Categories : Academic items

 

1. Review of Middle East Studies

‘Special Focus: MERIP and the Politics of Knowledge Production in MENA Studies’

Volume 55 – Issue 2 – December 2021

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/issue/9684EB807040D1B7DF95680C84A40028

 

 

 

2.  Late Antique Responses to the Arab Conquests

Editors: Josephine van den Bent, Floris van den Eijnde, and Johan Weststeijn

Brill, 2022

 

 

 

3. Persian Literature, A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
Volume VI: Index
Francois de Blois

Brill, 2022

 

 

 

4. ReOrienting Histories of Medicine, Encounters along the Silk Roads

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

I B Tauris, 2022

 

 

 

5. New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures,

Interpretive essays on Islamic artifacts, texts, and phenomena entwining over fourteen centuries.

S Bashir,

MIT Press, 2022

Now available on the web freely.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/publications/new-vision-islamic-pasts-futures/

 

 

 

 

6. Research Associate position for the Project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History”

Dear friends and colleagues,

We would like to share with you a very exciting position for a research associate advertised by the research project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600) in Hamburg University.

The project looks for a researcher with proven computer science expertise. The position is for 1,5 + 1,5 years. The deadline for applications is August 30, 2022. The successful candidate will work on computational analyses, the development of online interfaces, and data management. The successful candidate will also conduct research at the intersection of their areas of expertise and the research subjects of the project as well as will contribute to the project research, teaching, and publication activities.

Requirements: A university degree in a relevant field. Applicants must have a degree (M.A.) in Computer Science and/or Middle Eastern Studies. Candidates with Ph.D. degrees are most welcome to apply. The ideal applicant must have skills in some or, preferably, all of the following areas: Arabic NLP, machine learning/ deep learning, front-end and back-end development, and continuous integration. Additionally, ideal candidates will have excellent classical Arabic skills. Prior experience of work in digital projects on Arab language, culture, and history will be considered an added advantage, but not strictly required. Applicants must have an excellent command of English (both spoken and written); knowledge of German is preferred, but not required. As this is a collaborative team project, strong communication and interpersonal skills are a prerequisite.

The job advertisement is available on the Universität Hamburg website: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebote/ausschreibung.html?jobID=109697a3e3f6e8e3f342713dee0c0b95371f05ab . Applications must be submitted through the link given on the page. Feel free to email Maxim Romanov (maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de ), if you have any questions.

Best wishes,
Dr. Alicia González Martínez
Research Associate | Computational Linguist
DFG/AHRC project InterSaME
www.intersame.uni-hamburg.de
Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut

 

 

 

 

7. CFP: Leeds 2023 session on Disease in the Medieval Islamicate World (deadline: 15 Sept 2022)

Disease in the Medieval

Islamicate World

Sessions proposed for:

Leeds International Medieval Congress

3-6 July 2023/2023 Theme: “Networks & Entanglements”.

 

Topics may include, but are not limited to,

any of the following:

• Newly discovered or edited texts on plague or

other infectious diseases

• Commentaries and paratexts of plague

treatises, showing their continued uses

• Networks of discourse within and beyond the

Islamicate world that shared information about

medicine or disease events

• Biographical approaches that set the medical

writings or practices of individuals into larger

intellectual frameworks

• Routes and roads: networks of trade that

contributed to infectious disease proliferation

• Social impacts of epidemics

• Infectious diseases in medical historiography:

why we tell the stories that we tell

Joint presentations are welcome, even

encouraged, as a way to expand our comparative

understanding of disease networks.

IMC 2023 is currently planning to offer hybrid

options; please indicate on your abstract whether

you plan to attend in person or virtually.

 

For further details on the setup of the Leeds conference, see the organizer’s website: https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/. The conference will take place 3-6 July 2023; at the present time, organizers are planning to do a hybrid option, allowing presenters to attend in-person or remotely. Please indicate on your abstract which option you prefer.

 

Questions? Need bibliographical suggestions on

the latest work in the field? Feel free to write.

Contact either me (monica.h.green@gmail.com) or my co-organizer, Nahyan Fancy (nahyanfancy@depauw.edu). We need to receive abstracts (250 words) by 15 September 2022 to finalize organization of the panels. If you are interested, it would be ideal if you could write as soon as possible to signal your interest.

 

 

 

1.In memoriam: Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-middle-east-studies/article/rifaat-ali-abouelhaj-19332022/3B6D535003C5BDA7CAE49BF9D9141767

 

 

 

2. Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Book Archive, 2000-2006

is the electronic version of the book publication program of Brill in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies from 2000-2006, which contains many publications by renowned authors. For a full overview, go to their dedicated web page.

 

 

 

 

3.  Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire

P Blessing

Cambridge, 2022

 

 

 

 

4. The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks abstracts for two sessions at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 11-13, 2023. Abstracts are due before Sept. 15, 2022, via the ICMS website.

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Panel One: Translation in Islamicate Contexts: Portals, Frames, and Epistemes, ID# 3707

When—and when not—to translate? Historically, many of the landmark texts of Islamic knowledge and tradition, notably the Qur’an and Sa’di’s Gulistan, were studied in the original language. Other influential cycles, like fables, stories of the Prophets, romances, and narratives of travel and history, were repeatedly translated and adapted into new forms and genres. In the past, translation was part of the everyday processes of literary production and circulation, and today translation strategies continue to open meaning among texts geared for both specialists and the wider public, from monographs to comics or films. This panel intends to explore these complex dynamics by posing the notion of translation as the transmutation of epistemological, corporeal, and literary frames between worlds and ways of knowing.

The Great Lakes Adiban Society seeks papers that consider translation in and translation of the pre-modern Islamicate world. Multilingual writers working across traditions were constantly “moving” topics, ideas, and motifs from one context to another, bridging time, space, materials, and even the senses themselves. Through this approach, we aim to host a variety of scholars studying Islamicate literary, visual, historical, and material traditions of the pre-modern world for a discussion on how translation both broadens and creates epistemological and artistic frames.

The format for this panel is blended: both in-person and virtual. If you cannot visit Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2023 we encourage you to apply. 

Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Translation: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3707

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Panel Two: Prosimetrum in Islamicate Literatures: Bridges, Representations, and Dialogues, ID#3711 

Islamicate prosimetra constructed productive and complex links between poetics and politics and across visual and textual registers to structure memory, community, and civic life. The admixture of prose and poetry in Islamicate writing is so widespread that it often becomes invisible — a textual feature we simply take for granted. Says the poet,

From salons to serais, both base and sublime

the bounds of genre blurred.

As speech both measured and unrhymed

built bridges with the word.

Within these contexts, scholarly boundaries of genre often blurred, as history, lyric, prose, and panegyric easily inhabited the same textual, auditory, and visual registers among authors composing for the court, the Sufi hospice, or the literary marketplace. 

This panel seeks papers that both unpack the interaction of prose and poetry and consider the broader uses of prosimetrum among single works, scribal traditions, and performative settings. By exploring these aspects of prosimetra as a form of conceptual bridge-building, we hope to generate a discussion that will help scholars approach the use of this textual form with newfound insight and appreciation. To facilitate a broad engagement with Islamicate prosimetra from the pre-modern world, this panel has an interdisciplinary focus, seeking scholars with backgrounds in languages, literature, music, history, art, religions, and philosophy.

This panel will be in-person.

Before September 15, 2022, apply here for Prosimetra: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3711

 

 

 

5. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Denver, Colorado, 1-4 December 2022

The full program, all sessions, and abstracts of the paper are available at https://my-mesa.org/program

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Inaugural International Conference of the “Qurʾanic Linguistics Research Group”, Swansea University and SOAS University of London, 14-15 March 2023

Topics: 1. Application of linguistic theories and approaches to analyzing the Qurʾānic text. – 2. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic discourse types such as narratives, dialogues, polemics, and hymns. – 3. Linguistic analysis of Qurʾānic themes and textual structures. – 4. Qurʾānic grammar and syntax. – 5. Analyses of phonology and morphology in the Qur’an. – 6. Time and aspect issues (e.g. gnomic present). – Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 3 October 2022.

Information: https://swanseauniversity-my.sharepoint.com/:b:/g/personal/s_m_a_s_el-awa_swansea_ac_uk/EfSyh5XbctpOkxo0OdRAho4BvzvXhpLVf9eRfIXb3H8z6Q?e=FaqtEL

 

 

 

 

7. Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)

MESA invites submissions of unpublished graduate student research papers on any aspect of Middle East studies since 600 CE for this Prize. The author of the winning paper receives a certificate and $250.

Deadline for submission: 15 August 2022.

Information: https://mesana.org/awards/category/mesa-graduate-student-paper-prize

 

 

 

 

8. Chapters on “History of the Qur’ān: Critical Concepts” for Edited Volume (Kube Publishing and the Markfield Institute of Higher Education)

Topics may include but are not limited to: Qur’ānic manuscripts, compilation an,d codification of the Qur’an, Non-Uthmānic codices, Aḥruf, Qiraʿāt, the question of tawātur, Pre-modern and contemporary Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history.

Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.

Information and submissions: https://www.mihe.ac.uk/index.php/news-events/4593-2/

 

 

 

9. Articles for the “Syrian Studies Association Bulletin”, Fall 2022 Issue

The Bulletin invites feature, news, and research article proposals, as well as book reviews, for this issue, covering issues of contemporary or historic interest in Bilad al-Sham and modern Syria from scholars and practitioners who work in or on Syria and related issues, including sociology, religion, journalism, history, anthropology, international relations, archeology, media studies, environmental studies, music/art studies, etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 August 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10580697/cfp-2nd-call-syrian-studies-association-bulletin-fall-2022

 

 

 

 

10. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639

Review of applications will begin October 1, 2022.

 

 

 

 

11. Call for a postdoctoral position with a focus on Arabic pharmacology

(in particular, the Kitāb al-ḫawāṣṣ by Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr) has opened at the University of Bologna, in the frame of the ERC Project UseFool – Knowledge and manipulation of nature between usefulness and deception in the Arabo-Islamic tradition (9th–15th century)  (G.A. 101043939).

https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=65404

The dead line for the call is on September 15, the position will start from December 1, 2022. 

 

 

 

12. Registration for ONLINE participation: Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)

Ecologies of Healing in the Premodern World (600-1350 CE)

Organised by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos and Zubin Mistry 

Funded by the Wellcome Trust 

9-10 September 2022, University of Edinburgh 

Conference programme and abstracts

This conference is a face-to-face event for speakers and chairs only.

All further participants may only attend via Zoom.

1.Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies

Intellect, 2022

S Mulder, ed.

 

 

 

 

2. The British Association for Islamic Studies and De Gruyter are delighted to announce that Dr Elizabeth Grace Price has been awarded the 2022 BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize.

Dr Price’s thesis ‘The Barāhima’s Dilemma: Ibn al-Rāwandī’s Kitāb al-Zumurrud and the Epistemological Turn in the Debate on Prophecy’ was praised by the Prize committee and reviewers as a truly pioneering study, and we are full of anticipation for her monograph which will follow in due course.

You can read more about Dr Price’s submission here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2022

We would also like to congratulate Dr Aziza Shanazarova (Indiana University-Bloomington) who received this year’s Honorable Mention for her submission ‘A Female Saint in Muslim Polemics: Agha-yi Buzurg and her Legacy in Early Modern Central Asia’.

The 2023 Prize will be open for submissions in September, and we will be in touch again soon with further details.

Many congratulations again to Dr Price and Dr Shanazarova, and very best wishes from us all at BRAIS.

 

Tom Lea

Secretary

British Association for Islamic Studies

The Alwaleed Centre

University of Edinburgh

16 George Square

Edinburgh

EH8 9LD

 

07776146944

brais@ed.ac.uk

www.brais.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

3. Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis

Jaan Islam, Adem Eryiğit

Routledge, 2022

https://www.routledge.com/Islam-and-the-State-in-Ibn-Taymiyya-Translation-and-Analysis/Islam-Eryigit/p/book/9781032131832

 

 

 

4. Brown University – Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in modern Arabic literature at the rank of Assistant Professor. The Ph.D. must be completed by the time of employment, and native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English is required. The field of specialization within modern Arabic literature is open, though we especially encourage applications from candidates whose work is comparative in nature, engaging with literary texts and traditions in addition to Arabic.
Demonstrated excellence in scholarship and teaching is essential, as is a commitment to fostering an academic community based on the principles of diversity and inclusion. Interested candidates should address these three areas in a letter of application, submitted alongside a curriculum vitae, a dissertation abstract, an article-length sample of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation.
All materials should be submitted via Interfolio. Review of applications will begin on November 1st, 2022, and will continue until the position is filled. The Department is keenly interested in diversifying its faculty and encourages candidates from historically underrepresented groups in higher education to apply.
Apply via Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/110013

 

 

 

 

5. Miscelánea de Estudios Árabes y HebraicosSección Árabe-Islam(MEAH-AI) is one of the oldest journals on Arabic and Islamic Studies in Spain. A multilingual and interdisciplinary journal, it welcomes scholarship on all subjects pertaining to Arabic and Islamic Studies, from the Middle Ages to the present.

Languages: You may submit your contributions in English, Spanish French or Arabic.

Peer Review: Implementing a double-blind peer review process all submissions will be sent to at least two external scientific referees.

Committed to facilitating research and promoting the exchange of knowledge MEAH-AI is an open-access journal (see most recent volume here) and indexed in relevant scientific databases, directories and evaluation platforms such as ESCI, ERIHPlus, EBSCO.

MEAH-AI is published annually. It accepts articles about very diverse topics in the field of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the broadest sense, whether the classical period (al-Andalus and the Orient) or the Modern and Contemporary periods.

Deadlines: Articles and miscellanea may be submitted throughout the year. The deadline for the issue of the following year is May 31st (e.g. for 2023 this would have been May 31, 2022).

 

 

 

6. The Islamic College

Arabic Online Language Course

Beginner (Saturday), Intermediate (Sunday), Advanced (Friday)
Starting: 4th October 2022
Registration Deadline: 15th September 2022

For further information and to register:

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

 

 

 

7. Once a year the Max Weber Foundation (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase.

The scientists conduct a self-chosen research project in at least two and at most three host countries which are home to MWS institutes and branches (please note the current reference below) or at the Richard Koebner Minerva Center for German History. Placements (at most one month per host country, shorter stays are possible) are to be used for research, especially in libraries and archives. Academics are expected to produce transnational and transregional studies, providing research with new and original ideas.

Funding

Funding covers:

• travel costs for travel to the foreign institute and back;
• daily rates between € 28.00 and € 62.00 depending on the host country;
• lodging in one of the institute’s inexpensive guest rooms depending on the host country chosen and on

availability.

Countries and regions

Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Poland, Singapore, Turkey, USA

When planning the travel, the continuously updated information from the authorities, in particular from the Robert Koch Institute, and the relevant travel information from the Federal Foreign Office must be observed. The travels are at the recipients of Feldman travel grants own responsibility. Depending on the situation, the start of the travel can be postponed.

Please note: Due to the current situation, it is not possible to apply for travel grants for Russia and China this year.

Conditions for application

Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (highest degree must be at least a Master, M.A., state examination or German Diplom) who have already published and can present a research plan. Applications for projects related to research priorities pursued by the Foundation’s institutes/branches will take precedence.

A re-application is only possible if this has been explicitly stated in the rejection letter.

Employees and scholarship holders of the MWS are excluded from the application process.

Application papers

All application papers must be submitted in German or English. A complete application will comprise the following information:

• completed application form;
• a detailed presentation (max. 3–5 pages) of the intended research project, stating the sources which

justify the stay in the specific host countries or at the institutes;

• copies of certificates (examinations, PhD certificate);
• list of publications;
• a reference opinion from an expert which should provide information on the applicant’s status and the

progress of work and be sent from the reviewer by e-mail (feldman@maxweberstiftung.de) directly to

the Max Weber Foundation’s central office;

a letter confirming supervision by the host institution in Germany, if applicable.

Selection criteria

• Academic excellence
• Transnational and/or comparative topic

Submitted project contributes to further academic qualification

Further information and contact:

feldman@maxweberstiftung.de

www.maxweberstiftung.de/travel-grants

The next deadline for applications is 7 October 2022.

The selection committee is expected to meet at the beginning of December 2022. The grants can be called forward from January 2023.

 

 

 

 

8. Iran and Persianate Culture in the Indian Ocean World

British Institute of Persian Studies Mediaeval Research Programme Conference

7-8 September 2022, University of St Andrews

Registrations are open to attend the conference of the BIPS Mediaeval Research Programme, on the 7th and 8th September 2022 at St Andrews University. The conference is organised with additional support from the Honeyman Trust and the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews.

If you wish to attend, please contact Professor Andrew Peacock.

The deadline for registrations is 1st September 2022.

For more information, including the programme:

https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/medieval-programme-conference/

 

 

 

9. We would like to make an announcement regarding to the academic journal ‘Mediterranean Review’, issued by the IMS.
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).
Concluding long consideration of academic concentration of the institute, we
would like to announce that the MR aims to widen 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 one of the global
mediterraneans.
We look forward your submission.
Thank you. We hope you all the best.
Sincerely,
Institute for Mediterranean Studies Busan
Busan University of Foreign Studies,

Republic of Korea.
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea.  (46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr  / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr

 

1.Call for Papers: Muslim Philanthropy in Latin America & the Latinx U.S.

Colloquium to be held online, December 7-8, 2022

While the literatures on Muslim philanthropy and on Latinx philanthropy are continuously expanding, they lack perspectives on how Latinx Muslims and Muslims in Latin America are part of a wider matrix of generosity, volunteering, and mutual aid within, and beyond, both constituencies. On the one hand, Muslims give to organizations and participate in philanthropic activism at local, national, and global levels, hoping to make the world a better place in accordance with Islam. On the other hand, people who identify as Latinx or who live in Latin America have historically engaged in acts of solidarity and mutual assistance among vulnerable populations, addressing issues related to poverty, education, health, and culture.

