Categories : Academic items

1. The Islamic College

Arabic Online Language Course

Beginners: Every Sunday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)

15 May – 24 July 2022 (10 sessions)

Intermediate: Saturday 3:00 – 5:00 pm (London time)

14 May – 23 July 2022

Advance: Friday 6:00 – 8:00 pm (London time)

13 May – 22 July 2022

Course Fee: £50/Semester

For more information and to register:

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/learn-arabic/

 

 

 

2. Persia Portrayed: Envoys to the West, 1600–1842

D.T. Potts

Mage, 2022

 

 

 

3. The British Library

Christian Bibles in Muslim Robes with Jewish Glosses: Arundel Or.15 and other Medieval Coptic Arabic Bible Translations at the British Library

 

 

 

4. Aga Khan Library launches new website

Explore our growing library catalogue and digital resources, services, news, blogs and events, manage your library account, and much more on the newly refreshed Aga Khan Library website.
The Aga Khan Library is the product of a collaboration between the IIS and the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations​ (AKU-ISMC). It houses the largest collection in Europe for the study of Ismaili communities, their history and their beliefs. It also offers a vast range of sources on Shia Islam, Quranic literature and other core issues of Islamic studies.

 

 

 

5. SHD Free Online Lecture “Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860”

Society For the History of Discoveries Lecture Series

Matthew H. Edney

Osher Professor in the History of Cartography, University of Southern Maine

Director, History of Cartography Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison

SHD Fellow

Empire and History, Maps and Discovery, 1775–1860

The systematic study of map history first emerged in Paris in the 1830s as an extension of the history of geography and discovery, a field that had itself cohered in its modern form only after 1775. This presentation explores the use of early maps by early historians of geography, such as James Playfair (1808) and Conrad Malte-Brun (1810), and how scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt, Ramón de la Sagra, Edme François Jomard, and the visconde de Santarém had by 1840 turned a sporadic interest in early maps into l’histoire de la cartographie.keel

Date:  21 April 2022

Time:  2:00 PM CST (US and Canada)

To Register for this free event please use the link below

https://discoveryhistory.org/event-4780730

 

 

 

6. POS: Collection Assistant for Middle Eastern and Islamic Materials (UCLA)

Closing date April 27, 2022 

The complete postings, which include the position descriptions, complete qualifications and application procedures, are available on both the UCLA Career Opportunities Website at: https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu and on the UCLA Library Employment Webpage, Jobs@UCLA Library,  http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/jobs-ucla-library.

 

 

 

7. Call for Papers: British Muslim Studies at 50 – Retrospect and Prospect

14th & 15th September 2022

A conference organised by the Muslims in Britain Research Network 

& the Islam-UK Centre, Cardiff University

Though still in its infancy as a sub-field, the academic study of British Muslims in UK institutions of higher education is now over five decades old.  Since the 1960s/1970s, research and teaching about Britain’s Muslims has developed and expanded – advancing our understanding and knowledge of Britain’s diverse and dynamic Muslim population in myriad disciplines – including but not limited to sociology, history, religious studies, Islamic Studies, geography, politics, and their various intersections.

Over the past decade or so, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions, concepts and parameters of understanding. This, coupled with the long tradition of engagement and partnership with community institutions, practitioners and grassroots spaces means it is an exciting time for BMS and an apt moment to cast a retrospective glance over the past 50 years, while looking ahead towards future prospects.

This conference will examine some of the main contributions to BMS, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres. It will also pay tribute to two recently departed pioneers of BMS: Professors Mohammed Anwar and Ataullah Siddiqui.

We invite abstract submissions for papers, which showcase emergent research topics and directions in British Muslim Studies. We are keen to receive abstracts from PhD scholars and early career academics and are particularly interested in proposals corresponding to the following themes:

• Co-production/collaboration between researchers and communities
• Synergies (or tensions) between academe and practitioners
• Innovative research methods and interrogation/problematisation of extant methods

 

To submit a proposal:

• Please submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words) of the presenter/s, institutional affiliation/s (if relevant), and contact details.
• We welcome proposals from postgraduate researchers, independent scholars and practitioners.
• Proposals should be sent to MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com
• Academic enquiries should be sent to Dr Khadijah Elshayyal, ke3@soas.ac.uk
• Deadline: 5pm on Wednesday 15th June 2022
• Successful presenters will be notified by Thursday 30th June 2022

 

 

 

8. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference to be held at the University of California, Los Angeles, November 3–6, 2022. We invite session proposals on any topic relevant to Byzantine studies.

Session proposals must be submitted through the Mary Jaharis Center website (https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc). The deadline for submission is April 22, 2022.

If the proposed session is accepted, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimburse a maximum of 5 session participants (presenters and chair) up to $600 maximum for scholars based in North America and up to $1200 maximum for those coming from outside North America. Funding is through reimbursement only; advance funding cannot be provided. Eligible expenses include conference registration, transportation, and food and lodging. Receipts are required for reimbursement. For scholars participating remotely, the Mary Jaharis Center will reimbursement participants for conference registration.

For further details and submission instructions, please visit https://maryjahariscenter.org/sponsored-sessions/48th-bsc.

Please contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

 

 

 

9. BIPS Research & Travel Grants and Research Assistant Grants

The British Institute of Persian Studies invites applications for Research and Travel Grants and for Research Assistant Grants.

Funding is available to cover costs associated with developing or executing research projects in any field related to the wider Persianate world. There is funding available for travel for students based at a UK Higher Education Institution (HEI), either for research or to attend conferences. We invite applications for Research Awards and for Research Assistant Grants, in order to support scholars to develop or complete projects.

Awards of up to £1,200 will be considered for Student Travel Awards. Grants of up to £5,000 for Research Awards and Research Assistant Awards are invited, from PIs associated with a UK based HEI.

Please contact the relevant programme leader prior to submitting your application (Ancient: Professor Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Medieval: Professor Andrew Peacock, Modern: Dr Shabnam Holliday).

You must be a member of BIPS to apply.

The deadline for submitting applications is Monday 16^th May 2022.

For more information and to download the application form, visit our Grants page.

 

 

 

10. The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles invites applications for a one-year Farhang Foundation Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Iranian Studies. Researchers with training in cultural studies, film, and literature are particularly encouraged to apply. This fellowship is renewable for a second year, contingent upon approval.

In addition to research, the successful candidate is expected to teach 3 courses per academic year and to participate in the intellectual life of the department and other units on campus.  This person will receive a stipend of $65,000 plus benefits. Applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the last five years or at the latest by August 16, 2022, the start date of the position. In addition to the letter of application, applicants should include their curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and sample syllabi (attach all as one PDF document during the application process). Three letters of reference will be asked of finalists. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. In order to be considered for this position, all candidates must submit an electronic USC application. Review of complete applications will begin immediately.

Further information is available by contacting Professor Ramzi Rouighi (rouighi@usc.edu).

1.Symposium – Living Line, Living Legacy: Arabic-script Calligraphy Symposium – May 7

Please join us for a symposium on Arabic-script calligraphy taking place at the Qatar America Institute for Culture in Washington DC on Saturday, May 7 from 10am to 2pm.

Organized by the Reed Society for the Sacred Arts, internationally renowned calligraphers Mohamed Zakariya (USA), Davut Bektaş (Turkey), and Nuria Garcia Masip (France) among others, will be in conversation with Islamic art curators and scholars.

Inscribed by UNESCO onto its list of intangible cultural heritage in December, 2021, Arabic-script calligraphy has a centuries-old tradition as the preeminent art form in Islamicate societies, yet contemporary work of traditionally trained calligraphers does not fit easily into present day conceptions of global art. Symposium speakers will discuss their journeys to calligraphy, how calligraphy is supported and collected globally and the manner in which their work is bridging binaries between the contemporary and traditional.

This is an on-site event which will be recorded for viewing later. Symposium space is limited; please register early at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/living-line-living-legacy-symposium-tickets-271262522507. (The ticket price includes lunch.)

The symposium is held in conjunction with the calligraphy exhibition titled Living Line, Living Legacy which opens April 11 and runs through June 17, 2022 at the Qatar America Institute for Culture, 1319 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036. The exhibition highlights the work of Mohamed Zakariya and seven of his students and colleagues. You may schedule a visit at the QAIC’s website.

 

 

 

 

2. A Scholar for our Times: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Shahrokh Meskoob

Abbas Milani & C. Ryan Perkins., eds.

Mage, 2022

 

 

 

 

3. Film Screening and Panel Discussion “A Moment of Bliss: The Story of Love and Hate Between a Country and Its People”, FES, Berlin, 21 April 2022, 5:30 pm

The film, which is written and produced by the FES in Beirut, highlights different facets of social and political injustice in the lives of people in Lebanon through four personal stories. It also shows the relevance of civil society engagement for democratic change and the importance of electoral participation for a better future. Arabic version with German subtitles.

Deadline for registration: 15 April 2022. Information: https://www.fes.de/newsletter/newsletter-referat-naher/mittlerer-osten-und-nordafrika/newsticker-01/20-2-4-1

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Lecture “An Impossible Promise? Sociology of Religion in Arab Countries” by Florian Zemmin (Freie Universität Berlin), Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 28 April 2022, 5:00 pm CET

Sociological approaches to religion in Arabic do have a longer history and feature more widely than is often assumed. This talk will provide glimpses into the history and presence of these approaches and their charac-teristics, addressing both structural and theoretical questions.

Information and registration: https://tinyurl.com/mr29m9mp

 

 

 

 

5. 21st Beirut Exchange Conference (in Person), 5-12 June 2022

The Beirut Exchange is an immersive research conference that offers participants a unique exposure to lead-ing scholars, politicians and activists representing a range of different points of view on Lebanon. It is aimed at NGO practitioners, foreign diplomats, researchers, journalists and professionals in general who are inter-ested in gaining a deeper understanding of Lebanon.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2022. Deadline II: 10 May 2022 (20 slots ony; rolling acceptance).

Information: https://www.globalpoliticalexchange.org/beirut

 

 

 

 

6. American Political Science Association (APSA) Conference: “New Landscapes in MENA Politics”, Amman, 28-30 July 2022

This conference aspires to identify new research landscapes and build conscious research agendas for the coming years that can align our discipline with the contemporary realities and challenges that citizens of the region are experiencing. Looking back at the Arab Spring, through wars in Libya, Yemen, and Syria and massive human displacement, considering regime change and resiliency, advancements in women’s rights, and current implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022. Information: https://web.apsanet.org/mena/2022-conference/

 

 

 

7. Workshop on “Social Contracts in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Drivers of Change”, German Development Institute, Bonn, 24-26 August 2022

Papers should identify drivers of contemporary transformations of social contracts in the MENA-region, as-sess the drivers’ respective contribution to change – both in ‘objective’ terms and in the perception of the social contract stakeholders, gauge the options of less powerful actors (e.g. vulnerable groups in society) to bring about change in social contracts.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2022.

