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1. ONLINE Webinar “Bridging the Gulf Cultural Segment III: Stories of Al Zubarah, Qatar’s
Largest Heritage Site”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 21 January 2022, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm SGT
Added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013, the Al Zubarah Archaeological Site is Qatar’s first entry in this international register. Once a thriving pearl fishing and trading port in the 1760s, the Al Zubarah site showcases impressive, excavated findings. Stretching from Fort Zubarah lining the coast to the early inland settlement of Qal’at Murair, the site provides a reimagination of a Gulf merchant town in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/bridging-the-gulf/
2. ONLINE 67th AWR International Migration Conference: “Global Migration: Trans-cultural,
Trans-disciplinary and Intersectional Perspectives”, Friedensau Adventist University, 9-10 February 2022
Contributions should cover one of the following topics: Methodology and new approaches in trans-cultural, trans-disciplinary and intersectional migration research; Rights, norms, ethics and migration; Gender/sexual-ity and migration; Religion and migration; Culture/origin/race/ethnicity/colour and migration; etc.
Information: http://www.awr-int.de . Contact: simone.emmert@th-nuernberg.de
3. ONLINE “2nd International Conference on Medical Humanities in the Middle East”, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, 9-10 April 2022
Oral presentations and posters are invited on the topics of narrative medicine, medical sociology, philosophy of medicine, medical ethics and narrative ethics, literature and medicine, history of medicine and other hu-manistic initiatives in medicine occurring in the Middle East and North Africa region.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022. Information: https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/event/medical-humanities-in-the-middle-east
4. Mediterranean Seminar Spring 2022 Workshop on “Crisis, Migration, and Displacement in the Mediterranean”, Rutgers University-Newark, 6-7 May 2022
The aim of this workshop is to explore parallel and/or connected historical processes that move us away from narratives that privilege certain historical moments, specific cases. Papers from history, art history, literary and cultural studies, or any relevant Humanities or Social Sciences disciplines are welcome. Our Mediterra-nean is including southern Europe, the Near East, North Africa, and the Red Sea.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022. Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe1wsuBMDc-Q5T4ID5n8noHItYzSCUhAl4l1mUtlZKzlaupkQ/viewform
5. International Workshop: “Policy Implementation in the Global South”, Budapest 28-30 June 2022
This workshop represents an opportunity to contribute to empirical, methodological and theoretical knowledge about the policy implementation process in the Global South, and to assess the usefulness of approaches and debates to explain political changes in the region. We expect proposals from political sci-ence, anthropology, sociology, public management, public administration, sociology, but we are open to other disciplinary approaches.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022. Information: https://www.ippapublicpolicy.org/conference/iwpp3-budapest/panel-list/15/panel/policy-implementation-in-the-global-south/1257
6. Assistant Professor for Contemporary Politics and Modern History of the Middle East, Radboud University, the Netherlands
Applicants should be experts in the modern history and politics of the Middle East, its global networks, and the role of Muslim actors within the contemporary political sphere.
Deadline for application: 24 January 2022. Information: https://academicpositions.co.uk/ad/radboud-university/2021/assistant-professor-contemporary-politics-and-modern-history-of-the-middle-east/172947
7. 150 Fully-funded Scholarships for PhD Candidates in “Economics”, “History and Civilisation”, “Law” and “Political and Social Sciences”, European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana, Italy
Deadlineforapplications: 31 January 2022.
8. 10 One-Year Post-Doctoral Positions, l´EHESS, Paris
All candidates must have defended their theses between 1 September 2019 and 31 January 2022. Gross monthly salary: 2365 €. Themes include: Imperial Construction in Muslim Asia: Institutions, Norms, Practices; Societies of Medieval Islam; Infra-political Perspectives on Migration; etc.
Deadline for applications: 2 February 2022.
Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/57458
9. Cinq contrats post-doctoraux (1 an) à de jeunes chercheurs, Laboratoire d’Excellence en his-toire et anthropologie des savoirs, des techniques et des croyances (HASTEC)
Candidatures avant 17 mars 2022. Information : https://labexhastec.ephe.psl.eu/2022/01/04/appel-candidature-pour-les-contrats-post-doctoraux-2022-2023/
10. Two Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Late Medieval and/ or early Modern Middle East/ Islamic History, American University of Beirut
The positions are open to scholars of all sub regions and thematic interests, but the department especially welcomes applications of candidates working on subjects that address issues relevant to intellectual/ cultural and/or social history within a comparative perspective.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022. Information: https://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/pages/academic-employment.aspx
11. Managing Editor of New Counter-Islamist Media Outlet, Middle East Forum
Qualifications: At least five years’ experience as an editor and/or journalist; Agreement with MEF’s outlook that ‘radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution’; Proficiency with a website content man-agement system and social media advertising; Knowledge of research tools and techniques.
Deadline for applications: 14 January 2022. Information: https://www.meforum.org/62930/job-announcement-managing-editor
12. The Journal of Law and Islam (Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam, ZRI)
The peer-reviewed Journal is covering theoretical legal debate as well as the practical application of both secular and Islamic laws. It takes regard of the historical development as well as the interaction of “secular” and Islamic laws in different contexts, but also address the actual developments. Contributions can be submitted in German, English and French to zri@gair.de .
Information: http://zri.gair.de/index.php/en/
13. CFP – The Textile Museum Journal
We invite manuscript submissions on any topic related to textile arts for the 2023 The Textile Museum Journal, which will be the journal’s 50th volume. Manuscripts should be based on original documentary, analytical, or interpretive research on the textile arts. We encourage submissions examining the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles through time and across cultures.
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 31, 2022.
Deadline for full manuscript submissions: August 31, 2022.
For Manuscript Submission and Author Style Guide documents, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research
Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Editorial Assistant of The Textile Museum Journal at tmjournal@gwu.edu.
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The Textile Museum Journal publishes high-quality academic research on the textile arts and serves as an interface between different branches of academia and textile scholars worldwide. International in scope, the journal is devoted to the presentation of scholarly articles concerning the cultural, technical, historical, and aesthetic significance of textiles.
A complete submission includes 5 elements:
- Abstract: A single Microsoft Word document (no longer than 250 words) in English with the title of your manuscript accompanied with another Microsoft Word document with sample images (photographs, drawings, diagrams, maps, etc.) and their caption(s).
- Bio: A single Microsoft Word document detailing author(s) name, institutional affiliation(s), mailing address(es), telephone number(s), email address(es), and short biography (100 words) of author(s).
- Full Manuscript: Microsoft Word document of the main text in English should be double-spaced throughout in 12-point Times Roman typeface. Use endnotes (do not embed) and cite references separately. Manuscripts should be between 5,000 to 10,000 words (including endnotes, captions, and references) and Research Notes should be between 2,000 to 3,000 words.
- Image Document: A single Microsoft Word document that combines all photographs, drawings, diagrams, maps, etc. referenced in your manuscript with their accompanying captions. A good rule to follow that helps with a good distribution of images in the manuscript is to use one image for every 400-500 words.
- Images Files: All full manuscript submissions must be accompanied by images (one image for every 400-500 words.). Authors will provide high-resolution TIFFs or JPEGs (4 X 6 inches at 300 DPI or preferably higher) and secure all necessary permissions if the manuscript is accepted for publication. Each image should be clearly labeled (e.g., Smith_Fig. 1) and have a corresponding caption that provides identifying information and appropriate image credits in the Image Document.
Please see Manuscript Submission and Author Style Guide documents at https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research for more details on preparation of these 5 elements.
Any submission that does not conform to The Textile Museum Journal style guidelines will be returned to the author.
Articles must present original research that has not been published in any language previously. Authors must properly credit previous scholarship on the subject and cite the source of each quotation, with brief bibliographic details given in the endnotes and the full bibliographic information in the References section.
All articles are subject to review by the editorial team and anonymous peer-reviewers, whose comments will be sent to the author only if the manuscript is accepted for publication. Authors expected to make revisions based on the feedback of the peer-reviewers and editors.
The Textile Museum Journal follows the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For further specifications on preparing text and images for publication, see the The Textile Museum Journal Manuscript Submission and Author Style Guide documents (available to download from our website: https://museum.gwu.edu/submit-research).
Contact Info:
Editorial Assistant, The Textile Museum Journal
The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum
701 21st Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20052
E-mail: tmjournal@gwu.edu
With best wishes,
The Textile Museum Journal Editorial Team
14. Online Lecture – Medinas of the Maghreb and the concept of Islamic city: Between texts and models – January 25
A lecture by Amine Kasmi, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Tlemcen, Algeria
Tuesday, January 25, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:30pm; Registration Required: https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/MaghrebiMedinas
Abstract:
On the question of an archetypal model of the Islamic city, several regional scholars and Orientalists have tried to give some answers, each focusing on a specific aspect to the originality of these cities. Some even expressed great skepticism toward the concept of “Islamic city” as an urban ideal of the Muslim world.
The medinas of the Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia), like most medieval Islamic cities, are characterized by the centralization of the main religious and economic institutions. They are also divided into specialized districts so that the compact districts of the residential areas are clearly distinguished from an economic district that is morphologically much less dense.
Defensive structures also hold a prominent place in the medieval Islamic conception of the city, expressed through ramparts, crooked streets, and vaulted passages. It should be added that medieval Islamic cities generally incorporated most characteristics of medieval European cities, including the concept of enclosure. However, in the case of the medinas in the Maghreb, this sense of enclosure is pushed to the extreme for climatic and military reasons, as well as the constant concern for the protection of privacy.
