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1.Call for Contributors: History of the Qur’ān
The Qur’ān represents the focal point of Islam. Many studies have looked at its text, meanings, and interpretation. Yet, its transmission and historical development remain hitherto understudied. Recent studies have examined the relationship between the Qur’ān and its multiple modes of recitation, critically examining the notions of aḥruf and qiraʿāt. Other works have focussed on the question of tawātur in relation to these variances. There has also been a sustained interest in understanding the history of the Qur’ān through its manuscript tradition.
The aim of this edited volume is to bring together scholars working on these various approaches. We welcome any original article that contributes to our understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history. Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Qur’ānic manuscripts
- Compilation and codification of the Qur’ān
- Non-Uthmānic codices
- Aḥruf
- Qiraʿāt
- The Qur’ān and the question of tawātur
- Pre-modern Muslim understanding of the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
- Contemporary approaches to the Qur’ān’s transmission and history
Scholars interested in contributing should send via email:
- An extended abstract (approximately 900 words) stating the main argument and a brief overview of the article.
- A short bio (150 words).
After acceptance, full articles are expected to be approximately 7,000-9,000 words. A roundtable for the authors of the accepted articles is planned prior to publication at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education.
The proposal submission deadline is 29th July 2022.
Final Papers are due 13th January 2023. Submissions and any enquires are to be sent to Dr F. Redhwan Karim at: redhwan.karim@mihe.ac.uk.
2. Live-Online: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Upcoming Event from Carnegie – Wahhabism and the World
Monday, May 23, 2022 | 10:00 am EDT
Register here.
Saudi religious affairs have long had implications beyond the kingdom’s borders. Over decades and throughout the Muslim world, religious leaders have promoted a specific Saudi version of Islam that has become known as Wahhabism. Now that the Saudi government is overhauling religious affairs at home, how will contemporary changes inside the kingdom reverberate in its network beyond its borders?
Join the Carnegie Middle East Program to discuss an in-depth study of how Saudi Arabia’s religious sector continues to influence Islam across the globe. The event will feature Peter Mandaville, editor of Wahhabism and the World and contributing author Stéphane Lacroix, for a critical discussion of the book’s main findings and potential policy recommendations.
Yasmine Farouk will moderate the discussion.
3. Oxford Interfaith Forum: Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts
Sacred Literature in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: The Qur’an and Kafka: The Trial of Jesus and Josef K
Speaker: Professor Ismail Lala, Gulf University, Kuwait
Chair: Professor Emerita Glenda Abramson, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford, UK
Date: 25 May, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST| 19:00-20:00 CET | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
Philosophy in Interfaith Contexts Reading Group
Topic: Moral and Spiritual Courage: A Muslim Perspective.
Speaker: Professor Abdullah Antepli, Associate Professor of the Practice of Interfaith Relations at Duke Divinity School and Associate Professor of the Practice at Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, NC, USA.
Chair: Professor Clemence Boulouque, Carl and Bernice Witten Associate Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies, Columbia University, NY, USA.
Date: 2 June, 2022
Time: 18:00-19:00 BST | 10:00-11:00 PT | 13:00-14:00 ET
Venue: Online
Please register here for this session:
https://www.oxfordinterfaithforum.org/programs/thematic-international-interfaith-reading-groups/philosophy-in-interfaith-contexts/moral-and-spiritual-courage-a-muslim-perspective/
4. Open Access E-Book: Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
Rutger Kramer and Walter Pohl
Oxford, 2021
5. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11.2 is out now! Special Issue
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
Issue 11.2
Editorial
Hinterland Forces: Architectural Responses at the Margins
ANGELA ANDERSEN
Design in Theory Articles
Hinterland of a Hinterland: The Changing Capital Cities of Sultanate and Mughal Bengal
JAMES L. WESCOAT JR. AND RIO FISCHER
‘A Place of Our Own’: Puerto Rican Muslims and Their Architectural Responses as Quadruple Minorities
KEN CHITWOOD
NICOLE KANÇAL-FERRARI
BİRGÜL AÇIKYILDIZ
The Right to the Suburb: The ‘American Dream’ of Palestinian Citizens of Israel
GABRIEL SCHWAKE
ALVARO VELASCO PEREZ
Design in Practice Article
Ibb’s Grand Mosque: Heritage at Risk in Yemen’s Hinterland
MOHAMED SALEH AL-HAJ AND LILY FILSON
Book Reviews
Iran and the Deccan: Persianate Art, Culture, and Talent in Circulation, Ed. Keelan Overton (2020)
LAURA E. PARODI
CHRISTINE WOODHEAD
Mediating Museums: Exhibiting Material Culture in Tunisia (1881–2016), Virginie Rey (2019)
TINA BAROUTI
Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Ünver Rüstem, (2019)
GEORGE MANGINIS
What Is ‘Islamic’ Art? Between Religion and Perception, Wendy M. K. Shaw (2019)
ANNEKA LENSSEN
Exhibition and Film Festival Reviews
Fourteenth Annual Boston Palestine Film Festival, Online, October 16–25, 2020
REZA DAFTARIAN
JULIE TIMTE
Conference Précis
Regime Change, Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium, Online, April 15–18, 2021
ALEXANDER BREY
6. CFP – Ars Orientalis vol. 54 – Deadline Nov. 1, 2022
Ars Orientalis, a peer-reviewed annual journal published jointly by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and the Department of the History of Art, University of Michigan, invites submissions of original, innovative articles on the arts of the broad geographic area of Asia, from the ancient period to the contemporary.
Manuscripts should be 8,000 to 12,000 words (including endnotes). Ars Orientalis is a digital publication with a print-on-demand option. The digital volume also allows for the incorporation of other media, such as video, sound, and 3D models. Visual material must include permissions for print and online reproduction.
We are currently accepting submissions for volume 54 to be published in Fall 2024. Articles must be received by November 1, 2022 to be considered.
For more information, please visit: https://asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/submit/. To submit or request more information, please email managing editor Sana Mirza at ArsOrientalis@si.edu.
7. Consolidating Empire: Power and Elites in Jahangir’s India (1605-1627)
Corinne Lefèvre,
Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2022.
https://www.orientblackswan.com/details?id=9788178246499
8. Webinar – Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic – May 28
Please join us for a Zoom discussion on Sat, May 28th, 10am-3:30pm EST for Art & the Black Muslim Image.
A Zoom discussion on the essays from
“Black Muslim Portraiture in the Modern Atlantic”
The Muslim World Journal – Special Issue (Summer 2020)
These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow Mamout (3) Joseph Cinqué (4) Omar Ibn Sayyid and (5) The Bashi-Bazouk. They offer various interpretations, and this is precisely the reason this discussion is so vital. Then there’s the fact that these images are all men and Black, forcing us to question the male bias and racial assumptions in modern visual culture.
DISCUSSION PANELISTS
Zain Abdullah
Carl W. Ernst
Georgia Haseldine
Richard Brent Turner
James H. Johnston
Carol Eaton Soltis
Rebecca Hankins
Laura Macaluso
Timur Yuskaev
Nicolas Mumejian
Ellen McLarney
More info and register: https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/art-and-black-muslim-image
9. Islamochristiana is the annual scientific journal of PISAI (Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi e d’Islamistica) dedicated to Muslim-Christian dialogue. The journal publishes articles, documents and book reviews concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of Christian-Muslim dialogue, both past and present. Members of BRISMES are able to access articles published in Islamochristiana Volume 47 (2021). If you are interested in receiving a copy of any of the articles listed here, please email office@brismes.org.
10. Student members of BRISMES presenting at the annual conference are encouraged to apply for the 2022 Conference Student Paper Prize. The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
11. Project Coordinator (Part Time, Fixed Term)
University of Cambridge
The Department of Middle Eastern Studies invites applications for a Project Co-ordinator to work with the research team of the ERC-funded project ‘Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East’ (ALHOME) under the direction of Professor Geoffrey Khan. The project aims to reconstruct the complex, socio-religious past of Aramaic-speaking and Kurdish-speaking communities in Western Asia through a study of the history and interrelationship of their languages.
Deadline | 29 May 2022
12. 32nd BATAS Spring Symposium
Symposium | 28 May 2022 | Emmanuel College Cambridge
Registration is open for the 32nd Spring Symposium of the British Association for Turkish Area Studies (BATAS) which will be held in-person in Cambridge.
More information
13. From ‘the Last Great War of Antiquity’ to ‘Futuhat’:
Eastern Mediterranean Between the Sasanians and Byzantium
Online Lecture | 31 May 2022 | London Society for Medieval Studies
Speaker: Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden)
Founded in 1970/1, the London Society for Medieval Studies seeks to foster knowledge of, and dialogue about, the Middle Ages (c.500–c.1500 CE). Our fortnightly seminars showcase the latest advances in all areas of medieval studies, including history, art, politics, economics, literature and archaeology. All are welcome.
More information
14. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 31 mai 2022 / Tuesday 31st May 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur les arts du livre / In sights into the arts of the Book
Nomad artists, manuscripts and paintings: the circulation of pictorial models in Iran
by Nourane Ben Azzouna (associate professor, University of Strasbourg)
The transmission of models in illustrated Arabic manuscripts of Kalila wa Dimna
by Annie Vernay-Nouri (honorary chief curator, Bibliothèque nationale de France) and Aïda El Khiari (PhD candidate, Sorbonne-University)
Language: English
To participate, please register before May 30th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=131529_regards-sur-les-arts-du-livre
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
15. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
The final lecture for this season of the Women and Gender Forum titled:
‘Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts’
Lecture 10: Qaisra Shahraz, The Muslim Women’s Arts Foundation: ‘Celebrating and Exploring the Lives of Women’
Date/time: Tuesday 24 May 2022, 17:00 London-UK time on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/95182647227
- May 21, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Mirzā ʿAli-Qoli Khoʾi: The Master Illustrator of Persian Lithographed Books in the Qajar Period
Ulrich Marzolph and Roxana Zenhari
2 volumes (Brill, 2022)
https://brill.com/view/title/60564
https://brill.com/view/title/60936
2. Post: Collections Curator, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT
Closing date: June 1, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63415
3. HYBRID “10th Islamic Legal Studies Conference”, International Society of Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS), Aga Khan Centre, London, 19–21 May 2022
Information, program and registration: https://isils.net/isils/conferences/the-10th-islamic-legal-studies-conference-london-19-21-may-2022/
4. HYBRID Conference on “Labor in the Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (ca. 300-900 CE),” University of Chicago Center in Paris, 27-28 May 2022
The papers in this conference-workshop examine the question of labor in the Late Antique and medieval Islamic Near East especially from the perspective of documentary sources–papyri, documents from the Cairo geniza, and archaeological remains—rather than from literary sources, which formed the basis for most earlier work, including M. Shatzmiller’s magisterial Labour in the Medieval Islamic World (Brill, 1994).
Information and registration: https://centerinparis.uchicago.edu/events/labor-late-antique-and-early-islamic-near-east
5. ONLINE Book Lunch Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic (I.B. Tauris) by Dr Sevgi Adak (Aga Khan University), 6 June 2022, 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
Adak reveals how the interwar period marks a moment that the way women’s dress turned into an issue of national mobilisation. She uncovers the complexities of the Kemalist modernisation project by presenting unpublished archival data and investigating how women responded to anti-veiling campaigns.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-sevgi-adak-anti-veiling-campaigns-in-turkey-tickets-327923316467
6. 20th LMU Media Workshop: “Arab Cultural Studies and the Concept of Experience” with Tarik Sabry (University of Westminster), London, 23-24 June 2022
The aim of this workshop is to continue the inquiry into knowledge production within the field of Arab Cultural Studies. Tarik Sabry, editor of the volume Arab Cultural Studies. Mapping the Field (2012), invites us to think about possible objects of research and practices to be studied in relation to the concept of experience. This also includes a critical reading of British Cultural Studies.
Deadline for application: 20 May 2022. Information:
https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosaminstitut/veranstaltungen/20mws/index.html
7. Lecturer in Islamic History, School of History, Queen Mary University of London
The successful candidate will have a PhD in Islamic History or in a relevant field, experience of teaching at undergraduate and /or postgraduate level, and a track record of high-quality research or subject-specific pedagogical work published in appropriate renowned outlets. Higher education teaching accreditation is desi-rable.
Deadline for applications. 19 May 2022.
Information: https://ig24.i-grasp.com/fe/tpl_QMUL01.asp?newms=rf&ID=QMUL28627
8. Associate Professor in the History of the Middle East and Muslim Africa, University of Bergen, Norway
The research expertise of the applicant may lie within all or parts of the Middle East and Muslim Africa. Both modern and pre-modern history is relevant. The successful applicant must be able to teach and supervise students at all levels in the history of the Middle East, from the rise of Islam to the present day. Among recent research focuses in the department are Islamic organization and Islamic law, textual traditions and ritual practice.
Application deadline: 12 June 2022. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/226232/associate-professor-in-the-history-of-the-middle-east-and-muslim-africa
9. Mellon Fellowship Program to Support Emerging Displaced Scholars Working in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, Columbia Global Centers, Amman
Eligible candidates are scholars in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who have been forcibly uprooted from their home countries and respective academic institutions. They could be graduate students who have had their education disrupted or post-doctoral scholars in the early stages of their careers. Creative writers, artists, and curators may also apply.
Application deadline: 2 July 2022.
Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/mellon-fellowship-program-0
10. GTOT Award 2023 for Outstanding Theses and Dissertations in the Field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
Anyone who completed his or her thesis/dissertation in the fields of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies between 1 May 2020 and 21 December 2022 is eligible to apply. Theses in German, English and French from all European and Turkish Universities are accepted.
