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1.The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University are pleased to open a call for paper submissions to their conference, “The Iranian Diaspora in Global Perspective.” The conference will be held on February 16–17, 2023 at the University of California, Los Angeles and aims to support the growing field of Iranian Diaspora Studies by sharing new research and scholarship.
The conference will bring together senior scholars, mid-career scholars, and emerging researchers in any discipline who are contributing to and developing this emerging and transnational field. Panels and speakers are encouraged to showcase work on the Iranian diaspora in a global context, including but not limited to:
Histories of Iranian migration and diaspora formation
Sociological and cultural dimensions of Iranian diaspora communities
Comparative studies, whether comparing across Iranian diaspora communities or between Iranian and other immigrant groups in differing locations
Research on Iranian communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania; especially South-South relations
Studies that cast light on the heterogeneity of Iranian diaspora communities and their migration experiences
The conference is also interested in creative expressions such as documentary film, fiction films, photography, and/or animations related to themes and experiences of the Iranian diaspora.
This conference will build and sustain a stronger academic community, draw attention to increasingly transnational elements of the Iranian diaspora, and highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Additionally, we will draw from selected 2023 conference presentations to invite papers for an edited volume that will be made available in open access format through an academic publisher such as University of California Press.
While we aim to hold the conference in person to benefit from the incomparable experience of in-person exchanges, we are taking COVID-19 into consideration as we plan possible modalities for the conference. Conference presentations will be in English. Travel and lodging will be covered by the conference.
To submit:
Please email your 300-word abstract and presentation title along with a four-sentence bio and contact information to: Rohan Advani (rohadvani@g.ucla.edu). Please include “Iranian Diaspora Conference 2023” in the subject heading.
Deadline for abstracts: May 15, 2022
Kevan Harris, Department of Sociology, UCLA
Persis Karim, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University
Amy Malek, Department of International Studies, College of Charleston
See website https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/252222
2. UCLA Iranian Studies
Book Talk with Shaul Bakhash:
The Fall of Reza Shah
Monday, April 4, 2022 at 3:00pm Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in English
3. CARPO Study 11 Narratives of (In)Justice in Contemporary Yemeni Novels
We are happy to share with you our latest Study, which we are publishing jointly with our partners, the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn and the Gender Development Research & Studies Center at the University of Sanaa:
*“Narratives of (In)Justice in Contemporary Yemeni Novels. Representations of Socio-Political Practices and Normative Constructions” *
/by Osama Ali, Fadhilah Gubari, Julia Gurol and Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi /
Download the full Study from our website <http://87j6.mjt.lu/lnk/AMIAAMDqLbUAAcg4OjQAAAAP8M0AAAAABKEAAAPQAAt9mABiOchUp1Mz0-abS0m4R7j7pWs4fAALkkQ/1/ORWCnm3p0gkqFCRXTjEUrQ/aHR0cHM6Ly9jYXJwby1ib25uLm9yZy9lbi9jYXJwby1zdHVkaWVzLTIv>*.*
This Study analyzes narratives of (in)justice in contemporary Yemeni novels. Through a lexical field analysis of nine selected contemporary novels, the paper highlights how (in)justice is framed in narrative literature, both in terms of representations of certain socio-political practices and in terms of normative constructions and the creation of a normative order. It argues that novels represent and discuss the complexities of Yemeni realities, where daily practices and experiences of individuals are entangled with philosophical questions about the meaning of life. It discusses the nexus between the framing of (in)justice and post-conflict reconciliation and provides an original insight into the understanding and constructions of justice and injustice offered to society by Yemeni novelists.
With best wishes,
CARPO – Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient
Bonn
4. The department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol in the UK is seeking to appoint in Global Religious Studies (Islam).
Applicants with expertise in global Islam and/or the interactions and relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims historically and globally are particularly encouraged to apply. The post is open range excluding full professor (so Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor). Closing date is 19th April 2022.
Further details are available here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=268654&jobTitle=Lecturer/Senior%20Lecturer%20or%20Associate%20Professor%20in%20Global%20Religious%20Studies
5. EuQu International Workshop – The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity
International Workshop – The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity
May 11-12, 2022 | University of Copenhagen
The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites was the name commonly used by Eastern Christians of various traditions to refer to the Qur’an. Since the emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Eastern Christians speaking Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac came in contact with Islam and its Holy Scripture. From the Mediterranean lands to Russia via the Balkans, Anatolia and Caucasus, the experience of Eastern Christians with their Muslim neighbors and/or rulers was shaped by diverse multicultural and multiconfessional contexts in which their approach to the Qur’an played a significant role in defining religious identity and the dynamics of communal life.
This international workshop will explore how Eastern Christians engaged with the Qur’an and its Islamic interpretations from the medieval period until the end of the eighteenth century. Bringing together different religious traditions, one of the main scopes of the workshop is to build a platform of discussion between scholars working with source material from Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac contexts, with a focus on how these milieus shaped Eastern Christian responses to Islam and its Holy Scripture.
How did texts on Islam and Qur’an circulate within groups and networks? How did they cross confessional boundaries? Who were their authors and intended audiences? These and similar questions will guide the discussions, and will generate – we hope – new debates for the entangled history and cross-cultural history of the Eastern Christian communities from the medieval to the dawn of modernity.
For the programme and to register:
6. Ann Lambton Lecture 2022 | New date: 6th April 2022, 5PM
Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture 2022: Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran
In this presentation Professor Ali Gheissari will offer an overview of the Russian and British leverage in Iran during the Qajar and early Pahlavi periods through unequal treaties as one channel of extending their imperial influence and counterbalancing each other’s rival presence.
Register at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2616473573594/WN_zC6zqKr4THqLa-CwANHWrA
7. Fellowships: Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Research Project
With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and economic history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.
Fellowships are awarded for six months (1 October 2022 – 31st March 2023). This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2022/2023.
Deadline for applications is 8 May 2022.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of € 1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation and health insurance in Amsterdam.
For more information, see:
https://iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/fellowships-prince-dr-sabbar-farman-farmaian-research-project
8. How to Get a Book Contract as an Independent Researcher | Lex Academic Blog
9. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts
Lecture 8: Muslim Women Preachers ‘Murshidat’ in Morocco as Agents of Change
Professor Moha Ennaji (University of Fès)
Tuesday 29 March 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92631152349
10. Iran Heritage Foundation: Webinar – Guardians of The Zagros: Storytelling with Nomads
28.3.22, 6pm UK time (note UK time change on 27.3.22)
For more information and to register:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XoFYdT-GS7SYafu-BBXGIg
11. SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies (SSPIZS)
Short Summer Course in Zoroastrianism
Venue: other
Start of programme: 20th June 2022
Mode of Attendance: Full-time
The deadline for applications is Sunday 27th March 2022.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/institute-of-zoroastrian-studies/summer-school/
12. Secular Assemblages
Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
Marek Sullivan
- March 26, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE International Conference: “Race and Islam: Global Histories, Contemporary Legacies”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 23-24 March 2022
The conference aims to explore not just how Islam responds to questions of race, but also the ways Islam, as a faith tradition, has encountered, engaged with, and reflected particular understandings and experiences of race (not least of all through Islam’s own history with racialized slavery).
Information, program and registration: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/13079
2. ONLINE Seminar: “Experiences of Space and Spaces of Experience in (Post)Ottoman Societies” by Nathalie Clayer (EHESS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 24 March 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET
In this seminar, starting from the presentation and discussion of current research on Ottoman and post-Ottoman space, we will question, using different objects of study (from individual and collective trajectories to places of activity and production), the spatial practices and visions, but also evolutions, of social spaces and landscapes and their temporalities.
Information and registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1752161259609665806
3. ONLINE “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul: A Book Panel in Loving Memory of Yavuz Sezer”, 25 March 2022, 9:00 am PT
This commemorative panel focuses on the book “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul” that touches upon the material environment of Istanbul, a theme very close to the heart of Yavuz Sezer whom we lost to COVID. The panel participants include the co-editors of the volume, Shirine Hamadeh (Koç University) and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi University), as well as two of the contributors, Selim Kuru (University of Washington) and Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University).
Information and registration:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdO2gqT0jGdfCk1jJjjQTj0ZsC8zJG5n3
4. ONLINE Webinar: “Navigating War, Migration and the Taliban – Sufi Survival Strategies in Afghanistan” by Dr. Annika Schmeding (Harvard Society of Fellows), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 25 March 2022, 2:15 pm -3:30 pm CET
This talk offers an ethnographically-embedded view of various navigational strategies employed by Sufi lead-ers in Afghanistan over the past four decades, adaptations that have not only allowed Sufi thought and practice to continue but have affected the very concept of what it means to be a Sufi leader in Afghanistan.
Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/navigating-war-migration-and-the-taliban-%E2%80%93-sufi-su.html
5. ONLINE Lecture: “The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature” by Tarif Khalidi (AUB), Orient-Institut Beirut, 30 March 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm TRT
This is an attempt to examine the biographical tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature from the eighth century to the fifteenth centuries A.D. It will endeavour, first, to explore the various technical terms of this tradition, then sketch a short his history of its evolution and, finally, will seek to consider issues of style, content and dimensions of the human personality.
Information and registration: https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/tarif-khalidi-the-biographical-tradition-in-pre-modern-arabic-literature/
6. Colloque : « L’étude de l’islamisme entre l’Occident et le Monde arabe : vers un dialogue constructif pour mieux comprendre l’islam politique », Université de Laval Canada, 13 mai 2022
Information et programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/61644
7. Conference: “Kurdish Family Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Berlin, 2-4 June 2022
Objectives: The questions surrounding the origins of Kurdish family laws and their application will be ad-dressed in addition to the family legal status of the religious Kurdish minorities, the customary family law among Kurdish communities, the application of family law on the Kurdish communities in the diaspora and related questions of private international law, and also the application of family law among Kurdish commu-nities in the European diaspora, especially Germany, Italy and France.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.
Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1491935/20220314-call-for-papers-kurdish-family-law-conference
8. 32nd Exeter Gulf Conference: “Liberalism and Its Paradoxes in the Arabian Peninsula”, University of Exeter, UK, 28-29 June 2022
The regimes of the Arabian Peninsula are in the midst of a self-induced reincarnation into the liberal, ‘mod-erate’, and free-market social orders that have lost currency elsewhere. Contributions are welcome from political economy, political philosophy/theory, history (20th and 21st centuries), gender studies, anthropology and sociology, political science and international relations, migration and diaspora studies, environmental and urban studies.
Deadline for the abstracts: 22 April 2022. Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12080
9. Conference of Early Career Scholars on “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Morifs, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 5-7 December 2022
The event will bring together an international group of specialists in Syriac Christianity as well as scholars of the Qurʾān to explore how the Qurʾān reacts to Syrian Christian traditions and the extent of which it serves as a historical witness to Syriac Christianity in Arabia. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.
Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.
10. Conference: “A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1000)”, Leiden University, 8-10 December 2022
How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in the early Islamicate empire? We want to examine how relationships between individuals, and between and within groups, are referred to, and how other forms of solidarity underwriting social cohesion are cultivated and perpetuated.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.
11. Postdoctoral Fellowships (2-3 Months) in France 2022 for Young Researchers from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and 140 Universities Members of UNIMED
This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. Laureates will receive a financial support of 1 600 euros per month.
