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1.Online Lecture – AISEES-ARIT Lecture: Amanda Phillips, on the Studenica Silk (ca. 1400), March 29
JOINT LECTURE
THE AMERİCAN RESEARCH INSTİTUTE IN TURKEY AND
THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN STUDIES
The Studenica Silk (ca. 1400): Object and Interpretation
by
Dr. Amanda Phillips
Fulbright Fellow, University of Virginia, Koç University
Wednesday March 29, 2023 7PM Istanbul Time
Postponed from February 15, 2023
Among the treasures in the monastery of Studenica in Serbia is a large silk hanging, woven for the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389-1402). It is the earliest known Ottoman textile, and is among the earliest works of Ottoman art of any sort. Although it is very well preserved, its initial production remains mysterious, as do its trajectories in the fifteenth century and later. This talk combines an overview of the silk’s historical context with a discussion of technology and material, and makes a brief foray into its later life in Studenica and elsewhere.
Registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86303428595?pwd=TzdoUVoxNnRtV0t3aWVCOC9hNTIwQT09
2. Teaching Associate in Islamic Studies, University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham Department of Theology and Religious Studies invites applications for a seven month (1 Sept 2023 – 31 March 2024) 0.7 fte post in Islamic Studies: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=ARTS103323. The successful candidate will convene, teach and mark the upper undergraduate level module/course ‘Muslims and Others: Ethics, Theology and History’ and teach the greater part of the Year 1 undergrad module ‘Interpreting Islam’. Full details are in the job advert and role profile linked from there. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
(Closing date: 28.4.23)
Best wishes,
Jon
_______________________________
Jon Hoover (he/him)
Head of Department and Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham
Home Page | @jhoover04 | Editor, HCMR | @UoN_TRS
3. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS) a le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence :
« Errant roots of Afghan music: Music and musicians from Herat at home and abroad »
Présentée par : Michel GASCO et Nazir RAHGUZAR (Inalco / CeRMI)
le lundi 27 mars 2023 de 17h00 à 18h30
Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco – salle 4.10,
65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles.
4. Free online event, March 23rd–Tracing Sea Routes on Maps
Join us online for a conversation on the European and East Asian contexts of sea routes on maps with Sara Caputo (Magdalene College, Cambridge) and Elke Papelitzky (KU Leuven). The discussion will be moderated by Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society). The event is digitally hosted by the David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University.
March 23, 2023. Noon Pacific (7pm London).
Registration is free. Sign up here via Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tracing-sea-routes-on-maps-tickets-524105141587
5. American University – Postdoctoral Fellowship in Israel and Middle Eastern Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65202
Closing date: 4/28/23
6. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the May Issue 2023. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is March 30, 2023. The issue publication date is May Issue 2023. For more information, visit the Submission page. The papers can address but are not limited to, the following … Read More
See here for the papers of Volume,7, Number 1. February 2023 https://awej-tls.org/contents-23/
7. ITS Ramadan Discount
RAMADAN DISCOUNT 2023
In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan and the Eid, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering a 15% discount on all titles.*
Books from the ITS are an aid to deepening one’s worship in this holy month, and also make an ideal Ramadan and Eid gift for family, friends and loved ones.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website https://its.org.uk and enter the coupon code RAMADAN23 on the purchase page. This offer is valid from 16 March to 23 April 2023.
*Excluding Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane.
8. Online Classical Arabic and Summer Language Courses at CUA
I’m happy to share with you the 2023 summer language offerings of Catholic University’s Semitics Department in Arabic, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Ethiopic, all taught online for ease of student access.
I’ll be teaching introductory Classical Arabic. All our courses are great opportunities for interested students to get a solid grounding in a new research language.
If you could share this announcement with your students or networks, we’d appreciate it. For more information, contact Dr. Andrew Gross at grossa@cua.edu or, regarding Arabic, me at weitz@cua.edu.
Lev Weitz
Associate Professor of History
Catholic University of America
9. 2023 Persian language summer school in Yerevan
ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fifth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 2, 2023.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
10. State Documents from the medieval Islamicate World
21-22 June, Trinity College, Oxford
11. Closing a bank account in early 18th– century Isfahan
5 June 15:00 Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/closing-a-bank-account-in-early-18th-century-isfahan
12. Blog – Interreligious Dialogue in Medieval Bamiyan
Arash Zeini
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/article/interreligious-dialogue-in-medieval-bamiyan
13. Tracking the Qur’ān in European Culture
17 May 2023, 3PM. Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2L
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/event/tracking-the-quran-in-european-culture
14. Call for applications: “Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present: Cataloging and digital tools”
Berlin, 18-23 September 2023
Deadline: 3 April 2023
15. Women’s voices in the Ottoman Empire
S Faroqhi
Bloomsbury, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-in-the-ottoman-empire-9780755638260/?utm_campaign=IC-SOLUS_Sociology%20and%20culture_MAR_23_UK&utm_content=Women%20in%20the%20Ottoman%20Empire%20cover&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Adestra
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16. Online Lecture – “Christian landscapes in the Umayyad-period Northern Iraq” with Karel Nováček (Palacký University Olomouc) – March 22
As part of the webinar series Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman period, the Ifpo, the CEFREPA and Udine University are pleased to announce the second series of meetings that will focus on Iraq and Arabian Peninsula.
Next conference:
March, 22 | 5pm (GTM+3)
Christian landscapes in the Umayyad-period Northern Iraq with Karel Nováček (Palacký University Olomouc)
Research on the latest historical periods of the Middle East is characterized by various deeply pronounced discontinuities. The boundaries are drawn along historical events (for example between the pre-Islamic and Islamic eras), current political boundaries, confessional differences, and differences in the language of the extant sources, as well as along a drastic imbalance in the use of written sources and archaeological data. The monasticism of the Church of the East (East Syriac) in the territory of Northern Iraq witnessed a tremendous expansion from the late 6th to the 10th century and this subject is by no means marginal. Monasteries as a settlement form, a monastic landscape with its economic, social, and ideological implications, are nevertheless on the very periphery of scholarly interest. The virtually zero state of research contrasts with the developed research in Egypt, Palestine, Anatolia, or even in southern Iraq and the Gulf area. The lecture will sum up the topic on the basis of new or newly re-interpreted archaeological data.
For registration:
For further information:
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/
17. Online Lecture – National Museum of Asian Art: Online Talk with Ali Ferdowsi – March 28, 12 pm EST
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on Tuesday, March 28 at 12 pm EST for The Art of Poetry: Sultan Ahmad and His Banquet of Intimates, an online talk with Ali Ferdowsi. Register here
Sultan Ahmad (reigned 1382–1410), the last of the Jalayerid rulers, is among the most enigmatic figures in the long and eventful history of Iran. Although menaced by the world-conqueror Timur (reigned 1370—1405), and often at war or on the run, he maintained an astonishingly active artistic circle. A warrior of legendary courage and prowess, he also composed more poems than almost any other ruler. He was cunning, paranoid, and merciless with his enemies, both real and perceived, but incongruously, he wooed and gathered some of the best artists—calligraphers, painters, musicians, and more—at his court and treated them with generosity and even humility. The primary venue in which he and his artistic peers gathered to present their creations was a form of convivium (or symposium) called majlis-i khass (private banquet) or bazm-i ushshaq (lovers’ banquet). In this presentation, Ali Ferdowsi takes a peek into these convivia as reflected in Sultan Ahmad’s poetry.
Ali Ferdowsi is a professor emeritus in history and political science at Notre Dame de Namur University. In addition to authoring dozens of papers in Persian and English, he is a translator of more than a dozen books into Persian, including Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise. He is the author of several books, including Dialogues: Interviews on Literature and Politics, Intellectuals and the Public Space, Hajj Sayyah and the Discovery of Freedom, and Chubak contra God. He is also the editor of Odes from Hafez: The First Discovered Manuscript from the Poet’s Lifetime and is the coeditor of Haft-Paykar or Divan Sultan Ahmad Jalayir.
Register here: https://smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_itSzGsV-RgmzeGxg9brcpA
Find more information here: https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/talks/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D165137779
18. Discussion Panel (Online and In-Person) – The Abbasids in Baghdad and their links with Qatar (The Museum of Islamic Art in Doha) – March 20
Date: 20th March 2023 at 5pm
Location: Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (Auditorium)
The Abbasid caliphate was famous for its wealth, power, scientific achievements and global reach. Qatar lay within its sphere of influence, though not always within its political control. Although the historical sources are scanty, the archaeological record of Qatar reveals a peak of settlement during the early Abbasid period, especially in north Qatar, while finds recovered from excavations reveal an intimate engagement with the Abbasid world. This panel will explore the relationship between Qatar and the Abbasid heartlands of Iraq, using data recovered from archaeological sites in Qatar.
RSVP: whatsonatmia@qm.org.qa
You can also join via Zoom.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0qfu6prTgoH9ZmjVeBkFFrZgIKm_1Bg0JK
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
- March 18, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Online – Iranian Armenian Ancestral Continuity – by Claudia Yaghoobi – April 8, 11am PT
For more information:
2. ONLINE Study Presentation “Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World: Decolonial Challenges to the Humanities and Social Sciences from Africa, Asia and the Middle East”, Leibniz Zentrum moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 13 March 2023, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/thinking-the-re-thinking-of-the-world
3. HYBRIDE Séminaire de recherche “Arabité et arabisation”, Université Lyon 2, 14 mars 2023, 18h00-19h30 Nous écouterons : “Que saurait-on des Arabes de l’Arabie préislamique sans la contre-offensive anti-Šu‘ūbiy ya conduite par les auteurs du IIIe/IXe siècle ?” avec TESRIF Mustapha (U. Lyon 2 / CIHAM); et “Enseignants arabes dans la décolonisation : la coopération interarabe dans les politiques d’arabisation du Maghreb” avec COURREYE Charlotte (U. Lyon 3/IETT). Inscription : https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3alFgmHDyH2TepWKryeiHrX_T_g646e65BkzZoz8kXQe01%40thread.tacv2/1677520518270?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22a51a6642-5911-4306-a13c-f4731ab9c63f%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%221b0488ed-20b9-411c-b17b-0310d7e8212a%22%7d
4. HYBRIDE Table ronde CETOBaC « Soulèvement populaire et crise de pouvoir », Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers, 16 mars 2023, 11h – 13h
Six mois après le déclenchement de la révolte « Femme, Vie, Liberté », les mobilisations semblent ralentir. Cela ne signifie pourtant pas un retour à la normale. La tension est toujours palpable et une étincelle peut à chaque moment faire tout exploser.
