1.30th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Assocciation (DAVO): “Society in Transition: Law, Culture and Politics in the Middel East”, University of Goettingen, 26-28 September 2024
Programme and abstracts:
https://gesellschaften-im-wandel30.de/frontend/index.php?page_id=37220&v=List&day=5294
2. Conference “Endgame of Empires: Post-Imperial Transitions, Incomplete Transformations and Imperial Legacies (Focus Post-Ottoman Period)”, New York University of Abu Dhabi, Week of 21 April 2025
Themes: a. What were the legacies of the Russian and Ottoman empires in the immediate aftermath of imperial collapse? – b. How did the transition transform the lives of workers, peasants, migrants, and revolu-tionaries? – c. What were some of the long-term institutional legacies of empire across Soviet and post-Ottoman space? – d. How was the transition from imperial to post-imperial statecraft reflected in the new sciences (environmental, physical, and social) that emerged in Soviet and post-Ottoman states?
Extended deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2024.
3. Conference “Islam in the Modern World: Dialogues on Faith, Culture and Society”, American University of Sharjah, 21-22 April 2025
Themes: Islamic Jurisprudence and Modern Law. – Islamic Thought and Ethics. – Qur’anic and Hadith Studies in the Modern Era. – Mysticism and Spirituality. – Islamic Art and Architecture. – Islamic Education. – Gender Studies in Islam. – Islamic Economics and Finance. – Interfaith Dialogue. – Islamic Political Thought. – Islam and Digital Humanities. – Islam and Media. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024. Information: https://info.aus.edu/islam-in-the-modern-world
4. Workshop Proposals for the “Gulf Research Meeting (GRM) 2025”, University of Cambridge, UK, 22-24 July 2025
The GRC seeks to invite scholars and specialists to apply to direct a workshop focusing on societies and culture, economies, politics, international relations, defense and security, energy, sustainable development, and environment.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2024.
Information on the GRM: https://gulfresearchmeeting.net/ .
Link to workshop proposal: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdcEZP0K3NaxdsCJ4e8e6yKTRtOKFMk5kkoTNvDv8S2-7OE6A/viewform
5. “5th Annual Conference on Syrian Studies”(All Topics in Social Sciences and Humanities), Harmoon Centre for Contemporary Studies, Istanbul, 25-27 July 2025
The conference aims to contribute to the establishment of a Syrian research community by bringing together researchers who engage with topics related to Syria. It builds and enhances interaction between Syrian scholars and their counterparts from other nationalities.
Deadline for Abstract: 30 October 2024.
Information: https://tinyurl.com/yy2xjfwf
6. The Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (BIT) invites applicants for a
Full Professorship “Islamic Beliefs and Philosophy” (W3)_
Your profile: Completed degree in Islamic theology; Islamic sciences or other relevant subjects; pedagogical aptitude and the ability to carry out in-depth independent academic work, proven by an outstanding relevant doctorate in the field; research and teaching experience in Islamic foundations of faith and Islamic philosophy.
Deadline for application: 2 October 2024. Information:
7. Assistant Professor in Assyriology (3 Years), Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Applicants must have earned a PhD in Linguistics, Modern Turkish Language and Literature, or a related field by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter. We seek candidates whose teaching interests comple-ment our existing departmental strengths. Candidates must possess a demonstrated commitment to excel-lent pedagogical practices.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/06/assistant-professor-assyriology
8. Assistant Professor for a Full-Time Teaching Stream Position in Turkish Language, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Candidates must have earned a PhD degree in Assyriology by the time of the appointment. We are seeking a candidate who specializes in the Akkadian language and written culture, with a focus on the later periods of Mesopotamian civilization (late second and first millennium BCE). We seek candidates whose research and teaching interests complement and advance our existing departmental strengths.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/05/assistant-professor-teaching-stream-turkish-language
9. Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Tenure-Track), University of Wisconsin-Madison
Qualification: PhD in Religious Studies or similar field required by start of appointment. Candidates should demonstrate evidence of creativity and excellence in teaching and scholarly research. In addition, the successful candidate will demonstrate experience with fostering or the ability to foster a teaching, learning, departmental, and research environment where all can thrive.
Deadline for applications: 20 October 2024. Information:
https://jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant-professor-of-religious-studies-madison-wisconsin-united-states
10. Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies 2025, Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
The Seed Money Grant will be awarded to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers in Turkish studies for the preparation of third-party fund applications. The Grant aims to support applicants in the application process and integrate them into the Turkish Studies academic community. The fellow will have a workplace and will receive a scholarship of 3,000 / 5,000 euros (doctoral candidates / postdoctoral researchers) to cover the living costs in Vienna.
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024. Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/forschung/fellowships/andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship/
11. “NYUAD Winter Writing Retreat” at the New York University Abu Dhabi, 6-24 January 2025
This retreat aims to foster a scholarly community for up to 6 scholars from around the world and to advance research projects in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. Scholars will have the opportunity to work on any type of academic writing, including a research article, book manuscript, chapter or essay.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024.
Information and registration: http://apply.interfolio.com/146981
12. Spring School “Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Qurʾān (CARMe 2025)”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 17-21 March 2025
Early career researchers (Master’s, PhD, post-docs) are invited to participate in this program.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024. Information: https://ceres.rub.de/de/aktuelles/call-for-applications-spring-school-carme-2025-comparative-analysis-of-religious-metaphors/
13. Articles on “Marriage and Migrations: Emerging Perspectives on Conjugal Relationships in the Middle East and North Africa” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Mashiq Mahjar”
This special issue seeks to examine how different forms of mobility shape understandings of family structures and relationships within historical and contemporary religious and socio-economic contexts. This themed issue will: a) link two currently distinct MENA research areas together: women in Islam and migration studies; and b) consider issues such as family, sexuality, love, law, and citizenship through new perspectives beyond religious and gender essentialism and neo-orientalist stereotypes.
Deadline for abstracts: 22 November 2024. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20044015/cfp-marriage-and-migrations-emerging-perspectives-conjugal
14. ANN: Maps and Society 2024-2025
34th Maps and Society Series (2024 – 2025)
We’re pleased to invite you to this year’s Maps and Society lectures in the history of cartography, hosted by the Warburg Institute. Meetings will be held at the usual time of 5pm (GMT) on selected Thursdays. All meetings are free and take place online and in person.
For those attending in person, meetings will be held in the new Auditorium at the Warburg Institute (London, WC1H 0AB)
For those wishing to attend online, please register here to receive a Zoom link on the day: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/maps-and-society-lecture-series.
Programme
October 31, 2024
Jordana Dym (Skidmore College, NY). ‘Looking Down, Looking Up: Wall and School Maps in Guatemala, 1860-1936’.
December 12, 2024
Beatrice Blümer (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz): ‘Copying or Creating? Notions of Ingenuity in isolarii from the 15th to 18th century’.
February 27, 2025
Louise McCarthy and Ladan Niayesh (Université Paris Cité). ‘Cartographic Science at the Service of Company Propaganda in Early Imperialist Britain (1600–1625)’. Hakluyt Society Speakers.
March 13, 2025
James Cheshire (University College London). ‘Discoveries from the UCL Map Library’.
April 3, 2025
Johanna Skurnik (University of Turku). ‘Maps for Development? Finnish Mapping of the Global South, c.1970–2000’.
May 8, 2025
Yvonne Lewis (Assistant National Curator (Libraries), The National Trust): ‘Marking the Miles: Some annotated maps in National Trust Collections’.
Any enquiries, please email c.delano-smith@sas.ac.uk or philip.jagessar@kcl.ac.uk
15. CfP Eighth European Congress on Universal and Global History Critical Global Histories: Methodological Reflections and Thematic Expansions
Since its foundation in 2002, the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has emerged as the leading international association for research and teaching in world and global history. Following seven successful congresses in Leipzig, Dresden, London, Paris, Budapest, Turku, and The Hague, the next ENIUGH congress will be held at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden. The congress will be on site only, although panel chairs may in exceptional cases allow participants to present their papers remotely.
Under the overall theme of “Critical Global Histories” we aim to further discussion, self-reflection, and the exploration of new avenues in global history. Over the past decade, global history has expanded internally (quantitatively and thematically, as well as methodologically and theoretically) and has, in doing so, influenced many other fields of research in the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, the expansion has led to debate and criticism, not least within the field. Objections have been raised against global history’s alleged macro-historical emphasis, connectivity bias, Eurocentrism, Anglophone dominance, and lack of attention to gender perspectives and Indigenous methodologies. Global history has also been accused of being imbued with neo-imperial, teleological, globalizing, exoticizing and neoliberal leanings. In recent years, decoloniality as a research practice and method has raised further questions regarding the situatedness of knowledge and the role of local sources for global history. At the same time, a current nationalist backlash in many countries has led to calls for a return to national history, thereby challenging the fundamental premises of global history.
At the Eighth ENIUGH Congress, we aim to pick up on these discussions and take a step forward by opening a space of dialogue, both between global historians and between global historians and their colleagues in other disciplines who are involved in the study of the global human pasts or who work with transnational, transregional, transcultural approaches in their respective fields. The Eighth ENIUGH-Congress will be a meeting place for scholars from all of the fields that go beyond methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism. We believe that critical thinking – both in the sense of impartial and intellectually disciplined thinking and in the sense of an augmented awareness of the many pitfalls associated with global history – can provide some of the means by which the field can evolve and retain its intellectual vigor and contemporary relevance. By framing the theme in terms of “global histories” in the plural, we aim to promote the inclusion of a broad range of voices, perspectives and orientations within the field, while forcefully rejecting the possibility of insisting on a single, dominating story or grand narrative of global history. The overall theme of the congress will be explored in a series of keynote events, roundtables, and panel discussions and in several of the regular panels and presentations at the congress.
Aside from the events related to the overall theme of the congress, we expect the congress to reflect the entire span of current research in global history, and we look forward to welcoming to Växjö scholars from all over world working on global and world history and related fields of study. Proposals can include a wide range of topics related to global, entangled, and transnational historical processes and phenomena, with no geographic or chronological limitations. While we expect most of the congress delegates to be historians, we also welcome scholars from other disciplines engaged in the study of humanity’s global pasts.
We invite contributions consisting of presentations of original research and empirically grounded work in progress, as well as theoretical, methodological, ethical, and historiographical reflections. We particularly encourage contributions that reflect on how critical thinking can be applied in global historical investigations. Although the main language of the congress will be English, individual presentations and panels in other languages can be accommodated (see further below).
In particular, we welcome contributions (both panels and individual papers) tailored to one of the following themes:
In addition to the main conference themes, we also invite proposals dealing with relations, transfers and entanglements between states, peoples, communities and individuals located in or spanning different parts and regions of the world.