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2022. Information: https://www.uni-med.net/wp-content/up-loads/2022/01/English-Call-Unimed-2022.pdf
12. 3 Doctoral and 3 Postdoctoral Positions for Research Group “REVENANT – Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia Tribulation” (Focus MENA), University of Rijeka, Croatia
For doctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748740
For postdoctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748788
For the project: https://revenant.uniri.hr
Deadline for applications: 27 March 2022.
13. Lecturer in Arabic, Stony Brook University/SUNY, New York
Preferred qualifications include a doctoral degree in a field relevant to the teaching of Arabic, and at least 3 years of university-level teaching experience.
Deadline for applications: 7 April 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/102909
14. Intensive Summer School of Arabic Dialects & Modern Standard Arabic
From June 6th to July 13rd 2022
Information: http://www.inalco.fr/en/intensive-summer-school-arabic-dialects-training-on-site
15. Learn Arabic at Ibn Ghazi Arabic Institute
Information: https://www.igai-fez.com/
16. Webinar Symposium – Qur’anic Manuscript Traditions: Readings From the Qatar National Library Collection – March 30
The symposium, organized in the framework of the Arab Manuscript Day (Alesco), will gather a number of international experts dealing with the traditions of the production of Qur’anic manuscripts over 14 centuries, covering a vast geographical area. Our journey will start in the Arabian Peninsula and will continue through the kingdoms of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, up to the lands of China and the Malay world. Focusing on the periphery of the Islamic World, we aim to contribute to an exciting but less-researched and less popular theme. The symposium’s contributions will be based on the rich inventory of the Library’s manuscripts which will be presented in relation to important, relevant manuscripts from various other collections around the world.
Program, Doha’s time (GMT+3)
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Hijazi Qur’anic Manuscripts (Ahmed Shaker)
12:00 – 12:10 PM: Mus’haf Al Zubarah (Mahmoud Zaki)
12:10 – 1:10 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Sub-Saharan Africa (Dr. Mohameden Ahmed Salem)
2:00 – 3:00 PM: The Art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia (Dr. Annabel Gallop)
3:00 – 3:45 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts from China: Initial Observations on an Unexplored Tradition (W. Sekulova and M. Zaki)
4:15 – 5:15 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Indian Subcontinent in Bihari Script (Dr. Saima Syed)
Program and registration : https://events.qnl.qa/event/Q2VV9/EN
For more information sipert@qnl.qa
17. CfP Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies deadline Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Co-hosted by the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and
SOAS, University of London
Aga Khan Centre, London and online
6 to 8 October 2022
This annual exploratory and informal workshop not only offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic, but also invites contributors to explore more broadly how people relate to the past. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies related to Arabic in any region and in any period from the seventh century to the present.
Papers might elucidate questions such as:
How and in which terms do people refer to the past? How and in which terms do they refer to memory? What is the relation between history and memory, and between memory and space? How does the past sit in people’s bodies – and in the body politic?
Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts? At different times and places, was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?
From what perspective have histories been written and what makes them coherent? How have past events been rendered intelligible? When do particular views of the past start to fall apart? Which categories and boundaries are seen as primordial and which are not? Which beings have been seen as capable of influencing events and when?
How do people connect the/their living and the/their dead conceptually? When are past events really over and when can they be laid to rest? Under which circumstances is the past revived? Why do some past lives or events inspire action and others do not? How does unresolved conflict inform thinking about and using the past?
How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community?
How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history?
In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organizations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe? How do recent discourses in the West shape discussions of history in the Middle East?
How can digital methods now enhance or change our understandings of the past? What additional information and perspectives do they offer? (How) do they limit our understanding? What are practical challenges when we apply digital methods to Arabic history? What seem to be particularly promising approaches?
Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Centre in London, with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK. As in past years, there is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.
Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Tuesday, 19 April 2022 to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu .
18. “Malcolm X, Islam and the Souls of Black Folk”
A Talk by
Dr. Zain Abdullah
Temple University
Friday, March 25, 2022 | 5:00 PM EST (Zoom)
Malcolm X is one of the 20th century’s most intriguing figures, becoming a standard in Black Studies, street culture and global affairs, with Turkey recently changing its new American embassy’s street to “Malcolm X Avenue.” Still, his deep encounter with religion is routinely ignored. Dr. Zain Abdullah places Malcolm X in the context of Islam and the fight for Black liberation, as both consistently informed his worldview and his struggle to free oppressed peoples.
Register in advance to receive the Zoom link:
https://go.rutgers.edu/MalcolmX
Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Departments of African American and African Studies, English, and Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers-Newark.
- March 22, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College – Distance Education Virtual Open Day
MA Islamic Studies & Islamic Law
Monday 21st of March 2022
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (London Time)
on Zoom
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/de-open-day/ \
2. SUNY Buffalo
Clinical Assistant Professor, Arabic Language
See https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/33104
Open Until Filled
3. Exhibit & Catalogue on Assyrian letters & archives
A cache of letters received over a hundred years ago forms the basis of an exhibit called “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.” The focus on the letters written in vernacular neo-Aramaic developed in Urmia, allows an understanding of cultural conditions from 1887 to 1923, a period of great educational and literary advances as well as war and displacement
Location: Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, Sunnyvale, CA
Dates: April 3 to June 5, 2022 (open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays)
A Catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase, the four lectures in conjunction with the exhibit are open to the public and all but one will be in English. The other will be delivered in Assyrian neo-Aramaic, almost mutually intelligible to Aramaic speaking Jews originating from Urmia, Sanandaj and so forth and now mainly living in Israel. This may be one of the few times that scholars and the general public will be able to hear a non-religious presentation in this living but endangered language.
April 3, 2022, 1pm “New Urmia in Place of the Old
May 1, 2022, 1 PM “Joseph D. Joseph, MD: A Link in the Assyrian Chain of Medicine”
May 15, 2022 1 pm “Sources and selected details of the life of Dr. Joseph D. Joseph, a son of Qarajalu, a man of Santa Clara County”
June 5, 2022, 1 pm “Reflecting on the Old Country: The Assyrians of the Urmia Region”
4. The International Journal of Islamic Architecture and the Award Jury is pleased to announce the 2022 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award.
Award Winner
Laura Parodi, ‘Kabul, a Forgotten Mughal Capital: Gardens, City, and Court at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century’, Muqarnas 38, 2021, pp. 79-119.
Honourable Mention
Mikael Muehlbauer, ‘From Stone to Dust: The Life of the Kufic Inscribed Frieze of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray, Ethiopia’, Muqarnas 38, 2021, pp. 1-34.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is pleased to offer this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The Award winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a 2-year subscription to IJIA, and the honourable mention winner will receive a 2-year subscription to IJIA. We are extremely grateful to the members of the 2022 jury, Professors Renata Holod, Abidin Kusno, and D. Fairchild Ruggles, for their time and expertise in judging submissions for the inaugural award, and to the chair of the Award committee, Mehreen Chida-Razvi.
The Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award will be offered every two years. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2022 or 2023 will be eligible for the 2024 award. For the criteria by which papers will be judged and the submission process, see our website.
5. The East India Company in Persia
Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century
P. Good
6. Virtual 2-day Conference
Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy
with keynote sessions by Dr. Lara Harb
Thursday, March 31, 2022 — Friday, April 1, 2022
Online Event
“Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy” seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”—between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric. Islamic philosophy was composed not only in traditional forms of treatises and commentaries but also through narratives written in poetry and prose. For example, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī penned a panegyric poem written in Persian in praise of logic, physics, and metaphysics, alongside his many philosophical prose treatises. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s philosophical mysticism includes prose that reads as Aristotelian commentary alongside succinct poems highlighting his key philosophical concepts through mystical metaphors. In reference to Ibn Sīnā’s allegorical treatise, Ibn Tufayl’s famous Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān provides an intriguing narrative and philosophical thought experiment. What do story-telling, poetry, narrative, metaphor, and allegory reveal about the nature and purpose of philosophy?
The conference is organized in conjunction with the “Islamic Philosophy in Conversation” working group. The conference aligns itself with the goals of the working group, and therefore seeks to highlight the work of a diverse group of scholars, including emerging scholars of Islamic philosophy, as well as those who identify as female, non-binary, or as belonging to a historically-marginalized group.
For the full conference schedule, and Zoom links for public events, see https://www.bard.edu/islamic-philosophy
7. Applications for IIS Doctoral Scholarship Now Open
The IIS is pleased to announce that applications for the Doctoral Scholarship are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2022.
The IIS awards Doctoral Scholarships each year to suitable candidates who are interested in pursuing research at PhD level on a topic related to any of the Institute’s core research areas. The most relevant to the Institute’s research needs are:
- Ismaili studies
- Wider Shiʿi studies
- Qurʾanic studies
- Islamic law
- Education
- Manuscript studies
The scholarship is also open to any areas in which Islam can be analysed in one of its various manifestations (historical, theological, philosophical, legal, educational, political, ritual, cultural, etc.).
The Institute’s Doctoral Scholarships programme was established in 1997. Since then, more than 52 scholarships have been awarded. The Doctoral Scholarships are a vehicle for intellectual advancement, career progression and human resources development.
To apply, please download and complete the application form and submit it together with the required documents to scholarships@iis.ac.uk by 31 March. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.
The application form must be accompanied by:
- Cover letter
- Updated CV
- Personal Statement of Commitment
- Copies of graduate-level academic transcripts, including a copy of your Master’s diploma
- Copy of letter of acceptance to doctoral programme
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Doctoral research proposal
The IIS Doctoral Scholarships are available to Ismaili students from around the globe. Further information on eligibility can be found here.
8. BRISMES Early Career Development Prize
Deadline: 30 April 2022
9. Event Postponed: Getting Published in an Academic Journal
The second BRISMES-CBRL joint mentoring event, Getting Published in an Academic Journal, has been postponed and will now take place on 6 April 2022. This event features a line-up of academic journal editors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds providing insight and feedback on the process of getting published in today’s competitive academic environment.
This event is open to members of BRISMES or CBRL only
10. Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL seeks a Communications Officer to play a key role within the charity’s London office. Strong communication and organisational skills are required, and familiarity with the charity or higher education landscape and the Levant will be useful.
Deadline | 25 March 2022
11. LSE Middle East Centre
The LSE Middle East Centre seeks a Research Officer to contribute to research activities on the environmental geography/political ecology of the Middle East and to produce independent research. Candidates should have social sciences training, including a relevant PhD; a strong record of research and publication on the Middle East; and excellent organisation and communication skills
Deadline | 28 March 2022
12. University of Exeter
The College of Social Sciences and International Studies wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Science study of the Middle East and a Managing Editor of MERIP. MERIP is a 50-year old publication that provides critical, alternative reporting and analysis, focusing on state power, political economy and social hierarchies in the Middle East. As part of a new partnership, the IAIS will host and edit MERIP and work closely with the board.
Deadline | 31 March 2022
13. Aga Khan University (International) in the UK
The Aga Khan Library is looking for a full-time Assistant Librarian – Digital Resourcesto oversee our library systems and online services and help us continue offering high-quality services to our lively community of international students, academics, and researchers. The ideal candidate will have previous experience implementing and managing library technologies and good knowledge of modern integrated library management systems and metadata formats.
