Categories : Academic items

1.‘A Mamluk-Venetian Memorandum on Asian Trade, AD 1503’

F. Apellaniz

JRAS, 2021

 

 

 

 

2. Virtual Panel on “Arab Media Between Conflict and Peace” Recap

On Tuesday 7th of December, AMS hosted a virtual panel discussion on “Arab Media Between Conflict & Peace.”

The panel, hosted in advance of our upcoming issue on Media & Peace, discussed how media hampers or promotes peace in the region.

Our distinguished panelists included Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, Philip Seib; Professor Sahar Khamis, Associate Professor of Communication, University of Maryland, College Park; Nour Halabi, Lecturer of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds who stepped in for Professor Christa Salamandra, Deputy Chair of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, the City University New York; and Jalel Harchaoui, researcher and analyst of North African affairs. The event was moderated by AMS Managing Editor, Sarah El-Shaarawi.

The panelists discussed everything from information warfare in the region, to the role of women in cyberactivism.

To watch the entire panel and hear more about the role of the media in conflict and peace visit our youtube channel here.

 

 

 

 

3. Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series:
Iranian Cinema and Women Poets

Winter-Spring 2022

 

Series Zoom Registration:

https://uoft.me/IranianCinema-WomenPoets

 

Friday, Jan 21, 4:00 p.m. EST 

Tainted Veil: Desire, Poetry and Subjectivity in the Persianate Literary Culture of South Asia

Razak Khan, University of Göttingen

 

Friday, Jan 28, 4:00 p.m. EST 

On Feminine Voice in Classical Persian Poetry: Invisible, Impossible, or Immaterial?

Ahoo Najafian, Macalester College

 

Friday, February 4, 4:00 p.m. EST 

“Salaam Mumbai”: Pasts and Presents of Exchange and Collaboration Between Indian and Iranian Cinemas

Claire Cooley, Tufts University

 

Friday, February 11, 4:00 p.m. EST 

Tracing the ‘Sensible Transcendental’: Forough Farrokhzad and the Question of Female Subjectivity

Mahrokhsadat Hosseini, University of Sussex

 

Friday, February 18, 4:00 EST 

From Mehrin Negār to Tārā: The Evolution of Female Protagonists in Bahram Beyzaie’s “The Snake King” (1966) and “The Ballad of Tārā” (1978-9)

Saeed Talajooy, University of St Andrews

 

Friday, February 25            Reading Week. No lecture.

Friday, March 4, 4:00 p.m. EST 

Zīb al-Nisā (d. 1702): A “Hidden” Poetess at The Mughal Court

Pegah Shahbaz, University of Toronto

 

Friday, March 11, 4:00 p.m. EST 

How Frightening Your Makings: Epidemics, Mass Metamorphoses,
and Bodies of the Iranian New Wave Cinema

Farbod Honaarpisheh, Yale University

Friday, March 18, 4:00 p.m. EST 

Reading Forugh Farrokhzād’s Poems Poetically

Michael Craig Hillmann, Independent Scholar

 

Friday, March 25                 Happy Nowruz! No lecture.

Friday, April 1                     Happy Nowruz! No lecture.

Friday, April 8, 4:00 p.m. EST

Desire, Power and Agency: Iranian Female Poets Reading their Poems
before the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic

Mahdi Touraj, King’s University College

Friday, April 15                   Good Friday. No Lecture

Friday, April 22, 4:00 p.m. EST 

New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema

Farshid Kazemi, Simon Fraser University

 

1.The University of Edinburgh

Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Apply Before:

01/12/2022, 05:00 PM

Full information at:

https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/job/2767/?keyword=2767

 

 

 

2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts

Dwight Reynolds

E.J. Brill, 2021

 

 

 

3. Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships tenable at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for the academic year commencing in October 2022.

Visiting Fellowships

Two Visiting Fellowships are offered to support research in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences that has relevance to the study of Islam or the Muslim world, particularly anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.

Applicants would normally be established academics but scholars at the postdoctoral level are also eligible.

The Visiting Fellowship provides a stipend of £5000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.

Visiting Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.

Closing date: 28 January 2022.

Click here for General Information

Application Guidelines

Click here to Apply
Visiting Research Fellowships

Two Visiting Research Fellowships, open to citizens of countries in Asia or Africa, are intended to encourage interaction among academics from different traditions of learning. Preference will be given to those studying classical Islamic sciences, although other areas in the humanities and social sciences will be considered.

Applicants should normally be at the postdoctoral level or equivalent.

The Visiting Research Fellowship carries a stipend of £4000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Research Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.

Visiting Research Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.

Closing date: 11 February 2022.

Click here for General Information

Application Guidelines

Click here to Apply

Contact Email: 

visiting.fellowships@oxcis.ac.uk

URL: 

https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships

 

 

 

4. Workshop – Interdisciplinary Textile Studies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential – March 4

tudies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential

Disiplinler Arası Bağlamda Tekstil Araştırmaları Çalıştayı: Geçmiş, Gelecek ve Olası Çalışmalar

(Türkçe tercümesi aşağıdadır). 

Organized by Ivana Jevtić (Koç University) and Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)

We are pleased to call for applications from current graduate students to attend a workshop about textile studies, taking place on Friday March 4 2022 in Istanbul.  The one-day event focuses on material from the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific aim of spurring dialogue across periods and disciplines, as well as the immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. Please see below / the end of this message for details on eligibility and application.

Textiles were the second-most traded commodity in world history, second only to grain. In the eastern Mediterranean, silks feature as chief items of display in both Byzantine and Ottoman courts, woolens were worn by soldiers, peasants, and clerics alike, and townsfolk signalled their status and affiliations with expensive clothing, furnishings, and other accoutrements. Work in the textile sector encompassed expert designers, weavers, and tailors, as well as dyers, spinners, and amateur embroiderers. Across the region, men and women raised goats and sheep, and wore woolens, and bought, sold, traded, and re-used cloth both plain and fancy. While textiles shaped life and experience across time and place, they are not often the subject of serious, sustained engagement. This workshop aims to re-center textiles and to showcase the potentials for interdisciplinary study by bringing together academics, curators, professionals, and students.