Proposals
We invite proposals for panels, double panels, roundtables, and individual papers. Papers and presentations may be in any language, but abstracts for all panels, roundtables, and papers must be provided in English. Panel chairs must ensure the openness, accessibility, and coherence of their panel, and it is recommended that Q&A sessions be held in English regardless of the language of the presentations. All congress delegates are expected to participate on site in Växjö. In exceptional circumstances, panel chairs may allow a minority of presentations to be held remotely.
Panels may comprise up to four presentations, and double panels may comprise up to eight presentations, in addition to commentators and chairs. Panels must consist of scholars representing at least two different institutions in at least two different countries. Double panels must include participants from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
Roundtables may include up to five participants, in addition to commentators and chairs. Like double panels, roundtables must include scholars from at least three different institutions in at least three different countries.
We also welcome proposals for individual papers, which, if accepted, will be assigned to a panel by the steering committee of ENIUGH. Papers that speak to one or several of the themes listed above are particularly welcome, and the theme of most relevance to the proposal should be indicated in the submission form.
Submissions
All abstracts for panels and papers must be submitted by October 15 2024 via the registration tool on our website. Please note that all speakers of a panel must submit their papers individually in addition to the collective panel submission.
Abstracts for panels should be 250 – 300 words long and should indicate all panelists, their institutional affiliations as well as their paper titles. Additionally, panel abstracts should be pertaining to one of the conference themes.
Abstracts for papers should be 200 – 250 words long and indicate whether the paper is submitted as an individual paper or as part of a panel. In the latter case the abstract should name the panel title as well as the convenor’s name.
All abstracts should be in English. If the presentation is in a language other than English, please state this in the abstract. (Papers are selected solely on the basis of content, not linguistic criteria.)
Abstracts should also indicate whether you plan to participate in person or online. Please note that the convenor and a majority of participants in each panel must participate on site.
Selected panels and papers will be notified in December 2024.
Contact Information
Panel/Paper Submission and Registration: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration-tool/
URL
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/congress/registration-tool/
16. BOOK LAUNCH PRESENTATION: Imagining the Heavens Across Eurasia from Antiquity to Early Modernity, 25 October 2024, 12:00‐1:00 pm EST
Edited by Rana Brentjes, Sonja Brentjes and
Stamatina Mastorakou
25 October 2024, 12:00‐1:00 pm EST
Pre‐registration required https://bit.ly/Imagining-Heavens
PROGRAM
Welcome, Sabine Schmidtke, IAS School of Historical Studies
Book introduction, Sonja Brentjes, Bergische Universität, IZWT, and Rana Brentjes, independent scholar
Chapter presentations:
John Steele, Brown University, The Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Astral Imagery in Ancient Mesopotamia
Fabio Spadini, Université de Lausanne, Institute of Archeology and Classical Studies, Power, Politics, and Astrology in Rome
Dieter Blume, emeritus, Friedrich-Schiller-University, History of Art, Images of the constellations and the planets in Latin Euro
Anna Caiozzo, University of Orleans, PU Histoire médiévale, Astrological Images as the Key to the Cosmology of the Medieval Islamicate World
Günther Oestmann, Technical University Berlin, FG Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Astronomical Clocks in the Baltic Sea Region
Aida Alavi, École de Louvre, Islamic Art History, Dancing in the Sky: The Story of a Performing Goat in the Safavid Heaven
Additional information at https://www.ias.edu/hs/islamic-world/
17. ASPS/JPS Early Career Prize
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies announces a new round of the biennial Early Career Prize in order to encourage and reward scholarship about the broader Persianate world by ASPS members who are still in the early stages of their careers. Interested applicants are invited to submit original and unpublished work to the Journal of Persianate Studies by 31 January 2025.
Based on creativity of topic and source materials, originality of analysis, and overall scholastic contributions, an ASPS prize committee will select a winner, who will be announced at the upcoming ASPS conference. The winner will receive a cash prize of $250 and the paper will be published in the Journal of Persianate Studies after any revision that may be required by the editorial office. Runners-up may also be considered for publication.
The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
Eligibility: non-tenured scholars who, at time of submission, are members of ASPS and have already received their doctorate within the last seven years.
Application procedure: Paper submissions must fall within the purview of JPS and must be original and previously unpublished; they must also follow all regular JPS style and citation guidelines, found online at: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/JPS.pdf. Prize applicants should submit their papers online through Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/JPSBRILL), selecting ‘Early Career Prize’ as the article type. By submitting a paper, applicants acknowledge intent to participate in the ASPS Early Career Prize and waive the right to withdraw their paper from publication, if selected.
For questions, please contact the Associate Editor, D Gershon Lewental, at lewental@ou.edu.
18. Zoom: Sept 27 – Adab Colloquium with Austin O’Malley
Sarah R. bin Tyeer and I wish to invite you to the next installment of the
Adab Colloquium taking place this Friday, September 27th (11am-12.30pm) on
Zoom.
This event will be a discussion of Dr. Austin O’Malley’s new book, The Poetics
of Spiritual Instruction: Farid al-Din ʿAttar and Persian Sufi Didacticism.
Please register at the following link to receive a zoom link:
https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mei.columbia.edu%2Fmei-event%2Fthe-adab-colloquium-with-austin-omalley-the-poetics-of-spiritual-instruction&data=05%7C02%7C%7C7a2b0af7d2b042f376cb08dcdc3b430c%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638627394323704696%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=vgpM3XgGEccBFbGzW%2BX1%2FB9T0DTGU6O85%2FYPADNroeY%3D&reserved=0
1.Publication of MELA Notes Journal No. 96 (2023-24)
MELA (Middle East Librarians’ Association) Notes is dedicated to advancing knowledge in Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies librarianship, archival studies, and beyond. The journal continues its commitment to providing a platform for rigorous academic discourse, now with the added benefit of open access.
You can explore and access the full issue through the following link: https://escholarship.org/uc/melanotes
2. ARSHEEF – GUIDES TO LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES IN NORTH AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, THE CAUCASUS, AND SOUTH ASIA
Launch of an exciting and useful collaborative project, ARSHEEF (arsheef.org), which aims to promote research in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia. Based on first-hand experiences of scholars and graduate students, ARSHEEF offers up-to-date guides to libraries and archives in these regions. The project is run by graduate students, edited by Athina Pfeiffer and Mathias Ghyoot, funded by the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and co-sponsored by the Humanities Council at Princeton University.
Recognizing that financial, political, or personal circumstances may restrict travel for some, ARSHEEF also provides links to digital libraries and archives in and beyond North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, and South Asia.
They welcome ideas for new guides, updated information on libraries and archives, as well as contributions from scholars and students: https://www.arsheef.org/contribute.
3. Call for Papers: Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series, Spring/Fall 2025
Founded at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) has brought together a diverse community of researchers from around the world interested in the history of art and visual culture in the Islamicate world. The series’ monthly virtual seminars and workshops have successfully filled a new niche in academic discourse. While travel has resumed and in-person events have begun again, the need for a forum which brings together international and intergenerational audiences in an inclusive and supportive fashion remains. We are now inviting proposals for paper presentations on topics related to the history of art, architecture, and visual culture of any time period from the Islamic world for spring and fall of 2025. We welcome submissions from current graduate students, faculty, curators, and independent scholars.
The virtual seminar series will take place on zoom from mid-January onwards. Each session will include a 20-30 minute presentation followed by a 20 minute discussion in a constructive and friendly manner. In addition to individual proposals we are also open to workshop proposals, which might include moderated discussions of pre-circulated papers, roundtables, discussions with practicing architects or artists, or other formats.
If you are interested in presenting, please upload an abstract detailing your topic (not more than 500 words) and your CV or resume by Friday, November 15, 2024, to this Google form: https://forms.gle/tpKmCqEmgZSez2Ym8. Additionally, you will be asked to include information about your location and time zone as we will have to find a time that works well for most participants. You may also express a preference or dispreference for a specific month based on your anticipated activities.
If you have any questions, please contact co-organizers Dr. Alexander Brey (alexander.brey@wellesley.edu) and Dr. Rachel Winter (winterr6@msu.edu ) with the phrase “VIAHSS 2025 proposal” in the subject line.
To learn more about the series, take a look at our website (http://viahss.org) or our Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/viahss/videos). You can also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/viahss) or Instagram (@theviahss ).
Contact Information
Dr. Alexander Brey and Dr. Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
4. Fall 2024 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University
In person, and via Zoom Webinar
September 19, 2024
“The Age of Science and Design: A New Survey of Seljuq Dome Chambers in the Isfahan Region and Treatises on Practical Geometry”
Soheil Nazari
PhD Candidate, Department of Construction History, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KMvUWA_9QfCPUlIxYpzNmQ#/registration
October 17, 2024
“Revisiting the Chihil Sutun Wall Paintings: Silsila, Slave Hegemony, and the Safavid Body Politic”
Janet O’Brien
Calderwood Curatorial Fellow in South Asian and Islamic Art, Harvard Art Museums
https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0S2k3FjxRziwNefrdqVeiQ#/registration
November 7, 2024
“‘The Likeness of the Grand Vizier Beside the Sultan’: The Expanded Patronage Networks of Sultan Selim III’s Reign (1789-1807)”
Deniz Türker
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Islamic Art, Rutgers-New Brunswick
Webinar registration information forthcoming
November 14, 2024
“Yeni Bāġçe and the Agricultural Transformation of Istanbul During the Reign of Sultan Bayezid II (1481-1512)”
Aleksandar Shopov
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Early Modern Ottoman History, Department of History, SUNY Binghamton
Webinar registration information forthcoming
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway (HAA Lower Lecture Hall), Cambridge, MA.
Lectures will also be streamed via Zoom Webinar, registration is required.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events for registration information
Contact Information
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
485 Broadway, HAA Lower Lecture Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-2355
Contact Email
URL
https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
5. Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize – Submissions Open
Submissions are now open for the 2025 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. Details of the prize are included below and in the attached PDF poster. The annual deadline for this prize was changed in 2023 to allow the winner(s) to be invited to attend the BRISMES annual conference.
About the Prize
The prize was established jointly by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. It is awarded annually to the writer of the best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University in the previous year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £250 for the runner up.
Eligibility
Any student who has submitted their PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities to a British University between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024 is eligible to apply. If you are submitting your thesis after the deadline in 2024, you will be eligible for the following year’s prize.
We recommend that submissions for this prize are made after completion of your viva in order to benefit from feedback from the viva panel, but applicants can make a submission before the viva if they wish. Please note that you can only submit your PhD dissertation once for this prize.
How to Apply
Please send an electronic copy of your thesis and a letter of nomination from your supervisor to office@brismes.org.
Deadline for submissions: Midnight on 15 November 2024
More information: www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/ldmp
6. University of Edinburgh
Alwaleed Fellow: Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World
The Alwaleed Centre is recruiting for a new Fellow in Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World, and it would be great if you could help spread the word.
This is a fixed term, three-year fellowship and further information can be found here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DJS984/alwaleed-fellow-in-contemporary-muslim-societies-in-a-globalised-world
The deadline for applications is Friday 11 October.
