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1.Call for Papers: Seminar on Harb al Basus and its Offspring
Call for papers to an online small online conference dealing with literary and cultural productions related to the Arabic source texts on the War of al-Basus and/or the saga of al-Zir Salim. We hope to pique your interest in joining this gathering to discuss works related to Harb al-Basus/ al-Zir Salim with others who also delve into this material from a variety of perspectives. Presentations may be in either Arabic or English.
We call for abstracts of contributions to be submitted to us by October 23rd, 2022. Please submit abstracts to harbalbasus@gmail.com .
2. University of California – Berkeley – Assistant Professor – Modern Arabic Literature and Islamic Culture
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63830
Application deadline: October 15, 2022
3. University of Tennessee – Knoxville – Assistant Professor of Premodern Islamic History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63825
Closing date: October 26, 2022
4. ERC EuQu Upcoming events
Article about the Qur’an heritage in Europe in CSIC review
CSIC Investiga. Revista de Ciencia. Número especial
July 2022 – https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/14696
This special issue of ‘CSIC Investiga. Journal of Science’ shows the performance of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) within the EU R&D framewok programme Horizon 2020. It presents reportages on various research projects and on the Qur’an heritage in Europe, among others.
The QUR’AN, in the heart of Europe
Article by Esther M. García Pastor
In this article, Mercedes-García Arenal, who is leading an ambitious project funded with almost ten million euros by the European Commission to investigate the Qur’anic legacy in Europe, explains the role played by the Islam’s sacred text in European culture from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
You can read it online (p7-9 of the PDF) : https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/275159
5 septiembre – 7 septiembre de 2022
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas, CONICET
Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales
John Tolan, participará en la conferencia plenaria en el marco de las XVII Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Medievales y XXVII Curso de Actualización en Historia Medieval, organizados por el Instituto Multidisciplinario de Historia y Ciencias Humanas (IMHICIHU) del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) y la Sociedad Argentina de Estudios Medievales (SAEMED), que se llevarán a cabo los días 5, 6 y 7 de septiembre del 2022.
John Tolan « Leer el Corán en Europa cristiana en la edad media »
7 de septiembre de 2022
17h00 a 18h00
IMHICIHU – CONICET
Saavedra 15, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Histories of Knowledge: Political, Historical and Cultural Epistemologies in Intellectual History
12 September – 15 September 2022
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
Keynotes: Vera Keller (University of Oregon) and Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Two of our PhD students working within our ERC Project EuQu are going to participate in the conference :
- Loriana Salierno (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale) : «The Qur ʾāninto Latin: the Translation of Ludovico Marracci »
- Javier de Prado (Nantes Université) : «The Qur’an and the Propaganda Fide. Shared themes in the De procuranda salute omnium gentium (1613) and the Apologia pro christianareligione (1631) »
https://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?page_id=6723
6. BRISMES-Balfour Project Event: Peace Advocacy Fellowship Presentation and Q&A
Date: Wednesday, 7 September 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom (registration required)
Register to Attend: tinyurl.com/BPfellowship
This event is an opportunity for students who have already read about the Balfour Project Peace Advocacy Fellowship to meet the team, learn about the fellowship and ask questions about it.
The Fellowship is open to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students based in the UK who are committed to the Balfour Project Approach. As a fellow, you will be given the opportunity to make a tangible contribution to the work of the Balfour Project by campaigning for peace on the basis of the charity’s approach within your academic institution and more generally. To find out more about the content and expectations for the 2022/23 Fellowship programme, please read the Balfour Project Call for Fellows. Applications for the 2022/23 Fellowship close on Friday, 16th September at 5PM (UK time).
Please feel free to share the details with any students who may be interested in attending this event.
Best wishes,
Amy
Amy Brickhill
Manager, BRISMES
Email: office@brismes.org
Website: www.brismes.ac.uk
7. Contemporary Arabic Literature and Literary Translation
Date: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
Time: 16:00-18:00 (BST)
Location: Online via Zoom
Register to Attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcvce2orTwoH9SjXV5MIpb0_8cSKkEJQrCN
This panel will discuss contemporary Arabic literature and literary translation published in the last dozen years, particularly following the onset of the ‘Arab Spring’. Distinguished international writers, translators and researchers within the Arabic literary (translation) field will discuss and reflect on recent developments as well as publishing trends and practices. The panel will situate these developments within the changing socio-cultural and political contexts of the Arab world and reflect on the extent to which these contexts and events have affected the production, distribution and reception of Arabic literature in translation. The panel will also examine some of the recently published translated Arabic literature, survey its predominant contemporary narratives and showcase their own recent award-winning novels, plays and research projects. Additionally, the speakers will share their inspirations and motivations as well as discuss the social, cultural and political contexts informing their particular work. Panel members will also discuss their writing experience, the challenges they face and the reception of their work in the Arab and Western worlds.
Chair: Dr Hanem El-Farahaty (Associate Professor of Arabic Translation and Interpreting, University of Leeds and BRISMES Council Member)
Discussant: Dr Abdel-Wahab Khalif (Lecturer in Translation and Interpreting, Cardiff University)
Speakers:
- Leila Aboulela (Fiction Writer, Essayist, Playwright)
- Prof Reem Bassiouney (Professor of Linguistics, American University in Cairo)
- Alice Guthrie (Translator, Editor, Curator)
- Prof Wen-chin Ouyang (Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, SOAS University of London)
- Yussef El Guindi (Playwright)
The event is free to attend and open to all, but registration is essential. Please do share the details with any colleagues who may be interested in attending.
