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1. ONLINE Webinar: “Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon” with Maya Mikdashi and Attiya Ahmad, Institute for Middle East Studies, Washington, DC, 28 April 2022, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm EST
Maya Mikdashi offers a new way to understand state power, theorizing how sex, sexuality, and sect shape and are shaped by law, secularism, and sovereignty. Drawing on court archives, public records, and ethnog-raphy of the Court of Cassation, the highest civil court in Lebanon, Mikdashi shows how political difference is entangled with religious, secular, and sexual difference.
Information and registration: https://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/events/sextarianism-sovereignty-secularism-and-the-state-in-lebanon-with-maya-mikdashi-and-attiya-ahmad/
2. Summer School on “Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World”, Leiden University, 23 August – 2 September 2022
This course includes lectures by experts, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from Lei-den`s famous collection of oriental manuscripts. The course is meant for graduate students (MA and PhD) and researchers.
Deadline for abstracts: 17 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9711267/lucis-summer-school-philology-and-manuscripts-muslim-world-aug
3. Kashf Al-Zunūn ‘An Asāmī Al-Kutub Wa Al-Funūn
(The removal of Doubt from the Names of Books and the Sciences)
By Muṣṭafa ibn ʿAbd Allāh
(known as Kātip Çelebī and Ḥājjī Khalīfa)
Critical edition by:
Ekmeleddin ihsanoğlu and Bashar Awad Ma’rouf
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*Valid until 31st March 2022
4. AKU-ISMC 12-13 May Short Course – Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology (Online)
This online course aims to introduce key concepts in the field of Arabic manuscripts and codicology. It is designed to attract participants who want to learn basic knowledge about Arabic manuscripts. The first day will provide an overview of the field of codicology and its role in the manuscript field in general and in identifying key features of manuscripts in particular. The second session will be dedicated to writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in bookmaking, and the palaeography of book hands. Some practical examples will be given based on the lecturers’ long experiences. The second day will focus on the importance of manuscripts in research. While the first session will cover the paratextual features in the Arabic manuscripts, the second session will demonstrate the different approaches in editing manuscripts.
This introductory course is intended for students, researchers, and librarians who wish to increase their knowledge in the manuscript field.
Learning Outcomes
– Basic understanding of the field of Arabic manuscript studies.
– Identify the role of manuscripts in knowledge production in different areas of studies in Muslim cultures.
Course Convenors
Dr Walid Ghali is the Head of the Aga Khan Library, London, Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic studies at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and a Chartered Librarian of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP). Dr Ghali received his PhD in Islamic Manuscript Studies from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University (2012). Dr Ghali’s current research projects focus on Islamic manuscript traditions, particularly in Arabic script and book history. He has published on Arabic literature, Sufi traditions and Islamic manuscripts cultures.
Dr Anne Regourd is researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique/French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris, France. She has published extensively in the fields of history and philology dealing with codicology, paper studies, and papyrology. She is the editor of book, The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters, Leiden, E.J. Brill, 2018, and heads the free access online journal, Nouvelles Chroniques du Manuscrit au Yémen.
Dr Eléonore Cellard is a specialist in Qurʾānic manuscripts. She started her research activities in 2008 under the supervision of Professor François Déroche. In 2015, she submitted her dissertation entitled The Written Transmission of the Qur’an: Study of a Corpus of Manuscripts from the 2nd Century AH/ 8th Century CE (INALCO/EPHE). She has collaborated on several international projects about Qurʾānic manuscripts, and recently carried out a research project on one of the Qurʾān copies attributed to the caliph ʿUthman ibn Affan’. She has also authored several monographs and articles on Qurʾānic manuscripts.
Date and Time
12-13 May 2022, 11:00-15:00 (London Time).
Tickets and Booking
Tickets: £80 professionals | £50 students, AKU alumni and staff. Book as soon as possible
5. The 13th Annual International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (IRTP) will be held on 29th June – 2nd July 2022 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Abstract submission extended till 28th February 2022.
All detailed information about the Conference can be found at this website: https://irtp.co.uk/the-13th-annual-international-religious-tourism-and-pilgrimage-irtp-conference-2021/
6. The British Library:
The art of small things (5): Recitation markers in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
7. Qur’an Gateway, a tool for critical study of the text, construction, and language of the Qur’an which used to require subscription is now available as open source under the name Qur’an Tools.
- February 15, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The first International Ottoman Studies Congress (OSARK) took place in Sakarya, Turkey, from October 14-17, 2015. The next OSARK was held in Tirana, Albania, from October 17-20, 2018.
We would like to inform you that the third OSARK will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from September 7-9, 2022, at Istanbul Medeniyet University. OSARK 2022 welcomes and encourages individual paper and thematic panel proposals within any field of Ottoman History.
For further details see:
2. The MLA Global Arab and Arab American Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the MLA Convention in San Francisco (5-8 January 2023):
Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work
Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural practices of domestication and containment. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to rc49@soas.ac.uk (Rasha Chatta, Freie Universität)
Migrants as Working Subjects
Literary and artistic representations of migrant labor in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, as inflected by class, race, ethnicity, language, nomenclature, and sociocultural/economic practices including sponsorship. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to azstanton@psu.edu (Anna Ziajka Stanton, The Pennsylvania State University)
3. Rescheduled: UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Latest Developments in Afghanistan Panel
Sunday, April 10, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Panel in Persian
Ahmad Nader Nadery
Former Chair of Independent Civil Service Commission in Kabul, and Member of the Peace Negotiation Team for Afghanistan
The Taliban’s Return to Power and Its Implications for Afghanistan and Iran
Homeira Qaderi
Afghan Writer and Women’s Rights Activist, and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University
How Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights
Farah Karimi
Head of the Dutch Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA and Former UN Consultant for Capacity Building of the Afghan Parliament
4. 2022 AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series Schedule
Spring 2022 AMECYS Friday Digital Author Series
Throughout the spring on the 2nd Friday of each month, digitally join AMECYS’ authors, who will discuss their most recent monographs, articles or book chapters. Sessions will consist of a 30-minute interview with AMECYS board member (unless noted otherwise) followed by Q&A from audience.
Friday March 11, 11 am CST
Dr. Hedi Viterbo, Associate Professor of Law,
Queen Mary University of London
Author of Problematizing Law, Rights, and Childhood
In Israel/Palestine (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
Interviewed by Sunaina Maira (Professor, University of California, Davis)
Friday April 8th, 11 am CDT
Mr. Shivan Fazil, Researcher, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Dr. Bahar Baser, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies,
Durham University
Editors of Youth Identity, Politics and Change in Contemporary Kurdistan (Transnational Press London, 2021)
Friday May 13, 11 am CDT
Dr. Rania Kassab Sweis, Associate Professor of Anthropology
at the University of Richmond
Author of Paradoxes of Care: Children and Global Medical Aid in Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2021)
Links for series will be sent to all AMECYS listserv members, so make sure signed up for the listserv! Digital medium for series is Zoom (https://zoom.us/download).
For information, email dylan.baun@uah.edu or hmorrison@uwlax.edu
5. Jaleh Esfahani Poetry Prize 2022
Date: 18 February 2022 Time: 6:00 PM
Finishes: 18 February 2022 Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)
Type of Event: Performance
This is the first in-person Annual Jaleh Esfahani Poetry Prize event that will be held since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s prize also coincides with the 100th birth anniversary of the late Jaleh Esfahani.
The event marks the 12th year of the poetry prize, in which young (under 30) Persian poets from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and the diaspora, compete. At this year’s event the winners, from among the three shortlists of 5 poets, for each country, which were selected from nearly 200 original participants, will be announced.
During the event well-known Persian language poets and the judges will speak, and the winners will read samples of their poems, intertwined with music from Persian-speaking countries and a Sama (Whirling) Dance.
Programme
6.00pm: Reception in the foyer of the BGLT
6.30pm: Event starts
* Please note that the language for this event’s proceedings will be in Persian.
Admission is free and open to the public, however, donations of £5 are greatly appreciated.
Organiser: Jaleh Esfahani Cultural Foundation in association with the SOAS Middle East Institute
Contact email: fsp@parand.co.uk
6. The Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH) is hosting a two-day international conference on Wisdom Literature in Early Islam.
12-13 September, 2022
The conference will have a mixed format, with both in-person and online presentations. The conference will address the question of wisdom literature, as a tool of persuasion, to deliberate its content, to analyse its philosophical and ethical messaging, and identify major themes and tropes in Arabic literature, philosophy, intellectual history, linguistics, and ethics, among other things, in Early Islam (broadly conceived of as the first few centuries).
Themes the conference could address:
- Transmission of wisdom literature, aphorisms, and texts
- Recurring tropes and themes
- Devotional piety and wisdom literature
- The Qur’an and wisdom literature
- The Arabic reception of ancient wisdom literature
- Tools of persuasion and rhetoric
- Philosophical and ethical dimensions
For consideration, please send a 300-word abstract in English to lucith@hum.leidenuniv.nl by the 15th of March 2022. The conference will be held in English.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, only participants located within Europe will be invited to join us in person and will be offered a one-night stay with their travel and accommodation costs covered by the conference organiser. Participants located outside of Europe will be invited to join us online.
Contact Info:
Tamar Tros, Conference Coordinator
Contact Email:
7. The latest issue of Mamlūk Studies Review(XXIV [2021]) is now available for download from our website:
http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/browse-download.html
8. Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. Volume IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs.Critical edition and introduction by Michael Lecker, annotated translation by Yaara Perlman. Leiden and Boston: Brill, February 2022 (Bibliotheca Maqriziana, vol. 8), xii-381 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-49986-7 (e-book); 978-90-04-49983-6 (hardback).
For more information on published and forthcoming volumes, see https://brill.com/view/serial/BIMA.
9. Translating Contemporary Iran
Panel with Mariam Rahmani and Nasrin Rahimieh (UCI)
Thursday, February 17
Remote via Zoom
1:00 pm (Pacific Time)
About the Panel
Since its first publication in 2008, Mahsa Mohebali’s edgy cult hit, Nigarān nabash, has been off and the shelves in Tehran. Following Shadi, a cynic and opium addict who cross-dresses to evade hijab law, throughout an apocalyptic day of earthquakes that are destroying the city, the novel offers a view of contemporary Iran too seldom seen in the US – but now available to in translation under the title, In Case of Emergency (Feminist Press, 2021). Please join us for a conversation between scholar Dr. Nasrin Rahimieh and translator Dr. Mariam Rahmani on issues of translation and mistranslation – both literal and cultural– from a Persian Iranian to Anglophone American context.
About the Panelists
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Her fiction and essays have appeared in Granta, Gulf Coast, BOMB Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and The Rumpus as well as in exhibition catalogs and her translation in n+1, Columbia Journal, and the collected volume, After Cinema: Fictions From A Collective Memory (Archive Book, 2019). Her 2021 translation of Mahsa Mohebali’s In Case of Emergency, the 2008 Iranian cult hit, was well reviewed in the New York Times and has garnered other positive press in the New York Times “Globetrotting,” Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, World Literature Today, and the Center for the Art of Translation. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University. Among her honors and awards are the 2021 Henfield Prize, the Columbia MFA’s highest honor in fiction, a 2018 PEN/Heim translation grant, and a US Fulbright fellowship. Rahmani currently teaches at UCLA as a Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature.
Nasrin Rahimieh is Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities and Professor Comparative Literature at the University of California. She is currently the Director of the Humanities Core program at UCI, former Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature (2016-19) and Maseeh Chair and Director of the Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture (2006-14). Her teaching and research are focused on modern Persian literature, the literature of Iranian exile and diaspora, contemporary Iranian women’s writing. Among her publications are Oriental Responses to the West: Comparative Essays in Select Writers from the Muslim World (1990), Missing Persians: Discovering Voices in Iranian Cultural History (2001), Forugh Farrokhzad, Poet of Modern Iran: Iconic Woman And Feminine Pioneer Of New Persian Poetry (2010) co-edited with Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and Iranian Culture: Representation and Identity (2015). She translated the late Taghi Modarressi’s last novel, The Virgin of Solitude (2008) from Persian into English.
For more information and to register:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15371
10. 2 PhD Positions in Digital Islamic History, University of Hamburg
I am advertising for two PhD positions in my project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600). Each position is 2+2 years. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022. Successful applicants will work on one of the case studies of the project and will write and defend a PhD thesis on the topic of their choice, within a selected case study. Descriptions of both positions and detailed information on the application process can be found at the following links: https://tinyurl.com/PhD01; https://tinyurl.com/PhD02. Feel free to email me, if you have any questions (maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de). The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program (https://tinyurl.com/EIS1600). It is hosted at the Institute of Asian and African Studies (Islamic Studies Division) of the University of Hamburg.
Best regards,
Maxim Romanov
Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader, “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (2021-2027), Universität Hamburg, Asien-Afrika-Institut, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg, maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de
11. Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World,
ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition
S Rassi
12. Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies
coorganisé par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) et le CeRMI,
aura lieu
le mardi 22 février 2022, de 15h à 17h (heure de Paris) / 17h30-19h30 (heure de Téhéran).
Cette deuxième séance s’articulera autour du thème « Regards sur la céramique, 1 / Insights into ceramic arts, 1 », avec les interventions suivantes :
- New data about the «Poteries de Bamiyan» (Afghanistan)
Guergana Guionova (CNRS, Aix Marseille Univ, LA3M, Aix-en-Provence),
Thomas Lorain (MAFAB/University of Bamberg)
- Architectural decoration, tiles and brickworks of Alamut Castle through historical data
Hamideh Choubak (ICCAR, RICHT, MCTH)
- A Research on the Islamic Ceramics of the Sultâniyya plain, Iran
Mahsa Feizi (PhD Tehran University/Lyon 2)
Discussion. Chairperson: Yves Porter (Aix Marseille Univ/IUF/LA3M)
Pour suivre cette séance en ligne (sur Skyroom), une inscription est nécessaire. Un lien d’inscription sera mis à disposition très prochainement.
