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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Monash University in Australia is hiring a PhD student who will specialise in Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), his work, heritage, later influence, and/or reception.
You can find the call here: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/633252/phd-scholarship-in-islamic-intellectual-history-through-the-lens-of-sufism-global-dissemination-of-knowledge-in-islam
Deadline: May 20, Friday 2022
Enquiries: aydogan.kars@monash.edu
2. Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning’
Essays in Honour of Carole and Robert Hillenbrand (2 volumes)
Edited by Ali Ansari and Melanie Gibson
April 2022 by Gingko Library, London
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-carole-hillenbrand/
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-robert-hillenbrand/
3. “Melodies of Unity: A Discussion on Sufi music with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble” (AFSACK) – May 4
Join us on Wednesday May 4th for our next American Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture and Knowledge (AFSACK) Salon Series Conversation with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble. This discussion explores the eclectic sounds of their new album, Melodies of Unity, diving into their creative process and inspirations from Sufi poetry. The conversation further examines their experiences of recording and making new music remotely during the pandemic across four countries.
This event will take place on Zoom. Register here.
4. In Memoriam – Karel Otavský (11 June 1938, Prague – 12 April 2022, Prague)
by Shireen Ellinger
It is with great sadness that I would like to share the passing of a prominent art historian, Dr. Phil. Karel Otavský, who passed away on the 12th of April 2022.
A renowned Czech specialist in the history of liturgical objects and textiles, Karel Otavský studied art history with Prof. Jaroslav Pešina in the Department of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. His dissertation completed in 1966 was entitled ‘Paintings of the Klementinum Anthology of Thomas of Štítný’. At the same time, he was employed in the National Gallery of Prague; first, as assistant curator of Graphic Arts, and later, for Sculpture. In 1967-1968, he worked at the National Museum of Prague, but shortly after the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to Switzerland. In 1968, he began to work as a research assistant at the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, where he soon became curator of their collections of Western and Oriental arts. In 1991, he received a PhD degree from the University of Bern, with a published thesis entitled Die Sankt Wenzelskrone im Prager Domschatz und die Frage der Kunstauffassung am Hofe Kaiser Karls IV. [The St. Wenceslas Crown from the St. Vitus Dom in Prague and the question of the art notion at the Court of Emperor Charles IV.] (Bern, 1992). He met his Czech wife MgA (magister artis) Vendulka Sudková, a textile conservator, at the Abegg-Stiftung. In 2001, they returned to the Czech Republic and from 2004 to 2015, he taught the history of medieval liturgical art at the Institute of Christian Art History in the Charles University in Prague.
It was the field of Islamic textiles and our common Czech background that brought us together, for the first time, in 2018. We discovered that we had both begun not only with the study of music in the Prague Conservatory, but also shared our general studies at the High School of Jan Neruda (Gymnazium Jana Nerudy) in Prague. As an Islamic art historian specialising in silk textiles of the Mamluk period (1250-1517), I had the privilege to spend some precious moments with Karel Otavský at his home in Černošice, where we shared our enthusiasm for textiles and our discussions taught me much. Although he had most recently focused on liturgical objects in particular, his detailed knowledge of medieval textiles, including their technical aspects and techniques of manufacture, was extraordinary. Besides his numerous publications on liturgical and medieval arts, major contributions to the field of textiles include: Alte Gewebe und ihre Geschichte: Ein Lese- und Bilderbuch (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1987); Mittelalterliche Textilien I: Ägypten, Persien und Mesopotamien, Spanien und Nordafrika (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1995, in collaboration with Muhammad ʿAbbas Muhammad Salim); and Mittelalterliche Textilien II: Zwischen Europa und China (Abbeg-Stiftung 2011, in collaboration with Anne E. Wardwell).
Karel Otavský was a humble and generous man, with a fine sense of humour and an immense spirit of curiosity and wonder. The art historical world has lost a remarkable scholar, author and teacher, who was greatly loved by his students and colleagues.
5. Religions, Volume 13, Issue 4 (April 2022), Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy, one may find several contributions dealings with Islam among 106 articles.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/271
Topics range from culture, politics, museum studies, sociology to theological aesthetics. Here is a sample of articles (open access):
Stéphane Lacroix
Religions 2022, 13(4), 316; doi:10.3390/rel13040316
Article: Muslim YouTubers in Turkey and the Authoritarian Male Gaze on YouTube
Esma Çelebioğlu
Religions 2022, 13(4), 318; doi:10.3390/rel13040318
Kamaluddin Abu Nawas, Abdul Rasyid Masri and Alim Syariati
Religions 2022, 13(4), 320; doi:10.3390/rel13040320
Article: The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display
Valerie Gonzalez
Religions 2022, 13(4), 281; doi:10.3390/rel13040281
Article: Beyond Theological Aesthetics: Aesthetic Theology
Sixto J. Castro
Religions 2022, 13(4), 311; doi:10.3390/rel13040311
6. Book Launch
What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field
6 May 2022 17:30-19:00
Aga Khan Centre
Aga Khan Centre (1st floor)
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
Book ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-what-is-islamic-studies-tickets-321304278747
7. The Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 3 – April 2022
This edition of the newsletter reflects these global/local processes in various ways as well, via news reports from Texas, new research on philanthropic networks, and a new logo for our network.
In this edition, you will find:
* The launch of new LACISA logos to match the vibrancy of our growing network of scholars, journalists, and those interested in the study of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
* New opportunities for studies on Muslim philanthropy, including a fall colloquium and new edited volume.
* A research presentation that asks whether we might conceptualize a “Bahamas-to-Bengal Complex.”
* News items from Chile and California, Costa Rica and Argentina.
* New opportunities and calls for a new LACISA Newsletter Editor, a Brill book series, and a higher diploma in South-South relations.
* Fresh translations of our original research articles, essays, and interviews in Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and more below. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter
** Read more about our newsletter and network (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=1519b51275&e=f70992245e)
8. Call for Papers: A Workshop on Citation
Modeling Attribution and Acknowledgement in the Digital Humanities: Citation Practices and the Pre-Modern Arabic Book
For some time, the KITAB team has been dealing with the practice of citation in the pre-modern Arabic written tradition. In doing so, we are building on extensive work in Arabic and Islamic studies that deals with how authors cite, and particularly their use of isnads (that is, chains of transmission). Digital Humanities, moreover, offers us new and exciting methods for the identification and analysis of citations within our texts.
Through this informal workshop, we hope to present some of our research and also to hear from other researchers who are working on citation (case studies from both Arabic and non-Arabic contexts are very much welcomed). If you are working on any of the topics below, we invite you to present a proposal for a 20-minute paper:
– Digital methods used to identify and interpret citations within large textual traditions.
– Digital methods used to parse citations (particularly isnads) and convert them into transmission networks.
– Terminology: what do authors mean when they use certain transmission terms? How does the use of these terms differ diachronically and spatially?
– Correspondences between text reuse and citation: can we trace cited text within a corpus? Can we identify instances of uncited text?
– Theories of citation: what constitutes plagiarism? What forms are citation expected to take? How does written citation intersect with oral practices?
The workshop will take place in two halves. In the first half, participants will be invited to give a paper to a panel with a respondent. In the second half, there will be an informal (and we hope lively) conversation about citation practices. This will take place in person with the number of offline participants kept low to enable a lively and productive conversation.
If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract of less than 300 words to kitab@aku.edu by 13th May 2022.
Date and Time
25-26 July 2022, 10:00 – 17:00 London Time.
Address
Aga Khan Centre
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
9. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 15.1 is out now.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
10. Two publications from Stanford University Press:
Media of the Masses, Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Andrew Simon
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31649&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
Street Sounds, Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29380&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
11. The second presentation in the series of lectures about the exhibit “From Qarajalu (Persia) to Santa Clara County: An Assyrian Family’s Multiple Atlantic Crossings in Search of a Home at the turn of the Century” takes place this Sunday, May 1, 2022, 1 pm.
The exhibit and lecture location is:
Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
570 East Remington Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Dr. Samir Johna will address the topic “Joseph D. Joseph, MD: A Link in the Assyrian Chain of Medicine.”
Below is Dr. Johna’s brief biography. He is imminently qualified to discuss a topic about which he has published widely in medical journals.
Samir Johna, MD, is a Clinical Professor of surgery who has held many positions in southern California and is author of many medical articles as well as books. Born in Iraq, and conscripted into the Iraqi military, he advanced his educational training at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles following his bachelor’s degree from the University of Baghdad College of Medicine. He is active in community service related to his profession but also takes the time to provide frequent interviews on Assyrian media.
A summary of the exhibit is available at the website qarajalutosantaclara.com as is information for the purchase of the catalogue.
12. To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 11–13, 2023. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies will include traditional in-person sessions, virtual sessions, and new blended-format sessions that make it possible for speakers to present and audiences to attend both in-person and online.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms). The deadline for submission is May 16, 2022.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse participants for conference registration.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
13. Afghanistan, Volume 5, Issue 1
Read the free featured article ‘“Citizen Martyrs”: The Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade in Iran’ by Kevin L. Schwartz: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOY9-0/c.aspx
Browse the Table of Contents: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOYA-0/c.aspx
14. UCLA: “An Epic Tribute to the Lyric Poem” | Justine Landau, Iranian 250 Public Lecture for CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
9:00 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time
Register here for online attendance on Zoom.
Poetry does things with words. In the premodern world, this fact is perhaps nowhere acknowledged more unanimously than in the Persianate sources. Chief among the arts of language, lyric poetry is associated with “licit magic,” after the Arabic saying, since its mastery is said to conduce to “the accomplishment of great things in the order of the world” (Nezâmi ‘Aruzi, Chahâr maqâle, II). The philosophers of the classical period discussed the powers of the poetic art and its unique effect on the imagination. In Arabic and in Persian, the successors of Fârâbi developed the doctrine of the “poetic syllogism” to account for its workings. Writing in the mid-thirteenth century, Nasir al-Din Tusi provides a striking account of why “good poems are more effective than sermons” in impressing the minds of the listeners. Yet, from Beyhaqi and Ghazâli to Jâmi and Mollâ Sadrâ, poets, critics, historians, theologians and prose writers all pay homage to the art of the poet in some way. Unsurprisingly, the Shâhnâmeh itself honors the lyric poets. In several instances in his great epic, Ferdowsi stages episodes of lyric performance, and their consequences on the narrative. Whether depicting the craft of minstrels at court, the boasting of heroes or the lament of warriors after a defeat, these scenes sound a distinctive note within the epic verse in which they are embedded. How can a song inform, or deflect, the destiny of kings? And how does Ferdowsi pay tribute to lyric poetry? The philosophers’ perspective might help us elucidate the far-reaching consequences of some remarkable poems in the Book of Kings.
