Categories : Academic items

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

7. Middle East Initiative Research Fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School

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

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2022.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for application: 31 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

11. Call for Papers – PLATFORM

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

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

 

Kishwar Rizvi, Production Editor.

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

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

 

Here is an example of what we do:

Kabul in Two Contexts

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

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

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

 

 

 

12. The British Library:

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

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

 

 

 

13. The Bakhtiari are still migrating

The Smithsonian Magazine June, 2021

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

Gagan D. S. Sood

Modern Asian Studies, November, 2021

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closing date: 3.12.21

 

 

 

2. Revealing the Unseen: New Perspectives on Qajar Art

Gwenaëlle Fellinger & Melanie Gibson

Gingko Library, 2021

 

 

 

 

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

G Bos

Brill, 2021

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

Keynote: Hugh Kennedy

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Laura Hassan

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

9 December 2021 12 pm, EST

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

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

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

For more information, please contact ds@ias.edu

 

 

 

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

A Panel Discussion

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

Ahmad Nader Nadery

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

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

Homeira Qaderi

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

How Women in Afghanistan have Strived for Their Rights
Farah Karimi

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

An Expert Reflection on International Responses to the Crisis in Afghanistan

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

We welcome submissions relevant to the conference topics:

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

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

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

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

 

 

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

An edited volume in memory of John Tracy Greene

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zohar Hadromi-Allouche hadromiz@tcd.ie

Nirmal Fernando curlsu@hotmail.com

Keren Abbou-Hershkovits kabbou@gmail.com

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

 

 

 

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

Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI

 

Séance du 18 novembre 2021, 17h15-19h

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

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

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

 

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

Résumé

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

 

Orientations bibliographiques

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

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

 

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Participer à la réunion Zoom :

 

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

 

ID de réunion : 946 0069 9663

Code secret : CeRMI

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 4 December 2021.

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

 

 

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2022.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for proposals of workshops: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 1 January 2022.

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

 

 

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

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

Dealine for applications: 15 January 2022.

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

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

17. CfP:  Levantines of the Ottoman World

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

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.

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

 

 

 

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

For the job posting link.

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

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

 

 

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

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

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

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

For further info,

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

 

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

A Series of Panel Discussions

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

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

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

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

See also:

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

 

 

 

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

Koç University

College of Social Sciences and Humanities

Department of Comparative Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature at Koç University invites applications for several full-time open-rank faculty positions to begin September 2022. We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas:

•  Early modern Turkish literature;
• Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender;
• Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

The deadline for the application is December 29, 2021. 

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

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

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

 

 

 

4. The Routledge Companion to the Qur’an

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

Routledge, 2021

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

All pitches will receive a response.

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

Registration open until: November 30th.

Reduced fees by early registration until: November 20th.

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

 

 

 

 

8. ASPIRANTUM – Armenian School of Languages and Cultures

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

Online from Yerevan, Armenia

Apply by Dec 15, 2021

Price: $900

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

 

 

 

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

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

The application deadline is December 10, 2021.

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

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

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

 

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

1. Bodleian Afghan Scholars programme (paid)

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

1. Bodleian Bahari Fellowships (paid)

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

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 10 December 2021.

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

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

Program and registration:

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

Information and registration: 

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Information:

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.

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

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.

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

 

 

 

 

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

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

Deadline for applications: 3 December 2021.

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

 

 

1.The Best Article Award in Kurdish Studies

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

Winner

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

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

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

Honorable Mention

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

The deadline to apply is January 07, 2022.

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

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

CFP IN ARABIC

CFP IN SPANISH

CFP IN ENGLISH

Issue Editor

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

Co-Editors

Dr. Kevin Brown (University of Missouri)

Dr. Felipe Cervera (LASALLE College of the Arts)

 

 

 

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Please submit responses by Monday, November 8, 2021.

 

 

 

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

Heather Ecker:

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

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

 

 

 

7. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia

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

 

 

 

8. New National Book Critics Circle translation prize

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

 

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

 

Best wishes,

Kevin

 

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Kevin Blankinship, PhD

Assistant Professor, Arabic Language and Literature

Contributing Editor, New Lines Magazine

Brigham Young University, 3058 JFSB

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

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

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

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

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

Series Description

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

Key areas of focus are:

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

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

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

 

 

1. Call for Applications, 2022-2023 Faculty Leave Fellowship

The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is accepting applications for a one-year faculty leave residential fellowship for scholars of the contemporary Middle East. The fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology—for the 2022-2023 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s /Middle East Brief/ series.
*Eligibility
*The 2022-2023 faculty leave fellowship is open to *all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured*, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
*Terms
*The faculty leave fellowship is an academic year appointment beginning September 1, 2022 and ending May 31, 2023. The fellowship is designed to supplement the scholar’s faculty leave salary from their institution and will provide a stipend plus funding for research, travel, and related expenses. The fellowship stipend is set at three levels based on academic rank (or rank equivalency based on scholarly attainment): $40,000 for assistant professor or career equivalent; $50,000 for associate professor or career equivalent; and $70,000 for full professor, emeritus, or career equivalent. The Crown Center will determine the level based on the candidate’s rank or equivalent rank as of the application deadline. Fringe benefits, when not provided by the scholar’s home institution, can be made available during the appointment period.
Fellows are required to be *in residence* at the Crown Center during the tenure of the fellowship and be fully relieved of teaching and service responsibilities at their home university. During their residence, fellows write a /Middle East Brief/ and participate in all Crown Center events, including seminars, workshops, meetings, and retreats.
*Application Materials
*1. Cover letter
2. Curriculum Vitae
*Application Submission*: *https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/19416* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/spwxdq>
*Application Deadline
*January 1, 2022
*Notification
*April 1, 2022
*Inquiries
*You may direct inquiries to Kristina Cherniahivsky at crowncenter@brandeis.edu or call 781-736-5320. For more information, please visit *brandeis.edu/crown* <https://t.e2ma.net/click/07zile/07bopb/8hxxdq>.

 

 

 

 

2. ONLINE Lecture: “Representations of Iran by the Western Film Industry” by Angeliki Coletsou, Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – A Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig, 3 November 2021, 7:30 pm CET

The speaker compares Iran’s representations by the media before and after the Arab Spring and focuses on the portrayal of 2009 protests by comparing the American and some German cinematic representations of the country.

