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1.UK Think-Tanks, the War on Terror and the Radicalisation Debate
December 7, 2020
12:00 pm-1:00 pm | London
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
The event will be livestreamed on AKU-ISMC’s Facebook page @akuismclondon and will be available afterwards on our YouTube channel.
2. CEU Department of History | Apply for PhD and MA Scholarships!
The Department of History at Central European University (CEU) offers students interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives on history from the late medieval period to the present. It is recognized for its innovative approaches to research and teaching and as a center for outstanding research advancing comparative and transnational history on empirical and theoretical grounds. Our international faculty offers expertise that extends from early modern history to the comparative study of totalitarian regimes in the 20th century, as well as the post-communist period; from numerous aspects of social, cultural and intellectual history to comparative religious, visual and archival studies.
CEU is an English-language, graduate university located in Vienna, and accredited both in Austria and the United States. It is committed to attracting talented students and scholars from around the world and take pride in the fact that there is no dominant nationality on campus. Our student/faculty ratio is 8:1, allowing for small, discussion-based seminars and close guidance from faculty members.
Scholarships and Application Deadline
The vast majority of our students receive financial aid packages, including scholarships with stipends and accommodation. Research grants are also available for all students regardless of nationality. The deadline to apply for admission for the 2021-22 academic year is February 1, 2021 at 23:59 CET.
Programs Offered
- Master of Arts in Comparative History (One Year)
- Master of Arts in Comparative History: From 1500 to the Present (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History [MATILDA] (Two Years)
- Master of Arts in “History in the Public Sphere” [HIPS] (Two Years)
- Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative History
Additional Certificates in Various Specializations
Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Jewish Studies, Political Thought, Religious Studies, Visual Theory and Practice, and Archives and Evidentiary Practices (in collaboration with the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives).
Selected Areas of Research
Early modern cultural and political history
Comparative history of Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires
Comparative religious studies
History of nationalism and national movements
Comparative history of fascism
Comparative history of communism
Gender history
History of political thought
Social and labor history
Soviet and post-Soviet studies
Transnational and global history
Urban studies
Visual studies
History of science
Follow this link or write to Ivana Mihaela Žimbrek (history@ceu.edu) for further information.
3. British Institute of Persian Studies,
AGM Lecture 2020: ‘Art as a Source for the History of Mongol Eurasia’
Professor Sheila Blair
7 December, 2020, 5 pm UK time
About the speaker
Professor Blair recently retired from the Norma Jean Calderwood University Professorship of Islamic and Asian Art at Boston College and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, positions she shared with her husband and colleague Jonathan Bloom.
The lecture is dedicated to the memory of Dr Abdullah Ghouchani
Please, register for the Zoom lecture here.
The lecture will be also broadcasted on Facebook.
4. CfP: Conference on Religious minorities in Iran
24-25 September 2021
Sigmund Freud University Vienna (SFU)
Campus Prater
Freudplatz 1
A – 1020 Vienna
Deadline for abstracts – March 2021
Declaration of acceptance – April 2021
First draft of the full article – June 2021
Conference Organizers:
Behnaz Hosseini & Ourania Roditi
For further information please contact Ourania Roditi & Behnaz Hosseini at ethnic.religious2020conference@gmail.com
Download: Conference on Ethnic_Religious Minorities in Iran (pdf)
5. THE ROLE OF MARY IN CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Hartford Seminary
ONLINE
Tuesday, Dec. 15
7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (US EST)
Join us during this celebratory time of the year as three members of Hartford Seminary’s Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations explore the role of Mary in the Gospels and the Qur’an, and in Muslim and Christian belief.
6. Séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, jeudi 17 décembre 2020
Nous sommes heureux de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien (CeRMI, UMR 8041),
le jeudi 17 décembre 2020, de 17h à 19h, au cours de laquelle nous écouterons :
Alberto Bernard (doctorant, EPHE, PSL/CeRMI)
Hiérarchie, salaires et compétition : les prêtres zoroastriens au IXe siècle de notre ère
Werner Gaboreau (doctorant, Sorbonne Nouvelle/CeRMI)
Classifier et inventorier au XVIIe siècle : L’Iran safavide, un exemple de construction du savoir préscientifique
Nous vous invitons à nous rejoindre via Zoom en suivant le lien :
https://zoom.us/j/94710042955?pwd=U1I1eHltbXRXcHJHR3BWZy8xdDNoQT09
Retrouvez les résumés et les orientations bibliographiques de cette séance sur le site internet du CeRMI : https://cermi.cnrs.fr/events/3eme-seance-du-seminaire-de-recherche-pluridisciplinaire-societes-politiques-et-cultures-du-monde-iranien-2020-2021/
Bien cordialement,
Amr Ahmed (INaLCO/CeRMI), Sandra Aube (CNRS/CeRMI),
Samra Azarnouche (EPHE/CeRMI), Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle/CeRMI)
7. The German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) has the following two openings:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa (m/f/d) and
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Middle East and North Africa and / or Asia (m/f/d).
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-11_Postdoc_WONAGO_MENA.pdf <https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.giga-hamburg.de%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Fmd_pdf%2FAusschreibung_GIGA-20-11_Postdoc_WONAGO_MENA.pdf&data=04%7C01%7Ceckart.woertz%40giga-hamburg.de%7C7a0ed4a711804c3732b508d898687c82%7C1ef3ba1c574c4a4ca39bc6243af6af59%7C1%7C0%7C637426921821853416%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I%2F3iEsd9iBa5RGpEd7Sx6O675MdNUCELwnwKmD%2FYja4%3D&reserved=0>
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-12_Postdoc_WONAGO-MENA.pdf <https://www.giga-hamburg.de/sites/default/files/md_pdf/Ausschreibung_GIGA-20-12_Postdoc_WONAGO-MENA.pdf>
Applications are invited for a full-time position, with a contract of 3 years, starting 1 April 2021. The salary is commensurate with EG 13 TV-AVH / TVöD.
The successful candidate will work in the project “World Order Narratives of the Global South”, pending external funding. A research team of six postdocs and several senior researchers and visiting fellows will investigate what world order narratives have emerged in the Global South after the end of the Cold War and how this reflects the position of the respective countries in a changing geopolitical landscape.
Eckart Woertz
Director, GIGA Institute for Middle East Studies
Professor for Contemporary History and Politics of the Middle East at the University of Hamburg
Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, room 342
20354 Hamburg
Germany
Tel +49 (0)40 – 428 25-504
Fax +49 (0)40 – 428 25-511
eckart.woertz@giga-hamburg.de <mailto:eckart.woertz@giga-hamburg.de>
@eckartwoertz
https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/team/woertz
- December 05, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Ninth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art (November 2021)
As for the earth, We spread it out… and caused everything to grow there in perfect balance. –Surah 15:19
The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture
An eco-conscious ethos is intrinsic to Islamic scripture and culture. This sensitivity profoundly influences the relationship between human beings, deputized as stewards of nature by Allah, and the environment they inhabit. Historical and contemporary Islamic visual traditions have demonstrated this consciousness in urban planning, landscape architecture, water management, and many other art forms. Despite this awareness, in the present epoch of the Anthropocene, human intervention has caused irreparable damage to the planet’s biodiversity and ecosystems. As art history shifts its disciplinary attention to the unfolding global crisis, this symposium considers how an ecological art history can examine objects, materials, and the built environment through the lens of Islamic culture. It also seeks to push beyond binaries of human/non-human and culture/nature in which the human and the cultural are privileged over other species and the natural world. Humans, within this ontological framework, are part of the environment and in possession of unique capacities necessary to address climate change, sustainability, and environmental conservation.
How might the study of the visual, rooted in disciplines such as art history, anthropology, and archaeology of the larger Islamic world, engage with these concerns on practical, philosophical, and methodological grounds? The co-chairs of the Ninth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, scheduled for November 7 and 8, 2021 in Doha, Qatar, invite papers from established and emerging scholars whose research explores these themes through geological time across the arts of the core Islamic lands and the broader Muslim diaspora. Topics to consider might include but are not limited to:
- Anthropogenic transformations of landscapes and water bodies
- Conceptualizations and representations of the changing natural world
- Artistic and architectural responses to climatic events (ex. little ice age)
- Intersections with gender, race, and socioeconomic status
- Impact on contemporary artistic and curatorial practices
In light of the ongoing pandemic, the Symposium will adopt a hybrid format with both virtual and in-person panels. For speakers interested in traveling to Doha, the Symposium sponsors will cover airfare to and from the city and lodging for up to four nights during the Symposium at the conference hotel in Doha. Regardless of presentation format (virtual or in-person), each speaker will receive an honorarium of $1,500 USD, and will be expected to give a 20-minute presentation as part of a panel. Select papers will potentially be included in the published proceedings following the symposium.