The workshop is pleased to announce the following speakers and topics: 

Sibel ALPASLAN ARÇA, Topkapı Sarayı Museum Osmanlı Kıyafet Koleksiyonu / Clothing from the Ottoman Dynasty; Hülya BİLGİ, Sadberk Hanım, Osmanlı işlemeleri ve işleme tekniği / Ottoman Embroideries and Techniques; Paul HEPWORTH, Conservator, 19th Century Ottoman Textiles / 19. Yüzyıla ait Osmanlı Tekstiller; Ivana JEVTIĆ, Koç University, Representations of Textile in Byzantine frescoes / Bizans Fresklerinde Tekstil Tasvirleri; Recep KARADAĞ, Istanbul Aydın University / Turkish Cultural Foundation, Dyestuffs and metal threads analysis, and textile technologies in Ottoman textiles / Osmanlı tekstillerinde boyalar ve metal iplik analizleri, ve tekstil teknolojileri; Eunice Dauterman MAGUIRE, curator emeritus, Gender-fluid garments, breastfeeding and holy persons in late antiquity/ Geç Antik Çağda Akışkan Cinsiyetli Kıyafetler, Emzirme ve Kutsal Kişiler; Çiğdem MANER, Koç University, Anatolia: A Major Hub for Textile Production During the Bronze and Iron Age / Anadolu: Tunç ve Demir Çağları’nda Önemli Tekstil Üretim Merkezi; Amanda PHILLIPS, University of Virginia, Textile Studies: Interdisciplinary Potentials / Tekstil Araştırmaları: Disiplinler Arası Olasılıklar; Gang WU, former ANAMED postdoctoral fellow; Understanding Byzantine silk production technology / Bizans İpek Üretim Teknolojisini Anlamak; Filiz YENİŞEHİRLİOĞLU, Koç University / VEKAM (Ankara), Tarihi Dokumak: Bir Kentin Gizemi: Sof / Weaving History: The Mystery of a City: Sof (Camlet)

The workshop is sponsored by the Barakat Trust for Islamic Art with the support of Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), the Koç University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM), and the American Research Institute in Turkey’s Istanbul branch.

The workshop will be in Turkish and English, with live translation during the Q&A as necessary.

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 Space is limited to ten participants. To apply, please send the following information as a single Word or PDF document, to textileworkshopistanbul2022@gmail.com by 15 January 2022.

1. Your name
2. Your university and graduate program affiliation
3. The name of one professor with whom you are working who can attest to your enrollment and progress in the program
4. A CV, two pages maximum
5. In a paragraph of about 200 words, please describe any experience you have studying or working with textiles and material culture of any type, including classes, short or summer programs, field or lab work, internships, or other relevant experience.
6. In a paragraph of about 300 words, please explain why you would like to participate in the workshop, what you hope to learn, and how it relates to your overall formation as a student and/or future academic or professional.

Applicants will receive notification by the beginning of February 2022.

We are grateful to Hayriye Bilgi for her help with translations from English to Turkish.

 

 

 

 

5. ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fourth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 3, 2022.
For more details and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school

The deadline to apply is April 21, 2022.

For a discount, you will need to apply by March 10, 2022.

 

 

 

 

6. ONLINE Contemporary Middle East Lecture Series on “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue” by Marina Rustow (Princeton University), SMEI, 18 January 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/18jan2022-the-lost-archive-traces-of-a-caliphate-in-a-cairo-synagogue.html

 

 

 

 

7. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022

This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africa, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sacred-spaces-winter-2022-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-11-12-february-fresno-924964?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

8. ONLINE Webinar: “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs” by Marc David Baer (LSE), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 8 March 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT

Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth cen-tury, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War.

Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/08mar2022-the-ottomans-khans-caesars-and-caliphs.html

 

 

 

 

9. Workshop: “Continuity and Change Throughout the Ottoman Longue Durée”, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, 1-3 April 2022.

Works in progress and early career scholars are especially welcomed. Regional participants prioritized.

Abstracts are due 31 January 2022, submitted to naltikri@umw.edu .

Information: https://maow.umwblogs.org/

 

 

 

 

10. HYBRID “15th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies”, Center for Euro-pean & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), Athens, 11-14 April 2022

Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean

 

 

 

 

11. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgram a Pilgram? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022

Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Bud-dhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pil-grims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.

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

 

 

 

12. Freie Universität Berlin

Department of History and Cultural Studies Institute of Islamic Studies

University Professor of Islamic Studies (Classical Islam) Salary grade: W3 or equivalent Reference code: W3Islamwiss Successful candidates will have an excellent record of research and publications in the field of classical Islam, ideally with a focus on the social, cultural, religious, or philosophical history of Islam and employ innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of English and be able to teach in that language. Their German language level must be at least B1. Their Arabic must also be excellent. Knowledge of an additional Near Eastern language relevant to the field is desirable. Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/english/GK-W3Islamwiss_E.html

 

 

 

 

13. Several Full-time Open-rank Faculty Positions, Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University, Istanbul

We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas: Early modern Turkish literature; Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender; Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.

Deadline for applications: 29 December 2021. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440

 

 

 

 

 

14. Postdoctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies of the Pre-modern Mediterranean in Haifa and Israel, Haifa, 2022-2024

Candidates are invited who demonstrate academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies.

Deadline for applications: 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/211124-post-docs-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-hcmh?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

15. Call for Articles: Relations Between Religious Communities (Maghreb Review)

Topics could include: 1. The impact of the Arab-Islamic conquest on Christian and Jewish communities in the region. 2. Andalusia with Western Europe during the Umayyad Period 755-1031 and experiences of travel more broadly. 3. The attitudes of different medieval Muslim empires towards religious difference and minorities. 4. Commercial relations and litigation across religious lines in the medieval and early modern period. Etc.