This lecture is part of the Spring 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Iranian 250, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” a graduate course taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC), offering a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation including nine public lectures by scholars in the field. More information about these lectures is on our website.
15. CONF: International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas (Iran, online)
The registration for the International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas which will be held virtually on 17-18 May 2022 is open now for all the participants from all over the globe.
The conference registration is free of charge for all the participants and authors.
DDPLS welcomes professionals, researchers, and librarians from all over the world to participate in this international conference.
The conference is organized by the Iranian Public Libraries Advancement Association, Iranian Sociological Association & the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. The conference language is Persian and English.
More than 20 National & International Distinguished Professors, Professionals, Associations Presidents, and Public library directors will speak at this important event.
The deadlines for this conference are as follows:
- Last Date of Registration: 14 May 2022
- Conference Date: 17 & 18 May 2022
More details regarding the conference can be found at:
16. Inaugural Calderwood Lecture at Boston College – Prof. Nancy Um, “Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water” – May 5
“Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water”
Prof. Nancy Um, Binghamton University
The past twenty years have witnessed the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a watery rubric that eludes and exceeds the continental and religious limits defined by the conventional subfields of African, Asian, and Islamic Art. In this talk, Prof. Um will consider the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a vibrant area of study that productively forges visual and material connections across the eastern and southern hemispheres, while also positing objects as fundamental sources for the writing of oceanic histories. The talk will be grounded by two works dating to the late 17th and early 18th C. Both objects present complex itineraries of creation and far-flung itineraries of travel, even if their journeys were not, ultimately, successful. Taken together, they chart a path for Indian Ocean art history, exemplifying how this area has developed as a field of study and where it might be going in the future.
Thursday May 5th at 5:30 pm. lecture attendees will be asked to wear masks.
Outdoor reception to follow
Hill Family Conference Room
McMullen Museum of Art
2101 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135
For details see: Calderwood Lecture, BC Events Calendar
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Book Talk “Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean” by Dr. Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan), Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 26 April 2022, 10:00 am EST
Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis, Khan argues for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean.
Information and registration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejBK0CvvTo0
2. ONLINE Lecture “The Nation and Its Imagined Past among the Levantine Diaspora, 1900-1936” by David Hannah, Victoria University of Wellington, 27 April 2022, 5:00 pm New Zealand Time
This talk will deal with the contingency and choice within “diaspora nationalism” as it manifested among Levantine communities overseas, in particular those in the United States, Brazil and Egypt. It will examine the three dominant nationalist positions pertaining to the Levant; Lebanism, Syrianism and pan-Arabism.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10121102/nation-and-its-imagined-past-among-levantine-diaspora-1900
3. ONLINE Webinar “The Impact of Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in the Middle East and North Africa: What Should be Done?”. Arab Center Washington DC, 28 April 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
The panelists will discuss the details of the current and projected future impacts of climate change in the region, the challenges to addressing the growing climate crisis in MENA countries, and recommendations for adaptation and mitigation strategies to be taken by the region’s countries individually and collectively to curb these impacts from further intensifying.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116505656493/WN_QTLkmuAYR-adH_q2Q_MSpg
4. ONLINE Two Lectures “Steps of Remembrance and Historiography of the Crusades in Egypt from the 1800s to the 1970s” by Dr. Ahmed M. Sheir (University of Marburg) and “Between Historiography and Media: The Crusades in Yousef Shaheen Films” by Dr. Mohamad Rahil (University of Matrouh), Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), University of Marburg, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/lecture-series-rethinking-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-january-may-2022-remote-925604?e=82aeb6c61d
5. ONLINE Incubator Conference on “Philosophy in the Islamic World”, Princeton University, 25-26 May 2022, 9:00 am ET
The Incubator is open to submissions on all topics related to Philosophy in the Islamic world. We invite abstracts from philosophy, near eastern and Islamic studies, religion and theology, and history provided that they are intellectually rigorous. Submissions that bring Islamic thought in conversation with Anglophone philosophy of religion are especially encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information and zoom registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10149079/online-incubator-conference-philosophy-islamic-world-hosted
6. ONLINE Digital Orientalist`s Virtual Conference on “Infrastructure” in the Context of Digital Humanities in the Study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 25 June 2022
We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research and data are organized, stored and shared; what are the considerations behind starting and coordinating DH projects; and what could institutions do to accommodate such projects.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2022/03/04/call-for-papers-the-digital-orientalists-virtual-conference-2022/
7. 9th International Islam & Liberty Conference “Religious Pluralism, Civil Freedoms and Economic Progress” in Muslim Majority Societies, Artuklu University, Mardin, 27-28 October 2022
Topics: Religious freedom and pluralism; Civil society, secularism and tolerance; Innovation, property rights and development; Free markets, commerce and prosperity; Political pluralism in contemporary societies; Refugee crisis, freedom of movement and immigration; Islamophobia, multi-culturalism and democracy; Corruption and rule of law; Violence and prospects of peaceful transitions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://islamandlibertynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Call-for-Papers_ILN-9th-Conference-vf.pdf
8. 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Research Project “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, Academic Year 2022/2023
The fellowships are addressed to scholars who are interested in the methodological perspective of dealing with regions or cultures not as closed entities or polarities, but by looking at processes of transfer, exchange and interaction in the sense of entangled or shared histories and cultures.
Deadline for applications: 5 May 2022. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/news-presse/aktuelles/news-detail/call-for-applications-eume-fellowships-20222023.html
9. Assistant Professor for Historical Literatures: Arabic, University of Amsterdam
Qualification: PhD in Arabic studies/literatures, and/or histories of coloniality, Islam, and slavery; strong publication record; broad teaching experience in Arabic Literatures and Languages and/or Middle Eastern Studies at BA and MA level; excellent command of Arabic and English. If you are not fluent in Dutch, an active and passive command must be acquired within two years of the employment.
Deadline for applications: 12 May 2022. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/311587/assistant-professor-historical-literatures-arabic/?utm_source=ATemailalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_click&fbclid=IwAR0fO2ut5Kq7ng_mY9REEeYvXjBT-7TVpzDQm57Jn7xCYHYO1BcwFujsEgo
10. (Hagiographies and Biographies) about Slavery 18th/19th Century, ERC Project “Slave-Voices”, Sciences Po Paris
The successful candidate will have a PhD in hand or will have defended a PhD before September 2022. He or she will have a major expertise in the history of North Africa and will have a command of Arabic, French and English.
Application deadline: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/actualites/postdoctoral-recruitment-north-african-sufi-islamic-sources-centre-history-sciences-po.html
11. Two Visiting Fellowships (9 Months) of the “Bourse & Bazaar Foundation”, London, Focussing on Economic Diplomacy, Economic Development, and Economic Justice in the Middle East/Iran
Applications are open to individuals with a doctoral degree in an area of the social sciences and humanities relevant to the understanding of political and economic issues in the Middle East and Central Asia. Ideal applicants will have demonstrable experience in analytical writing and policy research.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.bourseandbazaar.com/opportunities/bourse-amp-bazaar-foundation-visiting-fellowship-2022
12. Instructor in Islamic Religion (9 Months), College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Oregon State University
Applicants should have a PhD in Religious studies or other closely related field, teaching experience at the college or university level, and a commitment to educational equity and the promotion and enhancement of diversity.
Deadline for applications: 11 May 2022. Information: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/117127
13. Grants of the Istanbul Research Institute 2022-2023
The scholarship programs are for researchers working on projects related to the departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era studies, and the “Istanbul and Music” Research Program. They include; a Post-Doctoral Research and Writing Grant; a Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; 5 Travel Grants; 5 Conference Grants.
Deadline for applications: 17 July 2022. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18
14. Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internationals, 4-8 July 2022
The first part will consist of a number of short courses on the politics and international relations of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, taught by experts of international repute. The second part will include interactive roundtables focused on the various policy challenges the two regions face. This unique dual structure will enable the programme to cater to the needs of students and practitioners.
Deadline for applications: 23 June 2022. Information: https://www.ibei.org/en/introduction_252624
15. Articles for the 9/11 Legacies Project of the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Digital Publication “9/11 Legacies: Vol. I” Contributions are invited that map the untold, forgotten, and marginalized legacies of how 9/11 and the Global War on Terror continue to impact politics, culture, and societies around the world today. Main categories: Muslim Networks; Counterinsurgency Strategies; Knowledge and Cultural Production; Capital Flows and Patronage Networks; Rise of Authoritarianism; Semantics and the Language of Terror; Islamism and Internationalism.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://orient.cas.cz/export/sites/orientalni-ustav/.content/files/9.11-Legacies_Call-for-Submissions_Spring-2022-NEW.pdf
16. The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions
Ahmad al-Jallad
17. Arab Stages is seeking submissions from you, your colleagues, and your students. We plan to return to two issues a year and are adding peer-adjudication for longer papers. (Book reviews and performance reviews will be approved by the book review and performance review editors.) We are focusing on a rapid review cycle, so it’s an opportunity for topical work in particular.
Arab Stages is a peer-adjudicated on-line journal publishing original research on theatre and performance in the Arab-Islamic world and the Arab diaspora.
We are calling for the submission of papers.
1) Original papers and play translations (4000 to 8000 words preferred). Review cycle: 4-6 weeks.
2) Short papers: book reviews, performance reviews, translation extracts, short research reports etc. (800 to 2000 words). Review Cycle: 2 weeks.
Find more information on the journal at https://arabstages.org/about/
Submit your article or inquiry to ted.ziter@nyu.edu
18. We are happy to announce that our 7h IDHN Conference will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022. We cordially invite you all to attend our conference. Please find the full program of the conference as an attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Program (10:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT)
Boǧaç A. Ergene (Ohio State University) and Atabey Kaygun (Istanbul Technical University): Thematic Change in Ottoman Fetvas
Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Digital Maktaba: AI perspectives for automatic text extraction and catalogation of volumes in non-Latin alphabets volumes (Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani): challenges of La Pira digital archive
Leonora Sonego (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) and Johannes Thomann (University of Zurich): Measuring the development of early Arabic script in non-literary texts
Joseph Baxley (St. Mary’s College): Mapping Intellectual Networks in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s biographical dictionary of physicians
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We eagerly look forward to your attendance and participation in the conference.
19. Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico
Author: Jonathan Benzion
20. Janet O’Brien and Azfar Moin on Empire – Wednesday 27 April 3pm Onlin
Faisal Devji and I would like to welcome you to register for the first of our online seminar series at St Antony’s College, Oxford, this term. The first panel will be held at 3pm this Wednesday afternoon (27 April).
In the first of four panels this term, we will be hosting Janet O’Brien (The Courtauld) and Azfar Moin, (University of Texas-Austin) in a discussion on the theme of Empire.
Lecture titles:
Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin, ‘The Mughal Exception: New Perspectives on Sulh-i Kull or Peace with All Religions.’
Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, ‘Embodying Empire in the Portraits of Nadir Shah.’
To register, please follow the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iT24JLVXRm2i_DulgAViBA
Dr Usaama al-Azami
Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies
The Middle East Centre
St Antony’s College
Oxford OX2 6JF
21. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, seeks applicants for the position of Associate Director and Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum (OIM).
Close: July 17, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63322
22. Zoom: Spotlighting an Author – Mateo Farzaneh
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
6 May, 2022, 1 pm EST
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OK_FMghwQyqPEGbahb1h0A
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP: ‘Fragile Ecologies’, Middle Eastern Literatures
CFP for a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures, ‘Fragile Ecologies: Environmental Urgency in the Literatures of the Middle East’.
This special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures proposes a reading of literatures that give voice to this agency of nonhuman ecologies, destabilising traditional geographic, historical, and generic boundaries. We welcome papers that address literary expressions of ecological urgency, in which the human is decentred, made vulnerable, and marked by an awareness of End Times or apocalypse. Over the past century, this may be related to growing tensions over water scarcity, the oil “curse”, waning biodiversity, worsening toxicity, and global warming. Yet previous literatures, too, have evoked climate-driven migration and warfare, and we are keen to explore the comparative possibilities they offer.
With this in mind, Middle Eastern Literatures seeks articles that respond to the theme of “Fragile Ecologies”. We welcome articles that address texts – whether literary or filmic – which directly concern this theme, as well as those in which it is a nagging, background concern. We welcome articles on both modern and pre-modern texts, and both poetry and prose, suggesting how we might address contemporary anxieties through the poetics of the past. Amitav Ghosh writes that “[…] the novel was midwifed into existence around the world, through the banishing of the improbable and the insertion of the everyday,” suggesting this turning away from the “improbable” as a major obstacle to writing the current climate crisis. What genres and aesthetics, then, are needed to address the improbability of climate crisis and apocalypse, the return of the nonhuman to our consciousness as an urgent, pressing agent of change, and the decentring of the human through freak weather events and imperceptible transformations to land and ecologies? Through these questions, we seek papers that address the fields of Energy Humanities and Ecocriticism from Middle Eastern perspectives, exploring the comparative possibilities of ecocritical reading, theorising genres of environmental writing, and the aesthetics of climate crisis.
Final articles due September 1, 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=came20
For any queries, please email: meliteratures@gmail.com
2. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2022
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to June 1 of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The winner of both the graduate and undergraduate categories will receive a cash prize and will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information and formatting instructions visit https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submission Deadline: June 1
Electronic submissions only to:
Dr. Anne Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
Subject line: SHD Student Prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
3. Arab American Heritage Month screening of “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People” – in person
28 April, 2022 , 6.30 – 8.30 pm (Central Time)
3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77004
For more information:
4. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event
April 27, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The Preservation of Documentary Heritage
in the MENASA Region: The Role of the QNL
Stephane Ipert (Qatar National Library)
Stephane Ipert is the director of the distinctive collections (Heritage Library) in the Qatar National Library (QNL), a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps and archival collections about Qatar and the Islamic world. Since 2015 the QNL is the IFLA PAC – Preservation and Conservation Center for Arabic countries and Middle East, (IFLA is the International Federation of Libraries Associations). Stephane has a background as conservator, art historian and lawyer. He is leading a regional project to counter documentary heritage trafficking in the MENASA region (Himaya) since 2021.
Register in advance for this event at https://bit.ly/37kIrH6
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information please email ds@ias.edu .
5. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Dr Fatemeh Shams
Author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2021)
‘The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran’
May 1, 2022 11:30 AM (PT)
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BxLDfiplTkOWcq6JhI6CEA
6. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 26 avril 2022 / Tuesday 26th April 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur l’épigraphie / Insights into Epigraphy
Chairperson: Nuria Garcia-Masip (Sorbonne Université)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Innovations in the Content and Style of Royal Epigraphy
by Viola Allegranzi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Funerary Texts as Sources for Local History
by Martina Massullo (BULAC – CollEx-Persée/CeRMI, Paris)
The quadruplet inscriptions on the commemorative pillar
of the Dorudzan dam in Ramjerd (Fars) from the Sassanid to the Qajar period
(in Farsi, with English translation)
by Emadaldin Sheikhalhokamaee (University of Tehran, Institute of Archaeology)
Language: English
To participate, please register before April 25th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=117785_regards-sur-l-epigraphie
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
7. Open Access Book – Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins
Ahmad Ali Al-Imam
IIIT, 2022
8. Book Launch
Egypt’s Football Revolution
By Carl Rommel, with discussants
Leif Stenberg and Sevgi Adak.
29 April 2022 17:30-19:00 (London)
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
9. Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies
Call For Papers
Winter/Spring 2023 Issue Call for Papers
JTMS would like to extend a warm springtime greeting to all of our readers! With the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of out to readers and the Summer/Fall 2022 issue currently undergoing editorial review, JTMS is now soliciting manuscripts for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue. Authors wishing to be considered for inclusion in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of JTMS should submit their manuscripts by September 1st, 2022.
JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on terrestrial and maritime territorial issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea, providing an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of security studies, history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and other relevant disciplines. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and covers all continental areas across the world from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are also encouraged.
Articles should be submitted electronically to jtms@yonsei.ac.kr and include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author(s) name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website by clicking “Submission Guidelines” via the site below.
A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, 4,000 words for essays, and approximately 2,000 words for a book review. Authors wishing to be considered for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than September 1st, 2022. Inquiries may be sent via the email address above.
For more information:
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/9eO0Z5XKV?languageTag=en
10. Isfahan Exhibition in Ireland (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjx8ogoGrQ
(In Persian with English subtitles)
11. Annonce conférence publique La Grande muraille de Gorgan et la défense de la Perse sassanide, Louvre, 28/04/22, 12h30
Pour information: Conférence publique
Eberhard Sauer (Université d’Edimbourg), le 28 avril 2022, 12h30
12. Departmental Lecturer, Classical Arabic Literature
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Oriental Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Classical Arabic literature. The Departmental Lecturer will support the teaching of the literatures of Arab societies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, providing cover for some of the duties of the current AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic (Julia Bray), who is retiring and being replaced by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin from summer 2023.
Deadline | 6 May 2022
13. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
SOAS University of London
The School of History, Religions and Philosophies is looking for a one-year replacement covering the History of the Middle East for a colleague who will be on research leave during the 2022-2023 academic year. The preferred candidate will hold a PhD in History or a closely related discipline, be proficient in the regional languages relevant for their research, and have gained some initial teaching and supervision experience
Deadline | 8 May 2022
14. Call for Papers – Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World
Graduate Student Virtual Symposium | University of Alberta | 31 May 2022
Papers are invited for this interdisciplinary graduate-level online symposium that aims to bring together graduate students from all disciplines to critically examine a variety of topics relating to the MENA region and the larger Muslim contexts. All Master’s and PhD students with a research project on any aspect of socio-cultural, historical, religious, art and political issues in MENA and Muslim contexts are invited to submit an abstract of their presentation.
Deadline | 30 April 2022
15. 2022-23 CBRL open call grant applications
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL are accepting applications for the following:
- Project grants, up to £8,000;
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs;
- Travel grants, up to £1,000;
- Research support grants, up to £1,000 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 20 May 2022
More information
16. ECHOES OF ORIENTALISM Arab-Islamic Sexuality through European Eyes: Burton and Beyond
DR FERAS ALKABANI (SUSSEX)
DeCol Collective Seminar Series
University of Brighton Wednesday, 4 May 2022, at 13.00-14.00
17. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (Monday, 23rd May 2022)
City, University of London
11:00 – 20:30
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
18. Call for Submissions – HIAA Majlis and HIAA Newsletter
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars.
HIAA invites submissions from graduate students at ABD level or recent PhDs to present at its next Majlis, to take place in New York during CAA’s Annual Conference. [Note: Although we hope that the conference and associated programming will be held in person, in the event of continued restrictions on large gatherings, the Majlis will be held virtually]
HIAA invites proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology.
Proposals should be submitted by email to HIAA secretary Fatima Quraishi at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a single document which includes the following:
** a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation
** an abstract of no more than 300 words
Proposals are due by June 15, 2022.
Please note that those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA at the time of presenting.
19. Roshan Institute and Mona Farjad on May 1
Please join Roshan Institute for Persian Studies on Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m. EST for a special conversation with Iranian actor Mona Farjad. Farjad will present an innovative series of monologues she has performed over the past year in dialogue with traditional Iranian theatrical practice and contemporary Iranian drama. Roshan Institute lecturer Dr. Marjan Moosavi will moderate this conversation as well as the following Q&A session.
To register, visit go.umd.edu/monafarjad or click on this link.
20. Syria Report, which is otherwise a commercial, subscription based resource has made 300 articles available free of charge.
“For the past 18 months The Syria Report has been covering housing, land, and property (HLP) rights stories across Syria. We have published news stories, analyses, a glossary of terms and expressions and interviews on various HLP aspects across all areas of control in Syria.
