Categories : Academic items

1.International Workshop and Edited Volume on “Practices of Preaching in the Islamic Context – Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech” by the Junior Research Group “Islamic Theology in Context: Science and Society”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt University of Berlin, 17-18 March 2022

Given the centrality of preaching in religious proceedings, this workshop seeks to bring together scholars who work on the performative, textual, spatial, and material aspects of Islamic religious speech in past and present.

Information: https://www.islamische-theologie.hu-berlin.de/de/forschung/nachwuchsforschungsgruppe-isla-mische-theologie-im-kontext-wissenschaft-und-gesellschaft-1/arbeit-nwg2/cfp-practices-of-preaching_bit.pdf   Contact: Dr. Ayşe Almıla Akca (almila.akca@hu-berlin.de )

 

 

 

 

2. International Symposium Series: “From Sahn-ı Seman to Darülfünun – VI: The First Ottoman University (Darülfünun) and Reformation of Higher Education in Turkey”, Istanbul, 12-13 May 2022

The main focus will be Darülfünun and its organization and departments. Thanks to this institution, many new disciplines were introduced to Ottoman and then Republican intellectual life. This symposium will scrutinize ways through which the institutional change from the medrese to the university in the late Ottoman period took place.

Information: sahniseman20yy@istanbul.edu.tr

 

 

 

 

3. Workshop: “Canon or Code? Standardizing and Transmitting Islamic law”, CanCode-Project, University of Bergen, 16-18 June 2021

The workshop will focus on the processes behind the concepts “canonization” and “codification” seeking to keep a comparative focus across the pre-modern/modern divide and using a diversity of empirical cases. Thematic panels: 1) Courts as a Locus for Standardization; 2) Standardization of fiqh; 3) Transmission of Knowledge; 4) Translation and Canonization.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2022.

Information: https://www.uib.no/en/cancode/149132/canon-or-code-standardising-and-transmitting-islamic-law

 

 

 

 

4. Conference “Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 6-9 July 2022

Conference themes will include: Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal borders; The medieval and early modern, with an emphasis on the Ottoman, Red Sea; Traditional maritime technologies; the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam; Religion and the sea.

Extended deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://redsea10.ims.forth.gr/call-for-papers/

 

 

 

 

5. Workshop: “History and Anthropology through Literature: Approaches & Methodologies to the Study of Medieval and Modern Texts and Manuscripts”, Trinity College Dublin, July 2022

The Cairo Genizah is a treasure trove of medieval and early-modern Arabic manuscripts stored away in Egypt’s Ben Ezra Synagogue over nearly a thousand years. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together scholars of manuscript sciences, history, anthropology, literary criticism, philosophy, and sociology to chal-lenge the investigation of history, sociology, and anthropology though pre-modern literature and its manu-scripts.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://t.co/Sy28Pbzp9x

 

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor for Middle East History, Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington

Historians focused on any aspect of the Middle East past are encouraged to apply. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise that falls between the years 500 and 1500, or in: public history, history of science, history of medicine, history of technology, economic history, cultural history.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://gonzaga.peopleadmin.com/postings/16549

 

 

 

7. Scholarships in Religious Studies for Masters Students at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Students pursing an Advanced Certificate in Religious Studies, as part of their MA studies in participating departments and units, engage in the study of religious phenomena from a historical point of view and from a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and cross-disciplinary perspectives.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2022.

Information: https://religion.ceu.edu/scholarships-ma-studies

 

 

 

 

8. Fellowship Opportunities 2022-2023 at the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)

ARCE offers funded fellowships and a research associate program for a wide range of scholars looking to conduct research in Egypt. Previous fellows have represented the fields of anthropology, archaeology, archi-tecture, fine art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Is-lamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music.

Information: https://www.arce.org/fellowships-landing

 

 

 

 

9. Chapters for “Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ethics”

Chapters are invited for: Scriptural Ethics: Sunna as Moral Model – Scriptural Narrative Ethics; Theology: Moral Ontology and Epistemology (taḥsīn and taqbīḥ); Philosophy: Utopia; Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) & Legal Theory (Uṣūl): Sources of Moral Normativity; Adab: Excellent Moral Qualities (faḍāʾil & shamāʾi) and eulogies (manāqib) – Consoling the Grief-Stricken (tasliyat al-muṣāb).

Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-chapters-routledge-handbook-islamic-ethics

 

 

 

10. Mediating Scripture: Judeo-Persian Tobit as Global Crossroads,” coinciding with the display of the Judeo-Persian biblical manuscripts at Louvre Abu Dhabi.   

Dec 8 and 9, 2021

You will find the program at www.tobitsymposium.com.  Here is a direct link to registration site.

Description: This symposium is occasioned by the recent recovery of the only-known Judeo-Persian copy of the apocryphal Book of Tobit, commissioned by Giambattusta Vecchietti in 1600 in the Gulf city of Lār.  The interdisciplinary and global crossroads of manuscript provides an important case study of global early modernity. A two-day symposium brings prominent scholars into conversation about the significance of the global iterations and variations of the remarkable story and iconography of the Book of Tobit. For the occasion of this symposium, the manuscript has traveled back to the region and will be exhibited at Louvre Abu Dhabi.

 

 

 

 

11. Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series

University of Manchester

Online Women and Gender Forum titled:

Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts

Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.

The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social changes taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.

The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students and the general public, with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, will start on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.

The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialists. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University.  Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion forum which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants from everywhere in the world.

Lecture 2: The Hijab: Between Empowerment and Disempowerment

By Dr Lloyd Ridgeon

School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow

Wednesday 08 Dec 2021, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
 https://zoom.us/j/94322283750

 

 

 

12. AKU-ISMC

Dialogue Series 2021/2022

Population Surveillance, the Body, and Mobility

Policing and Prisons

Date and Time

9 December 2021, 17:00-18:30  (London).
Registration

Join us online via Zoom by registering here
Lecture 4: Policing and Prisons
Join us in a celebration and pre-launch of Deniz Yonucu’s new book,  Police, Provocation, and Politics (Cornell University Press, 2022). The book is a counterintuitive analysis of contemporary policing practices, focusing particular attention on the incitement of counterviolence, perpetual conflict, and ethno-sectarian discord by the state security apparatus. Situating Turkish policing within a global context and combining archival work and oral history narratives with ethnographic research, Yonucu demonstrates how Cold War and decolonial era counterinsurgency strategies continue to inform contemporary urban policing in Istanbul. Her work will be discussed in detail by two experts on policing, Zoha Waseem (UCL, London) and Michael Farquhar (KCL). Join us for an important conversation on policing and politics in Turkey today and its links to the past.

Speaker
Deniz Yonucu received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cornell University and is currently a Lecturer at the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. She is the author of Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul (Cornell University Press, Forthcoming in March 2022) and co-founder and co-convenor of the Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in prestigious journals, including Current Anthropology, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Social & Legal Studies, and the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, among others.

 

 

 

 

13. Open Access Manuscripts Collection: Manuscripta Islamica Rossica

http://manuscriptaislamica.ru/en

The manuscripts are kindly provided by:

• The Museum of Rare Book, MGIMO(University) of the MFA of the Russian Federation (Moscow)
• All-Russia State Library for Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino (Moscow)
• Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
• The State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian branch of the RAS (Novosibirsk)
• Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow)
• The Mardjani Foundation (Moscow)
• The Don State Public Library (Rostov-on-Don)
• Astrakhan Regional Scientific Library named after N.K. Krupskaya (Astrakhan)
• The State Universal Scientific Library of Krasnoyarsk region (Krasnoyarsk)
• Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Dagestan scientific center of RAS (Makhachkala)
• Institute of Experimental Medicine (St. Petersburg)

The official website of “Manuscripta Islamica Rossica” is the part of the Federal historical and documentary educational portal.

 

 

14.   Friday, December 10, at 1:00 PM (ET): Ervand Abrahamian will discuss his /Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat /with Nahid Mozaffari

Registration via Zoom is required. Register here: https://gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwod-qoqz0qGN2p1Eh2DBI1_rgnaRCNZ1t6 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gc-2Dcuny-2Dedu.zoom.us_meeting_register_tZwod-2Dqoqz0qGN2p1Eh2DBI1-5FrgnaRCNZ1t6&d=DwMFaQ&c=mRWFL96tuqj9V0Jjj4h40ddo0XsmttALwKjAEOCyUjY&r=9LDhFNh4Ud7vHuJs1eQRbLpCD_nPLEsJ8tSuGmEGre0&m=kp583W_vXcfc8E7GptfIRRgaiGal3K5Tn9nsQazw3xk&s=0KYKrsc_sIO5OefgrOOxXNA0_0nwUdBbvG7mMIyo8lM&e=>

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1.Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies has released a call for papers for a special issue titled “Race, Race-Thinking, and Identity in the Global Middle Ages.” 

Proposals are due January 31, 2022 and should be submitted to Cord J. Whitaker (Wellesley College) at cord.whitaker@wellesley.edu.

For further details, please see the post on the Medieval Academy of America’s blog: http://www.themedievalacademyblog.org/call-for-papers-speculum-themed-issue-race-race-thinking-and-identity-in-the-global-middle-ages/.

 

 

 

 

2. Assistant/Associate Professor of Classical/Premodern Arabic Literature

American University of Cairo

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62583

Dec 31 2021 closing date.

 

 

 

 

3. Middle East Library Association(MELA,) Education Committee welcomes all to attend:

Careers in Middle East Librarianship

Friday, Dec 10, 2021 at 12:00pm EST

Are you graduating soon with an M.A. or Ph.D. degree in Middle East studies, and curious about librarianship as a professional option for using your academic research skills? Have you been adjunct instructing for a while and wondering how to turn your experience and subject knowledge to a rewarding alternative academic career? You may have been wondering, What exactly does a subject-specialist librarian do? Do you need to have an MLIS to get a job as a subject librarian? How do you gain experience in cataloging? Will you get to read books all day?

This workshop, sponsored by the Middle East Librarians Association (MELA), will consist of three parts: part one will feature brief presentations by professional librarians who have come to the profession via different pathways, and working at public or private institutions. Participants will learn more about the work librarians do, how they participate in the intellectual work of the institutions they are associated with–in fact as partners contributing to research and teaching–and how the profession of Middle East librarianship is moving to address profound changes in technology, publishing, and society.  In part two, the workshop will offer practical tips on applying to library school, how to gain related experience, and how previous experience can be highlighted on your c.v. The third part of the workshop will be reserved for your questions and discussion.  https://www.mela.us/

Please register for the virtual workshop:   https://tinyurl.com/MELALibrary

Panelist and Chair:

• Dale Correa, University of Texas, Austin, Chair
• Sarah DeMott, Harvard University , Head of Education Committee
• Emily Witsell, Wofford College
• Mohamed Hamed, University of California, Berkeley
• Salma Abumeeiz, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
• Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg, Harvard University
• William Kopycki, Library of Congress, Cairo Overseas Office

Please contact me directly if you have any questions regarding registration or accessibility needs.

This event will be conducted in English and recorded with an edited version available on the MELA YouTube Channel.

Sincerest regards,
Sarah

Sarah DeMott, PhD, MLS
Middle East Library Association
MELA, Education Committee, head
MELA, Mentorship Program, head
https://www.mela.us/committees/education/

https://www.mela.us/2021/11/30/careers-in-middle-east-librarianship-workshop/

 

Sarah DeMott, PhD, MLS

Faculty Librarian for Freshman Seminars
Library Liaison for Judaica, Near East, and Middle East Studies
Harvard College Library

sarah_demott@harvard.edu

https://library.harvard.edu/staff/sarah-demott

pronouns: she, her, hers

 

 

 

 

4. We are happy to share the recording of our 6th IDHN conference that took place on November 17, 2021: https://youtu.be/PnQFIrnUUzY. The recording is also posted on the IDHN forum.