Please submit the following documents as a single PDF: a two-page short CV, presentation title, a 300-word abstract, two related images, and presentation format (virtual or in-person) preference for consideration. Submissions should be sent to islamicart@vcu.edu by February 20, 2021.
Symposium Organizers:
Radha Dalal, Interim Director of Art History and Assistant Professor of Islamic Art (VCUarts Qatar)
Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Islamic Art (VCUarts Qatar)
Sean Roberts, Lecturer in Early Modern Art (University of Tennessee)
2. EEN PANORAMA VAN CONSTANTINOPEL IN HET HUIS TE HEEMSTEDE VAN ADRIAAN PAUW (A LOST PANORAMA OF CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE HOUSE HEEMSTEDE OF ADRIAAN PAUW)
writers : Hans Krol en Mehmet Tütüncü
Series: CORPUS OF TURKISH ISLAMIC INSCRIPTIONS nr.24
Hardcover, oblong format, 46 pages ISBN 978-90-6921-28-5
English Summary
Upon his arrival in Istanbul in 1612 Cornelis Haga, the first appointed ambassador of the Netherlands to the Ottoman Empire, received a warm welcome. The treaty which was signed in the same year set out the trade and diplomatic relations between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Seven Provinces of the Netherlands.
In those years, while Netherlands were striving for independence from the Spanish Empire of the Habsburgs known as the 80 Years’ War, they gained the support of the Ottoman Empire and thus the foundation of strong relations was laid, which lasted for centuries.
Cornelis Haga, who settled in Istanbul, corresponded with the Netherlands and constantly informed his country about the Ottoman Empire. Dutch government officials who were curious about the appearance of the city requested a great panorama painting of Istanbul. Haga sent a huge painting to the Netherlands which was painted by a well-known artist. A letter which was written by Haga was sent on 1st of October 1616. with the painting. He wrote “ With the ship called White Arend which goes to Amsterdam, I am sending you the completely accurate paint of Istanbul which is painted under my patronage. When the painting arrived, it was to be delivered by my brother Johan Haga.”
We do not have information about the painting and its dimensions. The only thing that we know is that the painting was hanging on the wall of the Constantinople room of the Castle Heemstede. It was built in 1620 by Adrian Pauw, the general secretary of the Dutch National Council (Raadpensionaris) in the village of Heemstede, which is located 50 km from the capital city of the Hague, the administrative centre of the Netherlands. Some of the writings on the rooms of this castle, which was destroyed due to neglect in 1810, were kept in the archives. It is stated that the painting was sent by Cornelis Haga. . In this book you will find the story of the making, disappearance of this painting and a reconstruction of its contents.
Book is written in Dutch language, richly illustrated, with an English and Turkish summary.
Some sample pages can be downloaded
https://www.academia.edu/44200199/
for ordering via Publisher:
SOTA / Research Centre for Tukish and Arabic World
Email: sotapublishing@gmail.com
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Mythmaking in Saudi Arabia” with Rosie Bsheer and Robert Vitalis, Brandeis University, 2 December 2020, 12:00 pm EST
This panel will analyze the politics of how history is produced. Bsheer will explore the increasing secularization of the Saudi state since 1991 and how this official history-making project is reflected in documents, buildings, and urban spaces in Riyadh and Mecca. Vitalis will question whether “oil for security” really defines the U.S.-Saudi relationship and will unpack why fears of oil scarcity and conflict remain so widely held.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MlrjPp-zRLO1OLsaYP_2AA
4. ONLINE: Conference “Pre-modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s)”, University of Oxford, 23-24 July 2021
The premodern Islamic world was multilingual and multicultural, and by necessity was continually engaged in comparative critical practices. Mapping the interconnected trajectories of these practices, everywhere they arose between Urdu, Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and other language traditions of Asia and Africa, is the aim of this conference.
Information: https://www.occt.ox.ac.uk/pre-modern-comparative-literary-practice-multilingual-islamic-worlds
5. Research Associate (Post-doc) for Project “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period”, University of Hamburg
Requirements: PhD in a relevant field of Islamic or Middle Eastern Studies; excellent knowledge of Arabic and Persian or another relevant language; comprehensive understanding of early Islamic history demonstrated by relevant publications; etc.
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2020.
6. Post-doc Researcher on “The Qur’an and Aramaic Christianity” (E 13 TV-L, 100%, 4 Years), Department of Religious Studies, University of Tübingen
Requirements: Holding a relevant doctorate; very good command of Syriac and detailed knowledge of the Late Antique East and West Syrian religious literary tradition; knowledge of Qur’anic Arabic and of the discipline of Qur’anic Studies; familiarity with additional relevant classical languages (such as Ancient South Arabian, Coptic, Geʿez, Greek, Hebrew, or Safaitic).
Deadline for applications: 31 December 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/postdoctoral-researcher-in-quran-and-aramaic-christianity,i7759.html
7. PhD Position (E 13 TV-L, 65%, 4 Years) Focussing on “The Qur’an and Christian Arabic Poetry”, Department of Religious Studies, University of Tübingen
Requirements: M.A./MPhil or equivalent; very good command of classical and Qur’anic Arabic and detailed knowledge of the classical Arabic literary tradition; good writing skills, and knowledge of the discipline of Qur’anic Studies.
Deadline for application: 20 December 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/phd-position-in-jewish-studies,i7758.html
8. Assistant Professor in History of the Islamic Countries, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
The profile required is that of a scholar with in-depth knowledge of the contemporary Arab world, with the ability of a multidisciplinary approach and a prolonged experience in the field. In particular, the researcher must demonstrate original analytical skills regarding the socio-economic and political dynamics of the Arab world, as well as possessing the linguistic and methodological tools necessary to access primary sources.
Deadline for applications: 21 December 2020. Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/50559
9. Post-doc Researcher (3 Years) in Turkish and Hellenic Studies, Centre for Asia Minor Studies (CAMS), Athens, Greece
This position is related to the research project “Space, Memory and the Legacy of the 1923 Population Exchange between Greece and Turkey”. Required qualification: PhD in History, Hellenic studies, Turkish studies, Ottoman studies or other relevant field; excellent written and oral communications skills in Greek, Turkish and English; very good knowledge of Ottoman paleography.
Deadline for applications: 18 December 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6825279/position-openings-erc-stg-homeacross-athens-greece
10. PhD Scholarships (1-2 Semesters) for Research on Mediterranean History, University of Haifa
Qualification: Enrollment in a doctoral degree program at an university overseas, the first year of doctoral studies has been successfully completed, and the student is not a citizen or a resident of Israel.
Deadline for application: 10 December 2020. Information: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/index.php/opportunities-for-researchers/phd-scholarships
11. Articles for “Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Quran Online”
Edited by Johanna Pink (University of Freiburg), this is the world’s foremost digital historical-critical reference work on the Quran. We are seeking professional scholars with demonstrable expertise in a variety of disciplines for the expansion and updating of the Encyclopaedia.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/8330/discussions/6443335/call-articles-brills-encyclopaedia-quran-online
12. Articles on “Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language” for Special Issue of the Journal “Methodos” (Vol. 22, 2022)
The main objective of this volume of Methodos is to provide a venue for studies of hermeneutics, linguistic analysis, and deductive reasoning (formal and informal) in the theory / practice of argumentation relevant to the Arabic philosophy of language. Accepted languages : French, German, Italian, English.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2021. Information: https://journals.openedition.org/methodos/7556?file=1
13. A Golden Legacy: Vakfiyeler and Evkâf in the British Library Collections
14. Opars Books
International Suppliers of Iranian Publications
We offer Scan on Demand (SOD) service for Persian books. This means for any paper printed book with no ready-made digital edition, you can ask for SOD service.
SOD service helps you save physical books shipping charges and delivery time. We will provide the high quality raster PDF edition normally within 2-3 business days. Your purchased items will be hosted and preserved in our US/Euro cloud spaces for you to download at any time.
