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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Nezami Ganjavi and Classical Persian Literature: Demystifying the Mystic
by Kamran Talattof
2. Reorienting Modernism in Arabic and Persian Poetry
Levi Thompson
3. America’s Arab Nationalists: From the Ottoman Revolution to the Rise of Hitler
A Berman
4. Call for Papers: 2023 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 15 & 16 May 2023
The 2023 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies will be hosted in the stunning surroundings of the Aga Khan University’s Institutite for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, London, on Monday 15th and Tuesday 16th May 2023.
The Call for Papers is now live and can be viewed here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2023-call-for-papers
We welcome proposals for individual papers or whole panels from across the many sub-disciplines of Islamic Studies and look forward to welcoming you all to what promises to be a very memorable two days of presentations and conversations.
The deadline for submissions is Thursday 5th January 2023, and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or require any guidance on submitting your proposal.
5. Research Associate in Islamic History & Civilisation
The Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK, based in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, wishes to appoint to a 3-year fixed-term post in the field of Islamic History and Civilisation. Applicants will be working on a project entitled ‘Legacies of Learning’ which explores the Islamic educational and intellectual tradition.
This is a full-time post, fixed-term for 3 years. For further details, click here. Vacancy reference number: 15372BR
Salary: £35,333 – £42,155 per annum (Grade 6)
Closing date: 11th November 2022
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray OBE FLSW
Director, Centre for the Study of Islam in the UK
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
John Percival Building
Cardiff University
Colum Road
Cardiff
CF10 3EU
Tel: 02922510830
Ext. 10830
Mobile: 07702 345342
Email: Gilliat-RayS@cardiff.ac.uk
6. Hybrid Workshop – “BODY AS MACHINE: MECHANICAL DEVICES IN ISLAMIC LANDS” Silsila Fall 2022 Series, Body and Senses, event co-sponsored by NYU’s Hagop Kevorkian Center.
Full details can be found on the Silsila website:
This event will take place as a live Webinar on 28 October at 12:30pm EST (New York time). To register as an attendee, please use the following link:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ad7GxfXlSrSS6dkKidbXCw
This event will also be held in person at the Hagop Kevorkian Centre for Near Eastern Studies, 50 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012.
7. New Exhibition – “Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science” (October 19th, 2022- March 3rd, 2023), Columbia University
Opening of Exhibition “Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science”
Date: October 18, 2020 at 6 PM
Place: Columbia University, Butler Library (Rare Collection), sixth floor
Exhibition: “Science, Nature and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science” (October 19th, 2022- March 3rd, 2023) at the Rare Collection at Butler Library, Columbia University. This exhibit showcases over 90 manuscripts, instruments and objects from the Muslim World Manuscript collection which are housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), at the Columbia University Libraries (CUL). This exhibit is a collective curatorial effort that has involved many students, faculty members, librarians and library staff working hand-in-hand to exchange ideas and to select, research, engage with, and mount the items.
The curatorial team consisted of the following members: Kaoukab Chebaro (Global Studies, Columbia University Libraries), Olivia Clemens (PhD candidate, Art History Department), Arwa Palanpurwala (Islamic Studies, MA Student, Middle East Institute GSAS), Prof. A. Tunç Şen (History Department), Prof. Marwa El Shakry (History Department), Prof. Avinoam Shalem (Riggio Professor, Art History Department), Julia Tomasson (PhD candidate, History Department), Yusuf Umrethwala (Islamic Studies, MA Student, Middle East Institute GSAS), and Navid Zarrinnal (PhD graduate, MESAAS).
The E-Catalogue of this exhibition (circa 120 pages, colored illustrated) can be downloaded from https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/vrpk-3269. Includes bibliographical references.
8. Made for the Eye of One Who Sees: Canadian Contributions to the study of Islamic Art and Archaeology
Edited by Marcus Milwright and Evanthia Baboula.
McGill-Queens University Press and the Royal Ontario Museum, 2022.
https://www.mqup.ca/made-for-the-eye-of-one-who-sees-products-9780228012047.php
9. Archaeology of Iran panel at ASOR
The annual conference of The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) will host a panel entitled “Archaeology of Iran” on October 23, from 10 to 11 a.m. EDT. The organizers would like to encourage all interested individuals to attend, especially Iranians. ASOR will be able to provide one-day access to Iranian scholars who would like to watch the presentations (in advance) and attend the session. Interested person can access the appropriate form at this link: Archaeology of Iran – Interest Form.
10. Saison afghane au Musée Guimet, 26/10/22-06/02/23
Le Musée Guimet présentera prochainement deux expositions sur l’Afghanistan (26/10 au 06/02, https://www.guimet.fr/event/la-saison-afghane/),
accompagnées d’une série de films
(https://www.billetweb.fr/lafghanistan-dans-le-7eme-art) et d’un concert (https://www.guimet.fr/event/musique-afghane-trio-ghani/).
- October 22, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Lecture “The Amazigh Indigenous Library and the Future of Amazigh Studies” by Brahim El Guabli, Social Justice Committee of the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA), 26 October 2022, 12:00 pm ET
This talk will contextualize the revitalization of Amazigh language and culture through the multipronged efforts of the Amazigh Cultural Movement, between 1966 and the present, focusing on the challenges the profusion of cultural production in Tamazight might create for the librarian of Tamazgha and the Middle East.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/25688/discussions/11234749/upcoming-lecture-1026-amazigh-indigenous-library-and-future
2. HYBRID Lecture “Medieval Melting Pot? Group Formation and Maintenance in the Abbasid Caliphate, 750-1000” by Prof. Philip Wood, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 29 November 2022, 18:00 – 19:00 h, GMT
Philip Wood sets out his plan for his new research project on “Group Formation in the Abbasid Caliphate”. It aims to compare Jewish, Christian and Muslim populations across Iraq and the Levant to isolate the factors that allowed some groups to survive and flourish while others did not.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/11232164/medieval-melting-pot-group-formation-and-maintenance-abbasid
3. Workshops for the 13th Gulf Research Meeting (GRM), Cambridge, UK, 11-13 July 2023
The Gulf Research Centre Cambridge welcomes any innovative proposal in the social science field dedicated to a better understanding of developments in the Gulf region. In addition, the organizing committee would like to receive proposals for particular topics.
Deadline for workshop proposals and paper abstracts: 11 November 2022.
Information: https://gulfresearchmeeting.net/documents/GRM2023CallforWorkshopProposal.pdf
4. Professorship (W3 or W2 with Tenure-Track to W3) in Islamic Studies, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Candidates are expected to represent the field of Islamic Studies in both research and
teaching in an appropriate breadth, and to have excellent national and international credentials. His/her research can focus on contemporary as well as historical topics of the Arab-Islamic world and should include work with Arabic as a source language. Course language is German.
Deadline for applications: 24 November 2022. Information: https://www.berufungsportal.uni-jena.de/
5. Full Professorship in Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures with a Focus on the Global South, University of Amsterdam
Qualification: You have a PhD in Comparative Literature, Literary Studies, Post/Decolonial Studies or a related discipline, and your research is clearly focused on the Global South and non-Anglophone literature; you have an excellent international academic reputation and publication track record; etc.
Deadline for applications: 29 November 2022. Information: Prof. Judith Rispens, j.e.rispens@uva.nl
6. Lecturer in Contemporary Art History (1980 – Present Day; Asia, Middle East, North Africa), University of St Andrews, UK
Candidates should already have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Contemporary Art History of Asia/the Middle East/North Africa and demonstrate evidence of, or of the capacity to produce, excellent research outputs.
Deadline for applications: 17 November 2022.
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in History (Professorship in the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
The geographic area of specialization is open and not limited to the Middle East. Knowledge of one or more regional research languages is required.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2022. Information: Dr. Thomas Kuehn, thomas_kuehn@sfu.ca
8. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology (Focus Middle East), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Anthropology by August 1, 2023; active research program focused on the Middle East; Areas of theoretical and methodological expertise that complement existing faculty strengths.
Deadline for applications: 7 November 2022. Information: https://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UASYS/job/Assistant-Professor-of-Cultural_Anthropology_R0024091
9. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS
Regional concentration and disciplinary approach are open, but may include areas such as Islamic philosophy, theology, and/or ethics. Demonstrate creativity and excellence in research and scholarship, engagement with the broader concerns of Islamic and Religious Studies, and dedication to teaching students at the undergraduate level.
Deadline for applications: 21 November 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/12/assistant-professor-islamic-studies
10. Exhibition Announcement – Islam in Europe, 1000–1250
Exhibition: September 7, 2022–February 12, 2023
Grand Special Exhibition at the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum to Shed Light on a Shared Cultural History in the Middle Ages
The treasuries of European churches, including the Hildesheim Cathedral Treasury (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), preserve numerous artefacts from regions where the Islamic faith exercised a formative influence. Based on these objects, the grand special exhibition “Islam in Europe, 1000–1250” at the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum sheds light on shared achievements and cultural entanglements. With outstanding and rarely seen works on loan from international lenders, including pieces from Florence, London, Paris, and Vienna, it offers visitors a unique opportunity to explore a history that has direct bearing on contemporary concerns.
Medieval Córdoba, Palermo, Cairo, and Constantinople were gleaming metropolises where business and trade, the sciences and the arts flourished. Precious rock crystal vessels, silken fabrics, carved ivories, and translations of scientific literature reached Central Europe from areas where Islam was the dominant faith. This migration of objects and transmission of knowledge and technology resulted in an interweaving of cultures. It forged connections across boundaries of creed and language and vast geographical distances, from today’s Iraq and Iran through North Africa and Spain all the way to Central Europe. Preserved in church treasuries, the objects bear witness to how much the diverse cultures had in common in the era between 1000 and 1250.
The exhibition at the Hildesheim Cathedral Museum sheds light on this multifaceted history in a series of chapters dedicated, for instance, to the integration of precious stones with Arabic inscriptions, chess figures, or fabrics into works of European treasury art. Some objects from Islamic regions also reflect Christian iconography, and with others we cannot even say with certainty where they were made; such cases are striking illustration of how closely interwoven the cultures were. The transfer of knowledge by way of translations of scientific literature from Arabic to Latin is the subject of another chapter in the exhibition. The section “Contemporary Laboratory” builds on this shared history to invite visitors to grapple with questions of today’s society and culture: materials in a range of media, including literature, music, and films, provide in-depth information and prompt searching reflections.
The exhibition is flanked by an extensive program of events, including guided tours in Arabic, German, and Turkish. Special emphasis is placed on educational formats and workshops designed for children and teenagers such as school projects in conjunction with the exhibition; their output and findings will become part of the “Contemporary Laboratory.” Other event formats range from live performances, including by “Songs of Gastarbeiter,” to literary readings and a conversation with Thomas Bauer (professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Felix Körner (Nicolaus Cusanus Chair of theology of religions, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).