Please note that the presentation of Wafa Fatima Isfahani is not included in the recording upon her request.

Below, we are also providing links to the DH projects of our presenters. We are immensely grateful to our presenters for their generosity in sharing their research with the IDHN community. Thank you so much!Best wishes to all,

Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)

 

Presenters’ names: Metin M. Coşgel, Emre Özer, and Sadullah Yıldırım

Title of the presentation: Gender and Justice: A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Participation and Victory in Ottoman CourtsLink to paper:   https://www.dropbox.com/s/dlsdrp66izj5tbr/Gender%20and%20Justice%20%28IDHN%29.pdf?dl=0

Presenter’s name: Wafa Fatima Isfahani

Title of the presentation: Tracing Genealogies: Using Network Analysis to Model the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Sufi OrdersLinks to tools: Gephi: https://gephi.org/     Palladio: https://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

Presenter’s name: Noëmie Lucas, Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Clément Salah
Title of the presentation: RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi
Link to project: https://calfa.fr/blog/26 and https://philaranum.hypotheses.org/219
Link to corpus: Full dataset with layout annotations and transcriptions,  https://github.com/calfa-co/rasam-dataset
Link to tools: Calfa Vision, a web-based annotation tool for documents and images, https://vision.calfa.fr
Further recommendations:
– About RASAM, specifications and evaluations, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Noëmie Lucas, Clément Salah, Aliénor Decours-Perez, and Boris Dupin, RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghrebi, In: Barney Smith E.H., Pal U. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021 Workshops. ICDAR 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12916. Springer, Cham, p. 265-281.
– About Calfa Vision and fine-tuning impact, see:
Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Aliénor Decours-Perez, Boris Dupin, and Thomas Riccioli, A Modular and Automated Annotation Platform for Handwritings, Evaluation on Under-Resourced Languages, In: Lladós J., Lopresti D., Uchida S. (eds) Document Analysis and Recognition – ICDAR 2021. ICDAR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12823. Springer, Cham, p. 507-522.

Presenter’s name: Sohaib Saeed
Title of the presentation: “Al-Rāzī’s Great Exegesis: Can text reuse detection solve a longstanding debate over his sole authorship?”
Link to publications: https://independent.academia.edu/SohaibSaeed

 

 

 

 

5. SULTANS OF THE SEA: PIECING TOGETHER SOVEREIGNTY AND MARITIMITY IN THE RED SEA (10^th-16^th CENTURIES)
Roxani Eleni Margariti, Emory University
Wednesday, December 8th, 12:30pm EST
[Webinar]Silsila Fall 2021 Lecture Series A corpus of funerary inscriptions from the Dahlak Archipelago in present-day Eritrea constitute the strongest evidence for the existence of a long-lived island principality controlling a land-and-sea realm in the Southern Red Sea. Published and unpublished Cairo Geniza documents shed light on commodities traded, services rendered and conditions prevailing across the archipelago in the 11^th and 12^th centuries; they also refer directly to local rulers that can be cross-referenced with the epigraphic record. Additional if less coherent sets of sources—narrative, visual, environmental, and archaeological—illuminate the nature of a polity at the margins of better-known states, and historicize various aspects of its island culture, from maritime toponymy to the range of locally procured marine goods that entered regional and transregional circuits of exchange.

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

https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2021-2022/sultans-of-the-sea–roxani-margariti.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event.

1.ONLINE Book Talk: “The Better Story: Queer Affects from the Middle East” by Dina Georgis (University of Toronto), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1 December 2021, 12:00 pm – 1:00pm ET

Georgis turns to story as a method for thinking about how those affected by colonial traumas and losses narrate their survival. Her method in the concept of the “better story” offers an emotional lens through which to think about how the past is narrated and how collective histories and identities are shaped by and are a response to difficult and traumatic experiences.

Information and registration: https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2021/dina-georgis-better-story

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Introduction of the “Cambridge Semitic Languages and Cultures Open Access Series” and Launch of “A Handbook and Reader of Ottoman Arabic”, Open Book Publishers, 1 December 2021, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm GMT

This volume is the first linguistic work to focus exclusively on varieties of Christian, Jewish and Muslim Arabic in the Ottoman Empire of the 15th to the 20th centuries, and present Ottoman Arabic material in a didactic and easily accessible way. Split into a Handbook and a Reader section, the book provides a historical introduction to Ottoman literacy, translation studies, vernacularisation processes, language policy and linguistic pluralism.

Information and registration: https://theofed-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_4KlVCw4oQ3W4-JC2XjlyyQ

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Symposium: “From Representation to Inspiration: The Ottoman Empire in the 18th Century”, Ankara, 1-2 December 2021

Inspired by the painting “View of Ankara”, academic lectures will enlighten the different aspects of the painting (social life, women, trade and transportation) and give a general insight on the illustrated historical time period. The symposium will pave the way for the new discussions, studies and collaborations.

Information and registration: https://vekam.ku.edu.tr/en/events/fromrepresentationtoinspiration/

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Book Launch: “A Companion to Early Modern Istanbul”, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative at NYU, 10 December 2021, 12:00 pm EST

This edited book (Brill, 2021) is the first collective effort to explore Istanbul, capital of the vast polyglot, multiethnic, and multireligious Ottoman Empire and home to one of the world’s largest and most diverse urban populations, as an early modern metropolis. This event brings together the editors, as well as a number of contributors, of the volume to discuss also the field of urban studies within Ottoman history.

Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEpd-6vqToqHNbAfK8D5pKY8SSht99dPKx-

 

 

 

 

5. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgrim a Pilgrim? 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 Buddhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pilgrims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.

Deadline for abstracts: 17 December 2021.

Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.word-press.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf

 

 

 

6. Assistant/Associate Professor of Middle East History before 1800, The American University in Cairo

Applicants must have a PhD in Islamic History, Middle East History, Arabic Studies, or a related discipline from a reputable university by 1 September 2022, preferably with a record of an active research agenda and teaching experience.

Deadline for applications: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/412799/assistantassociate-professor-of-middle-east-history?fbclid=IwAR2vQNzbDCe192l_XJXeTF-3ZvKim-GLR2o9dupxJic5-V5l-UTqfYUHLjwc

 

 

 

7. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI

Applications are open to candidates from across the social sciences, who are conducting research related to the Middle East and its diasporas on issues that can be understood in a comparative global context.

Deadline for application: 24 January 2022.

Information. https://apply.interfolio.com/98927

 

 

 

8. Islamic Studies MA and Dual Degree MA in Islamic Studies and Muslim Cultures at Columbia University (New York) and Aga Khan University (London)

The Islamic Studies Master’s Program focuses on the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim communities around the world.

Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/ma-program.

Information on the Dual Degree Program:  https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-masters-degree .

Application deadline: 17 February 2022.

 

 

 

9. New Publication –

The Louvre Museum and the Institut français d’Archéologie orientale are pleased to announce the publication of the book :

GASTON WIET ET LES ARTS DE L’ISLAM (GASTON WIET AND ISLAMIC ART)

edited by Carine Juvin – Louvre Museum

(IFAO/ Musée du Louvre, 2021, ISBN: 9782724708028, 1 vol. 248 p.)

Gaston Wiet (1887-1971), an outstanding historian of medieval Islam, was also a prominent figure of the French scientific presence in Egypt. A perfect Arabist, he was interested in many aspects of Egyptian history and culture. His work  at the head of the Arab Museum in Cairo (now the Museum of Islamic Art) between 1926 and 1951 was decisive for the enrichment, publication and outreach of its collections, and led him to become one of the best connoisseurs of Islamic art of the first half of the 20th century. Moreover, his membership of the Comité de conservation des monuments de l’art arabe further enhanced his interest in the architecture from the Islamic period. This book, copublished with the Louvre Museum, and the support of the Museum of Islamic Art (Cairo), focuses on Gaston Wiet’s decisive contribution to the study of Islamic art by addressing, beyond his career and his personality, his work  at the Arab Museum and the Comité, as well as the wide extent of his research and curiosity, from Persian art and textiles to the productions of modern Egypt, while also underlining his particular passion for epigraphy. This volume brings together the contributions of French and Egyptian specialists and intends to recall, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his passing, the essential contribution of this eminent scholar and friend of Egypt.

Table of contents :

– Gaston Wiet (18 décembre 1887 – 20 avril 1971), d’Égypte et de France

Carine Juvin

-Le Musée arabe : un directeur, une collection

Mohamed Ahmed Abd el-Salam, Étienne Blondeau

 – L’engagement d’un savant dans la politique de « conservation des monuments de l’art arabe »

Dina Ishak Bakhoum

– Gaston Wiet et l’art du monde iranien

Judith Henon-Raynaud

– Les arts de l’Islam par l’épigraphie

Carine Juvin

– Des Fatimides à la dynastie khédiviale, une histoire de l’Égypte islamique incarnée par ses monuments, ses objets, ses images

Mercedes Volait

 

 

 

 

10. International Symposium: “Cappadocia through Time: From Byzantium to the Ottoman Empire”

Conveners: P. Androudis, P. Papadopoulou, A. Tantsis

Program: Eastern European Time (EET)

Saturday 4 December 

14:45 Welcome

16: 50 Pagona Papadopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Cappadocia through Time: An Introduction

Cappadocia, A Byzantine Province

17:00 Robert Ousterhout (University of Pennsylvania)

Imagining a Cappadocian Future

17:30 Anastasios Tansis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

Architectural Planning in the Built and Rock-cut Churches of Cappadocia: Construction and De-construction

17:50 Break

18.10 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)

Hypogeal Works of Defence Among the Rock-cut Churches of Göreme

18.30 Andrea De Pascale, Andrea Bixio, Roberto Bixio (Centro Studi Sotterranei di Genoa)

Updated Report on Hydric Facilities in the Rocky Cappadocia

18.50 Sophia Germanidou (Newcastle University)

Covering Subsistence Needs in Byzantine Cappadocia: Comments on Its Agro-pastoral Products

19.10 Discussion

Sunday 5 December

Medieval Cappadocia: Between Two Worlds

17.00 Scott Redford (SOAS University of London)

The Human Geography of Medieval Cappadocia

17.30 Oya Pancaroğlu (Boğaziçi University)

New Institutions for Ancient Topographies: Danishmendid Architectural Ventures in Twelfth-Century Caesarea/Kayseri

17.50 Suzan Yalman (Koç University)

Of Saints and Fairies: A Seljuk Queen Mother’s Patronage in Cappadocia

18.10 Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

In Search of Greek and Greek-Origin Patrons, Painters and Craftsmen in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Cappadocia

18.30 Sara Nur Yıldız (Università degli studi di Firenze)

Mongol Qishlaqs in the Cappadocian Steppe

18.50 Discussion

Zoom link: https://authgr.zoom.us/j/97406174472

1.The Seventh Round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.

The British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the seventh round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a nine-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field. The winning candidate will be notified by July 2022.