Information: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/events/details/social-contracts-in-the-mena-drivers-of-change/

 

 

 

 

8. International Conference “Timely Histories: A Social History of Time in South Asia”, Organised by ZMO and CSDS, New Delhi, 12-14 October 2022

Contributions are invited on the history of temporality in early modern and modern South Asia. We are inter-ested in going beyond the conception of time as a homogeneous substratum of all being and re-conceiving it more as a dynamic object and medium of historical processes, practically entangled with varying modes of time reckoning and temporal cultures, techniques and epistemes.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.zmo.de/fileadmin/Karri-ere/Ausschreibungen_2022/CfP_Timely_Histories_10-22.pdf

 

 

 

9. International Workshop: “Religion and Secularism as Problem Space in Postcolonial Occidentalist Discourses within the MENA Region.” Leipzig University, 3-4 November 2022

The workshop aims to discuss the question of religion and secularity/secularism in (postcolonial) Occidentalist discourses and their critiques in the MENA region. The workshop intents to explore the trajectories of post-colonial Occidentalist discourses in the MENA region. It aims to reflect on their various genealogies, forms, and contents.

Extended deadline for abstract: 15 April 2022.

Information: https://multiple-secularities.de/events/event/international-workshop-religion-and-secularism-as-problem-space-in-postcolonial-occidentalist-discourses-within-the-mena-region/

 

 

 

10. Symposium “Historiography in the Ottoman Empire: Scholars, Works, and Problems”, ISAR, Istanbul, 16-17 December 2022

The symposium intends to illuminate the lives of these historians, their traditions, sources, methods, and objectives. In addition, it also welcomes rereading attempts of Ottoman historical texts guided by newly developing approaches, such as conceptual history, the history of emotions, environmental history, and so on.

The languages of presentations will be Turkish, Arabic, or English. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: https://www.isar.org.tr/en/sempozyum-calistaylar/historiography-in-the-ottoman-empire-scholars-works-and-problems/call-for-papers-9

 

 

 

 

11. Scientific Staff (Prae-Doc, 3 Years), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

To join the research project “Grocers of Istanbul: Tracing Food Consumption through the Inheritance Inven-tories of Grocers (Bakkals) in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”. Qualificaton: MA with focus on the history of the Ottoman Empire; solid philological training in reading Ottoman texts, palaeographical know-

ledge, excellent research skills, as well as good communication skills. Deadline for applications: 25 April 2022. Information:

https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_cD8A0B1F9-9E92-9D8C-93B3-A31602D1AA40_kBBFA0B3C-32FA-B0B2-6B79-99FA1E4DD1DE&tid=90671.28

 

 

 

 

12. Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of 6 and 9 months for the academic year 2022/23 to junior scholars during the early stages of the postdoc period in support of excellent research projects in the human-ities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “hu mans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/postdoctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

 

13. Doctoral Fellowships 2022/23, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)

The OIB awards a number of visiting fellowships of up to 12 months for the academic year beginning in September 2022 to doctoral candidates in support of excellent research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We are particularly interested in research projects that fit our annual topic of “humans in their relations to the divine and humans in their relation to their productions”. Deadline for applications: 6 June 2022. Information: https: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/scholarships/doctoral-fellowships/

 

 

 

14. Post-Doc Fellowship (1 Year) for Research on “Islamophobia in Health Professions Education”, University of Toronto

Applicants must have defended their doctoral dissertation by June 1, 2022 on a topic related to contemporary experience as a North American Muslim, cross-cultural dialogue on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate, and/or using education to address Islamophobia. Deadline for application extended: 5 May 2022. Information: https://mobile.twitter.com/UofTMed_OID/status/1512152023772323840   Contact: medicine.inclusiondiversity@utoronto.ca

 

 

 

 

15. Postdoctoral Associate Position in Arabic Cultural Studies (1 Year), Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC

The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. within the past two years and will have a strong record of research and solid preparation for (or experience in) teaching at the undergraduate level in Arabic cultures,

with a focus on the modern and/or contemporary period. Deadline for applications: 23 May 2022. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21566

 

 

 

 

16. Chapters on “Turkish Cultural Syndromes and Their Representations in Popular Culture” for Edited Collection “Culture-bound Syndromes in Popular Culture” (Routledge)

The volume aims to provide in-depth and analytical insight into the representations of cultural imagery and narratives of various culture-bound syndromes through the lens of global and national popular culture, cov-ering movies, television, literature, visual arts, fashion, festivals, popular music, and graphic novels. Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/10075052/culture-bound-syndromes-popular-culturecall-chaptersroutledge

 

 

 

 

17. 9th Edition of the Summer School “Understanding the Middle East: The Politics of Gender in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Turin, 4-8 July 2021

The summer school critically unpacks gender studies to explore the role they have in re-defining regional trajectories. It also aspires to analyse new debates to better grasp the impact these studies have on the

Middle East and North African region in historical perspective. Deadline for applications: 31 May 2022. Information: https://www.tomideast.com/

 

 

 

18. Course “Decolonising European Modernity: Text, Paratext, Urtext”, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, Aga Khan University, London, 11-14 July 2022, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm GMT Information: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/decolonising-european-modernity-text-paratext-urtext-short-course-tickets-243473765587

 

 

 

19. Summer School: “Religion, Mobility & Economy”, University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp (UCSIA), 28 August – 3 September 2022, Antwerp, Belgium

The interdisciplinary mentoring programme for doctoral and postdoctoral students will focus on the diversity of religions on the move and economic transformation. We welcome papers based on original research that explore these themes from a variety of disciplines including anthropology, history, sociology, political science, and theology. Faculty includes two assistant professors with focus on Islam.

Deadline for applications: 17 April 2022.

Information: https://www.ucsia-summerschool.org/

 

 

 

20. Contributions à « Discours et pouvoir dans et sur les religions » pour un numéro thématique de Revue “Religiologique”

Ce numéro veut réfléchir aux discours sur les religions, d’un point de vue politique ou juridique, et les façons dont les sociétés entendent gérer le religieux. Il peut aussi être l’occasion de réfléchir aux façons dont les religions adaptent, ou non, leur discours, confrontés aux nouveaux impératifs sociaux, ainsi qu’à l’émergence

de discours critiques des religions et les influences de ceux-ci sur les structures religieuses. Les manuscrits sont à soumettre avant la fin du mois de décembre 2022.

Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2022/04/Appel_discours_pouvoir.pdf

 

 

21. Deadline extended:

The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will offer two seven-week intensive summer Arabic programs on AUB campus between June 22 and August 10, 2022.

The Arabic Language and Culture program is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from elementary to high advanced.

The Lebanese Arabic program offers intensive instruction at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in Lebanese Arabic and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence.

Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities. Students receive 9 credit hours that they can transfer to their home institutions.

The application deadline has been extended to May 6, 2022.

For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application, cost, and financial support, please visit our website:  http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/ or contact us on cames@aub.edu.lb.

 

 

 

 

22. Fellowships & Grants in Iranian Studies

April 29, 2022 – 5 PM GMT
(9 AM PST, 12 PM EST)

What fellowships and grants exist out there?
What are the different options for students & postgraduates?
What do students or postgraduates need to secure one?

Mark your calendars for our next Presidential Session on “Fellowships and Grants in Iranian Studies” with AIS President, Naghmeh Sohrabi, AIS Council Member, Dr. Hosna Sheikholeslami, and Dr. Stella Morgana.
The online event will be held on Friday, April 29 at 12pm EST and will be moderated by AIS Student Representatives Dr. Rowena Abdul Razak and Layah Ziaii-Bigdeli.
To register, visit: https://tinyurl.com/AISPresidentialSessions

 

 

 

 

23. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

“African Slaves in Qajar Photographs (1840s – 1920s): Curation and Interpretation in the 21st century”

Speaker: Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Curator of Persian Arts, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney)

Thursday, April 14th at 11 AM NYC

Email Helen Goldenberg if you like to have access to this online talk (Helen.Goldenberg@metmuseum.org )

 

 

 

 

24. The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies(BBQ+) is an independent Center dedicated to interdisciplinary research, pedagogy, and mentorship in critical race, Indigenous, postcolonial, and queer studies. Our fellowshipis a year-long program that brings together a diverse group of scholars from undergraduates to postgraduates working across these fields in a collaborative and supportive environment. The fellowship meets once a week for two hours and meetings alternate between writing clinics, theory clinics, fellows circles focussed on demystifying academia for BIPOC, queer, trans, and/or first generation scholars, and a monthly colloquium with senior scholars in BBQ+ related fields.

The fellowship is open to:

1. College students (including students in community colleges) and recent (3 years post-degree) BA and BSc holders
2. Masters students and recent MA holders (3 years post-degree)
3. PhD students
4. Recent Postdoctoral scholars (not exceeding 8 years after earning a doctoral degree)

Open to undocumented and international applicants.

In all cases, parental leaves, family leaves, sick leaves and any similar circumstances will not be counted within years-post-degree. For circumstances or other related considerations that are not documented, applicants are encouraged to write to fellowships@bbqplus.org

The fellowship offers:
1. Research Stipend: Fellows are offered a $3000 research stipend. They can also apply to reimburse other research or professionalization expenses. If you have another source of funding and can waive the $5000 research stipend, please indicate so in your application.

2. Mentorship and Professionalization: Each cohort of fellows works closely with a member of the Center’s leadership to develop their research project (see expectations below) and prepare for a professional career through sessions dedicated to various aspects of professionalization. Fellows also have access to the broader network of the Center and the Senior Fellowswho can offer advice and comment on work in progress.
3. Community: The Center aims to foster a tightly-knit and supportive intergenerational and interdisciplinary community of scholars around shared academic interests. Regular meetings and opportunities for socializing provide both structure and support.

All applications received by May 1 will receive full consideration. For more information and to apply, go to https://www.bbqplus.org/fellowship-application

 

 

 

 

25. Kenyon College – Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63234

Closing date: 23.6.22

1.OpenITI Teleconference on April 19

We welcome all to join the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) team for a public teleconference on Tuesday, April 19 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST. Please register for this event here.

The conference, led by OpenITI AOCP co-PIs Matthew Thomas Miller and Sarah Bowen Savant, will present OpenITI’s latest work on optical character recognition (OCR) for Persian and Arabic and the user-friendly digital text production pipeline, eScriptorium.

We particularly encourage those individuals and projects teams who are interested in making use of our OCR system for their own research and project development to attend. We will discuss the formation of user testing groups at this event and discuss OpenITI’s planned next phase of development.

We will prepare a report of the conference proceedings as well as record the presentations and discussion for those unable to attend.

For more on OpenITI AOCP, a project generously funded by The Mellon Foundation, please visit this webpage. For more on eScriptorium and the eScripta team, please visit https://gitlab.com/scripta/escriptorium.

 

 

2. CfP: Invitation to Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam conference at the University of Manchester

We would like to cordially invite you to present at the upcoming international conference “Pacifism and Nonviolence in Contemporary Islam” at the University of Manchester.

The conference will take place on May 17, 2022. The format of the conference will be hybrid – with talks presented simultaneously at the University and online via Zoom. A plenary roundtable discussion will offer a further opportunity for these interventions to be discussed collectively, and contributions from online participants are very welcome.

This conference brings together academics, civil society members, and activists from around the world. It explores Muslim experiences of pacifism and nonviolence while exploring prospects for their theorization. It moves past popular tropes of Islam as (or other than) ‘a religion of peace’ to offer a space to constructively and critically examine neglected literature, differing perspectives, and substantive initiatives – from scriptural interpretation to practical peacebuilding. Its approach is inclusive, inter-disciplinary, and flexible. It seeks first and foremost to ground its discussions in their own contexts: theoretical and embodied, historical and political, theological and hermeneutic.