SOD is available for 95% of books and journals.
You may ask us for SOD service availability before placing orders for printed editions.
15. UE451 – Histoire et anthropologie comparatives des sociétés musulmanes dans l’Asie du sud contemporaine (SOMA)
2 December, 2020,
10 : 00 am to 1 : 00pm (salle A07_37, 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris)
Fahmida Shaikh, NEDUET (Karachi)
Integrating Historicity of a Place with Planning Process: An Exploration through the case of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Suneela Ahmed, NEDUET (Karachi)
Achieving localness within the Urban Paradigm: A tool for Urban Resilience to achieve maqamiat for Karachi
- December 01, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Fully funded PhD studentship in Persian/Turkish History
The University of St Andrews is pleased to offer a scholarship funded by St Leonard’s Postgraduate College, to support an exceptional student undertaking doctoral research in the following project:
Slavery in the Pre-Modern Turko-Persian World
See: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/postgraduate/scholarships/global-history/
2. Mekka and Medina Maps and Illustrations: from 15th to 20th Century
Mehmet Tütüncü with contributions from Atef Alshehri (Medina-Riyadh), Ahmed Ameen (Fayoum University -Egypt) and İbrahim Yılmaz (Erzurum).
30×30 cm, hardcover luxurious paper and print total 182 pages
ISBN 978-90-6921-022-3
Cartography, Panoramic views and images of Islam’s holiest places, the Kaaba and the city of Mecca, alongside Medina with the Mosque of the Prophet, have been very popular over the centuries. These images have been used for various purposes and had also been executed for these purposes (drawn, sketched, coloured, incised, stencilled, cut, knitted, printed or even built) on or using a variety of materials, such as stone, ceramics, paper, textiles, wood, marble/tiles (in the form of frescoes), etc. This book is a publication and description mostly for the first time of nine key objects representing Mecca and Medina. The book describes and analyses the contents from these images and its relevance to the buildings, history and topography of the holy cities of Islam.
Some sample pages can be downloaded from: https://www.academia.edu/43428193/
Please send your orders to: sotapublishing@gmail.com
3. Assistant Professor – Islamic History (7th-13th centuries C.E)
University of Toronto
Closing Date: 01/06/2021, 11:59PM EDT
Req ID: 968
Job Category: Faculty – Tenure Stream (continuing)
Faculty/Division: Faculty of Arts & Science
Department: Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
Campus:St. George (Downtown Toronto)
https://jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-Assistant-Professor-Islamic-History-ON/543331617/
4. Between Muslims, Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
by J. Andrew Bush
Published by: Stanford University Press, 2020
https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781503614581/between-muslims/
5. Norwich University – Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Non-western History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60709
6. 3rd Workshop of the Network for the Study of Environmental History of Turkey on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman World – The Anthropocene: From Empire to Nation-States,” University of Vienna, 16-18 September 2021
Topics include: The Anthropocene within the context of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman world; Urban and rural environmental history; Histories of water, soil, forests and mines; History of medicine, health and disease; Environmental histories of gender, labour and inequality; Environmental histories of wars, armed conflicts and violence; Ecology and Ottoman/Turkish literature; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 January 2021. Information: https://orientalistik.univie.ac.at/en/disciplines/turkish-studies/events/neht-2021
7. PhD Workshop on “Unthought Perspectives in the Study of Turkish Islam: Methodology and Research Prospects”, Center for Turkish, Ottoman, Balkan, and Central Asian Studies, Paris (Date in 2021 to be announced)
This workshop invites Master, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers who share a common object of study (i.e, the various aspects of Turkish Islam), to consider what remains unthought in their research projects.
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2021. Information: https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/10/Unthought_Turkish_Islam_2021.pdf
8. Full-time Faculty Position in Anthropology Fall 2021, American University in Cairo (AUC)
The AUC is seeking to recruit an Assistant Professor of Anthropology for a four-year contract beginning Fall 2021. Requirements: A PhD in Cultural Anthropology or Social Anthropology and a demonstrable ability to teach a broad range of subjects within the discipline to both undergraduate and graduate students. An active research and publication agenda, and a readiness to undertake service to the program, department and university.
Priority will be given to applications that are submitted by 20 December 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60669
9. Assistant/Associate/Professor for the History of the Middle East and the Islamic World, Furman University, Greenville, SC
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in hand by the start of appointment on 1 August 2021 and will be expected to be or become an excellent classroom instructor and student mentor, establish and maintain an active scholarly agenda. Etc
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2020. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=60686
10. Fully Funded Scholarship for the Aga Khan / Columbia University Dual Degree MA Student Fellowship
The fellowship provides multi-year full funding support covering full tuition and a stipend for living expenses. The fellowship will recognize and support an outstanding student in carrying out innovative scholarship in Muslim and Islamic studies.
Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-degree-funding
11. Fully Funded Scholarship for the Aga Khan / Columbia University Dual Degree MA Student FellowshipThe fellowship provides multi-year full funding support covering full tuition and a stipend for living expenses. The fellowship will recognize and support an outstanding student in carrying out innovative scholarship in Muslim and Islamic studies.
Information: https://www.mei.columbia.edu/dual-degree-funding
12. Results of “The 2019-2020 Arab Opinion Index”, Conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar
The latest study is based on the findings of face-to-face interviews conducted with 28,288 individual respondents in 13 Arab countries. Main sections are: Living Conditions of Arab Citizens; Perceptions of State Institutions; The Arab Public’s Attitudes toward Democracy; Religion and Religiosity in the Public Sphere; Arab Public Opinion and Intra-Arab Relations; Arab Public Opinion toward ISIL.
Information and download: http://arabcenterdc.org/survey/the-2019-2020-arab-opinion-index-main-results-in-brief/
13. BRISMES are now accepting entries for the 2021 Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize. This is for PhD theses defended successfully in 2020.
The Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize was established jointly in 1986 by the Leigh Douglas Memorial Fund and BRISMES in memory of Dr Leigh Douglas who was killed in Beirut in 1986. The prize 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 calendar year. The current value of the prize is £600 for the winner and £150 for the runner up.
To enter, please send the following to administrator@brismes.org by midnight on 31 January 2021:
- An electronic copy of your thesis
- A letter of nomination from your supervisor
Entering your thesis for this award does not preclude entering it for other awards.
14. BRISMES are pleased to share recordings of two of recent online events.
- 2020 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Recovering Gender Equality in Islam: Conversations with Reformist Thinkers with Ziba Mir-Hosseini
- BRISMES Student Section Event: Securing a post-doc position after your PhD: Demystifying the application process
15. Applications are invited for an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Cambridge, in partnership with the Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative. The studentship will investigate how different generations of Muslims understand what it means to be a Muslim in the U.K.? Can we talk about a British Muslim experience? If so, at which generation does it start? What kinds of everyday religious expressions bind British Muslims with each other and make them different from non-British Muslims? What would the across the generations experiences of British Muslims tell us about the relationship between migration and localization when it comes to diverse religious communities coming together and forming a distinct minority?
Closing date for applications | 7 January 2021
Further information
16. Call for Papers: 5th TIMES Post-Graduate Forum Symposium
The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Post-Graduate Forum
The 5th TIMES Post-Graduate Forum Symposium will be held virtually on Friday 19 March 2021 via Zoom. TIMES Forum invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies. With the aim of promoting and providing a platform for post-graduate research on Islam and the Islamic world (broadly conceived), we invite proposals for papers that will be 20 minutes in length. We welcome papers from PhD candidates, ECRs and senior scholars on a wide variety of subjects relating to the Islamic and Middle Eastern world.
Deadline for submissions | 13 January 2021
17. Call for Papers: Special Issue “Race and Racism in Arabic Literature”
Humanities, Guest Editor: Dr Yasmeen Hanoosh
For this Special Issue of Humanities, contributions are invited on the theme of Race and Racism in Arabic literature. Submissions on poetry, drama, the novel, and other literary genres are all welcome. Preference will be given to approaches that emphasize intersections with colonialism, law, imperialism, feminism, or other modalities that help expand and nuance our understanding of the location of race and racism in collective Arab identities.