*Deadline 5pm GMT on the Friday 7th January 2022*

For more details including past prize winners, visit: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

 

 

 

2. Call for Papers: International Journal of Latin American Religions

Special Issue: Islam and Muslim Socialities of Latin America

**Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022**

In recent decades, global Islamic studies expanded to include geographies and cultures beyond a conventional Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) core. Research in South Asia, Europe, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa widened the field’s scope, introducing fresh, critical understandings into scholarly discourses about Islam and Muslims’ lived realities across the world. Nonetheless, global Islamic studies’ scope still fails to fully incorporate marginal geographies and the study of Islam beyond the MENA remains underrepresented. This is particularly evident when it comes to Latin America.
Likewise, research on religion in Latin America has grown to appreciate the changeability and variety of religious expression in the region over the last several decades. Studies on various traditions thickened scholarly understanding of the region’s religious diversity and introduced new ways of understanding transformations in culture, society, and politics across the Americas. Still, the study of Islam and Muslim socialities in relation to this evolution remains negligible when compared to that of other traditions.
This thematic issue invites articles presenting research results from various disciplines, geographies, and historical periods — from the “long” 16th century to today — dealing with the broad theme of “Islam and Muslim socialities of Latin America.” Through case studies and original research, articles should move beyond population surveys, overviews of immigrant communities, and questions of conversion to address theoretical and methodological gaps in the respective fields of global Islam and/or Latin American religion. Especially welcome are submissions dealing with questions of (post)coloniality, gender, race, interreligious encounter, precarity, resilience, transregionalism, materiality, and/or affect.
Submission Deadline: January 15, 2022
Please direct questions to guest editor: Dr. Ken Chitwood (mailto:k.chitwood@fu-berlin.de?subject=IJLAR%20Special%20Issue)
Read more about the submission guidelines (https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=93f11104a4&e=f70992245e)

 

 

3. CfP: Theory and Practice of Rebellion (Hamburg, 22-24 Sep 2022)

The Hamburg-based research group, ‘Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)’, is thrilled to announce the CfP for our team’s first conference on themes of rebellion in the early Islamicate world. The conference will take place at Hamburg (pandemic permitting) on 22-24 September 2022. Papers will be pre-circulated; the deadline for abstracts (300 words) is 1 February 2022. Travel and four nights’ accommodation will be covered for accepted speakers.

The CfP and further details can be found here: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/…/news/2021-11-23-cfp.html. Abstracts should be sent to hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de. You can also follow us on Twitter to stay up-to-date on our events and activities: https://twitter.com/rebellionUHH.

 

 

 

4. Corrected weblink:

From 6-8 December the Embedding Conquest team (Leiden) will organize an online conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). We have been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms.

To find out more about the conference go to: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2021/12/ties-of-kinship-and-the-early-islamic-empire

Keynote: Hugh Kennedy

Speakers: Sobhi Bouderbala; Ana Echevarría Arsuaga; Shounak Ghosh; Matthew Gordon; Ahmad Khan; Pia Maria Malik; Karen Moukheiber; Shirin Naef; Cecilia Palombo; Leone Pecorini-Goodall; Ekaterina Pukhovaia; Janina Safran; Eline Scheerlinck; Petra Sijpesteijn; Josef Ženka.

To register and receive the ZOOM-link mail to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl

 

 

 

5. Central Connecticut State University – Assistant Professor, History of the Islamic World
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62483

Dec 1, 2021 closing date.

 

 

 

 

6. Research Project – Historian/Researcher – Tudor Period/Elizabethan
Era, AND the Ottoman Empire during the Suleiman the Magnificent Period
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62547

Feb 17, 2022 closing date.

 

 

7. HIAA-Sponsored Panel at MESA – Islamic Art and the Politics of Museum Display – November 30

Virtual panel at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association
Sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA)

Organized by Philip Geisler and Constance Jame

Chair & Discussant: Dr. Fahmida Suleman, Curator, Islamic World, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto & Assistant Professor (status only cross-appointments), Departments of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Art History, University of Toronto

Online – November 30, 2021 – 11:30 AM (EST), registration required

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Since the early 2000s, many Islamic art museums and galleries around the world have reorganized their displays. During the same period, methodological interventions building on post-structuralist and post-colonial theory began to challenge long-standing formal and regional categories defining the field of Islamic art history. These new developments have impacted the display strategies of new museums and exhibitions of Islamic art. As a central interface between the academic study of the Middle East, its global representation, and the general public, the approaches these museums use to mediate between art, material culture, and Islamic/regional cultures play a central role in shaping discussions about the region. This includes its designation through religious and/or cultural, national, ethnic, and geographic parameters. At the same time, Islamic art displays are also embedded in heterogeneous local politics and social discourses. This particularly concerns how museum making is entangled with cultural diplomacy and the production of alterity, diversity, and collective identity that serve regional or national agendas and negotiate the recognition of local diasporas as well as minority and/or majority communities.

Based on museum case studies from Iran, the Arabian Peninsula, Turkey, Western Europe, and Canada, this panel of doctoral students examines the politics of museum display and art discourses from 2000 until today. Rather than interpreting Islamic art displays as passive and neutral representations of the past, this panel theorizes them as a contemporary cultural practice that stages spatialized and immersive, ideological narrations of culture. Through bridging the gap between the often-separated realms of art historical research, curatorial practice, and critical museology, this panel aims to examine the new ways, in which museums of Islamic art communicate broader ideas about the region in various global contexts. For this, the panel assesses curatorial practices and displays in both public and private museums including the Malek National Library and Museum (Tehran), the National Museum and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Istanbul), the Louvre Museum (Paris), the Alhambra Museum (Granada), and the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. Grounded in these accounts, the panel illuminates the politics of these displays and narrations vis-à-vis their local environments and shifted forms of national and/or religious self-fashioning. Through fostering an interdisciplinary and critical discussion, this panel ultimately argues that Islam has become a decisive global marker that enables states across the world to pursue local needs and actualize constitutive socio-political paradigms through cultural institutions and art displays.

Papers

“Between the Transnational and the Local: Assessing the Changing Profile of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul”
Beyza Uzun, Doctoral Student, Scuola IMT Alti Studi, Lucca

“The Cultural Diplomacy and Contested Modernity of Museological Development in Qatar: A Case Study on the Museum of Islamic Art and the Qatar National Museum”
Abdelrahman Kamel, Doctoral Student, Queen’s University, Kingston

“Hybrid Objects in the Louvre: Witness of French Transcultural Identity”
Constance Jame, Doctoral Student, Universität Heidelberg

“Islamic Art as a Multicultural Mythology in Spain and Canada”
Philip Geisler, Doctoral Student, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

“The Malek National Library and Museum: Negotiating Curatorial Agency in an Iranian waqf”
Leila Moslemi Mehni, Doctoral Student, University of Toronto

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Panel link and abstracts: https://mesana.org/mymesa/meeting_program_session.php?sid=346cfbc1467051348469531b5e172c0d

Registration:
This panel is part of the virtual program of the Middle East Studies Association’s Annual Meeting. The panel takes place online on November 30, 2021 at 11:30 AM (EST). For information about the registration, please visit MESA’s website: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/registration

 

 

 

 8. Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme and call for nominations to “Afghanistan regime change (2021) and the international response web archive collection”

Call for application to Afghan Scholar Programme (deadline: 2 Dec 2021) 

Please can you reach out to your Afghan colleagues — whether they live inside Afghanistan or outside — to let us know whether they would like to suggest a project to work with us in the Invisible East team that they would like to submit in response to the Bodleian Library’s Afghan Scholars Fellowship call. The incumbent does not need to hold a PhD. The project should be in line with our Invisible East activities and goals, which our website describes: https://invisibleeast.web.ox.ac.uk. They can contact our director, Dr Arezou Azad at arezou.azad@orinst.ox.ac.uk.

 

The call details and simple application requirements are here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/afghan-scholars-programme

 

2. Afghanistan regime change (2021) and the international response web archive collection

We’d also like to draw your attention to a UK-wide library initiative seeking nominations for Afghan websites to be preserved and archived. Please do send your suggestions to them!

Details are provided in this blog:

https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandmanuscripts/2021/11/24/call-for-contributions-afghanistan-regime-change-2021-and-the-international-response-web-archive-collection/

 

 

 

 

9. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity.

Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022

The global history of slavery and dependency has flourished in recent years, as scholars have deployed new theories and methodologies to explore the varieties of unfreedom across a range of regions and societies. Studies of the premodern period have been part of this expansion, revealing nuanced analyses of how unfreedom intersected with gender roles, labour patterns, economic networks and religious values before the growth of the early modern trans-Atlantic slave trade. In spite of this work, the periods prior to European colonial expansion remain comparatively understudied, but present enormous opportunities to explore key questions and to push the boundaries of the wider history of slavery and dependency. Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Slavery, Servitude and Captivity in Comparative Perspectives seeks to bring together scholars studying a wide range of regions and periods to address common themes and questions in the history of slavery, and to build towards a comparative and collaborative global approach.

Unfreedom in the Premodern World will be held over two days (June 23rd & June 24th, 2022) at the Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin’s Arts and Humanities research centre. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Prof. Hannah Barker (Arizona State University) and Prof. Stefan Brink (University of Cambridge/University of the Highlands & Islands). Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers which explore any aspect of the history of unfreedom, slavery, servitude or captivity in the period before 1492. Papers are welcome from any academic discipline and with any geographical focus. Interdisciplinary papers and studies of regions outside of Western Europe are particularly encouraged. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):

• Definitions and parameters of unfreedom
• Methodologies for histories of unfreedom (source interpretation; archival erasure; theoretical perspectives)
• Unfree labour and the economics of unfreedom
• Unfree mobilities, forced migrations and slave trades
• Manumission and life after unfreedom
• Representations of unfreedom in literature, arts and culture
• Religious reactions to unfreedom (prohibitions; justifications; complicity)
• The histories of unfree women and children
• Resistance to unfreedom (rebellions, escapes, sabotage)

Proposals, consisting of a title, an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short academic biography, should be sent to nosuille@tcd.ie by Friday, 17th December 2021. It is expected that this conference will be held in-person in Dublin, subject to the global public health situation. Limited funding will be available to assist early-career, precariously-employed and independent researchers with travel and accommodation costs.

For any queries and further information, please contact the conference organiser, Dr. Niall Ó Súilleabháin (nosuille@tcd.ie).

 

 

 

10. The Aziz Foundation is awarding 100% tuition fee Masters scholarships to five exceptional British Muslims lacking the financial means to complete postgraduate degrees, at the University of Sussex for the 2022/23 academic year.

These scholarships aim to empower British Muslims to bring positive change to their communities and beyond. For further information, please visit the university website: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-funding/masters-scholarships/view/1349-Aziz-Foundation-Scholarship.

 

 

 

 

11. Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature and the Arts

Exploring the imagination and representation of women in history and today is a fully-fledged ambition that this series of lectures would like to explore through MENA women’s work in art, literature, history, archaeology, and social sciences, along with their representation and perception in the works of non-MENA academics.

The series includes speakers from the MENA region as well as from other parts of the globe. The meeting point of these speakers is their research on the women of this region. Through their multi- and interdisciplinary distinctive, innovative, and creative approaches to their fields, they deconstruct the stereotypes of Muslim women and emphasize their diversity. This region, which comprises the Arab World and a large part of the Islamic World, is considered today as one of the hottest spots in world politics and economy, but as usual, women are the least visible participants in and yet the most affected by the consequences of political and economic crises. More positively, they are central to the waves of social changes taking place in this region at a dizzying speed.

The series, which is envisaged as a platform for debate among academics, students and the general public, with interest in the broader theme of Women and Gender in MENA, will start on 1 December 2021 and will run through to the end of the academic year in 2022 on the zoom platform.