On the other hand, Islamic cities as human settlements suggest additive growth. This does not mean that cities developed haphazardly, but rather development proceeded according to a voluntaristic design, structured by non-geometric paths connecting various destinations, the most significant of which were the mosque, the souk, and residential quarters. We can note many similarities of the medinas throughout the Maghreb. This is especially true given that the early Islamic conquests favored the generalization of the same ideas. In less than a century after the emergence of Islam, several new cities sprang up following the model of Medina, the first city of Islam.
The purpose of this lecture is to confront various theoretical conceptions of this issue in order to trace morphological and landscape characteristics of Maghrebi medinas.
The lecture is intended for all audiences interested in the historical development of cities in the Maghreb or Islamic societies more broadly. No prior knowledge is required.
About the Speaker:
Amine Kasmi is a conservation architect and associate professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Tlemcen, Algeria. He teaches courses and conducts research in the history of urban design with a particular focus on the tensions between modern town planning and traditional urban fabric. His areas of interest also include the interaction between Islamic architecture and other architectures in the medieval Mediterranean world. He worked on numerous urban conservation sites in Algeria as well.
15. Conference “The Qur’an in Rome. Catholicism and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Era”
1-2 March 2022 – Rome – Italy
The objective of this conference will be to give an overview of the perspectives through which the Catholic world studied the Qur’an and Islam at the beginning of the modern era (16th-17th centuries). We will try to show how although Catholic authors inherited a series of well-established polemical tools (Collectio Toletana, Riccoldo da Montecroce, etc.) from the Middle Ages they were nonetheless able to renew their approach to the study of Islam, adapting it to the new historical context and inaugurating a scientific and philological study of texts.
The event will be held both in presence in Rome and online.
16. Edinburgh Byzantine Studies Seminar Series, Semester 2
The seminars take place at 17:15 and will be held via Zoom. You can register by following this link (https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErc-ivqTwpHNf57PwnG5xjYqqdbG9z_iZd).
Monday, 17 January 2022, 17:15
Beate Böhlendorf-Arslan (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
‘Archaeological interpretation between hypothesis and evidence: some thoughts on new discoveries in the Late Antique and Byzantine city of Assos / Turkey’
Monday, 31 January 2022, 17:15
Constantin Zuckermann (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)
‘The fiscal context of the Byzantine Farmer’s Law’
Monday, 14 February 2022, 17:15
Vasileios Marinis (Yale University)
‘The many lives of the martyr Euphemia’
Wednesday, 16 February 2022, 13:00
Matteo Martelli (Università di Bologna)
‘Alchemical Equipment in Byzantine and Syriac Manuscripts’
Co-hosted with the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Seminar
Monday, 28 February 2022, 17:15
Emilio Bonfiglio (Universität Tübingen)
‘Education in Late Antique and Early Mediaeval Armenia: agency and movements of scholars and books between Armenia and Byzantium’
Monday, 14 March 2022, 17:15
Giulia Maria Paoletti (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
‘”For happy is he who speaks to listening ears”: Paraenetic poetry in Late Byzantium’
Monday, 28 March 2022, 17:15
Ioanna Rapti (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)
‘Viewing the history of Siwnik’ with Step’anos Orbelian, prince, bishop and historian (ca 1300)’
17. The Islamic College
A Short Online Course on Moral Philosophy and Islamic Ethics
10 Weekly Sessions (two-hours each)
First Session: Monday the 24th of January 2022
Lecturer: Prof. Mohsen Javadi
Course fee: £50
For more information and to register, see:
https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/moral-philosophy-and-ethics/
18. Call for papers: The International Research Network for the Study of Science And Belief In Society, 3rd Annual Conference
University of Birmingham and Online (hybrid conference)
13-15 July 2022
Bursaries and honoraria to support participation, whether in-person or online are available, see below for more.
The International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society has been at the centre of the recent significant growth in social scientific and humanities research focusing on science, religion, and belief in society. Following our successful online conference in 2021, this 3rd annual conference of the network will have a hybrid in-person and online format and will focus on the theme of crossing boundaries.
As this field of research has grown it has engaged in myth busting popular perceptions and stereotypes about the relationship between science and religion, which treat both science and religious/spiritual populations as monolithic. To date, much of this foundational research has focused on North American contexts or debates. This conference seeks to build on this essential work and address future avenues for research within the social scientific and historical study of science, religion, and belief in society to examine the practical implications and applications of research in this field.
This conference will bring together international researchers with backgrounds in sociology, science and technology studies, psychology, political science, history, social anthropology, and related humanities or social science disciplines, to discuss perspectives on the overarching topic of science and belief in society.
We are pleased to invite submissions of papers that relate to any aspect of STEMM in society (science, technology, engineering, medicine, and mathematics), that discuss any religious, spiritual, or non-religious tradition, position, or worldview.
Abstracts are invited for the conference relating to the following themes:
- Public engagement with STEMM in pluralistic or religiously diverse societies.
- The social scientific and historical study of the relationship between science and religious and/or non-religious belief and identity.
- Public perceptions of the relationship between science, religion and non-religion and their respective roles in society.
- National and international comparative perspectives on the study of science, religion and belief in society.
- Past and present media or popular representations of science, religion and belief in society.
- The past or present roles of science, rationalism, religion and belief in national, social or cultural identity and related geopolitical narratives.
- Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of science, religion and non-religion in society.
- Methodological approaches to, and issues in, the study of science, religion and belief in society.
- Studies on the impact of publics’ views on science and religion on policy making, and provision for religious, spiritual or non-religious communities across a range of geographies and issues (e.g., healthcare provision, educational policy, science policy, environmental policy or development).
- Religion and inequalities in access to science and technology, including the intersections between religious and racial, ethnic, class and/or gender inequalities.
Individual or panel session submissions may cross over several of the themes listed above, and those intending to submit papers are encouraged to consider the relevance of their work to other academic disciplines.
Conference format
Due to the ongoing and inequitable constraints imposed by COVID-19, the conference will use a hybrid format that combines in-person presentations at the University of Birmingham, with online contributions by those unable to travel due to ongoing restrictions and health concerns.
We ask that in arranging their travel, all in-person participants ensure that they comply with all COVID-19 regulations, both in the UK and their home country. The conference will be run in line with any UK regulations as they stand in July 2022 and will adopt best-practice regarding health and safety of attendees on-site.
Please notethat as in prior years, we will be running a fully funded early career workshop in the days prior to this conference, but this will be announced and advertised via a separate call.
We have bursaries available to support both in-person and online attendance (see below).
If you have any questions or concerns about access or the conference format, please email INSBS@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
Paper and Panel Submissions
Please follow the below links to submit a stand-alone paper or a panel proposal. Information on what is required on the form can be found below.
Submit an individual paper: https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4ZKljAc0Gha6aSa
Submit a panel proposal: https://birminghamcoaal.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3C08z9ubs0oda9E
Individual paper submissions
To submit a paper proposal, please write a title and abstract of no more than 300 words, alongside a biographical note of no more than 200 words (please use this online form).
Panel session proposals
We will also be accepting a limited number of panel proposals with a maximum of four speakers. To submit a panel proposal, using the online form please send a session summary of no more than 250 words, alongside abstracts of no more than 300 words for each individual paper and a short biography of no more than 200 words for each contributor. The format and individual presentation length for panel sessions is flexible, but please note that panel sessions must not take longer than 90 minutes overall.
Contributor Biographies
For all submissions, please send a biography of no more than 200 words for each contributor, including name, institutional affiliation, email address, primary discipline or subject area, a statement regarding career stage (e.g., early career, mid-career), and if possible, a link to a personal profile on an institutional website or similar. Biographies of successful applicants will be added to the International Network’s Research Directory. Please indicate on your application if you would like to opt out of being added to the Research Directory.
All abstracts and panel proposals must be submitted online by 14 February 2022.
Conference Costs, Bursaries and Honoraria
This conference is funded by the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, as part of a grant from the Templeton Religion Trust. Please note that for all successful applicants, accommodation and registration costs will be covered by this grant. In addition, a number of honoraria and bursaries are also available to help with costs that may be incurred as a result of conference participation:
- Conference attendance honoraria. For those attending the conference in-person, who do not have institutional support for conference attendance or preparation, these honoraria are designed to allay the costs of attending.
- Childcare/dependent bursaries. For both those participating in-person and online, these bursaries are to help cover the costs of any extra childcare or other dependents’ costs incurred from participating.
- Digital inclusion bursaries. For those participating online these bursaries can be used to cover any extra costs incurred related to digital access (e.g., Wi-Fi costs or data packages). Please note these bursaries cannot be used for hardware (e.g., laptops).
We will prioritise those who have the most need such as postgraduate, early career, retired, low income/unwaged, or any researcher who may not ordinarily be able to access institutional funds.
To request a bursary or any additional support, when submitting your abstract, please complete the additional box on the online submission form.
Please note that while completing the form you will be asked whether you are planning to attend in-person or virtually, however given the uncertainties of the coming months with regards to international travel, you will only have to confirm in-person attendance after your abstract is accepted.
Key Dates
Deadline for online submissions (abstracts, panels & bursaries): 14 February 2022
Decision notification: 28 February 2022
Registration deadline for presenters: 30 April 2022
The conference is supported by the Templeton Religion Trust and is being held as part of the activities of the International Research Network for the Study of Science and Belief in Society, based at the University of Birmingham (UK).
You can download a PDF version of this call for papers here. For more information about the conference or wider network please email INSBS@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
19. Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World invites submissions for the forthcoming volumes 40 and 41, to be published in 2022 and 2023.