A richly illustrated catalogue (in German) with contributions by Silvia Armando, Thomas Bauer, Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie, Stefan Heidemann, Theresa Jäckh, Lothar Lambacher, Jenny Rahel Oesterle-El Nabbout, Joanna Olchawa, Marcus Pilz, and Regula Schorta will be released by Verlag Schnell & Steiner in conjunction with the exhibition.
The exhibition is supported by: Ernst von Siemens Art Foundation, Stiftung Niedersachsen, Niedersächsische Sparkassenstiftung, Kulturstiftung der Sparkasse für die Region Hildesheim, Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur, Cultural Foundation of the German Federal States, VGH Stiftung, NORD/LB Kulturstiftung, Dombauverein Hohe Domkirche Hildesheim e.V., Landschaftsverband Hildesheim e.V., Friedrich Weinhagen Stiftung, Johannishofstiftung, Landschaft des vormaligen Fürstentums Hildesheim.
Hildesheim Cathedral Museum
Domhof, 31134 Hildesheim
Hours
Tuesday through Sunday, 11am–5pm
The Cathedral Museum is closed on December 24 and 31.
Admissions
Adults: €6 per person
Free admission for anyone under 25
Free admission for everyone on the first Tuesday of each month
Groups of 10 or more, students, severely disabled visitors and welfare recipients (with identification): €4 per person
Press contacts
Volker Bauerfeld, press office, Diocese of Hildesheim:
volker.bauerfeld@bistum-hildesheim.de, +49 5121 307822, +49 170 7842593
Denhart v. Harling, segeband.pr: dh@segeband.de, +49 179 4963497
11. Webinar – “The Sensescape of Ottoman Tombs” NYU Silsila – October 19
“THE SENSESCAPE OF OTTOMAN TOMBS”
[Silsila Fall 2022 Series]
Nina Macaraig, Independent Scholar
Wednesday, October 19th, 12:30pm EDT
[Webinar] Silsila Fall 2022 Lecture Series, Body and Senses
While Ottoman tombs have been thoroughly surveyed in terms of their formal and ornamental characteristics and therefore in their visual aspects, neither their aural dimensions in the form of Qur’anic recitation and prayer, nor the customary deployment of fragrances by means of incense burners within their spaces have received much attention.
Drawing on sensory anthropology and soundscape studies, this lecture will examine the interplay between the visual, the aural, and the olfactory in Ottoman tombs, by means of examples in Istanbul and other major cities of the empire. It will argue that Ottoman tombs presented a sensory environment that could be manipulated for the purpose of propagating specific political messages and programs, while simultaneously hinting at Paradise—as described in the hadith and the paradise narrative genre—where the deceased were hoped to reside and where visitors could imagine themselves in the Afterlife.
Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:
https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2022-2023/the-sensescape-of-ottoman-tombs–nina-macaraig.html
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.
12. University of California – Los Angeles – Assistant Professor, Ancient Iranian Archaeology and Art History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64263
Closing date: Jan 5, 2023
13. University of Illinois – Chicago – Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64305
Closing date: Dec 1, 2022
14. South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA)
SAMSA will have a panel as well as our annual business meeting at the Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI 2022.
Oct 21-22, 2022
Full info at:
https://samsaweb.org/symposium/
- October 18, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.An Encounter with Dylan Thomas,
by Ebrahim Golestan ed. Abbas Milani
2. UCLA Iranian Studies Program
Panel Discussion on the Roles of Gender & Women in the Current Protests in Iran
Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Discussion in Persian
3. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Invites you to attend a memorial service in honor of Franklin D. Lewis
Friday, October 28th, 2022
4:30pm Central Time
Breasted Hall, The Oriental Institute 1155 E58th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Or via Zoom: https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcOChrzMoHNOtAl3ombp0u8NnwheK2F5s Reception immediately following in the Oriental Institute galleries
Please RSVP no later than Friday, October 21st
4. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin is pleased to announce the 2023 Virtual Language Workshop, a professional development forum tailored to the needs of post-secondary Middle East language educators.
March 2-3, 2023
Featuring sessions about aspects of Middle East language teaching and program administration in higher education settings, the workshop aims to enhance the quality of language programs and to provide opportunities for inter-institutional collaboration.
Proposals are invited for presentations describing research and descriptive reports on Middle East language learning and pedagogy as well as undergraduate and graduate program innovations. We welcome presentations on:
- strategies for student recruitment and retention
- approaches to curriculum development including multi-literacies, intercultural communicative competence, open pedagogy, experiential learning, and language for specific purposes
- integration of heritage learners
- TA training and instructors’ professional development
- inter-institutional collaborations and exchanges
- testing and assessment
Other topics of relevance to Middle East language teaching and program administration are also welcome.
Deadline and Notification of Acceptance: The deadline for the submission of abstracts is Monday, November 11, 2022.
All abstract proposals should be submitted via the 2023 ME NRS Virtual Language Workshop Abstract Submission Survey.
Notifications of acceptance will go out in late December 2022.
Questions? Write to Olla Al-Shalchi (olla@austin.utexas.edu ) or Jeannette Okur (jeannette.okur@austin.utexas.edu ).
5. BRISMES event:
What is Transnational Feminist Solidarity Today? A dialogue with and of Iranian feminists
17 October 2022, 17:00-18:30 (BST) on Zoom
6. Isabelle Eberhardt: A Western Woman’s Empowering Journey through Islam
We have the pleasure to invite you to lecture 1 of Round 2 of the ‘Women and Gender Forum’ run by the University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series titled, Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Tuesday 18 October 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/93989064958
7. The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, seeks to hire an Assistant Research Professor to serve as the Assistant Director of a 3-year, Mellon Foundation-funded Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project Phase II (AOCP Phase II). This individual will be a scholar practitioner of digital humanities who will provide operational and intellectual leadership to the Open Islamicate texts Initiative (Open ITI) and Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (AOCP) Phase II. The initial 12-month appointment period, beginning preferably in January 2023 but possibly later, with a salary of $80,000 (plus benefits, as described here:
https://uhr.umd.edu/benefits/), will be renewable across two additional years.
The Assistant Director will work closely with Principal Investigator (PI) Matthew Thomas Miller on ensuring smooth implementation of the AOCP Phase II plan at an operational level. In this leadership role, they will also function as a bridge to the broader digital humanities community and help cultivate AOCP Phase II’s relationships with other projects.
Applicants with a PhD in humanities, social sciences, or library/information sciences who have extensive experience in Digital Humanities will be preferred. All applicants must have demonstrated capacity to co-lead projects and programming. Applicants with expertise in text encoding will be especially welcomed, as they will be collaborating on developing Handwritten Text Recognition workflows and OpenITI mARkdown/TEI adaptations for manuscripts and digital text dissemination.
Post is open until filled.
Full info at:
https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/100180
8. CIRCLE FOR LATE ANTIQUE AND MEDIEVAL STUDIES PRESENTS: “From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins” A lecture by: Richard Bulliet Professor Emeritus, Middle Eastern History Columbia University
October 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
“From Ancient Seaport to Medieval Crossroads: One Era Passes, Another Begins”
Segal Theater The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
via Zoom webinar and in person at the Graduate Center, CUNY, at 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.
For more info:
9. History of Paper in Iran, 1501–1925
Willem Floor, Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes
10. A handbook of Persian calligraphy and related arts
by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani ; translated by Rebecca Stengel ; edited, revised and extended by Shervin Farridnejad.
11. The School of Modern Languages at the University of St. Andrews warmly invites applications to the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities AHRC DTP studentship competition for 2023 entry. Successful applicants will receive home tuition fees and stipend at UKRI rates (£4,596 and £ 17,668 in 2022-23.) Full details are available on the SGSAH website.
How to Apply:
We welcome PhD applications in a wide range of research areas across our seven language departments (Arabic & Persian, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish) and Comparative Literature programme. We encourage you first to make contact with a potential supervisor within the School of Modern Languages, prior to applying. The application process involves several stages and we recommend that you contact us as early as possible to discuss your ideas.
Applicants to SGSAH must be nominated by their host institution.
To be considered for SGSAH/AHRC funding you must apply to the University of St Andrews by submitting the research application form before 5pm on 25 November 2022.
Please note this very early deadline
To facilitate our nomination process, we also ask you to complete the SGSAH pre-selection template available from the School of Modern Languages (modlangs@st-andrews.ac.uk) and submit it to us by the above date.
The School is also delighted to offer a range of other scholarship opportunities to support doctoral research including fee waivers.
Any general questions can be addressed to Professor Derek Duncan, Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Modern Languages (langsdopgr@st-andrews.ac.uk).
12. Mediterranean Review, issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies, is calling for papers.
Mediterranean Review (MR) is an official journal of Asian Federation of
Mediterranean Studies Institutes (AFOMEDI), and the Association of History,
Literature, Science and Technology (AHLiST).
Since the upcoming issue (Vol.15, No.2), MR widens the scope of Mediterranean
Studies by publishing academic articles on the diverse ‘mediterraneans’
distributed all around the world
where civilization exchange occurs including the Baltic Sea, the Yellow Sea,
or the Caribbean Sea area.
We welcome the submission of articles that covers all fields of the
Humanities, Social Sciences as well as Science and Technology Studies in
relation to a Mediterranean setting. A special emphasis is on the past and
present modes of interactions and exchange in global mediterraneans.
* Date of Submission : November 5th 2022 (Saturday)
* Address to submit : imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr (either)
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
(click to move)
– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
move)
* Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.* All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process.
* Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to b
published.
The Editorial Board, Mediterranean Review
Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Busan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea
Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Busan University of Foreign Studies
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea
(46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695 / +82-51-509-6670
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
13. Le grand Satan, le shah et l’imam. Les relations Iran / États-Unis jusqu’à la révolution de 1979
Y Richard
14. The Islamic College, Monthly Seminar
Prophet Mohammad in the Eyes of Westerners
By Prof Ali Paya
Friday 21 October 2022
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
133 High Road
Willesden
London
NW10 2SW
+44 (0) 20 8451 9993
info@islamic-college.ac.uk
- October 15, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.10th Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies in Paris
(Xe Conférences d’études iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater)
To be held on November 7, 9, 14, 16 and 21, 2022
at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales and the Collège de France
Our speaker this year, M. Rahim Shayegan (Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Professor of Iranian at UCLA, and director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World) will deliver five lectures (in French) on the theme:
Achéménides et Sassanides: Continuités et ruptures
Attached, please find the invitation, together with the program and details regarding the time and venue for the lectures. This information is also available online at https://cermi.cnrs.fr/events/xeme-serie-de-conferences-detudes-iraniennes-ehsan-et-latifeh-yarshater/
Since 2001, the Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien is the recipient of an endowment provided through the Persian Heritage Foundation for a biennial lecture series in Iranian Studies – the Ehsan and Latifeh Yarshater Distinguished Lectures in Iranian Studies in Paris.