>> Pour plus d’informations sur le Webinaire
13. 2022 Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture
Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran
With Professor Ali Gheissari
Hosted by Durham University, the event is jointly organised by BIPS and IMeEIS (Durham University).
9 March, 2022, 5-6 pm (UK time)
Via Zoom
To join on the day, see:
- February 12, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Please join us on February 20 from 2 – 4 p.m. EST as we gather to commemorate beloved author and satirist Iraj Pezeshkzad, who passed away this January. This event is cosponsored by Damavand Cultural Foundation and will feature a roundtable discussion in Persian of Pezeshkzad’s life, works, and impact. Our speakers will be:
Ardeshir Lotfalian – Writer, Diplomat, and Advisor to Damavand Cultural Foundation
Seyyid Ali Mirfattah – Writer and Satirist
Ali Dehbashi – Writer and Chief Editor of Bukhara Magazine
Fatemeh Keshavarz – Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Marjan Moosavi – Lecturer at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Please use this Zoom link to join us then:
2. We are reaching out to share the Jasūr Magazine (previously known as Juhood) Spring 2022 Call for Submissions. This semester’s theme is Power: Political Economies of the Middle East. Jasūr is Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s undergraduate-run journal for academic and short-form writing on the Middle East and North Africa.
You can find a complete call for submissions below, and we would really appreciate your help in spreading it to students in your department. We will also be hosting several virtual events this semester, and invite anyone who is interested in attending and/or learning more about the publication to visit jasurmagazine.org. If you or any of your students have questions about the journal or submission guidelines, please contact Editor-in-Chief Jasper Schutt (jasperms@live.unc.edu), and/or editorial board member Eleyan Sawafta (ersawafta@uncg.edu).
All our best,
The Jasūr Editorial Board
The editorial board of Jasūr Magazine calls for submissions from undergraduate students for Jasūr 4.2, Power: Political Economies of the Middle East. Jasūr is a journal for critical scholarship and writing on the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined, and is run by undergraduates at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Submissions for the Spring 2022 issue will be accepted until Monday, February 28th, at which point the editorial board will contact selected authors.
The theme of this Spring’s issue of Jasūr is political economy. We take an intentionally expansive definition of the term, and understand it to mean the critical study of economic systems, class relations, and domestic and international institutions. Simply put, we’re looking for work that takes a materialist approach to analyzing any contemporary issue in the MENA region. Some examples of relevant topics include histories of capitalism in the region, how interventions by international financial institutions affect societies in the MENA region, or how political and economic constraints impact the region’s artistic sectors.
Submission Guidelines
- We are accepting submissions of complete academic and short form essays, as well as proposals for short form work. By academic work, we mean essays that are between roughly 8 and 30 pages and contain significant amounts of primary and/or secondary research. We are happy to accept longer submissions, especially of theses or other papers that contain original research, and can work with you to abridge the work for publication.
- Submissions of short form essays might offer political commentary, criticism of state and/or firm policies, and in general, examine current events from a political-economic perspective. In addition to completed pieces, we are also accepting proposals for short pieces, which should be submitted with a writing sample of similar length to the proposed piece.
- All submissions should be sent to jasurmagazine@gmail.comor submitted through our website’s submissions tab by February 28th, 2022.
- If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the editorial board (jasurmagazine@gmail.com) and/or Editor-in-Chief Jasper Schutt (jasperms@live.unc.edu).
In addition to the journal, the Jasūr team also accepts and publishes short-form and creative work on any topic all year-round. Throughout the year, we also host events on a variety of topics related to the MENA+ region, which are open to public attendance via Zoom. To learn more, visit jasurmagazine.org.
3. SOAS, University of London – Post-Doctoral Researcher in Islamic
Manuscripts of Sumatra
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62981
Closing date: 20.2.22
4. Introductory Old/Classical Armenian course at Notre Dame this summer through their Classical, Medieval, and Near Eastern Language Institute. It is open to undergraduate or graduate students.
The course will meet M/T/R 4:00–6:00pm ET (FULLY ONLINE) May 31st–July 7th (6 weeks).
Tuition rate info is here (the course is 3 credits): https://summersession.nd.edu/tuition-financial-aid/
I don’t think ND offers funding for the course, so students would need to apply for funding locally or seek other external scholarships, such as the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Short Term Grant for Armenian Studies or a NAASR grant
Jesse S. Arlen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Armenian Orthodox Studies
Orthodox Christian Studies Center | Fordham University
Director, Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center,
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern)
630 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10016
(212) 686-0710 ext. 126
jarlen@fordham.edu | jarlen@armeniandiocese.org
5. ONLINE Lecture: “Copying and Reading Sacred Scriptures: Qurʾan and Torah in Comparative Perspective” by Prof. Daniella Talmon-Heller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), UCLA, 9 February 2022, 12:00 pm PST
The Jewish tradition preserved the ancient form of the scroll, written in scripta defectiva, for its elaborate rituals of liturgical reading in the synagogue. The Muslim tradition, with its preference for the oral performance of the text, makes no such distinction, yet likewise regulates the work of the scribe and the handling of the book.
Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-copying-and-reading-sacred-scriptures-quran-and-torah-in-comparative-perspective-9-february-online?e=82aeb6c61d
6. Workshop: “Continuity and Change Throughout the Ottoman Longue Durée,” Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, 1-3 April 2022
This workshop will provide an opportunity for scholars of Ottoman studies to gather, discuss their research, and receive substantive feedback. This initiative aims to bring together scholars of all stages who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the late 13th century through the early 20th century.
Information: https://maow.umwblogs.org/
7. Workshop: “History and Anthropology through Literature: Approaches & Methodologies to the Study of Medieval and Modern Texts and Manuscripts”, Trinity College Dublin, 15 July 2022
The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of medieval and early-modern Arabic manuscripts stored away in Egypt’s Ben Ezra Synagogue over nearly a thousand years. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars of manuscript sciences, history, anthropology, literary criticism, philosophy, and sociology to chal-lenge the investigation of history, sociology, and anthropology though pre-modern literature and its manu-scripts.
Information: https://t.co/Sy28Pbzp9x
8. International Workshop: “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Post-colonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region”, Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022
The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (post-colonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The workshop intents to explore the trajectories of post-colonial Occidentalist discourses in the MENA region. It aims to reflect on their various genealogies, forms, and contents.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2022. Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/international-workshop-religion-and-secularism-as-problem-space-in-postcolonial-occidentalist-discourses-within-the-mena-region/
9. CfP: Turkologentag, September 21–23, 2023, Vienna
GTOT e.V. (Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies) invites researchers from all over the world working in the fields of history, linguistics, philology, literary studies, social sciences, anthropology, and political sciences in Turkey and the Turkic world to participate in the Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Turkologentag 2023). The conference will take place on September 21 – 23, 2023 at the University of Vienna. It is organized in co-operation with the Chair of Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna.
The conference aims to bring together individual scholars, institutions and organizations from Europe and elsewhere who are engaged in Turkish and Turkic Studies. The four-day event will provide an opportunity for an intellectual exchange and conversation between participants and allow them to build networks for future cooperation. There will be a special forum for PhD candidates and graduate students.
The organizers encourage individual paper and thematic panel proposals within the following sections:
- Linguistics
2. Studies on Central Asia/Volga Region/Siberia
3. Caucasus
4. Turko-Persian Islamicate world
5. Ottoman Studies
5.1 Transottomanica (DFG Priority Programme)
5.2 Digital Humanities and Ottoman/Turkish Studies
5.3 Manuscript Cultures
5.4 Ottoman-Habsburg World
5.5 Balkan region and Southeast Europe
5.6 Hungary, Poland, Ukraine
5.7 Arab Provinces, Palestine
6. Environmental History and History of Science of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
7. Literary Studies
8. Cultural Studies, Heritage / Art History
9. Studies of Contemporary Turkey
10. Kurdish Studies
11. Studies on Ethnic, Religious Minorities
12. Women and Gender Studies
13. Research on Religion
14. Musicology
15. Social Sciences and Migration Studies
16. Social Anthropology
17. German-Turkish Language Research /Education
If you like to join us on September 21 – 23, 2023, please submit an abstract (in German, English, French or Turkish, max. 250 words) on the Registration Portal: www.conftool.pro/turkologentag2023/. The deadline for individual paper proposals is 31 December 2022 and for panel proposals (3-4 panelists) is 30 November 2022. For submission guidelines, important dates, and further information stay tuned at turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at
Once your paper is selected, you will be asked to pay your conference participation fee. You can pay your fee in advance after the registration. In the case that your proposal is not accepted, the participation fee will be refunded. We encourage you to become a member of GTOT to benefit from reduced conference participation fees (especially students) and to be part of a growing international network of researchers engaging in Turkic, Ottoman, and Turkish studies! For further and detailed information please contact our homepage: turkologentag2023.univie.ac.at.
GTOT is an academic organization operating in the field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies. GTOT aims at creating a network for scholars and especially for young researchers in the field of Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish studies encompassing a wide range of research interests including the diverse range of religions and ethnic groups existing and living in areas populated by Turkic groups in the past or present
10. In Presence or HYBRID: International Conference “Iconic Figures: Intersecting Religious and Political Narratives of the Past”, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 7-9 December 2022
The conference will bring together scholars of various disciplinary orientations and working on different re-gions to examine the intersections and the entanglements between religious and political construction and deconstruction of historical icons and role models. It will pay particular attention to the ways in which discur-sive traditions in multi-religious contexts influence these processes.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karri-ere/Ausschreibungen_2022/Call_for_Papers_Iconic_Figures.pdf
11. Assistant Professor in Arabic Studies, University of Durham
Applicants should have a research interest and expertise in (comparative) literary, cultural and/or visual studies, as well as translation studies. Candidates are required to have a PhD in Arabic Studies or a related subject.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2022. Information:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CMR473/assistant-professor-in-arabic-studies-mlac22-1
12. Lectureship in International Relations of the Middle East (2.5 Years), University of Leiden, Netherlands
Criteria: PhD in International Relations, political science, development studies, geography, sociology, or an-thropology with a focus on modern Middle East; Experience in teaching undergraduate and graduate stu-dents, and supervising theses; Proficiency in English; Ideally proficiency in Arabic.
Deadline for applications: 27 February 2022. Information: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2022/q1/22-044-10663-25-year-lectureship-in-international-relations-of-the-middle-east
13. Associate Professor in Arab Modern and Contemporary History, University of Sharjah, UAE
Qualification: PhD in Arab Modern & Contemporary History from one of the recognized universities in the field of specialization; experience in university teaching in the field of specialization (8 years at least); ability to develop and lead high-quality research; published in high quality refereed journals in the specialty; fluency in Arabic and English (speaking and writing).
Deadline for applications: 25 February 2022. Information: https://newhr.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Pages/JobDetails.aspx?Jid=1817&IsDean=No
14. Visiting Assistant Professor (2 Years) in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean (North Africa, Mesopotamia, West Asia), University of Denver
Qualifications: PhD emphasis on Ancient History, including the Mediterranean world, Mesopotamia, North Africa, and West Asia.
Deadline for applications: 25 February 2022. Information: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobde-tail.ftl?job=24243&lang=en&src=LinkedIn
15. Fellowships/Associateships for Advanced Historical Research in Islamic Art, Architecture, Material Culture, and Archaeology, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture 2022-2023, Harvard University
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2022. Information: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/fellowships-associateships
16. Lecturer in Arabic Language, University of Michigan-Arbor
Applicants should have Superior level proficiency in Standard Arabic, English, and at least one variety of spoken Arabic. Experience with teaching Arabic at the post-secondary level is required. Applicants must have a demonstrated ability to use a proficiency-based, communicative methodology in language instruction. Minimum of a Master’s degree in foreign language teaching or equivalent field required.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/102108
17. Postdoctoral Scholar/Teaching Fellow, Department of Middle East Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Researchers with training in environmental studies, anthropology, political economy, urban studies, and ge-ography are particularly welcome to apply. This fellowship is renewable for a second year contingent upon administrative approval.
Deadline for applications: 1 March 2022. Information: https://usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-angeles/postdoctoral-scholar-teaching-fellow-in-the-department-of-middle-east-studies/1209/22787922576
18. Special Issue of Religions on “Muslim Identity Formation in Contemporary Societies”
Possible themes: Qur’anic and Prophetic understandings of identity, difference, and pluralism; migration, citizenship, and belonging; identity formation and state politics; the umma, trans-locality, and Muslim cosmopolitanism; Muslim identity politics; the impact of Islamophobia on the formation of Muslim identities; the projection and representation of Muslims in the media; etc.
Deadline for manuscripts: 15 September 2022. Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/muslim_identity#info
19. Chapters for First Edited Book of the New Publication Series “Reading Ottoman Minds in Its Long History”, Sivas Republic University
With the help of this study, we are targeting to get a better picture on the questions like how did the Ottoman mind work, what were important moral or political principles for the Ottoman as making their decisions, and (if possible) to put forward the changes on the way they thought of the world around them in the course of its long history? Deadline for abstracts in English, German and Turkish: 15 March 2022.
Information: https://ottomanminds.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/
- February 08, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Open Islamicate Text Initiative Teleconference on Feb 7
We welcome all to join the Open Islamicate Text Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) team for a public teleconference with the OpenITI AOCP technical advisory group. The focus of this meeting will be the optical character recognition tools and datasets for Persian, Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Urdu that the OpenITI AOCP has developed.
The conference, led by Co-PI David Smith, will provide an update on the OpenITI AOCP technical work and include brief presentations from advisory group members about their own work in OCR. We will then develop recommendations for dataset and technical development in the next phase of the project.
We will virtually gather on Monday, February 7 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST. Please register at the link below if you would like to participate. We will prepare a report of the conference proceedings as well as record video of the presentations and discussion for those unable to attend. Be sure to watch out for a second public teleconference to be held this spring, with a focus on the formation of Persian and Arabic OCR user groups and the presentation of our digital text production pipeline, eScriptorium (developed in collaboration with the eScripta project).