8. Symposium – Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Prof. Gülru Necipoǧlu – September 8 & 9
The event program can be found here: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/events
The event is open to the public and is sponsored by the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship in Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. Please contact Emine Fetvacı, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College at fetvaci@bc.edu
9. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, History
History of the Middle East, Assistant Professor
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63863
closing date 1/11/22
10. Washington University in St. Louis, Jewish Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63859
closing date: 28/11/22
11. Call for Articles: Alif 44 (2024)
Food as Culture: Literary and Artistic Approaches
Abstract deadline: October 1, 2022
Article submission deadline: May 1, 2023
Food is the center of our lives. Beyond being the most basic means of survival, it is also a communal activity. Cultural and religious practices are suffused with food preparation rituals, and social gatherings inadvertently revolve around food or drink. While food enriches social bonds, it can also deepen social and cultural rifts. In the words of Guatemalan activist and Nobel laureate Rigoberta Menchú, “We only trust people who eat what we eat.” While the delight of an exquisite meal can lead to a heightened state of almost spiritual ecstasy, it can also expose grave inequalities, with the excess of ancient Roman feasts as a striking example. Food can create a sense of cultural belonging, but it can also be used as a form of obliteration/discrimination and appropriation/exclusion. A simple meal consumed contains layers of history, social commentary, and memory.
The centrality of food has made it inevitably present in works of literature and art since antiquity. This interest in the significance of food is evidenced in the upsurge in culinary studies in recent academic scholarship. This issue of Alifseeks to contribute to this scholarship from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It welcomes original articles on the varied representations and meanings of food and invites contributors to explore how literature and art expand our relationship to food and what questions they raise about it.
Article topics might include, but are not restricted to, the following:
- Food, history, and memory
- Food and hunger: adequacy and scarcity
- Mythological representations of food
- Anthropological approaches to food
- The psychology of food: eating disorders, self-images and so on
- Food and emotional bonding, sensuality, and eroticism
- Food and gender
- The economy of food distribution and access
- The future of consumption, the environment, and animal rights
- Food media: cooking shows, cookbooks, and social media
- Food in/as visual art
- Cannibalism and violence
Key Dates
| Deadline for submission of abstract (300 words) | October 1, 2022 |
| Deadline for submission of full articles | May 1, 2023 |
| Publication date | Spring 2024 |
Alif is a refereed, annual, multi-lingual, and multi-disciplinary journal published by the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the American University in Cairo. Each issue revolves around a theme or a problem, bringing together the views and approaches of scholars from all over the world.
Alif is electronically available on JSTOR and indexed on a number of prestigious databases including Scopus, MLA International Bibliography, SAGE, Index Islamicus, EBSCO, Project MUSE, and Literature Resource Center (Gale).
Submission instructions: An initial 300-word abstract should be submitted by 1 October 2022, accompanied by the author’s email address, telephone number, and postal address. Articles based on accepted abstracts should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words and may be submitted in Arabic, English, or French by electronic mail to alifecl@aucegypt.edu, together with an abstract of 100 words and a 50-word biographical note on the contributor. Authors should consult the MLA Handbook (9th edition) for style in preparing their manuscripts.
Only original articles that do not duplicate previously published work, including the authors, and are not under review by another journal or collection will be considered.
Correspondence
Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, Dept. of English and Comparative Literature
American University in Cairo
113 Kasr Al Aini Street, PO Box 2511
Cairo 11511, Egypt
t: +2.02.2797.5107
alifecl@aucegypt.edu
To visit the website, click here.
12. Chapter proposals are invited for A Cultural History of Reproduction in the Early Modern Age (1500 – 1765) under contract with Bloomsbury for their Cultural History Series.
This volume will form part of a 6-volume series that covers the history of reproduction from antiquity to the present. We seek authors for the following thematic chapters focusing on the early modern period:
- Legal and Political Contexts
- Beliefs and Rituals
- Science and Medicine
- Materialities and Technologies
- Spaces and Practitioners
- Fertility Control
- Experiences and Emotions
- Meanings and Representations
This volume takes a thematic and transnational approach to the history of reproduction, with synthetic chapters addressing the above themes. Rather than addressing reproduction from a single perspective (such as medicine, culture, religion, etc.), the aim of this series is to emphasize the ways reproduction brings into focus the intersections between areas like science and medicine, law, cultural representations, lived realities, popular culture and so forth. This collection highlights both a global perspective and newer research themes in the history of pregnancy and birth, such as LGBTQ+ lives, disability, the senses, bodily experiences such as pain, and emotions. Although grounded in historical research and historiography, the series hopes also to feature the essential interdisciplinary scholarship in the field, including Archaeology, Religious Studies, Public Health, Anthropology, and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
The particular focus of each chapter within the general themes outlined above is up to the individual author, but topics covered may include fertility (including attempts to promote fertility, infertility, and fertility control), abortion, pregnancy and birth, the post-partum period, and/or infant care and feeding. Each chapter should provide an overview for readers of the key issues, problems, questions, methodologies, and debates in the field. If/when appropriate, each chapter also will survey the available primary sources and discuss a sample of these sources. This volume focuses on the Early Modern Period (from about 1500-1765), and it takes a global view; scholars who propose chapters centering comparative and transnational history and engaging with the Global South are particularly welcome. Chapters may adopt a global and comparative focus or may focus on one or two regions while making reference to global developments. Proposals from scholars who live and work in the Global South are encouraged. If a proposal is accepted, completed chapters of between 8,000 and 10,000 words will be due on August 15, 2023.
Interested authors should submit short proposals of 500 words and a CV by November 1, 2022 to Jennifer Kosmin at jfk0027@auburn.edu. Inquiries may also be addressed to jfk0027@auburn.edu.
13. The Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature at the University of Washington
The Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures is thrilled to launch the Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Literature. This prize has been established in partnership with the Mo Habib Memorial Foundation and Deep Vellum Press to enable the publication and dissemination of Persian literary works that stand on their own in engaging English translation. It seeks to expand the readership of Persian literature in English, beyond academic audiences.
