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1.The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill seeks to fill the position of Middle East & Islamic Studies Librarian. For details see https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/15606 .

2. Workshop on “Women and Gender in the Premodern Mediterranean” during the 18^th Berkshire Conference on the “History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities”, 21-23 May 2020, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

The workshop aims to facilitate a comparative discussion on women from different social, religious, and geographical contexts of the Mediterranean world. Scholars whose work focuses on Christian, Jewish, or Muslim women, across social hierarchies, and geographical locations are most welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 March 2019.

Information: https://berksconference.org/big-berks/2020-berkshire-conference/call-for-papers/. Contact: alexandra.guerson@utoronto.ca

3. Research Scholar in the History of the Premodern Arabic World, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

Junior and senior scholars with excellent knowledge of classical Arabic, and with suitable experience in the history of science, history of philosophy, history of medicine, or other relevant fields are invited to apply. Candidates should hold a doctorate in one of the above-mentioned fields and have at least two years of postdoctoral experience at the time the position begins (PhD awarded in 2017 or earlier).

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2019.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58265

4. PhD Scholarship in Religious Studies, University of Copenhagen

The PhD candidate will employ qualitative research methods, such as semi-structured interviews and textual analysis. Project descriptions need to show awareness of the relevant research literature, provide a suitable theoretical framework, and convincingly show the methodological and practical feasibility of the imagined PhD project. Applicants need to hold a two-year master’s degree (120 ECTS) or the equivalent.

Deadline for applications: 4 March 2019.

Information: https://professorpositions.com/announcement,a3196.html

5. Six Early Stage Researcher Positions, University of Aberdeen

Applicants from across the social sciences and humanities, including anthropology, cultural and literary studies, education, history, legal theory and socio-legal studies, philosophy, politics, religious studies, sociology, and theology are welcomed. Themes include: ‘Radicalisation’, ‘Extremism’ and the Role of ‘Civil Society’; Conceptualizing Secularism, Post-Secularism and Religion Itself; The Politics of ‘Religious Pluralism’, etc.

Deadline for applications: 5 March 2019.

Information: https://cisrul.blog/funding/politico/the-politics-of-religious-pluralism/

6. Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

The Lectureship invites applicants trained in any relevant discipline (for example, Religious Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, History, Philosophy and Theology, Anthropology). Areas of specialization may include any field within Islamic studies, including ethics, modern and contemporary thought and practice, religion and politics, gender studies, scripture and interpretation.

Deadline for applications: The search committee will begin its review on 1 March 2019; the position will remain open until filled. Information: https://career.wellesley.edu/postings/2701

7. Full-time Faculty Position in Arabic Language and Culture, National Chengchi University, Taipei

Qualifications: Ph.D. in Arabic Linguistics; Arabic Culture; Computer Science; Information and Communication Technology in Learning; or relevant fields. Specialized writings and publications; research achievements and cross-disciplinary research given high priority. Competence in English-taught courses.

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2019. Information: arabic@nccu.edu.tw

8. International Politics Summer School (Focus Middle East and North Africa), St Antony’s College, Oxford, 4-17 August 2019

This year the focus will be on the international relations of the region, with special attention to recent changes in the structure and dynamics of inter-state politics. The course is designed for postgraduate students but will be accessible to upper-level undergraduates and professionals as well.

Applications will be reviewed on a first come, first served or rolling basis until 15 April 2019. Information: https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/international-politics-summer-school

9. Articles for “Handbook of Contemporary Islam” (Springer)

We are looking for authors who can contribute critical literature reviews on trans-national movements including: Taghlibi Jamaat, the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizbut Tahrir, and others. Potential authors should be able to write about the movement transnational and just not in one or two countries.

Contact: Ronald Lukens Bull, PhD (rlukens@unf.edu)

10. NGOabroad: Volunteers for Aid Programs in the Middle East or North Africa

Volunteers are invited to participate in programs in Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Palestine and Morocco on helping in schools with Syrian refugees, in a micro-finance program, in psycho-social peace building and women’s or youth empowerment; agriculture; or education, etc. Seasoned professionals and students both needed.

Applications accepted on a rolling basis. Information: http://ngoabroad.com/MENA/

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February 23, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Instructor – (Non-Tenure Track) in Arabic

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies at Temple University has a one-year non-renewable opening for an Arabic language instructor for the academic year 2019-2020.

Qualifications

The position requires native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic, a graduate degree in a field related to second or foreign language teaching, and at least two years of college-level experience teaching Arabic and an interest in and ability to teach a survey course on modern Arabic literature in translation.

Application Instructions

An application should include a vitae and cover letter discussing the applicant’s qualifications and approach to teaching, two confidential letters of reference on department letterhead from colleagues and/or supervisors familiar with the person’s teaching, and transcripts from all post-secondary institutions the applicant has attended.

Temple University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer.

Application Process

This institution is using Interfolio’s Faculty Search to conduct this search. Applicants to this position receive a free Dossier account and can send all application materials, including confidential letters of recommendation, free of charge.

Deadline: Apr 1, 2019

Apply via: https://apply.interfolio.com/60407

2. Call for papers and panel proposals for the Co-IRIS section at the 13th Pan-European Conference on International Relations.

Section 44: “The Unseen IR: Islam and the Study of the ‘International’“

Islam has played a major role in world affairs since its inception. Today, the Organisation of the Islamic Cooperation represents the second largest inter-governmental organisation of sates after the UN. A number of Muslim majority countries like the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Turkey under the AKP, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Malaysia: all claim to follow an Islamic approach to their domestic and foreign policy. Islam as an intellectual force, has received little sustained attention in the fields of Political Science and International Relations specifically. This Section aims to address the nature and goals of international relations, foreign policy and diplomacy from multiple Islamic perspectives. Those perspectives challenge and contribute to international practices and they represent their respective perceptions of the ‘International. The section is an effort to include Islamic civilization and Muslim majority countries in the contemporary international platform and the analysis of the “unseen” in the study of International Relations. We welcome both individual papers as well as full panel submissions. Proposed panel themes include but are not limited to:

– The seen and unseen in Islamic International Relations Theory

– Islam and international relations

– Islam and Foreign Policy Analysis

– Islam and Diplomacy

– The visual in the international relations of Islamic countries

Please find the full call for contributions here, https://coiris.net/2018/12/20/the-unseen-ir-islam-and-the-study-of-the-international/. Deadline for submissions is 28 February 2019.

Abstracts are to be submitted electronically via the online submission system here, https://www.czech-in.org/cmportalV15/Account/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FcmportalV15%2Fportal%2FPEC19%2Fnormal.

Please, read the Abstract Submission Guidelines prior to making your submission and visit the official EISA PEC 2019 website and the official Co-IRIS website for further updates. Do not hesitate to contact us or the conference organizers with any questions you may have.

Nassef Manabilang Adiong, PhD

https://nassef.info / +63.915.806.3184 / contact@nassef.info

International Relations & Islamic Studies Research Cohort (Co-IRIS)

The Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO)

3. THE CULTURAL TURN IN ARABIC LITERARY PRODUCTION

Columbia University

April 19-21, 2019

Sponsored by:

Columbia University’s MESAAS Department, Middle East Institute, SoF/Heyman Center, EVPAS,
Division of Humanities/ Faculty of Arts and Sciences , EALAC Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Center for Chinese Literature and Culture (CCLS), and Arabic Studies Seminar

Dartmouth College

Brill Academic Publishers

Dr. Aziz Shaibani/Arab-American Educational Foundation

In Memory of Barbara Harlow (1948-2017)

Day 1: Friday, April 19 – Faculty House/Garden Room 2, 1st Floor

8:45 – 9:20am	Refreshment
9:20 – 9:50am	Welcome and opening Remarks Mushin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University
9:50 – 11:45am	Panel 1: Mapping Arabic Literature as World Literature Chairperson: Elizabeth M. Holt, Bard College § “Worlding Arabic: Cultural Criticism, Philology and Weltliteratur” Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois § “Is there a Canon in this Corpus? Or What ‘belongs’ in the Library of Arabic Literature?” Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University § “Comparativism and the Foundations of World Literature” Yaseen A. Noorani, University of Arizona § “Between the Twilight of Empire and the Dawn of Decolonization: Arabic Literature, World Literature, Comparative Literature” Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota
11:45 – 11:55am	Coffee/Tea Break
11:55 – 13:15pm	Panel 2: Arabic and Chinese Literary and Artistic Production in Cross-Cultural Encounter/Translation Chairperson: Lydia Liu, Columbia University § “Mapping the Evolution of Nahdawi Literary Production about China” Peiyu Yang, McGill University § “Taha Husayn and The Days in China Across the 1949 Divide” Michael Gibbs, College of William & Mary § “Artistic Encounters between Baghdad and Beijing after the 1958 Iraq Revolution” Sonja Mejcher-Atassi, American University of Beirut
13:15 – 2:30pm	Lunch Break at Faculty House
2:30 – 4:15pm	Panel 3: Exile, Identity, and Engagement in Arabic Literature Chairperson: Shaden M. Tageldin, University of Minnesota § “Impossible Exiles: Palestinians in Arab Culture” Ahmad Diab, UC Berkeley § “Twists, Turns and Trajectories of Palestinian Literary Production” Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Freie Universität § “Al-Ādāb and its Ilitizām,” Qussay Al-Attabi, Kenyon College § “The Future Can’t Breathe in a Refugee Camp: Reading Taḍāmun and Iltizām in Women’s Novels of War” Michelle Hartman, McGill University
4:15 – 4:25pm	Coffee/Tea Break
4:25 – 6:15pm	Panel 4: The Islamic and the Secular Turn in Arabic Literary Production Chairperson: Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Georgetown University § “The Secularization of Islamic Symbols and Figures in the Poetry of ‘Abd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī and Badr Shākir al-Sayyāb Ruwa Alhayek, Columbia University § “The Cultural Translatability of Taqwā in the Early Sources” Erin Atwell, University of Chicago § “Exploring the Conceptual Relation Between al- Ījāz (Brachylogy) and Balāghah (Eloquence)” Hany Rashwan, Birmingham University § “Pre-Modern Arabic Literary Anthologies and the Social Imaginary: The Construction of Social, Cultural, and Political Paradigms,” Nuha Alshaar, American University of Sharjah
6:15 – 7:00pm	Keynote Address: Nadia al-Bagdadi, Central European University
7:00 – 9:00pm	Dinner – Faculty House