For more on OpenITI AOCP, a project generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, please see here. For any questions on the teleconference, please email John Mullan (jmullan@umd.edu) or message us on Twitter (@Open_ITI).
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: Feb 7, 2022 11:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUpcOGoqT4tE9aF_DRXZEXOt5uYNd6U5Fv9
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
2. Mysticism and Ethics in Islam
Bilal Orfali, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom
3. IIS: The Ismaili Special Collections Unit (ISCU) has launched an online catalogue of special collections housed at the IIS, featuring information on over 2,000 items, including manuscripts, artefacts (such as coins, coin weights, medals and other memorabilia), rare and special printed materials (including periodicals), photographs and archival materials.
Dr Wafi Momin, Head of ISCU, said “We are delighted to announce the launch of an online catalogue of the special collections housed at the IIS. This online catalogue represents a key milestone in making accessible the rich heritage of Ismaili communities from around the world to a varied audience including researchers, students and interested members of the public.”
For any queries about the catalogue, please contact Naureen Ali, Cataloguer and Adlib Officer, ISCU.
https://special-collections.iis.ac.uk/search/simple
4. Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Islamic Architecture 11.1 is out now!
For more information about the journal and issue click here:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
5. The Qur’an
Translated with a New Introduction
Translated by AJ Droge
Equinox, 2022
For more information and to order at 25% off quoting the code QT visit the book page:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/quran-translated/
6. The Barakat Trust has recently received a grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fundto create a new grant scheme. In each of 2022, 2023 and 2024, this scheme will offer 3 grants of £8,000 plus in-kind support for projects in the United Kingdom (UK) that use collections of Islamic art in the UK to foster greater understanding about the cultures of the Islamic world, and involve a significant element of public engagement, ideally as part of the process of making collections more accessible. The grant will be open to UK institutions with collections of Islamic art and material culture. We are particularly interested in understudied collections. The deadline for submission of applications for this year is March 31st 2022. This project will be delivered in partnership with the Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network and other partners.
Interested parties should contact The Barakat Trust to arrange an initial conversation about this scheme. Please email: projects@barakat.org
7. The Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Minor at Rutgers University Newark is delighted to invite you to the first talk in the MEIS Inaugural Lecture Series on Monday February 7th, 11:30-12:50 EST, with Prof. Patricia Blessing (Art History, Princeton University), who will offer a lecture titled “Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire.”
Register here: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/34AKWEN3
8. Tuesday, February 15, 2022 | 12:00 pm | Zoom
Syriac Villages in the Tur Abdin: A Microhistory of the Medieval Middle East
Marica Cassis, University of Calgary
Marica Cassis considers understudied archaeological material found in the Tur Abdin region of southeast Turkey. She will contextualize the churches as part of the network of villages and cities in the region, both in terms of the material remains and literary sources.
While scholarly work on the churches of the Tur Abdin dates back to the work of Gertrude Bell, and subsequently continued off and on through the twentieth century, the focus of most research has consistently been the churches in the region. However, churches are the heart of communities, whether villages or monasteries, and need to be considered as part of the whole. What has not been considered in detail is the importance of contextualizing churches in the villages and cities in the region, both in terms of the material remains and the literary sources.
Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.
An East of Byzantium lecture. East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.
9. Consider submitting your work to postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies
After more than a decade of publication, the journal postmedieval has a new team of editors and a new editorial board and we are looking for contributions from the H-Mideast Medieval community!
postmedieval has long published theoretically driven scholarship on premodernity and its ongoing reverberations, and the aim of the new editorial leadership is to continue this while expanding the disciplines and subject-areas from which articles are drawn. To that end, we are actively seeking open-topic submissions from a wide variety of fields and disciplines. We’re writing in the hopes that you’ll spread the word and will also keep the journal in mind as a potential venue for your own work. We are currently seeking open-topic submissions between 6,000 and 12,000 words, accepted on a rolling basis.
To say a bit more—over the last year, the journal’s editorial team has worked to harness postmedieval’s foundations in conceptual adventure, ethical and political urgency, and stylistic experiment, while also stretching its scope to additional language traditions, geographic locales, and the work of scholars from identity groups that have not heretofore been featured consistently in our journal, or in other mainstream outlets for medieval studies. The new editorial board includes scholars working fields like Byzantine studies, art history, the Hispanophone early modern, medievalism, religious history, Jewish studies, the environmental humanities, film studies, Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Japanese, French, medieval Ethiopia, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, Premodern Critical Race Studies, manuscript studies, and the digital humanities. We are eager to cultivate a pool of submissions that reflects such varied scholarly traditions.
In addition to the broadened content parameters of the journal, we have also imagined new scholarly genres. These include meditations on critical terms in the field, an essay-form we are calling “terms of art;” brief translations or other presentations of primary sources that extend their accessibility to wider readerships; “dialogues,” in which scholars share a conversation in print; and “reports from the field” that summarize and contextualize important field-specific discussions held at a recent symposium or exhibition. We envision these genres as supplements to the traditional essayistic articles and book-review essays that we will continue to publish and for which the journal has long been distinguished.
We encourage you to read more about these new genres, and about our vision for the future of academic publishing in medieval studies, in the free-to-view introduction to our editorial team’s inaugural issue, entitled “What Might a Journal Be?.” For remarks from some of the board members, you might have a look at this piece as well.
We hope that you will share with colleagues, students, and scholarly networks our invitation to submit new work. We can promise that all submissions will be treated with scholarly generosity and care. The editorial team embraces an ethics of peer review and publication that values the intense labor required to bring an essay to print, and we center in our review process the anti-racist and inclusive editorial practices outlined by the RaceB4Race Executive Board. Feel free to reach out to me with specific queries or ideas, and the editorial team is always happy to answer questions at our journal email address, postmedievalED@gmail.com.
10. Online Lecture- Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Egyptian Tombs
Please join us on March 11, 1:00 p.m. (EST) for a virtual lecture as curator Mary McWilliams discusses her research for The Harvard Art Museums’ exhibition Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Egyptian Tombs (January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022, University Research Gallery) looks at “tiraz” – highly prized textiles enhanced with woven, embroidered or painted Arabic inscriptions – to trace the structure of medieval Egyptian society during a transformative period. It reveals a story as interwoven and complex as these delicate objects themselves.
For more information and registration, visit: https://museum.gwu.edu/member-program-social-fabrics-inscribed-textiles-egyptian-tombs
(Ed note – Membership required.)
11. MEM Panel Sponsorship at MESA 2022
As part of the efforts of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) to raise the profile of medieval studies at MESA, the MEM Board of Directors announces our 2022 call for panel sponsorship. MEM is a MESA affiliate and thus may sponsor up to three panels at each annual meeting. MEM sponsorship does not guarantee inclusion on the program, nor does it come with financial support. However, sponsorship highlights a panel to the MESA program committee, and, if it is accepted, the panel will appear as MEM-sponsored on the final program. We will also publicize MEM-sponsored panels to our membership and in MEM’s annual “Medieval MESA” circular. We encourage all medievalists organizing panels for MESA 2022 to send us abstracts for both individual papers and the panel as a whole, as well as the names of participants, by February 7, 2022, so the MEM board may consider them for sponsorship before the MESA submission deadline. Please email your materials and/or any questions to Rob Haug (haugrt@ucmail.uc.edu).
12. Call for Papers for:
Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Balkans, Anatolia and Beyond
Wednesday 24 August – Friday 26 August 2022
The Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
An international three-day seminar organised by ASTENE (the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East), in association with the Faculty of Islamic Studies of the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Topics to be considered include: • travellers to Bosnia, the Balkans and the wider Ottoman world from other parts of Europe and elsewhere• travellers from the region to other parts of Europe and the Middle East• pilgrims and pilgrimage within the region• travel from the Balkans to the holy places of the Middle East, both Muslim and Christian• artistic and literary representations of the Balkans and other parts of the Ottoman world• the horticultural legacy of the region.
Proposals should be submitted (in English) to: ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com by 30 April 2022 at the latest.
For more details, including confirmed Keynote Speakers, proposal submissions and registration details, please go to:
https://www.astene.org.uk/current-events/travellers-in-ottoman-lands
13. UCLA:
Bilingual Lecture Series – Love at Eighty Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Film in Persian with English Subtitles/Panel in Persian
Simin Behbahani: Love at Eighty is a retrospective of Simin Behbahani’s life and unique poetry. Largely in her own words, using family and period photos, interviews with noted poets and critics, this portrait traces her poetic development from her family roots, modern poetry movement, and reinventing Ghazal to explore the social, political, cultural, and moral issues of Iranian society.
14. Webinar on “Analyzing the Middle East Social Dynamics Using NLP and Big Data Methods”
Prof. Eric Atwell is inviting us all to join this online panel webinar on “Analyzing the Middle East Social Dynamics Using NLP and Big Data Methods” – as part of the CHSS Middle East Conference 2022.
Sunday Feb 6, 2022, 18:00-19:30 Qatar Time (15:00- 16:30 UK GMT)
Registration form to get the Webex links: https://lnkd.in/dXJQnbJC
Full Conference Program: https://www.hbku.edu.qa/en/mec/agenda
Chair: George Mikros, Professor in Digital Humanities, Middle Eastern Studies Department (HBKU)
Moderator: Wajdi Zaghouani, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Middle Eastern Studies Department (HBKU)
- Kareem Darwish, Principal Scientist, Principal Scientist, aiXplain Inc:
“News Consumption in Time of Conflict: 2021 Palestinian-Israel War as an Example”
2. Muhammad Imran, Senior Scientist, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI):
“Two Billion Multilingual COVID-19 Tweets with Sentiment, Entity, Geo, and Gender Labels”
3. Walid Magdy, Reader, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh:
“Understanding the Arab Region from Social Media: What can we learn?”
4. Eric Atwell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence for Language, School of Computing, University of Leeds:
“Understanding the Quran: A Challenge for Artificial Intelligence”
If you have any questions, please feel free to email : wzaghouani@hbku.edu.qa
- February 05, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Iridescent Kuwait: Petro-Modernity and Urban Visual Culture since the Mid-Twentieth Century
Laura Hindelang
Open Access e-book
2. The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
Spring 2022 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Held via Zoom Webinar
February 24, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan”
Gulfishan Khan, AKPIA Associate; Professor of Medieval Indian History, Chairperson of the Centre of Advance Study, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Registration: https://bit.ly/akpiagkhan
March 10, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“A Thousand Futures: Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul (1923-1949)”
Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut
Registration: https://bit.ly/thousandfutures
March 24, 2022. 12:00 noon EST *
“On Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art”
Alain Fouad George
I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director of Graduate Admissions, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
*special early start time
Registration: https://bit.ly/akpiageorge
April 21, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“Documentary Life: Sketch as Chronicle in Shah Abbas’ Iran”
Kishwar Rizvi
AKPIA Fellow; Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Registration: https://bit.ly/documentarylife
Lectures are held via Zoom webinar; time listed is Eastern Standard Time; registration is required.
We anticipate that all lectures will be recorded and made available at the AKPIA website, after the event date.
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
Email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
3. ONLINE Lecture “Muslim Bioethics Reimagined: Towards an Islamic Feminist Practice” by Ruaim Muaygil (College of Medicine, King Saud University), University of Manchester, 2 February 2022, 1:00 pm GMT
This paper argues that Islamic bioethics must shift from its predominant practice of unreflective scriptural application to a more contemplative and re-interpretative understanding of Islamic texts in order to right these healthcare injustices. It proposes an alliance with Islamic feminism as an alternative method of examining the moral foundations of Islamic jurisprudence.
Registration: https://zoom.us/j/97710007495
4. ONLINE Book Presentation: “Islam and the Arab Revolutions — The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy” by Usaama al-Azami, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 7 Febru-ary 2022, 5:00 pm CET
The author traces the public engagements and religious pronouncements of prominent ulama, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ali Gomaa and Abdallah bin Bayyah, to explore their role in either championing the Arab revolutions or supporting their repression. While a minority of noted scholars have enthusiastically endorsed the counter-revolutions, their approach is attributable more to their distinctly modern commitment to the au-thoritarian state.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/veranstaltungen/islam-and-the-arab-revolutions-the-ulama-between-democracy-and-autocracy
5. ONLINE Book Introduction: “Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-century Iran” by Dr Ali Mozaffari, Manchester University Press, 10 February 2022, 1:00 am – 12:00 pm GMT
In this lecture, using Iran as an example, the author will draw upon case studies to demonstrate how archi-tecture became a conduit for the production of heritage at large in a modernizing Muslim society, and how it has been entangled with development and intellectual debates before and after the Islamic Revolution.
Information and registration: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/events/development-architecture-and-the-formation-of-heritage-in-late-twentieth-century-iran/
6. ONLINE Lecture: “Early Cities in Iran” by Prof. Dr. Barbara Helwing, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 17 February 2022, 6:30 pm CET
The lecture presents the current state of knowledge of archaeological research on the first cities in the Iranian highlands and takes a look at the imaginative imagery of the surviving finds.
Information and registration:
-Modern Art in Iran | Ina Sarikhani
Thursday, 24 February 2022, 6:30 pm (CET)
Webex link: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/j.php?MTID=m353ad99b63c0b6df0144a8f0a710698b
Language: English
-Kashan – Crossroads of Commerce and Culture | Prof. Dr. Roy Mottahedeh
Thursday, 3 March 2022, 6:30 pm (CET)
Webex link: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/j.php?MTID=mdd136325730ab0ebe56f35650d3ad67e
Language: English
-The Rituals of the Zoroastrians from Antiquity to the Present Day | Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera
Thursday, 10 March 2022, 6:30 pm (CET)
Webex link: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/j.php?MTID=mc5c488d74435198e43428e2f45f9dc8c
Language: English
–Gärten in Iran – Einst und jetzt | Prof. Dr. Peter Heine
Donnerstag, 17. März 2022, 18:30 Uhr (MEZ)
Webex-Link: https://spk-berlin.webex.com/spk-berlin/j.php?MTID=mc0d1c7f633c50302f9902fb9c1b8258c
Sprache: Deutsch
7. Junior Professorship for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Focus on Pre-modern History of the MENA Region (W1 with Tenure-track to W2), Department of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn
Qualification: Mastery in Arabic and at least one other languages of the region; specialization in history, literature, history of science, philosophy, law, or adjacent fields with experience in historical, cultural, and/or sociological approaches. Excellent oral and written English is required and relevant teaching experience is expected. Knowledge of German is desirable, but not a requirement.