Deadline | 10 April 2022
14. University of St Andrews
The School of Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a Professor of Arabic within the Department of Arabic and Persian. In your position as Professor of Arabic you will provide leadership to an established department and will oversee the delivery of both a full four-year undergraduate degree and a postgraduate programme. Applications are invited from candidates with a specialist research interest in any area of Arabic literary/cultural studies (including, but not limited to, literary studies, film and media studies, and cultural/intellectual history).
Deadline | 18 April 2022
15. Youth activism, leadership and civic engagement for the climate and sustainability in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa region
Coventry University
As part of a large investment by Coventry University to support research, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CPSR) has a range of fully funded PhD Studentship opportunities available starting September 2022. These studentships come with a full Stipend, all tuition fees, plus a generous allowance towards training and development costs. The studentships are fully funded for a 42 month period which includes a writing-up stage.
Deadline | 28 April 2022
16. University of Exeter
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) at the University of Exeter and the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, are collaborating on a research project with the aim of creating a Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME). As part of DAME, three fully-funded PhD studentships have been created, one each in Archaeology, Gulf Studies, and Kurdish Studies to use these collections.
Deadline | 3 May 2022
17. University of Exeter
The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is seeking applications for three PhD studentships for excellent doctoral students whose area of specialisation fits and complements the research interests of our academics – PhD Studentship in Arab and Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle East Politics, Ethno-Political Studies, Kurdish Studies or Palestine Studies.
PhD proposals in humanities and social sciences with reference to the Middle East and the Islamicate world are invited.
Deadline | 3 May 2022
18. Call for Papers – BATA 2nd Annual Conference
Hybrid Conference | British Association of Teachers of Arabic (BATA), 30 June – 1 July 2022
Abstracts are invited for this conference is designed to offer a platform for teachers, students and research scholars of Arabic language, culture, literature, linguistics and translation from the United Kingdom and beyond, to exchange ideas, share good practice and disseminate their scholarship and research to a wider audience.
Deadline | 30 March 2022
19. Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA)
AMEA is accepting nominations for its bi-annual book award. This award is given to an anthropological work that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. The committee welcomes books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East and North Africa. Books submitted for the 2022 award must have a publication date in 2020 or 2021.
Deadline | 15 May 2022
More information
20. Senior Bibliographic Specialist, Persian and Arabic, Princeton University Library
21. Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES) 3ème séance – 29/03/22
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES) :
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies, coorganisé par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) et le Centre de recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI) qui aura lieu le :
mardi 29 mars 2022, de 15h à 17h (heure de Paris) / 17h30-19h30 (heure de Téhéran).
Cette troisième séance s’articulera autour du thème « Regards sur la céramique, 2 / Insights into ceramic arts, 2 », avec les interventions suivantes :
– Patterns of production of Kashan ceramics (late 12th-mid 14th c.)
par Yves Porter (Aix Marseille University/IUF/ LA3M, UMR 7290)
– Luster ceramic and lâjvardina
by Anaïs Leone (PhD, Aix Marseille University/LA3M, UMR 7290)
Discussion : Delphine Miroudot (Sèvres, Manufacture et Musée Nationaux)
Pour suivre cette séance online (sur Skyroom), s’inscrire avant le 23 mars sur le lien suivant :
https://webquest.fr/?m=116547_regards-sur-la-ceramique-2
>> Pour plus d’informations sur le Webinaire
Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir faire circuler l’information.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver nombreux
Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI)
pour le comité d’organisation
22. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la XXIIIème Journée Monde Iranien, le vendredi 1er avril 2022de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Nous vous prions de bien vouloir trouver le programme complet de cette Journée, en pièce-jointe. Vous pouvez également consulter les détails de cette Journée 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.
Toutefois, pour celles et ceux qui le souhaitent, la Journée Monde iranien pourra être suivie en distanciel (via la plateforme Zoom). Vous recevrez très prochainement le lien vers un formulaire d’inscription qui vous permettra de recevoir les codes d’accès.
Au plaisir de vous retrouver toutes et tous pour cette XXIIIème Journée qui cette année est organisée par notre collègue Julien Thorez.
Maria Szuppe
Directrice de recherche CNRS
Directrice du Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI)
CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
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27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation
Edited By
Tarek Shamma
Myriam Salama-Carr
Routledge, 2022
2. The Achaemenid Persian World Empire
A series of four lectures by
Robert Rollinger
Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
University of Innsbruck
April 11–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall
Lectures Begin at 4:00 pm PST
For more information about each of the four lectures, and to register to attend in person, or join via Zoom, see:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/
and the links accessible via the four individual lectures at that website.
3. The MLA Global Arab and Arab American Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the MLA Convention in San Francisco (5-8 January 2023):
Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work
Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural practices of domestication and containment. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to rc49@soas.ac.uk (Rasha Chatta, Freie Universität)
Migrants as Working Subjects
Literary and artistic representations of migrant labor in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, as inflected by class, race, ethnicity, language, nomenclature, and sociocultural/economic practices including sponsorship. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to azstanton@psu.edu (Anna Ziajka Stanton, The Pennsylvania State University)
Decolonizing Global Arab/South Labor Epistemologies
Critique of global Arab/South working conditions in literary and cultural production, including theorizing labor in neocolonial spaces, construction of and resistance to subalternity, and the representation of exploitation and its legacies. 250-word abstract and bio by March 20, 2022 to ctolliver@uh.edu and aidrissi@purdue.edu
4. Open Access Books
Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya = المركز: مجلة الدراسات العربية
Online ISSN: 2772-8250
Print :ISSN: 2772-8242
Publisher: Brill, 2022-
“Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya [ The Centre: Journal of Arabic Studies] focuses on Arabic language, literature and culture studies, encompassing a range of historical and analytical trends. It covers a chronological period that extends from before Islam to contemporary times. The journal offers a forum for matters of formal language and spoken dialects, written and oral heritage, in poetry and prose, and welcomes submissions with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.”
The presence of the Prophet in early modern and contemporary Islam
Author: David Jordan; Rachida Chih; Stefan Reichmuth
Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022.
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 159/2
ISBN : 9789004466753
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
Afzal Upal, Muhammad.
Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements
Published: Brill, 2021.
ISBN: 9789004425255
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Webinar: “Manifestations of a Sufi Woman in Central Asia” by Dr Aziza Shanazarova (Columbia University), Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series, University of Manchester: “Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts”, 8 March 2022, 15:30 GMT
The lecture series is organized by Prof Zahia Smail Salhi < zahia.smailsalhi@manchester.ac.uk > and Dr Ha-toon AL FASSI < hatoon.alfassi@manchester.ac.uk >, the University of Manchester, School of Arts, Languages and Culture.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/93450525800
2. HYBRID International Conference “Silk Roads by Land and Sea”, German University of Technology in Oman (GUtech), Muscat, 9-12 March 2022 – POSTPONED to later in 2022
The conference will be structured around five sections, namely Cultural Heritage, Natural Sciences, Human-ities and History of Religions, Social Anthropology, and finally, Historic Politics and Economics. Dealing with these five sections, the presentations will take place in two parallel strings: “Silk Roads by Land” and “Silk Roads by Sea”.
Information: http://silkroads.rio-heritage.org/
3. HYBRID Lecture: “The Rise and Fall of Postcolonial Charisma” by Prof. Mohammed Bamyeh (University of Pittsburg), Freie Universität Berlin, 7 April 2022, 16:15 pm – 8:00 pm CET
Anti-colonial movements in the global south were often personified by a savior leader or a visionary character. Bamyeh discusses the disappearance of this charismatic expectation in recent protest movements with spe-cial focus on the Arab uprisings of 2011 and 2019. He proposes similarities and contrasts between postcolo-nial charisma and phenomena such as contemporary populism and cults of personality.
Information: https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/veranstaltungen/termine/2022-03-02_keynote_Bamyeh.html.
Registration: polvoro@zedat.fu-berlin.de
4. Workshop: “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa”, South-east Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9-10 April 2022
Papers will be presented from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address topics relating to travel and mobility in, to, and from the MENA region in any historical era.
Information: https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0
5. 6th Doctoral Conference and Central European Symposium for the Academic Study of Religion (CESAR): “Transformations of Religions in Times of Crises: Spiritual Alienation and Rethink-ing of Ethics”, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 1-3 September 2022
Themes: How do different religions or spiritualities interact with each other in times of crisis?How spiritual alienation affects both social and religious systems around the world?How secular society views the role of religiosity in times of crises? What is a role of social media and how do they affect the double dynamic of spiritual alienation and unification?
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022.
6. International Workshop: “Travelling Matters: Rereading, Reshaping, Reusing Objects Across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)”, Haifa Centre for Mediterranean History, 8 September 2022
The workshop intends to tackle objects as sources and subjects of the history of cross-cultural encounters in innovative ways. We intend to discuss objects flowing in all directions and we wish to concentrate on the “second-handedness” of displaced objects.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2022.
7. Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, University of Notre Dame, IN
Applicants should have at least an M.A. in linguistics, literature, Middle Eastern Studies, or relevant field, as well as preparation in communicative language pedagogy. Applicants should also have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic, at least one dialect, and English, and some experience teaching Arabic at the university level.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/103344
8. Doctoral Scholarships of the Gibb Memorial Trust
Applications for scholarship of up to £2,000 are invited from students working on the pre-modern Middle East (7th century to 1918) registered for a PhD at a British university.
Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://www.gibbtrust.org/scholarships/
9. Hamsa. Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies, # 8 (2022) : Arabists and Hebraists (18th– 20th century)
It is intended to summon up Arabists and Hebraists whose activity was developed inside or outside the Academy. The chronological range extends from the 18th to the 20th century, allowing the inclusion of the begin-ning of modern Arabic and Hebraic studies, in Europe, Middle East and new American states, as also others less obvious regions of the world. ]
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2022. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/hamsa/2460
10. Articles for New Journal “Indonesian Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Humanity”, State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga, Indonesia
IJORESH is committed to the scholarly study of the dynamic interplays among religion, spirituality and humanity. It particularly focuses on the works which deal with anthropology of religion, sociology of religion, psychology of religion, philosophy of religion, history of religion, religious education, religious literature, the-ology, religious law, religious studies, Islamic studies, and religious tourism.
Submission deadline: 15 April 2022.
Information: https://e-journal.iainsalatiga.ac.id/index.php/ijoresh/index
11. Articles for Journal of Language and Inscription: Studies on Old, Middle and New Iranian Languages and Inscriptions. We welcome original and as yet unpublished contributions in German, English, and French from all research areas of studies on old, Middle and new Iranian languages and inscriptions. Reviews can also be submitted at any time.
Deadline for articles: 15 September 2022.
Information: Mdehaghi@ut.ac.ir
12. The British Library
Arabic Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in the British Library
Today’s guest post is by Prof. Andrew Peacock of the University of St. Andrews.