Muqarnas is a scholarly journal that publishes articles on art, architectural history, and archaeology, as well as all aspects of Islamic visual and material cultures, historical and contemporary. Full-length articles are accompanied by shorter submissions grouped under a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies that introduce textual and visual primary sources.
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2022.
Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Managing Editor of Muqarnas at muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu.
A complete submission includes five elements:
- Microsoft Word document of the main text file. Submissions should be double-spaced throughout in 12-point typeface. Use endnotes rather than footnotes; no bibliography is required. Articles should be no longer than 50 pages (not including endnotes). Images should be sent as a separate file.
- Images. All submissions must be accompanied by images, with an upper limit of approximately 30. For review purposes, please compile images into a single Word or pdf file. Low-resolution images are acceptable for initial consideration, with the expectation that authors will provide high-resolution TIFFs or JPEGs (at least 300 dpi at 4 x 6 inches) and secure all necessary permissions if the article is accepted for publication.
- Captions file. Each image should be clearly labeled and have a corresponding caption that provides identifying information and appropriate image credits.
- Abstract and keywords. Submit a 150- to 200-word abstract and 12 keywords for publication in the online version of the journal.
- CV, stating the author’s institutional affiliation (if any), mailing address, phone number, as well as academic status and a list of publications.
Any submission that does not include these five elements will be returned to the author, as will articles that do not conform to the Muqarnas style sheet.
Articles must present original research that has not been published in any language previously. Authors must properly credit previous scholarship on the subject and cite the source of each quotation, with full bibliographic details given in the endnotes (no additional bibliography is required).
All articles are subject to review by the Editorial Committee and anonymous external readers, whose comments will be sent to the author only if the article is accepted for publication. Authors may be expected to make revisions based on the feedback of the readers and editors.
Muqarnas follows the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For further specifications on preparing text and images for publication, see the Muqarnas style sheet (available to download from our website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/submission-guidelines).
Contact info:
Managing Editor, Muqarnas
History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University
485 Broadway, Office 411
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Phone: 617-495-3774
E-mail: muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/muqarnas
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 14.2 is out now!
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
Aims and Scope
The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JAMMR) is a refereed academic publication dedicated to the study of communication, culture and society in the Arab and Muslim world. It aims to lead the debate about the rapid changes in media and society in that part of the world. This journal is also interested in diasporic media like satellite TV, radio and new media, especially in Europe and North America. The journal serves a large international community in the West as well as the Arab and Muslim countries.
We welcome contributions on, but not restricted to, the following themes:
- Communication and development in the Arab region
- Media and the construction of public opinion
- Media and social change in the Arab and Muslim world
- Media coverage of wars and conflicts in the region
- New media, culture and society in the Arab and Muslim World
- Arab/Muslim youth, identity and the media
- Media and women empowerment
- Arab media, political activism and democracy
- Diasporic media and diasporic audiences
- Global media and its impact on local cultures
- Internet social networks and the changing face of journalism practice
- Reality TV and the tabloidization of Arab media
- Pan-Arab Satellite TV and audience research
- Media, subcultures and resistance in the Arab and Muslim countries
2. Full-time tenure track open rank position at Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University (ROC/Taiwan)
Job Description
The Department of Arabic Language and Culture at National Chengchi University invites applications for one full-time tenure track open rank position in Arabic/Arab/Middle East/Islamic studies, starting on 1 August 2022. The deadline for the application is 2022 March 8.
We are seeking a junior or senior scholar with an excellent track of research in one (or more) of the following fields:
Arabic linguistics
Arabic literature
Arabic language teaching
Islamic studies
Middle Eastern studies
Candidates with experience in teaching Arabic to non-native speakers at beginner level or specialised subjects such as Arabic syntax, Arabic morphology, Arabic literature, or history of Arabic literature will be strongly preferred.
The ideal candidate will have active research agendas and a remarkable record of publications in her or his field after the appointment. The candidate will contribute to Arabic teaching in accordance with the teaching guideline of the Department, or teach the courses on the Department’s curriculum. He or she will have to teach 6 hours per week in one semester, which usually comprises 18 weeks, and two semesters per year. In addition, the candidate is expected to share the administrative responsibilities, engage in the intellectual activities of the Department, and take part in students’ activities. The candidate must be able to communicate in English and/or Chinese with the faculty members and the administrative staff.
Employer: National Chengchi University
Location: Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)
Salary: approx. 34,500 USD (minimum) per annum (before taxation), with stipends and funding available for research- and teaching-related expenses
Starting Date: 1 August, 2022
Deadline for Applications: March 8, 2022 (GMT +8). Review of applications will begin immediately after the deadline.
Qualification: Applicants must have a PhD in Arabic Studies, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern studies, or a related discipline, preferably with a record of an active research agenda and teaching experience.
Application Instructions and Procedures
All applicants must send the required documents (listed below) to arabic@nccu.edu.tw and isu@nccu.edu.tw. Enquiries concerning the application and related matters may be directed to the Department’s secretary, Ms. Wei (arabic@nccu.edu.tw), or the Head of the Department, Dr. I-Wen Su (isu@nccu.edu.tw).
After the first round of review, which will take about one month, the shortlisted candidate will be invited to online or in-person interview and to deliver an open lecture to the faculty members and students. Further details and schedules will be announced in the due course.
Required Documents
All applicants must submit the following documents via email to: arabic@nccu.edu.tw and isu@nccu.edu.tw
- An updated C.V.
- A cover letter/statements of teaching and research (no more than three pages)
- D. dissertation and the publications of the past five years
- A scanned copy of Ph.D. degree or any document certifying that the candidate will be awarded Ph.D. degree before the date of the appointment (the copy must be authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, or its representative division)
- Scanned copies of the transcriptions of M.A. and Ph.D. degrees (the copies must be authenticated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of China, or its representative division)
- Two sample syllabi for two courses: one on the subject of the applicant’s choice and the other on one of the following: Arabic syntax, Arabic morphology, Intermediary Arabic or Advanced Arabic
- Two or more letters of recommendation
- Any other supporting documents or material, e.g. demo teaching video
Please name your files (in Word or PDF) with the numbers given above, the type of document, and your last name, for example, ‘1-cv-Chang’ or ‘7-reference-Chang-1’. Application that does not provide the first seven documents or does not adhere to the given format will not be considered.
Contact Information
Department of Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University
Address: No.64,Sec.2,ZhiNan Rd.,Wenshan District,Taipei City 11605,Taiwan (R.O.C)
Tel:886-2-29393091(63400 or 63401)
Fax:886-2-2938 7074
E-mail: arabic@nccu.edu.tw; isu@nccu.edu.tw
Website: https://arabic.nccu.edu.tw
3. Dear Fellow Researchers,
We hope all is going well with you and wish you a very happy and healthy new year.
University of Religions and Denominations (URD) is looking forward to your collaboration and scholarly contribution.
To see the scholarly journals published by the University of Religions and Denominations, please follow this link: https://journals.urd.ac.ir/
About the University of Religions and Denomination
The University of Religions and Denominations (URD) seeks to help promote mutual understanding, dialogue, and peaceful coexistence among world religions and the peoples of the world. The University is concerned to study world religions and religious traditions in an unbiased way. It is also concerned to show that our shared humanity is emphasized by all religions and we need to appreciate our common humanity, love one another and proceed to come together and make a better world of peace and friendship, while acknowledging our differences in every aspect.
URD Website: https://urd.ac.ir/en/
URD LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/university-of-religions-and-denominations
URD Twitter: https://twitter.com/home
With best regards
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University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
- January 08, 2022
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955
“What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture
23 November 2021 – 6 March 2022
Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Pera Museum will present two new exhibitions focusing on Byzantium, in November 2021. While From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955 sheds light on the central role of the Ottoman capital in shaping the emerging discipline of Byzantine studies with a rich selection of archives and impressive animations, “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture brings together representations of Byzantine history in different art forms such as literature, cinema, graphic novels and fashion, and questions the interaction of popular culture with Byzantine heritage in detail.
Byzantine Istanbul with the guidance of archaeological findings and digital animations.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a confluence of geopolitical, diplomatic, academic, artistic, and local interests in Istanbul paved the way for increased awareness of the Byzantine past as a rich and shared heritage. Pera Museum and Istanbul Research Institute’s exhibition From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955, curated by Brigitte Pitarakis, explores the central role of the Ottoman capital in shaping the emerging discipline of Byzantine studies with an impressive array of archival holdings. The exhibition, which conveys the modern discovery of Byzantium and the path toward its heritage becoming an area of academic study, conservation, and widespread interest, brings together Byzantine artifacts along with related books, prints, maps, photographs, documents and paintings from the collections of Istanbul Archaeological Museums, Istanbul University Rare Books Library, Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation, German Archaeological Institute in Istanbul, Paris-EPHE, Meşher, Galeri Nev, Ömer Koç, Serap Kayhan, Dr. Safder Tarim, Büke Uras, Birmingham East Mediterranean Archive, EPHE, Fonds Gabriel Millet, Collège de France, Fonds Thomas Whittemore, and Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, as well as a 3D animation by A. Tayfun Öner.
Byzantium(s) in the popular culture and the art world
Opening simultaneously with the exhibition From Istanbul to Byzantium, “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture exhibition, which is prepared by Istanbul Research Institute for Pera Museum, navigates through the eclectic presence of Byzantium in popular culture. Curated by Emir Alışık and borrowing its title from Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu’s novel Panorama (1953-1954), the exhibition brings together representations of Byzantium from a variety of art forms: contemporary novels, metal music, comics and graphic novels, visual arts, video games, movies, and fashion. Exploring multiple and conflicting meanings of Byzantinisms and questioning popular culture’s interaction with the Byzantine legacy by scrutinizing a selection of topoi, the exhibition reveals how Byzantinism is a far-stretching phenomenon to be encountered even in places one does not usually look.