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2022. Information: http://www.gtot.org/award/cfa_2023/?lang=en
11. ONLINE Academic Summer School “The Middle East in Global Politics”, SOAS, University of London, 27 June – 8 July 2022
How should we go about studying the political agency and aspirations of almost half a billion people? To what extent are their fates tied to great power politics, and how can we account for phenomena of cooperation and solidarity in their regional affairs? This course will help students deliberate these questions, by placing the modern Middle East in its global context without losing sight of local and regional dynamics, cultures, and political traditions.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/summerschool/subjects/the-middle-east-in-global-politics/
12. Articles for Journal “YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies” 4 (2022) and 5 (2023)
Submissions of original research articles, opinion pieces and visual essays (Meclis), book and exhibition reviews in Turkish or English are accepted by researchers working on any period of the city through the lens of history, history of art and architecture, archaeology, sociology, anthropology, geography, urban planning, urban studies, and other related disciplines in humanities or social sciences.
Deadline for submissions: 15 June 2022. Information:
https://en.iae.org.tr/call-for-papers/20
13. CfP: Media & The Environment
Issue 34, Summer/Fall 2022 on “Media & the Environment ”
Arab Media & Society, the biannual journal of the Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism in the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo, is seeking submissions for our next issue on “Media & the Environment.”
With the heightened risks of water insecurity, the inequitable distribution of resources, and the continuous and increasing rate of climate displacement, accurate reporting on climate change has become imperative. Several Arab states have begun to prioritize environmental issues through the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and national strategic plans, such as Vision 2030. As Egypt prepares to host the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (UNFCCC COP 27), the environment has also received more attention in academic circles and media. This includes climate change’s effect on energy resources, migration, and even war and insecurity in the region. Owing to the importance of mitigating climate risks by raising awareness, and in light of COP27, Arab Media & Society has decided to focus on the environment in its upcoming issue 34 (summer/fall 2022).
Papers may address (but are not limited to) the suggested subtopics below:
- Media and communication perspectives on climate change
- Coverage of climate change and conflict/civil war
- Analysis on media and pollution (water, plastics, air, etc.)
- Reporting on water issues/crises
- Reporting on the environment in an era of warfare/turmoil
- Media laws and regulations relating to climate change and the environment
- Public awareness of climate and environmental issues
- Social media and the natural environment
- Media’s role in rallying support for climate change efforts
- Climate skepticism and the media
- Politicization of the environment in the media
- Media and climate activism
- Media and the SDGs/Vision 2030
- Media and communication perspective on sustainability and renewables
- ICT’s use for environmental issues/climate change mitigation
While we welcome submissions from diverse disciplines and perspectives, articles should relate in some way to the Arab world and its diaspora, and media or communication technology. Submissions for peer-review consideration should be received by August 1st, 2022; and all other submissions, including book and conference reviews, shorter research papers, and columns, should be received by August 15th, 2022. Submissions should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style and may be up to 10,000 words, including footnotes, and citations (author-date). All submissions should be sent as .doc or .docx files, and should include the author’s name as it will be published, their affiliation, and a brief abstract of no more than 150 words. Send articles and ideas to editor@arabmediasociety.com.
For more information on our publishing policies please visit www.arabmediasociety.com/publishing-policies/.
14. AKU-ISMC 25 June and 2 July 2022 Event – Islam in the RE Classroom
This two-day online conference aims to enhance the quality of learning and teaching about Islam in secondary schools in the UK. It engages with both the academic-theoretical and practical-pedagogical aspects of Religious Education.
On one hand, the conference aims to make teacher-practitioners more confident in teaching about Islam in mainstream secondary schools in the UK. On the other, it aims to initiate dialogue between the key stakeholders (include curriculum designers, researchers, PGCE RE faculty and trainee teachers) to ensure that Islam is represented with greater complexity in textbooks and the classroom.
Sessions in the conference, which will include academic papers and classroom case-study presentations, will invite discussion of Islam in different cultural contexts: instead of seeing Islam as the automatic or inevitable product of a scripture, we will consider how different Islams were produced in different environments, and how these environments invited different interpretations of scripture or led certain parts of scripture to be prioritised over others.
Presentations will consider the role of hermeneutical approaches to scripture in the classroom; the role of music and art in teaching about religion and the handling of controversial material in a classroom setting. They also engage with sociological questions: the self-identity of Muslim students; of debates about radicalisation and the state’s response and the different kinds of Islamophobias that students might encounter in Britain. Speakers will also engage with recent developments in British RE that position religion as a worldview and the possibilities of exploring different disciplinary lenses within the RE classroom itself.
Organisers
The conference is jointly hosted by the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London, and The Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) for UK.
Registration
This event is free but registration is essential. Register via Zoom.
15. POMEPS Studies 46: Environmental Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
In February 2022, POMEPS convened a virtual workshop bringing together interdisciplinary contributions from anthropology, public health, political science, history, and human geography. Their geographic scope includes Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait, and other Gulf countries. The papers grapple with the complexity and diversity of environmental politics and issues across the Middle East. In doing so, they contribute to important trends that have emerged in international and comparative environmental politics more broadly. Many of the papers highlight the importance of field-based research in producing insightful analyses, and all raise important and innovative questions that should inform future research in this area.
16. Open Access – The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
Roger Matthews, Hassan Fazeli Nashli, Amy Richardson
Routledge 2022
- May 17, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.GVSU – History of Tech/History of Medicine and US and/or World Surveys
Position Title: Department of History, Grand Valley State University, Two (2) Visiting Assistant Professorship Positions, 2022-2023: 1) History of Technology/History of Medicine and 2) World History and/or US History
Summary: The Department of History at Grand Valley State University invites applications for full-time Visiting (non-tenure-track) appointments for the 2022-2023 academic year, with the possibility for renewal, at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor (or at the rank of Visiting Instructor if ABD).
- For the History of Technology/Medicine position, the teaching load of four courses per semester will include surveys in the History of Technology and upper division surveys in the History of Medicine and Health. Region and time period of specialization are open
- For the World History and/or US History position, the teaching load of four courses per semester will include surveys in World and/or US History. Candidates who can teach both World History and US History surveys and have areas of expertise in the following areas are encouraged to apply: Global History, East Asian History, European History, African History and/or US African-American History, US Latinx History, US Asian-American History.
The History Department is especially interested in receiving applications from candidates from underrepresented groups, and from candidates who have interest and/or experience in working with diverse student and community populations. Grand Valley State University is an affirmative action and equal opportunity institution.
Required Qualifications and Education:
- ABD in History PhD program or related field.
- Experience in, demonstrated understanding of, or interest in social justice education and/or initiatives, and/or inclusion, diversity, and/or intercultural training.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, such as the ability to interact with others with respect and empathy.
Preferred Qualifications and Education:
- in History or related field.
- Teaching experience at the university level.
Responsibilities:
- Teaching four, three-credit courses per semester.
Salary/Benefits
The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The university offers an excellent comprehensive package that includes health/vision/dental plans, life insurance, retirement, sick/leave disability, tuition waiver, adoption resources, wellness coaching, and free access to campus fitness facilities. Family and child care options on and off-campus are also available. For a detailed description of benefits, please visit Visiting Faculty Benefits – Benefits and Wellness – Grand Valley State University (gvsu.edu).
Department/College: The Department of History consists of over thirty faculty committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching, cutting-edge scholarship, and public outreach and engagement. It also oversees a robust program in Social Studies Education, with dedicated faculty experts in this field. The faculty’s subfields of expertise range from US to African, European, East Asian, South Asian, Latin American, and Global History and include the subfields of Public History and the History of Science/Medicine/Technology. The department values a collegial teaching and working environment.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the largest college at Grand Valley, offering over 50 bachelor degrees and a growing number of advanced degrees in the natural and mathematical sciences, the fine arts and humanities, and the social sciences. CLAS is a student-centered and diverse learning community that engages in critical inquiry, extending knowledge to enrich and enliven individual and public life. Our faculty are active teacher-scholars committed to equitable, inclusive, career-connected, and community-engaged liberal arts and sciences education. There are many opportunities for collaboration within CLAS and across a broad group of partners on and off campus. We are interested in attracting a cohort of new faculty committed to these core values as we seek to foster a community where members from all backgrounds can live, learn, and thrive together.
Campus/University: Grand Valley University (GVSU) is a public comprehensive institution located in West Michigan with campuses in Allendale, downtown Grand Rapids, and Holland, plus centers in Detroit, Muskegon and Traverse City. The University attracts more than 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students with high quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities, and has been nationally recognized for innovativeness and its contribution to students’ social mobility. The greater Grand Rapids metropolitan area has a population of around one million people, is affordable, and offers rich cultural amenities. Grand Valley is located within easy driving distance of Chicago, Detroit, Lake Michigan beaches, and many other superb summer and winter recreational venues. Information can be found at Community Resources – Human Resources – Grand Valley State University (gvsu.edu). Grand Valley is highly rated for safety, sustainability, and veteran and LGBTQ friendliness, and is committed to supporting employees and their families in work-life balance.
How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit via email to hstdept@gvsu.edu (with attention to Dr. Michael Huner, Chair, Department of History): (1) a cover letter addressing qualifications and your motivation to teach for the History Department at GVSU, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) a statement of teaching philosophy that includes a commitment to inclusive excellence and a summary of ongoing and anticipated activities to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity (4) sample syllabi from a survey course and an upper-level course (5) two letters of reference, and (6) graduate transcripts (unofficial transcripts issued to students are acceptable to apply).
Email questions about the positions to: Dr. Michael Huner, hunerm@gvsu.edu
Application Deadline: The review process will begin on June 1, 2022, and continue until the positions are filled. The posting may be closed at any time at the discretion of the University.
2. Call for Papers: The Perspective of the Countryside in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World: The Ninth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference (Fayoum, 6–9 March 2023)
The majority of papyri from the Arab-Islamic world relate to the countryside, yet most modern studies focus on cities. The ISAP IX Conference hopes to shift the attention from urban elites to rural realities by exploring what documentary sources can tell us about the perspective of the inhabitants of the countryside. Texts preserved on papyri and other writing surfaces include stories of villagers often in their own words rather than from the perspective of outsiders. These everyday documents written in Egyptian villages in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, and other languages allow us to study the economy, religion, family life, agriculture, administration, mentalities, culture and many other facets of life in the countryside. Documents written in the cities, such as the Geniza corpus, also reveal rich details of life in the Egyptian countryside. We encourage participants to approach these topics from an interdisciplinary angle: materials from related fields, such as archaeology, hold untapped potential for papyrology. Comparison with other pre-modern rural societies are also particularly welcome, including documents written outside Egypt and longue durée perspectives.
Conference languages will be English, German, French, and Arabic. However, all lectures will be given in English.
Proposing a presentation:
Please send a 300-400-word abstract to Theresa Grabmaier (theresa.grabmaier at campus.lmu.de) no later than 1 August, 2022. Notification regarding the acceptance of proposals will be made by 1 December, 2022.
Participation with no presentation:
Pure attendance will be free. Please send a notice of intent to participate to Theresa Grabmaier (theresa.grabmaier at campus.lmu.de).
Conference fees:
There will be a conference fee of Euro 75 (25 for students and those without tenure-track positions). Participation in the conference will also require the payment of membership dues in ISAP (annual fee of Euro 25/15). Information on membership can be found on the ISAP website (www.naher-osten.lmu.de/isap). Conference and membership fees can be paid on site.
Conference organizers:
Lajos Berkes (New Testament Studies, HU Berlin); Ursula Hammed (Bsees) (Arabic and Islamic Studies, LMU Munich); Maher A. Eissa (Egyptology, Fayoum University); Andreas Kaplony (Arabic and Islamic Studies, LMU Munich); Marie Legendre (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh); Matt Malczycki (History, Auburn University); Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies and History, Princeton University); Naïm Vanthieghem (IHRT, Section arabe, CNRS Paris); Khaled Younes (University of Sadat City).
Travel subsidies:
It is hoped that the conference partners will be able to offer travel subsidies for scholars unable to obtain institutional funding for travel to Egypt and accommodation. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you plan to apply for a trqvel subsidy.
Further questions:
If you have any further questions about the conference, please contact Andreas Kaplony (andreas.kaplony at lmu.de).
3. Open Access Book: Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context
Editors: Marcela A. Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/view/title/60946
4. The Board of the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America welcomes your proposals for panels at next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Ibero-Medieval studies, broadly and diversely conceived. All relevant themes are welcome but we particularly welcome interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work, work attending to issues relating to diversity within our languages and domains, and diverse particiants.
Here is the ICMS’ announcement regarding next year’s format:
The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies will include traditional in-person sessions, virtual sessions via our online platform and some new blended-format sessions that make it possible for speakers to present and audiences to attend both in-person and online. We welcome proposals for sessions and papers both from scholars planning to attend ICMS on the ground here in Kalamazoo and those attending virtually from around the world.
IMANA also welcomes international participation, and commits to accommodating virtual attendance as much as possible.
While IMANA’s structure etc. will be discussed Friday 13 May at 11 a.m. during the Business Meeting (be there!!!), the deadline for panel proposals remains 1 June 2022, which leaves us very little time to vet panels for IMANA sponsorship, hence this call for sponsored sessions. IMANA is also very open to co-sponsoring with other organizations, whether specifically Iberian or focused around broader areas or topics.
Here’s the ICMS page on proposals: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions
Please submit proposals to the Board at your earliest convenience via this Google form: https://forms.gle/HqEU5Z32peTf6ZXSA
The Board — listed below — will consider your proposal and get back to you as soon as possible. This is a rather compressed time-frame of about 2 weeks, so we have to move quickly.
For any questions, you may contact me or any member of the Board.