Information regarding past lectures can be found here: https://cermi.cnrs.fr/evenements-periodiques-du-cermi/conferences-detudes-iraniennes-ehsan-et-latifeh-yarshater/
2. HYBRID Seminar “Devotional Songs and Narratives in Iranian Khorasan” by Dr. Ameneh Yous-sefzadeh, Columbia University, 27 October 2022, 5:00 pm
Drawing on her ethnographic research, the scholar will focus on two important genres in the sung poetry of Khorasan: monājāt (to whisper or talk confidentially with someone; a sung prayer) and me‘raj (ladder, ascent; especially referring to the Prophet Mohammad’s ascension to heaven). There are many different ways of performing and listening to monājāt and me‘raj in the Islamic world, and they have many social settings and ceremonial uses.
Information: https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting
Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdLfe3WP68n-BmnMySalD2KHpfCUCZhebv7Jf5XgRH6DiXKDA/viewform
3. Mediterranean Seminar on “From Mediterranean to Atlantic World”, University of Miami, 3-4 February 2023
We invite abstracts on any subject (historical, economic, cultural, literary, artistic, religious, or historio-graphical) relating to either the historical moment “From Mediterranean to Atlantic world” or to the historio-graphical advantages or disadvantages of either method – Mediterranean Studies/History or Atlantic Studies/History; including the Near East and North Africa and the Red Sea.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 November 2022.
4. Seminar “New Directions in Ottoman Studies: Comparativism, Translation, and Temporality”, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, 16-19 March 2023 This seminar seeks to understand how the histories, images, and legacies of the Ottoman Empire appear when perspectives from the Global South and the disadvantaged populations of the empire are foregrounded. How was the Ottoman rule experienced and evaluated by those who were at the margins of imperial power structures around the world? Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2022. Information: https://www.acla.org/new-directions-ottoman-studies-comparativism-translation-and-temporality
5. International Conference “Arabic in Africa: Historical and Sociolinguistic Perspectives”, Universität Bayreuth, 12-14 April 2023
“Arabic in Africa” will consider Arabic from different approaches, perspectives and disciplinary frameworks and in quite different sociolinguistic situations. Parameters include demographic weight (e.g. “national non-standard standard” or very local small variety), institutional status (e.g. official language, national language, minority with no state support) and historical provenance.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2022.
Information: https://www.arabistik.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumente/Arabic-in-Africa-2023-CFP2.pdf
6. Research Associate in Islamic Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, University of Hamburg
Requirements: A university degree in Islamic Studies or a related subject. Confident command of the English and Arabic language. French or Spanish as well as knowledge of GIS methods and familiarity with geographic approaches to history or Islamic material are an asset.
Deadline for applications: 21 October 2022. Information: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=5588d6d1c33258d3fdb96a047ad5933bab115434
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in International (Focus Middle East), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
We invite applicants with disciplinary training in History, Economics or Anthropology, and research focused on issues of security and conflict, governance, or development in the Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2022.
8. Adjunct Assistant Professor in History: Jews in the Muslim World (1 Year), University of California, Irvine
Basic qualifications: Ph.D. in any relevant Humanities discipline or an interdisciplinary field. Applicants nearing completion of the doctorate (ABD) may be considered. Ph.D. must be completed by the date of appointment (July 1, 2023).
Deadline for applications: 23 October 2022. Information: https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF07890
9. Omar Khayyam Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Iranian Studies (Maximum 2 Years), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI
The position is open to all the humanities and social science disciplines. Scholars who received PhDs within three years of the application deadline are eligible to apply.
Deadline for applications: 5 December 2022. Information: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/news/2022/omar-khayyam-post-doctoral-research-associate-iranian-studies
10. IIMPOP Public Scholar Fellowship, Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES), George Washing-ton University, Washington DC
The Fellowship seeks to engage and inform the broader public about the contemporary Middle East. During the fellowship, scholars develop multimedia web pages to amplify and disseminate their work to a broader audience. This fellowship is open to both established scholars and emerging researchers.
Deadline for applications: 30 October 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/10/07/iimpop-public-scholar-fellowship
11. 2023-2024 Middle East Initiative (MEI) Research Fellowships, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambrigde, MA
The Middle East Initiative is now accepting applications for one-year Emirates Leadership Initiative Fellow-ships for research related to governance and public policy in the Arab world and broader Middle East.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2022. Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
12. Chapters for the “Handbook of Chinese in the Middle East and Africa” Edited by Emilie Tran & Yahia H. Zoubir
This call for chapters is addressed primarily to academics at all levels, including PhD candidates, interested
in Chinese and MEA studies. Proposed chapters can deal with a general issue such as Chinese traders in North Africa; the life of Algerian Chinese mixed couples; intercommunal disputes between Chinese and locals; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2022. Information: Emilie Tran (emilietran@hkbu.edu.hk )
13. New Journal “KESHIF: E-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Edition”, Institute for Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
Ottoman Studies is a manuscript science, and all scholars who work on manuscripts know this situation: one “discovers” (Turkish keşif means “discovery”) accidentally short texts in manuscripts – single poems, letters, contracts and marginal notes of different, often private matters. Keshif is to provide a forum (and medium) for researchers to make these fragments accessible to a wider audience.
Deadline for articles: 5 December 2022. Information: https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/keshif
14. Demons: Good and Bad is an interdisciplinary conference that will take place in Trinity College Dublin on 28thand 29thOctober 2022.
Speakers include a number of Islamicists.
The conference is free yet registration is required. For details and registration, please visit:
https://www.tcd.ie/religion/conference-seminars/demons22/index.php
The Keynote Address (27.10.2022, 4.00–5.30pm Dublin Time) will also be livestreamed online. For free registration to this online event please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-rule-a-magical-world-europe-14001700-tickets-423178828267
15. The Middle East in Cambridge
King’s Silk Roads – Persian Literary Culture and Book Exchange between Central Asia and Mughal India
Fri 14 Oct 2022 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM (Time zone: London)
https://teamup.com/event/show/id/Qs4djc4bZLNxgEPJAx8yQm1QFTGWrZ
for more info and Zoom link.
16. Webinar Series – From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art, and Culture is back by popular demand in October 2022. We are pleased to announce that the Deccan Heritage Foundation and the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge are collaborating with the Museum of Art and Photography, Bangalore, and the Bangalore International Centre for these events. From Konkan to Coromandel presents the pioneering work of scholars in various fields of knowledge from both the Northern and Southern Deccan regions of India.
“Translating the New Taste: Rasa, Movement, and Multilingualism in Ibrahim Adil Shah II’s Kitāb-i nauras,” by Zoë Woodbury High (University of Chicago)
October 22, 2022, 2pm, London time
“A Missionary Enterprise: Old Goa’s Christian Religious Architecture (16th to 18th centuries),” by Sidh Losa Mendiratta (Universidade de Coimbra)
November 18, 2022, 2pm, London time
“The Qalamkari Textiles of Golconda: Searching for Histories of Production, Patronage, and Place,” by Sylvia Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College)
December 2, 2022, 2pm, London time
More information and our registration can be accessed here: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/about
- October 11, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Augusta University – Assistant Professor of History Modern European History & Africa/Islamic World
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64140
Closing date: 28.10.22
2. Southern Methodist University – Lecturer in South Asian Religions/Islam
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=64178
Closing date: 29.12.22
3. Georgetown University – Assistant Professor in the history of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63984
Closing date: 15.11.22
4. Propagandist Strategy or Artistic Agency? The story behind a unique pictorial Dorokhsh carpet
Moderated by Prof Pedram Khosronejad, Curator of Persian Arts, Powerhouse.
Powerhouse Ultimo, Sydney
15 October 2022, 11am – 12pm
A panel of specialists in Persian art, material culture, carpet weaving and Islamic art and architecture will discuss the significance of a unique pictorial Persian Dorokhsh carpet, showcased for the first time in Weavers, Merchants and Kings, an exhibition celebrating Cadrys 70th Anniversary, on now at Powerhouse Ultimo.
The hand-knotted wool carpet, made in Birjand, Khorasan, Persia, about 1890, was recently acquired by the Cadry family having captured the private collectors’ attention for being one of only a handful of known examples of very large antique Dorokhsh carpets to feature an architectural scene as the central design. It appears to depict an Indian palace and it is speculated it may have been intended for display inside one. This object is very similar to noted Dorokhsh pictorial carpet from Golestan Palace, Iran.
Since the early 1500s the Dorokhsh region – near Birjand and Qaen in South Khorasan, Iran – has been renowned for the design and production of traditional Persian carpets. Our panel conversation will focus on the mechanisms around the creation of this particular Dorokhsh carpet to examine the agency of the artists who made it and the spectrum of socio-cultural and political factors involved in the traditional act of carpet-weaving.
Speakers include Robert Cadry, Managing Director of Cadrys Rugs; Dr Andrew Jacob, Curator of Astronomy, Powerhouse-Sydney Observatory, Dr Mahroo Mousavi, Nizami Ganjavi Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford and Lecturer in Architectural History, University of Sydney, and Prof Pedram Khosronejad.
More details: https://www.maas.museum/event/propagandist-strategy-or-artistic-agency/
5. Digital Archiving of Diasporic Cultural Productions and Transnational Citizenship of Arabs in the West
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/diaspora.21.2.2021.05.07
6. The 9th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
Providence, Rhode Island, USA | June 2023
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the 9th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, which will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) from June 8-10, 2023. The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on the history of the Arabic language during the Mamluk period.
Themed day: The Languages of the Mamluk Sultanate (June 8, 2023)
The first day of the conference will be devoted to the theme of language in the Mamluk sultanate. We invite papers that treat the phenomena of multilingualism, translation, orality and literacy, vernaculars and cosmopolitan languages, sociolects, and other topics related to the history of language during the period. The languages explored may include any relevant to the sultanate including but not limited to Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Coptic, Greek, Latin, and Mongolian. A maximum of twelve to fifteen paper proposals will be selected. The time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.
Panels (June 9-10, 2023)
The following two days of the conference will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. Panels will be composed of three to four papers, of twenty minutes each. Discussion will follow the presentation of each panel’s papers. The language of the conference is English.
Publication
- a) Themed day: The conference organizers expect that a selection of papers from the themed day will be published in a volume of proceedings, pending interest from scholarly publishers.
- b) Panels: Selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Proposals
Scholars who wish to give a paper on the “themed day” (June 8) must submit a paper proposal through the School of Mamluk Studies webpage (http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html ) by October 31, 2022.
Those who wish to give a paper on one of the “panel days” (i.e. June 9 and 10) should submit their proposal as part of a pre-organized panel. (Please note: it is the responsibility of the applicants to put together their own panels; the conference organizers will not accept individual papers for this portion of the event; only the themed day will accept individual papers). Panel proposals may be submitted via the webpage above by November 30, 2022. The proposal should provide the following information for each paper in the panel: (1) the name of the speaker; (2) a one-page CV; (3) a provisional paper title; (4) an abstract of a maximum of 1500 characters (about 300 words). Panel proposals should also identify the panel’s chair (who may be one of the panelists).
Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2023 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners. Please note that if more than half of the participants on a panel withdraw, the entire panel must be withdrawn from the program.
Fees
The conference registration fees will be $50 for participants and attendees. For those interested, there will be a farewell dinner at a local restaurant, at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees must be received by April 30, 2023, and information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular.
Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Information and suggestions for accommodations will be provided in the first circular.
Intensive course: Arabic in the Mamluk Period
Prior to the conference, Professor Marina Rustow (Princeton University) and Professor Phillip Stokes (University of Tennessee) will offer a three-day intensive course (June 5-7) on the history of the Arabic language during the Mamluk period. The course will present an overview and history of the different varieties of Arabic attested in Mamluk-era sources, with a focus on Judeo-Arabic, Christian Arabic, and other forms of Middle Arabic.
Students will be introduced to the major repositories of documents that are sources for the linguistic history of this period, such as the Cairo Geniza, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, and the Haram al-Sharif documents. The course is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants, and will combine lecture and discussion with hands-on investigation of Mamluk-era materials. Advanced proficiency in Classical Arabic is required, but no other specialized training is necessary to attend.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation to the following email address: schoolofmamlukstudies2023@gmail.com by the end of January, 2023. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by the end of February 2023.
The course fee is $300.00, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (June 8-10). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2023. Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging at an affordable price.
Please contact schoolofmamlukstudies2023@gmail.com with any questions, and we look forward to meeting you in Providence!
7. Webinar – British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
‘Humayun Padshah and Iran: Safavid Present and Mythical Past’
with Ebba Koch
19 October, 2022, 5pm UK time
For full information and to register:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/humayun-padshah-and-iran/
8. Appel à communications/Call for papers (colloque/conference), Paris 2023
Appel à communications
Le colloque “Texts as Living Objects: Reconsidering Dhayls as a Means for the Study of Authorship and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Age” se tiendra à Paris les 22-24 novembre 2023.
Organisateurs : Sacha Alsancakli (CeRMI / Inalco) & Philip Bockholt (WWU Münster)
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 31 octobre 2022
Langue des communications : Anglais
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Call for Papers
The conference “Texts as Living Objects: Reconsidering Dhayls as a Means for the Study of Authorship and Knowledge Transmission in the Manuscript Age” will be held in Paris on November 22-24, 2023.
Convenors: Sacha Alsancakli (CeRMI / Inalco) & Philip Bockholt (WWU Münster)
Deadline for abstract submission: 31 October 2022
Application Procedure
Proposals including an abstract (max. 400 words) and a short biography (max. 200 words) may be sent as one pdf file to both Dr. Sacha Alsancakli (Inalco/CeRMI, sacha.alsancakli@inalco.fr ) and Jun.-Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt (WWU Münster, pbockhol@uni-muenster.de ) by 31 October 2022.
The conference will be held in English. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.
9. Asli Bâli – From Revolution to Devolution? Dilemmas of Federalism & Decentralization in the Middle East
Please join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and the Legal Studies Program at UC Santa Cruz – over zoom – on Friday, October 14th, 12-1:30 pm PST to listen to and think with Professor Aslı Bâli of Yale Law School.
Click here to register: https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asli-bali-from-revolution-to-devolution-dilemmas-of-federalism-and-decentralization-in-the-middle-east/
10. Online Workshop – “People of the Desert: Nomadic Networks and the Spread and Practice of Islam” – 28 October
15:45 -19:00 (CET time)
Chairs: Irina Shingiray (University of Oxford) and José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester)
https://hajar.hypotheses.org/339
11. Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology
Call for Applications
Deadline November 13, 2022
The Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft für Islamische Kunst und Archäologie | Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology is pleased to announce the third edition of the Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology. The aim of the award is to encourage and support emerging scholars in Europe who are working on visual and material culture of Islamic countries in the fields of Art History, Archeology, and Historical Building Research. The Ernst Herzfeld Award highlights the diversity and innovation of current research in these growing fields. The successful candidate is honored at the annual colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society, offered a full travel grant to present her/his master thesis at the colloquium, and is granted publication of the presented paper in the series of the Society, Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie (BIKA).
Eligibility:
- Outstanding master thesis (MA, Master, M.phil., and similar) on a topic situated within the research fields of History of Islamic Art and Architecture, Islamic Archeology, or Historical Building Research on Islamic Architecture.
- The thesis must have been written and supervised at a European university. For this call, theses are eligible that were fully reviewed and marked between January 1, 2020 and November 13, 2022.
- Accepted languages of the thesis are: German, English, French, Italian, and Spanish.
Application procedure:
- Applicants are proposed by the supervisor of the MA thesis.
- Applications include 1) the complete MA thesis as it was submitted (PDF); 2) a summary in English (3 pages); 3) the completed recommendation form by the proposing supervisor; and 4) the original official review/evaluation of the thesis for/by the university, at which it was submitted.
Review Procedure:
- The review procedure is jointly organized by the award and steering committee as well as the advisory board of the Ernst Herzfeld Society.
- Proposing supervisors are excluded from the review procedure and the peer-review.
- Applications fulfilling the criteria of eligibility will go through a peer-review by the joint committees and by external reviewers.
Submission:
Please send the complete application by November 13, 2022 to award@ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com
The recommendation form to be filled out by the proposing supervisor is available with this link: http://ernst-herzfeld-gesellschaft.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/EHG_Award_Supervisor_Evaluation_Form_2022_final.docx
12. Online Lecture: East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Road
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 | 12:00 PM EDT | Zoom
East of Byzantium: Syriac Christianity along the Silk Road
Li Tang, University of Salzburg
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
13. New book: History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
L Osti,
14. Indigenising Islam – a panel discussion on the case of the late Shaykh Seraj Hendricks
The Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge, in coordination with the Woolf Institute, invites you to an evening in the company of Dr Hisham A. Hellyer, Dr Timothy Winter, Dr Asim Yusuf, and Ms Arzoo Ahmed, for a panel discussion on the case of the late Shaykh Seraj Hendricks and his role and impact as a Muslim minority leader in Cape Town, South Africa, as an example of the indigenisation of Muslim religious authority as a minority, deeply impacted by Western traditions.
Dr Hellyer will also share insights on his recently published book “Shaykh Seraj Hendricks: A Luminous Lamp in the Shade of Table Mountain“, a contemporary Sufi shaykh and Islamic scholar who was one of the main reference points for the Muslim community of the Cape in South Africa, who drew from his own Western education and his training at the hands of sages and savants in Makka, as resident scholar of Azzawia Institute in Cape Town.
The event will start at 5.30pm on Oct 24th in the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies in Cambridge and the moderator will be Dr Julian Hargreaves of the Woolf Institute.
Copies of Dr Hellyer’s book “A Luminous Lamp” will be available following the discussion .
For full details go to: https://tinyurl.com/IslamMinority”
15. University of Edinburgh
W.M. Watt Lecture 2022
Emerita Professor Carole Hillenbrand (University of Edinburgh
‘Mary, the mother of Jesus, in Islam’
1.11.22, 17:30-20.00
In-person and on-line
Full details at:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern/events/watt-lecture
14. Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM invites you to apply to the “Learn Persian through the Shahname” online course. The entire course will last for 2 weeks, but students may choose to participate in the first week. This online course will start on November 7, 2022, and last till November 18, 2022.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname
- October 08, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Webinar “Iran Protests: Gender, Body Politics, and Authoritarianism”, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 4 October 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm ET
In conversation with Manijeh Nasrabadi (Bernard College, Columbia University) and with Moderators Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University) and Kathryn Spellman Poots (Columbia University) we aim to go beyond the head-lines to shed light on the meaning and potential for these protests.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/iran-protests-gender-body-politics-and-authoritarianism
2. ONLINE Seminar “‘Women, Life, Freedom’: What’s New about Iran’s 2022 Protests?”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 7 October 2022, 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm EDT
Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Arang Keshavarzian, and Nazanin Shahrokni, in conversation with Naghmeh Sohrabi, will look at issues of gender, socio-economic crises, and the domestic political scene to shed light on the recent protests in Iran and place them in the context of Iran’s history of protests in the 21st century.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_t_UKdJICR_yxWIbbtfLEdA
3. ONLINE Seminar “Reflections on Islam and Anarchism” by Dr. Mohamed Abdou, Department of Politics, York University, Canada, 7 October 2022, 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
“Islam and Anarchism” is an interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs – that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical BIPOC, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes ‘Anarcha-Islam’.
Information and registration:
https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwod-qorTMsHdZuxK3OAQ1Yi63XMeiDKGnV
4. ONLINE Webinar “Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 12 October 2022, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm ET
Jonathan Wyrtzen in conversation with Rana Baker, will offer a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and spanning the eve of the Great War into the 1930s, Wyrtzen’s work demonstrates that the modern Middle East was shaped through complex and violent power struggles on the ground among local and international actors.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_dAq0rFW1TiiblL3rlyHTYQ
5. HYBRID Lecture “Komitas, Oosti Gookas?: The Post-Ottoman Musical Worlds of the Armenian Diaspora” by Sylvia Alajaji, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, New York University, 20 October 2022, 5:00 pm EST
There is perhaps no name more ubiquitous or discursively powerful in Armenian musical culture than Komitas (1869-1935). Born Soghomon Soghomonyan in the Ottoman city of Kütahya (in what is today Turkey), Komi-tas has come to embody “Armenia” – or rather, the possibility of Armenia. He has become synonymous with and emblematic of a symbolic, imagined homeland.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclcOqoqT4oHtfF04D2YVyxFGps6sHLWEUg
6. Fall 2022 Workshop of the Mediterranean Seminar on “The Mediterranean Origins of the West”, Boulder, Colorado, 21-22 October 2022
We seek to explore questions relating to the role of the Islamicate world and of peoples of Africa and West Asia in the evolution of modern science, theology, art and literature; the nature and significance of political and commercial engagement between the Islamic and Christian spheres; the role of gender, class and social affiliations; and the status and role of ethnic and religious minorities in pre-Modern and Modern Mediterranean societies.
Registration until 10 October 2022.
Information and program: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-mediterranean-seminar-fall-2022-workshop-the-mediterranean-origins-of-the-west-21-22-october-boulder?e=82aeb6c61d
7. Inaugural Forum for Jewish-Muslim Theology and Thought: “Cultures of Continuity – Jewish Muslim Conversations on a Contested Ideal”, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Hum-boldt-Universität zu Berlin, 24-26 October 2022
Keynotes: “Women`s Midrash and Tafsir: Twenty-First Century Exegetical Continuities and Ruptures” by Celene Ibrahim; “Interreligious Theology and Its Relevance for Jewish-Muslim Relations” by Ephraim Meir.
Deadline for registration: 21 October 2022.
Information: https://www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/event
8. HYBRID Panel Discussion “Sisters in Resilience: Women’s Movements in Muslim Contexts”, Aga Khan University, London, 28 October 2022, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm London Time
The panel aims to celebrate the achievements of the women’s movements for gender equality in Muslim contexts and discuss their legacies. It will analyse the main issues of struggle for women’s rights movements, the past and present of organisational structures, and forms of activism by reflecting especially on the cases of Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Tunisia.
