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1.British Institute for Persian Studies webinar
‘Making and Unmaking Community: Urban Life in Persianate Rajasthan’
with Elizabeth Thelen
Wednesday, 18 January, 2023 5pm UK Time
Register to attend at:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/urban-life-in-persianate-rajasthan-thelen/
2. University of Florida, International Studies Program
Lecturer, Non-Tenure Track, International Studies (Middle East/North Africa)
Closing date: Feb 6, 2023
3. New funded PhD on Arab cultural and intellectual history at the University of Northumbria (UK) under Dr Peter Hill.
‘While Dr Hill is an expert on nineteenth-century Ottoman Syria and Egypt, and this studentship is associated with his AHRC RDE Fellowship project ‘Reason and Religion in Ottoman Syria’, the focus of the proposed PhD need not fall within these areas. Any historical period from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, and any subject area involving substantial use of Arabic-language sources will be considered. The project must demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge. Projects which evidence methodological innovation are encouraged. Preference will be given to candidates who already possess a good level of linguistic competence in Arabic.’
For full information, see:
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/arabic-cultural-and-intellectual-history-17th-20th-centuries-rdf23-humanities-hill/?p151714
Starts October 2023.
The deadline to apply is 27 January 2023.
4. CFP: Panel on scientific manuscripts (deadline: 28 Feb 2023)
Frank Coulson and I are putting together the 48th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies, to be held at Saint Louis University June 12–14, 2023. In addition to the Call for Papers posted online [https://www.smrs-slu.org/manuscript-studies-mini-conference.html ] we are currently soliciting 20-minute papers for a panel(s) on ancient, medieval, and renaissance scientific manuscripts—that is, Western and non-Western copies that expound on topics including astronomy, cosmography, mathematics, medicine, natural history, cartography, agriculture—often accompanied by visual components such as maps, diagrams, charts, and other types of illustrations.
Please send titles and abstracts to susan.lengle@slu.edu and coulson.1@osu.edu , as well as posting your proposals online at https://www.smrs-slu.org/submit-511920-494771.html . We would appreciate your forwarding this email to other colleagues of your acquaintance with expertise in the same fields. The deadline for submitting proposals is 28 February 2023, although there may be some flexibility in this date. For any questions about the conference or panels, do not hesitate to write to us.
5. CfP: 2nd AMI Graduate Conference
Following the success of the inaugural Al-Mahdi Institute Graduate Islamic Studies Conference, the second conference will be held between Saturday the 6th and Sunday 7th May 2023. The conference is aimed exclusively at students studying for a masters degree (taught or research) in any discipline and at any university or institution who are working on any topic in Islamic studies, broadly conceived as the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Recent graduates who are not yet enrolled on a doctoral programme are also encouraged to submit abstracts.
The deadline for submissions is 23.59 GMT on the 6th of March 2023.
Further information can be found here: https://ami.is/gc23.
6. Journée d’étude ‘Nouveautés sur les manuscrits philosophiques et scientifiques grecs et arabes’
On behalf of Jawdath Jabbour and Aude Cohen-Skalli (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université):
Lundi 23 janvier 2023, De 9h30 à 18h
Maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme (salle Duby)
5 rue du Château de l’Horloge, 13100, Aix-en-Provence
JOURNÉE D’ÉTUDE
Journée inaugurale de l’équipe « Manuscrits d’Orient et d’Occident » du TDMAM
NOUVEAUTÉS SUR LES MANUSCRITS PHILOSOPHIQUES ET SCIENTIFIQUES
GRECS ET ARABES
Organisation Aude Cohen-Skalli et Jawdath Jabbour
9.30-9.45 | OUVERTURE Emmanuèle Caire (Aix Marseille Université, CNRS) – Aude Cohen-Skalli (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université) – Jawdath Jabbour (CNRS, TDMAM, Aix Marseille Université)
MATINÉE : MANUSCRITS GRECS
PRÉSIDENCE : Anne Balansard, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
9.45-10.30 | Inmaculada Pérez Martín, CSIC Madrid
Vers une typologie des manuscrits philosophiques byzantins
10.30-11.00 | discussion
11.00-11.30 | Pause café
PRÉSIDENCE : Sabine Luciani, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
11.30-12.15 | Victor Gysembergh, CNRS, Centre Léon Robin, Sorbonne Université / Emanuel Zingg, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Centre Léon Robin
Fascination palimpseste : nouveaux textes scientifiques et philosophiques grecs et « Nouvel Apulée » de Vérone
12.15-12.45 discussion
13.00-14.45 | DÉJEUNER
APRES-MIDI : MANUSCRITS ARABES
PRÉSIDENCE : Julien Loiseau, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, IREMAM
14.45-15.30 | Silvia Di Vincenzo, IMT Lucca
La philosophie dans les marges : l’enseignement et l’apprentissage de la logique aristotélicienne dans les marginalia d’Avicenne
15.30-16.00 discussion
16.00-16.30 Pause café
PRÉSIDENCE : Christian Boudignon, Aix Marseille Université, TDMAM, CNRS
16.30-17.15 | Teymour Morel, FNS, Université de Genève
Les copies de la Logique de Buṭrus al-Tūlāwī (1657-1746) : réflexions sur l’approche stemmatique des manuscrits arabes à grande diffusion
17.15-17.45 | discussion
17.45-18.00 | CONCLUSION DE LA JOURNÉE
Avec la participation de l’équipe Manuscrits d’Orient et d’Occident du TDMAM
Téléchargez le programme
https://cpaf.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/je-ms-orient-occident-23-01-22_prog.pdf
Organisation
Aude Cohen-Skalli & Jawdath Jabbour, TDMAM, CNRS, AMU
Contacts / Inscriptions : skalli@phare.normalesup.org / Jawdath.jabbour@cnrs.fr
7. The Islamic College (London)
Online Postgraduate Studies Certificate programme in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Fees: £1500 (Upto 50% scholarship is available)
Starting: 20th March 2023
Application Deadline: 15 February 2023
Information at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences-online/
8. The Islamic College (London) Monthly Seminar:
Building the “Silk Road” From Below: Arab Traders Between East and West Asia
A Talk by Dr Paul Anderson
Tuesday 10 January 2023
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Venue: 133 High Road, The Islamic College London
Information and register at:
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-new-silk-road/
9. Richard Talbert has prepared an online exhibition for Princeton University Libraries:
Late Ottoman Turkey in Princeton’s Forgotten Maps, 1883-1923
Its origin lies in Prof. Talbert’s interest in the historical mapping of ancient and medieval Asia Minor by Heinrich Klieppert, which were based on travels in the region by Klieppert and others. The exhibition continues with later German mapping of Asia Minor, including WWI operations map by the German general staff. The coda provides a freely accessible link to Prof. Talbert’s explanatory essay on the collection and its significance.
Overall, it provides a great example of the kinds of work produced by German geographers at the height of their powers prior to WWI.
The large images link to the Princeton Library catalog and IIIF viewer.
If the embedded link above fails, try https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/3afc128a641e47eb90b3268c5ffb8d54
10. Online Lecture – “Islamic Archaeology in context: Occupation, Territories, and Material Culture in the piedmont of Zagros mountains in Northern Iraq (Sulaymaniyah province as an example)” – January 11 3PM (Rome), 4PM (Iraq)
For further information:
https://www.ifporient.org/archaeology-mena-2/
For registration:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdemurT8uGt0pMq3C9hhlo6ht8enLN7rs?_x_zm_rtaid=3a-ZJ6a8…
11. Recordings of Exeter Majlis
Therecording of the last Monday Majlis of 2022:
Kamran Talattof, Demystifying the Mystic: Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature is at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqv85Pxlttk&list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-&index=9&t=10s
You can watch the recordings of all the CSI Monday Majlises of the autumn at this playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-
including
Mehdy Shaddel, Universal Empire, Supersessionist Ideology: The Emergence of Islam in Umayyad Syria
Rahim Gholami, The Hermeneutics of Nāṣir-e Khusraw’s Esoteric Guidance
Isabel Toral, Jens Scheiner, Baghdad: Insights into a city and the making of a book
Alexandra Hoffmann, What makes a man a man? Neẓāmi’s Majnun in a network of masculinities
Nikola Pantic, Is It Religion or Magic, and What Is Between Them?
Letizia Osti, Beyond the chessboard: adventures in Abbasid literature and historiography
Aurora Magliozzi, Love for Beardless Boys in the Erotic Arabic Literature
Martin Nixon, A Treasure Saved and to Be Explored: The Mohamed Tahar Library in Timbuktu, Mali
12. UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series with Anne Hunnell Chen
Dislodging Disciplinary Silos at Dura-Europos
Wednesday, February 15, 2023 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 314
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
- January 07, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Narrating the pilgrimage to Mecca, Historical and contemporary accounts
Edited by Marjo Buitelaar and Richard van Leeuwen
2. ONLINE Lecture “Race and Islam in Historical Perspective” by Professor Chouki El Hamel (Ar-izona State University), Middle East Studies Program, UW Madison, 3 February 2023, 12:00 pm CT
Professor El Hamel discusses the emergence and evolution of ideas of race and color in the Middle East and North Africa. This lecture is mainly interested in racial constructs built around notions of color and lineage. It traces distinct genealogies of race and racism to the beginning of the Islamic empire.
Information and registration: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdOuurT8vEtf-ZAJCqOftqIBjDxPFqu4D
3. Roundtable “Gender, Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in North Africa: Ongoing Issues, Future Challenges” at the “European Conference on African Studies (ECAS)”, University of Cologne, 31 May – 3 June 2023
Dans le cadre des mouvements sociaux du XXIe siècle, la table ronde a pour but d’interroger et débattre au sujet des dynamiques et des enjeux liant le genre, la race, la religion et l’ethnicité à la fois à des processus de minorisation et des revendication de pluralité dans l’espace nord africain.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2023.