A la espera de vuestras propuestas,
Linde M. Brocato, on behalf of the IMANA Board:
John Bollweg
Jes Boon
Robin M. Bower
Matt Desing
Emily Francomano
Ross Karlan
Nasser Meerkhan
Nuria Silleras-Fernández
5. The Department of Arab and Islamic Civlizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is holding a memorial celebration of the life of Dr Chahinda Karim (1943-2021). The memorial will take place on Saturday 14 May, 2022 at 6.00-8.00pm, in Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square Campus and will be streamed via Zoom. The event will include a launch of her posthumously published book Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon (AUC Press, 2021). Tributes will be followed by a reception in the fountain area.
All are welcome. Proof of vaccination may be requested at the gate.
6. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies (AWEJTLS) welcomes the submission of papers for a Special Issue of the Literature of Laughter. We have the honor to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Professor Manfred Malzahnfrom United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. The issue publication date is December 2022. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is August 31, More
For more information, visit the AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies on https://awej-tls.org/ Before sending your paper, please read the submission and Manuscript Guidelines for AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies. Please submit your paper online or send it as an attachment to: Info@awej.org
kind regards,
Arab World English Journal for
Translation & Literary Studies (AWEJTLS)
https://awej-tls.org/
7. Inperson/Zoom:
Centenaire de la Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan
SPLENDEUR DES GRANDS SITES D’AFGHANISTAN :
CENT ANS DE COOPÉRATION ARCHÉOLOGIQUE
le samedi 21 mai 2022 de 9h à 17h, auditorium de l’INHA
(2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris)
Inscription gratuite: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/332015716947 ;
lien Zoom :
https://cnrs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclc-yvrDssHdYR19TngrF15keOwTOVfp7L
8. “The World Zoroastrian Organisation’s Annual Seminar”
Seminar Theme: Zoroastrian Iran soon after the arrival of Islam
Date: Sunday 5th June
Time: 10.30am
Address: World Zoroastrian House, 1 Freddie Mercury Close, Feltham TW13 5DF UK
This free seminar can be booked by contacting Anahita Madon via email Anahita.madon@w-z-o.org or text 07493.208.876.
9. Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe
Edited by David J. Govantes-Edwards, Newcastle University
Series: Monographs in Islamic Archaeology edited by Bethany J. Walker (University of Bonn) and Asa Eger (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
242pages, 42 colour and black and white illustrations
Available in hardback and ebook editions
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/archaeology-politics/
10. Nasrin Askari’s critical edition of the Mūnis-nāma, compiled by Abū Bakr b. Khusrau al-Ustād and dedicated to the Eldigüzid atabeg of Azerbaijan Nuṣrat al-Dīn Abū Bakr (r. 1191–1210), has just been published by the Bunyād-i Mauqūfat-i Duktur Maḥmūd Afshār in Tehran.
The Munis-nāma blurs the lines traditionally drawn between Persian “folk” and “elite” literature, thus providing a fascinating source for studying the two realms as parts of a larger whole. Discussing the supremacy of poetry over prose in his detailed introduction, the compiler explicitly mentions the female members of the royal court as the book’s targeted audience. Among the important features of the Mūnis-nāma are:
- The earliest known Persian version of a collection of tales, generically known as Jāmiʿ al-ḥikāyāt, previously known representatives of which were written down in the 17th-19th centuries. The tales correspond to the Ottoman Turkish tales in Faraj baʿd al-shidda, dating from the 14th-15th centuries, a French adaptation of some of which was produced in the early 18th century as Les Mille et un jours.
- Numerous passages in Persian that closely correspond to passages in Jāvīdan Khirad of Miskawayh (Muskuya). Although the compiler mentions the title of the Kitāb-i Jāvīdān Khirad, he presumably had access to a version different from Muskuya’s Jāvīdān Khirad.
- Aḥmad Ghazzālī’s Risālat al-ṭayr, copies of which are rare.
http://mahmoudafshar.ir/entesharat/%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86%d8%b3%e2%80%8c%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%87/
- May 14, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Lecture “What Room for the ‘Public Space’ in Islamic Law?” by Christian Müller (CNRS Paris). RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, University Hamburg, 11 May 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm CET
The lecture dresses a rough inventory of historical phenomena touching upon “public order in generally accessible spaces” within Muslim societies. It inquires into the particularities of the jurists’ law as a sacred rule-system, and situates the development of law within Muslim history of the caliphate as supreme power during Islam’s early centuries.
Information and registration until 10 May 2022; https://attachment.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/8b856123/Invitation—Conzeptualizing-Public-Spaces.pdf
2. ONLINE Research Seminar “French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English” with Michael Cooperson, British Centre for Literary Translation, 11 May 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely been called untranslatable. Yet translators into Hebrew, German, and Russian have succeeded in re-creating it in their languages. A new English translation draws on the work of the OuLiPo, the French literary collective, to attempt the same in English.
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/french-word-games-untranslatable-arabic-and-global-english-tickets-314504390097
3. ONLINE Event “Arab Literature and Culture in the West and Beyond – Sheikh Zayed Book Award”, SOAS. London, 12 May 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:25 pm GMT
The interlocutors and guests include shortlisted and invited authors, translators, cultural thought leaders and scholars from around the world. All events will be bilingual (Arabic/English) and online.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/languages-cultures-linguistics/events/12may2022-arab-literature-and-culture-in-the-west-and-beyond—sheikh-zayed-book-award.html
4. ONLINE Lecture “Nomads and Connectivity in the Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: An Archaeological Assessment” by José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester), International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA), London, 24 May 2022, 5:30 pm, GMT
Recent research suggests that nomadic groups in the Gulf shores played a crucial role even before the foundation of some of the major centres. This lecture will explore the archaeological evidence and will suggest new avenues of research.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMkdOCrqD8tH9XGA2J4-csxcWbzytmH3oYr
5. HYBRID Workshop “State-building, Political Thought, and the Other in Muslim Imperial Peripheries”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 27-29 June 2022
We invite historians of Muslim states, scholars of Islamic legal and political thought, and researchers of ethnic and religious minorities in the Muslim world to jointly discuss the possibilities of a common framework in the exploration of non-dominant groups as contributors to Muslim state-building and the development of the Muslim “self”.
Extended deadline for application: 20 May 2022. Information: https://buberfellows.huji.ac.il/news/call-papers-state-building-political-thought-and-other-muslim-imperial
6. ONLINE Workshop “Mobility and/as Resistance: The Political Project of Nomadism”, 20-21 October 2022
This workshop focuses, on the one hand, on the motives, preoccupations, and objectives that lead to the social construction of the nomad-native; and on the other, it seeks to understand how the nomads have responded, and asserted their own agency.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10206611/mobility-andas-resistance-political-project-nomadism
7. 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics: “(Re-) imagining Muslim Ethics in Times of Transformation”, Chicago, 5-8 January 2023
We welcome paper, panel, or roundtable proposals dealing with all aspects of Muslim/Islamic ethics. Areas of interest include but are not limited to Islamic/Muslim ethics of science, politics, gender and sexuality, economics, race, bioethics, medicine, animals and the environment, and recently published books on any of these topics.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2022. Information: https://www.ssmethics.org/call-for-papers/
8. ONLINE Conference “Relating Science and Islam: Frameworks and Methodologies”, University of Chester, 3-4 April 2023
The conference aims to re-engage with the question of how Islam and science could, should and do relate to one another. Papers are invited which can provide viewpoints on the relationship between Islam and science from theology, philosophy, the natural sciences, Islamic studies, history, sociology, and anthro-pology.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2022. Information: https://www1.chester.ac.uk/theology-and-religious-studies/call-papers-relating-science-and-islam-frameworks-and-methodologies
9. “5e Congrès des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans”, Lyon, 11-13 juillet 2023
Les chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs (à partir du niveau doctorat) sont invités à déposer des propositions d’atelier thématique d’une durée de 2 heures, maximum de 4 participants, au plus tard le 15 juillet 2022 sur le site : https://gismomm-congres.sciencesconf.org/
10. Eight Doctoral Scholarships at the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID). University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Qualification: M.A. with above-average grades; an academic project that is expected to make an important contribution to the study of interreligious discourses between Judaism, Christianity and Islam; evidence of social and/or political engagement; an open-mind as it pertains to the major religious and political questions of the day; involvement at BaFID at least two working days a week.
Deadline for applications: 15 June 2022. Information: https://www.bafid.fau.de/2022/03/22/neue-ausschreibungsrunde-fuer-promotionsstipendien/
11. ERC MOBSANCT 2 PhD Studentships – The International Politics of Migration in the Middle East
Universirt of Glasgow
The project seeks to understand how labour and forced migration is used as an instrument of foreign policy. The two studentships focus on the interplay between Middle East migration and diplomacy in the context of select migrant-sending and migrant-host countries, namely: Turkey, the UAE, India, and the Philippines.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2022. Information: https://tinyurl.com/5n74dzdc
12. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic (1 Year), Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Arabic language pedagogy, literature, translation, linguistics, or a related field. Native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English. Demonstrated excellence in teaching Modern Standard Arabic at all levels. At least three years of experience teaching Arabic to non-native speakers at the university level.
Deadline for applications: 23 May 2022. Information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/520334/vap-of-arabic
13. International Summer School “From Paper to Portals – The Conservation and Digitalisation of Oriental Manuscripts”, Gotha Research Library, 18-22 July 2022
The Summer School aims at providing participants with didactic and technical training on how to research, conserve, and digitize oriental manuscripts. Participants will acquire knowledge of innovative techniques and the latest academic research in the fields of Manuscripts and Heritage Studies. We invite scholars, educators, advanced graduate and doctoral students in Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Heritage Studies, and Digital Humanities. Expenses for flight tickets and accommodation are covered.
Deadline for applications: 20 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10216343/cfp-workshop-state-building-political-thought-and-other-muslim
14. Carthage Seminars 2022: “The Challenge of Social Change in Arab Countries”, Beit Al Hikma, Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Tunis, 4-8 July 2022
The Seminars aim to engage into profound philosophical, theological, legal, and cultural discussions over the current issues that concern the changing Arab societies, focusing on pluralism in culture and religion, political liberties and freedoms of expression, human rights discourses, global political and environmental challenges, and the role of the social media and the digital world, the youth, and civil society in these historical moments.
Deadline for application: 20 May 2022. Information: https://www.resetdoc.org/event/carthage-summer-school-2022-challenge-social-change-arab-countries/
15. CfP: The journal Forum for Islamic-Theological Studies (FITS)
This peer-reviewed, international journal isdevoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Reli-gious Education, principally in Europe. Papers can be submitted in Qur´anic Studies and Qur`anic Exegesis (tafsīr); Hadith Studies; Sufism; Islamic Ethics and Philosophy; Islamic Religious Education; Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe; Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe; Interreligious Studies; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2022. Information: https://ojs.nomos-journals.de/index.php/fits/CfP
16. Monographs and Edited Volumes for New Book Series “Encounters in the Middle East & Asia” by Edinburgh University Press and Archiv Orientalni
This series fosters a new understanding of ‘Oriental Studies’ by publishing works of an interdisciplinary nature in which the non-Western world takes centre stage. “Encounters” include cultural, economic, intellectual, linguistic, literary and political exchanges between, and within, the Middle East and wider Asia, and presents a more nuanced perspective on global thought, artistic currents and financial flows.
Information: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-encounters-in-the-middle-east-and-asia
17. Aspirantum: Learn Persian Through the Shahname
2 weeks, from Jun 27, 2022 to Jul 08, 2022
Online
Apply by May 25, 2022
Price: $900
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname
18. Zoom: AlWaleed Centre Edinburgh – ‘Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide’
You are warmly invited to the Alwaleed Centre’s forthcoming online event ‘Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech’ taking place on Wednesday 11th May at 4pm BST via Zoom. Further information and free registration here: https://rohingya2022.eventbrite.co.uk
The event will feature Dr Ronan Lee (Loughborough University) and Dr Anita Schug (co-founder of Rohingya Medics Organisation) as they reflect on Dr Lee’s recently-published book ‘Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide: Identity, History and Hate Speech’. The event will be chaired by Dr Siti Sarah Muwahidah (Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh).
19. Bard College, Religious Studies
Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies
Closing date: 2.8.22
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63382
20. Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Graduate School 2571 “Empires: Dynamic Transformation, Temporality and Postimperial Orders”
4 * three-year PhD Positions (65% / 3 years) / Freiburg, Germany
Closing date: 30.06.2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63385
21. AMECYS Book Award Announcement (copyright 2020, 2021)
The Association for Middle East Children and Youth Studies Association invites nominations for the 2022 AMECYS Book Award.
The AMECYS is a private, non-proft, international association for scholars with an interest in the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Through interdisciplinary programs, publications, and services, AMECYS promotes innovative scholarship, facilitates global academic exchange, and enhances public understanding about Middle Eastern children and youth in diverse times and places.
The AMECYS Book Award was established in 2019 to recognize an outstanding contribution on the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities.
Nominations for the award can be made by either the publisher or the author. There is no limit on the number of titles that authors or publishers may submit, given they meet the following criteria:
- Books must be non-fction, scholarly monographs based on original research and published in English.
- Books must have been published in the last two years (copyright date of 2020, 2021).
- The authors of the books need to be AMECYS members in good standing.
- The subject matter must deal with the study of children and youth – broadly defned – in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities.
- Works not eligible include edited collections and compilations, proceedings of symposia, new editions of previously published books, bibliographies, dictionaries, textbooks, fction, translated books, and surveys.
- Nominations must be made by June 30, 2022 for books to be eligible for the competition.
The author of the AMECYS Award will receive $300 and a certifcate of award. In the event of co-winners, prize money will be divided evenly among the winners. Honorable mentions also receive a certifcate of award. Winners will be announced at the AMECYS Member Meeting at the 56th MESA Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The results will also be posted on the AMECYS and MESA website and in other publications as deemed appropriate by AMECYS.
