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Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond
Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility,
Routledge, 2020
Edited By: Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm
2. British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
On-line AGM Lecture 7 December 2020: registrations open
Art as a Source for the History of Mongol Eurasia
Professor Sheila Blair
| 5pm UK time |
Register at :
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-fRYNz_QTcW-QZgcU_LEBg
The lecture will be also broadcasted on the BIPS’ Facebook page.
3. BRAIS-DE GRUYTER PRIZE 2021
The Sixth Round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
BRAIS and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the sixth round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.
The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a seven-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field.
Deadline: 5.00 pm GMT, 31 December 2020
For more details, including rules and regulations, contact, the past Prize winners, and the Prize committee members, please visit: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2021
4. Surayt-Aramaic-Online Project (SAOP) – New release and upcoming meetings
Šlomo Surayt II ܫܠܳܡܐ ܣܘܪܰܝܬ ܒ – An Advanced Course in Surayt-Aramaic (Turoyo) has now been released both as online course and as textbook, and is freely available at www.surayt.com!
Prof. Shabo Talay (FU Berlin) and other project team members will discuss the online course and the project’s other achievements in three online meetings, which will take place:
27 November, 4-6 pm CET (in Surayt-Aramaic);
4 December, 4-6 pm CET (in English);
11 December, 4-6 pm CET (in German).
Register here and see below for further information.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone that you think may be interested.
I hope to see you All at the SAOP meetings!
Best regards,
Simona Olivieri
SAOP: www.surayt.com
SAOP Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/surayt
Contact: aramaic.online@gmail.com
Press release (FU Website): https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semiarab/semitistik/Aktuelles/SAOPonlinerelease.html
Meetings announcement:
The Surayt-Aramaic Online project has now come to an end. In the last 6 years the project team members have managed to create an online course for Surayt prepared according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), provided in 7 languages; published textbooks downloaded more than 10,000 times, developed a glossary with more than 2,000 entries, enriched the online course with a digital corpus consisting of 175 articles newly written in Surayt, developed learner and lexical apps, and organized tens of public outreach events and trainings in various countries.
You can view our recent press release (12 November 2020) showing in detail the project’s recent achievements and view all aforementioned outputs on the project’s website (www.surayt.com ).
The project team will organize three online-seminars in order to introduce and discuss the online course and the project’s other achievements. Prof Shabo Talay and other project team members will be present in these seminars to answer your questions and receive your feedback.
- 27 November 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in Surayt-Aramaic
2. 4 December 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in English
3. 11 December 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in German
Registration link: https://forms.gle/J4YT7js1tQkhvQBD9
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Dr. Simona Olivieri
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik
Freie Universität Berlin
5. 12 January – 2 February 2021 Event: Muslims in the UK (Online Short Course)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muslims-in-the-uk-short-course-tickets-129491874683
6. Postdoctoral Fellowships: EUME in Berlin for the Academic Year 2021/2022
Call for ApplicationsThe Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to five postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2021/2022 for the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME). Closing Date: January 6, 2021 / Location: Berlin, Germany
Further info:
https://application.trafo-berlin.de/procedure/6f28ded3-60ae-4e6e-b6be-a55a8eeaa29b
- November 21, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
(Ed note: – Apologies, but some technical issues have kept us off-line for a few days.)
1. The Emmy Noether research group on “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” based at Hamburg University (2020-2026) invites applications for 2 PhD positions, to commence on 1 April 2021.
The positions will be for an initial two years, to be extended for another two years pending successful evaluation of the first project phase. Both positions are part-time (75%). The successful applicants will work on a specific sub-project each, either on rebellions by tribal notables or on rebellions in the name of Ali’s family. The application deadline is 31 December 2020.
Please share widely with colleagues and students. For further information, please contact the research group leader at hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de or have a look at the preliminary website at https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html .
2. 4th Fourth Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference,
Wednesday, November 18th from 10 am to 12.30 pm EST.
We have four exciting presentations:
Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi): Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script: A Case Study in Ottoman Turkish
Sofia Tsourlaki (University of London): When digital forms of information become a reliable source of academic research
Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin): The #AmericasMuslimsMap: Using Digital Visualization to Help Expand our Notion of “Global Islam”
Mehdy Sedaghat Payam and Marjan Moosavi (University of Maryland): A Comparative Quantitative Analysis of the Concept of “Love” in Hafez’s Ghazals and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
In order to join us, please simply follow this link at the time of the meeting: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/92629137582. You are welcome to share the program and invite interested colleagues and students.
Best wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
3. Khalifa University of Science & Technology invites you to the following Public Webinar
Scepticism and Tolerance: A Case from Pre-Modern Arabic-Islamic Thought
Lecturer: Ayman Shihadeh, Senior Research Fellow at New York University and Reader in Arabic Intellectual History at SOAS-London
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Time: 3p – 4p (UAE) / 11a – 12p (London)
Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/62b638b842d0465eb88a3ef85ef5c634
4. Arabic, Brigham Young University
Desired start date: August 2021
Posting close date: December 15, 2020
5. November 22 at 10:00am (PST): “Indo-Persian Musical Connections: Persian Poetry in Indian Music”
RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uceugrTsrGNziG7al6gsXM3NwdMad-juc
The second event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series features a panel that considers Persian poetry in Indian Music. The panel is followed by a performance by The Khusro Circle.
Abstracts for panel presentations: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-persian-poetry-in-indian-music/
Panelists
Suresh Chandvankar (Society of Indian Record Collectors, Mumbai), “Persian Literature and Gramophone Recordings From India”
Anoushka Deb (University of Delhi), “A Rendezvous Between Languages: A Look at the Convergence of Sanskrit and Persian In Early Modern North India”
Syed Yaster Ali (Independent Scholar), “Zehaal-e-Miskin: Understanding Amir Khusrau’s 13th Century Multiculturalism & Its Relevance Today”
Pushpita Mitra (JNU-India), “Bengali Ghazals and the Persian Imagery of Kazi Nazrul Islam”
Chair and Discussant
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA)
Performance: Indo-Iranian Music
The Khusro Circle, Pallabi Chakravorty (Swarthmore College)
For more information on The Indo-Persian Music Confluence project, including link to RSVP: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-modal-negotiations/
6. ONLINE Webinar Series “COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 – 12:00 PM EDT
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University), “Long before COVID-19: The Socio-economic Effects of Contagious Diseases and Epidemics in the Ottoman World (1500-1800).” This lecture will discuss the question of how millions of Muslim and non-Muslim people once lived in the Ottoman Empire had experienced the outbreaks of various contagious diseases between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063.
For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/
7. ONLINE Webinar Series “COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 – 12:00 PM EDT
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University), “Long before COVID-19: The Socio-economic Effects of Contagious Diseases and Epidemics in the Ottoman World (1500-1800).” This lecture will discuss the question of how millions of Muslim and non-Muslim people once lived in the Ottoman Empire had experienced the outbreaks of various contagious diseases between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063.
For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/
8. ONLINE 2020 Conference of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, 3-5 December, 2020
The conference examines Islam and esotericism, from Sufism and dreams to sorcery and magic, in al-Andalus, the historical and contemporary Middle East, Africa, and the West.
Program at: http://ensie.site/2020conference.html
Free registration at: https://doodle.com/poll/ahvdmz9airifz933
9. ONLINE: International Conference on Gender Studies: “Mapping Gender”, Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020
The conference seeks to explore the past and current status of gender identity around the world, to examine the ways in which society is shaped by gender and to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human affairs. Online participation is available. Presented papers will be published in a post-conference volume.
Information: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/home/
10. ONLINE: 18th Annual Islamicate Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020
We are seeking submissions from fields inclusive of, but not limited to: Religious Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Art History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Asian Studies, African American Studies, Geography, Women and Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, and African Studies.
11. ONLINE Papers on “What Does Diaspora Mean in the 21st Century” during the “12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12)”, Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021
The conference will explore the meaning of diaspora in the 21st century. The diasporic discourse is at risk of becoming teleological as a means of articulation, and, thereby, masking the very real struggles that may only eventually produce collectiveness. Or, does this disavow any room for dynamics within diasporic studies? The globalisation also brings with it a whole new set of parameters for perspectives on belonging.