We anticipate that there will be multiple cycles. For its inaugural cycle, we welcome submissions in modern Persian fiction (novel and short story collection) from Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iran, and their diaspora. The winning translation will receive a prize of $10,000 ($2,000 once the award is announced in July 2023, and $8,000 once the work is turned in by the deadline May 2024). This prize comes with a commitment by Deep Vellum to publish the translated work. Please submit the following materials in a single PDF file by March 1, 2023:
- A one-page cover letter that describes the work to be translated, and speaks to its larger import
- An up-to-date CV (no more than 3 pages)
- A bilingual sample of the proposed translation (no more than 20 pages, double spaced, in both languages)
- Proof of copyrights (if applicable)
Fuller info at:
- September 03, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies (1-3 Months), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early stage researchers in Turkish studies. We welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna and expand the current research focus of the Department (i.e. environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage).
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10730863/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2023
2. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for Comparative Politics/International Relations (Africa, Including North Africa), Department of Government and Law, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in political science. They should be specialised in African politics and topical specialization in one or more of the following: political economy and development; ethnic conflict, transitional justice, and post-conflict processes; migration, immigration, and diaspora studies; and/or post-colonial studies and state building.
Deadline for application: 26 September 2022. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/112095
3. Tenure Track Assistant Professor for Research on Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
We are seeking an excellent scholar who engages race, structural racism, and racial disparities and inequities. The successful candidate will complement the interdisciplinary nature of the department with strong disciplinary (or multi-disciplinary) training, native or near-native fluency in at least one language of the Middle East, passion for teaching, and a commitment to forging alliances within the department, university, and the larger community.
Deadline for applications: 3 October 2022. Information: https://provost.wustl.edu/2022-cluster-hire/
4. Assistant or Associate Professor for the History of the Modern Arab World, Arab American Educational Foundation (AAEF), Rice University, Houston, Texas
Candidates must have a PhD in History or related field. They may work in a variety of geographic regions within the modern Arab world, broadly defined, from North Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, the former territories of the Ottoman Empire, and the eastern Mediterranean countries of the Levant, including Palestine.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/112001
5. Network for the Documentation, Preservation and Enhancement of Monuments in the Euro-Mediterranean Area (Including Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt): “Egeria – Mediterranean Medieval Places of Pilgrimage”
The project focuses on pilgrimage sites, the immovable and movable pilgrimage monuments that are interspersed in the Mediterranean landscape but also in time, from antiquity to the present. The main objective of the project is the establishment of a network of cooperation for the documentation, preservation, enhancement and promotion of pilgrimage monuments.
Information: http://www.egeriaproject.net/main_network.aspx
6. MIAS Ibn ‘Arabi Translation Prize
Entries should be in the form of original translations of the works of Ibn ‘Arabi, either of complete minor works or of key sections or chapters from major works. Where possible, translations should be based on critically edited Arabic texts already in print. The winner will be awarded a cash prize of 3000 USD, and their translation will be published in the “Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society”.
Deadline for entries: 1 September 2022.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/06/27/final-call-ibn-arabi-translation-prize
7. Online Workshop – Applying for Academic Jobs
Panelists: Hala Auji (Virginia Commonwealth University), Finbarr Barry Flood (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria)
Friday, September 9, 2022
12 pm EDT on Zoom
Register here
This event will not be recorded
Hala Auji recently joined Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts in Richmond as the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art. Previously she was at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Her research explores the visual dimensions of modernity in the eastern Mediterranean, including print culture, book history, and museum practices. She is the author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth Century Beirut (Brill, 2016), and currently serves as the HIAA Board’s International Representative.
Finbarr Barry Flood is director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories and William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities at the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. His most recent publications include Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’islam: pèlerins, reliques, copies (Musée du Louvre/Hazan, 2019) and Archives of Flotsam – Objects and Early Globalism, co-written with Beate Fricke, University of Bern, to be published by Princeton University Press.
Marcus Milwright is professor and department chair in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria. He has created the Crafts of Syria and Crafts of Iraq websites. His books include: Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology (Edinburgh, 2017); and The Queen of Sheba’s Gift: A History of the True Balsam of Matarea (Edinburgh, 2021).
8. We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the symposium Advances and New Perspectives in Central Asian Archaeologyas part of the SAA 88th Annual Meeting, taking place in Portland, Oregon, from March 31- April 2, 2023.
This symposium will bring together researchers who focus on the wider Central Asian space, including the five post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, as well as the Volga-Ural region to discuss current approaches and questions in Central Asian archaeology. By addressing a wide range of topics that are relevant to Central Asia, we aim not only to connect scholars working across Central Asia, but also highlight the work of new researchers and methodologies being employed in the region. We welcome papers that approach Central Asian archaeology from a variety of perspectives and methodologies that focus on archaeological research from across all periods of our human past.
If your research relates to this theme, you can contribute to this session with a 15-minute oral presentation in English. In order to participate in the session you must pay a conference registration fee and be a member of SAA during 2023. Current members must renew their memberships for 2023 by January 30, 2023, and nonmembers must join the Society no later than November 15, 2022. For details of these fees, you can consult the information on the SAA website.
If interested, please reach out to the organizers – Catherine Klesner (klesnerc@nyu.edu) and Ann Merkle (ammerkle@wustl.edu) – for instructions on submitting to the session. Abstracts are due by September 8th, 3 pm EST to the SAA portal, so please reach out no later than September 4th for information and instructions for abstract submissions to this organized session. Research on any material, period, or region within Central Asia is most welcome! If you have any questions, please direct them to klesnerc@nyu.edu.
We look forward to receiving your proposals!
All the best,
Catherine Klesner
Ann Merkle
9. World Premiere of the Documentary Film
“Derbent: What Persia Left Behind”
Biennial of the Iranian Studies Association
1 Sep. 2022, 9:30 AM, University of Salamanca
The film explores the unique history and architecture of the 6th-century fortification system which is considered the largest defensive structure of the Sasanian Empire in the Caucasus.