The organizers of this lecture series are two women and gender specialist. Professor Zahia Smail Salhi is Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and Dr Hatoon Alfassi is visiting Senior Research Fellow of the University of Manchester, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies. Dr Alfassi was formerly a faculty at the International Affairs Department of Qatar University, and the History Department of King Saud University.  Both are very happy to invite you to engage in a Women and Gender Discussion which defeats geographical boundaries and extends the opportunity to participants for everywhere in the world.  

Lecture 1: Women of the Arabian Gulf: Tokens of modernity, symbols of piety, or victims of patriarchy?

By Dr Hasnaa Mokhtar

Rutgers University’s Center for Women’s Global Leadership

Wednesday 01 Dec 2021, 17:00 GMT on Zoom:
 https://zoom.us/j/94322283750

 

 

 

12. The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its 2022 Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh on Monday 6th and Tuesday 7th June 2022.

The Call for Papers is now live and can be viewed here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2022/brais-2022-call-for-papers. Please note, the deadline for submissions is Monday 31st January.

After two years without an in-person BRAIS conference, we are really looking forward to reconnecting with colleagues working across the disciplines and we hope many of you will consider submitting a paper or panel.

Further information about the conference will be circulated in due course, including delgate fees and packages. In the meantime, if you have any questions at all, please contact us directly on: brais2022@ed.ac.uk .

 

 

 

 

13. The Market in Poetry in the Persian World

Shahzad Bashir,

Cambridge, 2021

 

 

 

 

14. Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies at SF State

The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies is pleased to announce the third year of the Azar Hatefi Graduate Fellowship in Iranian Diaspora Studies. San Francisco State University will be awarding two graduate  fellowships ($10,000) to admitted students pursuing a Master’s degree at San Francisco State University in 2022-2023. The goal of this fellowship, named in honor of Azar Hatefi, mother of SF State alumna and donor, Neda Nobari, is to support two graduate students for the academic year in the College or Liberal & Creative Arts or the College of Ethnic Studies pursuing a research project in Iranian Diaspora Studies.

 

The fellowship (awarded to two students) to develop research that engages and fosters new directions in Iranian diaspora topics (everything from art, film, anthropology, sociology, race and resistance studies, history, ethnic studies, etc.). The student must be admitted to an SFSU graduate program and have a stated project that they will pursue for a thesis. The fellowship is renewable for a second year, pending progress on the student’s studies and the culminating project as they advance to candidacy.

Please see the fellowship application requirements and criteria  here:https://sfsu.academicworks.com/opportunities/12839

Deadline: 03/30/2022

 

 

 

15. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien » (2 décembre 2021 – 17h15-19h)

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 2 décembre 2021 de 17h15 à 19h. Vous pourrez suivre la séance :

– en présentiel : Salle 5.05, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, [Attention : le “Pass sanitaire” sera demandé]

– ou en  visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après).
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Éloïse Brac de la Perrière (professeur d’histoire de l’art et d’archéologie islamiques, Sorbonne Université), pour une conférence intitulée :

Vers une nouvelle histoire de la calligraphie en caractères arabe. Enjeux et perspectives.

 

Résumé

La calligraphie en caractères arabes est un art fondateur, et fédérateur, dans l’histoire de la civilisation islamique. Omniprésente dans le paysage visuel depuis les débuts de l’Islam jusqu’à la période contemporaine, la calligraphie a été très tôt soumise à des règles précises, un canon défini par des textes, transmis jusqu’à nos jours par des générations de calligraphes. Mais elle a également connu des développements inédits, notamment dans les régions les plus éloignées des centres historiques du monde islamique, où elle s’est développée en un extraordinaire foisonnement de formes, comme un langage à part entière, témoignant de liens historiques complexes entre des zones parfois très éloignées.

Orientations bibliographiques

• Blair, S. (2006). Islamic Calligraphy. Edinburgh: Edinburg University Press.
• George, A. F. (2010). The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy. London, Berkeley: Saqi.
• Schimmel, A. (1984). Calligraphy and Islamic Culture. New York, London: New York University Press.

 

Participer à la réunion Zoom :

https://zoom.us/j/91304904337?pwd=UytNZUVhOUZWZ3NIWFNQaTF6V1RtUT09

 

 

 

16. Association for Iranian Studies – Awards

Two NEW AWARDS are open for your online nominations on the AIS website. The deadline for both awards is Feb. 15, 2022.

 

Hamid Naficy Book Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/hamid-naficy-book-award

Neda Nobari Dissertation Award https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards/neda-nobari-dissertation

 

Please go to the AIS website awards pages https://associationforiranianstudies.org/awards for the existing awards listed below. The deadline for your nominations unless stated otherwise on the award description page is December 8^th.

 

The Saidi-Sirjani Book Award

The Lifetime Achievement Award

The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award

The Latifeh Yarshater Award

The Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award

The Parviz Shahriari Book Award

Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award

1. ONLINE Webinar: “Building New Academic Communities in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Near East” by Gülşah Şenkol ( Orient-Institut Istanbul), ANAMED, Koç University, 23 November 2021, 6:30 pm TRT

The talk will also introduce a new gender research and networking platform which will promote accessible, innovative scholarship and foster global interaction and cooperation among scholars and institutions engaged in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies across disciplinary lines in the Near East.

Information and registration: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/events/anamed-talks-building-new-academic-communities-in-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies-in-the-near-east/

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Conference: “Digitizing Jerusalem’s Archives: Urban Heritage in the Age of Digital Culture”, Jerusalem, 2-4 January 2022

The conference will focus on three main themes: Cultural heritage in the digital age: Digitizing Jerusalem Archives; Digital heritage and the Historic Urban Landscape Approach; Democratizing/interpreting Jerusalem’s heritage.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8323208/digitizing-jerusalem%E2%80%99s-archives-urban-heritage-age-digital

 

 

 

 

3. Colloque : « Le Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al‑ʿArabī (m.543/1148) : Parcours, héritage et transmission » à l’occasion du 900e anniversaire de son décès, Centre Jaques-Berque, Rabat, 28 et 29 jan-vier 2021

Ce colloque international a pour objectif de dresser un bilan de la recherche académique réalisée sur la figure, l’oeuvre et la postérité d’un des savants les plus influents de l’Occident Musulman. En effet, depuis près de cent vingt-cinq ans, les nombreux travaux d’édition et études thématiques autour de son oeuvre se sont succédé à un rythme effréné, traduisant un fort intérêt des chercheurs pour cette figure riche et complexe du Ve/ XIe siècle.

Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/10/colloque-internationnal-janvier-2022.pdf

 

 

 

 

4. Conference: “The Coptic Educational Systems and Institutions (11th Century – Present)”, French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, 17-18 February 2022

Contributions are invited on: Between Islamic and Coptic Institutions: Sources and Approaches; Ways of Transferring Religious and Liturgical Knowledge; Manuscripts Traditions, Copying, Revising, Editing; Sources of Non-Religious Teaching; Modern and Missionary Schools; Charitable Foundations and Their Educational Roles; Current Educational and Research Centers; etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1359/

 

 

 

 

5. Workshop: “Da’wa and Qur’an Translation in the First Decades of the 20th Century”, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15-16 March 2022

We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop that will deal with the globalisation of Muslim Qur’an translation in the first decades of the 20th century, until the 1960s, against the backdrop of migration and increasing daʿwa activities. Travel costs and accommodation during the conference will be fully funded.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CfP_Workshop-dawa.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. Roundtable Workshop: “The Arab-majority and Muslim-majority Worlds in/and Contemporary Decolonisation Debates”, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2022

This workshop seeks to specifically think through the decolonising movement and an engagement with it from the histories, experiences, perspectives, traditions, and problematics of the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority worlds (broadly defined) as a contribution toward growing decolonial scholarship and movement.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021.

Information: https://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-papers-arab-majority-and-muslim-majority-worlds-inand-contemporary-decolonisation-debates

 

 

 

7. Middle East Initiative Research Fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School

Offers for one-year fellowships for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy from political scientists, historians, econo-mists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Applications from women, minorities, and citizens of all countries are encouraged.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021.

Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative

 

 

 

 

8. Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor for Middle Eastern Literature or Film, Johns Hopkins University

Qualifications: A Ph.D. is required, but we will accept applications from doctoral students expected to fulfill Ph. D degree requirements by 1 July 2022.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2022.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98144

 

 

 

 

9. Faculty Fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University

The ideal candidate is an outstanding junior scholar with an in-depth understanding of the modern Middle East, knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and a PhD in one of the following fields: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern History, Cultural Studies, Politics/Political Economy, Sociology, Urban Studies/Geography, or similar.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98325

 

 

 

 

10. “Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 2022, University of Vienna

The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers studying a specific subject in Turkish studies. We particularly welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna – especially in environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage.

Deadline for application: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9007203/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2022

 

 

 

11. Call for Papers – PLATFORM

PLATFORM is a digital venue for public conversations about architecture, the built environment, and landscape. It features timely short essays organized into eight sections—Conversations, Finding, House Histories, Opinion, Photo Essay, Reading /Listening/Watching, Specifying, and Teaching/Working—that serve as entry points into different realms of discussion, and address different constituencies and interests.  We invite writers working in diverse regions across the world and from across multiple professions and disciplines. We are committed to publishing bilingual articles, in order to bring timely and exciting new research to as many people as possible.

PLATFORM, explicitly outward facing, is a work of public humanities, designed to allow writers in diverse fields to shed light on a range of contemporary concerns. As a digital forum, it leverages the capabilities of new media to facilitate this conversation. PLATFORM is broad in perspective and interdisciplinary in orientation. We want to attract novices as well as old hands. We are not a closed or finite group. Unsolicited work is welcome. We value the diversity of opinions about how we view, read, experience, and engage with the built and natural landscapes.  To submit an article or pitch an idea, write to info@platformspace.net.  If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to any of us, we’re happy to help develop pitches, vet ideas, make suggestions.

 

Kishwar Rizvi, Production Editor.

Swati Chattopadhyay, Marta Gutman, Zeynep Kezer, Matthew Lasner, Acquisitions Editors.

Sara Lopez, Min Kyung Lee, Fernando Lara Luiz, Mira Waits, Contributing Editors.

 

Here is an example of what we do:

Kabul in Two Contexts

On August 29, 2021, the United States launched rapid drone strikes on a site in Kabul, allegedly in retaliation for the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Airport three days earlier. By September 17th, the Pentagon was admitting that it was a tragic miscalculation. Instead of an Islamic State in Khorasan operative, they killed ten civilians, among them seven young children. These horrific events make clear that technology has made urban warfare, although long in use, deadlier than ever. The articles in last week’s issue of PLATFORM present Kabul in two very different contexts – as a modern city experiencing architectural development in the late twentieth century, and also an example of abstract legal calculations in contemporary urban warfare.

In “Modern Kabul: Legacies of Polish Architects in Afghanistan,” Muheb Esmat delves into the history of Kabul’s modern architecture. The city’s first master plan, presented in 1965, was heavily based on Modernist principles, partially fueled by municipal leaders’ desire to conceal traditional architecture. Among the new buildings constructed in this period was the Hajhda Manzila, a government tower which, despite its monumental presence in the city, has an obscure history. Esmat finds that the building was designed by a well-known Polish architect, Andrej Riabow, who along with Mieczysław Wrobel designed many other structures in Kabul. Their buildings situate Kabul’s architecture in a larger narrative of exchange that took place between the Eastern Bloc and post-colonial states, including Afghanistan. Esmat argues that there is a larger story to be told about Kabul’s urban development and that its modern past might serve as a lesson for the city’s future.