Information and registration: https://kiaradiekritischen.wordpress.com/ak-10-jahre-sogenannter-arabischer-fruehling/

 

 

 

 

3. HYBRID “3rd Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference of the American Society of Islamic Phi-losophy & Theology”, Harvard and Brandeis Universities, 3-5 December 2021

The aim of the conference is to promote the study of Islamic Philosophy, broadly conceived, in its historical and contemporary context.

Information: https://asipt.org/conferences/

 

 

 

 

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. 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 Africam, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-sacred-spaces-winter-2022-mediterranean-seminar-workshop-11-12-february-fresno-924964?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Utopias in the Middle East and Beyond”, Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies (CIWAS), Royal Holloway University of London, February 2022

Organised by Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) and Thomas Pierret (Aix-en-Provence). Scholars are invited with various disciplinary backgrounds to take stock of the many utopias that have shaped (or, at least, strove to shape) the Middle East and adjacent regions throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.

Information: https://utopiasinthemiddleeast.wordpress.com/

 

 

 

 

7. International Conference: “Silk Roads by Land and Sea”, GUtech German University of Technology, Muscat, 9-12 March 2022

The conference will be organised by the RIO Research Centre Indian Ocean (www.rio-heritage.org). It seeks to contribute to the emerging field of “mobility studies”, shedding new light on the overland and sea networks stretching from the Eastern Mediterranean and East Africa to East Asia from the earliest times to the present day.

Information: http://silkroads.rio-heritage.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/210729_Call-for-Papers_v2.pdf

 

 

 

8. 24th Annual International Congress of the Mediterranean Studies Association, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 25-28 May 2022

Proposals are invited for individual paper, panel discussions, and complete sessions on all subjects related to the Mediterranean region and Mediterranean cultures around the world from all historical periods. The official language of the Congress is English, but we also welcome complete sessions in any Mediterranean language.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-mediterranean-studies-association-25-28-may-lisbon?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

9. Eighth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, University of Marburg, 4-9 July 2022

The themed portion of the conference on 7July will be “Environment and Nature in the Mamluk Sultanate”. We welcome papers related to land use, hydrology and irrigation, disease and famine, flora and fauna, crops and food, and anything related to these topics.

Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor in Digital Culture (Focus MENA), Northwestern University Qatar

We seek candidates with an active research program on digital culture in the West Asia and North Africa region, particularly Arab countries. Preference given to scholars whose research is comparative or transna-tional, who investigate questions of identity, values, aesthetics, affect, ethics, and who have linguistic com-petence and field experience in their research area.

Deadline for applications: 11 November 2021. Information: https://careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hr857prd_er/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=42217&PostingSeq=1

 

 

 

11. Fellowships, Scholarships, and Awards of the American Center for Research, Amman, 2022-2023

Information: https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/

 

 

 

 

12. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor for North African Francophone Studies, Connecticut College

All thematic approaches are welcome, with particular attention to expertise in the fields of colonialism/impe-rialism, migration, feminism, gender, sexuality, Arabic, and Islamic Studies. Candidates will have demon-strated experience in the reading and analysis of a variety of cultural modes of production particularly litera-ture in many genres, but also film and screen, music, visual and graphic art, and possibly others.

Deadline for applications: 15 November 2021. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/97248

 

 

 

 

13. Assistant Professorship in the History of the Middle East (Tenure Track), University of Utah, Salt Lake City

The period of specialization is open. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to re-search and to research-informed teaching at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. in History or a related field at the time appointment begins (August 10, 2022). Previous experience in teaching and mentoring successful undergraduate research is preferred.

Deadline for applications: 5 November 2021. Information: https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/120720

 

 

 

 

14. Assistant Professor in Early Modern Mediterranean Religion, Northwestern University, Evanston

The successful candidate will be interested in the varied routes of religious, philosophical, and material exchange connecting Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and/or the Americas from 1500-1800. May specialize in Christianity, Islam, and/or Judaism.

Deadline for application: 15 November 2021. Information: https://religious-studies.northwestern.edu/about/open-faculty-positions/early-modern-search-2021.html

 

 

 

 

15. Intensive Course: “A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Environmental Studies in Pre-Modern Egypt”, University of Marburg, 4-6 July 2022

The course will be instructed by Ghislaine Alleaume, Allison Gascoigne, Nicolas Michel, and Yossef Rapoport. It will include an introduction to archaeological methods in environmental history, historiography and research methods for the environmental history of pre-modern Egypt, an introduction to GIS, and the use of map resources generally.

Deadline for application: 31 January 2022.

Information: https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html

 

 

 

 

16. Articles for Journal “Occhialì – Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico” in English, French, Italian or Spanish

Essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, mi-gratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.

Deadline for articles: 15 November 2021. Information: https://blogperle.unical.it/wp/rivistaocchiali/cfp-no-9

 

 

 

 

17. Call for Papers

The journal Forum for Islamic-Theological Studies (FITS) is a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Religious Education, principally in Europe. FITS aims to provide an open space for academic dialogue within and across disciplinary and confessional boundaries to advance debates in the various sub-disciplines of Islamic theology and religious education as well as in the sociology of religion concerning ‘Islam’ and Muslims. Papers can be submitted in the following areas: Qur’anic Studies and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsīr); Hadith Studies; Sufism; Islamic Legal Theory and Hermeneutics (fiqh); Islamic Ethics; Islamic Philosophy; System-atic-Discursive Theology (kalām); Islamic Religious Education; Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe; Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe; Interreligious Studies: etc.

Deadline for contributions: 1 March 2022. Information: https://www.uibk.ac.at/islam-theol/docs/call-for-papers_fits_de_en-002.pdf

 

 

 

 

18. Chapters for edited volume on ‘Assessing Canada’s Footprint in the Middle East and North Africa. This book will be open to various scholarly approaches, such as from the fields of political science, diplomatic history, cultural studies, and more. Papers are invited to explore either bilateral relationships or thematic issues, and will be done in the broadest geographic understanding of MENA.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021. Information: Canada.MENA.Research@gmail.com

 

 

 

19. Exeter’s Monday Majlis: November programme

The Monday Majlis from the Centre for the Study of Islam (CSI) at Exeter continues with meetings in November (see the programme below). All members of the Islamic Studies community are welcome to attend – pre-registration is required – here is the blurb:

The CSI Monday Majlis is a Monday evening, online event, where invited speakers present on aspects of their current research. This may be a book they have recently published, a new project they are working on, or an exciting new potential avenue of Islamic studies research. They take place Mondays, online 1700-1830 UK time.