Deadline for application: 13 March 2022.
8. Research Fellowship in the Study of Muslims in Britain (2 Years, Commencement April 2022), Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship which will co-ordinate and develop the Centre’s research interest in the study of the experience, aspirations and challenges faced by British Muslims.
Deadline for applications: 28 February 2022.
Further information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies
9. Academic Director, Cambridge Muslim College
The successful candidate will be a senior academic with academic management experience who can assume responsibility for all aspects of academic programming and research.
Deadline for applications: 2 March 2022. Information: https://www.cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/ad22/
10. Qatar Digital Library is free to use and reuse.
This growing archive covers modern history and culture of the Gulf and wider region, available online for the first time.
- February 01, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Pulpit, Mosque and Nation, Turkish Friday Sermons as Text and Ritual
Elisabeth Özdalga
2. Quranic Arabic, From its Hijazi Origins to its Classical Reading Traditions
Marijn van Putten
3. The British Institute of Persian Studies
WEBINAR | A hundred years of Persian performing arts, with Jane Lewisohn; 23 February 2022, 5PM (UK time)
This talk will show how the performing arts offer insights into the hopes, aspirations, aesthetics and even prejudices prevalent in Iran at this time and how they are valuable not just from an artistic point of view but also from the perspective of social and political history.
Register at:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/1616413800466/WN_zBucdk9tQ6iHKrOZjmZS7Q
3. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering two grant opportunities in conjunction with its Fifteenth Annual Conferencetaking place in Washington, D.C. on November 5 – 7, 2022.
The ASMEA Research Grant Program seeks to support research on topics in Middle Eastern and African studies that deserve greater attention. Applicants may submit paper proposals on any topic as long as it constitutes new and original research and is relevant to the five qualifying topic areas: Minorities and Women, Military History, Governance and Economy, Faith, and Iran. Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded. Successful research grant applicants are required to present their research at the Fifteenth Annual ASMEA Conference. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2022.
Separately, ASMEA is offering Travel Grants of up to $750 which can be used towards the costs associated with attending the Annual ASMEA Conference in Washington, D.C. The deadline to apply is April 15, 2022.
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels and Call for Undergraduate Poster Proposals.
Additional guidelines and information can be found on our website at www.asmeascholars.org.
Feel free to contact ASMEA at info@asmeascholars.org with any questions
4. Lecture on 13th-century plague in Baghdad and Syria
The recording of Monica Green’s 20 January lecture on the 13th-century outbreak of plague in Baghdad and Syria has been posted: https://stanford.zoom.us/rec/play/d9ZWSeqy1-t3ni-pInq_gsM6Ea04D1wyfWee4U7NWaoWTbREUxqwSRWecw0ETFwICLIENJ6iVqQUGJku.mxBI5-7gSMlfozjF?startTime=1642724813000&_x_zm_rtaid=yQ4Ee2myS1SUwyK7XnKlVw.1643248560182.0fe783a53e291014b799fd85472e87f9&_x_zm_rhtaid=560.
(If this long URL breaks up, you can also access the link from this list of the Stanford History of Science talks: https://web.stanford.edu/dept/HPST/colloquia.html. Scroll down to find the link.)
5. The Digital Modern Languages section of Modern Languages Open is inviting proposals for articles to contribute to an open special issue. Open Access article processing charges will be covered by the section using funds graciously provided by King’s College London. Proposals should be broadly connected to research and teaching in Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. Areas of potential but not exclusive interest include: digital cultural studies, digital archives and databases, digital/computational approaches to the study of language and text, digital ethnography, digital linguistics research (e.g. digital discourse analysis), and language teaching and digital technologies.
We particularly welcome contributions from Early Career Researchers.
Themes we are interested in exploring in this issue include:
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- Digital multi/translingualism
- Forms of digital creativity and cultural expression
- Approaches to Digital Humanities beyond the anglophone world
- Critical digital literacies and Modern Languages pedagogies
- Co-production and collaborative digital research practices
- Critical Digital Modern Languages research (e.g. decolonial, anti-racist, intersectional feminist and queer approaches)
- Multilingual and parallel corpora
- Translation and digital technologies
- Minority/low-resource languages and digital media/technologies
While articles should have a primary focus on languages other than English, we seek to include a range of distinct linguistic and cultural perspectives. We particularly welcome contributions from Early Career Researchers. Proposals should include an abstract (max 250 words) and a short bio (max 70 words). Our selection process will be based both on the quality of the proposal, and on ensuring a range of approaches and linguistic/cultural contexts are represented across the Issue. Please submit your proposals here:
We invite abstracts by 11 February 2022.
Accepted proposals will be confirmed by the end of March 2022, and the deadline for submitting full articles after acceptance is 31 July 2022. Final articles should be between 8,000 to 10,000 words.
This special collection will be edited by Orhan Elmaz, Saskia Huc-Hepher, Paul Spence and Naomi Wells and published on Modern Languages Open https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/
Please contact Paul Spence at paul.spence [at] kcl.ac.uk if you have any queries about your proposal.
6. The British Institute of Persian Studies is still accepting applications for its Research and Travel Grants.
Funding is available to cover costs associated with developing or executing research projects in any field related to the wider Persianate world. There is funding available for travel for students, either for research or to attend conferences. We invite applications for Research Awards and for Research Assistant Grants, in order to support scholars to develop or complete projects.
Awards of up to £1,200 will be considered for Student Travel Awards. Grants of up to £5,000 for Research Awards and Research Assistant Awards are invited, from PIs associated with a UK based HEI.
Please contact the relevant programme leader prior to submitting your application (Ancient: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Medieval: Professor Andrew Peacock, Modern: Dr Shabnam Holliday).
The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 7th February 2022.
For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.
7. Global Displays of Islamic Art Today: Agency, Identity, and Politics
Virtual Panel & Discussion sponsored by the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC), Toronto
Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022
Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM (EST, Toronto)
Register for free here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-displays-of-islamic-art-today-agency-identity-and-politics-tickets-247387612007
Panel Summary:
Since the early 2000s, numerous museums around the world have reinstalled their collections of Islamic art as new galleries or created entire museums focusing on the arts and cultures of the Islamic world. During the same period, methodological interventions building on post-structuralist and post-colonial theory have begun to challenge long-standing formal and regional categories defining the field of Islamic art history and have impacted the display strategies of new displays of Islamic art. As a central interface between the academic study of the Middle East, its global representation, and the general public, the approaches these museums adopt to mediate between art, material culture, and Islamic or regional cultures play a central role in shaping discussions about the region. At the same time, Islamic art displays are also embedded in heterogeneous local politics and social discourses that serve local, regional or national agendas.
Through a series of case studies from both public and private museums in Turkey, Qatar, France, Spain, Canada and Iran, this panel of international doctoral candidates examines curatorial practice and agency vis-à-vis the politics of museum display and art discourses from 2000 until today. Rather than interpreting Islamic art displays as passive and neutral representations of the past, this panel theorizes them as a contemporary cultural practice that stages spatialized and immersive, ideological narrations of culture and identity. The papers examine new and complex ways in which museums and galleries of Islamic art use objects today to communicate broader ideas and narratives in various global contexts.
Schedule:
10:00 – Welcome and Introductions
10:05 – 10:20 – Objects Between Secularism and the Sacred at Istanbul’s Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art
Beyza Uzun, Doctoral Candidate, IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
10:20 – 10:35 – The Cultural Diplomacy and Contested Modernity of Museological Development in Qatar
Abdelrahman Kamel, Doctoral Candidate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
10:35 – 10:50 – Displaying the Transcultural History of Objects: Shaping a French Islamic Heritage?
Constance Jame, Doctoral Candidate, University of Heidelberg, Germany
10:50 – 11:05 – Short Break
11:05 – 11:20 – Configuring Multiculturalism: Heritage and Narrative at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum and Granada’s Museo de la Alhambra
Philip Geisler, Doctoral Candidate, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max-Planck-Institut), Italy & Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Germany
11:20 – 11:35 – Political Dynamics of Curation and Waqf: The Malek National Library and Museum
Leila Moslemi Mehni, Doctoral Candidate, University of Toronto, Canada
11:35 – 12:00 – Audience Q&A and Discussion
The panel will be chaired by Dr. Fahmida Suleman, Curator of the Islamic World collections at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, and co-chair of the IAMCC.
About the IAMCC: The Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC), is a research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto (UofT), the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), and the Aga Khan Museum (AKM).
About the IIS: The Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) at the University of Toronto offers a unique, multi-perspective view of Canadian society through the advanced study of Islam and Muslims.
8. New Podcasts on the New Books Network – with Anna McSweeney and D. Fairchild Ruggles
Two new podcasts published on the New Books Network with Anna McSweeney talking about the Alhambra and her recent book, From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola (2020) https://newbooksnetwork.com/from-granada-to-berlin and D. Fairchild Ruggles talking about Cairo and her recent book, Tree of Pearls: The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of the 13th-Century Egyptian Slave-Queen Shajar al-Durr (2020) https://newbooksnetwork.com/tree-of-pearls.
9. Online Symposium – Hidden Stories: Global History, Local Networks (Aga Khan Museum) – February 24 & 24
Join the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, on February 24 and 25 for an online symposium celebrating the current exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads– which features books, scrolls, manuscript paintings, textiles, and objects spanning a 1,000-year history from the 10th to the 20th centuries. The exhibition is both global — examining a vast network of trade routes spanning Asia, Europe, and Africa — and local, bringing together historical artifacts from collections across Ontario, Canada.
About theHidden Stories Symposium
Marking the closing of the Hidden Stories exhibition, this 2-day virtual symposium showcases the ground-breaking collaborative research behind this historic exhibition. The event brings together an international group of researchers, museum, and library professionals in four roundtable sessions (Judaica, South and Southeast Asia, Ethiopia, and the Americas). Each session explores a Silk Roads cultural tradition and related Hidden Stories objects through presentations by panelists and an open discussion period with the virtual audience. Click here to view the full SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
Hidden Stories: Global History, Local Networks, hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, NJ), will be held on Zoom and is free to attend but registration is required.
Can’t visit the Aga Khan Museum in person?
Walk through the HIDDEN STORIES MUSEUM EXHIBITION virtually here
Explore the HIDDEN STORIES DIGITAL EXHIBIT with videos and extended content – active through 2024
10. Near Eastern Studies Lecture
February 23,12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
An Ottoman Fiscal Codex and Financial Tales of 134 Women and Men
Ali Yaycıoğlu (Stanford University)
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).
At the center of this talk is a fiscal codex (defter), housed in the Ottoman Archives in Istanbul (call number MAD 9726), from 1808 to the 1840s. MAD 9726 was prepared by a group of Ottoman fiscal accountants to record the financial assets, public and private debts and credits of 134 prominent men (and a few women), who lost their lives (or who fled or were exiled) between 1807 and 1809. Among these individuals were high ranked statemen, bureaucrats, state contractors, financiers, merchants, and provincial notables. Most of them were Muslim, but some were Christian. The majority of them were part of a political movement known as the New Order (Nizam-ı Cedid). The New Order ruled the Ottoman Empire between 1789 and 1808 and fell in 1807-08 after three sequential popular revolts. In some ways, MAD 9726 is a massive confiscation inventory, prepared to seize, reveal, appraise, and redistribute the assets of a politico-financial network spread across the empire. In each entry in the codex, one encounters a dizzyingly complex financial tale centered on one of the 134 individuals, fashioned by tens of debt and credit transactions, financial partnerships, contracts, investments, speculations, capital transfers, bankruptcies, and confiscations. In each entry, one also meets several other individuals, waqfs and state institutions, communities, and sometimes foreign actors, who had financial deals with these individuals. The accounting in some of these entries was completed within a year or two after the death of the individual in question. Some cases, however, it continued for several years and even decades, because of intricacies of transactions, computations, and difficulties in debt collection, and complex political and diplomatic matters. These financial tales were narrated in an arcane accounting technique, known as fenn-i siyaqat, charged with encrypted short hands and paratextual symbols, which Ottoman fiscal scribes had employed for centuries to deal with complex financial matters in their computations. In fact, MAD 9726 is one of the most developed but also final examples of fenn-i siyaqat, which would die out in the mid-19th century, with the introduction of new accounting techniques. This talk will present the intertwined story of a codex, the financial tales of 134 prominent individuals, the final phase of the accounting methods of Ottoman fiscal bureaucracy, and the political-economic transformation of the Ottoman Empire in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Register in advance here.
After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the event.
- January 29, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.HIAA Biennial Symposium CFP – Deadline April 8
Call for Papers
Historians of Islamic Art Association Biennial Symposium
“Expanding Contexts”
The Museum of Fine Arts and Rice University, Houston
March 2-4, 2023
As historians of Islamic art and architecture, we often deal with objects and edifices that are spatially and temporally removed from their contexts. Artworks are displayed in glass cases in museum galleries and heavily restored monuments offer little clue of the social life that once unfolded in and around them. The discussion of context has long been dominated by politics, dynasties, and patronage. Recent scholarship, however, has immensely expanded the definition of the context to include urban, sensory, perceptual, social, and global settings, to name a few trends. We no longer discuss works of art and architecture as reified creations but consider them in the context of labor, craft, and everyday practices. We construe artworks not as neutral reflections of their historical settings but as agents that actively inform their contexts. Rather than seeking a definite provenance, we write transregional narratives of objects and their dynamic (cross-) cultural lives.