You can read them all on the following page:
https://syria-report.com/category/hlp/
As all Syria Report content, HLP section is searchable through our search engine. The same 300 articles are also available in Arabic. “
- April 23, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture “New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema” by Farshid Kazemi (Simon Fraser University), University of Toronto, 22 April 2022, 4:00 pm ET
Zoom registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-mrqz0sEtx3IFDmhTGF5vnsP5mZVy9k
2. ONLINE “LexiQamus Info Session” (Ottoman Turkish) with Dr. Abdullah Saçmalı, 29 April 2022, 11:00 am ET
LexiQamus, is a web-based Ottoman Turkish dictionary that draws data from 19 different dictionaries and including approximately 173,000 words and phrases. The LexiQamus database is an important technology that unlocks unreadable words for any historian who knows the difficulties of reading handwriting. Information and zoom registration:
https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfu6qqT4qHNI7bRTCHK2jLY1_xAll2Y4X
3. HYBRID Rencontre Mercredis de l’IREL : « Les minorités religieuses en France – Panorama de la diversité contemporain », débat avec Anne-Laure Zwilling et Isabelle Rivoal, Paris, 18 mai 2022, 18h30 – 20h
Information et s´inscrire : https://irel.ephe.psl.eu/actualites/mercredi-lirel-minorites-religieuses-france
4. HYBRID “Undergraduate Students` Session” at the “55th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Humboldt University of Berlin, 7 August 2022
This session focuses on the linkage between students working on or interested in archaeology and epigraphy of the Arabian Peninsula. We therefore invite undergraduate and graduate students especially from these research areas to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/917462a4d48d/call-for-papers?e=18cf0337f7
5. HYBRID Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS, Including Iran, Afghanistan etc.), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 20-23 October 2022
We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia, Inner Asia, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: http://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
6. Lecturer (Assistant Professor, 3 Years) in Turkish Cultural History, Trinity College Dublin
Applicants must hold a PhD and have a strong research profile appropriate to their career stage. Applications from candidates with a specialisation in the social and/or cultural history of the Ottoman Empire will be particularly welcome.
Deadline for applications: 16 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/10108148/featured-job-lecturer-yunus-emre-institute-lectureship-turkish
7. Lecturer in the Modern Middle East with a Focus on Iran or Turkey (3 Years), Harvard University
By “modern,” we mean encompassing at least the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We welcome var-ious disciplines, including, but not limited to, political, economic, social or cultural history. Deadline for application: 1 May 2022. Information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11193
8. Lecturer in Classical and Qur’anic Arabic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Applicants should have Superior level proficiency in Qur’anic and Classical Arabic and English. Experience with teaching Arabic at the post-secondary level is required. Applicants must have a demonstrated under-standing of and ability to use a proficiency-based, communicative methodology in language instruction. Min-
imum of a Master’s degree in foreign language teaching or equivalent field required. Deadline for application: 29 April 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/104863
9. Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History / Islamicate World, Kenyon College, Ohio
Candidates should have a record of excellent teaching and a Ph.D. in hand or be near completion by the beginning of the appointment (July 2022). Open until filled.
Information: https://careers.kenyon.edu/en-us/job/492837/visiting-assistant-professor-of-asian-history
10. Intercultural Program (SALAM) to Learn Arabic: Courses of 2, 4, or 8 Weeks in Jordan in 2022, Aqaba University of Technology
This program is not only designed to learn the Arabic language but also is aiming to introduce the participants from all over the world to the ancient history, tradition, heritage, and social life of Jordan and its distinguished flora and fauna.
Information: http://salam.aut.edu.jo/Salam_Program
11. Entries for the “Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics and Finance” (Palgrave)
The encyclopaedia that will present a solid framework for the elaboration of the major concepts of the subject will make use of the existing academic literature, as well as theological sources and the history of Islam and of Islamic financial practices. The goal in doing this is to present the historical theoretical framework as well as the modern and contemporary views and tendencies. Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10103011/call-entries-palgrave-encyclopedia-islamic-economics-and
12. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Mina Khanlarzadeh
‘The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music’
Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in Persian
13. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW)in personon November 18-19, 2022. (Friday Saturday) Some panels will be available for Zoom participation. WOW 2022 organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply for this workshop using this Google Form. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for graduate students. Graduate applicants who need funding should follow the instructions in the form to be considered for funding.
Faculty members, instructors, adjuncts and independent scholars interested to attend should also get in touch using the Google Form; we would love to welcome you in person!
The deadline for applications and RSVPs is August 1st 2022.
Baki Tezcan, President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) will be moderating the keynote panel featuring Sebouh Aslanian and Christine Philliou.
Heather Ferguson, editor of Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies (JOTSA), will be conducting a professionalization workshop about academic publishing for graduate students and early career scholars. Senior scholars will also be present to share their experiences on the review process.
WOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century.
Two years into this pandemic, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting, discussion, feedback, and conversation. Join us!
Please direct all queries to WOWUCLAWOW@gmail.com . Applications for WOW 2022 will only be accepted via the Google Form.
14. Hybrid event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West, a joint conference of the Pourdavoud Center and Getty Villa
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
An International Symposium
Convened by
Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall
In person registration and Zoom information at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west/
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the Getty are convening for a third year an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. This year’s symposium, held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), will mark the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium, will include invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertain to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested. In-person seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Alternatively, guests unable to attend in person will be able to watch a live stream of the lectures. This event will adhere to all COVID-19 related guidelines as set by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Questions? Email Dr. Marissa Stevens (stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu)
Schedule:
May 19, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel I: Achaemenid Persia and the West
Lindsey Allen (King’s College, London)
The Boundaries of Kingship: Objects and Relationships at the Margins
John Ma (Columbia University)
Achaemenid Cultural History and the Hellenistic World
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Achaemenid Seals: East and West
John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)
Celebrating Achaemenid Victories: A Glyptic Triumphal Motif and its Greek and Egyptian Victims
2:30 pm – Panel II: Achaemenid Persia and the West (2)
Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)
How to Govern an Empire? The Inscriptions of Darius I As a Constitutional Program
Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
The Achaemenid Persian Empire and the West: A Structural Approach
- Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Universality and Alterity in the Achaemenid World
May 20, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel III: The Hellenistic and Parthian Age
Sara E. Cole (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa
Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Parthian Silver and the Creation and Contestation of Aristocracies in Post-Hellenistic Iran
Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University)
Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy
2:00 pm – Panel IV: Iran and Rome in late Antiquity and Beyond
David Potter (University of Michigan)
Western Sources for the Sasanians
Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
Ardashir I, the Early Sasanians, and Reorienting the Near East and the Caucasus
Olga M. Davidson (Boston University)
How the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi about the Ancient Royal Dynasties of Iran Could Ever Become a World Epic for the So-Called West
Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Takht-e Soleyman, Sasanians, Romans, and Mongols: Reflections on the Life and Afterlife of a Sacred Place
- April 19, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Islamic College
Arabic Online Language Course
Beginners: Every Sunday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)
15 May – 24 July 2022 (10 sessions)
Intermediate: Saturday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)
14 May – 23 July 2022
Advance: Friday 6:00 – 8:00 pm (London time)
13 May – 22 July 2022
Course Fee: £50/Semester
For more information and to register:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/
2. Persia Portrayed: Envoys to the West, 1600–1842
D.T. Potts
3. The British Library
4. Aga Khan Library launches new website
Explore our growing library catalogue and digital resources, services, news, blogs and events, manage your library account, and much more on the newly refreshed Aga Khan Library website.
The Aga Khan Library is the product of a collaboration between the IIS and the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC). It houses the largest collection in Europe for the study of Ismaili communities, their history and their beliefs. It also offers a vast range of sources on Shia Islam, Quranic literature and other core issues of Islamic studies.
5. SHD Free Online Lecture “Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860”
Society For the History of Discoveries Lecture Series
Matthew H. Edney
Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine
Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison
SHD Fellow
Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860
The systematic study of map history first emerged in Paris in the 1830s as an extension of the history of geography and discovery, a field that had itself cohered in its modern form only after 1775. This presentation explores the use of early maps by early historians of geography, such as James Playfair (1808) and Conrad Malte-Brun (1810), and how scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt, Ramón de la Sagra, Edme François Jomard, and the visconde de Santarém had by 1840 turned a sporadic interest in early maps into l’histoire de la cartographie.keel
Date: 21 April 2022
Time: 2:00 PM CST (US and Canada)
To Register for this free event please use the link below
https://discoveryhistory.org/event-4780730
6. POS: Collection Assistant for Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials (UCLA)
Closing date April 27, 2022
The complete postings, which include the position descriptions, complete qualifications and application procedures, are available on both the UCLA Career Opportunities Website at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu and on the UCLA Library Employment Webpage, Jobs@UCLA Library, http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/jobs-ucla-library.
7. Call for Papers: British Muslim Studies at 50 – Retrospect and Prospect
14th & 15th September 2022
A conference organised by the Muslims in Britain Research Network
& the Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University
Though still in its infancy as a sub-field, the academic study of British Muslims in UK institutions of higher education is now over five decades old. Since the 1960s/1970s, research and teaching about Britain’s Muslims has developed and expanded – advancing our understanding and knowledge of Britain’s diverse and dynamic Muslim population in myriad disciplines – including but not limited to sociology, history, religious studies, Islamic Studies, geography, politics, and their various intersections.
Over the past decade or so, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions, concepts and parameters of understanding. This, coupled with the long tradition of engagement and partnership with community institutions, practitioners and grassroots spaces means it is an exciting time for BMS and an apt moment to cast a retrospective glance over the past 50 years, while looking ahead towards future prospects.
This conference will examine some of the main contributions to BMS, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres. It will also pay tribute to two recently departed pioneers of BMS: Professors Mohammed Anwar and Ataullah Siddiqui.
We invite abstract submissions for papers, which showcase emergent research topics and directions in British Muslim Studies. We are keen to receive abstracts from PhD scholars and early career academics and are particularly interested in proposals corresponding to the following themes:
- Co-production/collaboration between researchers and communities
- Synergies (or tensions) between academe and practitioners
- Innovative research methods and interrogation/problematisation of extant methods
To submit a proposal:
- Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words) of the presenter/s, institutional affiliation/s (if relevant), and contact details.
- We welcome proposals from postgraduate researchers, independent scholars and practitioners.
- Proposals should be sent to MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com
- Academic enquiries should be sent to Dr Khadijah Elshayyal, ke3@soas.ac.uk
- Deadline: 5pm on Wednesday 15th June 2022
- Successful presenters will be notified by Thursday 30th June 2022
8. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 3–6, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc). The deadline for submission is April 22, 2022.
If the proposed session is accepted, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 5 session participants (presenters and chair) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimbursement participants for conference registration.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
9. BIPS Research & Travel Grants and Research Assistant Grants
The British Institute of Persian Studies invites applications for Research and Travel Grants and for Research Assistant Grants.
Funding is available to cover costs associated with developing or executing research projects in any field related to the wider Persianate world. There is funding available for travel for students based at a UK Higher Education Institution (HEI), either for research or to attend conferences. We invite applications for Research Awards and for Research Assistant Grants, in order to support scholars to develop or complete projects.