Day 2: Saturday, April 20 – Knox Hall Room 509

9:30 – 11:15am	Panel 5: The Comparative/Transnational Poetics and Politics of Literature I Chairperson: Wail S. Hassan, University of Illinois § “The Perception of Chekhov in the Arabic World and His Impact on Its Modern Literary Tradition” Maria Swanson, United States Naval Academy § “Magical Realism and the Specters of Postcolonial Present: Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of This World and Hoda Barakat’s The Kingdom of this Earth” Philip Raad, American University of Beirut § “From Istanbul to Baghdad: Engagements with Arabic Literature in the Ottoman World, 1500-1700” Murat Umut Inan, Social Sciences University of Ankara § “Arabic Poetry in the 21^st Century: A Poetics of Translation and Exophony” Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
11:15 – 11:25am	Coffee/Tea Break
11:25 – 13:20pm	*Panel 6 Managing/Publishing Arabic Literature (in Arabic)* Chairperson: Anna Ziajka-Stanton, Penn State University § Belal Fadl, Al-Masry al-Youm § Abdo Wazen, Al-Hayat and Independentarabia § Yassin Adnan, Macharif § Nouri al-Jarrah, Al-Markaz al-Arabi lil-Adab al-Jughraphi § Samuel Shimon, Banipal § Mbarek Sryfi, University of Pennsylvania
13:20 – 2:30pm	Lunch Break
2:30 – 4:20pm	Panel 7: The Multi-thematic Configuration of Classical Poetry and Poetics Chairperson: Shawkat M. Toorawa, Yale University § “The Achievement of Classical Arabic Allegorical Form: The ‘Ayniyyah of Abū Dhu’ayb al-Hudhalī” Jaroslav Stetkevych, University of Chicago § “Harb al-Basus as Mythic Matrix in Arabic Culture: Towards A Theory of Cultural (re)Production” Clarissa Burt, United States Naval Academy § “Labīd and Lubad: Lexical Excavation and the Reclamation of Myth in al- Ma’arrī’s Luzūmiyyāt” Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Georgetown University § “Mourning over Algerian Palatial Ruins: Ibn Ḥammād al-Ṣanhājī (d. 1230) on Qalʿat Banī Ḥammād” Nizar F. Hermes, University of Virginia
4:20 – 4:30pm	Coffee/Tea Break
4:30 – 6:5pm	Panel 8: The Comparative/Transnational Poetics and Politics of Arabic Literature II Chairperson: Yaseen Noorani, University of Arizona § “The Maqāmah Turn in West African Literary Tradition” Sulaiman Adewale Alagunfon, Freie Universität § “Between Cultural Appropriation and Literary Crossing: The Arabic Literature of ‘Europeans’ in Protectorate Tunisia” Benjamin Koerber, Rutgers University § “Towards an Arab Transnational Poetics of the New World” Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Purdue University. § “Words across genres and histories: Zaynab Fawwaz’s feminist locutions” Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford
6:5 – 6:15pm	Coffee/Tea Break
6:15 – 7:45pm	*Panel 9: On Writing: Experience, Process, Perception (in Arabic)* Chairperson: Tarek El-Ariss, Dartmouth College § “War and Displacement” Hoda Barakat, Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College § “Khitab al-Takfir” Chokri Mabkhout, University of Manouba, Tunis § “Writing the Political” Ezzedine C. Fishere, Dartmouth College § “Literature and Perception” Aziz Shaibani, Baylor College of Medicine/Arab-American Educational Foundation

Day 3: Sunday, April 21 – Knox Hall Room 509

9:30 – 11:30am	Panel 10: Revisiting the Modern(ist) and the Post-Colonial in Arabic Literature Chairperson: Joelle Abi Rachid, SoF-Heyman Center, Columbia Univ. § “Passionate Confessions: Sex, Sin, and Autobiography in Nineteenth-Century Aleppo” Peter Hill, Oxford University § “Medicine in Literature” Mònica Rius Piniés, University of Barcelona § “Invisible Hands: Crime, Fiction, and the Arabic Typewriter, 1890-1920” Hannah Scott Deuchar, New York University · “Housewife Novels, Everyday Life, and the Postcolonial State in Egypt” Shir Alon, University of Oklahoma § “All that Remains: Ruins as Sites of Becoming” Alexa Firat, Temple University
11:30 – 11:40am	Coffee/Tea Break
11:40 – 1:40pm	Panel 11: The Contemporary and Techno-Digital Turn in Arabic Literary Production Chairperson: Michelle Hartman, McGill University § “Zakariyya Tamir and Khalid Khalifa: Political Dissent as Affiliation and Marginality in Syria after 2011” Alessandro Columbu, Manchester University § “Transmission and Transit in Contemporary Arabic Literature: Naql and Its Limits” Drew Paul, University of Tennessee § “Glossing the Glossary: Digital Approaches to Paratexts and Power in Arabic Literature” Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College § “Cultural Disbelief & New Narratives: Contemporary Arabic Fiction (Re)Writing the Old Tale” Hanan Jasim Khammas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona § “In medio stat virtus’: On Hybridity, or the Rebellion Against Labels: Reconsidering Some Aspects of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature” Ada Barbaro, University of Naples “L’Orientale”
1:40 – 2:25pm	*Keynote Address: Mahdi Arar, Birzeit University (in Arabic)*
2:25pm	Closing Remarks Muhsin J. al-Musawi, Columbia University

Organizers: Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University), Elizabeth Holt (Bard College), Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College), Nizar F. Hermes (University of Virginia), and Anna Ziajka-Stanton (Penn State University)

4. PhD Conference on “Sacred Locations – Spaces and Bodies in Religion”, Central European University & University of Szeged, 13-15 June 2019

The conference invites contributions on the conceptualization, interpretation, management or instrumentalization of religion with regard to space, geographical or personal. Applications from PhD students and advanced Master’s students from all fields of humanities and social sciences are welcomed.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2019.

Information: https://religion.ceu.edu/crs-szeged-phd-conference-13-15-june-2019

5. NEW Deadline:

26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO), combined with the Section of Islamic Studies of the DMG: “History, Politics and Culture in Middle East and North Africa”, University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019

The organizers of the Congress call upon scholars of all relevant disciplines, who are engaged in research on the contemporary Middle East and its relations to other regions. The conference’s understanding of the Middle East comprises all countries of the Middle East, North Africa and the entire Islamic World.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 May 2019.

Contact for submissions: Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@ googlemail.com). Information: https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html

6. Assistant or Associate Professor at the Department of History, American University in Cairo

This is a five-year position, beginning fall 2019. All specializations and areas of study are welcome. The successful candidate must have a PhD in hand by the start of the appointment. The department is eager to review the applications of individuals with a strong research program, and demonstrated commitment to teaching.

Deadline for application: 15 March 2019.

Information: https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=105709

7. Post-doctoral Fellowship on the History of Gender Studies, Tel Aviv University

Preference will be given to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender studies. Candidates must have received their PhD from an accredited institution of higher learning, no earlier than 1 October 2014 and no later than 1 October 2019.

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2019.

Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58163

8. Workshops on “Women and Politics: MENA Experiences”, June 2019 in Abu Dhabi, October 2019 in Rabat

Call for Applications for early-career scholars who would like to participate in workshops on the following themes: women’s representation in legislatures, local government, the executive, and the judiciary as related to factors such as such gender quotas, decentralization, and institutional change. The organizers will cover participation costs for up to 20 qualified applicants.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019.

Information: http://web.apsanet.org/mena/2019-workshops/

9. Articles on “Muslims under Suspicion – Interdisciplinary Insights into Policies of Preventing so-called Islamist Extremism in Europe” for Special Issue of “Islamophobia Studies Yearbook”

The wide range of preventive measures against so-called Islamist extremism can be understood as an ensemble of different practices including inter-religious dialogue and education as well as surveillance of suspected groups and the persecution of persons deemed to be dangerous. How far contribute such preventive measures to the manifestation of inequalities in fields such as education, law, labour, security etc.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2019.

Contact: Sindyan Qasem (sindyan.qasem@posteo.de)

10. NEW deadline

Articles for the First Issue of “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”

Unpublished contributions from the Humanities, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences with a geographical focus on Turkey, the Ottoman Empire and its successor states, Iran, Central Asia and the Caucasus are invited in German, English and French.

Deadline for applications extended: 15 April 2019.

Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en/

Contact: Tabea Becker-Bertau (diyar@ergon-verlag.de)

11. 26th International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) in Cooperation with the Section Islam Studies of the DMG, University of Hamburg, 3-5 October 2019

For all deadlines and additional information:

https://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/en/voror/veranstaltungen/2019-davokongress.html

12. Mathal: Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies (IMEMS) http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal

ISSN: 2168-538X

Mathal is a journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies. It is an Open Access, double-blind peer-reviewed international journal published by Iowa Research Online, University of Iowa, USA. Current acceptance rate is 5.7. The main objective of Mathal is to provide an intellectual platform for scholars of Islamic thought and Islamic societies throughout history and throughout the world to share their ideas with the widest audience and in the shortest time possible. Mathal aims to promote critical multidisciplinary studies in humanities and social sciences and to become a repository of knowledge on the Islamic civilization and the Middle East.

The journal publishes research papers in the humanities (arts, history, literature, philosophy…), social sciences (sociology, economics, political science…), natural sciences (biology, physics, astronomy, chemistry…), abstract sciences (mathematics, computational sciences…), and practiced sciences (law, medicine, engineering). Scholars from the aforementioned disciplines with research and teaching interests in area studies, Islamic studies, and Judaic studies are especially welcome to submit their works. Mathal publishes original papers, review papers, case studies, empirical research, technical notes, and book reviews.

Since one of the journal’s primary goals is the dissemination of knowledge and scholarly inquiries, authors retain exclusive rights to their work, allowing them to republish their work on their personal websites or with other journals.

Because Mathal is an online Open Access journal, accepted articles are published as soon as the peer-review and revision processes conclude. Mathal does not limit the length of articles or the size of digital files at this time.

In Mathal, authors may publish articles in most languages including English, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Persian, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu.

For more information and/or to submit your work, please visit the following websites:

Mathal: http://ir.uiowa.edu/mathal

IMEMS Listserv: https://list.uiowa.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=IMEMS

Mathal is indexed in the Global LOCKSS Network.

Complete metadata for all articles in Mathal is available via OAI

http://ir.uiowa.edu/do/oai/?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=dcq&set=publication:mathal.

Mathal is hosted by the University of Iowa Libraries’ Institutional Repository (Iowa Research Online).

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February 19, 2019
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1.The British Association for Islamic Studies invites you to the Association’s Sixth Annual Conference for the will be held at the University of Nottingham from 15-16 April 2019.

With nearly 150 presentations covering the full range of Islamic studies and showcasing the latest developments in the field, we invite you to register online as soon as possible.

For information and to register, see : http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-2019

2. The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies for its 3rd Annual Symposium on Wednesday 12th June 2019 at the University of Birmingham, supported by the Theology & Religion Department, UOB. The keynote speaker will be Prof Charles Burnett, professor of the History of Islamic Influences in Europe.

TIMES Forum was set up in 2015 by researchers from a range of disciplines at the University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University. Our membership has steadily grown since, with members from different disciplines and institutions in the Midlands and beyond meeting to share their research. 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 and ECRs on a wide variety of subjects relating to the Islamic and Middle Eastern world including, but not limited to the following:

Philosophy, Theology & Qur’anic studies
History – medieval and modern
Law
Politics and Social Policy
Arts and Architecture
Literature, Language & Translation
Culture & Sociology
Intellectual History
Sufism
Economics and Finance

CfP forms can be downloaded from: https://timespgforum.com/times-symposium-2019

All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to timesforum@contacts.bham.ac.uk by Wednesday 27th February 2019.

Follow TIMES on Twitter: @TIMES_Forum

3. Call for Papers: “Persian as a lingua francain the Ottoman Empire” (Workshop)

University of Hamburg, 12-13 July, 2019

Deadline: February 28, 2019

We are pleased to announce that Hamburg University will host the Workshop: “Persian as a lingua francain the Ottoman Empire” on 12-13 July 2019. This workshop aims to bring together scholars with expertise in Persian and Turkish language contacts, who are interested in the manifold facets of the language, literature and history underlying the knowledge production of the respective traditions. Moreover, it aims to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between scholars of Ottoman, Iranian and Arabic Studies.

The theme of the workshop is the circulation of Persian knowledge in the Ottoman realm, which was near ubiquitous. It is widely acknowledged that from the 11 to 19 century, Persian was an important and highly influential language of literature, education, partly also of administration and diplomacy, in large regions of theEastern Islamic world. The dynamics and dissemination of Persian knowledge as a language of literature, and a lingua franca, and its surprising vitality and continuity, have not yet been studied sufficiently.

Workshop papers could address the following questions, among others:

Why/how and in which contexts was Persian used in the Ottoman Empire?

What was the importance of Persian for the cultural identity of ‘experts of knowledge’ and Ottoman poets?

Should Persian language and literature be considered as a part of “cultural transfer” or rather as an inalienable part of Ottoman culture?

What was the role of Persian for the ‘transfer of knowledge’ within the Ottoman Empire and beyond?

Application Procedure

We encourage inter-disciplinary submissions, including but not limited to history, literary studies, manuscript studies etc.

Abstracts should address one or more of the issues and questions mentioned above. The working language of the workshop will be English. Abstracts should not exceed 300 words for paper presentations of 20 to 25 minutes.

Please submit your abstract to ludwig.paul@uni-hamburg.de, ani.sargsyan@uni-hamburg.de by 15 March.

The selection of papers will take place until the end of March; applicants will be informed by early April.

For questions regarding the organization, please contact Professor Ludwig Paul ludwig.paul@uni-hamburg.de or Ani Sargsyan at ani.sargsyan@uni-hamburg.de

—

Ahmet Baris Ekiz

PhD Student

Middle East Studies

University of Michigan

bekiz@umich.edu

4. Fixed-term Arabic Teaching Associate Position in Cambridge (UK), for 12 months from September 2019.

See https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/about-us/jobs/teaching-associate-arabic-fixed-term

5. The Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant (SSCG)is an annual grant established by Dr. Shawky Salem and the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

The aim of the grant is to enable one expert in library and information sciences from the Arab Countries (AC) to attend the Annual IFLA Conference.

What does the grant cover?

The grant is to meet up to a maximum of USD 1,900 the cost of travel (economy class air transportation) to and from the host country of the conference, registration, hotel costs and a per diem allowance.

Eligibility

The grant is available to a librarian of Arab nationality, not exceeding 45 years
The applicant should not have attended an IFLA conference previously
The applicant should have at least 5 years of experience in LIS profession
The applicant must have the approval of his / her organization to attend the IFLA WLIC 2019

How to apply?

Download the 2019 application (available in Arabic & English) below. Additional information is available on the Dr. Shawky Salem Conference Grant (SSCG) webpage.

IFLA will act as administrator to the grant and will provide the Secretary of the jury.

Important Dates

The deadline for receiving applications is 31 March 2019.

The selection of a grantee will be made by 30 April 2019 by a jury consisting of members appointed by Dr. Salem and by IFLA. The grantee will be informed of his or her selection by the Secretary of the Jury in May 2019.

For more information and to apply, visit:

https://www.ifla.org/funds-grants-awards/SSCG

6. 31st Exeter Gulf Conference, at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies (Exeter, UK) on 1-2 July 2019The call for papers is available online:/<http://bit.ly/2FyHfgC>/https://bit.ly/2E63j3S

Deadline for application:*31 March 2019*.

7. The Rev. Dr. David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary’s Interim Academic Dean and Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, will present a five-part series on Islam at the John P. Webster Library at First Church, West Hartford, in March and April, 2019.

For further information, see: https://www.hartsem.edu/2019/02/interim-academic-dean-david-d-grafton-to-present-series-on-islam/

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February 16, 2019
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1.Workshop on “Islamic Reform and Modernity”, Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, 23-24 April 2019

Questions to be answered: What do we mean by Islamic reform (Islah) and Renewal (Tajdid) in Islamic Thought? Is Islamic reform mandatory or a choice? What are the fields required to be reformed for Islamic Revival? Is Islamic renaissance possible in 21st century? Etc

Deadline for abstracts: 11 March 2019.

Information: https://www.iur.nl/2019/02/07/call-for-papers-workshop-islamic-reform-and-modernity/

2. International Workshop on “Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages”, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, 13-14 June 2019

Examples of contemporary controversies include unregistered marriages, polygamous marriage, marriages with parties deemed too young or too old, temporary marriage, and mixed marriages (be it interfaith, interethnic, interracial, interclass, or transnational), etc. are welcome.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2019. Information: http://aissr.uva.nl/content/events/workshops/2019/02/multiple-materialities-of-muslim-marriages.html

3. Second International NEHT Workshop on “Environmental Histories of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey”, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, 6-7 September 2019

The overarching theme of the workshop is “Historicizing Nature: Water, Forest and Land”.

Deadline for abstracts: 5 March 2019. Information: http://neht.hist.metu.edu.tr/

4. Workshop: „Multilateral Dynamics between the Middle East and Asia in the Mongol Era“, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 15 December 2019

The workshop explores the interconnectivities between Asia (Central, East, Southeast, South and North) and the Middle East (including Greater Iran, Anatolia, Syria and Egypt, Yemen, al-Hijaz) in the Mongol period (13th-15th centuries). We especially welcome studies focusing on one text, object or media as an arena of cross-cultural connections as well as papers dealing with specific cross-Asian networks (commercial, religious, scientific).

Deadline for abstracts: 11 March 2019.