Deadline for submissions | 1 February 2021
18. Call for Contributions: Webinar and short publication series
The Middle East Research Hub
The Middle East Research Hub is launching three webinar & short publication series on research topics relating to (1) Climate and water scarcity in North Africa (2) Public Health Concerns in MENA and (3) Political Legitimacy in Times of Crisis. We will be hosting interdisciplinary and cross-regional discussion panels between January and February 2021, inviting young experts to share perspectives from political sciences, social psychology, economy, sociology and human right advocacy.
Deadline | 20 December 2020
Further information
19. Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe
Webinar
London Middle East Institute, SOAS University of London | 8 December 2020, 5:30pm-7:00pm
Stealing from the Saracens: How Islamic Architecture shaped Europe(Hurst, 2020) uncovers a long yet often overlooked history of architectural ‘borrowing’, revealing the Arab and Islamic roots of Europe’s architectural heritage. Ideas and styles are traced as they passed from vibrant Middle Eastern centres like Damascus, Baghdad and Cairo, entering Europe via gateways like Muslim Spain, Sicily and Venice through the movement of pilgrims, bishops, merchants and medieval Crusaders. It is a rich tale of cultural exchange, shedding new light on the backstory of some of Europe’s iconic landmarks.
More information
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20. The War We Lived: Remembering the Iran-Iraq War after 40 Years |
21. Post-doctoral position in Asian Literary Cultures
Hamilton College: Hamilton College Faculty
Location
Clinton, NY, USA
Open Date
Nov 19, 2020
Description
The Asian Studies Program at Hamilton College invites applications for a two-year post doctoral position at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, beginning July 1, 2021 in Asian literary cultures, broadly understood to include questions of textuality, orality, performance, visual culture, materiality, or social identity. We are especially interested in teacher-scholars whose research and teaching engages with multiple Asian languages, regions, and/or periods. We are seeking candidates who can demonstrate their experience in teaching or working with diverse student populations. Your cover letter should address ways in which you raise issues of diversity and inclusion in your teaching, scholarship, and/or service.
Candidates with ABD will be considered, although candidates with a Ph. D. are preferred. The teaching load for this position is three courses a year. Candidates should submit cover letter, c.v., a writing sample, and at least one course syllabus (for a course already taught or for a proposed course) via interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/81289. Questions regarding the search may be directed to Thomas Wilson, Search Committee Chair, at twilson@hamilton.edu. Review of applications begins on January 5.
To create an application, please click on the Apply Now button at the right (on the above website). Submit your application materials via this online application portal. Please do not send application material via email or postal mail.
Note that we prefer for applications to be complete by January 5, when we will begin reviewing them, but will accept new applications, materials, and other edits to existing applications, through January 14. After that date, no new applications will be accepted.
- November 28, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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2. Treasure of Persian manuscripts at Dagestan Scientific Centre + an Interview with Patimat Alibekova in Makhachkala (Produced by Pejman Akbarzadeh) – گنجینه نسخه های خطی فارسی در مرکز علمی داغستان + گفتگو پاتمت علیبکوا در ماخاچ قلعه – تهیه کننده: پژمان اکبرزاده
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=296sfEuiP8c&feature=youtu.be
3. Christian Arabic Bible Translations in the British Library Collections
The British Library holds an impressive collection of Christian Arabic texts, including many Bible translations which served a variety of communal interests. The character of the translations varies greatly. Most were based on Greek and Syriac Vorlagen but Hebrew, Latin, and Coptic source texts were also sometimes consulted. The communities were often bilingual – or even trilingual – which is reflected in many manuscripts.
4. 5 October 2020 – 31 March 2021 Online Exhibition: Black Monuments Matter
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town are pleased to present the online exhibition Black Monuments Matter.
Black Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa.
5. “Forms of Religious Recognition in Early Modern Iberia and the Ottoman Empire” (Zoom), 30 November 2020
Timings: Abu Dhabi 12:00 | Melbourne 19:00 | Perth 16:00 | Berlin 9:00 | New York 3:00
Organized by NYU Abu Dhabi Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World program, the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry (Australian Catholic University), and the European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion project at the University of Copenhagen (EuQu)
6. Phototheca Afghanica, a project of Foundation Bibliotheca Afghanica
https://www.phototheca-afghanica.ch/index.php?id=329
7. The Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies (Mathal) is now accepting submissions of article (for peer-review) and book reviews and essay (not peer-reviewed) for its Vol.7, Iss.1.
Mathal, is an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Iowa Research Online, University of Iowa, USA.
Mathal publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.
Because Mathal is an online Open Access journal, accepted articles are published as soon as the peer-review and revision processes conclude.
For more information and/or to submit your work, please visit the following websites:
- November 24, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond
Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility,
Routledge, 2020
Edited By: Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Viola Thimm
2. British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS)
On-line AGM Lecture 7 December 2020: registrations open
Art as a Source for the History of Mongol Eurasia
Professor Sheila Blair
| 5pm UK time |
Register at :
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-fRYNz_QTcW-QZgcU_LEBg
The lecture will be also broadcasted on the BIPS’ Facebook page.
3. BRAIS-DE GRUYTER PRIZE 2021
The Sixth Round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions.
BRAIS and De Gruyter are delighted to announce the sixth round of the BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.
The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a seven-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field.
Deadline: 5.00 pm GMT, 31 December 2020
For more details, including rules and regulations, contact, the past Prize winners, and the Prize committee members, please visit: http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/2021
4. Surayt-Aramaic-Online Project (SAOP) – New release and upcoming meetings
Šlomo Surayt II ܫܠܳܡܐ ܣܘܪܰܝܬ ܒ – An Advanced Course in Surayt-Aramaic (Turoyo) has now been released both as online course and as textbook, and is freely available at www.surayt.com!
Prof. Shabo Talay (FU Berlin) and other project team members will discuss the online course and the project’s other achievements in three online meetings, which will take place:
27 November, 4-6 pm CET (in Surayt-Aramaic);
4 December, 4-6 pm CET (in English);
11 December, 4-6 pm CET (in German).
Register here and see below for further information.
Please feel free to forward this to anyone that you think may be interested.
I hope to see you All at the SAOP meetings!
Best regards,
Simona Olivieri
SAOP: www.surayt.com
SAOP Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/surayt
Contact: aramaic.online@gmail.com
Press release (FU Website): https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semiarab/semitistik/Aktuelles/SAOPonlinerelease.html
Meetings announcement:
The Surayt-Aramaic Online project has now come to an end. In the last 6 years the project team members have managed to create an online course for Surayt prepared according to Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), provided in 7 languages; published textbooks downloaded more than 10,000 times, developed a glossary with more than 2,000 entries, enriched the online course with a digital corpus consisting of 175 articles newly written in Surayt, developed learner and lexical apps, and organized tens of public outreach events and trainings in various countries.
You can view our recent press release (12 November 2020) showing in detail the project’s recent achievements and view all aforementioned outputs on the project’s website (www.surayt.com ).
The project team will organize three online-seminars in order to introduce and discuss the online course and the project’s other achievements. Prof Shabo Talay and other project team members will be present in these seminars to answer your questions and receive your feedback.
- 27 November 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in Surayt-Aramaic
2. 4 December 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in English
3. 11 December 2020 (4-6 pm CET) in German
Registration link: https://forms.gle/J4YT7js1tQkhvQBD9
—
Dr. Simona Olivieri
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik
Freie Universität Berlin
5. 12 January – 2 February 2021 Event: Muslims in the UK (Online Short Course)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/muslims-in-the-uk-short-course-tickets-129491874683
6. Postdoctoral Fellowships: EUME in Berlin for the Academic Year 2021/2022
Call for ApplicationsThe Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to five postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2021/2022 for the research program Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME). Closing Date: January 6, 2021 / Location: Berlin, Germany
Further info:
https://application.trafo-berlin.de/procedure/6f28ded3-60ae-4e6e-b6be-a55a8eeaa29b
- November 21, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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(Ed note: – Apologies, but some technical issues have kept us off-line for a few days.)
1. The Emmy Noether research group on “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” based at Hamburg University (2020-2026) invites applications for 2 PhD positions, to commence on 1 April 2021.
The positions will be for an initial two years, to be extended for another two years pending successful evaluation of the first project phase. Both positions are part-time (75%). The successful applicants will work on a specific sub-project each, either on rebellions by tribal notables or on rebellions in the name of Ali’s family. The application deadline is 31 December 2020.