Deadline for submissions in English or French: 31 January 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-relations-between-religious-communities-maghreb-review?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

16. Articles for Journal “BOAS_insights #2” (“Bonn Oriental and Asian Studies Insights”)

The editors of this online, peer-reviewed and open-access journal call for submissions that cover a wide range of subjects and a large geographical scope within Asian and Middle Eastern Area Studies. We encour-age multi-disciplinary approaches that incorporate diverse perspectives and bridge deeply specialized fields.

Deadline for articles: 28 February 2022. Call for papers, recent issues and further information: https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en; https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en/call-for-papers/call-for-papers

1.CALL FOR PAPERS – MESA’s 56^th Annual Meeting
December 1-4, 2022 in Denver, Colorado
Deadline: February 17, 2022

The Middle East Studies Association of North America invites and encourages submissions for its 56^th Annual Meeting to be held in the fall of 2022. Submissions by students are more than welcome.

MESA is a leading international forum for scholarship, intellectual exchange, and pedagogical innovation. Since its founding in 1966, it has been the hub for academic collaboration within the field of Middle East studies. The meeting features panels and roundtables on a wide variety of topics related to the broader Middle East and North Africa from the 600s until the present. Presentations and discussions are complemented by an exciting film festival of documentaries, features, and shorts related to the region, as well as a comprehensive book exhibit featuring the latest publications in the field, in addition to a variety of other events and opportunities related to academic and professional careers in Middle East studies.

Submissions may be in the form of pre-organized panels, pre-organized roundtables, or individual papers (to be formed into panels by the program committee).

MESA’s purview is primarily the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization. Comparative work is encouraged.

All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system (https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php) which opens on Monday, January 10, 2022 and closes on Thursday, February 17, 2022 at midnight Eastern Standard Time. Late submissions will not be considered.

Important Links
* Call for Papers & Submission Instructions: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers

Membership is a requirement to submit a proposal. To renew your 2022 membership, login to your myMESA account. To join you will need to create an account in myMESA, complete a profile, and pay the annual dues. Contact Sara Palmer at sara@mesana.org with questions about membership. Preregistration payment is not required until May 15, after the program committee decisions are released.

Please direct questions about submissions to Kat Teghizadeh at kat@mesana.org.

 

 

 

2. Georgetown University, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship

 

Institution Type:	College / University
Location:	District of Columbia, United States
Position:	Post-Doctoral Fellow

 

Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Georgetown University

The Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship was established by a generous grant from the State of Qatar to the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The fellowship supports a recent Ph.D. working on the topic of U.S.-Arab relations, Arab Studies, or Islamic Studies for one academic year ($60,000 plus benefits). The post-doctoral fellow will transform their Ph.D. dissertation into a publication; teach a small seminar on a topic of their choosing in either the fall or spring semester; and deliver a lecture at CCAS about their research. We also will support the Fellow to travel to Qatar and deliver a lecture at an educational institution in Doha.

Eligibility
Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. within the past five years; the Ph.D. degree must be from a university in the United States; applicants will be assessed on the originality of their scholarship and the high quality of their academic record.

Application Requirements

Cover letter

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Two references*

Academic transcript(s)

Dissertation outline & sample chapter (or published article)

Course proposal for seminar

 

*Please provide the names and contact information of two professional references. If you are shortlisted for the fellowship, you will be notified in mid-January and asked to submit two recommendation letters. The letters should be emailed directly to CCAS within three weeks of notification.

 

Applications for the 2022-2023 ADF Fellowship will be due January 31, 2022. Click here to apply.

Questions about the fellowship may be directed to Ms. Dana AlDairani at da603@georgetown.edu.

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Webinar: “Linguicide and Kurdish Theater in Turkey: Seeking the Voice” by Bilal Akar, Kadir Has University, 22 December 2021, 7:30 pm TRT

Since 1991, the Kurdish theater field has faced ongoing effects of the linguicidal policies of the republic and negotiated the changing politics of language and identity. This presentation will focus on the effects of these linguicidal policies on the production of Kurdish theater texts, the limited number of artists who can speak in their mother tongue, the debates on the usage of local dialects, surtitles, and assimilation, hybridization, non-verbal plays, and multilingualism.

Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9312750/webinar-linguicide-and-kurdish-theater-turkey-seeking-voice

 

 

 

 

4. Colloque international : « Le pouvoir du rire – rire et pouvoir. Humour, discours et politique (avec un focus spécial sur le monde arabo-islamique) », Université de Craiova (Roumanie), INALCO (Paris) et Université de Lyon 2, Craiova, 19-20 mai 2022

Arme fatale contre le cynisme, la sottise, la langue de bois et la censure, l’humour démasque l’arbitraire, brise les idoles et s’attaque aux tabous. Toutes les aires géographiques et culturelles sont concernées (dont bien sûr le monde arabo-islamique).

Information : http://www.inalco.fr/appel-communication/pouvoir-rire-rire-pouvoir-humour-discours-politique

 

 

 

 

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

American University in Cairo

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

Dec 31 2021 closing date.

 

 

 

6. Assistant Professor of History: Africa/Global South (Focus Middle East), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth

We seek applicants whose research is grounded in Africa; time period and regional specialization within Africa are open. Scholars are welcome who treat and connect varied regions/nations of the continent, or who tie Africa to other geographic areas, such as South Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean as well as scholars whose research incorporates non-European languages and sources.

Deadline for applications: 16 January 2022.