Information: https://ecasconference.org/2023/programme#12481
4. “29th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)” in Co-operation with the “Turkologentag 2023 – Forth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies”, University of Vienna, 21-23 September 2023
The host of this joint conference is Prof. Dr. Yavuz Köse, Chair of Ottoman and Turkish Studies of the University of Vienna. See https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at for further information on the joint conference.
Deadline for abstracts of open panels: 31 January 2023.
Deadline for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 28 February 2023.
Information:
https://davo1.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Invitation-29th-DAVO-Congress-Vienna-2023.pdf
5. Full-Time Clinical Assistant Professor (Non-Tenure Track) in Arabic Language Instruction, New York University, NY
We seek a scholar whose teaching and research will strengthen our Arabic language curriculum ranging from Elementary to Advanced levels, while also complementing and enhancing the department overall. A suc-cessful applicant will demonstrate experience in and commitment to innovative pedagogical practices and developing an inclusive classroom.
Deadline for applications: 10 February 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/117980
6. New Book Series “Studies in Pre-Modern Arab History and East-West Encounters”, Edited by Ahmed M. A. Sheir and Amar S. Baadj
This new book series is broadly concerned with the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history of the Arabs and the Arab World, as well as the relations of the Arabs with others from Antiquity up to the Early Modern period.
Information: https://trivent-publishing.eu/81-studies-in-pre-modern-arab-history
7. Chapters on “Arabic Language Teaching in the Arabic-Speaking World” for Edited Book on “The History of Arabic Language Teaching”
Topics could include government policies on Arabic language teaching, historical studies on pedagogy, work on language manuals/phrasebooks, etc. Other contributions to the volume span periods from the late 18th century to the present day and consider teaching of Arabic both in the Arabic-speaking world and in colonial countries.
Deadline for abstracts: As soon as possible.
8. Articles on “The Political Economy of Authoritarianism in the Arab Region” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”
Articles should discuss the intersection between political economy and the sustainability of authoritarianism in the Arab region. Relevant articles from all disciplines of social sciences, humanities and law are welcome, and will be financially compensated.
Deadline for full manuscripts: 13 February 2023.
Information: https://rowaq.cihrs.org/call-for-papers-the-political-economy-of-authoritarianism-in-the-arab-region/?lang=en
9. Death and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern World
Perspectives from across the Mediterranean and Beyond
Edited by Lori Jones and Nükhet Varlık
York Medieval Press, 2022
https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781914049095/death-and-disease-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-world/
including:
‘Knowing the Signs of Disease: Plague in the Arabic Medical Commentaries between the First and Second Pandemics’ N. Fancy;
‘Colours of Disease and Death in the Early Modern Ottoman Cultural Imagination’ N. Varlik
- January 03, 2023
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Invisible East (Oxford)
Programme Finance Co-ordinator
Closing date: 20.1.23
Full information at:
https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk/work-us
2. Islam in the classroom: Diversity instead of stereotypes!
The Museum für Islamische Kunst (Museum for Islamic Art – State Museums Berlin) is now launching a wide range of digital and analogue educational materials free of charge for schools and extracurricular places of learning. These offers aim to sensitise teachers, youth workers ad pupils, as well as editors of educational media, to stereotypes and facilitate a diversity-oriented and professionally sound presentation of topics related to Islam in educational media and the classroom.
The materials are available in German and conform to German school curricula. Discover the educational offers from the project „Shared Past – Shared Future“ now in the e-learning section of the museum‘s new digital platform Islamic·Art. The project „Shared Past – Shared Future“ is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
https://islamic-art.smb.museum/digitales-lernen
3. News for non-Latin script specialists: Archive.org will take advantage of new advancements in OCR to reprocess printed multi-script manuscript catalogues, which currently misinterpret non-Latin scripts as gibberish. They just reprocessed one volume of Rieu’s British Museum catalogue https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008986313 and Sachau and Ethé’s for the Bodleian https://archive.org/details/catalogueofpersi01bodluoft as well.
Should any encounter specific books that lack functional non-Latin script, write to support@archivesupport.zendesk.com , send them the URL along with any relevant 3-letter Library of Congress language codes https://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/language_name.html so they can drop that in and re-run OCR.
4. Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam
Emran Iqbal El-Badawi
5. From Samarqand to Toledo: Greek, Sogdian and Arabic Documents and
Manuscripts from the Islamicate World and Beyond,
eds., Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki
6. Koç University Libraries are organizing The 4th International Library Staff Week in Istanbul, between 8-12 May 2023. This event brings together professional Library staff with varied backgrounds working in universities or other research orientated libraries with an interest in sharing ideas and networking with colleagues.
The main theme of the 4th International Library Staff Week is Open Knowledge to Share: Access, Culture, Scholarship. Library and Information Science is a key sector that contributes to the development of open knowledge. Through this week, together we will investigate and analyze the following sub-themes, access, culture and scholarship.
During this week, library staff and visitors will have the chance to engage into fruitful discussions and exchange of professional and personal experiences, which will broaden their perspective on issues related to Information Science, strengthen their skills and hopefully plant the roots for future collaboration on joint projects.
You can find more information in the related Libguide.
To apply for the program, register here and pay here.
Find more about our past events in our Blog and Flicker.
Should you require any additional information, do not hesitate to contact us at intllibweek@ku.edu.tr.
http://staffmobility.eu/staffweek/4th-international-library-staff-week
7. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) Spring 2023
The Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States and Canada who work to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the late thirteenth century to the twentieth century.
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) will host the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW) in Vancouver, Canada on April 28-29, 2023. Among other events, the workshop will include a keynote panel titled “The History of Ottoman Armenians Revisited” featuring Professors Elyse Semerdjian (Whitman College) and Richard Antaramian (University of Southern California). Some panels may be offered in hybrid form depending on the circumstances.
We are currently accepting submissions for the workshop. The organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply using this form. Funding may be available to support graduate student participation.
University faculty and independent scholars interested in attending should also register using the same form: https://forms.gle/wzRWK6SsVvr4qLQ17
Deadline for Applications: January 26, 2023
Please direct all inquiries to Professors Thomas Kuehn (SFU) and Pheroze Unwalla (UBC) at thomas_kuehn@sfu.ca.
We urge all prospective participants from outside Canada to familiarize themselves ASAP with visa requirements to enter the country: https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/visa.asp
- December 24, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Turkologentag 2023 – “4th European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies” organised by the Chair of Ottoman and Turkish Studies, University of Vienna, 21-23 September 2023
Researchers are invited who work in the fields of history, linguistics, philology, literary studies, social sciences, anthropology, and political sciences in Turkey and the Turkic world.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2022.
Information: https://turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
2. Five Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Program “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Academic Year 2023/2024, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
Main themes: Travelling Traditions: Comparative Perspectives on Near Eastern Literatures; Cities Com-pared: Governance, Consultative Mechanisms, and Plurality; Tradition and the Critique of Modernity: Secu-larism, Fundamentalism and Religion from Middle Eastern Perspectives; Politics and Processes of Change, Archaeologies of the Present, and Imaginations of the Future.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023. Information: https://application.trafo-berlin.de/proce-dure/b14743f7-dad8-4b09-9054-749dd9f3991e
3. Two Research Assistants (Praedoc or Postdoc, 50 %, 13 TV-L, 12 Months), Department of Iranian Studies, University of Bamberg, Germany
Qualification: terminated or ongoing doctoral studies in the field of Iranian Studies; experience in the field of modern Persian/Iranian literature; strong skills in textual analysis and theoretical engagement with literary texts; very good knowledge of Persian and English; working knowledge of German is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 25 January 2023.
Download further information (Eng and German) from:
4. Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem 2023-2024
The research base includes all aspects of Near Eastern studies, especially biblical studies as well as cultural, historical, philological, archaeological, and art-historical research in Israel and Palestine, including the pre-historic periods, Greco-Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, and Medieval periods.
Extended deadline for applications: 10 January 2023. Information: https://aiar.org/available-fellowships/
5. Travel Awards for Scholars Interested in Research in the Arab Heritage and Gulf Crossroads Collections, Ney York University of Abu Dhabi, 1 March – 15 June 2023
These travel grants may be used for research for Ph.D. dissertations, MA and undergraduate theses, publications, and other projects.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/14/nyuad-humanities-research-fellowships-for-the-study-of-the-arab-world
6. Articles on “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”
This issue will critically examine, first, several modern discourses of maqāṣid in a variety of fields, such as politics, economics, health, family, etc., and second, the Šāṭibī’s concept of maqāṣid in its traditional textual, legal, and social contexts. The issue will raise some critical questions that concern several contradictions within the modern discourses of maqāṣid.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/CDRV61514K
7. The Religious Studies Program at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities seeks a Lecturer for the spring 2023 semester to teach RELS 3704: Exploring the Qur’an, An Intellectual Odyssey with Islam’s Holy Scriptures.
This is a three credit, upper division undergraduate course. In addition to teaching, other duties include 1) holding office hours to assist and advise students, and 2) participation in department meetings and service to the department. This course may be taught in person or remotely (through zoom). The salary for this course is $10,000 and does not include benefits.
Course description:
This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about, and critically reflect on, the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws, parables, and arguments, 2) the historical context in which the Quran was first promulgated and codified, 3) the relationship between the Quran and the preceding literary traditions of the ancient world, in particular, the Bible and post-biblical Jewish and Christian writings, 4) Muslim utilization of the Quran towards intellectual, social, religious, cultural, and political ends, and 5) the pre-modern and modern scholarly traditions of interpreting the Quran.