In “Law and Urban Warfare,” Craig Jones sheds light on the rise of military lawyers over the past few decades of American military presence in West Asia. These legal professionals, whom Jones calls “war lawyers,” are shaping the modern battlespace in ways we are only just beginning to understand. Ever since the Vietnam War, during which catastrophic military strikes led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians, war lawyers have worked to ensure that strikes are within the bounds of International Humanitarian Law. Yet their role has been complicated by the relatively recent phenomenon of drone strikes and remote targeting, as witnessed most recently in Kabul. Despite a suite of precision technologies and strategies that aim to minimize harm to civilians, many military strikes in cities are still deeply destructive—not only due to the increasingly compressed (and thus accident-prone) decision-making process, but also because the laws of war do not always serve to constrain violence. In a world that legitimizes military operations, war lawyers share responsibility for who lives and dies in the increasingly urban spaces of modern war.

 

 

 

12. The British Library:

A Tale of Two Enigmas: A Magtymguly Pyragy Manuscript in the British Library Collections

Divan-i Makhtumquli, a late 18th-early 19th-century Turkmen manuscript. (Divan-i Makhtumquli, Central Asia?, late 18th century or early 19th century CE. Or 11414 f 3v)

 

 

 

13. The Bakhtiari are still migrating

The Smithsonian Magazine June, 2021

 

 

 

14. Medicine, Magic and Healing at University of Exeter, through the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.

The workshop will take place on November 29 and November 30 at Hotel Du Vin in Exeter.

The full schedule can be found here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=11747

Please note regisration is required for this event as we have a number limit at the venue. Please contact Sarah Wood s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk for further information

 

 

 

15. ‘A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy’

Gagan D. S. Sood

Modern Asian Studies, November, 2021

 

 

 

16. The Interdisciplinary Studies of Literatures, Arts and Humanities,is an academic journal recently published by the University of Birjand, Iran, in Persian. 

Editor-in-Chief: Alireza Anurshiravani, Professor of Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Criticism, Shiraz University, Iran.

Editorial Board, https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board?lang=en

For your information, this is the Journal Website in English: https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/?lang=en

1.University of Edinburgh – Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62467

Closing date: 3.12.21

 

 

 

2. Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art

Gwenaëlle Fellinger & Melanie Gibson

Gingko Library, 2021

 

 

 

 

3. The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides: New English Translations based on the Critical Editions of the Arabic Manuscripts

G Bos

Brill, 2021

 

 

 

4. In November 2021 the ‘Mamlukisation of the Mamluk Sultanate-II’ project (UGent, 2017-21, https://www.mms.ugent.be) is organising its final conference in Cairo.

The conference sessions will be open to speakers and respondents only, but there will also be two public hybrid (online+onsite) lectures, on November 28 and 29, to which we would like to invite you all:

November, 28, 6 pm (Cairo time, GMT+2), Jo Van Steenbergen (UGent), ‘The Politics of Arabic Historical Thought’ (IFAO, Palais Mounira, Cairo) (registration/link: https://www.mms.ugent.be/closing-conference/public-lecture-محاضرة-عامة/)

November 29, 5.30 pm (Cairo time, GMT+2), Konrad Hirschler (UHamburg), ’The Textuality and Materiality of Historiography’ (AUC, Tahrir Campus, Oriental Hall, Cairo) (registration/link: https://www.mms.ugent.be/keynote-lecture-محاضرة-المتحدث-الرئيسي/)

 

 

 

5. From 6-8 December the Embedding Conquest team (Leiden) will organize an online conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE).

We have been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the Umayyads and the Abbasids. As part of our project, we study how writers and document producers expressed vertical and horizontal relationships, including the use of family terms. To find out more about the conference go to our website.

Keynote: Hugh Kennedy

Speakers: Sobhi Bouderbala; Ana Echevarría Arsuaga; Shounak Ghosh; Matthew Gordon; Ahmad Khan; Pia Maria Malik; Karen Moukheiber; Shirin Naef; Cecilia Palombo; Leone Pecorini-Goodall; Ekaterina Pukhovaia; Janina Safran; Eline Scheerlinck; Petra Sijpesteijn; Josef Ženka.

To register and receive the ZOOM-link mail to: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl

 

 

 

 

6. The Institute for Advanced Study, in partnership with Gorgias Press, is delighted to announce a new online lecture program, The Author’s Voice.  The series of free to access quarterly talks, led by Gorgias Press authors, will showcase the latest research across history, linguistics, and religious studies. You are cordially invited to attend our fourth and final lecture of the series:

Ash‘arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf Al-Dīn Al-Āmidī (d. 631/1233) on Creation

Laura Hassan

Associate Faculty Member, Faulty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

9 December 2021 12 pm, EST

Competing theories about the origins of the cosmos have always entailed distinctive and often antithetical conceptions of who, or what, caused it. Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī developed his doctrine of creation at a particularly poignant moment in Islamic intellectual history, in which the traditions of theology (kalām) and Hellenised philosophy (falsafa) were forced into an encounter which would permanently alter the theological landscape. In this talk, taking impetus from the case of al-Āmidī, I consider the options available for intellectuals who, like him, encounter a system of thought which is both rationally and theologically compelling, but which also threatens to undermine entrenched convictions.

This is a free Zoom lecture. Register in advance for this event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event.

Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and George A. Kiraz (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Editor-in-Chief, Gorgias Press) in cooperation with Angelos Chaniotis (School of Historical Studies, IAS).

For more information, please contact ds@ias.edu

 

 

 

7. UCLA: Latest Developments in Afghanistan and Implications for Iran

A Panel Discussion

December 12 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm, Pacific Time

Ahmad Nader Nadery

Former Chair of Independent Civil Service Commission in Kabul, and Member of the Peace Negotiation Team for Afghanistan

The Taliban’s Return to Power and Its Implications for Afghanistan and Iran

Homeira Qaderi

Afghan Writer and Women’s Rights Activist, and Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University

How Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights
Farah Karimi

Head of the Dutch Parliamentary Delegation to the OSCE PA and Former UN Consultant for Capacity Building of the Afghan Parliament

An Expert Reflection on International Responses to the Crisis in Afghanistan

This panel will be in Persian.  To register for the event, please click here.

 

 

 

8. The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) is currently seeking a part-time Executive Officer to support its work in promoting scholarship and research excellence on all aspects of Iran and the wider Persianate world. 

The successful candidate will manage the Institute’s Annual General Meetings, its Council meetings and meetings of the smaller Management, Outreach and Research Committees and be responsible for submitting annual reports on the organisation to Companies House and the Charities Commission and for the preparation and publication of an Annual Report. In addition, he or she will take a leading role in submitting funding applications and in completing formal quarterly and bi-annual reports to the Institute’s principal funder, the British Academy, in addition to managing the process of awarding research funds to academics at British higher education establishments. The role involves management of a part-time Outreach and Administrative Co-ordinator who assists in delivering BIPS’s many outreach activities: lectures, publications and social-media presence. In addition to the administration of BIPS’s London office, the Executive Officer also liaises with BIPS’s institute in Tehran and the other international schools and institutes of the British Academy.

The role would suit an applicant with a wide range of administrative experience at a senior level, an interest in academic endeavour and, ideally, some knowledge of Iran and the Persianate world. Familiarity with MS Office 365 and Excel is essential, together with an understanding of financial reporting and book-keeping. Experience of the charity and the UK higher education sectors is desirable as well as initiative and the ability to engage with the variety of interests represented by BIPS and its members.
Location: London
Salary: £34,000 pro rata, subject to annual review
Contract: Permanent
Closing date for applications: 8^th December 2021
For further details please contact bips@thebritishacademy.ac.uk or download the job description.

 

 

 

9. Call for submissions for the 1^st International Conference on Voluntary Activities in Libraries, Museums and Archives, which will be held from May 11 to 12, 2022 in Mashhad, Iran by the Organisation of Libraries, Museums and Document Centre of Astan Quds Razavi. The conference will be organised in hybrid way as it provides an opportunity for participants to attend either in person or online.

The conference aims to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of volunteering in libraries, museums and archives.

We welcome submissions relevant to the conference topics:

• Creating and Fostering the Culture of Voluntary Activities
• Strategies and Plans for Promoting and Developing Voluntary Activities
• Contributing Factors and Barriers to Recruiting Volunteers
• Challenges and Opportunities of Volunteers in Libraries

The deadline for proposal submissions is December 22, 2021. Please visit our website for more details:

https://volunteer.razavi.ir/volunteer/en/home

We also welcome experts to submit proposals for conducting pre-conference webinars about different aspects of volunteering in organisations. You can email us at volunteers.lib@aqr.ir to gain more details and suggest your topics as well as date/time to conduct a webinar.

 

 

1.Scriptural Sexuality in the Three Traditions: A Call for Papers

An edited volume in memory of John Tracy Greene

Edited by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Nirmal Fernando, Keren Abbou Hershkovits

Professor John Tracy Greene (May 05, 1944 – March 25, 2021) was a religious studies scholar, a biblical scholar and an archaeologist. Together with the late Prof. Mishael Caspi, they founded and coordinated the “Biblical Characters in the Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)” ISBL seminar.

The volume Scriptural Sexuality is dedicated to the memory of John. In line with his interreligious, comparative approach to the study of religions and the Bible, it will comprise of new scholarship on the broader theme of sexuality in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

The volume will explore the presentation, or mis-presentation, of sexual/ised characters through one, or more, of the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Such characters may vary, and include, for example, divine, human, animal, vegetal, and other characters.

Articles are invited that examine expressions, in relation to such characters, of sexuality in various scriptural texts.These expressions might include, but are not limited to, sexual views; literary and visual portrayals; laws; ritual, medical, or other relevant practices; sexual orientation; gender; non/marital sexual relations; asexuality; or the denial of sexuality. They might be an early feature (e.g., in scripture) or a later development (as part of reception history or legal theory), up to current times.

Articles might use a single or several perspectives, such as theology, art, literature, history, archaeology, law, medicine, or other disciplines.

Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by 15th January 2022 to:

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche hadromiz@tcd.ie

Nirmal Fernando curlsu@hotmail.com

Keren Abbou-Hershkovits kabbou@gmail.com

Potential contributors who wish to present their contribution in the “Characters in the Three Traditions” seminar (ISBL 2022, Salzburg), please contact Zohar Hadromi-Allouche.

 

 

 

2. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »

Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI

 

Séance du 18 novembre 2021, 17h15-19h

Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 18 novembre 2021 de 17h15 à 19h. Vous pourrez suivre la séance :

– en présentiel : Salle 5.05, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, [Attention : le “Pass sanitaire” sera demandé]

– ou en  visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après) : Inscription obligatoire via ce formulaire
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Amin Moghadam (Senior Research Associate, Ryerson University, CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto), pour une conférence intitulée :

 

« Chanter les rivages, s’ancrer dans la ville : autonomie et initiatives culturelles des Iraniens à Dubaï »

Résumé

Cette présentation est le résultat d’une réflexion approfondie sur les relations de l’Iran avec son environnement régional à travers le champs culturel et artistique, mais surtout d’une enquête de terrain récente (de mars à juin 2021) qui a porté sur les initiatives culturelles des Iraniens dans la ville de Dubaï. Elle mettra l’accent sur les conditions matérielles et institutionnelles des circulations culturelles(Kaufmann et al. 2015) afin d’examiner d’une part la relation entre des individus et des communautés diasporiques avec l’Etat et la société d’origine, et d’autre part la reconfiguration des relations centre/périphérie à travers les dynamiques transnationales. Ces questions seront abordées principalement à travers le portrait et le parcours de la poétesse iranienne, Silviana Salmanpour, originaire du sud de l’Iran (de la région de Lârestân) et installée à Dubaï depuis les années 1980. L’étude de cette trajectoire migratoire et artistique révèle en premier lieu l’autonomie de l’espace migratoire qui conduit parfois à la redéfinition des relations centre/périphérie du contexte national. Par ailleurs, elle démontre à travers ce parcours les multiples relations d’interdépendance qui se situent à des échelles géographiques et institutionnelles variées, y compris avec la société émirienne et les dynamiques globales qui caractérisent la ville de Dubaï.  C’est par le biais de cette approche relationnelle que les notions de la « culture » et de la « circulation culturelle » seront abordées dans cette présentation afin de mieux comprendre les modalités de formation et de circulation d’une œuvre littéraire au sein et au-delà des frontières nationales (Levitt 2010; 2020).