7. Geschichte der arabischen Welt
Kaplony, Andreas, ed.,
C H Beck, 2024
https://www.chbeck.de/kaplony-geschichte-arabischen-welt/product/36968536
8. Call for Papers – 3rd Asia Pacific International Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference [APIRTP]
3rd International Asia Pacific Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Conference (APIRTP)
will be held from 15 – 18 January 2025 at V M Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education, Goa, India.
Abstracts submissions deadline 15th October 2024.
This is the link for submitting abstracts.
Organising Committee of APIRTP conference
Dr Razaq Raj
Leeds Business School
Leeds Beckett University, 520 Rose Bowl, Portland Crescent, Leeds LS1 3HB
Email: r.raj@leedsbeckett.ac.uk | Tel: 0113 81 25877
1.”35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT)” and “31st Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)”, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 8-12 September 2025
The DOT has been regularly convened by the “Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG)” since 1921. It is the biggest conference of Oriental Studies in the German speaking area and an internationally important conference for the research of languages, cultures and societies of the Near East, Asia and Africa. Contributions of the DAVO-Congress will be presented within the 21 sections and panels of the DOT, which are thematically and organisationally connected to the sections.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2025.
Information: https://www.dot2025.fau.eu/files/2024/08/Call-for-Papers-DOT-2025_ENGLISH.pdf
2. Faculty Leave Fellowship for a Scholar Working of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa (1 Year), Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
The fellowship is open to all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor (or equivalent) who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, particularly in the disciplines politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024. Information: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/grants/index.html
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate in Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies in the 19th – 21st Century, Princeton University
The position is open to scholars of all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The term of appointment is based on rank. Positions at the postdoctoral rank are for one year with the possibility of renewal pending satisfactory performance and continued funding; those hired at more senior ranks may have multi-year appointments.
Deadline for applications: 29 November 2024.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=35741
4. Conference – “When a Qur’an makes a name: Trajectories and implications”, Collège de France: Institut des civilisations – October 11
When a Qur’an makes a name
Trajectories and implications
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Quand un coran se fait un nom
Trajectoires et implications
Colloque 11 Octobre 2024
Collège de France: Institut des civilisations, 52 Cardinale Lemoine – Salle Françoise Héritier
Organised by Alya Karame
Fellow – Paris Région
Chaire Histoire du Coran
Programme
9.30: Welcome note and introduction
9.45: Eloïse Brac de la Perrière | Par-delà les normes. Une apologie de “la beauté libre”
10.30: Agathe Salomon | Le “coran bleu” ou la fabrication d’un chef-d’œuvre d’art islamique
11.15: Coffee break
11.30: Umberto Bongianino et Eleonore Cellard | The Pink Qurʾān: A Reverse Biography
12.15: Noha Abou Khatwa | Tales, Journeys and Implications: Stories of three Qur’an Manuscripts
in Fourteenth Century Cairo
13.00: Lunch for participants
14.15: Alain George | The Birmingham Qur’an: Anatomy of a Rise to Stardom
15.00: Simon Rettig | A Matter of Taste? Considerations on Manuscripts of the Qur’an
Copied in Nasta‘līq Script
15.45: Nuria de Castilla | Un coran expérimental ? Le Coran de Mūlay Zaydān
16.30: Coffee break
16.45: François Déroche | Le coran doré en vingt-huit volumes
17.30: Discussion
20.00: Dinner for participants
French version below
What defines a work of art as a masterpiece? What elements make it appreciated as an artistic achievement? And who decides which manuscripts stand the test of time? In Arabic, the term tuḥfa connotes an ideal object, the complete, unique and skilful craftsmanship, a rare gift, signifying a difficult and accomplished artistic achievement. These notions seem to be essential for both the creation and the selection of distinguished Qur’an manuscripts (maṣāḥif, sing. muṣḥaf). Art historians specialised in the Qur’an narrate stories of these manuscripts through their palaeographic, codicological and art historical research. The choices of which manuscripts to study have been limited by their survival and accessibility but are often justified based on the basis of the historical and aesthetic significance of the chosen manuscripts including their high patronage. As their path to fame is paved, these are nominated as chef d’oeuvre; they become immortal, a development with implications not only for current scholarship but also for their perceived status, economic value in the art market, and related collecting practices.
Research on individual Qur’anic manuscripts and their recognition as chef d’oeuvre – either as dispersed leaves or bound folios – have been on the rise, with numerous articles identifying their styles of script and illumination while contextualising them within their milieu of production often including the religious, devotional or aesthetic ideas that helped shape them. More recently, there has been interest in bringing together scholars with different specialisations to study one single Qur’an manuscript in order to offer a more holistic understanding of an individual Qur’an, while also framing its production within transregional or transtemporal artistic networks.
This conference aims at exploring what has been gained and what may have been lost in the process of producing Qur’an manuscript stardom. It is an invitation to rethink the writing of the history of the Qur’an through the phenomenon of ‘star’ manuscript creation. To reevaluate the modes of cultural and artistic production that permitted such judgment, in history and in modern scholarship, is to open space for examining the constitutive elements that made, and makes one Qur’an manuscript recognised more than another. As much as this conference is concerned with what established the manuscript as tuḥfa, it suggests a need to broaden the discussion beyond questions of aesthetic styles – their continuities and ruptures, their contextualisation and circulation – towards different enquiries that may inform our modern understanding of artistic or cultural value, and associated concepts such as original, forgery, appropriation and the construction of myth. It is equally a call to complicate the narratives we tell of Qur’ans in ways that may reverberate with the writing of Islamic art history more generally.
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Qu’est-ce qui fait d’une œuvre d’art un chef d’œuvre ? Quels éléments doivent être présents pour qu’elle soit appréciée comme une réussite artistique ? et qui est responsable de décider quel manuscrit passe l’épreuve du temps ? En arabe, le terme tuḥfa connote l’objet idéal, complet, le cadeau rare, l’œuvre difficile ou la pièce unique maitresse. Ces notions apparaissent comme essentielles pour distinguer des manuscrits coraniques (maṣāḥif, sing. muṣḥaf). Les historiens de l’art spécialistes des corans racontent les histoires de ces manuscrits à travers des études paléographiques, codicologiques et d’histoire de l’art. Le choix de ces manuscrits a été surement limité par leur survie et accessibilité, et justifié par rapport à leur importance historique et esthétique -y inclus leur patronage. En devenant célèbre, ces manuscrits commencent à être considéré comme des chefs d’œuvre, et deviennent immortels, ce qui influe non seulement sur les analyses actuelles, mais aussi sur leur perception en général, ainsi que sur leur valeur économique sur le marché de l’art et donc aussi les pratiques des collectionneurs.
La recherche sur des manuscrits coraniques spécifiques, leur promotion au rang de chef d’œuvre – qu’il s’agisse de feuillets dispersés ou de volumes reliés – devient de plus en plus courante. Plusieurs articles ont été publiés avec le but d’identifier l’origine des manuscrits, leur style d’écriture et décoration, en discutant les milieux de production -y compris les idées religieuses, dévotionnelles ou esthétiques qui les ont entourés. De plus, des tentatives ont été faites pour regrouper des spécialités différentes autour d’un seul manuscrit coranique, pour l’observer plus exhaustivement dans un contexte de réseaux artistiques transrégionaux et trans-temporels.
Cette conférence a pour but d’évaluer les progrès qui ont été faits à travers l’émergence de ces manuscrits coraniques célèbres, mais aussi de réfléchir à ce qui a été perdu ou ignoré pendant ce processus. C’est donc une invitation à réfléchir l’écriture de l’histoire du coran à travers le phénomène de création de manuscrits ‘stars’. Examiner les modes culturels et artistiques de production qui ont permis ce jugement, en histoire et dans la littérature moderne, c’est ouvrir un espace pour pouvoir questionner les éléments constitutifs de cette célébrité et qui ont fait qu’un coran est devenu plus connu qu’un autre. Bien que la question au centre de la conférence soit la création d’un manuscrit comme tuḥfa, l’objectif est aussi de pousser au-delà de la discussion des styles esthétiques – leurs continuités et ruptures, leur contextualisation et circulation – vers des enquêtes différentes qui peuvent informer notre interprétation moderne de divers concepts comme l’original, la falsification, l’appropriation ou même la création de mythes. C’est également un appel à complexifier les récits qu’on raconte de certains manuscrits qui entrent en résonnance avec l’écriture de l’histoire de l’art islamique en général.
Contact Information
Please contact Alya Karame for any queries you might have.
Contact Email
alya.karame@college-de-france.fr
5. JOB – Rice University, Open Rank Professor of South Asia
Close Oct 31, 2024
1.JOB – University of Washington, Assistant Professor in Art History, History of Art in South Asia
Close: Nov 1, 2024
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67579
2. For a limited time only.
Mazda Publishers – BARGAIN BOOKS
3. 2nd Annual Islamic Art History Research Workshop, 5th–6th December, 2024
Building on the success of the first hybrid Islamic Art History Research Workshop, held in York and online last November, the second one is being held on the 5th and 6th of December this year. The event is being expanded to include a keynote lecture on the 6th December (speaker TBC) and this announcement is also a call for paper proposals for scholars as all career stages, and for those who wish to attend the event in York and speak in person, and those who want to present online.
The aim of combining online and hybrid events is to make the event accessible to the largest possible number of scholars and members of the public, and to have as diverse a range of voices, topics and approaches as possible.
There is are no thematic, geographical, chronological or methodological restrictions, and we invite proposals for 20-minute presentations based on your current research on any aspect of Islamic art history. The deadline for submissions is the 20th October 2024. Please indicate in your proposal if you prefer online or in person, and please note that those attending the in-person event on the 6th of December will be responsible for organising their travel and accommodation.
Please send your proposals to:
4. Baybars : King of Arabs, Non-Arabs and Turks Sultan el-Arab vel-Acem ve’t-Türk : from the Great Steppe to the Great Sea. –
edited by Mehmet Tütüncü. Heemstede : SOTA / Research Centre for Turkish and Arabic World, 2024. 689 p. ; 25 cm (Corpus of Turkish Islamic inscriptions nr./ 43) Hardback ISBN: 978-90-6921-045-2 Price € 120,-. + shipping costs.
Ordering contact: sotapublishing@gmail.com
for sample pages: https://www.academia.edu/123772406/
In this book a comprehensive documentation of the origins, life, accomplishments of the established founder of Mamluk State Sultan Baybars is collected. Documents (Inscriptions, Sculptures, manuscripts, coins) together with explanations and thematic essays shed light of this complicated period. Earlier published researches and articles are reproduced with new research. Bringing old research with new evidence and documentation we have now an encyclopedic and very comprehensive picture of time and person of Sultan Baybars.
5. Persian language courses via Zoom at PSU
Portland State University
Persian language courses at PSU are offered via zoom. Courses are open to non-PSU students and are fully accredited and transferable to any institution that accepts PSU credits. Registration can be done quickly by creating an account as a non-degree applicant.