13. CALL FOR PAPERS International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
Special Issue: Climate Change and the Built Environment in the Islamic World
Thematic volume planned for May 2024 (IJIA 13.2)
Proposal submission deadline: April 30, 2022
This special issue of IJIA focuses on the impact of the current climate crisis on the built environments of the Islamic world. Environmentalist scholar and eco-theologist Seyyed Hossein Nasr once said that the natural environment occupies a type of ‘sacred’ space in the world, an elevated position that exists only because nature is ‘always in danger of desecration’ (Chidester and Linenthal 1995). In fact, many scientists are now seeing our current global predicament as evidence of the emergence of a ‘fifth nature’ or ‘post nature’, referring to a world ‘after’ nature or potentially beyond or in addition to it, which expands the central definition of the ‘natural’ to include man-made waste, environmental pollution, and importantly climate change as part and parcel of a lived and living ecosystem (Apotsos and Venter 2020). To this end, this special issue takes up the challenge of unpacking this complex topic by utilizing architecture as a space of discourse for thinking about how one might craft a theory of ‘critical environmentalism’ across the Islamic world. Currently accounting for 40 per cent of the world’s total energy usage per year, the built environment provides a fitting platform for a consideration of climate change and attendant environmental themes such as sustainability – broadly defined as ‘the endurance of systems and processes’ – towards examining how such realities are made manifest through the lens of diverse spatial templates within Muslim societies around the globe.
To this point, many architectural approaches being explored in the contemporary period as potential solutions to building in an increasingly unstable climatic future are rooted in historical practices, many of which emerged in proto-Islamic lands. Archaeological evidence from North Africa and the Middle East, for example, not only suggest that early civilizations used thermodynamically efficient materials like earth to build in desert environments, but also developed an understanding of how to generate livable microclimates through infrastructural design and engineering. Some of these early approaches have also served as the basis for some of the first modern attempts at crafting climate-appropriate design, spearheaded by architects such as Hassan Fathy (Egypt) and his utilisation of AT (Appropriate Technology), and even certain contemporary structural counterparts like Dubai’s new eco-mosque in Hatta, which opened in 2021 and uses both solar panels to reduce its energy usage and water treatment units to reuse water for irrigation and cleaning due to the lack of potable water sources in the region. Importantly as well, such building projects and approaches also gesture towards shifting conditions and modes of being in the world, realities informed by numerous different perspectives ranging from social, cultural, economic, and even religious modes of existence. In 2021, the Saudi Arabian government issued a fatwa on the topic of water reuse, requiring mosques in both Mecca and Medina to recycle wastewater or ‘grey water’ due to the limited potable water resources in the region and the extreme drain on regional water resources that events like the annual Hajj provoke. Some see this as evidence of the emergence of a ‘Green Deen’, or an approach to sustainability that positions environmental stewardship as a faith-based ordinance.
Contemporary considerations of the effects of climate change on built environments throughout the Islamic world also compel a reconsideration of the continuing fallacy imposed by western Enlightenment thought that the relationship between architecture and the environment is one of mutual exclusion. Although advancements in green technology, the growth of design fields oriented around biomimetic applications, and the development of sustainable building materials such as ‘cradle to cradle’ products are shifting the relationship between built form and the environment in a more cooperative direction, the fact remains that architectural practice continues to position the natural environment as a separate, distinct realm to be studied and above all controlled, a largely non-collaborative system that rarely overlaps with the built environment unless forced and often actively opposes it.
To this end, this special issue encourages contributions that explore the role of architecture and the built environment in shaping the contours of current climate change and environmentalist discourse in the context of diverse socio-political, cultural, and economic spheres throughout the Islamic world. Contributions might consider past and present events, circumstances, and spaces that offer different or nonconventional interpretations of environmentalism and even the idea of ‘nature’ itself as a space of multiple perspectives, definitions, and concerns, as well as how communities individually encounter and define environmental concerns and incorporate natural design elements into structural responses and solutions specific to the context. Papers might additionally address how architecture as an analytical mechanism challenges established approaches and tendencies that position the built environment in opposition to environmentalist concerns by recognizing its capacity to act as a type of text composed of multiple narratives and registers of knowledge that reflects the value system and frameworks operating within a society at a particular moment with regards to the environment.
Papers should adhere to the IJIA’s remit, which is defined broadly as ‘the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions’. Further, contributors should fully exploit the self-reflexive potential of this remit towards addressing a spectrum of critical approaches to the built environment in the Islamic world that not only position architecture as a theatre of environmental performance, but also a platform from which to consider additional conditions revolving around issues of race, gender, ethnicity, culture, and politics as they relate to environmental challenges and concerns. To this end, this special issue not only aims to be strongly interdisciplinary, drawing from fields ranging from urban design, history, architecture, archaeology, sociology, and anthropology, but also accommodate a diversity of discourses that focus on regions, communities, and built environments not widely addressed in scholarship on Islamic space. Such case studies are particularly important toward generating a comparative interrogative approach to effectively consider the ongoing encounter/relationship between humanity and the natural world over time and space.
Examples of themes contributors might wish to explore include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Imagining sustainable futures/architecture as an environmentalist frontier
- Global warming, climate change, and its social/cultural impacts
- Natural aesthetics as design inspiration
- Green architecture in desert environments
- Environmentalism, heritage, and its discontents
- Eco-Islam and the ‘Green Deen’
- Armed conflict and its environmental impacts/implications
- Petropolitics and sustainable space
- Architecture and ecological conservation/preservation
- Non-traditional/emerging designs, materials, and spaces
- Colonial/postcolonial frameworks in environmental discourse
- AT (appropriate technology)
Articles offering historical and theoretical analysis (DiT papers) should be between 6000 and 8000 words, and those on design and practice (DiP papers) between 3000 and 4000 words. Practitioners are welcome to contribute insofar as they address the critical framework of the journal. Please send a title and a 400-word abstract to the guest editor, Michelle Apotsos, Williams College (IJIAsustainability@gmail.com), by April 30, 2022. Authors of accepted proposals will be contacted soon thereafter and will be requested to submit full papers by January 30, 2023. All papers will be subject to blind peer review. For author instructions, please consult: www.intellectbooks.com/ijia.
14. CFP – Conference: Book Ornament and Luxury Critique – Zurich, 15-17 September 2022
The research group “Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament” (https://textures-of-scripture.ch) invites paper proposals for a three-day international conference on “Book Ornament and Luxury Critique”. The conference, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is scheduled to take place at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich from 15 to 17 September 2022.
In his famous preface to Job, Jerome severely criticizes sumptuous luxury in the ornamentation of books: “Let those who will keep the old books with their gold and silver letters on purple skins (…) if only they will leave for me and mine, our poor pages and copies which are less remarkable for beauty than for accuracy” (Praefatio in librum Hiob, ed. Schaff/Wace 1890, 492). While this source is often cited as proof of the availability of luxurious copies of sacred scriptures in Late Antiquity, and the continuation of such splendor – despite clerical opposition – throughout the Middle Ages, the tradition of luxury critique it documents, and its further development, has received far less attention. When, how, and under what circumstances might book ornament be understood as offensive, and which strategies were employed to avoid such critique or to create books that are ostentatiously ascetic?
Since antiquity, philological correctness was opposed to ornament in the rhetorical discourse, which associated an overtly rich language with overblown luxury and female adornment. Already in Roman literature, this gendered discourse was projected onto the material artifacts of writing, a tradition that influenced the varied discussions about the materiality of sacred books and their status in Christian, Islamic and Jewish book cultures from Late Antiquity until the end of the Middle Ages and beyond. In all three religious traditions, the discourse concerning the ornamentation of scripture established connections “between ornamenting bodies, buildings and language, in which fancy forms are rejected in favor of plain, and embellishment opposed to simplicity in a dialect of truth and falsity” (F. B. Flood, in: Clothing Sacred Scriptures, ed. D. Ganz/B. Schellewald, Berlin/Boston 2019, 52).
The conference welcomes proposals that consider the entire range of such critique of book ornament in Christian, Islamic and Jewish book cultures, and that analyze their specific contexts and semantics, as well as “the spaces of negotiation, in which artists, commissioners and users could react to critical allegations without simply obeying them” (D. Ganz, as above, 34). The time range for proposed papers is from antiquity through the Middle Ages and beyond; early modern and Reformation studies as well as broader theoretical approaches are also welcome. Discussions across disciplinary boundaries are encouraged. Topics of particular interest are:
- material semantics of luxury and its opposites (especially the role of color, layout and format)
- critique of gilded script and the clothing of scriptures in gold, jewelry and textiles
- self-commenting books (e. g. Richard de Bury’s Philobiblon) and self-legitimation of ornament
- the ornament critique of the monastic orders
- the economics of luxury and its critique
- the rhetoric of luxury critique
- luxury critique and gender discourses
- luxury critique in an interreligious perspective
Speaking time for each paper should not exceed 30 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. The conference languages are English, German, French and Italian. Submissions should include the title and an abstract (max. 300 words) as well as the name, contact information and a short CV of the speaker. Proposals should be submitted to thomas.rainer@uzh.ch by 15 April 2022. Acceptance of papers will be confirmed at the beginning of May 2022. The conference is currently planned as an in-person meeting. Travel expenses and on-site accommodation of all speakers will be covered.
15. Available Publication – Book on Ottoman Inscriptions In Northern Black Sea
The board of SOTA Foundation is making the next book on Ottoman traces in Ukraine and its neighbours freely available on the Academia.edu page of its author. We hope to do a service to the honour and struggle of Ukrainian people.
https://www.academia.edu/73262023/
This book is designed as a catalog of Ottoman inscriptions found in the north of the Black Sea. Said region today consists of the territories of Ukraine, Moldova, Russia and Georgia. Although the Crimean peninsula is very important for Ottoman and Islamic history, it is not the subject of this book. The material found there is so great that another book can be made out of this one. Crimea has been the subject of some monographs and inventory studies in Turkey in recent years. Romania and Bulgaria, located in the West of the Black Sea, are not included here as they will be the subject of another book. Bender Castle, located on the territory of Moldova, is included in this book because it is a part of the Ottoman Bucak province. This book is dedicated to the Honorable People of Ukraine, who resisted the brutal invasion and occupation of Ukraine in 2022, and its digital copy was made free available on this occasion in February 2022. The book is in Turkish with an extensive Russian part about Bender.
16. The Mediterranean Review issued by the Institute for Mediterranean Studies at Busan University of Foreign Studies, Republic of Korea, is calling for papers.
The journal addresses Mediterranean regional affairs and discusses crucial
developments in culture and politics. It addresses global issues such as the
Mediterranean influence on international affairs and its multi-cultural
dimensions. We welcome the submission of manuscripts dealing with the fields
of History & Humanities as well as Social Sciences.
Subjects for paper: politics, economics, history, archaeology, literature,
languages, arts, society etc. regarding the Mediterranean
* Date of Submission : April, 18th. 2022. (Mon)
* Address to submit : imsmr@bufs.ac.kr / imsmr@ims.or.kr
* Date of publication:
No.1) 30th of June
No.2) 31st of December
Before submitting your paper, please refer to our code of research ethics as
well as to the text formatting and citation rules on our website:
http://www.imsmr.or.kr.
– Published Articles :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/board.php?bo_table=Articles (click to move)
– Submission Guide : http://imsmr.or.kr/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Guidelines
(click to move)
– Code of Ethics :
http://imsmr.cafe24.com/go/bbs/content.php?co_id=Code_of_Ethics (click to
move)
Please notice that we only accept manuscripts in the English language.
All submitted papers will be evaluated under a strict and fair peer review
process. Please notice that there is no guarantee for a submitted article to
be published.
The Editorial Board, Mediterranean Review
Institute for Mediterranean Studies,
Busan University of Foreign Studies65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea. (46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695 / +82-51-509-6670
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
Website) www.imsmr.or.kr
17. Conversations with Emperor Jahangir
Richard Foltz
18. University of California – Los Angeles – Persian Language Lecturer
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63106
Closing date: 29.5.22.