Information: http://mongol.huji.ac.il/news-and-activities/cfp-multilateral-dynamics-between-middle-east-and-asia-mongol-era

5. Postdoctoral Fellowship on “Radicalisation of Islam”, Yale University

The candidate for this one-year position will teach one course related to Muslim American studies which overlaps and extends several ethnic studies subfields (such as Arab American studies, African American studies, and Asian American studies) as well as disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, and political science.

Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/58704

6. Postdoctoral Associate on Contemporary Islam in Africa, University of Florida, Gainesville

This position is responsible for organizing workshops; teaching one semester-long undergraduate class; and pursuing a program of independent scholarship related to Islam in Africa in global context.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/60177

7. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic, Kenyon College, Central Ohio

The successful candidate will teach language–introductory through advanced courses–as well as possible courses in the candidate’s field of expertise, e.g. literature, film, etc. The teaching load consists of 3/2 course schedule.

Deadline for applications: 15 March 2019.

Information: http://careers.kenyon.edu/cw/en-us/job/492565/visiting-assistant-professor-of-arabic

8. Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholars Program for Senior Policymakers and Academics, Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School

Applications from scholars working on contemporary issues of policy relevance to the Middle East, and the Arabian Gulf in particular, in the disciplines of political science, economics, history, and sociology are especially welcome. Duration: One Semester (about four months).

Deadline for application: 17 February 2019.

Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/project/middle-east-initiative#kuwait-foundation-visiting-scholars-program

9. Contributions to “The Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas”

The Handbook seeks original contributions that address social, cultural, political or historical aspects of Middle Eastern diaspora communities. The Handbook aims to include field-based contributions on diaspora communities in and from the Middle East, as well as more general pieces addressing theoretical or methodological issues.

Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 1 March 2019.

Information: https://www.cmes.lu.se/research/call-for-contributions

10. Contribution pour le MIDÉO 36 (2021): “Iǧtihād et taqlīd dans l’islam sunnite et šīʿite”

Les propositions d’article doivent être soumises pour évaluation avant le 15 janvier 2020.

Information: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/36891

11. Oklahoma State University, School of Global Studies and Partnerships, Stillwater, OK, invites applications for a Tenure Track position as Assistant Professor and Farzaneh Chair of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies to begin August 2019. Deadline for applications: February 28, 2019. We seek a forward-looking scholar and educator with strong intellectual and leadership skills to direct the Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program. The ideal candidate will demonstrate an understanding of historical and contemporary challenges facing the nation, and will have the leadership skills required to lead and grow the Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program.

For more information, see: https://okstate.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?site=8&id=6017&fbclid=IwAR3a6fmQZT78EnHExtbUPRcSDqscTE9q3qY6IjfQNMHSfWfXFGO8sIWiNTc

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February 12, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Narrative Illustration on Qajar Tilework in Shiraz

Author: Atefeh Seyed Mousavi

Publisher: Verlag für Orientkunde

Publication date: December 2018

Series: Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte des Islamischen Orients” (Contributions to the Cultural History of the Islamic Orient).

EAN: 978-3-936687-46-3

Paperback: Vol. 1, 335 pages (Texts); Vol. 2, 268 pages (Images)

Price for two volumes: 79 €

Order Books: verlag.fuer.orientkunde@web.de (www.verlag-fuer-orientkunde.com)

Tilework illustration of the Qajar period has received comparatively little scholarly consideration. This applies specifically to Shiraz, where the art was abundantly practiced. My book, the first of its kind, presents a detailed analytical study of Qajar tile painting in Shiraz. The material has been collected during two extensive fieldwork trips. Having collected more than 5,000 photos, I have chosen 42 historical buildings in Shiraz with tile work decoration for a detailed analysis, supplying minute descriptions for each and every image together with a solid documentation of the tiles’ respective location in the buildings. My study identifies, classifies and analyzes the depicted themes and the craftsmanship behind it. Particular attention has been devoted to a detailed discussion of the prominent themes, their argument and motivation, as well as to popular artists of the period. In addition to the study, my work contains ample visual documentation.

For more information and the table of contents, please see: http://kreationen.net/

This book was published with the financial support of The Barakat Trust.

2. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Arabic or Visiting Assistant Professor of
Arabic College of Arts and Humanities, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

The Arabic Program in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at
the University of Maryland, College Park invites applications for a full-time
appointment as Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track) for the 2019-20 academic
year, with possibility of extension. The Program includes a major, a minor,
and an Arabic Flagship Program and draws interested students from majors
across campus. It uses the integrated approach in teaching Arabic, i.e. Arabic
dialects and the formal register are taught side by side, based on different
linguistic and cultural functions.

Strong candidates will have a passion for teaching Arabic as a second language
at all levels and for developing new curricular content in Arabic and English
in an area of specialization that engages students with life in the
contemporary Arab World from varying perspectives. Possible areas of
specialization include, but are not limited to, contemporary literature,
visual culture, digital communications and media, migration and refugee
studies, environmental studies, international relations, and anthropology. The
successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in academic and
extracurricular events sponsored by the Program, to pursue an active research
agenda, to teach four courses per year (a 2-2 load), and to play a dynamic
role in curriculum development and outreach in interdisciplinary studies and
on-campus partnerships.
Qualifications: PhD in hand by August 20, 2019; evidence of exceptional
scholarly achievement and excellence in teaching; native or near-native
fluency in Arabic and English; a strong command of Modern Standard Arabic.
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience; research travel
support available.

This position will be filled as either an Adjunct Assistant Professor or as
Visiting Assistant Professor. There is no tenure associated with this
position. For best consideration, materials should be received by Wednesday,
March 6, 2019. To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, sample syllabus,
and 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. 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 6
Departments (East Asian Languages and Cultures; French and Italian; Germanic
Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; Russian; Spanish and Portuguese) and three
independent programs (Central European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Film
Studies; and Second Language Acquisition); 2 Centers (the Center for East
Asian Studies; the Roshan Center 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.

3. Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence
Hosted by the Oxford Centre for Global History and the University of Texas

Date: 25-26 May 2019

Location: Brasenose College, University of Oxford

Registration: £50 standard, £25 student
Includes entry to all conference sessions, tea/coffee and lunch on both days, and a drinks reception on 25th May
For more information: https://global.history.ox.ac.uk/event/conference-sacred-kingship-world-history-between-immanence-and-transcendence

4. Classical Central Asia in the Digital Age: Three Newly-Digitised Navoiy Manuscripts at the British Library

Thanks to a partnership between the British Library and the Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature named Alisher Navoiy, three manuscripts including the poetical works of Alisher Navoiy are now available online. These three items are the first Chagatai-language texts to be uploaded to the Library’s digitised manuscript holdings, a sample of the more than 110 Chagatai and Central Asian Turkic manuscripts held by the British Library as part of its Turkish and Turkic collections.

All three works contain Divans, or poetical compendia, of the work of Alisher Navoiy, also known as ‘Ali Shīr Navā’ī. Navoiy was born in 1441 CE in Herat, Afghanistan, at a time when it was part of the Timurid Empire, and died in the same city in 1501 CE. He is the national poet of Uzbekistan and is regarded as one of the great poets of the mediaeval Turkic world. His broad oeuvre is a testament to the cultural, intellectual and social flowering of Khorasan in the 15th century CE, and to the importance of Herat in the broad mosaic of Turkic cultural production. The works are also an introduction to classical Chagatai, the literary language of Turkic Central Asia and Siberia. Little known or studied today outside of specialist circles, Chagatai was also the language of the Mughals, who established their reign over parts of the Indian Subcontinent in 1526.

See: https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/02/classical-central-asia-in-the-digital-age-three-newly-digitised-navoiy-manuscripts-at-the-british-lib.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

5. Centre for Islamic and West Asian Studies

Royal Holloway University of London

2^nd Annual Conference on Islam, the West, and Radicalism

20 February 2019

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Abdulaziz Sachedina (IIIT Chair in Islamic Studies, George Mason University)
Rabab Sadr (Chairperson, Imam Sadr Foundation, Lebanon)

For further information and to register see: https://ciwas2.eventbrite.com

6. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies is currently accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Research Associate position starting in September 2019.

Application Link: https://www.princeton.edu/acad-positions/position/10521
Deadline for Application: 03/31/2019

If you have any questions, please contact iran@princeton.edu

7. Lecture: Comparative Philosophy Colloquium by Mohammad J. Esmaeili “Reading Aristotle’s Physics Today.”

Date

11 February 2019

Time

15:15 – 17:00 hrs

Address

P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden

Room

0.07

Mohammad J. Esmaeili obtained his doctorate in philosophy at the Iranian Institute of Philosophy in Tehran in 2011 with a dissertation on Aristotle’s dynamics in the Greek, Arabic and Latin commentary traditions. At present he is a senior researcher at the Institute. His research focuses on Aristotelian philosophy and science and their impact on the Islamic world, roughly until the end of the seventeenth century CE. Apart from the articles that he published so far on this subject, he also edited a number of books on Islamic philosophy. These days he is finalizing his editio princeps of the natural philosophy section of Abu ʼl-ʿAbbās al-Lawkarī’s (fl. ca. 500/1106) comprehensive philosophical encyclopaedia Bayān al-ḥaqq bi-ḍamān al-ṣidq, in eight books: 1) Lectures on physics, 2) de Caelo et Mundo, 3) de Generatione et Corruptione, 4) de Mineralibus, 5) Meteorologica, 6) de Anima, 7) de Plantis, and 8) de Animalibus.