For details and to apply, see Job ID number 352001 in the University of Minnesota’s employment system: https://hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/352001
Inquiries can be directed to Jeanne Kilde at jkilde@umn.edu
8. Save the dates for Scholarly Correspondences Among Orientalists during the Early and Late Modern Period as a Historical Source: A Series of Lectures. Spring 2023
The object of this lecture series is to bring together scholars and librarians engaged with collections of correspondences and/or include related projects that use appropriate digital tools to map and analyze such corpora. It is hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (NES@IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship@IAS).
January 20 – Sabine Schmidtke, Scholarly Correspondence: The Case of Oriental Studies During the Late 19th and Early 20th Century. Pre-register: bit.ly/3Fnabbw.
January 27 – Rukayyah Reichling and Kotoz Abdelhafiz Ahmed, Goldziher between European Orientalism and the Arab Nahda: Digitally Mapping a Far-Reaching Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3URpvmL.
February 17 – Stefan Dumont, CorrespSearch–Connect and Search Scholarly Editions of Correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YfkiI8.
March 3 – Kinga Dévényi, “So far away, yet so close”: The correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher between 1863 and 1922. Pre-register: bit.ly/3Hy66nE.
March 10 – Paul Babinski, A Taste for the Difficult and Abstruse: A Seventeenth-Century Paris Librarian and His Orientalist Network. Pre-register: bit.ly/3hcUFqY.
March 17 – Isolde Lehnert, The Life of Max Meyerhof through his correspondence. Pre-register: bit.ly/OrXJB.
March 31 – Gianni Celeste, A library lost in translation: Paul Sbath’s correspondence with Eugène Tisserant. Pre-register: bit.ly/3FKurFt.
April 7 – Garrett A. Davidson, The Correspondence between the orientalist and manuscript dealer Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951) and the Cairo-based publisher and manuscript dealer Mohammad Amin Khanji (d. 1938). Pre-register: bit.ly/3iP5WxP.
April 14 – Ahmed Khan, Orientalists and ‘Ulama’ in Egypt in the 20th Century. Pre-register: bit.ly/3YtrOPZ.
Additional information: https://albert.ias.edu/20.500.12111/8044
Sabine Schmidtke scs@ias.edu
María Mercedes Tuya ds@ias.edu
9. Women in the Ottoman Empire
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- December 20, 2022
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1.Submissions Invited for 2023 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize
About the Prize
The prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. This prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University in 2022 is eligible to apply. We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
To enter, please send the following to office@brismes.org:
- An electronic copy of your thesis
- A letter of nomination from your supervisor
Deadline: Midnight on 31 January 2023
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/submissions-open-for-2023-leigh-douglas-memorial-prize
2. PhD and MA Scholarships in Comparative History (CEU, Vienna)
The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) in Vienna offers students an array of programs in interdisciplinary and comparative historical research. The CEU History Department is recognized for its innovative approaches to historical studies and graduate education. Our international faculty offer expertise that extends from the early modern period to the study of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, as well as the post-communist period; from numerous aspects of social, cultural, political, and intellectual history to religious, visual and archival studies.
CEU is an English-language, student-focused research university located in Vienna and accredited both in Austria and the United States. CEU attracts talented students and scholars from around the world. Our student/faculty ratio (7:1) allows for small research-driven and discussion-based seminars and close guidance from faculty members.
Scholarships and Application Deadline
The majority of our students receive financial aid regardless of nationality. Research grants are available for all students. We also offer a fully-funded merit scholarship in our MA programs, the Gerd Bucerius History Scholarship. The deadline to apply for admission and financial aid for the 2023-24 academic year is February 1, 2023 (23:59 CET).
Programs Offered
- Master of Arts in Comparative History (One Year)
- Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to the Present (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History [MATILDA] (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in “History in the Public Sphere” [HIPS] (Two Years)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History
Additional Certificates in Various Specializations
Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Thought, Religious Studies, Visual Theory and Practice, Archives and Evidentiary Practices (in collaboration with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives), Central European Studies, and Romani Studies.
Selected Areas of Research
o Comparative history of the Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian Empires
o Religious studies
o History of nationalism and national movements
o Comparative history of fascism
o Comparative history of communism
o Early modern history
o Diplomatic history
o Gender history
o Art history
o History of political thought
o Social and labor history
o Soviet and post-Soviet history
o History of Central Asia
o Urban studies
o Visual studies
o History of Medicine
o History of science
Follow this link or write to Daniela Munteanu (history@ceu.edu) for further information.
3. We are writing to solicit applications from doctoral students and other researchers for our seventh Political Economy Summer Institute to be held 1-4 June 2023 hosted by George Mason University on the political economy of the Middle East. The aim of the Political Economy Summer Institute(PESI) is both to provide graduate level engagement and instruction as well as to connect doctoral students and independent researchers with mid-career and senior scholars working in the field of critical political economy. The Summer Institute will consist of three main parts: (1) doctoral students presenting their research and receiving written and verbal feedback from the participants, (2) methodological and theoretical workshop sessions led by faculty scholars, and (3) small break-out group discussions that build on the faculty-led sessions.
Anyone interested in submitting an application to attend the workshop should provide the following: [If you are not a Ph.D. student, you may still apply.]
- Title of your current research project.
- Institutional affiliation along with name and contact information for your thesis/dissertation advisor (and any additional committee members if possible).
- Research narrative (2500 words maximum, not including bibliography). Please lay out your primary research question, scope of your research, methodology, and where you are in the research process.
- Personal narrative (500 words maximum). Please explain how your attendance at the Political Economy Summer Institute can support your current research project and how you hope to benefit from participating.
- Expected completion date of Ph.D., if applicable.
- Funding. Please indicate whether you are able to secure funding from your department or home institution.
- List of any relevant publications.
Please submit all applications by 31 January 2023 to the Pedagogy Working Group at the Political Economy Project through the following online form:
Apply here:
4. The Islamic College
Monthly Seminar: The Future of Interfaith (Towards Universal Fraternity)
A Lecture by Revd Jon Dal Din
Tuesday 20th December 2022
6.00 P.M. – 7.30 P.M. (LONDON TIME)
Register at:
5. UCLA
The Birth of the Abestāg from the Spirit of Philology
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 11:00am Pacific via Zoom
6. The Division of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Non-Anglophone Humanities Data Science. The successful candidate will be appointed to one of the eight departments in the Division: Asian Languages and Literature, French and Italian Studies, German Studies, Linguistics, Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, Scandinavian Studies, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Spanish and Portuguese Studies.
The successful candidate for this position, researching and teaching primarily in one or several languages other than English, will be expected to :
- create, analyze, use, present and communicate data, broadly understood, in disciplines of language, literature, and/or culture
- explore a variety of forms of data including large historical or contemporary corpora, textual archives, digital media and genres, or online datasets and their uses
- engage a range of analytical techniques and methods of analysis
- investigate questions and challenges posed by data science and by data, such as the role of bias in algorithms, uncertainty in artificial intelligence, and/or the use of ever-larger datasets in machine translation
- engage in an active research agenda
Since this is a cross-disciplinary position, the successful applicant will also be expected to work across departmental and disciplinary boundaries, and contribute to the development of existing cross-disciplinary initiatives (e.g., Translation Studies Hub, Textual and Digital Studies, Global Literary Studies) and to new curricula and programs in areas of inquiry such as human and machine translation, computational text analysis, AI and creativity, the future of language learning.
In particular, this position has been created in conjunction with the establishment of a new minor in Data Science intended for Social Science and Humanities students (http://www.washington.edu/uaa/advising/single-pages/data-science-minor/). The candidate hired into this position will dedicate 25% of their teaching and service responsibilities to this program, with the remainder determined within the context of the appointing department. The successful candidate will be expected to take a leading role in the minor, including developing and teaching courses in the required Data Skills and Data Studies categories, and serving on the Steering and Curriculum Committees of the Data Science minor.
Candidates should in addition be prepared to take full advantage of the rich array of resources at the UW for research and teaching in data science as well as in the digital humanities, including the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the eScience Institute, the Open Scholarship Commons in the UW Libraries, and the Humanities Data Lab.
The candidate is also expected to actively contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their potential department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in departmental statements and in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/). University of Washington faculty engage in teaching, research and service. This position has an anticipated start date of September 2023, and will have a 9-month service period.
Qualifications
Applicants must, by the start of the appointment, have a PhD, or foreign equivalent, in a field consistent with an appointment in a department in the Division of the Humanities.
The successful candidate must have a record of innovative and effective teaching and student mentoring; and a record of contribution to departmental or institutional diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Instructions
Priority will be given to applicants who submit the following materials by January 9:
- A cover letter that describes the candidate’s suitability for this position and explains how the candidate’s experiences, activities, and goals will lead to success in a cross-disciplinary position
- CV
- Research statement, not to exceed one page, describing present projects and future directions
- A representative example of research (such as a chapter, article, or a link to an online project or a digital tool)
- A teaching portfolio, which should provide evidence of teaching excellence and may include such items as: example syllabi, lecture videos, website links for courses or student activities, or digital tools created by the candidate
- A statement, not to exceed one page, on how their work would contribute to the diversity, equity and inclusivity goals of their department, the Humanities Division, and the University (as articulated in the UW Diversity Blueprint: http://www.washington.edu/diversity/diversity-blueprint/)
- Three letters of recommendation
Because applicants are expected to come from a variety of disciplinary orientations, traditional and nontraditional backgrounds, resulting in different professional profiles, applicants are welcomed in any of the above materials to provide details that can help to contextualize their dossier. Such details might include experiences, aspects of training, outreach, teaching or research that are felt to contribute to a distinctive professional profile. Contact Prof. Gina Levow for questions regarding this position (levow@uw.edu).
