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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College (London)
Cities in the Premodern Islamic World: The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society
A Talk by Professor Amira K. Bennison
Wednesday 26 April 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College London 133 High Road London NW102SW
2. HYBRID Seminar “How Not to Read the Earliest Latin Life of Muhammad” by Professor Kenneth Wolf (Pomona College), Seminar on Religion & Writing, Columbia University, New York, 25 April 2023, 5:00 pm EST
The “Istoria de Mahometh” is arguably the earliest Latin “biography” of Muhammad, written in Iberia sometime between the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth centuries. In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”, In 857 Eulogius of Córdoba copied the “Istoria” into his “Liber apologeticus martyrum”.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-how-not-to-read-the-earliest-latin-life-of-muhammad-25-april-new-yorkzoom?e=82aeb6c61d
3. Meeting of the “European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE)” in Conjunction with the “European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE)”, Univer-sity of Copenhagen, 25-28 June 2023
The ENSIE meeting will feature panels on “Reviving Muḥyiddīn: The contemporary uses of Ibn ʿArabī’s thought and the reinventions of Islam” and on “Spiritism and Esotericism from Nahḍa Egypt to the USSR,” and the ESSWE panels will be on “Practical Esotericism in Islam, Ancient and Modern, West and East, and In Between” and “Core Esoteric Practices of the Sufis”.
Information: http://ensie.site/conferences.html
4. 10es Journées d’étude de la “Association des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences sociales sur les mondes musulmans modernes et contemporains (Halqa)” : « Au-delà des frontières : circulations, échanges et transferts dans les mondes musulmans contemporains (XIXe – XXIe siècles) », Campus Condorcet, Paris-Aubervilliers, 29 et 30 juin 2023
L’appel à communications est ouvert aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses de
toutes universités et institutions, spécialistes de l’islam et des mondes musulmans contemporains, quels que soient leur discipline (sciences humaines et sociales, art et littérature, islamologie…) et leur terrain de recherche.
Elles doivent être adressées avant le 23 avril 2023 à l’adresse halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com. Les propositions seront ensuite examinées par le comité d’organisation, et les réponses seront données début mai. La Halqa couvrira les éventuels frais de voyage (jusqu’à 150 euros), de restauration et d’hébergement.
More at:
https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5936
5. 4th Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW): “Networks and Networking in the Ottoman Empire”, Princeton University, New Jersey, 27-28 October 2023
From Sufi-guild networks in early-modern Istanbul, to the army-civilian networks in the early twentieth century, a dense matrix of relations linked the Ottoman state to its subjects and connected the Ottoman world with people, ideas, and commodities from other geographic regions. This workshop will seek to understand how social, cultural/cross-cultural, diplomatic, entrepreneurial, and geo-spatial networks, influenced the course of Ottoman history.
Deadline for applications: 1 June 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12682617/cfp-4th-mid-atlantic-ottomanists-workshop-maow-princeton
6. Conference “Religion in Motion: Between Borders and Belonging”, Dutch Association for the Study of Religion, Nijmegen, 1-3 November 2023
This conference aims to broaden the theoretical and methodological repertoires for future studies of religion in motion whereby mobility and religion are analyzed not as separate themes, but as critical axes of people’s religious experiences across traditions, times, and spaces, with mobility and religion acting as co-constitutive of beliefs, practices and socialities.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2023.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/cfp-religion-in-motion-between-borders-and-belonging
7. Symposium: “Ethics in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, Istanbul Center for Research and Education (ISAR), 15-16 December 2023
The symposium aims to illuminate the works, sources, methods, tendencies, aims, and theories of individual scholars who dealt with ethics on one hand, and to illuminate the principles, various aspects, and stages of the contemplation on ethics in the Ottoman Empire on the other. The languages of the symposium are Tur-kish, Arabic, and English.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2023.
Information: symposium@isar.org.tr
8. Colloque sur “Circulation des normes et altération des identités : ouverture à la modernité ou repli sur soi ?” Université de Lyon 2, etc., Université d’Al-Azhar, Le Caire, 9-11 janvier 2024
L’idée première de ce colloque est de permettre à des enseignants et chercheurs occidentaux de rencontrer leurs homologues égyptiens et arabes, puis d’échanger sur un thème à la fois général et précis. Thèmes glo-bales : 1) Les évolutions du Droit dans un monde interconnecté 2) Normes et variations : langues, usages, sociétés 3) La littérature, entre normes esthétiques et créativité 4) Sacré et profane, ordre social et con-testation.
Envoi des résumés : 1 juin 2023.
Information : https://cerla.univ-lyon2.fr/activites/colloques-et-journees-detude-2
9. Kamran Djam Scholarships for Iranian Studies, SOAS, London
The scholarships are available for “MA Iranian Studies” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies), “MA Iranian Studies and Intensive Persian” (https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-course/ma-iranian-studies-and-intensive-persian) and MPhil/PhD in Persian Language, Persian Literature, Iranian History, all starting in September 2023.
Deadline for application: 28 April 2023. Information:
https://www.soas.ac.uk/study/student-life/finance/scholarships/kamran-djam-scholarships
10. Book Prize ($1000) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
This annual prize is awarded to the most outstanding book in the field of Ottoman and Turkish studies published in the previous year (copyright date of 2022). Nominations may be made by the author, colleagues, publisher, or friends.
Postmark deadline: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
11. Article Prize ($300) of “The Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
The biennial prize is awarded for an outstanding article in the field of Ottoman and Turkish Studies. The prize is awarded in odd‐numbered years to articles published in the period Jan. 2021 – Dec. 2022.
Deadline for receipt of materials: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12657712/2023-otsa-awards-and-prizes
12. Prix Michel Seurat de thèse Islam Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans
D’un montant de 15 000 € en 2022, le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, dont la recherche doctorale en cours porte sur les sociétés contemporaines du monde arabe, domaine envisagé comme ouvert et en interaction avec d’autres contextes et traditions intellectuels
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 15 avril 2023. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/75362
13. Summer Graduate Student`s Program “Islam in the Contemporary World”, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 30 May – 13 June 2023
The objective is twofold: (1) to provide graduate students with foundational instructions in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary issues and (2) to have discussions about the lived experiences of Muslim graduate students, especially as they pertain to issues of wellness, equity, and belonging. By combining academic and mentoring sessions, we aim to provide a rounded approach to Islam in the contemporary world.
