Categories : Academic items

1.Séminaire ‘Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien’

« Le soufisme et le salafisme au Kurdistan d’Iran : une discontinuité historique dans le discours religieux contemporain »

Séance du 8 octobre 2015, 17h-18h30

Hawzhin Baghali, doctorante, CETOBAC, EHESS, Paris

Dans cette présentation, nous nous intéressons au changement discursif religieux dans une région qui constitue de nos jours le Kurdistan d’Iran. L’histoire des régions périphériques tel que le Kurdistan  a généralement été ignoré au déterminent d’une histoire du centre. Sur la plan politique, l’Iran est connu peut être la capitale du monde chiite, tandis que la plupart de ses régions frontalières de pays sont sunnites, même que la plupart de la population kurde d’Iran. Cette dernière présente un visage sensiblement différent à par rapport à l’Iran chiite.

Les acteurs religieux dans la société kurde se présentent à travers deux discoures religieux. L’un repose sur le soufisme et l’autre sur l’islam politique. Aujourd’hui, les soufis sont considérablement marginalisés, moment où le Kurdistan était l’un des centres du soufisme depuisle  XIVe siècle jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle. En fait l’islam soufiste représentait l’islam dominant  au Kurdistan. Mais à partir de cette date, l’islam politique émergé comme  discours dominant par une rupture historique.  Actuellement, il y’a trois groupes au Kurdistan sous la formes de groupe islamique ; Dawat va eslah-e Iran qui a  l’approche des frères musulman, Maktab-e Qoran qui veut présenter un islam kurde et les petites groupes salafistes.

Donc  en présentant de la situation de l’islam soufi et l’islam politique au Kurdistan nous nous demandons  que comment  l’islam politique a pris la place de soufisme au Kurdistan en tant que le discoures religieux dominant, de sorte que le soufisme se redéfini sous la forme du groupe politique aussi ?

Lieu : Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3, centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, salle 410 (4e étage), 75005, Paris.

Organisateurs :

Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3), Julien Thorez (CNRS).

 

2. Assistant Professor in Modern Middle East History, Murray State University – www.murraystatejobs.com/postings/4834

 

Project Director Middle East Forum, Washington – www.meforum.org/5530/job-announcement-washington-project-director
 

Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East/North Africa, Kansas State University – www.k-state.edu/hcs/jobs/openings/5609AsstProf.pdf
 

Assistant Professor in the History of the Islamic World, Furman University – https://jobs.furman.edu/postings/5290

 

Tenured or Tenure-Track (any level) Position on History of the Modern Middle East for Arab Crossroads Program, New York University, Abu Dhabi
The position is to begin in September 2016. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the time of appointment. Deadline for applications: 1 November 2015. Information: http://nyuad.nyu.edu/about/careers/faculty-positions.html

 

3. Summer School: “Critical Muslim Studies:  Decolonial Struggles, Theology of Liberation and Islamic Revival”, Granada, Spain, 23 May – 3 June 2016

The Center for the Study of Intercultural Dialogues is hosting this summer institute which is open to advanced undergraduates, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, junior faculty as well as professionals and activists interested in any aspect of Critical Muslim Studies. This seminar is open to both Muslims and non-Muslims.

Application Deadline: 5 February 2016. Information www.dialogoglobal.com/granada
 

4. Articles on “Water Security/Sovereignty in the Middle East and North Africa” for Special Issues of “Middle East Law and Governance” (MELG)

MELG invites scholars to consider how water offers a fruitful analytic vehicle by which to reflect on and assess the governing processes and conditions between people, state agencies, and other institutions in the Middle East and North Africa.

Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2015. Information: http://pomeps.org/2015/09/24/call-for-papers-water-securitysovereignty-in-mena/
 

5. Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages

Associate Professor within Modern Iran: History, Society and Politics

Oslo

http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1485798/62042?iso=no

Description

A permanent (tenure) position of Associate Professor in Modern Iran: History, Society and Politics is available at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.