Pera Museum’s upcoming exhibitions From Istanbul to Byzantium: Paths to Rediscovery, 1800–1955, and “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture can be visited through November 23, 2021 – March 6, 2022.
For more information: https://www.peramuseum.org/
2. ONLINE International Symposium: “Enchantments and Disenchantments: Early Modern Otto-man Visions of the World”, Halcyon Days in Crete XI, 14-17 January 2022
Information, program and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9366793/international-symposium-halcyon-days-crete-xi-enchantments-and
3. HYBRID 55th Seminar for Arabian Studies for Students and PhD candidates, Humboldt Uni-versity of Berlin, 5-7 August 2022
This Seminar meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).
To offer a paper, please send an abstract to seminar.arab@theiasa.com by 28 February 2022.
4. Extended Deadline for Papers and Panels: 34th Deutscher Orientalistentag / 28th Congress of DAVO, Freie Universität Berlin, 12-17 September 2022
– Submission of panels with at least three confirmed participants has been extended until 10 January 2022. Send to dot2022@fu-berlin.de .
– Registration of individual participants with abstracts has been extended until 31 January 2022 via https://www.conftool.pro/dot2022/
Registration fee of €120/€60 (reduced) is valid until 31 January 2022.
– Further information: https://dot2022.de/en/
5. 3-year Post-doc Position: “Interreligious Communication in and between the Latin-Christian and the Arabic-Islamic Sphere”, University of Konstanz
Requirements: PhD-degree and appropriate number of publications; general interest in the historical rela-tions between Jews, Christians, and Muslims; Very good reading skills in Arabic and/or Latin and Romance languages; German skills are not required but will make communication in Konstanz easier; within the project, the language of communication is English.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/apply-3-year-post-doc-interreligious-communication-in-and-between-the-latin-christian-and-the-arabic-islamic-sphere-konstanz-2022-25?e=82aeb6c61d
6. Prix de thèse Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans 2022
Le GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans et l’Institut d’étude de l’Islam et des sociétés du monde musul-man (IISMM, UAR 2500) organisent en 2022 la neuvième édition du Prix de thèse Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans. Sont éligibles des travaux soutenus en français ou en France entre le 1er janvier 2020 et le 31 décembre 2021, dans toutes les disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales.
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 14 janvier 2022. Information : https://irmc.hypotheses.org/3352
7. Uppsala University is seeking a lecturer in Semitic languages with specialization in Arabic, particularly in Arabic literature and/or media.
Deadline 21st January.
Please find the details in the job announcement, at:
https://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=440047
8. Exeter Monday Majlis schedule for the Spring Term – all are welcome to register for sessions and join us.
10th January: Professor Miriam Künkler (Münster Institute for Advanced Study) will talk about her research on the history of female religious authority in Islam: Wither Female Religious Authority?
To register click here:
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtdOGprzgoHNE69OHi9fc0IrNbt0_N4Cbd
Upcoming Majalis:
17th January – NOTE: 4.30pm start: Professor Michael Cooperson (UCLA) will talk about his latest project: writing a new history of Classical Arabic Literature.
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEtcu-uqT4sGtOhimMJqVw6FNBMHvt0nDkS
24th January: Professor David Vishanoff (University of Oklahoma) will talk about his latest research: “Psalms of the Muslim Prophet David: Reconstructing a Document of Early Islamic Asceticism”
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAlf-ivpz8sG9ahJbnqia-mXG9g3XDdakBS
31st January: Professor Christian Lange (Utrecht) will talk about his research on “Sensory History” as an emerging paradigm in Islamic Studies.
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAtc-mgrz8rHdedjqnYg1JA20VG6rRTwDiS
7th February: Professor Richard McGregor (Vanderbilt University) discussing his research on the Devotional Object in Islam: “Tomb Dressing as an Islamic Ritual for the Dead in Premodern Egypt and Syria”
https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqd-6spjgpHdxLvqF1oNFeEwg3ztxmrx3v
The Monday Majlis is an informal online gathering weekly, coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. Each week, we meet with a scholar to discuss their new programme of research or one of their recent publications. Advance registration is required via the link below. Please register by 0900 on the Monday morning of the Majlis.
9. Dr. Maxim Romanov is offering two Ph.D. positions in the project “The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History” (EIS1600). Each position is 2+2 years. The deadline for applications is March 31, 2022.
Successful applicants will work on one of the case studies of the project and will write and defend a Ph.D. thesis on the topic of their choice, within a selected case study. Descriptions of both positions and detailed information on the application process can be found at the following links: https://tinyurl.com/PhD01; https://tinyurl.com/PhD02. The project is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program (https://tinyurl.com/EIS1600). It is hosted at the Institute of Asian and African Studies (Islamic Studies Division) of the University of Hamburg.
- January 04, 2022
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Webinar Series – Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA), SOAS
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 20th January 2022 at 7 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 19 January
Samer Akkach
Naẓar: The Question of Vision in Islamic Art and Architect
Abstract: Naẓar, literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’, thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one’s personal belief. Peering through the lens of naẓar, this seminar will shed light on aspects of these entanglements to provide insights into how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture and underlie the production of Islamic art and architecture.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 3rd February 2022 at 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 February
María Gómez López
Cartobiography: an experiential mapping of the world
Abstract: In this presentation, we will explore the growing presence of territorial depictions through a critical gaze and personal experience of place in contemporary art from the Arab world. In some works, the canonical map is manipulated and subverted with the purpose of evidencing its shortcomings. Other pieces reconfigure, and even transcend, the cartographic lexicon to explore alternative forms of spatial representation, seeking to articulate a more diverse and experiential narration of the world. Behind both types of projects lies a reconsideration of the definition, the relationship with and the narration of the places we traverse. This, in turn, evidences the inherent need of human beings – geographical beings – to learn and convey the territory through their experience of it.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 3rd March 2022 at 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 2 March
Isabelle Dolezalek and Mattia Guidetti
Interpretations of Objects from the Islamic Lands during the Age of Enlightenment
Abstract: The study and interpretation of medieval and early modern objects from Islamic lands in Europe was revived during the eighteenth century. Efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were produced, and these Islamicate objects were classified and given a new place in history. With reference to well-known objects, in this seminar we will explore the approaches and new interpretations proposed.
RESEARCH SEMINAR IN ISLAMIC ART (ReSIA)
SOAS, University of London – School of Arts
Thursday 17th March 2022 6 pm (UK time)
On Zoom
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Please register with Matty Bradley: mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 16 March
Darka Bilić
Mobility on the borders of the Empire: Shared Spaces of the Caravanserais in Ottoman Balkans
Abstract: The process of islamization and integration of western Balkans within the Ottoman-Islamic cultural norms during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was, among others, conducted through urbanization. The central government in Istanbul stimulated the construction and maintenance of roads, bridges, and caravanserais, as well as the broader infrastructure that enabled both the development of trade and fulfilled key military functions in this border province. The proposed talk will focus on the different types of buildings built along the trade routes in the geographic area of western Balkans from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Various examples of caravanserais as the ones in Sarajevo, Skopje, Počitelj and Vrana will be examined from the aspect of architectural design, their formal and functional characteristics. The recounts of many travellers – members of different religions, cultures and social classes – who used caravanserais for lodging are a valuable source of information about their aspect and conditions of lodging, but also in general of the conditions of travel through the Ottoman Balkans.
2. Reed College – Visiting Assistant Professor History and Humanities (Africa, Middle East, or South Asia)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62776
Closing date: 21.3.22
3. The British Library – Situations of Delicacy and Embarrassment: Ill-considered Favours in 1830s Persia
- December 31, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.‘A Mamluk-Venetian Memorandum on Asian Trade, AD 1503’
F. Apellaniz
2. Virtual Panel on “Arab Media Between Conflict and Peace” Recap
On Tuesday 7th of December, AMS hosted a virtual panel discussion on “Arab Media Between Conflict & Peace.”
The panel, hosted in advance of our upcoming issue on Media & Peace, discussed how media hampers or promotes peace in the region.
Our distinguished panelists included Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Philip Seib; Professor Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park; Nour Halabi, Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds who stepped in for Professor Christa Salamandra, Deputy Chair of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, the City University New York; and Jalel Harchaoui, researcher and analyst of North African affairs. The event was moderated by AMS Managing Editor, Sarah El-Shaarawi.
The panelists discussed everything from information warfare in the region, to the role of women in cyberactivism.
To watch the entire panel and hear more about the role of the media in conflict and peace visit our youtube channel here.
3. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series:
Iranian Cinema and Women Poets
Winter-Spring 2022
Series Zoom Registration:
https://uoft.me/IranianCinema-WomenPoets
Friday, Jan 21, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tainted Veil: Desire, Poetry and Subjectivity in the Persianate Literary Culture of South Asia
Razak Khan, University of Göttingen
Friday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m. EST
On Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry: Invisible, Impossible, or Immaterial?
Ahoo Najafian, Macalester College
Friday, February 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
“Salaam Mumbai”: Pasts and Presents of Exchange and Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas
Claire Cooley, Tufts University
Friday, February 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
Tracing the ‘Sensible Transcendental’: Forough Farrokhzad and the Question of Female Subjectivity
Mahrokhsadat Hosseini, University of Sussex
Friday, February 18, 4:00 EST
From Mehrin Negār to Tārā: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tārā” (1978-9)
Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews
Friday, February 25 Reading Week. No lecture.