For more information:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2019/02/comparative-philosophy-colloquium-by-mohammed-j.-esmaeili

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February 09, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Researching the Asian and African Collections at the British Library

The Asian and African department at the British Library began 2019 with one of the most important annual events in our calendar: a training day for students beginning their doctoral dissertations. Approximately fifty students from across the UK were introduced to the collections and the best ways to research them.

Shii News – Academic Items

1.The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce that it will be offering its intensive summer Arabic programs in Beirut between June 19 and August 7, 2019. CAMES offers two separate programs:

A seven-week program in Arabic Language and Culture that is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from Elementary to Advanced High and students receive 9 credit hours that can be transferred to their home institutions.

A seven-week program in Lebanese Arabic (LA) that offers intensive instruction in LA at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for those learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in LA and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence in LA. The program offers students 9 credit hours that can be transferred to their home institutions.

Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities.

The Summer 2019 CAMES Arabic Programs will be directed by Dr. Mahmoud Al-Batal, Professor of Arabic at AUB, and will feature an outstanding team of instructors from AUB and other educational institutions in Lebanon, Europe, the US, and the Arab world.

The application deadline is March 29, 2019.

For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application forms, cost, and financial support available, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/

For questions, contact cames@aub.edu.lb.

2. Funded PhD studentship (UK): Islamic Architecture and the Modern Museum

Here is the link: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/assc/2019/01/20/funded-phd-studentship-islamic-architecture-and-the-modern-museum/

3. The “Religion in Pre-modern Europe and the Mediterranean” Unit within AAR is soliciting papers for the 2019 AAR Annual Meeting which will take place in San Diego on November 23-26, 2019. See the CFP below:

Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Statement of Purpose:
This Unit aims to bring together scholars working on premodern Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam in order to create a venue in which religious
phenomena can be considered comparatively. Individual papers may be embedded
in a single tradition, but presenters should be interested in engaging this
material comparatively during the discussion period.

Call for Papers:
We welcome proposals on all topics related to the Unit’s subject matter,
broadly conceived. Proposals that are themselves comparative in nature or that
present novel approaches to the study of premodern religion are particularly
welcome. We encourage the submission of preformed panel proposals suitable for
90-minute time slots. We also encourage the submission of individual paper
proposals for panels on the following subjects:

● Author-Meets-Critics –
John Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam
from the Middle Ages to Today (Princeton Univ. Press, June 2019). We seek
proposals from scholars in related fields who wish to respond to, engage with,
or offer a critique of the book, whose French edition has already been
published as Mohamet l’européen(Albin Michel, 2018). The author will respond.
To submit a proposal for this session, please include your name, describe your
scholarly background that relates to this text, and explain why you are
interested in responding to this text. In the abstract field, put “N/A.” (Co-
sponsored with the Religion in Europe program Unit)

● Material Cultural and Textual Representation of the Silk Road –
Papers might explore religious art, texts, or other objects of material
culture that come to Europe and the Mediterranean from geographic regions
along the so-called Silk Road. We are also interested in representations of
the route, the experience, history or expectations of traveling or living on
the route. Proposals that engage with theory relating to religious experience,
community, pilgrimage, economic exchange or religio-cultural interchange are
particularly welcome. (Co-sponsored with the Traditions of the East in Late
Antiquity Unit)

● Gendered negotiations of identity and authority in medieval cultures. We are
interested in all aspects of gender roles in relation to authority and
identity, particularly in and between various social and ethnic groups.
Potential areas of exploration include: How did medieval women negotiate
authority within and outside the family or, for Christian women, within and
outside the monastery? What roles did gender switching or gender ambiguity
play in these negotiations? How did interactions between social and ethnic
groups affect the dynamics of gender-based authority and identity?

● Religion, Medicine, and Healing Practices in Premodern Europe and the
Mediterranean – Papers might explore such topics as miraculous healings and
healing miracles; interpretations or adaptations of scriptural healing
narratives; religiously inflected healing magic, charms, or talismans; or
religiously specific approaches to medical training, practices, and/or
licensure. (Co-sponsored with the Religion, Medicine & Healing Unit)

Method of submission:
PAPERS – through the AAR website

Process:
Proposer names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee
members

Leadership:
Chair
Brian Catlos, brian.catlos@gmail.com
David Freidenreich, dfreiden@colby.edu

Steering Committee
Claire Fanger, claire@celestiscuria.org
Fadi Ragheb, fadi.ragheb@mail.utoronto.ca
Nicole Archambeau, nicole.archambeau@colostate.edu
Wendy Love Anderson, andersonwl@wustl.edu

4. OpenEdition books of the French Institute of the Near East

https://books.openedition.org/ifpo/?page=allbooks

5. Cambridge Muslim College (UK)

February Events

https://mailchi.mp/cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk/events-feb2109?e=92080e26fe

6. A FIVE-WEEK COURSE

The Islamic City, Spirit and Identity, Past and Present

Time and Venue
Tuesdays 5 March-2 April 2019, 18.30-20.30
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This course is free but booking is essential

For more information and to book a place, see:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-five-week-course-the-islamic-city-spirit-and-identity-past-and-present-tickets-55026596030

7. Call for Papers: “Religion as a Changing Category of Muslim Practice”

One-day workshop on 24th May 2019 at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Deadline for proposals: 28th February 2019.

Organisers: Dr Alex Henley (alex.henley@theology.ox.ac.uk) and Nabeelah Jaffer (nabeelah.jaffer@pmb.ox.ac.uk).

This workshop will focus on ‘religion’ as a changing category in modern Muslim practice. Participants are invited to share case studies from their research as a basis for discussion of the possible insights to be gained by bringing critical approaches to the category ‘religion’ to bear on our study of Islam.

The aim of the meeting is to support and encourage such fledgling studies, sharing both methods and findings in order to identify: effective methodologies; a useful conceptual vocabulary; common patterns among diverse case studies; degrees of variation across contexts; and potential new avenues for research. To this end, participation will be open both to researchers already focusing on these themes and those interested in exploring these aspects of their empirical work further. The workshop is co-sponsored by the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and Pembroke College, Oxford.

For further details and submission guidelines, see here:

https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/content/religion-changing-category-muslim-practice-one-day-work-shop

8. Cultural Complexity and Academic Clarity:
MA Programme in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the LMU Munich
(Deutscher Text oben)

The MA programme starts:
In the winter term. Applications are accepted until June 15th, 2019.

For further information:
on the programme: www.naher-osten.lm.de/ma
on the application process: www.naher-osten.lmu.de/ma_bewerbung

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February 02, 2019
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Call for applications

Summer School: Working in an Indian Archive: Indo -Persian records from Hyderabad,

Hyderabad, India, 19 .8.-30.8.2019.

Application deadline: 15 February.

For further information, see https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/63733.html

2. The Middle East and North African Graduate Student Organization (https://menas.arizona.edu/MENA), the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), and the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona invite you to participate in the 19th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies to be held on March 28, and March 29, 2019 in Tucson, AZ.

This conference aims to strengthen ties between academic disciplines, provide a platform for graduate students to present their research, exchange ideas, and create a network of emerging scholars spanning a variety of fields. We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs, but also from Linguistics, Literature, Area Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer Studies, Journalism, Gender and Women Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Public Health, Religious Studies, Sociology, Translation Studies, Anthropology, Economics, Geography, History, Music, and other studies related to the Middle East and North Africa from all time periods.

Internal applicants (UA) are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers and pre-organized panels. Individual paper abstracts must be 250 words and submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF file. In the body of the email, please include the author’s name, paper title, school, and department affiliation, phone number, and email address. A panel organizer must submit an anonymous panel proposal that includes the description of the panel and an abstract for each paper on it. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out within two weeks of the submission deadline. For further information, please submit your inquiries to uamena@gmail.com. Select papers will be published in our academic peer-reviewed online journal Zaytoon.

Submission deadline: February 22nd, 2019

Submit abstracts to UAMENA@gmail.com

3. Call for Applications: British Library PhD Research Placements

The British Library is now accepting applications for PhD research placements in 2019-20. A wide range of projects are available and full details, including information on how to apply, is available here: https://www.bl.uk/news/2019/january/phd-research-placements-2019

Our PhD research placement scheme is designed to offer opportunities for current PhD students to apply and enhance research, communications and analytical skills and expertise outside of Higher Education as part of their wider research training and professional development. A PhD research placement at the British Library offers the chance to experience research in a different environment to that of a university, to engage with a range of different research users and audiences, to gain insights into different potential postdoctoral career paths, and to make a tangible contribution to the activities and programmes of a national library and major cultural organisation.

The application deadline is 5 pm on Monday, 18 February 2019.

Most placements can take place any time between May 2019 and March 2020 (any restrictions to this are specified in the individual placement profiles). Each placement is for 3 months full-time or (if feasible) the part-time equivalent.

For the current Call for Applications, the placement topics are (please see the website for detailed profiles):

Art, poetry and memory: Contemporary UK Artists’ Books
Chinese works of art in the British Library Visual Arts collections
The Treasures of Danzan Ravjaa
Identifying and using map images in born-digital collections
Digitisation of archives: benefits and opportunities
George Orwell’s Collection of Political Pamphlets
Greek Papyri of Late Antique Egypt
Assessing the impact of the British Library’s major heritage acquisitions
Life on the Home Front: Experiences of the Second World War in Britain
Communicating international engagement at the British Library
The ‘long tail’ of UK born-digital publications: What can we learn from legal deposit data?
Illumination in Persian manuscripts
Making the case for the national library – exploring the value of how collections are used
Practice research at the British Library
Historic photographs of the Silk Road
Public policy development at the British Library: Soft Power and international working
Taras Shevchenko at the British Library: Mapping and linking our collections
Analysing topographical image making c. 1600-1824
Trade Literature in the British Library collection
The oriental manuscripts collection of Sir William Jones (1746-94)
Women’s History Online Resources
Exploring working-class writing at the British Library

If you have any questions please contact Research.Development@bl.uk.