The conference provides a welcoming space for scholars and practitioners to engage with one another. Panellists from a wide range of professional, cultural, and geographic backgrounds are invited to apply to present their research and offer their reflections on pacifism and nonviolence in contemporary Islam. By bringing together leading scholars, civil society members, and activists from around the world, a more comprehensive understanding can be achieved.  The results of this conversation will benefit both participants and the wider world.

For more information on the conference please see: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/pacifism-in-islam/

Please send your abstract or an outline of your talk by May 1, 2022 to this email walaa.quisay@manchester.ac.uk 

 

 

 

3. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for May Issue 2022.The deadline for the manuscript submissions has been extended until April 15, 2022. The issue publication date is  May Issue 2022. For more information, visit the Submission page. The papers can address but are not limited to the following … Read More

3. It is our pleasure to send the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies, Volume 6, Number1. February 2022
   For individual papers, please click here
   Regards,
   Arab World English Journal
   for Translation & Literary Studies
   https://awej-tls.org/

 

 

 

4. Iranian Armenian Transnational Poetry:

We at Roshan Institute for Persian Studies are pleased to announce the Spring 2022 Mir-Djalali Speaker Series Lecture. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi, Roshan Institute Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Yaghoobi has also recently been named Director of the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at UNC. Join us here on Sunday, April 17 from 2 to 4 p.m. EST.

 

 

 

5. Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa

Special issue of the Michigan Quarterly Review,  Decades of Fire: New Writing from the Middle East and North Africa.

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/the-journal/current-issue-spring-2022/

 

 

6. Dust-Ali Khan, “Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek”, The Artist and the Shah: Memoirs of Life at the Persian Court

including 280 photos of the Persian Court

Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar (translator

Mage, 2022

1.Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East

The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East is a reference work to expand both scholarly and educated public understanding of a critical period of human history. HIMME provides search and browse interfaces for accessing tens of thousands of entries about medieval Middle Eastern people, places, and cultural practices (such as Qur’an recitation, funerals, or taxation).

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Roundtable ” Rethinking Land, Labor, and Capital in Egypt”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 6 April 2022, 11:00 am EST

Leading scholars of Egypt will challenge conventional histories of the modern Middle East and rethink the categories of land, labor, and capital. Aaron Jakes will revisit the long history of the Suez Canal to question concepts central to rentier state theory. Ahmad Shokr will reconceptualize the institutions that dominated the production and trade of Egyptian cotton as a type of hybrid monopoly.

Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQndZCstQUKX6Wbj-rWn1w

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Can Gulf States End the Yemen War?”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 6 April 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT

This webinar will discuss the latest developments in the Yemen war and their broader implications for the region – be it in terms of terrorism trends, Gulf-Iran relations or US security policy towards the Middle East.

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/can-gulf-states-end-the-yemen-war/

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar: “The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodifica-tion, Translation, and the Culture Industry” with Prof. Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 8 April 2022, 2:15-3:30 PM CEST

Al-Musawi shows how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.

Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/the-arabian-nights-in-contemporary-world-cultures-.html

 

 

 

 

5. International Research Workshop: „Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space“, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, Ger-many, 14-15 October 2022

This workshop will gather translators, publishers and other experts in the field of

Qur’anic Studies presenting their works on the following issues: • Debates around the production of Qur’an translations after 1991. • Securitisation & the Qur’an: State-supported and independent projects. • The most important transnational actors in the field of translations. • The Qur’anic audience and the specific features of Post-Soviet readership. Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2022. Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CfP_Quran-Post-Soviet.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. Panel on “Muslims in America” during “SAMLA 94”, the Annual Conference of the “South Atlantic Modern Language Association”, Jacksonville, FL, 11-13 November 2022

This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, per-formers, filmmakers, and visual artists. Panelists might consider how these writers and artists employ different media in their mapping of modifications in cultural, political, and religious landscapes.

Deadline for abstracts: 29 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10025577/muslims-america

 

 

 

 

7. PhD Studentship (Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2025, Fully Funded) in Art History, Project LAHWA “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad”, Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Orient-Institut Beirut

LAWHA aims to identify new methods on how to interrelate context and artistic production, to serve as a model for revisiting art histories in contexts where institutionalized local art histories have largely been absent. LAWHA is concerned mainly with the time period between Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943 and the official end of its civil war in 1990. Research proposals within the overall frame of LAWHA’s research questions will be considered.

Deadline for applications: 2 May 2022. Information: https://lawha.hypotheses.org/346

 

 

 

 

8. Postponed:

Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.

 

 

 

9. [CeRMI] Rappel Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI jeudi prochain 7 avril

Nous vous rappelons que la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, aura lieu le jeudi 7 avril 2022 en mode hybride. Nous y accueillerons Frantz Grenet (professeur au Collège de France, « Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique ») et Anca Dan (chargée de recherche, Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC), CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée :

« La connaissance de la littérature gréco-romaine reflétée sur quelques vases d’argent d’Asie centrale (IIIe-VIe s. de n.è.) ».

(Résumé et bibliographie en fichier joint)

Veuillez noter qu’à l’occasion de la réception d’accueil des universitaires et étudiants afghans organisée par la Fondation Inalco, le présentiel de cette séance de séminaire se tiendra exceptionnellement au 2, rue de Lille, dans l’auditorium, de 17h à 18h30.

ATTENTION : les inscriptions pour le présentiel sont closes

Participez à ce séminaire en distanciel  sur la plateforme Zoom:

https://zoom.us/j/99773774662?pwd=YmRwbW4zbGQyeUZ3QmUwYzMzMk5yUT09

ID de réunion : 997 7377 4662

Code secret : CeRMI

 

 

 

10. ANN: Mapping Ottoman heritage in Greece – new interactive map site

This interactive new web map site also provides bibliographies for specific places via Zotero links. Worth looking at. Also offers link to webside CARTO for building similar maps.

https://otheritages.efa.gr/index.php/ottoman-heritage-in-greece-map-and-bibliography/?fbclid=IwAR33esEPRUn8ZQKXp9zTsfYHM8bj4BBPw5hfRAbrHz6z4Ji-20bN4Fx90E0

 

 

 

11. Webcast “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt”

On Tuesday 12 April, Dr. Panos Kourgiotis, Hellenic Open University, will deliver a lecture online entitled “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt: Al-Jamʿiyyāt al-Islamiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood”; this event will be hosted by the University of Religions and Denominations. Dr. Kourgiotis’s presentation is based on his recent paper which has been accepted for publication in the journal of Islamic Inquiries. For further details, please follow the links below:

Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1mXhu2GM0

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/urbanizationand-re-islamization6916319527559454721/about/

You are cordially invited to attend this webcast.

With kind regards

Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab

Editor-in-Chief /President of the University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran

URD Website: https://urd.ac.ir/en/

URD Twitter: https://twitter.com/home

URD Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/625673608547791/

URD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-religions-and-denomination

1.RESCHEDULED: ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’: Wednesday 13th April, 2pm GMT (online via Zoom)

The Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to announce that our postponed event ‘Practices and Technologies of Repression in Contemporary Egypt’ has now been rescheduled for Wednesday 13th April at 2pm GMT.

We have now created a new event webpage for the rescheduled event which can be accessed here: https://contemporary-egypt.eventbrite.co.uk.

 

 

 

2. [CeRMI] Rappel : XXIIIème Journée du Monde iranien 1er avril 2022

Nous vous rappelons que vous êtes cordialement invités à la XXIII^ème Journée du Monde Iranien, qui se tiendra vendredi prochain, 1^er avril 2022 de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.
Vous pouvez retrouver le programme actualisé et les résumés des interventions de cette Journée en pièce-jointe ou sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxiiie-journee-monde-iranien/

Nous vous rappelons que le port du masque dans les espaces clos reste fortement recommandé et qu’il sera donc nécessaire de le porter lors de cette Journée et en particulier dans l’Auditorium. Nous espérons vivement que cette contrainte ne vous découragera pas d’assister en présentiel à cet événement qui pourra également être suivi sur l’espace Youtube de l’Inalco : merci de vous inscrire via ce formulaire

En espérant vous voir nombreux pour cette XXIII^ème Journée qui, cette année, est organisée par Julien Thorez (CNRS, CeRMI).

Maria Szuppe

Directrice de recherche CNRS

Directrice du Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI)

 

 

 

3. Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30

Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.

 

 

 

4. Online Workshop – Early Islamic Agriculture and Water Management: Talking about a “Revolution” (Hajar Archaeology, April 28th)

In the workshop, three archaeological case studies which relate to agriculture and/or water management during Early Islam will be presented, followed by responses and a discussion. These will enable another examination of Andrew Watson’s arguments from the 1980s about an “Arab agricultural revolution” or “green revolution” – this time from an archaeological perspective.

Program

15:45 Case studies (speakers: 30 minutes each)

• Helena Kirchner, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, The Green Revolution between technique transfer and local adaptation: The making of a new agricultural landscape in al-Andalus
• Vladimir Dabrowski, CNRS-National Museum of Natural History (Paris), What Islamic agricultural revolution in eastern Arabia? Recent archaeobotanical discoveries (1st millennium CE)
• Gideon Avni, Israel Antiquities Authority and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, A “Eurasian exchange”? The penetration of new agricultural and water management technologies into the southern Levant, 6th-10th centuries CE

17:15 Break

17:30 Discussion (discussants: 25 minutes each)

• Discussant: Chris Wickham, University of Oxford
• Discussant: Seven Ağır, Middle East Technical University (Ankara)

General debate and questions (40 minutes)

Chairs:

• Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Institut Catholique de Paris),
• Hagit Nol (Université libre de Bruxelles)

Practicalities

For registration (and zoom link), please write us to hajararchaeology@gmail.com until April 27th.

For more information about Ḥajar: https://hajar.hypotheses.org

 

 

 

5. We are pleased to launch our fourth series of From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture. You can sign up here: https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration

To widen our reach to audiences in India the Deccan Heritage Foundation and the Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge, have joined forces with the Bangalore International Centre. Our organizing team has also been fortunate to be joined by our eminent colleague and curator, Dr Marika Sardar.

From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture, Spring 2022

Cloth that Changed the World: Histories and Contemporaneity of Kalamkari Making, Sarah Fee (Royal Ontario Museum) and Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur) on April 8th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)

The City of Haidar as a Shiʿi Paradise: Divine Sovereignty, Built Space, and Shiʿi Materiality in Qutb Shahi Hyderabad, Karen Ruffle (University of Toronto) on April 29th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, 6:30 PM Mumbai)

Eclipsed by the Moon: Mahlaqa Bai and Khushhal Khan Anup in Nizami Hyderabad, Katherine Butler Schofield (King’s College, London) on May 6th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

The Vīraśaivas / Liṅgāyats of 12th century Karnataka: Conflict, Transformation, and the Genesis of a New Creed, Tiziana Lorenzetti (International Institute of South Asian Studies, Rome) on May 20th, at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

Reflections of Jaina and Vīraśaiva Interactions in the Art and Architecture of Karnataka, Julia AB Hegewald (University of Bonn) on June 3rd at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

A Cosmopolitan yet Local Tradition: Glazed Tiles in the Deccani Sultanates, Arthur Millner (Art Consultant) on June 17th at 1 PM London (8 AM New York, 5:30 PM Mumbai)

 

 

 

6. H-Islamart: HIAA Panel (Online) – Research and Resources in Islamic Art History – April 8

Join us in conversation with scholars Jake Benson (John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), and Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Fine Arts Library, Harvard University) to discuss how to develop productive research methods and how to best utilize relevant resources, such as manuscript repositories, museums, and libraries. The panel discussion will be followed by an open Q&A.