Friday, March 4, 4:00 p.m. EST
Zīb al-Nisā (d. 1702): A “Hidden” Poetess at The Mughal Court
Pegah Shahbaz, University of Toronto
Friday, March 11, 4:00 p.m. EST
How Frightening Your Makings: Epidemics, Mass Metamorphoses,
and Bodies of the Iranian New Wave Cinema
Farbod Honaarpisheh, Yale University
Friday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. EST
Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically
Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar
Friday, March 25 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 1 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.
Friday, April 8, 4:00 p.m. EST
Desire, Power and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading their Poems
before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic
Mahdi Touraj, King’s University College
Friday, April 15 Good Friday. No Lecture
Friday, April 22, 4:00 p.m. EST
New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema
Farshid Kazemi, Simon Fraser University
- December 28, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
Apply Before:
01/12/2022, 05:00 PM
Full information at:
2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts
Dwight Reynolds
3. Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships tenable at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for the academic year commencing in October 2022.
Visiting Fellowships
Two Visiting Fellowships are offered to support research in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences that has relevance to the study of Islam or the Muslim world, particularly anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.
Applicants would normally be established academics but scholars at the postdoctoral level are also eligible.
The Visiting Fellowship provides a stipend of £5000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 28 January 2022.
Click here for General Information
Click here to Apply
Visiting Research Fellowships
Two Visiting Research Fellowships, open to citizens of countries in Asia or Africa, are intended to encourage interaction among academics from different traditions of learning. Preference will be given to those studying classical Islamic sciences, although other areas in the humanities and social sciences will be considered.
Applicants should normally be at the postdoctoral level or equivalent.
The Visiting Research Fellowship carries a stipend of £4000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Research Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Research Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 11 February 2022.
Click here for General Information
Contact Email:
visiting.fellowships@oxcis.ac.uk
URL:
https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships
4. Workshop – Interdisciplinary Textile Studies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential – March 4
tudies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential
Disiplinler Arası Bağlamda Tekstil Araştırmaları Çalıştayı: Geçmiş, Gelecek ve Olası Çalışmalar
(Türkçe tercümesi aşağıdadır).
Organized by Ivana Jevtić (Koç University) and Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)
We are pleased to call for applications from current graduate students to attend a workshop about textile studies, taking place on Friday March 4 2022 in Istanbul. The one-day event focuses on material from the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific aim of spurring dialogue across periods and disciplines, as well as the immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. Please see below / the end of this message for details on eligibility and application.
Textiles were the second-most traded commodity in world history, second only to grain. In the eastern Mediterranean, silks feature as chief items of display in both Byzantine and Ottoman courts, woolens were worn by soldiers, peasants, and clerics alike, and townsfolk signalled their status and affiliations with expensive clothing, furnishings, and other accoutrements. Work in the textile sector encompassed expert designers, weavers, and tailors, as well as dyers, spinners, and amateur embroiderers. Across the region, men and women raised goats and sheep, and wore woolens, and bought, sold, traded, and re-used cloth both plain and fancy. While textiles shaped life and experience across time and place, they are not often the subject of serious, sustained engagement. This workshop aims to re-center textiles and to showcase the potentials for interdisciplinary study by bringing together academics, curators, professionals, and students.
The workshop is pleased to announce the following speakers and topics:
Sibel ALPASLAN ARÇA, Topkapı Sarayı Museum Osmanlı Kıyafet Koleksiyonu / Clothing from the Ottoman Dynasty; Hülya BİLGİ, Sadberk Hanım, Osmanlı işlemeleri ve işleme tekniği / Ottoman Embroideries and Techniques; Paul HEPWORTH, Conservator, 19th Century Ottoman Textiles / 19. Yüzyıla ait Osmanlı Tekstiller; Ivana JEVTIĆ, Koç University, Representations of Textile in Byzantine frescoes / Bizans Fresklerinde Tekstil Tasvirleri; Recep KARADAĞ, Istanbul Aydın University / Turkish Cultural Foundation, Dyestuffs and metal threads analysis, and textile technologies in Ottoman textiles / Osmanlı tekstillerinde boyalar ve metal iplik analizleri, ve tekstil teknolojileri; Eunice Dauterman MAGUIRE, curator emeritus, Gender-fluid garments, breastfeeding and holy persons in late antiquity/ Geç Antik Çağda Akışkan Cinsiyetli Kıyafetler, Emzirme ve Kutsal Kişiler; Çiğdem MANER, Koç University, Anatolia: A Major Hub for Textile Production During the Bronze and Iron Age / Anadolu: Tunç ve Demir Çağları’nda Önemli Tekstil Üretim Merkezi; Amanda PHILLIPS, University of Virginia, Textile Studies: Interdisciplinary Potentials / Tekstil Araştırmaları: Disiplinler Arası Olasılıklar; Gang WU, former ANAMED postdoctoral fellow; Understanding Byzantine silk production technology / Bizans İpek Üretim Teknolojisini Anlamak; Filiz YENİŞEHİRLİOĞLU, Koç University / VEKAM (Ankara), Tarihi Dokumak: Bir Kentin Gizemi: Sof / Weaving History: The Mystery of a City: Sof (Camlet)
The workshop is sponsored by the Barakat Trust for Islamic Art with the support of Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), the Koç University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM), and the American Research Institute in Turkey’s Istanbul branch.
The workshop will be in Turkish and English, with live translation during the Q&A as necessary.
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Space is limited to ten participants. To apply, please send the following information as a single Word or PDF document, to textileworkshopistanbul2022@gmail.com by 15 January 2022.
- Your name
- Your university and graduate program affiliation
- The name of one professor with whom you are working who can attest to your enrollment and progress in the program
- A CV, two pages maximum
- In a paragraph of about 200 words, please describe any experience you have studying or working with textiles and material culture of any type, including classes, short or summer programs, field or lab work, internships, or other relevant experience.
- In a paragraph of about 300 words, please explain why you would like to participate in the workshop, what you hope to learn, and how it relates to your overall formation as a student and/or future academic or professional.
Applicants will receive notification by the beginning of February 2022.
We are grateful to Hayriye Bilgi for her help with translations from English to Turkish.
5. ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fourth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 3, 2022.
For more details and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
The deadline to apply is April 21, 2022.
For a discount, you will need to apply by March 10, 2022.
6. ONLINE Contemporary Middle East Lecture Series on “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue” by Marina Rustow (Princeton University), SMEI, 18 January 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/18jan2022-the-lost-archive-traces-of-a-caliphate-in-a-cairo-synagogue.html
7. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022
This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africa, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.
8. ONLINE Webinar: “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs” by Marc David Baer (LSE), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 8 March 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth cen-tury, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/08mar2022-the-ottomans-khans-caesars-and-caliphs.html
9. Workshop: “Continuity and Change Throughout the Ottoman Longue Durée”, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, 1-3 April 2022.
Works in progress and early career scholars are especially welcomed. Regional participants prioritized.
Abstracts are due 31 January 2022, submitted to naltikri@umw.edu .
Information: https://maow.umwblogs.org/
10. HYBRID “15th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies”, Center for Euro-pean & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), Athens, 11-14 April 2022
Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
11. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgram a Pilgram? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022
Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Bud-dhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pil-grims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.
Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf
12. Freie Universität Berlin
Department of History and Cultural Studies Institute of Islamic Studies
University Professor of Islamic Studies (Classical Islam) Salary grade: W3 or equivalent Reference code: W3Islamwiss Successful candidates will have an excellent record of research and publications in the field of classical Islam, ideally with a focus on the social, cultural, religious, or philosophical history of Islam and employ innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of English and be able to teach in that language. Their German language level must be at least B1. Their Arabic must also be excellent. Knowledge of an additional Near Eastern language relevant to the field is desirable. Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/english/GK-W3Islamwiss_E.html
13. Several Full-time Open-rank Faculty Positions, Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University, Istanbul
We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas: Early modern Turkish literature; Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender; Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.
Deadline for applications: 29 December 2021. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440
14. Postdoctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies of the Pre-modern Mediterranean in Haifa and Israel, Haifa, 2022-2024
Candidates are invited who demonstrate academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/211124-post-docs-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-hcmh?e=82aeb6c61d
15. Call for Articles: Relations Between Religious Communities (Maghreb Review)
Topics could include: 1. The impact of the Arab-Islamic conquest on Christian and Jewish communities in the region. 2. Andalusia with Western Europe during the Umayyad Period 755-1031 and experiences of travel more broadly. 3. The attitudes of different medieval Muslim empires towards religious difference and minorities. 4. Commercial relations and litigation across religious lines in the medieval and early modern period. Etc.
Deadline for submissions in English or French: 31 January 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-relations-between-religious-communities-maghreb-review?e=82aeb6c61d
16. Articles for Journal “BOAS_insights #2” (“Bonn Oriental and Asian Studies Insights”)
The editors of this online, peer-reviewed and open-access journal call for submissions that cover a wide range of subjects and a large geographical scope within Asian and Middle Eastern Area Studies. We encour-age multi-disciplinary approaches that incorporate diverse perspectives and bridge deeply specialized fields.
Deadline for articles: 28 February 2022. Call for papers, recent issues and further information: https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en; https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en/call-for-papers/call-for-papers
- December 24, 2021
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CALL FOR PAPERS – MESA’s 56th Annual Meeting
December 1-4, 2022 in Denver, Colorado
Deadline: February 17, 2022
The Middle East Studies Association of North America invites and encourages submissions for its 56th Annual Meeting to be held in the fall of 2022. Submissions by students are more than welcome.