Please share widely with colleagues and students. For further information, please contact the research group leader at hannah-lena.hagemann@uni-hamburg.de or have a look at the preliminary website at https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/forschung/score.html .
2. 4th Fourth Islamicate Digital Humanities Conference,
Wednesday, November 18th from 10 am to 12.30 pm EST.
We have four exciting presentations:
Suphan Kirmizialtin (NYU Abu Dhabi): Handwritten-Text-Recognition for Arabic Script: A Case Study in Ottoman Turkish
Sofia Tsourlaki (University of London): When digital forms of information become a reliable source of academic research
Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin): The #AmericasMuslimsMap: Using Digital Visualization to Help Expand our Notion of “Global Islam”
Mehdy Sedaghat Payam and Marjan Moosavi (University of Maryland): A Comparative Quantitative Analysis of the Concept of “Love” in Hafez’s Ghazals and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
In order to join us, please simply follow this link at the time of the meeting: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/92629137582. You are welcome to share the program and invite interested colleagues and students.
Best wishes,
Irene Kirchner (Georgetown University)
3. Khalifa University of Science & Technology invites you to the following Public Webinar
Scepticism and Tolerance: A Case from Pre-Modern Arabic-Islamic Thought
Lecturer: Ayman Shihadeh, Senior Research Fellow at New York University and Reader in Arabic Intellectual History at SOAS-London
Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Time: 3p – 4p (UAE) / 11a – 12p (London)
Link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/62b638b842d0465eb88a3ef85ef5c634
4. Arabic, Brigham Young University
Desired start date: August 2021
Posting close date: December 15, 2020
5. November 22 at 10:00am (PST): “Indo-Persian Musical Connections: Persian Poetry in Indian Music”
RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uceugrTsrGNziG7al6gsXM3NwdMad-juc
The second event in the Indo-Persian Musical Confluence series features a panel that considers Persian poetry in Indian Music. The panel is followed by a performance by The Khusro Circle.
Abstracts for panel presentations: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-persian-poetry-in-indian-music/
Panelists
Suresh Chandvankar (Society of Indian Record Collectors, Mumbai), “Persian Literature and Gramophone Recordings From India”
Anoushka Deb (University of Delhi), “A Rendezvous Between Languages: A Look at the Convergence of Sanskrit and Persian In Early Modern North India”
Syed Yaster Ali (Independent Scholar), “Zehaal-e-Miskin: Understanding Amir Khusrau’s 13th Century Multiculturalism & Its Relevance Today”
Pushpita Mitra (JNU-India), “Bengali Ghazals and the Persian Imagery of Kazi Nazrul Islam”
Chair and Discussant
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak (UCLA)
Performance: Indo-Iranian Music
The Khusro Circle, Pallabi Chakravorty (Swarthmore College)
For more information on The Indo-Persian Music Confluence project, including link to RSVP: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-modal-negotiations/
6. ONLINE Webinar Series “COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 – 12:00 PM EDT
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University), “Long before COVID-19: The Socio-economic Effects of Contagious Diseases and Epidemics in the Ottoman World (1500-1800).” This lecture will discuss the question of how millions of Muslim and non-Muslim people once lived in the Ottoman Empire had experienced the outbreaks of various contagious diseases between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063.
For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/
7. ONLINE Webinar Series “COVID-19 and Muslim Religiosity”, Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies, George Mason University, 17 November 2020 – 12:00 PM EDT
Günhan Börekçi (Central European University), “Long before COVID-19: The Socio-economic Effects of Contagious Diseases and Epidemics in the Ottoman World (1500-1800).” This lecture will discuss the question of how millions of Muslim and non-Muslim people once lived in the Ottoman Empire had experienced the outbreaks of various contagious diseases between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Information: https://islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/11063.
For previous sessions see https://vimeo.com/islamicstudies/
8. ONLINE 2020 Conference of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, 3-5 December, 2020
The conference examines Islam and esotericism, from Sufism and dreams to sorcery and magic, in al-Andalus, the historical and contemporary Middle East, Africa, and the West.
Program at: http://ensie.site/2020conference.html
Free registration at: https://doodle.com/poll/ahvdmz9airifz933
9. ONLINE: International Conference on Gender Studies: “Mapping Gender”, Cambridge, UK, 5-6 December 2020
The conference seeks to explore the past and current status of gender identity around the world, to examine the ways in which society is shaped by gender and to situate gender in relation to the full scope of human affairs. Online participation is available. Presented papers will be published in a post-conference volume.
Information: https://genderstudies.lcir.co.uk/home/
10. ONLINE: 18th Annual Islamicate Graduate Students Association Conference on “What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide Islam”, UNC-Duke, 20-21 February 2020
We are seeking submissions from fields inclusive of, but not limited to: Religious Studies, Political Science, Sociology, History, Art History, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Philosophy, Asian Studies, African American Studies, Geography, Women and Gender Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, American Studies, and African Studies.
11. ONLINE Papers on “What Does Diaspora Mean in the 21st Century” during the “12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 12)”, Kyoto, 24-27 August 2021
The conference will explore the meaning of diaspora in the 21st century. The diasporic discourse is at risk of becoming teleological as a means of articulation, and, thereby, masking the very real struggles that may only eventually produce collectiveness. Or, does this disavow any room for dynamics within diasporic studies? The globalisation also brings with it a whole new set of parameters for perspectives on belonging.
Deadline for abstracts: 11 December 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6752090/icas-conference-diaspora-call-papers
12. Positions :
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2 Years) for Project “Warnings from the Archive: A Century of British Intervention in the Middle East”, University of Exeter
This is a systematic archive-based comparison of two official inquiries into British military intervention in Iraq: the Mesopotamia Commission (1917) and the Iraq Inquiry (2016). Qualification: PhD in a related field of study, including Political Science, International Relations and History; knowledge of the broad history of the British state and government with reference to imperial/foreign policy in the 20th century; extensive archival experience; etc.
Deadline for applications: 19 November 2020. Information: https://jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=563699UG5t&WVID=3817591jNg&LANG=USA
Assistant or Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
The candidate must have a PhD in Comparative Literature. Please note that the Ph.D. requirement must have been fulfilled by 1 September 2021. Preference will be given to female candidates with specializations in literary theory, approaches to World Literature and the new comparative literature, and with demonstrable expertise in Arabic literature and an Asian, African or Latin American literature.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/09/assistant-or-associate-professor-of-comparative-literature
Two Positions in International Relations at Assistant or Associate Professor Levels, American University in Cairo
A PhD is required at the time of appointment. Successful candidates should have an ongoing research and publication program and teaching experience. In addition to research and teaching, responsibilities include service to the Department and the University.
Priority will be given to applications received by 15 December 2020. The position is open until filled. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/pols-international-relations
Full Time Faculty Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo
A PhD in sociology or a related discipline with the ability to teach and publish within the discipline of sociology. Commitment to teaching and engagement of students, as well as service to the university, particularly the sociology program and the department, are necessary, as well as an active research agenda.
Deadline for applications: 10 January 2021. Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/full-time-faculty-position-in-sociology-fall-2021
13. Articles from Scholars of the Middle East and North Africa for “Digest of Middle East Studies (DOMES)”
The Digest’s primary focus is on contemporary policy-relevant issues. DOMES primarily aims to receive submissions from disciplines in Social Sciences. Submissions for special issue are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2020/11/13/cfp-digest-of-middle-east-studies-domes
- November 17, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. CFP – Ceramics from Islamic Lands, Spring/Summer 2021
Dear colleagues,
As you have probably guessed, the conference Ceramics from Islamic Lands will not be happening at the V&A in a month’s time, as originally planned.
We had hoped by this point to have a firm alternative plan, but as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to rage, with new lockdowns being imposed across Europe, everyone’s plans are continually being revised.
We still very much hope to be able to hold the conference in person at the V&A, at some point in spring to early summer 2021. If in the end this proves impossible, we will hold the conference online.
If you are interested in participating, but have not yet sent us your paper proposal, there is still time to do so – but we would now like to set a deadline of 31st December 2020 for receiving these.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to ceramicsfromislamiclands@gmail.com.
Please feel free to contact us on the conference email address if you have any other queries.
If you have contacted us, but have not received a reply, we apologise: your submission has been noted, and we aim to respond soon.