This colloquium and the resulting special edition of the Journal on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society (Indiana University Press) will help pave the way to move research on the intersections between Muslim and Latinx philanthropy further.

Full information at:

https://www.lacisa.org/post/call-for-papers-muslim-philanthropy-in-latin-america-the-latinx-u-s

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be sent to editor@lacisa.org no later than October 1, 2022.

Those accepted will be notified by October 15, 2022, with the offer of a $250 honorarium for participation in the colloquium and for presentations delivered online between December 7-8, 2022.

Questions, comments, or other queries can be made to Dr. Ken Chitwood at editor@lacisa.org.

 

 

 

2. International Conference “Islamic Succession Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, 30-31 March 2023

The conference addresses the intergenerational transfer of property in various historical and regional contexts by bringing together different methodological approaches and theoretical perspectives (especially from law, history, economics, anthropology, Middle Eastern/regional studies, gender studies and sociology).

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1543907/20220729-call-for-papers-succession-in-islamic-law?c=1013904

 

 

 

 

3. Post-Doc Resident Fellowships for 2023/24 (1-12 Months), RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University of Hamburg

Applicants should work on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The theme is ‘Architecture and Materials of Prestige’, i.e. exploring the representation of political rule in material culture and architecture of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2022.

Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cfa-fellows-2023-new.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. Lecturer in Contemporary Islam (0.8fte, until 30/09/2023), University of Chester

Applicants will bring scholarly expertise in Contemporary Islam and will assist with the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate modules as well as some administrative duties and the pastoral support of students.

Deadline for applications: 4 August 2022.

Information: https://jobs.chester.ac.uk/wrl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=00014804

 

 

 

5. Scholarships for the Italian National PhD Program in Religious Studies (Islam, Judaism etc.), University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Other Italian Universities

This program with a three-year duration is starting from 1 November 2022.

Deadline for applications: 25 August 2022.

Information: https://www.unimore.it/AZdoc/CallPhDEnglishXXXVIIIReligiousStudiesWeb.pdf

 

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics (Tenure-Track, Focus Politics of the Middle East or Africa), Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington

Qualification: Doctorate in Political Science; Specialization in one or both of the following: Politics of the Middle East or Africa; Ability to effectively teach introductory and upper division courses in Comparative Politics; Ability to develop and sustain a high quality research program.

Deadline for applications: 16 September 2022.

Information: https://hr.wwu.edu/careers-faculty?job=499957

 

 

 

 

 

7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Eastern Mediterranean or Near East History, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Applicants should specialize in the years between 600 and 1500 and begin on 1 July 2023. We are especially interested in scholars, who work across regions, languages, cultures, and religions. We welcome applications from historians who already hold teaching positions, as well as recent PhDs and those who expect their PhD or equivalent degree by the time of appointment.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108402

 

 

 

8. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer for Politics and International Relations of the Arabic Speaking World, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS), Australian National University, Canberra

Research informed by fieldwork and close engagement with the region is highly desirable. Proficiency in Arabic is also highly desirable.

Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.

Information: https://jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/546329/lecturersenior-lecturer-politics-and-international-relations-of-the-arabic-speaking-world

 

 

 

9. EN LIGNE Cours de langues : « Arabe standard, Darija et Amazigh 2022-2023 », Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat

Consultez l’offre et les modalités d’inscription sur le lien ci-dessous: https://www.cjb.ma/evenement/offre-des-cours-darabe-standard-darija-et-amazigh-2022-2023/

 

 

 

10. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Memory and Historiography of the Crusades in the Middle East”

With a focus on the modern memory and historiography in the Arab World, the chapters should address: • The academic memory of the crusades as reflected in the Middle East or Arab crusade historiography; • Analysing the content, context and contextualisation of the Modern Arab scholarship on the crusades and Islamic Jihad; • The impact of the crusading memory on the Arab perception of the Modern West; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-volume?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

11. Paid Research Articles on “Transformations in Authoritarianism and in Resilience Mechanisms of Human Rights in the Arab Region” for Special Issue of the Journal “Rowaq Arabi”

This issue will focus on recent transformations in authoritarianism in the Arab region in the past decade, changes in geopolitical alliances, as well as changes in the mechanisms of coping and resilience of human rights and political movements. Relevant articles (English or Arabic) from all disciplines of social sciences, humanities and law are welcome, and will be financially compensated.

Deadline for full manuscripts: 2 October 2022.

Information: https://rowaq.cihrs.org/call-for-papers-transformations-in-authoritarianism-and-in-resilience-mechanisms-of-human-rights-in-the-arab-region/?lang=en

 

 

 

12. To celebrate the inaugural issue of Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (GNCS), a journal published by Liverpool University Press (https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/id/111/), the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS) will host a two-day symposium on oceanic approaches to nineteenth-century culture, ecology, economics, history, and politics in a range of global contexts. Intentionally broad in scope, the symposium seeks to cross-map nineteenth-century studies with key currents of the blue humanities, the Black and circum-Atlantic, Indian Ocean studies, oceanic ecologies, post- and decolonialism, maritime globalization, and beyond. We welcome participants from any discipline and at any stage of their scholarly career.
The majority of the panels and events will be held in Los Angeles at the Doheny campus of Mount Saint Mary’s University. To facilitate global connections and conversations, the symposium will also feature live panels and audience participants in several sites around the world, including Australia, China, and South Africa.
PANELS AND POSSIBLE TOPICS
The symposium will feature three thematic panels and several open panels. The three thematic panels take inspiration from a trio of articles in the first issue of GNCS.
Panel 1: “Hydrographies: (Re)writing Oceanic Spaces”
inspired by Charne Lavery’s article, “The Southern Indian Ocean and the Oceanic South”
Possible topics include…
— the blue humanities
— Indian Ocean studies
— the global / oceanic South
— navigation, exploration, and “discovery”
— naval geopolitics and hydrocolonialism
— living “in the wake” of empire
— oceanic ecologies and the nonhuman sea
— oceanic zones; the littoral and the submarine; surface and depth
— shorelines and seascapes
Panel 2: “Maritime Mercantilism: Oceanic Exchanges and Microhistories”
inspired by Boyd Cothran and Adrian Shubert’s article, “Maritime History, Microhistory, and the Global Nineteenth Century: The Edwin Fox”
Possible topics include…
— globalization and maritime circulations and exchanges
— shipping, infrastructure, and logistics
— maps, charts, and logbooks
— DH approaches to global / oceanic / nineteenth-century history
— maritime materialisms and object histories
— micro / macro scales of oceanic history
— labor and leisure at sea
— maritime economies (including piracy)
Panel 3: “Home and Away: Oceanic Circulations and Travellers”
inspired by Humberto Garcia’s article, “The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics, Africans and South Sea Islanders: Inaugurating a Hospitable World Order in Mid-Victorian Britain”
Possible topics include…
— maritime mobility and immobility
— lascars on land and at sea
— the Black and circum-Atlantics
— enslavement and diaspora
— immigration and emigration
— Indigenous / subaltern knowledge of the ocean
— dockside geopolitics
— oceanic imperialism, patriotism, and xenophobia
Panels 4 and beyond: “Cross-Currents: The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century”
inspired by all three articles, but opening space for new topics and debates
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the listings above, as well as…
— feminist oceanic studies
— women sailors and sailors’ women
— queering maritime history
— philosophy / theology and the sea
— oceanic forms
— shipwreck and salvage
— pollution and waste
— floods and tides
— pedagogy and teaching oceanic texts
Each session will feature 3-4 panelists and 1-2 respondents. (Papers will be sent to the respondents in advance.) Panelists will have 15 minutes to present their work. Afterward, the respondents will reflect upon and synthesize common threads before opening up discussion to a wider audience.
WORKSHOP AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
As we celebrate the first issue of GNCS, the Society for the Global Nineteenth-Century Studies also looks ahead to future publications. Selected symposium participants will be invited to a collaborative online writing workshop in 2023. Across several structured rounds of peer and self-review, each participant will give and receive feedback, ask questions, and make further connections.Afterward, revised papers may be considered for publication in GNCS or in the Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century book series by Liverpool University Press.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply to the symposium, please submit a 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to globaloceanic19c@gmail.com by September 1.