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.AKU-ISMC
23 and 30 May 2022 Short Course – Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa (Zoom)
2. Workshop on Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse
Orient-Institut Beirut & American University of Beirut
March 10 to March 12, 2022
For attendance in person, please fill the form: https://forms.gle/z32LFhCzXrHSRtV99
[Please note that physical attendance is limited to 25. If the limit is already reached, your registration will be accepted for online attendance. You will be contacted, if you are registered for physical attendance.]
Live streaming:
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6MDcwNTI2 (Day 1: 10. March 2022)
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6NDQ4NjEw (Day 2: 11. March 2022)
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6MzQ0MTI0 (Day 3: 12. March 2022)
For more information you may refer to our website: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/typologies-in-the-islamic-ethical-discourse/
3. The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is pleased to announce that applications for the Doctoral Scholarship are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2022.
The IIS awards Doctoral Scholarships each year to suitable candidates who are interested in pursuing research at PhD level on a topic related to any of the Institute’s core research areas. The most relevant to the Institute’s research needs are:
- Ismaili studies
- Wider Shiʿi studies
- Qurʾanic studies
- Islamic law
- Education
- Manuscript studies
The scholarship is also open to any areas in which Islam can be analysed in one of its various manifestations (historical, theological, philosophical, legal, educational, political, ritual, cultural, etc.).
The Institute’s Doctoral Scholarships programme was established in 1997. Since then, more than 52 scholarships have been awarded. The Doctoral Scholarships are a vehicle for intellectual advancement, career progression and human resources development.
To apply, please download and complete the application form and submit it together with the required documents to scholarships@iis.ac.uk by 31 March. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.
The application form must be accompanied by:
- Cover letter
- Updated CV
- Personal Statement of Commitment
- Copies of graduate-level academic transcripts, including a copy of your Master’s diploma
- Copy of letter of acceptance to doctoral programme
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Doctoral research proposal
The IIS Doctoral Scholarships are available to Ismaili students from around the globe. Further information on eligibility can be found here.
Find out more about the Doctoral Scholarship Programme and how to apply.
For any other information, please email us on scholarships@iis.ac.uk.
4. From Erasure to Remembrance: Affective Memories of Egyptian Feminists – Hoda El Sadda (Online Lecture – MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2022 AT 3 PM – 4:15 PM EST)
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-CvqDstE9RPGCMh8I4tDI3DHN6GFDOI?_x_zm_rtai…
This lecture will shed light on the political and intellectual trajectory of a pioneer suffragette in the history of Egyptian feminism, Duriyya Shafik, with the aim of exploring the processes of remembrance and forgetfulness of dissonant feminist voices in cultural memory. Shafik was an outspoken advocate for women and human rights throughout the 40s and 50s. In 1957 she was put under house arrest and her name banned from public life on account of her strong opposition to undemocratic practices by the President of the Republic. In the aftermath of the 25th of January revolution in Egypt in 2011, Duriyya’s memory was revived and celebrated widely and in diverse contexts. The new political realities characterized by a cycle of hope and despair, resulted in a revisionist journey into Egypt’s recent history, notably the 1950s and 60s, a period which also witnessed another revolutionary turbulence. Durriyya’s remembrance in the past decade was fueled by an affective dissonance, a state of feeling, that is at the same time individual, social and political, that recognizes the incongruous elements in the dominant narrative.
Hoda El Sadda is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. She is also a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, (1992-1996) an interdisciplinary journal in women’s studies published in Arabic. Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature and oral history. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (Cairo Papers, 35:1, 2018).
5. Online Lecture:
How studies in Latin America & the Caribbean can challenge the scales of observation & omission that compartmentalize global Islam
Tuesday 15 March 2022 || 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
(Central European Time)
Join the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies for a lecture by Dr. Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin) and a response by Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin).
Online: https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=6dfb27459f&e=f70992245e
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Despite attempts to broaden our understanding of Muslim networks and the scale of global Islam, most treatments continue to sideline or completely ignore Latin America and the Caribbean. These silences and omissions are in large part due to a dominant area studies discourse that continues to rely on center-periphery models and compartmentalizes regions and spaces according to “epistemic borderlines which have been drawn and grown during decades of constructing a ‘world order’ that is ultimately defined by political power relations.” (Derichs 2015)
In this presentation, Chitwood outlines a new research project exploring multiple networks and assemblages that not only shape the contemporary Muslim community in the Americas, but also form part of the entangled reality of global Islam in the late-modern world.
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6. University of Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
‘Decolonising Ideas: a new podcast series’
The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast series, Decolonising Ideas, as part of the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD ’24).
Informed by the work of a variety of IASH Fellows, Decolonising Ideas aims to introduce listeners to the theories and practice of Decoloniality, explore the breadth of decolonial inquiry occurring at the Institute, and examine how IASH scholarship relates to broader issues of coloniality across the Global South and Global North.
Our first episode, ‘Decoloniality and the Arab Majority World’, features Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellows Dr Nadeen Dakkak and Dr Ali Kassem as they discuss their scholarship, lived experience, and how their work is informed by and relates to theories of decoloniality.
For further information and to access the podcast at:
7. Zoom talk about the satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (1906–1931)
Saturday, March 5th (4pm PST/ 7pm EST): A speech and conversation by Dr. Janet Afary (speaker) and Dr. Hasan Javadi (discussant) on the well-known satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (1906–1931). As usual, we will start with the speaker’s speech, followed by a conversation between the speaker and the discussant, and closing with a Q&A session with the audience. You may also submit a question or two upon registration.
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TALK OVERVIEW: In the early 20th century, a group of artists and intellectuals in Transcaucasia reinterpreted a Middle Eastern trickster figure to construct a reformist and anti-colonial Muslim discourse with a strong emphasis on social and political reforms. Using folklore, visual art, and satire, their periodical Mollā Nasreddin reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world, impacting the thinking of a generation.
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SPEAKER: Janet Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is a historian of modern Iran and has a PhD in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Rackham Dissertation Award. Previously she taught at the Department of History and the Program in Women’s Studies at Purdue University, where she was appointed a University Faculty Scholar. Her books include: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009, winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize); The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1996, winner of Dehkhoda Institute Book Awardj; and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005, winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women’s Studies); (with John R. Perry) Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire in Iran (Yale University Press, 2016), Honorable Mention Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.
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DISCUSSANT: Hasan Javadi was born in Tabriz, Iran to a distinguished family of administrators and scholars. He has taught English and Persian literature at the University of Cambridge, Tehran University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including Satire in Persian Literature, and Persian Literary Influence on English Literature. For Mage he translated Obeyd-E Zakani: Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works. His translations include: Forough Farrokhzad’s Another Birth and Other Poems, and with Willem Floor, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov’s The Heavenly Rose-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan; Evliya Chelebi’s Travels in Iran and the Caucasus, 1647 and 1654; and Wake Up Call: Memoirs of a Moslem Woman’s Struggle to Educate Her People, 1907-1931. He edited Letters From Tabriz: The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constitutional Movement.
Now retired, Dr. Javadi lives in the Washington DC area, where he is working on original scholarship and translations of Persian literature.
8. Panel (March 11): What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?
To register for “What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?” (Friday, March 11; 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific time), please click here.
Panel description below:
In recent years, the study of the Persianate world has gained more momentum. Scholars have discussed and debated its meaning, utility, and value as a category of analysis for different disciplines, and cultural and historical geographies. This panel will interrogate the value of the Persianate for the study of Afghanistan and Afghan history by using this evolving framework and its attendant methodologies and presuppositions as a point of entry into myriad historical, literary, and cultural sources and questions.
Our discussion will span the 16th through the 20th centuries and includes analysis of a varied body of primary sources in different languages: royal autobiographies, chronicle geography, poetry, medical records, diasporic periodicals, and others. The desired outcome of this discussion will be to articulate a more locally differentiated and less romanticizing use of the Persianate in our current scholarly milieu.
Panelists:
Marjan Wardaki (Yale)
Nicolas Roth (Harvard)
Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley)
Discussant:
Aria Fani (University of Washington)
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Aria Fani | www.ariafani.com
Assistant Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
9. Farzaneh Family Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies, College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma
Deadline for Applications: April 10
The University’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies invites applications for a two-year Farzaneh Family Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies. Disciplinary field is open. Applicants with a specialization in US-Iranian relations and/or the politics of contemporary Iran are especially encouraged to apply.
The term of the fellowship will begin on August 1st, 2022, at a salary of $40,000 per year, plus benefits and additional support for conference travel. Applicants must have received their PhD during the past five years, and no later than July 1st, 2022.
The fellow will be expected to be in residence at the University of Oklahoma during the term of the fellowship, teach one course per year in OU’s Dept. of International and Area Studies, organize a lecture series, and participate in the intellectual life of the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies.
In addition to a letter of application, applicants should include a full CV, two course descriptions for proposed courses to be taught at OU, a research statement describing the work they plan to complete during the term of the fellowship, full contact information (including email addresses) for two recommenders, and a statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Review of applications will begin on April 10th and remain open until filled.
All application materials must be submitted via email to Stephanie Sager at the Department of International and Area Studies, at the following email address: dias@ou.edu
For inquiries contact: Afshin Marashi (amarashi@ou.edu )
The mission of the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies is to coordinate a variety of teaching, research, and outreach activities at the University of Oklahoma that explore the history, culture, society, and politics of Iran, the Persian Gulf, and those regions historically shaped by the Persian language.
For more information about the Farzaneh Center see:
https://www.ou.edu/cis/sponsored_programs/farzaneh-family-center
- March 05, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Lecture: “The Rituals of the Zoroastrians from Antiquity to the Present Day” by Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Free University of Berlin), Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 10 March 2022, 6:30 pm CET
Zoroastrian rituals are still accompanied by the recitation of texts in Avestic, an ancient Iranian language, in India, Iran and the diaspora. These texts were probably written before the 5th century BCE for the perfor-mance of similar rituals. Zoroastrianism is thus characterised by one of the longest ritual continuities in the world.
Information and registration: https://www.smb.museum/en/events/detail/the-rituals-of-the-zoroastrians-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day-2022-03-10-183000-127130/
2. 9es Journées d’études de la Halqa : « Marges, Marginalités, Minorations et Minorités dans les mondes musulmans contemporains (XIXe – XXIe siècles) », Lyon, 9-10 juin 2022
L’appel à communications est ouvert aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses de toutes écoles, universités et institutions, spécialistes de l’islam et des mondes musulmans, quelle que soit leur discipline (sciences sociales, art et littérature, islamologie, etc.).
Les propositions de communication (en français ou en anglais) doivent être adressées avant le 28 mars 2022 à l’adresse halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com.
Information : https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5108
3. HYBRID Session on “Islamic Seas and Shores – Connecting the Medieval Maritime World” during the Annual ASOR Meeting, Boston, Virtual 19-23 October 2022, In Person 16-19 November 2022
Focusing on how the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean connected far-flung cultures, communities, and economies, this session will explore these connections region-by-region, to create a broader understanding of the development, expansion, and impact of Islamic maritime networks.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022.