Information et inscription : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/81094
5. ONLINE Webinar “Narratives of Exile and Migration: Kurdish Women’s Political Struggles in Europa” by Nisa Göksel (Arizona State University), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 17 March 2023, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm ET
Based on interviews and participant observations in Germany and France, Nisa Göksel will examine the political subjectivities and activities of Kurdish women from a transnational perspective by considering the question of how they strive to sustain their political ties and agency despite the daily difficulties of migrant/exile life.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2023/nisa-goksel-narratives-exile-migration
6. Annual Conference of the Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS): “Political Economy of the Muslim World”, Stanford University, 7-8 April 2023
Deadline for pre-registration: 3 April 2023. Program: https://aalims.org/aalims-stanford-conference-on-the-political-economy-of-the-muslim-world-3/. Contact: Roula Khaled roulak@stanford.edu
7. Graduate Conference “Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape”, Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna, 30-31 May 2023
Environmental history inspired scholars working on a broad range of topics related to the history of the Mediterranean. Papers are not limited to Anthropology, Archeology, Art History, Classics, Environmental Science and History, Gender Studies, History, Languages and Literatures, Medieval Studies, Early Modern Studies, Philosophy, Religion, and Theology.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-humans-and-nature-in-the-mediterranean-landscape-30-31-may-vienna?e=82aeb6c61d
8. PhD Position (4 Years) in History of the Islamic Indian Ocean World, University of Bergen
The successful applicant’s research project will explore transregional connectivities and local developments in those parts of the Indian Ocean World that have been shaped by Islamic cultural and religious currents.
Deadline for application: 11 April 2023. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/241547/phd-position-in-history-of-the-islamic-indian-ocean-world
9. Visiting Assistant Professor (Social Sciences) in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (1 Year), Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
The position is open to any social science discipline with the exception of history, and the geographical focus is open to any part of the Muslim world, broadly defined.
Deadline for application: 31 March 2023.
Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/24496
10. Introductory Course in “Islamic Ornamentation and Calligraphy”, Interdisciplinary Research Center Islam and Muslims in Europe, Sigmund Freud University Vienna, 3-7 April 2023, 9h-18h
This intensive course will provide an introduction to geometric Islamic art. Starting with a theoretical aware-ness, practical exercises are also offered to learn the traditional art techniques of calligraphic writing and ornamentation. A special focus will be on the geometric alphabet script “Kufi” as well as on the practice of geometric patterns and shapes.
Application deadline: 19 March 2023. Information; https://www.sfu.ac.at/en/event/ifime-course-islamic-art-introductory-course-in-islamic-ornamentation-and-calligraphy/
11. Intensive, Eight-Weeks Summer Language Programs in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Languages Institute (MEDLI), University Wisconsin, Madison, 19 June – 11 August 2023
In addition to the intensive language classes, MEDLI students can participate a full array of cultural activities, including workshops (cooking, art, dance, calligraphy, etc.), a film series, lectures on Middle East Studies and regional topics, conversation clubs, and have access to language tutors and network with other scholars of Middle East Studies.
Deadline for priority application: 15 March 2023. Information: https://medli.wisc.edu/
12. Max Planck Summer School for “Women in Political Economy”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, Germany, 11-14 September 2023
The Summer School is intended to be an inclusive event and explicitly welcomes women, non-binary people, and all people of marginalized genders. It is open to current PhD students or recent PhD graduates who work in Comparative and International Political Economy or related fields. It will bring junior scholars together with established scholars in the field who will act as the main instructors.
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2023. Information: https://www.mpifg.de/1182893
13. International MA in Mediterranean History, University of Konstanz, Germany
The globally unique study program provides BA graduates in history and cultural studies with in-depth know-ledge of the history, cultures and languages of Mediterranean societies.
Information: https://www.geschichte.uni-konstanz.de/en/study/ma-mediterranean-history/prospective-students/ , Zoom information events: 30 March 2023, 1:30 pm, and 20 April 2023, 3:00 pm CET
14. Monographs and Edited Volumes for New Series “Middle East Environmental Histories” from Late Antiquity to the Present (Leiden University Press)
This series will examine the Middle East in its global context while always keeping the particularities of the Middle East and its multiple environments in focus – the region’s historic role as the crossroads of trade be-tween the Mediterranean and Asia, its cultural and religious diversity, the place of Islam, the balance between settled and sown, and the role of oil, to name a few.
Information: https://www.lup.nl/series/middle-east-environmental-histories/
15. Various Intensive Arabic Programs “Arabic Language & North African Studies”, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, Summer 2023
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/25688/discussions/12527274/summer-arabic-north-african-studies-program-aranas-ma-names
16. Symposium & Exhibition
German WWII Internees from Persia and their Fate in Australia
Convenor of Symposium and Curator of Exhibition
Prof. Pedram Khosronejad
School of Social Science, Western Sydney University
Saturday 4-5th March 2023
For some of the national reports and interviews of this program:
17. Online Conference – Prayer Carpet Colloquium (Turkish and English) – March 21-22
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Prayer and Transcendence, this two-day virtual event will bring into conversation scholars and other leading voices to explore the role and iconography of classical prayer carpets from across the Islamic world, as well as design comparisons from the Jewish tradition.
Two keynote lectures will feature Walter B. Denny, Distinguished Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Idries Trevathan, curator of Islamic art and culture at Museum at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Saudi Arabi, with other panelists joining from around the world.
The colloquium will be translated in English and Turkish. To join us, please register online to reserve your space. Once you have registered, we will email you links and details for joining each day on Zoom. We will also email registered participants a full program with a detailed schedule. Participation is free of charge.
18. Call for Papers: International Journal of Islamic Architecture (Special Issue: ‘The Urgency of the Digital’)
Thematic volume planned for 1 July 2025
Proposal submission deadline: 1 June 2023
View the full CFP here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture#call-for-papers
19. Science Communication, Islam and Muslim Communities: 27 April, Euston, London
A lecture on Muslim perceptions of science by Stephen H. Jones and Saleema Burney.
While there have long been lively discussions about gender and racial inclusiveness in science communication, Muslims, one of the UK’s most marginalised populations, have largely been ignored. This is despite Muslims being a group whose members are often described as being especially resistant to science, with news media regularly claiming they stand in opposition to everything from evolution to COVID regulations.
In this public lecture, Stephen H. Jones and Saleema Burney will use a range of data to look at what British Muslims really think about science and at the question of whether, and how, science communicators should engage Muslim members of the public. Drawing on a new research project hosted at the University of Birmingham, ‘Science and British Muslim Religious Leadership’, the lecture will offer particular insight into Islamic authorities’ role in arguing for and against scientific theories and how they approach issues such as human origins, organ donation, and engaging with secular society.
This lecture is free to attend and you can register at the following link:
20. UN Day to Combat Islamophobia Event, 15 March 5-7pm, University of Oxford
To mark UN International Day to Combat Islamophobia, which is being observed for the first time ever this year on 15 March, we have organised a panel event at Mansfield College, Oxford, in partnership with the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. The UN Special repertoire for Freedom of Religion and Belief, Professor Nazila Ghanea, will be taking part as a panel member, along with Professor Tariq Modood, and Lord Wajid Khan.
Further information and a link to register can be found here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/islamophobia-discourse-debates-and-future-directions
- March 14, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Harb al-Basus Seminar sessions on Youtube
The ‘Harb al-Basus and al-Zir Salim’ seminar has now been posted in in its entirety on Youtube in the following three links:
Session 1 : https://youtu.be/ytfgJgQ9xOg
Session 2 : https://youtu.be/JBkiv2rxMP8
Session 3 : https://youtu.be/l26XCoBS_ZU
2. Dernières places pour la journée d’étude internationale “La révolution des féminismes musulmans”
Le CESIR a le plaisir de soutenir cette journée d’étude qui se tiendra samedi 18 mars 2023, de 10h à 17h30 à l’Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles, et durant laquelle Malika Hamidi, chercheure associée, y présentera son prochain ouvrage intitulé “La révolution des féminismes musulmans : Élaborations théoriques et agir féministe ( 2004 – 2014)”. Cet événement est organisé par Plurivers’Elles ÉTUDES et FORMATIONS et soutenu par L.A.S.P.A.D de l’ UNIVERSITÉ Gaston Berger à Saint Louis (Sénégal). Inscriptions obligatoires ici.
3. Emotion, Mission, Architecture: Building Hospitals in Persia and British India, 1865-1914
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
Edinburgh, 2023
Find out more: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-880S8-MWI2D5-531RC7-0/c.aspx
4. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la XXIVème Journée Monde Iranien, le vendredi 24 mars 2023 de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Nous vous prions de bien vouloir trouver le programme complet de cette Journée, en pièce-jointe. Vous pouvez également consulter les détails de cette Journée sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxive-journee-monde-iranien/
Au plaisir de vous retrouver toutes et tous pour cette XXIVème Journée qui cette année est organisée par notre collègue Amr Taher Ahmed (INALCO, CeRMI).
5. Online Seminar – “Cloth and Time in the Mughal Empire” by Sylvia W. Houghteling, ReSIA (Research Seminar in Islamic Art, SOAS) – March 16
Abstract: By the start of the seventeenth century, cloth from South Asia had spread throughout the globe. Carried in watertight chests on maritime vessels, painted cotton bedcovers and embroidered hangings travelled to the Americas, Europe, Africa, and East and West Asia. However, the perception of South Asian textiles as the consummate material of global trade can obscure the fact that the seventeenth-century circulation of fabric existed across different scales and distinctive temporalities. The circulation of textiles was often seasonal: Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-1627) timed his gifts of warm, woollen garments to arrive at the start of the cold winter weather. The case of cloth circulating within the Mughal Empire, therefore, requires a reconsideration of how to approach objects – commodities like textiles and other luxuries of the maritime trade – that eventually travelled great distances.
ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art, convened by Professor Anna Contadini, will be presented on Zoom on Thursday 16th March at 6pm (UK time).
Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 15th March to receive the link to the talk.
6. Fellowship Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian
With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian amily, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and economic history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.
Fellowships are awarded for six months (1 September 2023 – 29th February 2024). This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2023/2024.
Deadline for applications is 15 May 2023.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of € 1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation. Cost of health insurance in Amsterdam will be reimbursed.
Minimum requirements/selection criteria:
– An MA degree or higher,
– An updated CV,
– A Research proposal in not more than 500 words.
The fellow’s research plan should fit the Institute’s focus on social history.
Fellows are expected:
– To write a report on their research activities at the end of the fellowship period,
– To be present at the institute customarily,
– To take part in the activities of the Institute’s Research Department,
– To interact with other fellows and the IISH’s research staff in the English language,
– To give at least one public lecture.