Information: https://jobs.tcu.edu/en-us/job/497422/assistant-professor-of-history-africaglobal-south

 

 

 

 

7. Articles on Communication of culture and Islamic Fundamentalism, for Special Issue of Frontiers in Communication

Topics: Fundamentalist Islam and less advantaged gender, sex, religious and ethnic groups. Conceptualization of outgroups, terrorism, and Jihad through the Islamic fundamentalist lens. Interculturality and Islamic fundamentalism. Theorization of Islamic fundamentalism in the literature of culture, communication, and me-dia studies. Islamic fundamentalists, propaganda, and media. Cultural impacts of the Taliban’s taking over of Afghanistan, locally and globally. Etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.

Information: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/26194/communication-of-culture-and-islamic-fundamentalism

 

 

 

 

8. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year

Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.

Deadline for applications: 20 January, 2022.

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

1.Fashioning an Empire: Safavid Textiles from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

December 18, 2021 through May 15, 2022

https://asia.si.edu/exhibition/fashioning-an-empire-safavid-textiles-from-the-museum-of-islamic-art-doha/

 

 

2. Proposals for New Book Series “Mediterranean Counterpoints”, Malta University Press and Berghahn Publishers

Edited by Jessica Marglin (University of Southern California) and Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Columbia University), the series seeks to publish monographs and edited volumes on any humanistic or social scientific dimension of the Mediterranean.

Deadline for proposals: 31 May 2022.

Information: https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/bookseries/mediterraneancounterpoints

 

 

 

 

3. CFA: Summer School: The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire (16th-early 20th Centuries) (Deadline: 28 February 2022)

Call for Applications

Summer School:

The Archives of Islam in the Russian Empire

(16^th-early 20^th Centuries)

Convenor: Dr Paolo Sartori / Committee for the Study of Islam in Central Eurasia (ÖAW)
When: June 27-July 1 2022 (max. 10/12 students)
Where: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Deadline: 28 February 2022

Outline

The summer school is designed to explore a range of scholarly approaches to the hermeneutics of records and the formation of archives on Islam in the territories of the former Russian Empire in the early modern and modern period. Here the term “archive” is used in a broad and all-encompassing sense, which includes all possible activities of record-keeping. The goal of this initiative is to draw attention on practices of information-gathering and knowledge production on the Muslim communities inhabiting the vast area encompassing Inner Asia, Siberia, Central Asia and the Caucasus from the fall of the Khanate of Kazan (1552) to the end of the Russian Empire. In addition, by bringing archival science into conversation with Russian and Islamic studies, the summer school promotes an extended reflection on the institutions and the individuals (archivists, historians, Orientalists, dragomans, and go-betweens of all walks of life) who played a significant role in the creation of the imperial repositories that today preserve records about Islam and Muslim communities in Central Eurasia.

By offering hands-on reading sessions and masterclasses, which are based on material in Russian, Church Slavonic, Eastern Turkic (Tatar and Chaghatay), and Ottoman Turkish, the summer school offers a wide range of activities to familiarize students with writing, documentary, and archival practices in Tsarist-ruled Central Eurasia. Reading sessions will offer ample room for practical exercises in the fields of palaeography and diplomatics. Special attention will be given to records crafted in Cyrillic handwriting (including skoropis) as well as in the Arabic script.

The ideal target of the summer school is a group of max. 10/12 graduate students.

The basic requirement is knowledge of Russian and one Turkic language and willingness to work with records in manuscript form.

The programme of the initiative is a combination of

Reading sessions: faculty members and students read documents and discuss aspects of palaeography and diplomatics, as well as well as practices of filing, preservation, and creation of archives;

Lectures: faculty members offer master-classes in which they reflect on the challenges and the potentials of working in and with records on Islam now preserved in the archives of the former Russian Empire.

Application

Applicants are required to submit a CV, a motivation letter, and a letter of recommendation to paolo.sartori@oeaw.ac.at

The language of instruction is English. Non-native speakers are required to have a command of English equivalent to at least TOEFL 550.

Reading knowledge of Russian and one Turkic language (Ottoman Turkish, Tatar, or Eastern Turkic/Chaghatay) is required.

Deadline: February 28 2022

The organisers will cover participants’ tuition costs, as well as hotel accommodation and lunches for the duration of the course. We will also subsidize travel costs, providing up to a maximum of $500 for travel from within Europe and $850 for travel from further afield. Once selected, participants will be responsible for making their own travel arrangements, and can claim reimbursement upon arrival in Vienna. Selected participants will be required by May 1 2022 to provide documentation showing that they have purchased the necessary flight or travel tickets; anyone failing to observe this commitment will be removed from the course.

Contact Info:

Dr. Paolo Sartori, Senior Research Associate
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Vienna)

Contact Email: paolo.sartori@oeaw.ac.at

URL:  https://www.oeaw.ac.at/sice/events/summer-school

 

 

 

4. The Islamic College has organized an Arabic Course for those who want to learn the language of the Islamic revelation.

The course has three semesters which are designed to prepare students with no previous knowledge of Arabic to read and understand Quranic and classical Islamic texts.

At the end of the course, students would have developed the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and grammar. Students who successfully complete the course will be awarded an Islamic College Certificate of attendance.

Arabic Online Language Course

Beginner (Saturday), Intermediate (Sunday), Advanced (Friday)
Starting: 10 January 2022

To register please complete this form or contact the Short Course Department by email: shortcourses@islamic-college.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

5. Durham University: Assistant Professor of History in the period c.900-c.1250 (CE) (HIST22-3)

The Department of History at Durham University seeks to appoint a talented individual to the role of Assistant Professor of History in the period c.900-c.1250 (CE) whose research focuses on the Islamicate World (including North Africa, Sicily and al-Andalus, the Levant, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Khorosan and northern India).

Closing Date: 26 January 2022 at Midnight  (UK)

https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21001534&lang=en&src=JB10200

 

 

 

6. The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture is pleased to announce its 2022–2023 grant competition.

*** NEW *** Mary Jaharis Center Co-Funding Grants promote Byzantine studies in North America. These grants provide co-funding to organize scholarly gatherings (e.g., workshops, seminars, small conferences) in North America that advance scholarship in Byzantine studies broadly conceived. We are particularly interested in supporting convenings that build diverse professional networks that cross the boundaries of traditional academic disciplines, propose creative approaches to fundamental topics in Byzantine studies, or explore new areas of research or methodologies.