Thank you for your continued patience, and stay well,
Mariam
Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen | Curator Middle East | Asian Department
V&A South Kensington | Cromwell Road | London | SW7 2RL
Email: m.rosserowen@vam.ac.uk | Phone: 020 7942 2339
Visit: vam.ac.uk
2. ONLINE Roundtable Discussion on “Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage,” Max Planck Research Group, “Empires of Memory: The Cultural Politics of Historicity in Former Habsburg and Ottoman Cities”, 10 November 2020, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, CET
Panelists include Karen Barkey (University of California Berkeley), Axel Çorlu (Independent Scholar), Emily Neumeier (Temple University), Bissera Pentcheva (Stanford University), M. Hakan Yavuz (University of Utah).
For registration contact Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de
3. ONLINE Lecture Series: “10 Years So-called Arab Spring – a Critical Perspective”, Critical Students of Islamic and Arabic Studies (KIARA), University of Leipzig (Dates in 2021 to be Announced)
The main questions are: What happened in West Asia and North Africa 10 years ago? Which critical perspectives should be included? Every lecture in English, German or Arabic will last for 45 minutes followed by Q&A. It will take place once a month on Wednesdays at 7pm CET.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2020. Information: https://kiaradiekritischen.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/call-for-participation-kiara.pdf
4. Conference: “Islamic and Jewish Studies around the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Ignaz Goldziher and his Correspondents”, University of Göttingen, 12-13 November 2021
The conference will focus on the correspondence between Ignaz Goldziher and preserved in the Oriental Collection of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, addressing aspects of the history of the discipline as seen through the letters. Papers examining specific aspects of Goldziher’s contributions to Islamic and Jewish studies from a wider history of science point of view are also welcome.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2021. Information: https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/7927 and https://albert.ias.edu/bitstream/handle/20.500.12111/7927/Goldziher%20at%20100%20CALL%20FOR%20ABSTRACTS.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y
See also item 17 below.
5. Researcher in Political Science, University of Oslo
Qualification requirements: completed MA degree in political science or related social science discipline or PhD degree in political science; familiarity with Arabic text analysis and web scrapping packages or cognate software and/or competence in survey data analysis and knowledge of relevant surveys fielded in the MENA region; research proficiency in Arabic; etc.
Deadline for applications: 24 November 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CCG414/researcher-in-political-science
6. Fellowships and Travel Grants of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE) for American Scholars
Doctoral candidates, postdoctoral scholars, independent scholars and faculty in humanities and social science disciplines are invited to apply. ARCE provides fellows with funding, administrative support and practical, sound advice to ease access to museums, monuments, archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and collections.
Deadline for applications: 18 January 2021. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellowships
7. Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ozyegin University, Turkey
Requirements: Ph.D. in sociology or related disciplines; active research agenda, a record of international peer-reviewed publications, and demonstrated excellence in teaching. The areas of specialization are flexible, but qualitative research experience on Turkey is an advantage.
Deadline for applications: 10 December 2020. Information: https://socioloxy.com/assistant-professor-position-in-sociology,i7627.html
8. Postdoctoral Research Associate (12 Months) for Iran and the Persian Gulf Studies (19th – 21st Century), Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University
The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.
Deadline for applications: 18 December 2020.
Information: https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=17821
9. Scholarships for Visiting the German Bundestag for Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region, Berlin, 1-30 September 2021
The scholarship program is aimed at highly-qualified, committed, capable and talented young women and men from the Arab region who are interested in politics and wish to play an active role in shaping the democratic future of their country. Qualification: University degree, under the age of 35, good knowledge of German.
Deadline for applications: 15 November 2020.
Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
10. Bourse d’aide à la mobilité doctorale au CEFAS (Koweit)
Aide pour les étudiant(e)s doctorant(e)s inscrit(e)s en thèse dans une université française, et qui effectuent leur recherche doctorale sur la région de la péninsule Arabique dans le domaine de l’archéologie et des sciences humaines et sociales. L’obtention de la bourse est conditionnée à l’inscription en thèse.
Date limite d’envoi des dossiers de candidature : 1 décembre 2020. Information: https://cefas.cnrs.fr/spip.php?article809&lang=fr
11. Spring School: “Spoken Images of/in Islam: Languages and Translations in Texts and Images” by the Innovative Training Network “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) and the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS), Università degli Studi di Catania, Sicily, 1-6 March 2021
This school is to investigate the image–text relations in Muslim traditions by applying to different genres of images and texts and by thinking about how they are affected by translation or interpretation. It will bring together advanced academics and lecturers from different disciplines with doctoral and MA students to explore how the transfer of texts and images move from one culture to another in Muslim societies and beyond.
Deadline for application: 5 January 2020. Information: http://iismm.ehess.fr/docannexe/file/2147/call_springschool2021.pdf
12. Articles on “Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa” for Special Issue of “Oxford Middle East Review”
We invite shorter briefs or position papers up to 2,000 words aimed at influencing contemporary debate or policy-making and articles up to 10,000 words that present original material from any discipline that engages critically with the Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for abstracts: 27 November 2020. Information: https://omerjournal.com/current-call-for-papers/
13. Articles on “Theoretical an Experimental Issues in Arabic Linguistics” for Special Issue of “Al-Karmil: Studies in Arabic Language and Literature”, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, University of Haifa
Articles are invited on: Phonology and morphology; Grammar of Classical and Modern Standard Arabic; Semantics and pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Discourse analysis; Syntax of the Qurʾān, written in English or Arabic.
Deadline for submissions: 10 April 2021.
Information: http://alkarmil.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/instruction-for-authors
14. Articles for Edited Volume on “Christianity in Iraq at the Turn of Islam: History and Archaeology”
An international round table organized on 4 and 5 May 2019 at the University of Salahaddin (Erbil, Iraq) highlighted the interest for a collective work that will address the question of Christianity in Iraq at the turn of Islam. Les Presses de l’Ifpo is now calling for papers related to this theme. Convenors: Kinga Dévényi (Budapest), Sebastian Günther (Göttingen), Sabine Schmidtke (Princeton).
Deadline for articles in French, English or Arabic: 28 February 2021.
Information: https://www.ifporient.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Christianity_in_Iraq_at_the_turn_of_Islam_Call_for_Papers.pdf
15. Book Proposals for a New Academic Book Series: “Armenians in the Modern and Early Modern World” (I.B.Tauris)
The series welcomes proposals from scholars in Ottoman/Turkish Studies, Iranian Studies, Slavic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Mediterranean Studies, and disciplines of History, Political Science, Anthropology, Literature and Sociology, among others.
16. Chapters for Edited Volume on “Islamic Radicalisation in the Balkans after the Fall of Communism,” Balkan History Association
Academics from the following fields of research are invited to contribute: intelligence, political science, history, cultural anthropology, social anthropology, and history of religions to submit original studies in English on the proposed topic.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2020. Information: https://www.balkan-history.com/cfp-islamic-radicalisation-in-the-balkans/
17. Online Accessible Correspondence of Ignaz Goldziher at the Hungarian Academy of Science
When Ignaz Goldziher died in 1921, he left behind a corpus of scientific correspondence of over 13,000 letters from about 1,650 persons, in ten languages. This corpus is freely accessible in its entirety in digital form at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It constitutes the single most important source informing about the history of Arabic, Jewish, and Islamic studies and cognate fields during Goldziher‘s time.
See https://konyvtar.mta.hu/index_en.php?name=v_3_2_1_goldziher and https://amirmideast.blogspot.com/2018/06/ignaz-goldziher-correspondence-archive.html?m=1
See also item 4 above.
18. HIAA Biennial Symposium 2020 to be held remotely April 15-18
The HIAA Biennial Symposium, originally planned for October 2020, was postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We are now writing to announce that the event will be held remotely by the University of Michigan on April 15-18, 2021. Please mark your virtual calendars!
You can visit the University of Michigan’s symposium website here.
A PDF of the online symposium program can be found here.
We are so looking forward to hosting the HIAA Biennial Symposium in April 2021! Please stay tuned for further details about our online symposium.
Thank you for your flexibility and understanding, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions at besener@umich.edu.