Information and registration: https://www.aku.edu/ismc/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=2187&Title=Sisters%20in%20Resilience:%20Women%E2%80%99s%20Movements%20in%20Muslim%20Contexts
9. HYBRID “3rd International Congress of Women in a Global World”, Research Center on Women Studies, Istanbul Topkapı University, 1-3 December 2022
The Congress which will bring together academicians, researchers and NGO volunteers partaking in the organization is expected to contribute to the production of scientific information as well as to make way for new viewpoints.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 October 2022. Information: https://www.topkapi.edu.tr/tr-TR/3rd-international-congress-of-women-in-a-global-world-(wgw2022)-ana-sayfa-home/135655
10. International Conference on the “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, University of La Réunion and Uni-versité de Lorraine, 16-17 March 2023
This conference will explore the conceptual and methodological modalities adopted in these scholarly books to describe Islam according to types determined by the choice of certain criteria and symbols.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022.
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/08/CFP_Conference_Nancy.pdf
11. Seminar “The Ottoman Empire, Its Minoritized Voices, and the Global South”, Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Chicago, 16-19 March 2023
The focus should be on epistemic, aesthetic, sociocultural and political imaginaries of minoritized com-munities in and outside the Ottoman lands. How do the histories, images, and legacies of the Ottoman Empire appear when perspectives from the Global South and the disadvantaged populations of the empire are foregrounded? Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/11012989/cfp-acla-2023-ottoman-empire-its-minoritized-voices-and-global
12. Conference “Diaspora and Indigeneity – Intersections of Modern Jewish, Kurdish, and Amazigh History”, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, 27–29 March 2023
The goal of the conference is to explore and theorize the intersections of modern Jewish, Kurdish, and Ama-zigh history, with a special focus on competing claims to identity, indigeneity, and diaspora politics. Papers can be presented in English or French.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2022. Information: https://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Documents/Research/GatheringDispersed_CfP_DiasporaIndigeneity.pdf
13. One-Year Visiting Professor (W2) for Cultural Studies of the Middle East, MA Program “Cultural Studies of the Middle East”, Universities of Bamberg and Erlangen-Nuremberg
The relevant qualifications consist of a doctorate in a relevant discipline, demonstrated ability in teaching, and an excellent track record in publications and related academic achievements. The position presupposes the ability and willingness to teach in English (01.10.2023-15.08.2024).
Deadline for application: 15 November 2022.
Information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/abt-personal/stellenausschreibung/professorship/
14. Five Research Associates and Visiting Faculty (2023-24), Women’s Studies in Religion, Har-vard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Proposals for book-length research projects using both religion and gender as central categories of analysis are welcomed. They may address women and religion in any time, place, or religious tradition, and may utilize disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches from across the fields of theology, the humanities, and the social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022. Information: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply
15. Open-Rank Tenure-Track Professor for Arab American Studies/Muslim American Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Preference will be given to interdisciplinary candidates with teaching experience working with diverse student communities. PhD required by the start date.
Deadline for applications: 11 November 2022.
Information: https://asianamerican.northwestern.edu/about/open-positions/
16. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Middle East and North Africa Prior to 1800, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
We particularly welcome applicants whose work is innovative and interdisciplinary. Discipline open.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63761
17. STARTALK Arabic Teacher Training Program 2023 (Fully Online and Free of Cost)
Pre-Program 26 Feb. – 30 Apr. 2023; Main Program 2 June – 14 July 2023; Post-Program 20 August 2023 – March 2024
Deadline for application: 28 November 2022. Information: https://www.classroad.org/courses/classroad-startalk-2023-advancing-language-learning-through-professionalism/
18. THE ITS MAWLID DISCOUNT 2022
Between 3rd and 9th October, in celebration of the Mawlid al-Nabi, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering its readers a 15% discount on all titles.*
Books from ITS are the perfect gift for family, friends and loved ones; beautifully designed and produced to the highest quality, ITS titles enable readers to gain access to treasures of classical Islamic thought and spirituality.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website by clicking on the button below and enter the coupon code, MAWLID22, on the purchase page.
19. October 5: Book Launch: The Routledge Handbook of Persian Literary Translation (2022)
This Wednesday, October 5 at 10:00-12:00 CT, organized by CMES of the University of Chicago.
You can register using the link below:
https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpf–rrjgiHt0ChWpgWA_MGo6qh8NgoHA3
with
M. R. Ghanoonparvar
Professor Emeritus of Persian and Comparative Literature
The University of Texas at Austin
Christine van Ruymbeke
Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture
University of Cambridge (UK)
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies
Utrecht University (The Netherlands)
Hosted by
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Instructional Professor of Persian, NELC
University of Chicago
Discussant
Thibaut d’Hubert
Associate Professor, SALC
University of Chicago
20. Oxford Interfaith Forum:
Environmentalisms in Qur’anic Perspective: Creatures and Resources
31 October, 2022, 6pm UK time
Professor Anna Gade, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Dean for Research & Education in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
More info/registration at:
21. October 13, 2022, 12pm ET – The Author’s Voice: The Perils and Joys of writing on the Arabs before Islam
The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, presents the 2022 online lecture program, The Author’s Voice. The series of free to access quarterly talks, led by Gorgias Press authors, will showcase the latest research across history, linguistics, and religious studies. You are cordially invited to attend our fourth and final lecture of the series:
The Perils and Joys of writing on the Arabs before Islam
Ayad Al-Ani, Professor for Change Management and Consulting, Associate Member of the Einstein Centre Digital Future, Berlin, and Professor extraordinary at the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University.
For a political scientist, the contradictory themes surrounding the Arabs and their region before the coming of Islam often seem strange and incomprehensible. Although there are no major barriers posed by rivers or mountain ranges, numerous civilizations are identified in the region each with their own language. As such, there is little opportunity for an Arab identity to emerge among those groups, despite the fact the Arabs themselves, as well as the Romans, seemingly had no problem identifying “Arabs”. Some discussions on the theme have revealed a hesitancy in delineating the Arab language and script before the 5th century, rendering the appearance of the Qur’an mysterious. The majority of Arabs in the Roman East were Christians by this same period, and some still believe that monotheistic informants of the prophet need to be identified. Once these contradictions are unraveled a fascinating longue durée of events can emerge, which provides a common historical space between the East and the West, with religious ideas flowing from the periphery to the center. This talk will explore the process of dealing with these and other contradictions by adding a political and sociological lens to this stretch of history which focuses on the disappearance of the Arabs from history before Islam, their sudden appearance behind the banners of the Prophet, and the powerful and traumatic effect this emergence into world history has had on the relationship between the Arabs and the West.
Register in advance here. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.
Hosted by: Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and George A. Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Editor-in-Chief, Gorgias Press) in cooperation with Angelos Chaniotis (School of Historical Studies, IAS).
For more information please contact ds@ias.edu .
22. 2022 Kamran Djam Biennial Lectures at SOAS
7 and 8 November, 2022
After a pause due to lockdown, the Centre for Iranian Studies is delighted to invite you to the 2022 Kamran Djam Biennial Lectures at SOAS on Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 November 2022.
Our speaker this year is Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA, University of St. Andrews, who, will give two lectures on The Great Mongol Shahnama, a long-awaited major work on one of the most magnificent illustrated Persian manuscripts of all time, dating to 1330s. Hali Publications Ltd., the UK publishers of this splendid book, have kindly agreed to bring several advance copies of the book for your perusal before its imminent availability in the UK. Please see below for details of the lectures.
Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA, University of St. Andrews
What Problems Does the Great Mongol Shahnama Pose?
5.30pm, Monday 7 November
(followed by a reception at 7.00pm in G3 Suite)
What Makes the Great Mongol Shahnama Great?
7.00pm, Tuesday 8 November
Venue: Djam Lecture Theatre
SOAS, Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
Admission Free – All Welcome
23. Invitation to the October Monday Majlises (online) of the Centre for the Study of Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
Monday the 10th of October. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Mehdy Shaddel
Universal Empire, Supersessionist Ideology: The Emergence of Islam in Umayyad Syria
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpduqqqDgrH9y-JyHmO5wlaFr9gvm8bcqd
Monday the 17th of October. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Rahim Gholami
The soul’s fulfilment in Nāṣir-e Khusraw’s The Wayfarer’s Sojourn at the Banquet
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpfu2rqTkvHd3Lizc02KhoZr0Fitzica9H
Monday the 24th of October. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Isabel Toral and Jens Scheiner
Baghdad: Insights into a city (seven centuries) and the making of a book (eleven years)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqde2spzgoHtSf7Ta9-TFp20yLICz3aKh-
Monday the 31st of October. 17:00-18:30 (UK time)
Alexandra Hoffmann
What makes a man a man? Neẓāmi’s Majnun in a network of masculinities
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkduCgqjsjG9wubRuGMlL22IavQChNXzQP
24. The Crown Center (Brandeis University) for Middle East Studies invites applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for scholars of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa. The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology—for the 2023–2024 academic year.
Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s publications.
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Eligibility
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The 2023–2024 faculty leave fellowship is open to *all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured*, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor (or equivalent) who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
*Terms*
The faculty leave fellowship is an academic year appointment beginning September 1, 2023 and ending May 31, 2024. The fellowship is designed to supplement the scholar’s faculty leave salary from their institution and will provide a stipend plus funding for research, travel, and related expenses. The fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank (or rank equivalency based on scholarly attainment): $40,000 for assistant professor or career equivalent; $50,000 for associate professor or career equivalent; and $70,000 for full professor, emeritus, or career equivalent. The Crown Center will determine the level based on the candidate’s rank or equivalent rank as of the application deadline. Fringe benefits, when not provided by the scholar’s home institution, can be made available during the appointment period.
Fellows are required to be *in residence* at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship and be fully relieved of teaching and service responsibilities at their home university. During their residence, fellows contribute to the Center’s publications and participate in all Crown Center events, including seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.
*Application Materials
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1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
*Application Submission*: https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/22902 <https://t.e2ma.net/click/kvjpgf/07bopb/kzivbr>
*Application Deadline*
January 1, 2023
*Notification
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March 1, 2023
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Inquiries*
You may direct inquiries to Kristina Cherniahivsky at crowncenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-5320.
- October 04, 2022
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1.Edinburgh’s “Oriental” manuscript collection renamed “Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia” and now searchable on ArchiveSpace
We now have entries for 168 items up on the ArchiveSpace platform, with titles digitally searchable in Arabic and Latin script. More entries will be coming soon!
You can visit the “Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia” collection page and search the entries below:
https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/86063
The “Scope & Content” section will give you background on the collection, it’s provenance, and why we have gone with this new name.
If you click on the Additional Description tab at the foot of the page, you will see other fields including Custodial History and Immediate Source of Acquisition that are also well worth a read.
2. Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous adresser en pièce-jointe le programme 2022/2023 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver à l’occasion de ces séances, qui se dérouleront en présentiel sur le site de l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris).