Mary Jaharis Center Dissertation Grants are awarded to advanced graduate students working on Ph.D. dissertations in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. These grants are meant to help defray the costs of research-related expenses, e.g., travel, photography/digital images, microfilm.

Mary Jaharis Center Publication Grants support book-length publications or major articles in the field of Byzantine studies broadly conceived. Grants are aimed at early career academics. Preference will be given to postdocs and assistant professors, though applications from non-tenure track faculty and associate and full professors will be considered. We encourage the submission of first-book projects.

Mary Jaharis Center Project Grants support discrete and highly focused professional projects aimed at the conservation, preservation, and documentation of Byzantine archaeological sites and monuments dated from 300 CE to 1500 CE primarily in Greece and Turkey. Projects may be small stand-alone projects or discrete components of larger projects. Eligible projects might include archeological investigation, excavation, or survey; documentation, recovery, and analysis of at risk materials (e.g., architecture, mosaics, paintings in situ); and preservation (i.e., preventive measures, e.g., shelters, fences, walkways, water management) or conservation (i.e., physical hands-on treatments) of sites, buildings, or objects.

The application deadline for all grants is February 1, 2022. For further information, please visit the Mary Jaharis Center website: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants.

Contact Brandie Ratliff (mjcbac@hchc.edu), Director, Mary Jaharis Center, with any questions.

 

 

 

 

7. I am pleased to announce the publication of ChrysoCollate, a free computer program for collation and critical edition in any language (unicode) developed by Sébastien Moureau (FNRS, UCLouvain).

This tool offers:

• two modes: collation mode and edition mode;
• a collation table with automatic distinctive colours and previsional completion of readings;
• annotation tools for the collation table, including a system of references to the images of the witnesses that allows you to navigate easily in your textual tradition;
• automatic apparatus, according to the readings that are chosen by the editor;
• a stemma codicum checker;
• a translation box to manage and synchronise your translation;
• exportation in various formats (odt, cte, etc.).

ChrysoCollate is freely available at https://uclouvain.be/chrysocollate/.

Kind regards,

Sébastien Moureau,

Chercheur qualifié at the FNRS,

Professor at the UCLouvain.

 

 

 

8. Volume 2 of the Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World

https://brill.com/view/journals/mcmw/mcmw-overview.xml

The Journal is available online and in open access, and all the articles are downloadable.

 

 

 

9. Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art (Routledge, March 2022)

Edited by Onur Ozturk, Xenia Gazi, and Sam Bowker. For the book’s content see: https://www.routledge.com/Deconstructing-the-Myths-of-Islamic-Art/Ozturk-Gazi-Bowker/p/boo…

Deconstructing the Myths of Islamic Art addresses how researchers can challenge stereotypical notions of Islam and Islamic art while avoiding the creation of new myths and the encouragement of nationalistic and ethnic attitudes.

Despite its Orientalist origins, the field of Islamic art has continued to evolve and shape our understanding of the various civilizations of Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Situated in this field, this book addresses how universities, museums, and other educational institutions can continue to challenge stereotypical or homogeneous notions of Islam and Islamic art. It reviews subtle and overt mythologies through scholarly research, museum collections and exhibitions, classroom perspectives, and artists’ initiatives. This collaborative volume addresses a conspicuous and persistent gap in the literature, which can only be filled by recognizing and resolving persistent myths regarding Islamic art from diverse academic and professional perspectives.

 

 

 

10. The Persian Prison Poem

R. Gould

Edinburgh, 2021.

 

 

 

11. “Iran. Five Millennia of Art and Culture” An exhibition in Berlin

04.12.2021 to 20.03.2022

For the first time in a Berlin institution, the cultural history of Iran – from the early civilisations through to the modern era – is the focus of a major art-historical survey exhibition. Some 360 objects from the Sarikhani Collection in London will be on display, alongside exhibits from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The works on exhibit bear witness to the central role that Iran played as a site of innovation, as a melting pot and cultural powerhouse connecting Africa, Asia and Europe. Additionally, it presents a rich kaleidoscope of the cultural creativity of urban societies.

The Fascinating Cultural Landscape of Iran

A fascinating cultural landscape developed over thousands of years in Iran. Situated between deserts, mountain ranges and bodies of water, the region was home to great historical civilisations, yet its artistic achievements are unknown to many outside of scholarly circles. This despite the fact that Iran is not only located in one of the oldest and most important cultural regions in the world, but has also been home to key cultural, artistic and scientific trends and discoveries that have had wide-ranging impacts, reaching all the way to Europe. The exhibition features exquisite works of art from the Sarikhani Collection, complemented by unique pieces from the collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It takes visitors on a journey through time and the country’s rich cultural heritage. Some of the highlights along the way include the empires of the Achaemenids and Sasanids, the formation of a Persian Islamic culture, the extraordinary artistic achievements of the 9th to 13th centuries, and the Golden Age of the Safavids.

A “Cultural Highway” Connecting Asia, Africa and Europe

The exhibition will explore the central role that Iran has played in the context of cross-regional political, economic and cultural relations. As a “cultural highway” connecting Asia, Africa and Europe, Persia is a place of  extraordinary ethnic and linguistic diversity. Time and again, migration and the exchange of cultural knowledge and technologies along the Silk Road(s) have formed the foundations for innovation and creativity. From the early civilisations, Elam and the ancient Kings of Persis with their seat in Persepolis to the incursions of Genghis Khan and the important imperial city of Isfahan right through to the beginning of the modern era, the evolution of Iran is arranged into a chronological tour, illustrated with traditions, transformations and complex relationships.

