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1.AIS (Association for Iranian Studies) 2020 Conference is Cancelled, But Plans to Reschedule are Underway
“Were you thinking that you needed more time to get that conference paper ready? Well, we got you covered.
For the past few weeks, AIS Executive Committee has been making contingency plans in the event that the COVID 19 pandemic made cancellation necessary. After consultations with our Conference Chair, Miguel Angel Andres Toledo, it is time to implement those plans.
Here is what you need to know now:
1) The AIS Conference scheduled for August 25-28, 2020 is cancelled.
2) Registration fees for AIS 2020 will be honored at the next conference.
3) The rescheduled conference will be at the University of Salamanca, Spain.
4) Awardees will be announced this year, but we’ll celebrate properly at the rescheduled conference.
It is still too soon for us to offer the precise dates for the rescheduled conference. We will advise on that as soon as possible. But, let us assure you of something: the registration fee you have paid will be honored at the next conference you are able to attend. So, if, for some reason, you cannot make the rescheduled conference, you can apply your registration to the next conference.
In the coming weeks, in addition to working on rescheduling the conference, we will be studying ways to support Iranian Studies activity in the near term. I hope to present those initiatives to you soon.
For those of you who were looking forward to an AIS conference in Spain, as I most certainly was, the good news is that we can still look forward to it. Our conference will come.
In the meantime, I know every single one of you is working extra hard to support your students, your communities, and your families through this crisis. In the midst of all that, academic study – even of something so dear to us as Iranian Studies in all its forms – may seem like a misplaced priority. But that is not so. History is so often the miserable tale of disasters and suffering. But, it also the story of people like you who reclaim our common humanity with every act of learning.
I look forward to hearing about your scholarly accomplishments during this difficult time, in person; and I will. So, stay well in the meantime.
Cam Amin
AIS President
2. Notice of a website (Atelier Ideas & Research) that curates an on-going list of digital map collections: https://www.air4edu.com/.
There have been three episodes dropped so far to create a census of digital collections of maps / globes / atlasses, with a few more archives across the world: https://www.air4edu.com/academic-life/maps-globes-and-plans-an-ongoing-census-of-free-digital-archives-3/
3. CFP: Online Symposium on “Epidemic Urbanism: Reflections on History”
Epidemic illnesses—not only a product of biology, but also social and cultural phenomena—are as old as cities themselves. The recent pandemic of COVID-19 has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life, and exposed the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How can epidemics help us understand urban environments? What insights from the outbreak, experience, and response to previous urban epidemics might inform our understanding of COVID-19?
These questions in mind, we are organizing an online symposium in May 2020 to bring together academics from a range of disciplines to present case studies from across the globe to demonstrate how cities in particular are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine, but also the site and instrument of intervention. Presentations will be informal, brief (7-10 minutes), and illustrated with 2-4 slides.
We welcome presentations on a range of illnesses and epidemics, geographies, time periods, urban interventions, observations on the impact of these epidemics on society and urban life, and insights to understand, critique, or complexify the conception of and response to COVID-19.
Each presentation should tell the story of a city, an outbreak of illness, and the city’s response to the epidemic. For example:
- What notable interventions or actions were implemented? With what effect?
- What impact did the epidemic have on urbanism, urban design, and urban planning?
- What impact did the epidemic have on architecture in the short and long term?
- What impact did the built environment have on the epidemic, or the experience of illness?
Our goal is to create a venue to use history as a medium to provide a better understanding of the current crisis. Especially welcome are proposals by historians, public health experts, art/architectural historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts. The proposals should address the following:
- The idea of an epidemic or widespread illness in the geographical context you study;
- The employment of urban design, architecture, landscape, and/or experience in response to the illness or the epidemic;
- The insight(s) your case study can offer to understanding today’s COVID-19 pandemic and response.
Proposals can be sent to Dr. Mohammad Gharipour, Morgan State University (mohammad@gatech.edu) and Dr. Caitlin DeClercq, Columbia University (cd3100@columbia.edu) by April 10, in 200-250 words. After proposals are reviewed, the symposium organizers will coordinate with accepted presenters to finalize a date and time for this event.
4. International Doctoral Conference in Religious Studies: “Resistance to Order and Authority in Religion“, Central European University, Budapest, 25-27 June 2020
The conference invites contributions studying the conceptualization, management and instrumentalization of religious ideas and beliefs with regard to past and contemporary resistance movements.
Information: https://religion.ceu.edu/crs-elte-masaryk-phd-conference-25-27-june-2020
5. 15th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), University of Zagreb, 13-17 July 2020
The Congress will address various aspects of the economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire as well as any aspects of the Ottomans and the Mediterranean and the Ottomans and Central Europe.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/4222924/icoseh-zagreb-2020-cfp
6. Workshop: “Trembling and Inundation: Natural Disasters in the History and Culture of West Asia and North Africa”, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, Lancashire, 8 September 2020
What happens to our understandings of histories, societies and cultural production when human activity is interrupted by earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, droughts and plagues? What do these mighty forces, impacting on all, irrespective of social position, but experienced differently according to it, tell us about societies? This workshop is intended to facilitate intensive discussion with the aim of producing a published collection.
Information: https://sarahirving0.wixsite.com/tremblingsinundation
7. 27th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO), University of Osnabrück, 24-26 September 2020
Papers are invited in social sciences and humanities related to the Middle East, North Africa and the entire Islamic World.
Deadline for abstracts of papers and closed panels: 15 July 2020.
Information: https://www.iit.uos.de/davo2020 (click on English version).
8. Meeting of the European Network for the Study of Islam and Esotericism (ENSIE): “Islamic Esotericism in Global Contexts”, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 24-26 September 2020
The aim is to consider the relationship between Islam and esotericism, and Islamic esotericism, in a global context, shifting the emphasis not only from Western perspectives, but also being more inclusive of the experience of Islam beyond the Arabo-Persian domains.
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2020. Information: http://ensie.site/conferences.html
9. Summer School: “Cultural Encounters and Ibadi Theological Developments” and Workshop: “Assessing the Study of Early Ibadi Sources: Methodologies, Developments and Perspectives”, University of Tuebingen, 7-11 September 2020
The Summer School will focus on text studies (early sources) bearing on the emergence and early development of Ibadi theological thinking within the culturally and religiously multifaceted context and spectrum of Early Islam. The workshop is intended to pay tribute to the contribution which Professor van Ess made to research and study particularly on Early Ibadi sources.