7. ANN: List of 2022 Books on Map History (and some from 2020 and 2021, and earlier)
https://www.mappingasprocess.net/blog/2022/12/16/map-history-books-published-in-2022
- December 17, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Winter/Spring 2023 Virtual Lecture Series on Persian Language Pedagogy: New Trends and Innovations
Sponsored jointly by The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto, The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Chicago. This lecture series will run through the 2023 winter and spring quarters. The second part of the lecture series will be in 2023 fall quarter.
Saturday, 14 January 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Linguistic Data-Driven Approach to Persian Language Pedagogy: Practical Application to Compound Verbs
Karine Megerdoomian, Georgetown University
Saturday, 11 February 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Grammaticalisation of “Dāshtan”
Mahbod Ghafari, University of Cambridge
Saturday, 11 March 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Language Classroom: Towards Critically Engaged Practices in Teaching Persian as an Additional Language
Nahal Akbari, University of Maryland
Saturday, 8 April 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Leaky Grammars and Language Pedagogy
Masoud Jasbi, University of California Davis
Saturday, 13 May 2023, 12:00 PM Eastern Time
Acquisition of Persian Differential Object Marker “Râ”: A Challenge for the Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers
Azita H. Taleghani, University of Toronto
Zoom Registration
https://utoronto.zoom.us/…/tZAtfu2qqjkvHdYeuES1McyTARE2…
2. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Middle East History, American University of Beirut
The position is open to scholars of all sub-regions and thematic interests. The department especially welcomes applications of candidates working on questions of social, intellectual, or economic history in the Arabic speaking world.
Deadline for application: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/06/faculty-position-in-modern-middle-east-arab-history-AUB
3. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Early Modern and Modern Middle East History, American University of Beirut
The department especially welcomes applications of candidates working on the Arabic speaking world in its Mediterranean context particularly in such areas as the history of trade, migration studies, as well as cultural and intellectual exchange.
Deadline for application: 31 January 2023. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/12/06/faculty-position-in-early-modern-modern-history-of-the-mediterranean-world
4. Associate Professor/Professor of Sociology of Development with a Specialization in Development Policy, University of Sharjah, UAE
Qualification: PhD in Sociology of Development from an English-speaking University, specializing in Devel-opment Policies. – Consistency in the academic field of the earned university degrees. – Published peer-refereed research. – Ability to teach courses and supervise theses in Arabic and English. – Distance-learning and blended-teaching skills.
Deadline for applications: 19 December 2022. Information: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37351414/associ-ate-professor-professor-of-sociology-of-development-with-a-specialization-in-development-poli/
5. Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Associate in Iranian and Persian Studies, Yale University, New Haven CT
Applicants in all fields of humanities and social and political sciences who have recently received their PhDs or are in the early stages of their academic career may apply.
Deadline for applications: 9 January 2023. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64721
6. Chapters for “Routledge Handbook on LGBTQI+ in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)” Edited by Serena Tolino and Arash Guitoo
This book shall primarily address the academics and university students of different levels as well as NGO-workers who are interested in LGBTQI+ issues in the WANA region. The aim is to provide the readers with an overview of both the current social and legal situation and the historical development of treatment and reception of non-heterosexual non-cis-gendered identities (or acts) in the WANA societies
Deadline for abstracts: 28. February 2023. Information: Arash Guitoo (guitoo@islam.uni-kiel.de ).
7. Positiones_Research Assistants_Iranian Studies_Uni Bamberg
Two research positions have become available for the project The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense: Dynamics of Representation and Subversion in Iranian War Literature at the department of Iranian Studies of the University of Bamberg. The Project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and directed by me. The applicants should be doctoral candidates or postdocs with a research focus on contemporary Persian/Iranian literature. For more information, please see the extended job announcement here.
Best wishes,
Goulia Ghardashkhani
Dr. Goulia Ghardashkhani-Otter
Akademische Rätin (Senior Lecturer)
PI of the DFG-Project The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense: Dynamics of Representation and Subversion in Iranian War Literature
Otto-Friedrich-Universität-Bamberg
Institut für Orientalistik
Lehrstuhl Iranistik
Schillerplatz 17
96047 Bamberg
Webpage: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/team/dr-goulia-ghardashkhani-otter
8. Oldest Known Malay Mirror for Princes from Persian at Cambridge University Library
The Malay translation of Akhalq-e Mohseni by the famous Persian thinker and polymath, Vaiz Kashifi has been identified at Cambridge University Library. This is now the first and oldest known Malay “Mirror for Princes” from the 16th century.
Here is my article about this manuscript:
https://specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/?p=23968
Dr. Majid Daneshgar
Munby Fellow
Cambridge University Library and St John’s College
University of Cambridge
- December 13, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College – Monthly Seminar:
A New Silk Road? Mercantile Connections across Asia
A Talk by Dr Paul Sanderson
Tuesday 13 December 2022
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Register at: https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-new-silk-road/
2. Call for Papers: International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Qur’an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective Unit at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=42&VolunteerUnitId=518).
The conference is planned to be held between 3 – 7 July 2023. SBL plans to hold the conference in Pretoria, South Africa. It is a great and welcoming opportunity to have the International SBL hosted in the Global South. The last and only other time it was specifically hosted in Africa was in 2000 (and a lot has changed in the world since then). If you have never been to beautiful South Africa before, this is an opportunity.
The deadline for proposals is on 31 January 2023.
3. Our call for papers for the 2023 BRISMES Conference ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East’at the University of Exeter has been extended, and will close at 5 PM (GMT) on 21 December 2022.
Please read the conference’s main theme; additionally, we encourage proposals on any topic related to the Middle East and North Africa.
We invite submissions from social sciences and humanities scholars and professionals working in the environmental field. Submissions from the Global South, from the Middle East region and from people from under-represented groups are especially welcomed. We also accept the inclusion of panels/roundtables in non-English languages spoken in the MENA region.
BRISMES will operate a Solidarity Fund for colleagues without institutional funding or facing financial hardship. So please do apply if you don’t have funds to support your attendance.
For those who are in secure positions, please donate to the fund to ensure your colleagues in more precarious jobs can join us in Exeter. The application will be made available with the opening of the registration period.
Please take a look at the instructions for submission and submit your individual/co-authored paper, panel or roundtable by the deadline.
4. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies ( February Issue 2023)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the February Issue – 2023. The deadline for manuscript submission is December 30, 2022. The issue publication date is February Issue 2023. For more information, please click here.
We have the pleasure of sending the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies Volume 6 Number 4. October 2022
For individual papers, click here
With our best wishes,
Kind regards,
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
5. Webinar – “The Visible and the Unseen: Reframing the Persian Tale of the Greek and Chinese Painters,” ReSIA (Research Seminar in Islamic Art, SOAS) – 15 December
Dr Domenico Arturo Ingenito
ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art, convened by Professor Anna Contadini, will be presented on Zoom on Thursday 15th December at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 14th December to receive the link to the talk.
The latest two ReSIA seminars have been recorded and they are now accessible on YouTube – Haris Dervišević and Richard Piran McClary.
6. Haft Paykar or the Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir
Dr. Ali Ferdowsi and Dr. Sanaz Rajabiya
Tehran, sherkat-i sahami enteshar, spring 1401/2022) in Persian. This is the first edited and annotated study of Sultan Ahmad’s Divan with a detailed and invaluable introduction to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of Sultan Ahmad’s tumultuous reign. For those interested in obtaining copies, please refer to the publisher’s website www.entesharco.com or email at info@entesharco.com.
7. Zoom seminar: ‘Contemporary Islamic Philosophy of Religion: An Anthropocentric Approach to Evil and Suffering’
Dec 16, 2022 02:00 PM ET
Speaker:
Mohammed Rustom, Professor of Islamic Thought, Carleton University
Register here: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy
Learn more: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy1
8. The “BIBLICAL CHARACTERS IN THREE TRADITIONS (JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM)” unit of the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting will dedicate its 2023 sessions to concept of characters and colours in the three traditions.
Paper are invited that examine the use of colours in the context of biblical characters within various religious traditions and reception histories, from antiquity to contemporary times — from qur’anic yellow cow to white and black faces (and their opposing meanings in different languages); as well as biblical characters and colours, and their reception within the Islamic context.
Please submit your proposal here:
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st January 2023.
For details and abstract submission (SBL members):
Any questions, or if you are not a member of SBL, please contact hadromiz@tcd.ie
9. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies presents:
The Formation of Adabiyat as a Modern Literary Discourse
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ Noon
Register for this webinar
Free and open to the public
10. Call for paper proposals for a pre-arranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland (21-25 August 2023)
The Wulff Archive: An Encyclopaedia of the Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture, and Art of Iran
Convenors
Dr Mahroo Moosavi (University of Oxford, UK)
Dr Roxana Zenhari (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Powerhouse Museum/Western Sydney University, Australia)
Background
Johannes Eberhard Wulff was born in 1907 in Westphalia, Germany. In 1936, he was given an official position to go to Iran at the request of Reza Shah Pahlavi the king of Iran (r.1925-1941), to plan and set up the first ever schools of technical engineering, as foreign aid of the German government to the Iranian government. The first technical college was established by Wulff in Shiraz in 1937, and it was during the official opening of this school that he received a royal order from Reza Shah, to collect the necessary data for the preparation of an encyclopaedia of the “Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture and Art of Persia”.