Deadline for abstracts: 11 December 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6752090/icas-conference-diaspora-call-papers
12. Positions :
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Years) for Project “Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East”, University of Exeter
This is a systematic archive-based comparison of two official inquiries into British military intervention in Iraq: the Mesopotamia Commission (1917) and the Iraq Inquiry (2016). Qualification: PhD in a related field of study, including Political Science, International Relations and History; knowledge of the broad history of the British state and government with reference to imperial/foreign policy in the 20th century; extensive archival experience; etc.
Deadline for applications: 19 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=563699UG5t&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
Assistant or Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
The candidate must have a PhD in Comparative Literature. Please note that the Ph.D. requirement must have been fulfilled by 1 September 2021. Preference will be given to female candidates with specializations in literary theory, approaches to World Literature and the new comparative literature, and with demonstrable expertise in Arabic literature and an Asian, African or Latin American literature.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/09/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-comparative-literature
Two Positions in International Relations at Assistant or Associate Professor Levels, American University in Cairo
A PhD is required at the time of appointment. Successful candidates should have an ongoing research and publication program and teaching experience. In addition to research and teaching, responsibilities include service to the Department and the University.
Priority will be given to applications received by 15 December 2020. The position is open until filled. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/pols-international-relations
Full Time Faculty Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo
A PhD in sociology or a related discipline with the ability to teach and publish within the discipline of sociology. Commitment to teaching and engagement of students, as well as service to the university, particularly the sociology program and the department, are necessary, as well as an active research agenda.
Deadline for applications: 10 January 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/full-time-faculty-position-in-sociology-fall-2021
13. Articles from Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa for “Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)”
The Digest’s primary focus is on contemporary policy-relevant issues. DOMES primarily aims to receive submissions from disciplines in Social Sciences. Submissions for special issue are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/cfp-digest-of-middle-east-studies-domes
- November 17, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. CFP – Ceramics from Islamic Lands, Spring/Summer 2021
Dear colleagues,
As you have probably guessed, the conference Ceramics from Islamic Lands will not be happening at the V&A in a month’s time, as originally planned.
We had hoped by this point to have a firm alternative plan, but as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage, with new lockdowns being imposed across Europe, everyone’s plans are continually being revised.
We still very much hope to be able to hold the conference in person at the V&A, at some point in spring to early summer 2021. If in the end this proves impossible, we will hold the conference online.
If you are interested in participating, but have not yet sent us your paper proposal, there is still time to do so – but we would now like to set a deadline of 31st December 2020 for receiving these.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to ceramicsfromislamiclands@gmail.com.
Please feel free to contact us on the conference email address if you have any other queries.
If you have contacted us, but have not received a reply, we apologise: your submission has been noted, and we aim to respond soon.
Thank you for your continued patience, and stay well,
Mariam
Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen | Curator Middle East | Asian Department
V&A South Kensington | Cromwell Road | London | SW7 2RL
Email: m.rosserowen@vam.ac.uk | Phone: 020 7942 2339
Visit: vam.ac.uk
2. ONLINE Roundtable Discussion on “Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage,” Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”, 10 November 2020, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, CET
Panelists include Karen Barkey (University of California Berkeley), Axel Çorlu (Independent Scholar), Emily Neumeier (Temple University), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), M. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah).
For registration contact Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de
3. ONLINE Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – a Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig (Dates in 2021 to be Announced)
The main questions are: What happened in West Asia and North Africa 10 years ago? Which critical perspectives should be included? Every lecture in English, German or Arabic will last for 45 minutes followed by Q&A. It will take place once a month on Wednesdays at 7pm CET.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2020. Information: https://kiaradiekritischen.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/call-for-participation-kiara.pdf
4. Conference: “Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his Correspondents”, University of Göttingen, 12-13 November 2021
The conference will focus on the correspondence between Ignaz Goldziher and preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, addressing aspects of the history of the discipline as seen through the letters. Papers examining specific aspects of Goldziher’s contributions to Islamic and Jewish studies from a wider history of science point of view are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information: https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/7927 and https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/7927/Goldziher%20at%20100%20CALL%20FOR%20ABSTRACTS.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
See also item 17 below.
5. Researcher in Political Science, University of Oslo
Qualification requirements: completed MA degree in political science or related social science discipline or PhD degree in political science; familiarity with Arabic text analysis and web scrapping packages or cognate software and/or competence in survey data analysis and knowledge of relevant surveys fielded in the MENA region; research proficiency in Arabic; etc.
Deadline for applications: 24 November 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCG414/researcher-in-political-science
6. Fellowships and Travel Grants of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for American Scholars
Doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, independent scholars and faculty in humanities and social science disciplines are invited to apply. ARCE provides fellows with funding, administrative support and practical, sound advice to ease access to museums, monuments, archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and collections.
Deadline for applications: 18 January 2021. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellowships
7. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Requirements: Ph.D. in sociology or related disciplines; active research agenda, a record of international peer-reviewed publications, and demonstrated excellence in teaching. The areas of specialization are flexible, but qualitative research experience on Turkey is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/assistant-professor-position-in-sociology,i7627.html
8. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months) for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19th – 21st Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
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 for applications: 18 December 2020.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821
9. Scholarships for Visiting the German Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region, Berlin, 1-30 September 2021
The scholarship program is aimed at highly-qualified, committed, capable and talented young women and men from the Arab region who are interested in politics and wish to play an active role in shaping the democratic future of their country. Qualification: University degree, under the age of 35, good knowledge of German.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2020.
Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
10. Bourse d’aide à la mobilité doctorale au CEFAS (Koweit)
Aide pour les étudiant(e)s doctorant(e)s inscrit(e)s en thèse dans une université française, et qui effectuent leur recherche doctorale sur la région de la péninsule Arabique dans le domaine de l’archéologie et des sciences humaines et sociales. L’obtention de la bourse est conditionnée à l’inscription en thèse.
Date limite d’envoi des dossiers de candidature : 1 décembre 2020. Information: https://cefas.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article809&lang=fr
11. Spring School: “Spoken Images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images” by the Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Università degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, 1-6 March 2021
This school is to investigate the image–text relations in Muslim traditions by applying to different genres of images and texts and by thinking about how they are affected by translation or interpretation. It will bring together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with doctoral and MA students to explore how the transfer of texts and images move from one culture to another in Muslim societies and beyond.
Deadline for application: 5 January 2020. Information: http://iismm.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2147/call_springschool2021.pdf
12. Articles on “Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa” for Special Issue of “Oxford Middle East Review”
We invite shorter briefs or position papers up to 2,000 words aimed at influencing contemporary debate or policy-making and articles up to 10,000 words that present original material from any discipline that engages critically with the Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for abstracts: 27 November 2020. Information: https://omerjournal.com/current-call-for-papers/
13. Articles on “Theoretical an Experimental Issues in Arabic Linguistics” for Special Issue of “Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature”, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa
Articles are invited on: Phonology and morphology; Grammar of Classical and Modern Standard Arabic; Semantics and pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Discourse analysis; Syntax of the Qurʾān, written in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2021.
Information: http://alkarmil.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/instruction-for-authors
14. Articles for Edited Volume on “Christianity in Iraq at the Turn of Islam: History and Archaeology”
An international round table organized on 4 and 5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo is now calling for papers related to this theme. Convenors: Kinga Dévényi (Budapest), Sebastian Günther (Göttingen), Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton).
Deadline for articles in French, English or Arabic: 28 February 2021.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Christianity_in_Iraq_at_the_turn_of_Islam_Call_for_Papers.pdf
15. Book Proposals for a New Academic Book Series: “Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World” (I.B.Tauris)
The series welcomes proposals from scholars in Ottoman/Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, Slavic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, and disciplines of History, Political Science, Anthropology, Literature and Sociology, among others.
16. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Islamic Radicalisation in the Balkans after the Fall of Communism,” Balkan History Association
Academics from the following fields of research are invited to contribute: intelligence, political science, history, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and history of religions to submit original studies in English on the proposed topic.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2020. Information: https://www.balkan-history.com/cfp-islamic-radicalisation-in-the-balkans/
17. Online Accessible Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher at the Hungarian Academy of Science
When Ignaz Goldziher died in 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000 letters from about 1,650 persons, in ten languages. This corpus is freely accessible in its entirety in digital form at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It constitutes the single most important source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and cognate fields during Goldziher‘s time.
See https://konyvtar.mta.hu/index_en.php?name=v_3_2_1_goldziher and https://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2018/06/ignaz-goldziher-correspondence-archive.html?m=1
See also item 4 above.
18. HIAA Biennial Symposium 2020 to be held remotely April 15-18
The HIAA Biennial Symposium, originally planned for October 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We are now writing to announce that the event will be held remotely by the University of Michigan on April 15-18, 2021. Please mark your virtual calendars!
You can visit the University of Michigan’s symposium website here.
A PDF of the online symposium program can be found here.
We are so looking forward to hosting the HIAA Biennial Symposium in April 2021! Please stay tuned for further details about our online symposium.
Thank you for your flexibility and understanding, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at besener@umich.edu.
- November 10, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Associate or Assistant Director, American Center of Research, Amman, Jordan (ACOR)
The American Center of Research (formerly the American Center of
Oriental Research), a non-profit institution dedicated to advancing
knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected Middle East, past and
present, seeks an Associate or Assistant Director. This full-time
position, resident in Amman, Jordan, is intended to assist the
organization in the implementation of its mission and work toward
future growth. The position is part of senior leadership and reports
to the Director; compensation and title will be based on experience.
Candidates with a post-graduate degree focusing on the Near or Middle
Eastern region are preferred. Those with expertise/experience in the
current, historic, or ancient periods of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria,
and/or the Arabian Peninsula are especially encouraged to apply. A
wide range of specialties are welcome, such as cultural anthropology,
geography, sociology, history, political science, archaeology, ancient
or modern languages, etc. A demonstrated capacity for management of
complex projects is desired. Conversational Arabic is desired and
native fluency in English is required.
Review of applications will begin November 14th, 2020, and continue until the position is filled.
Further info and to apply at:
https://acorjordan.org/news-and-events/now-hiring-associate-or-assistant-director/
2. Assistant Professor, Africa and/or Middle East with Public History focus, Suffolk University, History
The Department of History at Suffolk University invites applications for a tenure track appointment as an Assistant Professor in 20th-century Global History and Politics with a focus on Africa and/or the Middle East. Engagement in Public History with oral history proficiency is highly desirable.
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in History at the time of appointment. Outstanding candidates in the final stage of doctoral studies are eligible for consideration but must have the degree in hand by July 1, 2021. Preferred applicants will have proven college/university teaching excellence and engagement with Public History.
Faculty responsibilities for this position include collaborating with departmental faculty to develop curricula in the applicant’s areas of specialization. General duties include teaching five courses per academic year, including core department courses and in the University’s first-year general education curriculum, advising and mentoring students, maintaining a productive research and publication trajectory, and actively participating in the life of the department, college, and university through involvement in shared governance and other service activities.
Application should be made through the Suffolk HR website with a complete submission including the following components: cover letter, CV, graduate transcript, research writing sample, statement of teaching philosophy, sampling of course syllabi and recent student evaluations (if available), and contact information for three references. Review of applications will begin at once, with a final application deadline of December 1, 2020.
3. Call for Submissions:
The Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History is now taking submissions for one of its issues in 2021.
Quarterly “Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History” after years of publishing scientific articles in the field of post-Islamic history of Iran in Persian, now the first English language issue has published.
The full texts of the articles of this issue of the journal are available in free of charge on the journal’s website. https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/ Following the successful publication of the first issue of this journal in English, we plan to publish the second issue of the journal in the spring of 2020. Therefore, we ask Iranian history researchers to submit their scientific articles in English to this journal.
This journal welcomes the scientific articles of doctoral students along with their professors and the scientific articles of university professors and independent researchers in English on the history of post-Islamic Iran. Topics Articles can include history of culture, foreign policy and so on. More information can be found on our website at https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/ . We are open to submissions from students in any year, from any subject and require no previous publication experience. We also welcome submissions from academics, writers, and faculty experts. We offer an opportunity to be published online and in print for a broad international and inter-university readership.
In this issue, we welcome pieces that address the articles on new, non-repetitive, and preferably micro-research topics in the political-military, social, cultural, and economic fields of post-Islamic Iranian history. The journal aims to offer an opportunity for readers to engage with accessible and reflective content that will offer relevant context for a discussion of favorite topics in these areas. That said, any pieces that discuss other topics of Iranian history are also welcome. This can include Healthcare, roads and communication routes, beliefs, sciences, relations with other countries, historiography, art, architecture, etc. throughout the history of post-Islamic Iran. In short, submissions will not be limited in any way to solely discussion of one or more topics from the history of post-Islamic Iran.
Please circulate the above information amongst any faculty, department or college peers. For any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to the editor in chief at ali_karimi@tabrizu.ac.ir .
4. University of Toronto to establish Institute of Iranian Studies
- November 07, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Seminar “Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003”, SOAS, University of London, 17 November 2020, 5:30 pm – 7.00 pm
Spealer and book author: Hawraa Al-Hassan (University of Cambridge). This book traces the turbulent history of Ba’thist discourses on women and state patronage of the novel, and explores various literary responses from a wide spectrum of Iraqi women writers.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/17nov2020-women-writing-and-the-iraqi-bathist-state-contending-discourses-of-resistance-and-collabor.html
2. ONLINE Book Presentation: “Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish Memory” by David Leupold, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 23 November 2020, 17:00 – 18:30 CET
Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/embattled-dreamlands-the-politics-of-contesting-armenian-turkish-and-kurdish-memory
3. 14th Annual Conference: “Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media“, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 8-9 April 2021
Panelists from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds — including, computer science, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, political science, communication, media studies, and psychology — are invited to present their research on Islamophobia in the news media, entertainment media, and on social media.
4. Ten PhD Fellowships for Doctoral Program of the “Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies”, 2021/2022
This is a joint project 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. Applications with a focus on strategies of negotiating diversity, difference, and distinction, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims are especially encouraged. Requirements: MA in Arabic Studies, Central Asian Studies, History, History of Islamic Art, Human Geography, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Semitic Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology. Language: English.
Deadline for application: 11 November 2020. Information: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/application/call_for_applications/index.html
5. Doctoral Position in Global or Extra-European History (Middle Eastern History), ETH Zürich
Requirements: M.A. (or an M.Phil.), background in 18th to 20th century Global History; Imperial/Colonial History, Middle Eastern History and related fields; proficiency in English. Preference will be given to candidates who additionally master at least one non-European Language, such as Arabic. Knowledge of German and/or French is a welcome asset, but not mandatory.
Deadline for applications: 25 November 2020. Information: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/ifg/geschichte-der-modernen-welt/documents/2020-10-22_ETHZ_GMW_Open%20PhD%20Position.pdf
6. Joint Fellowship of IMéRA-AMU & Edinburgh University on “Muslim Solidarities in the Face of Crises in the Mediterranean”
Eligibility: Proven ability and academic excellence in this field of study; PhD/Doctorate; junior scholar with a full-time postdoctoral experience comprised between 2 and 9 years; resident of the European Union or associated European countries.
Deadline for application: 14 December 2020. Information: https://imera.univ-amu.fr/en/call-for-application-imera-amu-edinburg-university-joint-fellowship
7. One-Year Faculty Leave Fellowship, Crown Center for Middle East Studies (2021-2022), Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
This fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology — and 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.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2021. Information: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/who/fellowships.html
8. The British Library:
Muhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier in 18th century southern India
‘In recent months I’ve been working on manuscripts in the British Library which formed part of Tipu Sultan’s library and were acquired by the East India Company after the fall of Seringapatam in 1799. The history of how this part of the collection came to London has been recently described by Joshua Ehrlich (Plunder and prestige) and in several blogs by myself (notably Revisiting the provenance of the Sindbadnamah). The collection itself, however, was made up of many smaller collections, acquired mostly by conquest, and it is on one of these that I will focus today, namely the collection of the Sufi Muhammad Najib Khan Shahid (‘martyr’), an official of Anvar al-Din Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic from 1744 to 1749. While the apparent contradiction between the spiritual and military roles of courtly life has long been acknowledged, it is reinforced by the identification I propose here of Muhammad Najib the political adviser with our Sufi author and collector, an identification which is underlined by a shared Chishti affiliation and high status, further evidenced by the acquisition details of Muhammad Najib’s own collection.’