To register, click on the links below (separate links and separate registration for each Majlis).

1^st November: Dr Bianka Speidl (Budapest) will talk about her new book Islam as Power: Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (Routledge 2020).

To register click here: https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUtf-qvqT8oHtySTlXHEhcmPRlFPOtmJtTb

8th November: Dr Emily Selove (Exeter) and Professor Geert Jan Van Gelder (Oxford) talk about their newly published translations and commentary: The Portrait of Abū l-Qāsim al-Baghdādī al-Tamīmī. Parental guidance: prepare for some explicit medieval Arabic material from this fascinating 11th century text.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYucumsqTkpGtz3ZmD5Oh33I34LRAV1hAIQ 

15th November: Professor Peter Morey (Birmingham) will talk about his research around Islamophobia and the novel.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuqoqDwoHNYfMNRevBWwHvfd8gTca5Ph

22nd November: Professor Mirjam Kunkler (Swedish Collegium) will talk about her research on gender and Islam, with a focus on her programme “Wither Female Religious authorities?”

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpduqqqD4iHdYL4zzTe9rINLcAoW1toQ9A

29th November: Dr Nizamuddin Ahmed, in the second of his sessions, studies passages from Ibn ʿArabī’s Fuṣūṣ al-Ḥikam with us.

To register click here:

https://universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvcuqtrz0uHN2nKsNij9e6llnbWyYp5ke3

 

In line with University of Exeter online seminar regulations:

1. Registration is open until 1700 UK TIME on the day BEFORE of the seminar.
   2. You will receive the link to join the seminar on the morning of the seminar.
   3. You will need to use the same email to join the seminar as you did to register.
   4. Please add the date to your calendar now, as you will not receive a confirmatory email (and link) that you have registered until the day of the seminar.

 

 

 

 

20. Professor Roshanak Kheshti, “The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema,” Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST Zoom Registration: https://uoft.me/6VQ

Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies

The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Lecture Series

presents
The Soundscape in Diasporic Iranian Cinema
an online lecture by

Professor Roshanak Kheshti

University of California, Berkeley
Friday, 5 November 2021, 4:00 p.M. EST/1:00 PST

Zoom Registration:

https://uoft.me/6VQ

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

 

 Bio:

Roshanak Kheshti is Associate Professor of Theater, Dance amd Performance Studies at UC Berkeley. She is an anthropologist, feminist, queer and race theorist, born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. Her work sits at the intersection of sound, the senses, film and performance studies with an emphasis on diaspora and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Modernity’s Ear: Listening to Race and Gender in World Music (NYU Press, 2015) and Switched-on Bach (Bloomsbury Academic, 33 1/3, 2019). She is currently completing her third book, tentatively titled “We See with the Skin: Zora Neale Hurston’s Synesthetic Hermeneutics”. She has previously published in the Radical History Review, American Quarterly, Current Musicology, Feminist Media Histories, Hypatia, Feminist Studies, GLQ, Theater Survey, and Sounding Out!

Abstract:

This talk explores the question of diegetic film sound in diasporic Iranian cinema. Through Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Mitra Tabrizian’s Gholam and Bahman Ghobadi’s No One Knows About Persian Cats, I consider how the commonly held understanding of diegetic sound (or sounds that emanate from the story world of the film) becomes a troubled notion in this genre, challenging how the narrative world of the film is contained.

 

1.City in the Desert, Revisited: Oleg Grabar at Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, 1964-71

Christiane Gruber and Michelle Al-Ferzly, with a foreword by Renata Holod

Kelsey Museum, 2021

An interactive PDF of the book is available for free download through the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology website, myumi.ch/0WvOk

 

 

 

2. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice
Volume 17 Issue 1 2021, ISSN 2633-6626

The issue can be read or downloaded at:

https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/253

 

 

 

3. Position in the Institute of Islamic Studies, Faculty Lecturer in Persian Language

McGill University

Position Description:This position is a Faculty Lectureship in Persian Language. The appointee will be responsible for all elements of the Institute of Islamic Studies’ Persian language program. This includes teaching Persian at all three levels offered to graduate and undergraduate students. The Faculty Lecturer also coordinates and manages the program.
Job Duties: The coordination, teaching, and implementation of all elements of the Persian language program, including teaching to graduate and undergraduate students at the Institute of Islamic Studies.
Qualifications and Education Requirements:MA or PhD in Applied Linguistics or relevant related degree required. Competence in teaching elements of Iranian and Persianate culture/s is not required but will be an advantage. French is an asset.
Faculty/Department/Unit:Institute of Islamic Studies
Job Type:Contract Academic Staff (Academic Contractual)
Rank:Faculty Lecturer
Length of Appointment:Three (3) years [August 1, 2022 to July 31, 2025]
Salary:Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Posting Period:Please submit your application by December 1, 2021 

Contact persons:  Professor Michelle Hartman, Director (IIS)   –director.islamic@mcgill.ca (academic) or anne.farray@mcgill.ca (administrative) queries.
Required Documents: • Cover letter and curriculum vitae   • Statement of teaching philosophy (MAX: one page) • Names and contact information of three (3) referees (to be contacted later) • Further information may be asked in the application process including: lesson plans, recorded class sessions, a remote interview and/or other material.​Please submit your application using Workday – the link to apply is here: https://www.mcgill.ca/hr/careers .  Use a personal email address when creating an account in Workday to submit your application. Do not use @mail.mcgill.ca or @mcgill.ca email accounts to apply.  See here How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) – McGill Academic & Administrative HR Knowledge Base_KB – Confluence
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4. Online seminar – 1 December 2021 – The Power of Documents: Passports and ID Cards

AKU-ISMC

Governance Programme Dialogue Series 2021/2022: Population Surveillance, the Body, and Mobility
The series examines twenty-first century population surveillance (ID cards, passports, checkpoints, and policing) in the Global South and/or spaces of its intersection with the Global North. It examines how population surveillance has been transformed through new technologies, whilst also seeking to uncover continuities with the colonial past/present. It asks how do forms of population surveillance today affect the body, movement, and power?

Lecture 2 – The Power of Documents: Passports and ID Cards
Passports, ID cards, birth certificates, and other material artefacts are crucial to how we navigate the world today. New computerised and biometric technologies also mean documents carry significant amount of personal information and data on them. Join us in this session as we discuss how states uphold regimes of deportation through documentation and databases, the politics behind how documents are designed, and the greater capacity for state control over the body.
Speakers

Mahmoud Keshavarz is a Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. Keshavarz is the author of The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility, and Dissent (Bloomsbury 2019).