Watch trailer here:
https://derbentonline.com/doducmentary-film/
Directed by Pejman Akbarzadeh
Funded by Persian Heritage Foundation and Soudavar Memorial Foundation
- August 30, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.A new journal by Brill: The Journal of Digital Islamicate Research (JDIR)
https://brill.com/view/journals/jdir/jdir-overview.xml?rskey=yeG37d&result=10
2. The eminent Armenologist and Byzantinist Prof. Nina G. Garsoïan passed away on August 14. She broke a number of glass ceilings in academia, both as a woman and as a specialist in Armenian Studies.
More about here life history and achievements may be accessed here: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/de-vita-sua
3. Postdoctoral or advanced PhD position, Aristotle’s ‘On the Soul’ in Arabic (Tuebingen, Germany)
A position for a postdoctoral or an advanced PhD researcher is available at
the University of Tuebingen (Germany). The vacancy is connected to the award
of an ERC Advanced Grant, entitled “TIDA – Text and Idea of Aristotle’s
Science of Living Things” directed by Prof. Klaus Corcilius (Dept. of
Philosophy). The researcher will be working with Klaus Corcilius and with me
(Dept. of Oriental and Islamic Studies).
The period of employment will be for 2 years, beginning in January 2023.
Review of the applications will begin on November 1, 2022, and continue until
the position is filled.
information in the link below:
https://uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet/stellenangebote/newsfullview-stellenangebote/article/postdoctoral-or-advanced-phd-researcher-m-f-d-75-e13-tv-l/
Applications should be sent to klaus.corcilius@uni-tuebingen.de . If you have
any questions, please feel also free to contact:
(heidrun.eichner@uni-tuebingen.de ).
4. Call For Proposals – Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
Series Editors: Jocelyne Cesari and Mirjam Künkler
This series of monographs provides a platform for the burgeoning scholarship on religion and politics from either religious studies, political science, or the social sciences in general. Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and Politics
seeks to examine topics that are intensely debated in the public space such as violence and politics, human rights, or democracy and secularism from multidisciplinary theoretical and data-driven perspectives.
The series welcomes manuscripts based on recent original research (whether involving fieldwork, archival work, surveys, or other methods) in a particular national or regional setting or in a comparative way across religions or political contexts. Manuscripts typically range from 35,000 to 40,000 words, but could also extend to 80,000 words. The book series does not publish edited volumes.
All proposals must contain an overview of the work and a description of its contribution to existing scholarship, as well as a description of the prospective readership of the work.
Proposals should be sent to the series editors:
Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham, UK, and Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA: jcesari@hds.harvard.edu
Mirjam Künkler, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden: mirjam.kuenkler@gmail.com
For more information, please contact Brill’s Acquisitions Editor for Religious Studies, Laura Morris: laura.morris@brill.com
5. Senior Lecturer in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
Keele University
The School of Social, Political and Global Studies is currently recruiting a Senior Lecturer in International Relations. The successful candidate will be a multi-faceted academic with an interdisciplinary politics and international relations specialism in the Middle East across teaching, research, media impact, and outreach.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
6. Lecturer in Translation Studies (Arabic)
University of Strathclyde
As part of a wider collaboration between the University of Strathclyde and the Middle East University (Amman, Jordan), a new MSc Applied Translation will launch in October 2022. The School of Humanties seeks to appoint a Lecturer to join the Translation and Interpreting subject team, on a full-time open-ended contract. The post holder will teach primarily on the MSc Applied Translation programme and will be located at MEU in Amman during the teaching semesters.
Deadline | 5 September 2022
7. Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Middle East Studies
University of Oxford
The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies invites applications from candidates in a social science discipline with reference to countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), for a fixed-term postdoctoral position, funded by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) for 24 months commencing 1st January 2023.
Deadline | 9 September 2022
8. Lectureship in the History of the Global South
Aberystwyth University
The Department of History and Welsh History invites applications for a full-time Lectureship in the History of the Global South (nineteenth and/or twentieth centuries), tenable from 1 September 2022, or as soon as possible thereafter. We will be particularly interested in applicants who specialise in one or more of: East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, or Latin America.
Deadline | 15 September 2022
9. Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations
Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
The School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies (SLLCS) warmly welcomes applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Islamic Civilisations based in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies. The successful candidate will be a specialist in an aspect of Islamic Civilisations, particularly Islamic culture in the Middle East, and will have a PhD in a cognate discipline, relevant teaching experience and a publication track-record appropriate to an appointment at this level.
Deadline | 23 September 2022
10. Call for Proposals – Urban Politics in the MENA
Workshop | Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) | Beirut | 17 February 2023
Political and social scientists have increasingly turned to the study of urban politics, with a growing literature on local and regional governance and institutions, political geography and territoriality, the politics and processes of spatial production, urban infrastructural politics and the role of urban space in political mobilization. To explore these issues, POMEPS invites proposals for short papers (approximately 2,500 words) exploring urban politics in the MENA region.
Deadline | 26 September 2022
11. AKU-ISMC – 6-8 October 2022 Event – Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
Full info at:
12. U of British Columbia call for Applications in Classical Persian Lit. & Culture
The Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (Vancouver campus), invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the field of Classical Persian Literature and Culture. Applicants with expertise in the history and practice of classical Persian literature and culture are welcome to apply; applicants with a commitment to the broader notion of ‘Persianate’ literary culture are especially encouraged to apply. Applicants are expected to have full professional proficiency in English and in Persian, and proficiency in at least one other language of the Persianate cosmopolis. A strong track record of participation in team work and program affairs, and experience in community outreach and program building is a plus.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field or expect to have successfully defended the dissertation before July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate excellence in research and undergraduate and graduate teaching, and to maintain an active program of research, publication, teaching, graduate supervision, and service. The successful candidate will be expected to work closely with tenure-stream Asian Studies faculty in South Asian and Persianate and Islamic history and culture, and with any future hires in the area of Persian/Iranian Studies. Further information about the Department can be found on its website, www.asia.ubc.ca.