Awards of up to £1,200 will be considered for Student Travel Awards. Grants of up to £5,000 for Research Awards and Research Assistant Awards are invited, from PIs associated with a UK based HEI.
Please contact the relevant programme leader prior to submitting your application (Ancient: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Medieval: Professor Andrew Peacock, Modern: Dr Shabnam Holliday).
You must be a member of BIPS to apply.
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 16th May 2022.
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
10. The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles invites applications for a one-year Farhang Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Iranian Studies. Researchers with training in cultural studies, film, and literature are particularly encouraged to apply. This fellowship is renewable for a second year, contingent upon approval.
In addition to research, the successful candidate is expected to teach 3 courses per academic year and to participate in the intellectual life of the department and other units on campus. This person will receive a stipend of $65,000 plus benefits. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the last five years or at the latest by August 16, 2022, the start date of the position. In addition to the letter of application, applicants should include their curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and sample syllabi (attach all as one PDF document during the application process). Three letters of reference will be asked of finalists. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. In order to be considered for this position, all candidates must submit an electronic USC application. Review of complete applications will begin immediately.
Further information is available by contacting Professor Ramzi Rouighi (rouighi@usc.edu).
- April 16, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Symposium – Living Line, Living Legacy: Arabic-script Calligraphy Symposium – May 7
Please join us for a symposium on Arabic-script calligraphy taking place at the Qatar America Institute for Culture in Washington DC on Saturday, May 7 from 10am to 2pm.
Organized by the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, internationally renowned calligraphers Mohamed Zakariya (USA), Davut Bektaş (Turkey), and Nuria Garcia Masip (France) among others, will be in conversation with Islamic art curators and scholars.
Inscribed by UNESCO onto its list of intangible cultural heritage in December, 2021, Arabic-script calligraphy has a centuries-old tradition as the preeminent art form in Islamicate societies, yet contemporary work of traditionally trained calligraphers does not fit easily into present day conceptions of global art. Symposium speakers will discuss their journeys to calligraphy, how calligraphy is supported and collected globally and the manner in which their work is bridging binaries between the contemporary and traditional.
This is an on-site event which will be recorded for viewing later. Symposium space is limited; please register early at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-line-living-legacy-symposium-tickets-271262522507. (The ticket price includes lunch.)
The symposium is held in conjunction with the calligraphy exhibition titled Living Line, Living Legacy which opens April 11 and runs through June 17, 2022 at the Qatar America Institute for Culture, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. The exhibition highlights the work of Mohamed Zakariya and seven of his students and colleagues. You may schedule a visit at the QAIC’s website.
2. A Scholar for our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob
Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins., eds.
3. Film Screening and Panel Discussion “A Moment of Bliss: The Story of Love and Hate Between a Country and Its People”, FES, Berlin, 21 April 2022, 5:30 pm
The film, which is written and produced by the FES in Beirut, highlights different facets of social and political injustice in the lives of people in Lebanon through four personal stories. It also shows the relevance of civil society engagement for democratic change and the importance of electoral participation for a better future. Arabic version with German subtitles.
Deadline for registration: 15 April 2022. Information: https://www.fes.de/newsletter/newsletter-referat-naher/mittlerer-osten-und-nordafrika/newsticker-01/20-2-4-1
4. ONLINE Lecture “An Impossible Promise? Sociology of Religion in Arab Countries” by Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm CET
Sociological approaches to religion in Arabic do have a longer history and feature more widely than is often assumed. This talk will provide glimpses into the history and presence of these approaches and their charac-teristics, addressing both structural and theoretical questions.
Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/mr29m9mp
5. 21st Beirut Exchange Conference (in Person), 5-12 June 2022
The Beirut Exchange is an immersive research conference that offers participants a unique exposure to lead-ing scholars, politicians and activists representing a range of different points of view on Lebanon. It is aimed at NGO practitioners, foreign diplomats, researchers, journalists and professionals in general who are inter-ested in gaining a deeper understanding of Lebanon.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2022. Deadline II: 10 May 2022 (20 slots ony; rolling acceptance).
Information: https://www.globalpoliticalexchange.org/beirut
6. American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference: “New Landscapes in MENA Politics”, Amman, 28-30 July 2022
This conference aspires to identify new research landscapes and build conscious research agendas for the coming years that can align our discipline with the contemporary realities and challenges that citizens of the region are experiencing. Looking back at the Arab Spring, through wars in Libya, Yemen, and Syria and massive human displacement, considering regime change and resiliency, advancements in women’s rights, and current implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022. Information: https://web.apsanet.org/mena/2022-conference/
7. Workshop on “Social Contracts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Drivers of Change”, German Development Institute, Bonn, 24-26 August 2022
Papers should identify drivers of contemporary transformations of social contracts in the MENA-region, as-sess the drivers’ respective contribution to change – both in ‘objective’ terms and in the perception of the social contract stakeholders, gauge the options of less powerful actors (e.g. vulnerable groups in society) to bring about change in social contracts.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/events/details/social-contracts-in-the-mena-drivers-of-change/
8. International Conference “Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia”, Organised by ZMO and CSDS, New Delhi, 12-14 October 2022
Contributions are invited on the history of temporality in early modern and modern South Asia. We are inter-ested in going beyond the conception of time as a homogeneous substratum of all being and re-conceiving it more as a dynamic object and medium of historical processes, practically entangled with varying modes of time reckoning and temporal cultures, techniques and epistemes.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karri-ere/Ausschreibungen_2022/CfP_Timely_Histories_10-22.pdf
9. International Workshop: “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region.” Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022
The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The workshop intents to explore the trajectories of post-colonial Occidentalist discourses in the MENA region. It aims to reflect on their various genealogies, forms, and contents.
Extended deadline for abstract: 15 April 2022.
10. Symposium “Historiography in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, ISAR, Istanbul, 16-17 December 2022
The symposium intends to illuminate the lives of these historians, their traditions, sources, methods, and objectives. In addition, it also welcomes rereading attempts of Ottoman historical texts guided by newly developing approaches, such as conceptual history, the history of emotions, environmental history, and so on.
The languages of presentations will be Turkish, Arabic, or English. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.isar.org.tr/en/sempozyum-calistaylar/historiography-in-the-ottoman-empire-scholars-works-and-problems/call-for-papers-9
11. Scientific Staff (Prae-Doc, 3 Years), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
To join the research project “Grocers of Istanbul: Tracing Food Consumption through the Inheritance Inven-tories of Grocers (Bakkals) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. Qualificaton: MA with focus on the history of the Ottoman Empire; solid philological training in reading Ottoman texts, palaeographical know-
ledge, excellent research skills, as well as good communication skills. Deadline for applications: 25 April 2022. Information:
12. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2022/23 to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the human-ities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “hu mans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/
13. Doctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year beginning in September 2022 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/
14. Post-Doc Fellowship (1 Year) for Research on “Islamophobia in Health Professions Education”, University of Toronto
Applicants must have defended their doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2022 on a topic related to contemporary experience as a North American Muslim, cross-cultural dialogue on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate, and/or using education to address Islamophobia. Deadline for application extended: 5 May 2022. Information: https://mobile.twitter.com/UofTMed_OID/status/1512152023772323840 Contact: medicine.inclusiondiversity@utoronto.ca
15. Postdoctoral Associate Position in Arabic Cultural Studies (1 Year), Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC
The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. within the past two years and will have a strong record of research and solid preparation for (or experience in) teaching at the undergraduate level in Arabic cultures,
with a focus on the modern and/or contemporary period. Deadline for applications: 23 May 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21566
16. Chapters on “Turkish Cultural Syndromes and Their Representations in Popular Culture” for Edited Collection “Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” (Routledge)
The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, cov-ering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10075052/culture-bound-syndromes-popular-culturecall-chaptersroutledge
17. 9th Edition of the Summer School “Understanding the Middle East: The Politics of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Turin, 4-8 July 2021
The summer school critically unpacks gender studies to explore the role they have in re-defining regional trajectories. It also aspires to analyse new debates to better grasp the impact these studies have on the
Middle East and North African region in historical perspective. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.tomideast.com/
18. Course “Decolonising European Modernity: Text, Paratext, Urtext”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 11-14 July 2022, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-european-modernity-text-paratext-urtext-short-course-tickets-243473765587
19. Summer School: “Religion, Mobility & Economy”, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), 28 August – 3 September 2022, Antwerp, Belgium
The interdisciplinary mentoring programme for doctoral and postdoctoral students will focus on the diversity of religions on the move and economic transformation. We welcome papers based on original research that explore these themes from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, political science, and theology. Faculty includes two assistant professors with focus on Islam.
Deadline for applications: 17 April 2022.
Information: https://www.ucsia-summerschool.org/
20. Contributions à « Discours et pouvoir dans et sur les religions » pour un numéro thématique de Revue “Religiologique”
Ce numéro veut réfléchir aux discours sur les religions, d’un point de vue politique ou juridique, et les façons dont les sociétés entendent gérer le religieux. Il peut aussi être l’occasion de réfléchir aux façons dont les religions adaptent, ou non, leur discours, confrontés aux nouveaux impératifs sociaux, ainsi qu’à l’émergence
de discours critiques des religions et les influences de ceux-ci sur les structures religieuses. Les manuscrits sont à soumettre avant la fin du mois de décembre 2022.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/04/Appel_discours_pouvoir.pdf
21. Deadline extended:
The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will offer two seven-week intensive summer Arabic programs on AUB campus between June 22 and August 10, 2022.
The Arabic Language and Culture program is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from elementary to high advanced.
The Lebanese Arabic program offers intensive instruction at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in Lebanese Arabic and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence.
Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities. Students receive 9 credit hours that they can transfer to their home institutions.
The application deadline has been extended to May 6, 2022.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application, cost, and financial support, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/ or contact us on cames@aub.edu.lb.
22. Fellowships & Grants in Iranian Studies
April 29, 2022 – 5 PM GMT
(9 AM PST, 12 PM EST)
What fellowships and grants exist out there?
What are the different options for students & postgraduates?
What do students or postgraduates need to secure one?
Mark your calendars for our next Presidential Session on “Fellowships and Grants in Iranian Studies” with AIS President, Naghmeh Sohrabi, AIS Council Member, Dr. Hosna Sheikholeslami, and Dr. Stella Morgana.
The online event will be held on Friday, April 29 at 12pm EST and will be moderated by AIS Student Representatives Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak and Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli.