- November 10, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Associate or Assistant Director, American Center of Research, Amman, Jordan (ACOR)
The American Center of Research (formerly the American Center of
Oriental Research), a non-profit institution dedicated to advancing
knowledge of Jordan and the interconnected Middle East, past and
present, seeks an Associate or Assistant Director. This full-time
position, resident in Amman, Jordan, is intended to assist the
organization in the implementation of its mission and work toward
future growth. The position is part of senior leadership and reports
to the Director; compensation and title will be based on experience.
Candidates with a post-graduate degree focusing on the Near or Middle
Eastern region are preferred. Those with expertise/experience in the
current, historic, or ancient periods of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria,
and/or the Arabian Peninsula are especially encouraged to apply. A
wide range of specialties are welcome, such as cultural anthropology,
geography, sociology, history, political science, archaeology, ancient
or modern languages, etc. A demonstrated capacity for management of
complex projects is desired. Conversational Arabic is desired and
native fluency in English is required.
Review of applications will begin November 14th, 2020, and continue until the position is filled.
Further info and to apply at:
https://acorjordan.org/news-and-events/now-hiring-associate-or-assistant-director/
2. Assistant Professor, Africa and/or Middle East with Public History focus, Suffolk University, History
The Department of History at Suffolk University invites applications for a tenure track appointment as an Assistant Professor in 20th-century Global History and Politics with a focus on Africa and/or the Middle East. Engagement in Public History with oral history proficiency is highly desirable.
The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in History at the time of appointment. Outstanding candidates in the final stage of doctoral studies are eligible for consideration but must have the degree in hand by July 1, 2021. Preferred applicants will have proven college/university teaching excellence and engagement with Public History.
Faculty responsibilities for this position include collaborating with departmental faculty to develop curricula in the applicant’s areas of specialization. General duties include teaching five courses per academic year, including core department courses and in the University’s first-year general education curriculum, advising and mentoring students, maintaining a productive research and publication trajectory, and actively participating in the life of the department, college, and university through involvement in shared governance and other service activities.
Application should be made through the Suffolk HR website with a complete submission including the following components: cover letter, CV, graduate transcript, research writing sample, statement of teaching philosophy, sampling of course syllabi and recent student evaluations (if available), and contact information for three references. Review of applications will begin at once, with a final application deadline of December 1, 2020.
3. Call for Submissions:
The Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History is now taking submissions for one of its issues in 2021.
Quarterly “Journal of Iranian Islamic Period History” after years of publishing scientific articles in the field of post-Islamic history of Iran in Persian, now the first English language issue has published.
The full texts of the articles of this issue of the journal are available in free of charge on the journal’s website. https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/ Following the successful publication of the first issue of this journal in English, we plan to publish the second issue of the journal in the spring of 2020. Therefore, we ask Iranian history researchers to submit their scientific articles in English to this journal.
This journal welcomes the scientific articles of doctoral students along with their professors and the scientific articles of university professors and independent researchers in English on the history of post-Islamic Iran. Topics Articles can include history of culture, foreign policy and so on. More information can be found on our website at https://tuhistory.tabrizu.ac.ir/ . We are open to submissions from students in any year, from any subject and require no previous publication experience. We also welcome submissions from academics, writers, and faculty experts. We offer an opportunity to be published online and in print for a broad international and inter-university readership.
In this issue, we welcome pieces that address the articles on new, non-repetitive, and preferably micro-research topics in the political-military, social, cultural, and economic fields of post-Islamic Iranian history. The journal aims to offer an opportunity for readers to engage with accessible and reflective content that will offer relevant context for a discussion of favorite topics in these areas. That said, any pieces that discuss other topics of Iranian history are also welcome. This can include Healthcare, roads and communication routes, beliefs, sciences, relations with other countries, historiography, art, architecture, etc. throughout the history of post-Islamic Iran. In short, submissions will not be limited in any way to solely discussion of one or more topics from the history of post-Islamic Iran.
Please circulate the above information amongst any faculty, department or college peers. For any questions at all, please feel free to reach out to the editor in chief at ali_karimi@tabrizu.ac.ir .
4. University of Toronto to establish Institute of Iranian Studies
- November 07, 2020
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Seminar “Women, Writing and the Iraqi Ba’thist State: Contending Discourses of Resistance and Collaboration, 1968-2003”, SOAS, University of London, 17 November 2020, 5:30 pm – 7.00 pm
Spealer and book author: Hawraa Al-Hassan (University of Cambridge). This book traces the turbulent history of Ba’thist discourses on women and state patronage of the novel, and explores various literary responses from a wide spectrum of Iraqi women writers.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/17nov2020-women-writing-and-the-iraqi-bathist-state-contending-discourses-of-resistance-and-collabor.html
2. ONLINE Book Presentation: “Embattled Dreamlands. The Politics of Contesting Armenian, Turkish and Kurdish Memory” by David Leupold, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 23 November 2020, 17:00 – 18:30 CET
Based on his fieldwork in Turkey and Armenia, the author examines how states work to construct and monopolize collective memory by narrating, silencing, mapping and performing the past, and how these narratives might help to contribute and resolve present-day conflicts.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/embattled-dreamlands-the-politics-of-contesting-armenian-turkish-and-kurdish-memory
3. 14th Annual Conference: “Global Islamophobia and the News Media, Entertainment Media, and Social Media“, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 8-9 April 2021
Panelists from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds — including, computer science, sociology, anthropology, religious studies, political science, communication, media studies, and psychology — are invited to present their research on Islamophobia in the news media, entertainment media, and on social media.
4. Ten PhD Fellowships for Doctoral Program of the “Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies”, 2021/2022
This is a joint project of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, which brings together scholars in the humanities, social sciences, and area studies. Applications with a focus on strategies of negotiating diversity, difference, and distinction, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims are especially encouraged. Requirements: MA in Arabic Studies, Central Asian Studies, History, History of Islamic Art, Human Geography, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Semitic Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology. Language: English.
Deadline for application: 11 November 2020. Information: http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/application/call_for_applications/index.html
5. Doctoral Position in Global or Extra-European History (Middle Eastern History), ETH Zürich
Requirements: M.A. (or an M.Phil.), background in 18th to 20th century Global History; Imperial/Colonial History, Middle Eastern History and related fields; proficiency in English. Preference will be given to candidates who additionally master at least one non-European Language, such as Arabic. Knowledge of German and/or French is a welcome asset, but not mandatory.
Deadline for applications: 25 November 2020. Information: https://ethz.ch/content/dam/ethz/special-interest/gess/ifg/geschichte-der-modernen-welt/documents/2020-10-22_ETHZ_GMW_Open%20PhD%20Position.pdf
6. Joint Fellowship of IMéRA-AMU & Edinburgh University on “Muslim Solidarities in the Face of Crises in the Mediterranean”
Eligibility: Proven ability and academic excellence in this field of study; PhD/Doctorate; junior scholar with a full-time postdoctoral experience comprised between 2 and 9 years; resident of the European Union or associated European countries.
Deadline for application: 14 December 2020. Information: https://imera.univ-amu.fr/en/call-for-application-imera-amu-edinburg-university-joint-fellowship
7. One-Year Faculty Leave Fellowship, Crown Center for Middle East Studies (2021-2022), Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
This fellowship is open to all disciplines—particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology — and all faculty members, tenured and non-tenured, in the ranks of assistant, associate, full, and emeritus professor who work on the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2021. Information: https://www.brandeis.edu/crown/who/fellowships.html
8. The British Library:
Muhammad Najib Khan, a Sufi soldier in 18th century southern India
‘In recent months I’ve been working on manuscripts in the British Library which formed part of Tipu Sultan’s library and were acquired by the East India Company after the fall of Seringapatam in 1799. The history of how this part of the collection came to London has been recently described by Joshua Ehrlich (Plunder and prestige) and in several blogs by myself (notably Revisiting the provenance of the Sindbadnamah). The collection itself, however, was made up of many smaller collections, acquired mostly by conquest, and it is on one of these that I will focus today, namely the collection of the Sufi Muhammad Najib Khan Shahid (‘martyr’), an official of Anvar al-Din Khan, Nawab of the Carnatic from 1744 to 1749. While the apparent contradiction between the spiritual and military roles of courtly life has long been acknowledged, it is reinforced by the identification I propose here of Muhammad Najib the political adviser with our Sufi author and collector, an identification which is underlined by a shared Chishti affiliation and high status, further evidenced by the acquisition details of Muhammad Najib’s own collection.’