Deadline for applications: 24 April 2023.
Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2023.html
14. Summer School “Understanding Muslim Societies in Past and Present”, NOVA Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) and Aga Khan University, Lisbon, 27-30 June 2023
The summer school will address the study of Islam and Muslims in both historical and contemporary times and will include these topics, among others: History of Islam and Muslims through Digital Humanities. – Histo-riography. – Sufism. – Gender in social science and in religious studies. – Political Configurations and Islam Popular Culture. Apart from lectures, the summer course will include film screenings with discussions, panel discussions and study visits.
Information:
15. International Summer School: “Business Courses and Language/Cultural Studies”, Rabat Business School, 3-21 July 2023
The curriculum includes the following Courses: • Cross Cultural Management in International Management • Doing Business in North Africa • Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation • International Politics of the Medi-terranean and the Maghreb • Islamic Civilization & Sufism • Standard Arabic (from beginning and advanced levels).
Deadline for applications: 30 May 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/04/04/international-summer-school-program-at-rabat-business-school
16. LinguArc Language Education Program: “Ottoman Paleography”, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Istanbul, 10 July – 4 August 2023
LinguArc Education Program aims to teach archival languages needed in Social Sciences and especially research in the field of History and to improve existing language knowledge. Students participating in this program will be able to use the archival language they learned at the end of the program for academic or personal purposes. In addition, students who complete the program will be entitled to receive a certificate.
Deadline for applications: 8 May 2023. Information: https://linguarc.fsm.edu.tr/
17. Summer School “Sea of Absence? Globalisation, the Mediterranean and Beyond”, Global Dis:connect Research Centre, Munich, 24-27 July 2023
MA, doctoral students and creative professionals in all stages of their careers are invited to a summer school on the absences produced by globalisation processes, focusing on the Mediterranean, particularly on the aspects of migration, tourism and (post)coloniality, in the past, present and future. There are no participation fees. The Centre will cover accommodation and travel costs for all participants.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-sea-of-absence-globalisation-the-mediterranean-and-beyond-munich-24-27-july-2023?e=82aeb6c61d
18. Interdisciplinary Course “Mediterranean War Cultures in the Pre-Modern Era”, German Study Center, Venice, 1-8 October 2023
The course will focus on the interface between medieval and early modern history, Byzantine studies and Ottoman studies, but will also selectively include overarching topics of cultural and entangled history as well as approaches from material sciences and art history. students and doctoral candidates from Byzantine studies, Medieval History, Early Modern History, Ottoman studies and related subjects can participate in the course.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12640539/mediterranean-war-cultures-pre-modern-era
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. HYBRID Annual Graduate Conference: “Diaspora, Identity and Belonging”, Transnational and Global History Seminar, University of Oxford, 5-6 June 2023
We invite early career historians and scholars in adjacent disciplines whose work engages with diaspora(s) to apply. The conference will investigate diasporic histories and identities as a way to disrupt the fiction of geopolitical borders, unsettle the nation as a unit of analysis, and destabilise colonial logic that coerces (dis)placement.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646808/cfp-diaspora-identity-and-belonging
2. HYBRID 2023 PhD Global History of Empires Conference: “Governing the Lives of Others: Global Histories of Empires, Theories and Practices”, University of Turin, 14-15 September 2023
We want to bring together doctoral students and early career scholars from different geographical areas, historical periods and methodologies. Diversity is a necessary step to ensure that our discussions show the complexity of theory and practices of empire without recurring to the usual worn-out tropes. A more varied base will also enable us to make better use of comparisons and highlight lesser-known case studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 May 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12646040/cfp-governing-lives-others-global-histories-empires-theories
3. HYBRID Annual Research Workshop “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 6-7 October 2023
The workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond in any period from the seventh century to the present. Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 April 2023. Information:
4. Sessions on “Disability in the Early Modern Mediterranean World” at the “Sixteenth Century Studies Conference”, Baltimore, MD, 26-29 October 2023
We seek papers on any aspect of disability and on any aspect of human variance in bodies, minds, and sensoria in the Mediterranean world. In particular, we welcome papers from a wide variety of disciplines and methodologies that understand and use disability studies theories to analyze history, culture, artwork, and literature.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/12633840/sixteenth-century-studies-conference-scsc-2023-baltimore
5. 8th Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference of the Gulf Studies Center: “Gulf Families: Continuity and Change”, Qatar University, 19-20 November 2023
Papers are expected to have an emic view of the families in each Gulf country, and such a perspective will facilitate an in-depth understanding of the continuity and change of Gulf families within a cultural context. Gulf families include both national and non-national families in the Gulf. Travel expenses and accommodation are arranged and paid for by the organizers.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: mizan@qu.edu.qa
6. International Conference “Arabic as a Heritage Language: Issues and Approaches”, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 24-25 February 2024
The conference offers an opportunity to explore current issues and trends in heritage language education, to discuss effective pedagogical approaches and strategies, and to address the complex sociolinguistic and cultural dimensions of heritage language learning and teaching.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Academics/LanguageCenter/Programs/arprog/Pages/default.aspx
7. Conference “Transottoman (Retro-)Perspectives: Eastern European-Middle Eastern Shared History and Its Global Implications”, University of Leipzig, 29 February – 1 March 2024
A conference will mark the conclusion of the Priority Program Transottomanica and discuss new avenues of future research. Papers are invited on comparisons with/on the conceptual rivalries of partially related/ overlapping (trans)epochal area studies concepts such as the Ottoman World, Eurasia, MENA, Silk Roads, Persianate, Islamicate, the Orthodox Commonwealth etc. seen from a meta, post-area studies, i.e. Trans-ottoman, perspective.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information: http://www.transottomanica.de/activities/calls/transottoman-retro-perspectives
8. PhD Position in Modern Turkish Studies / Alevi Studies (3 Years, 50%), Institute for the Study of Religions, Leipzig University
We are looking for a doctoral student with a dissertation project on religion in Turkey, preferably with a historical/cultural studies approach and on a topic related to the field of Alevi Studies. Admission to the Leipzig Graduate School Global and Area Studies is possible.