Deadline for abstracts: 19 May 2020. Information: https://ibadistudies.org/index.php/summer-school/37-application-details-for-the-2nd-summer-school
10. Articles on “Constructing Islam: Politization of Muslim Identity in the Contemporary World“ for Special Issue of “Islamology – Journal for Studies of Islam and Muslim Societies”
Authors are invited to examine the phenomenon of politicization of Muslim identity: on the one hand, what image is being shaped in different sectors of public space? and, on the other hand, how does the Muslim community react to the set frames? In what cases and why does a certain community position itself as ‘Muslim’?
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6074071/special-issue-constructing-islam-politization-muslim-identity
11. Articles on “Religious Transformation in the Middle East – Spirituality, Religious Doubt, and Non-religion” for Special Edition of Journal “Religions”
This Special Issue looks to compose a cross section of current work in social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and non-religion in the Arab World. It aims at collecting case studies that offer carefully contextualized explorations, grounded in theoretically informed analyses.
Deadline for manuscripts: 1 December 2020.
Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Religious_Arab
12. Articles for “CyberOrient – Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East and Islamic World”
The peer-reviewed and open-access journal of the American Anthropological Association is devoted to research on the impact of cyberspace and its representation on the Middle East, North Africa and wider Islamic world in Asia.
Deadline for articles: 1 June 2020. Information: https://cyberorient.net
13. University of Pennsylvania Press e-books available for free download through 30 June 2020
Link to the main Penn Press search page: https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/catalog.html. Note: for most of its books, Penn Press doesn’t sell the e-book directly. For that, you have to go to its “Partners” page (https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/about/ebooks.html). One can find material, for example, through the University Press Content Consortium page.
- April 07, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
[Editor’s note: I will continue to circulate this ‘academic items’ list but please note that I am unable to know if any items are going on, postponed or even cancelled. My advice is to check the website/email address(es) given for each. Stay healthy!]
1.Workshop: “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries), Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020
This workshop will analyse travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) from the 16th to the 20th centuries with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual travellers.
Information: https://travelmena.univie.ac.at
2. 24th Conference of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes, Thessaloniki, 23-27 June 2020
The aim is to provide a platform of a high scholarly level, which will promote the knowledge and sustain the memory of Ottoman history. Panels and individual papers will focus on the following topics: the Ottoman Empire in the Age of Revolutions; Sources: New Interpretations and Approaches; etc.
Information: https://www.univie.ac.at/ciepo/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/CIEPO24_1st_Circular.pdf
3. 9th International Conference: “The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics, (Dis)integration and Reformation in the Borderland,” University of Peshawar, Baragali, 24-26 June 2020
Papers are invited on: War, Genre, and Critique; Religion, Difference, and Violence; Law, Human Rights and Gender Rights; Democratic Governance, Public Space, and Resistance; Youth and Radicalization; Economic Transformation and Development; Migration, Diaspora, Refugees, and Internally Displaced Persons; Politics of Identities; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2020. Information: http://www.uop.edu.pk/events/?q=526
4. Conference of the Working Group “Ethnology of Reiligion“ of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 6-9 September 2020
The conference wants to draw closer to the current as well as historical dynamics of the “religion-nature” interdependence and thus to the cultural ecologies of beliefs. We are interested in a broad set of questions and research foci, i.e.: how do religions and religious communities in past or present symbolically and ritually articulate and negotiate relationships with their immediate and distant environment? What role do other species – i.e. animals, plants – play within religious (knowledge) systems and practices? Etc.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5651674/religion-and-nature-–-cultural-ecologies-belief
5. 4th “European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies“ (Turkologentag 2020), University of Mainz, 16-18 September 2020
The conference is organized by the Society for Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies (GTOT) in co-operation with the Chair of Turcology of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and addresses the domains of language, literature, history, culture, society, politics, and philology of the Turks and the Turkic peoples.
Information: http://www.turkologentag-2020.de
6. Annual Meeting of the “International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA 2020)“, Boston, MA, 20-23 November 2020
Program Units include: The Qur’an: Manuscripts and Textual Criticism; Linguistic, Literary, and Thematic Perspectives on the Qur`anic Corpus; The Societal Qur`an; Qur`anic Studies: Methodology and Hermeneutics; etc.
Information: https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-iqsa-annual-meeting-2020/
7. International Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī Symposium, Sivas Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, 20-22 May 2021
Topics include: • Linguistics • Logic • Tafsīr • Astronomy • Mathematics • Medicine • Geography • Philosophy • Illuminationism • Sufism • Kalām • Music • Ethics and Political Theory • Shīrāzī in Manuscripts and Book Culture Studies • Commentaries (Shurūḥ, ḥawāshī, taʻlīqāt) • Scholarly Networks and Ijāzatnāmas • Urban Studies; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2020. Information: http://kutbuddinsirazi.cumhuriyet.edu.tr/en/index.php
8. Awards and Prizes of the “Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA)”
Applications and submissions are invited for two book prices (each $ 1000), a graduate student paper prize ($ 200) and travel grants ($ 500).
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2020 and later.
Information: https://www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/
9. Two-year English-language M.A. Program in “Ottoman History”, University of Crete and Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
The program consists of 5 history courses (four in Ottoman History, and one in Medieval or Modern History); 4 Turkish language courses; 4 Ottoman language and palaeography courses. Students are required to write an original M.A. thesis based on the critical analysis of Ottoman archival, epigraphic or narrative sources. No tuition fees.
Deadline for application: 6 April 2020. Information: http://www.history-archaeology.uoc.gr/en/graduate-studies/programs-of-post-graduate-studies/joint-english-language-m-a-program-in-ottoman/?lang=en
10. Summer School “The Middle East: Power and Ideology”, LSE, University of London, 22 June – 10 July 2020
The course will examine the regional politics of the Middle East since 1918 and their interaction with problems of international security, global resources and great power/superpower/hyperpower policies. It will also deal with more recent developments such as the 2011 Arab uprisings and their consequences.
Deadline for applications: 25 May 2020.
Information: https://www.soas.ac.uk/summerschool/subjects/the-middle-east-in-global-politics/
11. Articles for Book on “The Effects of Pandemics on Religious History” (Focus Islamic and Jewish History) Edited by Global Center for Religious Research
We welcome both industry leaders and scholars from any discipline related to religious studies, the natural or social sciences, theology, and history. Proposals may include any topic related to the impact of pandemics, diseases, or pestilence.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 July 2020. Information: https://shoutout.wix.com/so/42N4DTvxM?fbclid=IwAR0Ch2t9sSoakJaud98ysCdSAFDyOX7ia5Kij0muKg7_vLuEFn9UMUPPWZU#/main
- March 31, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Announcement of publication by Brill, Leiden of two new volumes in the Maimonides Medical Works Series.