The holder of the position is expected to initiate and lead research related to historical, social and political developments in Iran in the period after 1900, to supervise PhD  and MA candidates, to participate in teaching, exam setting and evaluation at all levels, and to carry out administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the Department.  The successful candidate will play a central role in further development of high-quality research and teaching in Middle East Studies at the Department in collaboration with colleagues, and is expected to contribute to the activities at the Department’s Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent academic qualifications with a specialization in the study of modern Iran
• The ability to use oral and written Persian language sources in research and in courses taught at all levels
• Pedagogical skills and a willingness to take active part in academic leadership and administration, see How to document your pedagogical skills 
• Personal suitability and motivation for the position

The following qualifications will be taken into account in the assessment of the applicants:

• Academic qualifications and academic production with a focus primarily on the study of modern Iran; with an emphasis on works published within the last 5 years. Originality and innovative thinking are preferred to quantity
• Ability to contribute to the teaching of courses in Persian language
• International peer-reviewed publications
• Potential to contribute to the long-term development of the academic and research environment at the department
• Positive results in external fund raising
• Pedagogical qualifications and ability to inspire students
• Interest, ability and/or experience in management and administration
• Collaborative skills and willingness to initiate joint projects
• Experience with collaboration across established academic disciplines, and ability to build international networks
• Communication and public outreach skills
• Candidates with sufficient knowledge of one of the languages of the Middle East (in addition to Persian) to be able to use it in research, may be preferred

In the assessment of the qualified candidates all criteria listed above will be explicitly addressed and assessed. The quality of published academic work, development potential and breadth of intellectual/academic interest will be prioritized in this order.

Applicants who at the time of appointment cannot document basic teaching qualifications will be required to obtain such qualifications within a two year period. The teaching language is normally Norwegian at the bachelor level, while the Master studies programme option in Middle East Studies is conducted in English. On the appointment of a candidate who is not fluent in Norwegian, Swedish or Danish, the appointee will be expected within two years to learn sufficient Norwegian to be able to participate actively in all functions the position may involve.

We offer

• salary level 60-68 (NOK 510 100 – 591 400, depending on level of expertise)
• the possibility to apply for promotion to full professorship at a later stage
• a professionally stimulating working environment
• pension agreement with Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund
• attractive welfare benefits

Submissions

Applicants must submit the following attachments with the electronic application form, in pdf format:

• Application letter describing qualifications
• Curriculum Vitae
• List of published and unpublished works
• Description of one or more research projects which may be relevant for the Department
• Proposed topics for MA theses (areas in which you feel qualified to supervise MA theses)

Applicants are asked to describe and exemplify the entire range of qualifications and criteria mentioned in the announcement of the post.

Selection procedure

As the first step in the evaluation process, a Selection Committee will assess all applications and invite the most qualified applicants to submit a portfolio of educational certificates and academic works (up to 10 publications, which should not exceed 500 pages in total) for further assessment by an Expert Committee. Applicants who are invited to submit academic works are asked to select three works, published within the last five years, to be considered as more relevant for the position. In longer publications (monographs), applicants may specify the relevant pages. Applicants are also asked to submit a portfolio that documents other qualifications (public outreach, teaching and supervision, and any experience with leadership and administration). The Expert Committee’s assessment shall constitute the basis for the further proceedings by the appointments board.

Finally, the most highly ranked candidates will be invited for an interview and a trial lecture.

Within his/her normal duties, and in accordance with his/her academic competence, the person appointed may also be asked to work outside his/her department. The appointment is made under the condition that the employer may change the subject area and assigned tasks according to the needs of the department.

See also Rules for appointments to Associate Professorships which includes a guide for applicants and evaluation committees.

According to the Freedom of Information Act (Offentleglova) § 25, Chapter 2, demographic information about the applicant may be used in the public list of applicants even if the applicant opts out of the entry in the public application list.

The University of Oslo has an agreement for all employees, aiming to secure rights to research results.

The University of Oslo aims to achieve a balanced gender composition in the workforce and to recruit people with ethnic minority backgrounds.