In parallel with administering and teaching at the Technical Colleges in Shiraz, later in Isfahan and finally in Tabriz, from 1937 to 1941 Wulff travelled all around the country observing, interviewing, and photographing master craftsmen of many different guilds to record their techniques of production and tool making, to teach at his new schools and to use them as primary resources in his royal project. However, with the Second World War outbreak, and the invasion of Iran by the British and Soviet Armies in 1941, Wulff and many other Germans who were employed in Iran, were accused of being Nazi associates and sent to the Australian internment camps. In 1950 and following the release of the civilian internees in 1947 Wulff joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney, as a lecturer. In 1953 he retrieved all his research materials from Iran, including his notes, diaries, and photographs. In 1963 the Department of Industrial Arts at the University of New South Wales accepted Wulff as a doctoral candidate to work on a thesis based on his work on the traditional crafts of Iran. To complete his field research, Wulff returned to Iran twice during 1964 and 1965, and published a small part of his research in a book entitled The Traditional Crafts of Persia (MIT press, 1966). Having finished the project of documentation of the traditional crafts, art, science, and technology of Iran, Wulff died in 1967. His archive – the bulk of which are unpublished – was retrieved from his family in 2019 in Australia by Dr Pedram Khosronejad, is currently in his custody, and will be collectively used by the research project group in different modes and manners.
This is a call for papers for a prearranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland on 21-25 August 2023. The panel and the parallel/consequential collaborative project aim to shed light on the significance of Wulff’s project as a basic research tool from different disciplinary angles, his potential agency in the development of the field of Iranian Studies, and his grand yet mainly understudied project of the documentation of the traditional art, craft, science, and technology of Iran. Identification, printing, and digitisation of Wulff’s archive with the goal of making this valuable collection available to the wider audience, publishing Wulff’s encyclopaedia of Persian traditional art, craft, technology, and science, and republishing his 1966 book is within the larger scope of the collaborative project.
Please send your abstracts (1500 characters), your CV, and your academic status and affiliation for being considered for this panel. Early career scholars and PhD candidates in art and architectural history, anthropology, and history of technology are also encouraged to apply. Interdisciplinary approaches towards the topic are welcome. The convenors are planning to run an online session soon, with the potential panel participants to further explain the direction/s of the project and possible avenues for collaboration.
Deadline: January 15th, 2023.
Please send your abstracts to all three convenors:
roxana.zenhari@uni-goettingen.de;
pedram.khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au
The accepted speakers will be in full charge of their costs including the conference registration, travel, and accommodation.
For more information about the conference, please visit:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/ecis10
11. Call for papers of the Journal of Palestinian Christianity, a new Palestinian-led, Palestine-based, peer reviewed, bilingual journal exploring the unique dynamics of Palestinian Christian communities throughout history and the present day. We welcome articles from a variety of fields ranging from theology and religious studies to anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and culture. Likewise, we welcome contributors from all Christian and religious/secular backgrounds, in both historical Palestine and abroad.
Call for Papers:
Articles can be written in either Arabic or English, and after a full peer review process will be translated into the other language by the editorial team. A conference will be organised to celebrate the published articles and to generate dialogue around them. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to:
– History and Heritage
– Ecumenical relations
– Christian-Muslim relations
– Christian-Jewish relations
– Identity and belonging
– Sacred space
– Worship and practice
– Biblical/textual engagement
– Palestinian contextual and liberation theology
– Migration and transnational relations
– Clergy-laity relations
– Political legacy and engagement
– Law
– Literature and the arts
– Popular culture
– Church history
– Arab Christianity in Palestine
Submission Details:
The call for papers is for two issues: a general issue and special issue.
General: Interested authors for the general issue are welcome to submit their articles or consult the editorial committee by sending an abstract to the following email j.munayer@bethbc.edu. Please include your name and any institutional and other affiliation with your proposed title, abstract and article. The editors will contact you and discuss further details on accepted proposals and articles. Any questions may be directed to the email above. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 28th of February 2023. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.
Special: The second issue will be a special issue on the history of Christian communities in and of Palestine and the relationship with Empire – be it Ottoman, British or others – between 1850 and 1948. How did Palestinian Christian individuals and communities interact with imperial institutions and forces? In what ways have they suffered from or benefitted by imperial dynamics in the region? And what have the implications of these relations been for internal interactions within Christian communities and institutions themselves? Submissions are welcome from all historical perspectives, including political history, historical anthropology, intellectual history or theological and social histories. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 31st August 2023; initial enquiries are welcome to Dr. Sarah Irving at sarah.irving@staffs.ac.uk. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.
More information on the journal can be found at: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-for-Papers–Journal-of-Palestinian-Christianity.html?soid=1123649319126&aid=Mj8Ws0YEOcQ
12. DEC. 14-16th EVENT: Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism Conference
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society is proud to present Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism. This event will be held in-person at Columbia University at the Italian Academy (December 14) and Faculty House (December 15-16). Registration for this event can be found here. Please note that registration is limited and that speakers on the program need not register. This program is in-person. Webinar will be available to a limited number of registrants.
The full event program can be found here.
This event is also co-sponsored by Columbia University Arabic Studies Seminar, Brill Academic Publishers, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi)
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Best,
Samantha DeNinno
Program Coordinator
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)
Administrative Team
Email: icls@columbia.edu
Phone: 212.854.4541
13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Lecture 5
Female Jurists in the History of Islam between the Seventh and Seventeenth Centuries CE
Dr Rita Faraj (Al Mesbar Center for Studies and Research UAE)
Tuesday 13 December 2022, 13:00 UTC
This lecture will be delivered in Arabic on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92157931375
14. ONLINE Panel “The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Arab World: Surveillance, Censorship, and Disinformation Warfare”, Arab Center Washington DC, 13 December 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Panelists will outline the models and toolkits of Arab digital authoritarianism. They will also assess the possibility of regulatory oversight, will discuss the implications of emerging digital superpowers, cyber power dynamics, and the role and shortcomings of social media companies, and will offer recommendations to address the growing challenges posed by the misuse of digital and social media technologies.
Information and registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2416705255172/WN_6Y7zCUV2QyGeW1CHhyX3bA
- December 10, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Lecture “The Ethics of Weeping: The Case of Islam” by Prof. Paul Heck (Georgetown University), University of Haifa, 6 December 2022, 12:00 pm GMT
This talk considers pre-modern traditions of pious weeping in Muslim society, which long interacted with other traditions of weeping in the Mediterranean and its hinterlands. Specifically, we ask how we are to read references to weeping in historical texts – as responses to societal expectations or as expressions of spiritual states that one pursues in private and only then displays in public?
Information and registration: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/2022/11/22/the-ethics-of-weeping-the-case-of-islam/
2. HYBRID Lecture “The Ottoman-Christian Churches in Anatolia as a Case Study to Investigate Cultural Heritage Politics in Turkey” by JP Dr. Aude Aylin de Tapia (Universität Freiburg), University of Hamburg, 7 December 2022, 18:15 – 20:15 h CET
Information and registration: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/tuerkeieuropa/veranstaltungen/aktuelle-veran-staltungen.html
3. ONLINE Seminar “Saharanism: Intellectual and Literary Histories of a Desert-focused Imagination”, Conversation of Brahim El Guabli with Samia Henni, Crown Center, Brandeis Univer-sity, 7 December 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Whether in the Sahara, Arabian Desert or in the US-Mexico border, Brahim El Guabli’s work argues these desert imaginaries have eclipsed deeper connections and exchanges that have existed between the desert and its inhabitants for millennia, thus justifying policing and extractive practices. He will explore how raciali-zation, extraction, and emptiness have been central to this powerful desert imaginary.
Information and registration:
https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QN2puut7QSe8HlwDyWcIkg#/registration
4. ONLINE Symposium “Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries (Focus MENA)”, University of Vienna and Max-Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Philosophy, Frankfurt, 7-9 December 2022
The symposium offers a platform for gaining a better understanding of the features of legal translations and transformations underwent under Western imperial pressure in not (formally) colonized spaces like the MENA region.
Information, program and registration:
https://www.lhlt.mpg.de/3184144/event-22-12-07-translations-and-transitions-online-symposium
5. ONLINE Conversation „On the Creative Imagination in Persian Architecture“ with Nader Ardalan, American Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture and Knowledge, 8 December 2022, 9:00 pm – 10:00 pm CET
The significance of balance and harmony as well as their relationship to the ‘self’ will be discussed. From enhancing contemplation to highlighting spaces that poetically respond to and nurture our soul, Persian ar-chitecture has been a source of inspiration and wisdom for centuries – architecture that transcends the tan-gible.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/on-the-creative-imagination-in-architecture-tick-ets-479008375947?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb
6. International Workshop “Muslim Minorities and Questions of Secularity in China and Beyond”, Leipzig University, 9-10 June 2023
This interdisciplinary workshop investigates the role of secularity – that is, conceptual distinctions and institutional differentiations between “religion” and its others – in the formation and normalization of Muslim minorities, with a focus on China. Papers should be based on empirical work.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 January 2023. Information: https://www.multiple-secularities.de/events/event/call-for-papers-international-workshop-muslim-minorities-and-questions-of-secularity-in-china-and-beyond/
7. Workshop Panel on “The Mediterranean as a (De)Colonial Border Zone: Socio-Economic Disparities in the Context of Historical and Political Responsibilities” at the Conference of the German Anthropological Association, Munich, 25 – 28 July 2023
The workshop will discuss how anthropology (and related research) should position itself in the study of the Mediterranean as a border zone. How do we produce knowledge in a space where different normative as well as socio-economic foundations of human togetherness collide so conflictive? How do we deal with the political dimension of our research? Which models of decolonial, activist and participatory research do critically engage with this?