9. Abstract submission deadline has been extended until 15th November 2020.
Call for Papers for Virtual Presentation Only:
The Fifth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
For more information, please visit the conference website:
For Virtual Presentation:
After submission of the registration form and positive results of review of the submitted abstract, the presenter has to send PowerPoint slides of his/her article. After positive results of review of the submitted PowerPoint slides, it is possible to present the article. The certificate of paper presentation will be issued, and the abstract and full article will be published and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (optional, if you wish to publish and index your full article).
The Conference Secretariat,
Ahwaz 61335-4619 Iran
Tel: (+98) 61-32931199
Fax: (+98) 61-32931198
Mobile: (+98) 916-5088772 (WhatsApp Number)
Email: info@pahi.ir
10. 18thAnnual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago titled Between Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South Asia,March 4th-6th, 2021.
The final submission date for applicants is the 10th of December 2021, 5pm CST.
We invite graduate students at all levels to submit abstracts for consideration. The call for papers is available here, and the online submission form can be found via this link.
Best,
The Organizing Committee
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/
11. Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. Vol. V, Section 6: The Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. Critical edition, annotated translation and introduction by Mayte Penelas. Leiden and Boston: Brill, November 2020 (Bibliotheca Maqriziana, vol. 7), x-434 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-41324-5 (e-book); 978-90-04-41289-7 (hardback).
This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar, from which al-Maqrīzī derived material from many other sources, including prominent Christian sources such as Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s History, and works by Muslim historians like Ibn al-Aṯīr’s Kāmil. Therefore, this chapter of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar is a continuation of the previous Arabic historiographical tradition, in which European history is integrated into world history through the combination of Christian and Islamic sources.
For more information on published and forthcoming volumes, see https://brill.com/view/serial/BIMA.
- November 03, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), invites applications for Resident fellowships (Post Doc). The fellowships should start in 2021 and have a duration between 1 and 12 months.
Fellowships are available for scholars at all stages of their academic career who have completed their doctoral degree and established an independent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project in any relevant discipline that is related to the Center’s interests in Romanization and Islamication in the period and area in question. The Center also welcomes applications from scholars working on comparative empire and transcultural studies in a broader historical (or contemporary) perspective whose research has a strong focus on theoretical and methodological issues. The second year (2021) theme is ‘Imperial Religions and Local Beliefs’, i.e. the relationship between state authority and religion. Which forms of local religious practice remained in place, despite the dominance of eastern salvation religions, and which forms changed as a result thereof?
Applications should be in English, including a CV, a research proposal for the project pursued at Hamburg, including the project’s relation to the topic (2000 words), and an indication of the months the applicant wants to spend at the Center and the kind of financial support they require. All materials should be sent in a single pdf document to Dr. Rocco Selvaggi romanislam@uni-hamburg.deby November 30, 2020.
For more information see: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/center/fellowship-program.html
2. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS “Occhialì -Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico”is a semi-annualscientific journal concerned with the publication of studies, researchesand reflections on Islam and the Mediterranean.
Active since 2017, it has promoted over time a broad discussion on transversalthemes from different perspectives: historical, linguistic, political, economic, juridical, sociological, psychological or pedagogical, trying to represent the heterogeneity that characterizes its area of interest. For issue 7/2020, it has been decided not to limit the contributions to a specific theme, but to open it to the proposals of scholars, so as to leave an open space and cast light on emerging horizons of study and research. Therefore, 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, migratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.
The articles, written in English, French, Italian or Spanish, must be sent by 15 December 2020 to laboratorio.occhiali@gmail.comin a format compatible with the procedure of blind review: a file will have to include the author’s name and surname, email address, a short biographical note, title and abstract (150 words in English), 3-5 keywords; the other file will have to include the contribution without any reference to the author or to their known works that might point back to them. The articles, formatted according to the norms indicated on http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/norme-redazionali/, shall not exceed 30,000 characters including spaces and excluding the bibliography.
3. Call for Papers – Online conference (Centering Race in History: Antiquity to the Present)
http://monitoracism.eu/centring-race-in-history-antiquity-to-the-present/
ORGANISED BY:
International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK.
MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism magazine, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy (EUI).
Department of History & Civilization, EUI.
What should be the place of race in historiography and historical practice? The last few decades have witnessed a flowering of the historical study of race. Yet most of this scholarship has been confined to late modern colonial, global, and postcolonial histories, with little interest from other fields. In medieval and early modern studies, the bulk of writing on race has been produced by those working in literature rather than history. And if we look to the big treatments of history that have been growing in popularity in the profession and the book trade in recent years, race barely features.
The aim of our conference is to confront this marginalization of race in history, and to consider how we can centre race in our discipline: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. We are interested in submissions concerning every period of human history, and all fields in our discipline.
The conference will begin at 15.00 CET each day to facilitate participation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Conference Keynotes
‘Allegedly Race: Rethinking the Political History of Early Mesopotamia’: Professor Xianhua Wang, Shanghai International Studies University, China.
‘The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages’: Professor Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
‘Racism Before Racialized Capitalism’: Professor Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow, UK, who will deliver the inaugural PKC Millins Lecture.
‘Archives of Black Life and Histories of State Violence in Britain’: Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, UK.
Please submit paper proposals of c. 250 words and biographies of c. 150 words by 15 October 2020 to icr@edgehill.ac.uk and monica.gonzalezcorrea@eui.eu
4. The Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona has admitted a select number of graduate students at M.A. and Ph.D. levels since 2016.
This year, too, the program will admit new students.
Students benefit from the close attention of the program’s faculty with high interest and expertise in interdisciplinary research projects.
For more information visit
https://persian.arizona.edu/
5. UCLA: The Indo-Persian Confluence Symposium
“Indo-Persian Musical Connections: Modal Negotiations”
Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 10:00am Pacific via Zoom
The panel, consisting of Taees Gheirati (UBC), Deepak Paramashivan (University of Alberta) and Behzad Namazi (Ohio University), examines these transregional cultural connections by comparing underlying modal structures, analyzing previously undiscussed descriptions of mode, and considering reflexive perspectives on mode from musicians across all three regions. By utilizing the transregional framework that musical modality provides as a primary category of analysis, this panel opens up new discussions on how to think about both historic and contemporary cross-cultural alignments in music that are clearly central to defining multiple music traditions in multiple places. This allows researchers to read specific concepts of musical modality as aspects of cultural production that relate to larger regional contexts.
For more information, including the link to RSVP, please visit: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-modal-negotiations/
Event Co-Sponsors
UCLA Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
UCLA Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
UCLA Iranian Studies Program
UCLA Center for India and South Asia (CISA)
RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-uvrTIsHd1-8B9MhRgUucPds_m_ny89
6. ‘Muslim Female Religious Authority’: online roundtable, Thursday 12th November, 5pm GMT
Alwaleed Centre, Edinburgh
All are welcome to our forthcoming roundtable discussion exploring ‘Muslim Female Religious Authority’ taking place on 12th November at 5pm via Zoom.
For further information and free registration click here: https://femaleauthority.eventbrite.co.uk
The roundtable will feature contributions from Amina Inloes (The Islamic College), Joseph Hill (University of Alberta), David Kloos (KITLV) and Safia Shahid (Women’s Muslim College) with Mulki Al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki) kindly chairing.
This is the third event in our ‘Authority in the Globalised Muslim World’ series. For further information about the series click HERE.