Nisha Kapoor is Associate Professor in Sociology at Warwick University. Her research interests are broadly concerned with racism and the security state covering topics relating to immigration, citizenship, criminalisation, Islamophobia, segregation and authoritarianism. Theoretically, she draws on critical race, postcolonial, and political theory to assist in the undertaking of this work. Her current research, still in its early stages, explores the role surveillance processes and technologies play in bordering practices in different national contexts (UK, India). She is the author of Deport, Deprive, Extradite: 21st Century State Extremism (Verso 202).
Moderator

Sai Englert is a lecturer in the Institute for Area Studies. Sai Englert works on political economy and development in the Middle East, with a focus on settler colonialism and settler labour movements. Authored works include Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession, Antipode 52(6): 1647-1666.
Date and Time

Wednesday 1 December 2021, 17:00 – 18:30 (London).
Registration

Join us online via Zoom by registering here.

 

 

 

 

5. ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE MUSEUM
Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College/Columbia University

Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania

Mohammad Fahim Rahimi, National Museum of Afghanistan

Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton

Christian Greco, Museo Egizio, Turin

Ahmed Adam, University of Khartoum
Friday, November 5th, 11:00am ET

PLEASE NOTE: The US adopts winter daylight saving time slightly later than other regions. As a result, for this one event the time differences from New York vary slightly. This event begins at 11am New York time (15h London, 16h Lagos/Berlin, 17h Cairo/Beirut, 18h Addis/Istanbul, 20.00 Islamabad, 20.30 Delhi)
[Webinar] Silsila Fall 2021 Lecture Series

Expectations regarding the context and value of excavated material vary across the fields of Islamic archaeology and museology, fields with competing epistemologies and theoretical approaches. Focusing on practices of excavation and display, this panel aims to explore the often-contentious relationships between these fields. The topic is especially relevant to a moment when the colonial and racist legacies of the academy and the museum have come under increased scrutiny. The presentations will explore the implications of archaeological research conducted by museums, the legacies of such projects, and their relevance to contemporary discussions regarding the exhibition of archaeological material from the Islamic lands. A central aim is to explore the potential meaning of context, extending the term to the modern life of objects and to the human relations enabled by it.

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/islamic-archaeology-and-the-museum.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event

 

 

 

6. Webinar Series – SOAS Research Seminar in Islamic Art

We are delighted to say that we are able to start the SOAS Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA) again, after the pause last year due to the pandemic. Thank you for all your requests for the seminar to resume.

The seminars will take place on the Zoom platform, at least for the moment, and because of the logistics related to Zoom the time will be 6 pm (instead of the usual 5.30 pm), London time.

You will have to register with Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org who will then send you the Zoom link to access the seminar.

Our first three seminars are:

Thursday 25th November, 6pm with

Sohelia Sokhanvari – In the Age of Delirium

Abstract: This presentation will cover Sokhanvari’s artwork and explain the ideas behind how the female image has become synonymous with Iran’s ideologies. Including some of the latest works for her upcoming major solo show in 2022, she will present the story of the struggle of female cultural icons against the backlash from the conservative reactionaries and explain how after the revolution their voices were silenced, and their images banned. Sokhanvari will introduce the techniques employed in her paintings and drawings, such as the medieval process of egg tempera on calf vellum and the Iranian crude oil on paper, and will highlight how the material itself carries a strong political message that has been a matter of debate in the media.

Thursday 2nd December, 6pm with

Natasha Morris – The King and I: Qajar Portrait Miniatures

Abstract: Both portable and precious, bejewelled portrait miniatures of the Qajar Shahs were given as both diplomatic gestures and for the endowment of favour within the court. In being extensively worn and displayed on the male body, they became symbols of reverence, embodiment and fraternity. Whilst there are obvious parallels with the European production of portrait miniatures of notable persons, there are stronger links to local conceptualisations of both image and subject, specifically Shi’i traditions of portable, idealised portraits of Imams (shemayel). These glittering mementos, therefore, reveal not only a self-contained dynastic vision that could be charted in mise-en-abyme from the chest of one Qajar ruler to the next, but they also pertain to notions of the iconic and an inherently devotional attachment to a male image of power. In being passed with reverence from one man’s body to another, portrait miniatures implicate concepts of masculinity, charisma and authority that are both regal and religious.

Thursday 16th December, 6pm with

Maximilian Hartmuth – The phenomenon of ‘Oriental rooms’ in Central European residences, museums, and exhibitions, ca. 1850 to ca. 1930 – Historicity, materiality, aesthetics

Abstract: In the Europe of the long 19th century, ‘Arab’ or ‘Turkish’ rooms were far from uncommon in residences of aristocracy and bourgeoisie. Interiors with (real or alleged) provenances in Islamic lands were also exhibited at museums and fairs. There, they purported to offer insight into an alien dwelling culture. Whereas some ‘rooms’ were shipped from Damascus or Cairo, others purported to be authentic takes on their style. Occasionally, an original and an original supplement became amalgamated. This paper will present findings of a recent conference and publication venture, conducted in the context of ERC project #758099. It brought together researchers and curators to ruminate about the place of Central Europe in this international phenomenon, bringing to light (again) several truly fascinating cases. I will survey some of these cases, discussed in greater detail in a volume (“Gezimmertes Morgenland [etc.]”) published this year, with additional reflections about patterns and logics of reception, design, and appropriation.

Hope to see many of you at the events.

 

 

 

7. Online Symposium – Bektashism in the Southern Balkans – 30-31 October

BEKTASHISM IN THE SOUTHERN BALKANS: 

Online Symposium in Memory of Efstratios Zeginis

Organisers: Paschalis Androudis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) & Dimitris Loupis (Harvard University)

To register send an email to dimitrisloupis@gmail.com. Zoom codes will be sent prior to the symposium.