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2022. Information: https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/media/pdfs/Dow-nloads/Lange/CfP%20DGSKA%202023%20The%20Mediterranean%20as%20a%20(De)Colonial%20Bor-der%20Zone.pdf
8. Joint Workshop of the “Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies“ and the “Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies“, Murtensee (Bern Canton, Switzerland), 30 August – 1 September 2023
The main research questions of the workshop are: What can one learn about slaveries and strong asym-metrical dependencies from legal sources, and to what extent can legal sources can shed light on the relevant social practices? How can intersectionality shed light on different forms of slavery? Both English and Arabic papers are welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2022. Information: https://trasisblog.unibe.ch/?p=108
9. Post-doctorat (2 ans) dans le cadre du projet Alter-citoyens au Moyen-Orient. Inventer les résistances en temps de violence
Une candidature portant notamment sur le Maghreb, l’Égypte, la Syrie, l’Irak, l’Iran, les régions kurdes, sera particulièrement appréciée. Une très bonne maîtrise orale et rédactionnelle de l’anglais et du français comme langues de travail est requise de même que la pratique d’une des langues des pays considérés par le projet (arabe, turc, kurde, grec) est fortement recommandée.
Date limite de candidature : 16 décembre 2022.
10. International Parliamentary Scholarships (IPS) of the German Bundestag for 24 Arab Graduates, 1-30 September 2023
The program is intended for talented Arab graduates who are interested in politics and who are keen to play an active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries. The program includes a one-week work placement with a Member of German Bundestag.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2022. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/interna-tional/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
11. “Spring School Mediterranean History: Explore the Liquid Continent “, University of Konstanz, 28-30 March 2023
The Spring School is primarily aimed at advanced BA students from various disciplines (e.g. History, Islamic, Jewish or Ottoman studies, Arabic or Romance studies) who are interested in the planned new Master’s programme Mediterranean History at the University of Konstanz, which is expected to start in the winter term 2023/24.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2022. Information: https://www.mittelmeer.uni-konstanz.de/en/spring-school-28-31-march-2023/
12. ENIS Spring School “Shifting Boundaries in Muslim Worlds”, University of Catania, Sicily, 13 -16 June 2023
The study of Islam is unthinkable without taken into consideration the dynamics of boundaries. Be it the study of state-formation, minority policies, discrimination or repression, sectarian divides and merges, inter and intra-religious interaction and community building, or acts of religious self-making and identification. We wel-come work that address these and adjacent topics and themes.
Deadline for abstracts and applications: 28 February 2023. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/75231
13. Summer School: “The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries)”, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 26-30 June 2023
By offering hands-on reading sessions and lectures, which are based on material in Russian, Church Slavonic, Eastern Turkic (Tatar and Chaghatay), and Ottoman Turkish, the summer school offers a wide range of activities to familiarize students with writing, documentary, and archival practices in Tsarist-ruled Central Eurasia. Special attention will be given to records crafted in Cyrillic handwriting as well as in the Arabic script.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2023. Information:https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/summer-school
14. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art Against Authoritarianism: Aesthetic Activism in Post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa” (IB Taurus)
Chapters are invited on Turkey, Syria, Egypt and Palestine. The book examines the roles that art can play in the collective labor of creating and defending “another aesthetics” and social reality in the contemporary MENA. The book elucidates the vitality and creativity of anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian artistic production whose praxis is enmeshed with grassroots movements across MENA.
Deadline for chapters: 31 January 2023. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/11850771/call-chapters-book-ib-tauris-art-against-authoritarianism
15. The Historian of Islam at work. Essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy
Edited by Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/63422?rskey=52HhNw&result=1
16. Islamic Architecture Today and Tomorrow: (Re)Defining the Field,
edited by M. Gharipour and D. Coslet.
Intellect, 2022
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo186918478.html
17. 2nd Annual Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award – Applications due 1 March
Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online offers short-form presentations and glossary term definitions to support teaching, learning, and research in Islamic art and related fields. Since the website’s launch in Fall 2020, we have regularly added new presentations. Last year, we successfully launched the first annual Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award; Sylvia Wu’s winning contribution on the Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou, South China, can be viewed here. While the PhD is a requirement for general submissions, Khamseen’s Graduate Student Presentation Award enables advanced PhD students to feature their expertise and contribute to Khamseen.
We invite PhD candidates (ABD) to submit a polished script of ca. 2,000 words and an accompanying PowerPoint slide show for a 10-12 minute video presentation for the 2nd Annual Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award. The winning applicant will work with our team to revise and then record their presentation; the awardee also will receive a $500 honorarium upon their presentation’s launch on the Khamseen website. Applications are due March 1, 2023 and decisions will be announced on April 1, 2023.
Submission Guidelines:
Applications due: March 1, 2023
Notification of decisions: April 1, 2023
Eligibility: PhD candidates (ABD) and advanced PhD students in their third year or above (for doctoral programs without candidacy) enrolled in a degree-granting program in Islamic art and allied fields. We do not accept applications from undergraduate and Masters students.
Application procedures: Candidates should submit a polished script of ca. 2,000 words and an accompanying PowerPoint slide show for a short-form presentation. Additionally, applications should include a 3-5 sentence summary of the presentation, a 2-page CV, and a note of support from a PhD advisor or dissertation committee member.
Please submit materials to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu; notes of support by advisors and queries by candidates also should be sent to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu.
Submission Guidelines:
Applications due: March 1, 2023
Notification of decisions: April 1, 2023
Eligibility: PhD candidates (ABD) and advanced PhD students in their third year or above (for doctoral programs without candidacy) enrolled in a degree-granting program in Islamic art and allied fields. We do not accept applications from undergraduate and Masters students.
Application procedures: Candidates should submit a polished script of ca. 2,000 words and an accompanying PowerPoint slide show for a short-form presentation. Additionally, applications should include a 3-5 sentence summary of the presentation, a 2-page CV, and a note of support from a PhD advisor or dissertation committee member.
Please submit materials to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu; notes of support by advisors and queries by candidates also should be sent to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu.
18. Barakat Oxford Masters Studentship
One studentship to cover one year’s fees for a Muslim student already accepted on the MSt or MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford. Renewal for the second year of the MPhil may be granted to candidates who perform well in the qualifying examination, but the grant may not be extended to cover doctoral studies.
For further details, please visit:
https://barakat.org/grants/type-of-grants/
19. AN OTTOMAN EROTIC MANUSCRIPT FROM THE 1790s
İrvin Cemil Schick, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
Online talk, Wednesday, December 7th, 12:30pm EST
SilsilaFall 2022 Series, Body and Senses
Received opinion holds that Ottoman miniature painting was moribund by the early eighteenth century, Levnī (d. 1732) being its last great exponent. This is a misconception due in large part to the unwillingness of many art historians to give erotica the attention it deserves. An Ottoman manuscript recently acquired by the David Collection (Copenhagen) and produced in Shumen (in present-day Bulgaria) around the turn of the nineteenth century contains some eighty-five high-quality illustrations, many of which are of an erotic nature. The text brings together a number of well-known erotic works of both poetry and prose, and the degree of accomplishment exhibited by the miniatures suggests that the manuscript may not have been an isolated case.
Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee either online or in person can be found at:
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.
20. Recording of the 8th IDHN Conference
Dear friends and colleagues,
The recording of our 8th IDHN Conference on November 17, 2022 is online: https://youtu.be/hnWwg3N5PFY
It is also posted on our IDHN forum: https://idhn.org/forums/topic/8th-idhn-conference-recording/
Please note that the presentation by Prof. Maya Shatzmiller is not included in the recording upon her request.
We are immensely grateful to our presenters for their generosity in sharing their inspiring research with the IDH Network!
Thank you and best wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
21. La troisième séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le jeudi 15 décembre 2022 (de 17h à 19h, salle 5.28).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Alberto BERNARD (Doctorant, allocataire de recherche EPHE-PSL/CeRMI) pour une conférence intitulée : “« Passe-moi le sel » : serments et diplomatie chez les rois sassanides“.
Résumé
Les pratiques du serment dans l’Iran ancien nous sont encore mal connues et une étude dédiée à ses aspects sociaux et religieux fait encore partie des desiderata des études iraniennes. Chez les historiens tardo-antiques tels que Procope (Guerres 1.4.9-10), ps-P’awstos (Histoires épiques 4.53) et ps-Sebēos (Histoire des Arméniens 11, 12, 39, 40), on trouve une allusion remarquable au fait que des rois sassanides comme Šābuhr II (IIIe s.), Pērōz (Ve s.) ou Kawād II Šīrōe (VIIe s.) prêtaient serment en « scellant du sel ». S’agit-il ici d’une fiction des sources littéraires ou d’une réalité historique ? En analysant ce dossier jusqu’à présent négligé et en mobilisant de nombreux témoignages sur la symbolique du sel dans le monde iranien, je propose d’y voir le reflet d’une pratique communicative royale, qui prenait sa forme dans la diplomatie interétatique et servait à garantir non seulement l’engagement du roi mais aussi l’immunité de la contrepartie. À cet effet, le sel était employé comme gage symbolique de bonne foi, d’hospitalité et d’amitié.
Orientation Bibliographique
- G. Garsoïan, « Armenian Sources on Sasanian Administration », in R. Gyselen (éd.), Sources pour l’histoire et la géographie du monde iranien, 224-710, Bures-sur-Yvette, 2009, p. 91–114.
- K. Patkanian, « Essai d’une histoire de la dynastie des Sassanides, d’après les renseignements fournis par les historiens arméniens », in Journal Asiatique, 7 (1866), p. 101–238.
- Nechaeva, Embassies – Negotiations – Gifts : Systems of East Roman Diplomacy in Late Antiquity, Stuttgart, 2014.
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/
22. An American Martyr in Persia, The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville
R Aslan,
Norton, 2022
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324004479
23. Call for Papers: Slavery in Islamicate Societies (TraSIS and the BCDSS)
Conference date: 30 August – 1 September 2023
Location: Murtensee (Bern Canton, Switzerland)
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2023 (with notification of which papers have been accepted for presentation in February)
N.B. travel, accommodation and all expenses related to the conference will be covered by the organisers.