4. Conference: “Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts”, DFG Graduate School “Empires”, University Freiburg, Germany, 1-3 December 2022
Members from all disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences, or interdisciplinary combinations within these fields, are invited to participate. Themes: Imperial pasts and their use as means of political justification; transformation of self-images or identities formed under imperial rule in times of crisis or in post-imperial situations; the effect of imperial pasts on imagined futures and progress.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 March 2022.
Information: https://www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/events/annual-conference-2022
5. Aquisitions Editor Islamic Studies, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin
Profil: Abgeschlossenes Studium in Islamwissenschaft oder verwandtem orientalistischen Fach, idealerweise mit einer Promotion; erste praktische Erfahrungen in einem Wissenschaftsverlag oder im Publikationswesen; sehr gute deutsche und englische Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift; Arabischkenntnisse und idealer-weise Kenntnisse in einer weiteren nahöstlichen Sprache.
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. März 2022.
Information: https://de-gruyter.jobbase.io/job/xaf2p7pbiy0wh8wkeuqlzva8gjv53r9
6. Three Post-Doctoral Positions for Research on “Visuality in the Qur`an and Early Islam”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Outstanding scholars can apply to join the research project for one of the following research areas: Vision and Visuality in Early Islamic Law and/ or theology; Vision and Visuality in Early Islamic Hagiography and/ or Historiography; Vision and Visuality in Arabic Poetry and/ or Early Islamic Rhetoric
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2022.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63029
7. Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Applicants should hold at least an M.A. or Ph.D. in any Arabic Studies related field including language, lin-guistics, literature, translation, and foreign language education. We seek candidates who have experience teaching Arabic as a second language at institutions of higher education and who possess native or nearna-tive competence in Arabic and English.
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2022.
Information: https://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp?JOBID=142918#pageTop
8. ONLINE Mentoring Session: “Planning for Publication?” MENA Social Policy Network, Early Career Research Initiative, Maastricht University, 16 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm CET
Working on social policy in the MENA and looking for opportunities to publish your work? We are hosting Daniel Mather from Elgar Publishing House and Dr Raimundo Soto from Middle East Development Journal to talk us through the publication process.
Information: https://www.menasp.com/en/news/sign-up-for-our-upcoming-ecr-workshop-on-how-to-publish/
9. Fellowships in France (2 or 3 Months) for Young Post-doc Researchers in Social Sciences and Humanities from the South and East Mediterranean
This program is open to researchers originating from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Marocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria and affiliated to one of the 140 Universities member of UNIMED.
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2022. Information: https://www.uni-med.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/English-Call-Unimed-2022.pdf
10. Ottoman Summer Program (OTSP)
Date: 27 June – 4 August 2022
Application Period: 15 February – 15 March 2022.
Organized by Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), this 6-weeks intensive in person summer program aims to develop students’ reading and comprehension skills and expertise on a variety of Ottoman sources including archival documents, various manuscripts, and epigraphic material. The material will present a wide array of content and narrative types. The program is designed to accommodate the needs of participants entering with different levels of Ottoman literacy. Ottoman classes are complemented by Persian, Arabic and modern Turkish classes.
Deadline for applications:15 March 2022.
Information: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/programs/ottoman-summer-program/
11. Call for Submissions: Al Noor, the Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College
Deadline for submissions: 4 April 2022.
Information:
12. “Kingdom of Clowns: Theatre as a Source for Writing History” by Sheida Dayani (Princeton) | Wed. March 2 @ Noon
ZOOM LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1VmzDFaCROakQnIRsDTOUQ
Sheida Dayani
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
Princeton University
Her current book project, Making History with Theatre in Modern Iran: Juggling Revolutionaries is forthcoming 2023.
13. 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 is April 15, 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.
14. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »
Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI
Jeudi 10 Mars 2022
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 10 mars 2022 de 17h à 19h, en présentiel et sur Zoom. Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir les deux conférences suivantes :
Philip Bockholt (Leipzig University):
“Translating Works of World History on the Western Fringe of the Persianate World: Two Case Studies from Ottoman Istanbul”
Abstract: From the 14th century onwards, thousands of works were translated from Persian and Arabic into Ottoman Turkish. Despite the rich source material, which includes works of various genres that can be found today in manuscript collections in Turkey, Europe, and North America, the individual agents in this transfer of knowledge have not yet been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to examine the translation processes of two major works of Persian historiography, Mīrkhvānd’s Rawżat al-Ṣafā (Garden of Purity) and Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-Siyar (Beloved of Careers). Both chronicles cover the history of the Islamic world up to about 1500 and were translated in Ottoman Istanbul in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. Based on the surviving manuscripts of the translations of both works, the question of who translated what exactly for whom and how the content of the works was adapted to the intended readership will be investigated. The two works lend themselves to this because the approach to multi-volume chronicles was different: while the translation of the Rawżat al-Ṣafā can be traced back to a single translator, the Turkish version of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar was produced by a team of translators directly commissioned by the grand vezir. The analysis of the translation processes sheds light on the relationships between scholars and patrons as well as on the transmission of texts against the respective religious and political background of the Eastern Mediterranean in the early modern period. In this context, broader questions about the concept of Persophonie / Persianate world at its western edge will also be addressed.
Selected bibliography:
İnan, Murat Umut: Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World, in: Nile Green (ed.): The Persianate World: the Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, Oakland/CA: UCP, 2019, pp. 75–92.
İnan, Murat Umut: Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700, in: Mary Hammond (ed.): The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers, Edinburgh: EUP, 2020, pp. 160–181.
Mélisande Bizoirre (chercheuse associée au LA3M, UMR 7298)
« Utiliser l’art pour légitimer son pouvoir : Politiques artistiques des souverains iraniens après la chute d’Ispahan (1722-1750) »
Résumé : La période qui suit la prise de la ville d’Isfahan par les Afghans en 1722 et le démantèlement de l’empire safavide, a longtemps été négligée, notamment dans les études d’histoire de l’art. Elle s’avère pourtant féconde, surtout au regard du mécénat royal. Souffrant d’un fort déficit de légitimité, les différents souverains qui se succèdent sur le trône iranien utilisent la production artistique pour se mettre en scène et affirmer leur domination. Ils élaborent ainsi des stratégies destinées aussi bien aux puissances étrangères qu’à la propagande interne, qui leur permettent de se poser en défenseurs de la religion, en protecteurs du peuple et en continuateurs d’une histoire longue aussi bien turque que persane. Inscriptions monumentales, grands travaux et restaurations et imagerie royale témoignent de cette recherche de légitimité par la culture matérielle, tant à Isfahan que dans le Khorasan et plus largement sur l’ensemble du territoire iranien.
Orientations bibliographiques :
Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant, London : I. B. Tauris, 2009
Ernest S. Tucker. Nadir Shah’s quest for legitimacy in post-Safavid Iran. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Pour suivre la séance : en distanciel (Zoom) ou en présentiel (Salle 3.15, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris). Inscription obligatoire : http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/seminaire-cermi-societes-politiques-cultures-monde-iranien-1
- March 01, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe
Routledge, 2021
Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti, eds.,
Online-book presentation in the frame of “ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art” (SOAS University of London, convened by Professor Anna Contadini) on 3 March 2022, 6 pm UK time. Registrations with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 March.
2. CfP: A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire
For the final conference of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000) we will focus on the rhetoric of social dependency. How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in the early Islamicate empire? We want to examine how relationships between individuals, and between and within groups, are referred to, and how other forms of solidarity underwriting social cohesion are cultivated and perpetuated.
What words, expressions and visual tools are used to frame social relationships? And how are they employed to initiate, operationalise and maintain those relationships? How are connections between groups and individuals defined and how are those formulations implemented to shape and manage, but also end, such associations? How is language employed to establish ties by labelling relationships in organised ways and invoking commonalities and shared experiences that confirm the presence or absence of connections and how are these used to realise tactical goals?
For more information see our website: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/cfp-a-matter-of-speech-language-of-social-interdependency-in-the-early-islamicate-empire/
The Conference will take place 8-10 December 2022 at Leiden University
The deadline for the CfP is 1 April 2022.
3. AKU-ISMC
Introduction to the Study of Islam and Muslims
Online Short Course
March 21-31 over six sessions
For information and to book, see:
4. Tracing Arab and Muslim Women’s Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism
By Shatha Almutawa
American University, USA
Wednesday 02 March 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/94799815277
Abstract: This lecture explores the role of Arab and Muslim women in resistance movements in lands colonized by the British, the French, the Dutch, and the Portuguese. Women experienced significant changes to their lifestyles, freedoms, and safety under colonialism in Egypt, Algeria, the Arabian Peninsula, India, and beyond. They participated in armed and non-violent resistance movements against the violence, humiliation, and erasure that colonizers inflicted on their communities. The widespread colonization of Muslim populations led Muslims and non-Muslim Arabs to unite despite cultural, linguistic, religious, and geographical differences. As a result, ideas of a “Muslim world” and Arab nationalism emerged in the works of historians, activists, politicians, and theologians.
This lecture traces the voices and actions of women in the midst of these international movements and transnational transitions.
Bio: Shatha Almutawa holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the American University. Her research has focused on Islamic intellectual history, Islamic philosophy, Postcolonialism, literary studies of Islamic traditions, and women and gender in Islam. Her publications include “‘The Death of the Body Is the Birth of the Soul’: Contradictory Views on the Resurrection in Rasa’il Ikhwan Al-Safa” in Studia Islamica (2018); and a chapter on the status of women in the United Arab Emirates in the book Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Citizenship and Justice (2005). She is currently completing work on a critical edition and translation of Epistle 42 of Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa (OUP/ Institute of Isma’ili Studies).
5. Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures (DFDS) 9th meeting.
Prioritization in religious research: text access, text interpretation, or text testing?
Dr. Mohammad Hassan Ahmadi, University of Tehran
Wednesday Mar. 2 ,2022 – 4:00 PM, Tehran zoom
Join us for registration and More information via:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/ChiWkBj2mW0Ln9Ld7QpAJQ
Best wishes,
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Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Asso. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website:http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
6. Open Access Publication – Sehen im Vergleich. Transformationen von Blicken in der persischen und westeuropäischen Buchmalerei
Vera Beyer
arthistoricum.net, 2022
https://books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/arthistoricum/catalog/book/590?lang=en
7. Webinars Series – Islamic Manuscript Studies, first lecture of the series : “Types of Authorship and its Relations in Arab Heritage” – 13 March 2022 / 1:00–2:30pm (time in Doha and Istanbul)
What is Islamic manuscript studies? Which subjects are most studied in the field? What are the latest developments in studying the Islamic manuscript culture? What are the current resources and research literature?
These and many other questions about the Islamic manuscript culture are in the heart of a lecture series organized jointly by Qatar National Library and the Center for Manuscript Studies at Fatih Sultan Mehmed Waqf University in Istanbul. The talks will be held monthly by renowned international experts in Islamic codicology and manuscript studies, addressing scholars and the general audience alike. Lectures will be conducted online via Zoom in English or Arabic with simultaneous translation.
The March lecture is entitled “Types of Authorship and its Relations in Arab Heritage” and will be delivered by Professor Kamal Arafat Nabhan, Professor of Information Science, who authored the reference book The Genius of Arabic Authorship: Text Relations and Scientific Communication, a pioneering book that won international prizes and taught as part of academic courses in several Arab universities for postgraduate studies.