This is vol. 15 containing Nathan ha-Me’ati’s Hebrew translation of Maimonides’ Medical Aphorisms, and vol. 16 with an edition of the Hebrew translation of the same work by Zerahyah Hen. Both translators were active in the city of Rome in the late 13th century. An Arabic-Hebrew-English glossary to the Medical Aphorisms with indices to its Hebrew translations will be part of vol. 17, the final volume in the series. This volume will be published in the course of this year.
sites.google.com/site/gerritbos1
https://academia.edu/GerritBos
2. Brill: COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications immediately accessible
More than 30 leading STM publishers have committed to making all of their COVID-19 and coronavirus-related publications immediately accessible.
At Brill we have opened up books and articles on topics such as public health, distance learning, crisis research.
If any new related content is published with us, it will be added to this collection.
Access at: https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_Collection
3. Arts of the Islamic World : From the Dome of the Rock to the Taj Mahal, the Coronation Mantle, the Ardabil Carpet, and more… c. 640 – 1924 C.E.
Published by: Smarthistory
“Smarthistory is an open educational resource for art history, with the aim to make high-quality introductory art history content freely available to anyone, anywhere. This is a platform for the discipline where art historians can contribute in their areas of expertise and learners come from across the globe. Besides still images, the resource also offers hundreds of videos which are being translated into dozens of languages. Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker originally created Smarthistory and are the executive editors. The original resource was merged with Khan Academy in 2011.”
4. BRISMES 2020 CONFERENCE POSTPONED
‘In light of the rapidly-evolving public health situation connected to the COVID-19 outbreak, the BRISMES Annual Conference (29 June – 1 July 2020) has been postponed until 2021. We will announce details of the postponed conference in due course and we will update the conference website accordingly.’
See: http://www.brismes.ac.uk/conference/postponed-brismes/
5. Due to Harvard University’s recent decisions regarding on-campus events (related to Coronavirus COVID-19), the March 31, April 2 and April 23 AKPIA lectures have been postponed until further notice. https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
- March 28, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
[Editor’s note: I will continue to circulate this ‘academic items’ list but please note that I am unable to know if any of the events listed or other items are going to happen, be postponed or even be cancelled. My advice is to check the website/email address(es) given for each. Stay healthy!]
1. LUCIS Summerschool on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
From August 24 to September 4, the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its fourth Summerschool on philology and manuscripts from the Muslim world, with lectures by experts, hands-on classes and much practice with manuscripts from its famous oriental collection. The course is meant for graduate students and researchers. For more information please go to https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2020/08/lucis-summer-school-philology–manuscripts-from-the-muslim-world or send an e-mail to d.m.van.der.helm@hum.leidenuniv.nl .
The deadline for application is June 22.
2. Due to COVID-19 emergency some publishers are now offering free access to their content. These publishers offer significant amount on content for the study of Islam and the Middle East.
“Cambridge University Press is making higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. Over 700 textbooks, published and currently available, on Cambridge Core are available regardless of whether textbooks were previously purchased.”
https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/textbooks
[Update 3/19/2020 : Due to unprecedented demand and reported misuse publisher temporarily removed the free access to textbooks. They are working to address these concerns plan to reinstate free access as soon as possible.
“Project Muse: Free Resources on MUSE During COVID-19”
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/
“Access to the digital Loeb Classical Library will be free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19 until June 30th. From Harvard University Press International @HarvardUPLondon In these uncertain times, sometimes you need to look back at the classics.
Access to the digital Loeb Classical Library will be free to schools and universities impacted by COVID-19 until June 30th. Librarians: email loebclassics_sales@harvard.edu for access.
3. Interdisciplinary Colloquium for (Post)doctoral Students on “Postcolonial and Gender Studies”, University of Trier, 18-19 June 2020
The aim of the colloquium is to offer the young researchers who work in these two fields a platform for exchanging content and interdisciplinary networking.
4. 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies of the “International Association for the Study of Arabia (IASA)”, Casa Arabe, Cordoba, 15-18 July 2020
Information: https://mailchi.mp/3c625180ed77/seminar-for-arabian-studies-2020-call-for-papers-4803397?e=18cf0337f7
5. 21st Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS), Ohio State University, Columbus, 15-18 October 2020
Papers are also welcome for Iran, Afghanistan and the Black Sea region.
Deadline for abstracts (extended): 30 April 2020.
Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
6. International Seminar: “End-of-Life Care and the Islamic Moral Tradition”, Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), Doha, 20-22 October 2020
This seminar aims to critically address the key EoLC ethical questions, by engaging a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including those within the field of Islamic studies (e.g., Theology, Philosophy, Jurisprudence & Legal Theory, Sufism, and Adab) in addition to other disciplines like social sciences and legal studies.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2020. Information: https://www.cilecenter.org/resources/news/call-research-papers-end-life-care-eolc-and-islamic-moral-tradition
7. 4th Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies on “Catastrophes and Memory (500-1500 CE)”, 19-20 November 2020
This conference focuses on the problematic relations between catastrophes and memory in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine societies. Memory plays a crucial role in the way events are perceived, understood and narrated by different groups and elites: locals might see the conquest of their city as a catastrophe, while the conquerors portray the same as glorious or divinely inspired.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2020.
8. Research Assistant for Three-years Doctoral Research Project “The Historicity of Democracy in the Arab and Muslim World”, Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
Requirements: Master degree in History or a related discipline (Islamic Studies, Political Sciences, Sociology, Anthropology or a neighbouring discipline) with a focus on the modern history of the MENA; excellent command of Arabic, English, and German (for non-German speaking applicants: Certificate of sufficient German skills or a strategy to improve them).
Deadline for application: 17 April 2020. Information: http://bit.ly/2WpjO4U
9. Two CESS Awards for Books on the “History and the Humanities” and on “Social Sciences” in Central Asia, Including Iran, Afghanistan, Black Sea Region
Books must be scholarly monographs based on original research and published in English in 2019.
Deadline for nominations: 31 May 2020. Information: https://www.centraleurasia.org/awards/book/
10. Nominations for Various MESA Book Awards
Nominations can be made by the publisher or the author. Books must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research published in English between 1 April 2019 and 31 March 2020. Authors need not be members of MESA. Winners for each of the awards receive $1000 and a certificate of award.