With very best wishes,
The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam
in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
- October 31, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Architecture of Coexistence: Building Pluralism
Edited by Azra Akšamija
Published by ArchiTangle Berlin, 2020
Preview: https://architangle.com/book/architecture-of-coexistence
2. HIAA Members – Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize and the Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship
The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture
Deadline: November 15, 2020
Every year the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair, Hala Auji (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-ševčenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture
Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship
Deadline: November 15, 2020
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to support post-doctoral scholars at an early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:
* To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.
* To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Applicants should have completed their PhD within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or for supplies.
All materials should be submitted by email to the chair of the Grabar post-doctoral fellowship committee chair, Ruba Kana’an (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by November 15, 2020. Files exceeding 5 Mb should be transferred by FTP.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
3. An Introduction to Arabic Medical Tables by Dr Meekyung MacMardie 3rd Nov at Wellcome Collection
Our next Exploring Research Seminar on Tuesday 3 November will feature Dr Meekyung MacMurdie who will discuss ‘The Practice of Persuasion: an introduction to Arabic medical tables’.
Tabulated medical texts emerged in the Arabic-writing sphere during the eleventh century, inspired by and designed in the likeness of astronomical charts and astrological horoscopes. Tables streamlined extensive medical encyclopaedias into single volumes, meeting demands, so their authors claimed, for the benefits of science, not its proofs and definitions.
This talk examines the formal rhetoric of medical tables. In terms of production, their striking spatial layouts required special planning, attention, and skill on the part of scribes. Highlighting examples from the Wellcome Collection, the talk will explore historical processes of manuscript production in addition to the significance of table aesthetics: as the space where the invisible cosmos and visible world converged.
About your speaker
Meekyung MacMurdie
Meekyung is a newly minted PhD, having just completed her degree in art history at the University of Chicago. She specialises in medieval art of the Islamic world with particular interests in artistic practices of ornament and design, knowledge transmission and exchange, and the historiography of Islamic art. For her thesis, “Likeness, Figuration, Proof: geometry and the Arabic book,” she examined the evidentiary stakes and ontological status of tables, geometric figures, and pictorial images in scientific and medical manuscripts. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Bern, part of the ERC-funded project, “Global Horizons in Pre-Modern Art.”
This is an free online event. Virtual doors open at 17.15, seminar starts at 17.30 to 18.30 (London time). There will be an opportunity to ask questions after the talk.
To book your virtual seat, please visit https://wellcomecollection.org/events for details.
4. Islamic Texts Society – Mawlid Discount 2020
Between 23rd October and 2nd November, in celebration of the Mawlid al-Nabi, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering its readers a 25% discount on all titles.*
Books from ITS are the perfect gift for family, friends and loved ones; beautifully designed and produced to the highest quality, ITS titles enable readers to gain access to treasures of classical Islamic thought and spirituality.
In order to take advantage of this offer, please visit our website by clicking on the button below and enter the coupon code, MAWLID20, on the purchase page.
(*Excluding Arabic-English Lexicon by E. W. Lane.)
5. Webinar Announcement – From Malabar to Coromandel: The Future of Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture
From Malabar to Coromandel: The Future of Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture. This is an international collaboration organized by the Deccan Heritage Foundation, the Centre of Islamic Studies at Cambridge, and the HH Sri Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar Foundation, Mysore.
https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/about
NOVEMBER 2020
Pushkar Sohoni (IISER Pune) The Architecture of a Deccan Sultanate: Courtly Practice and Royal Authority in Late Medieval India
Discussants: Marika Sardar (Aga Khan Museum) and Vivek Gupta (University of Cambridge) on November 13th at 13.00 GMT (Book Discussion)
George Michell (Architectural Historian, DHF) ‘Art and Architecture of the Badami Chalukyas,’ on November 27th at 13.00 GMT
DECEMBER 2020
Richard M. Eaton (University of Arizona) India in the Persianate Age: 1000—1765
Discussants: Alka Patel (UC Irvine) and Roy Fischel (SOAS, University of London) on December 11th at 16.00 GMT (Book Discussion)
Annapurna Garimella (Art, Resources and Teaching Trust) ‘The Square and the Rectangle: Design Transformations and Architectural Renovation between the 14th-16th Centuries in Vijayanagara,’ on December 18th at 13.00 GMT
JANUARY 2021
Emma Flatt (UNC Chapel Hill) The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
Discussants: Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn) and Subah Dayal (NYU Gallatin) on January 8th at 13.00 GMT (Book Discussion)
Anna Lise Seastrand (University of Minnesota) ‘Image and Imagination: Wall Paintings in Early Modern Southern India,’ on January 22nd at 16.00 GMT
MARCH 2021
Evrim Binbaş (University of Bonn) ‘The Idea of Sacral Kingship between Islamic and Turco-Mongol Concepts of Politics,’ on March 5th at 13.00 GMT
To register for the webinar series, please fill out the form in https://www.deccanheritagefoundation.uk/events/webinars/registration.
If you have any queries, please write to deccanheritagefoundationindia@gmail.com.
6. Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
Published in association with Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali, Founder and Chair, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
Studies of the political, economic, social and cultural history of medieval and modern Iran and the Persian world
Covering the history of Iran and the Persian world from the medieval period to the present, this series aims to become the pre-eminent place for publication in this field. As well as its core concern with Iran, it will extend its concerns to encompass a much wider and more loosely defined cultural and linguistic world, to include Afghanistan, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Xinjiang and northern India.
www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/EHSIPW
7. McGill’s Online Panel on Social and Pedagogical Aspects of Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages
Friday, October 30 at 11:00-1:00 Eastern time.
This panel showcases six chapters from The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian.
To attend, please register by sending an email Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi ( pouneh.shabani-jadidi@mcgill.ca )
8. ONLINE Event: “Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum”, SOAS, University of London, 10-11 November 2020
This Music Forum will be of interest to a broad audience, including musicologists, ethnomusicologists and other researchers in the arts, humanities and social sciences. In addition, we welcome those working on other aspects of culture in this region (dance, visual arts, media, film, literature, etc.)
Information and registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/middle-east-central-asia-music-forum-soas-tickets-125682709367?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR3NVKWOnQfBlKzwljdBvS8uH4AD8nX8iiqHY50kCXAhvi2XhPM01o9XVL4
9. ONLINE: International Conference on “10 Years On: The People & The Protests”, Project SEPAD, Lancaster University, UK, 17-18 December 2020
The conference on the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the Arab Uprisings seeks to reflect on the ways in which the uprisings have affected people and political projects across MENA and invites papers reflecting on: Popular protests; relations between rulers and ruled; resistance; gender and sexuality; sovereign power; spatial ordering; clientelism; sectarianism; de-sectarianisation; political economy; power sharing; urban politics; environmentalism; foreign policy making; etc.
Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/conference-and-call-for-papers
10. Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Cultural Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Candidates are invited to submit applications for a tenure-track position in Arabic language and cultural studies. Ph.D in Arabic Language and Literature, Middle Eastern Studies or a closely related field is required.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2020. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/78584
11. ONLINE: Introduction of Two MA Programs in Islamic Studies, Columbia University, New York, 18 November 2020, 11 am EST
These programs delve into the religious and intellectual traditions of Islam and the diverse regional histories, cultures, and social formations of Muslim societies around the world. A virtual open house will be held on 18 November.
Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/ma-programs
- October 27, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Le Centre de recherche sur le monde Iranien (CeRMI) et la BULAC ont le plaisir de vous convier à découvrir l’exposition Gilbert Lazard, un siècle d’études iraniennes, présentée à la BULAC du 19 octobre au 27 novembre prochains.
En raison du contexte sanitaire, l’accès à l’exposition se fait sur réservation : pensez à réserver un créneau de visite sur le site de la BULAC.
Toutes les informations sur cette programmation se trouvent sur la page web de l’exposition.
N’hésitez pas à relayer l’événement au sein de votre réseau.