If you have further questions, please contact:

• Head of Department/Professor Bjørn Olav Utvik, mailto:b.o.utvik@ikos.uio.no
• Professor Brynjar Lia, mailto:brynjar.lia@ikos.uio.no
• Senior Executive Officer Evian Nordstrand (questions on electronic application), mailto:evian.nordstrand@hf.uio.no

 

 

6. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut – Research Collaborator (pre-doctoral, part-time)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51737

University of Alabama – Huntsville – Assistant Professor, Non-Western
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51768

University of Central Florida – Assistant Professor, Tenure Track /
World Heritage
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51725

1.Manhattan College – Assistant Professor with Teaching Field in
African or Middle Eastern History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51561

American University – Beirut – The Alfred H. Howell Endowed Chair in History and Archaeology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51663

University of Massachusetts – Lowell – Assistant Professor of History
of the Middle East and the Islamic World
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51693

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51694

Binghamton University – Assistant Professor, Ottoman History (c.
1300-1750)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51664

University of Nevada, Reno – Assistant Professor, History of the
Middle East and Security Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51661

 

2. Details for a session on “Social policy, Islam and Muslim Societies” at 24th World Congress of Political Science, Istanbul, 23-28 July 2016 (https://istanbul2016.ipsa.org/my-ipsa/events/istanbul2016/panel/social-policy-islam-and-muslim-societies). The deadline for submitting an abstract is the 7th of October 2015. Please submit your abstracts (250 words outlining the main question, method, findings, conclusion) through the dedicated ISA submission website (https://istanbul2016.ipsa.org/events/gateway?destination=my-ipsa/events/submit/paper).
24th World Congress of Political Science (RC30 Comparative Public Policy)

Session Title: Social policy, Islam and Muslim Societies

Organisers:

Dr. Rana Jawad, Lecturer in Social Policy, Director of Studies for MIPPA, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath, United Kingdom (R.Jawad@bath.ac.uk)

Dr. Ali AkbarTajmazinani, Assistant Professor (Social Policy), Faculty of Social Sciences, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran (atmazinani@yahoo.com)

 

With a total population of around two billion people, Muslims constitute the majority population in nearly 40 countries around the world from Morocco to Malaysia and also form a considerable part of other mixed societies. One of the most prominent features of Islamic social teachings revolves around social welfare concepts, principles, as well as strategies and solutions. However, it is not possible to portray a single picture of social policy in Muslim societies given the vast diversity of historical, political, and economic circumstances they have experienced as well as various cultural characteristics they possess. Despite these diversities, Muslim societies have to respond to more or less similar social problems with regard to family and gender issues, inequality and poverty, education and health, as well as juvenile delinquency and criminal justice. How do they deal with these issues and what is the status and role of Islamic teachings in such social policies? This session is aimed to address these broad questions and welcomes papers dealing inter alia with the following:

1. Variations in readings of Islamic social policy
2. The relation between state social policy as well as social welfare action in general and Islamic teachings
3. Historical developments of social policy in Muslim societies
4. Dominant social policy approaches in various policy domains
5. Emergent patterns of social policies as a consequence of the Arab Spring
6. Public attitudes toward social policies among Muslims

 

Dr. Ali AkbarTajmazinani

Assistant Professor (Social Policy), Faculty of Social Sciences

Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran

Telefax: 0098+21+22260055

Email: atmazinani@yahoo.com

Website: http://socialpolicy.ir

Webpage:http://www.atusocialscience.ir/taj%20mazinani.htm

 

3. The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Department of Asian Studies (http://asianstudies.unc.edu) invites applications for a tenure-track position in Persian studies with support from the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin July 1, 2016. The Department seeks a promising scholar and teacher who will actively contribute to the intellectual mission of a research institution. Candidates must be able to teach Persian language courses at the advanced level and participate in the continued development of the Department’s program in Persian studies. Interest in developing public programs is desirable. PhD in hand or near completion in Persian studies, Persian language and literature, or related field is required. Native or near-native fluency in Persian and English and demonstrated potential for innovative scholarship are also required. Candidates whose research and teaching interests include fields such as language, literature, cultural studies, intellectual history, gender studies, visual studies, performance studies, and other related fields are encouraged to apply.  A candidate hired without PhD in hand by the date of appointment will be appointed as Instructor.