La première séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” aura lieu le mardi 18 octobre 2022 (de 17h à 19h, salle 3.15).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Valentina Bruccoleri (Université Ca’ Foscari de Venise) pour une conférence intitulée :
« Au-delà de la collection d’Ardebil : nouvelles perspectives sur la porcelaine chinoise dans le monde iranien »
3. The Islamic College
An online short course on
Tawhid (Monotheism) in Qur’an
1st Session: 28th Oct 2022
2nd Session: 4th Nov 2022
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Registration Deadline: 20th October 2022
*Free but registration is mandatory
Further information at:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/tawhid-in-quran/
4. Position in Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture at the University of California, Berkeley. Assistant Professor – Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture
Open August 24, 2022 through Saturday, Oct 15, 2022 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
5. Harvard Islamic Finance Conference
The Annual Harvard University Muslim Alumni (HUMA) International Islamic Finance Conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 21st and 22nd. This year’s conference is going to be the Silver Jubilee year of the conference with the theme of being “Waqf and Philanthropic Foundations: Shared Values for Socio-Economic Development”. The aim of the conference is to build the bridges across the communities in their endeavor towards humanity.
This year’s keynote speakers will be Dr. Omar Suleiman, the Founder and President of Yaqeen Institute and Professor Asim Khwaja, the Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard Kennedy School. Other prominent speakers and panelists include representatives from The Templeton Foundation, McKinsey & Company, Khalil Center, Fidelity, Boston Islamic Seminary, Islamic Finance Guru, Muslim Philanthropy Initiative, The World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists, religious leaders from various communities and several academic institutions.
You can register at this link. Please note that your registration does not guarantee you a seat. The auditorium will be filled on a first come, first serve basis.
Learn more about the HUMA IFC conference at the following website: https://humaifc.com/.
Please reach out to jennaalbezreh@college.harvard.edu if you have any questions or concerns.
6. “Digital Islam across Europe: Understanding Muslims’ Participation in Online Islamic Environments” is A 30-month research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through CHANSE (Collaboration of Humanities and Social Sciences in Europe).
The project team includes colleagues working in five European countries, and the UK team is looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher.
The successful candidate will have the option of working at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Lampeter Campus, or remotely.
The deadline for applications is 10th October, and further information can be found here: https://jobs.uwtsd.ac.uk/JobDescription/9q162YnH2h8
7. Online Event: Contemporary Arabic Literature and Literary Translation
Registration is open for this exciting panel organised by the BRISMES Outreach & Pedagogy Subcommittee. The panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers within the Arabic literary (translation) field will discuss and reflect on recent developments as well as publishing trends and practices. Panel members will also discuss their writing experience, the challenges they face and the reception of their work in the Arab and Western worlds.
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Time: 16:00-18:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom
8. *Change of Date* 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture
The 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture will now take place online on Thursday, 17 November from 17:30 to 19:00 (GMT). Professor Nadje Al-Ali will be speaking on Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East.The lecture will be chaired by Dr Paola Rivetti.
Apologies for any inconvenience caused by this change of date. If you have already registered to attend, you do not need to re-register and you will receive an email confirming the new details. If you have any questions/problems registering, please get in touch by emailing office@brismes.org.
9. Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
The Pitt Rivers Museum is seeking to recruit an exceptional post-doctoral researcher to a three-year Research Fellowship to work on the extensive photograph collection of Sir Wilfred Thesiger in the Gulf Cooperation Countries region. The ideal candidate will hold a PhD in the humanities or social sciences, have spoken and written proficiency in Arabic, as well as demonstrable knowledge of the histories and cultures of the Middle East.
Deadline | 7 October 2022
10. University College Dublin
The School of Politics and International Relations (SPIRe) is looking for a full-time research assistant with fluency in Arabic. The candidate will be expected to work independently to collect and analyze secondary interviews and other primary sources in Arabic. The candidate will conduct online research in Arabic to identify secondary interview data with Arabic- speaking conflict participants.
Deadline | 20 October 2022
11. SOAS University of London
SOAS wishes to appoint a Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute and MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies. The person appointed will split their time approximately 50/50 in carrying out activities as the MBI Al Jaber Chair in Middle East Studies and as the Director of the SOAS Middle East Institute.
Deadline | 21 October 2022
12. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Department of History invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position in the history of the Middle East at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 16, 2023. We welcome research that focuses on any time period, although candidates should also be qualified to teach courses on the modern Middle East.
Deadline | 1 November 2022
13. Aga Khan Centre
The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is seeking a part-time, hourly-paid Persian Language Instructor to teach 6 hours per week over the 30 weeks of the academic year, beginning on 26th September or as soon as possible thereafter. The ideal candidate will be suitably qualified and experienced in teaching Persian as a foreign language at university level.
Deadline | 27 November 2022
14. Prize | BISA’s Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Working Group (CPD)
Applications are invited for this prize aimed at supporting CPD’s early-career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline. In addition to being invited to present their paper at the annual BISA conference, the prize winner will be mentored through the review process at RIS.
Deadline | 18 November 2022
15. Panel | 5 October 2022, 18:00 | LSE Middle East Centre
Students at all levels and institutions are invited to this careers panel where practitioners in various Middle East-related fields will talk through their career paths. The panel will be followed by an informal reception with the opportunity to meet fellow students, academic staff and the Middle East Centre team.
More information
16. Research Seminar | 6 October 2022, 17:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
A special research seminar featuring one of the world’s leading experts on Islamist thought in Turkey. Dr Katerina Dalacoura (LSE) will discuss her research project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, entitled ‘The International Thought of Turkish Islamists: History, Civilisation and Nation’ – an intellectual history that engages with the concept of a ‘global International Relations’.
17. Film Screening | 12 October 2022, 18:30 | The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
‘In the wake of unimaginable loss, three Syrian refugees turn to their love of Sufi music’. This special screening of ‘Wajd: Songs of Separation’ will be followed by a discussion featuring Professor Jonathan Shannon and Dr Ezgi Guner. Refreshments will be available before the screening begins.
18. CFP – “Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to Tabriz to Venice” (Annual Conference of The Association for Art History) – DUE 4 November
ANNUAL CONFERENCE of The Association for Art History
12-14 APRIL 2023
University College London
To offer a paper: Please email your paper proposals direct to the session convenor(s). You need to provide a title and abstract (250 words maximum) for a 20-minute paper (unless otherwise specified), your name and institutional affiliation (if any). Please make sure the title is concise and reflects the contents of the paper because the title is what appears online, in social media and in the digital programme. You should receive an acknowledgement of receipt of your submission within two weeks.
Deadline for submissions: 4 November 2022.
Mongol Bling: From Xanadu to Tabriz to Venice
Sussan Babaie The Courtauld, University of London sussan.babaie@courtauld.ac.uk
Shane McCausland SOAS, University of London sm80@soas.ac.uk
Stunning objects, wonderous new materials and technologies, and novel ideas constitute what was the shared Mongol taste for splendour across the four khanates that made up the Great Mongol State from its foundation by Genghis Khan (r. 1206-27) on the Mongolian steppe heartlands, and between eastern China and Korea to Western Asia and Eastern Europe. In spite of their reputation as cannibals and philistines who sowed terror, how did the Mongol overlords reveal themselves to have also forged a dynamic, creative, and aesthetic empire which valued the highly sophisticated cultures of the settled peoples they conquered and in which the arts featured prominently? This panel focuses on the crosspollinated artistic landscapes that fashioned through local technologies, styles and tastes a distinctively Mongol-inflected regional identity. We invite papers that address through objects and analytics of transcultural possibilities the ways Mongol khans in China, Persia, Central Asia or Russia championed their own local artists to fashion favoured regional styles. How do the extraordinary richness and diversity of the arts produced to serve the local elites reflect and embody the wealth and power of the Mongol state? We envision a panel that contributes to developing of critical new ways to re-evaluate the Eurasian localities—Europe to East Asia, Northern Steppes to insular Southeast Asia—of artistic production in light of the overarching Mongol predilections for prestige conveyed through the charisma of the object.z
- October 01, 2022
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1.ONLINE Webinar “Ukraine from Ottoman Times to Today“, University of California, Davis, 30 September 2022, 9:00 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time
Nihat Çelik (San Diego State University), Dilyara Agisheva (Harvard University), and Oleksandr Halenko (İstanbul Üniversitesi) will speak about “The Russian Annexation of Crimea in 1783,” “The Making of Colonial Space in Crimea in the Late 18th and 19th Centuries,” and “History or Life: The Ottoman Past that Tempted Russia to Invade Ukraine.” Victor Ostapchuk (University of Toronto) will chair the panel and moderate the open discussion.
Information and registration: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOCupjMoH9QOyjHHq7Xc96uylaO6ea8M
2. HYBRID Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference of the American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology on “Islamic Philosophy and Theology in Contemporary Engagements”, Harvard University, 2-4 December 2022
We invite academic studies of scholars, methods, institutions, texts, and topics typically considered within the domain of philosophy, as well as those that treat kalam-theology, Islamic legal philosophy (usul al-fiqh), or other intellectual trends that at times may be seen as distinct from philosophy. Papers may be within specific disciplines (Philosophy, Islamic Theology, Religious Studies, etc.) or may be interdisciplinary.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 October 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/09/23/annual-islamic-philosophy-conference
3. Workshop “Theorizing Jewish-Arab Transculturation”, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, 7-9 February 2023
Co-organized by the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies, the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies and the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, the workshop will bring together scholars interested in Jewish-Arab relations from a transcultural perspective – from medieval times to the present.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022. Information:
4. 10 PhD Students in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Area Studies for the Doctoral Program of the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. Applications with a focus on strategies of negotiating diversity, difference, and distinction, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims are especially encouraged. Our language of instruct-tion and communication is English.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2022.
Information: https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/application/call_for_applications/index.html
5. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of History in Late Medieval/Early Modern Middle East, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
We are particularly interested in scholars with research agendas focusing on comparative empire, mobility, race and gender. Applicants must have earned a Ph.D. in History or an adjacent field by the time of appoint-ment, or shortly thereafter.
Deadline for applications: 20 October 2022.
Information: https://history.northwestern.edu/about/news/late-medievalearly-modern-middle-east.html
6. New International MA Program in Middle East Studies (MAPMES): “Intertwined Worlds: Jews, Christians, and Minorities in Islamic Societies”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
One year MA program, with a special focus on minority religious communities and inter-religious relations taught in English.
Program launch in October 2023. Registration will open in January 2023.
Information: https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/international/Pages/Middle-East-Studies.aspx
7. Chapters for Edited Book on The Crusades : Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11th– 14th Centuries)
Topics: The origin of the idea of crusade; Crusades historiography: eastern and western sources; Battles: The Crusades of 1096-1291; Alliances and Conflicts; Settlements: Crusader States (County of Edessa, Principality of Antioch, County of Tripoli, Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Cyprus); Roads: Crusades army route: sea and land roads from Clermont to Jerusalem; Byzantine Empire, Constantinople and the crusades.
Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-the-crusades-historiography-settlements-people-and-roads-11-14th-centuries?e=82aeb6c61d
8. Race and the Middle East/North Africa Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Marie Grace Brown: “Finding Black Joy in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan”
Thursday, September 29 at 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Skylight Room on the 9th Floor, The Graduate Center, CUNY (365 5th Avenue, New York NY 10016)
Where do we find Black joy in the archive? How do we evaluate claims of interracial affection or friendship made by white imperialists? Using case studies of servants, sex, and food, Marie Grace Brown addresses these questions and more in her examination of everyday life in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. She argues that the search for Black joy—whether we find it or not—is a new, critical responsibility for today’s racially conscious scholars.
Marie Grace Brown (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2012) is a cultural historian of the Modern Middle East with a special interest in questions of intimacy, gender, empire, and the body as historical text. Her award-winning book, Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces gestures, intimacies, and adornment to give a history of northern Sudanese women’s lives under imperial rule. Brown’s second book-length project, “A World of Color: Adventures in Romance in Imperial Sudan,” continues the exploration of the relationship between bodies and imperial power. Brown’s work has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women, the Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.
This event will also have a Zoom option for those unable to attend in person, registration is required: https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYpc-6grTIrGNb5MCa-AS3hOcvtUy2Uncic
https://racemena.gc.cuny.edu/event/09-29-2022-finding-black-joy-in-the-anglo-egyptian-suda…
- September 27, 2022
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1. Socio-spatial Marginalization in Islamic Contexts: Architectural Conditions and Active Approaches
Thursday, October 27, 2022
11:00 am–12:30 pm CDT
Free & open to the public
This program will be recorded. Registrants will receive a link to the video after the event.
Temporary architectures, adaptive tactics, the large- and small-scale movement and relocation of people, and concerted programs of colonization and razing shape sites and spaces of marginalized communities in Islamic contexts. People may be marginalized for reasons of religious practice, gender, ethno-linguistic identification, nationalist policies, conflict, environmental shifts, or other factors, with the result that they have limited access to certain resources and live their lives, seek places of worship, assemble support systems, and adopt and adapt the built environment in specific ways. Architectures created by the forces of marginalization include buildings on the urban outskirts and the borderlands of states, makeshift housing and services in the socio-economic badlands, and solutions to the need for space enacted in the “in-between” of ad hoc adaptations.
The impetus for our panel comes from our collective work to understand the marginalization of communities in Islamic contexts around the globe through the built environment, as well as from our active engagement with the selfhood, rights, and safety of women, children, minority denominational communities, sectarian groups, racialized people, and even those questioning their own socio-political and scholarly dominance.
According to UN statistics, migration disproportionately impacts states with majority Islamic populations, and the primary host countries for refugees are also largely Muslim. These dynamics have historical roots, and when combined with environmental and economic factors, can lead to marked changes in the architectural fabric, the exclusion and erasure of undesired peoples and their narratives, and a misunderstanding of how the built environment functions.
Our panel includes architects, visual artists, and scholars working to understand, address, and confront the conditions of marginalization embodied in architecture in Islamic contexts as part of their practice, teaching, research, and activism.
2. Publication Announcement – Karl Stowasser’s translation of al-Maqrīzī’s Khiṭaṭ
Karl Stowasser’s partial translation of al-Maqrīzī’s Khiṭaṭ is now available for download (Open Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2268/237608):
Al-Maqrīzī: Book of Exhortations and Useful Lessons in Dealing with Topography and Historical Remains (al-Khiṭaṭ). Translated and annotated by Karl Stowasser (d. 1997). Parts I-II in 3 vols. Edited by Frédéric Bauden and Clopper Almon with an Introductory Essay by Frédéric Bauden. Liège, 2022.
This translation covers a bit more than the first half of the first volume of the Khiṭaṭ in the Būlāq edition, ending with page 285, and volume 4 of the Wiet edition. It will serve as a basis for a new critical edition with an annotated English translation in the frame of the Bibliotheca Maqriziana project published by Brill.
3. Online Symposium – The Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology, NMAA – October 21-22, 2022
Join the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art on October 21 and 22, 10 am-5 pm EST daily, for The Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology.
This is a hybrid event: In-person attendees register on eventbrite here / Virtual attendees register on Zoom here.
Between the third and seventh centuries CE, the Sasanian Empire became one of the most dominant powers in the ancient world, extending geographically from Western to Central Asia. From monumental buildings and impressive rock reliefs to elaborately designed metal vessels and finely carved seals, these structures and objects provide a glimpse into the empire’s artistic diversity and its rich material culture. Recent scholarship has further expanded our knowledge of the Sasanian empire and has confirmed its enduring legacy beyond its geographic borders, long after the Arab conquest in the seventh century.
The Sasanians in Context: Art, History, and Archaeology gathers some of the most renowned national and international scholars to share their recent work on the Sasanians and their lasting artistic and historical contributions.
This symposium is generously supported by the Tina and Hamid Moghadam Fund and is organized in collaboration with the University of California, Irvine.
4. The 2022 BRISMES Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Nadje Al-Ali (Brown University). Nadje Al-Ali is Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, where she is also Robert Family Professor of International Studies and Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies. Her main research interests revolve around feminist activism and gendered mobilization, mainly with reference to Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and the Kurdish political movement.
The title of the lecture will be Feminist Dilemmas and Ambivalences: Gendered and queer perspectives on the Middle East.
Date: 22 November 2022, 17:30-19:00 (GMT)
Location: Online (via Zoom)
More information and registration: www.brismes.ac.uk/events/annual-lecture/2022
5. The Islamic College
Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Islamic Philosophy
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Starting: 14 November 2022
Application Deadline: 15 October 2022
Fees: £1500 (All students are eligible for a scholarship of up to 50%)
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/psc-islamic-philosophy/
6. Funds: The J.B. Harley Research Fellowships in the History of Cartography: call for applications (Deadline: 1st November)
The Harley Fellowships – the only one of their kind in Europe – provide support for those working on the history of cartography, from any discipline, doing the equivalent of post-graduate level work in the historical map collections of the United Kingdom. Awards range up to £2000. Website: http://www.maphistory.info/harley.html
The J.B. Harley Fellowships were set up in London in 1992 in memory of Brian Harley (1932-91). Prof. Harley was founding co-editor of the History of Cartography Project and the leading theoretical thinker in the field.
Applications are invited from anyone pursuing advanced research in the history of cartography, irrespective of nationality, discipline or profession, who wishes to work in London and other parts of the United Kingdom. While independent of them, the fellowships are run in association with the four institutions in the London area that, together, hold the greatest number of early maps, namely: British Library, The National Archives, Royal Museums Greenwich and Royal Geographical Society.
The closing date for applications is 1st NOVEMBER. The Fellowship website has an application page that should provide all the necessary information as well as answering many frequently asked questions: http://www.maphistory.info/application.html . Please indicate in your application if you are a postgraduate or an early career researcher within five years of completion of your PhD.
It would be helpful if you could say where you saw this notice. Please forward to others who might be interested.
Contact Info:
Tom Harper
Honorary Secretary, J.B. Harley Fellowships, Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping, The British Library
Contact Email:
URL:
http://www.maphistory.info/harley.html
7. New Publication – Lüsterkeramik. Schillerndes Geheimnis / Luster Ceramics. Shimmering Secret, Museum für Islamische Kunst
Dear Friends of the Museum für Islamische Kunst,
We are pleased to announce our latest publication Lüsterkeramik. Schillerndes Geheimnis / Luster Ceramics. Shimmering Secret
The volume aims to explore the fascination of the shimmering shine of luster ceramics by illuminating the history of this special ceramic technique up to the present day. The starting point is the restoration of a unique Iranian luster vase of the thirteenth century, which the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation has given to the Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin on permanent loan.
The 98-page publication is bilingual in English and German.
Table of Contents
- Preface Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation: Benjamin Dodenhoff
- Foreword: Stefan Weber
- Introduction: Martina Müller-Wiener
- The Reconstruction of the Reconstruction: Stephanie Fischer
- Mastery Has Many Facets – A Monumental Luster Vase in the Museum für Islamische Kunst: Martina Müller-Wiener
- Luster – the Secret of the Shimmering Ceramic: Deniz Erduman-Çalış
- Interview with Master Potter Abbas Akbari
- Image of Architecture with God’s Word – The Luster Tile Panel of a Prayer Niche from Kashan: Markus Ritter
- Friedrich Sarre’s Gift to Munich – A Collection of Lusterware from Rayy: Miriam Wallner
- Shards That Reveal (Hi-)Stories – Egyptian Lusterware of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries: Miriam Kühn
- The Consumption and Reception of Iberian Lusterware – Medieval to Contemporary: Mariam Rosser-Owen
- Luster Glaze – Thoughts of a Master Potter from Iran: Abbas Akbari
Check for the restoration of the luster vase also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXVeDxbp4M8
The restoration and publication were sponsered by Peter und Irene Ludwig Stiftung Aachen https://ludwigstiftung.de/
8. Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop 2022
I’m pleased to invite you to this year’s Great Lakes Adiban Society Workshop on October 1-2 at the University of Chicago. Online participation is also an option. You will find below details including the panels, paper titles, and associated times. Please feel free to circulate the program more broadly. If you have any questions, please email greatlakesadibansociety@gmail.com. We are very much looking forward to your participation.
- Dates and times:
Saturday, October 1, 9:00am–3:30pm (Central Time)
Sunday, October 2, 9:00am–4:15pm (Central Time) - Physical location:
Foster Hall 103
1130 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637 [link to map] (visitor parking available nearby)
- Remote participation:
On registering at [tinyurl.com/glas2022]tinyurl.com/glas2022 , you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Saturday, Oct 1
On Persia, Persian, and Persians (09:15-10:45)
09:15-10:00: Jeson Ng (U of Chicago), Arab roots in a Persian land: Saljuq panegyrists and the negotiation of ethnic identity in the eleventh century
10:00-10:45: Shaahin Pishbin (U of Chicago), Persian and the Cosmos: Iranophilia in Akbar’s Hindustan
The Politics of Translation in Persianate South Asia (11:00-12:30)
11:00-11:45: Justin Smolin (U of Chicago), Religion As a Question: The Tauḍīḥ al-milal and Mughal Political Theology
11:45-12:30: Zoë Woodbury High (U of Chicago), Translating the new taste: Rasa, movement, and multilingualism in Ibrahim ʿAdil Shah II’s Kitāb-i nauras
Islamicate Poetics of Time and Place (14:00-15:30)
14:00-14:45: Rama Alhabian (Hamilton College), The Poetics of Contingency in Ḥarīrī’s “Maqāma of Oman”
14:45-15:30: Cameron Cross (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Call Him Diyanus in Greek! The Correlating of Pagan and Islamic Knowledge in ʿUnsurī’s Vāmiq-u ʿAzrā
Sunday, Oct 2
Islamicate Editorial & Critical Practices (09:15-10:45)
09:15-10:00: Shiva Mihan (Princeton U), Text transmission and editing in 15th-century Iran under the Timurids
10:00-10:45: Shahla Farghadani (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor), The Earliest Critics: The role of rhetoric in the creation of a proto-literary canon
Adab & the Paratext (11:00-12:30)
11:00-11:45: Seher Agarwala (Colombia U), Between word and image: Illustrated manuscripts and the construction of ethics in sixteenth-century Golconda
11:45-12:30: Manpreet Kaur (Colombia U), Scenographic Strategy as Literary Technique: Framing the teacher-student relationship in the Sufi malfūẓāt genre in South Asia
The Adab of Disclosure & Recitation (14:00-15:30)
14:00-14:45: Zach Winters (U of Chicago), Speaking Too Freely with Āẕarī Isfarāyinī (d. 866/1461-2)
14:45-15:30: Fateme Montazeri (UC Berkeley): Zikr and ‘Aqd-i Nikah: Forgotten functions of Persian quatrain
Closing Discussion (15:30-16:15)
- September 24, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CHAT PREMODERN RESEARCH FORUM SYMPOSIUM
Epidemics and the Environment in the Pre-Modern World
Temple University
Friday, September 30, 9:00 am-6 :30 pm
Webinar Registration Link: https://temple.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sIp1vOwQStep7H0czB49lg
This symposium will explore the wide array of environmental and institutional factors that influenced the way in which plague, in the broadest sense, and other epidemics originated and spread, as well as their intellectual, artistic, demographic and socio-economic consequences at a local and global scale throughout history from Antiquity to the 18th century. How did Pre-Modern societies cope with epidemics that presented challenges and upheavals comparable to the ones we are currently experiencing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? What can the Pre-Modern past offer to better prepare us for our present and future?