One hard copy of the nominated book should be mailed to each the three reviewers listed below, along with the address, phone number, and e-mail of the author. Acknowledgment of receipt will be made via e- mail.
*** No additional materials will be considered as part of the submission.
Reviewers
1. Avner Giladi, Dept. of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Haifa, agiladi@research.haifa.ac.il
Mailing Address:
20 Kidron St.,
Haifa 3446326, Israel
- Akşin Somel, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, somel@sabanciuniv.edu Mailing Address:
Sabancı Üniversitesi
Sanat ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi
Orhanlı, 34956 Tuzla/İstanbul, Türkiye
- Unni Wikan, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, unni.wikan@sai.uio.no Mailing Address:
Inkognitogaten 15
0256 Oslo
Norway
22. Al-Usur al-Wusta thematic dossier on gender
We are soliciting original research articles that use gender as an analytical lens through which to view any aspect of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500 and 1500 CE. By insisting upon gender as a category of analysis, we harken back to Joan Scott’s landmark Gender and the Politics of History (1988), and, in that spirit, we want to be explicit that this is not a call for articles that simply include or even focus on women. Instead, we seek work that analyzes the way notions of masculinity and femininity – as well as related social constructs co-constituted with discourses of sex, sexuality, and/or embodiment – organized cultural, political, religious, spatial, or economic norms, practices, or relationships in historical context. We encourage approaches that denaturalize or problematize gendered categories, such as women, men, etc., by analyzing them intersectionally with race, ethnicity, religion, age, and socio-economic or legal status. Articles that seriously grapple with gender theoretically or conceptually as it pertains to the medieval Middle East are also welcome. We are open to research from any discipline or interdisciplinary formation, and we are committed to assembling a diverse roster of authors.
This thematic dossier will be published in the 2023 issue of Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: The Journal of Middle East Medievalists, the only open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the medieval Middle East. To be considered, please submit a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to alusuralwusta@gmail.com by June 1, 2022. Complete articles will be due by January 6, 2023.
- May 10, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CALL FOR PAPERS: Archaeology, Antiquity, and the Making of the Modern Middle East: Global Histories 1800–1939
25–26 May, 2023, University of Warwick, Global History and Culture Centre
This conference will explore the role played by discoveries and debates about the ancient past in the development of ideas about the Middle East in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. What competing imperial, national, and transnational narratives about the present and future of this geopolitically crucial region were fed by archaeology, philology, and history? How were these emergent disciplines themselves forged through Middle Eastern contexts they purported to study? How were temporalities of modernity and progress constructed in relation to the ruptures, continuities and heuristic challenges suggested by the excavation and exegesis of traces of ancient civilisations? Were there overlaps between how this region was simultaneously transformed by the construction of new transportation networks, the unearthing of oil in commercial qualities, transforming its present and future, and archaeological projects which dug up new dimensions to its past? How did the return of the remains of the past assist Western and Eastern empires, and new Middle Eastern countries in understanding their own national destinies?
Recent studies in intellectual history around imperial temporalities and teleologies provide a set of reference points informing this conference’s research aims. As Priya Satia has recently remarked in relation to the place in the British imperial imaginary of the Middle East in the decades around 1900, travel to the region ‘was conceived as a journey into a past that was not merely further back on the secular time scale of history but on a different scale altogether, outside secular time’. This was at once a ‘biblical region’ but also a ‘mythological landscape’, in some ways ‘outside the space of history’ and yet also one which would ‘matter deeply to the historical fulfilment of empire’, not least as a space offering ‘the chance to resurrect the cradle of civilization’ (Satia, Time’s Monster: History, Conscience and Britain’s Empire, 2020: 156–7, 174). Yet examination of the region’s ancient past could equally inspire a sense of the uncomfortable resemblances bridging empires ancient and ‘modern’, and attendant anxieties about the sustainability of contemporary empires.
If outsiders came to the Middle East to find their own origins (and perhaps their futures), various Middle Easterners themselves sought pasts that they could claim as their own: whether to consolidate new national identities, or to build over-arching and wide-ranging connections across the region. As Timothy Mitchell has written in regard to modern Egypt, a characteristic of the modern nation state was that ‘for a state to prove that it was modern, it helped if it could also prove that it was ancient’ (Mitchell, Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity, 2002: 179).
We are interested in the concept of the ancient past as a means of constructing modern identities: of ‘the Middle East’ as a region, of diverse new nations within it, and of Western nations whose colonial projects and political interests in the region became part of their own modern identities. While much valuable work has been done on archaeology, imperialism, and nation-building in the Middle East, it is rare for scholars to have a chance to consider different imperial, national, and regional contexts together, as part of a broader reshaping of historical consciousness about this region, one forged through competing visions and agendas. This conference will bring together scholars with a range of interests to examine this question at a variety of scales. We are interested in studies that examine uses of the past in specific national/imperial/regional contexts, and also in contributions that take a broad view of how the ‘Middle East’ became a region with a certain kind of past (original, imperial, monumental, liminal?). Bringing this range of papers together will allow us to discover habits of thought that were common across times and places, and those that were unique or unusual as empires, nations, and people within them sought to create their own distinctive identities through references to the past and its remains.
We invite contributions on how either/both ‘outsiders’ and ‘natives’ in the region came to identify themselves and their political projects with the pasts they discovered there. Relevant are ‘official’ projects of nation-building and imperial enterprise, and also projects by special interest groups, non-state actors, and individuals. Through taking this broad approach, we hope to find new connections and illuminate broader tendencies in the reception, interpretation, and reuse of ancient pasts in the making of the modern Middle East.
Papers might approach the conference’s themes might from a variety of different angles. Contributions might focus, for example, on one or more of the following:
- Specific objects, artefacts and sites, both ancient and modern: this might involve, for example retracing how ancient materials became valorised and commodified in the modern period by excavators, collectors and museums.
- Forms of institutional and official sponsorship (government or otherwise) for given scholarly ventures (re)collecting the ancient world, and for the fabrication of ancient histories.
- Appropriations and reinventions of ancient cultures, for example through speculative reconstructions, in textual, pictorial or architectural form, of ancient sites or styles.
- Imaginary geographies, environmental theories and political economies of nation and empire, around teleologies of translatio imperii and the modern state.
- The development of ‘the Middle East’ as a unique place of origin, and as a political, historical, or geographical region with a distinct identity.
- The ongoing legacy of archaeological, collecting, and display practices of 1800–1939 in the contemporary world.
CONFERENCE PARTICULARS
The two-day conference will be held at the University of Warwick 25–26 May 2023. Keynotes will be given by Professor Lynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania) and Professor Zeynep Çelik (Columbia University, New Jersey Institute of Technology). Participants will submit papers of 6000-8000 words one month in advance of the meeting for pre-circulation, and will present a 15-minute condensed version of the paper at the workshop. This format will ensure productive discussions among participants and speed the process of publishing all papers from the conference in an edited volume, a process we will begin soon after the conference takes place.
Proposals for papers should include author name and affiliation, 300–400 word abstract, and a short CV. We invite proposals from scholars at all levels from early career onwards. Papers will be selected on the quality of the proposal and with the aim of ensuring a broad spread of topics for the conference. These should be sent to GHCCconference2023@gmail.com by the deadline of Monday, 20 June, 2022. Stipends for travel of up to £500 for scholars based in countries in the Middle East and North Africa will be available. To apply for these stipends, simply indicate in your email to the organisers that you wish to be considered and state the country you will be travelling from.
Looking forward to receiving your proposals,
Dr Guillemette Crouzet (Marie Curie Sklodowska Research Fellow, History, University of Warwick)
Dr Eva Miller (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, History, UCL)
2. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »
Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI
Séance du 12 mai 2022, 17h00-19h00
Exclusivement en visioconférence sur Zoom
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 12 février 2022 de 17h à 19h. Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Matteo De Chiara (maître de conférences HDR, INaLCO/CeRMI), pour une conférence intitulée :
La langue en évolution : la frontière verbale en pashto
Résumé
La langue pashto appartient à la famille des langues iraniennes. En dehors d’une large diaspora, elle est principalement parlée dans deux grands territoires : en Afghanistan oriental (de Kabul à Qandahar), où elle est depuis 1937 la langue officielle au même titre que le dari, et au Pakistan occidental (dans toute la zone qui s’étend entre Swat, Peshawar, Kalat et Quetta), où elle est l’une des langues régionales de la province de Khyber Pukhtunxwa (KPK) – l’ancienne North West Frontier Province (NWFP), incluant les FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Areas) –, et du Baloutchistan.
Les deux publications récentes sur le verbe pashto par Daniel Septfonds et moi-même (Le verbe pashto : parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale, 2019, et Le verbe simple en pashto. État des lieux, 2022, les deux publiées chez Reichert, Wiesbaden) analysent le système verbal du pashto en profondeur. La conjugaison du verbe pashto repose sur un schéma commun aux langues iraniennes – ou du moins largement partagé par elles –, qui distingue, aux formes finies du verbe, le radical de présent et le radical de passé.
Morphologiquement les verbes pashto se répartissent en trois groupes : les verbes simples, les verbes composés et les verbes mixtes. Cette intervention aura pour objet de mettre en lumière une catégorie spécifique de verbes, celle des « verbes simples nus » (« nus » signifiant ici « non-suffixés »), et les transformations en cours à l’intérieur de cette classe verbale fermée : un territoire à explorer en détail et avec systématicité pour pouvoir observer les changements et les mouvements des lignes de « frontière ». Une observation complète de la situation synchronique permettra de dégager les principales dynamiques diachroniques, au bénéfice des études pashto, mais aussi des autres langues iraniennes.
Indications bibliographiques
– Anne Boyle David, Descriptive Grammar of Pashto and Its Dialects, ed. Claudia M. Brugman, Göttingen, 2014.
– Matteo De Chiara & Daniel Septfonds, Le verbe pashto : parcours d’un territoire du verbe simple à la locution verbale, Wiesbaden, 2019.
– Matteo De Chiara & Daniel Septfonds, Le verbe simple en pashto. État des lieux, Wiesbaden, 2022.
– Gilbert Lazard, Grammaire du persan contemporain, Téhéran, 2006 [Paris 1957].
Pour suivre la séance :
– exclusivement en visioconférence sur Zoom :
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/73327022868?pwd=t9PNPtQgvMl0fwE86yuS7hH2hXt_wQ.1
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI), CNRS UMR 8041
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine
3. National Iranian American Council
The Cook You Want To Be: Virtual Book Talk with Andy Baraghani, hosted by NIAC New York
Join us for a special virtual book talk on Thursday, May 26 at 5pm PT/8pm ET with beloved Iranian-American chef, recipe developer, and food personality Andy Baraghani. He will be sharing with us his highly anticipated debut cookbook, The Cook You Want To Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress. In this book talk, Andy will share with us how he blends the home cooking of his Iranian upbringing, his professional training in restaurants such as Chez Panisse and Estela, editorial experience at Bon Appetit and Saveur, and his travels from around the globe, to produce an exquisite book that bring home cooks over 120 exquisite everyday recipes. This virtual book talk will be moderated by NIAC New York Leadership Council members.
A random selection of 25 attendees will receive a FREE COPY of Andy’s book. So RSVP for the Zoom link for a chance to receive your free copy!
4. Wael Hallaq Book Seminar at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, 21 May
Join us for an opportunity to discuss the central ideas of Professor Wael Hallaq’s most recent works, Restating Orientalism (2018) and Reforming Modernity (2019), with the author himself. The seminar will start with a short presentation by Professor Hallaq, analysing the subjective formation and psycho-epistemology that had enabled the pathologies of Orientalism, and proposing the formation of a new subjectivity and an ethicized philology as a solution. A series of open discussions will follow
The seminar will begin at 1pm and finish at 5pm.
Participants are strongly recommended to prepare by reading: Restating Orientalism (Columbia University Press, 2018), especially chapters 3–5; and Reforming Modernity (Columbia University Press, 2019), especially chapters 2, 6, and the Epilogue.
Due to limited capacity, please register for this seminar here.
5. Call for Papers SAH 2023 Montréal: “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20thand 21stCenturies (Montréal)”
This panel investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architects and patrons who make references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic forms can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how pre-colonial Islamic art history informs post-colonial architectural practice. Papers for this panel will be drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and can feature examples from a wide range of geographies. The panel is open to a variety of topics and themes, but we welcome papers that investigate, for example, the reimagining of imperial Ottoman forms in Erdoğan’s Turkey; anachronistic Orientalization in American Shriner architecture; the emergence of the neo-Mudéjar style in Latin America; representations of Islamic spaces in theme parks and video games; or the use of historical forms in restoration and cultural heritage projects in the Middle East. We are particularly interested in examining how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these architectural projects and welcome papers that explore how the built form references visual representations of historic monuments that are reproduced in academic publications and mass media. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Session Chairs: Jennifer Pruitt, University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Emily Neumeier, Temple University
For submission details, please visit https://www.sah.org/2023/call-for-papers?_zs=WJQLd&_zl=75O43#32
6. Workshop Reading Sources in Area Studies …: 17 May 2022, Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne nouvelle, 9h30-17h30
Discovering and collecting information on Turko-Iranian societies in travel context, 10th-19th centuries
Découverte et collecte d’informations sur les sociétés turco-iraniennes en contexte de voyage, Xe-XIXe siècles
Tuesday 17 May 2022 / Mardi 17 mai 2022
Maison de la Recherche de la Sorbonne nouvelle
4 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
Salle Athéna, 9h30 – 17h30
PhD candidate students and advanced MA students are invited to participate
Doctorants et étudiants de master sont encouragés à participer
The 2022 edition of the workshop focuses on discussing historical source material from the relevant areas (texts, images, objects) in the medieval and modern periods. It also addresses the methodological and epistemological aspects related to the exploitation of these materials, with an interest in historical context of the sources analysed. The sessions are concerned with the diversity of source material pertaining to the Turko-Persianate world produced in the context of travel, regardeless of the origin of the traveller, their social or professional profile (merchant, pilgrim, scholar, spy…) or their motivations for travelling. The focal issue of the present workshop is the methods of acquisition of knowledge about “elsewhere”, the process of the construction and the practices of preserving and transmitting this knowledge.