Deadline for nomination: 1 April 2020. Information: https://mesana.org/awards/category/mesa-book-awards/mesa-book-awards-nomination-guidelines
11. New Masters Program in “Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations”, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
This is a year-long, taught Masters which offers a rich and broad study of the Islamic intellectual traditions of scripture, law, theology and philosophy in conversation with Christian thought, ethics and political theology.
Program Website: https://www.ed.ac.uk/divinity/graduate-school/taught-programmes/islam-christian-muslim-relations
12. 3rd Intensive Course “Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics”, Institute for Islamic Studies, University of Heidelberg, 28 September – 9 October 2020
The course will enable the participants to read, date, and contextualise Ottoman documents and other handwritten sources in a methodologically founded manner. The course will be held in German and is free of charge.
Applications deadline: 15 May 2020. Information: https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/ori/islamwissenschaft/sommerkurs.html
13. Articles on “The Politics of Religious Dissent (Focus on Islam)” for Special Issues of the “International Journal of Religion”
Three questions frame the topic in the special issue: How do religious leaders respond to dissent within their faiths? How does the state respond to religious dissent? How do religions react to dissent from feminist and gay activists?
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2020. Information: https://ijor.tplondon.com/index.php/ijor/announcement
14. Two New Resources by H-Net for Scholars Affected by the Coronavirus
A) “Resources for Teaching Online” is designed to be a space where we can share resources with each other about how to repurpose face-to-face course materials in an online format.
B) “Remote Conference Presentations” is a space created to give scholars an opportunity to share papers or presentations that were intended for now-canceled conferences.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/6020592/two-new-resources-scholars-affected-coronavirus
15. The Arab Studies Institute’s Open Access Resources for Teaching the Middle East
- March 24, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
[Editor’s note: In the context of COVID-19, I will continue to circulate this ‘academic items’ list but please note that I am unable to know if any of the time-sensitive items are going on, postponed or even cancelled. My advice is to check the website/email address(es) given for each. Stay healthy!]
1. Royal Holloway University of London’s Centre for Islamic & West Asian Studies, has introduced CIWAS Scholarships to provide financial assistance to MA in Islamic and West Asian Studies students.
The programme offers an understanding of the history and contemporary politics of Islam and West Asia (Middle East) and introduces a unique approach to exploring issues of contemporary significance.
For more information about the CIWAS Scholarships visit: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-here/fees-and-funding/postgraduate/scholarships/ciwas-scholarships/, or email ciwas@rhul.ac.uk
Deadline: 15 June 2020.
2. Editor-in-Chief of Iranian Studies: Journal of the Association for Iranian Studies
The Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief for its flagship journal Iranian Studies: Journal of the Association for Iranian Studies. This interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal is dedicated to the study of all aspects of Iran and the Persianate world from the pre-Islamic period to the present. As the official publication of the Association for Iranian Studies, it has served as the leading forum for the exchange of ideas and promotion of discipline-based and interdisciplinary research in all fields of Iranian studies since 1967.
The Editor-in-Chief oversees the journal’s online peer review and editorial processes and gives strategic direction to the journal. As an officer of the Association for Iranian Studies, the Editor-in-Chief receives, annually, an honorarium of $4,000 USD, funding for up to two course releases, support for travel to the AIS biennial conference, and a $10,000 USD operating budget to support the editorial process with the expectation of additional support from the scholar’s home institution. The position is a five year appointment and renewable for a second term.
Applicants should be active and published scholars in fields covered by the journal; demonstrate an interest in, and ability to work with, a diverse team of editors and AIS council members; and build relationships with researchers in the field of Iranian Studies. Some previous editorial work and comfort with digital media is preferred. We especially welcome applications from tenured mid-career scholars and institutional applications from scholarly research centers. The disciplinary field and period of scholarly concentration of the Editor-in-Chief is open.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2020. Applications will include a CV and a letter of application explaining your vision for the journal and the resources your home institution can provide to support your efforts for augmenting the operating budget. Please send application materials to James Gustafson (Chair, Search Committee) at james.gustafson@indstate.edu. Informal queries are welcome and encouraged.
3. Harvard Open Collections Program history of epidemics resource
Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases and Epidemics is a digital library collection that brings a unique set of resources from Harvard’s libraries to Internet users everywhere. Offering valuable insights to students of the history of medicine and to researchers seeking an historical context for current epidemiology, the collection contributes to the understanding of the global, social–history, and public–policy implications of disease. Contagion is also a unique social–history resource for students of many ages and disciplines.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100205181504/http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu:80/contagion/index.html
4. International Seminar: “Persian-Arabic Poetics and South Asian Literatures: Readings Recoveries and Re-orientations”, Comparative Literature Association of India, Patna, 20-23 March 2020
We look forward to a fruitful exchange of ideas that will unpack the relations between the mainstream and margins, great and little traditions, major and minor languages within South Asia. The very idea of the ‘literary’ here is open to question as the subject proposed covers both the written and the oral, the philosophical and religious, the narrative and the performative.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5412876/international-seminar-be-organized-comparative-literature
5. Shi’i Studies Symposium: “‘But by the Love You Bear My Kin’: Devotion (Walāya) and Shiʿi Islam”, University of Chicago, 3-4 April 2020
This conference will be centred on the theme of walāya—the call of devotion to the Ahl al-Bayt that is at the core of Shiʿi beliefs. One unifying theme of the symposia of the past few years has been the institutional development of Shiʿi Islam, as we have considered the authority of the Imams, the development of centers of learning, Shiʿism and governance, and dynamics of sectarianism in Islam.
Information: https://voices.uchicago.edu/shiistudies/3-2/
6. Conference: “From Sectarianism to De-sectarianisation – Reimagining Sectarianism, Geopolitics and the State in the Contemporary Middle East”, Lancaster University, 16-17 April 2020
The conference will reflect on sectarianism, ‘proxies’, the struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and broader questions about identities, geopolitics, economics and social factors in the contemporary Middle East.
Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/announcement/sepad-conference-2020-from-sectarianism-to-de-sectarianization
7. Graduate Student Workshop on “Religion, Law, and Politics in the Middle East”, Syracuse University, 23 April 2020
The workshop will address the historical and contemporary interactions between religious, legal and political institutions in the Middle East and North Africa region. Topics include state-religion relations, secularism, religious movements, religious law and courts, religious authority, social movements, political violence, democratization, political parties, gender, etc.
Information: https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/mesp/Annual_Workshop/
8. Conference: “Christian-Muslim Missionary Encounters, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries”, Mission and Modernity Research Academy (MiMoRA#3), Leuven, Belgium, 3-10 November 2020
Contributions are invited on: Reactions to Christian/Muslim missionary activities in the fields of education, literacy, health care, etc.; Space-settings of Christian/Muslim encounter-interaction; Muslim responses to (Western) Christian missions; The agency of Islamic activism in transforming the practices and thinking of Christian missionaries; Muslim responses to Christian interventions into Islamic religious practice; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 May 2020.