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AISPresidentialSessions
23. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“African Slaves in Qajar Photographs (1840s – 1920s): Curation and Interpretation in the 21st century”
Speaker: Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Curator of Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)
Thursday, April 14th at 11 AM NYC
Email Helen Goldenberg if you like to have access to this online talk (Helen.Goldenberg@metmuseum.org )
24. The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies(BBQ+) is an independent Center dedicated to interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and mentorship in critical race, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. Our fellowshipis a year-long program that brings together a diverse group of scholars from undergraduates to postgraduates working across these fields in a collaborative and supportive environment. The fellowship meets once a week for two hours and meetings alternate between writing clinics, theory clinics, fellows circles focussed on demystifying academia for BIPOC, queer, trans, and/or first generation scholars, and a monthly colloquium with senior scholars in BBQ+ related fields.
The fellowship is open to:
- College students (including students in community colleges) and recent (3 years post-degree) BA and BSc holders
- Masters students and recent MA holders (3 years post-degree)
- PhD students
- Recent Postdoctoral scholars (not exceeding 8 years after earning a doctoral degree)
Open to undocumented and international applicants.
In all cases, parental leaves, family leaves, sick leaves and any similar circumstances will not be counted within years-post-degree. For circumstances or other related considerations that are not documented, applicants are encouraged to write to fellowships@bbqplus.org
The fellowship offers:
1. Research Stipend: Fellows are offered a $3000 research stipend. They can also apply to reimburse other research or professionalization expenses. If you have another source of funding and can waive the $5000 research stipend, please indicate so in your application.
- Mentorship and Professionalization: Each cohort of fellows works closely with a member of the Center’s leadership to develop their research project (see expectations below) and prepare for a professional career through sessions dedicated to various aspects of professionalization. Fellows also have access to the broader network of the Center and the Senior Fellowswho can offer advice and comment on work in progress.
- Community: The Center aims to foster a tightly-knit and supportive intergenerational and interdisciplinary community of scholars around shared academic interests. Regular meetings and opportunities for socializing provide both structure and support.
All applications received by May 1 will receive full consideration. For more information and to apply, go to https://www.bbqplus.org/fellowship-application
25. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63234
Closing date: 23.6.22
- April 12, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.OpenITI Teleconference on April 19
We welcome all to join the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) team for a public teleconference on Tuesday, April 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST. Please register for this event here.
The conference, led by OpenITI AOCP co-PIs Matthew Thomas Miller and Sarah Bowen Savant, will present OpenITI’s latest work on optical character recognition (OCR) for Persian and Arabic and the user-friendly digital text production pipeline, eScriptorium.
We particularly encourage those individuals and projects teams who are interested in making use of our OCR system for their own research and project development to attend. We will discuss the formation of user testing groups at this event and discuss OpenITI’s planned next phase of development.
We will prepare a report of the conference proceedings as well as record the presentations and discussion for those unable to attend.
For more on OpenITI AOCP, a project generously funded by The Mellon Foundation, please visit this webpage. For more on eScriptorium and the eScripta team, please visit https://gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium.
2. CfP: Invitation to Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam conference at the University of Manchester
We would like to cordially invite you to present at the upcoming international conference “Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam” at the University of Manchester.
The conference will take place on May 17, 2022. The format of the conference will be hybrid – with talks presented simultaneously at the University and online via Zoom. A plenary roundtable discussion will offer a further opportunity for these interventions to be discussed collectively, and contributions from online participants are very welcome.
This conference brings together academics, civil society members, and activists from around the world. It explores Muslim experiences of pacifism and nonviolence while exploring prospects for their theorization. It moves past popular tropes of Islam as (or other than) ‘a religion of peace’ to offer a space to constructively and critically examine neglected literature, differing perspectives, and substantive initiatives – from scriptural interpretation to practical peacebuilding. Its approach is inclusive, inter-disciplinary, and flexible. It seeks first and foremost to ground its discussions in their own contexts: theoretical and embodied, historical and political, theological and hermeneutic.
The conference provides a welcoming space for scholars and practitioners to engage with one another. Panellists from a wide range of professional, cultural, and geographic backgrounds are invited to apply to present their research and offer their reflections on pacifism and nonviolence in contemporary Islam. By bringing together leading scholars, civil society members, and activists from around the world, a more comprehensive understanding can be achieved. The results of this conversation will benefit both participants and the wider world.
For more information on the conference please see: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pacifism-in-islam/
Please send your abstract or an outline of your talk by May 1, 2022 to this email walaa.quisay@manchester.ac.uk
3. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for May Issue 2022.The deadline for the manuscript submissions has been extended until April 15, 2022. The issue publication date is May Issue 2022. For more information, visit the Submission page. The papers can address but are not limited to the following … Read More
- It is our pleasure to send the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 6, Number1. February 2022
For individual papers, please click here
Regards,
Arab World English Journal
for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
4. Iranian Armenian Transnational Poetry:
We at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies are pleased to announce the Spring 2022 Mir-Djalali Speaker Series Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Yaghoobi has also recently been named Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at UNC. Join us here on Sunday, April 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. EST.
5. Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa
Special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review, Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa.
https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/the-journal/current-issue-spring-2022/
6. Dust-Ali Khan, “Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek”, The Artist and the Shah: Memoirs of Life at the Persian Court
including 280 photos of the Persian Court
Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar (translator
- April 09, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East
The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East is a reference work to expand both scholarly and educated public understanding of a critical period of human history. HIMME provides search and browse interfaces for accessing tens of thousands of entries about medieval Middle Eastern people, places, and cultural practices (such as Qur’an recitation, funerals, or taxation).
2. ONLINE Roundtable ” Rethinking Land, Labor, and Capital in Egypt”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 6 April 2022, 11:00 am EST
Leading scholars of Egypt will challenge conventional histories of the modern Middle East and rethink the categories of land, labor, and capital. Aaron Jakes will revisit the long history of the Suez Canal to question concepts central to rentier state theory. Ahmad Shokr will reconceptualize the institutions that dominated the production and trade of Egyptian cotton as a type of hybrid monopoly.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQndZCstQUKX6Wbj-rWn1w
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Can Gulf States End the Yemen War?”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 6 April 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT
This webinar will discuss the latest developments in the Yemen war and their broader implications for the region – be it in terms of terrorism trends, Gulf-Iran relations or US security policy towards the Middle East.
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/can-gulf-states-end-the-yemen-war/
4. ONLINE Webinar: “The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodifica-tion, Translation, and the Culture Industry” with Prof. Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 8 April 2022, 2:15-3:30 PM CEST
Al-Musawi shows how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.
Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/the-arabian-nights-in-contemporary-world-cultures-.html
5. International Research Workshop: „Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space“, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, Ger-many, 14-15 October 2022
This workshop will gather translators, publishers and other experts in the field of
Qur’anic Studies presenting their works on the following issues: • Debates around the production of Qur’an translations after 1991. • Securitisation & the Qur’an: State-supported and independent projects. • The most important transnational actors in the field of translations. • The Qur’anic audience and the specific features of Post-Soviet readership. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2022. Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CfP_Quran-Post-Soviet.pdf
6. Panel on “Muslims in America” during “SAMLA 94”, the Annual Conference of the “South Atlantic Modern Language Association”, Jacksonville, FL, 11-13 November 2022
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, per-formers, filmmakers, and visual artists. Panelists might consider how these writers and artists employ different media in their mapping of modifications in cultural, political, and religious landscapes.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10025577/muslims-america
7. PhD Studentship (Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2025, Fully Funded) in Art History, Project LAHWA “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad”, Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Orient-Institut Beirut
LAWHA aims to identify new methods on how to interrelate context and artistic production, to serve as a model for revisiting art histories in contexts where institutionalized local art histories have largely been absent. LAWHA is concerned mainly with the time period between Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943 and the official end of its civil war in 1990. Research proposals within the overall frame of LAWHA’s research questions will be considered.
Deadline for applications: 2 May 2022. Information: https://lawha.hypotheses.org/346
8. Postponed:
Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30
Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.
9. [CeRMI] Rappel Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI jeudi prochain 7 avril
Nous vous rappelons que la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, aura lieu le jeudi 7 avril 2022 en mode hybride. Nous y accueillerons Frantz Grenet (professeur au Collège de France, « Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique ») et Anca Dan (chargée de recherche, Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC), CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée :
« La connaissance de la littérature gréco-romaine reflétée sur quelques vases d’argent d’Asie centrale (IIIe-VIe s. de n.è.) ».
(Résumé et bibliographie en fichier joint)
Veuillez noter qu’à l’occasion de la réception d’accueil des universitaires et étudiants afghans organisée par la Fondation Inalco, le présentiel de cette séance de séminaire se tiendra exceptionnellement au 2, rue de Lille, dans l’auditorium, de 17h à 18h30.
ATTENTION : les inscriptions pour le présentiel sont closes
Participez à ce séminaire en distanciel sur la plateforme Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/99773774662?pwd=YmRwbW4zbGQyeUZ3QmUwYzMzMk5yUT09
ID de réunion : 997 7377 4662
Code secret : CeRMI
10. ANN: Mapping Ottoman heritage in Greece – new interactive map site
This interactive new web map site also provides bibliographies for specific places via Zotero links. Worth looking at. Also offers link to webside CARTO for building similar maps.
11. Webcast “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt”
On Tuesday 12 April, Dr. Panos Kourgiotis, Hellenic Open University, will deliver a lecture online entitled “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt: Al-Jamʿiyyāt al-Islamiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood”; this event will be hosted by the University of Religions and Denominations. Dr. Kourgiotis’s presentation is based on his recent paper which has been accepted for publication in the journal of Islamic Inquiries. For further details, please follow the links below:
Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1mXhu2GM0
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/urbanizationand-re-islamization6916319527559454721/about/
You are cordially invited to attend this webcast.
With kind regards
Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab
Editor-in-Chief /President of the University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
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- April 05, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.RESCHEDULED: ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’: Wednesday 13th April, 2pm GMT (online via Zoom)
The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to announce that our postponed event ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’ has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 13th April at 2pm GMT.
We have now created a new event webpage for the rescheduled event which can be accessed here: https://contemporary-egypt.eventbrite.co.uk.