Talks are given in English, while discussions also leave room for exchanges in French. Knowledge of Persian is an asset, but not a prerequisite.
Le workshop du 17 mai 2022 a pour objectif de présenter les matériaux de l’historien des mondes turco-iraniens (textes, images, objets) aux périodes médiévale et moderne. Il s’agira aussi d’aborder les aspects méthodologiques et épistémologiques liés à l’exploitation de ces matériaux. Les intervenants veilleront également à fournir une remise en contexte historique des sources présentées. Le workshop s’intéresse à l’acquisition des savoirs dans le cadre du voyage, quelles que soient les motivations de celui qui l’accomplit (marchand, pèlerin, espion, etc.). Ces acteurs sont des personnes originaires du monde turco-iranien ou extérieures à ce monde. Il s’agira de s’interroger sur les modalités d’acquisition et de construction des connaissances, ainsi que les supports utilisés pour les conserver et les transmettre.
Les communications sont en anglais. La discussion peut être menée en français ou en anglais. La connaissance du persan n’est pas obligatoire mais elle est un plus.
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Convenors/Responsables : Maria Szuppe (CNRS / CeRMI), Camille Rhoné-Quer (Université Aix-Marseille / IREMAM), Sacha Alsancakli (INALCO / CeRMI)
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Register to participate online: https://webquest.fr/?m=118608_reading-sources-in-area-studies-2-lire-les-sources-en-etudes-areales-2-17052022
Contacts: maria.szuppe@cnrs.fr / camille.rhone@univ-amu.fr / sacha.alsancakli@protonmail.com
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
7. Fully funded PhD on Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past
DoSSE Project has created a fully funded, 3-year doctoral post on the subject of ‘Domestic Slaves in Early Islamic Conceptions of the Past’.
Application deadline: 17 June 2022
Interviews: 1 July 2022
Start date: 26 September 2022
DoSSE Project – Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, from Constantine I to c. AD 900 / AH 287 – is a large-scale comparative research project that investigates a crucial aspect of how late Roman society transformed into its early medieval heirs. Those enslaved within the home, and their vulnerability to sexual exploitation, represent a subject that has only begun to receive due attention. DoSSE Project addresses this need by exploring how the societies of the greater Mediterranean world took their shape from the relationships established within the household – how social hierarchies and practices emerged from the dynamics of domestic space – with a view to offering a new model for interpreting the social transformations that ended the ancient world. For more information, please visit the project website.
This doctoral post will form an essential part of DoSSE Project and will be conducted at the project’s host institution, the University of Leicester, under the supervision of its Principal Investigator, Erin Thomas Dailey.
The funding will cover fees at the UK domestic rate and includes an additional annual stipend of £16,062.
The completion of the PhD and the career success of the doctoral candidate will be prioritised as part of the project’s outcomes.
To apply for this position, visit the University of Leicester’s application page.
For more information about DoSSE Project, please visit the project website.
8. TREASURES OF HERAT, Two Manuscripts of the Khamsah of Nizami in the British Library
by Barbara Brend
Edited by Melanie Gibson
Co-published with the British Library
GINGKO LIBRARY ART SERIES , 2022
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/treasures-of-herat/
9. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Nahid Pirnazar
‘The Intellectual Heritage of Iranian Jews in Judeo-Persian’
Sunday, June 5, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in Persian
- May 07, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Centre for the Study of Islam at Exeter’s Summer Monday Majlis Programme
Monday 9th May, 1600-1730: Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) will talk about their new book: Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion
Registration link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpduqprzsjHdyhJnu6QAjW7pxOEnn8MgMr
Monday 16th May, 1600-1730: Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) will talk about her research around “Islam through Objects”
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu2hrTMoHNDzetH1TwEPrUJPEv77OEYb
Monday 23rd May, 1600-1730: Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) will present on “’Material turn and Islamic Studies: Manuscript studies as an example”
Registration link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtdOurrjouH9Yhd1LIHbsS4ZeC_tAlgC_z
Monday 30th May, 1600-1730: Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) will talk about his latest research and his recent book: Islam and the Arab Revolutions (OUP, 2021).
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlduiqqDotH9HXXB_YvnRc4nSZ_9PZNnwu
Monday 6th June, 1600-1730: Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) will talk about his recent research including his most recent book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/j/97925220332?pwd=L2F3TmhQbU5TR0FzZ25QTkNTVzNsdz09
Monday 13th June, 1600-1730: Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) will present on “Gucci and the Waqf” looking at the post-war reconstruction of Beirut, and the role played by Islamic endowments (waqfs)
Registration Link:
https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqde2qrDIiH9ZIh_peJ7O0PXaCVBWU3xTo
2. CfP: Muslims in the Uk and Europe 2022
The University of Cambridge Centre of Islamic Studies invites applications from current Masters and PhD candidates to present their research on issues pertaining to Muslims in the UK and Europe, from any discipline. This postgraduate symposium, taking place on Tuesday 5 July 2022 at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, will be a platform for students to present and exchange current research on any topic in this field in a dynamic forum. While historical or theoretical context is valuable, we invite papers also to present, analyse or interpret research findings, data or material. Participants are expected to attend the keynote speech and all sessions.
To apply please submit a 500-word abstract, with curriculum vitae outlining current research interests, to cis@cis.cam.ac.uk by 2 June 2022.
Successful candidates will be notified by 8 June 2022 and invited to submit draft papers of no more than 3000 words by 29 June 2022.
Click here to read about the Annual Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium.
3. Reconstructing the Earliest Islamic History Writing from the 2nd Hijrī Century: The Case of the First Arabic Annals
Speaker: Edward Zychowicz-Coghill
Date/time: 5th May at 5.15pm UK time
Description
Study of the historical origins of Islam and the caliphate has been dogged by one major problem. The earliest Arabic texts which produce our most detailed descriptions of these events were compiled in the 3rd hijrī century, some 200 or more years after the events they describe. Sceptics have argued that these texts are unreliable, reflecting later political and religious debates rather than genuine historical memory.
One key to unlocking this problem is understanding the nature of the sources used by these 3rd century historians. This talk argues that we can identify one genre of texts, brief annalistic histories, which were being compiled as early as the first half of the 2th hijrī century (c. 710-760 CE) and which were then incorporated into the great later compilations like al-Ṭabarī’s (d. 310 AH/923 CE) History of Prophets and Kings. It proposes a method for reconstructing one of these, a history written by the Egyptian jurist al-Layth b. Saʿd in the 120s AH/740s CE. By inspecting the kind of information al-Layth’s recorded and assessing it alongside al-Layth’s connections, we can identify the political and intellectual contexts in which the earliest formal collection of Islamic historical record was cultivated. This reveals an origin for Islamic annalistic history writing tied to the development of the Islamic state, likely produced in conversation with Christian officials who worked in the state administration and the models of Greek and Syriac historical recording which they transmitted from the late antique world.
All talks are free to attend and start at 5.15 (Zoom open at 5.00)
In-person at the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA
On Zoom: https://bit.ly/3qFSBXi
4. ONLINE Conference “The Turk-o-Tajik World: Coalescence of Turkic, Arabic, and Persian Spheres c. 900–1900”, SOAS, University of London, 4-5 May 2022
This conference will explore the symbiosis of Turkic, Arabic, and Persian cultures across the Islamicate world, from the medieval to the modern period. Our contributors will discuss various aspects of these cultural symbioses, and continuums, which formed the bedrock of a flourishing ‘Turk-o-Tajik’ civilisation. This cultural coalescence is explored in a variety of settings, including sufism, sexuality, literature, religious discourse, and politics.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/history/conferences/the-turk-o-tajik-world/
5. ONLINE Annual Lecture of the Zahra Institute “Ziya Gökalp’s Turkism and the Kurdish Question” by Fuat Dündar (TOBB-ETU University, Ankara), Chicago, 5 May 2022, 2:00 pm EST
Popularly known as the theorist of Turkish nationalism, Mehemed Ziya (Gökalp) was also the first Ottoman-Turkish Kurdologist. This lecture explores the intellectual transformations of Ziya Gökalp with respect to the Kurdish question.
Information and registration: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/news_and_events.html
6. HYBRID Webinar “Recognizing Sacred Scriptures – the Qur’an and the Bible”, New York University at Abu Dhabi, 5 May 2022, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm, and 6 May 2022, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm
The project aims to further a conversation about intellectual, legal, theological, and spiritual processes and concepts at work when members of religious communities interact with each other.
In this event, we will explore how Christians, Muslims, and Jews engage with each other’s ‘Sacred Scriptures’ – from philosophical and historical perspectives.
Information and registration: https://www.hrf-arabworld.org/events/2022/recognizing-sacred-scriptures-the-quran-and-the-bible
7. ONLINE “Virtual Coffee Meeting of Early Career Researchers (ECH), London, 11 May 2022, 10:00 am GMT
Interested in social policy in the MENA? Working as an early career researcher or practitioner and wanting to meet like-minded people? Join us for a relaxing moment to network and to discuss interesting books and recent developments with regard to social policy in the region. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas, and take a moment to get to know each other.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pceyprzosGdHiUEs0Q35CM0344uYMIqCX
8. ONLINE Book Launch and Discussion “Governance and Domestic Policymaking in Saudi Arabia”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 8 June 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm Singapore Time
This public discussion examines the progress made in Saudi Arabia’s economic transformation efforts, their implications for state-society relations, and the economics of the rentier social contract, among other issues.
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/book-launch-governance-and-domestic-policymaking-in-saudi-arabia/
9. CEST Symposium 2022, “Limits of Autocratisation: Actors and Institutions of Democratic Resilience (Focus Turkey)”, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 18 – 20 November 2022
The Symposium seeks to discuss challenges to authoritarian structures in Turkey with a comparative lens on inter alia Eastern Europe, Latin America and South Asia. We seek to understand the potential of political parties, trade unions, bureaucracies, civil society and social movements in challenging the authoritarian incumbent.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 May 2022. Information: http://cest-turkey.org/cest-symposium-2022/?fbclid=IwAR3dRjJPO9SPWPJUYSxOqAUU49mon-m5ekgxzB8v73srhw_WUnc413mrPEM
10. International Conference “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Motifs”, ERC Project “The Qurʾān as a Source for Late Antiquity” (QaSLA), 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.
Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9908397/call-papers-early-career-scholars-%E2%80%9C-qur%CA%BEa%CC%84n-and-syriac
11. Research Award for Islamic Studies by the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation
Eligible for the award are outstanding research contributions (usually in the form of a dissertation) in the field of Islamic Studies which were published after 31 May 2017. The awardee will be received for ceremony at the Deutscher Orientalistentag 2022 in Berlin and will be issued with a 5000 Euro prize.
Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022.
Information: https://www.menalib.de/files/2021/10/annemarie-schimmel-foundation-award-2022.pdf
12. ONLINE CICW Graduate Student Institute “Islam in the Contemporary World”, Shenandoah University, Virginia, 1-13 August 2022
The objective is (1) to provide graduate students with foundational instructions in Islamic studies with a focus on contemporary issues, and (2) to have discussions about the lived experiences of Muslim graduate students, especially as they pertain to issues of wellness, equity, and belonging. By combining academic and mentoring sessions, we aim to provide a rounded approach to Islam in the contemporary world. There is no tuition fee.
Deadline for application: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/graduate-student-institute-2022.html
13. Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies (2 Years), Lund University
The English programme trains students in critical thinking and gives them the ability to apply this to current events and debates in and about the region. The programme also aims to educate students in social sciences theories and various research methodologies, as well as provide opportunities for the application of methodological skills.
Deadline for applications extended to 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.graduateschool.sam.lu.se/academics/interested-pursuing-masters-programme-graduate-school/master-arts-middle-eastern-studies ; registration: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lubas/i-uoh-lu-SAMES/18435#apply
14. Articles on “Learning from Asian Islam: Perspectives for the Wider Field of Islamic Studies” for Special Issue of a Journal Specializing in Islamic and Asian Studies
Co-editors: Jaclyn Michael (University of Tennessee) and Verena Meyer (Columbia University).
Questions of inquiry include: What approaches to the study of Islam have been developed in the Asian context and are relevant for Islamic Studies more broadly? How can Asian case studies help to shed light on questions that are currently debated in the wider field? How does material from Asian Muslim communities extend scholarly conceptions of the scope, character, and conclusions of Islamic studies as a field?
Deadline for abstracts: 25 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10171693/cfp-learning-asian-islam-perspectives-wider-field-islamic
15. Arab World English Journal for Translation & LiteraryStudies(AWEJTLS) welcomes the submission of papers Special Issue on Literature and Medicine. We have the honor to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Dr. Shadi S. Neimnehfrom Hashemite University, Jordan. The issue publication date is November 2022. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is July 31, 2022.
Please, before sending your paper, please read the submission and Manuscript Guidelines for AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies. Please submit your paper online or send it as an attachment to: Info@awej.org
Kind regards,
Arab World English Journal
for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
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 : May 15th, 2022 (Sunday)
* Address to submit : 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 Studies
65, Geumsaemro 485 beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea.