Information: https://kadoc.kuleuven.be/english/3_research/31_ourresearch/mimora/cfp-mimora-3.pdf
- March 17, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Workshop: “Ibadi Manuscripts in European and North American Libraries,” Lviv, Ukraine, 24-25 April 2020
This workshop aims to investigate critically the histories and politics of these collections, with special attention to their acquisition and subsequent use by scholars from both outside and inside Ibadi communities.
Information: https://ibadistudies.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/lviv_ibadi_mss_cfp_2020.pdf
2. 35th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference: “Theorizing Gender and Sexuality in the Historic and Contemporary Middle East“, University of Chicago, 1-3 May 2020
The conference will study the Middle East from the sixth century c.e. to the present day. Topics include history, political science, anthropology, religious studies, geography, literary studies, philosophy, art history, and media studies.
Information: https://mehat2020.wixsite.com/mehat
3. 7th Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Centre for Visual Arts and Research, Nicosia, 2-4 July 2020
The conference will be preceded by a three-day (29 June – 1 July 2020) intensive course on Venetian sources concerning trade in Mamluk territories and Cyprusy. The first day of the conference will focus on Mamluk-Cypriot relations in a wider Euro-Mediterranean perspective under the title “Commerce and Crusade: The Mamluk Empire and Cyprus in a Euro-Mediterranean Perspective.” The following two days of the conference will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period.
Information: http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
4. 16th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society: “The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam”, Sapienza University, Rome, 2-4 July 2020
The colloquium discusses Islamic funerary cultures through art history and archaeology as well as related disciplines and subfields.
Information: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2020/01/2020_07_02-04-Funerary-Cultures-in-Islam_CFP.pdf
5. Conference: “Ideas in Motion: Arabia in Late Antiquity,“ Leiden University and King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies, Leiden, 26-27 August 2020
The conference will address key themes in religious, intellectual, and cultural history in Arabia in the period between 570-1000 AD. Central topics include: transmission of ideas and texts; religious and philosophical doctrines and beliefs in Arabia; devotional piety and theology; etc.
Information: https://diwan.hypotheses.org/17079 and the English version of the Call for Papers: https://f.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/678/files/2019/12/call-.pdf
6. International Conference of the Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII): “From Ancient to Modern: The Current State of Research on Iraq“, Washington, DC, 9 October 2020
This conference will bring together American, Iraqi, and international scholars to present their findings and exchange their ideas in any subject area.
Information: https://www.tarii.org/conferences
7. Conference: “Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East: The Silk Roads and Beyond”, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 8-10 April 2021
The conference examines the relationship between China and the Middle East, both ancient and modern. Papers that incorporate additional regions, such as Europe, Central Asia, or South/Southeast Asia are also encouraged, provided they are also incorporate both China and a country in the Middle East, broadly construed.
Information: mec-conference@sas.upenn.edu
8. Postdoctoral Research and Outreach Associate in Islamic Art, Aesthetics and/or Material Culture, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
The associate will be involved in researching Arabic and Persian manuscripts. Expert knowledge of the two languages and Islamic codicology are two essential requisites.
Deadline for applications: 19 April 2020.
Information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/24783/?fbclid=IwAR1CrdaAHpweM6UtBhgHkQmwgymH-DFnBIfRRsxTFbvqLdwda5lkU_g22lM
9. Visiting Assistant Professor in African or Middle Eastern History, Loyola Marymount University
The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses on “State, Society, and the Citizen in the Modern Middle East”.
Deadline for applications: 20 March 2020. Information: https://jobs.lmu.edu/postings/44126
10. Fellowship Program to Support Emerging Displaced Scholars (Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences), Columbia University, Global Center, Amman
Eligible candidates have been forcibly uprooted from their home countries and respective academic institutions. They could be graduate students who have had their education disrupted or post-doctoral scholars in the early stages of their careers. Creative writers, artists, and curators may also apply.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2020. Information: https://globalcenters.columbia.edu/content/fellowship-program-emerging-displaced-scholars?fbclid=IwAR0wAWVxs8iSSlh-r8asDdHjibNRGCMxUZGVW0T-1TLhOZ1FcwhiTK_fV40
11. Articles on “The Politics of Religious Dissent” for Special Issue of New “International Journal of Religion”
Three questions frame the topic in the special issue: – How do religious leaders respond to dissent within their faiths? – How does the state respond to religious dissent? – How do religions react to dissent from feminist and gay activists?
Deadline for manuscripts: 31 July 2020. Information: tsjhayn1@londonmet.ac.uk
12. New “Journal of Material Cultures in the Muslim World”
The Journal aims to be a new reference for field archaeologists, (art) historians, anthropologists, curators, and scholars and students of the archeology, (art) history, architecture, anthropology and ethnography of the Muslim world. Material culture includes not only artefacts, architectural structures and monuments, but also crafts and archaeological field surveys.
Information: https://brill.com/page/mcmw
13. Chapters for Edited Book on “Diasporic Political Communication: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives” (Focus Middle East)
We invite theoretical chapters Mediatisation, Diaspora, Multimodality, Contentious Action Formation, and how each of these concepts relates to political communication among diasporas; and empirically-based chapters that examine Middle East diasporas, and how they use traditional and digital media to politically mobilise and transnationally connect.
Abstract deadline: 15 April 2020.
Information: https://ccrs.ku.dk/research/centres-and-projects/mediatizeddiaspora/
14. Chapters for the New “Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism: Groups, Perspectives and New Debates” (Routledge)
The Handbook will provide an up-to-date picture of the most active non-violent extremist groups in Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, the US and the Middle East and discuss the ideological foundation of their ‘war of ideas’, their claims and perspectives. Chapter proposals are invited about Islamist extremism, feminist extremism etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2020.
Information: Dr Elisa Orofino (elisa.orofino@anglia.ac.uk)
15. POSTPONED: BRAIS
The British Association for Islamic Studies and the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations have today taken the decision to postpone the BRAIS 2020 Conference, due to take place at the Aga Khan Centre on 6 and 7 April, in response to the escalation of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak.
Many of our delegates are facing increasingly stringent travel restrictions and the situation is developing very quickly. As disappointed as we are to be postponing this much-anticipated conference, continuing would not be in the best interests of our delegates and we feel the decision to postpone is therefore unavoidable. If you had registered as a delegate, you will have received a separate email regarding the refund of delegate fees.