For the next biennial HIAA symposium, we invite panels and papers that explore the question of context in Islamic art and architecture from new methodological and theoretical perspectives. We seek papers that engage new conceptual models, strategies, and technologies for reconstructing, narrating, and visualizing the historical contexts. What are the promises and pitfalls of the digital age for reconstructing the original contexts of artworks and architectural fragments? What approaches and conceptions can we take to invoke the context and intimate the embodied experiences of historical audiences for the public in museums, academic settings, and online platforms? Is it possible to redress the acts of transmission and dislocation that have led to the creation of major collections by means of reconstructing their contexts? How can we use the context to expand the global reach of the field and narrate the past in ways that speak to broader audiences?
There are two categories of submission: Pre-arranged panels (3-4 papers and a discussant) and individual papers. Please submit your abstract/s and a brief curriculum vitae to hiaa.symposium.2023@gmail.com, by April 8, 2022.
The 2023 Symposium Organizers:
Aimée Froom (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Farshid Emami (Rice University)
Committee Members:
Stephennie Mulder, Nada Shabout, Abbey Stockstill, and Heather Ecker
2. Residence Program in Advanced Arabic & Social Studies
Fall Semester 2022
A limited number of merit-based tuition waiver and housing support
The Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) is pleased to announce its Fall semester 2022 – 2023 Residence Program in Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies. The DI aims to create an enduring legacy of intellectual innovation and education within the Arab world and beyond. It assumes and promotes the Arabic language as a tool of scientific inquiry, an official language in public discourse, and a primary language for teaching and research.
The Residence Program is an important part of the DI’s mission to establish, maintain, and nurture intellectual links and two-way dialogues between its students, faculty, and the international learning and research community. The Program is a unique forum for academic and cultural exchange between the DI’s predominantly native Arabic speaking graduate students and faculty (from across the Arab world) and their international non-native or heritage peers.
The Residence Program is offered for one semester on site in Doha (world health conditions permitting). It meets the language, culture, and academic needs of advanced non-native and heritage graduate students who wish to strengthen their language and cultural skills, as well as prepare for specific challenges related to their academic areas of expertise. The Program is delivered entirely in Arabic and consists of a twin advanced language-training and academic components.
The language-training component prepares students to function professionally in Arabic and offers dedicated courses in language, translation, and content-based instruction. The program adapts to the academic needs of students as a base for linguistic and cultural acquisition, emphasizes productive and presentation skills, and
develops higher levels of proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing, and translation.
The academic component gives fellows the opportunity to take advantage of the wide array of unique graduate-level courses the DI distinguished faculty teach in Arabic through its academic units: The School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the School of Public Administration and Development Economics. For more detailed
information about the DI, please go to:
https://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Pages/default.aspx
To Apply to the Doha Residence Program, click on the link below:
https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/znatdf40sd7rqv/
Semester Program Features:
- 6 credits of Intensive Arabic;
- A language partner;
- Option to audit graduate academic courses taught in Arabic if eligible;
- Option to have an academic partner;
- Access to the DI rich conferences, symposia, and guest lectures.
Admission Requirements:
- Advanced level in Arabic;
- Housing: 11,000 per semester (approximately $3000 or 2,650)
- Program Dates:
- Application Deadline: March 15, 2022
- Start of Classes: July 31, 2022
- End of Classes: November 3, 2022
3. ONLINE Lecture: “Hunger, Heresy and Rebellion in ʿAbbasid Arabia” by Peter Webb (Univer-siteit Leiden), University of Hamburg, 15 February 2022, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CET
This is a part of the lecture series: “Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World” hosted by the Emmy Noether Research Group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)”.
Information and registration: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/2021-12-lecture-series.html
No lecture in March –
12 Apr 2022
Antonia Bosanquet (Universität Hamburg): Was it a Berber Rebellion? Ethnic and Religious Labels in Histories of the 740 Uprising
17 May 2022
Teresa Bernheimer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): ʿAlid and Kharijite Revolts in the First Two Centuries of Islam a Comparative Re-Assessment
14 Jun 2022
Maribel Fierro (CSIC Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo): How Rebellions End: A View from the Medieval Islamic West
The online lecture series will take place during Spring Term on Tuesdays from 4.00 to 5.30 pm CET on Zoom. To register, please contact the SCORE team at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de.
4. ONLINE Conference: “The Concept of Protology/Cosmology and the Concept of Eschatology in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” in the Series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses” (KCID), Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses (BaFID), Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 16-17 February, 2:00 pm CET
Speakers on Protology/Cosmology: Prof. em. Dr. Philip Alexander and Prof. Dr. Daniel Langton, University of Manchester/UK, on Judaism; Prof. Dr. Dirk Ansorge, Frankfurt/Main, on Christianity; Prof. Dr. Mira Sievers, HU Berlin, on Islam. Speaker on Eschatology: Prof. em. Dr. Todd Lawson, University of Toronto/CA, on Islam; etc.
Information and registration: https://www.bafid.fau.eu/research/conference-series-kcid/
June 22-24, 2022: The Concept of Emotion and the Concept of Morality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Emotion:
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University Jerusalem/IL, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. John Corrigan, Florida State University/USA, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Paul Heck, Georgetown University/USA, on Islam - Morality:
Prof. Dr. Alan Mittleman, Jewish Theological Seminary/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Marianne Heimbach-Steins, University of Munster, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Mutaz Al-Khatib, Hamad Bin Khalifa University/QA, on Islam
September 21-23, 2022: The Concept of Mysticism and the Concept of Divine-Human Communication in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Mysticism:
Prof. em. Moshe Idel, Hebrew University Jerusalem/IL, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame/USA, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Erdal Toprakyaran, University of Tübingen, on Islam - Divine-Human Communication:
Prof. Dr. Aaron Hughes, Indiana University Bloomington/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Eyl, Tufts University/USA, on Christianity
Dr. Ghassan El Masri, BaFID/FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, on Islam
February 15-17, 2023: The Concept of Religion and the Concept of Rationality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Religion:
Prof. Dr. Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky/USA, on Judaism
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Gregor-Maria Hoff, University of Salzburg, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Moncef Ben Abdeljelil, University of Sousse/TUN, on Islam - Rationality:
Prof. Dr. Yitzhak Melamed, Johns Hopkins University/USA, on Judaism
Dr. Dr. Martin Breul, University of Erfurt, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, on Islam
June 21-23, 2023: The Concept of Authority and the Concept of Modernity in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Authority:
Prof. Dr. Lawrence Kaplan, McGill University/CA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Christoph Seibert, University of Hamburg, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Vincent Cornell, Emory University/USA, on Islam - Modernity:
Prof. Dr. Allan Arkush, Binghamton University/USA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Vasilios N. Makrides, University of Erfurt, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika, University of Frankfurt/Main, on Islam
October 11-13, 2023: The Concept of Suffering and the Concept of Happiness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Lectures
- Suffering:
Prof. Dr. Robert Gibbs, University of Toronto/CA, on Judaism
Prof. Dr. Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter/UK, on Christianity
Prof. Dr. Mohammed Ghaly, Hamad bin Khalifa University/QAT, on Islam - Happiness:
Prof. em. Dr. Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University/USA, on Judaism
Prof. em. Dr. Paul J. Wadell, St. Norbert College/USA, on Christianity
Dr. Raid al-Daghistani, University of Munster, on Islam
The last conferences were held from October 6th to 7th, 2021 on “The Concept of Education and the Concept of Family in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (Program), from June 23th to 24th, 2021 on “The Concept of Sin and the Concept of Redemption in Judaism, Christianity and Islam“ (Program) and from February 17th to 18th, 2021 on “The Concept of Will and the Concept of Predestination in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (Program).
5. ONLINE Lecture: “The Politics of Jihad in Early Crusading Period among the Turkmen and Kurds” by Prof. Dr. Taef El-Azhari (Helwan University), University of Marburg, Germany, 24 February 2022, 5:00 pm CET
This is part of the Lecture Series “Rethinking Memory and Historiography of the Crusades in the Middle East”. Moderator: Prof. Dr. Umar Ryad (University of Leuven). Organised by Dr. Ahmed M. Sheir.
Information and registration: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w00onNuGTJiDFSoQ3gfE1cBsJF7zINd-/view?usp=sharing
6. Workshop: “The Arab-majority and Muslim-majority Worlds in/and Contemporary Decolonisation Debates”, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2022
This workshop seeks to specifically think the decolonising movement and an engagement with it from the histories, experiences, perspectives, traditions, and problematics of the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority worlds (broadly defined) as a contribution toward growing decolonial scholarship and movement.
7. ONLINE Conference: “Islamic Perspectives on Exotheology”, Zayed University, 10-11 May 2022
Organised by Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Zayed University and Jörg Matthias Determann, Virginia Commonwealth University, etc.. Questions to be asked: Are extraterrestrials even metaphysically or hermeneutically possible in Islamic thought? If extraterrestrials exist, how would this impact Islamic jurisprudence and/or ethics? What philosophical implications could there be for Muslims if extraterrestrial life exists? Etc.
Information: https://www.academia.edu/51090491/Call_for_papers_Islamic_Perspectives_on_Exotheolgy
8. Panel on “Liberalism and Islam in Contemporary Global Literature”, Conference of the British Association of Islam Studies (BRAIS), University of Edinburgh, 6-7 June 2022
Topics include: “Every day Islam” in Literature; Liberalism and Orientalism; The relation between piety and its performance in Muslim everyday life in literature; Neo-Orientalism in global literature; Muslim identity pol-itics and liberalism in western spaces.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 January 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/9554601/liberalism-and-islam-contemporary-global-literature-brais
9. HYBRID Conference: “Mercenaries and Crusaders (1202-1480s)”, University of Debrecen, Hungary, 22-24 June 2022
Panels and papers are welcome on the topics: Mercenaries in the Holy Land; Mercenaries in Byzantine Armies; Mercenaries in the Crusades against the Ottomans; Crusades in the Holy Land, the Baltics, the Iberian Peninsula; against the Ottomans; Crusades against Christians; Perception of Mercenaries in Narra-tive Literature; etc.
Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://mercenariesandcrusaders.com/?page_id=51
10. Conference: “Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity”, Trinity College Dublin, 23-24 June 2022
Papers will explore any aspect of the history of unfreedom, slavery, servitude or captivity in the period before 1492. Papers are welcome from any academic discipline and with any geographical focus. Interdisciplinary papers and studies of regions outside of Western Europe are particularly encouraged.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/9058439/unfreedom-premodern-world-com-parative-perspectives-slavery
11. Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, University of Marburg, 4-9 July 2022
The themed portion of the conference on 7July will be “Environment and Nature in the Mamluk Sultanate”. Papers will focus on land use, hydrology and irrigation, disease and famine, flora and fauna, crops and food, and anything related to these topics.
Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
12. “Twelfth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies” by the “Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies (NSMES)” on “The Middle East in Myth and Reality”, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, 22-24 September 2022
Paper proposals are encouraged to explore and discuss social, political, geographical, historical and religious myths and realities from all fields and disciplines of the Middle Eastern studies, including the following fields: Middle Eastern history, anthropology, archaeology, religion, politics, sociology, language, and literature. Papers on other relevant themes pertinent to current Middle Eastern Studies are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022. Information: https://vigdis.hi.is/en/events/nsmes-conference-2022/
13. Conference: “Balance of Justice in the Ottoman Empire. Non-Muslims as Agents in an Islamic Imperial Legal Context”, Sabancı University, Istanbul, 13-15 October 2022
Focusing on the period from the early modern to the modern era papers are invited on the followind questions: How can we reveal non-Muslims’ agency in the Ottoman legal context? What notions and practices of insti-tutionalization, authority, and coercion did non-Muslims have? And what new, dynamic models can we de-velop in their place to better understand the varying ways non-Muslims participated in Ottoman society?
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2022.
Information: https://www.ottolegal.net/thebalanceofjustice
14. Doctoral Research Fellowship (3 Years) in Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
The doctoral project, designed by the applicant, is expected to explore the relationship between cultural pro-duction and social changes in the Middle East and beyond. Qualification: Master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies, comparative literature, or other related fields; Fluent oral and written communication skills in English, fluency in Arabic; Competency in other Middle Eastern Language.
Deadline for application: 28 February 2022. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/215412/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-middle-eastern-studies
15. Wissenschaftl. MitarbeiterIn (3 Jahre) in Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Dienstort Kairo, Orient-Institut Beirut
Voraussetzungen: MA-Abschluss oder BA-Abschluss und fortgeschrittenes MA-Studium in den Fächern Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft oder verwandten Fächern der Nahost-Studien; Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift in Deutsch, Arabisch und Englisch; Bereitschaft zu Dienstreisen.
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Februar 2022. Informationen: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/people/vacancies/wmoibkairo/
16. Senior Assistant Professor/Associate Professor/Professor of Islamic Governance, Universiti Brunei Darussalam
Qualifications: Ph.D. in Islamic Studies (Governance, Politics and/or Public Policy), Political Islam, Islamic Law (Applied Shari’ah) or related field from a recognised university; Demonstrate outstanding record of re-search output, particularly on the conceptualisation and application of Shari’ah or policies within the context of Islamic or Muslim societies; Record of teaching excellence.
17. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) of History with Specialisation in the Middle East, Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
Candidates must be either ABD or have a PhD in history or closely related field. The successful candidate will teach four courses per semester (two sections of introductory classes, survey classes and upper division classes in areas of specialization).
Deadline for application: Open until filled. Information: https://jobs.naz.edu/postings/2779
18. CEST Summer School “Cultural Exchange and Heritage (Related to Turkey)”, University of Vienna, 11-22 July 2022
The CEST Summer School is open to graduate students (enrolled in advanced MA and PhD programs) and early career scholars (within four years of receiving their PhD) in Turkey and Europe whose research interest is relevant to cultural exchange and heritage in the context of Turkey.