 

Orientations bibliographiques

• Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, Catherine Dossin, et Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (eds.), Circulations in the global history of art. Studies in art historiography. Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
• Levitt, Peggy, « Taking Culture Seriously: The Unexplored Nexus between Migration, Incorporation and Development », Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 26/2 (2010): 139‑53. https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.5149
• Levitt, Peggy, « Explaining Variations in Scale Shifting: The Role of Spatiality, Topography and Infrastructure in Global Literary Fields », Poetics 79 (2020): 101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101397

Organisateurs : Amr Ahmed (INALCO, CeRMI), Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE PSL, CeRMI)

 

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Participer à la réunion Zoom :

 

https://zoom.us/j/94600699663?pwd=bWxRYy9YU2thdkcrZ0JlNFBhcGxlZz09

 

ID de réunion : 946 0069 9663

Code secret : CeRMI

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Queering the Middle East and its Diasporas – Queer States: Geopolitics and the Art of Government” by Sima Shakhsari (University of Minnesota), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 17 November 2021, 12:00 pm EST

Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DtyHnn8wSLKduiTSUAPaiw

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Webinar: “Perfect Imperfection: Socio-cultural and Religious Reforms in Saudi Arabia” by Dr Stéphane Lacroix (Science Po Paris), Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 17 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm SGT

Social change is one aspect of MBS’ vision. Religion is another target. The crown prince has said that Wah-habism is akin to “deifying human beings”. This follows his championing of “moderate Islam” reining in the clerical class and resetting the role of religion in the state. How successful has this religious re-orientation been? What are the implications for Riyadh’s role as the gatekeeper of the global Muslim community?

Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/perfect-imperfection-socio-cultural-and-religious-reforms-in-saudi-arabia/

 

 

 

5. HYBRID Colloque international : « Les disputes théologiques entre ašʿarites et ḥanbalites et leurs représentations du XIe/Ve siècle jusqu’au wahhabo-salafisme contemporain », Inalco, Paris, 18-19 novembre 2021

Information and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/56372.

Programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/11/programme_colloque_discordia_0.pdf

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Graduate Student Research Presentations, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 19 November 2021, 12:00 pm ET

Moderated by Joseph Leidy. Presenters: Mairéad Smith, Anthropology; Yasemin Bavbek, Sociology; Dima Nasser, Comparative Literature.

Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKfiU-NDdkInYmzLqXy5Tto8Xrc49x0H33TYMqP_VQF8FOGA/viewform

 

 

 

 

7. ONLINE Workshop: “Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies”, Organized by Dagmar Riedel (OCIS & Columbia University) and Talal Al-Azem (OCIS & University of Oxford), 20 November 2021, 10:00 am GMT

This workshop will explore how scholars in Islamic studies engage with the Digital Humanities in order to confront the question of how repositories of digital surrogates together with computational methods are changing the meaning of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences.

Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wc1P9kT9QziZBNmsjEIG5w

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Conference: “Citizenship, Sectarianism and Belonging (Focus MENA)”, University of Lancaster, 16-17 December 2021

The study of citizenship has received renewed attention in Middle East and North Africa studies across recent years. How do citizenship and nationalism interact in the Middle East, and to what effect?

Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/citizenship-sectarianism-and-belonging

 

 

 

 

9. Conference for Graduate Students in Western Universities, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 26-28 March 2022

The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers rooted in their graduate studies. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discussions with their peers and with established Arab academics.

Deadline for applications: 4 December 2021.

Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/Graduate-Students-in-Western-Universities-3rd-Round-Upcoming/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

10. International Conference: “Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion: Memory Politics, Governance and Protests”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 29-31 March 2023

The conference will shed new light on the main factors shaping Iraqi politics and society since the US invasion of 2003. It will take stock of the scholarship on Iraq’s modern history, post 2003 transformations and current developments, with a special focus on questions of govern ance, institutions, protest movements, and the politics of memory.

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2022.

Information: https://assets.ctfassets.net/jlhgjubhhjuo/zyEJeiPxdToX4x847e97W/33aa3be68313842f1255711c5cfa9fc0/Iraq_conf_2023_CfP_FINAL.pdf

 

 

 

 

11. HYBRID 12th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Gulf Research Center Cambridge, UK, 14-16 July 2022

Scholars are invited to apply to direct a workshop focusing on political, economic, security or social issues related to the Gulf region.

Deadline for proposals of workshops: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/11/12/12th-annual-gulf-research-meeting-call-for-workshop-proposals

 

 

 

12. Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

The field of specialization is open and includes any area of Islamic art and architectural history from the early Islamic period to the present.

Deadline for applications: 1 January 2022.

Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19323

 

 

13. Visiting Fellowships for Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, 2022–2023

We are particularly interested in applicants whose work focuses on human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, animal welfare and rights, constitutional law, food law, environmental law and climate change in particular, migration and refugee studies, LGBTQ issues, and related areas.

Dealine for applications: 15 January 2022.

Information: https://plsmw.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/

 

 

14. “Moving Biography Summer School”, Orient-Institut Beirut with American University of Beirut and Global (De)Centre, Beirut, 1-8 June 2022

We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to explore the various etymologies and connotations that the term “biography” carries in different languages. The Summer School will focus on three main themes: ques-tions of data, the act of creation, and the importance of the social and historical context of biographies.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/call-for-applications-moving-biography/

 

 

 

 

15. 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: 1 December 2021. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618

 

 

 

16. Call for Proposals: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Special Issue on Digital Ottoman Studies

Themes may include: creation of text or image corpora, development of language resources, entity recognition, progress in OCR/HTR, digital textual methods, gazetteer creation, network analysis, GIS, geocoded datasets, image analysis, advances in technology and cultural heritage (digital GLAM) as well as examples of open scholarship, open source softwares, crowdsourcing and digital community building.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2021.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/8244720/call-proposals-journal-ottoman-and-turkish-studies-association

 

 

 

17. CfP:  Levantines of the Ottoman World

We welcome chapters that engage in current topics such as Levantine cosmopolitanism, hybridity, marginal-ity, ambiguity, and transnationalism, but we also encourage submissions which critique the centrality of such terminology and theoretical frames in historical scholarship. Editors: Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr (Colombia Uni-versity) and Burhan Çağlar (Sakarya University).

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.

Information: https://levantinestudies.wixsite.com/book

 

 

 

18. The Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Zoroastrian Languages and Literature.

For the job posting link.

https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Associate-Professor-FEZANA-Professorship-in-Zoroastrian-Languages-and-Literature-ON/552521517/

All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by December 20, 2021  

 

 

19. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Associate/Associate Research Scholar

The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate or more senior researcher position(s) in the relevant fields of Iran and the Persian Gulf studies in the 19th – 21st century.

Anticipated to start in September 2022, the position is open to scholars of all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This full-time, twelve-month position is renewable annually for up to three years, subject to satisfactory performance and available funding. The center promotes interdisciplinary approaches to advancing the study of Iran and the Persian Gulf, with special attention to the region’s role and significance in the contemporary world. The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.

DEADLINE: All materials must be received by Friday, December 10, 2021, 11:59 p.m. EST. Preferred start date is September 1, 2022. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.

For further info,

https://iran.princeton.edu/about/open-positions/postdoctoral-research-associate

1.Call for Submissions – HIAA Winter Newsletter – Member News (Due December 3)

Please remember to submit entries (recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honours) for the Member News section of our upcoming Winter newsletter.

 

The winter newsletter also includes a section for dissertations in progress in Islamic art.

We highly encourage all graduate students to share their information. Dissertation supervisors are requested to share this information with their students regardless of membership status.

 

For your convenience, we have created a form in which all this information can be compiled: https://forms.gle/3AHFBrfZY3L1CEsD9

 

We request that you complete this form by Friday, December 3, 2021 to ensure its inclusion in the newsletter

 

 

 2. EuQu Panels on ‘The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe’

A Series of Panel Discussions

Organized by Paul Babinski, Asaph Ben-Tov, and Jan Loop

Mondays from 15 November to 6 December; 17.00 to 19.00 CET

Sign up: https://teol.ku.dk/afd/the-european-quran/conference-2021/

This series of panel discussions examines the nexus between wars with the Ottoman Empire and the study of Islam and the Qur’an in early modern Europe. It sketches a broad historical trajectory from the fall of Constantinople into the eighteenth century, tracing how conflict informed popular views of Islam and impacted the material conditions and practices of orientalist scholarship, through looted orientalia (manuscripts, coins, textiles, metalwork) and prisoners who assisted orientalists as scribes and amanuenses. Each panel focuses on a particular stage of conflict, with papers exploring the interrelations between knowledge production and armed conflict from a variety of perspectives. Following these moments over time, we will consider how intensifying coordination between the agents of orientalist scholarship—those who procured, copied, collected, and interpreted the objects of orientalist interest – contributed to shifting views of Islam across Europe.

See also:

https://euqu.eu/2021/10/04/the-turkish-wars-and-the-study-of-islam-in-early-modern-europe/

 

 

 

3. Full-time open-rank faculty positions at the Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University

Koç University

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature at Koç University invites applications for several full-time open-rank faculty positions to begin September 2022. 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.

The successful candidates will have active research agendas and demonstrable records of original research in their fields. The candidates are expected to engage in the intellectual life of our Department with diverse theoretical, methodological, and linguistic interests, and to teach broadly on the Department’s curriculum as appropriate.

Junior appointments are at the rank of Assistant Professor and initially for a period of four years with opportunities for renewal and advancement. The teaching load is four courses per year. ABD candidates must be on track to complete their PhD before the start date.

The Department of Comparative Literature is expanding and has launched an MA program in 2021. Therefore, the successful candidates are also expected to complement the Department’s existing strengths and actively participate in further curriculum development. For more information, please visit the Department’s website: https://cssh.ku.edu.tr/en/education/comparative-literature/about/

Located in Istanbul, Turkey, Koç University is an internationally recognized, English-instruction research university. The university actively supports faculty members who apply for European Union and TÜBİTAK research grants, and it offers a competitive benefit package (e.g., housing support, private insurance, K12 package, research funding).

Interested applicants should submit the following documents online at this website: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Research statement
• Writing sample (no more than 30 pages)
• Two sample course syllabi
• Three letters of reference

 

The deadline for the application is December 29, 2021. 