MESA is a leading international forum for scholarship, intellectual exchange, and pedagogical innovation. Since its founding in 1966, it has been the hub for academic collaboration within the field of Middle East studies. The meeting features panels and roundtables on a wide variety of topics related to the broader Middle East and North Africa from the 600s until the present. Presentations and discussions are complemented by an exciting film festival of documentaries, features, and shorts related to the region, as well as a comprehensive book exhibit featuring the latest publications in the field, in addition to a variety of other events and opportunities related to academic and professional careers in Middle East studies.
Submissions may be in the form of pre-organized panels, pre-organized roundtables, or individual papers (to be formed into panels by the program committee).
MESA’s purview is primarily the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.
All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system (https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php) which opens on Monday, January 10, 2022 and closes on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Late submissions will not be considered.
Important Links
* Call for Papers & Submission Instructions: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers
Membership is a requirement to submit a proposal. To renew your 2022 membership, login to your myMESA account. To join you will need to create an account in myMESA, complete a profile, and pay the annual dues. Contact Sara Palmer at sara@mesana.org with questions about membership. Preregistration payment is not required until May 15, after the program committee decisions are released.
Please direct questions about submissions to Kat Teghizadeh at kat@mesana.org.
2. Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
| Institution Type: | College / University |
| Location: | District of Columbia, United States |
| Position: | Post-Doctoral Fellow |
Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University
The Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship was established by a generous grant from the State of Qatar to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication; teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester; and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.
Eligibility
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. within the past five years; the Ph.D. degree must be from a university in the United States; applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.
Application Requirements
Cover letter
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Two references*
Academic transcript(s)
Dissertation outline & sample chapter (or published article)
Course proposal for seminar
*Please provide the names and contact information of two professional references. If you are shortlisted for the fellowship, you will be notified in mid-January and asked to submit two recommendation letters. The letters should be emailed directly to CCAS within three weeks of notification.
Applications for the 2022-2023 ADF Fellowship will be due January 31, 2022. Click here to apply.
Questions about the fellowship may be directed to Ms. Dana AlDairani at da603@georgetown.edu.
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Linguicide and Kurdish Theater in Turkey: Seeking the Voice” by Bilal Akar, Kadir Has University, 22 December 2021, 7:30 pm TRT
Since 1991, the Kurdish theater field has faced ongoing effects of the linguicidal policies of the republic and negotiated the changing politics of language and identity. This presentation will focus on the effects of these linguicidal policies on the production of Kurdish theater texts, the limited number of artists who can speak in their mother tongue, the debates on the usage of local dialects, surtitles, and assimilation, hybridization, non-verbal plays, and multilingualism.
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9312750/webinar-linguicide-and-kurdish-theater-turkey-seeking-voice
4. Colloque international : « Le pouvoir du rire – rire et pouvoir. Humour, discours et politique (avec un focus spécial sur le monde arabo-islamique) », Université de Craiova (Roumanie), INALCO (Paris) et Université de Lyon 2, Craiova, 19-20 mai 2022
Arme fatale contre le cynisme, la sottise, la langue de bois et la censure, l’humour démasque l’arbitraire, brise les idoles et s’attaque aux tabous. Toutes les aires géographiques et culturelles sont concernées (dont bien sûr le monde arabo-islamique).
Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/pouvoir-rire-rire-pouvoir-humour-discours-politique
5. Assistant/Associate Professor of Classical/Premodern Arabic Literature
American University in Cairo
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62583
Dec 31 2021 closing date.
6. Assistant Professor of History: Africa/Global South (Focus Middle East), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth
We seek applicants whose research is grounded in Africa; time period and regional specialization within Africa are open. Scholars are welcome who treat and connect varied regions/nations of the continent, or who tie Africa to other geographic areas, such as South Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean as well as scholars whose research incorporates non-European languages and sources.
Deadline for applications: 16 January 2022.
Information: https://jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/497422/assistant-professor-of-history-africaglobal-south
7. Articles on Communication of culture and Islamic Fundamentalism, for Special Issue of Frontiers in Communication
Topics: Fundamentalist Islam and less advantaged gender, sex, religious and ethnic groups. Conceptualization of outgroups, terrorism, and Jihad through the Islamic fundamentalist lens. Interculturality and Islamic fundamentalism. Theorization of Islamic fundamentalism in the literature of culture, communication, and me-dia studies. Islamic fundamentalists, propaganda, and media. Cultural impacts of the Taliban’s taking over of Afghanistan, locally and globally. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26194/communication-of-culture-and-islamic-fundamentalism
8. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year
Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.
Deadline for applications: 20 January, 2022.
Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
- December 21, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
December 18, 2021 through May 15, 2022
2. Proposals for New Book Series “Mediterranean Counterpoints”, Malta University Press and Berghahn Publishers
Edited by Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California) and Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University), the series seeks to publish monographs and edited volumes on any humanistic or social scientific dimension of the Mediterranean.
Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2022.
Information: https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/bookseries/mediterraneancounterpoints
3. CFA: Summer School: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
Call for Applications
Summer School:
The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire
(16th-early 20th Centuries)
Convenor: Dr Paolo Sartori / Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia (ÖAW)
When: June 27-July 1 2022 (max. 10/12 students)
Where: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Deadline: 28 February 2022
Outline
The summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the early modern and modern period. Here the term “archive” is used in a broad and all-encompassing sense, which includes all possible activities of record-keeping. The goal of this initiative is to draw attention on practices of information-gathering and knowledge production on the Muslim communities inhabiting the vast area encompassing Inner Asia, Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus from the fall of the Khanate of Kazan (1552) to the end of the Russian Empire. In addition, by bringing archival science into conversation with Russian and Islamic studies, the summer school promotes an extended reflection on the institutions and the individuals (archivists, historians, Orientalists, dragomans, and go-betweens of all walks of life) who played a significant role in the creation of the imperial repositories that today preserve records about Islam and Muslim communities in Central Eurasia.
By offering hands-on reading sessions and masterclasses, which are based on material in Russian, Church Slavonic, Eastern Turkic (Tatar and Chaghatay), and Ottoman Turkish, the summer school offers a wide range of activities to familiarize students with writing, documentary, and archival practices in Tsarist-ruled Central Eurasia. Reading sessions will offer ample room for practical exercises in the fields of palaeography and diplomatics. Special attention will be given to records crafted in Cyrillic handwriting (including skoropis) as well as in the Arabic script.
The ideal target of the summer school is a group of max. 10/12 graduate students.
The basic requirement is knowledge of Russian and one Turkic language and willingness to work with records in manuscript form.
The programme of the initiative is a combination of
Reading sessions: faculty members and students read documents and discuss aspects of palaeography and diplomatics, as well as well as practices of filing, preservation, and creation of archives;
Lectures: faculty members offer master-classes in which they reflect on the challenges and the potentials of working in and with records on Islam now preserved in the archives of the former Russian Empire.
Application
Applicants are required to submit a CV, a motivation letter, and a letter of recommendation to paolo.sartori@oeaw.ac.at
The language of instruction is English. Non-native speakers are required to have a command of English equivalent to at least TOEFL 550.
Reading knowledge of Russian and one Turkic language (Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, or Eastern Turkic/Chaghatay) is required.
Deadline: February 28 2022
The organisers will cover participants’ tuition costs, as well as hotel accommodation and lunches for the duration of the course. We will also subsidize travel costs, providing up to a maximum of $500 for travel from within Europe and $850 for travel from further afield. Once selected, participants will be responsible for making their own travel arrangements, and can claim reimbursement upon arrival in Vienna. Selected participants will be required by May 1 2022 to provide documentation showing that they have purchased the necessary flight or travel tickets; anyone failing to observe this commitment will be removed from the course.
Contact Info:
Dr. Paolo Sartori, Senior Research Associate
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)
Contact Email: paolo.sartori@oeaw.ac.at
URL: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/summer-school
4. The Islamic College has organized an Arabic Course for those who want to learn the language of the Islamic revelation.
The course has three semesters which are designed to prepare students with no previous knowledge of Arabic to read and understand Quranic and classical Islamic texts.
At the end of the course, students would have developed the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and grammar. Students who successfully complete the course will be awarded an Islamic College Certificate of attendance.
Arabic Online Language Course
Beginner (Saturday), Intermediate (Sunday), Advanced (Friday)
Starting: 10 January 2022
To register please complete this form or contact the Short Course Department by email: shortcourses@islamic-college.ac.uk
5. Durham University: Assistant Professor of History in the period c.900-c.1250 (CE) (HIST22-3)
The Department of History at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor of History in the period c.900-c.1250 (CE) whose research focuses on the Islamicate World (including North Africa, Sicily and al-Andalus, the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Khorosan and northern India).
Closing Date: 26 January 2022 at Midnight (UK)
https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001534&lang=en&src=JB10200
6. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2022–2023 grant competition.
*** NEW *** Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.
Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.
Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.
Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.
The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2022. For further information, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center website: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.
Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center, with any questions.
7. I am pleased to announce the publication of ChrysoCollate, a free computer program for collation and critical edition in any language (unicode) developed by Sébastien Moureau (FNRS, UCLouvain).
This tool offers:
- two modes: collation mode and edition mode;
- a collation table with automatic distinctive colours and previsional completion of readings;
- annotation tools for the collation table, including a system of references to the images of the witnesses that allows you to navigate easily in your textual tradition;
- automatic apparatus, according to the readings that are chosen by the editor;
- a stemma codicum checker;
- a translation box to manage and synchronise your translation;
- exportation in various formats (odt, cte, etc.).