We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the conference thus far, and it goes without saying that we are incredibly disappointed that such a wonderful programme of papers, panels and keynotes has had to be postponed. BRAIS and the Aga Khan University will discuss rescheduling the conference in due course, and we will be in touch with updates as soon as we know more. In the meantime, if you have any questions at all, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Thank you for your understanding and very best wishes from us all,
The BRAIS Officers’ Committee and the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
- March 11, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.BIPS (The British Institute of Persian Studies) is currently accepting applications for the April 2020 round of research and travel grants.
Prospective grant applicants will be able to find details on the application process at the BIPS’ website at: https://www.bips.ac.uk/bips-april-2020-21-grants/.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 31 March at 6pm.
NB: Applicants must be affiliated to a British higher educational institutionto be considered for a BIPS grant.
2. Middle East Librarian at Georgetown University
- March 07, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1. The Latin Qur’an Workshop
9-11 March, 2020
Sala de Graus
Facultat de FilosoÞa i Lletres
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB
Programme at: https://euqu.eu/wp-content/uploads/sites/829/2020/01/EuQu-Latin-Quran-Workshop-Brochure-Barcelona-March-2020.pdf
2. International Conference: “Eastern European-Ottoman-Persian Mobility Dynamics”, University of Giessen, 21–23 May 2020
See program at https://www.transottomanica.de/activities/conferences/21-23-may-giessen
3. Monographs and Edited Books on the MENA Region for the Peter Lang’s Series “Global Politics”
We invite scholarly monographs authored by academics on topical questions in international relations and the modern and contemporary history of the Middle East and North Africa. The aim is to promote deeper knowledge of emerging issues and trends. Publications include original monographs and edited volumes which combine a grasp of the past, an understanding of present dynamics, and a vision about potential futures.
Information: lorenzo.kamel@unito.it; https://www.peterlang.com/abstract/serial/GPS
4. The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries is accepting applications for its 2020-2021 Visiting Research Fellowship program. Guided by the vision of its founders, Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, SIMS aims to bring manuscript culture, modern technology, and people together to provide access to and understanding of our shared intellectual heritage. Part of the Penn Libraries, SIMS oversees an extensive collection of premodern manuscripts from around the world (https://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren), with a special focus on the history of philosophy and science, and creates open-access digital content to support the study of its collections. SIMS also hosts the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (https://sdbm.library.upenn.edu/) and the annual Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age (http://www.library.upenn.edu/about/exhibits-events/ljs-symposium).
The SIMS Visiting Research Fellowships have been established to encourage research relating to the premodern manuscript collections at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, including the Schoenberg Collection. Affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, located near other manuscript-rich research collections (the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Science History Institute, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library, among many others), and linked to the local and international scholarly communities, SIMS offers fellows a network of resources and opportunities for collaboration. Fellows will be encouraged to interact with SIMS staff, Penn faculty, and other medieval and early modern scholars in the Philadelphia area. Fellows will also be expected to present their research at Penn Libraries either during the term of the fellowship or on a selected date following the completion of the term.
Applicants can apply to spend 1 month (minimum of 4 work weeks) at SIMS between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2021. Applications are due May 15, 2020. For more information and to apply, please visit: https://schoenberginstitute.org/visiting-research-fellowships-2/
- March 03, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) will agan offer its Persian Miniatures Course in partnership with the Centre for Iranian Studies (SOAS). The course will run on Monday evenings from 20 April to 22 June 2020 inclusive.
Please note the deadline for registration is 13 April 2020. BIPS members are offered a 10% discount on the course fee.
See https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/persian-miniatures-course-2/ for further information.
2. Lecturer in History, SOAS University of London
The School of History, Religions and Philosophies invites applications for a three-year fixed-term lectureship in history starting in July 2020. The preferred candidate will engage in language-based scholarship on the history of the Middle East, with a demonstrated openness to transnational and interdisciplinary approaches. We particularly welcome applicants working on histories of gender, migration and diasporas, and the environment. The periodic focus is open.
Closing Date | 27 March 2020
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYX316/lecturer-in-history-3-year-ftc
3. Call for Contributions: Protecting Religious Freedoms and Minorities in MENA
Rowaq Arabi
Rowaq Arabi, an electronic magazine specialising in human rights studies in the Middle East and North Africa, is calling for contributions under the theme of ‘Protecting Religious Freedoms and Religious Minorities’. Submissions can include papers, analyses, and book reviews, and are accepted in Arabic or English.
Deadline for submissions | 31 March 2020
https://rowaq.cihrs.org/protecting-religious-freedoms-and-minorities/?lang=en
4. CfP: “Diasporic Political Communication: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives”
TIMETABLE
15 April 2020: Deadline for abstracts (approx. 500 words, to be sent to this email: mediasp@hum.ku.dk)
1 May 2020: Editors’ response to abstracts.
1 October 2020: Deadline for full chapters (8,000 words).
15 November 2020: Authors receive reviews.
15 December 2020: Deadline for revised chapters.
Spring 2021: Publication of edited book.
For further information contact the email address above.
5. The interdisciplinary Research Training Group funded by the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz on “Early Concepts of Humans and Nature” invites applications for five doctoral positions, starting at October 1st, 2020. The disciplines cooperating in this programme are Classical Archaeology, Classics (Greek and Latin), Byzantine Studies, Egyptology, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Pre- and Protohistorical Archaeology (Pleistocene Archaeology), Near Eastern Archaeology and Medieval German Studies.
Please submit your complete application in electronic form (pdf) no later than April 30th, 2020 to the Research Training Group’s spokesperson Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening (grk1876@uni-mainz.de ).
For all information, see the webpage: https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb07-grk-man-nature/available-positions/
6. Arizona State University seeks a faculty associate to teach elementary or intermediate intensive Persian in its 2020 summer Critical Languages Institute. Candidates must have a Master’s degree or higher in philology, linguistics, language teaching or a closely related field by the time of appointment; possess native proficiency in Persian; and have at least one year’s experience teaching Persian at the university level to non-native speakers. Strong preference will go to candidates who have successfully taught in intensive language programs, to candidates with experience teaching independently, and to candidates with high levels of proficiency in English. The successful candidates will teach Persian 4 hours a day, five days a week, for eight weeks and will contribute to cultural programming.
Information on the ASU summer Persian program is available at http://cli.asu.edu/Persian
Compensation for the 7-week 2020 program consists of a salary of $8960, housing in Tempe (a taxable benefit), and reimbursement for air/ground travel of up to $500.
