolie du Sud à la fin du 5ème siècle av. J.-C. Le deuxième portera sur l’engagement des Perses dans les questions religieuses et le culte en Lydie au 4ème siècle av. J.-C. Enfin, dans la troisième étude, je présenterai une nouvelle inscription phrygienne trouvée en 2022 à Gordion (Oreshko-Alagöz à paraître) qui, entre autres, jette une lumière inattendue sur la présence de la noblesse iranienne dans la région de Pergame en Mysie au début de la période hellénistique.

 

Orientation bibliographique

• Bakır, T. 2003 : « Daskyleion (Tayaiy Drayahya) Hellespontine Phrygia Bölgesi Akhmenid Satraplığı », Anatolia 25, p. 1-26 [en allemand et en turc].
• Briant, P. 1986 : « Dons de terres et de villes : l’Asie mineure dans le contexte Achéménide », Revue des Études Anciennes, tome 87 (1985), n°1-2, Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 53-72.
• Briant, P. 2020 : « On ‘Achaemenid impact’ in Anatolia (reading notes) », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 9-35.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2003 : Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis, Cambridge.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2013 : Empire, Authority, and Autonomy in Achaemenid Anatolia, Cambridge.
• Dusinberre, E. R. M. 2020 : « Impacts of Empire in Achaemenid Anatolia », dans Ashk P. Dahlén (éd.) Achaemenid Anatolia: Persian Presence and Impact in the Western Satrapies 546-330 BC. Proceedings of an International Symposium at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 7-8 September 2017, p. 37-63.
• Hyland, J. 2021: « Between Amorges and Tissaphernes: Lycia and Persia in the Xanthos Stele », dans: Annick Payne – Šárka Velhartická – Jorit Wintjes (éd.), Beyond All Boundaries: Anatolia in the 1st Millennium BC (OBO 295), Leuven, p. 257-278.
• Kaptan, D. 2002 : The Daskyleion Bullae: seal images from the western Achaemenid empire I–II, Leiden.
• Mitchell, S. 2007 : « Iranian Names and the Presence of Persians in the Religious Sanctuaries of Asia Minor », dans : Elaine Matthews (éd.), Old and New Worlds in Greek Onomastics, Oxford, p. 151-172.
• Oreshko, R. 2021 : « Observations on the Xanthos Trilingual: Syntactic Structure of TL 44a, 41-55 and the Lycian Terminology of Art and War », Hungarian Assyriological Review 2/1, p. 95-144.
• Oreshko, R. – Alagöz, U. à paraître : « A new Phrygian Inscription from Gordion: A Pergamene contingent in Phrygia in the early reign of Antiochus I », Belleten 87, août 2023.
• Sekunda, N. V. 1986 : « Achaemenid colonization in Lydia », Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 87, 1985, n°1-2. Journées d’Études sur l’Asie Mineure, Bordeaux, p. 7-30.

 

 

 

3. The Worlding of Arabic Literature

by Anna Ziajka Stanton

Fordham U P, 2023

https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531503222/the-worlding-of-arabic-literature/

 

 

 

 

4. Hybrid Lecture – “THE COMPLEX OF QALAWUN AND THE SHAPING OF MAMLUK ARCHITECTURE IN CAIRO”, Iman Abdulfattah (NYU, Silsila) – May 3”

Iman Abdulfattah, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Hybrid Talk – Wednesday, May 3rd, 6:30pm EDT, New York University,   Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
Silsila Spring 2023 Program

A great advantage to working on the Mamluk period is the plethora of surviving sources on the material and social history of Egypt and Syria. Representative of this bounty is the trove of literature available on the reign of Sultan al-Malik al-Manṣūr Sayf al-Dīn Qalāwūn (r. 678 689/1279-1290), the seventh Mamluk ruler, under whom the sultanate was stabilized. He was a prolific builder who ordered the construction or restoration of several buildings throughout the Mamluk realm. However, most are no longer extant, making the massive urban complex that he commissioned in Cairo (684/1285) important to understanding the material culture and built environment of medieval Cairo.

There are other factors that make this building worthy of discussion: construction was supervised by Amir ʿAlam al-Dīn Sanjar al-Shujāʿī (d. 693/1294), an ambitious and influential Mansūrī amir, giving us insight into the relationship between a patron and project supervisor; it was built in 14 months on the site of a 10th century Fatimid palace, factors that contributed to the wealth of material reuse incorporated in the building process; and it set a new precedent for later complexes in Cairo.

To register to attend, either on Zoom or in person, please use the links provided on the webpage for the event:

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/the-complex-of-qalwn-and-the-shaping-of-mamluk-architecture-in-c.html

 

 

 

 

5. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 17:00 GMT

ZOOM: https://zoom.us/j/91491257407

The Women and Memory Forum: A Feminist Archive

Professor Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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.

 

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’

http://bit.ly/fayzi_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 14^th and 15^th 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:

https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila/events/2022-2023/in-the-treasure-room-of-the-sakra-king–votive-coinage-from-gand0.html

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

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520299726/medicine-health-and-healing-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-500-bce-600-ce

 

 

 

 

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 

 

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

https://euqu.eu/2022/11/16/conference-what-is-the-european-quran-definitions-descriptions-representations-12th-19th-c/

 

 

 

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
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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

Program: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Taking%20the%20Past%20Into%20the%20Future-%20Edinburgh%20Symposium%20Full%20Programme.docx%20%282%29.pdf

 

 

 

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:

https://lateantiquemedievalstudies.commons.gc.cuny.edu/event/panel-discussion-on-the-religious-scene-in-late-antiquity/

 

 

 

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

More information

 

 

 

 

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

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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

More information

 

 

 

 

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

More information

 

 

 

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.

More information

 

 

 

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.

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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’.

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