2. [CeRMI] Rappel : XXIIIème Journée du Monde iranien 1er avril 2022
Nous vous rappelons que vous êtes cordialement invités à la XXIIIème Journée du Monde Iranien, qui se tiendra vendredi prochain, 1er avril 2022 de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Vous pouvez retrouver le programme actualisé et les résumés des interventions de cette Journée en pièce-jointe ou sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxiiie-journee-monde-iranien/
Nous vous rappelons que le port du masque dans les espaces clos reste fortement recommandé et qu’il sera donc nécessaire de le porter lors de cette Journée et en particulier dans l’Auditorium. Nous espérons vivement que cette contrainte ne vous découragera pas d’assister en présentiel à cet événement qui pourra également être suivi sur l’espace Youtube de l’Inalco : merci de vous inscrire via ce formulaire
En espérant vous voir nombreux pour cette XXIIIème Journée qui, cette année, est organisée par Julien Thorez (CNRS, CeRMI).
Maria Szuppe
Directrice de recherche CNRS
Directrice du Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI)
3. Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30
Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.
4. Online Workshop – Early Islamic Agriculture and Water Management: Talking about a “Revolution” (Hajar Archaeology, April 28th)
In the workshop, three archaeological case studies which relate to agriculture and/or water management during Early Islam will be presented, followed by responses and a discussion. These will enable another examination of Andrew Watson’s arguments from the 1980s about an “Arab agricultural revolution” or “green revolution” – this time from an archaeological perspective.
Program
15:45 Case studies (speakers: 30 minutes each)
- Helena Kirchner, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The Green Revolution between technique transfer and local adaptation: The making of a new agricultural landscape in al-Andalus
- Vladimir Dabrowski, CNRS-National Museum of Natural History (Paris), What Islamic agricultural revolution in eastern Arabia? Recent archaeobotanical discoveries (1st millennium CE)
- Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, A “Eurasian exchange”? The penetration of new agricultural and water management technologies into the southern Levant, 6th-10th centuries CE
17:15 Break
17:30 Discussion (discussants: 25 minutes each)
- Discussant: Chris Wickham, University of Oxford
- Discussant: Seven Ağır, Middle East Technical University (Ankara)
General debate and questions (40 minutes)
Chairs:
- Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Institut Catholique de Paris),
- Hagit Nol (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Practicalities
For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until April 27th.
For more information about Ḥajar: https://hajar.hypotheses.org
5. We are pleased to launch our fourth series of From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture. You can sign up here: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration
To widen our reach to audiences in India the Deccan Heritage Foundation and the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge, have joined forces with the Bangalore International Centre. Our organizing team has also been fortunate to be joined by our eminent colleague and curator, Dr Marika Sardar.
From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture, Spring 2022
Cloth that Changed the World: Histories and Contemporaneity of Kalamkari Making, Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum) and Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur) on April 8th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)
The City of Haidar as a Shiʿi Paradise: Divine Sovereignty, Built Space, and Shiʿi Materiality in Qutb Shahi Hyderabad, Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto) on April 29th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)
Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad, Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London) on May 6th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)
The Vīraśaivas / Liṅgāyats of 12th century Karnataka: Conflict, Transformation, and the Genesis of a New Creed, Tiziana Lorenzetti (International Institute of South Asian Studies, Rome) on May 20th, at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)
Reflections of Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in the Art and Architecture of Karnataka, Julia AB Hegewald (University of Bonn) on June 3rd at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)
A Cosmopolitan yet Local Tradition: Glazed Tiles in the Deccani Sultanates, Arthur Millner (Art Consultant) on June 17th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)
6. H-Islamart: HIAA Panel (Online) – Research and Resources in Islamic Art History – April 8
Join us in conversation with scholars Jake Benson (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Fine Arts Library, Harvard University) to discuss how to develop productive research methods and how to best utilize relevant resources, such as manuscript repositories, museums, and libraries. The panel discussion will be followed by an open Q&A.
Friday, April 8, 2022
12 pm EST on Zoom
And take the pre-event survey here.
Jake Benson (Ph.D. Leiden University, August 2022) is Research Associate for Persian Collections at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester. Inspired by his training in bookbinding and conservation, he has conducted research on manuscripts held in museums, libraries, and archives in the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Europe.
Martina Rugiadi is Associate Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-director of the Towns of the Karakum archaeological project in Turkmenistan. Her research is situated at the intersection of archaeology and art history. Current projects explore craft technologies, spolia, notions of cultural heritage, and implications of collecting.
Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg has been the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library since 2018. Prior to that, she was the MENA Librarian at George Washington University, and received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Working with researchers in the early stages of their projects is her favorite part of librarianship, and she is glad for this opportunity for discussion!
Questions may be directed to Courtney Lesoon (HIAA Graduate Student Representative) at clesoon@mit.edu.
7. BRAIS 2022 at the University of Edinburgh: Provisional conference programme now live
Dear BRAIS Members,
We are delighted to announce that the provisional programme of the 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies is now live!
The programme can be viewed in full here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022
Please note, this programme is provisional and is likely to change significantly over the course of the next few weeks. Do keep your eye on our website for updates.
Registration for the conference is now possible here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-registration
We hope to see you on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June in the beautiful surroundings of Scotland’s capital for our first in-person conference in three years. We would also be very grateful if you could circulate the programme through your networks.
With very best wishes,
The BRAIS 2022 Conference Team
8. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes
D Fairchild Ruggles
University of Pennsylvania Press | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture | March 2022
9. Invitation to Sarah Bowen Savant’s Inaugural Lecture; A Close and Distant Reading of Writerly Practices
Professor Bowen Savant’s inaugural lecture tells the story of a set of written practices and cultural expectations that helped make the Arabic written tradition (ca. 700-1500) one of the largest written traditions up to its day. The growth of the tradition is often narrated in terms of the adoption of paper in the ninth and tenth centuries in the Middle East. Without denying the importance of this medium, Sarah Bowen Savant will emphasise practices that filled paper. This story, of practice, has not been told – or at least, it has not been told in ways that benefit from new and emerging digital methods.
The lecture is based on data generated by the KITAB project, including a collection of Arabic texts exceeding 2 billion words, more than 1.5 million files documenting relationships between pairs of texts, and evidence for how authors cited earlier works. Team members are working to develop and use digital methods focused on the detection and analysis of text reuse, citation practices, and the networks through which writings passed.
Date and Time
5 May 5:30-7pm BST.
Booking
This event is free and can be booked here
10. The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Islamic studies beginning in August 2022. The fellowship is open to scholars in the Humanities or Social Sciences who have competed their PhD within the past three years. The fellow will be expected to teach one semester-long course, participate in the activities of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and reside in the greater Boston area for the duration of the 10-month academic calendar year. The fellow will receive a $65,000 stipend, a $3,500 research fund, and $1,500 in relocation expenses.
A complete application includes: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, sample syllabi, and a letter of recommendation. The final candidate is required to submit a second letter of support. Complete applications are due no later than April 15, 2022.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63244
11. The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Islamic Studies, to begin August 2022. Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Teaching responsibilities include RELI 100, Introduction to the Qur’an; RELI 201, Islam; RELI 256 Islam in America; and other courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. by start date.
Closing date: June 21, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63228
12. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce two upcoming lectures:
Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 5:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
Disentangling Alchemy
Alexandre Roberts, University of Southern California
Alexandre Roberts considers alchemy within the intellectual and artisanal activity of western Afro-Eurasia in the premodern period.
Advance registration required. Register: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/disentangling-alchemy
Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 12:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
The Rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Arabian Gulf
Robert Carter, Qatar Museums
Robert Carter discusses the rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Gulf during the mid-20th century.
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
An East of Byzantium lecture. East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
13. Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Mahmood Kooria
14. The UT Austin Persian Film Club is hosting an event that might be interesting to some of you. Free access to the documentary “Iran-e kuchak-e man (My Little Iran), or, Persian New Yorker Stories,” and then a Q&A meeting with the director of the film Hassan Solhjou via zoom on Tuesday, April 5, at 12 PM (American Central Time).
The film is a bittersweet documentary about a group of Iranian immigrants in New York who desperately want to celebrate their cultural identity in a parade. The director is the host and producer of a famous program on BBC Persian: Aparat.
You can access the film for free and “register” for the event by clicking on this link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/events/persian-film-club-meeting-filmmaker-hassan-solhjou
15. UCLA Panels
Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran (Panel in Persian)
Bilingual Lecture Series
Sunday, April 10, 2022
11:30 AM (Pacific Time)
Zoom
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15544
Idioms of Resistance in the Middle East
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15529
16. New York University, Silsila: Center for Material Histories
ARCHIVE WARS: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA
Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 6th, 12:30pm EST
[Webinar] Silsila Spring 2022 Lecture Series
The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. Archive Wars explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.
Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:
https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_adE-dQXxRoC9gSQXzvoZMA
Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.
17. Middle East Librarians’ Association
MELA Notes 94 (2021) ) is now posted and available on MELA website at https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.
- April 02, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.UCLA Iranian Studies:
Iran Unglazed: Local, National, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework
a lecture by Keelan Overton
Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom
2. Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis
David Warren
3. HYBRID Seminar: “Modernizing Empires: An Introduction” (Focus Ottoman Empire) by Özen Nergis Dolcerocca, University of Bologna, 30 March 2022, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CET
This is the start of the “NONWESTLIT Seminar Series on Comparative Literature” on “Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities”.
Information and registration: https://site.unibo.it/nonwestlit/en
4. ONLINE Webinar: “Changes and Continuities in the Uses of the Word “Crusade” Since the Middle Ages” by Dr Benjamin Weber (Stockholm University) and “New Sources on the Memory of Saladin and the Crusades in Pre-Modern Islamic History” by Dr Fadi Ragheb (The University of Toronto), University of Marburg, 31 March 2022, 5:00 pm CET
For registration please contact ahmed.sheir@staff.uni-marburg.de .
5. HYBRIDE Journée d’étude – Pierre-Jean Luizard : « Liban-Irak : les enjeux du confessionna-lisme politique », GSLR-CNRS, 2 avril 2022, 14h00 – 17h00 CET
Officiel au Liban, inavoué en Irak, le confessionnalisme politique réserve les principales fonctions de l’Etat en fonction de l’appartenance religieuse (et ethnique en Irak). En comparant les deux systèmes en place dans les deux pays, qui imposent le règne des milices et le triomphe des élites confessionnelles, on com-prendra mieux pour quelle raison il est si difficile de sortir pacifiquement d’un tel système qui nie tout espace public et empêche toute citoyenneté commune. L’échec des Printemps arabes en est une illustration.
6. Assistant Professor for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen
Qualifications: PhD in Middle Eastern Studies, political science, international relations or a closely related discipline; at least one year of postdoctoral experience in a teaching and/or research position; experience in supervising BA and MA theses; excellent publication record, including at least one monograph (under review) and peer reviewed articles; ability to communicate and teach in English; knowledge of Dutch or willingness to learn it within two years.