Deadline for applications: 25 February 2022. Information: https://cest-graduateschool.univie.ac.at
19. ONLINE Summer Course “Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies”, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, Collegeville, MN, 13-24 June 2022
For graduate students, advanced undergraduates, faculty, and independent scholars with a research interest in Arabic manuscripts. The program welcomes international applicants.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2022. Information: https://hmml.org/programs/arabic-mss-studies/
20. The Qatar National Library, as the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Regional Center, for MENA region, is organizing this online training on “Combating Art Trafficking: A special focus on manuscripts“: Course will be offered in English, with translation into Arabic, Persian and Turkish under the framework of the Himaya project to counter the trafficking and illegal circulation of the documentary heritage.
Registration: https://events.qnl.qa/event/d175A/EN
This course is organized in the franwork on the HIMAYA
For more information contact Stephane Ipert sipert@qnl.qa
Starts:
21.02.2022 04:00 PM
Ends:
23.02.2022 06:00 PM
21. Siyah Zibast, Black is beautiful
Date: 25 January 2022Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 25 January 2022Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: Virtual Event
Type of Event: Webinar
Hidden Histories Seminar Series
A seminar series curated by the Library Decolonisation Operational Group, led by Farzana Qureshi, Dr Ludi Price, Amma Poku and Angelica Baschiera.
Hidden Histories seeks to highlight stories from African, Caribbean and Asian communities in the UK and beyond, bringing to light a shared vision of decolonising knowledge production, and documenting the unique voices and experiences of diasporas in Britain and across the world.
About this event
With Siyah Zibast, Black is beautiful, the Collective for Black Iranians invites you for a conversation about the importance of language in identity formation and in seeing ourselves. Black is beautiful, Siyah Zibast is the first call in the Iranian community to see and say that Blackness lives in Iranian identity and vice-versa, a call to say that “Black is beautiful”. Co-founders, Priscillia Kounkou-Hoveyda, Alex Eskandarkhah, Norman Soltan Salahshour and resident historian Beeta Baghoolizadeh, as well as residents from Iran, will join us for an evening of conversations on the myriad ways in which the Collective creatively says the Persian words, “Black is Beautiful”, through its work.
About the panellists
The Collective for Black Iranians is a creative and critically conscious initiative proposing an Iranian culture that stands fully at its Black and African intersections. Founded out of the necessity to be heard, seen and understood, the Collective has been trailblazing conversations around race, Blackness, belonging, anti-Blackness and the importance of listening to stories we may not have known existed.
The event will be chaired by Dr Ida Hadjivayanis (Lecturer in Swahili and Head of Africa section, School of Languages, cultures and linguistics, SOAS), and Dr Narguess Farzad (Senior lecturer in Persian studies and Chair of the Centre for Iranian studies, SOAS).
Registration
This event is free and open to public. If you would like to attend the event please register. Please register via Zoom.
Organiser: SOAS Decolonising Working Group (DWG)
Contact email: cas@soas.ac.uk
22. Call for Contributions to the 7th IDHN Conference
The 7th IDHN Conference will take place on Thursday, May 5, 2022.
We are now calling for contributions from both members and guests, who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam and Muslim communities. Our conference is open to participants from both humanistic and scientific disciplines. We would also like to encourage Master’s and PhD students to share their Digital Humanities research with us.
If you wish to participate in the conference, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a preliminary title, abstract (150-300 words), and your academic affiliation by Friday, March 25, 2022.
We will select four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes.
We will hold the meeting online on ZOOM; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
- January 25, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. IFRI Webinar SERIES : Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer que la première séance 2022 du Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES)
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies
coorganisé par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) et le CeRMI,
aura lieu
le mardi 25 janvier 2022, de 15h à 17h (heure de Paris) / 17h30-19h30 (heure de Téhéran).
Cette première séance s’articulera autour du thème “Regards sur les arts du métal / Insights into Metalwork“, avec les interventions suivantes :
- Metalwares from the Medieval Iranian World: Archaeometallurgy, Actors and Systems of Production
Annabelle Collinet (Musée du Louvre, Paris), David Bourgarit (Centre de recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, Paris/UMR 8068 TEMPS)
- Medieval Metalwork from Afghanistan: Preserving the Memory of Lost Collections
Valentina Laviola (University of Bologna)
Pour suivre cette séance online (sur Skyroom), inscrivez-vous avant le 22 janvier sur le lien suivant : https://webquest.fr/?m=111505_regards-sur-les-arts-du-monde-iranien-periodes-islamiques
>> Pour plus d’informations sur le Webinaire
N’hésitez surtout pas à faire circuler l’information !
Au plaisir de vous retrouver nombreux ;
Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI)
pour le comité d’organisation
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI), CNRS UMR 8041
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine
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CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr
2. Smith College – Lecturer in Modern Middle East History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62862
Closing date: 4.14.22
3. Workshop series: Afghanistan through Afghan Voices: Society, Literature & the Arts
https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/article/251182
Afghanistan through Afghan Voices: Society, Literature & the Arts
Talks | Conversations | Readings | Visual Inspirations
Organizers: Aria Fani (University of Washington), Domenico Ingenito (UCLA), Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University)
Afghanistan through Afghan Voices is a series of virtual workshops that highlights and critically engages with recent scholarship on one of the most culturally diverse regions in the world. It aims to open an inclusive and multidisciplinary space where Afghan scholars and artists come together in conversation with broad audiences to publicly reflect on their research endeavors and creative trajectories. Monthly programs include Afghan artists from around the globe in dialogue with scholars of literature, art, and history; panels featuring conversations on visual culture and media; and poetry readings in Persian/Dari, Pashto, and English.
The monthly series is hosted via Zoom by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and co-sponsored by the University of Washington’s Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Stanford University’s Center for South Asia and Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, as well as the Center for India and South Asia.
Schedule
Each meeting is held on the listed date from 9:30 to 11:00 AM Pacific time.
Session 1 | Mr. Blinken’s “Play List”: War, the State, and Empire in Afghanistan in the Age of Neo-liberal (Dis)Order
Thursday, January 27
Wali Ahmadi (UC Berkeley)
Discussant: Munazza Ebtikar (University of Oxford)
Session 2 | Invisible Persons, Invisible Texts: Translation and Translators in Medieval and Modern Afghanistan and the West
Thursday, February 17
Book Panel on Zrinka Stahuljak’s Les Fixeurs au Moyen âge – Histoire et littérature connectées
Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), Jawanshir Rasikh (University of Toronto), and Arezou Azad (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)
Session 3 | What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?
Friday, March 11
Panel with Marjan Wardaki (Yale University), Neelam Khoja (University of Pennsylvania), and Nicolas Roth (Harvard University)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
Session 4 | Media, Feminism, and Resistance in and Beyond Afghanistan
Thursday, April 7
Panel with Wazhmah Osman (Temple University), Helena Zeweri (University of Virginia), and Hosai Qasmi (University of Ottawa)
Discussant: Mejgan Massoumi (Stanford University)
Session 5 | How to (Not) Read Afghan Literature?
Thursday, May 5
Panel with Ahmad Rashid Salim (UC Berkeley), Zuzanna Olszewska (University of Oxford), and Samuel Hodgkin (Yale University)
Discussant: Aria Fani (University of Washington)
Session 6 | Inside/Outside the Line: Reading and Translating Afghan Poetry
Thursday, June 2
Panel with Parwana Fayyaz (University of Cambridge), Rahman Arman (Indiana University), Elyas Alavi (Adelaide, Australia), Julie Ershadi (UCLA), and Domenico Ingenito (UCLA)
https://www.international.ucla.edu/apc/centralasia/article/251182
4. Online Talk – “Islamic Ceramics: Archaeology, The Art Market and the Creation of Taste,” with Scott Redford (SOAS) – February 1
Online Talk Announcement:
The 52 William Cohn Lecture, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford – Tuesday 1 February 2022, 5-6pm
Islamic Ceramics: Archaeology, The Art Market and the Creation of Taste
With Professor Scott Redford, Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
In the West, the collecting of Islamic ceramics has traditionally taken a back seat to east Asian ceramics. Why is this so? This lecture explores the roles played by dealers, collectors, and museums in creating a body of material known as “Islamic ceramics.” What constitutes this body, and how did it come to be? How might it have been different?
BOOKING:
Please book by emailing eastern.art@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
This free event will take place on Zoom and a link to join will be shared in advance by email.
5. Postdoctoral position at the UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) as part of the FNRS Incentive Grant for Scientific Research “Prisca Alchimia. The Beginnings of Arabic Alchemy in the East (8th-10th centuries) and its Transmission to al-Andalus and to the Latin World” conducted by Prof. Sébastien Moureau.
Prisca Alchimia is a two-year F.R.S.-FNRS project to start in January 2022 at the UCLouvain (UCL) under the supervision of Prof. Sébastien Moureau. This research project focuses on the history of the Arabic alchemy of the first centuries (8th-10th centuries) approached as the starting context of the alchemical ideas that were transmitted to al-Andalus in the 10th century and then to the Latin West in the 12th and 13th centuries. The aim is to study the first of the three stages in the transfer of alchemy from the Arab-Muslim East to the Latin world through al-Andalus. In order to do so, research will be oriented towards the sources of alchemical literature of al-Andalus and Latin Europe.
As part of this project, a postdoc position of two years (to start before 1 July 2022) is offered for the second sub-project, i.e. a profound re-evaluation of the manuscript tradition of the corpus of alchemical texts attributed to Jābir b. Ḥayyān, the creation of an inventory of witnesses and the acquisition of copies of the most important manuscripts. This position will involve numerous stays in countries where little or poorly catalogued Arabic alchemical manuscript collections are found (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran, India, etc.).
The qualifications required are:
- a PhD in Islamic Studies, in Middle Eastern Studies, or related fields, granted within the last 6 years (i.e. after 1/7/2016);
- an excellent command of Classical Arabic;
- excellent skills in codicology, Arabic paleography, and manuscript tradition studies;
- a first-rate track record and research experience;
- publications of articles in peer-reviewed international journals or monographs with recognised academic publishers;
- academic writing and presentation skills in English;
- the ability to work both individually and as part of a team.
This postdoc position is full-time equivalent. It is offered initially for a period of 12 months, renewable for another 12 months (two years in total) upon good performance. The postdoc retained will be required to reside in Belgium for the whole period of the fellowship, with many trips and stays abroad, and will be asked to contribute to the intellectual life of the project and of the UCLouvain.
How to apply?
Applications should be made via PDF files and contain the following:
(1) a cover letter setting out the candidate’s qualifications and motivation for applying for the position (maximum 2 pages);
(2) a curriculum vitae (maximum 3 pages);
(3) a list of publications;
(4) two samples of published work (articles, chapters) in pdf (preferably in English or French);
(5) a transcript of grades and/or copy of the PhD certificate;
(6) the name (with title, affiliation and email) of three people having accepted to be contacted as potential referees.
Applications should be made electronically (PDF files only) and sent to the following address:
sebastien.moureau@uclouvain.be
The application deadline is 28 February 2022.
Candidates selected for the interviews will be contacted by March 4 and asked to write a short research design on a topic to be announced at that moment.
Online interviews will be arranged between 14 and 18 March 2022.
Employment must become effective before 1 July 2022.
6. Lecture Series – NYU, Silsila: Center for Material Histories – Spring 2022
Silsila: Center for Material Histories
Spring 2022 Series
We are delighted to announce the spring 2022 program of New York University’s Silsila: Center for Material Histories. The full details of our spring program are listed below and can also be found on our website:
https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html
Only registered attendees will be able to access the events. Links to register for each event can be found on the webpage for each, accessed through the website.
Silsila Spring 2022 Series
Feb 2nd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“ILLUMINATING THE HISTORY OF PRIVATE DEVOTION IN THE MUSLIM WEST” Hiba Abid, Silsila/NYU
Feb 9th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“SILSILAS FROM THE ISLAMIC EAST: MIRACLES AND MATERIAL LIFE” Teren Sevea, Harvard University
Feb 23rd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE FABRIC OF THE CITY: SPACES OF SILK WEAVING AND MASS PRODUCTION IN EARLY MODERN KASHAN” Nader Sayadi, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mar 2nd (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“REVISITING THE GREAT MOSQUE OF DAMASCUS” Alain George, University of Oxford
Mar 9th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE THEATRE-CARAVANSERAI OF TBILISI. A HETEROTOPIA FROM THE CAUCASUS” Luka Nakhutsrishvili, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
Mar 30th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“MODERN MEN AND AMATEURS OF ANTIQUITIES: COLLECTING PRACTICE IN 19th OTTOMAN TUNISIA” Ridha Moumni, Harvard University
Apr 6th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“ARCHIVE WARS: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA” Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Apr 13th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“‘ABOU FARID’S WAR’ AND OTHER LOVE STORIES – ARTIST OMAR MISMAR IN CONVERSATION WITH JOAN RETALLACK” Omar Mismar, American University of Beirut & Joan Retallack, Bard College
Apr 20th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“THE QUR’AN IN PRACTICE” Anouk Cohen, CNRS Paris
Apr 27th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“BLOCK-PRINTED AMULETS FROM THE QUBBAT AL-KHAZNA IN DAMASCUS: DISCOVERY, TECHNIQUE AND TEXTS” Arianna D’Ottone Rambach, La Sapienza University, Rome
May 4th (Wed), 12:30-2:30pm
“SLAVES AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN MEDITERRANEAN” Lamia Balafrej, UCLA; M’hamed Oualdi, Sciences Po-Paris & Meredith Martin, NYU
7. New Publication – Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities
Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq, is available as an ebook, paperback and hardback.
The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of societies. Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe explore what insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous epidemics might inform our understanding of the current world.
This book seeks to explore the profound and complex ways that architecture and landscape design were impacted by historical epidemics around the world, from North America to Africa and Australia, and to convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership. The chapters analyse the development of urban infrastructure, institutions and spaces in western and eastern societies in response to historical pandemics. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses, and their responses, exploit and amplify social inequality in the urban contexts and communities they impact. The contributors to this new study are historians, public health experts, art and architectural historians, sociologists, anthropologists, doctors and nurses. In researching their contributions, all have spoken to an audience that includes the public, practitioners and academic readers; the resultant case studies reveal a diverse range of urban interventions that are connected to the impact of epidemics on society and urban life, as well as the conceptualization of and response to disease.