Bien cordialement,
Le CeRMI et l’équipe action culturelle de la BULAC
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CeRMI – CNRS UMR 8041
Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien
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27 rue Paul Bert – 94204 Ivry-sur-Seine – France
cermi@cnrs.fr – https://www.cermi.cnrs.fr
2. Exploring Medieval India through Persian Sources
Ali Athar
National Mission for Manuscripts, 2020
https://www.bagchee.com/books/BB130210/exploring-medieval-india-through-persian-sources
3. Multidisciplinary workshop Steadfast Imagining: Lyric Meditation, Islamic Philosophy, and Comparative Religion in the Works of Bidel of Delhi (d.1720) organized and led by Domenico Ingenito (UCLA, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) and Jane Mikkelson (University of Virginia) in cooperation with scholars working in Persian Studies, Islamic Studies, South Asian, Near Eastern, and Central Asian Studies, English, Anthropology, and Comparative Literature. All sessions will be held in English, and all reading materials (both primary and secondary sources) will be circulated and presented in English translation.
The workshop is sponsored and organized by UCLA Program on Central Asia (in collaboration with Iranian Studies), and co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Center for Near Eastern Studies.
The workshop includes five sessions which will convene bi-weekly on Fridays from 1 PM to 2:00 PM (Pacific Standard Time) via Zoom, with the first meeting on October 23rd and the concluding session on December 18th. To register and receive the Zoom information for the first session, please follow this link. Links for future sessions will be available soon.
4. ONLINE: 18th Annual Islamicate Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020
We are seeking submissions from fields inclusive of, but not limited to: Religious Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Art History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Asian Studies, African American Studies, Geography, Women and Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, and African Studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2020. Information: https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41830/Call-for-Papers-What-Does-Race-Have-to-Do-with-Religion-Racialization-and-Worldwide-Islam
5. PhD Position (4 Years) for Research on Muslim Interreligious Encounters in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean, University of Groningen
The PhD candidate is expected to have a thorough training in research skills, to be fluent in English (both oral and written) and be able to carry out research in one or more languages (such as Arabic and Spanish), etc.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2020. Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0007XJP&cat=phd
6. Assistant Professor for Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto Scarborough
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Classics, Middle East Studies, History, Religion, Art History, Archeology, or another, closely related discipline. They must demonstrate a record of excellence in research and teaching in the field of Late Antique studies and/or the study of early Islam both conceptually and methodologically.
Deadline for application: 30 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Late-Antiquity-andor-Early-Islam-ON/541785217/
7. Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Comparative Politics of the Middle East, University of Mississippi
The successful candidate will have a PhD, a research and teaching focus on the Middle East and be able to teach introductory and thematic courses in comparative politics. The candidate should have field experience and appropriate foreign language proficiency in Arabic, strong methods skills, and demonstrated excellence in teaching.
Deadline for applications: Until position is filled. Information: https://careers.olemiss.edu/job/University-Assistant-Professor-MS-38677/680641900/
8. 2021-22 Fellowships, Scholarships and Awards from the American Center for Research (ACOR), Jordan
ACOR promotes study, teaching, and increased knowledge of ancient and Middle Eastern studies with Jordan as a focus. We encourage you to share these opportunities widely with your networks.
Deadline for applications: 1 February 2021. Information: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/
9. ONLINE Course on “Bridging the Great Divide: The Jewish-Muslim Encounter”, Woolf Institute, Cambridge, 11 January – 25 April 2021
Despite their closeness in belief and practice, today, Jewish-Muslim interactions are often the source of intense religious conflict. This course will explore the history, culture and theology of Muslims and Jews, reflecting both on similarities and differences as well as discussing the major challenges.
Deadline for application: 13 December 2020.
Information: https://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/study/online-courses/bridging-the-great-divide-the-jewish-muslim-encounter
10. Articles for Edited Volume on “From the Postcolonial to the Decolonial: French and English Textbooks in North Africa and the Middle East“
After exploring the history of schooling in this region during the colonial period, this volume aims at answering the question what has happened after independence, when – under the pressure from the demands of populations long described as ‘indigenous’ – ‘decolonization’ became the watchword.
Deadline for expressions of interest: 31 October 2020. Information: Prof. Kamal Salhi, University of Leeds, K.salhi@leeds.ac.uk
11. New Research Platform and Online Journal: “Manazir – Swiss Platform for the Study of Visual Arts, Architecture and Heritage in the MENA Region”
Manazir is oriented towards a diversity of transcultural and transdisciplinary “landscapes” and “points of views” and open to a multiplicity of themes, epochs and geographical areas. The Platform disseminates information regarding conferences, workshops, publications and exhibitions. Research results are also promoted through Manazir Journal, a peer-reviewed online journal that regularly publishes thematic issues in platinum open access.
Information: https://www.manazir.art/
12. On-line sources :
Uyghurkitap, an online digital collection of Uyghur documents, is now open to public.
The library contains 6,400 documents, including 500 manuscripts, 1,500 newspapers and magazines, and ~ 4,000 Uyghur language books.
13. Early Modern Workshop
Friday, October 23 | 12-1:30pm
presentation by
Amanda Phillips Assistant Professor, Art, University of Virginia
“Beyond Text: What Objects Can Tell Us”
Amanda will be speaking about her new book, Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean (University of California Press, 2021), which argues for the central role of textiles in daily life across the social and economic continuum. In this talk, Amanda will discuss how objects can, and do, tell stories not found in written sources.
Our events are free and open to the public.
Please register on the link below:
Zoom: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMtcu6gqz8oE9UIY2aCW_T37tQv0VJieo3V
The Early Modern Workshop is a multidisciplinary forum at the University of Virginia where scholars working on the early modern period (broadly defined) can discuss their work with colleagues across departments. The aim is to foster conversations that go beyond departmental, disciplinary, and regional parameters, and to create an active community of early modernists here at the University of Virginia. We will convene once a month on Fridays, 12-1:30pm, on Zoom. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please contact us.
We have an exciting schedule this autumn: coming up, there will be a presentation by Nizar Hermes(Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) on November 13 and a guest lecture by Russ Leo (English, Princeton) on December 4.
14. Thinking with Wendy Shaw, What is ‘Islamic’ Art? (online, 12 Nov 2020)
| 15:00 – 17:00 (CET)
In this conversation, as part of the RCMC Thinking With series, Wendy M. K. Shaw discusses her work notably in her book What is ‘Islamic’ Art: Between Religion and Perception (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Register here:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_u2VQjNufT56ghsg3mAZvKw
https://www.materialculture.nl/en/events/thinking-wendy-shaw-what-islamic-art
Discussant | Pooyan Tamimi Arab
Pooyan Tamimi Arab is an assistant professor of religious studies in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University and a member of the Utrecht Young Academy. He is part of the research project “Religious Matters in an Entangled World” (www.religiousmatters.nl).
Discussant | Mirjam Shatanawi
Drs. Mirjam Shatanawi is lecturer at the Reinwardt Academy (Amsterdam University of the Arts). Between 2001 and 2018, she worked as curator at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Ethnology in Leiden and the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam. She is the author of Islam at the Tropenmuseum (2014). She has curated exhibitions on topics as wide-ranging as contemporary art from Iran, the global Sixties and the artistic encounter of the Dutch artist M.C. Escher with Islamic art.
15. Call for Papers: “Single-Slide Sohbat” Graduate workshop, January 2021
We are pleased to inform you of the first gathering of what we hope will be an annual event, the “Single-Slide Ṣoḥbat,” in January, 2021 (exact date still to be determined). Facilitated by students in the Yale History of Art department, this event is intended to bring together graduate students, at any level of their study, working on the art and architecture of the broadly-defined Islamic world. Thinking through the word ṣoḥbat, connoting companionship and conversation in several languages, we hope that this will be an opportunity for participants to learn about their colleagues’ research and to connect with each other in an informal and cordial setting.
For our initial meeting, we challenge speakers to use a single slide showcasing an object/site important to their research, and to keep presentations to ten minutes.In addition to being more suitable for the Zoom format, this will allow for a greater diversity of presentations, and foster new and interesting juxtapositions across spatial and temporal boundaries within this broadly-defined field.