For more information you can contact : Steohane Ipert or Mahmoud M. Gomaa
To register to attend (QNL lectures are free) : https://ssl.eventilla.com/event/eKdN1
8. The Journeys of Kalila and Dimna: Itineraries of Fables in the Literature and Arts of the Islamic World(Leiden: Brill, 2022)
Eds., Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Aïda El Khiari and Annie Vernay-Nouri.
https://brill.com/view/title/60393
9. Iranian Studies Āvānegār Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Friday, April 8, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom
Āvānegār, a collaborative documentary narrated by Dr. Mohsen Mohammadi (Director of Indo-Persian Music at UCLA) explores the history of transcription of Iranian music, based on decades of research in various archives in Iran, Europe, and the United States. Rare historical documents and sources are presented in the film, and several historical notations of Iranian music are performed. Exclusively for the film, Dr. Reza Vali (Professor of Composition at Carnegie Mellon University) arranged a five-movement piece that is performed by an ensemble of notable American musicians. Moreover, several prominent Iranian musicians are featured, including (in Persian alphabetical order) Navid Afghah, Ali Bahramifard, Kazem Davoudian, Siroos Jamali, Siamak Jahangiri, Layla Ramezan, and Behzad Ravaqi. This film is dedicated to the memory of Mohammad-Taghi Massoudieh (1927–1999), whose publications are invaluable and incomparable sources for researchers, musicians, composers, and all who are interested in Iranian music.
- February 26, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice
Call for Papers (Deadline 30/06/2022)
The Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice (MJTILP) is pleased to announce the call for papers for its forthcoming Volume 18, 2022.
The MJTILP is a peer reviewed journal and indexed on SCOPUS. The journal is available at the www.electronicpublications.org and can also be accessed on HeinOnline. The journal welcomes submission of articles that meet its objectives for consideration with a view to publication.
The journal comprises of three sections:(1) Articles; (2) Recent Developments; and (3) Book Reviews.
The normal word length for articles is between 5000-15000 words including footnotes. The journal also welcomes shorter contributions (between 2000 to 3000 words) for its ‘Recent Developments’ section. The MJTILP is not restricted to any specific field of law and aims to cover a wide range of subjects relevant to Islamic law and practice. Topics of particular interest include: transnational forms of Islamic law; constitutional developments, law reform and application of international lawin the Muslim world; application of Sharia in Muslim or non-Muslim States; accommodation of Muslims in non-Muslim State; comparative practices of Muslim majority States; and intersections between Islamic law and international law or other religious and secular legal systems. For detailed aims of the MJTILP, please visit the journal’s website: https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/46
The journal also welcomes reviews of monographs and edited collections published recently on any of the above topics. For book review enquiries, please get in touch with our Book Review Editor Dr Khaled Bashir (khaled.bashir@abdn.ac.uk ).
All submissions must be original, unpublished works, and not under consideration elsewhere. All publications are subject to transfer of copyright to the publisher. We are happy to discuss permissions to authors on justifiable grounds.
Submissions: Editorial correspondence, including submissions to the journal should be made electronically to Editor-in-Chief of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice Dr Ahmad Ghouri via email: a.a.ghouri@outlook.com .For further information, including submission criteria and style guidelines please refer tothe journal website: http://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue.php?id=46 .Advance Publications: Accepted manuscripts may be first published online as ‘Advance Publications’. All Advance Publications will be included in the subsequent Issue/Volume of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice.
2. Applications are now open for a National Endowment for the Humanities training institute on digital publishing that will be held in hybrid format at the Brown University Library in July 11-29, 2022.
This is meant for scholars interested to learn more about digital publishing, including matters such as conceptualization, design, available platforms (Manifold, Scalar, WordPress), budgeting, and funding sources. Presenters will include authors who have published digital books or are writing them now, university press editors and directors, designers, and technological specialists.
The application is open to scholars of all ranks, including university faculty and adjuncts, postdoctoral researchers, and independent scholars. Applicants must have a Ph.D.
Applicants based in any country are welcome, though the NEH Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (IATDH) program focuses on scholars currently studying or employed at institutions in the U.S. Thus, U.S. citizens and/or U.S.-based scholars will be given priority. International applicants and/or persons without a current U.S. visa should note that, if selected and if an in-person meeting is possible, a visa cannot be guaranteed.
Closing date: 15 March, 2022
For details and the application, please visit:
https://library.brown.edu/neh-institute-born-digital-scholarly-publishing/
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Schooling Egypt’s New Elite: Class and Belonging in Cairo’s International Schools” with Noha Roushdy (CEDEJ/Boston), CEDEJ/IFAO, Cairo, 21 February 2022, 4:00 pm EET
Discussant: Daniele Cantini (University of Halle).
Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScevAFGG6HDzydBlhDwZqY5UzMfBxtKBJuI4r5uS9PtmDsuFg/viewform
4. ONLINE Webinar on “Nursing, Empire, & Mobility: American Mission Nurses in Iran & Iranian Nurses in the U.S., 1907-1979” by Lydia Wytenbroek, Bishop`s University, Canada, 23 February 2022, 2:30 pm ET
Information and registration:
5. ONLINE Seminar on “The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism”, by Hammami, Abu-Lughod and Shalhoub-Kevorkina, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 25 February 2022, 12:00 pm – 01:30 pm ET
This seminar is based on the findings of a three-year collaborative research project between feminist scholars of the Middle East and South Asia that explored these questions across a range of intersecting local, national, and global contexts, in the process uncovering the ways in which religion and racialized ethnicity, particularly “the Muslim question,” run deeply through the international governance structures of GBVAW, even when insistently disavowed.
Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2022/gender-violence-geopolitics-and-feminism
6. ONLINE Webinar: “Establishing Jordan’s First Online LGBTQ Magazine” by its Founder Khalid Abdel-Hadi, , Brown University, Providence, RI, 3 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET
Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iJlr7Wq_TSi0gYnQEwI3Wg
7. ONLINE Webinar: “The Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement: Gender, Body Politics and Militant Femininities” by Isabel Käser, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET
Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LALHmlxMR6ixDBiTO8Rtzw
8. Panel on “Is an Alternative World Possible? Beyond Neoliberalism: Mapping Alternative Visions and Practices from the MENA Region”, during the 15th Conference of SeSaMO, Naples, 22-24 June 2022
The panel aims at exploring alternative practices to neoliberalism from the MENA region, with the objective to provide a space for academic reflection. It is open to alternative discourses to neoliberalism by scholars, protest movements and civil society organizations as well as concrete bottom-up local initiatives, experiments and projects that provide examples of more sustainable economies.
Deadline for abstracts: 13 March 2022
Information: http://www.sesamoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/30.-Paciello.pdf
9. Workshop: “Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 30 June – 2 July 2022
The organizers seek contributions which foreground the figure of God and divine-human relations in the contemporary Arab world, across religious traditions and from numerous disciplines—particularly anthropology, sociology, history, and religious studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 9 March 2022. Information: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dq21g3b007sy6w6/Reckoning%20with%20God%20CFP.pdf?dl=0
10. Conference on “Contemporary Forms of Racism and Discrimination (Focus MENA Region)”, Centre for the Social Study of Migration and Refugees (CESSMIR), University of Ghent, PhD Pre-Conference 18-19 September 2022, Main Conference 19-21 September 2022
We strongly welcome empirical and theoretical contributions reflecting on the processes of racism, discrimi-nation and exclusion in the Global South. We also particularly welcome contributions aiming to bridge race and migration studies in Europe.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022. Information: https://www.ugent.be/cessmir/en/conference-2022#Call-forcontributions
11. Conference: “30 Years after Richard M. Frank: Al-Ghazali and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam”, Yale Department of Religious Studies, 7-8 April 2023
Contributions are invited on the impact of al-Ghazālī and Avicenna on post-classical Arabic and Islamicate intellectual history, especially within the domains of falsafa and kalām and their intersection with Sufism, the natural and occult sciences, and the philosophy of law (uṣūl al-fiqh).
Deadline for submissions: 15 April 2022. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2022/02/17/call-for-papers-30-years-after-richard-m.-frank-al-ghazali-and-avicenna-in-post-classical-islam
12. International Conference: “Religious Renewal in Times of Crisis” (Focus Middle East and Islamic History), University of Nebraska Omaha and Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Postponed until 24-28 April 2023
The scope of this academic event is the study of religious renewal movements and their emergence in times of crisis across the world and history – with a special focus on how they have impacted the three Abrahamic religions and the city of Jerusalem.
Deadline for abstract: Fall 2022. Information: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-arts-and-sciences/religion/research/religious-renewal-in-times-of-crisis-conference.php
13. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Culture Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Candidates must have native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English and will have a record of excellence in language instruction. They must hold a Ph.D. in Arabic language and literature, translation, media studies, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, language education, or another related field.
Deadline for applications: 14 March 2022. Information: https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/2533
14. Lecturer of Arabic at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Qualifications: MA degree and a minimum of one year of teaching experience; a native or near-native lan-guage fluency, demonstrate excellence and experience in language instruction at the college level and be familiar with effective application of current technologies to foreign language learning.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2022. Information: https://careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafayette-Arabic-Lecturer-IN-47906/844426800/
15. CALL FOR PAPERS
Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, one of the leading figures of the renewal period, is a scholar renowned for his works in the fields of kalam, mathematics, astronomy, and logic.
On the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Samarqandī’s passing we are inviting researchers to submit articles on Shams al-Dīn al-Samarqandī, one of the leading figures of the renewal period and a scholar renowned for his works in the fields of kalam, mathematics, astronomy, and logic.
Deadline for contributions: 31 May 2022. Information:
https://nazariyat.org/en/special-issues/semseddin-es-semerkandi-ozel-sayisi
16. Proposals for New Book Series “South-South Migration” (Springer Nature)
The book series encompasses distinct fields such as international migration, internal migration, remittances, migrant entrepreneurship, diaspora philanthropy, social cost of migration, political and environmental refu-gees, gender and migration, labor migration, migration policy, the political economy of migration, migrants’ rights, and other migration-related issues in the global South.
Information: https://www.springer.com/series/16846
17. 1 year Visiting Assistant Position: Asian Islam (Hamilton College)
Hamilton College: Hamilton College Faculty
Location
Clinton, NY
Open Date
Jan 21, 2022
Deadline
Mar 05, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Asian Studies program of Hamilton College invites applications for a one-year visiting position in any discipline on Islam in Asia, including Iran/Persia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, to begin on July 1, 2022. Mastery of a relevant Asian language is expected. Teaching expertise should include an introductory course on Islam, a survey on the history of Islam in Asia, and an upper-level course based on the successful candidate’s area of specialization. Ph.D. by the time of appointment is preferred, but ABDs nearing completion of the dissertation will be considered. Teaching load is five courses for the year, including an introductory course on Islam, a survey of Islam in Asia, and courses in the candidate’s discipline and area of specialization.
Candidates should submit a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, and two course syllabi to Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/101756. The applicant’s cover letter should address the ways in which they would further the College’s goal of building a diverse educational environment. Candidates should address correspondence to Professor Thomas Wilson, Director of Asian Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323.
Application deadline is March 5, 2022.