The application dossier should include:
- a letter of application;
- a curriculum vitae;
- a 1-page statement identifying the applicant’s contributions, or potential contributions, to diversity, and ability to work with a culturally diverse student body;
- one writing sample (maximum 30 pages);
- two sample course syllabi, preferably one at the undergraduate-level and one at the graduate-level;
- evidence of teaching effectiveness; and
- names and contact information of three referees who could provide confidential letters of recommendation should the candidate be long- or short-listed.
The deadline for receipt of complete applications is October 7, 2022. The anticipated start date of employment is July 1, 2023.
This position is subject to final budgetary approval. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
All application materials should be submitted electronically through the Department’s careers website, https://asia.ubc.ca/department/careers/ by October 7. Inquiries may be sent to asia.jobsearch@ubc.ca.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Métis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
Given the uncertainty caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, applicants must be prepared to conduct interviews remotely if circumstances require. A successful applicant may be asked to consider an offer containing a deadline without having been able to make an in-person visit to campus if travel and other restrictions are still in place.
- August 27, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Novel Workshop of the South West Asia North Africa (SWANA) Feminist Working Group, 27-30 October 2022, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST
This novel workshop aims to provide participants with various methodological tips and tools that focus on fostering genuine researcher/participant relations that are meaningful and respectful from the conception of the research design to the research output and beyond.
Deadline for registration: 15 September 2022. Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1V-ETeRAy88dT4oItQvWnT0JZ2_mh4gMZCrDsoslWQdc/viewform?edit_requested=true
2. Session on “Piracy and Captivity in the Medieval Mediterranean”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
Mediterranean Studies is helping the field think more comparatively and bring into dialogue scholars working in many fields from Spanish, French, Arabic and Italian. This panel aims to explore how medieval Mediterranean authors crafted the image of the pirate – as well as the journey of their captives – and made sense of this dangerous and ubiquitous enterprise.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 September 2022.
Information: https://events.tc.umn.edu/premodern-studies/event/8467-1
3. Session on “Translation in Islamicate Contexts: Portals, Frames, and Epistemes (ID# 3707)”, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
When – and when not – to translate? 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.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.
Information: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3707
4. Session on “Prosimetrum in Islamicate Literatures: Bridges, Representations, and Dialogues, (ID#3711), International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 11-13 May 2023
Islamicate prosimetra constructed productive and complex links between poetics and politics and across visual and textual registers to structure memory, community, and civic life. 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.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2022.
Information: https://icms.confex.com/icms/2023/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=3711
5. Tenure-Track Position on Governance and Humanitarian Crisis in the Middle East, American University (AU), Washington, DC
We welcome applicants who work at the intersection of governance, human rights, and humanitarian crisis in the Middle East. We are especially interested in candidates who work on gender and sexuality; forced and irregular migration; political economy, social mobilization, and community development; political and state responses to crisis and conflict; and environmental and climate change.
Deadline for applications: 10 October 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/109607
6. Josephine Hildreth Detmer & Zareen Taj Mirza Tenure-Track Professorship in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
The ideal candidate will be an expert in Islam as a global religious tradition, with interdisciplinary research that highlights trans-regional or transnational connections between the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, or beyond. Some undergraduate teaching experience and a record of scholarship are considered strengths.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2022. Information: https://careers.bucknell.edu/en-us/job/497122/josephine-hildreth-detmer-zareen-taj-mirza-professorship-in-islamic-studies
7. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies in the MENA Prior to 1800, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
We particularly welcome applicants whose work is innovative and interdisciplinary. Discipline open.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/22309.
8. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for History of the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World, Seattle University
The ideal candidate will have a primary teaching and research field in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World (ca. 500-1600) broadly defined. The candidate must have a Ph.D. in History at time of appointment.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/job-medieval-and-early-modern-mediterranean-world-university-of-seattle?e=82aeb6c61d
9. Articles on “Islamic Leadership: Towards a New Paradigm” for Special Issue of the “Australian Journal of Islamic Studies”
Questions: Is contemporary Islamic and Muslim crisis a crisis of Islamic leadership? Do Muslims need a new leadership to bring them and their societies out of crisis? Why is new Islamic leadership paradigm so important in the modern world? Are there role model Muslim leaders that stand out as an exception to the crisis we are seeing in the Islamic leadership?
Deadline for submissions: 30 December 2022.
Information: https://ajis.com.au/index.php/ajis/announcement/view/13
10. Manuscripts and Book Proposals for “The Ottoman Empire and the World Series” under New Editorship and Advisory Board (I.B.Tauris)
The series welcomes work which transcends the traditional boundaries between approaches, including those between political history, gender studies, social history, Islamic studies, environmental history, and literary studies to understand how the empire worked and how it fit in a wider world.
11. Registration is now open for the Muslims in Britain Research Network annual conference.
Wed, 14 Sep 2022, 10:30 –Thu, 15 Sep 2022, 16:00 BST Cardiff University.
The conference explores more than 50 years of British Muslim Studies. We reflect on the contributions of scholars who laid the foundation for this discipline. And we consider the future – what new areas of scholarship are being explored and what new frontiers does the discipline need to delve into.
To register please use this link – https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/british-muslim-studies-at-fifty-retrospect-and-prospect-tickets-388878364657
12. HIAA Events & Opportunities – CFP Sponsored Panel at CAA 2023 & Online Workshop on Applying for Fellowships
CFP: HIAA Sponsored Panel at CAA
Deadline: August 31, 2022
Challenges and Opportunities for the the Study of Islamic Art and Architecture – Round Table Discussion
Political sanctions, travel bans, and racial profiling often define the experience of those working in and on the Middle East and Islamic world. Compounded to that have been recent restrictions in movement imposed by the global pandemic. Under such severe conditions, how have scholars and students negotiated doing fieldwork and getting access to archives? What are the implications for the discipline, which has in recent years attempted to expand its geographical borders beyond West and South Asia, even as movement has been harshly curtailed? And most importantly, in what ways have historians of Islamic art and architecture found ways to not only produce new scholarship, but to create a global community? The aim of the roundtable is to share experiences and also strategies for doing research, even as states and geopolitical realities impose limitations on what is possible.