Contact Email: 

societygncs@gmail.com

URL: 

http://www.global19c.com

1.The latest Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies newsletter (vol 2, number 4, July 2022) can be found on the LACISA website, https://www.lacisa.org/

‘Greetings from the Southwest U.S.! As I write this letter, I am staring out into the Sonoran desert. Just back from California, I am in Arizona conducting research on themes related to immigration, dialogue across difference, and Latinx Muslim philanthropy.
As part of my research, I am finding once again how race, religion, colonial legacies, and overlapping transnational trajectories form a complex core for our research on Islam and Muslim communities in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
This edition of the LACISA Newsletter, which rounds out our second full year of publication, reflects these themes as well.
Before sharing more about what you will find on these themes in the newsletter below, I’d first like to welcome our new Associate Editor, Rahma Maccarone. Rahma is a Ph.D. candidate at Georgetown University where her research examines questions of race, identity and agency in the history and literature surrounding the narratives of enslaved Muslims in North America, South America and the Caribbean. We are immensely excited to welcome Rahma to the team. I hope you enjoy getting to know about Rahma in her letter below and in her interview with Habeeb Akande, author of Illuminating the Blackness. Her contributions to the newsletter have already been immense.
In addition to Rahma’s letter and interview with Akande, you will also find other exciting content in this edition of the LACISA Newsletter:
* a podcast episode from The Maydan (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=6b20521049&e=f70992245e)  discussing how the story of “global Islam” is part and parcel to the story of Latin America and the Caribbean;
* a call for contributions (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=a2e1a7a116&e=f70992245e) to a special edition of the International Journal of Latin American Religions;
* and a call for paid presentations (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=4fc4bcb482&e=f70992245e)  at a colloquium on Muslim philanthropy in Latin America and the Latinx U.S., to be held December 7-8, 2022.
In addition, we present a round-up of several news headlines relevant to our community’s research, including stories from the U.S./Mexico border, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and look forward to featuring some of your own contributions in the near future. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.’
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter

 

 

 

 

2. Iran Namag Special Issue on Sohrab Sepehri 

Editor-in-chief: Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 

Special issue editors: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari 

Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) was a prominent modern poet and painter of Iran, who has had an influence on many a writer, poet, and artist after him. His main work is The Eight Books, translated into English as The Eight Books: A Complete English Translation (Brill, 2021). He has also written three essays, which his sister published posthumously in one book, entitled, The Blue Room. Sepehri is said to be a modernist poet and painter. His painting can be visualized in his poetry, and his poetry flows in his painting.

This special issue of Iran Namag is a tribute to Sohrab Sepehri, as a poet, writer, and artist. The editors seek scholarly articles on any topic related to Sohrab Sepehri’s poetry, essays, and art.

Please send your proposed title and abstracts, in Persian or English, of no more than 500 words, along with a short bio, by September 1, 2022, to Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir.

As a bilingual quarterly, Iran Namag accepts articles for review in Persian and English; please indicate whether your final contribution will be in English or Persian in your abstract. Authors of the chosen abstracts will be asked to submit their articles (between 4000 to 6000 words) by January 1, 2023. 

Please feel free to address any inquiries you may have to the editors of this special issue, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi at pshabanijadidi@uchicago.edu and Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari at mbakhtiari@ut.ac.ir or to the Editor-in-Chief of Iran Namag, Professor Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi at editor@irannamag.com.

 

 

3. In Memoriam – Toh Sugimura

It is with great regret that we note the passing of Prof. Toh Sugimura at the age of 88 on July 10, 2022. He was the first East Asian scholar of Islamic art and the first to discuss the cultural exchanges between Persia and China from an East Asian point of view.

He was born in Dalian, China in 1934. At the time his father Yuzo, a historian of Chinese art, was conducting research on Manchurian sites. Prof. Sugimura’s interest in Asian art and archaeology was probably nurtured by his father, who later worked for the Tokyo National Museum and Daito Bunka University and published many books on Chinese art.

After graduating from Sophia University in Tokyo, he was awarded a scholarship from the Iraqi government and studied Islamic art and archaeology at the University of Baghdad from 1959 to 1965 under the guidance of John Shapley, an art historian specializing in early Christian and Byzantine art. He obtained his MA at the University of Michigan in 1968 and continued his doctorate studies there with Oleg Grabar. His Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Chinese Impact on Certain Fifteenth-Century Persian Miniature Paintings from the Albums (Hazine Library Nos. 2153, 2154, 2160) in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum, Istanbul” was completed in 1981.

After starting his career as a curator at the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, he became an assistant professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Suita in 1976 and a professor in 1987, soon after which the School of Cultural and Social Studies at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies was attached to the museum. Prof. Sugimura became its deputy director-general in 1996 and professor emeritus in 1997. From this year to 2005, he was a professor at Ryukoku University, Otsu.

Prof. Sugimura’s research was not limited to his famous works on Persian and Chinese paintings in the Topkapi Sarayi Museum but also included Islamic crafts such as pottery and carpets. All of his work was based on his profound understanding of the cultures of both East and West Asia. He played a central role in reaching out to the Japanese public with his knowledge of Islamic art and crafts by publishing many art books and catalogues and leading research projects. In particular, his curation of the carpet exhibition at the National Museum of Ethnology in 1994 is highly rated, and its catalogue is still regarded in Japan as the textbook of carpets even after thirty years. His enthusiasm for Islamic art, his pioneering insight into the cultural exchanges in Eurasia, as well as his kind guidance of younger Japanese scholars interested in Islamic art, will always be remembered.

(Tomoko Masuya, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo)

 

Selected works by Prof. Toh Sugimura:

Toh Sugimura, “Albums in the Topkapı Sarayı Museum, Istanbul,” Oriento (Bulletin of the Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan) 14-2 (1971), pp. 93–107 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “The Kuan-yin with a Fish Creel (Yü-lan Kuan-yin) in the Topkapu Sarayi Museum, Istanbul,” Studies Dedicated to Professor Namio Egami on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday: Archaeology and Art History, Yamakawa Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1976, pp. 377–97 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura tr., Ernst J. Grube, Filiz Çağman, and Zeren Akalay (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Islamic Painting: Topkapı Sarayı Collection, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1978.

Seiichi Masuda and Toh Sugimura eds., National Museums of Syria (Wonders of the World’s Museums, vol. 18), Kodansha, Tokyo, 1979 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura (with photos by Banri Namikawa), Persian Pottery in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 1980 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, The Encounter of Persia with China: Research into Cultural Contacts Based on Fifteenth Century Persian Pictorial Materials (Senri Ethnological Studies 18), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1986.

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Pottery in Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia,” Tsugio Mikami ed. Islamic Pottery (Ceramic Art of the World, vol. 21), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1986, pp. 138–73 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura tr., The Islamic World (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 10), Fukutake Shoten, Tokyo, 1987.

Toh Sugimura, “Westward Development of Taoist Paintings: ‘Four Sleepers’ in Persia,” Histories and Cultures of Asian Peoples: Studies Dedicated to Professor Yoshiro Shiratori on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Rokko Shuppan, Tokyo, 1990, pp. 205–22 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Chinese Influence on Persian Paintings of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries,” in Tadao Umesao and Toh Sugimura eds., Significance of Silk Roads in the History of Human Civilizations (Senri Ethnological Studies 32), National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, 1992, pp. 135–46.

Toh Sugimura, Woven Flowers of the Silk Roads: An Introduction to the Carpet Heritage of West Asia and Central Asia, Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, 1994 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “East Meets West,” Minpaku Tsushin 78 (1997), pp. 5–36 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Art,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, MIHO MUSEUM South Wing, Miho Museum, Koka, 1997, pp. 287–311, 356–59 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura ed., Islam (New History of World Art, vol. 17 of Asian Art), Shogakukan, Tokyo, 1999 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia,” “Central Asian Historical Sites and Ceramics” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Ceramics Excavated at Otrar, Kazakhstan” (with Tatsuo Sasaki), “Timurid Architecture and Decorative Tiles in Central Asia,” Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia (Silk Roadology 7), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 1999, pp. 1–18, 46–75 [in Japanese], 151–54 [in English].

Toh Sugimura, “Dogan ve Dogancilik-Sarayi Albumlerinde Kus Resimleri,” Portakal Sanat ve Kultur Evi 23 (2001), pp. 112–23

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic and Chinese Ceramics of Central Asia in the 15th Century,” “Blue of Samarkand,” Proceedings of the International Symposium on Revitalization of Traditional Ceramic Techniques in Central Asia, UNESCO. Tashkent, 2001, pp. 38–46.

Toh Sugimura, “Whence the Birds of Prey in the Imperial Ottoman Albums?,” Portakal Art and Culture Magazine (Spring–Summer 2002, issue 6), pp. 102–113.

Toh Sugimura, “Islamic Ideas of Paradise and Their Representation,” The Exchange of East-West Motifs –Invocation of Paradise– (Silk Roadology 18), Research Center for Silk Roadology, Nara, 2003, pp. 1–41 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura, “Ceramics in Islamic Art,” Toyo Toji (Oriental Ceramics) 34 (2004–2005), pp. 5–12 [in Japanese].

Toh Sugimura and Xu Guanghui eds., Roads of Buddha: Cultural Materials of the Silk Roads, Toho Shuppan, Osaka, 2005.

Toh Sugimura, “Introduction,” Toh Sugimura editorial supervision, The Brilliant World of Persian Carpet, Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, 2006, pp. 6–30.

Toh Sugimura, “Sanguszko Medallion-Animal Carpet,” Kokka 1363 (2009), pp. 52––55 [in Japanese with English summary].

Toh Sugimura, “Luster Bowl with Figural Design,” Kokka 1368 (2009), pp. 5–14 [in Japanese with English summary].