Informal inquiries about the position may be directed to the search coordinators:

Dr. C. Ceyhun Arslan (cceyhunarslan@ku.edu.tr) or Dr. Meliz Ergin (mergin@ku.edu.tr)

Inquiries concerning the application procedure and related matters may be made to the faculty administrator Ms. Merve G. Dalyaprak (mdalyaprak@ku.edu.tr)

 

 

 

4. The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an

Edited By George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, Daniel A. Madigan

Routledge, 2021

 

 

 

 

5. Call For Pitches – Manuscripts and Material Culture (Hazine)

Why are manuscripts critical to Islamic and Islamicate studies, and how do they impact pedagogy? How does material culture help us venture into the past, and how do manuscripts affect religious practice, be it Muslim, Coptic, Armenian, etc? Hazine is seeking 3-4 pieces on manuscripts and material culture from the Mashriq, Maghreb, East Africa, West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Iran, Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean broadly that address, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Miniatures, calligraphy, and other forms of Islamicate art
• Talismans, amulets, and other items from the occult sciences
• New findings that challenge established notions, such as variant readings
• Technical aspects of handling and preserving manuscripts; innovations in the field of conservation and preservation
• Efforts on decolonizing western manuscript collections, including archive reviews

Send pitches to hazineblog[at]gmail.com. This is an open-ended call.

Pitches should be no longer than 300 words and should be accompanied by a few sentences telling us who you are. Pitches (and pieces) are accepted in English; we accept essays and are open to different forms such as resource guides, archive reviews, as well as creative formats like zines and comics. We welcome different forms of style as we expand the essay category of the site but do have a look at the essays we’ve run previously, like this one on typography and this one on archivy, because they demonstrate what we’re really looking for: a strong point of view. Completed essays –if accepted– will be 2000 words or less. Deadlines for completed pieces are flexible. Each piece is paid at least 100 USD upon publication; we are in the process of adjusting our fees.

All pitches will receive a response.

https://hazine.info/call-for-pitches-manuscripts-and-material-culture/

 

 

 

6. Scenes From the 16th-Century Ottoman Empire, Book 1 

Türkische Manierenbuch From Kassel University Library 40 Ms. Hist. 31

ISBN: 978-90-6921-30-8,

Edited by: Mehmet Tütüncü & Ömer Erdem with contributions from Magnus Reesel (Frankfurt) & Zeynep Öztürk (Istanbul) and Paul Brood (Groningen) Graphic Designer: Omer Erdem

© Copyright 2021, SOTA  Haarlem, 366 pages, 21×27 cm full colour.

Sample pages: https://www.academia.edu/59941085/

 

 

 

7. Virtual Conference – The II International Conference on the History and Culture of Perfume – Open Registration

The II International Conference on the History and Culture of Perfume will be held from December 1 to 3, 2021, entirely in virtual format through the Microsoft Teams platform.

The celebration of the II International Conference on History and Culture of Perfume aims to continue the work begun with the previous edition and expand the scope of its objectives: the vindication of perfume as an object of study in the Humanities, the interdisciplinary and international exchange of research results related to perfume and smell, as well as the growing expansion of the field of sensory studies, beyond visuality. This conference will bring together academic contributions from a range of specialists from different areas of knowledge, together with the invited intervention of professionals from outside the field of research, but linked to the professional development of perfume and associated artistic manifestations.

The central thematic axis will be based on academic reflection on the cultural values of perfume—historical, artistic, scientific, technological, experiential, social…—through which it is intended to build a multidisciplinary identity with which to approach this current object of study.

Keynote speakers: David Howes (Concordia University), Annick Le Guérer (Independent), Mª. Luisa Vázquez de Ágredos Pascual (Universitat de València), Cecilia Bembibre (University College London), María del Rosario Caballero Rodríguez (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha) and Héctor Manuel Enríquez Andrade (Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia).

Registration open until: November 30th.

Reduced fees by early registration until: November 20th.

Check the conference programme and the reduced and special fees through the following link: https://www.ucm.es/capire/perfume21

 

 

 

 

8. ASPIRANTUM – Armenian School of Languages and Cultures

Learn Persian through Saadi’s Golestan
3 weeks, from Jan 10, 2022 to Jan 28, 2022

Online from Yerevan, Armenia

Apply by Dec 15, 2021

Price: $900

https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-saadi-golestan
This course will be organized on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays each week (4 days each week, 12 days over three weeks) and will include 42 hours of intensive Persian teaching (3.5 hours during each day).
In addition to reading and discussing the Golestan every day, students will read an article in Persian by an Iranian scholar about a unique aspect of the Golestan. These readings are available in our syllabus. Every day the class will start with a discussion of the homework and the mentioned article. Following this, students will read, interpret and decipher one or several stories from the Golestan. Finally, each day’s class will end with a discussion and questions.

 

 

 

9. American University – Sharjah – Faculty | The Ahmed Seddiqi Endowed Chair in Gulf and Middle Eastern Studies

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62425

The application deadline is December 10, 2021.

 

 

 

 

10. The Visual Arts Working Group for the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley is pleased to invite colleagues to attend an upcoming online lecture by Prof. Margaret S. Graves (Indiana University): ‘Abbasid Painting as Process: The Shifting Status of the Image.

We will convene at 4 pm pst on November 18.
To register:

https://berkeley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdu-pqzsiHNbFE2b8S8nfxCcLSDkAFEJc
Abstract
The invigorated Arabic and Persian textual traditions of the tenth to early thirteenth centuries have left us a small but important collection of descriptions of image-making, often framed within legends of painterly prowess. Images in these textual descriptions are durational, cumulative and often—though not exclusively—produced through competitive performances involving multiple artists. These medieval records of the image have often been absorbed into transhistorical theories of Islamicate image reception. However, I suggest that there is in fact a shift in the status of the image that takes place on the eve of the early modern period, prior to which we can trace a medieval fascination with image-making as process and performance that is equal to—or even exceeds—the beholder’s share of witness and wonder at the painting as a completed artefact. Bringing together textual sources, the eight known manuscript images of the famous Nizami story of the Greek-Chinese painting competition, and objects that attest to other ontologies of the pre-modern image, this lecture goes looking for the ephemeral acts that constituted the medieval image in word and deed.

 

 

11. ‘Mosque: Innovation in Object, Form and Function,’ that will take place at the King Abdul Aziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in November 24-25 2021.

Here is the link for getting access to the event by registration, and for the programme and list of speakers: https://www.ithra.com/en/programme/2021/mosque-innovation-object-form-and-function/

 

12. Two opportunities provided by Oxford’s Bodleian Library for Afghan scholars and/or scholars of all nationalities working on Afghanistan-related topics:

1. Bodleian Afghan Scholars programme (paid)

The Bodleian Library has just announced a new call for Afghan scholars to apply for project funding. There are two strands of funding, one of which is working with a programme at Oxford, such as our own. Applications are taken on a rolling basis. Details can be found here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/afghan-scholars-programme

1. Bodleian Bahari Fellowships (paid)

The new call has just been announced as well. These fellowships are given for up to 6 months for scholars to work on any of the Persian rare books and manuscript holdings in the Bodleian. They are open to scholars of all nationalities. This year, applications are especially invited for research connected to the study of Afghanistan and its history, culture and literature. Eligibility and application details can be found here: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

 

 

13. The Institute of Archaeological Sciences, Dept. I: Near Eastern and Classical Archaeology, at the Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures and Arts of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main invites applications for the following position as civil servant or public employee starting at the earliest possible date:

Professorship (W1 with Tenure Track)
for Islamic Archaeology and Art History

Deadline for applications: 10 December 2021.

https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/45303014/Ausschreibungen_von_Professuren___Fachbereich_09___Sprach__und_Kulturwissenschaften

1.ONLINE “Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches”, Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), University of Warwick, 10-12 November 2021

Program and registration:

https://hakluytsociety.wordpress.com/2021/09/13/programme-hakluyt-society-symposium-2021-decolonising-travel-studies-sources-and-approaches/

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Webinar: “Reflections on Afghanistan” with Professor Noam Chomsky, SOAS, London, 12 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT

Professor Chomsky will address some of the most pressing concerns surrounding the ongoi ng conflict in

Afghanistan, including Taliban rule, US policy in Afghanistan post 9/11, drone warfare, the refugee crisis, and

future solutions. He will also be taking questions from an online audience.

Information and registration: 

https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/events/2021/12nov2021-soas-icop-presents-reflections-on-afghanistan-with-professor-noam-chomsky.html

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings” by Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 16 November 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT

In her account of the Arab uprisings, Caroline Rooney outlines the importance of aesthetic strategies and creative expression in the left’s critique of authoritarian and Islamic extremist discourse during the revolutions. Using a wide array of texts and sources she offered a way for the left to reclaim ethical and progressive ‘radical’ values co-opted by political leaders and extremists in the Middle East.

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/16nov2021-creative-radicalism-in-the-middle-east-culture-and-the-arab-left-after-the-uprisings.html

 

 

 

 

4. ONLINE Workshop: “Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires, 1840s–1970s”, Munich Centre for Global History and German Historical Institute Washington, 18-19 November 2021

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8859007/colonial-baggage-global-tourism-age-empires-1840s%E2%80%931970s-zoom

 

 

 

 

5. 19th Media Workshop on “Aesthetics and Material Cultures: New Approaches within Islamic Studies” with Dr. Alina Kokoschka (Berlin/Lübeck), Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich, 13-14 January 2022

Up to ten participants will be chosen to discuss selected academic articles about aesthetics and material culture in the Middle East in n an intense reading session of four hours.The texts will b distributed in advance. Deadline for application: 1 December 2021.Contact Dr.Bettina Gräf (b.graef@lmu.de ).

Information:

https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosaminstitut/veranstaltungen/cfp-19mws/index.html

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9-10 April 2022

We invite paper proposals from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address topics relating

to travel and mobility in, to, and from the Middle East and North Africa (region in any historical era.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.

Information: https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0

 

 

 

 

7. Resident Fellowships (Post Doc, 1-12 Months in 2022) at the “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies”, University of Hamburg

Fellowships are available for scholars who have completed their doctoral degree and established an inde-pendent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project related to the Center’s interests in Romanization and Islamication in the period and area in question.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cffellows-2022.pdf

 

 

 

8. PhD Student Position (36 Months) in the Project “Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)”, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Vienna

Your profile: Completed studies in history; Experience in archive work, especially with handwritten early modern sources; Working experience with TRANSKRIBUS, TEI and other editing tools are advantageous; Flexibility, communication skills, creativity, team spirit.

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/I.H.B/IHB136DOC121_e.pdf

 

 

 

9. Director of Modern Language Programs (Focus Near Eastern Languages), Harvard University

The Director will head and coordinate all aspects of the program, which currently consists of Arabic, Persian,Turkish, Hebrew, Yiddish and Armenian. The ideal candidate must be able to teach all levels of Arabic language and have a record of successful experience with American academic institutions.

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.

Information https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10792

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Requirements: Ph.D. in modern Persian Literature; ability to teach courses in English about modern Persian Literature in English Translation, History of Modern Persian Literature, Modern Persian Society and Culture through Literature and Film, and/or Iranian Cinema. Applicants are expected to have native or near native proficiency in Persian,

Deadline for applications: 3 December 2021.

Information: https://asia.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/copy-2/

 

 

1.The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

This award, sponsored by Kurdish Political Studies Program at the University of Central Florida, recognizes the best article in Kurdish Studies by a rising scholar during the previous calendar year. In this year’s competition, social science and humanities articles published in English language peer-reviewed journals in 2020 were considered. The winning article is  awarded $500. The selection committee was composed of Ceren Belge (Concordia University), Ozlem Goner (City University of New York), and Güneş Murat Tezcür (University of Central Florida).