Deadline for application: 15 April 2023. Information: https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/fileadmin/Fakult%C3%A4t_GKR/Religionswissenschaftliches_Institut/Dokumente/Ph.D._position_Turkish_Alevi_Studies_EN.pdf
9. Two Postdoctoral Research Fellows (5 Years), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” is interested in postgraduates in the following disciplines: Israel Studies/Jewish Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Romance Studies/Linguistics, Global Art History, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European History, Global History and Medieval History. We strongly encourage international scholars to apply!
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33061
10. 12 Predoctoral Research Fellows (4 Years), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The Research Training Group “Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” is interested in doctoral candidates with a background in Israel Studies/Jewish Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Romance Studies/Linguistics, Modern South Asian Languages and Literatures, Global Art History, Middle Eastern Studies, Eastern European History, Global History and Medieval History. We strongly encourage international junior scholars to apply!
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33058
11. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships in Middle Eastern Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Ca’ Foscari is the first institution in Italy and amongst the top five in Europe for MSCA Individual Fellowships awarded since 2014. The aim of the Fellowships is to support the career development and training of researchers through international and intersectoral mobility, in collaboration with a Supervisor.
Deadline for application: 14 September 2023. Information: https://www.unive.it/pag/28536/
and contact Professor Matteo Legrenzi matteo.legrenzi@gmail.com
12. Advanced Training Course on the Study of Oriental Manuscripts “Qur’anic Manuscripts, Past and Present: Cataloging and Digital Tools”, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London), Berlin, 18-23 September 2023
The focus of this course will be on hands-on sessions, in which the participants will have the opportunity to observe discussed features of Qur’anic manuscripts kept at Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, one of the largest collections of Oriental manuscripts in the world. Each participant will be given the opportunity to discuss his or her ongoing research at the workshop.
Extended deadline for applications: 3 May 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/9927c0bb1d87/call-for-applications-quranic-manuscripts-past-and-present-cataloging-and-digital-tools?e=548be05d32
13. Chapters for Edited Volume “Oxford Handbook on Islamic Reform”
This is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume that aims to explore the diverse dimensions of Islamic reform movements and the ways in which they have shaped the contemporary Muslim world. We welcome proposals from scholars across disciplines, including but not limited to Islamic studies, history, anthropology, political science, and law.
For information contact the editors hamdehe@erau.edu and delongba@bc.edu
14. Articles for the “Journal of the Turkish Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage”
Submissions related to Anatolia and its neighboring regions, including the Mediterranean, Aegean, Black Sea, and Balkans, as well as Southwest and Central Asia are welcome. The Journal publishes original scholarly research articles and book reviews from the disciplines of history, archaeology, history of art, anthro-pology, epigraphy, history of architecture, archaeometry, geographical information systems, etc.
Deadline for articles: 1 June 2023. Information: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tare
15. Arabic at Jordan Language Academy
Arabic summer courses and programs at Jordan Language Academy (JLA). We have exciting full immersion programs planned to help students learn valuable Arabic language skills, immerse in the culture, make new friends and create memories that will last a lifetime. Please click here for more info about our courses and programs or visit our website at www.Jordanla.com.
Kindly note that our alumni are eligible for a 10% discount on our rates for the summer of 2023.
For more information about our summer programs, please do not hesitate to contact us at info@jordanla.com
16. Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge, https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/mediterranea/index.
An annual (it appears in March of each year), the journal has peer-reviewed research articles, review essays, and reviews of individual books. It’s actually in its 8th year now. See the “About the Journal” page for details: https://www.uco.es/ucopress/ojs/index.php/mediterranea/about.
The deadline for submissions for the 2024 volume is October 2023.
17. “How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe”
Diana Darke
Wed, 3 May 2023 17:30 – 19:30 BST
Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation,
London
Full information at:
18. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series with Anne Hunnell Chen
Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 4:00pm Pacific
Now available at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/video/dislodging-disciplinary-silos-at-dura-europos/
19. Online Workshop – “Playing in the Islamic World: Games and Toys in Archaeological Contexts”, Hajar – April 28
For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until April 26th.
20. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65278
Closing date: June 26, 2023
- April 04, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Quest for Modern Language
Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
April 13–14, 2023
Neubauer Collegium
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, Ill.
About the Research Project
The Quest for Modern Language Between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, 1820–1948 is a collaborative, multidisciplinary initiative to examine the role of language ideologies in cultural and political discourses of modernity and modernization in and around the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The project brings together historians, literary scholars, linguists, anthropologists, and sociologists to study the articulation, circulation, and mobilization of ideas about language death and revival, language reform, and language modernization in the contexts of empire, emerging nationalisms, and a modernized or quickly modernizing world. The research team is also exploring the role of developments in linguistics, philology, and adjacent disciplines in informing and shaping such ideas. Some of the questions that animate the project are: What does it mean for a language to be or become a modern language? Can, and should, a dead language be revived? How do notions of native tongue, language family, vernacular dialect, or register interact with concepts such as empire, nation, and motherland? How does the relation between language and the body figure in projects of (re)generation of modern polities and individuals? By studying authors who spoke and wrote in a variety of languages of the Eastern Mediterranean, and their interaction with the political and cultural bodies and movements that played important roles in shaping the modern Middle East, this project aims to reconstruct, and draw new insights about, the rich nexus of language, identity, and modernity.