Session chair: Kishwar Rizvi (kishwar.rizvi@yale.edu)
Interested applicants should follow the instructions on the CAA website to submit a proposal
13. Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada
Cultural Preservation as Game Wins GEE Learning Awards
London – The developing indie PC game, Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada, won the 2022 GEE Learning Awards bring attention to the hidden art of Islamic tilemaking.
In an endeavour to revive the long-admired tradition of Islamic Art that has permeated many architectural and artistic designs all over the world, independent game developer Louis Torres and his team managed to bring the experience of being a tilemaker during 14th Century Al-Andalusia to your PC. Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada is a meditative and artistic 3D PC game in which the player is tasked to design a single tile for the nobleman’s palace and the game engine tessellates the player’s original design into the walls of the palace.
“When I first thought of the idea of the game, I was very intrigued by the notion of tessellation that tilemakers implemented back then. I wanted to learn as much as I can about it and see if I can make it a game function. I never thought back then that my own desire to learn would earn me an educational game award,” said Torres.
The title of the game, Zellige, refers to the name of a specific type of geometric mosaic designs found across Southern Spain and Morocco. “The seeds for Zellige were first planted when I visited Granada and its palaces as a kid with my parents. I was utterly fascinated with the elegance and vibrance of the mosaic designs that adorn the Alhambra’s walls. A few years later, having researched the art style further, I realised that the intricate and skilled work required to create these designs could make for a great game, especially if one were to lean into the physicality and tactility of this art form. It’s this artisan’s work that I wanted to celebrate and recreate virtually in the game,” said Torres.
The developing team have gone to launch their Kickstarter campaign in order to release the game by the end of the year. Afnan Linjawi, Marketing & PR Manager, recounts that “the team was formed as part of a graduate student collaborative project. We displayed the games in a number of exhibitions in London and saw wide reception of the game. That’s when we knew that we had to try our best to actually bring the game to market.”
Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada ticks a number of categories in that it’s a cultural, meditative and artistic game. “I wanted to do my part as a fan of the artform and have people discover the tile designs they can create from the simple tools that were used back then. Everything from the palace itself, to the characters and colour palettes is inspired by the history of the Andalusian era and what it left behind,” said Torres.
Game producer Jean De Wilde explained that “we wanted to create a wholesome game that motivates your creativity. It doesn’t matter whether you were a good artist or a mere scribbler because the goal of the game is to make your own designs. It was also important for us to add the meditative element. Our hope is that people will see it as a way of getting away from the daily grind, of letting their minds wander as their eyes and hands create something new and unique to them.”
To know more about Zellige: The Tilemaker of Granada, you can follow their Twitter handle where they post all their updates regarding the game: @ZelligeGame
14. #DisMed at Leeds IMC 2023
Medievalists with Disabilities Roundtable IMC 2023
After five successful roundtables bringing up issues around disability in Higher Education, we propose another roundtable for IMC 2023.
We invite abstracts for 5 minute talks for the roundtable. We understand disability in the broadest sense, incorporating visible and invisible impairments, chronic illness and mental health, to name but a few.
Topics might include:
· Your own circumstances in a HE institution
· Pinpointing a particular issue that needs addressing
· Highlighting an example of good practice in your own institution
· Issues of intersectionality: how disability might interact with other factors that have an impact on marginalized people e.g. gender, class, sexuality, and/or race
You can participate in a roundtable as well as presenting a paper, so please do consider submitting an abstract for this roundtable if you’re already planning to present. You don’t have to identify as disabled to participate, for example if you’d like to share an example of good practice, but priority will be given to disabled scholars.
Please submit a title for your talk as well as a brief summary (no more than 150 words) to Alex Lee (al6598@nyu.edu) by Friday 16 September 2022.
We are also seeking a chair for the session, so please let me know if you’d like that role.
You can watch last year’s video here: https://mymedia.leeds.ac.uk/Mediasite/Play/ee5aaa926dcd42b998c7dbd36852980f1d
15. The Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA, are pleased to invite abstracts for the next Studying East of Byzantium workshop: Studying East of Byzantium IX: Networks.
A three-part workshop that intends to bring together doctoral students and very recent PhDs studying the Christian East to reflect on how to reflect on the usefulness of networks in studying the Christian East, to share methodologies, and to discuss their research with workshop respondents, Zara Pogossian, University of Florence, and Joel Walker, University of Washington. The workshop will meet on November 18, 2022, February 17, 2023, and June 12–13, 2023, on Zoom. The timing of the workshop meetings will be determined when the participant list is finalized.
We invite all graduate students and recent PhDs working in the Christian East whose work considers, or hopes to consider, the theme of networks (microregional, regional, transregional, global, etc.) in their own research to apply.
Participation is limited to 10 students. The full workshop description is available on the East of Byzantium website (https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/). Those interested in attending should submit a C.V. and 200-word abstract through the East of Byzantium website no later than September 19, 2022.
For questions, please contact East of Byzantium organizers, Christina Maranci, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, THarvard University, and Brandie Ratliff, Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at contact@eastofbyzantium.org.
EAST OF BYZANTIUM is a partnership between the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies at Harvard University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture at Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline, MA. It explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine Empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
- August 23, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) are searching for a part-time Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to the project: ‘Digital British Islam: Digital British Islam: How do Cyber Islamic Environments impact everyday lives’.