Winner

The committee has unanimously found the following article worthy of the award.

Fırat Bozçalı (2020). Probabilistic borderwork: Oil smuggling, nonillegality, and techno‐legal politics in the Kurdish borderlands of Turkey. American Ethnologist, 47(1), 72-85.

The armed conflict between the Turkish state and the Kurdish insurgents has been a central focus of scholarship. While the conflict waxes and wanes, Kurdish civilians in contested zones navigate multiple layers of judicial control and administrative surveillance in pursuit of a living. In his article, Bozçalı brings a refreshing perspective about how ordinary people engage in cross-border economic activities while aiming to avoid charges of smuggling. Based on 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork in judicial and commercial settings, Bozçalı demonstrates how the state’s attempts to curtail oil smuggling via the adoption of new technologies are effectively challenged by Kurdish traders and lawyers. The latter utilize uncertainty inherent to chemical tests and exploit the ambiguity between scientific and legal knowledge production  to counter charges of smuggling. While these activities do not involve an alternative political sovereignty claim, they involve mundane forms of resistance and disrupt the state’s ability to control its borders. Bozçalı’s article is a splendid example of how an immersive approach could reveal counterintuitive empirical findings, generate new theoretical insights, and demonstrate the ability of Kurdish Studies to enrich broader scholarly debates about the scope and limits of the state power in borderlands.

Honorable Mention

The committee has also unanimously found the following article worthy of an honorable mention.

Zozan Pehlivan. (2020). El Niño and the nomads: Global climate, local environment, and the crisis of pastoralism in late Ottoman Kurdistan. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 63(3), 316-356.

In this fascinating article, Zozan Pehlivan traces the climatic changes in late 19th century Ottoman Kurdistan, first linking these to the global El Nino Southern Oscillation, then tracing how the ensuing drought, extreme cold, and lack of forage affected the livelihoods of local pastoralists, whose conflicts with peasants increased. Thoroughly original, and scrupulously researched, the article promises to open new avenues of research in the intersection of environmental and Kurdish studies, and inspire new approaches to the study of communal conflict in this critical period and beyond.

 

 

 

2. The Master’s program Cultural Studies of the Middle East, jointly hosted by the Universities of Bamberg and Erlangen, invites applications for the Visiting Professorship 2022-23!

The deadline to apply is January 07, 2022.

 

 

 

3. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event

November 10, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) 

The Study of Pre-modern Hebrew Philosophical and Scientific Terminology as a new Chapter in the Intellectual History of Europe and the Islamicate World:  PESHAT in Context. 

Speakers: Giuseppe Veltri (University of Hamburg), Reimund Leicht (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Michael Engel (University of Hamburg) and Florian Dunklau (University of Hamburg).

PESHAT in Context (www.peshat.org) is a long-term research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and located at the University of Hamburg and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. It investigates the formation and development of pre-modern philosophical and scientific terminology in the Hebrew language in its multi-cultural and multi-linguistic context(s). From a historical point of view, Hebrew philosophical and scientific terminology evolved from various attempts to re-formulate the intellectual culture that had developed among Jews in the Arabic-speaking Islamicate world in a new linguistic form and to make it accessible to new audiences. The formation of the “philosophers’ Hebrew” is thus a border-transcending phenomenon with roots in the Arabic-speaking world and reaching out to the intellectual history of medieval Europe. It is one of the major aims of PESHAT in Context to document and analyze the migration of philosophical and scientific concepts and idea through the study of the development of Hebrew terminology within its multilinguistic background. For this purpose, PESHAT in Context has created a multilingual digital thesaurus of philosophical and scientific terms accessible online, which is technologically founded on a newly developed database program. As a project in modern digital humanities, it provides tools and a unique platform to access a wide range of digital resources relevant for the linguistic, terminological and conceptual study of philosophy and science in Europe and the Islamicate world.

Register in advance here https://bit.ly/2Y9MAtv. After registering, you will receive an email containing information about joining the webinar.

Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information email ds@ias.edu.

 

 

 

4. Global Performance Studies Journal – Call for Proposals – Issue 5.1: “Decolonisation and Performance Studies” (September 2022)

Call for Proposals
Issue 5.1: “Decolonisation and Performance Studies” (September 2022)
Proposal Deadline: 15 November 2021

This issue is multilingual. Proposals are accepted in Arabic, English, and Spanish. See links below for the CFP in the three languages:

CFP IN ARABIC

CFP IN SPANISH

CFP IN ENGLISH

Issue Editor

Dr. Nesreen N. Hussein (Middlesex University, London)

Co-Editors

Dr. Kevin Brown (University of Missouri)

Dr. Felipe Cervera (LASALLE College of the Arts)

 

 

 

 

5. Panel: Writing a Dissertation in Islamic Art & Architcctural History

Panelists: Catherine Asher (University of Minnesota), Martina Rugiadi (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Chanchal Dadlani (Wake Forest University), Zohreh Soltani (Ithaca College)

Date & Time: Monday, November 15, 2021 at 12 pm (Eastern)

Register at: https://umn.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEkdeyuqDkoG9PjMJJFMDvn8LI_pQ2rXtM1

 

This panel discussion is open to all graduate students working in topics related to Islamic art.

 

We encourage faculty members to circulate this announcement to their students.

 

To make the discussion as relevant as possible, we ask participants to complete this questionnaire in advance: https://forms.gle/7PpkdiVoZ9VhC3E39

Please submit responses by Monday, November 8, 2021.

 

 

 

6. New Exhibition – Cartier et les Arts de l’Islam: Aux sources de la modernité/Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity – MAD/DMA 2021-2022

Heather Ecker:

I wanted to announce the opening of our exhibition in Paris at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs (October 21, 2021 – February 20, 2022) and in Dallas at the Dallas Museum of Arts (May 14, 2022 – September 18, 2022). The exhibition, a culmination of a project of more than three years, is co-organised between the MAD and the DMA with the special collaboration of the Louvre and with Cartier. Diller, Scofidio + Renfro is the scenographer. It is a project in which archival materials (drawings, plaster casts, prints for glass plate negatives, books from Louis Cartier’s design library and notebooks of ideas) take pride of place alongside the jewels that emerged from those studies. It is a study of one firm’s creative response to the ornamental designs copied, catagorised and reprinted by theoreticians of the 19th century including Owen Jones, Jules Bourgoin, Collinot and Beaumont, Prisse d’Avennes and others, and its frank admiration for artists from the Islamic lands whose work was available in exhibitions, catalogues and Louis Cartier’s personal collection of manuscripts, paintings and objects. Indeed, inspirations from the ornaments produced by these artists appear to be at the root of Cartier’s modern style, including what became known as Art Deco. At each venue, the exhibition includes a partial reconstruction of Louis’ dispersed collection, much of it now at Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by MAD, in two editions, English and French, edited by the four curators: Evelyne Possémé, Judith Henon-Raynaud, Sarah Schleuning, and myself. The English edition will be released in April 2022, distributed by Thames & Hudson.

https://madparis.fr/Cartier-et-les-arts-de-l-Islam-Aux-sources-de-la-modernite

 

 

 

7. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

https://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/

 

 

 

8. New National Book Critics Circle translation prize

Starting with the 2022 publishing year, the National Book Critics Circle is launching a new Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize to honor the best book of any genre translated into English and published in the United States (including publishing houses based abroad but which distribute in America). The prize recognizes books for their excellence and artistry and is open to translations of books authored by living or deceased writers; new translations of previously translated books will also be considered (this is a game changer for classicists — a new Beowulf or Iliad would count, as would any premodern title in any language tradition). The prize will judge the translated English-language book as a work itself.

 

As a member of NBCC, I’m thrilled to be on the prize committee along with Adam Dalva, Tara Wanda Merrigan, Shelly Frisch, Jane Ciabattari, and other talented authors, translators, and reviewers. Please reach out with any questions!

 

Best wishes,

Kevin

 

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Kevin Blankinship, PhD

Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Literature

Contributing Editor, New Lines Magazine

Brigham Young University, 3058 JFSB

Provo, UT 84602 | (801) 422-4684
kevin_blankinship@byu.edu | Homepage

Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn | Academia | MuckRack

 

 

 

 

9. Call for papers: The Coalescence of Arabic, Turkic,and Persian Spheres (900–1900).
Deadline: 30 November 2021

The purpose of this call is to assemble contributions from scholars – both established as well as early career – for an academic conference exploring the cultural exchanges between Arabic, Turkic, and Persian-speaking peoples and traditions across the medieval and early modern eras.
Prospective contributors should apply with a 200-word abstract of their proposed presentation/essay by 30th November 2021.
Twelve successful applicants will be notified before the end of the year, and invited to partake in a digitally held conference held on Tuesday 4th May 2022.
More information is available at this link.

 

 

 

 

10. Fellowship: Bahari Visiting Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book.
Deadline 30 November 2021
The Bodleian Libraries are now accepting applications for Visiting Fellowships to be taken up during the academic year 2022-23. Fellowships support periods of research in the Special Collections of the Bodleian Libraries, across a range of different subjects.
Details of the Fellowship terms and application process can be found on our Fellowships webpage. Please note that this year’s Bahari Visiting Fellowship applicants will be required to submit an article-length sample of their work along with their application.
Former Bahari Visiting Fellows presented their studies at the Persian Arts of the Book Conference in July 2021, and some of them are included in a series of short films created for the Bodleian.
The films can be watched on the YouTube channel of the Bodleian Librariesand one of them features Dr Arezou Azad, BIPS Trustee and former Bahari Visiting Fellow. The video can be watched here.

 

 

 

11. The seventh (2022) round of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize is now open for submissions, with the deadline set for 5pm GMT on Friday 7th January 2022.

For further information, including how to submit, please click here: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2022.

 

 

 

12. Call for Book Manuscripts: The Early and Medieval Islamic World Series

I.B.Tauris, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, is seeking manuscripts and book proposals for The Early Medieval and Islamic World  book series. For more information, including, series description, new and forthcoming titles and how to submit a proposal, please see the series page on our website and read below, or contact Rory Gormley, Commissioning Editor for Middle East history & culture (rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com).

Series Description

As recent scholarship resoundingly attests, the medieval Mediterranean and Middle East bore witness to a prolonged period of flourishing intellectual and cultural diversity. Seeking to contribute to this ever-more nuanced and textured picture, The Early and Medieval Islamic World academic book series promotes innovative research on the period 500–1500 AD with the Islamic world, as it ebbed and flowed from Marrakesh to Palermo and Cairo to Kabul, as the central pivot. Thematic focus within this remit is broad, from the cultural and social to the political and economic, with preference given to studies of societies and cultures from a socio-historical perspective. The series showcases unique voices on the medieval Islamic world, shining light into its lesser studied corners.

Key areas of focus are:

• Transition to the ‘medieval’ world, especiallyarchaeological approaches
• Close textual readings and translations
• Trade and the economy
• Travel and exploration
• Government and warfare
• Societies and communities
• Material culture and art
• History of ideas
• Inter-religious contact, conflict and exchange
• Prominent and influential figures

The series is published in collaboration with the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. The society is dedicated to all aspects of the academic study of Mediterranean history and culture, from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries AD. It aims to foster cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary investigation, create a forum of ideas and encourage debate on intercommunal and transnational crosspollination within the medieval Mediterranean. For more information see: http://www.societymedievalmediterranean.com

For more information see the series website https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/early-and-medieval-islamic-world/, or to submit a proposal, please contact:Rory Gormley, Editor, Middle East history & culture rgormley@ibtauris.com