Friday, April 8, 2022

12 pm EST on Zoom

Register here!

And take the pre-event survey here.

Jake Benson (Ph.D. Leiden University, August 2022) is Research Associate for Persian Collections at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester. Inspired by his training in bookbinding and conservation, he has conducted research on manuscripts held in museums, libraries, and archives in the Middle East, Central Asia, India, and Europe.

Martina Rugiadi is Associate Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and co-director of the Towns of the Karakum archaeological project in Turkmenistan. Her research is situated at the intersection of archaeology and art history. Current projects explore craft technologies, spolia, notions of cultural heritage, and implications of collecting.

Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg has been the Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard’s Fine Arts Library since 2018. Prior to that, she was the MENA Librarian at George Washington University, and received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Working with researchers in the early stages of their projects is her favorite part of librarianship, and she is glad for this opportunity for discussion!

Questions may be directed to Courtney Lesoon (HIAA Graduate Student Representative) at clesoon@mit.edu.

 

 

 

7. BRAIS 2022 at the University of Edinburgh: Provisional conference programme now live

Dear BRAIS Members,

We are delighted to announce that the provisional programme of the 2022 Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies is now live!

The programme can be viewed in full here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022

Please note, this programme is provisional and is likely to change significantly over the course of the next few weeks. Do keep your eye on our website for updates.

Registration for the conference is now possible here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-registration

We hope to see you on Monday 6^th and Tuesday 7^th June in the beautiful surroundings of Scotland’s capital for our first in-person conference in three years. We would also be very grateful if you could circulate the programme through your networks.

With very best wishes,

The BRAIS 2022 Conference Team

 

 

 

 

8. Islamic Gardens and Landscapes

D Fairchild Ruggles

University of Pennsylvania Press | Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture | March 2022

 

 

 

9. Invitation to Sarah Bowen Savant’s Inaugural Lecture; A Close and Distant Reading of Writerly Practices

Professor Bowen Savant’s inaugural lecture tells the story of a set of written practices and cultural expectations that helped make the Arabic written tradition (ca. 700-1500) one of the largest written traditions up to its day. The growth of the tradition is often narrated in terms of the adoption of paper in the ninth and tenth centuries in the Middle East. Without denying the importance of this medium, Sarah Bowen Savant will emphasise practices that filled paper. This story, of practice, has not been told – or at least, it has not been told in ways that benefit from new and emerging digital methods.

The lecture is based on data generated by the KITAB project, including a collection of Arabic texts exceeding 2 billion words, more than 1.5 million files documenting relationships between pairs of texts, and evidence for how authors cited earlier works. Team members are working to develop and use digital methods focused on the detection and analysis of text reuse, citation practices, and the networks through which writings passed.
Date and Time 

5 May 5:30-7pm BST.
Booking

This event is free and can be booked here

 

 

 

10. The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Islamic studies beginning in August 2022. The fellowship is open to scholars in the Humanities or Social Sciences who have competed their PhD within the past three years. The fellow will be expected to teach one semester-long course, participate in the activities of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program, and reside in the greater Boston area for the duration of the 10-month academic calendar year. The fellow will receive a $65,000 stipend, a $3,500 research fund, and $1,500 in relocation expenses.

A complete application includes: a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a writing sample, sample syllabi, and a letter of recommendation. The final candidate is required to submit a second letter of support. Complete applications are due no later than April 15, 2022.

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63244

 

 

 

 

11. The Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University invites applications for a one-year Visiting Assistant Professor (VAP) in Islamic Studies, to begin August 2022. Teaching load is six courses for the academic year, three per semester. Teaching responsibilities include RELI 100, Introduction to the Qur’an; RELI 201, Islam; RELI 256 Islam in America; and other courses in the candidate’s area of expertise. Candidates are expected to have a Ph.D. by start date.

Closing date: June 21, 2022

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63228

 

 

 

 

12. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce two upcoming lectures:

Thursday, April 7, 2022 | 5:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
Disentangling Alchemy
Alexandre Roberts, University of Southern California

Alexandre Roberts considers alchemy within the intellectual and artisanal activity of western Afro-Eurasia in the premodern period.

Advance registration required. Register: https://maryjahariscenter.org/events/disentangling-alchemy

Sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and Harvard University Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.

Tuesday, April 12, 2022 | 12:00 pm (EDT, UTC -4) | Zoom
The Rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Arabian Gulf
Robert Carter, Qatar Museums

Robert Carter discusses the rediscovery of the Church of the East in the Gulf during the mid-20th century.

Advance registration required. Register: https://eastofbyzantium.org/upcoming-events/

An East of Byzantium lecture. East of Byzantium is a partnership between the Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art at Tufts University and the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture that explores the cultures of the eastern frontier of the Byzantine empire in the late antique and medieval periods.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture with any questions.

 

 

 

 

13. Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean

Mahmood Kooria

Cambridge, 2022

 

 

 

14. The UT Austin Persian Film Club is hosting an event that might be interesting to some of you. Free access to the documentary “Iran-e kuchak-e man (My Little Iran), or, Persian New Yorker Stories,” and then a Q&A meeting with the director of the film Hassan Solhjou via zoom on Tuesday, April 5, at 12 PM (American Central Time). 

The film is a bittersweet documentary about a group of Iranian immigrants in New York who desperately want to celebrate their cultural identity in a parade. The director is the host and producer of a famous program on BBC Persian: Aparat.

You can access the film for free and “register” for the event by clicking on this link: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/mes/events/persian-film-club-meeting-filmmaker-hassan-solhjou

 

 

 

15. UCLA Panels

Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran (Panel in Persian)

Bilingual Lecture Series

Sunday, April 10, 2022
11:30 AM (Pacific Time)
Zoom

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15544

 

Idioms of Resistance in the Middle East

Wednesday, April 13, 2022
12:00 PM (Pacific Time)
Zoom

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15529

 

 

 

 

16. New York University, Silsila: Center for Material Histories

ARCHIVE WARS: THE POLITICS OF HISTORY IN SAUDI ARABIA
Rosie Bsheer, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 6th, 12:30pm EST
[Webinar] Silsila Spring 2022 Lecture Series

The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From the elision of archival documents to the demolition of sacred and secular spaces, each act of destruction is also an act of state building. Following the 1991 Gulf War, political elites in Saudi Arabia pursued these dual projects of historical commemoration and state formation with greater fervor to enforce their postwar vision for state, nation, and economy. Seeing Islamist movements as the leading threat to state power, they sought to de-center religion from educational, cultural, and spatial policies. Archive Wars explores the increasing secularization of the postwar Saudi state and how it manifested in assembling a national archive and reordering urban space in Riyadh and Mecca.

Full details of the event and a link to register as an attendee can be found at:

https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_adE-dQXxRoC9gSQXzvoZMA

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.

 

 

 

17. Middle East Librarians’ Association

MELA Notes 94 (2021) ) is now posted and available on MELA website at https://www.mela.us/publications/mela-notes/mela-notes-archive/.

 

 

1.UCLA Iranian Studies:

Iran Unglazed: Local, National, and Global Histories of Persian Tilework

a lecture by Keelan Overton

Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 11:00am Pacific Time via Zoom

Registration Required

 

 

 

 

2. Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis

David Warren

Routledge, 2021

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID Seminar: “Modernizing Empires: An Introduction” (Focus Ottoman Empire) by Özen Nergis Dolcerocca, University of Bologna, 30 March 2022, 10:30 am – 12:00 pm CET

This is the start of the “NONWESTLIT Seminar Series on Comparative Literature” on “Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities”.

Information and registration: https://site.unibo.it/nonwestlit/en

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar: “Changes and Continuities in the Uses of the Word “Crusade” Since the Middle Ages” by Dr Benjamin Weber (Stockholm University) and “New Sources on the Memory of Saladin and the Crusades in Pre-Modern Islamic History” by Dr Fadi Ragheb (The University of Toronto), University of Marburg, 31 March 2022, 5:00 pm CET

For registration please contact ahmed.sheir@staff.uni-marburg.de .

 

 

 

 

5. HYBRIDE Journée d’étude – Pierre-Jean Luizard : « Liban-Irak : les enjeux du confessionna-lisme politique », GSLR-CNRS, 2 avril 2022, 14h00 – 17h00 CET

Officiel au Liban, inavoué en Irak, le confessionnalisme politique réserve les principales fonctions de l’Etat en fonction de l’appartenance religieuse (et ethnique en Irak). En comparant les deux systèmes en place dans les deux pays, qui imposent le règne des milices et le triomphe des élites confessionnelles, on com-prendra mieux pour quelle raison il est si difficile de sortir pacifiquement d’un tel système qui nie tout espace public et empêche toute citoyenneté commune. L’échec des Printemps arabes en est une illustration.

Information : https://www.gsrl-cnrs.fr/journee-detude-pierre-jean-luizard-liban-irak-les-enjeux-du-confessionnalisme-politique-mardi-12-avril-2022/

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Groningen

Qualifications: PhD in Middle Eastern Studies, political science, international relations or a closely related discipline; at least one year of postdoctoral experience in a teaching and/or research position; experience in supervising BA and MA theses; excellent publication record, including at least one monograph (under review) and peer reviewed articles; ability to communicate and teach in English; knowledge of Dutch or willingness to learn it within two years.

Deadline for application: 6 April 2022. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S00091XP&cat=wp

 

 

 

 

7. Training School: “Late Medieval and Early Modern Migration Routes and Identity Spaces in the Mediterranean”, Tunis, 15-17 June 2022

Main objectives: To study the interfaith migration between Europe and North Africa during the Late Medieval and Early Modern periods; To discuss about the trade, exchange and mobility of objects and knowledge in the Mediterranean basin; 3. To analyse how these phenomena had an effect in the creation of individual and collective identities; To develop a student network on migration and Islamic legacy in Europe and North Africa.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022.

Information: https://is-le.eu/isle-calls/open-calls/

 

 

 

 

8. Summer School: “Reading and Analysing Ottoman Manuscript Sources”, Universities in Wit-tenberg and Berlin, 29 August – 2 September 2022

The programme will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and PhD candidates, postdocs may also apply) to reading, combining and analysing manuscript sources from various archives of the Ottoman era, produced at the local, provincial and imperial levels. Materials from the 16th through the 20th centuries will receive most of our attention, explorations into earlier archives are welcome. No tuition fees. Addition funding possible.

Deadline for applications: 15 April 2022.

Information: https://arabistik.uni-halle.de/summerschool2022/

 

 

 

9. CONFERENCE REGISTRATION OPEN: Stucco Decoration in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons (University of Bamberg, 4-7 May 2022)

Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Bamberg is pleased to announce the forthcoming conference dedicated to research on stucco decoration in Iran and the neighbouring lands. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from several countries and to communicate the latest research finds and innovative methodology for research of stuccos.