(46234)
Tel) +82-51-509-6695 / +82-51-509-6670
E-mail) imsmr@ims.or.kr / imsmr@bufs.ac.kr
Website) www.imsmr.or.kr
17. Zoom – British Institute of Persian Studies
Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World: Rare Manuscripts
with Dr Majid Daneshgar
| 25 May 2022, 5PM BST |
This presentation addresses the question of whether Persian was a part of the lingua franca in Thailand, Arakan, Burma, Aceh and Malacca from the 15th to the 19th century and discusses to what extent Malays were familiar with the Persian language, literature and even music. This presentation will focus on the Malay-Indonesian manuscripts which have not been examined [thoroughly] so far.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6316498583210/WN_JEbQha8bT7eA0vZq4aLhvw
18. Postdoc opportunity in Islamic history and culture
Postdoctoral Research Fellow position
The Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies, and Religion
invites applications for a 3-year postdoctoral position in the field of
Islamic history and culture, relating to the topic of Islamic text
circulation and usage in the Swahili coastal region. The position is
part of the research project «MPrinT@East_AFRICA. Islamic Manuscript,
Print and Practice: Textual adaptation in East Africa» financed by the
Norwegian Research Council.
The MPrinT project (2021-2025) will explore a core hypothesis that
reforms in Islamic textual tradition and ritual practice during the 19th
and 20th centuries took place within existing authority structures and
led to a series of adaptations rather than breaks from tradition. To
this end, the project will document, catalogue, and analyze Islamic
textual material from the manuscript-to-print transition period in
coastal East Africa (the Swahili coastal region). The project will also
investigate how these texts have been used in ritual practice and
education from ca. 1950 to the present, and how this usage has varied
across locations, generations, and gender. This part of the project will
be based on interviews and studies of ritual practice.
For further details,
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/224988/postdoctoral-position-in-islamic-history-and-culture
- May 03, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Monash University in Australia is hiring a PhD student who will specialise in Ibn Arabi (1165-1240), his work, heritage, later influence, and/or reception.
You can find the call here: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/633252/phd-scholarship-in-islamic-intellectual-history-through-the-lens-of-sufism-global-dissemination-of-knowledge-in-islam
Deadline: May 20, Friday 2022
Enquiries: aydogan.kars@monash.edu
2. Fruit of Knowledge, Wheel of Learning’
Essays in Honour of Carole and Robert Hillenbrand (2 volumes)
Edited by Ali Ansari and Melanie Gibson
April 2022 by Gingko Library, London
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-carole-hillenbrand/
https://www.gingko.org.uk/title/essays-in-honour-of-robert-hillenbrand/
3. “Melodies of Unity: A Discussion on Sufi music with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble” (AFSACK) – May 4
Join us on Wednesday May 4th for our next American Friends of Sufi Arts, Culture and Knowledge (AFSACK) Salon Series Conversation with the MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble. This discussion explores the eclectic sounds of their new album, Melodies of Unity, diving into their creative process and inspirations from Sufi poetry. The conversation further examines their experiences of recording and making new music remotely during the pandemic across four countries.
This event will take place on Zoom. Register here.
4. In Memoriam – Karel Otavský (11 June 1938, Prague – 12 April 2022, Prague)
by Shireen Ellinger
It is with great sadness that I would like to share the passing of a prominent art historian, Dr. Phil. Karel Otavský, who passed away on the 12th of April 2022.
A renowned Czech specialist in the history of liturgical objects and textiles, Karel Otavský studied art history with Prof. Jaroslav Pešina in the Department of Philosophy of the Charles University in Prague. His dissertation completed in 1966 was entitled ‘Paintings of the Klementinum Anthology of Thomas of Štítný’. At the same time, he was employed in the National Gallery of Prague; first, as assistant curator of Graphic Arts, and later, for Sculpture. In 1967-1968, he worked at the National Museum of Prague, but shortly after the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, he emigrated to Switzerland. In 1968, he began to work as a research assistant at the Abegg-Stiftung in Riggisberg, where he soon became curator of their collections of Western and Oriental arts. In 1991, he received a PhD degree from the University of Bern, with a published thesis entitled Die Sankt Wenzelskrone im Prager Domschatz und die Frage der Kunstauffassung am Hofe Kaiser Karls IV. [The St. Wenceslas Crown from the St. Vitus Dom in Prague and the question of the art notion at the Court of Emperor Charles IV.] (Bern, 1992). He met his Czech wife MgA (magister artis) Vendulka Sudková, a textile conservator, at the Abegg-Stiftung. In 2001, they returned to the Czech Republic and from 2004 to 2015, he taught the history of medieval liturgical art at the Institute of Christian Art History in the Charles University in Prague.
It was the field of Islamic textiles and our common Czech background that brought us together, for the first time, in 2018. We discovered that we had both begun not only with the study of music in the Prague Conservatory, but also shared our general studies at the High School of Jan Neruda (Gymnazium Jana Nerudy) in Prague. As an Islamic art historian specialising in silk textiles of the Mamluk period (1250-1517), I had the privilege to spend some precious moments with Karel Otavský at his home in Černošice, where we shared our enthusiasm for textiles and our discussions taught me much. Although he had most recently focused on liturgical objects in particular, his detailed knowledge of medieval textiles, including their technical aspects and techniques of manufacture, was extraordinary. Besides his numerous publications on liturgical and medieval arts, major contributions to the field of textiles include: Alte Gewebe und ihre Geschichte: Ein Lese- und Bilderbuch (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1987); Mittelalterliche Textilien I: Ägypten, Persien und Mesopotamien, Spanien und Nordafrika (Abbeg-Stiftung, 1995, in collaboration with Muhammad ʿAbbas Muhammad Salim); and Mittelalterliche Textilien II: Zwischen Europa und China (Abbeg-Stiftung 2011, in collaboration with Anne E. Wardwell).
Karel Otavský was a humble and generous man, with a fine sense of humour and an immense spirit of curiosity and wonder. The art historical world has lost a remarkable scholar, author and teacher, who was greatly loved by his students and colleagues.
5. Religions, Volume 13, Issue 4 (April 2022), Natality and Relational Transcendence in Humanist Chaplaincy, one may find several contributions dealings with Islam among 106 articles.
Link: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/4/271
Topics range from culture, politics, museum studies, sociology to theological aesthetics. Here is a sample of articles (open access):
Stéphane Lacroix
Religions 2022, 13(4), 316; doi:10.3390/rel13040316
Article: Muslim YouTubers in Turkey and the Authoritarian Male Gaze on YouTube
Esma Çelebioğlu
Religions 2022, 13(4), 318; doi:10.3390/rel13040318
Kamaluddin Abu Nawas, Abdul Rasyid Masri and Alim Syariati
Religions 2022, 13(4), 320; doi:10.3390/rel13040320
Article: The Religious Plot in Museums or the Lack Thereof: The Case of Islamic Art Display
Valerie Gonzalez
Religions 2022, 13(4), 281; doi:10.3390/rel13040281
Article: Beyond Theological Aesthetics: Aesthetic Theology
Sixto J. Castro
Religions 2022, 13(4), 311; doi:10.3390/rel13040311
6. Book Launch
What is Islamic Studies? European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field
6 May 2022 17:30-19:00
Aga Khan Centre
Aga Khan Centre (1st floor)
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
Book ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-what-is-islamic-studies-tickets-321304278747
7. The Latin America & Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter Vol. 2, no. 3 – April 2022
This edition of the newsletter reflects these global/local processes in various ways as well, via news reports from Texas, new research on philanthropic networks, and a new logo for our network.
In this edition, you will find:
* The launch of new LACISA logos to match the vibrancy of our growing network of scholars, journalists, and those interested in the study of Islam and Muslims in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Latinx U.S.
* New opportunities for studies on Muslim philanthropy, including a fall colloquium and new edited volume.
* A research presentation that asks whether we might conceptualize a “Bahamas-to-Bengal Complex.”
* News items from Chile and California, Costa Rica and Argentina.
* New opportunities and calls for a new LACISA Newsletter Editor, a Brill book series, and a higher diploma in South-South relations.
* Fresh translations of our original research articles, essays, and interviews in Spanish, Portuguese, and German.
I invite you to enjoy and explore all of this content and more below. Thank you, as always, for your time, consideration, and growing commitment to our network.
Kind Regards,
Ken Chitwood
Editor-in-Chief, LACISA Newsletter
** Read more about our newsletter and network (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=1519b51275&e=f70992245e)
8. Call for Papers: A Workshop on Citation
Modeling Attribution and Acknowledgement in the Digital Humanities: Citation Practices and the Pre-Modern Arabic Book
For some time, the KITAB team has been dealing with the practice of citation in the pre-modern Arabic written tradition. In doing so, we are building on extensive work in Arabic and Islamic studies that deals with how authors cite, and particularly their use of isnads (that is, chains of transmission). Digital Humanities, moreover, offers us new and exciting methods for the identification and analysis of citations within our texts.
Through this informal workshop, we hope to present some of our research and also to hear from other researchers who are working on citation (case studies from both Arabic and non-Arabic contexts are very much welcomed). If you are working on any of the topics below, we invite you to present a proposal for a 20-minute paper:
– Digital methods used to identify and interpret citations within large textual traditions.
– Digital methods used to parse citations (particularly isnads) and convert them into transmission networks.
– Terminology: what do authors mean when they use certain transmission terms? How does the use of these terms differ diachronically and spatially?
– Correspondences between text reuse and citation: can we trace cited text within a corpus? Can we identify instances of uncited text?
– Theories of citation: what constitutes plagiarism? What forms are citation expected to take? How does written citation intersect with oral practices?
The workshop will take place in two halves. In the first half, participants will be invited to give a paper to a panel with a respondent. In the second half, there will be an informal (and we hope lively) conversation about citation practices. This will take place in person with the number of offline participants kept low to enable a lively and productive conversation.
If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract of less than 300 words to kitab@aku.edu by 13th May 2022.
Date and Time
25-26 July 2022, 10:00 – 17:00 London Time.
Address
Aga Khan Centre
10 Handyside Street
London
N1C 4DN
9. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 15.1 is out now.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
10. Two publications from Stanford University Press:
Media of the Masses, Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt
Andrew Simon
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=31649&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
Street Sounds, Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29380&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_conte…
11. The second presentation in the series of lectures about the exhibit “From Qarajalu (Persia) to Santa Clara County: An Assyrian Family’s Multiple Atlantic Crossings in Search of a Home at the turn of the Century” takes place this Sunday, May 1, 2022, 1 pm.
The exhibit and lecture location is:
Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum
570 East Remington Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Dr. Samir Johna will address the topic “Joseph D. Joseph, MD: A Link in the Assyrian Chain of Medicine.”
Below is Dr. Johna’s brief biography. He is imminently qualified to discuss a topic about which he has published widely in medical journals.
Samir Johna, MD, is a Clinical Professor of surgery who has held many positions in southern California and is author of many medical articles as well as books. Born in Iraq, and conscripted into the Iraqi military, he advanced his educational training at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles following his bachelor’s degree from the University of Baghdad College of Medicine. He is active in community service related to his profession but also takes the time to provide frequent interviews on Assyrian media.
A summary of the exhibit is available at the website qarajalutosantaclara.com as is information for the purchase of the catalogue.
12. To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 11–13, 2023. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.
The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies will include traditional in-person sessions, virtual sessions, and new blended-format sessions that make it possible for speakers to present and audiences to attend both in-person and online.
Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms). The deadline for submission is May 16, 2022.
If the proposed session is approved, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 4 session participants (presenters and moderator) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse participants for conference registration.
For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/58th-icms.
Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
13. Afghanistan, Volume 5, Issue 1
Read the free featured article ‘“Citizen Martyrs”: The Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade in Iran’ by Kevin L. Schwartz: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOY9-0/c.aspx
Browse the Table of Contents: https://ddlnk.net/CEQ-7TXYI-MWI2D5-4RXOYA-0/c.aspx
14. UCLA: “An Epic Tribute to the Lyric Poem” | Justine Landau, Iranian 250 Public Lecture for CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
9:00 am – 10:30 am Pacific Time
Register here for online attendance on Zoom.
Poetry does things with words. In the premodern world, this fact is perhaps nowhere acknowledged more unanimously than in the Persianate sources. Chief among the arts of language, lyric poetry is associated with “licit magic,” after the Arabic saying, since its mastery is said to conduce to “the accomplishment of great things in the order of the world” (Nezâmi ‘Aruzi, Chahâr maqâle, II). The philosophers of the classical period discussed the powers of the poetic art and its unique effect on the imagination. In Arabic and in Persian, the successors of Fârâbi developed the doctrine of the “poetic syllogism” to account for its workings. Writing in the mid-thirteenth century, Nasir al-Din Tusi provides a striking account of why “good poems are more effective than sermons” in impressing the minds of the listeners. Yet, from Beyhaqi and Ghazâli to Jâmi and Mollâ Sadrâ, poets, critics, historians, theologians and prose writers all pay homage to the art of the poet in some way. Unsurprisingly, the Shâhnâmeh itself honors the lyric poets. In several instances in his great epic, Ferdowsi stages episodes of lyric performance, and their consequences on the narrative. Whether depicting the craft of minstrels at court, the boasting of heroes or the lament of warriors after a defeat, these scenes sound a distinctive note within the epic verse in which they are embedded. How can a song inform, or deflect, the destiny of kings? And how does Ferdowsi pay tribute to lyric poetry? The philosophers’ perspective might help us elucidate the far-reaching consequences of some remarkable poems in the Book of Kings.
This lecture is part of the Spring 2022 CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar, Iranian 250, “Persian Literature in English Translation: Global and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” a graduate course taught by Associate Professor Domenico Ingenito (NELC), offering a survey of medieval and early modern Persian literature in English translation including nine public lectures by scholars in the field. More information about these lectures is on our website.
15. CONF: International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas (Iran, online)
The registration for the International Conference on Design and Development of Public Library Services; Patterns, Experiences, & Ideas which will be held virtually on 17-18 May 2022 is open now for all the participants from all over the globe.
The conference registration is free of charge for all the participants and authors.
DDPLS welcomes professionals, researchers, and librarians from all over the world to participate in this international conference.