2. ASIAN CULTURAL RESEARCH WEBINAR
Mardomname and Ahmadabad University Fourth Webinar
This webinar brings together two different perspectives on ethnographic methods, as employed by an Iranian anthropologist and an Indian one in relation to their respective fields.
THE OUTSIDE: TRANSLATION AFTER THE REVOLUTION
Milad Odabaei is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, ACADEMIC BORDERS AND THE MAKING OF THE INDIAN HIMALAYAN FRONTIER
Suchismita Das is an Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Division at Ahmedabad University.
22 SEPTEMBER 2022 — 6 pm IST — 5 pm IRDT — 1:30 pm GMT
Meeting ID: 969 9161 8262 Passcode: 207524
3. Conference “The Theory and Practice of Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World”, University of Hamburg, 22-24 September 2022
See program at https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/conf-prog-2022.html . Registration: score.aai@uni-hamburg.de .
4. ONLINE Meeting “The Ongoing Struggle for Academic Freedom and Autonomy at Boğaziçi University”, Series Turkey Now, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) 23 September 2022, 9:00 am PT
Boğaziçi University faculty members and instructors Can Candan, Mine Eder, Çiğdem Kafescioğlu, Cengiz Kırlı, and Ünal Zenginobuz will provide an update on the recent developments that continue to threaten academic freedom and autonomy at Boğaziçi University gravely. Laurie Brand, the chair of the Middle East Studies Association’s Committee on Academic Freedom (MESA CAF), will be the moderator.
Information and registration: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOuoqj0oGdX7TpPw2T9qDH965LZhu-V9
5. ONLINE Webinar “Blasphemy Laws in Islam and in Muslim-Majority Countries – Do They Violate Qur`anic Teaching?”, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy (CSID), 24 Sep-tember 2022, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
Speakers: Prof. Khaled Abou Elfadl (UCLA Law School), Mustafa Akyol (Senior Fellow, Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, Cato Institute), Prof. Ahmet Kuru (San Diego State University), Dr. Basheer Ahmed (Southwestern Medical School, Dallas TX), Dr. Radwan A. Masmoudi (President, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy).
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Ua0k6XDkSeO7rRqa5IyfIQ
6. ONLINE Session “Connected Crusaders. Expert Knowledge and the Plans for the Recovery of the Holy Land (1291–1336)”, German Historical Institutes in Paris and Rome, 27 September 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm CET
The Egyptian sultans conquered the last remaining Crusader states in the Levant between 1289 and 1291. Faced with this defeat, the Latin rulers began to question their military modus operandi and tried to find entirely new ways and means of reconquering the Holy Land. The session examines the creation and dissemination of knowledge in the subsequent 40 years of crusade planning and discusses these and related topics with the audience.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqfuCrqD4oGNf2g4qTKIbOJWbDsH0wSKEN
7. International Conference: „Rationality in Islamic Theology in the Post-Classical Period (1200-1900)“, Department of Islamic-Religious Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 28-29 Sep-tember 2022
The post-classical period is a very important period and the connecting bridge between the classical and the modern Islamic thought. In this period interdisciplinary connections between the Islamic sciences became an important characteristic element and took place between many disciplines. The conference will shade a special light on the importance of this period.
Deadline for registration: 25 September 2022. Information and program: https://www.dirs.phil.fau.de/files/2022/09/DIRS-Tagung_GoldenAge_8Seiter_400mm-breit_B.pdf
8. HYBRID Panel “Petitions and Petitioning in Iranian & Ottoman Constitutionalism”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 13 October 2022, 12:30 pm ET This panel will examine the constitutionalism processes in the Ottoman and Iranian contexts with a particular focus on the meaning, institution, and transformation of petitioning. Yuval Ben-Bassat will explore the Ottoman institution of petitioning following the Young Turk Revolution of 1908. Nader Sohrabi will explore the democracy of petitions in Iran’s constitutional movement. Etc. Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsdOutpzMsHdRaDkhIKnnZ8wHmuFYZ_RyL
9. Conference “The Futures Past of the Ottomans”, Université Paris Cité, 12-13 October 2023
The program of the conference intends to examine how Erdoganism brings together 1) anti-Kemalism: revolutionary utopia as the rejection of the old order and the shaping of a new man leads to a multi-faceted counterrevolution; 2) post-Kemalism; 3) Neo-Ottoman Kemalism: modelling on the sultan, the Turkish president ensures the redistribution of resources and the balance of justice; 4) anti-Westernism.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2022.
10. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture (Premondern Islamic, Christian, Jewish Cultures), Bates College, Lewiston, Maine
The Department of Art and Visual Culture, in conjunction with the Religious Studies Department and the Classical and Medieval Studies Program, seeks a tenure-track colleague in premodern visual cultures with an emphasis on visual cultures produced in and among varied religious cultures, including Islamic, Christian, and/or Jewish, in the centuries before 1500 CE.
Deadline for application: 1 November 2022.
Information: https://www.bates.edu/employment/opportunities/?job=492560
11. Book Chapters for Edited Volume “Timurid Manuscripts in Context: Prince Baysunghur, Before and After” of the Persian Manuscripts Association
The edited volume can cover a range of topics, periods, and regions, from Jalayirid Iran to the early modern Persianate world at large, and cross several disciplinary boundaries, including but not limited to history, literature, codicology, conservation, and art history, in relation to the connoisseurship and patronage undertaken by the Timurid Prince Baysunghur and his corpus.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 October 2022. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/edited-volume/
12. Articles on “Middle East and North African Archives” for Special Section of the “American Archivist Journal”
Articles may cover records management, repositories, archival practices, the content of specific collections, or other topics which affect archival collections in the region. While articles are free to engage archival theory, in general they should discuss actual records and collections and not approach archives solely as metaphor.
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2023. Information: https://www2.archivists.org/news/2022/american-archivist-calls-for-articles-on-middle-east-and-north-african-archives
13. Articles on “Manuscript Studies” for the Online, Open-Access Journal “Shamsa: The Journal of the Persian Manuscripts Association”
Articles and research notes are invited for the inaugural 2024 volume of Shamsa. The journal focuses on Islamic manuscript studies in the historically Persianate world (including Iran, Iraq, South Asia, Central Asia, and Turkey). We welcome submissions that focus on manuscripts and related media from the Late Antique up to the modern periods and discuss material written in Persian, Arabic, Turkish and other related languages like Urdu, Chagatai, and Uyghur. Deadline for submissions: 24 February 2023. Information: https://persianmanuscripts.org/journal/
14. Articles for “Indonesian Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Humanity”, State Islamic University (UIN) Salatiga, Indonesia
This Journal focuses on the works which deal with anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, philosophy of religion, history of religion, religious education, religious literature, theology, religious law, religious studies, Islamic studies, and religious tourism.
Submission deadline: 30 September 2022. Information: https://e-journal.iainsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/ijoresh/index
15. Articles for Journal “Forum Islamic-Theological Studies”, University of Innsbruck
This peer-reviewed, international journal isdevoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Reli-gious Education, principally in Europe. Papers can be submitted in Qur´anic Studies and Qur`anic Exegesis (tafsīr); Hadith Studies; Sufism; Islamic Ethics and Philosophy; Islamic Religious Education; Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe; Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe; Interreligious Studies; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022. Information: https://ojs.nomos-journals.de/index.php/fits/CfP
16. CYCLE DE CONFÉRENCES PUBLIQUES
22-23 IISMM-BULAC
Prêcher et convaincre en contexte musulman
La naissance de l’islam : convaincre entre apocalyspe, conquêtes
et empire
Paris, 4 October, 2022, 18.30-20.00
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/08/AfficheConf_Oct.pdf
17. Call for Papers on Science & Religion in the MENA Region under the auspices of the International Research Network for the Study of Science & Belief in Society based in the University of Birmingham.
Unpublished papers (between 8,000 and 10,000 words) on subjects such as those outlined above should be emailed by November 15, 2022 to mena.science.religion@gmail.com
The best six papers will receive an award of GBP 1,000. The best among the six selected will be awarded a further GBP 2,000.
For more information contact: mena.science.religion@gmail.com
18. MA programs in Middle Eastern Studies & Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut
The spring semester application deadline is approaching for the following Master of Arts programs at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut:
An interdisciplinary program which provides students with a broad knowledge of the history, culture, and politics of the contemporary Middle East. Students may structure their own course of study in order to develop a critical understanding of the region as well as to conduct in-depth, independent research. Arabic language study is a required part of the program.
An interdisciplinary program which provides students with a broad knowledge of classical and modern Islamic religious thought and textual traditions, and offers critical insight into the political, intellectual, literary and social history of Islam up to the present day.
The deadline to apply for Spring 2022-23 is November 3, 2022. Both programs offer students funding opportunities.
For information on how to apply to graduate programs at AUB, please visit the Office of Admissions website and the Graduate Council website.
For any questions about our programs, please email us on cames@aub.edu.lb.
19. Highlights from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection at the University of Pennsylvania
Friday, 30 September at 10am EDT / 3pm GMT / 4pm EET (via Zoom)
In collaboration with Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS), Lynn Ransom, Curator of Programs, and Nicholas Herman, Lawrence J. Schoenberg Curator of Manuscripts, at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies will present highlights of the Schoenberg Collection’s Islamicate manuscripts and the various ways in which SIMS encourages and engages scholars around the world in support of research involving the collection.
Arabic simultaneous interpretation will be available throughout the event.
- September 20, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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