Selection will be made based on the quality and novelty of the proposed research project, its affinity to social history research conducted at the International Institute of Social History, and the applicant’s qualifications.
Outcome:
Fellows are expected to present the results of their work both orally to the other members of the Research Department, and in writing with a paper of min. 5000 and max. 8000 words (including notes). It is envisaged that the PDF version of the paper will be published as an occasional paper on the website of the IISH.
Applications:
Applications should be submitted before 15 May 2023 to jacqueline.rutte@bb.huc.knaw.nl
General information about the IISH can be obtained via http://socialhistory.org.
More information about the fellowship can be obtained from Professor Touraj Atabaki, e-mail: tat@iisg.nl
7. Shapoorji Pallonji Lecturer in Zoroastrianism
Job title: SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Lecturer in Zoroastrianism
Department: History, Religions & Philosophies
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Lecturer Grade 8 £47,319.82 – £51,328.82 including London Allowance
Location: Bloomsbury, London
Hours: 35 hours per week
Closing date: 7th April 2023
Interviews to be held: 24th April 2023
https://vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/379150
8. Treasures of Herat
Barbara Brend:
London: Gingko, in association with The British Library, 2022.
https://www.gingko.org.uk/publishing/books/treasures-of-herat/
9. Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World 17.1-2 is out now (Special Issue: ‘Perspectives on Modern Iraqi Literature and Literary Figures’)
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-contemporary-iraq-the-arab-world
10. Qur’anic Linguistics ResearchGroup Inaugural International Conference
Tuesday 14th& Wednesday 15thMarch 2023
Mode:Online (Zoom)
Time: 09:00- 18:00 (GMT)
You are cordially invited to attend the Qur’anic Linguistics ResearchGroup (QLG) Inaugural International Conference hosted on Zoom by Swansea University, in collaboration withthe Centre of Islamic Studies at SOAS University of London, on 14-15 March 2023.To attend, please follow the link below.
تسُرُّنا دعوتكم لحضور المؤتمر الدولي الأول لمجموعة الدراسات القرآنية واللغوية(QLG)الذي تستضيفه جامعة سوانزي بالتعاون مع مركز الدراسات الإسلامية بكلية الدراسات الشرقية والإفريقية جامعة لندن على منصة زووم وذلك في الفترة من ١٤ إلى ١٥ مارس ٢٠٢٣،والتسجيل من خلال الرابط أدناه.
https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_01HsJx2eSA2vZf8tZJ1kKQ
- March 11, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Now Streaming: Dr Amir Ahmadi Arian: ‘The Iranian Realism of Ahmad Mahmoud’
UCSB Iranian Studies Initiative’s online lecture series “Persian and Iranian Literature as World Literature.”
Saturday, February 18th, at 11 am (PST).
Now available at:
https://farhang.org/ucsb-lecture-series/the-iranian-realism-of-ahmad-mahmoud
2. ONLINE Inaugural Meeting of the “Digital History and New Directions in Crusade Studies Net-work”, 9 March 2023, 17:00 – 18:30 GMT
This is the first in a series of planned meetings to explore how scholars currently are and might in the future utilize digital tools to unlock this very large corpus of materials.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-history-and-new-directions-in-crusades-studies-network-1-tickets-530410049737
3. Research Associate in Pre-Modern Islamic History with Possibility of Further Academic Qualification (PhD), University of Hamburg
The position supports various research projects among them the RomanIslam Center of the Middle Eastern Department. Required is a MA degree in Islamic Studies with a focus on the wider Arabic speaking world which reaches eastern Iran in the early Islamic period.
Deadline for application: 24 March 2023. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=54faa7e6956f336cca57d980ea538833b4357a11
4. Lecturer in Arabic Language, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
Applicants should demonstrate a primary focus on language education, and should have received at least a Master’s degree, and preferably a Ph.D., in Education, Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics, or a related field. Native or near-native competency in Arabic language, and fluency in English, are required.
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/120979
5. Summer Language Institute in Arabic and Persian, University of Maryland, 1 June – 2 August 2023
The curriculum focuses on improving students’ reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills through an approach that centers material from Arab / Iranian culture, politics, and media. In addition to classes, students participate in a number of cultural activities including workshops
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2023.
Information: https://sllc.umd.edu/special-programs/arabic-persian/summer-langage-institutes
bips
6. The Abbasid House of Wisdom , Between Myth and Reality
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu
Routledge, 2023
7. A Critical Companion to the ‘Mirrors for Princes’ Literature
Edited by Noëlle-Laetitia Perret and Stéphane Péquignot
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/56656
8. Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in Turkey, 1673-1676
An Annotated Edition of His French Report
Alastair Hamilton and Maurits Van den Boogert
Brill, 2023
https://brill.com/display/title/58287
9. La sixième séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 16 mars 2023 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Estelle Amy de la Bretèque (Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, UMR 7186) pour une conférence intitulée : « (Y)ézidis et (Y)ézidisme en exil »
Résumé
Le (Y)ézidisme est une religion originaire de Mésopotamie. C’est aussi un système d’organisation sociale et, en fin de compte, une manière de voir le monde. Cette présentation s’attachera à décrire les reconfigurations du (Y)ézidisme en exil, en prenant appui sur une enquête de terrain menée depuis 2019 auprès de (Y)ézidis drômois originaires de Shingal (Irak).
Orientations bibliographiques
- Amy de la Bretèque, Estelle, « Des larmes pour ambassade. Les Yézidis sur la scène internationale après les massacres de Sinjar », Terrain 73, 2020.
- Amy de la Bretèque, Estelle, « Les Yézidis : du trauma au combat politique », The Conversation, 10 septembre 2020.
- Kreyenbroek Philip G. Yezidism in Europe: Different Generations Speak about their Religion, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de cette séance, qui se déroulera en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
Ci-joint le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” en format pdf. Retrouvez également les détails sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
10. CFP: The Textile Museum Journal Centennial Volume – Deadline: April 30, 2024
The Textile Museum Journal is seeking article proposals for our 52nd volume to be published in 2025. This volume will celebrate the centennial of The Textile Museum‘s establishment, and will be devoted to new research on textile objects in The Textile Museum Collection. Submissions may examine any aspect of textiles from all historic and pre-historic periods, and geographic regions, as well as topics related to fabric structures, textile iconography, weaving practices, constructing and wearing clothing, and other subjects. Articles may include case studies on individual textile objects or analyses of a group of textile objects, which forward a greater argument or investigation about these objects’ cultural and/or technical contexts of production.
We highly suggest engaging with The Textile Museum Collection well before the deadline for submission in order to develop research thoroughly.
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2024.
Deadline for full manuscript submissions: August 31, 2024.
Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the editorial assistant of The Textile Museum Journal at tmjournal@gwu.edu..
Please see Manuscript Submission and Author Style Guide documents at https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research for details on preparation.
Any submission that does not conform to The Textile Museum Journal style and submission guidelines will be returned to the author.
Articles must present original research that has not been published in any language previously. Authors must properly credit previous scholarship on the subject and cite the source of each quotation, with brief bibliographic details given in the endnotes and the full bibliographic information in the References section.
All articles are subject to review by the editorial team and anonymous peer-reviewers, whose comments will be sent to the author only if the manuscript is accepted for publication. Authors are expected to make revisions based on the feedback of the peer-reviewers and editors.
The Textile Museum Journal follows the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For further specifications on preparing text and images for publication, see the The Textile Museum Journal Manuscript Submission and Author Style Guide documents (available to download from our website: https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research ).
11. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library – Cataloger of Armenian Manuscripts
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65169
Closing: May 30, 2023
12. Adab Colloquium March 29th Book Talk: The Maqāmāt of Badī` al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī
13. AKU – ISMC
26 – 27 May 2023 Short Course – The Qur’an in Muslim Practices
https://www.aku.edu/ismc/study/Pages/short-courses.aspx
14. BRAIS 2023 Annual Conference: Provisional programme now live
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to share the provisional programme for its 2023 Annual Conference taking place on Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 May 2023. The full programme can be viewed online here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-provisional-programme
Taking place in the stunning surroundings of the Aga Khan’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, and featuring keynotes from Professor Sarah Savant and the KITAB team (ISMC) and Professor Ousmane Kane (Harvard University), our 2023 conference looks set to be one to remember.
Online registration for the conference is now possible here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-registration.
Space is limited, so we suggest booking early to avoid disappointment.
If you have any questions about the conference, they may be addressed on our Frequently Asked Questions page here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2023/brais-2023-frequently-asked-questions. If not, please do get in touch using this email address.
We look forward to seeing many you in London and very best wishes from us all at BRAIS.
- March 07, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. 9 May 2023 Event – The Ubiquitous Muslim by Professor Aaron Hughes
AKU-ISMC (London)
17.30 BST
Further information at:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ubiquitous-muslim-tickets-560344564677
2. Splendours of Uzbekistan’s Oases with Rocco Rante
Spalding Room, FAMES, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
13 March 2023
3. The University of Manchester
Lecture 7 of the “Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts” series, on Wednesday 08 March 2023, 17:30 GMT in Samuel Alexander A102 , and on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95149569936
Iraqi Women’s Stories: pathways of activism in para/translation
Dr Ruth Abou Rached
University of Manchester, UK
4. UCLA – Pourdavoud Center
Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World
The Inaugural Symposium of the Achaemenid Workshops Series
April 12–14, 2023
314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095 United States
(with a live stream option for hybrid attendance)
Morning refreshments and check-in begin at 8:00 am.
5. ‘Christian-Muslim Relations: Past, Present and Future’: Conference for PhD students and early career scholars
The Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies Oxford invites doctoral students and early career researchers in the field of Muslim-Christian relations to present their research at a conference, June 30th-July 2nd 2023, in Oxford and online. Details are here:
https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/next-generation-researchers
6. The Islamic College (London)
Beauty in Sufism: The Teachings of Ruzbihan Baqli
A Talk by Dr Kazuyo Murata
Thursday 16 March 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW102SW
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-beauty-in-sufism/
in person and live access
7. Roshan Institute for the Spring 2023 Yarshater Speaker Series
featuring Dr. Paul Losensky.
This event will be held on Sunday, March 5 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST.