The conference is organized by the Iranian Public Libraries Advancement Association, Iranian Sociological Association & the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. The conference language is Persian and English.
More than 20 National & International Distinguished Professors, Professionals, Associations Presidents, and Public library directors will speak at this important event.
The deadlines for this conference are as follows:
- Last Date of Registration: 14 May 2022
- Conference Date: 17 & 18 May 2022
More details regarding the conference can be found at:
16. Inaugural Calderwood Lecture at Boston College – Prof. Nancy Um, “Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water” – May 5
“Wood, Porcelain, and Coral: Indian Ocean Objects on and in the Water”
Prof. Nancy Um, Binghamton University
The past twenty years have witnessed the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a watery rubric that eludes and exceeds the continental and religious limits defined by the conventional subfields of African, Asian, and Islamic Art. In this talk, Prof. Um will consider the rise of Indian Ocean art history as a vibrant area of study that productively forges visual and material connections across the eastern and southern hemispheres, while also positing objects as fundamental sources for the writing of oceanic histories. The talk will be grounded by two works dating to the late 17th and early 18th C. Both objects present complex itineraries of creation and far-flung itineraries of travel, even if their journeys were not, ultimately, successful. Taken together, they chart a path for Indian Ocean art history, exemplifying how this area has developed as a field of study and where it might be going in the future.
Thursday May 5th at 5:30 pm. lecture attendees will be asked to wear masks.
Outdoor reception to follow
Hill Family Conference Room
McMullen Museum of Art
2101 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02135
For details see: Calderwood Lecture, BC Events Calendar
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Book Talk “Far from Mecca: Globalizing the Muslim Caribbean” by Dr. Aliyah Khan (University of Michigan), Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 26 April 2022, 10:00 am EST
Khan focuses on the fiction, poetry, and music of Islam in Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Combining archival research, ethnography, and literary analysis, Khan argues for a historical continuity of Afro- and Indo-Muslim presence and cultural production in the Caribbean.
Information and registration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejBK0CvvTo0
2. ONLINE Lecture “The Nation and Its Imagined Past among the Levantine Diaspora, 1900-1936” by David Hannah, Victoria University of Wellington, 27 April 2022, 5:00 pm New Zealand Time
This talk will deal with the contingency and choice within “diaspora nationalism” as it manifested among Levantine communities overseas, in particular those in the United States, Brazil and Egypt. It will examine the three dominant nationalist positions pertaining to the Levant; Lebanism, Syrianism and pan-Arabism.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10121102/nation-and-its-imagined-past-among-levantine-diaspora-1900
3. ONLINE Webinar “The Impact of Climate Change and Environmental Injustice in the Middle East and North Africa: What Should be Done?”. Arab Center Washington DC, 28 April 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
The panelists will discuss the details of the current and projected future impacts of climate change in the region, the challenges to addressing the growing climate crisis in MENA countries, and recommendations for adaptation and mitigation strategies to be taken by the region’s countries individually and collectively to curb these impacts from further intensifying.
Information and registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9116505656493/WN_QTLkmuAYR-adH_q2Q_MSpg
4. ONLINE Two Lectures “Steps of Remembrance and Historiography of the Crusades in Egypt from the 1800s to the 1970s” by Dr. Ahmed M. Sheir (University of Marburg) and “Between Historiography and Media: The Crusades in Yousef Shaheen Films” by Dr. Mohamad Rahil (University of Matrouh), Centrum für Nah- und Mittelost-Studien (CNMS), University of Marburg, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm CET
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/lecture-series-rethinking-memory-and-historiography-of-the-crusades-in-the-middle-east-january-may-2022-remote-925604?e=82aeb6c61d
5. ONLINE Incubator Conference on “Philosophy in the Islamic World”, Princeton University, 25-26 May 2022, 9:00 am ET
The Incubator is open to submissions on all topics related to Philosophy in the Islamic world. We invite abstracts from philosophy, near eastern and Islamic studies, religion and theology, and history provided that they are intellectually rigorous. Submissions that bring Islamic thought in conversation with Anglophone philosophy of religion are especially encouraged.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information and zoom registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10149079/online-incubator-conference-philosophy-islamic-world-hosted
6. ONLINE Digital Orientalist`s Virtual Conference on “Infrastructure” in the Context of Digital Humanities in the Study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, 25 June 2022
We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research and data are organized, stored and shared; what are the considerations behind starting and coordinating DH projects; and what could institutions do to accommodate such projects.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://digitalorientalist.com/2022/03/04/call-for-papers-the-digital-orientalists-virtual-conference-2022/
7. 9th International Islam & Liberty Conference “Religious Pluralism, Civil Freedoms and Economic Progress” in Muslim Majority Societies, Artuklu University, Mardin, 27-28 October 2022
Topics: Religious freedom and pluralism; Civil society, secularism and tolerance; Innovation, property rights and development; Free markets, commerce and prosperity; Political pluralism in contemporary societies; Refugee crisis, freedom of movement and immigration; Islamophobia, multi-culturalism and democracy; Corruption and rule of law; Violence and prospects of peaceful transitions.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://islamandlibertynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Call-for-Papers_ILN-9th-Conference-vf.pdf
8. 4 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the Research Project “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Berlin, Academic Year 2022/2023
The fellowships are addressed to scholars who are interested in the methodological perspective of dealing with regions or cultures not as closed entities or polarities, but by looking at processes of transfer, exchange and interaction in the sense of entangled or shared histories and cultures.
Deadline for applications: 5 May 2022. Information: https://www.eume-berlin.de/news-presse/aktuelles/news-detail/call-for-applications-eume-fellowships-20222023.html
9. Assistant Professor for Historical Literatures: Arabic, University of Amsterdam
Qualification: PhD in Arabic studies/literatures, and/or histories of coloniality, Islam, and slavery; strong publication record; broad teaching experience in Arabic Literatures and Languages and/or Middle Eastern Studies at BA and MA level; excellent command of Arabic and English. If you are not fluent in Dutch, an active and passive command must be acquired within two years of the employment.
Deadline for applications: 12 May 2022. Information: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/311587/assistant-professor-historical-literatures-arabic/?utm_source=ATemailalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=job_click&fbclid=IwAR0fO2ut5Kq7ng_mY9REEeYvXjBT-7TVpzDQm57Jn7xCYHYO1BcwFujsEgo
10. (Hagiographies and Biographies) about Slavery 18th/19th Century, ERC Project “Slave-Voices”, Sciences Po Paris
The successful candidate will have a PhD in hand or will have defended a PhD before September 2022. He or she will have a major expertise in the history of North Africa and will have a command of Arabic, French and English.
Application deadline: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fr/actualites/postdoctoral-recruitment-north-african-sufi-islamic-sources-centre-history-sciences-po.html
11. Two Visiting Fellowships (9 Months) of the “Bourse & Bazaar Foundation”, London, Focussing on Economic Diplomacy, Economic Development, and Economic Justice in the Middle East/Iran
Applications are open to individuals with a doctoral degree in an area of the social sciences and humanities relevant to the understanding of political and economic issues in the Middle East and Central Asia. Ideal applicants will have demonstrable experience in analytical writing and policy research.
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.bourseandbazaar.com/opportunities/bourse-amp-bazaar-foundation-visiting-fellowship-2022
12. Instructor in Islamic Religion (9 Months), College of Liberal Arts (CLA), Oregon State University
Applicants should have a PhD in Religious studies or other closely related field, teaching experience at the college or university level, and a commitment to educational equity and the promotion and enhancement of diversity.
Deadline for applications: 11 May 2022. Information: https://jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/117127
13. Grants of the Istanbul Research Institute 2022-2023
The scholarship programs are for researchers working on projects related to the departments of Byzantine, Ottoman, Atatürk and Republican-Era studies, and the “Istanbul and Music” Research Program. They include; a Post-Doctoral Research and Writing Grant; a Research and Write-Up Grant for PhD Candidates; 5 Travel Grants; 5 Conference Grants.
Deadline for applications: 17 July 2022. Information: https://en.iae.org.tr/Grants/18
14. Barcelona Summer School of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internationals, 4-8 July 2022
The first part will consist of a number of short courses on the politics and international relations of the Mediterranean and the Middle East, taught by experts of international repute. The second part will include interactive roundtables focused on the various policy challenges the two regions face. This unique dual structure will enable the programme to cater to the needs of students and practitioners.
Deadline for applications: 23 June 2022. Information: https://www.ibei.org/en/introduction_252624
15. Articles for the 9/11 Legacies Project of the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Digital Publication “9/11 Legacies: Vol. I” Contributions are invited that map the untold, forgotten, and marginalized legacies of how 9/11 and the Global War on Terror continue to impact politics, culture, and societies around the world today. Main categories: Muslim Networks; Counterinsurgency Strategies; Knowledge and Cultural Production; Capital Flows and Patronage Networks; Rise of Authoritarianism; Semantics and the Language of Terror; Islamism and Internationalism.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://orient.cas.cz/export/sites/orientalni-ustav/.content/files/9.11-Legacies_Call-for-Submissions_Spring-2022-NEW.pdf
16. The Religion and Rituals of the Nomads of Pre-Islamic Arabia
A Reconstruction Based on the Safaitic Inscriptions
Ahmad al-Jallad
17. Arab Stages is seeking submissions from you, your colleagues, and your students. We plan to return to two issues a year and are adding peer-adjudication for longer papers. (Book reviews and performance reviews will be approved by the book review and performance review editors.) We are focusing on a rapid review cycle, so it’s an opportunity for topical work in particular.
Arab Stages is a peer-adjudicated on-line journal publishing original research on theatre and performance in the Arab-Islamic world and the Arab diaspora.
We are calling for the submission of papers.
1) Original papers and play translations (4000 to 8000 words preferred). Review cycle: 4-6 weeks.
2) Short papers: book reviews, performance reviews, translation extracts, short research reports etc. (800 to 2000 words). Review Cycle: 2 weeks.
Find more information on the journal at https://arabstages.org/about/
Submit your article or inquiry to ted.ziter@nyu.edu
18. We are happy to announce that our 7h IDHN Conference will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022. We cordially invite you all to attend our conference. Please find the full program of the conference as an attachment here. Our program also contains information about the conference’s schedule in different time zones.
Program (10:00 am to 12:30 pm EDT)
Boǧaç A. Ergene (Ohio State University) and Atabey Kaygun (Istanbul Technical University): Thematic Change in Ottoman Fetvas
Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia): Digital Maktaba: AI perspectives for automatic text extraction and catalogation of volumes in non-Latin alphabets volumes (Arabic, Persian, Azerbaijani): challenges of La Pira digital archive
Leonora Sonego (Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München) and Johannes Thomann (University of Zurich): Measuring the development of early Arabic script in non-literary texts
Joseph Baxley (St. Mary’s College): Mapping Intellectual Networks in Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s biographical dictionary of physicians
To attend this online conference, please register as a member at https://idhn.org/contact/, or email registration@idhn.org to request guest access. We eagerly look forward to your attendance and participation in the conference.
19. Embracing Muslims in a Catholic Land: Rethinking the Genesis of Islām in Mexico
Author: Jonathan Benzion
20. Janet O’Brien and Azfar Moin on Empire – Wednesday 27 April 3pm Onlin
Faisal Devji and I would like to welcome you to register for the first of our online seminar series at St Antony’s College, Oxford, this term. The first panel will be held at 3pm this Wednesday afternoon (27 April).
In the first of four panels this term, we will be hosting Janet O’Brien (The Courtauld) and Azfar Moin, (University of Texas-Austin) in a discussion on the theme of Empire.
Lecture titles:
Azfar Moin, University of Texas-Austin, ‘The Mughal Exception: New Perspectives on Sulh-i Kull or Peace with All Religions.’
Janet O’Brien, The Courtauld, ‘Embodying Empire in the Portraits of Nadir Shah.’
To register, please follow the link below:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iT24JLVXRm2i_DulgAViBA
Dr Usaama al-Azami
Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies
The Middle East Centre
St Antony’s College
Oxford OX2 6JF
21. The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, seeks applicants for the position of Associate Director and Chief Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum (OIM).
Close: July 17, 2022
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63322
22. Zoom: Spotlighting an Author – Mateo Farzaneh
Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War
6 May, 2022, 1 pm EST
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OK_FMghwQyqPEGbahb1h0A
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP: ‘Fragile Ecologies’, Middle Eastern Literatures
CFP for a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures, ‘Fragile Ecologies: Environmental Urgency in the Literatures of the Middle East’.
This special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures proposes a reading of literatures that give voice to this agency of nonhuman ecologies, destabilising traditional geographic, historical, and generic boundaries. We welcome papers that address literary expressions of ecological urgency, in which the human is decentred, made vulnerable, and marked by an awareness of End Times or apocalypse. Over the past century, this may be related to growing tensions over water scarcity, the oil “curse”, waning biodiversity, worsening toxicity, and global warming. Yet previous literatures, too, have evoked climate-driven migration and warfare, and we are keen to explore the comparative possibilities they offer.
With this in mind, Middle Eastern Literatures seeks articles that respond to the theme of “Fragile Ecologies”. We welcome articles that address texts – whether literary or filmic – which directly concern this theme, as well as those in which it is a nagging, background concern. We welcome articles on both modern and pre-modern texts, and both poetry and prose, suggesting how we might address contemporary anxieties through the poetics of the past. Amitav Ghosh writes that “[…] the novel was midwifed into existence around the world, through the banishing of the improbable and the insertion of the everyday,” suggesting this turning away from the “improbable” as a major obstacle to writing the current climate crisis. What genres and aesthetics, then, are needed to address the improbability of climate crisis and apocalypse, the return of the nonhuman to our consciousness as an urgent, pressing agent of change, and the decentring of the human through freak weather events and imperceptible transformations to land and ecologies? Through these questions, we seek papers that address the fields of Energy Humanities and Ecocriticism from Middle Eastern perspectives, exploring the comparative possibilities of ecocritical reading, theorising genres of environmental writing, and the aesthetics of climate crisis.