Additional links:
How to apply to PSU as a non-degree applicant
6. Hybrid Event – William Dalrymple’s lecture on ‘The Barmakids: A Bridge Between Islamic and Indic Worlds’
Tuesday, 24 September 2024 at 11:00
Corpus Christi College in Oxford. The talk marks the Reza Hosseini Memorial Series on the Past and Present of the Middle East.
Please register attendance, and indicate whether it is online or in person by clicking this link: Eventbright.
You can also send us an email at invisible_east@ames.ox.ac.uk
7. MBRN_Conference: Call for Papers: Muslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations 9th January 2025, Cardiff University
The next MBRN conference is a day of intellectual exploration around the social, intellectual and and political impact that Muslim Converts are having on their communities, in Muslim community contexts as well as in wider pluralist contexts.
Please can you send us abstracts and a short bio – details in the link below.
https://mbrn.org/upcoming-events/
This call for papers will close on 31st October 2024.
8. Scholarships to learn Persian in Yerevan with ASPIRANTUM – 2025 summer school
ARMACAD is pleased to announce scholarships for eligible students in Iranian Studies and associated disciplines to attend ASPIRANTUM’s 2025 Persian language summer school.
Deadline: January 15, 2025
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
Students pursuing Undergraduate (BA), graduate (MA), and postgraduate (Ph.D.) programs, as well as researchers in Iranian Studies and related fields who are enrolled in universities or academic institutions in the countries specified below, can apply for the ARMACAD scholarship. The ideal candidates will be 19 – 39 years old by the program’s start.
This scholarship is only available to citizens of the following countries.
Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America.
For more details, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/scholarships/scholarships-for-persian-language-courses-from-armacad
9. HYBRID 6th Annual Islamic Philosophy Conference: “Curricular Interventions from Within”, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 6-8 December 2024
We invite academic studies of scholars, methods, institutions, texts, and topics typically considered within the domain of philosophy, as well as those that treat kalam-theology, Islamic legal philosophy (usul al-fiqh), or other intellectual trends that at times may be seen as distinct from philosophy. Papers may be within specific disciplines (Philosophy, Islamic Theology, Religious Studies, etc.) or may be interdisciplinary.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/09/13/call-for-papers-sixth-annual-islamic-philosophy-conference
10. Makadam History Workshop: “Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire: Institutions, Prac-tices, and Actors (1768-1923)”, Middle East Technical University & Tarih Vakfı, Ankara, 14-15 April 2025
Themes: Elites and giving practices; waqfs and philanthropy; philanthropy and patronage networks; bourgeois philanthropy; charity, children, and the elderly; gender and philanthropy; religion and the act of giving; the social meaning of benevolence, etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/makadam-call-papers.pdf
11. “15th Maghrebi /1st Andalusian-Maghrebi Conference on the History of Arab Mathematics”, Córdoba, Spain, 23-24 April 2025
The colloquium will focus on the research on Arab mathematics, namely geometry, arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, inheritances, astronomy, mathematical geography, mechanics, optics, mathematical astrology, as well as the manuscripts of these disciplines. The colloquium is particularly interested in the production of this knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghreb between the 9th and 19th centuries. Languages of the Colloquium: English, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 October 2024. Information: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/suhayl/comhisma
12. Digital Humanities Research Associate (65-70 %) to Join the Unit “Middle East and Muslim Societies”, Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (SACS), University of Bern
Candidates must have at least an MA or a comparable track record in Digital Humanities or Data Science (with proven ability to work with historical Arabic sources), or in Islamic, Arab, and/or Mediterranean Studies (with demonstrated expertise in Digital Humanities).
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://shorturl.at/CI6Gp
13. Research Fellow for Project “Encounters and Mixing between the Red Sea and Asia Regions (1800-2000s)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin
Qualifications: MA or PhD in one of the following fields: History of Africa, History of Asia, History of Interna-tional Relations, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable scientific/professional track record. In addition to English and possibly a second European language, knowledge of a language from the Red Sea region or Asia appropriate to the case study to be investigated within the project is also required.
Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Contatti-e-ascendenze-miste-tra-Mar-Rosso-e-regioni-asiatiche.pdf
14. Research Fellow for Project “Towards a Digital Archive of Mixedness in the Red Sea (1800-2000)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin
Qualifications: MA or a PhD in one of the following fields: History, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Digital Humanities, Digital Engineering, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable professional track record. In addition to an excellent knowledge of English, knowledge of other European languages is required, while knowledge of non-European languages is highly valued.
Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Verso-un-archivio-digitale-della-mixedness-nel-Mar-Rosso.pdf
15. Research Associate (10 Months), Women’s Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School
Positions are open to candidates with doctorates in the fields of religion and to those with primary competence in other humanities, social science, and public policy fields who demonstrate a serious interest in religion and hold appropriate degrees in those fields. Selection criteria emphasize the quality of the applicant’s research prospectus and the significance of the contribution of the proposed research to the study of religion, gender, and to its field.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://wsrp.hds.harvard.edu/apply
1. 12 Fellowships and Awards of the “W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research (AIAR)” for Studies on the Southern Levant
Applications are open to students and scholars of the humanities and social sciences studying any aspect of cultural development in the southern Levant from deep prehistory to the Early Modern period. Applications from related disciplines are also considered, such as museum studies or cultural heritage management.
Deadline for applications: 3 December 2024. Information: https://aiar.org/fellowships
2. Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research on the “Histories, Cultures, Societies, and Media of the Global South (Focus Arab World)”, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar
Themes: 1) Genealogies and Epistemologies of the Global South. – 2) Arab Media, Culture, and Politics. – 3) Southern Digitalities. – 4) Critical Security Studies. We welcome applications from scholars who would have completed their PhD between 1 January 2023 and 1 June 2025.
Deadline for applications: 1 November 2024.
Information: https://www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias_nuq/call-global-fellows.html
3. The Making of Contemporary Kuwait, Identity, Politics, and its Survival Strategy
Ed. M Zweiri, et al.,
Routledge, 2024
4. ITS Mawlid Discount 2024
Between 9th September and 22nd September, in celebration of the Mawlid al-Nabi, the Islamic Texts Society will be offering its readers a 15% 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, MAWLID24, on the checkout page.
5. LSE – Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship
A new fully-funded PhD scholarship in modern Iranian history at LSE.
https://x.com/lsehistory/status/1833132582919184583
https://www.facebook.com/LSEHistory/posts/1055272989937789
https://www.instagram.com/p/C_sqBQ3o6jO/?hl=en
The Iranian History Initiative and the Department of International History welcome applications for the Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship. This studentship is tenable for four years, commencing in September 2025, and covers full fees and an annual stipend for a PhD student in the Department of International History, whose research is focused on any aspect of the modern history of Iran.
This scholarship was established with the generous support of Mr John Moghtader-Mojdehi and the LSE PhD Academy. It honours the memory of Dr Nasrollah Moghtader-Mojdehi, a distinguished Iranian physician, educator, and public servant. From 1966 to 1974, Dr Mojdehi served as Professor of Internal Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tehran. He was then appointed Chancellor of the University of Mashhad in 1974, before being elected to the Iranian Senate in 1976. In 1978, he served as Iran’s Minister of Health.
Applications for the Moghtader-Mojdehi Scholarship are particularly welcome from applicants who propose to work on any aspect of the history of Pahlavi Iran (1921-1979); who plan to use Persian-language primary sources in their research; and who have completed their undergraduate degree at a university in Iran.
Applicants for the Moghtader-Mojdehi PhD Scholarship must submit their completed PhD application by the Department of International History’s deadline for funding consideration in January 2025 (to be announced).
Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr Roham Alvandi (R.Alvandi@lse.ac.uk ) in the first instance with a CV and PhD research proposal (no more than three pages) by 1 December 2024.
All applications for the Mojdehi PhD Scholarship will be assessed by a selection committee and the scholarship will be awarded by the Department of International History’s Research Committee.
6. Call for Chapters: “Foodways to the Divine”
A call for chapters for the upcoming edited volume Foodways to the Divine: Faith and Food in the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond, tentatively to be published by Edinburgh University Press. This volume aims to explore the intersection of food, ritual, and religion in the Middle East, North Africa, adjacent geo-cultural regions, and diasporas.
Selected contributors will have the opportunity to workshop their chapters at a seminar at the Orient-Institut Istanbul in April 2025. For more information and to submit your abstract, please contact us at foodwaystothedivine@gmail.com.
We look forward to your contributions!
Best regards,
Su Hyeon Cho, University of Oxford
Stefan Williamson Fa, University of Cambridge
Esther Voswinckel Filiz, Orient Institut Istanbul
Contact Email
7. The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) proudly announces the Walter Markov Prize 2025 and calls for applications
The prize honours an outstanding PhD- or MA-thesis that contributes to the research fields of Walter Markov, especially the comparative exploration of revolutions; social movements and decolonization processes in Africa, Asia, and Latin America; historiographical traditions in various national contexts; and academic internationalization in the course of the 20th and 21th centuries.
Papers that are submitted for the Walter-Markov-Prize are expected to take a global perspective on its subject, either by addressing it from a comparative point of view, by examining processes of cultural transfers, or by seeking to understand the entanglements of various spatial frameworks.
The successful applicant will receive € 1,500 which is meant to support the publication of their research.
Walter Markov (1909–1993) was a historian whose life and thinking was influenced by his opposition to National Socialism and later, during the Cold War, by his Marxist leaning and investigations of French social history around the Annales School. Markov’s way of addressing history can be best described as “history from below”. Examining revolutions and revolutionary moments in history, he became one of the most important German historians working on the French Revolution. In continuing the Leipzig tradition in world and global history, initiated by Karl Lamprecht and the Institute for Cultural and Universal History, Markov became the director of this institute in 1949 and tried to bring all area studies at his university under one roof for comparative studies. Pursuing international cooperation with scholars on the other side of the iron curtain — especially with scholars from Latin America, Africa (where he was the first German guest professor) and Asia — he hoped to stand against any withdrawal of his university from border-crossing dialogue and mutual learning.
The jury will consider manuscripts (in German, English, or French) that have been submitted to the respective institution after January 2022. Applicants should submit their manuscripts, a summarizing abstract of 250 words and a brief CV electronically and as one PDF file to: headquarters@eniugh.org.
The deadline for submissions is 15.04.2025.
Female candidates are highly encouraged to apply.
A committee nominated by the Steering Committee of the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) will select the awardee among the candidates.
For further information on ENIUGH and the Walter Markov Prize please visit our website: https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/
Contact Information
European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH)
c/o Leipzig University
Research Centre Global Dynamics
(ReCentGlobe)
Contact Email
URL
https://research.uni-leipzig.de/~eniugh/
8. News from the 2024 BRISMES Annual Conference
https://mailchi.mp/5ce7ee17fbbe/news-from-the-2024-annual-conference-5692121?e=962739101d
9. Zahra Institute’s Fall Speaker Series Begins on 18 September
Event: Panel on Kurdish Cinema, with the popular filmmaker, Mehmet Ali Konar, and Sebahattin Şen.