4. Two Arabic positions at William and Mary.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures

The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of William and Mary invites applications for a one-year, non-tenure track Visiting Assistant Professor position that will begin August 10, 2019. We are looking for professional, skilled language instructors with experience and competence in teaching Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and at least one dialect in a communicative, proficiency-based manner from elementary to intermediate levels. Applicants should have native or near native fluency in MSA, one dialect and English. An MA or higher in Arabic language or literature is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record. The successful applicant will be expected to be an effective teacher and will have a 3-3 teaching load.

Required: A Master’s degree in Arabic language, literature or culture is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record.

Preferred: Ph.D. or ABD is preferred at the time of appointment August 10,2019 in addition to having a successful teaching record in an American University.

Applicants must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu. Submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter including statement of research and teaching interests, and a sample syllabus for a course you would like to teach. You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by the system with instructions on how to submit a letter of reference in addition to having a successful teaching record in an American University.

For full consideration, submit application materials by the review date, March 15, 2019. Applications received after the review date will be considered if needed and the position will remain open until filled.

Information on the degree programs in the Arabic Studies Program may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/arabic/index.php.

Lecturer of Modern Languages and Literatures (Arabic Studies)

The Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the College of William and Mary invites applications for a non-tenure-track lecturer position that will begin August 10, 2019. We seek an individual with expertise in Arabic Studies. The successful applicant will be expected to be a professional skilled instructor who can teach at all levels of the curriculum, both Arabic language and Arabic/Middle Eastern cultures courses. The former require implementation of innovative pedagogical techniques. The latter require a strong theoretical background to teach cultural studies courses.

Applicants should have native or near native fluency in MSA, one Arabic dialect and clearly speak and understand English. This instructor should also be able to function well in the William & Mary classroom environment where students expect a high level of give and take, and interactive, organized learning. The successful candidate will be expected to be an effective teacher and will have a 3-3 teaching load. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and teaching experience.

Required: A Master’s degree is required in Arabic language, literature or culture is required, in addition to a successful proficiency-based teaching record.

Preferred: A Ph.D. or ABD is preferred at the time of appointment begins (August 10, 2019). In addition to having a successful teaching record at an American University.

Applicants must apply online at http://jobs.wm.edu. Submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter which includes statement of research and teaching interests, a sample syllabus for a course you would like to teach. You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by the system with instructions on how to submit a letter of reference (at least one of which must speak directly to teaching ability).

For full consideration, submit application materials by the review date, TBD at posting time 2019. Applications received after this review date will be considered if needed.

Information on the Arabic Studies program in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/modernlanguages/arabic/index.php.

The College of William and Mary values diversity and invites applications from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching and service missions of the university.

5. The Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft (EHG) | Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology and the Eötvös Loránd University are pleased to invite you to the 15th colloquium of the Society to be held in Budapest, July 4–6, 2019, under the title Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology.

THEME

The concepts of frontier, boundary, and border, and consequently of spaces and regions they delimit, have left a persistent mark on the perception of geography, whether expounded in pre-modern Muslim textual sources, or by modern geostrategists. The medieval Hudud-al-ʽAlam (Limits of the World, 372/982) suggests, encapsulating in its title the defining significance of boundaries, that such divisions, imposed by mountains, rivers, or deserts, are inherent and natural markers to differentiate spaces and regions. The spatial turn, related also to changes in Central and Eastern Europe not so many years ago, has brought the concept to the forefront once again, also in scholarship on visual and material culture, art history, and archaeology.

Attempts to do away with the constraints of the inherited perception of a trans-regional Muslim world have brought about new approaches of looking at them. Such experiments have inevitably created new, perhaps more subtle, ruptures: temporal junctures between past and present understandings of things, and new, globalized distinctions. Spatial and regional delimitations rely on conceptual frames within which entities are defined, yet definitions themselves remain fluid despite our dependence on the very idea of definition. ‘Islamic art’ is among the definitions that fall short of assuming a generally accepted outline, often particularly in the regional art historiography of the countries that supposedly are covered by the term. Postulating sets of criteria to imply that the visual and material culture of a Muslim community, or Muslim society, was perceived by that community or society as ‘Islamic’ may lead to unsatisfying results, yet scholarly discourse on art and archaeology needs a discussion of these attempts.

The 15^th colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society invites papers, and encourages panel proposals, to address the ways in which Islamic art developed within or expanded beyond external, internal, confessional, and political limits and resulted in a diversity of visual and material cultures. There will be, as usual, also room for papers that report on current research outside of the main theme of the colloquium.

PROCEDURE

The colloquium is planned to begin with a keynote lecture on the evening of Thursday, July 4, 2019. It continues with panel sessions on Friday and Saturday, July 5–6. A meeting of graduate students is scheduled for Thursday, July 4, for which a separate call will be circulated. The graduate meeting is planned to include also a discussion panel with professionals speaking on research skills, publishing, and finding a job.The annual general assembly of the Ernst Herzfeld Society will be held on Friday or Saturday afternoon.

Please submit your panel or paper proposal for the colloquium by March 1, 2019 to Dr Iván Szántó: szanto@caesar.elte.hu All proposals will undergo a peer review selection process. Acceptance will be notified in the first week of April 2019.

Pre-arranged panels will preferably include three presentations. It is of course also possible to submit individual papers, which will be presented in open panels. Each presentation is limited to 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion (or 30 minutes of discussion per panel). The colloquium languages are English and German.

– Individual papers: Please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 300 words.

– Pre-arranged panels: Please submit a title and an abstract of no-more than 500 words presenting the topic and the aim of the panel, as well as a provisional list of speakers.

If you want to submit a paper proposal for the graduate meeting, please send your title and abstract to Sarah Johnson: sarah.cresap.johnson@gmail.com

Registration and participation in the colloquium are free for members of the Society. Other speakers and participants are asked to pay a conference fee equivalent to the annual membership fee of 50 € (reduced 25 €). We kindly request that speakers and participants organize their own travel and accommodation. A list of hotels located in the vicinity of the colloquium venue will be sent in due course.

With best wishes,

Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft Chairman:

Prof. Dr. Markus Ritter

History of Islamic Art

Department of Art History

University of Vienna

Austria

Vice-Chairwoman:

Prof. Dr. Francine Giese

SNSF-Professor

Institute of Art History University of Zurich

Switzerland

Organizer of the

15th EHG colloquium:

Dr. Iván Szántó

Department of Iranian Studies Eötvös Loránd University

Budapest

Hungary

szanto@caesar.elte.hu

6. Intensive course: Mamluk Archival Material

A three-day intensive course on Mamluk archival material, intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants, will be offered by Professor Emad Badr al-Din Abu Ghazi (Cairo University). This will be held at Waseda University on June 12-14, 2019, immediately before the sixth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies. The course will enable students to develop reading skills in Arabic archival material related to the study of the Mamluk period and provide related contextual knowledge. It will deal with various types of archival material, including waqf-related documents, theRagusa/Dubrovnik documents, Ottoman land registers (which include Mamluk land records), and diplomatic documents, among others. The course requires advanced or intermediate level of Arabic reading knowledge. Please note that the course will be taught in Arabic.

Since the number of participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms2019tokyo@gmail.com by the end of January, 2019. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February 2019, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.

The course fee is 35000JPY (approximately US$315), which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (June 15-17). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2019. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging.

We look forward to meeting you in Tokyo.

Tetsuya Ohtoshi, Waseda University (local organizer)

sms2019tokyo@gmail.com

Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège

Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago

7. Two AUC Summer Courses for Islamic Studies in Cairo for Graduate and Advanced Undergraduate Students

The general program (June 16 – July 12) covers Qur’an, Hadith, Islamic Law, and Sufism while the Islamic Law program (July 14 – August 8) covers origins, cases, criminal law, and post-colonial law

Deadline for application: 15 April 2019. Information: www.cairosummerinstitute.com

8. Conference: “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses: The Concept of Person and the Concept of Sexuality in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 13-15 February 2019

See program at https://www.kcid.fau.de/files/2019/01/KCID_Person_Sexuality_Folder_RZ_Freigabe_2.pdf

9. Workshop on “Youth Politics in the Middle East”, Amman, 19-20 June 2019

This workshop aims to move beyond simplistic descriptions of youth in the Middle East in favor of richer scholarship that takes young people seriously as social actors, and explores how their cultural, educational, economic, and local experiences intersect with politics and political struggle. Papers will be published as an issue of the open access POMEPS Studies series.

Deadline for proposals: 15 February 2019. Information: https://pomeps.org/2018/12/10/call-for-proposals-june-2019-workshop-youth-politics-middle-east/?fbclid=IwAR168JBbAFOMNZE21bGcmH8rXVorcRkx9cnhcUxLgSN7Q0w28tEL-cAjxKE

10. Seminar for Arabian Studies, University of Leiden, 11-13 July 2019

This international forum meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922).