Final articles due September 1, 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=came20
For any queries, please email: meliteratures@gmail.com
2. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2022
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to June 1 of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The winner of both the graduate and undergraduate categories will receive a cash prize and will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information and formatting instructions visit https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submission Deadline: June 1
Electronic submissions only to:
Dr. Anne Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
Subject line: SHD Student Prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
3. Arab American Heritage Month screening of “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People” – in person
28 April, 2022 , 6.30 – 8.30 pm (Central Time)
3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77004
For more information:
4. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event
April 27, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The Preservation of Documentary Heritage
in the MENASA Region: The Role of the QNL
Stephane Ipert (Qatar National Library)
Stephane Ipert is the director of the distinctive collections (Heritage Library) in the Qatar National Library (QNL), a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps and archival collections about Qatar and the Islamic world. Since 2015 the QNL is the IFLA PAC – Preservation and Conservation Center for Arabic countries and Middle East, (IFLA is the International Federation of Libraries Associations). Stephane has a background as conservator, art historian and lawyer. He is leading a regional project to counter documentary heritage trafficking in the MENASA region (Himaya) since 2021.
Register in advance for this event at https://bit.ly/37kIrH6
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information please email ds@ias.edu .
5. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Dr Fatemeh Shams
Author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2021)
‘The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran’
May 1, 2022 11:30 AM (PT)
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BxLDfiplTkOWcq6JhI6CEA
6. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 26 avril 2022 / Tuesday 26th April 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur l’épigraphie / Insights into Epigraphy
Chairperson: Nuria Garcia-Masip (Sorbonne Université)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Innovations in the Content and Style of Royal Epigraphy
by Viola Allegranzi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Funerary Texts as Sources for Local History
by Martina Massullo (BULAC – CollEx-Persée/CeRMI, Paris)
The quadruplet inscriptions on the commemorative pillar
of the Dorudzan dam in Ramjerd (Fars) from the Sassanid to the Qajar period
(in Farsi, with English translation)
by Emadaldin Sheikhalhokamaee (University of Tehran, Institute of Archaeology)
Language: English
To participate, please register before April 25th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=117785_regards-sur-l-epigraphie
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
7. Open Access Book – Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins
Ahmad Ali Al-Imam
IIIT, 2022
8. Book Launch
Egypt’s Football Revolution
By Carl Rommel, with discussants
Leif Stenberg and Sevgi Adak.
29 April 2022 17:30-19:00 (London)
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
9. Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies
Call For Papers
Winter/Spring 2023 Issue Call for Papers
JTMS would like to extend a warm springtime greeting to all of our readers! With the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of out to readers and the Summer/Fall 2022 issue currently undergoing editorial review, JTMS is now soliciting manuscripts for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue. Authors wishing to be considered for inclusion in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of JTMS should submit their manuscripts by September 1st, 2022.
JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on terrestrial and maritime territorial issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea, providing an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of security studies, history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and other relevant disciplines. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and covers all continental areas across the world from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are also encouraged.
Articles should be submitted electronically to jtms@yonsei.ac.kr and include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author(s) name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website by clicking “Submission Guidelines” via the site below.
A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, 4,000 words for essays, and approximately 2,000 words for a book review. Authors wishing to be considered for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than September 1st, 2022. Inquiries may be sent via the email address above.
For more information:
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/9eO0Z5XKV?languageTag=en
10. Isfahan Exhibition in Ireland (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjx8ogoGrQ
(In Persian with English subtitles)
11. Annonce conférence publique La Grande muraille de Gorgan et la défense de la Perse sassanide, Louvre, 28/04/22, 12h30
Pour information: Conférence publique
Eberhard Sauer (Université d’Edimbourg), le 28 avril 2022, 12h30
12. Departmental Lecturer, Classical Arabic Literature
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Oriental Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Classical Arabic literature. The Departmental Lecturer will support the teaching of the literatures of Arab societies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, providing cover for some of the duties of the current AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic (Julia Bray), who is retiring and being replaced by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin from summer 2023.
Deadline | 6 May 2022
13. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
SOAS University of London
The School of History, Religions and Philosophies is looking for a one-year replacement covering the History of the Middle East for a colleague who will be on research leave during the 2022-2023 academic year. The preferred candidate will hold a PhD in History or a closely related discipline, be proficient in the regional languages relevant for their research, and have gained some initial teaching and supervision experience
Deadline | 8 May 2022
14. Call for Papers – Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World
Graduate Student Virtual Symposium | University of Alberta | 31 May 2022
Papers are invited for this interdisciplinary graduate-level online symposium that aims to bring together graduate students from all disciplines to critically examine a variety of topics relating to the MENA region and the larger Muslim contexts. All Master’s and PhD students with a research project on any aspect of socio-cultural, historical, religious, art and political issues in MENA and Muslim contexts are invited to submit an abstract of their presentation.
Deadline | 30 April 2022
15. 2022-23 CBRL open call grant applications
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL are accepting applications for the following:
- Project grants, up to £8,000;
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs;
- Travel grants, up to £1,000;
- Research support grants, up to £1,000 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 20 May 2022
More information
16. ECHOES OF ORIENTALISM Arab-Islamic Sexuality through European Eyes: Burton and Beyond
DR FERAS ALKABANI (SUSSEX)
DeCol Collective Seminar Series
University of Brighton Wednesday, 4 May 2022, at 13.00-14.00
17. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (Monday, 23rd May 2022)
City, University of London
11:00 – 20:30
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
18. Call for Submissions – HIAA Majlis and HIAA Newsletter
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars.
HIAA invites submissions from graduate students at ABD level or recent PhDs to present at its next Majlis, to take place in New York during CAA’s Annual Conference. [Note: Although we hope that the conference and associated programming will be held in person, in the event of continued restrictions on large gatherings, the Majlis will be held virtually]
HIAA invites proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology.
Proposals should be submitted by email to HIAA secretary Fatima Quraishi at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a single document which includes the following:
** a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation
** an abstract of no more than 300 words
Proposals are due by June 15, 2022.
Please note that those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA at the time of presenting.
19. Roshan Institute and Mona Farjad on May 1
Please join Roshan Institute for Persian Studies on Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m. EST for a special conversation with Iranian actor Mona Farjad. Farjad will present an innovative series of monologues she has performed over the past year in dialogue with traditional Iranian theatrical practice and contemporary Iranian drama. Roshan Institute lecturer Dr. Marjan Moosavi will moderate this conversation as well as the following Q&A session.
To register, visit go.umd.edu/monafarjad or click on this link.
20. Syria Report, which is otherwise a commercial, subscription based resource has made 300 articles available free of charge.
“For the past 18 months The Syria Report has been covering housing, land, and property (HLP) rights stories across Syria. We have published news stories, analyses, a glossary of terms and expressions and interviews on various HLP aspects across all areas of control in Syria.
You can read them all on the following page:
https://syria-report.com/category/hlp/
As all Syria Report content, HLP section is searchable through our search engine. The same 300 articles are also available in Arabic. “
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture “New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema” by Farshid Kazemi (Simon Fraser University), University of Toronto, 22 April 2022, 4:00 pm ET
Zoom registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-mrqz0sEtx3IFDmhTGF5vnsP5mZVy9k
2. ONLINE “LexiQamus Info Session” (Ottoman Turkish) with Dr. Abdullah Saçmalı, 29 April 2022, 11:00 am ET
LexiQamus, is a web-based Ottoman Turkish dictionary that draws data from 19 different dictionaries and including approximately 173,000 words and phrases. The LexiQamus database is an important technology that unlocks unreadable words for any historian who knows the difficulties of reading handwriting. Information and zoom registration:
https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfu6qqT4qHNI7bRTCHK2jLY1_xAll2Y4X
3. HYBRID Rencontre Mercredis de l’IREL : « Les minorités religieuses en France – Panorama de la diversité contemporain », débat avec Anne-Laure Zwilling et Isabelle Rivoal, Paris, 18 mai 2022, 18h30 – 20h
Information et s´inscrire : https://irel.ephe.psl.eu/actualites/mercredi-lirel-minorites-religieuses-france
4. HYBRID “Undergraduate Students` Session” at the “55th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Humboldt University of Berlin, 7 August 2022
This session focuses on the linkage between students working on or interested in archaeology and epigraphy of the Arabian Peninsula. We therefore invite undergraduate and graduate students especially from these research areas to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/917462a4d48d/call-for-papers?e=18cf0337f7
5. HYBRID Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS, Including Iran, Afghanistan etc.), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 20-23 October 2022
We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia, Inner Asia, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: http://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
6. Lecturer (Assistant Professor, 3 Years) in Turkish Cultural History, Trinity College Dublin
Applicants must hold a PhD and have a strong research profile appropriate to their career stage. Applications from candidates with a specialisation in the social and/or cultural history of the Ottoman Empire will be particularly welcome.
Deadline for applications: 16 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/10108148/featured-job-lecturer-yunus-emre-institute-lectureship-turkish
7. Lecturer in the Modern Middle East with a Focus on Iran or Turkey (3 Years), Harvard University
By “modern,” we mean encompassing at least the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We welcome var-ious disciplines, including, but not limited to, political, economic, social or cultural history. Deadline for application: 1 May 2022. Information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11193
8. Lecturer in Classical and Qur’anic Arabic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Applicants should have Superior level proficiency in Qur’anic and Classical Arabic and English. Experience with teaching Arabic at the post-secondary level is required. Applicants must have a demonstrated under-standing of and ability to use a proficiency-based, communicative methodology in language instruction. Min-
imum of a Master’s degree in foreign language teaching or equivalent field required. Deadline for application: 29 April 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/104863
9. Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History / Islamicate World, Kenyon College, Ohio
Candidates should have a record of excellent teaching and a Ph.D. in hand or be near completion by the beginning of the appointment (July 2022). Open until filled.
Information: https://careers.kenyon.edu/en-us/job/492837/visiting-assistant-professor-of-asian-history
10. Intercultural Program (SALAM) to Learn Arabic: Courses of 2, 4, or 8 Weeks in Jordan in 2022, Aqaba University of Technology
This program is not only designed to learn the Arabic language but also is aiming to introduce the participants from all over the world to the ancient history, tradition, heritage, and social life of Jordan and its distinguished flora and fauna.
Information: http://salam.aut.edu.jo/Salam_Program
11. Entries for the “Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics and Finance” (Palgrave)
The encyclopaedia that will present a solid framework for the elaboration of the major concepts of the subject will make use of the existing academic literature, as well as theological sources and the history of Islam and of Islamic financial practices. The goal in doing this is to present the historical theoretical framework as well as the modern and contemporary views and tendencies. Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10103011/call-entries-palgrave-encyclopedia-islamic-economics-and
12. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Mina Khanlarzadeh
‘The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music’
Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in Persian
13. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW)in personon November 18-19, 2022. (Friday Saturday) Some panels will be available for Zoom participation. WOW 2022 organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply for this workshop using this Google Form. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for graduate students. Graduate applicants who need funding should follow the instructions in the form to be considered for funding.
Faculty members, instructors, adjuncts and independent scholars interested to attend should also get in touch using the Google Form; we would love to welcome you in person!
The deadline for applications and RSVPs is August 1st 2022.
Baki Tezcan, President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) will be moderating the keynote panel featuring Sebouh Aslanian and Christine Philliou.
Heather Ferguson, editor of Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies (JOTSA), will be conducting a professionalization workshop about academic publishing for graduate students and early career scholars. Senior scholars will also be present to share their experiences on the review process.
WOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century.
Two years into this pandemic, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting, discussion, feedback, and conversation. Join us!
Please direct all queries to WOWUCLAWOW@gmail.com . Applications for WOW 2022 will only be accepted via the Google Form.
14. Hybrid event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West, a joint conference of the Pourdavoud Center and Getty Villa
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
An International Symposium
Convened by
Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall
In person registration and Zoom information at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west/
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the Getty are convening for a third year an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. This year’s symposium, held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), will mark the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium, will include invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertain to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested. In-person seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Alternatively, guests unable to attend in person will be able to watch a live stream of the lectures. This event will adhere to all COVID-19 related guidelines as set by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Questions? Email Dr. Marissa Stevens (stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu)
Schedule:
May 19, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel I: Achaemenid Persia and the West
Lindsey Allen (King’s College, London)
The Boundaries of Kingship: Objects and Relationships at the Margins
John Ma (Columbia University)
Achaemenid Cultural History and the Hellenistic World
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Achaemenid Seals: East and West
John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)
Celebrating Achaemenid Victories: A Glyptic Triumphal Motif and its Greek and Egyptian Victims
2:30 pm – Panel II: Achaemenid Persia and the West (2)
Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)
How to Govern an Empire? The Inscriptions of Darius I As a Constitutional Program
Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
The Achaemenid Persian Empire and the West: A Structural Approach
- Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Universality and Alterity in the Achaemenid World
May 20, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel III: The Hellenistic and Parthian Age
Sara E. Cole (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa
Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Parthian Silver and the Creation and Contestation of Aristocracies in Post-Hellenistic Iran
Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University)
Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy
2:00 pm – Panel IV: Iran and Rome in late Antiquity and Beyond
David Potter (University of Michigan)
Western Sources for the Sasanians
Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
Ardashir I, the Early Sasanians, and Reorienting the Near East and the Caucasus
Olga M. Davidson (Boston University)
How the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi about the Ancient Royal Dynasties of Iran Could Ever Become a World Epic for the So-Called West
Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Takht-e Soleyman, Sasanians, Romans, and Mongols: Reflections on the Life and Afterlife of a Sacred Place
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