More information:Website: https://sllc.umd.edu/events/who-am-i-judge-literary-counter-culture-sixteenth-century-iran-and-biographer-taqi-al-din
Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/2EfbSFz9w
Zoom Link: http://bit.ly/taqi_din_kashi
8. IHF: OF KINGS AND PAINTINGS is a documentary presenting the history of the luxurious art that was commissioned during the Qajar Dynasty (1785 – 1925), and explores the world in which it was created. Through interviews with history and art experts, the film traces the trajectory of Qajar art and its evolution from the traditional world of its early period under Fath ʿAli Shah to its later Europeanized conception in the Nasiri era influenced by the arrival of modernity in the form of photography. Weaving together art and history, the film looks deeply at the art and culture of an era that until recently lacked prominence. It further allows the viewer to see many hard-to-access artworks from over 200 years in all their lavish glory.
Learn more about the film here.
The streaming is a collaboration between Iran Heritage Foundation and Homa Films.
The film will be available to stream online from March 14th 11 PM – March 20th 11 PM GMT, at which time the “watch film” button will be activated and seen on the event page. This would be a button in addition to the “watch trailer” button.
No registration is required. For help and further information please contact mehran@homafilms.com.
9. The Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian studies is seeking a Sorani Kurdish instructor for a three-year term beginning August 2023
Jobs@IU
link: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/16936
For best consideration: apply by March 16, 2023
10. Hybrid Lecture – Bernard O’Kane, STARS AND SYMMETRY: THE NAME OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD IN ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTIONS – March 8th, 12:30pm EST @ NYU
“STARS AND SYMMETRY: THE NAME OF THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD IN ARCHITECTURAL INSCRIPTIONS”
Bernard O’Kane, The American University in Cairo
Wednesday, March 8th, 12:30pm EST
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
This talk examines the architectural representations of the name of the Prophet Muhammad, and in particular a frequently occurring variety in which the name is repeated in star and polylobed shapes. These have a surprising number of overlapping resonances, from intercession, light and the roseate qualities associated with the Prophet to, where hexagrams are concerned, connections with the apotropaic qualities of the prophet Solomon, and his wisdom.
This event will take place as a live webinar at 12:30pm EST (New York time). To register as an online attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GrN0ybbSQKyxwNxlHfhgaw
This event will also be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/1ZaKLy2VTYwybupL9
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event online or attend in person.
11. The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies, deadline March 31
The editors of Mamlūk Studies Review invite submissions for:
The Bruce D. Craig Prize for Mamluk Studies
The Bruce D. Craig Prize, carrying a cash award of $1,000, is given annually by Mamlūk Studies Review for the best dissertation on a topic substantially focused on the Mamluk Sultanate submitted in English to any university during the preceding calendar year [note the expansion of eligibility]. In the event no dissertations are submitted, or none is deemed to merit the prize, no prize will be awarded.
To be considered for the 2022 Prize, dissertations must be defended by December 31, 2022, and submitted to the Prize Committee by March 31, 2023. Submissions should be sent electronically to Marlis J. Saleh, Editor, Mamlūk Studies Review, at msaleh@uchicago.edu.
12. New Publication: Scenes From The 16th Century Ottoman Empire Vol. 3
Codex Vindobonensis 8626
Bilder aus dem türkischen Volksleben
(1589-1590)by Hendrowski, Heinrich [Propably Painter]Rudolf, Heiliges Römisches Reich, Kaiser, 1552-1612
ISBN: 978-90-6921-049-0
Yüzyıl Osmanlı İmparatorluğundan Manzaralar 3
Edited by / Yayına hazırlayan: Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem
CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr: 46
For ordering and more info about published volumes please visit the next page and download sample pages:
https://www.academia.edu/96894792/
13. CfP: Muslims in the UK and Europe 2023 – at the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge
We are delighted to invite applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd June 2023 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 31 March 2023.
Successful candidates will be notified by 7 April 2023 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 11 June 2023.
14. ‘Studying Global Muslim Mobilities: Approaches and Experiences’: Tuesday 14 March, 1pm GMT, online via Zoom
You are warmly invited to a special online seminar organised by the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh and the International Islamic University of Indonesia – supported by the British Council. Further details below:
Studying Global Muslim Mobilities: Approaches and Experiences
Tuesday 14 March, 1pm GMT, online via Zoom
In this special online seminar, panelists will discuss various approaches to analysing transnationalism, migration, and the global interconnectivity of the globalised Muslim World, and how they intersect with authorities, orthodoxies, identities, nationalities, gender, and social class.
For further information and free registration click here: https://global-muslim-minorities.eventbrite.co.uk
15. Journée d’etude internationale ” LA REVOLUTION DES FEMINISMES MUSULMANS” – Université Saint Louis à Bruxelles – 18.3.2023
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la journée d’étude internationale à l’occasion de la parution du prochain ouvrage de Malika HAMIDI intitulé “La révolution des féminismes musulmans : Elaborations théoriques et agir féministe ( 2004 – 2014)” qui aura lieu le 18 mars 2023 de 10h à 17h30 à l’Université Saint-Louis-Bruxelles.
En ce mois de mars, c’est avec cette journée d’étude que nous souhaitons saluer le dynamisme, la pugnacité et l’énergie de toutes les femmes du monde investies dans différentes sphères : sociale, politique, universitaire, culturelle et économique.
Nous remercions très chaleureusement l’ensemble des intervenants qui nous honorent de leur présence à la fois physique et virtuelle, à commencer par Amina Wadud ( On line), la prof. Fabienne BRION, Dr. Maryam Kolly, Prof. Nadia Fadil,Layla zzouzi, Prof. Margot Badran ( On line), Prof.Ramon Grosfoguel, Nadine plateau, Dr. Kim Lecoyer, Hakima Elbouri, Ouardia Derriche, Dr. Sara Borillo et Dr. Fatiha AJBLI.
Vous aurez l’occasion de précommander l’ouvrage sur place à un tarif préférentiel.
Cette journée d’étude internationale organisée par Plurivers’Elles ETUDES et FORMATIONS est soutenue par le centre de recherche C.E.S.I.R de l’Université Saint Louis à Bruxelles ainsi que du L.A.S.P.A.D de l’ UNIVERSITE Gaston Berger à Saint Louis du Sénégal.
Nous restons bien sûr à votre disposition pour toutes informations complémentaires. Vous trouverez en PJ le programme détaillé du colloque.
Inscriptions obligatoires ici :
https://my.weezevent.com/la-revolution-des-feminismes-musulmans
16. CFP for MLA 2024 in Philadelphia: The Returns of Philology
MLA annual convention, 2024, Philadelphia, PA
https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2024
The Returns of Philology
Philology is back. This panel invites submissions that reflect on the discipline and practice of philology, “making sense of texts,” in Middle Eastern and South Asian literary traditions. Please submit 250 word abstract and brief bio to Alexander Jabbari, University of Minnesota (ajab@umn.edu)
Deadline for submissions: Friday, 10 March 2023
https://mla.confex.com/mla/2024/webprogrampreliminary/Paper23045.html
17. Call for Papers. Women and Islam: Agency in Francophone and Italophone Autobiography (abstract deadline 15 May)
Centre for the Study of Contemporary Women’s Writing
INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND SOCIETIES
School of Advanced Study • University of London
Call for Papers. Women and Islam: Agency in Francophone and Italophone Autobiography
Abstract deadline: 15 May 2023
Conference: 27 October 2023
This one-day event will feature a dialogue with author Shirin Ramzanali Fazel (Lontano da Mogadiscio, 2017) on her personal and literary experience regarding the themes discussed during the conference.
Please send a 500-word abstract and a short bio to the conference organisers: Dr. Maria Morelli (Maria.Morelli@guest.unimi.it) and Dr. Oliver Brett (ob49@leicester.ac.uk) by 15 May 2023.
18. Postdoc position at Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna
The Institute of Iranian studies (IFI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading non-university research and science institution, carries out scholarly research on all aspects of Iranian and Persianate cultures and societies in Asia. It advances cutting-edge research in Iranian studies on a philological and historical basis. The core research projects aim to explore in an exemplary way cultural process in Iranian and Persian cultures in Asia. The institute is offering a
POSTDOC POSITION (F/M/X)
(full-time / 40 hours per week)
for a duration of 36 months.
Your tasks:
- Research and publications on the cultural/social history of Iran in the 20th century
- Participation in international workshops and conferences
- Taking an active part in the conceptual development of modern Iranian historical studies within the research program of the IFI
Your profile:
- PhD degree with excellent scores in Iranian Studies or a closely related field
- PhD dissertation with a focus on the cultural or social history of modern Iran
- Degree date 2018 or later. Candidates who have defended their dissertation between 2018 and 2021 are expected to have at least one international peer-reviewed publication
- Excellent knowledge of modern Persian
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Willingness to cooperate and to work in a multi-disciplinary research team
Our offer:
- Responsible and independent research in an institute dedicated to top-level multi-disciplinary research on Iranian and Persianate cultures and societies
- Work in an international, diverse and dynamic research environment in the center of Vienna
We offer an annual gross salary of € 54.018,02 according to the collective agreement of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Please send your application including a CV, a letter of motiviation, a one-page outline of research topic, a writing sample (dissertation chapter or accepted/published paper), relevant certificates and transcripts and contact details of at least two academic referees via e-mail to iran.office@oeaw.ac.at (mentioning Job ID: IFI016PD123).
We will schedule online interviews starting from March 15th, 2023. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) pursues a non-discriminatory employment
19. Women’s Learning Partnership
10 March, 2023 WLP and our partners will participate in the United Nation’s 67th Commission on the Status of Women by hosting events on women’s leadership, supporting gender equality in Afghanistan and Iran, and harnessing technology to advance women’s rights. This year you can attend WLP’s CSW67 parallel event both in-person and online via livestream.
- March 04, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE International Workshop “(Islamic) Reform and Iǧmāʾ in Ignaz Goldziher’s Oeuvre” by Dr. Katalin Franciska Rac (University of Florida), Dr. Aysun Yaşar (University of Basel), Moderated by Dr. Katja Thörner (EZIRE, University Erlangen-Nürnberg), 2 March 2023, 16:00-18.00 CET
The workshop analyzes the concepts of reform and Iğmāʾ in the works of the Hungarian Jewish Orientalist Ignaz Goldziher. The two speakers propose a historical reading and offer a theological reading of Goldziher’s selected works.
Registration: https://unibas.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Arf-GgrDMsGNLkfWIj4KoEJuCn0KsZhe20
2. HYBRID Lecture “Beyond Sectarianism: Rural-Urban Relations and the Future of the Syrian Conflict” by Dr. Wassim Naboulsi (University of Sussex), Middle East and North Africa Centre at Sussex (MENACS), 15 March 2023, 17:00-18:30 GMT
The lecture will show how Syrian society is far more dynamic and diverse than its stereotypically sectarian representation in Western discourse that is often based on an Orientalist understanding of the region. Dr Naboulsi will explore the importance of unpacking the multiple socio-economic cleavages in the country to better understand the Syrian crisis as he focuses on rural-urban tensions and grievances explaining why they should be considered in any future settlement of the Syrian conflict.