When: Wednesday, 18 September, 12pm Central Time
Where: Zoom, find the link on Zahra Institute’s website.
The 2024 Fall Speaker Series begins on 18 September. We are excited to bring together a great line-up of speakers who will present on Kurdish cinema, arts, linguistics, history, culture, and politics.
Zahra Institute’s Speaker Series’ events are free and open to the public on Zoom.
https://www.zahrainstitute.org/
1.Call for Papers – School of Mamluk Studies Conference, Queen Mary University London, 8-10 May 2025
We are pleased to announce that the Eleventh Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies will be held at Queen Mary University London, May 8-10, 2025 (https://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html).
The conference will be conducted in two parts: a themed day on law and justice in the Mamluk Sultanate (May 8) and two days of panels with open themes (May 9-10). The conference will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk law and society (May 5-7).
THEMED DAY: Law and Justice in the Mamluk Sultanate (May 8, 2025)
The first day of the conference will be themed and dedicated to the history of law and justice in the Mamluk Sultanate. The Mamluk era saw an unprecedented production of Islamic legal texts, professionalization of legal cadres and distillation of legal doctrines, and intense legal pluralism that went beyond the confines of the Islamic law. This first day of the conference will offer a broad view of law and justice as they affected the entire population of the Sultanate and those who visited it. In terms of legal systems, we welcome studies of Islamic law in the Mamluk context, autonomous laws of non-Muslim communities, and customary non-religious laws of rural and urban communities. A broad definition of law also includes royal decrees and regulations of fiscal administration, including rules concerning the iqṭāʿ land regime. In terms of the history of the judiciary, the themed day is open to studies of the courts of qāḍīs, non-Muslim judges and the provision of justice by government officials and magistrates.
A maximum of 12 paper proposals will be selected. Should a greater number of proposals be received, the authors of those which are not selected for the conference may be offered the possibility to publish their contribution in the proceedings. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.
PANELS (May 9-10, 2025)
The remaining two days of the conference will be structured in preorganized panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized in presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each, with a discussion at the end of each panel.
Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for the panel’s organization.
Please note that in case of cancellation of two papers out of the three (or three out of the four) composing the panel, the panel will have to be withdrawn from the program.
Language: The official language of the conference will be English.
Fees: The conference registration fees will be £70 for participants and attendees. Graduate students will be offered a discounted fee of £40, subject to availability. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (May 10) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by April 15, 2025. Information on the process of registration and method of payment will be sent in January 2025; for enquiries, please email history-sms2025@qmul.ac.uk. Participants must make their own travel arrangements; the local organizer will provide suggestions for accommodations.
PROPOSALS
Paper proposals for the themed day must be submitted electronically (see link below) by October 31, 2024. Paper proposals must provide the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional title, and an abstract of a maximum of 300 words.
To submit a paper proposal, complete the form at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms2025paperproposal.html.
Panel proposals must be submitted by November 30, 2024. A panel may include 3 or 4 papers. The proposal should provide the following information for each paper in the panel: the name and one-page CV of the author, a provisional paper title, and an abstract (maximum of 1500 characters, or about 300 words). Panel proposals must also identify the panel’s chair (who may be one of the panelists). The organizer of a panel should have all information about the panel members and their papers before beginning the proposal submission.
To submit a panel proposal, complete the form at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms2025panelproposal.html.
Those who would like to express their intention to attend the conference as non-presenters should complete the registration form.
Acceptance: Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2025 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as non-presenters.
Publication: Selected papers from the themed day will be published in a special issue of Mamlūk Studies Review.
Intensive course: Law and Society in the Mamluk Sultanate (May 5-7, 2025)
This three-day intensive course will focus on reading Mamluk-era legal documents as sources for the social, economic and religious history of Egypt and Greater Syria, including Palestine. It is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants and will be offered by Professor Yossef Rapoport (Queen Mary University London) in collaboration with Dr Daisy Livingston (Durham University). The course will include close reading and historical analysis of published Arabic legal documents from the Mamluk Sultanate, including Islamic legal manuals, fatwas, formularies and court documents.
The number of participants will be limited to a maximum of 12.
Applications for the intensive course should include a CV, a statement of purpose (up to 750 words), and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work. These should be sent to history-sms2025@qmul.ac.uk by the end of January 2025. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February 2025, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
The course fee is £300, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (May 8-10). The fees must be paid by April 15, 2025. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements; the local organizer will provide suggestions for accommodation.
We look forward to seeing you in London!
Yosef Rapaport, Queen Mary University London (local organizer)
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago
2. PARTHIAN ART AND THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD
An international hybrid workshop Thurs 3 to Friday
4 October 2024, all welcome!
In-person: Ioannou Centre, Oxford
Online: via Zoom
More information at www.carc.ox.ac.uk
We are now taking reservations for the CARC annual workshop on 3 and 4 October 2024, which this year turns to ancient Iran under the umbrella of our #AncientArtConnections theme.
You can book for free, either for in-person or Zoom attendance, via our Eventbrite page. (Note that you do not need to register with Eventbrite or print out your ticket.) The provisional programme is available here but we predict changes, so keep an eye on this page for the latest information. Speakers include Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Matthew Canepa, Blair Fowlkes Childs, Henry Colburn, Lucinda Dirven, Stefan Hauser, Barbara Kaim, Ted Kaizer, Rubina Raja and Fabrizio Sinisi.
This hybrid workshop, hosted in Oxford with an online audience via Zoom, will address unresolved questions about the identity of Parthian art and its complex relationship with the classical tradition. Ranging from the origins of the Arsacid dynasty in the 3rd century BC to the emergence of a new visual culture under Sasanian rule in the 3rd century AD, this workshop will bring together a panel of international experts to consider how Parthian art connected with the art traditions of Hellenistic Asia and the Roman Empire. We will consider different media, including sculpture, coins, and luxury art, and use recent discoveries and fresh research to cast new light on old problems, including the issue of whether Parthian art even existed as a coherent phenomenon.
The workshop will be recorded and an open access volume of proceedings will appear in 2025. Further details will be announced soon.
Funding for this event is very generously provided by Richard Beleson in honour of Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis.
3. The Center of the World
A Global History of the Persian Gulf from the Stone Age to the Present
A J Fromherz
UC Press, 2024
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/the-center-of-the-world/hardcover
4. Hybrid Seminar – Zulfikar Hirji & Sana Mirza, CALLFRONT Seminar, Institut national d’histoire de l’art – October 15
We are pleased to welcome Zulfikar Hirji and Sana Mirza for the next session of the seminar CALLFRONT Calligraphy at the Frontiers of the Islamicate World, which will take place on October 15th, 2024, 6:00-8:00 p.m (Paris time), at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (salle Walter Benjamin) :
Styling the Script: Calligraphy and Illumination in Eastern African Qur’an Manuscripts
Zulfikar Hirji (York University) and Sana Mirza (Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art)
Abstract : Sana Mirza and Zulfikar Hirji explore calligraphy and illumination in Qur’an manuscripts from Eastern Africa: Harar and the Swahili Coast. They discuss the multiplicity of script styles used in these manuscripts and their histories of production as well as the relationship between the manuscripts inscription styles and those that appear in other media from the region.
Organisation : Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Maxime Durocher
Session can be accessed via zoom
5. Franklin Lewis Memorial Seminar
September 13th–14th, 2024
University of Chicago, Saieh Hall 146
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VR2Q5mUFq4GUf92wp_km3kg5LA39Sz1VnOOPi0m5tqE/edit
6. Mina’i Ware: A Reassessment and Comprehensive Study of Iranian Polychrome Overglaze Wares through Sherds
Richard P. McClary
EUP, 2024
7. Call for Applications: SoFCB Junior Fellows Program
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography (SoFCB) invites applications for its 2025–27 cohort of Junior Fellows. The deadline is Friday, November 1, 2024.
This scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through capacious, interdisciplinary scholarship—and to enrich humanistic inquiry and education by identifying, mentoring, and training promising early-career scholars. Junior Fellows will be encouraged and supported in integrating the methods of critical bibliography into their teaching and research, fostering collegial conversations about historical and emerging media across disciplines and institutions, and sharing their knowledge with broader publics.
The fellowship includes tuition waivers for two Rare Book School courses, as well as funding for Junior Fellows to participate in the Society’s annual meeting and orientation. Additional funds are available for fellows to organize symposia at their home institutions, and fellows will have the option of attending a bibliographical field school to visit libraries, archives, and collections in a major metropolitan area. After completing two years in good standing as Junior Fellows, program participants will have the option to become Senior Fellows in the Society.
The Society is committed to supporting diversity and to advancing the scholarship of outstanding persons of every race, gender, sexual orientation, creed, and socioeconomic background, and to enhancing the diversity of the professions and academic disciplines it represents, including those of the professoriate, museums, libraries, archives, public humanities, and digital humanities. We warmly encourage prospective applicants from a wide range of disciplines, institutions, and areas of expertise.
For more information and to apply, please visit: http://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/fellowships/sofcb/. For more information about diversity and the SoFCB, please read the SoFCB Diversity & Outreach Committee’s Welcome Letter.
Inquiries about the SoFCB Junior Fellows Program can be directed to SoFCB Administrative Director Kathryn Higinbotham at kathryn.higinbotham@virginia.edu.
8. Oman’s Transformation after 1970
J E Peterson
Brill, 2024
https://brill.com/display/title/69396?rskey
9. The Art of Teaching Persian Literature, From Theory to Practice
F Lewis, et al., eds.
Brill, 2024
10. Open Access – Narratives of Kingship in Eurasian Empires, 1300-1800
R van Leeuwen
Brill, 2017
11. Sugar and the Indian Ocean World
Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
N Daito
Bloomsbury, 2024
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sugar-and-the-indian-ocean-world-9781350399228/
12. ONLINE Seminar “Constructing Culture and Race in the Gulf” by Maia Holtermann Entwistle (QMUL), Centre for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, 8 October 2024, 17:00 – 18:30, London Time
This talk explores culture as an agent of economic and urban development and site of political governance. It maps the global disciplines, industries, and technical abstractions behind the physical construction of culture in the Gulf. By reconstructing these industrial circuits this talk uses art to probe how race and capitalism combine in a place that does not fit neatly within the theoretical paradigms developed in relation to the transatlantic slave trade and European colonial encounter.