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2019. Information: https://mailchi.mp/01b457455b66/bfsa-bulletin-call-for-contributions-1658909?e=18cf0337f7

11. PhD Research Fellowship on “Biopolitics in the Middle East”, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo

The fellowship is part of the project “The Lifetimes of Epidemics in Europe and the Middle East” which sets out to analyze and understand the different temporalities of epidemics. Qualification requirements: A Master’s degree or equivalent in Middle Eastern studies, medical humanities, cultural history, history of science, historical International Relations or relevant fields.

Deadline for applications: 1 February 2019. Information: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/161059/doctoral-research-fellowship

12. Call for Applications- Aga Khan Museum- International Research Grant

The Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani

Aga Khan Museum Art History Student Gift

The Aga Khan Museum (AKM) is pleased to announce the availability of research grants, generously supported by Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani. The Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani Aga Khan Museum Gift has been created to support PhD Art History candidates studying at higher education institutions worldwide with the costs of travel and accommodation related to research at the Aga Khan Museum.

The Aga Khan Museum

The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada is the first museum in North America that is dedicated to presenting the artistic, intellectual, and scientific heritage of Muslim civilizations across the centuries from the Iberian Peninsula to China. Through education, research, and artistic collaboration, the Museum aims to foster a greater understanding and appreciation of the contributions made by Muslim civilizations to world heritage and to promote tolerance and mutual understanding among people. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, a world-renowned architect and winner of the Pritzker Prize, the Museum opened in September 2014 and is home to a renowned collection of 1000 pieces of art from the Muslim world. To learn more about the collection and the upcoming programming at the Museum, visit, www.agakhanmuseum.org

International Research Grant

This research grant supports Art History PhD students internationally with their doctoral theses. Applications will be assessed based on the fit of the proposed research with the collections and resources available at the Museum, and the time proposed to undertake the work. Awardees are expected to spend the majority of their research time on the trip at the Aga Khan Museum, and to provide a short presentation of their research to an internal forum of Museum staff, which will then be shared with Faaiza Lalji and Ameel Somani.

Grants of a maximum of CAD $5,000 will be awarded to support researchers with their travel and accommodation in Toronto.

Requirements

Applications are restricted to Art History PhD candidates in support of research related to their doctoral theses.

To apply for a research grant, the applicant is required to have their research program pre-approved by the Aga Khan Museum. A letter of support from the office of the Director is required as part of the application.

To apply, candidates are asked to submit:

their CV;
a cover-letter of no more than two pages outlining their proposed research proposal, including the object list (if applicable), and days to be spent at the Aga Khan Museum and other Toronto museums;
a budget consisting of costs for travel to and from Toronto and accommodation during the stay;
a letter of support from the office of the Director of the Aga Khan Museum.

Applications will be reviewed once per year and must be received by 31st March. Candidates must be eligible to travel and stay in Canada. Candidates are advised to confirm their eligibility to travel to Canada before submitting their application so that there are no disappointments later.

Please submit applications to:

International Research Grant

C/o Director’s Office

Aga Khan Museum

77 Wynford Drive

Toronto, ON M3C 1K1

Canada

Email:research.grant@agakhanmuseum.org

13. Virginia Commonwealth University – VCU – Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58186

14. The Center for the Humanities and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University invite applications for two one-year postdoctoral fellowships, beginning July 1, 2019. The fellows will take a leading role in a research project on themes in Culture, History, and Translation, a project funded by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Tufts under its Research and Scholarship Strategic Plan.

We seek two junior scholars whose research builds upon the traditional strengths of humanities – languages, textual interpretation, ethics and values – to rethink society, culture, art, religion, and civilization beyond the national unit that previously organized many studies. This project considers longer histories of connection, exchange, and interdependency in ways that unsettle discretely bounded territories and recast received historical periods, by reconsidering formerly studied “areas” such as: the global study of Europe, transoceanic studies, hemispheric American studies, global Black diaspora studies, and transregional Arabic studies, among others.

The fellow will receive a stipend of $48,000, will be eligible for Tufts University health benefits, and will have a workspace at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts. Fellows will be expected to teach one course in a topic related to their area(s) of specialization, or to participate in equivalent work of course design and planning, during the academic year, as well as participating in other designated activities.

Qualifications

Candidates must have a PhD. The area of disciplinary specialization is open and may involve one or more of the following disciplines: anthropology, history, comparative literature, religion, material and visual culture, critical theory. However, the Culture, History, and Translation project is particularly interested in interdisciplinary scholarship with the ability to think broadly and experimentally across conventional geographic, thematic or temporal norms. Specifically, we seek scholars whose work engages the concept of translation as interceding on settled notions of culture and history and as imbricated in constructions of colonialism, race, empire and diaspora.

Application Instructions

Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, a 2500-word research description, and three confidential letters of reference, submitted directly by the authors, and uploaded to Interfolio. All application materials must be submitted via Interfolio at: http://apply.interfolio.com/58991. For additional information, applicants may contact the Center for the Humanities at humanities@tufts.edu. Review of applications begins on February 1, 2019 and continues until the positions are filled.

15. Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship

The 8^th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

The organizing committee invites applications for fellowships to support attendance at the 8^th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art to be held in Doha, Qatar from November 10 to 11, 2019. The due date for applications is March 1, 2019.

The Hamad bin Khalifa Travel Fellowship provides full financial support for up to 5 individuals (advanced graduate students or early career scholars) who will present new and cutting-edge research in a dedicated workshop on November 9, 2019 with the Symposium speakers, Co-chairs, and Virginia Commonwealth University students and faculty. This workshop will not be open to the public. Presentations shall engage with the symposium’s theme: The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art. Fellowships cover the cost of travel, meals and lodging, and special events during the entirety of the Symposium, from the Fellows’ Workshop on November 9 through the speaker presentations on November 11. Preference is given to applicants from diverse backgrounds with long-standing research interests in Islamic art. Participants at the symposium and workshop will include more than two dozen leading international scholars researching the cross-cultural strands of Islamic art beyond its traditional borders. Each fellow’s presentation will be 15 minutes and will be followed by discussion.

Applications include a statement of interest of up to 100 words, a presentation title and abstract of up to 300 words, and a 2-page CV. To apply, please visit www.islamicartdoha.org.

16. Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies. The volume offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. The 28 essays cover the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate.

Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies. Studies on Diplomacy and Diplomatics, Frédéric Bauden and Malika Dekkiche (eds.), Leiden and Boston 2019, xxviii-882 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-38463-7

https://brill.com/view/title/39256

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1.CfP: “The Ties that Bind”: Mechanisms and Structures of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, 2-6 December 2019

Deadline for submission of abstracts, January 31st 2019.

As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the structures and mechanisms that allowed the early Islamic empire to function. The period to be focused on at the conference is roughly focused on is roughly 600-1000 CE.

Structures and mechanisms

The papers should describe the way that local and regional elites were both embedded in larger structures of power and dependency, and employed specific mechanisms to achieve their goals. By structures, we refer to frameworks such as administration, tax-collection, political networks, religious communities, legal systems, social conventions and patronage networks. By mechanisms, we refer to specific instances which establish relationships between actors, including documentary cultures, mechanisms of social integration and embedding (such as oaths, contracts, pledges, marriage, inheritance and succession conventions), mechanisms of social exclusion (such as ostracism, imprisonment, excommunication) and so forth.

Papers may deal with mechanisms and structures that hold the empire together, or examine the fissiparous and centrifugal forces that tend in the opposite direction. Moments of crisis and breakdown are understood as particularly useful both illuminating the precise nature of structures and mechanisms and they are contested, renewed or replaced.

Local and regional elites

In focusing on local and regional elites, we aim to understand how the authority and power of the caliphate was actualized within the daily lives of the empire’s inhabitants. This focus cements a shift in recent years to thinking about the caliphate as a multipolar entity, rather than a pyramidical hierarchy of power (Neff and Tillier), and as a set of relationships and interfaces between actors whose influence derives from being embedded in a particular local context, and power-brokers at the centre of the empire (Paul, Heidemann) . This conference aims to push the field further, by inviting participants to dissect with greater precision the specific structures, mechanisms, behaviours, strategies and conventions that enabled key stakeholders to achieve goals which shaped the lives of the inhabitants of the empire.

Source material will be open to presenters, but we particularly welcome papers that combine literary sources with documentary and material sources.

In addition to the presentation of papers, invited presenters will be encouraged to prepare visualizations of the structures and frameworks that they perceive in their materials, to be discussed in a separate session. These visualizations might be formed in terms of networks, hierarchies, blocs, or other models of conceptualizing the relationships between the diverse stakeholders in the empire.

One of the outcomes of the ERC project, Embedding Conquest, will be an edited volume which records the results of this and other conferences. Participants may be invited to submit their contribution as part of the edited volume. If you will be unable to contribute your research to this volume, then please signal that when you submit your abstract.

Details

The conference will take place 2-6th December, 2019.

Papers will be 30 mins with 15 for Q&A. Participant may also be requested to participate in additional discussion and visualization sessions.

Please send an abstracts of around 300 words to e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl by January 31st 2019.

Travel and accommodation will be subsidized.