 

Qualified applicants should submit an online application at http://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/84569.    Application materials should include a detailed letter, CV, sample syllabi, and a writing sample. Paper or email applications will not be accepted.

 

Applicants will also be required to identify the names, titles, and email addresses of four professional references at the time of application.  Recommenders identified by the applicant will be contacted via email with instructions for uploading their letters of recommendation.

 

Inquiries may be sent to persiansearch@unc.edu.

 

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or status as a protected veteran.

 

Review of applications will begin November 15, 2015.  The search will remain open until the position is filled.

4. Call for Papers

Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture

ISSN: 2333-5904 (Print) 2333-5912 (Online)

Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is a peer reviewed international scholarly journal. The journal is dedicated to the scholarly study of all aspects of Islam and of the Islamic world. Particular attention is paid to works dealing with history, geography, political science, economics, anthropology, sociology, law, literature, religion, philosophy, international relations, environmental and developmental issues, as well as ethical questions related to scientific research. The journal is committed to the publication of original research on Islam as culture and civilization. It particularly welcomes work of an interdisciplinary nature that brings together history, religion, politics, culture and law. The Journal has a special focus on Islam in Africa, and on contemporary Islamic Thought. Contributions that display theoretical rigor especially work that link the particularities of Islamic discourse to the enterprise of knowledge and critique in the humanities and social sciences, will find Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture to be receptive to such submissions.

The journal is published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development that serves as a focal point for academicians, professionals, graduate and undergraduate students, fellows, and associates pursuing research throughout the world.

The interested contributors are highly encouraged to submit their manuscripts/papers to the executive editor via e-mail at editor@aripd.org. Please indicate the name of the journal (Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture) in the cover letter or simply put ‘Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture’ in the subject box during submission via e-mail.

The journal is Abstracted/Indexed in CrossRef, CrossCheck, Cabell’s, Ulrich’s, Griffith Research Online, Google Scholar, Education.edu, Informatics, Universe Digital Library, Standard Periodical Directory, Gale, Open J-Gate, EBSCO, Journal Seek, DRJI, ProQuest, BASE, InfoBase Index, OCLC, IBSS, Academic Journal Databases, Scientific Index.

E-Publication First^TM

E-Publication First^TM is a feature offered through our journal platform. It allows PDF version of manuscripts that have been peer reviewed and accepted, to be hosted online prior to their inclusion in a final printed journal. Readers can freely access or cite the article. The accepted papers are published online within one week after the completion of all necessary publishing steps.

DOI^® number

Each paper published in Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture is assigned a DOI^® number, which appears beneath the author’s affiliation in the published paper.

JISC is inviting papers for Vol. 3, No. 2. The online publication date is December 31, 2015. Submission Deadline: November 30, 2015.

For any additional information, please contact with the executive editor at editor@aripd.org

Dr. Mohammad Reza Iravani, Azad University of Khomeinishahr & Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr branch, Khomeinishahr, Esfahan, Iran.

Editor-in-Chief

Journal of Islamic Studies and Culture

Website: www.jiscnet.com

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5. Comparative Islamic Studies,

Issue 9.1 (2013) table of contents

 

Special issue on Sufism, Pluralism and Democracy

Guest edited by Clinton Bennett and Sarwar Alam

http://equinoxpub.com/CIS

 

6. CFP – Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference: Sufism and Islamic Manuscript Culture (Cambridge UK)

 

The Islamic Manuscript Association—in cooperation with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation and the HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge—invites the submission of abstracts for the Eleventh Islamic Manuscript Conference, to be held from 13 to 15 September 2016 at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

 