Toh Sugimura, “Venuses and Goddesses of the Ancient Orient,” “Female Representations in Islamic Art,” in Tadanori Yuba ed., Women and the Silk Roads: History of Artistic Exchange between the East and the West, Heibonsha, Tokyo, 2010, pp. 43–72, 125–52 [in Japanese].

1.Call for Abstracts – Neglected Voices in Premodern Sciences

from Persia to Iceland

(Routledge, “Global Perspectives on the History of Natural Philosophy”)

Most of the studies about Pre-modern European sciences have been dedicated to the role

played by a relatively small number of primary characters (Avicenna, Albert the Great,

Roger Bacon, Nicole Oresme, Nicholas of Cusa, to name but a few) who had a significant

impact on knowledge, culture and modi pensandi of the Latin West throughout and

beyond the Middle Ages. However, this presentation has led to two closely related

consequences. The first consequence is that while the works of the “main” authors tend to

be thoroughly studied and thus their ideas continuously observed and reinforced, those of

other, less known characters, have received little, if any, attention, or have simply been

forgotten, primarily when they evolved on the fringe of the mainstream. The second

consequence is that Pre-modern and Medieval science is often perceived as a monolith,

one composed, and shaped, only by a few inspired authors.

In response to this observation, this book aims to shed light on these neglected voices in

Pre-modern sciences and to give a voice even to those ‘underrated’ actors (authors,

scribes, compilers, copyists, readers, users…) who nevertheless have somehow

contributed to the formation of Medieval science. Within this perspective, the volume

addresses these issues from the point of view of both ideas and practices, which are

particularly delicate to interrogate when dealing mainly with textual material.

For this purpose, several axes (not exhaustive) have been defined:

1) Authors against the tide: This section is particularly interested in authors who, in

various ways, went against the major scientific tendencies of their time and developed

their science as “free electrons” by contrast to their contemporaries. Several cases are to

be considered: (1) authors whose scientific involvement goes against the traditional ways

of thinking by exploring original and even daring theories and practices in opposition to

what was in vogue at their time; (2) authors who evolved outside the main intellectual

centers and networks of the time. This can be due either to their geographical situation on

the periphery of the traditional radiating places in the development of sciences or because

they did not belong to any organization, institutional group or religious order promoting

the diffusion and assimilation of knowledge.

2) Actors in the “physical” margins: This point focuses on those who added scientific

contents into the “broader margins” of a Late Medieval work, i.e. in the actual margins, at

the beginning or end of a manuscript or of a codicological unit. The contributions can

analyze the authors’ identities, if they can be reconstructed, as well as the new contents

which were added (ideas, sources, relationships with the main texts, reasons for which

they were inserted, circulation…). Moreover, the texts considered can be both paratextual

additions (comments, glosses, scholia…) or actual “guest texts”.

3) Unknown actors: This point questions the role of discrete authors, almost invisible and

unknown, in the development and diffusion of Medieval knowledge. It aims to bring to

light unpreserved authors who are known only through other posterior works. Within this

perspective, one could consider both characters who left no written traces and authors

whose works have been lost and are only known by later quotes. Papers focusing on

figures evolving in an “oral culture” (for instance in the pre-Islamic context), who

provided a basis for further scientific developments, will be particularly welcome.

Similarly, the scientific contribution of teachers, whose ideas and practices were kept

through the writings of their students, deserves to be taken into account. Finally, papers

highlighting the role of oral witnesses, practitioners and merchants, who might contribute

to the transmission of knowledge by bringing empirical data taken from their daily

practice, will be highly appreciated.

4) Authors between traditions: Another line of research will be dedicated to the study of

the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge in areas outside the scientific field (art,

literature…). In the first case, this volume is interested as much in the depictions of the

figure of the experimenter or the scholar as in the artistic exploitation of the scientific

disciplines. In the second case, a particular attention will also be paid to the integration of

scientific knowledge into the literary domain. The sciences, as well as some scientific

figures, become motifs and themes with specific narrative functions. Conversely, one

might also consider the way in which scientific discourse is fed and expressed through a

literary medium.

5) Authors on the fringes of historiography: Finally, this book also wants to give a voice

to authors who received less attention despite their actual importance and significant

contribution to premodern sciences. In particular, the historiographical readings and the

appreciation of an author’s significance have been oriented, among other criteria, by their

impact on European thought. Nevertheless, this attitude tends to exclude certain

important characters from our usual research horizons. This is notably the case of authors

who were not translated into Latin during the Middle Ages and who hardly reached

European Latin scholars at that time. From this point of view, this book gives the

opportunity to reassess the original contribution of such authorities and even to reevaluate

their possible influence on later works in more indirect ways, outside the scope of the

translations.

Abstracts (250/300 words) should be sent to:

Meyssa Ben Saad (mbs.bsaad@gmail.com ), Mattia Cipriani

(mattia.cipriani80@gmail.com), Grégory Clesse (gregory.clesse@uclouvain.be ), or

Florence Ninitte (Florence.Ninitte@univ-nantes.fr ).

Contributions will be written in English.

Abstracts submission deadline: on the 30th of September 2022.

Submission deadline for the completed articles: on the 30th of April 2023.

 

 

 

2. Brown University – The Adrienne Minassian Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63639

Closing date: Oct 19, 2022

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID Journée d’étude du CCMO « Être chercheur.e sur le Moyen-Orient : mission impossible ? », Collège de France, Paris, 15 septembre 2022, 9h-18h

Le CCMO réunit des enseignant.e.s-chercheur.e.s issu.e.s de différentes générations et appartenant à diverses disciplines (anthropologie, histoire, géographie, sociologie et science politique), qui ont tou.tes en commun la pratique de l’enquête de terrain comme mode principal de recueil des données et de production d’informations inédites sur et dans les sociétés du Moyen-Orient.

Information, programme et inscription: https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/etre-chercheur-e-sur-le-moyen-orient-mission-impossible/

 

 

 

 

4. Panels on “Death in the Mediterranean” during the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo MI, 11-13 May 2023

Papers are sought that explore how people of various classes, genders, and religious traditions grappled with death, memorialized it, sanctified it or vilified it across the Mediterranean world, and to see how Christians, Muslims, and Jews from Europe, North Africa and West Asia commemorated, avenged, feared or forestalled death, and how they imagined it in art, literature and song.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-death-in-the-mediterranean-i-ii-1113-may-kalamazoo?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

5. International Conference “Sociohistorical and Cultural Relations in Premodern Mediterranean Societies through Literature and Folklore between the 11th and 17th Centuries”, University of Dublin, 15-16 June 2023

Themes: Relationships between Jews, Christians, and Muslims through literature (especially poetry), culture, and languages; prominent myths and prophecies of the relationships and communications between Jews, Christians, Muslims and other Mediterranean communities; popular images of interactions between minority and majority communities, particularly through literature, fragments, travels and folklore; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 September 2022.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sociohistorical-and-cultural-relations-in-premodern-mediterranean-societies-15-16-june-2023-dublin?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

6. Syrian Nationals in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan as External Collaborators for Research on Wartime and Post-Conflict Syria, Syria Initiative of the European University Institute, Florence

Desired qualifications: • Experience in field-based research on Syria. • A track record of publications, with a focus on themes at the sub-national level. • Strong analytical skills. • Proficiency in English and Arabic.

Information: https://middleeastdirections.eu/syria-initiative-vacancy-notice-for-research-collaborators/?fbclid=IwAR1vrlorBzo43nQlpr8JV8HT7anzpmYMv0JnhkUophDhHjYfMXUrP2utNwE

 

 

 

 

7. Two Tenure-Track Positions “Islam in South Asia” and “Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies – The Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate World (ca. 1000-1700)”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The position is open to all candidates who have attained a Ph.D. degree; and to advanced doctoral students who expect to be granted their Ph.D. no later than 30 June 2023. Candidates whose Hebrew proficiency is such that they would not be comfortable teaching in Hebrew will be encouraged to sufficiently master the language during the initial years following their appointment.

Deadline for applications: 11 September 2022. Information: https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#  and https://en-hum.huji.ac.il/tenure-track-positions#

 

 

 

 

8. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art and Politics between the Arab World and Latin America, 1920s – 1970s”

Three issues should be addressed: 1. Art and nationalist narratives between Latin America and the Arab World. – 2. Rethinking transnational solidarity between Latin America and the Arab World. –

3. Artistic practices and the formation of alternative political communities?

Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/06/Call-for-contributions-%E2%80%93-Art-and-politics-Arab-World-%E2%80%93-Latin-America.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Articles on “The Future of Islamic Liberation Theology” for Special Issue of the Open-Access Journal “Religions”

This Issue is to chart out new directions in ILT. What is the current state of the field? Hitherto, what are the key contexts, problems, and thematic areas that ILT has focused on and why? How has ILT challenged dominant hermeneutical approaches and offered more inclusive reading methods? Which areas of human experience (class? race and ethnicity? disabilities? ecology?) have received less attention in ILT? Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.

Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/354W74T405

 

1.AKU-ISMC: 14 and 21 October 2022 Short Course – Religious Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Issues in the Modern Middle East

This is a two-day introductory course on the theme of religious cultural heritage (RCH) in the Middle East. It aims to contextualise RCH as the living cultural heritage of its community of users. In addition, the course attempts to present RCH as a contemporary construct of its socio-political and religious context through its connections to ethnicity, gender, nationalism, as much as religion.

Read and download course structure.
Learning Objectives

– To identify religious cultural heritage as one constituent of the community’s broader cultural heritage;

– To address the challenges that religious cultural heritage faces in its cultural, religious and socio-political context;

– To examine the process of constructing relationship between people and their religious cultural heritage and its changes over time;

– To appreciate religious cultural heritage through the community’s values and their various processes of meaning making rather than the intrinsic values of the religious cultural heritage site itself.
Course Convenors

Professor Dick Douwes holds the chair of Global History at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He studied Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. From 1994 to 1998 he was coordinator of the programme Indonesian-Netherlands’ Cooperation in Islamic Studies (INIS) at Leiden University. From 1998 onwards, he was academic coordinator – later executive director – of the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) and editor of the ISIM Newsletter/Review and ISIM Paper Series. He has published on late Ottoman history in Syria and on religious plurality in the Middle East, as well as on Muslims in Western Europe. Currently, he researches changes in shrine culture and politics in Syria and Lebanon, including the destruction of shrines.

Mohamad Meqdad is a PhD student at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His main research focuses on religious cultural heritage at times of crisis. In 2006, Mohamad received his BA in Archaeology and Museum Studies from Aleppo University, Syria. He also took part in several national and international archaeological expeditions in Syria (2002-2008), where he worked on discovering its rich cultural heritage and preserving it for future generations. In 2010, Mohamad received an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London, with focus on researching the display of Muslim material culture in international museums, specifically at the British Museum’s John Addis Islamic Gallery. Between 2011-2019, he was the Arabic editor, and later the acting manager, of the Muslim Civilisations Abstracts Project (MCA) at AKU-ISMC.
Date and Time

14 October (13:15 – 16:00) and 21 October (13:30 – 16:00) 2022, London Time.
Tickets and Booking

£75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible.
*The course will be delivered via Zoom. Readings and further details will be provided later upon registration.

*The course will not be recorded.

 

 

 

2. The Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies is pleased to announce that fascicle 2 of Volume XVII of the Encyclopaedia Iranica has been printed and is available to order.This installment (pp. 113-224) of Volume XVII of the EIr continues the development of letter “K” topics and covers titles starting with the entry “Khotan iii. History in the Islamic Period” and ends with “King of the Benighted.” These 112 new pages of the Encyclopædia Iranica include the conclusion of a major series of entries on Khotan and its history, language, literature, and art that began in fascicle 1 of Volume XVII. The fascicle also contains significant and up-to-date biographical entries on Moḥammad Ḵiābāni, Nur-al-Din Kiānuri, and Abbas Kiarostami; a detailed study of Ḡazāli’s Kimiā-ye Saʿādat; and reports on the archeological sites of Kilizu, Kindyktepa, and Kinet Höyük.

For the complete list of entries, please visit the Yarshater Center website at https://cfis.columbia.edu/research-projects/encyclopaedia-iranica.

For ordering information, please contact Brill Publishers.

 

 

 

3. Summer School of Persian Language and Iranology

PLUS Special Tour of Tehran, Kashan, Abyaneh, and Isfahan

15 August – 9 September 2022

https://avestak.com/summer-school-of-persian-language-and-iranian-studies/

 

 

 

4. The 3rd Intensive Academic Tour and Course in Iranian studies

University of Religions and Denominations, Qom
2 to 12 September 2022

For more information:

https://iranianstudies.urd.ac.ir/#join-us

 

 

 

 

5. Call for Applications – BJMES Assistant Editor

The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) is seeking an assistant editor who can help with the refereeing process for articles relating to the Arab world, and in particular Palestine/Israel. The successful candidate will be fluent in Arabic (knowledge of Hebrew too, is an advantage) and have a PhD. Preference will be given to applications from scholars who reside in the UK, and who are thus able to attend editorial meetings when necessary.
Please contact Lloyd Ridgeon to express interest: lloyd.ridgeon@glasgow.ac.uk. Please also send a brief CV (no more than 2 pages in length). The position comes with an annual honorarium and the successful candidate can serve for a maximum of eight years. The journal is looking to have someone in the position by the beginning of August 2022.

 

 

 

6. BRISMES awards:

The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. The prize is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous calendar year.

• Joint winner: Nader Andrawos (LSE)
  Righting Dissent: Intellectual Critique and Human Rights in Egypt
• Joint winner: Nora Jaber (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London)
  Women, International Law, and the State: A Critical Analysis of Saudi Women’s Petitions for Reform 
• Runner Up: Joshua Rigg (SOAS, University of London)
  A Resounding No: Contentious Politics in Tunisia 2015-2019
• Honourable Mention: Dena Qaddumi (University of Cambridge)
  Post-Arab Spring Tunis: Materializing Revolution in the City

Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to everyone who submitted their dissertations for consideration. Read more about the prize and the winning dissertations on the BRISMES website.

 

The BRISMES Early Career Development Prize was established in 2021 to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar. This year, the prize was awarded to Narges Ansari and Nur Arafeh.

• Narges Ansari

From the Prize Committee: The applicant’s proposal has the potential to contribute to novel findings in both the sub-field of Iranian Studies and the larger field of political anthropology. The applicant’s research theorises subjectivity in revolutionary Iran going beyond well-established epistemological binaries such as obedience and resistance, coercion and subversion, secular and religious politics. Read more

• Nur Arafeh

From the Prize Committee: The prize will sustain the applicant through one of the most arduous processes for an early career scholar: the transformation of their PhD into a book. Dr. Arafeh will expand on their doctoral thesis and conduct further interviews in Hebron on the role of local elites in the broader Palestinian business class, and wider class structures. Read more

 

 

 

 

7. Research Associate
University of Leicester
In this role you will undertake research and related administration and other activities supporting the work of a project entitled ‘Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa’ which is funded by the Arcadia Fund. Reporting to the PI (Professor D. Mattingly) and the Senior Researcher (Dr N. Sheldrick), you will be a member of a University of Leicester project group of the Endangered Archaeology project, collaborating with archaeologists at the University of Oxford and University of Durham.

Deadline | 24 July 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

8. Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Modern Arabic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies to begin on 1 October 2022. The appointment is for 12 months in the first instance. Applicants will have the opportunity to contribute to the delivery of a stimulating programme for bright and highly-motivated students taking Arabic, Persian, Hebrew often in conjunction with a modern European language.

Deadline | 7 August 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

9. Research Fellow in Human Geography
University of Leeds
You will work with a team of researchers on emerging trends in refugee governance in relation to cash assistance and biometrics. Under the supervision of Co-Investigator Dr. Glenda Garelli, you will be researching cash assistance and / or digital technology and humanitarian assistance in Jordan (examples may include digital and e-wallets, debit cards, Iris scan technologies used in the provision of humanitarian aid).

Deadline | 2 September 2022

More information

 

 

10. Call for Papers – War, Gender and Displacement: The Impact of Forced Migration on Families in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference | German-Jordanian University | 9 October 2022

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to demonstrate to what extent the emergence of new understandings of gender socialisation, informed by grassroots and top-down approaches, can contribute to securing sustainable societal well-being. Exploring the changing demographics of host societies through the spread, speed and scale of refugees, this conference examines the different socio-religious, economic and legal challenges host societies in various countries in the Middle East have faced since the beginning of the 21st century. The focus of the conference lies in the changing nature of family structures and their relationships as well as gender roles influenced through and by migration processes.

Deadline | 1 September 2022

More information

 

 

 

11. ASPIRANTUM is organizing a Persian language winter school in Yerevan, Armenia, from December 5 till December 30, 2022.

For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-winter-school

1.WHOME Graduate Student Article Prize Call for Applications and Nominations

We are pleased to announce our annual prize for the best article about Middle Eastern history written by a female-identifying or gender non-conforming graduate student (Masters or PhD). The award aims to bring attention to the innovative scholarship women and gender non-conforming students are producing in the field. The article (not to exceed 8,000 words) can be published, under review, submitted, or in the final stages of preparation for submission to a journal. The article may be about any period in Middle Eastern history and may address any subfield in the discipline. Submissions will be evaluated on their originality, use of primary and secondary sources, argumentation, and contribution to the field. The nominee must not have been awarded a Doctorate prior to October 1, 2021.

Articles may be nominated by the author, academic advisors, professors, or journal editors; journals may nominate up to three articles. Jointly published articles are acceptable, but both authors must be graduate students; the co-author may be male. Articles that have appeared in collections will be considered but only if the articles were published for the first time in the year prior to the application deadline; reprints will not be considered. Winners will be notified in the fall and will be publicly acknowledged in an official announcement at the WHOME meeting at the Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. The winning author shall also receive a $250 award.

Please encourage your students, colleagues, and peers to apply. Applications are due by 11:59 PST on August 31, 2022. 

To apply or submit a nomination, click here.