8. The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh/IASH (Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities)
IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship
The application deadline for the 2022/23 IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship is 25th February 2022.
The Fellowship includes a stipend of up to £3500 to enable a scholar to visit Edinburgh for up to four months during the 22/23 academic year. Further details can be found here: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-alwaleed-research-fellowship
Especially for those whose research fits with the Alwaleed Centre’s focus on the contemporary/globalised Muslim world. IASH are particularly keen to welcome scholars whose work links to their Institute Project on Decoloniality.
9. Teaching Fellow – Languages for All (Arabic)
University of Birmingham
Languages for All in the Department of Modern Languages is looking to appoint a Teaching Fellow in Arabic. As part of the University’s strategic vision for Languages for All, the Teaching Fellow will contribute to an innovative digital-first year-round programme which maximises the opportunities of digital language learning through a curriculum aligned with the University’s global community.
Deadline | 6 February 2022
10. Call for Papers – Post-Millennial MENAWA Conference
Online conference | 21-22 June 2022 | MENAWA
Papers are invited for this multidisciplinary conference which seeks to examine MENAWA (Middle East/North Africa/West Asia) creative expression through innovative lenses and new critical paradigms. The organisers aim to identify emergent trends across literature and visual media as well as networks of production, reception, and circulation (pedagogy, literary translation & criticism, publishing) in order to illuminate new approaches to understanding creative cultural expression from these regions.
Deadline | 28 February 2022
More information
11. British Yemeni Society Research Grant
As part of its educational mission, the British–Yemeni Society offers a £500 grant annually to assist with academic study related to Yemen. Applications are invited from anyone carrying out research in, or on Yemen, at a British or Yemeni University. Applicants’ nationality is irrelevant. Applications may be made to assist with study in any subject or field, so long as it is concerned with Yemen, and is for a specific qualification (e.g., BA, MA, PhD etc.). Post-doctoral researchers may apply but will only be considered should no more junior applicant approach the Committee.
Deadline | 31 May 2022
More information
12. NES Lecture: FROM COMPILATION TO INDEXING: TRACING THE PRACTICE OF EARLY MODERN ORIENTALIST SCHOLARSHIP, February 16, 12:00 PM
Near Eastern Studies Lecture
February 16,12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
From Compilation to Indexing: Tracing the Practice of Early Modern Orientalist Scholarship
Paul Babinski (University of Copenhagen)
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS).
How did orientalists read, learn languages, and produce dictionaries, editions, and other works? Annotated manuscripts in particular offer a glimpse into the orientalist’s study, showing the sources they used, their methods of deciphering texts and comparing manuscripts, and their collaboration with amanuenses. Annotations also afford us a view of development over time, charting practices of early modern orientalist scholarship through shifting patterns of note-taking. This talk will trace that history in the early modern period, giving an overview of the conventions of orientalist annotation and focusing on a comparison between manuscripts from the two premier Western European Arabists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, respectively: Jacob Golius and Johann Jacob Reiske. Both scholars’ libraries remain largely intact, and, viewed broadly, offer a perspective onto questions of scholarly specialization, the character of philological progress, and the changing social contexts of orientalist learning.
Register in advance here.
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
13. Storey Online– Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey
C.A. Storey’s Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey is the most authoritative reference work on the Persian written tradition, offering the names of authors and the titles of those of their works that have survived in the Persian language.
“Charles Ambrose Storey’s (1888-1968) Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey is a standard reference work about the Persian literary tradition. Storey’s Survey originally consisted of 5 volumes (1.1; 1.2; 2; 3; and 4), but not all volumes were actually published. A new volume (no. 5) was published later by François de Blois. Based on Storey’s handwritten legacy preserved by the Royal Asiatic Society, Brill has published the missing volumes, completing the Survey in 2020 and 2021.
Explicitly intended as a counterpart to Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Storey’s Survey offers entries on Persian authors as well as their works, listing their manuscripts and editions.
Storey Online makes available all 6 volumes of Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey, as well as the new cumulative index volume, as an online resource. Its publication in Open Access was made possible by the Persian Heritage Foundation.”
14. The 8th Yemen Exchange Conference (Online), February 28 – March 11, 2022
The Eighth Yemen Exchange February 28-March 11 (Monday-Friday, 16:00-19:000 Sana’a Time) is an intensive online version of the Yemen Exchange organized by the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies and The Exchange Foundation since 2017. The conference is designed to provide unique access to information, perspectives, updates and analyses on Yemen for both those seeking to develop a working background on the country as well as those already thoroughly versed in its dynamics. During the ten-day program conducted via Zoom, participants from around the world will listen to Yemeni analysts, academics, politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and international experts to gain insight and rare first-hand knowledge about the country from a wide range of perspectives. Participants will have the chance to both virtually engage with speakers during the sessions and connect with speakers individually after the Exchange.
The sessions themselves – totaling more than 30 hours – will dive into several specific areas, including but not limited to: Yemen’s multifaceted conflicts, socio-political dynamics, internal divisions and alliances among parties to the conflict, developments in the southern governorates and the Red Sea, military and political developments on the ground, the status of various armed groups, gender issues, the Yemeni diaspora, the regional battle for Yemen, the humanitarian response, the state of the economy, the UN-led peace process and a variety of other topics.
All information at: https://sanaacenter.org/event/the-eighth-yemen-exchange
15. Lecture on “The Metaphysical Dimension of the Prophet in Avicenna’s Thought” at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
This upcoming lecture is the eighth in the ‘Islamic History and Thought Lecture Series’ convened by The Institute of Ismaili Studies, and the first to be hybrid. Scholars are warmly invited to register to attend online via Zoom, or in person at the Aga Khan Centre in Kings Cross, London.
Date: 3 February, 2022
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm GMT
Speaker: Dr Meryem Sebti (CNRS)
The prophet has a major metaphysical function. This is a fundamental thesis of Avicenna’s prophetology, and one of the main theses that will be explored in this lecture. The Metaphysics of the Kitāb al-Šifā’ closes with a treatise on prophetology, and one must give a reason for that. The prophet is not only the one who transmits the revealed Law to mankind, nor merely the one who ensures the best possible government of the city: he is also a model of perfection for men. This exemplarity of the prophet has its foundation in the very structure of Avicenna’s metaphysics. The intellect, soul and body of the prophet – in their mutual relationship – present a perfect correspondence with the intellect, soul and body of the ten celestial entities that structure the cosmos according to Avicenna.
Find out more and register (in person or online): https://bit.ly/3nBHM9w
About the lecture series: https://bit.ly/31VxnLb
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- January 22, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture: “From Victims to Survivors: Violence, Memory and Social Reconstruction in Rizgari, Kurdistan Region of Iraq” by Karin Mlodoch (Sigmund Freud University Berlin & HAU-KARI e.V.), Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 18 January 2022, 6:00 pm MET
In 1988 the Iraqi Baath-regime destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. Since 2009, a group of women survivors in the town of Rizgari have engaged for the construction of a self-designed memory site, which shall represent their specific gendered experience of violence and serve as a platform for bringing the survivors’ claims for justice into the public debate.
Information and registration: https://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Pictures/Events/2021/Jewish__Kurdish_and_Amazigh_Life_-_Poster_-_FINAL.pdf
2. ONLINE Rencontre avec Adam Baczko ( CNRS – CERI Sciences Po): « Le gouvernement des Taliban en Afghanistan, de l’insurrection à l’administration du pays », Halqa Association des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences sociales sur les mondes musulmans mo-dernes et contemporains, 18 janvier 2022, 18:00 h
Information: https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5033 .
Inscription : halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com
3. ONLINE Lecture on “Sharīʿa Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen” by Dr. Brinkley Messick, Columbia University, 1 February 2022, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
The historical instance in question comprises the twentieth-century decades of an imam-led polity in the uncolonized, late agrarian-age society of highland Yemen. With the support of ethnographic photography, Messick surveys the relations between the main roles in sharīʿa governance, and between the main types of sharīʿa writings in the textual formation of the period.
Deadline for registration: 25 January 2022 at abw2163@columbia.edu
4. ONLINE Seminar: “Sketching/Scripting Women – Women and Comics in the Arab World”, In-stitute of Modern Language Research, University of London, 4 March 2022, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
The seminar will explore the work of Francophone female graphic novelists from the Arab World, with contri-butions from academic speakers focusing on different historical and socio-political contexts spanning from the Maghreb to the Middle-East, and a talk by prize-winning Beirut-born bande dessinée author Michèle Standjofski.
Information and registration: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25230
5. Conference: “Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 6-9 July 2022
Conference themes will include: Lines of sight, shores, and islands in the maritime experience; Archaeology and material culture of forelands, hinterlands, and contact zones; Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal borders; Traditional maritime technologies; the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam; Religion and the sea; etc.
Information: Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9015868/cfp-reminder-red-sea-project-x-conference-rethymno-crete-july-6-9
6. Conference: “Assessing the Ethnic Groups of the Late Ottoman Empire through a Decolonial Lens (1900 – 1922)”, University of Florida, Gainesville, 9-11 September 2022
The goal of the symposium is to marshal decolonial theory in order to understand how the dynamics between the Ottoman Empire’s ethnic groups can provide insights for contemporary knowledge production for Arme-nia, Greece, Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and the United States.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022. Information: https://ogus.oral.history.ufl.edu/events/fall-2022-symposium/
7. Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates (2 Years) for Project “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Princeton and University of Bern
Applicants must have graduated with their PhD in a relevant field (History, Religion, Art History, Interreligious Studies, Theology, etc.); An appropriate number of publications depending on the candidate’s experience; A general interest in the historical relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims as manifest in the candi-date’s track record.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2022. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62833
8. Postdoctoral Fellow in the Modern and/or Contemporary History of the Arab World, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Moscow, Russia
Candidates should have a strong background in the Modern and Contemporary History of the Arab World, ability to teach for the Arab World Programme and to conduct research in the relevant field; Fluent English and Arabic; Knowledge of other Oriental and/or Russian languages will be an asset.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022. Information: https://iri.hse.ru/ru/pd2223_HistoryoftheArabWorld
9. International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) Programme for Graduates from Arab Countries of the German Bundestag, Berlin, 1-20 September 2022
The programme is intended for talented Arab graduates who are interested in politics and who are keen to play an active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries. The programme includes a one-week work placement with a Member of German Bundestag and aims at bringing German politics closer to its participants.
Extended deadline for application: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/inter-national/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
10. Grants for Research in the Emirate Ras Al Khaima, UAE
The research grants are awarded in the following categories: 1) Doctoral Research Grants; 2) Faculty Re-search Grants; 3) Seed Research Grants. This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and faculty mem-bers from all nationalities at recognized tertiary institutions from across the world, seeking to conduct field-work in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2022. Information: https://www.alqasimifoundation.com/grants-research
11. Fully-funded PhD position in Islamic Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
Closing date for applications: 15.2.22
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:463766/type:job/where:4/apply:1
12. Events on Islam and the Middle East around Cambridge
Tue 18 Jan
5:00pm – 6:00pm
The Contribution of Hanafi Jurists to the Urban Domain of the Islamic City.
(Meriem Ben Ammar (University of Cagliari))
Wed 19 Jan
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Palestine: Memories of Western Palestine –1948 Memory, Geography and Distanciation
(Various speakers – Director and Convener: Dr Makram Khoury-Machoo)
Thu 20 Jan
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Marginal Words: The Local and the Cosmopolitan in an Eighteenth-century Indian Dictionary in Persian
(Dr Arthur Dudney, University of Cambridge)
Fri 21 Jan
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
(Usaama Al-Azami (St. Antony’s College, Oxford))
Sat 22 Jan
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Ottoman Music Workshops with Baha Yetkin
(Baha Yetkin )
And don’t forget that next Monday (Mon 24 Jan) the Persian Poetry Reading Group start their fortnightly meetings and the first CIS Public Talk is Thurs 27 Jan (Conquered Populations in Early Islam (Elizabeth Urban)).
13. Islamic History Geodata Initiative
The Islamic History Geodata Initiative (ihGeo) seeks to stimulate scholarship on the role of places and spaces in the history of the Middle East during the Islamic period. Established by a research unit at the University of Tübingen, it provides a forum for international exchange and envisages collaborative projects in the Spatial Humanities. Another aim is to develop novel research tools for use in the public domain.
Learn about the endeavour of ihGeo to link history, geoinformatics, and cartography for a new understanding of how the region’s societies have been geared to the making and re-making of human landscapes.
14. Hikmat International Institute
Only three days remain to register for the fifth learning and sightseeing tour of Iran that will take place on May 8 – 25, 2022. This special tour is perfect for any travel passionate, especially those who want to explore the beautiful Iran and learn more about its people, culture, ancient and modern history, politics, public life, etc.
In this tour, the participants will see Iran’s most important tourist attractions in six major cities. They can also attend three informative workshops about religion and politics in Iran. There will be friendly meetings and discussions with academics, religious leaders, scholars etc. The tour will be held with high standards and is an amazing opportunity. The group will include 15 to 20 participants. Most seats are already taken, so register soon before it is too late! Deadline for registration is January 20, 2022.
Hikmat Institute organizes this tour only once a year. We hope you can join us in this exciting program.
Please check the webpage of the tour for more information and let us know if you have any questions.
Contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com
- January 18, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.New Podcast – ART Informant: A Podcast on Islamic Art History
Dear Colleagues,
I am glad to introduce a new podcast dedicated to the actuality of Islamic Art History.
Every other Mondays, I welcome historians, curators, conservators, experts and other actors of Islamic Art History, who made this field so vibrant and dynamic.
You can already listen to four episodes on Spotify, Amazon music, Apple music, and via the link below.
In the latest episode, I welcome Dr Negar Habibi, lecturer in Iranian art history at the University of Geneva and who recently started the huge task of cataloguing Jean Pozzi’s collection of Islamic art, supported by a fellowship of the Soudavar Foundation.