Note: Times are Saturday [Athens, GR (UTC/GMT +3 hours)] & Sunday [Athens, GR (UTC/GMT +2 hours)]

 

DAY 1  Saturday 30 October 2021

OPENING REMARKS 

16:00 – 16:15 Paschalis ANDROUDIS – Dimitris LOUPIS: The study of Bektashism in the Southern Balkans and Efstratios Zeginis

16:15 – 16:30 Chrysanthi ZEGINI – Nikolaos ZEGINIS: Our father Efstratios Zeginis and his work

SESSION A – BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION (Chair: Dimitris LOUPIS)

16:30 – 16:50 Levent KAYAPINAR: The stages of development of Bektashism in the Ottoman Period

16:50 – 17:10 Rıza YILDIRIM: Balım Sultan and the institutionalization of the Bektashi Sufi order

17:10 – 17:30 Aggeliki ZIAKA – Ioannis MYLONELIS: Bektashism, Balkan Islam and the work of Efstratios Zeginis

17:30 – 17:50 Ayşe KAYAPINAR :The process of the formation of heterodox understanding and its centers in the Balkans

17:50 – 18:20 Questions – discussion

SESSION B – SEYYID ALI SULTAN. MOVING BEKTASHISM TO THE BALKANS (Chair: Paschalis ANDROUDIS)

18:30 – 18:50 Yeliz TEBER: Tracing the life of Kızıl Deli from Anatolia to Thrace

18:50 – 19:10 Ali YAMAN – Mehmet ERSAL: The role and Importance of Seyyid Ali Sultan (Kızıl Deli) and the ocak founded on his behalf in the Alevi-Bektashi communities

19:10 – 19:30 Ayfer KARAKAYA-STUMP: A new perspective on the Çelebiyan-Babagan division within Bektashism

19:30 – 20:00: Questions – discussion

 

DAY 2 Sunday 31 October 2021

SESSION C – BEKTASHI SITES FROM ANATOLIA TO THRACE (Chair: Paschalis ANDROUDIS)

16:00 – 16:20 İkgül KAYA: The lodge of Seyyid Battal Gazi in the context of social continuity in a confraternity

16:20 – 16:40 Dimitris LOUPIS: Reshaping rural and urban space. Bektashi dervish settlers along the Via Egnatia in Western Thrace

16:40 – 17:00 Ayşegül KILIÇ: The impact of Bektashism on the Ottoman settlements in the Southern Balkans. Ottoman dervish lodges of Feres and their role at the security strategy

17:00 – 17:20 Aikaterini MARKOU: Sharing sacred places. The Case of two shared Muslim/Bektashi-Christian sanctuaries in Greek Thrace

17:20 – 17:40 Vanessa R. DE OBALDÍA: Megalo Dereio / Büyük Dervent Cemevi: The first official cem house in the Thracian lands of the Hellenic Republic

17:40 – 18:10 Questions – discussion

SESSION D – BEKTASHI SITES IN THE BALKANS (Chair: Dimitris LOUPIS)

18:20 – 18:40 Theodora IOANNIDOU – Evangelos Ath. PAPATHANASSIOU: Islamic graffiti in a Christian church: An unknown episode in Kastoria’s History

18:40 – 19:00 Paschalis ANDROUDIS: New historical and archaeological evidence on two 15th century Βektashi tekkes in Thessaly: Hasan Baba in Tempi and Durbalı Sultan in Asprogeia, Pharsala

19:00 – 19:20 Dragi GJORGIEV: Some traces of crypto-Christianity and links between Bektashism and Christianity on the Balkan Peninsula (XVI-XIX centuries)

19:20 – 19:50   Questions – discussion

CONCLUDING REMARKS

19:50 – 20:20 Paschalis ANDROUDIS – Dimitris LOUPIS

Organised under the aegis of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Society for the Study of Greek Orthodox East, the Greek Committee & Center of South-Eastern European Studies, and the Seminar of Ottoman Language and Palaeography.

E-flyer:

https://www.academia.edu/59896055/BEKTASHISM_IN_THE_SOUTHERN_BALKANS_An_e_Symposium_in_Mem…

 

1. New Exhibition – “Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads” at the Aga Khan Museum

The Aga Khan Museum is proud to announce the new exhibition Hidden Stories: Books Along the Silk Roads, which opened to the public on October 9th.

The exhibition is a collaboration with the Book and the Silk Roads (BSR) Project led by Alexandra Gillespie and based at the University of Toronto.

Please visit both the museum and the digital exhibition.

We look forward to sharing these Hidden Stories with you!

Filiz Çakır Phillip (Hidden Stories co-curator, Aga Khan Museum)
Suzanne Conklin Akbari (Hidden Stories co-curator and BSR co-Principal Investigator, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

 

 

 

2. DECOLONISING KNOWLEDGE ON EURO-MEDITERRANEAN RELATIONS
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE | THURSDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2021, 11am CEST

Panelists will discuss the relevance and implications of “decolonising knowledge”, while also addressing Euro-Mediterranean relations in the present.

Information and registration: https://www.dipstudistorici.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=j0kg

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Conference: “Ignaz Goldziher and His Correspondents: Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century”, Universität Göttingen, 12-13 November 2021

This correspondence of over 13,000 letters constitutes the single most important source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and cognate fields during Goldziher‘s time.

Information, program and registration:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8328500/ignaz-goldziher-and-his-correspondents-islamic-and-jewish

 

 

 

4. Colloque : « Islam et altérité : Quelle théologie islamique du pluralisme religieux ? », l’Institut Catholique de Paris, 19-20 novembre 2021

Ce colloque porté par le Laboratoire de recherche « Islam et altérité » permettra de dégager les lectures et les principes théologiques en islam qui président aujourd’hui pour rendre compte du pluralisme religieux. Il interrogera la manière dont est pensé le lien entre unité et diversité.

Information et inscription : https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-islam-et-alterite-quelle-theologie-islamique-du-pluralisme-religieux-164822407257?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

 

 

 

 

5. Workshop: “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa”, South-east Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9-10 April 2022

We invite paper proposals from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address topics relating to travel and mobility in, to, and from the MENA region in any historical era.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2021/10/22/call-for-papers-travel-and-mobility-in-the-middle-east-and-north-africa

 

 

 

 

6. Conference: “Gramsci in the Middle East and North Africa”, London School of Economics, 9-10 May 2022

Antonio Gramsci has emerged as a popular theorist in work focused on resistance, revolution, popular move-ments, capitalism, political economy, memory, temporality, transnationalism and internationalism. In the wake of 2011 there is a significant revival in Gramscian perspectives in Middle East Studies. How can his work help us make sense of a moment marked by a significant expansion in resistance and uprising.