The application package must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a teaching portfolio (recent syllabi and teaching evaluations). Materials should be emailed to: cli@asu.edu.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. Please see ASU’s complete non-discrimination statement at: http://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html and https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.
7. Open Letter of Support for the Recognition, Preservation and Preparation for Study of Historical Texts from Ghur, Afghanistan – invitation for signature
We are writing to you as a scholar working on Afghanistan’s history or related fields to ask for your support for an open letter urging the Afghan authorities to safeguard a set of more than ninety 11th and 12th century manuscripts of texts cared for by a local resident in Ghur province, Afghanistan. The details are spelled out in the letter.
If you would like to sign, please click on this hyperlinked Google document and add your name. Alternatively, if you are unsure about how to do it, just send us an email and we will add your name for you. We will keep the letter open for signature for the next nine days until Sunday, 8th of March 2020 (international women’s day) at 23:59, after which we will issue it to the Afghan authorities.
It would be wonderful to have your support!
With best wishes,
Jawan Shir Rasikh (Visiting Research Associate, University of Toronto)
Arezou Azad (Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford)
- February 29, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Ten student travel grants of 100€ to attend the Avicenna Study Group.
This group will come together for its third meeting from 03–05 June to discuss the relations between and among Avicenna’s eight main works. The conference bears the title “Surveying the summae: Comparisons and Contrasts among Avicenna‘s Eight Main Works” at Trier University, Germany.
Ten travel grants of 100€ each will be given to interested BA, MA or PhD students to support them and cover some of the costs to attend the Avicenna Study Group meeting.
Interested students are asked to submit a short letter of motivation of 200-300 words together with a CV via email to lammer@uni-trier.de by 28 February 2020. Selected students will be informed by 01 March 2020.
Fourteen papers will cover different philosophical disciplines (e.g., logic, physics, psychology, metaphysics) across the eight main works of Avicenna (al-Ḥikma al-ʿArūḍiyya, ʿUyūn al-ḥikma, al-Hidāya, al-Šifāʾ, al-Naǧāt, Dānešnāme-ye ʿAlāʾī, al-Ḥikma al-mašriqiyya, al-Išārāt wa-l-tanbīhāt).
They will investigate and asses the relations between these eight works, their intended readership and Avicenna’s intentions in them alongside his style, terminology, and arguments as well as his personal and scientific development.
The confirmed speakers are: Asad Q. Ahmed, Tommaso Alpina, Silvia Di Vincenzo, Dimitri Gutas, Jules Janssens, Yuta Komura, Olga Lizzini Wahid Amin, Amos Bertolacci, Nadja Germann & Mostafa Najafi, Shahrzad Irannejad, Dustin Klinger, Alexander Lamprakis and Jon McGinnis
2. CfP: 2nd Symposium on Translation
Friday November 6, 2020
The Iranian Studies Initiative
University of California, Santa Barbara
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Franklin Lewis
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The University of Chicago
This symposium looks at the role of translation in bridging the growing political gulf between the Middle East and the United States. Our goal is to create a transnational conversation between the two regions, specifically translations of texts from Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Kurdish into English, and the reverse. Although in recent years, border politics have been restricting the physical movements of people, as Lovejoy has stated, “Ideas are the most migratory things in the world.” In the age of Internet and Facebook, images, beliefs and speeches have become more mobile than ever before and no border or boundary can reverse this process. We welcome a wide array of papers across all relevant disciplines that would shed light on the ways in which the act of translation has become a radical project, building bridges between people and not “walls.” The symposium is interested in papers that would explore the following issues:
- How have major historical events of the 20th and 21st centuries impacted the choice of texts to be translated?
- Is translation a political and/or literary act?
- How has globalization impacted the choice of texts for translation?
- How has migration, and the creation of Middle Eastern diaspora communities, impacted the reception of translated texts?
- Do translators create a utopian vision of the unseen culture through their work?
- What role does ideology play in selection of texts for translation?
- Do the tastes and needs of an American audience impact the choice of texts to be translated? If so, how does a translator address this issue?
Please send a 250-word proposal for a 20-minute individual presentation exploring one or more of the above issues. Please send your abstracts to translationucsb2020@gmail.com by April 15, 2020. Include the title of your presentation, any academic affiliation, and a brief (100-150 words) bio.
3. Conference: “Iraqi Studies: Past, Present, and Future“, Columbia University, New York, 28-29 February 2020
See program at http://cih.columbia.edu/iraqi-studies-past-present-and-future/
4. Graduate Student Conference of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University, 5-6 March 2020
The conference brings together graduate students working on the social and intellectual traditions of those three regions related to political economy and social history; study of mysticism; devotional traditions; imperialism and colonialism; law and political structures; etc.
5. 2nd Mid-Atlantic Ottoman Studies Workshop on “Global Ottoman Empire”, Hagop Kevorkian Center for the Near Eastern Studie, New York University, 27-29 March 2020
The workshop will emphasize the connectivity not only between the Ottoman Empire and the surrounding polities, but also among communities, individuals, and many other groups within and beyond its imperial boundaries. Submissions are from history, literary studies, manuscript studies, art & architectural history.
6. Conference: “The Influence of Islam in Politics and Society: Civic Engagement, Social Inclusion and Political Participation”, American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies (ACSIS), Villanova University, PA, 27-28 March 2020
The conference puts particular emphasis on socio-political dimensions of Islam and covers a vast range of topics and areas from Sufism, the so-called apolitical dimension of the faith to economic and financial aspects of Islam, both in Muslim and non-Muslim societies.
Information: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/publications/jsames/acsis/conference.html
7. 11th Western Ottomanists’ Workshop, California State University Sacramento, 10-11 April 2020
Scholars and graduate students interested in Ottoman studies will present work in progress, and engage in broad dialogue with colleagues in different fields and disciplines.
8. 16th Convention of the “Great Lakes Ottomanist Workshop”, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, 25-26 April 2020
See program and abstracts at
https://www.mcgill.ca/islamicstudies/files/islamicstudies/glowprogramabstracts.pdf
9. Academic Roundtable: “Jerusalem in Memory and Eschatology: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Visions of the Past and Future of Jerusalem”, Swedish Theological Institute, Jerusalem, 25-28 May 2020
This conference will reflect on how Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions of the religiously remembered past and the religiously anticipated future shape understandings of Jerusalem within each tradition. It also aims to apply these reflections to an analysis of current views of Jerusalem within diverse religious traditions, through an investigation of how these sacred histories and eschatologies shape the way that Jewish, Christian, and Muslim communities understand the significance of the complex and conflicted city of Jerusalem today.