Information and registration: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=14193
13. International Conference: “The First Academic Dialogue among Scholars of the Nowruz Cultural Sphere and the Ibero-American World”, Tehran, 8-9 December 2024
Papers will cover historical ties, socio-cultural relations, academic cooperation, and politico-economic aspects of the relations between people and governments of the Nowruz Cultural Sphere and the Ibero-American World from ancient times to the present and with an outlook towards the future.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2024. Information: https://iberoamericanowruz.atu.ac.ir
14. University Professor (W 2 Salary Level) of Arabic Studies, University of Bamberg
Candidates are required to cover the field of Arabic Studies in full width, with due regard to the modern period. In research, a focus on Arabic literature is desirable. Specializations in History or Cultural studies are also possible. Apart from active command of Modern Standard Arabic and at least one regional colloquial variant, research experience in the Arab World is expected. A habilitation or equivalent academic qualification is required which may also have been obtained within the scope of an assistant professorship.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/fileadmin/abt-personal/Homepage_ab_2016-03/10_Stellenausschreibungen/01_Professuren/2024/W2_Arabistik_EN.pdf
15. Full Professorship “Islamic Beliefs and Philosophy” (W3) The Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology
Your profile: Completed degree in Islamic theology; Islamic sciences or other relevant subjects; pedagogical aptitude and the ability to carry out in-depth independent academic work, proven by an outstanding relevant doctorate in the field; research and teaching experience in Islamic foundations of faith and Islamic philosophy
Deadline for application: 2 October 2024. Information:
16. PhD Position in Islamic/Middle Eastern Studies (75 %), Project “Tracing Labour in Islamicate Legal Traditions”, University of Bern
Candidates must hold an MA degree (with very good grades) in Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic Studies, or related fields, with a proven ability to work with historical sources. A willingness to carry out fieldwork in Egypt is expected. Fluency in written and spoken English and a very good knowledge of Arabic is required. A proven interest in current debates in gender and/or labour history is expected. Previous experience of working with legal sources is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024. Information: https://ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jobs/4b55c823-0eaa-4dfe-a0c5-3fd38d8720ec
17. Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) in the Politics of the Middle East and North Africa, University of Pennsylvania
Qualifications: The successful candidate’s written materials and scholarly productivity will indicate potential for a high-impact research agenda. The successful candidate will typically plan to seek external funding to support their research, and should also be highly proficient in at least one of the four most widely spoken languages in the MENA region: Arabic, Farsi, Kurdish, and Turkish.
Deadline for applications: 10 September 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/152474
18. Call for Nominations: IJIA Book Award 2025
Deadline for submission: 30 December 2024
View the full call here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/88490/1/IJIA_Book_Award_2025.pdf
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture is pleased to announce the IJIA Book Award. Since the publication of its first issue in 2012, the journal has emerged as a vibrant, interdisciplinary platform for multifaceted approaches to the study of architecture. The IJIA Book Award will likewise celebrate the intellectual exploration of architecture, architectural history, urbanism, and related social issues within the Islamic world in both historical and contemporary contexts.
The IJIA Book Award recognizes outstanding books that showcase the importance of research-based inquiry and the scholarly advancement of studies in Islamic architecture, architectural history, and urbanism. The award will highlight outstanding books that foster interdisciplinary dialogue in architectural scholarship and practice from a broad spectrum of subjects ranging from design, art, architecture, preservation, and landscape, to urban design and planning. The winning projects will reflect the journal’s commitment to the diverse narratives that shape the built environment across different traditions and time periods, and from underrepresented contexts, places, and cultures. With this in mind, the Islamic world is understood to include the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, the geographies of Islam in its global dimensions, vibrant groups in diaspora, and the communities that create architecture in predominantly Muslim societies.
The IJIA Book Award will catalyse scholars, architects, practitioners and enthusiasts as they engage with the artistic, urban, and architectural works that resonate with cultural identity, social dynamics, and historical change. Awardees will receive a prize and a two-year subscription to IJIA. Additional recognition may also be awarded. All books published in English with a copyright date between January 1, 2022, and December 30, 2024, are eligible. Authored books, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogues are welcome. Submissions, including copies of the book and the form, must be received by December 30, 2024. For more information, please visit the journal’s website. Questions may be sent to IJIAaward@gmail.com
1.International Conference “How Rebellion Ends: Conflict Resolution in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate World, 500-1000 CE”, Organized by the DFG Emmy Noether Research Group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE), University of Hamburg, 12-13 September 2024
The conference will bring together scholars of late antique and early Islamicate societies for a fruitful inter-disciplinary engagement with (shared?) cultures of conflict resolution.
Information and programme:
https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score/news/conferences/conference-2024.html .
For registration contact score.aai@uni-hamburg.de
2. Colloque international “Écrire la Méditerranée arabe. Les différentes expressions d’un espace et d’un concept contrasté”, Université de Lille, 20-21 novembre 2024
Les intervenant.e.s sont invité.e.s à proposer des contributions qui s’inscrivent dans un des axes suivants : I) La Méditerranée : limites physiques et conceptuelles. – II) Dynamiques, circulations et traversées. – III) Représentations et écritures de la Méditerranée arabe. – IV) Valorisation de la mémoire méditerranéenne à travers les archives, le numérique et les médias. Langue de communication : français – anglais.
Propositions de communications à faire parvenir avant le 10 septembre 2024.
Information : https://diwan.hypotheses.org/32765
3. Two Stipends for Doctoral Students (4 Years) at the “Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies”
We are interested in attracting outstanding doctoral students who will contribute to and write their PhD theses in the framework of our project “The socio-cultural life of sociological concepts: Arab contributions to global theory”, funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin.
Deadline for applications: 15 October 2024.
Information: https://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/announcements/2024_cfa_Einstein_stipends_2024.html
4. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics (Regional Focus MENA), Political Science Department at Fordham University, Manhattan, NY
We are seeking innovative scholars with significant expertise in areas that could include populism, social movements, institutions, political behavior, crime and corruption, political identities, ethnic and racial politics, intersectional approaches to power and marginalization, the effects of climate change, the politics of crisis, and socio-economic inequality.
Deadline for applications: 10 September 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/147081
5. Chapters for the Edited Book “Islamic Feminism: Reimagining Gender and Justice within Islamic Traditions” by Prof. Anisur Rahman & Dr. Farah Shahin, New Dehli
Themes: Contributions of Islamic Feminist Scholars • Challenges and Criticisms • Legal Reforms and Women’s Rights • Education and Women Empowerment • Intersectionality and Inclusivity • Feminist Activism and Social Change • Prospects of Islamic Feminism.
Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2024. Information: gender3108@gmail.com
6. Articles for the Journal “Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG)”
The ideal article has a historical orientation and is written on a strong philological basis. It deals with pre-modern Muslim societies (up to ca. 1800) and tackles one of the following broader themes: history, religion, culture, law, literature, societal issues. The ZDMG publishes articles in English, German or French.
Deadline for submissions: 15 October 2024. Information: https://www.dmg-web.de/page/zdmg_en
7. Articles for the Journal “Anatolica” Related to the Archaeology and History of Anatolia and Neighboring Regions from Prehistory to the Ottoman Era (Vol. 51)
Original scholarly papers from the disciplines of archaeology, history, history of archaeology, history of art, anthropology, epigraphy, history of architecture, archaeometry, geographical information systems (GIS), numismatic, maritime archaeology, cultural heritage management, digital humanities, museum studies are in the scope of the journal.
Deadline for papers: 1 December 2024. Information: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rana20
8. Articles for the Journal “Antiguo Oriente” Related to the History of Societies of the Ancient Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Paleolithic to the Early Islamic Period (Vol. 22)
This is the annual, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal published by the Center of Studies of Ancient Near Eastern History (CEHAO). Antiguo Oriente publishes articles and book reviews in Spanish, English and French.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20042112/call-papers-journal-antiguo-oriente
9. Articles for the Journal “Islamic Studies Review (ISR)”, Vol. 6 (December 2024)”
Islamic Studies Review is an international journal published by the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia. The journal intends to promote and disseminate scholarly works (articles and book reviews) on Muslim texts, history, and societies across the globe.
Deadline for submissions: 10 September 2024. Information: http://journal.uiii.ac.id/index.php/isr/index
10. Articles for “The Maghreb Review” Related to the Maghreb, Middle East, Iran, Turkey, Islamic Studies, and Africa from Earliest Times to the Present Day (Vol. 49, no. 4)
Contributions are invited from history, ethnography, economics, politics, Islamic culture, philosophy and sci-ence in the Islamic world, linguistics, literature, agriculture, sociology, anthropology, ethnomusicology, and relevant medical issues in our fields.
Deadline for abstracts: 26 September 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20034819/maghreb-review
11. Ulrich Marzolph Receives Lifetime Award from Iranian Studies Association (Video)
German scholar Dr. Ulrich Marzolph is the 2024 recipient of the Association for Iranian Studies’ Lifetime Achievement Award. Dr. Marzolph’s field of expertise is the narrative culture of the Near and Middle East, with particular consideration of Persian folk narratives, popular literature and art.
Award Ceremony Video:
12. The recent issue of PMLA includes a “Theories and Methodologies” section on “The Persianate” curated by Pardis Dabashi.
Theories and Methodologies– “The Persianate” PMLA, 139.2 (March 2024)
Intro: Persianate Words and Worlds: Introduction to “The Persianate”
Pardis Dabashi
Pathways to Persotopias
Aria Fani, Kevin L. Schwartz, Samuel Hodgkin
What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghan Studies? or, What Can Afghan History Tell Us about the Persianate? Lessons from the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Nicole Ferreira
The Aestheticization of Persia from Kant to Hegel
Anahid Nersessian, Manu Samriti Chande
The Aristocracy of Qing Xinjiang as Patrons of Islamic Letters
David Brophy
Persianate Unfamiliarity: A Qaṣīda by Shawkat Bukhārī to Imam al-Rizā
Catherine Ambler
Fraught Intimacies: Persian and Hindu Publics in Colonial India
Supriya Gandhi
Remembering the Persianate in the Modern Novel
Alexander Jabbbari
From Daneshvar to Damahi: New Formulations of the Persianate
Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi
Afterword: The Persianate as Comparative Literature: A Concept in Search of a Method
Nile Green
13. Les études sur l’Asie centrale : pluridisciplinarité et connexions d’un champ
mercredi 11 et jeudi 12 décembre 2024
INALCO, Auditorium Dumézil, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Cette journée d’étude est organisée dans le cadre des activités du GIS Moyen-Orient et Mondes musulmans, en partenariat avec l’Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO), l’Institut français d’études sur l’Asie centrale (IFEAC) et le Centre de recherche sur le Monde iranien (CeRMI). Elle fait suite à la rencontre qui s’est tenue en février 2023 intitulée « Les études sur l’Asie centrale : dynamiques scientifiques, nouveaux contextes de recherche ».
Dans la perspective de renforcer la structuration du champ, la journée d’étude a pour ambition de promouvoir les études centrasiatiques en rendant compte de leur dynamisme et de leur diversité, de mettre en relation ses différentes disciplines et composantes, et de proposer un moment d’échanges entre les collègues impliqué-e-s dans les travaux sur la région. L’Asie centrale est entendue dans une acception géographique large, s’étendant de l’Iran à la Mongolie et de l’Afghanistan à la Russie.