Information: https://www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-centre/news/gramsci-in-middle-east-conference

 

 

 

 

7. HYBRID Workshop: “The Making and Unmaking of Identities in the Early Modern Mediterra-nean”, European University Institute, Florence, 12-13 May 2022

When and how did people across the Mediterranean defend their identitarian boundaries? When did show-ing/claiming an identity become a necessity? When did people lose their identity? We anticipate new insights from reconsidering these terms and demanding attention to the concepts of difference and diversity in differ-ent political and religious groups.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/8617952/cfp-making-and-unmaking-identities-early-modern-mediterranean

 

 

 

 

8. Call for Applications for scholarships and places in our doctoral programme

Deadline: 1 November, 2021, 12 noon CET

The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies will admit up to ten PhD fellows to its three-year doctoral programme, which is to begin on 1 October 2022. The Graduate School is a joint institution of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, which brings together scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and area studies. The Graduate School investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies. Successful applicants will have a master’s degree in Arabic Studies, Central Asian Studies, History, Human Geography, Iranian Studies, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Semitic Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South and Southeast Asian Studies, or Southeast European History.

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2021. Information: https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/application/call_for_applications/index.html

 

 

 

9. Research Associate (Postdoc, 3 Years) in Oriental or Classical Studies: Ruhr University Bochum

Your task: Translation and commentary of the treatise Naḥw al-qulūb (‘Grammar of the Hearts’), written by the Arab-Persian Sufi Al-Qushayrī (376-465 AH = 986-1072/73 CE). Your profile: PhD in Oriental or Classi-cal Studies; Language skills: Arabic (excellent), Latin (desired), Experience in the field of digital processing of historical text sources (appreciated):

Deadline for applications: 31 October 2021. Information: https://www.stellenwerk-bochum.de/jobboerse/postdoc-tv-l-e-13-100-bochum-210920-491841

 

 

 

 

10. Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 Years), Northwestern University

We welcome applications from early career scholars whose work focuses on non-dominant and underrepre-sented groups including but not limited to religious, ethnic, and LBGTQ minorities and otherwise marginalized groups. Scholars in all branches of the Social Sciences and Humanities may apply.

Deadline for applications: 13 January 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/8661283/call-applications-keyman-modern-turkish-studies-postdoctoral

 

 

 

 

11. Winter School on “Variations in Populism”, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS), Doha, 3-13 January 2022

I aims to provide an in-depth and critical look at selected topics in the broader study of the Middle East. For participating early career scholars, it provides an opportunity to network with regional scholars, gain substan-tive knowledge and insight unavailable in their home institutions and countries, and receive feedback from respected scholars. Funding of travel expenses available.

Deadline for applications: 30 October 2021. Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/Winter-School-Third-Round-2022/Pages/index.aspx

 

 

 

 

12. Summer School for Doctoral Students on “The Qur`an in Inter-Christian Polemic”, Nantes, 13-17 June 2022

How have Christian authors in Europe used and appropriated the Qur’an? We are interested in how the Qur’an was used as a historical and linguistic archive, as a mine of heretical ideas and as a tool used in confessional rivalries.

Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/summer-school-the-quran-in-inter-christian-polemic-nantes-13-17-june?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

13. New Book Series: “Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East” (Peter Lang Publishing)

The purpose of this series is to demarcate and critically examine the shifting terrain of film- and media-making in the Middle East, and of practices of film and media studies regarding it, testing them both against their larger, social enabling conditions at the national, regional, and transnational levels.

Please send your book prospectus to Terri Ginsberg (Concordia University, Montréal) terri.ginsberg@con-cordia.ca . Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8688549/cinema-and-media-cultures-middle-east

 

 

 

14. Upcoming Arabic Calligraphy Talk and Workshop at the Warburg Institute

A Bridge Between – The Art of Arabic Calligraphy – Online talk (4th November)  & In-person workshop (11th November)
How can the art of Arabic calligraphy offer a bridge between the material and the spiritual? The visual and the verbal? As a living tradition, Arabic calligraphy is a vital element of Islamic art. In this way, it offers an important platform for discussing the nature of, and intersections between, language, art and belief. The early development of Arabic calligraphy was intimately tied not only to the emerging civilisation of Islam, but also innovations in writing materials and shifting perspectives on geometry and cosmology. Over centuries, Arabic calligraphy has evolved from its pre-Islamic conception to the modern styles of writing that are in use today. The styles and techniques that were codified and elaborated through Arabic calligraphy’s evolution continue to be taught.  This two-part event series is made up of an online talk and small in-person workshop. In the online talk, Soraya Syed will describe her journey and practice as a calligrapher, drawing on both her experience as an apprentice in Istanbul and a practicing artist in London. In the small in-person workshop, Soraya will introduce participants to the materials used in calligraphy and teach them its foundational techniques.
Soraya Syed is a classically trained calligrapher, artist and filmmaker. She is considered the first Briton to receive the coveted icazetname, or calligraphy license, from Istanbul in 2005. She is part of an unbroken silsila, or chain of transmission, that goes back centuries. While embracing traditional techniques and materials, her recent practice incorporates new digital media.  In this way, Soraya continually works to push the boundaries of what is expected from this traditional art form.
The online talk takes places on Thursday November 4th, 6-7.30pm GMT. More information can be found here: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/arabic-calligraphy-lecture.
The in-person workshop takes place on Thursday November 11th, 5.30-7pm GMT. More information can be found here:https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/arabic-calligraphy-workshop
This workshop is limited to 15 participants – please book ahead to avoid disappointment.
Both events are free and open to the public thanks to the London Arts and Humanities Partnership.

 

 

 

15. Fall 2021 AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series

The Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS) welcomes you to listen and engage with graduate students who will present on their research on young people in the Middle East and North Africa, and its diasporic communities.  The format of the sessions is thirty minutes of presentation by the speaker followed by thirty minutes of discussion and Q&A with the audience.  The AMECYS Graduate Student Discussion Series is intended to be a space for graduate students to share their cutting-edge research as well as workshop their dissertation material.

Please RSVP to Dylan Baun to attend (djb0035@uah.edu) and receive the zoom link

Friday December 10^th, 11 am CST 

Melis Sulos, PhD candidate, Graduate Center – CUNY

Power, Architecture, and Childhood in Turkey: The case of Children’s Palace

This paper focuses on an innovative architectural structure, Cocuk Sarayi (Children’s Palace), in Ankara in the 1930s. It attempts to locate the transformation of children’s spaces within the politics of social hygiene and modernity in the 1930s. How, for instance, did the Children’s Palace serve the medicalization of the childrearing practices in post-war Turkey? And, how did it act as a performative and symbolic space shaping the imagery and the iconography of the nation state? Putting together visuals and pamphlets, I try to discuss the influence of architectural and spatial reorganization on the history of childhood in early republican Turkey.