Deadline for application: 6 April 2022. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S00091XP&cat=wp
7. Training School: “Late Medieval and Early Modern Migration Routes and Identity Spaces in the Mediterranean”, Tunis, 15-17 June 2022
Main objectives: To study the interfaith migration between Europe and North Africa during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods; To discuss about the trade, exchange and mobility of objects and knowledge in the Mediterranean basin; 3. To analyse how these phenomena had an effect in the creation of individual and collective identities; To develop a student network on migration and Islamic legacy in Europe and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://is-le.eu/isle-calls/open-calls/
8. Summer School: “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources”, Universities in Wit-tenberg and Berlin, 29 August – 2 September 2022
The programme will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at the local, provincial and imperial levels. Materials from the 16th through the 20th centuries will receive most of our attention, explorations into earlier archives are welcome. No tuition fees. Addition funding possible.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://arabistik.uni-halle.de/summerschool2022/
9. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN: Stucco Decoration in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons (University of Bamberg, 4-7 May 2022)
Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference dedicated to research on stucco decoration in Iran and the neighbouring lands. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from several countries and to communicate the latest research finds and innovative methodology for research of stuccos.
The event will take place in presence with extension in hybrid-remote form, at the University of Bamberg, May 4-7, 2022.
Registration for participation in the conference (in presence or on line) is now open. Conference participation is free of charge thanks to generous funding by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
To register for the conference, please provide your contact, academic affiliation and modality of your participation (in presence or on line) in an e-mail to Ana Marija Grbanovic (ana-marija.grbanovic@uni-bamberg.de) by May 1, 2022.
For further information concerning the event, please refer to the following link: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/islamart/events-and-cooperations/stucco-conference/
CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Stucco in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons
A conference hosted by the University of Bamberg Islamic Art and Archaeology, Institute of Oriental Studies
Venue: Schillerplatz 17, 96049 Bamberg
Wed 4 May 2022 Location: Dominican Library Hall
18:00 Welcome address – Opening (L. Korn), Refreshments
Thu 5 May 2022 Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13
09:00 Conference Registration
09:30 Opening Remarks (L. Korn)
10:00-12:00 Panel 1: Research of Persianate Stuccos: Past, Present and Future – Chair: Lorenz Korn
- Renata Holod: Recovering Rayy: Erich Schmidt’s Excavations at Rayy, Iran, and their contribution to the Study of the Material Culture of Medieval Iran
- Barbara Finster: Medieval stucco decorations in Yemen
- Sheila Blair: Stucco workers, luster potters and builders: the case of Hasan ibn ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Babawayh al-Vidguli
- Yves Porter and Anais Leone: Stucco vs Luster in Ilkhanid Iran
12:00 Lunch Break
13:30-15:30 Panel 2: Pre-Islamic to Saljuq Periods – Chair: Ana Marija Grbanovic
- Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki and Atefe Shekofte: Identification and Technical Examination of the Stucco Decorations from Bazeh-Hur in North-Eastern Iran
- Niloufar Ehteshami: Continuuity or Discontinuity in stucco motifs from Sasanian to the Early-Islamic periods: finds from the Jahangir and Gowriyeh Sites in Ilam, Iran
- Maryam Moeini: Some little-known pre-Ilkhanid architectural revetments from the Friday mosque of Tabriz
- Iman Aghajani: The Development of the Stucco Decoration during the Early Seljuq Period in Iran
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Panel 3: Western Boundaries – Chair: Parviz Holakooei
- Simone Struth: ‘Like the pearl-bright star’ – Abbasid stucco material from Samarra
- Andrea Luigi Corsi: Beyond the ‘Samarra Styles’: Reconsidering the 10th-century Stuccowork in Deir al-Surian as a Reflection of Post-Samarra Mesopotamian Stucco Production
- Robert Hillenbrand: Iranian Saljuq stucco in Anatolia
- Bernard O’Kane: Mamluk stuccos – the Iranian Connection?
18:30 Visit to the University of Bamberg Museum of Islamic Art (the Bumiller Collection)
Fri 6 May 2022 Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13
09:00-10:30 Panel 4: Ilkhanid Stuccos – Chair: Iman Aghajani
- Ana Marija Grbanovic: Patterns and Constellations of Ilkhanid Stucco Production
- Bahareh Taghavinejad: Some Pieces of Evidence of the Personal Style of Damghanian Artists in the Stucco Decorations of the Ceiling of Sofeh Darvish in Isfahan Grand Mosque
- Elaheh Alvandiyan: Introduction and recognition of stucco technique of the tomb of Seyyed Roknuddin Yazd
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 Panel 5: Techniques and Archaeometry – Chair: Lorenz Korn
- Parviz Holakooei and Amir Hossein Karimy: Blue ‘Out of the Blue’: Scientific Studies on the Blue Pigments Applied on Persian Stuccos
- Moslem Mishmastnehi and Tomasz Stawski: Crystals of Gypsum in Hands of Masters: Interdisciplinary approach to understand the Chaîne opératoire of Seljuk and Ilkhanid Stuccoes
- Marco Brambilla: Pre-fabricated stucco decorations in Sultaniyy
- Stefan Masarovic: Material Examination of five Seljuk and Muzafarrid Carved Architectural Decoration Stucco Segments: 3 monumental figurative panels and 2 further objects preserved at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha
13:00 Lunch Break
14:30-16:30 Panel 6: Eastern Boundaries – Chair: Moslem Mishmastnehi
- Viola Allegranzi and Sandra Aube: Stuccoes of the Noh Gonbad mosque in Balkh
- Ruslan Muradov: Restoration of the Mihrab of the Mashhad-Ata Mosque in Medieval Dahistan
- Richard McClary: The Qarakhanid Stucco Decoration in the Shah Fazil Tomb at Safid Buland,Kyrgyzstan: A Unicum in Context
- Valentina Laviola: Ghazni Stuccoes. From an Old Excavation to a Synergic Study of the Architectural Decoration of the Ghaznavid Palace
16:30 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Panel 7: New Ideas and Approaches – Chair: Sheila Blair
- Ruba Kanaan: Matter, mode, and making: stucco in the legal texts of Iran and Central Asia (11th-13th c.)
- Katherine Hughes: The fabric of the building: The ecology of Samanid stucco ornament and non-representational haptic space
- Giuseppe Labisi: Stucco Decoration in Semi-Domes Squinches. Sasanian Architectural Heritage within Early Islamic Architecture
19:00 Dinner
Sat 7 May 2022 Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13
09:30-11:30 Panel 8: Conservation and Preservation of Stuccos – Chair: Amir Hossein Karimy
- Rosario Paone: Esfahan, IsMEO restorations of stucco and plaster in the seventies
- Hamed Sayyadshahri and Mohammad Mortazavi: Reconstruction of Missing Parts of the Stucco Decorations: Some Restoration Experiences
- Yaser Hamzavi: The contemporary challenge for conservators to preserve creative stuccoes from the past: Molded stucco of the tomb of Sayyid Rukn al-Din and Sayyid Shams al-Dinin Yazd
- Majid Montazer Zohouri and Iman Aghajani: Archaeological Studies on Islamic Stucco Decorations in the Storage of National Museum of Iran
11:30 Coffee Break
12:00 Final Discussion and Closing Remarks Moderator: Lorenz Korn – Discussants: N.N.
13:00 Lunch Break
In the afternoon: Excursion to historical monuments with stucco decoration, either in the old city of Bamberg or at Kloster Banz and Vierzehnheiligen
10. Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow)
“Muslim Relations with Christians in 13th Century Anatolia: An investigation of the hagiography of Awhad al-Din Kirmani”
29 March 2022
17.00 Istanbul (Bogazici University)
UK Time: 15.00 p.m.
The talk will be held online via zoom: https://bit.ly/34Pxflc
111. You are invited to the launch of Muriam Davis’ new book Markets of Civilisation: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria. This webinar is part of the Contemporary Middle East Series, hosted by the Middle East Research Group. Please find the registration link below!
Date: 7th of April, 2022
Time: 5pm, Edinburgh Time
Speaker: Muriam Davis
Discussant: Frédéric Volpi
To RSVP, please follow the following link:
For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to email me on s.n.hageman@sms.ed.ac.uk
Hope to see you there!
All the best,
Stefan Hageman
Student Assistant, MERG
12. Joint Seminar and Book Launch Event, 30th of March at 4:10pm
The English language book launch of an exciting new publication of Mary in the Qur’an:Friend of God, Virgin, Mother co-authored by Prof Dr Muna Tatari of the University of Paderborn and Prof Dr Klaus von Stosch of University of Bonn.
Profs Tatari and von Stosch will join us in Edinburgh and offer reflections on the book, before fielding questions from the audience. The lecture and conversation should be of interest to scholars of the Qur’an, comparative theology and religion, late antiquity studies, Islamic thought, political theology, Christian theology, and Christian-Muslim dialogue.
The event will be held at Rainy Hall in New College, University of Edinburgh, at 4:10pm on Wednesday, the 30th of March and will be followed by a reception. Books will be available at a discounted rate for those interested. I would be very grateful if you could share this invitation to any interested students or staff, especially those outside of the School of Divinity. I do hope that as many of you are able will come along in person.
If you cannot make it in person, we will have a livestream on Zoom at the following link:
Topic: Mary in the Qur’an
Time: Mar 30, 2022 04:00 PM London
Join Zoom Meeting
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89966299571
Meeting ID: 899 6629 9571
Passcode: 4z9GQMbh
13. University of Chicago: Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu Language
The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College of the University of Chicago seek an experienced teacher of Urdu language to help grow its existing offerings in South Asian languages. We invite applications for a position as an Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu language. The position begins in academic year 2022-23, with a start date of September 1, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant
Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor, depending on qualifications and educational background. The initial appointment will be for a minimum of two years, with longer initial terms possible depending on initial rank, with review and progression schedule determined by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union.
For fuller information and to apply, see:
https://apply.interfolio.com/104670
Closing date: 25 April, 2022
14. The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will jointly host the 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography, from 24 till 26 October 2022 in Berlin.
The theme is ‘The Surveying Turn in Cartography: Revolutionizing Maps and Charts in the 18th and 19th Centuries’. The organisers invite the submission of abstracts for paper and poster presentations.
Deadline for submissions is 1 June 2022.
More information on the symposium, including the abstract submission system, can be found here: https://history.icaci.org/berlin-2022/
- March 29, 2022
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