ChrysoCollate is freely available at https://uclouvain.be/chrysocollate/.
Kind regards,
Sébastien Moureau,
Chercheur qualifié at the FNRS,
Professor at the UCLouvain.
8. Volume 2 of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World
https://brill.com/view/journals/mcmw/mcmw-overview.xml
The Journal is available online and in open access, and all the articles are downloadable.
9. Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art (Routledge, March 2022)
Edited by Onur Ozturk, Xenia Gazi, and Sam Bowker. For the book’s content see: https://www.routledge.com/Deconstructing-the-Myths-of-Islamic-Art/Ozturk-Gazi-Bowker/p/boo…
Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes.
Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has continued to evolve and shape our understanding of the various civilizations of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Situated in this field, this book addresses how universities, museums, and other educational institutions can continue to challenge stereotypical or homogeneous notions of Islam and Islamic art. It reviews subtle and overt mythologies through scholarly research, museum collections and exhibitions, classroom perspectives, and artists’ initiatives. This collaborative volume addresses a conspicuous and persistent gap in the literature, which can only be filled by recognizing and resolving persistent myths regarding Islamic art from diverse academic and professional perspectives.
10. The Persian Prison Poem
R. Gould
11. “Iran. Five Millennia of Art and Culture” An exhibition in Berlin
04.12.2021 to 20.03.2022
For the first time in a Berlin institution, the cultural history of Iran – from the early civilisations through to the modern era – is the focus of a major art-historical survey exhibition. Some 360 objects from the Sarikhani Collection in London will be on display, alongside exhibits from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The works on exhibit bear witness to the central role that Iran played as a site of innovation, as a melting pot and cultural powerhouse connecting Africa, Asia and Europe. Additionally, it presents a rich kaleidoscope of the cultural creativity of urban societies.
The Fascinating Cultural Landscape of Iran
A fascinating cultural landscape developed over thousands of years in Iran. Situated between deserts, mountain ranges and bodies of water, the region was home to great historical civilisations, yet its artistic achievements are unknown to many outside of scholarly circles. This despite the fact that Iran is not only located in one of the oldest and most important cultural regions in the world, but has also been home to key cultural, artistic and scientific trends and discoveries that have had wide-ranging impacts, reaching all the way to Europe. The exhibition features exquisite works of art from the Sarikhani Collection, complemented by unique pieces from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It takes visitors on a journey through time and the country’s rich cultural heritage. Some of the highlights along the way include the empires of the Achaemenids and Sasanids, the formation of a Persian Islamic culture, the extraordinary artistic achievements of the 9th to 13th centuries, and the Golden Age of the Safavids.
A “Cultural Highway” Connecting Asia, Africa and Europe
The exhibition will explore the central role that Iran has played in the context of cross-regional political, economic and cultural relations. As a “cultural highway” connecting Asia, Africa and Europe, Persia is a place of extraordinary ethnic and linguistic diversity. Time and again, migration and the exchange of cultural knowledge and technologies along the Silk Road(s) have formed the foundations for innovation and creativity. From the early civilisations, Elam and the ancient Kings of Persis with their seat in Persepolis to the incursions of Genghis Khan and the important imperial city of Isfahan right through to the beginning of the modern era, the evolution of Iran is arranged into a chronological tour, illustrated with traditions, transformations and complex relationships.
Five Thousands Years of Culture
The exhibition – a must-see for lovers of painting and ceramics in particular – shows how, over the course of several thousand years, a specifically Iranian cultural identity emerged from Farsi as a language of instruction and cultural production, an identity that was continuously transforming, particularly among the cross-regional networks of traders and scholars and at moments of radical change, such as war or forced migration. Time and again, invaders and invaded alike adopted the language and culture, renewing and re-forming it as they went.
“Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture” is curated by Ute Franke together with Stefan Weber from the Museum für Islamische Kunst and Ina Sandmann from the Sarikhani Collection. Alongside this exhibition, the James-Simon-Galerie is presenting a special feature concentrating on illuminated manuscripts, titled The Garden as a Place of Refuge: Persian Illuminated Manuscripts Meet Berlin-Style Allotment Idyll in the book art cabinet of the Pergamonmuseum.
During the entire exhibition in collaboration with various organisations and the Friends of the Museum für Islamische Kunst runs an extensive programme of events.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hirmer Verlag.
Link to the website
https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/iran-five-millennia-of-art-and-culture/
12. “The Garden as a Place of Refuge” Manuscript and photo exhibition in Berlin
30.10.2021 to 20.02.2022
Pergamonmuseum
Whether it’s garden parties or romance in the park, the dream of retreating to places that are suffused with beautiful memories is no new thing. Gardens and parks have always been alluring locations. Places where you can enjoy a barbecue with friends, escape the crowds of the city, or relax under the trees or a gazebo and gaze out onto the verdant landscape. This is particularly true in arid regions like Iran, where cultivated gardens with cooling courses of water and the shade of the trees form idyllic refuges. This social function of gardens as well as the major significance of the culture of gardening as an independent art form find rich expression in Persian poetry and illuminated manuscripts.
As an accompaniment to the exhibition Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture, this special display in the book art cabinet of the Museum für Islamische Kunst weaves together the culture of the gardens of Iran and the “longing for the countryside” of today’s city-dwellers. Persian illustrated manuscripts demonstrate in intricate detail and vibrant colours the enchantment of gardens. In this display, they are juxtaposed with the promise of freedom of urban garden allotments, holiday shacks, and the altered significance of parks and gardens in the era of the pandemic.
Link to the exhibition The Garden as a Place of Refuge (smb.museum)
- December 18, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Second International Congress: “Dynamics of South-South Relations. Permanence and Evolution of the Political Alliances of the Global South (1810-2022)”, Autonomous University of Madrid, 22-23 February 2022
The objective of this Congress is to deepen understanding of the political, economic, and cultural ties estab-lished between the nations of the Global South by reflecting on the transformations, continuities and breaks that South-South ties have experienced from the decolonization processes to the present day.
Information: https://redessursur.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/cfp-ii-congress-south-south
2. Conference: “Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy”, Bard College, New York, 31 March – 1 April 2021
The conference 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 nar-ratives written in poetry and prose.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8532192/cfp-forms-and-functions-islamic-philosophy
3. Session on “Negotiating Religion, Gender, and Travel in the (Arabic) Medieval Mediterranean” during the “57th International Congress on Medieval Studies”, Western Michigan University, 9-14 May 2021
People in the medieval Mediterranean were connected by networks of trade, family and knowledge. This panel aims to explore how Spanish, French, Arabic, and Italian authors imagined the people who lived these networks and their effects, including enslaved peoples, scholars and merchants.
4. Workshop on “Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement in the Premodern Mediterranean”, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, 28-30 June 2022
Welcome are papers relating to the three Abrahamic religions as well as numerous pagan, local and hetero-dox cults and relating to the concepts of time, space and purity; to rituals and practice of purity; personhood and purity; the relationship between the personal and the communal in respect to im/purity; the transmission of beliefs, texts and practices across the multi-religious/ethnic region; purity and social hierarchies; medical discourses and purity; Im/purity and emotions.
Deadline for abstracts 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-purity-pollution-purification-and-defilement-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-28-30-june-2022-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d
5. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
Qualification: Diploma/MA in Turkish Studies, mastery of the Turkish language and competence in language teaching, skills in Ottoman Turkish and in the translation of literary texts are desirable, several years of teaching experience at institutions of post-secondary level education in the field of Turkish.
Deadline for applications: 26 December 2021.
Information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/716140
6. Interdisciplinary Scholar of Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Professor (Tenure Track / Open Rank), New York University Abu Dhabi
We seek a scholar and educator focused on the Middle East, North Africa, or Indian Ocean world whose work and research reflect an interdisciplinary approach.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/91523
7. Assistant Professor in History of the Pre-1500 Islamicate World, Central Washington Univer-sity
Qualifications: PhD in History with a specialization in pre-1500 Islamicate world history. Ability to teach cross-listed courses in Asian Studies, and/or Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Experience in teaching intro-ductory world history, cross-cultural, or borderlands classes. Experience incorporating multicultural perspec-tives into teaching for 21st century leadership.
Deadline for applications: 3 January 2022.
Information: https://careers.cwu.edu/psc/careers/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Ac-tion=U
8. Postdoctoral Research Associate on Contemporary Politics at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, NES, Princeton University
Applicants can be from the disciplines of history, politics, economics and international relations. The appoint-ment will be for the year, 1 September 2022 through 31 August 2023, with the possibility of renewal.
Deadline for applications: 3 January 2022.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=23761
9. Post-Doc: Byzantine Studies (University of Notre Dame)
Application Deadline: February 1, 2022
10. Fellowship Applications 2022-23 at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, University of Arizona, MENAS
CASA offers advanced level training in Arabic language and culture to qualified American students at the American University in Cairo and Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or per-manent residents and should have a minimum of 3 years of formal instruction in Arabic prior to joining CASA.
Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022.
Information: https://casa.sbs.arizona.edu/applying-casa-i-program
11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art against Authoritarianism: Aesthetic Activism in Post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa” (IB Tauris)
By analyzing a variety of art practices that are articulated with different collective struggles in the region, this book elucidates the vitality and creativity of anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian artistic production whose praxis is enmeshed with grassroots movements across MENA.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.
12. An Online Course in Persian Calligraphy, Nasta’liq Script
Dates: Friday 11 February 2022 — Friday 15 April 2022
There are ten places available
Price: £300 for ten classes
Pack of materials (sent by post): £25 UK, £35 International
The registration deadline is Friday 11 February 2022. Students requiring a pack of materials are advised to enrol at least 2 weeks prior to the course start date to leave enough time to receive the pack.