Cet appel s’adresse aux chercheuses et chercheurs de tout statut qui travaillent dans le large spectre des SHS, de l’Antiquité jusqu’à nos jours, sur des thématiques aussi diverses que le patrimoine, le religieux, le pouvoir, le territoire, les rapports sociaux, les circulations, le numérique, le changement climatique, les approches critiques, etc. La journée pourra également aborder les conséquences des crises géopolitiques actuelles sur les terrains et le champ de recherche centrasiatiques.
Les doctorant-e-s sont fortement incité-e-s à soumettre une proposition de communication.
Les propositions de communication devront comprendre un titre, un résumé de 200 mots, ainsi que le nom et l’affiliation de l’auteur/autrice.
Les propositions de posters devront comprendre un titre, un résumé du projet de recherche soulignant ses points importants, ainsi que le nom et l’affiliation de l’auteur/autrice. Les posters seront affichés sur le lieu de l’événement.
Merci d’envoyer votre proposition à l’adresse asiecentrale2024@gmail.com avant le 15 septembre 2024. Une réponse sera transmise au 30 septembre 2024.
Des financements sont possibles pour les participant.e.s ne résidant pas à Paris et ne disposant pas de ressources de leur institution.
14. ‘Amazing’ Viking-age treasure travelled half the world to Scotland, analysis finds
Lidded vessel is star object in rich Galloway Hoard and came from silver mine in what is now Iran
15. ONLINE Webinar “ Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran”
with Assef Ashraf British
Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 25 September, 2024, 5:00 pm UK Time
In 1722, the Safavid empire collapsed. An empire that ruled for over two centuries, and which in its heyday spanned parts of Central Asia, the Caucasus, and present-day Iran, came to a swift end. The following decades were ones of political turmoil, and it was only with the rise of the Qajars in the 1780s that a level of stability was restored.
This talk, while drawing on a range of sources, will focus on how the Qajars governed their new empire. In doing so, it offers an explanation for how and why Qajar Iran formed out of the cauldron of eighteenth-century unrest, but also hopes to advance our understanding of an understudied but transitional moment in Iranian history.
Information and registration:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/making-and-remaking-empire-in-early-qajar-iran/
1.The Dunhuang Foundation is excited to announce the first lecture of our new online series, “Curating the Silk Roads”, which will feature seven esteemed curators from US institutions, each offering unique insights into the field of Silk Roads studies.
Our first speaker is Dr. Courtney A. Stewart, Senior Research Associate with the Department of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.Her lecture, “A Cut Above: Diamond Faceting at the Mughal Court” will take place on Thursday, September 5 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET on Zoom.
The lecture examines the fascinating narrative of diamond cutting and trade through the overlooked perspective of Indian and Middle Eastern gemological history. The lecture will be approximately 45 minutes long with a 15-minute Q&A.
To read a more detailed abstract of the lecture topic or to find out more about the lecturer, click here: https://mailchi.mp/e2b09861c025/webinar-invitation-from-the-dunhuang-foundation-dr-courtney-a-stewart
To register for this webinar, click here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Z7itLyKrR1mA_-pZsZCRfA#/registration
Contact Information
Dr. Rachel Parikh, Deputy Director, Dunhuang Foundation
Contact Email
URL
https://dunhuangfoundation.us/
2. Islamic Archaeology Conference (ISAC) 2024
07-09 November, Goethe-University Frankfurt
Casino building, Campus Westend, Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1
Islamic Archaeology as a discipline has seen a spectacular growth in complexity and number of themes in the last two decades. Islamic Archaeology Conference 2024 celebrates this growth, focusing on the material culture of the Early and Middle Islamic periods (600-1500 AD). The conference aims to provide a platform for contributions from diverse groups of people and for exchanging ideas, methodologies, and discoveries in Islamic archaeology.
The conference keynote speakers:
Mahmoud Hawari, Andrew Petersen and Marie-Odile Rousset
Registration:
until 20.10.24 at isac.arc2024@gmail.com
Fees: up to € 25
Program and further information:
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/131497284/Islamische_Arch%C3%A4ologie_und_Kunstgeschichte
Contact Email
URL
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/131497284/Islamische_Arch%C3%A4ologie_und_Kunstges…
3. ISHMap Symposium and Workshop 2025
Mapping the Cultural Crossroads
Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France 08-11 July 2025
We are delighted to welcome proposals to participate in the International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium and Workshop that will take place in Campus Condorcet (Aubervilliers), Paris, France, from 8 to 11 July 2025. Symposium is organized in collaboration with the Interdisciplinary laboratory Géographie-cités (member of French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)). The Symposium is open to all working in the history of cartography. The Workshop welcomes applications from professionals at the early stages in academic and public careers.
Applications are open to 31 October 2024 for individual papers, panels and roundtables or other proposed sessions; review and acceptance will occur by January 2025. Additional details about the symposium program and associated activities are forthcoming.
A two-day Workshop (8-9 July) for early career professionals (scholars, curators, archivists, and librarians) working in the history of cartography, will precede the Symposium. Hands-on activities led by four experts in the field may include work with the collection of Asian maps kept in National Library of France, discussion on curating digitalized and digital-born maps, sessions ocusing on the themes on post-colonial mapping and local knowledge, materiality and production of the maps as well as use and circulation of maps.
The Symposium (10 and 11 July) focuses on mapping the cultural crossroads. We particularly welcome proposals that address cultural aspects of cartography, particularly cross-cultural exchanges and global circulation of knowledge. Proposals that address or inspire comparative approaches in map history will be especially welcome.
Post-event trip to Vincennes with guided tour through the cartographic treasures of the Historical Archives Center kept in the Château de Vincennes, a former fortress and royal residence dating back to 14th century is planned for 12 July.
Building on the successful 2023 Symposium and Workshop held in Berlin, Germany, we are pleased to plan an in-person event.
EVENT CALENDAR
31 October 2024: Application deadline for Symposium and Workshop.
15 January 2025: Acceptances delivered.
1 May 2025: Registration for participants closes.
15 May2025: Final program available online
1 July 2025: Registration for non-participants (attendees) closes.
8-9 July 2025: ISHMap III Workshop (in person)
9 July 2025 evening: ISHMap 2025 Keynote (hybrid) and General Meeting (hybrid)
10-11 July 2025: ISHMap VIII Symposium (in person)
12 July 2025: Tentative post-event field trip to Vincennes
Co-Chairs:
Mirela Altic, Institute of Social Sciences (Croatia), Chair, ISHMap Trustees
Nicolas Verdier, Géographie-Cités, UMR 8504 (France);
Juliette Dumasy, Université d’Orléans, laboratoire POLEN, EA 4710 (France)
Additional information is available at the website of the International Society for the History of the Map (https://ishmap.com)
Contact Information
International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap)
Mirela Altic, Chair of ISHMap
4. Library of Congress Event: Mapping in the Islamic Tradition
The Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress and Philip Lee Phillips Society will be holding an event on September 19, 2024: Mapping in the Islamic Tradition.
Surveying the Surveyors: Modern Maps of Afghanistan, and Their Critics
Speaker: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Professor, Department of History, James Madison University
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm EDT
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi is Professor of History at James Madison University where he teaches courses on the Middle East and South Asia. Hanifi’s publications have addressed subjects including colonial political economy and intellectual history, the Pashto language, photography, cartography, animal and environmental studies, and Orientalism in Afghanistan.
Ṣūrat al-Arḍ: Ways of Seeing Islamic Depictions of the World and Beyond
Speaker: Karen Pinto, Associate Scholar, Religious Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder
Time: 3:00 – 4:00pm EDT
From Karachi, Pakistan, of South Asian, Russian, French, and 16th century Goan-Portuguese heritage, educated at Dartmouth and Columbia, Karen Pinto specializes in the history of Islamic cartography and its intersections between Ottoman, European, and other worldly cartographic traditions.
Click here to register for the virtual program on Zoom.
Contact Email
URL
https://www.loc.gov/item/event-414534/mapping-in-the-islamic-tradition/2024-09-…
5. University of Edinburgh
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Research Seminar Series, Fall 2024 (Online)
6. The Latin America and Caribbean Islamic Studies Newsletter
Vol. 4, no. 3 | Summer 2024
https://www.lacisa.org/newsletter
7. The Islamic College, London
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Open EVENING
Our Open Days and Open Evenings offer you the perfect opportunity to experience The Islamic College first hand and gather all the information you need to make an informed decision. After our Welcome Talk, where you’ll be introduced to The Islamic College, its history, and our flexible study options, you will be able to visit the site, get expert advice on applications, meet our friendly staff and students, and discover how we can support your academic journey.
Next chance to meet us
September 10th 6.00- 8.30.
Book your place to join us
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/open-evening/
8. Freer Research Center Spotlight: Fall 2024
‘Sneak Peek’ online series
Staff members present brief, personal perspectives and ongoing research, followed by discussion. This popular online lunchtime series returns with a new season of events focused around this year’s theme of word and image. Staff members present brief, personal perspectives and ongoing research, followed by discussion. This popular online lunchtime series returns with a new season of events focused around this year’s theme of word and image.
Sneak Peek | Exhibiting a Book like No Other: The Great Mongol Shahnama
Tuesday, September 17
12–12:40 p.m.
Online
Register in advance (required)
Simon Rettig, Associate Curator for the Arts of the Islamic World
9. Call for Papers: 11th IDHN Conference on Digital Methods in Islamic Studies
11th IDHN Conference will take place online on Thursday, November 21, 2024.
We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners who are developing or deploying digital methods and tools in the study of Islam, Muslim communities, and languages to contribute to our conference. This is a unique opportunity to share your research, methodologies, and innovations with a diverse, interdisciplinary audience from around the world. Our conference is open to participants from humanistic, social scientific, and scientific disciplines.
To participate, please send an email to team@idhn.org with a title, an abstract (150-300 words) outlining your objectives and methodology, and your academic affiliation by Friday, October 11, 2024.
We will select approximately four to six presentations for our conference. Each presentation will be 20 minutes long, followed by Q&A for 10 minutes. We will hold the meeting online on Zoom; the access code and link will be sent to you in the network’s newsletter. We will schedule our conference to accommodate presenters from all time zones. This schedule will correspond with the morning hours in the Americas and evening hours in Europe and the Middle East.