9. Abstract submission deadline has been extended until 15th November 2020.
Call for Papers for Virtual Presentation Only:
The Fifth Annual International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature
For more information, please visit the conference website:
For Virtual Presentation:
After submission of the registration form and positive results of review of the submitted abstract, the presenter has to send PowerPoint slides of his/her article. After positive results of review of the submitted PowerPoint slides, it is possible to present the article. The certificate of paper presentation will be issued, and the abstract and full article will be published and also will be indexed in CIVILICA (optional, if you wish to publish and index your full article).
The Conference Secretariat,
Ahwaz 61335-4619 Iran
Tel: (+98) 61-32931199
Fax: (+98) 61-32931198
Mobile: (+98) 916-5088772 (WhatsApp Number)
Email: info@pahi.ir
10. 18thAnnual South Asia Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago titled Between Comparison and Context: Global and Local Movements in South Asia,March 4th-6th, 2021.
The final submission date for applicants is the 10th of December 2021, 5pm CST.
We invite graduate students at all levels to submit abstracts for consideration. The call for papers is available here, and the online submission form can be found via this link.
Best,
The Organizing Committee
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/sagsc/
11. Al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar. Vol. V, Section 6: The Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. Critical edition, annotated translation and introduction by Mayte Penelas. Leiden and Boston: Brill, November 2020 (Bibliotheca Maqriziana, vol. 7), x-434 pp. ISBN: 978-90-04-41324-5 (e-book); 978-90-04-41289-7 (hardback).
This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar, from which al-Maqrīzī derived material from many other sources, including prominent Christian sources such as Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s History, and works by Muslim historians like Ibn al-Aṯīr’s Kāmil. Therefore, this chapter of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar is a continuation of the previous Arabic historiographical tradition, in which European history is integrated into world history through the combination of Christian and Islamic sources.
For more information on published and forthcoming volumes, see https://brill.com/view/serial/BIMA.
- November 03, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The Center for Advanced Study “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), invites applications for Resident fellowships (Post Doc). The fellowships should start in 2021 and have a duration between 1 and 12 months.
Fellowships are available for scholars at all stages of their academic career who have completed their doctoral degree and established an independent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project in any relevant discipline that is related to the Center’s interests in Romanization and Islamication in the period and area in question. The Center also welcomes applications from scholars working on comparative empire and transcultural studies in a broader historical (or contemporary) perspective whose research has a strong focus on theoretical and methodological issues. The second year (2021) theme is ‘Imperial Religions and Local Beliefs’, i.e. the relationship between state authority and religion. Which forms of local religious practice remained in place, despite the dominance of eastern salvation religions, and which forms changed as a result thereof?
Applications should be in English, including a CV, a research proposal for the project pursued at Hamburg, including the project’s relation to the topic (2000 words), and an indication of the months the applicant wants to spend at the Center and the kind of financial support they require. All materials should be sent in a single pdf document to Dr. Rocco Selvaggi romanislam@uni-hamburg.deby November 30, 2020.
For more information see: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/center/fellowship-program.html
2. OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS “Occhialì -Rivista sul Mediterraneo islamico”is a semi-annualscientific journal concerned with the publication of studies, researchesand reflections on Islam and the Mediterranean.
Active since 2017, it has promoted over time a broad discussion on transversalthemes from different perspectives: historical, linguistic, political, economic, juridical, sociological, psychological or pedagogical, trying to represent the heterogeneity that characterizes its area of interest. For issue 7/2020, it has been decided not to limit the contributions to a specific theme, but to open it to the proposals of scholars, so as to leave an open space and cast light on emerging horizons of study and research. Therefore, essays, analyses and translations concerning the Islamic Mediterranean are all acceptable: from religious forms to histories, from institutions to languages, social movements, changes, cultural representations, migratory flows, in ancient times as well as today.
The articles, written in English, French, Italian or Spanish, must be sent by 15 December 2020 to laboratorio.occhiali@gmail.comin a format compatible with the procedure of blind review: a file will have to include the author’s name and surname, email address, a short biographical note, title and abstract (150 words in English), 3-5 keywords; the other file will have to include the contribution without any reference to the author or to their known works that might point back to them. The articles, formatted according to the norms indicated on http://phi.unical.it/wp34/occhiali/norme-redazionali/, shall not exceed 30,000 characters including spaces and excluding the bibliography.
3. Call for Papers – Online conference (Centering Race in History: Antiquity to the Present)
http://monitoracism.eu/centring-race-in-history-antiquity-to-the-present/
ORGANISED BY:
International Centre on Racism, Edge Hill University, UK.
MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism magazine, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Italy (EUI).
Department of History & Civilization, EUI.
What should be the place of race in historiography and historical practice? The last few decades have witnessed a flowering of the historical study of race. Yet most of this scholarship has been confined to late modern colonial, global, and postcolonial histories, with little interest from other fields. In medieval and early modern studies, the bulk of writing on race has been produced by those working in literature rather than history. And if we look to the big treatments of history that have been growing in popularity in the profession and the book trade in recent years, race barely features.
The aim of our conference is to confront this marginalization of race in history, and to consider how we can centre race in our discipline: theoretically, methodologically, and empirically. We are interested in submissions concerning every period of human history, and all fields in our discipline.
The conference will begin at 15.00 CET each day to facilitate participation from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
Conference Keynotes
‘Allegedly Race: Rethinking the Political History of Early Mesopotamia’: Professor Xianhua Wang, Shanghai International Studies University, China.
‘The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages’: Professor Geraldine Heng, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
‘Racism Before Racialized Capitalism’: Professor Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow, UK, who will deliver the inaugural PKC Millins Lecture.
‘Archives of Black Life and Histories of State Violence in Britain’: Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry, Director, Stephen Lawrence Research Centre, De Montfort University, UK.
Please submit paper proposals of c. 250 words and biographies of c. 150 words by 15 October 2020 to icr@edgehill.ac.uk and monica.gonzalezcorrea@eui.eu
4. The Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona has admitted a select number of graduate students at M.A. and Ph.D. levels since 2016.
This year, too, the program will admit new students.
Students benefit from the close attention of the program’s faculty with high interest and expertise in interdisciplinary research projects.
For more information visit
https://persian.arizona.edu/
5. UCLA: The Indo-Persian Confluence Symposium
“Indo-Persian Musical Connections: Modal Negotiations”
Sunday, November 8, 2020 at 10:00am Pacific via Zoom
The panel, consisting of Taees Gheirati (UBC), Deepak Paramashivan (University of Alberta) and Behzad Namazi (Ohio University), examines these transregional cultural connections by comparing underlying modal structures, analyzing previously undiscussed descriptions of mode, and considering reflexive perspectives on mode from musicians across all three regions. By utilizing the transregional framework that musical modality provides as a primary category of analysis, this panel opens up new discussions on how to think about both historic and contemporary cross-cultural alignments in music that are clearly central to defining multiple music traditions in multiple places. This allows researchers to read specific concepts of musical modality as aspects of cultural production that relate to larger regional contexts.
For more information, including the link to RSVP, please visit: https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/event/indo-persian-musical-connections-modal-negotiations/
Event Co-Sponsors
UCLA Mohindar Brar Sambhi Chair of Indian Music
UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology
UCLA Center for Musical Humanities
UCLA Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies
UCLA Iranian Studies Program
UCLA Center for India and South Asia (CISA)
RSVP: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIod-uvrTIsHd1-8B9MhRgUucPds_m_ny89
6. ‘Muslim Female Religious Authority’: online roundtable, Thursday 12th November, 5pm GMT
Alwaleed Centre, Edinburgh
All are welcome to our forthcoming roundtable discussion exploring ‘Muslim Female Religious Authority’ taking place on 12th November at 5pm via Zoom.
For further information and free registration click here: https://femaleauthority.eventbrite.co.uk
The roundtable will feature contributions from Amina Inloes (The Islamic College), Joseph Hill (University of Alberta), David Kloos (KITLV) and Safia Shahid (Women’s Muslim College) with Mulki Al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki) kindly chairing.
This is the third event in our ‘Authority in the Globalised Muslim World’ series. For further information about the series click HERE.
With very best wishes,
The Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam
in the Contemporary World
University of Edinburgh
16 George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
- October 31, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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