Information and registration: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/anthropology/about/newsandevents/events/?id=60095
3. ONLINE Webinar “Women`s Worlds in Qajar Iran” by Afasamej Najmabadi (Harvard University), Universities of Toronto and Oxford, 20 April 2023, 12:00 pm Toronto Time
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://iranianstudies.utoronto.ca/event/rethinking-history-returning-to-archives-and-documents/
4. ONLINE Presentation “Tell Me Everything” by Homeira Qaderi, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, 17 May 2023, 12:00 pm ET
Homeira Qaderi is an Afghan writer, activist, and educator. She is writing a novel, based on her lived expe-rience, that covers the last three decades of political turmoil, military invasions, and social upheaval in Afghanistan.
Information and registration:
https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2023-homeira-qaderi-fellow-presentation-virtual
5. Conference “Women and the Politics of Translation in/of the Middle East”, University of Leuven, Date to be Announced
This conference will provide a scholarly forum to discuss how on the one hand, women in the Middle East fulfill their transformative roles as authors, translators, publishers, and/or social (political) activists by means of translation, and on the other hand to reflect on the (mis)representation of Middle Eastern women in Western media (i.e. news, literature, movies, etc.).
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/02/24/women-and-the-politics-of-translation-in-of-the-middle-east
6. HYBRID Session on “Migration, Religion, and Religious Groups” at “The Migration Conference”, Faculty of Law, University of Hamburg, 23-26 August 2023
Main topics: Migration and Religion in Theoretical Approaches. – Migration and Religious Ritual Changes. – Transnational Religious Groups. – Religious Minorities and Migration. – New Religious Movements. – Religious Organizations. – Religious Conflicts and Religious Radicalization. – Religious Diversity. – Religion, Migration and Pluralism, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2023.
Information:
7. HYBRID International Conference “Emerging Historical Perspectives on Christian-Muslim Interactions in and around the Mediterranean (c. 630–1614)”, University of Konstanz, 21-23 March 2024
By exploring Christian-Muslim relations through the changing lens of methodologies, this conference aims to foster an interdisciplinary debate that, through comparison and collaboration between scholars from different fields, bridges rigid geographical and temporal frameworks. Main themes: Innovative approaches to the source material. – Revised, new, experimental methodologies. – Macro-historical perspectives.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023.
8. PhD Student, Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO), University of Bern
The doctoral student will write a dissertation within the framework of the interdisciplinary project “The Flow” and will work with a corpus of Arabic legal sources from Harar (Eastern Ethiopia) from the late 19th century. Candidates must hold an excellent MA degree or equivalent in Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies, or in History or similar Humanities with an emphasis on Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies.
Deadline for applications: 24 March 2023. Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/e596f0ed-4899-43a1-8f64-1ceea5ed3621
9. Assistant Professorship in Islamic Studies, Ghent University, Belgium
The postholder will be expected to contribute to academic teaching, research, service, and outreach in the field of Islamic Studies, especially of the intellectual and social history of Islam and being Muslim in the modern Middle East.
Deadline for application: 20 March 2023. Information: https://career012.successfactors.eu/career?company=C0000956575P&career_job_req_id=25519&career_ns=job_listing&navBarLevel=JOB_SEARCH
10. Tenure-Track Position for International Studies (Focus Middle East), Centre College, Danville, KY
The ideal candidate will demonstrate an ability to offer an introductory International Studies course and upper level thematic, regional, and interdisciplinary courses. The committee will prioritize candidates with expertise in the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/121557
11. Instructor for (Military) History of the Middle East (2 Years), United States Air Force Academy
U.S. applicants should possess and demonstrate the ability to teach in one of the core (general-education) military and world history courses offered to all USAF Academy students.
Deadline for applications: 30 March 2023. Information: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/706208700
12. British-Yemeni Society Research Grant
As part of its educational mission, the British-Yemeni Society (http://b-ys.org.uk/) offers a of up to £1,000 annually to assist with academic study related to Yemen. Applications are invited from anyone carrying out research in, or on Yemen, at a university, preferably one that is based in Britain or Yemen. Applicants’ na-tionality is irrelevant.
Applications at any time. Contact the Secretary of the Society at sec@b-ys.org.uk
13. Bourse pré-doctorale ou doctorale Idéo-Ifao 2023-2024
L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (Ifao) et l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales (Idéo) s’associent pour financer une bourse pré-doctorale ou doctorale de 10 mois, du 1er septembre 2023 au 30 juin 2024. Cette bourse inclut également la résidence à l’Idéo et des cours d’arabe à raison de deux heures de cours particulier par jour, cinq jours par semaine, au cours de cette période.
Le dossier de candidature devra être envoyé pat courriel avant le 30 avril 2023.
Information : https://www.ifao.egnet.net/annonces/emplois/
14. Awards of the “Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies” for Books, Dissertations, Graduate Student Papers, and Graduate Student Travel
Submissions open for the 2023 AGAPS Biennial Book Award (May 15), Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award (July 15), Graduate Paper Prize (July 15), and Student Travel Award (Sept. 1). Work must primarily focus on the Arabian Peninsula but can be inclusive of the transnational flows of people, material and ideas across the Gulf, Red Sea, and Indian Ocean.
Information: https://agaps.org/agaps-awards
15. History Graduate Symposium, Bilkent University, 4-5 May 2023
We welcome diverse, innovative, and creative approaches to Byzantine, European, Ottoman, American, and Global History, with no chronological limits. We particularly encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the topics in question.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2023. Information:
16. Fall Semester 2023 – 2024 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies, Language Center, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support is available.
Deadline for applications: 30 March 2023. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Academics/LanguageCenter/Programs/arprog/Pages/Doha-Residence-Program.aspx
17. SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes
On Saturday March 4, 2023 at 11:00AM-4:00PM US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event. Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our efforts together to finally develop a dependable program that will allow texts using Arabic script to be machine readable. This work in checking and reviewing documents will allow scholars to access, search and explore historical and contemporary documents like never before. No knowledge of coding or programming is needed but knowledge of Arabic script is a must to train the machine learning program to recognize them. Lunch will be provided for those who RSVP. Drop by for however long you can to meet, chat, and transcribe!
18. Publish your critical edition and/or translation with MIDEO
MIDEO — the Miscellanies of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies — is accepting, in addition to articles and book reviews, critical editions of primary texts in Arabic, Persian, and other languages relevant to understanding the intellectual history of Islamicate societies throughout the centuries. We also accept translations of such works into English or French.
As a non-commercial, internationally peer-reviewed research journal of Islamic studies, we consider critical editions and/or translations of any length, i.e. also those that might be either too long for commercial journals or too short for a book project. The deadline for submission for the next issue of MIDEO is June 30, 2023.
We would be delighted to receive your proposal. If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
With best wishes,
Dr. Dennis Halft, OP
Directeur de la publication / Editor / رئيس تحرير المجلّة
MIDEO (Miscellanies of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies)
Secrétariat | 1 street al-Ṭarābīchī | ʿAbbāssiyya P.O.B 18 |
11381 Cairo |Egypt
19. Seminar – CALLFRONT Calligraphy on the Frontiers of the Islamic World, Finbarr Barry Flood – March 14
We are pleased to welcome Finbarr Barry Flood for the next session of the seminar CALLFRONT Calligraphy on the Frontiers of the Islamic World, which will take place on March 14th, 2023, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Par-delà la lecture : médias et médiations dans l’épigraphie islamique
Finbarr Barry Flood (Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)
Organization : Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Maxime Durocher
Abstract : La lecture et l’interprétation des inscriptions ont été fondamentales pour écrire l’histoire de l’architecture islamique médiévale. Dans quelle mesure le “tournant matériel” dans les sciences humaines et l’intérêt pour les questions de médiation, ouvrent-ils de nouvelles perspectives pour comprendre les multiples registres par lesquels les inscriptions véhiculent du sens dans ce contexte précis ? Remettant en question la dichotomie moderne entre la forme matérielle et la signification immatérielle, cette conférence discutera de la nécessité d’une approche qui met en évidence la matérialité des inscriptions et leur capacité à engager le spectateur, au-delà du regard et de la lecture.
Contact : callfront@inha.fr
20. Call for Contributions to our 9th IDHN Conference
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are excited to announce our 9th IDHN Conference which will take place on Wednesday, May 31, 2023.
We are now calling for contributions from both members and guests, who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam and Muslim communities and languages. Our conference is open to participants from both humanistic and scientific disciplines.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Wednesday, April 19, 2023.
We will select four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes. We will hold the meeting online on ZOOM; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
Please share our announcement with your colleagues and students, and please forward this call to your networks and listservs as well.
With warm wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
21. CFP: The Urgency of the Digital (IJIA special issue) – Deadline: June 1, 2023
Please see (linked here) a Call For Papers for “The Urgency of the Digital,” a special issue of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture to be published July 2025. We welcome submissions from practitioners, urbanists, art historians, specialists in literary and religious studies, archivists, librarians, data scientists, software developers, anthropologists, geographers, sociologists, and historians whose work resonates with the topic. Proposal submissions (due by June 1, 2023) and queries should be sent to IJIA25Digital@gmail.com.
CALL FOR PAPERS
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
Special Issue: The Urgency of the Digital
Thematic volume planned for July 1, 2025
Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2023
We are announcing the fifth Leiden Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World, from August 21 to September 1, 2023. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers. The programme will be published later. This is just to let you know that the deadline for application is Friday June 16, 2023. For more information about the application and the possibility of scholarships you can already send an e-mail to Fons ‘t Hooft, a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
2. Call For Contributions: “Medieval Borders and the Environment”
Proposals for essays in English (c. 8000-12000 words) are warmly welcomed on the topic “borders, the elements, and the environment”.
This volume, provisionally titled Medieval Borders and the Environment, will be submitted to Brill to be included in the new series “Elements, Nature, Environment: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from the Ancient to the Early Modern World” edited by Dr. Marilina Cesario and Dr. Andreas Lammer. The volume’s goal is to provide a venue for interdisciplinary research on the time period between about 500 and 1500 or slightly later. It intends to promote study on underrepresented parts of the medieval world, broadly construed, as well as articles that examine interconnections across regions and cultures.
The volume aims at covering topics from the following regions, broadly intended: Europe, including Northern and Eastern Europe Central Asia, South Asia, India, Japan, China, North and South Africa, East and West Africa, Oceans and Seas, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania.