10. From Marrakesh to Isfahan:
A discussion with Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood about the new books by Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami
Friday, September 13, 12 PM EST/11 PM CT/5 PM GMT
Please join us for the joint book event From Marrakesh to Isfahan, a discussion between Abbey Stockstill and Farshid Emami regarding their recent publications in the “Buildings, Landscapes, and Societies” series with Penn State Press, moderated by Dr. Finbarr Barry Flood. Spanning the medieval to the early modern, and reaching across the breadth of the Islamic world, Stockstill and Emami take innovative approaches to studying urban space, drawing on phenomenological experiences and novel readings of historical source material. In doing so, they question traditional paradigms of urbanism in the Islamic lands, and explore alternative models for understanding metropolitan development. Stockstill’s book, Marrakesh and the Mountains: Landscape, Urban Planning, and Identity in the Medieval Maghrib, explores the city’s emergence as a North African capital under the Almoravid and Almohad dynasties, and the powerfully resonant role the surrounding landscape played in expressing authority and belonging on an urban scale. Emami’s Isfahan: Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran develops the nature of Safavid cosmopolitanism as the product of a variety of individual and communal urban experiences, and expressed through the sensorial as much as the architectural. Join us on Friday, September 13, at 12 PM EST/11 PM CT/5 PM GMT for a discussion of these new contributions to architecture and urbanism in the Islamic world.
To register for the webinar, please visit:
https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_jmp6S3qwTJurXEsp1fMIoA
11. The fall 2024 program of New York University’s Silsila: Center for Material Histories.
ALL EVENTS ARE IN-PERSON ONLY – REGISTRATION REQUIRED
All events take place at NYU in Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, New York 10003. It is imperative that all those who wish to attend register in advance – this is currently a mandatory condition of entry into NYU buildings. Details and registration links can be found on our website at the end of the page for each event. The program is now available on our website:
https://as.nyu.edu/research-centers/silsila.html
September 18th (Wednesday), 6:30-8:00pm
“I AM NOT THE RIVER JHELUM”
Film screening and discussion with the director, Prabhash Chandra, artistic director of Alpana Cinema, Delhi
October 25th (Friday), 10.00am-6:00pm
“THE MATERIALS OF MAGIC: BETWEEN COEXISTENCE AND RESISTANCE”
Workshop
Speakers:
Jean-Charles Coulon, CNRS-IRHT, Paris
Ittai Weinryb, Bard Graduate Center
Eyob Derillo, Former Curator of the Ethiopian Collections, The British Library
Hagos Abrha Abay, University of Toronto
Supriya Gandhi, Yale University
Ahmed AlMaazmi, Princeton University
Amila Buturović, York University, Canada
Alexandra Cook, Durham University
Lyla Halsted, Davidson College
November 6th (Wednesday), 6:30-8:30pm
“AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Lecture by Mahmood Kooria, Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World, University of Edinburgh
Wednesday November 22nd (Friday) 10:00am-6:00pm
“MEDIEVAL ETHIOPIA IN A GLOBAL FRAME”
Workshop
Speakers:
Marie-Laure Derat, CNRS (Orient et Méditerranée), Paris
Claire Bosc-Tiessé, CNRS, Paris
Mikael Muehlbauer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Awet Teklehimanot Araya, University of East Anglia
Michael Gervers, University of Toronto
Jacopo Gnisci, University College London
Andrea Achi, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hamza Zafer, University of Washington & Princeton University
12. Persian Printing in Comparative Context: The Place of Iran in Three Technological Diffusion Zones
Wednesday, ZOOM 5 September 2024, 12:00pm EDT
Professor Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Zoom Registration
https://utoronto.zoom.us/…/tZ0pd-uorjMvGNQtfHpS…
1.ONLINE Conference: “The Qur’ān and the Turkic World: Context and Interpretation”, Center for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, 5 February 2025
Main themes: Transmission and Translation of the Qur’ānic Text among the Turkic World. – The Qur’ān’s Impact on the Development of Islamic Culture and Identity in the Turkic States. –The Qur’ānic Interpretive Methodology (Hermeneutics) and Frameworks in the Turkic World.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024.
Information: https://arts-ed.csu.edu.au/centres/cisac/research/the-quran-and-the-turkic-world
2. Assistant Professor of Arabic (Tenure-Track), Department of Classical Mediterranean and Middle East, Macalester College, St Paul, Minnesota
Candidates should demonstrate passion and ability for teaching Modern Standard Arabic at all levels, conversance with Arabic dialects, as well as research and teaching interests in the literature, history, cultures, and/or societies of the classical Arab world.
Deadline for applications: 1 October 2024. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28020
3. NYUAD Winter Writing Retreat at the New York University Abu Dhabi, 6-24 January 2025
this retreat aims to foster a scholarly community for up to 6 scholars from around the world and to advance research projects in all areas of the Humanities related to the study of the Arab world, its rich literature and history, its cultural and artistic heritage, and its manifold connections with other cultures. Scholars will have the opportunity to work on any type of academic writing, including a research article, book manuscript, chapter or essay.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024. Information and registration: http://apply.interfolio.com/146981
4. Postdoctoral position in ERC project “ALiDiM” on Classical Arabic @ Ca’ Foscari
We are currently seeking to fill a postdoctoral position in the ALiDiM project at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. The position is scheduled to start on November 1, 2024. The contract (“assegno di ricerca”) will be initially issued for one year with the possibility of renewal for up to two additional years.
The successful candidate will contribute to the work package on the specialized linguistic lexicon in early Arabic linguistic works. Further information on the position is available at this link. The application deadline is September 20, 2024, 12:00 CEST.
Please check the call for applications published on the university website for details on the application and selection process.
5. Workshop – Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Hatem Arafa (Online) – September 15– October 2
The Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC), University of Edinburgh will be hosting an online Arabic Calligraphy Workshop with Hatem Arafa.
A calligrapher with a degree from the Traditional Islamic Arts Faculty at FSMV University in Istanbul, Arafa’s projects include interior calligraphy for the Cary Mosque, USA (2022), commemorative coins for Djibouti (2023) and Qatar’s World Cup (2022), and the logo and interior calligraphy artworks for Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage (2023).
For details and registration link please visit our website.
Questions? info@digitallabivcc.com
Contact Information
Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections (DLIVCC)
School of History of Art
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Contact Email
URL
https://digitallabivcc.com/calligraphyworkshophatemarafa/arabic-calligraphy-wor…
1.The Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) is pleased to announce our Fall 2024 program. Please note that all talks will now take place on Tuesdays instead of Fridays at 12 noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey (unless otherwise noted). Registration links for individual events will be sent out approximately one week before the program.
To receive these links, please sign up for our mailing list at www.viahss.org .
Fall 2024 Presentations
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
Özlem Yıldız (Temple University)
Bringing the Heavenly Down to Earth: Nature, Bodies, and Objects as Symbols of the Divine in the Illustrated Qisas al-AnbiyaManuscripts from the Sixteenth-Century
Tuesday, September 17, 204
[Please note this talk will be one hour earlier than usual, at 11:00 am NYC]
Muhammad Hadi bin Osni (Community Researcher, My Community Limited)
Positioning Singapore’s Early Modernist Mosques in Southeast Asia Architectural History (1977-1981)
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Heba Mostafa (University of Toronto)
Architecture of Anxiety: Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Cailah Jackson (Independent Scholar)
Mevlevi Manuscript Culture in the Late Medieval Period
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Mahnam Najafi (Shahid Beheshti University)
The Evolution of Squares in Qajar Tehran: A Study of Urban and Social Changes
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Sinem Casale (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500-1639
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Amber Elisabeth Peters (Ca’Foscari University)
The Ocean in Early-Modern South Asian Art
Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Ahmad Rafiei (Toledo Museum of Art)
Beyond Allegory to Prosody: Unraveling Reza Abbasi’s Artistic Odyssey Through Yul Quli Beg’s Influence
Tuesday, December 10, 2024 [postponed from August 20]
Caroline Angle Maguire (University of Maryland, College Park)
Ashley Miller (University of Michigan Museum of Art)
Elizabeth Rauh (American University of Cairo)
A Roundtable Discussion:
Exhibiting MENA Cultural Heritage: Post-colonial Interventions
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at www.viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at www.vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
Contact Information
Dr. Alexander Brey and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
https://viahss.org/upcoming-talks/
2. Princeton University – Assistant Professor in South Asian Art History (tenure-track)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67461
Closing date: Jan 15, 2025
3. Italy and the Islamic World,
From Caesar to Mussolini
Ali Humayun Akhtar
Edinburgh, 2024
‘To celebrate the publication of this essential volume, we are offering £10/$10 off until the end of September.’
Visit our website to order your copy – no code needed!
4. ONLINE Webinar “Global Islamophobia and the Rise of Populism” by Ivan Kalmar & Audrey Truschke, „Democracy and Ethnonationalism Lecture Series”, Rutgers Law School, 15 October 2024, 12:00 pm EDT
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ThhPNVrQSO2SPM9NIcXkUA#/registration
5. International Conference on ‘Qur’anic Readings in AI Era’, Kerala, India, 20 October 2024
Themes: • Qur’anic Guidance for Human Life in the Age ff AI. • AI and Social Justice in the Light of the Qur’an. • Relevance and Authenticity of Interpretations of Qur’an. • Perfection of Holy Qur’an throughout Centuries. • Legal and Regulatory Aspects of AI in Islamic Jurisprudence. • Quranic View on Ethical Framework of AI. • Areas of Engagement with Islamic Law.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 September 2024.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/attachments/seminar-brochure-1.pdf
6. Postdoctoral research fellow (m/f/d), with expected full-time employment, limited to max. 3 years – E 13 TV-L HU
Your profile: Doctoral degree in Islamic Theology or Islamic Studies with excellent grades; advanced knowledge of German, English, and Arabic; knowledge of Turkish is preferred; experience in research and teaching, as well as aptitude and motivation for independent interdisciplinary work.
Deadline for application: 4 September 2024; Information:
7. PhD Candidate Related to the Project “The Conceptual History of Ethics in Modern Arabic”, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherland
Profile: MA in Islamic Studies, Arabic, History, Philosophy, or another discipline related to your project; demonstrated interest in conceptual history or Arabic intellectual history; knowledge of conceptual historiographical theory and method and other background knowledge necessary to complete your proposed project; excellent command of written and spoken English, written Arabic, and preferably command of additional languages relevant to the field.
Extended deadline for applications: 1 September 2024. Information:
8. International Winter School “Outer Space Cooperation in the Middle East”, Institute for International Cooperation, Technological Diplomacy and Communication, UN City of Bonn, 6-8 December 2024
The international Winter School offers students from the Middle East and Germany a platform for exchange on space cooperation in the Middle East. High-ranking international experts provide participants with input so that they can then develop innovative approaches to cooperation potential in workshops. A UN simulation offers the opportunity to put theoretical knowledge into practice. All costs are covered by the ICI.
Deadline for applications: 31 August 2024.
Information: https://www.ici-institute.de/winter-school-2024-outer-space-cooperation-in-the-middle-east
9. Residence Program in “Advanced Arabic Language and Social Studies”, Language Center at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, 12 January – 1 May 2025
Deadline for applications: 1 September 2024. Information: https://dilc.wufoo.com/forms/mkvqolg1id49pf