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
5701 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
773-795-2329
neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu
2. La 7ème séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 13 avril 2023
17h à 19h, salle 3.15 à l’ INALCO 65, rue des Grands-Moulins 75013 Paris
Pour cette séance, nous recevons Jaroslava Obrtelovà (Uppsala University) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Linguistic means for expressing epistemological stance and perspective shifts in the Wakhi language »
Résumé :
Wakhi is one of the minority East-Iranian languages spoken in the remote areas of the high Pamir mountains. Analysis of the narrations collected among the Wakhi speakers in their natural environment revealed that expressing the speakers’ attitude towards knowledge and their stance in relation to what they tell is, if not more important, at least as important as expressing the temporal and aspectual properties of the narrated events.
For example, when telling a story, Wakhi narrators always choose between telling it either from the perspective of an eye-witness or from a non-witnessed perspective. The witnessed narrations are told exclusively in the past tense, while the non-witnessed narrations, be it a re-telling of past real events, fictional stories or even future events, are told in the non-tense/non-past. Thus, the choice of the verb form informs the listener/reader of the individual (subjective) speaker’s epistemological stance rather than the (objective) situation of the event on the time-line.
In addition to this ‘witnessed versus non-witnessed’ distinction, Wakhi speakers can further nuance their stance by either reinforcing or distancing themselves from the credibility claim. Different Wakhi speakers can narrate the same event or parts of it differently, depending on the speaker’s stance, which is reflected in the use of different linguistic means.
Orientation bibliographique
Mock, John Howard. 1998. The Discursive Construction of Reality in the Wakhi Community of Northern Pakistan . Berkeley: University of California PhD Thesis.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2017. Narrative Structure of Wakhi Oral Stories (Studia Iranica Upsaliensia 32). Uppsala: Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology.
Obrtelová, Jaroslava. 2019. From Oral to Written: A Text-linguistic Study of Wakhi Narratives . Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology PhD Thesis.
Retrouvez les détails de cette séance et le programme complet du séminaire sur le site web du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/seminaires-de-recherche/societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2022-2023/
3. Online Lecture – “Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dar al-Khilafa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq”, Dr. Matt Saba – April 4
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro presents:
Tues., April 4, 5:30-6:30 Zoom,
A lecture by Dr. Matt Saba, MIT.
Register here: https://go.uncg.edu/mattsaba
In this talk, Dr. Saba offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization, this talk reveals ways in which the Abbasid court designed, decorated, presented, and documented its palaces to leave lasting legacies of imperial power with what were considered at the time to be impermanent structures. In doing so, it sheds light on an architectural concept endemic to early Islamic Iraq that challenges popular notions of the monument as permanent and unchanging. The main palace of Samarra, known as the Dār al-Khilāfa, serves as the primary case study for this phenomenon.
Dr. Saba is Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture at the Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT Libraries.
Co-sponsored by HNAC, Lloyd International Honors College, and Religious Studies.
4. Call for Papers – Postgraduate Symposium – Muslims in the Uk & Europe 2023
CfP for the postgraduate symposium, taking place on Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd June 2023 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge. This will be a platform for current Masters and PhD candidates to present and exchange current research on any topic pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe (from any discipline) in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 31 March 2023.
Successful candidates will be notified by 7 April 2023 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 11 June 2023.
5. Book launch – Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe – 26 April 2023 – Warburg Institute
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
School of Advanced Study | University of London
Book launch and roundtable: Silent Teachers: Turkish Books and Oriental Learning in Early Modern Europe, 1544–1669
With Nil Ö. Palabıyık (Queen Mary University of London), Philip Alexander (University of Manchester), Simon Mills (Newcastle University), Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary University of London)
Wednesday 26 April 2023, 5.00-7.00pm
Warburg Lecture Room, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB
Followed by a drinks reception.
Attendance free in person or online via Zoom with advance booking here: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/turkish-books-and-oriental-learning
6. “Counter Narratives”: A Podcast About Multicultural Heritage Collections
The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage at the Rare Book School is launching “Counter Narratives in Practice,” a podcast series about multicultural heritage collections, storytelling, and representation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, and beyond. This podcast is part of a larger project to highlight the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellows.
Fellows, led by Allie Alvis, worked together from across the U.S. to tell stories about the archival materials in their collections and how they prompt thinking about counter narratives in their professional practice. Here are brief summaries of these episodes.
The Pacific Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “Archiving Political Histories that Shape Education” and “Disconnection and Accessibility in the Archive.” Guests highlight the roles of Indigenous advocacy, settler colonialism, disability, and accessibility in archival collections.
The Central Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “We Were Never Silent: Immigrant Narratives & Caribbean Print Culture as Counter Narrative” and “We Were Never Silent: Bilingual Text in the Ottoman Empire & Pidgin English in Chinese Text as Counter Narratives.” Discussants explore immigration, oral history, and music as they relate to formal and informal institutions of memory.
The Eastern Time Zone Group produced the podcast episodes “Hidden Histories: African American, Asian American, and Afro-Asian Relationality” and “Hidden Histories: Immigrant Farm Workers and Black Intellectual Histories.” Guests discuss Florida Farmworkers, Covid-19, and the importance of documenting marginalized stories.
7. Leiden Summer school on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2023
The al-Babtain Leiden University Centre for Arabic Studies is organising the fifth Summerschool on Manuscripts from the Muslim World, to be held 21 August- 1 September 2023. The course can host 12 to 14 graduate (MA and PhD) students. It consists of lectures by experts on a range of topics related to codicology and much hands-on experience with manuscripts from Leidens famous collection. See the preliminary programme and information about application and scholarships here or send an e-mail to Fons Hooft, a.p.c.hooft@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The deadline for application is June 16, 2023.
8. Fellowship – MESA Global Academy – Deadline: May 1
The Global Academy Call for Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year
is now open!
The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced in North America.
The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and facilitates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the United States, publication opportunities, mentoring, and professional development workshops.
Eligibility criteria for the fellowships include: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English, French, a native MENA language, or principal research language of the field).
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2023.
For more information and to apply, click here.
The Global Academy now has its own Twitter feed and Facebook page. Follow us here and here.