Link to the call for papers:

https://emco.hcommons.org/events/event/call-for-papers-mechanisms-and-structures-of-social-dependency-in-the-early-islamic-empire-2-6-december-2019/

2. Lecturer in Islamic History 600-1800 at QMUL (London) (closing date 06/02/19)

https://webapps2.is.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/job.action?jobRef=QMUL17414

3. The Research Training Group *Philosophy, Science and the Sciences* (RTG 1939) (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de ) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is offering several

*salaried positions for doctoral candidates*
*stipends for pre-doctoral studies*

to candidates working on a research project within the RTG 1939 on the dialogue between different forms and models of knowledge in ancient Greek, Roman and Arabic thought (including its medieval and early modern reception). Topics involve both philosophy and some special science or other (including mathematics, medicine, and other disciplines that we might not today consider special sciences, such as grammar or divination).

Salaried doctoral positions (T-VL Berlin E13 at 65%) will be funded for three years, starting on 1 October 2019.
Stipends for pre-doctoral studies have guaranteed funding for one year, starting on 1 October 2019. Pre-doc students making good progress toward the doctorate will receive a further three years of funding, leading to the completed doctorate.

Additional funding is available for conference travels, research stays abroad and other qualification measures, such as language training.

Applications: Please follow the instructions given on our website (ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de). The application deadline is 31 January 2019.

4. 1st International Conference on “Peace and Conflict Resolution (ICPCR)”, Tehran, 29-30 April 2019

The University of Tehran, the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), the Iranian National Commission for UNESCO and the Iranian Peace Studies Scientific Association will host this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 4 February 2019, Information: https://icpcr.ut.ac.ir/

5. 41st International Annual Conference of the European Association of Middle East Librarians (MELCom International): L’Orientale, Napoli, 18-21 June 2019

MELCom International is devoted to the study of collections, librarianship, projects etc. of resources and sources from and on the Middle East at large.

Information: www.melcominternational.org

6. Two Research Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

The fellowships are tenable from October 2019 for a three year period, offering a competitive salary determined by qualifications and experience in the range of £24,000 – £31,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies.

7. Senior Research Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford

The successful candidate will be engaged in research and publication in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences which contributes to a more informed understanding of the Islamic world – its history, economics, politics, culture, civilisation and contemporary life. The fellowship is for a three year renewable period, and may be extended. Salary in the range of £39,000 to £53,000.

Closing date is 15 April 2019. Information: www.oxcis.ac.uk/vacancies

8. Lecturer in Arabic Language and Culture, University of Rhode Island

The lecturer will teach courses at all levels, from beginning language courses to upper-level content courses taught in the Arabic language, and potentially English-language content courses on cultural topics in the Arabic-speaking world.

Deadline for application: 15 February 2019. Information: https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/4608

9. Articles for the First Issue of “Diyâr. Journal of Ottoman, Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies”

Extended deadline for full articles: 15 April 2019. Information: https://www.diyar.nomos.de/en/; contact Tabea Becker-Bertau (diyar@ergon-verlag.de).

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1.FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS | SYMPOSIA IRANICA

FOURTH BIENNIAL PG AND EARLY CAREER SCHOLARS’ CONFERENCE ON IRANIAN STUDIES

Hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John’s College, Cambridge, UK, 9-10 April 2019

***Final Submissions by Midnight, Friday 25 January 2019***

We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities and social sciences. These include but are not limited to prehistory through to the ancient and post-antique, modern, and contemporary histories; historiography; art and architecture history; anthropology; archaeology; cultural heritage; film and cinema; music and musicology; new media and communication studies; the performing arts; poetry and literature; languages and linguistics; Diaspora and migration studies; diplomatic studies, international relations and political science; social and political theory; law and legal studies; economics, philately and numismatics; sociology; philosophy; religions and theology.

Comparative themes and interdisciplinary approaches are also very welcome.

SUBMISSIONS

Proposals are open to early career scholars at postgraduate and post-doctoral levels from any disciplinary background within the arts, humanities and social sciences:

Postgraduate students (MA, MPhil, MSt, etc. who are currently enrolled or who graduate/d in 2019 or 2018);
PhD students and PhD candidates at any stage of their degree; and
post-docs who graduated within the last three years (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015).

Persons falling into any of these categories are eligible to submit a proposal for an individual paper or pre-arranged panel. Submission is conducted electronically through the website. For any questions, please email us at office@symposia-iranica.com.

The language of the conference is English. All submissions undergo double-blind peer review.

2. The Aga Khan Library, London, is hosting Seminar on Islamic Studies Librarianship: Past, Present and Future on 31 January 2019 (10-00-5.30 pm).

Speakers: Leif Stenberg, Walid Ghali, Arnoud Vrolijk, Paul Auchterlonie, David Hirsch, Gregor Schwarb, Waseem Farooq and Sarah Savant

Address: Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN

For further details and registration link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/seminar-on-islamic-studies-librarianship-past-present-and-future-tickets-53442200059

3. Open Access Book Series: Memoria fontes minores ad historiam Imperii Ottomanici pertinentes.

https://prae.perspectivia.net/publikationen/memoria

4. Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam(University of Texas Press, March 2018).

Edited by Federico Spinetti (U. Cologne) and Michael Frishkopf, with a foreword by Ali Asani (Harvard), this interdisciplinary collection comprises 14 chapters, representing multiple regions of the Muslim world, by scholars offering diverse perspectives on the multifaceted relations between sound and the built environment.

The volume includes 16 full color plates, some 70 b&w figures, and an accompanying website (in progress) at archnet.org, which will ultimately provide accompanying AV for every chapter.

ِContributors (in order) include Ali Asani, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Nina Ergin, John Morgan O’Connell, Irene Markoff, Michael Frishkopf, Jonathan H. Shannon, Samer Akkach, Cynthia Robinson, Glaire D. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Saida Daukeyeva, Anthony Welch, and Federico Spinetti.

https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/frishkopf-spinetti-music-sound-and-architecture-in-islam

5. Jobs:

University of Oslo – PhD Fellowship: Biopolitics in the Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58082

National Chengchi University – Full-time Faculty Position (Tenure
Track) in Arabic Linguistics/ Arabic Culture/ Computer Science/
Information and Communication Technology in Learning/ or relevant
fields
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58096

University of California – Berkeley – Academic Coordinator II-Center
for Middle Eastern Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=58108

6. 3rd Annual International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Studies on: “Feminism in the MENA Region: Women’s Rights in a Post-Globalist World”, Kenitra, Morocco, 20-21 March 2019

The Takamul Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies and Research in cooperation with the Hanns Seidel Foundation invites you to participate in this Conference.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2019. Information

http://www.hssma.org/admin_files/Conference%20Call%20for%20Submissions%20Updated.pdf

7. Conference: “Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (1150–1550) – Including Arab-Islamic Geography”, University of Tübingen, 11-12 April 2019

The comparative perspective is intended to capture traditional peculiarities as well as transcultural exchange processes between the Arab-Muslim and the Latin-Christian world.

See program at https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3543039/geography-and-religious-knowledge-medieval-world-1150%E2%80%931550

8. Posts:

a) Irmgard Coninx Prize Fellowship for Transregional Studies “Europe in the Middle East – The Middle East in Europe (EUME)”, Berlin, 2019/2020

The prize consists of a post-doctoral research fellowship of up to ten months and the possibility to participate in the scholarly activities of the Forum.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://www.forum-transregionale-studien.de/ausschreibungen/irmgard-coninx-2019.html

b) Fellowships at the American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo

Applications are invited to conduct independent humanities research in Egypt. Doctoral, postdoctoral, early career and senior humanities scholars are eligible to apply. Most awards require American citizenship.

Deadline for applications: 15 January 2019. Information: https://www.arce.org/fellows

c) Assistant Professor in Islam, Florida International University

The Department of Religious in the School of International and Public Affairs is pleased to announce a search for a faculty colleague with a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Candidates should becompetent in either Turkish, Arabic or both. A Ph.D. is required.

Deadline for applications: 31 January 2019. Information: https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/?posting=516574

d) Assistant Professor on Islam of the Late Medieval or Early Modern Period, Florida International University

Candidates should have a specialization in Islam of the late medieval or early modern period, preferably with a focus on the Ottoman Empire.Candidates should be competent in either Turkish, Arabic or both.

Qualified candidates should apply to Job Opening ID (516574) at https://facultycareers.fiu.edu/

9. Summer School on “Cultures of Documentation in Persianate Eurasia (15th-19th Centuries)”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna, 2-7 June 2019

The basic requirement is knowledge of Persian and one Turkic language (Ottoman Turkish or Chaghatay).

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/3531264/call-applications-summer-school-cultures-documentation

10. Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, in conjunction with the Program of Iranian Studies, at UCLA, invite applications for a postdoctoral position in the history and culture of modern Iran, effective July 1, 2019.

The Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellowship aims at promoting the work of exceptional scholars at an early stage of their careers whose presence at UCLA would strengthen the study of modern Iran. Applicants from all fields of humanities and social sciences are encouraged to apply. The Department is particularly interested in candidates whose research and teaching engage broader cultural and intellectual traditions, are transdisciplinary in scope, and grounded in philological expertise and archival work.

Applicants are required to have completed their PhD before the beginning of their tenure at UCLA. Preference is given to candidates who have obtained their doctoral degree more recently. Postdoctoral fellows may not hold concurrent fellowships or positions during their appointment.

Applicants should apply online via UCLA Academic Recruit. Applications require submission of (1) cover letter; (2) curriculum vitae and list of publications; (3) synopsis of proposed research project, and why it may be successfully conducted at UCLA, including publication goals; (4) sample syllabi for introductory courses and graduate seminars for a 10 week quarter; and (5) names of three referees.

Deadline for applications is February 15, 2019 and the Search Committee will begin reviewing the applications on March 1st.

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF04237

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