Five Thousands Years of Culture

The exhibition – a must-see for lovers of painting and ceramics in particular – shows how, over the course of several thousand years, a specifically Iranian cultural identity emerged from Farsi as a language of instruction and cultural production, an identity that was continuously transforming, particularly among the cross-regional networks of traders and scholars and at moments of radical change, such as war or forced migration. Time and again, invaders and invaded alike adopted the language and culture, renewing and re-forming it as they went.

“Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture” is curated by Ute Franke together with Stefan Weber from the Museum für Islamische Kunst and Ina Sandmann from the Sarikhani Collection. Alongside this exhibition, the James-Simon-Galerie is presenting a special feature concentrating on illuminated manuscripts, titled The Garden as a Place of Refuge: Persian Illuminated Manuscripts Meet Berlin-Style Allotment Idyll in the book art cabinet of the Pergamonmuseum.

During the entire exhibition in collaboration with various organisations and the Friends of the Museum für Islamische Kunst runs an extensive programme of events.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Hirmer Verlag.

Link to the website

https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/iran-five-millennia-of-art-and-culture/

 

 

 

12. “The Garden as a Place of Refuge” Manuscript and photo exhibition in Berlin

30.10.2021 to 20.02.2022
Pergamonmuseum

Whether it’s garden parties or romance in the park, the dream of retreating to places that are suffused with beautiful memories is no new thing. Gardens and parks have always been alluring locations. Places where you can enjoy a barbecue with friends, escape the crowds of the city, or relax under the trees or a gazebo and gaze out onto the verdant landscape. This is particularly true in arid regions like Iran, where cultivated gardens with cooling courses of water and the shade of the trees form idyllic refuges. This social function of gardens as well as the major significance of the culture of gardening as an independent art form find rich expression in Persian poetry and illuminated manuscripts.

As an accompaniment to the exhibition Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture, this special display in the book art cabinet of the Museum für Islamische Kunst weaves together the culture of the gardens of Iran and the “longing for the countryside” of today’s city-dwellers. Persian illustrated manuscripts demonstrate in intricate detail and vibrant colours the enchantment of gardens. In this display, they are juxtaposed with the promise of freedom of urban garden allotments, holiday shacks, and the altered significance of parks and gardens in the era of the pandemic.

Link to the exhibition The Garden as a Place of Refuge (smb.museum)

1.Second International Congress: “Dynamics of South-South Relations. Permanence and Evolution of the Political Alliances of the Global South (1810-2022)”, Autonomous University of Madrid, 22-23 February 2022

The objective of this Congress is to deepen understanding of the political, economic, and cultural ties estab-lished between the nations of the Global South by reflecting on the transformations, continuities and breaks that South-South ties have experienced from the decolonization processes to the present day.

Information: https://redessursur.wordpress.com/2021/07/16/cfp-ii-congress-south-south

 

 

 

 

2. Conference: “Forms and Functions of Islamic Philosophy”, Bard College, New York, 31 March – 1 April 2021

The conference seeks to highlight how Islamic philosophy (falsafa/ḥikma) was practiced “in conversation”- between scholars, with various audiences, and with different disciplines, approaches, and rhetoric. Islamic philosophy was composed not only in traditional forms of treatises and commentaries, but also through nar-ratives written in poetry and prose.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8532192/cfp-forms-and-functions-islamic-philosophy

 

 

 

 

3. Session on “Negotiating Religion, Gender, and Travel in the (Arabic) Medieval Mediterranean” during the “57th International Congress on Medieval Studies”, Western Michigan University, 9-14 May 2021

People in the medieval Mediterranean were connected by networks of trade, family and knowledge. This panel aims to explore how Spanish, French, Arabic, and Italian authors imagined the people who lived these networks and their effects, including enslaved peoples, scholars and merchants.

Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-negotiating-religion-gender-and-travel-in-the-medieval-mediterranean-9-14-may-kalamazoo-online?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

4. Workshop on “Purity, Pollution, Purification and Defilement in the Premodern Mediterranean”, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, 28-30 June 2022

Welcome are papers relating to the three Abrahamic religions as well as numerous pagan, local and hetero-dox cults and relating to the concepts of time, space and purity; to rituals and practice of purity; personhood and purity; the relationship between the personal and the communal in respect to im/purity; the transmission of beliefs, texts and practices across the multi-religious/ethnic region; purity and social hierarchies; medical discourses and purity; Im/purity and emotions.

Deadline for abstracts 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-purity-pollution-purification-and-defilement-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-28-30-june-2022-haifa?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

5. Senior Lecturer at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna

Qualification: Diploma/MA in Turkish Studies, mastery of the Turkish language and competence in language teaching, skills in Ottoman Turkish and in the translation of literary texts are desirable, several years of teaching experience at institutions of post-secondary level education in the field of Turkish.

Deadline for applications: 26 December 2021.

Information: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/716140

 

 

 

 

6. Interdisciplinary Scholar of Places, Movement and Cultural Practices Professor (Tenure Track / Open Rank), New York University Abu Dhabi

We seek a scholar and educator focused on the Middle East, North Africa, or Indian Ocean world whose work and research reflect an interdisciplinary approach.

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/91523

 

 

 

 

7. Assistant Professor in History of the Pre-1500 Islamicate World, Central Washington Univer-sity

Qualifications: PhD in History with a specialization in pre-1500 Islamicate world history. Ability to teach cross-listed courses in Asian Studies, and/or Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Experience in teaching intro-ductory world history, cross-cultural, or borderlands classes. Experience incorporating multicultural perspec-tives into teaching for 21st century leadership.

Deadline for applications: 3 January 2022.

Information: https://careers.cwu.edu/psc/careers/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_SCHJOB_FL&Ac-tion=U

 

 

 

 

8. Postdoctoral Research Associate on Contemporary Politics at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, NES, Princeton University

Applicants can be from the disciplines of history, politics, economics and international relations. The appoint-ment will be for the year, 1 September 2022 through 31 August 2023, with the possibility of renewal.