9. Hybrid Lecture – “KHATAI PAPER IN IRAN,” Yusen Yu (NYU, Silsila) – April 5
Yusen Yu, University of St. Andrews
Wednesday, April 5th, 6:30pm EDT
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
In the study of Persian art, the meaning of “Khatai (Chinese) paper” remains elusive. This talk draws on a wide array of source materials and explores the following aspects: the circulation of the paper in medieval networks of exchange, its materiality in the aesthetic experience of books, and its historiography in modern Iranian codicological scholarship.
This event will be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/6GTiXk4fSmxqwTNTA
This event will also take place as a live Webinar at 6:30pm EDT (New York time). To register as a remote attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AXz5yIEgSCWYR3tEDz1qfg
Only registered attendees will be able to join this event.
10. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
‘The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry’
with Domenico Ingenito
19 April, 2023, 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1516801688417/WN_V51jqckFT3iRSEwJyq0p9Q#/registration
- April 01, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE “EHESS Spring Talks”: International Scholars and Students will Engage Directly with 30 EHESS Professors, Paris, 27 March – 21 April 2023, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, Paris Time
The 15 talks will offer space for EHESS researchers to engage in one-hour live discussions with a moderator on the topic of their research seminar, in English or in French. The speakers will also be able to present their books or the scientific journals they supervise. The format of the talks envisages some discussion time to which the audience online will be warmly invited to participate.
Information, program, and registration: https://www.ehess.fr/fr/ehess-spring-talks#eng
2. HYBRID Roundtable “Intimate and Family Histories”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 31 March 2023, 12:30 pm EST
Historians working on family/intimate histories in the Balkans, West Africa, and the Middle East, will discuss their methodology and goals in adopting this approach to research and writing, and how it can help bright to light histories that have, so far, been written out of conventional historical narratives.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/12526483/roundtable-intimate-family-histories-march-31-1230-est-person
3. ONLINE Seminar “Exportability and Context: Reading Arabic Literature in the West” by Hosam Aboul-Ela (University of Houston) in Conversation with Mona Kareem, Crown Center for International Studies, Brandeis University, 19 April 2023, 11:00 am – 12:15 pm EDT
The “exportability” of Arabic literature will be discussed by looking at the work of Egyptian novelist Sonallah Ibrahim in its Arabic, French, and English versions. Aboul-Ela argues the term “exportability” speaks to the challenges of understanding the novels of Ibrahim in their original context and reimagining them in the different contexts into which they are translated.
Information and registration: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/events/2023/apr-19.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Exportability%20and%20Context%3A%20Reading%20Arabic%20Literature%20in%20the%20West&utm_campaign=test%20new%20template
4. Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2023 Workshop: “Diasporic Legacies of the Mediterranean”, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 27-28 April 2023
This seminar aims to bring together scholars interested in diasporas in the Mediterranean context and their impact on and representation in history, historiography, political writing, literature, and the arts. We will ex-plore how diaspora and diasporic communities and their cultural production can be read from the perspective of Mediterranean Studies.
Information, program, and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/diasporic-legacies-mediterranean-seminar-2023-spring-workshop-27-28-april-minnesota?e=82aeb6c61d
5. Conference: “Collaborations and Contestations: Interfaith Architectural Encounters in Egyptian Society”, American University in Cairo (AUC), 25 July 2023
We seek papers particularly with regard to architecture from all periods (up to the present) regarding Christian, Jewish and Muslim (including Sunni and Shi’a) interactions. Topics might include: mutual influence of Coptic and Islamic architecture; heritage preservation (especially perceived biases); shared sacred spaces; shared practices of worship; contestation of sites; use of spolia, architectural rivalry of churches and mos-ques.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023.
Information: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/trt-conference-auc/
6. Symposium “Toward a Social History of Ottoman Languages”, University of Chicago, 10-11 May 2024
Papers are invited which demonstrate socio-linguistic realities and transformations between the 15th century and the beginning of the 19th century. We seek contributions that explore the languages spoken in and around the Ottoman domains, exploring the relationship of Ottoman languages with their particular social and cultural environment and the social connections or tensions between spoken languages, jargons, and accents.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2023. Information:
7. Assistant/Associated Professor in Islamic History or Islamic Studies, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
The successful candidates will be able to teach a broad range of undergraduate and graduate-level courses covering Islamic histories, cultures, societies and Islamic humanism. A Ph.D. in History, Islamic Studies or a closely related field is required.
Review of applications started on 25 March 2023. Information: https://www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?JobCode=178325485&utm_source=03_20_23&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JobAgentEmail
8. Visiting Assistant Professor in the Arabic Language (1 Year), Middle East and South Asia Studies (MESAS) Program, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
We seek a candidate with native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in teaching Arabic language courses of all levels as well as for specific purposes at the university level. The candidate will be expected to teach six courses per year or the equivalent.
Deadline for applications: 20 April 2023. Information:
9. Articles on “Sufism in the Modern World” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Religions” (Editor: Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh)
This issue analyzes various aspects of the presence of Sufism in the modern world. Scholars from different fields are invited to approach the topic from their own specialism or from an interdisciplinary perspective. The journal is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database and Web of Science. All articles are published online soon after their acceptance.
Deadline for manuscript: 30 June 2023. Information: www.mdpi.com/si/97594
10. New Book Series on “Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa”, Edited by Dina Matar and Zahera Harb (Bloomsbury Academic)
This is the first scholarly series that engages with a de-colonial, non-Euro centric approach to addressing the relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the per-spective of key actors and states in the region, and its peoples.
11. CfP: “Law and Society in Saudi Arabia”, Berlin, June 19-21, 2024, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
Legislation, jurisprudence, and legal mobilization have undergone epochal alterations in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Historically, Saudi law has been identified predominantly with uncodified Islamic law, although legal realities on the ground have been much more complex but often little understood. With the publication of court judgments and the introduction of specialized courts, King ‘Abdallah initiated a process of legal transformation which has gained momentum since King Salman ascended the throne in 2015. One of the most recent developments is the codification of Islamic law, which many regard as a pivotal moment in the evolution of law in Saudi Arabia. How does this intersect with, impact on, and influence earlier understandings of law and legality? In this conference, we would like to take stock and reflect on the radical changes that law and society have undergone in recent years and in historic perspective.