The book aims to respond to the following questions:
What fundamental characteristics did borders have during the Middle Ages?
What did the word “boundary” mean in general?
Were boundaries separating one thing from another real or imaginary?
How did borders affect the environment? What effects did boundaries have on the local environment, as well as the cultures and people that inhabited it? And how have borders changed or been defined in relation to the environment?
Have toponymy and borders been influenced by elemental theory, or vice versa?
What impact had the environment on the spread of epidemics? Did it promote its expansion or serve as a barrier? And how did disease affect borders?
What effects have the environment and borders had on culture, the dissemination of knowledge (including that pertaining to science, engineering, and currents in the arts and architecture), dietary customs, clothing, trade, and movement in general?
All other contributions have been confirmed, and they include real and imaginary borders in medieval Rus’, the transmission of the Old Norse materia medica between Scandinavia and the continent, material mobilities within commercial markets as political and cultural boundary crossings between medieval Korea and Mongolia, and the spread of iconographic motifs with artistic, magical, and political purposes in the Baltic Sea region, among others. Final contributions will be due in May 2024.
Proposals might include but are not limited to:
– Border Studies;
– Old and Middle German Studies;
– Lombard language, history and culture;
– Gothic language, history and culture;
– Celtic Studies;
– Medieval Romance Studies (including French);
– Medieval Islamic Studies;
– Pre-Columbian cultures;
– Geography and Cartography, including Human Geography;
– Toponymy (especially in connection with environmental features and elemental theory);
– History of Science;
– Landscape Epidemiology;
– History of Medicine;
– Environmental History;
– Sociology;
– Anthropology;
– Etc.
Please send a 200-300 word abstract of your proposed essay, and a brief introduction of yourself, to the editor: Dr. Elisa Ramazzina (elisa.ramazzina@unipv.it). The deadline for the submission of proposals is March 15, 2023.
3. Harvard Art Museums – Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian or
Islamic Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65102
Closing : April 3, 2023.
4. The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism,
Edinburgh University Press, 2023
Austin O’Malley
5. Turcica 53/2022 (new issue)
https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=TURC&issue=0&vol=53
CONTENT
Articles:
Whitehead (Christopher), The Reluctant Pasha: Çerkes Dilaver and Elite Localization in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Whaiton-Durgaryan (Alyson), Armenian Elites, Architectural Transference, and Restoration of Order in the Civil Architecture of Post-Massacre Bitlis and Erzurum
Special Feature:
-The ‘Ahdnâme “Revisited:” Some New Approaches and Perspectives
(Articles by P. Guena, I. Hathaway, G Işıksel, A. Sekulic, T. Steffini)
-Pour une histoire des émotions dans L’Empire ottoman
(Articles by H.G. Özkoray, M. Sariyannis, N. Vatin, C. Römer, M. Ursinus)
Notes and Documents:
-Vatin (Nicolas), Hayr Ed-Dîn Barberousse, Zorzi Gritti et les relations franco-ottomanes en août 1533 : une « Lettre d’amitié » du Grand Vizir Ibrâhîm Paşa
6. Nahyan Fancy, Depauw University
Annual Dr. Martin A. Entin Lecture in the History of Medicine
McGill, Dept of Social Studies of Medicine
March 15, 2023, 4.30 – 6pm
Arabic Writings on Plague: Revising the Chronologies of the First and Second
Plague Pandemic Using Evidence from Islamic Societies
Further info at:
https://www.mcgill.ca/ssom/upcoming-events
7. Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Merits of the Plague, introduction, edition, translation, and notes by Joel Blecher and Mairaj Syed
(New York: Penguin-Random House, 2023),
8. Deadline for Panels and Papers for DAVO Congress in Vienna 28 February 2023
Please note that the panels and papers for the next DAVO Congress – which will be combined with the “Turkologentag 2023” at the University of Vienna on 21-13 September 2023 – have to be registered until the deadline of 28 February 2023.
Please register via the Website of the “Turkologentag 2023” at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at.
The organizers of every panel are kindly requested to enter the names of all presenters of papers and the abstracts of their papers (up to 300 words) and keywords in the registration form for the specific panel.
In addition, all paper presenters of a specific panel are kindly requested to register individually. Please include the paper abstract (up to 300 words) plus keywords and add the name of the panel in the field “Remarks” (Part of Panel).
For paper presenters especially from the Middle East and North America, who have no chance to attend the conference in person, the Congress organizers will try to arrange some hybrid panels with online presentations.
Papers are invited for the following open panels:
1) Social and Labour Market Policies in the MENA: Strong Enough to Cushion Global Economic, Health and Climate Crises?
2) Nation Building across Religious and Continental Boundaries: (Counter-) Islamic References in Print, Diasporic Networks, and Communal Formations
3) Extractivism and Natural Resource Degradation in MENA: Drivers of Change for State-Society Relations?
4) The Diaspora as a Transformative Experience: Critical Engagement of Kurdish Women Activists Moving between Different Countries
Please see the summaries of these panels in the attachment. If you want to present a paper in these panels, please send the abstract of your proposed paper to the organizer of the specific panel until 26 February 2023.
These are the registration fees for different groups of participants:
– 50 € for regular members of DAVO
– 10 € for members of DAVO who are students, unemployed or registered as low-income members
– 100 € for non-members of DAVO
– 40 € for students who are non-members of DAVO
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After 1 May 2023 the registration fee will rise according to the list at https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/registration/.
9. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
An Ugly, Lovely Town’: Dylan Thomas in Tehran (and beyond)
with Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Part of ‘Wales Week/Iran’
1 March, 2023 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/iran-and-wales/
10. Spring 2023 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series
The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) welcomes you to listen and engage with graduate students who will present on their research on young people in the Middle East and North Africa, and its diasporic communities. The format of the sessions is thirty minutes of presentation by the speaker followed by thirty minutes of discussion and Q&A with the audience. The AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series is intended to be a space for graduate students to share their cutting-edge research as well as workshop their dissertation material.
Friday March 3rd, 11 am CST
Reda Rafei, Texas Tech University
The Winner of the 2022 AMECYS Graduate Student Paper Prize
“Ottoman Children and Dhurri Waqf : A Legal and Gendered Perspective”
Friday May 12th, 11 am CST
Eyüp Ensar Dal, Middle East Technical University
“Single Motherhood and Childcare in Early Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Üsküdar”
Friday June 9th, 11 am CST
Nour Mohamad J Hodeib, The Graduate Center – CUNY
“By Songs and Fire; Counterculture, Rock’n,Roll, and the Lebanese Left during 1970s.”
Please RSVP to Dylan Baun to attend (djb0035@uah.edu) and receive the zoom link
11. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA)is offering multiple grant and award opportunities in conjunction with its Sixteenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 4 – 6, 2023.
Now in its tenth year, the ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it constitutes new and original research and is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas:
- Minorities and Women
- Military History
- Governance and Economy
- Faith
- Iran
Grants of $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Sixteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
ASMEA is also offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline to apply is May 1, 2023.
The 2023 Bernard Lewis Prize is awarded to scholars or practitioners engaged in the study of issues on antisemitism that were of great importance to our founding chairman, Prof. Bernard Lewis. Four winners will be announced at the Annual Conference and awarded $2500 each. The deadline to submit is June 30, 2023.
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels and Call for Poster Proposals.
Grant and award opportunities are open to members only. For information on how to become a member and full guidelines on each program, visit our website at www.asmeascholars.org.
Feel free to contact ASMEA at info@asmeascholars.org with any questions
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Seminar “Why Failed Protests are Politically Significant: Insights from Jordan” with Jillian Schwedler in Conversation with Daniel Neep, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 1 March 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EST
Prof. Schwedler will explore the political effects of routine protests on state and society in Jordan, drawing from her new book, “Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent”.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IlKr94YWSqaNeSpaPvNWog#/registration
2. International Conference “Succession in Islamic Law”, Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht, 30-31 March 2023
The conference brings together scholars and researchers from various fields of social sciences, the humanities and law to share and exchange their experiences and research results with respect to the intergenerational transfer of property in Muslim jurisdictions. We are looking forward to offering new perspectives on the role of succession law in Muslim communities in the past and in the present, looking as well at its role for future generations.
Deadline for registration: 20 March 2023.
Information and program: https://www.mpipriv.de/1602926/30-03-2023-succession-in-islamic-law.html
3. Conference “Decolonising Gender and Sexuality: Learning from Other Voices”, University of Zurich, 11-12 May 2023
This conference will explore the theme of decolonisation through different modalities of learning from and generating knowledge with communities located in former colonies of the Global South.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2023. Information: https://www.decolgender.uzh.ch/en.html
4. Conference “Confronting Feminist Co-optation and Backlash: Colonial Legacies, Imperial Neoliberalism, and Antifeminisms”, Birzeit University, 17 June 2023
Papers are invited for the sessions: 1) Embedding feminism within globalized discourse and practice. 2) Possibilities of liberatory feminist popular mobilization. 3) Liberatory feminist visions and models.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information: Contact women-inst@birzeit.edu
5. Conference “Iran’s Look East Policy”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 14-15 August 2023
The conference will explore the policy’s origins, implications, challenges, and opportunities, as well as Iranian and other perspectives on the Islamic Republic’s international relations with countries to its geographic east and in the global south more broadly.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/02/09/call-for-papers-annual-conference-of-the-iranian-studies-unit-irans-look-east-policy
6. Postdoc, History of the Middle East (3 Years +), Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies, University of Bern
The postdoc will devote 50% of her/his time to one`s own research, on any topic related to the modern or contemporary history of the Middle East (particularly its social, political or economic dimensions). The rest of the postdoc’s time will be devoted to supporting the activities of the Institute with teaching and administration.
Deadline for application: 20 March 2023. Information:
https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/cc402f32-0ed4-4616-a4d2-af0ea17afce8
7. Professor OR Reader in Arabic Studies, Department of Arabic and Persian, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Applications are invited from outstanding Arabic studies scholars with an international research reputation for this high profile position. Candidates must have a proven track record of securing significant grant funding and leading high quality externally funded research projects.
Deadline for application: 10 March 2023. Information: https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/5541/0/380458/889/professor-or-reader-in-arabic-studies-ac7974sb
8. Assistant Teaching Professor (Full Time, 3 Years), Arabic Language, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University
Ph.D. in hand by Summer 2023 is preferred. Applicants should have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic and an Arabic dialect; thorough grounding in classical Arabic language (including syntax and morphology) and culture; and experience in proficiency-based, communicative methods of teaching Modern Standard Arabic. Experience in proficiency testing is a plus.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/121369
9. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023-2024, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University
AKPIA Fellows are a full-time, immersion research appointment, to result in a lecture delivered to the AKPIA community, and a submission to the journal Muqarnas (published by Brill).