The event will take place in presence with extension in hybrid-remote form, at the University of Bamberg, May 4-7, 2022.

Registration for participation in the conference (in presence or on line) is now open. Conference participation is free of charge thanks to generous funding by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.

To register for the conference, please provide your contact, academic affiliation and modality of your participation (in presence or on line) in an e-mail to Ana Marija Grbanovic (ana-marija.grbanovic@uni-bamberg.de) by May 1, 2022.

For further information concerning the event, please refer to the following link: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/islamart/events-and-cooperations/stucco-conference/

 

CONFERENCE PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Stucco in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons

A conference hosted by the University of Bamberg Islamic Art and Archaeology, Institute of Oriental Studies

Venue: Schillerplatz 17, 96049 Bamberg

 

Wed 4 May 2022              Location: Dominican Library Hall

18:00     Welcome address – Opening (L. Korn),  Refreshments

 

Thu 5 May 2022                Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13

09:00     Conference Registration

09:30     Opening Remarks (L. Korn)

10:00-12:00  Panel 1: Research of Persianate Stuccos: Past, Present and Future – Chair: Lorenz Korn

• Renata Holod:  Recovering Rayy: Erich Schmidt’s Excavations at Rayy, Iran, and their contribution to the Study of the Material Culture of Medieval Iran
• Barbara Finster: Medieval stucco decorations in Yemen
• Sheila Blair: Stucco workers, luster potters and builders: the case of Hasan ibn ʿAli ibn Ahmad ibn Babawayh al-Vidguli
• Yves Porter and Anais Leone: Stucco vs Luster in Ilkhanid Iran

12:00     Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 Panel 2: Pre-Islamic to Saljuq Periods – Chair: Ana Marija Grbanovic

• Meysam Labbaf-Khaniki and Atefe Shekofte: Identification and Technical Examination of the Stucco Decorations from Bazeh-Hur in North-Eastern Iran
• Niloufar Ehteshami: Continuuity or Discontinuity in stucco motifs from Sasanian to the Early-Islamic periods: finds from the Jahangir and Gowriyeh Sites in Ilam, Iran
• Maryam Moeini: Some little-known pre-Ilkhanid architectural revetments from the Friday mosque of Tabriz
• Iman Aghajani: The Development of the Stucco Decoration during the Early Seljuq Period in Iran

15:30     Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 Panel 3: Western Boundaries – Chair: Parviz Holakooei

• Simone Struth: ‘Like the pearl-bright star’ – Abbasid stucco material from Samarra
• Andrea Luigi Corsi: Beyond the ‘Samarra Styles’: Reconsidering the 10th-century Stuccowork in Deir al-Surian as a Reflection of Post-Samarra Mesopotamian Stucco Production
• Robert Hillenbrand: Iranian Saljuq stucco in Anatolia
• Bernard O’Kane: Mamluk stuccos – the Iranian Connection?

18:30     Visit to the University of Bamberg Museum of Islamic Art (the Bumiller Collection)

 

Fri 6 May 2022             Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13

09:00-10:30 Panel 4: Ilkhanid Stuccos  – Chair: Iman Aghajani

• Ana Marija Grbanovic: Patterns and Constellations of Ilkhanid Stucco Production
• Bahareh Taghavinejad: Some Pieces of Evidence of the Personal Style of Damghanian Artists in the Stucco Decorations of the Ceiling of Sofeh Darvish in Isfahan Grand Mosque
• Elaheh Alvandiyan: Introduction and recognition of stucco technique of the tomb of Seyyed Roknuddin Yazd

10:30     Coffee Break

11:00-13:00 Panel 5: Techniques and Archaeometry – Chair: Lorenz Korn

• Parviz Holakooei and Amir Hossein Karimy: Blue ‘Out of the Blue’: Scientific Studies on the Blue Pigments Applied on Persian Stuccos
• Moslem Mishmastnehi and Tomasz Stawski: Crystals of Gypsum in Hands of Masters: Interdisciplinary approach to understand the Chaîne opératoire of Seljuk and Ilkhanid Stuccoes
• Marco Brambilla: Pre-fabricated stucco decorations in Sultaniyy
• Stefan Masarovic: Material Examination of five Seljuk and Muzafarrid Carved Architectural Decoration Stucco Segments: 3 monumental figurative panels and 2 further objects                 preserved at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha

13:00     Lunch Break

14:30-16:30 Panel 6: Eastern Boundaries – Chair: Moslem Mishmastnehi

• Viola Allegranzi and Sandra Aube: Stuccoes of the Noh Gonbad mosque in Balkh
• Ruslan Muradov: Restoration of the Mihrab of the Mashhad-Ata Mosque in Medieval Dahistan
• Richard McClary: The Qarakhanid Stucco Decoration in the Shah Fazil Tomb at Safid Buland,Kyrgyzstan: A Unicum in Context
• Valentina Laviola: Ghazni Stuccoes. From an Old Excavation to a Synergic Study of the Architectural Decoration of the Ghaznavid Palace

16:30     Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Panel 7: New Ideas and Approaches – Chair: Sheila Blair

• Ruba Kanaan: Matter, mode, and making: stucco in the legal texts of Iran and Central Asia (11th-13th c.)
• Katherine Hughes: The fabric of the building: The ecology of Samanid stucco ornament and non-representational haptic space
• Giuseppe Labisi: Stucco Decoration in Semi-Domes Squinches. Sasanian Architectural Heritage within Early Islamic Architecture

19:00     Dinner

 

Sat 7 May 2022                 Location: Institute of Oriental Studies, Room 00.13

09:30-11:30 Panel 8: Conservation and Preservation of Stuccos – Chair: Amir Hossein Karimy

• Rosario Paone: Esfahan, IsMEO restorations of stucco and plaster in the seventies
• Hamed Sayyadshahri and Mohammad Mortazavi: Reconstruction of Missing Parts of the Stucco Decorations: Some Restoration Experiences
• Yaser Hamzavi: The contemporary challenge for conservators to preserve creative stuccoes from the past: Molded stucco of the tomb of Sayyid Rukn al-Din and Sayyid Shams al-Dinin Yazd
• Majid Montazer Zohouri and Iman Aghajani: Archaeological Studies on Islamic Stucco Decorations in the Storage of National Museum of Iran

11:30     Coffee Break

12:00     Final Discussion and Closing Remarks                Moderator: Lorenz Korn – Discussants: N.N.

13:00     Lunch Break

 

In the afternoon: Excursion to historical monuments with stucco decoration, either in the old city of Bamberg or at Kloster Banz and Vierzehnheiligen

 

 

 

10. Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow)

“Muslim Relations with Christians in 13^th Century Anatolia: An investigation of the hagiography of Awhad al-Din Kirmani”

29 March 2022

17.00 Istanbul (Bogazici University)

UK Time: 15.00 p.m.

The talk will be held online via zoom: https://bit.ly/34Pxflc

 

 

 

111. You are invited to the launch of Muriam Davis’ new book Markets of Civilisation: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria. This webinar is part of the Contemporary Middle East Series, hosted by the Middle East Research Group. Please find the registration link below! 

 

Date: 7^th of April, 2022

Time: 5pm, Edinburgh Time

Speaker: Muriam Davis

Discussant: Frédéric Volpi

 

To RSVP, please follow the following link:

https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/sAafLmkWiUWHiRCgaTTcYQ,nF9X_Kx6r0u6z_CHMTR6kg,hbQ3I_d3QUOc3-wn3UwLKw,3e-lNZJgz0KDSbET8s5spA,tYeH6j1nBkqgcBLL6eV5CQ,DN6PrkSWHkO8UIntG_ohJA?mode=read&tenantId=2e9f06b0-1669-4589-8789-10a06934dc61

For further enquiries, please don’t hesitate to email me on s.n.hageman@sms.ed.ac.uk

 

Hope to see you there!

All the best,

Stefan Hageman

Student Assistant, MERG

 

 

 

12. Joint Seminar and Book Launch Event, 30th of March at 4:10pm

The English language book launch of an exciting new publication of Mary in the Qur’an:Friend of God, Virgin, Mother co-authored by Prof Dr Muna Tatari of the University of Paderborn and Prof Dr Klaus von Stosch of University of Bonn.

Profs Tatari and von Stosch will join us in Edinburgh and offer reflections on the book, before fielding questions from the audience. The lecture and conversation should be of interest to scholars of the Qur’an, comparative theology and religion, late antiquity studies, Islamic thought, political theology, Christian theology, and Christian-Muslim dialogue.

The event will be held at Rainy Hall in New College, University of Edinburgh, at 4:10pm on Wednesday, the 30th of March and will be followed by a reception. Books will be available at a discounted rate for those interested. I would be very grateful if you could share this invitation to any interested students or staff, especially those outside of the School of Divinity. I do hope that as many of you are able will come along in person.

If you cannot make it in person, we will have a livestream on Zoom at the following link:

Topic: Mary in the Qur’an

Time: Mar 30, 2022 04:00 PM London

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/89966299571

Meeting ID: 899 6629 9571

Passcode: 4z9GQMbh

 

 

 

13. University of Chicago: Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu Language

The Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College of the University of Chicago seek an experienced teacher of Urdu language to help grow its existing offerings in South Asian languages. We invite applications for a position as an Instructional Professor (open rank) in Urdu language. The position begins in academic year 2022-23, with a start date of September 1, 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. The selected candidate will be appointed at the rank of Assistant
Instructional Professor, Associate Instructional Professor, or Instructional Professor, depending on qualifications and educational background. The initial appointment will be for a minimum of two years, with longer initial terms possible depending on initial rank, with review and progression schedule determined by a collective bargaining agreement between the University and the Service Employees International Union.

For fuller information and to apply, see:

https://apply.interfolio.com/104670

Closing date: 25 April, 2022

 

 

 

14. The ICA Commission on the History of Cartography and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will jointly host the 9th International Symposium on the History of Cartography, from 24 till 26 October 2022 in Berlin.

The theme is ‘The Surveying Turn in Cartography: Revolutionizing Maps and Charts in the 18th and 19th Centuries’. The organisers invite the submission of abstracts for paper and poster presentations.

Deadline for submissions is 1 June 2022.

More information on the symposium, including the abstract submission system, can be found here: https://history.icaci.org/berlin-2022/

1.The UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University are pleased to open a call for paper submissions to their conference, “The Iranian Diaspora in Global Perspective.” The conference will be held on February 16–17, 2023 at the University of California, Los Angeles and aims to support the growing field of Iranian Diaspora Studies by sharing new research and scholarship.

The conference will bring together senior scholars, mid-career scholars, and emerging researchers in any discipline who are contributing to and developing this emerging and transnational field. Panels and speakers are encouraged to showcase work on the Iranian diaspora in a global context, including but not limited to:

 

Histories of Iranian migration and diaspora formation

Sociological and cultural dimensions of Iranian diaspora communities

Comparative studies, whether comparing across Iranian diaspora communities or between Iranian and other immigrant groups in differing locations

Research on Iranian communities in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania; especially South-South relations

Studies that cast light on the heterogeneity of Iranian diaspora communities and their migration experiences

 

The conference is also interested in creative expressions such as documentary film, fiction films, photography, and/or animations related to themes and experiences of the Iranian diaspora.