 

 

 

16. Online Conference: Expectations of justice and political power in the Islamicate world (ca. 600-1500 CE)

28 and 29 October – Online Conference

Speakers: Or Amir, Sean Anthony, Nasrin Askari (Keynote), Mustafa Banister, Enki Baptiste, Linda Darling, Sébastien Garnier, Hanna-Lena Hagemann, Najam Haider, Angela Isoldi, Büşra Kaya, Noëmie Lucas, Taryn Marashi, Christian Mauder, Aseel Najib, Marta Novo, Rana Osman, Marina Rustow, Deborah Tor. 

Expectations and notions of just rule

In the Islamicate world, as elsewhere, requests for just rule surface constantly as notions of justice are debated and contested. Exemplary rule can be sought in direct and open ways, through entreaties and demands, but also subversively through irony, flattery and satire. Expectations of justice can be pursued through reform or revolution, or via secession, utopianism and millenarianism. Participants will present case studies discussing how just rule was defined and what actions and reactions it precipitated in specific historical, geographical and cultural contexts.

To view the programme see: https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/970/

To sign up to attend the Zoom meeting mail: emco@hum.leidenuniv.nl

 

 

 

17. Invitation to 6th IDHN Conference on November 17, 2021

We would like to invite you all to attend the 6th IDHN Conference on Wednesday, November 17, 2021. Please find the full program of the conference as a pdf attachment below. You are welcome to share the program and invite interested colleagues and students.

We will hear four exciting presentations:

Metin M. Coşgel, Emre Özer, and Sadullah Yıldırım: Gender and Justice: A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Participation and Victory in Ottoman Courts

Wafa Fatima Isfahani: Tracing Genealogies: Using Network Analysis to Model the Spatiotemporal Distribution of Sufi Orders

Noëmie Lucas, Clément Salah, and Chahan Vidal-Gorène: RASAM – A Dataset for the Recognition and Analysis of Scripts in Arabic Maghribi scripts

Sohaib Saeed: Al-Rāzī’s Great Exegesis: Can text reuse detection solve a longstanding debate over his sole authorship?

The Zoom link to the event will be shared with you in a separate email on November 15, 2021.

Members of the IDH Network do not have to register in order to receive the link. If you are not a member of IDHN but wish to attend the event as a guest, please register by sending us an email at registration@idhn.org.

 

18. Online Seminar – Islamophobia and Racism in the Secular University: An Examination of the Muslim Student Awarding Gap (Edge Hill Research Seminar 28th Oct)

Dr Reza Gholami

28^th October 12 noon (Online)

More info: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/education/research/events/

Book via: https://forms.office.com/r/hEqfQ6gUCK

This paper engages with a dominant model of Islamophobia which gives race and racism primacy. It argues that such an approach is parochial, conceptually narrow and practically ineffective. I take as my case the UK’s Muslim student awarding gap – Muslims are currently the worst performing religious group at UK universities. Existing work explains this problem in terms of racism/Islamophobia. These factors are correctly identified, but a lack of analytical precision around race and religion has led strategies to fall back on ‘standard’ and largely ineffective ideas.

I argue that racial and religious disadvantage must be understood separately, though intersectionally, through Critical Race Theory and the concept of ‘religification’. Such an analysis sheds light on how institutional approaches to race and religion play a key role in the structuration and perpetuation of educational disadvantage for Muslim students. It also paves the way for more effective strategies for eradicating the awarding gap.

Reza Gholami is a Reader in Sociology of education at the University of Birmingham where he is also the Deputy Director of the Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE). His research interests are Islamophobia and racism in education as well as community-based forms of education. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education. He earned his PhD in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at SOAS, University of London, where he also conducted postdoctoral research funded by the AHRC working with diverse youth and community organisations in London to improve educational and citizenship outcomes for young people. Currently, he is leading an ESRC-funded project working with non-formal educators in Birmingham to develop innovative educational materials to foster intercommunal learning.

Reza is the author of numerous books and articles in his field including co-editing the book Education and Extremisms: Re-Thinking Liberal Pedagogies in the Contemporary World (Routledge 2018). He also regularly appears in national and international media, including featuring in the BBC Radio 4 documentary ‘The Corrections’ about the Birmingham ‘Trojan Horse’ affair.

 

1. Book Launch (London, 8.11.21)

An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol. II: On Women

We are delighted to invite you to attend this book launch in-person at the Aga Khan Centre in London, and online from around the world, for this long-awaited and highly anticipated volume, published in partnership with Oxford University Press.
This work offers a thematic overview of the subject of women in the Qur’an and in the commentarial tradition known as tafsir. In this special event, the editors Dr Karen Bauer and Dr Feras Hamza will be in discussion with a panel of discussants including Dr Sarah Savant, Dr Walid Saleh, Dr Yasmin Amin, and Dr Anna Chrysostomides.
Registration is essential (via Eventbrite or Zoom). Please note the event will be filmed and livestreamed.

Date: Monday 8 November, 5:00pm-7:15pm (GMT)

Venue: Aga Khan Centre (register on Eventbrite)

For more information and to register, visit:

https://www.iis.ac.uk/events/book-launch-anthology-qur-anic-commentaries-volume-ii-women?utm_source=D1021&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AOW

 

 

 

 

2. The University of Oslo invites applications for the MA program in Middle East Studies.

Tuition-free two year graduate program at a leading European University. Courses are taught in English. Student visas give work permit up to twenty hours per week. See program page here for more information.

 

 

 

3. Lecturer in Arabic Language, University of Pennsylvania

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania announces a position at the rank of full-time Lecturer in the Arabic Language Program starting in the academic year 2022-23. The appointment will be for an initial year with the possibility of annual renewal for up to two additional years, contingent upon a satisfactory performance review and approval of the Dean. Employee benefits are provided. Applicants for the position should demonstrate a primary focus on language education, and should have received at least a Master’s degree, and preferably a Ph.D., in Education, Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics, or a related field. Native or near-native competency in Arabic language, and fluency in English, are required. Preference will be given to applicants who have significant teaching experience at all levels of Arabic language at post-secondary American institutions. Demonstrated proficiency in current second/foreign language teaching methodologies (especially content-based instruction) and meaningful application of technologies in language instruction are highly desirable. Duties include teaching Arabic language classes (five classes per academic year) at any assigned level, holding regular office hours and attending meetings of the Arabic Language Program.  Additional responsibilities could include working with the appropriate faculty to develop and design the curriculum, and to evaluate teaching goals, student outcomes and programmatic effectiveness.