If you are interested in this new format, please consider subscribing on your favourite podcast platform, and share to help grow the ART Informant community!
Listen to the ART Informant here.
Isabelle Imbert
2. IHU Summer Language School 2022 program (Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Spanish)
27 June – 19 August 2022, IHU Campus
27 June – 19 August 2022, Online via Zoom
The Ibn Haldun University (IHU) Summer Language School Program offers intensive instruction in Modern Turkish, Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, and Spanish for students and professionals. This is a full Summer Term that over seven weeks offers the transferable credits. A wholly immersive experience is designed to comprise co-curricular and extra-curricular activities such as conversation tables and study hours, seminars by top scholars on history, politics, literature, and arts, cultural events including movie screenings and field trips to historical sites and archives.
- Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced levels are available
- 20 hours per week for 7 weeks (140 class hours) – Fully credit-transferable, equivalent to two normal semesters
- 10 hours per week for 7 weeks (70 class hours) – Fully credit-transferable, equivalent to a normal semester
For information on fees, financial aid and housing you canvisit our website: summer.ihu.edu.tr
To apply, please fill out the online application form, submit the following documents, and pay the application fee via credit cards at https://iber.ihu.edu.tr/PrivatePay.
- CV
- Copy of an official transcript (signed or with barcode), if you are still a student
- Copy of passport ID page
- A passport size photo
- A recommendation letter (if you are planning to apply for a tuition fee discount)
The IHU Summer School Language Program is coordinated and developed in collaboration with the IHU School of Languages and the Department of History.
If you have questions about the program, please feel free to e-mail the IHU Summer School Deputy Directorate at summerschool@ihu.edu.tr
3. Launch of ‘The Dinner Table Prejudice: Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain’, 25 January, 6pm GMT
In ‘The Dinner Table Prejudice: Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain’ Stephen H. Jones (University of Birmingham) and Amy Unsworth (University College London) present the findings of one of the most detailed surveys conducted on Islamophobia and other forms of racism and prejudice in modern Britain. Uniquely, the research investigates both prejudice against Muslims as a group of people and Islam as a belief system, and shows how these two varieties of Islamophobia appear differently in British society. The report speaks directly to questions about racism, religion, free speech and discrimination, and will be a vital resource for anyone interested in prejudice and how to counter it.
At this event, the lead author will discuss the survey findings and their implications for British public policy and politics. The event will be chaired by Professor Peter Morey and will feature a response by Zara Mohammed, the General Secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).
4. AKU-ISMC
1-22 March 2022 The Qur’an in Muslim Practice – Online short course
How do Muslims use the Qur’an?
The course attempts to answer this question by exploring the use of the Qur’an in various Muslim contexts, both religious and social. The course will be delivered over four weeekly online sessions using zoom.
The introductory session will discuss the Qur’an as a religious text, situating it within the contexts of Muslim beliefs and perceptions. Its recitation and writing will be explored in the second session, focusing on the culture of writing the Qur’an (including the skill and art of calligraphic writing). The third session will consider activities that draw on the Qur’an as a source of comfort, healing, protection, divination and ritual. The final session will examine Sufi beliefs and practices as derived from the Qur’an. The course convenors are Dr Walid Ghali and Professor Farouk Topan.
The course will be delivered online via zoom. Log in details and reading lists will be shared on registration.
The course will not be recorded.
Date and Time
1, 18, 15 and 22 March 2022, 1:00-3:00pm (London Time).
Tickets and Booking
Tickets: £75 professionals | £45 students, AKU alumni and staff.
For more information and to book, see:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-quran-in-muslim-practice-short-course-tickets-232079464927
5. Call for Papers :
Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture
Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is a peer reviewed international scholarly journal. The journal is dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world. Particular attention is paid to works dealing with history, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, law, literature, religion, philosophy, international relations, environmental and developmental issues, as well as ethical questions related to scientific research. The journal is committed to the publication of original research on Islam as culture and civilization. It particularly welcomes work of an interdisciplinary nature that brings together history, religion, politics, culture and law. The Journal has a special focus on Islam in Africa, and on contemporary Islamic Thought. Contributions that display theoretical rigor especially work that link the particularities of Islamic discourse to the enterprise of knowledge and critique in the humanities and social sciences, will find Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture to be receptive to such submissions.
The journal is published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development that serves as a focal point for academicians, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research throughout the world.
The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at editor@aripd.net, editor.aripd@gmail.com
Please indicate the name of the journal (Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture) in the cover letter or simply put ‘Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture’ in the subject box during submission via e-mail.
The journal is Abstracted/Indexed in CrossRef, CrossCheck, Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, Griffith Research Online, Google Scholar, Education.edu, Informatics, Universe Digital Library, Standard Periodical Directory, Gale, Open J-Gate, EBSCO, Journal Seek, DRJI, ProQuest, BASE, InfoBase Index, OCLC, IBSS, Academic Journal Databases, Scientific Index.
E-Publication FirstTM
E-Publication FirstTM is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published online within one week after the completion of all necessary publishing steps.
DOI® number
Each paper published in Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is assigned a DOI® number, which appears beneath the author’s affiliation in the published paper.
JISC is inviting papers for Vol. 10, No. 1. The online publication date is February 28, 2022. Submission Deadline: January 31, 2022.
For any additional information, please contact with the executive editor at editor@aripd.net, editor.aripd@gmail.com
Regards,
Dr. Mohammad Reza Iravani, Azad University of Khomeinishahr & Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr branch, Khomeinishahr, Esfahan, Iran.
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture
Website: www.jiscnet.com
Email: editor@aripd.net, editor.aripd@gmail.com
6. “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” International Journal of Islamic Architecture Dialogues Series – January 21
Join the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) for its Dialogues Series, an annual webinar that brings together scholars and practitioners from across varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history. Just in time for the beginning of the spring semester, the 2nd annual session, “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” features series host, Emily Neumeier, joined by Christiane Gruber, Stephennie Mulder, and Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral for a virtual discussion (via Zoom) on a number of pressing issues surrounding the teaching of Islamic art in a wide range of classroom settings, including:
- The impact of the pandemic and frequent pivoting between online and in-person instruction,
- The demands for anti-racism and DEI initiatives within the field and intersections with decolonial studies
- And what’s on the horizon for new and ongoing pedagogical initiatives such as Khamseen, the #StudentsofIslamicArt Wikipedia edit-a-thon, and GAHTC (Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative).
Date and Time: Friday, January 21, 2021, 12:00-1:00 pm US EST
Register in advance for this session: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErde2orTkrGtyn2BG5bvkVVij_WrjJvxxa
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the session. The discussion will appear in print as part of the journal’s new “Dialogues” section.
ABOUT THE DISCUSSANTS
Christiane Gruber is Professor and Chair of the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan.
Stephennie Mulder is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.
Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral is Professor of Architectural History and a Researcher at the American Art and Aesthetic Studies Institute, based in the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism, at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Emily Neumeier is Assistant Professor in the Art History Department at Temple University.
7. Launch of the Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award
Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online offers short-form presentations and glossary term definitions to support teaching, learning, and research in Islamic art and related fields. Since the website’s launch in Fall 2020, we have regularly added new presentations. While the PhD has been a requirement for submission until now, Khamseen is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative: the Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award.
We invite PhD candidates (ABD) to submit short (10-12 minute) video presentations for consideration. The winning applicant(s) will work with our team to revise and publish their short video presentation(s), which then will be featured on the Khamseen website. In addition, each awardee will receive a $500 honorarium upon the presentation’s official launch. Applications are due March 1, 2022 and decisions will be announced on April 1, 2022.
Submission Guidelines:
Applications due: March 1, 2022
Notification of decisions: April 1, 2022
Eligibility: PhD candidates (ABD) enrolled in a degree-granting program in Islamic art and allied fields. We do not accept applications from undergraduate or Masters students.
Application procedures: Candidates submit a short-form presentation, whose format must follow the production guidelines provided here. Additionally, applications should include: a 3-5 sentence summary, a 2-page CV, and a note of support from a PhD advisor or dissertation committee member.
Please submit the short-form presentation as an MP4 and the application materials as a single PDF to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu; notes of support by advisors and queries by candidates also should be sent to TeamKhamseen@umich.edu.
Sincerely,
Team Khamseen
8. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – The Collective for Black Iranians
On the Importance of Centering Erased Black and Afro Iranian Histories from Iran and the Diaspora
Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Panel in Persian
9. 2-Year Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Art http://apply.interfolio.com/101082
Washington and Lee University: Art and Art History Department
Open Date
Jan 11, 2022
Description
The Art and Art History Department of Washington and Lee University invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Islamic Art (July 1st, 2022-June 30th 2024). Area of specialization is open. This position carries a 6-course teaching load distributed over Fall and Winter terms (12 weeks each), and the University’s signature 4-week Spring Term. The course load will be 2-3-1 or 3-2-1, depending on the needs of the department in a given academic year. The successful candidate would teach an introductory course that emphasizes the trans-regional interactions of the Islamic world, several intermediate courses (focused on theme, period, and/or region), and upper-level course/s related to the candidate’s specialization. The candidate’s course offerings and research would benefit from and contribute to Washington and Lee University’s rich disciplinary focus on Islamic cultures as demonstrated through the Middle East and South Asia program, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program, Religious Studies, and Politics Department. Of particular interest are candidates whose teaching can support other dynamic interdisciplinary programs such Africana Studies and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Candidates will also demonstrate an ability to support the University’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
W&L is ranked among the top liberal arts institutions in the U.S. and the Art and Art History Department is one of the largest in the College. The University promotes a dynamic and inclusive environment that allows students and employees of multiple backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives to learn, work, and thrive together. Successful candidates will contribute to that environment and exhibit potential for excellence in teaching and scholarship. In keeping with the University Strategic Plan, we welcome applications from underrepresented minority candidates and members of other communities that are traditionally underrepresented in academia. The University’s commitment to supporting faculty research will provide the successful candidate the opportunity to apply for summer research and conference funds.
Qualifications
A PhD in Art History or Visual Studies at the time of appointment is preferable.
Application Instructions
Review of applications will begin February 1, 2022, and continue until the position is filled. To be considered, applicants should submit the following materials to the Interfolio portal: http://apply.interfolio.com/101082
- Cover letter describing their teaching interests and experiences, as well as addressing their recent research projects and agenda
- Sample Syllabus
- Curriculum vitae
- Three confidential letters of recommendation
Contact Information
For more information, please contact the head of the search committee, Prof. Melissa Kerin at kerinm@wlu.edu
Anthony Edwards, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Arabic
Middle East and South Asia Studies Program
**Check out @WLUMESA on Instagram**
Washington and Lee University
Center for Global Learning 238
204 West Washington Street
Lexington, Virginia 24450-2116
Email: EdwardsA@wlu.edu
Office Phone: 540.458.8396
10. 2 PhD Positions in Digital Islamic History, University of Hamburg
Dear colleagues, I am advertising for two PhD positions in my project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600). Each position is 2+2 years. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022. Successful applicants will work on one of the case studies of the project and will write and defend a PhD thesis on the topic of their choice, within a selected case study. Descriptions of both positions and detailed information on the application process can be found at the following links: https://tinyurl.com/PhD01; https://tinyurl.com/PhD02. Feel free to email me, if you have any questions (maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de). The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program (https://tinyurl.com/EIS1600). It is hosted at the Institute of Asian and African Studies (Islamic Studies Division) of the University of Hamburg.
Best regards,
Maxim Romanov
Description of the EIS1600 project: Arabic chronicles and biographical collections preserve a plethora of information on long-term environmental and societal processes that shaped and molded Islamic society. Numerous and extensive, these written sources are the richest “mine” of information and are particularly valuable for the period before the 15th century, for which exceptionally few documents and archives are available. The EIS1600 project undertakes a study of “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c. 600-1600 CE)” through the computational analysis of these historical texts, which will be treated holistically as a unified corpus of historical information (c.300 titles; 100 million tokens; c.500,000 biographical records). The project’s team will work on identifying and analyzing long-term historical trends through three closely connected case studies: 1) of major ethnic, religious, and professional groups—and how they shaped the development of local communities and fused them into what we call the Islamic world; 2) of dynastic cycles through the patterns of the rise and fall of regional powers, their conflicts with rivals, and interactions with local communities; 3) of environmental factors—plagues, famines, droughts, pest infestations, earthquakes, and climate change—and their effect on the life of local communities. These case studies will be the foundation for a robust synthesis of the evolution of the Islamic world over the period under study. In order to overcome the complexity and sheer volume of medieval Arabic historical sources, as well as to analyze them in an effective and reproducible manner, the EIS1600 project employs a series of advanced computational methods of text analysis and data modeling that are the key to discovering, evaluating, and modeling all relevant textual evidence at an unprecedented scale. Among other deliverables, the EIS1600 project will produce an open and expandable online research ecosystem, MasterChronicle, which will allow scholars in the field to engage in various modes of close and distant reading of the Arabic historical corpus.
11. New issue of Quaderni di Studi Arabi
Volume 16 (2021): Issue 1-2 (Dec 2021): Issue 1: History Writing as an Inter-confessional Enterprise, edited by Martino Diez
https://brill.com/view/journals/qsa/16/1-2/qsa.16.issue-1-2.xml
12. Lecture series: ‘Rethinking Social Contention’
We’re delighted to invite you to our new online lecture series, ‘Rethinking Social Contention: Rebellion, Banditry and Martyrdom in the Pre-Modern Islamicate World’. The series is organised by our Hamburg-based research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period’ (SCORE), and starts next Tuesday (18 Jan), 4 pm CET. Our first speaker is Andrew Marsham (Cambridge), who will talk about “Rebels, Rhetoric and Reality in the Umayyad Era: Violent Conflict and Contention in the Early Islamic Empire”.
The programme for the first term can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/2021-12-lecture-series.html. To register and receive the Zoom link, simply contact us at score.aai@uni-hamburg.de. Please share widely with colleagues and students as well. We’re looking forward to ‘seeing’ you there, and to a lively, stimulating discussion!
- January 15, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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