This conference will build and sustain a stronger academic community, draw attention to increasingly transnational elements of the Iranian diaspora, and highlight the importance of cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Additionally, we will draw from selected 2023 conference presentations to invite papers for an edited volume that will be made available in open access format through an academic publisher such as University of California Press.

While we aim to hold the conference in person to benefit from the incomparable experience of in-person exchanges, we are taking COVID-19 into consideration as we plan possible modalities for the conference. Conference presentations will be in English. Travel and lodging will be covered by the conference.

To submit: 

Please email your 300-word abstract and presentation title along with a four-sentence bio and contact information to: Rohan Advani (rohadvani@g.ucla.edu). Please include “Iranian Diaspora Conference 2023” in the subject heading.

Deadline for abstracts:  May 15, 2022

Kevan Harris, Department of Sociology, UCLA

Persis Karim, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University

Amy Malek, Department of International Studies, College of Charleston

See website   https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/252222

 

 

2. UCLA Iranian Studies

Book Talk with Shaul Bakhash:

The Fall of Reza Shah

Monday, April 4, 2022 at 3:00pm Pacific Time via Zoom

Lecture in English

Registration Required

 

 

 

 

3. CARPO Study 11 Narratives of (In)Justice in Contemporary Yemeni Novels

We are happy to share with you our latest Study, which we are publishing jointly with our partners, the Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies at the University of Bonn and the Gender Development Research & Studies Center at the University of Sanaa:

*“Narratives of (In)Justice in Contemporary Yemeni Novels. Representations of Socio-Political Practices and Normative Constructions” *
/by Osama Ali, Fadhilah Gubari, Julia Gurol and Abdulsalam al-Rubaidi /

Download the full Study from our website <http://87j6.mjt.lu/lnk/AMIAAMDqLbUAAcg4OjQAAAAP8M0AAAAABKEAAAPQAAt9mABiOchUp1Mz0-abS0m4R7j7pWs4fAALkkQ/1/ORWCnm3p0gkqFCRXTjEUrQ/aHR0cHM6Ly9jYXJwby1ib25uLm9yZy9lbi9jYXJwby1zdHVkaWVzLTIv>*.*

This Study analyzes narratives of (in)justice in contemporary Yemeni novels. Through a lexical field analysis of nine selected contemporary novels, the paper highlights how (in)justice is framed in narrative literature, both in terms of representations of certain socio-political practices and in terms of normative constructions and the creation of a normative order. It argues that novels represent and discuss the complexities of Yemeni realities, where daily practices and experiences of individuals are entangled with philosophical questions about the meaning of life. It discusses the nexus between the framing of (in)justice and post-conflict reconciliation and provides an original insight into the understanding and constructions of justice and injustice offered to society by Yemeni novelists.

With best wishes,

CARPO – Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient
Bonn

 

 

 

 

4. The department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol in the UK is seeking to appoint in Global Religious Studies (Islam). 

Applicants with expertise in global Islam and/or the interactions and relations between Jews, Christians and Muslims historically and globally are particularly encouraged to apply.  The post is open range excluding full professor (so Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor).  Closing date is 19^th April 2022.

Further details are available here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details/?jobId=268654&jobTitle=Lecturer/Senior%20Lecturer%20or%20Associate%20Professor%20in%20Global%20Religious%20Studies

 

 

 

5. EuQu International Workshop – The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity

International Workshop – The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites in the World of Eastern Christianity

May 11-12, 2022   |   University of Copenhagen

The Holy Book of the Ishmaelites was the name commonly used by Eastern Christians of various traditions to refer to the Qur’an. Since the emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity, Eastern Christians speaking Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopic, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac came in contact with Islam and its Holy Scripture. From the Mediterranean lands to Russia via the Balkans, Anatolia and Caucasus, the experience of Eastern Christians with their Muslim neighbors and/or rulers was shaped by diverse multicultural and multiconfessional contexts in which their approach to the Qur’an played a significant role in defining religious identity and the dynamics of communal life.
This international workshop will explore how Eastern Christians engaged with the Qur’an and its Islamic interpretations from the medieval period until the end of the eighteenth century. Bringing together different religious traditions, one of the main scopes of the workshop is to build a platform of discussion between scholars working with source material from Arabic, Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Georgian, Greek, Church Slavonic, Russian and Syriac contexts, with a focus on how these milieus shaped Eastern Christian responses to Islam and its Holy Scripture.
How did texts on Islam and Qur’an circulate within groups and networks? How did they cross confessional boundaries? Who were their authors and intended audiences? These and similar questions will guide the discussions, and will generate – we hope – new debates for the entangled history and cross-cultural history of the Eastern Christian communities from the medieval to the dawn of modernity.

For the programme and to register:

https://euqu.eu/2022/03/23/international-workshop-the-holy-book-of-the-ishmaelites-in-the-world-of-eastern-christianity

 

 

6. Ann Lambton Lecture 2022 | New date: 6th April 2022, 5PM

Ann Lambton Memorial Lecture 2022: Unequal Treaties and the Question of Sovereignty in Qajar and early Pahlavi Iran

In this presentation Professor Ali Gheissari will offer an overview of the Russian and British leverage in Iran during the Qajar and early Pahlavi periods through unequal treaties as one channel of extending their imperial influence and counterbalancing each other’s rival presence.

Register at:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2616473573594/WN_zC6zqKr4THqLa-CwANHWrA

 

 

 

7. Fellowships: Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Research Project

With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and economic history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.

Fellowships are awarded for six months (1 October 2022 – 31st March 2023). This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2022/2023.
Deadline for applications is 8 May 2022.
Fellows receive a monthly stipend of € 1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation and health insurance in Amsterdam.

For more information, see:

https://iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/fellowships-prince-dr-sabbar-farman-farmaian-research-project

 

 

 

 

8. How to Get a Book Contract as an Independent Researcher | Lex Academic Blog

https://www.lexacademic.com/blog/how-to-get-a-book-contract-as-an-independent-researcher-lex-academic-blog/

 

 

 

 

9. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts

Lecture 8: Muslim Women Preachers ‘Murshidat’ in Morocco as Agents of Change

Professor Moha Ennaji (University of Fès)

Tuesday 29 March 2022, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:   https://zoom.us/j/92631152349

 

 

 

10. Iran Heritage Foundation: Webinar – Guardians of The Zagros: Storytelling with Nomads

28.3.22, 6pm UK time (note UK time change on 27.3.22)

For more information and to register:

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XoFYdT-GS7SYafu-BBXGIg

 

 

 

 

11. SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies (SSPIZS)

Short Summer Course in Zoroastrianism

Venue: other

Start of programme: 20th June 2022

Mode of Attendance: Full-time

The deadline for applications is Sunday 27th March 2022.

https://www.soas.ac.uk/institute-of-zoroastrian-studies/summer-school/

 

 

 

 

12. Secular Assemblages

Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment

Marek Sullivan

Bloomsbury, 2022

1. ONLINE International Conference: “Race and Islam: Global Histories, Contemporary Legacies”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 23-24 March 2022

The conference aims to explore not just how Islam responds to questions of race, but also the ways Islam, as a faith tradition, has encountered, engaged with, and reflected particular understandings and experiences of race (not least of all through Islam’s own history with racialized slavery).

Information, program and registration: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/13079

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Seminar: “Experiences of Space and Spaces of Experience in (Post)Ottoman Societies” by Nathalie Clayer (EHESS), École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, 24 March 2022, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CET

In this seminar, starting from the presentation and discussion of current research on Ottoman and post-Ottoman space, we will question, using different objects of study (from individual and collective trajectories to places of activity and production), the spatial practices and visions, but also evolutions, of social spaces and landscapes and their temporalities.

Information and registration: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/1752161259609665806

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul: A Book Panel in Loving Memory of Yavuz Sezer”, 25 March 2022, 9:00 am PT

This commemorative panel focuses on the book “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul” that touches upon the material environment of Istanbul, a theme very close to the heart of Yavuz Sezer whom we lost to COVID. The panel participants include the co-editors of the volume, Shirine Hamadeh (Koç University) and Çiğdem Kafescioğlu (Boğaziçi University), as well as two of the contributors, Selim Kuru (University of Washington) and Gülru Necipoğlu (Harvard University).

Information and registration:

https://ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsdO2gqT0jGdfCk1jJjjQTj0ZsC8zJG5n3

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar: “Navigating War, Migration and the Taliban – Sufi Survival Strategies in Afghanistan” by Dr. Annika Schmeding (Harvard Society of Fellows), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 25 March 2022, 2:15 pm -3:30 pm CET

This talk offers an ethnographically-embedded view of various navigational strategies employed by Sufi lead-ers in Afghanistan over the past four decades, adaptations that have not only allowed Sufi thought and practice to continue but have affected the very concept of what it means to be a Sufi leader in Afghanistan.

Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/navigating-war-migration-and-the-taliban-%E2%80%93-sufi-su.html

 

 

 

 

5. ONLINE Lecture: “The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature” by Tarif Khalidi (AUB), Orient-Institut Beirut, 30 March 2022, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm TRT

This is an attempt to examine the biographical tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature from the eighth century to the fifteenth centuries A.D. It will endeavour, first, to explore the various technical terms of this tradition, then sketch a short his history of its evolution and, finally, will seek to consider issues of style, content and dimensions of the human personality.

Information and registration: https://globaldecentre.org/news-and-events/moving-bio-summer-school/tarif-khalidi-the-biographical-tradition-in-pre-modern-arabic-literature/

 

 

 

 

6. Colloque : « L’étude de l’islamisme entre l’Occident et le Monde arabe : vers un dialogue constructif pour mieux comprendre l’islam politique », Université de Laval Canada, 13 mai 2022

Information et programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/61644

 

 

 

 

7. Conference: “Kurdish Family Law”, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Berlin, 2-4 June 2022

Objectives: The questions surrounding the origins of Kurdish family laws and their application will be ad-dressed in addition to the family legal status of the religious Kurdish minorities, the customary family law among Kurdish communities, the application of family law on the Kurdish communities in the diaspora and related questions of private international law, and also the application of family law among Kurdish commu-nities in the European diaspora, especially Germany, Italy and France.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.

Information: https://www.mpipriv.de/1491935/20220314-call-for-papers-kurdish-family-law-conference

 

 

 

 

8. 32nd Exeter Gulf Conference: “Liberalism and Its Paradoxes in the Arabian Peninsula”, University of Exeter, UK, 28-29 June 2022

The regimes of the Arabian Peninsula are in the midst of a self-induced reincarnation into the liberal, ‘mod-erate’, and free-market social orders that have lost currency elsewhere. Contributions are welcome from political economy, political philosophy/theory, history (20th and 21st centuries), gender studies, anthropology and sociology, political science and international relations, migration and diaspora studies, environmental and urban studies.

Deadline for the abstracts: 22 April 2022. Information: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=12080

 

 

 

 

9. Conference of Early Career Scholars on “The Qurʾān and Syriac Christianity: Recurring Themes and Morifs, University of Tuebingen, Germany, 5-7 December 2022

The event will bring together an international group of specialists in Syriac Christianity as well as scholars of the Qurʾān to explore how the Qurʾān reacts to Syrian Christian traditions and the extent of which it serves as a historical witness to Syriac Christianity in Arabia. Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered.

Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/9908397/call-papers-early-career-scholars-%E2%80%9C-qur%CA%BEa%CC%84n-and-syriac

 

 

 

 

10. Conference: “A Matter of Speech: Language of Social Interdependency in the Early Islamicate Empire (600-1000)”, Leiden University, 8-10 December 2022

How is language used to describe, establish, cancel, exploit, and manipulate relationships in the early Islamicate empire? We want to examine how relationships between individuals, and between and within groups, are referred to, and how other forms of solidarity underwriting social cohesion are cultivated and perpetuated.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2022.

Information: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/cfp-a-matter-of-speech-language-of-social-interdependency-in-the-early-islamicate-empire

 

 

11. Postdoctoral Fellowships (2-3 Months) in France 2022 for Young Researchers from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Syria and 140 Universities Members of UNIMED

This research stay is designed to enable researchers to conduct research studies in France: field enquiries, library and archives work. Laureates will receive a financial support of 1 600 euros per month.

Deadline for applications: 25 March 2022. Information: https://www.uni-med.net/wp-content/up-loads/2022/01/English-Call-Unimed-2022.pdf

 

 

 

 

12. 3 Doctoral and 3 Postdoctoral Positions for Research Group “REVENANT – Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia Tribulation” (Focus MENA), University of Rijeka, Croatia

For doctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748740

For postdoctoral applications: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/748788

For the project: https://revenant.uniri.hr

Deadline for applications: 27 March 2022.

 

 

13. Lecturer in Arabic, Stony Brook University/SUNY, New York

Preferred qualifications include a doctoral degree in a field relevant to the teaching of Arabic, and at least 3 years of university-level teaching experience.

Deadline for applications: 7 April 2022.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/102909

 

 

 

 

14. Intensive Summer School of Arabic Dialects & Modern Standard Arabic

From June 6th to July 13rd 2022

Information: http://www.inalco.fr/en/intensive-summer-school-arabic-dialects-training-on-site

 

 

 

 

15. Learn Arabic at Ibn Ghazi Arabic Institute

Information: https://www.igai-fez.com/

 

 

 

16. Webinar Symposium – Qur’anic Manuscript Traditions: Readings From the Qatar National Library Collection – March 30

The symposium, organized in the framework of the Arab Manuscript Day (Alesco), will gather a number of international experts dealing with the traditions of the production of Qur’anic manuscripts over 14 centuries, covering a vast geographical area. Our journey will start in the Arabian Peninsula and will continue through the kingdoms of Africa and the Indian subcontinent, up to the lands of China and the Malay world. Focusing on the periphery of the Islamic World, we aim to contribute to an exciting but less-researched and less popular theme. The symposium’s contributions will be based on the rich inventory of the Library’s manuscripts which will be presented in relation to important, relevant manuscripts from various other collections around the world.

Program, Doha’s time (GMT+3)

11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Hijazi Qur’anic Manuscripts (Ahmed Shaker)

12:00 – 12:10 PM: Mus’haf Al Zubarah (Mahmoud Zaki)

12:10 – 1:10 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Sub-Saharan Africa (Dr. Mohameden Ahmed Salem)

2:00 – 3:00 PM: The Art of the Qur’an in Southeast Asia (Dr. Annabel Gallop)

3:00 – 3:45 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts from China: Initial Observations on an Unexplored Tradition (W. Sekulova and M. Zaki)

4:15 – 5:15 PM: Qur’anic Manuscripts of Indian Subcontinent in Bihari Script (Dr. Saima Syed)

Program and registration : https://events.qnl.qa/event/Q2VV9/EN

For more information sipert@qnl.qa

 

 

 

17. CfP Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies deadline Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Co-hosted by the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and
SOAS, University of London
Aga Khan Centre, London and online

6 to 8 October 2022

This annual exploratory and informal workshop not only offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic, but also invites contributors to explore more broadly how people relate to the past. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies related to Arabic in any region and in any period from the seventh century to the present.
Papers might elucidate questions such as: 
How and in which terms do people refer to the past? How and in which terms do they refer to memory? What is the relation between history and memory, and between memory and space? How does the past sit in people’s bodies – and in the body politic?
Through what practices of writing or otherwise encoding the past and of remembering and forgetting, have different groups in the Middle East and North Africa viewed their pasts? At different times and places, was the significant past the same for court historians as for literary historians; for bureaucrats as for the military; for Sufis as for Muslim lawyers and Traditionists?

From what perspective have histories been written and what makes them coherent? How have past events been rendered intelligible? When do particular views of the past start to fall apart? Which categories and boundaries are seen as primordial and which are not? Which beings have been seen as capable of influencing events and when?
How do people connect the/their living and the/their dead conceptually? When are past events really over and when can they be laid to rest? Under which circumstances is the past revived? Why do some past lives or events inspire action and others do not? How does unresolved conflict inform thinking about and using the past?
How did non-Muslims and Muslims, men and women, adherents of different confessional or juristic traditions, or speakers of different languages, within societies that became “Islamic” imagine the shape and meaning of their specific societies’ own pasts, and their relation to the universal history of the Islamic community?

How have urban and rural people, workers and peasants, the religiously educated and the technocratic elite, developed different ways of writing, remembering, or commemorating particular events in, or the broad sweep of, local, national, or “Islamic” history?

In what ways do educational institutions, museums, media organizations and proponents of heritage use history writing in Arabic to shape loyalties and senses of belonging in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe?  How do recent discourses in the West shape discussions of history in the Middle East?
How can digital methods now enhance or change our understandings of the past? What additional information and perspectives do they offer? (How) do they limit our understanding? What are practical challenges when we apply digital methods to Arabic history? What seem to be particularly promising approaches?
Contributions are invited from scholars at all career levels, addressing any period and any part of the Middle East and North Africa, broadly defined.
This year we anticipate running the workshop from the Aga Centre in London, with the possibility to have an online component featuring participants who are unable to travel to the UK. As in past years, there is a small budget to provide some travel assistance for scholars outside of London.
Arabic Pasts is co-organized by Hugh Kennedy (SOAS), James McDougall (Oxford), Lorenz Nigst (AKU-ISMC), and Sarah Bowen Savant (AKU-ISMC).
Please submit an abstract of 300 words or less in word document by Tuesday, 19 April 2022 to ArabicPastsConf@aku.edu .

 

 

 

18. “Malcolm X, Islam and the Souls of Black Folk”

A Talk by

Dr. Zain Abdullah

Temple University

Friday, March 25, 2022 | 5:00 PM EST (Zoom)

Malcolm X is one of the 20th century’s most intriguing figures, becoming a standard in Black Studies, street culture and global affairs, with Turkey recently changing its new American embassy’s street to “Malcolm X Avenue.” Still, his deep encounter with religion is routinely ignored. Dr. Zain Abdullah places Malcolm X in the context of Islam and the fight for Black liberation, as both consistently informed his worldview and his struggle to free oppressed peoples.

Register in advance to receive the Zoom link:

https://go.rutgers.edu/MalcolmX

Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor and the Departments of African American and African Studies, English, and Arts, Culture & Media at Rutgers-Newark.

1.The Islamic College – Distance Education Virtual Open Day

MA Islamic Studies & Islamic Law

Monday 21st of March 2022
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm (London Time)
on Zoom

https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/de-open-day/ \

 

 

 

2. SUNY Buffalo

Clinical Assistant Professor, Arabic Language

See https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/33104

Open Until Filled

 

 

 

3. Exhibit & Catalogue on Assyrian letters & archives

A cache of letters received over a hundred years ago forms the basis of an exhibit called “From Qarajalu (Persia) to Santa Clara County: An Assyrian Family’s Multiple Atlantic Crossings in Search of a Home at the turn of the Century.”  The focus on the letters written in vernacular neo-Aramaic developed in Urmia, allows an understanding of cultural conditions from 1887 to 1923, a period of great educational and literary advances as well as war and displacement

Location: Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum, Sunnyvale, CA

Dates:  April 3 to June 5, 2022 (open Tuesdays, Thursdays, Sundays)

A Catalogue of the exhibit is available for purchase, the four lectures in conjunction with the exhibit are open to the public and all but one will be in English. The other will be delivered in Assyrian neo-Aramaic, almost mutually intelligible to Aramaic speaking Jews originating from Urmia, Sanandaj and so forth and now mainly living in Israel. This may be one of the few times that scholars and the general public will be able to hear a non-religious presentation in this living but endangered language.

April 3, 2022, 1pm “New Urmia in Place of the Old

May 1, 2022, 1 PM “Joseph D. Joseph, MD: A Link in the Assyrian Chain of Medicine”  

May 15, 2022 1 pm “Sources and selected details of the life of Dr. Joseph D. Joseph, a son of Qarajalu, a man of Santa Clara   County”

June 5, 2022, 1 pm  “Reflecting on the Old Country: The Assyrians of the Urmia Region”

 

 

 

 

4. The International Journal of Islamic Architecture and the Award Jury is pleased to announce the 2022 winners of the Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award.

Award Winner

Laura Parodi, ‘Kabul, a Forgotten Mughal Capital: Gardens, City, and Court at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century’, Muqarnas 38, 2021, pp. 79-119.

Honourable Mention

Mikael Muehlbauer, ‘From Stone to Dust: The Life of the Kufic Inscribed Frieze of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray, Ethiopia’, Muqarnas 38, 2021, pp. 1-34.

In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is pleased to offer this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The Award winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a 2-year subscription to IJIA, and the honourable mention winner will receive a 2-year subscription to IJIA. We are extremely grateful to the members of the 2022 jury, Professors Renata Holod, Abidin Kusno, and D. Fairchild Ruggles, for their time and expertise in judging submissions for the inaugural award, and to the chair of the Award committee, Mehreen Chida-Razvi.

The Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award will be offered every two years. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2022 or 2023 will be eligible for the 2024 award. For the criteria by which papers will be judged and the submission process, see our website.

 

 

 

 

5. The East India Company in Persia

Trade and Cultural Exchange in the Eighteenth Century

P. Good

Bloomsbury, 2022

 

 

 

 

6. Virtual 2-day Conference

Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy

with keynote sessions by Dr. Lara Harb

Thursday, March 31, 2022 — Friday, April 1, 2022

Online Event

“Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy” seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”—between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric. Islamic philosophy was composed not only in traditional forms of treatises and commentaries but also through narratives written in poetry and prose. For example, Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī penned a panegyric poem written in Persian in praise of logic, physics, and metaphysics, alongside his many philosophical prose treatises. Ibn al-ʿArabī’s philosophical mysticism includes prose that reads as Aristotelian commentary alongside succinct poems highlighting his key philosophical concepts through mystical metaphors. In reference to Ibn Sīnā’s allegorical treatise, Ibn Tufayl’s famous Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān provides an intriguing narrative and philosophical thought experiment. What do story-telling, poetry, narrative, metaphor, and allegory reveal about the nature and purpose of philosophy?

The conference is organized in conjunction with the “Islamic Philosophy in Conversation” working group. The conference aligns itself with the goals of the working group, and therefore seeks to highlight the work of a diverse group of scholars, including emerging scholars of Islamic philosophy, as well as those who identify as female, non-binary, or as belonging to a historically-marginalized group.