We seek a language educator interested in furthering the study of Arabic language and culture at Penn, and who values interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and collegiality and the promotion of a culturally diverse intellectual community. Candidates should apply online at: https://apply.interfolio.com/96530.

Please submit: a cover letter, CV, teaching statement, sample syllabus for the most advanced language course taught (including content courses), and contact information for a minimum of three individuals who have agreed to provide a recommendation letter. The University will contact the recommenders with instructions on how to submit their letters. We also encourage applicants to upload additional documents if available: 1) recent teaching evaluations including written comments, 2) a link to a video recording of a class, and 3) a description of the video and relevant materials. The review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

 

 

 

4. Ḥajar invites you to the first Online Workshop on the topic:

“Muslim and non-Muslim identities through material culture in the medieval Islamic world“, 29 October 2021.

Ḥajar is a collective of archaeologists working in different parts of Islamic history and geography and on different topics (https://hajar.hypotheses.org/about).

The program of the first workshop:

Muslim and non-Muslim identities through
material culture in the medieval Islamic world

Friday, 29th of October 2021
15:45 – 19:00 UTC+2 (Paris/Brussels time)

Chairs: Sterenn Le Maguer-Gillon (Institut Catholique de Paris) and José C. Carvajal López (University of Leicester)

First Part (speakers: 25 min each)

Marcos García-García (University of York): Eat not its flesh: food and Islamic identity during the emergence of al-Andalus (8th-11th c.)
Atiyeh Taghiei (University of California): Porous boundaries and unexpected practice: aninterdisciplinary lens on identity in early Islamic Iran
Robert Carter (Bahrain Authority for  Culture and Antiquities): Material culture, identity and faith at the Christian sites of the Arabian Gulf region (ca. 6th-9th centuries AD)

Question session (15 minutes)

Break (15 minutes)

Second Part (discussants: 25 min each)

Uriel Simonsohn, University of Haifa
Delphine Ortis, ceias-EHESS/INALCO

Open debate (30 minutes)
Public invited to participate

Free registration at hajararchaeology@gmail.com
A link will be sent in due course
Deadline: 26th of October 2021

In each event there will be a particular topic brought up for discussion. Three speakers will present a brief lecture each (no more than 25 mins long) and after a break, two discussants of different disciplines will have the same time to develop their thoughts on the topic and the presentations added. Finally, the event will close with a 30-min debate in which the public will be allowed to address questions and comments to the speakers and to the discussants.

 

 

 

5. HIAA Graduate Programmes – Writing a Dissertation in Islamic Art & Architectural History – 15 November

The HIAA Board is pleased to announce the first event of our graduate student programming, please see the details below:

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

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

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

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

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

We encourage faculty members to circulate this to their students.

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

Please submit responses by Monday, November 8, 2021.

 

 

 

 

6. PAINTING IN EARLY MODERN BAGHDAD
Wednesday, October 27th, 12:30pm ET
[Webinar] Silsila Fall 2021 Lecture Series

This talk focuses on the rise and fall of a vibrant yet short-lived art market in early modern Baghdad. From the final decade of the sixteenth to the first few years of the seventeenth century, a period of relative peace, there arose a lively art market – as witnessed by over thirty illustrated manuscripts and sundry single-page paintings, most of which show a stylistic coherence. The paintings appear to draw on elements from Ottoman, Safavid, and Indian paintings. This talk will try to contextualize this corpus of works that appeared in the frontier province of Baghdad.

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/painting-in-early-modern-baghdad–melis-taner-.html

Only registered attendees will be able to access this event

 

 

 

 

7. CFP – Stucco Decoration in the Architecture of Iran and Neighbouring Lands: New Research – New Horizons (University of Bamberg, 5-7 May 2022)

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

The conference will take place in presence, possibly with extension in hybrid-remote form, at the University of Bamberg, May 5-7, 2022.
We warmly invite paper abstracts for participation at the conference by  December 1, 2021

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

 

 

 

8. ONLINE PANEL: Open Access Week and International Resources: the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) and the Arabic Collections Online (ACO)

Next week (October 25- 31) is International Open Access Week, and we would like to invite you to a special panel entitled “Open Access Week and International Resources: the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) and the Arabic Collections Online (ACO).” It will take place 2:00-3:00pm on Tue, October 26th. In this panel, four area studies subject experts, from the Columbia University and NYU Libraries, with an expertise in the Middle East and South Asia, will discuss two collaborative open access projects, namely the CRL member based South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) project, and the inter-institutional collaborative Arabic Collections Online (ACO).
The South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) is a collaborative partnership of 27 major research libraries and archives in the United States, India, Nepal and Pakistan. This open access initiative is aimed at addressing both the current scarcity of digital resources relevant to South Asian studies and the costliness of commercial databases by giving researchers worldwide open access to collections. More than 24,000 items (over 700,000 pages) have been made accessible thus far.
The Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a partnership of several major research libraries in the United States and the Middle East. It aims to digitize Arabic monographs in the partners’ collections and more generally, enhance access to non-Roman resources from and about the Middle East. To date over 17,000 volumes from Arabic-speaking countries, Turkey and Iran have been digitized and made available.
The panel begins with a talk by two SAOA member librarians, who will provide background on the rationale and vision of this project, and address challenges and accomplishments thus far. Then two Middle East Studies librarians will offer an overview of the ACO project, focusing on the Open Access nature of the project, international collaboration and copyright issues.
Speakers: Aruna Magier, Librarian for South Asian Studies, International Relations & Food Studies, NYU Libraries; Gary Hausman, South Asian Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries; Guy Burak, Librarian for Middle Eastern, Islamic and Jewish Studies, NYU Libraries; Peter Magierski, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Librarian, Columbia University Libraries.
Please register for the event to receive the Zoom invitation.

Register here: https://events.columbia.edu/cal/event/eventView.do?b=de&calPath=%2Fpublic%2Fcals%2FMainCal&guid=CAL-00bbdb71-7c97929e-017c-9a2986ff-00003967events@columbia.edu&recurrenceId=