Overview
Recent scholarship on various forms of dependency has demonstrated that a straightforward freedom/slavery binary does not help to account for how slavery operates in different historical and social contexts. In this workshop, we aim to contribute to discussions on the necessity of transcending this binary, focusing in particular on legal sources from Islamicate contexts.
We invite scholars working on any aspect of slavery and law (both normative texts and legal practices) to join us for a workshop convened jointly by the TraSIS project (Trajectories of Slavery in Islamicate Societies) and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS).
Contributions should contribute to the main research questions of the workshop, namely what one can learn about slaveries and strong asymmetrical dependencies from legal sources, and the extent to which legal sources can shed light on the relevant social practices. We are interested in papers focusing on both normative sources and sources shedding light on legal practices related to slavery and strong asymmetrical dependencies. In particular, we are interested in papers reflecting on how intersectionality can shed light on different forms of slavery and/or papers pursuing a comparative approach between different legal schools. We are also open to other methodological approaches.
The contributions to this conference will be published in a peer-reviewed journal. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words, and should be submitted to serena.tolino@islam.unibe.ch
Further information on the conference and the TraSIS research project can be found here.
24.Pourdavoud Center Videos Available: The World of Ancient Iran and the West Panel IV
We are pleased to share with you the recorded lectures from the fourth panel of the conference, The World of Ancient Iran and the West, “Iran and Rome in Late Antiquity and Beyond,” hosted at UCLA on May 20, 2022.
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the J. Paul Getty Museum convened an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. Held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), it marked the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium included invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertains to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West. The overarching themes covered by the symposium were: Achaemenid Persia and the West; Iran and the Hellenistic World; and Eastern and Western Entanglements in the Post-Hellenistic and Late Antique Periods.
25. Apply Now: The Yemen and Gulf Exchange Conference, January 16 – 27 (Online)
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26. digitalSSM, a tool created by the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, provides “open access” to the museum’s collections and archives for academics, researchers, and students from all over the world.
A pioneering project in Turkey, digitalSSM has digitalized the entirety of the museum’s collections and archives, including the Arts of the Book and Calligraphy Collection, the Painting Collection, the Abidin Dino Archive, and the Emirgan Archive; with over 77,000 high-resolution images. In addition to the dates, dimensions, materials, and technical information of each work, digitalSSM also contains the results of academic research conducted on these collections. Moreover, with its 200% zoom feature, the software allows researchers to examine artwork details such as brush strokes, paint layers, and craquelure, usually invisible to the naked eye.
Accessed by 200,000 users so far, digitalSSM is a resource for academics, researchers, museum professionals, collectors, art history students, and anyone interested in Turkish and Islamic arts. It is also a significant digital art archive for future academic studies and aims to contribute to the recognition of Turkey’s cultural heritage.
The collection and archives of the Sakıp Sabancı Museum are available at digitalSSM.
27. Kamran Talattof, Demystifying the Mystic: Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature. Monday Majlis on the 12th of December, 17:00-18:30 (UK time).
Monday the 12th of December. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrce-tpzwrG9xdL1jQGTez9SGf97yILHdd
28. 2023 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World: Call for Submissions
The 2023 round of the BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
This international prize is awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. The award includes a cash prize of £1000 which will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS.
For further information about the Prize, including all terms and conditions,
click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2023
29. Website for UCLA’s ‘Minorities in the Middle East and North Africa’ Project
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/minorities-program
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.In 2023 the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations inaugurates the “Franklin Lewis Lecture Series” in Persian Literature. This series is made possible by a generous gift to NELC and the Humanities Division and will support two lectures per year on Persian literature to honor the legacy of the late NELC Professor, Franklin Lewis.
The first two speakers are:
February 16th, 2023 – Paul Losensky, title tbd.
May 4th, 2023 – Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, title tbd.
Please see below the link to the page where the information about the upcoming talks is posted. The events will be in person and on zoom. The zoom links will be posted on this page before each talk.
https://nelc.uchicago.edu/news-events/franklin-lewis-lecture-series
2. CFP Culture and Global Responsibility: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene
Conference at the University of Warwick
May 12-14, 2023
Organisers:
Stefano Bellin (University of Warwick)
Guido Bartolini (Ghent University)
Michael Niblett (University of Warwick)
Deadline to submit a paper proposal: February 10, 2023
Conference webpage: Rethinking Habitability in the Age of the Anthropocene (warwick.ac.uk)
3. Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & Latinx U.S. (Dec. 7-8 | Online Colloquium)
- The second annual LACISA colloquium, in partnership with the Muslim Philanthropy Initiative.
** REGISTER: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.
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While the literatures on Muslim philanthropy and on Latinx philanthropy are continuously expanding, they lack perspectives on how Latinx Muslims and Muslims in Latin America are part of a wider matrix of generosity, volunteering, and mutual aid within, and beyond, both constituencies. On the one hand, Muslims give to organizations and participate in philanthropic activism at local, national, and global levels, hoping to make the world a better place in accordance with Islam. On the other hand, people who identify as Latinx or who live in Latin America have historically engaged in acts of solidarity and mutual assistance among vulnerable populations, addressing issues related to poverty, education, health, and culture.
The presentations below — and the resulting special edition of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=eb18236511&e=f70992245e) — will help move research on the intersections between these fields that much further.
We welcome you to REGISTER (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=a3b95832b3&e=f70992245e) and join us for the following events. A specialized Zoom link will be sent ahead of the event for all those who register.
NOTICE: All times are Central European Time (GMT +1). Please adjust for your own time zone.
4. The Muslim Difference
Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present
Y Patel
Yale, 2022
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248968/the-muslim-difference/
5. Announcement: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies
This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. In this year’s competition, social science and humanities articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals in 2021 were considered. The winning articles share the prize of $800. The selection committee was composed of Michiel Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam), Zozan Pehlivan (University of Minnesota), and Güneş Murat Tezcür (University of Central Florida).
The committee has decided to split the award between two articles:
Özgür Sevgi Göral (2021).Waiting for the disappeared: waiting as a form of resilience and the limits of legal space in Turkey. Social Anthropology, 29(3), 800-815.
Classical accounts of the counterinsurgency campaign pursued by the Turkish state in Kurdish lands discuss how the law became an instrument of domination to discipline, punish, and subdue political dissent. Göral’s argument offers an alternative reading of the role of law in shaping the encounters between Kurdish citizens who lost their loved ones to enforced disappearances. Focusing on a legal case about the high-ranking military officer accused of executing 21 individuals in the early 1990s, she reveals how novel forms of political subjectivities and activism have emerged among the relatives of the disappeared. Her study is based on rich fieldwork involving dozens of in-depth interviews and participant observation in court settings magnifies the voices of these individuals whose long encounters with the state bureaucracy inform their political resilience and resistance. While the trial ended as expectedly (i.e., all defendants acquitted), the very practice of using Turkey’s court system has exposed the fabricated nature of the state narratives, reinforced a sense of belonging among the activists, and validated their lasting loyalty to their family members victimized by the state. By transcending the binary framework between the state and insurgency that often characterizes the study of the “Kurdish question” in Turkey, Göral gives the struggles of ordinary people directly affected by the conflict the attention they deserve.
Nicola Degli Esposti (2021). The 2017 independence referendum and the political economy of Kurdish nationalism in Iraq. Third World Quarterly, 42(10), 2317-2333.
The referendum organized by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in September 2017 was the latest bid for sovereignty that remains central to Kurdish political aspirations. Yet it ended in failure and the loss of a significant amount of territory for the KRG. Taking a different approach than the burgeoning literature on the subject, Degli Esposti critically argues that the decision to hold the referendum was not a strategic miscalculation but an attempt to deflect popular unrest. By focusing on the long-neglected political economy of the KRG, Degli Esposti cogently identifies how a non-transparent, unaccountable, and corrupt fiscal system fostered new hierarchies and dependencies that were increasingly sustained by repression. The rise of the self-styled Islamic State, the conflict with the central government of Iraq in Baghdad regarding the budget reallocation, and the global decline in oil prices by 2014 exacerbated social tensions and generated direct threats to the political elite. In this context, the decision to hold the referendum aimed to stoke nationalist sentiments and sustain the political status quo. Degli Esposti’s article brings analytical clarity to this crucial aspect of the referendum and will stimulate much needed discussion about the relationship between Kurdish elites and ordinary people in a time of continuing uncertainty and precariousness in Kurdish lands.
The committee has also found the following article worthy of an honorable mention:
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (2021). Becoming Armenian: religious conversions in the late imperial South Caucasus. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 63(1), 242-272.
In this rich and elegantly written article, Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky studies voluntary conversions to Armenian Christianity during the late nineteenth century South Caucasus under the rule of the Russian Tsar. These converts included Muslims, Yezidis, Assyrians, and Jews who sought to improve their social standing and material wellbeing in a sociopolitical environment embodying entrenched hierarchies. While the conversions were a slow-moving process subject to approval by the Russian authorities who wielded their power capriciously, they were also emblematic of a social order with relatively fluid identities across the borderlands. This order would be swept away with the outbreaks of intercommunal violence and the rise of ethno-nationalism by the early 20th century. By focusing on a neglected historical dynamic indicating the transmutability of religious identities, Hamed-Troyansky’s article brings a fresh perspective to Kurdish Studies and fosters greater intellectual synergy with other fields of inquiry.
6. History of Islamic Art Association- prize, fellowship, grant
The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: December 15, 2022
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee to the Ševčenko committee chair (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com).
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2022. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture
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Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December 15, 2022
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to support post-doctoral scholars at an early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:
* To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.
OR
* To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Applicants should have completed their PhD within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or for supplies.
All materials should be submitted by email to the chair of the Grabar post-doctoral fellowship committee chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2022. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
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Grabar Travel Grant
Deadline: December 15, 2022
This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions.
Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.