Questions: contactwhome@gmail.com or t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Warmly,

WHOME 2022 Prize Committee

 

 

 

2. CfP International Medieval Congress, Leeds (UK), 3-6 July 2023 (‘networks & entanglements’)

The IMC provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval studies, including those related to the premodern Islamicate world. Proposals on any topic are welcome, but every year the IMC also chooses a special thematic focus. In 2023 this is ‘Networks and Entanglements’ (co-ordinator Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien).

Paper proposal deadline: 31 August 2022

Session proposal deadline: 30 September 2022

Format: Coronavirus restrictions permitting, the IMC is planning to host an in-person gathering in Leeds, with virtual involvement possible for those who are unable to attend in person.

For all information, see https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2023/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID International Conference “Uneasy Neighbours: Conflict and Control in the Colonial City, c. 1870–1940” (Including Beirut and Fes), University of Bremen, 21-22 July 2022

The conference explores ideas, experiences, and memories of neighbours and neighbourhoods in the colonial city. It brings together historians, sociologists, and urban scholars of the Mediterranean, sub-Saharan Africa, and South East Asia to discuss new avenues in the research of living together and living apart in colonial cities.

Program and registration: https://uneasyneighbours.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

 

4. Mediterranean Seminar Fall Workshop on “The Mediterranean Origins of the West”, University of Colorado Boulder, 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.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-seminar-fall-2022-workshop-the-mediterranean-origins-of-the-west-21-22-october-boulder-925968

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Congress on “Gender Studies: Appearances of Violence”, Karadeniz Technical University etc., 16-18 November 2022

The Congress aims to provide a forum for researchers, academics, practitioners, students, and educators to discuss issues linked to gender studies from a violence perspective. Theoretical, empirical, conceptual, experimental, descriptive, and constructive studies focusing on gender are invited to highlight the issues, challenges, and opportunities that have developed as a result of the violence.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 September 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10481263/online-congress-gender-studies-cgs22-appearances-violence

 

 

 

 

6. Fellowship Program (2 Years) for Early Career Scholars from Algeria, Libya, Morocco, or Tunisia for Research on “The Maghrib from the Peripheries: Property, Natural Resources, and Social Actors in North Africa”

The fellowships from the “Council of American Overseas Research Centers / Carnegie Corporation of New York” are designed to serve scholars who are currently enrolled in a PhD program or who completed their PhD in the past ten years.

Deadline for applications: 22 July 2022. Information:

https://www.caorc.org/post/call-for-applications-critical-research-and-scholarship-in-north-africa

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor of History and Judaic Studies, Brown University, Providence RI

The primary focus should be on the Islamic World and Jewish-Muslim relations in any period prior to the First World War. The department places a high priority on research excellence, high-quality teaching, and a commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive academic community.

Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/108842

 

 

 

 

8. Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants (Max Weber Foundation) to Academics in the Qualification Phase with an International Focus (Including Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey etc.)

Applications may be filed by highly qualified humanities and social science academics of any nationality (with at least a M.A.) who have already published and can present a research plan. The total term of funding shall not exceed three months.

Deadline for applications: 7 October 2022.

Information: https://www.maxweberstiftung.de/en/foerderung/feldman-travel-grants.html

 

 

 

 

9. Chapters on Languages Spoken and Taught in the Ottoman Empire for Edited Book on “Ottoman Minorities, Their Languages, and the World” (Bloomsbury)

Articles are invited on trade, culture, education, religion, and tourism as reasons for which these languages were spoken and they were taught, explaining the peculiarities of these languages, differentiating from previous studies on them; for instance, journal articles, recipes, folkloristic tests, exhibitions, auctions, etc. may be analyzed from global perspectives.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 July 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10485434/call-chapters-languages-spoken-and-taught-ottoman-empire

 

 

 

 

10. Call for articles: The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th Centuries) 

Chapters are sought for a collection of essays entitled, “The Crusades: Historiography, Settlements, People and Roads (11-14th 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

 

 

 

 

11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Migration Narratives in the Global Mediterranean (1450–1850)”

Main themes: Migration as a result of religious dissent and lack of a toleration towards religious diversity; Migration as a result of contested political positions, actions of political opposition, or state of war in the country of origin; Migration as a result of environmental conditions; Methodological reflections that elaborate the concept of migrant agency in a historical and long-term perspective.

Deadline for abstracts: 2 September 2022. Information: https://ithacahorizon.eu/event/call-for-papers-migration-narratives-in-the-global-mediterranean-1450-1850/

 

 

 

 

12. La célébration de la naissance du Prophète (al-mawlid al-nabawī) dans les mondes musulmans et en Occident : débats, pratiques et representations (Special issue of REMMM)

Proposed by Farid Bouchiba and Myriam Laakili. – Axe 1. Débats doctrinaux autour du mawlid à travers l’histoire. – Axe 2. Pratiques du mawlid : une approche socio-anthropologique. – Axe 3. Productions littéraires et artistiques.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022.

Information: https://journals.openedition.org/remmm/16764#tocto1n3

 

 

 

 

13. Exilium Revista de Estudos da contemporaneidade / Journal of Contemporary Studies of the Edward Saïd Chair, at Federal University of São Paulo – Brazil,  is inviting submissions for unpublished articles on Orientalism, especially involving History, Literature and Culture of Africa and Asia of Portuguese language and culture or in connection with them.
For more information, including information for authors and the submission process, please see the journal’s website.

 

1.Call for papers: What is the European Qur’ān?

ERC EuQu, Nantes, 11-12 May 2023

(deadline for the submission of proposals: 30 September 2022)

The Nantes Université researchers of the ERC project EuQu – The European Qur’ān are pleased to announce the organisation of a conference devoted to the problem of defining the nature of the Qur’ān in Europe in the 12^th-19^th centuries.

How did medieval and modern Europeans perceive what the Qur’ān is? What definitions did they give, and what definitions underlie the representations they developed? How did they conceive the Qur’ān in relation to what was familiar to them and to their concerns? In what ways did they grasp, define and represent its different facets over the centuries? Participants will be invited to reflect on these questions through the study of lexicographical, encyclopaedic, technical, literary and scholarly works, as well as theatrical pieces and artistic representations.

For more info:

https://euqu.eu/2022/07/12/call-for-papers-what-is-the-european-quran/

 

 

2.دنياى سخن = Dunyā-yi sukhan

Nos. 10-95 ; 1366-1380 (1987-2001)
Published: Tihrān : Shams al-Dīn Ṣawlatī Dihkurdī, 1986-2001
ISSN 1606-5840

 

 

 

 

3. Seminar: Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond

Wednesday, August 24, 2022 9:00 AM
Friday, August 26, 2022 1:00 PM

Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo 54 Ćemerlina Sarajevo, Federacija Bosne i Hercegovine, 71000 Bosnia & Herzegovina

Full details at:

https://www.astene.org.uk/current-events/travellers-in-ottoman-lands

 

 

 

4. I B Tauris

Browse Open Access Books by Subject:

https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/search?newSearchRecord=&browse=&product=bloomsburyOpenAccess

 

1.“15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH)”, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 11-15 July 2022

The program is available: https://iaoseh.files.wordpress.com/2022/07/icoseh-zagreb-program-online.pdf

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture on “Islamic Medical Manuscripts in the National Library of Israel Collections” by Samuel Thrope (Curator, Islam and Middle East Collection, National Library of Israel), 14 July 2022, 11:00 am ET

The Islam and Middle East Collection contains nearly 2500 Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts dating from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries. Among these are numerous rare and important copies of works that attest to the history of Islamic medicine. The Lecture will focus on rare and unique manuscripts that can shed light on the NLM’s own collection, which is among the best in the world.

Information and registration: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=44389

 

 

 

 

3. Conference “Beyond Cultural Identities – The Jew of Polyphony, Relationality and Translation in Muslim Contexts”, IZEA, University Halle-Wittenberg, 18-20 July 2022

Information and program:

https://www.izea.uni-halle.de/veranstaltungen/detail/beyond_cultural_identities_.html

 

 

 

 

4. HYBRID Sessions on “Eco-Imagination towards a Sustainable Future. Perspectives from Philosophies in Islam and Asia” during the “66th International Congress of Phenomenology”, Milan, 27-29 October 2022

Contributions are invited on the following topics: – Eco-imagination in Islamic Philosophies and Occidental Phenomenology. – Self-Knowledge and alterity. – Oneness in cross-cultural dialogue. – Symbiotics in the understanding of everything-there-is-alive. – Sustainable future(s) in Islamic and Asian philosophies; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2022. Information: http://phenomenology.org/

 

 

 

 

5. Rencontres de la sociologie francophone de l’Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF): « De la circulation des concepts ou comment mieux éclairer nos sociétés (arabes!)? », Sfax, Tunisie, 24 – 28 octobre 2022

Les sessions du GT04 « Sociétés arabes en mouvement » souhaitent lier les questions épistémiques posées par la production de la connaissance en sciences sociales, en particulier en sociologie, à celles posées par la circulation des concepts. Comment une réflexivité soucieuse des apports des contextes locaux conditionnent les possibilités d’échange et d’enrichissement disciplinaire ?