For the full conference schedule, and Zoom links for public events, see https://www.bard.edu/islamic-philosophy

 

 

 

 

7. Applications for IIS Doctoral Scholarship Now Open

The IIS is pleased to announce that applications for the Doctoral Scholarship are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2022.

The IIS awards Doctoral Scholarships each year to suitable candidates who are interested in pursuing research at PhD level on a topic related to any of the Institute’s core research areas. The most relevant to the Institute’s research needs are:

• Ismaili studies
• Wider Shiʿi studies
• Qurʾanic studies
• Islamic law
• Education
• Manuscript studies

The scholarship is also open to any areas in which Islam can be analysed in one of its various manifestations (historical, theological, philosophical, legal, educational, political, ritual, cultural, etc.).

The Institute’s Doctoral Scholarships programme was established in 1997. Since then, more than 52 scholarships have been awarded. The Doctoral Scholarships are a vehicle for intellectual advancement, career progression and human resources development.

To apply, please download and complete the application form and submit it together with the required documents to scholarships@iis.ac.uk by 31 March. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.

The application form must be accompanied by:

• Cover letter
• Updated CV
• Personal Statement of Commitment
• Copies of graduate-level academic transcripts, including a copy of your Master’s diploma
• Copy of letter of acceptance to doctoral programme
• Three letters of recommendation
• Writing sample
• Doctoral research proposal

The IIS Doctoral Scholarships are available to Ismaili students from around the globe. Further information on eligibility can be found here.

https://www.iis.ac.uk/news/applications-iis-doctoral-scholarship-now-open?utm_source=D0322&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AN

 

 

 

 

8. BRISMES Early Career Development Prize

Deadline: 30 April 2022

 

 

 

 

9. Event Postponed: Getting Published in an Academic Journal
The second BRISMES-CBRL joint mentoring event, Getting Published in an Academic Journal, has been postponed and will now take place on 6 April 2022. This event features a line-up of academic journal editors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds providing insight and feedback on the process of getting published in today’s competitive academic environment.

This event is open to members of BRISMES or CBRL only

 

 

 

10. Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)

CBRL seeks a Communications Officer to play a key role within the charity’s London office. Strong communication and organisational skills are required, and familiarity with the charity or higher education landscape and the Levant will be useful.

Deadline | 25 March 2022

More information

 

 

 

11. LSE Middle East Centre

The LSE Middle East Centre seeks a Research Officer to contribute to research activities on the environmental geography/political ecology of the Middle East and to produce independent research. Candidates should have social sciences training, including a relevant PhD; a strong record of research and publication on the Middle East; and excellent organisation and communication skills

Deadline | 28 March 2022

More information

 

 

 

12. University of Exeter

The College of Social Sciences and International Studies wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Science study of the Middle East and a Managing Editor of MERIP. MERIP is a 50-year old publication that provides critical, alternative reporting and analysis, focusing on state power, political economy and social hierarchies in the Middle East. As part of a new partnership, the IAIS will host and edit MERIP and work closely with the board.

Deadline | 31 March 2022

More information

 

 

 

13. Aga Khan University (International) in the UK

The Aga Khan Library is looking for a full-time Assistant Librarian – Digital Resourcesto oversee our library systems and online services and help us continue offering high-quality services to our lively community of international students, academics, and researchers. The ideal candidate will have previous experience implementing and managing library technologies and good knowledge of modern integrated library management systems and metadata formats.

Deadline | 10 April 2022

More information

 

 

 

14. University of St Andrews

The School of Modern Languages is seeking to appoint a Professor of Arabic within the Department of Arabic and Persian. In your position as Professor of Arabic you will provide leadership to an established department and will oversee the delivery of both a full four-year undergraduate degree and a postgraduate programme. Applications are invited from candidates with a specialist research interest in any area of Arabic literary/cultural studies (including, but not limited to, literary studies, film and media studies, and cultural/intellectual history).

Deadline | 18 April 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

15. Youth activism, leadership and civic engagement for the climate and sustainability in the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa region
Coventry University
As part of a large investment by Coventry University to support research, the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CPSR) has a range of fully funded PhD Studentship opportunities available starting September 2022. These studentships come with a full Stipend, all tuition fees, plus a generous allowance towards training and development costs. The studentships are fully funded for a 42 month period which includes a writing-up stage.

Deadline | 28 April 2022

More information

 

 

16. University of Exeter

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS) at the University of Exeter and the Institute for International and Area Studies (IIAS) at Tsinghua University, are collaborating on a research project with the aim of creating a Digital Archive of the Middle East (DAME). As part of DAME, three fully-funded PhD studentships have been created, one each in Archaeology, Gulf Studies, and Kurdish Studies to use these collections.

Deadline | 3 May 2022

More information

 

 

 

17. University of Exeter

The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies is seeking applications for three PhD studentships for excellent doctoral students whose area of specialisation fits and complements the research interests of our academics – PhD Studentship in Arab and Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle East Politics, Ethno-Political Studies, Kurdish Studies or Palestine Studies.

PhD proposals in humanities and social sciences with reference to the Middle East and the Islamicate world are invited.

Deadline | 3 May 2022

More information

 

 

 

 

18. Call for Papers – BATA 2nd Annual Conference
Hybrid Conference | British Association of Teachers of Arabic (BATA), 30 June – 1 July 2022

 

Abstracts are invited for this conference is designed to offer a platform for teachers, students and research scholars of Arabic language, culture, literature, linguistics and translation from the United Kingdom and beyond, to exchange ideas, share good practice and disseminate their scholarship and research to a wider audience.

Deadline | 30 March 2022

More information

 

 

 

19. Association for Middle East Anthropology (AMEA)

AMEA is accepting nominations for its bi-annual book award. This award is given to an anthropological work that features creative ethnographic writing, innovative data collection strategies, and sophisticated analysis. The committee welcomes books that make significant contributions to anthropological knowledge and that advance our understanding of the complex forces that shape life in the Middle East and North Africa. Books submitted for the 2022 award must have a publication date in 2020 or 2021.

Deadline | 15 May 2022
More information

 

 

 

20. Senior Bibliographic Specialist, Persian and Arabic, Princeton University Library

https://main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/14347/senior-bibliographic-specialist-ii/job?hub=15&mobile=false&width=1050&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240

 

 

 

21. Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES) 3ème séance – 29/03/22

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du Webinaire de l’IFRI (IFRI Webinar SERIES) :

Regards sur les arts du monde iranien / Insights into the Art of the Persianate Societies, coorganisé par l’Institut Français de Recherche en Iran (IFRI) et le Centre de recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI) qui aura lieu le :

mardi 29 mars 2022, de 15h à 17h (heure de Paris) / 17h30-19h30 (heure de Téhéran).

Cette troisième séance s’articulera autour du thème « Regards sur la céramique, 2 / Insights into ceramic arts, 2 », avec les interventions suivantes :
– Patterns of production of Kashan ceramics (late 12th-mid 14th c.)

par Yves Porter (Aix Marseille University/IUF/ LA3M, UMR 7290)

– Luster ceramic and lâjvardina

by Anaïs Leone (PhD, Aix Marseille University/LA3M, UMR 7290)

Discussion : Delphine Miroudot (Sèvres, Manufacture et Musée Nationaux)

Pour suivre cette séance online (sur Skyroom), s’inscrire avant le 23 mars sur le lien suivant :
https://webquest.fr/?m=116547_regards-sur-la-ceramique-2

>> Pour plus d’informations sur le Webinaire

Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir faire circuler l’information.

 

Au plaisir de vous retrouver nombreux

Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI)

pour le comité d’organisation

 

 

 

22. Le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR8041 du CNRS) a le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue de la XXIII^ème Journée Monde Iranien, le vendredi 1^er avril 2022de 9h30 à 18h dans l’Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations de l’Inalco, 65 rue des Grands-Moulins, 75013 Paris.

Nous vous prions de bien vouloir trouver le programme complet de cette Journée, en pièce-jointe. Vous pouvez également consulter les détails de cette Journée sur le site du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/xxiiie-journee-monde-iranien/

Nous vous rappelons que le port du masque dans les espaces clos reste fortement recommandé et qu’il sera donc nécessaire de le porter lors de cette Journée et en particulier dans l’Auditorium. Nous espérons vivement que cette contrainte ne vous découragera pas d’assister en présentiel à cet événement.

Toutefois, pour celles et ceux qui le souhaitent, la Journée Monde iranien pourra être suivie en distanciel (via la plateforme Zoom). Vous recevrez très prochainement le lien vers un formulaire d’inscription qui vous permettra de recevoir les codes d’accès.

Au plaisir de vous retrouver toutes et tous pour cette XXIII^ème Journée qui cette année est organisée par notre collègue Julien Thorez.

Maria Szuppe

Directrice de recherche CNRS

Directrice du Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI)

CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
—-
27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr

 

1.Anthology of Arabic Discourse on Translation

Edited By

Tarek Shamma

Myriam Salama-Carr

Routledge, 2022

 

 

 

2. The Achaemenid Persian World Empire

A series of four lectures by

Robert Rollinger

Professor of Ancient History and Ancient Near Eastern Studies

University of Innsbruck

April 11–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall

Lectures Begin at 4:00 pm PST

For more information about each of the four lectures, and to register to attend in person, or join via Zoom, see:

https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/events/

and the links accessible via the four individual lectures at that website.

 

 

 

3. The MLA Global Arab and Arab American Forum invites proposals for the following panels at the MLA Convention in San Francisco (5-8 January 2023):

 

Writing and Cultural Production as Oppositional Work

Oppositional work of writing and cultural production in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, including protest and dissident literature/art/activism that resists surveillance and discursive/cultural practices of domestication and containment. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to rc49@soas.ac.uk (Rasha Chatta, Freie Universität)

 Migrants as Working Subjects

Literary and artistic representations of migrant labor in the Arab region and global Arab diaspora, as inflected by class, race, ethnicity, language, nomenclature, and sociocultural/economic practices including sponsorship. 250-word abstract & bio by March 15, 2022 to azstanton@psu.edu (Anna Ziajka Stanton, The Pennsylvania State University)

Decolonizing Global Arab/South Labor Epistemologies

Critique of global Arab/South working conditions in literary and cultural production, including theorizing labor in neocolonial spaces, construction of and resistance to subalternity, and the representation of exploitation and its legacies. 250-word abstract and bio by March 20, 2022 to ctolliver@uh.edu and aidrissi@purdue.edu

 

 

 

4. Open Access Books

Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya = المركز: مجلة الدراسات العربية

Online ISSN: 2772-8250
Print :ISSN: 2772-8242
Publisher: Brill, 2022-

“Al-Markaz: Majallat al-Dirāsāt al-ʿArabiyya [ The Centre: Journal of Arabic Studies] focuses on Arabic language, literature and culture studies, encompassing a range of historical and analytical trends. It covers a chronological period that extends from before Islam to contemporary times. The journal offers a forum for matters of formal language and spoken dialects, written and oral heritage, in poetry and prose, and welcomes submissions with an interdisciplinary and comparative approach.”

 

The presence of the Prophet in early modern and contemporary Islam
Author: David Jordan; Rachida Chih; Stefan Reichmuth

Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2022.
Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, 159/2

ISBN : 9789004466753 

 

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Afzal Upal, Muhammad.

Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements

Published: Brill, 2021.

ISBN: 9789004425255