10. 42nd Annual Conference of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International), University of Marburg, 26-28 May 2020
The local convenor is Dr Susanne Saker. Papers focus on: Librarianship, collection development and acquisition policies of Middle Eastern collections as sources for area studies; Cataloguing policies and practices; Current issues in information studies on the Middle East, etc. An excursion will also take place on 29 May.
Information: http://www.melcominternational.org/; Contact: melcomintl.secretary@gmail.com
11. 4th International Conference on Kurdish Studies, University of Exeter, 18-20 June 2020
Thematic areas include Kurdish literature, women’s participation in politics, cultural production, history, political international relations, governance, civil society, civil rights, diplomacy, conflict and democratization, forced displacement, internal and external interference, internal colonialization and rewriting Kurdish history.
12. 4th Australasian Conference on Islam: “Muslim Youth in the West: Social, Religious, Political Challenges and Opportunities”, Deakin University, Melbourne, 9-10 July 2020
This conference aims to explore the social, religious and political challenges affecting Muslim youth in Western societies and the ways in which Muslim youth have responded to these issues.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2020. Information: cisac@csu.edu.au
13. Annual Conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Washington, DC, 10-13 October 2020
MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the 7th century to modern times. Other regions including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which these territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.
Information: https://mesana.org/
14. Conference: “Knowledge Systems and Ottoman-European Encounters: Spatial and Social Dynamics”, University of Zurich, 21-23 January 2021
The conference will focus on knowledge from or about the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, addressing two questions: from a spatial perspective, how can the Ottoman Empire be included into a European history of knowledge? From a social viewpoint: how was knowledge inside or about the Ottoman Empire organized and what kind of social functions can there be distinguished?
15. Full PhD Scholarship (Fees and Maintenance) in any Area of Law, Politics, or International Relations, Dublin City University
Outstanding PhD candidates will be offered a fee waiver and a tax-free scholarship of €16,000 per annum for four years. The School operates a full-time four-year PhD programme with a range of taught courses in the first year and further professional training offered in other years. The school provides a supportive atmosphere for research postgraduates with dedicated supervisory teams, weekly research seminars in both law and politics, and opportunities to teach.
Deadline for application: 29 March 2020. Information: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BYR192/phd-research-in-any-area-of-law-politics-or-international-relations
16. Invitation for New Members of the “Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA)”
Excellent young scholars (3-10 years after PhD) from Germany and all Arab countries are invited to apply for membership in AGYA.
Deadline for application: 29 March 2020. Information: www.agya.info/cfm2020
17. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston – Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59954
| Closing Date | 05/19/2020 |
18. University of Southern California – Postdoctoral Scholar – Teaching Fellow in Middle East Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=59955
| Closing Date | 05/19/2020 |
19. CfP | Second Annual Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies – ACOS’20
The Department of Oriental Studies at the Yerevan State University (Armenia) invites you to the Second Annual Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies – ACOS’20 – to be held on October 23-24, 2020 in Yerevan (Armenia). The First Congress was held in 2018 and around 70 scholars and researchers participated from more than 10 countries.
The Armenian International Congress on Oriental Studies is a bi-annual conference, which aims to provide a unique platform to discuss the most critical problems of contemporary studies in the broad field of Middle Eastern studies.
We invite proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars working on the Middle East from the ancient times to the present day, including but not limited to history, religious studies, geography, anthropology, political science, literary studies, linguistics, philosophy, art history, and media studies.
Theme. We also encourage submissions related to the theme of this year’s conference, Sovietization of the Caucasus and the Greater Middle East. Questions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Consequences of the Sovietization of Southern Caucasus: demographic change, formation of identity, cultural transformations, new border identity.
- Communism in the Middle East in 1920s: from internationalism to nationalism?
- The perception of the sovietization of South Caucasus in the Middle East: a threat, an inspiration or ideological transformations?
Application. Please send submissions electronically to orientconference@ysu.am, no later than Friday, July 31, 2020. Please include each presenter’s name, institution, and position, as well as a separate file including a 250-word abstract with a tentative title. For pre-arranged panels, please send a single email with an overall panel description plus individual paper abstracts. The best abstracts will summarize the paper’s topic, its relationship and contribution to the existing scholarship and preliminary conclusions. Abstracts will be evaluated anonymously by the organizing committee; therefore, please do not include names or any identifying information in the abstract. Please feel free to email us for any inquiry at the above address. Accepted abstracts will be announced by August 17, 2020. Accepted papers should be sent by September 25, 2020.
Best papers will be published in the special issue of the “The Problems of Oriental Studies”.
A limited number of funding is available for accommodation in Yerevan (based on needs).
Please circulate widely!
For questions and accessibility concerns, please write to orientconference@ysu.am. Further information can also be found at our website – acos.ysu.am.
20. Roshan Lecturer in Persian Studies
College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland seeks applications for a position as a full-time lecturer, professional track, beginning Fall 2020. Candidates should have a track record in teaching Persian language as well as the ability to offer undergraduate courses taught in English in one or more of the following areas: Iranian art, society and culture, and social media. Through teaching both upper- and lower-division language and culture courses, the Roshan Lecturer will play a key role in attracting talented undergraduates to UMD’s Persian program and familiarizing them with contemporary Iran. Applicants must have a commitment to excellence in teaching; native or near-native fluency in Persian and English; and a Ph.D. in hand by August 2020. Experience with fundraising is a plus.
To apply, please submit a copy of your CV, personal statement, and two syllabi (one for a language course, and one for a content course) designed, and preferably already taught, by the applicant, along with contact information for three references who will be asked to provide a confidential letter of recommendation, all through the University of Maryland online employment application system at: https://ejobs.umd.edu.
Priority will be given to applications received by March 27, 2020. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. This position is contingent on the continued availability of funds.
The School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures seeks to investigate and engage with the linguistic, cultural, cinematic, and literary worlds of speakers of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish, as well as questions surrounding language learning itself. Its 15 units are organized into 7 Departments (Arabic; East Asian Languages and Cultures; French and Italian; Germanic Studies; Persian; Russian; Spanish and Portuguese); 4 independent programs (Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Film Studies; Hebrew; Second Language Acquisition); the Center for East Asian Studies; Roshan Institute for Persian Studies; the Language House Living-Learning Program, and the Summer Institute. To learn more about the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, please visit our website at: www.sllc.umd.edu.
The University of Maryland is an EOE/AA Employer Minorities, Women, Protected Veterans and individuals with disabilities are Encouraged to Apply.
- February 25, 2020
- by Andrew Newman
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