Ouvert jusqu’au 31 juillet 2022. Information: https://www.aislf.org/gt04-circulation-des-concepts

 

 

 

 

6. International Conference on “Memory and Identity in North Africa”, Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco, 22-24 December 2022

We seek papers that draw on Memory Studies to reflect on issues related to identity, history, historiography, commemoration, remembrance, and changing conceptions of the self and the collective in North Africa. We ask how much memory is present in the North African spheres? How have memories of the past in North Africa been appropriated for the sake of a more flexible public sphere? Who are the memory stakeholders? How do they mobilize memory?

Extended deadline for abstracts: 15 July 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10460827/memory-and-identity-north-africa-new-abstract-submission

 

 

 

 

7. Post-doctoral Fellowships for Excellent Researchers in Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities, Essen (6 Months)

The fellowships are open to researches with a completed PhD and up to six years of postdoctoral experience. Duration 1 April 2023 until 30 September 2023.

Deadline for applications: 31 August 2022. Information: https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/thyssen-april23-1.pdf ; https://www.kulturwissenschaften.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/call-international-fellowships-vi.pdf

 

 

 

 

8. CHARGÉE DE MISSION (CHERCHEUSE) / CHARGÉ DE MISSION(CHERCHEUR) – INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU PROCHE-ORIENT (IFPO) –ANTENNE DE JÉRUSALEM – ISRAËL / TERRITOIRES PALESTINIENS Le chercheur aura pour mission de mettre en place et de piloter, à partir des Territoires palestiniens, un pôle de recherche en islamologie au sein de cet institut de recherche à vocation régionale (Liban, Jordanie, Irak, Territoires palestiniens) placé sous la tutelle du ministère de l’Europe et des Affaires étrangères (MEAE) du ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (MESR) et du CNRS.

Limit: 31/08/2022. Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/07/Fiche-de-Poste_0003007141_01-12-2022.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship / Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California

Qualifications: Applicants should have expertise in Islam, with some training in Religious Studies; they should hold a Ph.D. by the time of appointment; evidence of excellence in undergraduate teaching (whether as primary instructor or teaching assistant); the potential for an active research agenda; fluency in relevant research languages; etc.

Deadline for applications: 15 September 2022.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63558

 

 

10. Lecturer in Middle Eastern History, Norwich University, Vermont

Requirements: While a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching is essential, Norwich University is committed to junior faculty developing scholarship through a supportive faculty development program. A Ph.D. is strongly preferred, though strong A.B.D. candidates will be considered.

Application as soon as possible. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63544

 

 

 

 

11. Autumn School on “Coercion, Slavery, and Relations of Dependency in the Islamicate World”, Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University, 31 October – 4 November 2022

The Autumn School aims at Master-level and PhD researchers. It will feature four keynote speakers, Serena Tolino (Bern), Ehud Toledano (Tel Aviv), Sebastian Sons (Bonn), and Paolo Gaibazzi (Bayreuth). The keynote lectures will focus on the question of coerced labour in the Islamicate world in historical and contemporary perspective.

Deadline for abstracts and registration: 1 September 2022. Information: https://www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/news/events/autumn-school-nisis

 

 

 

 

12. 1 Candidatures pour l`Académie doctorale “Horizons de Renouvellement des Ètudes Arabes (HoREA)” HoRÉA est un programme de formation et d`accompagnement interdisciplinaire et interuniversitaire destiné à des doctorantes et doctorants de toutes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales dont le travail porte sur les mondes arabes et implique und maitrise avancée de la langue arabe, acquise ou en cours d`acquistion.

Candidatures jusqu`au 18 juillet 2022. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/68491

 

 

 

13. Candidatures pour des bourses de recherche en islamologie MASTER 2 (3 mois)

L’octroi d’une bourse de mobilité devra permettre aux étudiant/es d’accomplir un travail de terrain de recherche en islamologie en étant accueilli/es dans une UMIFRE (ou instituts partenaires du programme). La discipline « islamologie » est entendue au sens large et pourra intégrer les axes suivants : – Analyse, sciences et critique des textes et des doctrines. – Etude historique de l’Islam. – Etude et analyse du fait religieux musulman dans les sociétés contemporaines.

Les dossiers de candidatures sont à envoyer avant le 01/09/22. Information: http://cedej-eg.org/index.php/2022/07/07/umifre-appel-a-candidatures-pour-des-bourses-de-recherche-en-islamologie-master/

 

 

 

 

14. Critical Pakistan Studies to be published by Cambridge University Press from 2023

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is pleased to announce that starting in January 2023, we will publish a new interdisciplinary journal, Critical Pakistan Studies. The journal is a joint launch between CUP and the American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS); the University of Exeter South Asia Centre, UK; and Le Centre d ‘Études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (CEIAS), France; and thus, expects to become a major force in a significant and growing field of research.  Critical Pakistan Studies will also benefit from the strength of the existing CUP Asian Studies journals list and books program, with its strong focus on South Asia and the diaspora.

Critical Pakistan Studies  will publish primary source interpretive social science and humanities research that, in addition to Pakistan and Pakistanis, tackle broader interdisciplinary issues (e.g., colonialism, nationalism, integration, marginalization, devotion, institutionalization, vernacularism, cosmopolitanism, development, environment, popular culture, diaspora, gender, representation, and others).  The journal’s interdisciplinary approach will push beyond the nation-state, security, Islam, extremism, and other topics that narrowly define the study of Pakistan. It will analyze, discuss, and seek to understand the varied and multilayered contexts that constitute Pakistan and its people (both past and present and in South Asia and the wider world).
Its global editorial board represents and supports the publication of scholarship on Pakistan and the diaspora originating within Pakistan itself, as well as throughout Europe, North America, and elsewhere in Asia.
The journal’s editorial collective of Kamran Asdar Ali, Michel Boivin, Matthew A. Cook, and  Amina Yaqin assert that, “Until recently, Pakistan Studies was a small interdisciplinary research area.  However, this is no longer the case and t here is no international journal devoted to the study of Pakistan.  Critical Pakistan Studies will fill this gap and be the flagship publication in its field of study.”
Ann Avouris, Cambridge University Press’ Head of Journals, North America, said, “The Press looks forward to working with the partnered institutions and the editorial team in this exciting new launch. We are particularly keen to bring new authors and readers to our program from Pakistan itself.”
Learn more about this field-leading Gold Open Access journal at cambridge.org/CPS.
 

 

15. Mu’tazilism and the Qur’an Conference

22 July 2022, Aga Khan Centre (London) and Online

Full information at: https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/mutazilism-and-quran-conference/?utm_source=D0722&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=AN

 

 

 

16. New publication on smartphone use and ageing in the Middle East

We would like to draw your attention to the publication of the Arabic translation of ‘The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology’, an open access eBook which presents a series of original perspectives deriving from the Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA) project. A multisited research project led by Prof. Daniel Miller at UCL Anthropology.

The book is based on simultaneous 16-months of research in 11 countries around the world. A key ethnography in the book was a joint project between Laila Abed Rabho, a Palestinian researcher, and Maya de Vries, an Israeli academic. Dar al-Hawa is a Palestinian community of around 13,000, which is today a neighbourhood in al-Quds. Prior to annexation by Israel, it was a village between the old city of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. This location remains very present in the daily lives of people, influencing their relationship to various bureaucracies and to digital and health services. Laila and Maya focused upon the local seniors’ club at the community centre and conducted many interviews and conversations both at the community centre and in people’s homes. Maya also taught a course on smartphone use. It is available as a free download from UCL Press.

Arabic: الهاتف الذكي العالمي: ما وراء تكنولوجيا الشباب
English: The Global Smartphone: Beyond a youth technology

We believe it is very important, where we can, to ensure the availability of our research findings to people whose first language is not English and we would be grateful if you can spread news of this publication to any networks you are aware of. For example, those who might find this useful for teaching purposes.

Best wishes,
Alex Clegg

Research Assistant,  Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA)
Twitter: @ASSAUCL | Instagram: @assa.ucl | Facebook: @ASSAUCL

 

 

 

17. Call for Nominations: The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. For this award cycle, articles published in 2021 will be considered. All articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals addressing questions and covering issues related to Kurdish politics, broadly defined, will be considered for the award. The award is open to all disciplines under social sciences and humanities. The primary author of the article needs to be an untenured scholar (graduate student, post-doc, independent scholar, assistant professor or equivalent) at the time of the publication. The award comes with a prize of $800. The awardee will be announced by November 2022.

An electronic copy of the nominated article should be sent to kurdish@ucf.edu. Self-nominations are welcome. Deadline for nominations: September 2, 2022.

Award Committee:

• Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam
• Zozan Pehlivan, University of Minnesota
• Güneş Murat Tezcür, University of Central Florida

 

 

 

18. Baylor University – Lecturer, History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63592

Deadline: Oct 1, 2022

 

 

 

19. FLAME University – Assistant /Associate & Professor – History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63543

Deadline: Nov 27, 2022