For any enquiries please contact charlotte.westbrook@iranheritage.org, Tel: 020 3651 2124
Organised by: Iran Heritage Foundation.
For information and to register, see:
https://www.iranheritage.org/calligraphy-110222.html#pay
13. Spring 2022 Twelve-Week Persian Immersion Program
Dates: February 14 – May 6, 2022
Fees: $3500 (including tuition and accommodation)
Mejlis Institute is inviting applications for a twelve-week Persian immersion program in Spring 2022 at our new location in Lori Province of Armenia. Participants will be provided with full–board accommodation and have a chance to spend three months fully immersing themselves in Persian while enjoying life in a beautiful mountenous region. For more details, please visit our website:
https://mejlisinstitute.org/persian-immersion-program
- December 14, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Call for Papers, ‘Islam in the RE Classroom’
Deadline 28 February 2022
You will be notified of the acceptance of your paper by 17 March 2022.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, and details of your current affiliation, to philip.wood@aku.edu
Papers will be twenty minutes long, followed by ten minutes of Q&A.
We warmly welcome submissions to present papers from teachers, academics and policymakers of different kinds.
These twin online workshops aim to enhance the quality of learning and teaching about Islam at GCSE and A-Levels. They aid both the academic-theoretical and practical-pedagogical aspects of conducting Religious Education through drawing on the best practices in the field in terms of curriculum design, agreed syllabi, textbooks, lesson design and delivery. They are jointly hosted by The Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) for UK and the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London (AKU-ISMC) and will be held virtually on Saturday 25th of June and Saturday 2nd of July 2022.
On one hand, the workshops aim to make teacher-practitioners more confident in teaching about Islam in mainstream secondary schools in the UK. On the other, they aim to initiate dialogue between the key stakeholders (include curriculum designers, researchers in relevant disciplines, PGCE RE faculty and trainee teachers) to ensure that Islam is represented with greater complexity in textbooks and the classroom.
The study of Islam and Muslims is approached through an inter-disciplinary lens that acknowledges the role of historical and socio-political contexts, ethnic and regional diversities, and Muslims’ overlapping identities. Thus, the lived manifestations of Islam, far from being a monolith, are a mosaic, one comprising a multitude of interpretations, traditions, spaces and practices. This approach to engaging with religion does not only promote human agency and question authority, but also invites curiosity and creativity on the part of teachers and students.
A movement away from essentialist and reified representations of Islam (focusing on beliefs and rituals alone) can also create spaces to engage with the aesthetic, artistic, mystical and poetic expressions of faith over time and geography. Adopting a nuanced approach that takes into account the cultural differences and beliefs that evolved over time and geography, the workshop will provide the much-needed stimulus to the critical discussion of Islam in a secondary RE classroom. The recent works also points towards a worldview based approach that can be crucial towards the understanding of Islam(s) in RE classrooms.
Sessions in the workshop will invite discussion of Islam in different civilisational contexts: instead of seeing Islam as the automatic or inevitable product of a scripture, we will consider how different Islams were produced in different environments, and how these environments invited different interpretations of scripture or led certain parts of scripture to be prioritised over others.
We pursue this interest in how religion is defined, and its practical effects, in two areas where the academic study of religion has had greatest impact, namely the concept of Abrahamic religion, and the identification of different claims to have authoritative interpretation. The enquiry of the study of religion in universities has often been divorced from RE in secondary schools, so this workshop is an attempt to see whether and where there are insights from work in this area that could be brought into schools. Here we ask whether the concept of Abrahamic religion is a useful one? What are its effects on the religions that are included as Abrahamic (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) and those that are excluded (such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism)? Likewise, we ask whether an explicit search for agendas in the interpretation of scripture can be an emancipatory tool, in an RE environment where religious leaders often have a role in defining curricula and teaching resources, or whether it is an unjustified intrusion of a sceptical approach into school teaching. The diversity of religious traditions has rightly been an important theme in recent discussions of RE, but here we invite discussion of the other side of this issue, namely why certain agents consider certain kinds of diversity in religion threatening and how they seek to police this diversity.
The workshop also considers the broader social and political context of RE in Britain. What role can RE play in integrating different groups, in a modern Britain where ever larger numbers of children are members of religious diasporas and are highly conscious of political events overseas. The treatment of conflict in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir or Xinjiang are only the most salient recent examples of how global politics might affect the self-identity of Muslim students. One session considers this problem through the lens of government priorities, and how schools should relate to this. Another considers how students might themselves read scriptures, and whether reading scriptures together might develop understanding and solve shared problems. What presumptions do students and teachers bring to scriptures and how does this affect interpretation? And does the development of shared solutions to moral problems represent a step towards social cohesion or the compromise of the core values of a religious tradition?
Finally the workshop also considers pedagogical reflection. Firstly, how diversity can be taught in the classroom: how should we explore the existence of multiple Islams? How are textual traditions embodied in different social and cultural contexts? And what kinds of reflection should this stimulate amongst students? This is a recurrent issue of concern for RE teachers on social media. Secondly, we invite participants to consider how the presence of different kinds of Muslim students offer distinctive challenges and opportunities for the teaching of Islam. Research on RE has often highlighted the importance of the subject to allow students to explore existential and soteriological questions that they cannot pose in other contexts, including those without a formal background in a religious tradition: is this as true for Muslim students as for non-Muslims? To what extent can arts and aesthetics can open possibilities of inter-disciplinary bridges towards the teaching and learning of RE? These pedagogical reflections can include discussions of recordings of teaching practice.
We intend to publish selected proceedings with the ISMC’s Muslim Contexts series with Edinburgh University Press.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Feriel Bouhafa is temporary University Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. She specialises in Islamic philosophy, especially the philosophy of law, and she is particularly interested in the Arabic reception of Aristotle and the thought of Ibn Rushd. (25th June)
Dr. Richard Kueh is Her Majesty’s inspector of Schools and the National subject lead for Religious Education at Ofsted. He has previously been Vice-Principal of a secondary school and RE Specialist for a multi-academy trust. (25th June)
Dr. Anders Ackfeldt is a member of the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University in Sweden. He specialises in the study of how Islam is expressed through the medium of hip-hop. In particular, he is interested in African-American Islam and theoretical perspectives on the study of Islam. (2nd July)
Dr. Farid Panjwani is Dean of the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, in Karachi, Pakistan. He was formerly a member of the Institute of Education in London (now part of UCL) and AKU-ISMC.
Register below:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIodumupz4vHtOkaPAS5KsWmvNgHOqeQxK3
2. The Middle East and North Africa Forum at the University of Cambridge is launching a part-time fellowship, covering the following themes – grand strategy, geoeconomics, warfare, and gender and security matters.
Deadline: January 7, 2022
Questions to:
Elena Ruxandra Seniuc
Strategic Partnerships | MENAF Committee
committee@cmenaf.org | www.cmenaf.org
3. UCLA: Online conference:
Conference on Minoritization in Middle Eastern Geopolitics
Jan. 6 and 7, 9am – 5.40 pm PST
Despite the growing academic interest that Middle Eastern minorities have continued to receive over the decades since the publication of Albert Hourani’s Minorities in the Arab World in 1947, the theme of minoritization has remained a marginal topic in Middle Eastern and North African studies. In this international conference that builds on a series of workshops and lectures funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over the last two years, we revisit from multidisciplinary, geographic and historical perspectives the concept of minority (ethnic and religious). Our objective is to engage with minorities from the angles of the humanities and social sciences by considering the histories, ethnographies, and artistic approaches of ethnic and religious groups, and to interrogate the concept of minority itself.
For full programme and to register for Zoom, see:
https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15226
4. Grabar Travel Grant
Deadline: January 7, 2022
This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions.
Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.
Applications must include the following five components and be submitted in a single pdf to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by January 7, 2022:
- Application cover sheet, available here
- A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
- Curriculum vitae
- Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s).
- Abstract of the paper to be presented.
In addition, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.
Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowship
5. UCLA Iranian Studies
From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series
The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UCLA Program in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia, invite scholars and graduate students from across the world to participate in the following research program: From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series, which will take place via Zoom on a weekly basis between January and June 2022.
The reading group and workshop series are convened by Domenico Ingenito (Associate Professor of Persian Literature, NELC) and organized in the context of the UCLA Afghan Scholars at Risk Program, coordinated by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Humanities Division. The series takes place in conjunction with the cycle of workshops Afghanistan through Afghan Voices, organized by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, in collaboration with the University of Washington, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.
Reading Group Registration Details: Prospective participants may join the reading group by submitting a short description of their background in Persian language and literature to the following email address: dingenito@ucla.edu
For more information:
6. Persian Language Short Course
The Islamic College has organized a Persian Language Course for those who want to learn modern Farsi. The Course has three semesters.
This course offers an excellent opportunity to master a very important language which provides an entry into a rich and diverse culture. Since Persian has not changed significantly in over a millennium, the basic grammar for the classical and modern forms of the language is virtually the same and is relatively easy to learn.
One of the benefits of learning Farsi is the ability to access a huge body of literature and sources of Islamic knowledge.
The Course Registration Fee is £50/semester. The registration deadline is 25th December 2021.
An attendance Certificate would be granted at the end of the course.
Starting: 25th December 2021
Beginners: Every Saturday 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Intermediate: Every Sunday 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Advance: Every Tuesday 5:00 -7:00 pm
Register here: http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/registration/
- December 11, 2021
- by Andrew Newman
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