Applications must include the following components and be submitted in a single pdf to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2022:
- Application cover sheet, available here
- A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
- Curriculum vitae
- Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s)
- Abstract of the paper to be presented
Additionally, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.
Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
7. Call for Applications: 2023-2024 PIL–LC Research Fellowship
In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
In collaboration with the *John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress,*the *Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School *is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-2024 PIL–LC Research Fellowship <https://harvard.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b92c9ea0db629b61c0751b0d&id=c4c15c7a5e&e=83b705019c>(*due: January 31, 2023*). <https://harvard.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b92c9ea0db629b61c0751b0d&id=10090d2503&e=83b705019c>This newly offered fellowship is designed to provide an intellectual home to promising young scholars in Islamic legal studies, to advance their research, and to contribute to the intellectual life of the Program, the greater Harvard community, and the Library of Congress community. The unique opportunity afforded by this joint fellowship award allows the selected fellow to pursue independent research on Islamic law and history that utilizes the extensive collections of the Harvard Libraries and the Library of Congress. The PIL–LC Research Fellowship award is a full-time residential fellowship at Harvard Law School (for nine months, during the academic year) and at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress (for three months, the following summer).
Successful applicants will have completed an advanced degree (JD, PhD, SJD, or the equivalent) before the start of the fellowship, and plan to pursue a scholarly research agenda in Islamic law that engages legal history, law and society, or comparative law approaches. Fellows will receive a stipend for the duration of the fellowship.
To apply for this fellowship, please submit the following materials via the research fellowship online application form <https://harvard.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b92c9ea0db629b61c0751b0d&id=82dd531709&e=83b705019c>by *January 31, 2023*:
1. a curriculum vitae
2. a research proposal consisting of
* a single-paragraph abstract of your proposed research
* a research statement, not to exceed 1500 words (3 single-spaced pages), and
* a bibliography of works you have consulted that describes the proposed work during the fellowship period.
The proposal should outline research in your area of expertise or interest related to contemporary or historical issues of Islamic law that can be accomplished during the fellowship term; projects are to utilize the Harvard and Library of Congress collections to advance a novel contribution to scholarship through research in Islamic law, with a legal history, comparative law, or law and society approach.
3. an explanation of why Harvard/PIL and the Library of Congress are the required venue for your research (e.g., identification of specific Harvard/PIL resources and Library of Congress collections that are necessary to pursue the research project)
4. a writing sample of no more than 25 pages in length, in English (which can be a recent publication or unpublished work; works-in-progress are especially welcome)
5. 3 reference letters from recommenders who are to upload letters directly at the referee link <https://harvard.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8b92c9ea0db629b61c0751b0d&id=bf296965ca&e=83b705019c>.
A panel of scholars at both Harvard and the Library of Congress will review your application materials. The panel will consider your application in relation to numerous other proposals. Evaluation criteria will include:
* The significance of the contribution that the project will make to knowledge in the field
* The quality or the promise of quality of the work
* The quality of the conception, definition, organization and description of the project
* The likelihood that the applicant will complete the project
* The appropriateness of the research for Harvard/PIL resources and the Library of Congress collections
Please ensure that your references have ample time to consider and comment on your proposal. Letters of reference are more highly regarded if they address the specific proposed activity and how well the candidate is suited to undertake it, as opposed to letters that verify character, limit comments to previous work, or make only general observations on the topic.
Following a process of committee review, applicants will be notified of decisions in March 2023.
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- December 03, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Sisters in the Mirror: A History of Muslim Women and the Global Politics of Feminism
Elora Shehabuddin,
University of California Press, 2021.
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342514/sisters-in-the-mirror
2. The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement. Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities.
Isabel Käser,
Cambridge University Press, 2021.
3. HYBRID Annual Business Meeting of the “Association of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies [AGAPS]” (Open to Public), Denver, CO, 1 December 2022, 12:30 pm – 2:30 pm MST
We will discuss the current activities and future plans of AGAPS and answer questions from members and other participants.
Information and registration: https://agaps.org/agapsatmesa/
4. ONLINE Session “Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chro-nicle of Naima” with Gül Şen (University of Bonn), Ottoman &Turkish Studies Association (OTSA), 8 December 2022, 9:00 am Pacific Time
The author will introduce her recently published book. Selim Kuru (University of Washington) and Claudia Römer (University of Vienna) will provide commentary. The session will be moderated by Suraiya Faroqhi (Ibn Haldun University).
Information and registration:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrfuCqrD0vGN3pk4p2rs21EvTY947YMXDD
5. Research Seminar “Crossed Gazes: Publishing and the Oltremare between Colonialism and Post-Colonialism (Focus MENA)”, University of Pavia, Italy, 8-9 June 2023
The Seminar focuses on the history of colonial publishing and aims to create a space for scholars of contem-porary, colonial and African history to meet and discuss, in order to enhance the specificity of different ap-proaches to the discipline – considering its linguistic plurality (texts in Italian, English, Arabic, Trigrinya…) as well as its social and political aims.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 December 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/28765/discus-sions/11725436/cfp-crossed-gazes-publishing-and-oltremare-between-colonialism
6. Traineeship in International Humanitarian Law and Islamic Law (12 Months), International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva
Qualification: Advanced degree in Islamic law (sharia); good knowledge of Public International Law, particu-larly IHL; familiarity with common law and/or civil law systems and Experience with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement would be an advantage; excellent written and oral expression in English and Arabic are required; knowledge (verbal and written) of French and/or other languages would be an advantage; etc.
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2022.
7. Chapters for the “The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media”
This anthology is a reference book that brings together a rigorous and expansive study of the developments of roughly a century of cinema histories of this region including other media (radio, television musalsalat and other programs, music and internet). It spans a wide geographic and cultural range across Asia and Africa that includes immigrant, migrant and diasporic cultures, and bridges the 20th and 21st centuries.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 January 2023. Information:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/273814852778897/posts/2270457429781286/?mibextid=6NoCDW
8. Articles on “The Afterlives of Revolution” for Special Issue of the Journal “Oxford Middle East Review”
We use the concept of “afterlives” to avoid the imaginaries of new beginnings after revolutions, and illustrate the continuity amidst rupture, and the perseverance of human experiences during turbulent times. From the fall of empires to the events of the Arab Spring eleven years ago, in what ways have the impact of revolutions affected the lives of the people of the Middle East and North Africa, including policies related to different nation-states within the region?
Deadline for submissions: 10 December 2022. Information:
9. The 4th lecture of the University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series:
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Thursday 01 December 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95663271964
Approaches to the Study of Sufi Women (sufiyyat ) in Islamic History Texts
Professor Omayma Abu Bakr (Cairo University)
10. CONFERENCE | A Hard Row to Hoe: Landowning and Land Management in the Medieval Islamic World (622-1250 CE)
12-14 December, Corpus Christi College, Oxford
The IE team is thrilled to announce its upcoming conference exploring landowning and the organisation of agricultural production in the Medieval Islamic world.
The conference features speakers from the most important institutions around the world to discuss all aspects of land management between 622-1250 CE.
Registrations are open and free of charge. Visit the conference page for more information, registration, and the conference programme.
11. The 24th Association of University Language Communities (AULC) annual conference
The call for abstracts is now open.
The 24th Association of University Language Communities (AULC) annual conference Language for All in Higher Education: Inclusion, Diversity, and Sustainability, will be hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Open Learning on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th of April 2023. This event will be held in person.
This will be an opportunity for us to come together to share practice, pedagogies, research, and reflections in our context. Please review the information at the link below.
https://aulc.org/2022/11/aulc-annual-conference-2023/
12. Alwalweed Centre, Edinburgh
Islam in Indonesia’s Contemporary Foreign Policy and Global Diplomacy (online via Zoom)
Monday 5 December 2022, 1pm GMT, online via Zoom
A special online conversation between Prof. James B. Hoesterey (Emory University), Yanwar Pribadi (Indonesian International Islamic University) and Prof. Delphine Allès (University of Paris-Est) exploring Islam and Indonesia in foreign policy and global diplomacy. The webinar will be chaired by Dr Siti Sarah Muwahidah (Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh).
CLICK HERE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND FREE TICKETS
13. ‘Index of Islamophobia’ report
On Monday 21st November was published a report in Parliament titled, “Index of Islamophobia: Proposing an Enforcement and Prosecution Framework.”
The launch event was a great success, with Lord Wajid Khan and Baroness Glenys Thornton opening with powerful remarks. This is the first time an index, which is a tool to measure Islamophobia, has been proposed. We hope that the index can be widely employed, and we will certainly be working with the government and legal and police professionals to enable this.
A pdf copy of the report can be found here.
14. Repenser la calligraphie en caractères arabes : enjeux et défis
Eloïse Brac de la Perrière (INHA – Sorbonne Université – UMR 8167)
Time : 6 PM, 5 December 2022
Venue : Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2 Rue Vivienne, 75002, Paris. Salle Vasari.
Abstract :
Strictement codifiée à Bagdad aux alentours du Xe siècle de notre ère, la calligraphie en caractères arabes a connu des développements originaux dans les régions éloignées du berceau historique du monde islamique. Le manque de données relatives à ces calligraphies a largement contribué à concentrer l’attention des chercheurs sur les styles canoniques, bien mieux documentés. Pourtant, l’analyse des vestiges matériels portant de telles formes d’écriture, manuscrits, objets divers ou architectures, éclairent d’autres évolutions, ainsi que d’autres fonctions, de la calligraphie en caractères arabes et permet d’affiner le récit de cet art fondateur dans l’histoire de la civilisation islamique.
15. The Great Mongol Shahnama
by Professor Robert Hillenbrand
HPL, 2022
https://www.greatmongolshahnama.com/
16. Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion
by Evelyn Alsultany
NYU Press, 2022
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781479823963/broken/
- November 29, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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