We ask interested participants to submit, by October 30th, 2020, a working title and a maximum 250-word abstract by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/aqLgigAhHLtqG31A9
16. New Online Teaching Resource – The Aga Khan Museum Academic Resources
Following on our fellow HIAA members’ efforts to organize materials for online teaching, the Aga Khan Museum has created an Academic Resources page on its website. This page provides links to resources on the collection (3D tours of the galleries, collections search, short videos), special exhibitions (PDFs of catalogues, lists of relevant objects, online lectures), and other parts of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture (including the Music Initiative and Award for Architecture).
We are also offering a ‘Book a Curator’ program, if you would like a member of the curatorial staff to visit your class for a virtual object handling session, to talk about issues of collecting and museum display, or speak to their areas of specialty within Islamic art.
17. The Yale Department of Comparative Literature presents:
Contemporary Iranian Poetry in Translation: A Reading and Conversation with Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
Tuesday, November 11, 12-1:30pm EST
Please register in advance for the webinar here:
https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_3QSJXjZYQJyCzxcvNSQDtg
After registration, you will receive a confirmation email with instructions on how to join the webinar.
Join us for a discussion about modern Iranian poetry and translation with Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould, both scholars and practicing poets based at the University of Birmingham, who frequently collaborate on their translations of Persian poetry. They will read poetry by Tahmasebian, as well as their translations of verse by Bijan Elahi and Hasan Alizadeh. They will be joined in conversation by Sam Hodgkin and Robyn Creswell from Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.
This event is co-sponsored at Yale by the Program on Iranian Studies; the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations; the Council on Middle East Studies; and the Yale Translation Initiative.
Participant bios:
Kayvan Tahmasebian is an Iranian poet, translator, and critic who was born and raised in Isfahan. He is the author of Isfahan’s Mold (2016), on the short story writer Bahram Sadeqi, and Lecture on Fear and Other Poems (2019). Tahmasebian has also translated Beckett, Rimbaud, T. S. Eliot, Ponge, and Mallarmé into Persian. He is currently a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Birmingham, and Principal Investigator of Transmodern, a Horizon 2020-funded project on the position of translated literature within modern Iranian literary theory. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in New Literary History, Modernism/Modernity, and Twentieth Century Literature.
Rebecca Ruth Gould’s translations include The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus (2015) and After and the Days Disappear: Ghazals and Other Poems Hasan Sijzi of Delhi (2016), and, with Kayvan Tahmasebian, High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi (2019). She teaches at the University of Birmingham and is the author of Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (2016) and The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021).
Sam Hodgkin is an assistant professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His first book project is entitled “The Nightingales’ Congress: Literary Representatives in the Communist East.” He is currently preparing for publication translations of several 20th-century Central Asian and Iranian works of literature and criticism.
Robyn Creswell is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale and author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism in Beirut (Princeton, 2019). He is the translator of Abdelfattah Kilito’s The Clash of Images (New Directions, 2010) and The Tongue of Adam (New Directions, 2016), as well as Sonallah Ibrahim’s That Smell and Notes from Prison (New Directions, 2013).
“Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, Present and Future.”
Sessions will take place on Zoom (Toronto time, EDT), and you can register for FREE on the University of Toronto’s (Institute of Islamic Studies) Eventbrite page (all sessions will be uploaded shortly): https://www.eventbrite.ca/o/institute-of-islamic-studies-17708785802.
“Crafting Conversations: Discourses on the Craft Heritage of the Islamic World – Past, Present and Future” An Initiative of the Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC*), Toronto, Canada Hosted by Fahmida Suleman, Curator of Islamic Art & Culture, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Saturday 31 October 2020, 1pm EDT (NB: please note the slightly later time for this session)
“New from Old: Designs Inspired by the Mamluk Minbars of Cairo”
Omniya Abdel Barr, Project Manager Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation, Cairo, Egypt
Co-hosted with Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto
Saturday 21 November 2020, 11am EDT
“Embroidery from Palestine: Disciplining the Past to Craft the Future”
OmarJoseph Nasser-Khoury, anti-fashion designer, Jerusalem, Palestine
Co-hosted with Ruba Kana‘an, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Visual Studies, University of Toronto
Saturday 19 December 2020, 11am EDT
“Embroidery in the Age of Corona: Documentation and Practice from Iraq, Jordan and the Netherlands”
Fatima Abbadi, embroiderer, collector and photographer, Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands
Saturday 30 January 2021, 11am EDT
“Two Sides of the Same Coin: Is There a Difference between Islamic Art and Craft?”
Parviz Tanavoli, artist, collector and scholar, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and Marcus Milwright, Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Saturday 27 February 2021, 11am EDT
“The Museum’s Role in Amplifying and Sustaining Craft and Making”
Leslee Michelsen, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design (Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art), Honolulu HI, USA
Saturday 27 March 2021, 11am EDT
“From Craft to Art: Egyptian Appliqué-work in Light of Local and Global Changes”
Seif El Rashidi, Director of the Barakat Trust, London, England
Co-hosted with Heba Mostafa, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, University of Toronto
Saturday 24 April 2021, 11am EDT
“Deconstructing the Code: Craft Collaborations in Morocco”
Sara Ouhaddou, artist, France and Morocco; Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator, Middle East Section, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Saturday May 29 2021, 11am EDT
“Design for a Nomadic World: The Future Heritage Lab”
Azra Aksamija, Director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Program in Art, Culture and Technology, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
Co-hosted with Ulrike Al-Khamis, Interim Director and Director of Collections and Public Programs, Aga Khan Museum
The full program is also listed on the IAMCC webpage. Details are correct at the time of posting but may be subject to change. Please note that all sessions will be recorded and links to the recordings will be added to the IAMCC webpage in due course. For any queries about the series or to be added to the IAMCC mailing list please email me (fsuleman@rom.on.ca).
*The IAMCC is a new research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Aga Khan Museum. Its aim is to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on the diversity of arts and material cultures of the Islamic world. For more information visit: https://islamicstudies.artsci.utoronto.ca/research-labs/islamic-art-and-material-culture-c….
19. Ehsan Yarshater Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Yale Program in Iranian Studies at The MacMillan Center, Yale University
The Yale Program in Iranian Studies, part of the Council on Middle East Studies, accepts applications for the Ehsan Yarshater-Persian Heritage Foundation Fellowship in Iranian and Persian Studies for 2021-22.
The Post-Doctoral Associate will teach one undergraduate seminar in the Fall or Spring semester, pursue their own research, and help to organize the activities of the Yale Program in Iranian Studies (YPIS). Post-doctoral Associates are expected to work collaboratively with the Council on Middle East Studies and be in residence from August 2021 to May 2022.
We will accept applications from October 2020 and review will begin in early January 2021.
Applicants in all fields of humanities and social, political and environmental sciences who have recently received their PhDs or are in the early stages of their academic career may apply.
To apply, please send a one-page statement, Curriculum Vitae, short synopsis of a viable research project, and draft of a syllabus for a 13-week seminar. You will also need to have two letters of recommendation submitted on your behalf.
All materials should be submitted electronically through Interfolio: apply.interfolio.com/79421
Please contact Cristin Siebert by email, cristin.siebert@yale.edu, for any questions related to the application process. You may visit the Program in Iranian Studies website here: http://iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu/
- October 21, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri
Ryan J. Lynch
I.B. Tauris, 2020
https://www.bloomsburymedievalstudies.com/encyclopedia?docid=b-9781838604424
2. Aga Khan University – Assistant Professor and Language Programme Coordinator
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60458
Application Deadline: Wednesday, 28 October 2020
3. Learn Persian Through Rumi’s Masnavi online course
Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is inviting you to apply to the “Learn Persian through Rumi’s Masnavi” online course. The full course will last for 2 weeks, but students may choose to participate in the first week only. This online course will start on January 04, 2021 and will last till January 15, 2021.
The full syllabus of the “Learn Persian through Rumi’s Masnavi” online course is available here: https://aspirantum.com/curriculum/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi-syllabus
We are planning to start the online classes at 9 PM Yerevan time.