Deadline for applications: 3 January 2022.

Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=23761

 

 

 

9. Post-Doc: Byzantine Studies (University of Notre Dame)

Application Deadline: February 1, 2022

https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/post-doc-byzantine-studies-university-of-notre-dame?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

10. Fellowship Applications 2022-23 at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad, University of Arizona, MENAS

CASA offers advanced level training in Arabic language and culture to qualified American students at the American University in Cairo and Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or per-manent residents and should have a minimum of 3 years of formal instruction in Arabic prior to joining CASA.

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022.

Information: https://casa.sbs.arizona.edu/applying-casa-i-program

 

 

 

11. Chapters for Edited Book on “Art against Authoritarianism: Aesthetic Activism in Post-Arab Spring Middle East and North Africa” (IB Tauris)

By analyzing a variety of art practices that are articulated with different collective struggles in the region, this book elucidates the vitality and creativity of anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian artistic production whose praxis is enmeshed with grassroots movements across MENA.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022.

Information:  https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/9267905/cfp-book-art-against-authoritarianism-aesthetic-activism-post

 

 

 

12. An Online Course in Persian Calligraphy, Nasta’liq Script

Dates: Friday 11 February 2022 — Friday 15 April 2022
There are ten places available

Price: £300 for ten classes
Pack of materials (sent by post): £25 UK, £35 International
The registration deadline is Friday 11 February 2022. Students requiring a pack of materials are advised to enrol at least 2 weeks prior to the course start date to leave enough time to receive the pack.
For any enquiries please contact charlotte.westbrook@iranheritage.org, Tel: 020 3651 2124
Organised by: Iran Heritage Foundation.

For information and to register, see:

https://www.iranheritage.org/calligraphy-110222.html#pay

 

 

 

 

13. Spring 2022 Twelve-Week Persian Immersion Program

Dates: February 14 – May 6, 2022

Fees: $3500 (including tuition and accommodation)

Mejlis Institute is inviting applications for a twelve-week Persian immersion program in Spring 2022 at our new location in Lori Province of Armenia. Participants will be provided with full–board accommodation and have a chance to spend three months fully immersing themselves in Persian while enjoying life in a beautiful mountenous region. For more details, please visit our website:

https://mejlisinstitute.org/persian-immersion-program

 

1. Call for Papers, ‘Islam in the RE Classroom’

Deadline 28 February 2022

You will be notified of the acceptance of your paper by 17 March 2022.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words, and details of your current affiliation, to philip.wood@aku.edu
Papers will be twenty minutes long, followed by ten minutes of Q&A.
We warmly welcome submissions to present papers from teachers, academics and policymakers of different kinds.

These twin online workshops aim to enhance the quality of learning and teaching about Islam at GCSE and A-Levels. They aid both the academic-theoretical and practical-pedagogical aspects of conducting Religious Education through drawing on the best practices in the field in terms of curriculum design, agreed syllabi, textbooks, lesson design and delivery. They are jointly hosted by The Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) for UK and the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, London (AKU-ISMC) and will be held virtually on Saturday 25th of June and Saturday 2nd of July 2022.

On one hand, the workshops aim to make teacher-practitioners more confident in teaching about Islam in mainstream secondary schools in the UK. On the other, they aim to initiate dialogue between the key stakeholders (include curriculum designers, researchers in relevant disciplines, PGCE RE faculty and trainee teachers) to ensure that Islam is represented with greater complexity in textbooks and the classroom.

The study of Islam and Muslims is approached through an inter-disciplinary lens that acknowledges the role of historical and socio-political contexts, ethnic and regional diversities, and Muslims’ overlapping identities. Thus, the lived manifestations of Islam, far from being a monolith, are a mosaic, one comprising a multitude of interpretations, traditions, spaces and practices. This approach to engaging with religion does not only promote human agency and question authority, but also invites curiosity and creativity on the part of teachers and students.

A movement away from essentialist and reified representations of Islam (focusing on beliefs and rituals alone) can also create spaces to engage with the aesthetic, artistic, mystical and poetic expressions of faith over time and geography. Adopting a nuanced approach that takes into account the cultural differences and beliefs that evolved over time and geography, the workshop will provide the much-needed stimulus to the critical discussion of Islam in a secondary RE classroom. The recent works also points towards a worldview based approach that can be crucial towards the understanding of Islam(s) in RE classrooms.

Sessions in the workshop will invite discussion of Islam in different civilisational contexts: instead of seeing Islam as the automatic or inevitable product of a scripture, we will consider how different Islams were produced in different environments, and how these environments invited different interpretations of scripture or led certain parts of scripture to be prioritised over others.

We pursue this interest in how religion is defined, and its practical effects, in two areas where the academic study of religion has had greatest impact, namely the concept of Abrahamic religion, and the identification of different claims to have authoritative interpretation. The enquiry of the study of religion in universities has often been divorced from RE in secondary schools, so this workshop is an attempt to see whether and where there are insights from work in this area that could be brought into schools. Here we ask whether the concept of Abrahamic religion is a useful one? What are its effects on the religions that are included as Abrahamic (Islam, Christianity and Judaism) and those that are excluded (such as Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism)? Likewise, we ask whether an explicit search for agendas in the interpretation of scripture can be an emancipatory tool, in an RE environment where religious leaders often have a role in defining curricula and teaching resources, or whether it is an unjustified intrusion of a sceptical approach into school teaching. The diversity of religious traditions has rightly been an important theme in recent discussions of RE, but here we invite discussion of the other side of this issue, namely why certain agents consider certain kinds of diversity in religion threatening and how they seek to police this diversity.