The two-day conference addresses the role of the law in Saudi society both in the past and the present. We adopt a broad understanding of law, one encompassing both Islamic normativity as well as state-issued codes. This includes the law as it is conceptualized and applied by state institutions and legal professionals (religious scholars, lawyers, judges). It also encompasses the various ways in which people interact with the law and legal institutions in their everyday lives and how they express themselves through legal language. We believe that a better understanding of these practices can provide us with important insights into past and ongoing processes of social and political transformation in the kingdom.
With this “law and society” approach, we seek to bridge the gap between the study of social, political, and historical phenomena on the one hand, and research on the Saudi legal system on the other hand. In other words, we seek to discuss law in its social context from various perspectives: How is law socially and historically constructed in Saudi Arabia? How does law impact Saudi culture and politics? How are inequalities reinforced through differential access to and familiarity with legal procedures and institutions?
The conference aims to bring together different disciplinary perspectives. We especially welcome contributions from the fields of law, sociology/anthropology, political science, history, Islamic/Middle Eastern studies, and gender studies.
We are particularly, but not exclusively, interested in the following topics:
- Law in history: law and state-building; constitutional movement; historical case studies,
- Law and equality: courts, litigation, and access to justice; legal mobilization; human rights,
- Law and Islam: morality, public decency, and Islamic law; waqf; finance and banking; fatwas and legal language,
- Law and gender: divorce and custody; women’s rights and mobilization; domestic violence, sexual harassment,
- Law and governance: constitution/the Basic Law of Governance; citizenship/nationality; laws affecting associations and civil society; law-making and state institutions,
- Law in action: legal language and its use in society; navigating the law: lawyers and legal procedures, digital technology and the law; the experience of courts; the effects of globalization on the law.
Paper Submission: Please send the title and an abstract of your proposed paper (up to 300 words) as well as a short CV as a PDF document by 15 May 2023 to Conference.Law.Society.KSA@gmail.com. For questions and queries, please contact nora.derbal@mail.huji.ac.il. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by 15 June 2023.
Organization: The conference Law and Society in Saudi Arabia is being organized by Nora Derbal (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Ulrike Freitag (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin), and Dominik Krell (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law/University of Oxford). The conference will take place in Berlin at Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient on 19-21 June 2024. The conference language is English.
Publication Plans: The conference papers will be published as an edited volume. We expect participants to submit a 7,500-word contribution in advance of the conference (preliminary deadline: 1 May 2024). The contributions should be based on original research and must be unpublished work.
Funding: We are seeking funding to cover some of the costs of the conference. Participants are, however, invited to use their own travel funds wherever possible.
12. Posts:
Saint Olaf College – Visiting Assistant Professor
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65246
University of Virginia – Howell Postdoctoral Research Associate in Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65257
13. Hybrid Lecture – “MARHABA TO THE FUTURE,” Mounir Ayache (NYU, Silsila) – March 29
“MARHABA TO THE FUTURE”
Mounir Ayache, Independent Artist
Wednesday, March 29th, 6:30pm EDT
Silsila Spring 2023 Program
Online and in person at New York University, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York, 10003
By envisioning alternate futures, Ayache proposes an image of the Arab world radically different from those circulated in the West. His sci-fi approach weaves together family histories, fictionalised re-appropriations of experiences and Arab identities. These traits situate Ayache within the unofficial movement of Arabfuturism, which derives its name from the Afrofuturism movement in the 90s. Both Afro and Arabfuturism are characterised by a turn to fiction that allows us to imagine vastly different realities.
Ayache will discuss the progress of his research at the Villa Medici in Rome where he is currently in residence: he is developing a fictional project in which Hassan al Wazzan (known as Leo the African) travels into the future in 2500.
This event will take place as a live webinar at 6:30pm EDT (New York time). To register as an online attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6-XRukm9QW6MbtdII4qYlQ
This event will also be held in person at NYU in room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003. In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9iEUgoNqY66Ht7VJ8
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event online or attend in person.
14. University of Cambridge, p/t post.
A new part-time job opportunity has arisen for a Research Assistant to work with our Research Associate, Dr Vivek Gupta. The post (based in the Fitzwilliam Museum) is to prepare full catalogue descriptions of one of the most significant manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum collection, the Plowden album.
Made in Lucknow in 1787-88 for an Englishwoman, Sophia Elizabeth Plowden, the album contains 77 songs in Persian, Urdu and Classical Hindi, and high quality illustrations of performers, dancers, singers, courtesans, and other entertainers within the courtly or nawabi society of late eighteenth-century Lucknow. The assignment holder will describe its contents, assemble bibliographies, research objects, and liaise with external scholars.
For more details and to apply click here. Note that the closing date is 2nd April.
Regards
Neil Cunningham
Programmes Manager
Centre of Islamic Studies
University of Cambridge
- March 28, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.EuQu (The European Qur’an) Spring Newsletter
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c4d88e3337f7b738eb748d56a&id=d68b304790
2. Online Teaching Material – Berlin Museum for Islamic Art
Online Teaching Material in English and Arabic
Report on the Berlin Museum for Islamic Art’s new online portal that presents Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way:
https://en.qantara.de/content/berlin-museum-of-islamic-art-islamic-art-goes-digital
3. Lecture – What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri – April 18, Columbia University
Lecture by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Date: April 18th, 2023, 6:15 to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?
Monumental religious architecture is generally presumed to carry meaning relevant to its historical contexts. Such buildings are thus interpreted as architectural expressions of the structuring concepts of their times (e.g. modernity or nationalism), reflecting the identities of their respective makers and communities in relation to changing historical circumstances. But what if a space that is being monumentalized through architecture has its own structuring principles that carries meaning outside of its time and place? This talk explores the mosque—a central institution of Islam that is as old as the religion and can be found wherever its practitioners have settled—as an example of such structuring spaces. It aims to answer the question of what the mosque can tell us about the role of Islamic beliefs and practices in history by analyzing the monumental Alabaster Mosque built in the Citadel of Cairo by the influential nineteenth-century ruler of Egypt Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha.
4. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Wolf King, Abigail Balbale – March 30
Book Talk: The Wolf King: Reflections on Religion and Power in al-Andalus
Abigail Balbale
New York University
March 30 @ 2:30-4:00pm
Rutgers University-Newark
110 Warren Street, Room 312
and on zoom
5. Lecture – “Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam” (in French), Alain Fouad George – April 4
We are pleased to welcome Alain Fouad George for a lecture, which will take place on April 04th, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam
Alain Fouad George (université d’Oxford)
Abstract :
Des études éparses sur les arts de l’Islam ont révélé, dans différents contextes, une prédilection pour la polychromie, qui n’est pas sans rappeler celles de Rome et de la Grèce antiques, mieux connues. Mêlant souvent une déstabilisation des sens à une polysémie des ornements, cette sensibilité artistique met l’accent sur le sujet en mouvement. Son étude fait également ressortir en filigrane une tendance plus ou moins consciente, à l’époque moderne, à « blanchir » les arts de l’Islam.
6. NZ Waikato Islamic Studies Review new issue published
The 2023 March Issue of Waikato Islamic Studies Review published by New Zealand University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group is now available at the following link:
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review
7. Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600 – 1914
David Thomas (Anthology Editor)
September 2023
8. Missions and Preaching, Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Edited by Norig Neveu,
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Annalaura Turiano
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/59712
9. The 2023 BRISMES Early Development Scholarship aims to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar.
Deadline: 30.4.23
10. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Studies
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Islamic Studies, with a primary specialisation either in Qur’anic studies or in pre-modern (i.e., pre-1800) Islamic intellectual history (e.g., rational theology or Arabic philosophy).
Deadline | 30 March 2023
11. Lecturer in International Political Economy
University of Edinburgh
Applications are invited for a Lecturer in International Political Economy with experience in teaching at UG and PG levels, and in undertaking high quality research, to join Politics and International Relations. We invite applications in any area of IPE, but applications from high quality candidates with expertise in trade and/or an area focus on one of Africa, the Middle East or Asia would be appreciated.
Deadline | 31 March 2023
12. Margaret Anstee Research Fellowship 2023-2027
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Applications are invited from outstanding women graduates whose doctoral degrees are complete or very near completion two Research Fellowships in subjects related to economic and social development and/or international relations. The Fellowships attract a generous stipend, and an additional award of £10,000 is available to run an event to promote the research, such as a conference, workshop or seminar series.
Deadline | 3 April 2023
13. Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the ‘Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 10 April 2023
14. Lecturer in Arabic Translation Studies
University of Liverpool
The Department of Languages, Cultures & Film wishes to appoint to a permanent Lectureship in Arabic Translation Studies. You will maintain and enhance our growing research expertise in translation and interpreting, and contribute to the design, development and delivery of our new MA in Translation Studies.
Deadline | 14 April 2023
15. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
King’s College London
The Department of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer specialising in the history of the Middle East before 1918. Applications are welcome from candidates with expertise in any aspect of the history of the Middle East or North Africa in the Ottoman period (c. 1500-1918).
Deadline | 17 April 2023
16. Associate Professorship of International Relations
University of Oxford
The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), in association with St Catherine’s College, is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of International Relations. The Department has particular needs in the international relations of the Middle East, China, Russia, Africa; international political economy (IPE); and international organization.
Deadline | 26 April 2023
17. Call for Applications – Book Proposal Workshop
Workshop | 6 March 2023 | The Arab Political Science Network and the Center for Lebanese Studies
The workshop is aimed at recent PhD graduates and early career scholars in social science from the Arab world who are working on their first book project focusing on the region. The book workshop welcomes research and proposals focusing on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The workshop is divided into two parts and will be in English.
Deadline | 8 April 2023
18. Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures
Conference | 19-21 April 2023 | Durham University
The School of Modern Languages’ 2023 conference will explore the current debate around student uptake of Modern Languages, and our identity as a discipline. Modern Languages as an interdisciplinary field of study brings a spectrum of insights to urgent international challenges, such as debates around space, access, mobility, justice, and how the global and the local perspective are crucial to inform ongoing and new research in Modern Languages studies.
- March 25, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BA in Hawzah Studies Admission
Mufid Academic Seminary is now welcoming passionate seekers of knowledge to register for its B.A. in Hawzah Studies for the Fall of 2023. Our Hawzah Studies program is equivalent to a BA in Islamic Studies and is a hybrid (online and in-person) three-years program.
- In the course of each semester,the students meet with their instructors for 16 weeks online. At the end of each semester, MAS will conduct a 10 day in-person course in different cities. The previous batches have met in Dearborn, MI, Maryland, IL, Washington, DC, and Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq.
- Graduates of the program will have the opportunity to study at advanced levels in seminaries abroad and also serve the community as clergy and religious leaders.
- Those who wish to excel in academia will be given preference to receive funding for an M.A. in Islamic Studies at different high-ranking universities.
For more information and to schedule a one-on-one meeting with our admissions advisors, please email: admission@mufidseminary.org.
To apply:
https://www.mufidseminary.org/application-for-certificate-courses/
2. HYBRID Lecture “The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean” by Prof. Mathieu Grenet (Centre universitaire Jean-Francois Champollion), Haifa, 21 March 2023, 14:00 h
New interest has led to a broader reassessment of the role of ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats in both the implementation of early modern trading policies, the social and political life of foreign “nations” abroad, and the process of “bureaucratization” of Ancien Régime state institutions.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-the-local-agents-of-french-diplomacy-in-the-16th-and-17th-century-eastern-mediterranean-21-march-haifahybrid?e=82aeb6c61d
3. ONLINE Lecture “What is the Premodern?” by Professor Shahzad Bashir, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 30 March 2023, 12:00 pm – 13:00 pm EST
Using Persian works written under the aegis of the East India Company in India, Shahzad Bashir will reflect on the implications of our use of the qualifier “premodern” for certain Islamic and other contexts. Is premodern a quantitative marker on the straight line of time as it flows from the past to the future? Or is it a qualitative signifier pertaining to literary genres and presumed sociointellectual characteristics?