For more information and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi
4. AHRC Midlands4cities PhD Scholarship Opportunities
There is an opportunity to study with me on a specific project that will Uncover the history of inter-religious relations in Coventry, details here – https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Uncovering-the-History-of-Inter-religious-Relations-in-Post-war-Coventry.pdf. Further open call opportunities are also available and I am happy to take enquiries about student-led projects. See links below for further details:
- Coventry University is proud to be one of eight universities in the Midlands4Cities (M4C) Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP). The Midlands4Cities DTP will fund and train the next generation of highly skilled arts and humanities researchers through PhD Scholarships.
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/midlands4cities/
- AHRC Midlands4cities scholarships – https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/apply/
Dr Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor
Assistant Professor | Research Group Lead | Faith and Peaceful Relations
Series Editor | Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion
Chair (2020-2023) | Muslims in Britain Research Network
Principal Investigator | AHRC GCRF Minorities on Campus in India (2020-2022)
Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
5. Conference Announcement: Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism, Oct. 16-18, 2020
Drawing on recent research regarding the visual-material turn in the study of religion, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on the often-overlooked role of women in contemporary Islamic mysticism and in the socially-engaged dimension of Sufi belief and practice. This trend in visual-material studies has been accompanied by a broadening of analytical perspectives. Attention is now increasingly paid to religious practices, rituals, and discourses in terms of their connection to certain types of artefacts. Scholars have also begun to focus on the sensory perceptions and the social effects or atmospheres evoked by visual-material engagements. The conference focusses on the sensorium in visual-material culture and on its religious, cultural, and social connections/ implications. In doing so, we hope to present a more nuanced and polyvocal understanding of the role and place of women within mystical Islam and Sufism, a tradition that is in constant dialogue with society and its political, cultural, and economic dynamics.
Conference organized by Christian Ströbele (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany) & Sara Kuehn (Marie Curie Fellow at the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille/CNRS, and at the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZITH), University of Tübingen) in collaboration with Erdal Toprakyaran (ZITH, University of Tübingen) & Dionigi Albera (IDEMEC, Aix-Marseille/CNRS), with the financial support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 794958 (SufiVisual).
Conference open to the public. Online live participation free of charge. Registration available at: http://www.akademie-rs.de/vanm_23429
Concurrent Artwork Presentation with Video and Sound Installations:
https://www.akademie-rs.de/themen/themenuebersicht/aktuell/female-visions-art-works/
Further details are to be found on the conference website: https://www.akademie-rs.de/visions
Conference Program
6. Lecture: Elizabeth Rodini, In and Out of Istanbul: The Cosmopolitan Life of a Peripatetic Portrait
Rome
Monday, October 19, 2020
6:00pm CET (noon in New York)
AAR Zoom
What can we learn by following the trajectory of a single object? Elizabeth Rodini traces Gentile Bellini’s renowned but puzzling portrait of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II over land and sea and across five hundred years, revealing how a fragile fifteenth-century painting speaks to contemporary matters, from the politics of preservation to the ideologies of imagery and beyond.
Rodini is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome. Previous to her arrival at the Academy, she was teaching professor and founding director of the Program in Museums and Society at Johns Hopkins University. Her interests lie at the intersections of historical inquiry and contemporary practice, and center on the mobility of objects across time, space, and imagination. Recent work examines the reception of Islamic objects in Venice, museological developments in twentieth-century Paris, and the exhibition of African art in contemporary American museums.
Rodini’s talk grows out of her newly released book, Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II: Lives and Afterlives of an Iconic Image (London: I. B. Tauris and Bloomsbury, 2020).
This lecture, to be presented on Zoom, is free and open to the public. Please register in advance. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The start time is 6:00pm Central European Time (12:00 noon Eastern Time). The lecture is being recorded and will be edited and posted on the AAR website at a later date.
For registration: please click: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtcu2orTMuHtMcHqhuOPwzDJosZ5AtgCrt
7. Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies, UCI
For details regarding the position for either an Associate Professor or Full Professor, Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies, please consult https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF06380
Open October 12th, 2020 through Friday, Dec 18, 2020 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
8. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, The Making of the Prophet of Islam
Sean W. Anthony
UC Press, 2020
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520340411/muhammad-and-the-empires-of-faith
9. SUNY Stony Brook has launched a new MA degree in the History of Philosophies, East and West taught jointly between the philosophy and Asian studies departments: https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/hpew/.
In addition to the MA, which uses English translations of original philosophical texts, there is also the opportunity to participate in the Arabic philosophy reading group and read texts in the original language.
10. The Christian West And Islamic East Lecture Series 2020-21: Lecture #1 William Dunaway “The Epistemology of Theological Predication”
The Christian West And Islamic East Lecture Series 2020-21, a series of seven lectures which is part of The Christian West and Islamic East: Theology, Science, and Knowledge project, led by Jon McGinnis and Billy Dunaway of the Philosophy Department of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, funded by the John Templeton Foundation and in collaboration with the Aquinas and “the Arabs” International Working Group (AAIWG). The lectures are ~55 minutes long with an additional hour for discussion on the third Tuesday of each month from 9-11 AM US Central Time (16h-18h Central European Time to facilitate attendance by colleagues in North Africa, Europe and the Middle East).
Our first lecture, presented by Dr. William Dunaway of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will take place on Tuesday, October 20th at 9AM CDT. The title of his lecture is “The Epistemology of Theological Predication”. Please see the attached PDF for an abstract. To register for this or any of our forthcoming lectures, please contact: Nicholas.a.oschman@gmail.com. A Zoom link to the lecture will be provided upon (free) registration. Also, please visit the registration site at: https://nicholasoschman.com/christian-west-and-islamic-east-lecture-series.
For more information about the series as a whole and its organization by Richard C. Taylor, Director of the AAIWG, and our scientific committee, see: http://richardctaylor.info/the-christian-west-and-islamic-east-lecture-series-2020-21/.
- October 16, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE: Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 30 November – 3 December and 7-10 December 2020
Program Units include: The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.
Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/
2. Call for Participation: Workshops on “Research Ethics in MENA”, Middle East Institute at Columbia University
Individuals are invited to participate in an interdisciplinary project exploring the ethical, political and economic challenges to conducting research responsibly in the Middle East and North Africa.
If you would like to learn more, or think you have something to contribute to the project please respond to the call for participation by 9 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/10/07/call-for-participation-workshops-of-research-ethics-in-mena
3. Post-doctoral Researcher in 15th-century Arabic Historiography, Ghent University
The candidate should have a PhD in the field of Arabic, Islamic Studies, (Middle East) History, Arabic Literature, Arabic Linguistics, or equivalent, and a promising track particularly regarding the historiography of al-Biqāʿī or Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī, as demonstrated by relevant papers, publications, and conference participations.
Deadline for applications: 16 October 2020. Information: https://en.academicpositions.be/ad/ghent-university/2020/post-doctoral-researcher-in-arabic-historiography-16247-languages-and-cultures/148825?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=Job+alerts
4. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months) for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19th – 21st Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
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 for applications: 18 December 2020.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821
5. 20 Fellowships at the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
Fellowships are 1-4 months and come with a stipend and room/board at the Albright. Fellowships are open to students and scholars in Near Eastern studies from prehistory through the Ottoman period, including the fields of archaeology, anthropology, art history, biblical studies, epigraphy, historical geography, history, language, literature, philology, religion, and related disciplines. All nationalities, and students and scholars at all levels, are eligible for at least some of the fellowships.
Deadline for application: 15 October 2020.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/aiar/apply-for-a-fellowship-at-the-albright-2324341?e=4b7f78b915
6. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award
Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.
Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/
7. 2020 Lebanese Studies Association Book Award
Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between January 1, 2018 and December 31, 2019. Subject matter can be on any aspect of the territories, populations (including diasporic), society, and cultures of present-day Lebanon from ancient times to the present, and as addressed by the disciplines of history, anthropology, sociology, political science, literature, art, science, etc. Yet the purview of the work should be clearly that of a scholar of Lebanon.
Deadline for nominations: 1 November 2020. Information: https://lebanesestudies.org/call-for-nominations-2020-lebanese-studies-association-book-award/
- October 12, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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