The workshop also considers the broader social and political context of RE in Britain. What role can RE play in integrating different groups, in a modern Britain where ever larger numbers of children are members of religious diasporas and are highly conscious of political events overseas. The treatment of conflict in Israel-Palestine, Kashmir or Xinjiang are only the most salient recent examples of how global politics might affect the self-identity of Muslim students. One session considers this problem through the lens of government priorities, and how schools should relate to this. Another considers how students might themselves read scriptures, and whether reading scriptures together might develop understanding and solve shared problems. What presumptions do students and teachers bring to scriptures and how does this affect interpretation? And does the development of shared solutions to moral problems represent a step towards social cohesion or the compromise of the core values of a religious tradition?

Finally the workshop also considers pedagogical reflection. Firstly, how diversity can be taught in the classroom: how should we explore the existence of multiple Islams? How are textual traditions embodied in different social and cultural contexts? And what kinds of reflection should this stimulate amongst students? This is a recurrent issue of concern for RE teachers on social media. Secondly, we invite participants to consider how the presence of different kinds of Muslim students offer distinctive challenges and opportunities for the teaching of Islam. Research on RE has often highlighted the importance of the subject to allow students to explore existential and soteriological questions that they cannot pose in other contexts, including those without a formal background in a religious tradition: is this as true for Muslim students as for non-Muslims? To what extent can arts and aesthetics can open possibilities of inter-disciplinary bridges towards the teaching and learning of RE? These pedagogical reflections can include discussions of recordings of teaching practice.

We intend to publish selected proceedings with the ISMC’s Muslim Contexts series with Edinburgh University Press.

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Feriel Bouhafa is temporary University Lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge. She specialises in Islamic philosophy, especially the philosophy of law, and she is particularly interested in the Arabic reception of Aristotle and the thought of Ibn Rushd. (25th June)
Dr. Richard Kueh is Her Majesty’s inspector of Schools and the National subject lead for Religious Education at Ofsted. He has previously been Vice-Principal of a secondary school and RE Specialist for a multi-academy trust. (25th June)
Dr. Anders Ackfeldt is a member of the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University in Sweden. He specialises in the study of how Islam is expressed through the medium of hip-hop. In particular, he is interested in African-American Islam and theoretical perspectives on the study of Islam. (2nd July)
Dr. Farid Panjwani is Dean of the Institute for Educational Development, Aga Khan University, in Karachi, Pakistan. He was formerly a member of the Institute of Education in London (now part of UCL) and AKU-ISMC.

Register below:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIodumupz4vHtOkaPAS5KsWmvNgHOqeQxK3

 

 

 

2. The Middle East and North Africa Forum at the University of Cambridge is launching a part-time fellowship, covering the following themes – grand strategy, geoeconomics, warfare, and gender and security matters.

Deadline: January 7, 2022

Questions to:

Elena Ruxandra Seniuc
Strategic Partnerships | MENAF Committee
committee@cmenaf.org | www.cmenaf.org

 

 

 

3. UCLA: Online conference:

Conference on Minoritization in Middle Eastern Geopolitics

Jan. 6 and 7, 9am – 5.40 pm PST

Despite the growing academic interest that Middle Eastern minorities have continued to receive over the decades since the publication of Albert Hourani’s Minorities in the Arab World in 1947, the theme of minoritization has remained a marginal topic in Middle Eastern and North African studies. In this international conference that builds on a series of workshops and lectures funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation over the last two years, we revisit from multidisciplinary, geographic and historical perspectives the concept of minority (ethnic and religious). Our objective is to engage with minorities from the angles of the humanities and social sciences by considering the histories, ethnographies, and artistic approaches of ethnic and religious groups, and to interrogate the concept of minority itself.

For full programme and to register for Zoom, see:

https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/15226

 

 

 

 

4. Grabar Travel Grant

Deadline: January 7, 2022

This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating discussions.

Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.

Applications must include the following five components and be submitted in a single pdf to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by January 7, 2022:

• Application cover sheet, available here
• A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
• Curriculum vitae
• Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s).
• Abstract of the paper to be presented.

In addition, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair, Matthew Saba (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.

Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.

For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowship

 

 

 

5. UCLA Iranian Studies

From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series

The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and the UCLA Program in Iranian Studies, in collaboration with the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Program on Central Asia, invite scholars and graduate students from across the world to participate in the following research program: From Medieval Afghanistan, “The Most Beautiful of Stories”: Jami’s Yūsuf-u Zulaykhā, a Persian reading group and workshop series, which will take place via Zoom on a weekly basis between January and June 2022.

The reading group and workshop series are convened by Domenico Ingenito (Associate Professor of Persian Literature, NELC) and organized in the context of the UCLA Afghan Scholars at Risk Program, coordinated by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Humanities Division. The series takes place in conjunction with the cycle of workshops Afghanistan through Afghan Voices, organized by the UCLA Program on Central Asia, in collaboration with the University of Washington, Stanford, and UC Berkeley.

Reading Group Registration Details: Prospective participants may join the reading group by submitting a short description of their background in Persian language and literature to the following email address: dingenito@ucla.edu

For more information:

https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/from-medieval-afghanistan-the-most-beautiful-of-stories-jamis-yusuf-u-zulaykha-a-persian-reading-group-and-workshop-series/

 

 

 

6. Persian Language Short Course

The Islamic College has organized a Persian Language Course for those who want to learn modern Farsi. The Course has three semesters.
This course offers an excellent opportunity to master a very important language which provides an entry into a rich and diverse culture. Since Persian has not changed significantly in over a millennium, the basic grammar for the classical and modern forms of the language is virtually the same and is relatively easy to learn.
One of the benefits of learning Farsi is the ability to access a huge body of literature and sources of Islamic knowledge.
The Course Registration Fee is £50/semester. The registration deadline is 25th December 2021.
An attendance Certificate would be granted at the end of the course.

Starting: 25th December 2021
Beginners: Every Saturday 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Intermediate: Every Sunday 5:00 – 7:00 pm
Advance: Every Tuesday 5:00 -7:00 pm

Register here: http://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/study/short-courses/registration/

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