Information and registration: https://bit.ly/PIW33023
4. Colloque “Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen ? Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)”, Nantes Université, 11-12 mai 2023
Comment les Européens du Moyen âge et de la Modernité ont-ils perçu ce qu’est le Qur’ān ? Quelles définitions ont-ils données, et lesquelles sont sous-jacentes aux représentations qu’ils ont élaborées ? Comment l’ont-ils conçu par rapport à ce qui leur était familier et à leurs préoccupations ? De quelles manières ont-ils saisi, défini et représenté ses différentes facettes au cours des siècles ?
Programme et information : https://www.univ-nantes.fr/exceller-par-la-recherche/laboratoires/colloque-quest-ce-que-le-qur%C4%81n-europeen-definitions-descriptions-representations-xiie-xixe-s
5. “21st International Conference on Turkic Linguistics”, University of Mainz, 2-4 August 2023
We are inviting proposals for papers on all fields of Turkic linguistics, including but not limited to historical and comparative linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language contact, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, etc. Conference languages are English and Turkish.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023. Information: https://ictl.uni-mainz.de
6. International Conference on “Muslim Women’s Popular and Genre Fiction and Film across all Languages, Forms and Periods”, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network, Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023
Indicative topics: Studies of individual authors or works of popular and genre fiction. – Translation of popular and genre works by Muslim authors. – Visual culture (graphic novels, comics, film, TV) Digital culture (Instagram, YouTube, BookTok). – Decoloniality and popular fiction. – Teaching Muslim women’s popular fiction. – Publishing and production.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 April 2023. Information:
https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/
7. HYBRID Graduate Student Workshop “Muslim Qur’an Translation: History, Society, Culture, Exegesis“, GloQur: The Global Qur’an, University of Freiburg (Germany), 4-5 October 2023
This workshop will bring together graduate students who are preparing a doctoral thesis on social, historical, cultural or exegetical aspects of Qur’an translations in Muslim contexts and would like to present and discuss their thesis projects with an international group of like-minded emerging and advanced scholars.
Deadline for Application: 20 March 2023. Information and registration:
https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CfP_Workshop_Grad_students_QT.pdf
8. Workshop “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, University of Copenhagen, 25-27 October 2023
This workshop will explore a broad variety of sensory aspects of Muslim preaching, for example related to preaching practices, various forms of mediation, preaching content, bodily expressions, and reception.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information:
https://modernity.ku.dk/calendar/sensory-aspects-of-muslim-preaching/
9. Postdoctoral Researcher (Focus Jewish-Arab Interaction in 20th and 21th Century Israel/ Palestine), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies
The research project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence” links the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Halle. The research project brings together a variety of postdoctoral fellows who explore Jewish-Arab trans-culturation from the Middle Ages until today, with a focus on cultural, intellectual and political entanglements.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information:
https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33074
10. 2 Phd Positions, (part-time, 30h per week) in the FWF-funded QhoD-project “GraViz”. The start is scheduled for September 1st, 2023.
“Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)” (qhod.net)
The position is limited to 36 months. This position requires advanced linguistic and palaeographical skills: Excellent command of Ottoman Turkish and Persian; knowledge of modern Turkish and/or Arabic and/or Urdu is an advantage. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/news/2-phd-student-positions-f-m-x
11. Intensive Ottoman and Modern Turkish Summer School (IOTSS), Ottoman Studies Foundation, Cunda, Turkey, 10 July – 18 August 2023
Application deadline: 31 March 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12wn6clzTTJly3ZJu-LCIcyE2FGHi At26CJen3S-0Les/edit?ts=63fe14d8. Information: ottomanstudiesfoundation@gmail.com
12. Articles on “Hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Australia, Asia and Beyond” for Special Issue of the “Melbourne Asia Review”
I welcome research on any jurisdiction that provides a case study of how Islam and Muslims have been securitised in the post-9/11 environment. This is a peer reviewed magazine style journal with short articles of between 1500 and 3000 words and the special issue will be published both online and in print.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: dtittensor@unimelb.edu.au
13. Articles on “Asceticism, Mysticism, and the Affirmation of the World in Christianity and Islam” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
We welcome 400-600 word abstracts on a rolling basis, and depending on submissions, we would expect full drafts by 31 August 2023.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religions_mysticism
14. Invitation to Join the International Research Working Groups (Focus Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel) of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Stockholm, Sweden
In order to strengthen its evidence-based work on peace, security and development, FBA is currently looking for scholars from around the globe who want to leverage their knowledge to inform the programming and policy work of FBA and its partners as members of FBA’s international research working groups.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://fba.se/en/newspress/nyhetsarkiv/2023/call-for-members-for-fbas-international-research-working-groups/
15. Zoom – Colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” April 3–12, 2023
“Interreligious Interactions in South Asia” that will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2023 (15:00–16:30 GMT / 10:00–11:30 EST / 20:30–22:00 IST).
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94189387595?pwd=Q0hvNDZvYjhDUVZOTHkxSWxNVGIyQT09
April 3, 2023
Speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)
Title: Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal
April 4, 2023
Speaker: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)
Title: A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic
April 5, 2023
Speaker: Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)
Title: Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia
April 6, 2023
Speaker: SherAli Tareen
Title: Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship
April 7, 2023
Speaker: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)
Title: Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs
April 12, 2023
Speaker: Shankar Ayillath Nair
Title: Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance
Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)
Hina Khalid (University of Cambridge)
Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)
16. National University of Singapore – Associate Professor/Professor (with Tenure) on Malay-Indonesian Region
Research accomplishments and linguistic mastery on a wider plane of studies to include Malay world connections with the Arabic-Persian, Mediterranean, East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds, including the global Malay diaspora, would be an added strength.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65237
- March 21, 2023
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
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
Get 25% off until the end of March with code WOMEN23UK
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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