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2023. Infor mation: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65075
10. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Loyola University, New Orleans
Contemporary Middle Eastern history (Twentieth Century to the Present) is preferred; however, applicants must be able to teach both parts of the Middle Eastern History Survey as well as a Global History survey. Applicants with research and teaching specialties that would contribute to our international studies concen-tration are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2023. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65062
11. Tenure-track Assistant Professor of the Asia and Global History, Loyola University, New Orleans
Applicants must be able to teach a variety of courses on Asia and courses relevant to the applicant’s area of expertise. Applicants with research and teaching specialties that would contribute to our international studies concentration are strongly encouraged to apply, particularly applicants with experience in diplomatic history from an Asian point of view are strongly encouraged to apply.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65063
12. Faculty Fellow (Non-Tenure Track) in Islamic History before 1850, New York University
The successful candidate should have a demonstrated record of teaching and research in history, Islamic Studies, religious studies, or other related fields. Candidates must have completed a Ph.D. no earlier than five years before the date of appointment and have a strong commitment to teaching.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/120687
13. Zoroastrianism Summer School: “Zoroastrianism as a Religious Minority in Modern and Contemporary Iran”, SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies, Norwegian Institute, Rome, 26-30 June 2023
This course is a fantastic opportunity to immerse yourself in the study of Zoroastrianism. Students will be given an intensive learning experience consisting of lectures, discussions and interactive workshops. The course will be delivered by leading academics from Norway, the UK and the US.
Application deadline: 19 March 2022.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/zoroastrianism-summer-course
14. HYBRID Summer Language School 2023, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 3 July – 18 August 2023
The Program offers intensive instruction in Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian, and Chinese students and professionals. A wholly immersive experience 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 including movie screenings, and field trips to historical sites and archives.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023. Information: https://summer.ihu.edu.tr/en
15. Summer Internship Opportunities at the Arab Center Washington DC, May – August 2023
We currently offer four paid internship opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent college graduates. Each intern will be considered for one of four available positions: Congressional Affairs Intern; Editing Intern; Research Intern; Multimedia Intern.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023.
Information: https://arabcenterdc.org/about/acw-careers/internship-opportunities/
16. Articles on “Amazigh Orality in Contemporary Production” for a Special Issue of the “Journal of Amazigh Studies (JAS)”
Orality, that is, the culture of the spoken word, is a central feature of Amazigh everyday life, history, and linguistics, and communal knowledge. This issues will engage the whole sweep of Amazigh orality, with issues and examples drawn from (oral) literature, social media, films, music, and then, literacy in general. JAS is trilingual (French, English, and Tamazight).
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12347750/amazigh-orality-contemporary-production
17. HIAA Symposium Details – March 2-4
See below for details of the upcoming HIAA Biennial Symposium, co-hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Rice University, from March 2-4, 2023.
The symposium will be streamed live via Zoom. Please find links to register for and access the Zoom webinars below:
Thursday, March 2, and Friday, March 3: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-dmTMqWnRJKKGUCzIAMuPQ
Saturday, March 4: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nX7EP7_SRieMGTDKsGRatQ
The full schedule of the symposium can be accessed here: https://arthistory.rice.edu/hiaa-symposium-2023-program.
While the symposium is free and open to the public, we ask that all in-person attendees register for the conference here: https://arthistory.rice.edu/hiaa-symposium-2023-registration.
We look forward to seeing you in March!
Aimée Froom and Farshid Emami, HIAA Biennial Symposium 2023 Co-organizers
Julie Timte, HIAA Biennial Symposium 2023 Managing Organizer
18. Lecturer in Comparative Literature
University of St Andrews
The School of Modern Languages invites applications for the position of Lecturer in Comparative Literature. You will be a scholar with a growing international research reputation in comparative literature, as well as a commitment to delivering high quality teaching. Ideally, your comparative research will include expertise in studies relating to at least one of the eight languages taught in the School (Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish).
Deadline | 8 March 2023
19. CBRL Grant Applications 2023/2024
Funding | Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL is happy to announce their 2023-24 call for grant applications. Grants available:
- Project grants, up to £10,000.
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs.
- Travel grants, up to £1,200.
- Research support grants, up to £1,200 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 10 March 2023
20. Call for Papers – The Qur’an and Late Antiquity
Annual Meeting | 18-21 November 2023 | San Antonio, Texas
For the 2023 SBL / International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Annual Meeting in San Antonio, the Qur’an and Late Antiquity program unit invites proposals that utilize various types of material or evidence—be that literary, documentary, or epigraphic—to illuminate the historical context in which the Qur’an was revealed and the early Islamic polity emerged. We are especially interested in papers that present and discuss new and comparative methodologies to approach the interplay between Late Antique phenomenon and the Qur’an.
Deadline | 14 March 2023
21. The Mosque of the Prophet and the Palace: Urbanism and Architecture in Early Islamic Medina
Online Lecture | 7 March 2023, 17:30 | London Society for Medieval Studies
By applying a focus on topography, geography and architectural history to the study of the source material on Medina, this lecture will provide a comprehensive picture of the urban landscape of the Prophet’s City in the early Islamic period with particular emphasis on the Mosque of the Prophet and its surrounding area.
22. MLA 2024 Calls for Papers: CLCS Global Arab and Arab American
Disease and Health in the Global Arab Imaginary
Healing rituals and embodied wellness practices, celebrations of health and death, representations of illness (Covid, plagues, etc.) in literary and artistic works from the Arab region and global Arab diaspora. 250-word abstract & CV.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Penn State U, University Park (azstanton@psu.edu)
Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies
Reimagining Arab American studies via relationalities to other communities/areas of study: e.g., Arab American history as narrative of settler colonialism and enslavement, Arabness in relation to American Latinx, Indigenous, Muslim cultures. 250-word abstract & CV.
Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
Anna Ziajka Stanton, Penn State U, University Park (azstanton@psu.edu) & Danielle Haque, Minnesota State U (danielle.haque@mnsu.edu)
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Free online conference: Relating Islam and Science: Frameworks and Methodologies, 3-4 April 23
Details below of an upcoming two-day online conference organised jointly by the University of Chester, University of Birmingham and Cambridge Muslim College.
The event is free to join and you can register here:
2. Society for the History of Discoveries 2023 Conference
Worlds of Exploration
The James Ford Bell Library, with its extensive collection of rare books, maps, manuscripts, and archival collections, documenting the history and impact of trade and cultural exchange before the 19th century, offers an ideal venue to host the 2023 SHD conference. This year’s conference locale aligns with the global breadth of the Society’s mission by supporting research into the expeditions, biographies, history, cartography, as well as the technologies of travel, the impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery. With its expansive resources, the James Ford Bell, and other collections associated with the University of Minnesota’s libraries, offers members of the Society and presenters an ideal opportunity to conduct research prior to and after the conference. The rich and fascinating collections emboldens the inspiration for our conference.
The Society for the History of Discoveries invites papers, 20 minutes in length, on all points of view of this theme, Worlds of Exploration, including: “discovery,” encounter, exploration, conquest, resistance, settlement, economy, daily life, and all aspects of socio-cultural and political encounter, as well as on the teaching of the history of exploration, broadly defined.
SHD welcomes submissions from graduate students, emerging and independent scholars, as well as established scholars and members of the Society. Presenters are encouraged to use images (maps, paintings, photographs, etc.). For the benefit of the audience, all visuals have to be presented as PowerPoint-compatible projection. The audience at SHD meetings is diverse and includes academics and members of various professions.
Where: Minneapolis-St-Paul, Minnesota
When: 21 September – 23 September, 2023 (With an optional excursion on Sunday, 24)
Venue: James Ford Bell Library, University of Minnesota
Please provide a proposal that includes the following components:
- the title of the presentation
- the author’s name and address, including email address and affiliation
- an abstract summarizing the paper’s scope and conclusions (maximum of 500 words)
- a statement about the originality of the contents of the paper: how much is new, unpublished material, based on research in primary sources, etc.
- a statement indicating whether PowerPoint or other digital media will be used and whether internet access is necessary for the presentation
- a brief biographic sketch of the author(s)
Paper proposals are due 17 April 2023, and must be submitted via the SHD website – an online submissions portal.
Inquiries via Dr. Lydia Towns, SHD secretary: lydia.towns@sfasu.edu
3. La cinquième séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 2 mars 2023 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Francis Richard (BULAC) pour une conférence intitulée : « Le roi et sa cour dans l’iconographie des manuscrits du Shāhnāmeh »
Résumé
Le Shāhnāmeh a une grande importance dans tout le monde iranien. Il transmet notamment, par son texte même, une image de la royauté qui a exercé une grande influence dans l’imaginaire des peuples de culture persane mais a peut-être aussi contribué à élaborer au travers des différentes figures de souverains une image de la souveraineté qui s’est répandue sur une très vaste aire géographique. Certains des souverains iraniens préislamiques ont fourni des modèles ou un idéal pour différents peuples iranisés. Transmis par de nombreux manuscrits, le texte de l’épopée a été illustré dès le milieu du xiiie siècle dans beaucoup d’exemplaires destinés à des amateurs illustres ou fortunés. Parmi les miniatures, réalisées en différents endroits et dans des styles divers, un nombre important montrent des souverains trônant dans leur palais, rendant la justice, guerroyant ou chassant.
Nombre d’études concernent l’iconographie du Shāhnāmeh. On voudrait simplement ici montrer certaines de ces miniatures en tentant de s’interroger sur les attitudes plus ou moins stéréotypées que les peintres adoptent pour figurer les rois, sur la façon dont leur personne est mise en valeur et sur les attributs du souverain (couronne, vêtement, etc.). Le roi combat-il personnellement ? La cour est souvent représentée ; son étiquette varie-t-elle d’une époque à l’autre ? Qu’en est-il des différents dignitaires ? Quelle est la façon de rendre la justice ?
Les rois président des célébrations de fêtes (Nowrūz, Mehregān) et on peut parler parfois de « figure sacrée du souverain », mais cela apparaît-il dans les images produites par les peintres ?
Le palais ou le jardin sont les lieux de réception royale. Beaucoup de scènes de réception d’ambassadeurs ou parfois des délibérations d’un roi avec ses généraux sont présentes dans les manuscrits. Au-delà des stéréotypes qui sont fréquents, certaines scènes sont des allusions aux évènements contemporains de la réalisation du manuscrit et représentent de la manière la plus glorieuse possible le souverain dédicataire du manuscrit. On pourra dès lors essayer de comprendre pourquoi les différentes dynasties se sont approprié le Shāhnāmeh et ses images pour y trouver une représentation idéale de la royauté correspondant aux aspirations des populations familières des récits épiques iraniens.