You can view the full job advert here: https://jobs.uwtsd.ac.uk/JobDescription/ON287itY–o?&mId=txVlKFaFAVc
This is a three-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). UWTSD is the lead institution, collaborating with the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University and the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University of Edinburgh. The post holder will work with a multi-disciplinary team led by Principal Investigator Prof. Gary R. Bunt (UWTSD), Co-Investigator Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry) and Prof. Frédéric Volpi (Edinburgh). The team also includes two research fellows, Dr Khadijah Elshayyal (Edinburgh) and Dr Sadek Hamid (UWTSD) and two Post-Doctoral Researchers.
The closing date for applications is the 1st September 2022.
2. 21 September 2022 Event – The Aga Khan University Research Day
Aga Khan Centre (1st floor)
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
The programme includes:
- An overview of AKU research.
• A lecture on water resources in Gilgit with the latest results of the British Academy project.
• An introduction to the Aga Khan Library research resources.
• A presentation of Football and Religion: Tales of Hope, Passion and Play, a new exhibition at the Aga Khan Centre.
• Panel discussions about AKU-ISMC’s most recent research on digital humanities, historiography, and arts and popular culture.
• A book exhibition of AKU-ISMC research.
• Viewing of the exhibitionFootball and Religion: Tales of Hope, Passion and Play.
• Refreshments.
Booking
The event is free, but booking is essential:
To attend in person, resgiter via Eventbrite.
To attend online, register via Zoom.
3. Persian through Khayyam’s Rubaiyat – Online course
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-omar-khayyam-rubaiyat
3 weeks, from Oct 10, 2022 to Oct 27, 2022
Online from Yerevan, Armenia
Apply by Sep 21, 2022
Price: $990
4. The Islamic College: Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Islamic Philosophy (online)
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Starting: 14 November 2022
Application Deadline: 15 October 2022
Fees: £1500 (All students are eligible for a scholarship of up to 50%)
More information: https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/psc-islamic-philosophy/
5. ATINER’s 2023 Mediterranean Studies Conference in Athens Greece
Dear Colleague,
I would like to bring to your attention the organization of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, 3-6 April 2023, Athens, Greece. You are more than welcome to submit a proposal for presentation by 31 August 2022. As we did last year, we will accept both remote (online or pre-recorded) and onsite presentations. If you need more information, please let me know, and our administration will send it to you including the conference website and abstract submission form.
My best regards,
Nick
Dr Nicholas Pappas
Vice President of Academic Conferences and Meetings
Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)
6. AKU-ISMC 1 September 2022 Event – Football and Religion: Tales of Hope, Play and Passion
Join us on Thursday 1 September for a panel discussion on our upcoming exhibition Football and Religion: Tales of Hope, Play and Passion. The event will take place at the Aga Khan Centre, London, as well as online and will be followed by a viewing of the exhibition.
The event is free, but booking is essential.
For more information and to register:
To attend in person, register via Eventbrite.
To attend online, register via Zoom.
7. The Department of History at Dartmouth College invites applications for a historian of the Early Islamic period (600-1400), to be appointed at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2023.
We are especially interested in applicants whose research and teaching engages the Central Islamic lands (the Middle East, North Africa, Indian Ocean), and whose research includes Arabic language sources. Qualified candidates should be able to teach courses on early Islamic history and the development of the Islamicate world in the Middle East and North Africa, as well as upper-level topics courses and specialized seminars. Qualified candidates should show promise of outstanding scholarly achievement and a commitment to classroom teaching at the undergraduate level.
Applicants should hold a Ph.D. in History or a closely related field, or be ABD with degree in hand by the start date. For a complete position description, see Interfolio search apply.interfolio.com/111262 .
Review of applications will begin September 16, 2022 and continue until the position is filled.
8. CFP: The School of Mamluk Studies (June 8-10, 2023)
We are pleased to announce the Ninth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, which will be held at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island (USA) from June 8-10, 2023. The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on the history of the Arabic language during the Mamluk period.
Themed day: The Languages of the Mamluk Sultanate (June 8, 2023)
The first day of the conference will be devoted to the theme of language in the Mamluk sultanate. We invite papers that treat the phenomena of multilingualism, translation, orality and literacy, vernaculars and cosmopolitan languages, sociolects, and other topics related to the history of language during the period. The languages explored may include any relevant to the sultanate including but not limited to Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew, Coptic, Greek, Latin, and Mongolian. A maximum of twelve to fifteen paper proposals will be selected. The time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.
Panels (June 9-10, 2023)
The following two days of the conference will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. Panels will be composed of three to four papers, of twenty minutes each. Discussion will follow the presentation of each panel’s papers.
Please note that if more than half of the participants on a panel withdraw, the entire panel must be withdrawn from the program.
The language of the conference is English.
Publication
- a) Themed day: The conference organizers expect that a selection of papers from the themed day will be published in a volume of proceedings, pending interest from scholarly publishers.
- b) Panels: Selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Proposals
Scholars who wish to give a paper on the themed day must submit a paper proposal electronically (see link below) by October 31, 2022. Paper proposals must provide the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional paper title, and an abstract of a maximum of 1500 characters (about 300 words).
Panels must be pre-organized and proposals must be submitted by November 30, 2022. A panel may include 3 or 4 papers. The proposal should provide the following information for each paper in the panel: the name and one-page CV of the author, a provisional paper title, and an abstract (maximum of 1500 characters, or about 300 words). Panel proposals must also identify the panel’s chair (who may be one of the panelists). The organizer of a panel should have all information about the panel members and their papers before beginning the proposal submission.
To submit a paper proposal, complete the form at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms2023paperproposal.html.
To submit a panel proposal, complete the form at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms2023panelproposal.html.
Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2023 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.
Fees
The conference registration fees will be $50 for participants and attendees. For those interested, there will be a farewell dinner at a local restaurant, at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees must be received by April 30, 2023, and information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular.
Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Information and suggestions for accommodations will be provided in the first circular.
Intensive course: Arabic in the Mamluk Period
Prior to the conference, Professor Marina Rustow (Princeton University) and Professor Phillip Stokes (University of Tennessee) will offer a three-day intensive course (June 5-7) on the history of the Arabic language during the Mamluk period. The course will present an overview and history of the different varieties of Arabic attested in Mamluk-era sources, with a focus on Judeo-Arabic, Christian Arabic, and other forms of Middle Arabic.
Students will be introduced to the major repositories of documents that are sources for the linguistic history of this period, such as the Cairo Geniza, Saint Catherine’s Monastery, and the Haram al-Sharif documents. The course is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants, and will combine lecture and discussion with hands-on investigation of Mamluk-era materials. Advanced proficiency in Classical Arabic is required, but no other specialized training is necessary to attend.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation to the following email address: schoolofmamlukstudies2023@gmail.com by the end of January, 2023. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by the end of February 2023.
The course fee is $300.00, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (June 8-10). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2023. Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging at an affordable price.
Please contact Elias Muhanna with any questions: schoolofmamlukstudies2023@gmail.com
9. Lexicons of Race Virtual Roundtables in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Turkish
| When and where are racial histories and hierarchies embedded in languages of the Middle East and North Africa? How do vocabularies of race, Blackness, and minoritization travel across languages? What are the intellectual and political benefits of centering Blackness in Middle East Studies? MESA’s newly launched Lexicons of Race Project seeks to answer these questions and more with a cluster of four online roundtables, September 12-15 (Noon-1:30pm EDT). This is the first step in an ongoing examination of the vocabularies of race and Blackness in the Middle East. The roundtables will be an exciting opportunity for intellectual exchange beyond our Annual Meeting and outside the constraints of the English language. Recognizing that the complexities of race are often lost in translation, each of the four roundtables will be conducted in a major language of the Middle East: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Turkish. Roundtables are open to the public, however registration is required. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Turkish Roundtable
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- August 20, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. International Symposium on “The Politicization of Islam in East Asia, 1850-1950”, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, 18-20 August 2022
This symposium brings together scholars working on different aspects related to the politicization of Islam in East Asia to discuss research results and address open questions.
Program and registration: https://www.aoi.uzh.ch/de/institut/events/conferences/islameastasia.html
2. ONLINE Webinar Series “Voices of Emerging Scholars (in Ottoman-Turkish Studies)”, Columbia Global Center in Istanbul, Fall 2022 and Spring 2023
Advanced Ph.D. students and early-career researchers who have received their Ph.D. degrees after January 2018 are invited to present their Ottoman-Turkish studies on Wars, Diplomacy, and Empires; Legal History; Ethnicity and Identity Politics; Immigration; Intellectual History; Manuscript Studies; Visual Culture; History of Science, Medicine, Technology, and Occult; Life at Home; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2022.
Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/news/voices-emerging-scholars-call-proposals-2022
3. CFP Online Symposium: “Turkish-German Relations in Literary History from the Fifteenth Through the Twenty-First Century“, 28.11.22
Contributions are invited on the long-term contacts and intensive cultural exchanges between the two cultures as well as on the specific stereotypes which developed and became the subject of German and Turkish literature, films, and media throughout the ages. We welcome papers in German and English.
Deadline for abstracts: 18 October 2022. Information: https://discourseanalysis.net/en/cfp-online-symposium-turkish-german-relations-literary-history-fifteenth-through-twenty-first
4. International Conference on the “Typologies of Western Islam in European Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries and Lexicons in the 18th and 19th Centuries”, University of La Réunion and Université de Lorraine, 16-17 March 2023
This conference will explore the conceptual and methodological modalities adopted in these scholarly books to describe Islam according to types determined by the choice of certain criteria and symbols.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2022.
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/08/CFP_Conference_Nancy.pdf
5. Student Assistant (35 Hours/Month) for Research Project on “Dynamics of Climate Governance” (Transcription of Arabic Interviews), University of Hamburg
Profile: Completed the second year in a Bachelor studies program in Political Science, Geography or a related discipline in the Social Sciences; interest in climate governance, social movements, and climate research; excellent command of written and spoken English; Desired but not required: Knowledge of an additional language (esp. Arabic).
Deadline for applications: 22 August 2022.
Information: https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8c8af471/Call-Student-Assistant.pdf
6. Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (4 Years) in the History and Culture of the Countries of the Silk Roads 2023, King`s College Cambridge
The fellowship is for those who intend to pursue a research project on some aspect of the Silk Road countries, societies, and cultures. The research project may address Environmental History, Religion, Art, Maritime History, China before 1911, Ottoman Empire, and Russian Central Asia, etc.
Deadline for application: 19 September 2022.
Information: https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/research/research-fellowships
7. Poste de chercheur·e chargé·e de mission à l’Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contem-porain (IRMC), Tunis
Date limite: 23 août 2022.
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/69130
8. The Islamic College: Postgraduate Studies Certificate in Exegesis and Quranic Sciences
Three Semesters (full-time) & Six Semesters (part-time)
In-house
Venue: The Islamic College 133 High Road London NW102SW
18:00 -20:30 (London Time)
Fees: £1500 (All students are eligible for a scholarship of up to 50%)
*Free for Islamic college graduates, staff, and students*
Starting: 14 November 2022
Application Deadline: 15 October 2022
For more information:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/psc/exegesis-and-quranic-sciences/
- August 16, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – 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
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
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.
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1.In memoriam: Rifa‘at ‘Ali Abou-El-Haj (1933-2022)
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.
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.
- August 09, 2022
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1.Imagining Antiquity in Islamic Societies
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
3. Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis
Jaan Islam, Adem Eryiğit
Routledge, 2022
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:
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
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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.
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.
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:
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