Hamilton (www.hamilton.edu) is a residential liberal arts college located in upstate New York. Applicants with dual-career considerations can find other Hamilton and nearby academic job listings at https://www.hercjobs.org/regions/higher-ed-careers-upstate-new-york/, as well as additional information at https://www.hamilton.edu/dof/faculty-development/resources-for-prospective-or-new-faculty/opportunities-for-spouses-or-partners (Opportunities for Spouses or Partners). Hamilton College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity in all areas of the campus community. Hamilton provides domestic partner benefits. Candidates from underrepresented groups in higher education are especially encouraged to apply.
18. ZOOM – ‘All World Is My Home: The Depiction of Migration in Modern Iranian Media’ – B Tabarraee (Chicago, 5pm, 24.2.22)
The Persian Circle at the University of Chicago
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/persiancircle/
You can join on zoom at the following URL: https://tinyurl.com/persiancircle.
19. Wagner College – Visiting Assistant Professor – History of Africa, the Middle East or South Asia and the History of Islam
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63043
Closing date : June 1, 2022
20. Hebrew University of Jerusalem – Three Postdoctoral Researchers – Islam & Vision
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63029
Deadline for application is March 15, 2022.
21. Harvard Art Museums – Norma Jean Calderwood Associate Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63065
Closing date: 19.3.22
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.2022 Spring Meeting: Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
April 9-10, 2022
For more information and to register, click “REGISTER HERE” through the following link, then pay a 15$ fee via Paypal at the bottom of the page:
https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0
The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) Spring 2022 workshop is being held April 9-10, 2022 at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, AL. The workshop will focus on “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa” and is being organized by a committee chaired by Dr. Waleed Hazbun (University of Alabama). Papers presented at the 2022 workshop will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Tourism History.
We are planning an in-person workshop and will follow CDC safety guidance and the University of Alabama policy which requires masks inside all academic buildings. We recommend that all attendees be fully vaccinated and boosted.
2.Call for Applications: Harvard University AKPIA 2022-23 Fellowships and Associateships
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63028
Deadline: 1 April, 2022
3. Doctoral Scholarship in Islamic Art, University of Oxford
The Khalili Research Centre is offering a scholarship for a student of exceptional promise to undertake a DPhil in Islamic Art and/or Architecture at the University of Oxford. The scholarship will cover fees and maintenance for 3 years starting in October 2022. The successful candidate will have a fully-formed project with the requisite language and research skills already in place. Preference may be given to students working on one of the following fields: Umayyad art and architecture; Abbasid art and architecture; early Qur’ans; Ottoman art and architecture; the history of Islamic calligraphy before 1900.
How to apply
All candidates who apply for the DPhil at the University of Oxford with a supervisor at the Khalili Research Centre by 12 noon on 1 March 2022 will be considered for this scholarship:
https://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate/courses/dphil-oriental-studies
There are no restrictions of nationality. Candidates are advised to contact a prospective supervisor before applying.
The Khalili Research Centre
The Khalili Research Centre (KRC) is the University of Oxford’s centre for research into the art and material culture of the Islamic societies of the Middle East and of their non-Muslim members and neighbours. It brings together staff, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students specialising in Islamic art and architecture in a dedicated building at the heart of Oxford. The Centre benefits from the exceptional concentration of expertise in related fields at the University of Oxford, as well as the world-class library resources and object collections of the Bodleian Library, Ashmolean Museum, and further institutions in Oxford. For more information, please visit: https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/homekrc
Contact:
Prof. Alain George (alain.george@orinst.ox.ac.uk)
4. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor – The Humanities Collaboratory at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor invites applicants to a one-year postdoctoral fellowship dedicated to the study of the Mongol empire and its northern frontiers.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62969
Deadline: 25.2.22
5. HIAA Writing Groups – Sign up by February 21
HIAA Writing Groups
The HIAA board is pleased to announce a new matching service that will connect members seeking peer-review. Participants in HIAA Writing Groups will share, read, discuss, and gain productive feedback on their works in progress.
Who is in each Writing Group?
Each writing group will have 3–4 members. Participants will be matched based on their career stage. For example, doctoral students who have just begun their dissertation will be matched with other doctoral students who are in the same stage of their research. And, junior scholars working on their first book will be matched with other junior scholars who are working on their first books. To ensure diverse feedback and to avoid overlap, participants may have different research languages, different geographies of focus, and different time periods of expertise.
What do Writing Groups entail?
Participants will commit to meeting at least once every other week for a single two-hour meeting on Zoom (the precise schedule to be arranged between members). The first 90 minutes of each meeting will be a discussion of one participant’s in-progress writing (to be circulated and read before the meeting). The last 30 minutes of the meeting will be reserved to discuss each participant’s weekly writing plan and goals.
How do I participate in HIAA’s Writing Groups?
If you are interested in participating in a HIAA Writing Group, please fill out this form by February 21, 2022. Group assignments will be announced on February 28th.
6. The HIAA-Sponsored panel at CAA will be held virtually on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at 3:30 pm (EST). For full details of how to register and access the recording (available till April 14, 2022), please visit the CAA website. Details of the panel below:
The Racialized Figure in Islamic Art & Culture
Organized by Holley Ledbetter (chair) and Christiane Gruber (discussant), University of Michigan
* Holley Ledbetter (University of Michigan), “Making Race Visible: Racialized Automata at the Fatimid Court”
* Negar Habibi (University of Geneva), “Moon-Faced Idols and Slim-Waisted Women: Racialized Gender in Safavid Painting”
* Mira Xenia Schwerda (University of Edinburgh), “Ma’sumah Nizam Mafi and Her Unnamed Ladies-in-Waiting: Photography and the Politics of race in Qajar Iran”
* Sascha Crasnow (University of Michigan), “Can the Master’s Tools be Remade?: Nour Ballout’s Queer Muslim Archive”
The HIAA Majlis will be held virtually on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm (EST). Please register at: https://ucr.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqf-mtrzgrHtPVW2NX0b0U0w4JfoAvfg0C
The Majlis will feature the following papers:
* Srinanda Ganguly (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), “Gender and Patronage at the Tombs of Khusrau Bagh, Allahabad”
* Sylvia Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College), “Figures Rendered in Dyes: Representations of the Deccan on Painted Cotton Textiles from Seventeenth-Century South Asia”
* Atri Hatef Naiemi (University of Victoria), “In Search of Blessing: The Veneration of the Tomb of Ghazan Khan from the Ilkhanid Period to the Present”
* Sylvia Wu (University of Chicago), “Domes and Minarets: The Self-Destructive Portrayal of China’s Recent Mosques
* Meredyth Winter (Colgate University), “Mixed Messages” Mapping Class and Ethnicity within the Medieval Mosques of Qazwin”
7. Intellect is pleased to announce that Performing Islam 9.1-2 is out now!
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/performing-islam
Aims and Scope
Emerging from an international network project funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economics and Social Research Council, and research collaboration between academics and practitioners, Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related aesthetics. It focuses on the socio-cultural as well as historical and political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world. The journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and their diasporas. It promotes insightful research about performative expressions of Islam by performers and publics, and encompasses theoretical debates, empirical studies, postgraduate research, interviews with performers, research notes and queries, and reviews of books, conferences, festivals, events and performances.
This journal, which is rigorously peer-reviewed, pursues the methods and methodologies by which we attempt to approach original research in Islam in performance studies, and the study of the performativity inherent in Islam-related cultural production. Contributions that share research interests and experiences in interrelated areas of performative, homeland and diasporic negotiations, and the complexities of contemporary Islam are particularly welcomed.
Issue 9.1-2
Extended Article
The sonic performance of Islamic congregational prayer: Ṣalāh in mainstream Egyptian practice
MICHAEL FRISHKOPF
Article
Domestic Tension: Representation of Muslim artist’s body in online performance
SEYED JAFAR HEJAZ
8. Upcoming Event: Getting Published in an Academic Journal
BRISMES and CBRL are pleased to announce their second joint mentoring webinar for members. Targeting postgraduate students and early career researchers, these on-line events offer practical advice and support from specialists, equipping the next generation of Middle East scholars with the insights needed to get ahead in their research and careers.
This event brings together editors from the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES); Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME); Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS); and Contemporary Levant (CL). Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions specific to these journals and their respective processes.
Date: Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Time: 4:00PM (UK time)
Location: Zoom
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/events/graduate-section/getting-published
9. Kuwait Project Coordinator
LSE Middle East Centre
The LSE Middle East Centre seeks to hire an enthusiastic and proactive professional to coordinate the work of the Kuwait Programme, a major research programme involving multiple activities. The post holder will provide comprehensive administration for all Kuwait Programme activities, including projects, finances, HR, and communications. The Programme Coordinator will manage the completion of research commitments and expand networks among the Kuwait research community.
Deadline | 27 February 2022
10. Research Associate (Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Centre for Geopolitics (CfG), a research centre within the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, invites applications for three two-year, fixed-term post-doctoral Research Associates. The successful candidates will be responsible for conducting research on any area of geopolitics, past and present. Preference may be given to candidates researching peace-making in Middle East, the Indo-Pacific and the formation of the United Kingdom.
Deadline | 28 February 2022
11. Associate Professor
University of Warwick
The Institute for Global Sustainable Development (IGSD) is looking for an enthusiastic, committed and collegial individual who will develop their own research portfolio in the area of global sustainable development and complement the institute’s existing research streams. IGSD is seeking candidates with a research interest that is geographically focused in the Global South, and in particular in Africa, South America or the Middle East.
Deadline | 28 February 2022
12. Fellowship Opportunity x2
Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianization (SEPAD)
SEPAD is looking for two fellows to join their team for 6 months. Candidates must hold a PhD or be close to completion, be able to work collaboratively and have a robust research agenda in Middle East Studies. Please note that this is a non-resident and unpaid fellowship to be undertaken remotely, designed to help with professional development and networking.
Deadline | 28 February 2022
13. Call for Papers – XV Conference of SeSaMO
Conference | University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ | 22-24 of June 2022
Papers are invited for the annual conference of the Italian Society for Midde Eastern Studies (SeSaMO), “Explaining Crisis, Beyond Chaos. The Middle East and North Africa in Global Change”. Please click on the link below for a list and brief description of the selected open panels.
Deadline | 13 March 2022
More information
14. Mohammed Al Fahim Scholarship
LSE Middle East Centre
LSE Middle East Centre has recently announced a new scholarship opportunity for applicants from the Middle East or North Africa who are interested in pursuing postgraduate education at the London School of Economics. Three scholarships will be awarded, one per academic year, from 2022/23 entry onwards. The scholarship will support the costs for any taught master’s programme.
Deadline | 28 April 2022
More information
15. AIS Conference to Journal Paper Award
Association for Iranian Studies (AIS)
The AIS Conference to Journal Paper aims to recognize AIS members who are either PhD students or early career scholars and support them in the development of peer-reviewed work. The award winner will receive $300 and will be mentored through the review process at the Iranian Studies journal by a senior member of the AIS academic community. The applicant must be a current AIS member, have registered for Salamanca 2022, and have a paper accepted to the conference, although they do not need to be present at the time of the award announcement.
Deadline | 1 May 2022
More information
16. Call for Proposals – The Global Qur’an
Book Series | Open Book Publishers
The Global Qur’an is a new book series that looks at Muslim engagement with the Qur’an in a global perspective. The editors particularly encourage comparative studies, investigations of transregional dynamics, and interactions between local and global contexts. Contributions from scholars outside Western Europe and North America are especially welcome.
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