Orientations bibliographiques
- Barbara Brend ; Charles Melville (éd.), Epic of the Persian Kings. The Art of Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh, London / New York, I. B. Tauris, 2010.
- Anna Caiozzo. Le roi glorieux. Les imaginaires de la royauté d’après les enluminures du Shāh Nāma de Firdawsī aux époques timouride et turkmène, Paris, Geuthner, 2018.
- Pierre Lecoq (trad.), Shâhnâmeh. Le Livre des Rois, Paris, Les Belles Lettres / Geuthner, 2019.
- Shahnama project : https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/shahnama/1
- Stuart Cary Welch, (ed.), A King’s Book of Kings: the Shah-nameh of Shah Tahmasp, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976 (en ligne sur Google Books)
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de cette séance, qui se déroulera en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
Ci-joint le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” en format pdf. Retrouvez également les détails sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
4. The Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter Vol. 3, no. 2 – February 2023
https://mailchi.mp/e0a54b6d9be6/latin-america-caribbean-islamic-studies-newsletter-vol3-no2
5. 27 April 2023 Event – Book Launch: Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean
AKU-ISMC
To celebrate AKU-ISMC’s publication of Muslim Cultures of the Indian Ocean: Diversity and Pluralism, Past and Present, please join Professors Stéphane Pradines and Farouk Topan and their guests Dr Farah Faizal, High Commissioner of the Republic of the Maldives, and Dr Annabel Teh Gallop, Head of Southeast Asia at the British Library, for a discussion of this rich crossroads of Muslim cultures.
Date and Time
Thursday 27 April 2023, 17:30 – 19:00 (London).
Venue
Aga Khan Centre (Atrium Conference Room),
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN
Booking
The event is free, but booking is essential. Book your ticket now and join us in person.
6. Registration: 2023 Islamic Archaeology Day, March 11th, London@UCL
We are delighted to announce the programme for the 7th annual Islamic Archaeology Day co-hosted by SOAS and UCL and held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on Saturday March 11th 2023 between 11 and 6pm.
We invite you to register online at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-archaeology-day-2023-tickets-539224654457. Please make sure that you register before February 24th as there is an early-bird registration fee of £18 (£12 for students – limited numbers). Registration will cover a sandwich lunch, refreshments and a wine reception.
There will be a dinner afterwards at the Life Goddess on Store Street for anyone who would like to attend at a cost of £45pp (including 3 courses, plenty of wine) so please indicate on the registration form if you are interested in joining us. We’ll confirm final numbers and the main course options with all those interested in late February.
Finally, please do pass this onto others who may be interested in attending. Everyone is welcome!
All best wishes,
Corisande Fenwick (UCL) c.fenwick@ucl.ac.uk, Tom Fitton (UCL), Hugh Kennedy (SOAS/ UCL), Scott Redford (SOAS), Aila Santi (SOAS), Paul Wordsworth (UCL)
All imformation is at the above site.
7. British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World: 2023 round open for submissions
We are delighted to announce that the 2023 round of the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. The award includes a cash prize of £1000 which will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS.
The deadline is Tue 28 February 2023, 5pm GMT.
For further information about the Prize, including all terms and conditions, click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2023
For any queries, please email brais.prize@ed.ac.uk .
- February 18, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Lecture “Between Religion and Literature: Reimagining Muhammad Abduh’s Religious Thought in Arabic Literature “, by Dr. Zahiye Kundos; Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Aufklärung (IZEA), Universität Halle, 16 February 2023, 18:15 – 19:45 Uhr CET
By evaluating the specific modes in which the distinguished religious thinker Muhammad ʿAbduh (1849-1905) was embraced, after his demise, in secular literary texts it will be possible to acknowledge the complex situation of living and writing in a colonial situation, and thus to reconsider the modern Arab renaissance (al-Nahda) beyond the conflict between the religious and the secular.
Registration: https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOiurz8qGNPLAIQ7oHaG1mMwU7o2J5ix
2. ONLINE Book Talk “The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650”, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, 22 February 2023, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
The authors Thomas Burman (Notre Dame), Brian Catlos (CU Boulder) and Mark Meyerson (U Toronto) will talk with John Esposito on the subject of their new text book. This book is for the diverse student bodies of the twenty-first century, and provides a complete package for college and university professors how wish to engage with this perspective in their teaching.
Information and registration: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_I68R_-TtQiuPAcFJrfPYbQ
3. International Conference on “Jerusalem – From the Umbilicus Mundi to the Four Corners of the Earth and Back”, Yad Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, 11-14 July 2023
The conference will focus on three main topics: Jerusalem as Umbilicus Mundi in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions; the influence of the city in wide circles throughout the world, and external influences on the city over time.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-jerusalem-from-the-umbilicus-mundi-to-the-four-corners-of-the-earth-and-back-11-14-july-jerusalem?e=82aeb6c61d
4. Section S19 “Islam as the New Normal in the Study of the ‘International’” at the 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Potsdam, Germany, 5-9 September 2023
The section aims to offer a broad understanding of the role of Islam in world affairs by presenting case studies of the worldview of Muslim thinkers and practitioners, the Islamic polity and governance, transnational Islamist movements, Islamic approaches to International Relations Theory, global Islamic governance and institu-tions, the Islamic polity and governance, Islam and Foreign Policy Analysis, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2023. Information: http://pec2023.eisa-net.org/section-list
5. HYBRID Conference “Colonialism, Slavery, and Local Histories in Early Modern Asia”, Växjö, Sweden, 15-16 September 2023
This conference aims to bring together scholars working on early modern (local) histories of slavery, and slave trade, including related forms of forced labour and relocation in the wider Indian Ocean region, from Cape Town to Tokyo. We invite contributions that address these themes from a (structured) data perspective, or as new and starting research projects, or from a broader theoretical and connective angle.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12288459/colonialism-slavery-and-local-histories-early-modern-asia
6. Postdoctoral Fellowships (2023-25) for Historical Studies of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean in Haifa and Israel, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
We are looking for candidates who demonstrate academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies. We encourage applications from candidates working in all related fields. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the beginning of the fellowship tenure period, and no longer than five years.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/post-docs-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-2023-25?e=82aeb6c61d
7. Visiting Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies (1 Year), Department of Religious Studies, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
We envision a colleague with demonstrated experience in religious studies as an academic discipline. Te Area of specialization is open but the successful candidate will teach “Introduction to Islam” and “Islam in the Americas” in the fall semester and three courses in the winter semester for a total of five courses. The position is beginning in August 2023.
Deadline for application: 8 March 2023. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/121113
8. Articles on “Queer Turkish and Ottoman Literature” for Special Issue of the Journal “Culture, Theory and Critique”
Main objectives: 1) to talk about proto-queer novels and stories written in Ottoman/Turkish; 2) to discuss whether Queer Theory can speak, not for, but about Ottoman/Turkish literature; 3) to show when Ottoman/ Turkish literature is proto-queer and how it can subvert the current, ossified articulations of queerness an-chored around LGBTI+ politics.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12299414/special-issue-queer-turkish-and-ottoman-literature
9. MESA 2023 Call for Papers Extended
The Middle East Studies Association continues to welcome proposals from our members for the 57th MESA Annual Meeting, scheduled for November 2-5, 2023, in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
The MESA community has watched with horror and sorrow the images of tragedy and destruction coming from Turkey and Syria after the earthquakes. Our hearts have broken with the news of so much loss. We extend our deepest condolences to all of our members who have lost loved ones, and will stand with them as the grieving continues. There really are no words that can express the magnitude of such pain.
Recognizing the impact on many of our members and sharing their concerns for loved ones and friends, we are therefore extending the deadline for submissions by an additional week for anyone who needs it.
The deadline for all proposals is now February 23, 2023 (11:59PM EST).
Read 2023 Submission Instructions
All submissions must be made through myMESA, MESA’s membership and submissions system. Questions on proposal submissions can be sent to meeting@mesana.org.
MESA membership is required to submit a proposal. To renew your 2023 membership, please login to myMESA. Questions about membership can be sent to the MESA Secretariat: secretariat@mesana.org.
As a reminder, the 2024 MESA Annual Meeting will be held virtually, so we encourage anyone preferring to present in-person to submit your proposal this year for the 2023 meeting in Montréal.
Calls for Participation by Session Organizers
If you are organizing a panel and you want to issue an open call for participants, you may submit a call on MESA’s website (here).
10. « Iran : après une révolution culturelle irréversible. Quelles perspectives géopolitiques ? »,
Conférence par Bernard Hourcade,
Directeur de recherche émérite au CNRS.CeRMI Centre de recherche sur le Monde iranien
Société de géographie,
184 Boulevard Saint Germain Paris 6
Jeudi 16 février 2023 à 18h30, Grand Amphithéâtre, Entrée libre.
11. The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is hosting two in-person events in early March which we hope will be of interest to. Further details below:
Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca as a Sensational Form
Friday 3 Maarch, 17:30, 50 George Square, Edinburgh
The Alwaleed Centre is delighted to be welcoming Professor Marjo Buitelaar (University of Groningen) for a special public talk inspired by her new edited volume ‘Narrating the Pilgrimage to Mecca: Historical and Contemporary Accounts’. Chaired by Alwaleed Lecturer in the Globalised Muslim World, Dr Kholoud Al-Ajarma, this event is free to attend and refreshements will be available. For further information and free tickets click here: https://narrating-pilgraimage.eventbrite.co.uk
Book Launch: ‘Islamophobia and Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality’
Friday 10 March, 17:30, Institure for Advanced Study in the Humanities 2 Hope Park Square Edinburgh
Former IASH-Alwaleed Fellow, Dr Ali Kassem (National University of Singapore), returns to Edinburgh to launch his new book ‘Islamophobia and Lebanon: Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality’ published by I.B. Tauris. Tickets are very limited so book early to avoid disappointment. Further information and free tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-islamophobia-and-lebanon-by-dr-ali-kassem-tickets-518605311447
The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam
in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
0131 650 4615
thealwaleedcentre@ed.ac.uk
12. Symposium & Exhibition
German WWII Internees from Persia and their Fate in Australia
Convenor of Symposium and Curator of Exhibition
Prof. Pedram Khosronejad
School of Social Science, Western Sydney University
Saturday 4-5th March 2023
- February 14, 2023
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