The theme of the conference is Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture. Sufis have written litanies, panegyrics, didactic works in verse and prose, hagiographies, discourses, exegetical works, and metaphysical treatises made into manuscripts both humble and lavish. Sufi lodges have housed libraries and manuscript ateliers, and Sufi networks have disseminated manuscripts across the Muslim World. This conference seeks to present current international research trends on the relationship between Sufism and Islamic manuscript culture and generate discussion and study in this field. Possible topics for papers include but are not limited to:

 

•  Apotropaic uses of Sufi and non-Sufi manuscripts by Sufis
•  The arts of the book and Sufi artists and patrons
•  Bibliophilia and bibliophobia in Sufism
•  Cataloguing manuscripts on Sufism
•  Collection care programmes for collections of Sufi manuscripts
•  Conservation treatments on Sufi manuscripts
•  Diagrams and illustrations in manuscripts on Sufism
•  Digital humanities and the study of manuscripts on Sufism
•  The effects of recent conflicts in the Muslim World on collections of Sufi manuscripts
•  The history of Sufi libraries
•  Paratexts in manuscripts on Sufism
•  Preparing printed and digital editions of manuscripts on Sufism
•  The production of manuscripts by Sufi lodge ateliers
•  Publication programmes or series of editions or facsimiles of manuscripts on Sufism
•  Dissemination of texts and manuscripts through Sufi networks
•  The use of manuscripts in Sufi rituals

 

This invitation is open to members and non-members of the Association. The languages of the Conference will be Arabic and English, and submissions will be accepted in both languages. The duration of each conference paper will be 20 minutes followed by ten minutes of questions and answers. The Association will pay for round-trip economy-class travel to Cambridge, accommodation in Magdalene College, and College-based meals for authors whose papers are accepted.

 

Papers should not have been presented or published previously. Selected papers will be considered for publication in the Association’s peer-reviewed Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, and speakers are expected to give the Journal the right of first refusal.

 

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 10.00 GMT on Monday, 23 November 2015. Please submit a cover sheet (downloadable here), an abstract of no more than 250 words, and a biographical statement (a personal statement of no more than 200 words detailing your current work, education, research interests, and previous publications or research projects in third-person prose form), to the email, fax, or postal address below. Incomplete submissions will not be considered.

 

The Islamic Manuscript Association Ltd

c/o 33 Trumpington Street

Cambridge CB2 1QY

United Kingdom

Fax: +44 (0)1223 302 218

 

B. Davidson MacLaren

Executive Director, The Islamic Manuscript Association

c/o 33 Trumpington Street

Cambridge CB2 1QY

United Kingdom

E: davidson@islamicmanuscript.com

W: www.islamicmanuscript.org

 

7. The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present

An international symposium organized by the Fitting in/Standing Out project (NWO), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Salento (Lecce), and the Allard Pierson Museum (Amsterdam)

24-26 March 2016, Allard Pierson Museum (Amsterdam)

Dress plays an essential role in the presentation of the self and in the perception of the other. Clothing and headgear, as well as accessories, tattoos, and hair styles, overtly state and sometimes more subtly convey information about a person’s social standing, gender, ethnicity, regional background, affiliations, profession, or religious beliefs – in other words, about the particular position (s)he holds, or would like to show as having, at a certain moment in time within a certain group or society. Dress is also part of the negotiation of identity and status; it allows individuals to articulate, or conceal, different identities, whether these are individual or collective, imposed or chosen. Identificational changes – when entering a new phase of life or assuming a new status or role – are often marked by the rejection of certain dress codes and/or the acquisition of new ones. Similarly, transient identities can be expressed through a new or composite dress vocabulary. Although dress is usually perceived, understood, and represented as an unambiguous statement about one’s identity, it is in fact a source of many potential ambiguities. The meanings and symbolic values associated with dress are not only culturally situated; they are also dependent on the time and place, the wearer, and the audience. Moreover, they constantly change over time.

This international symposium takes an interdisciplinary, diachronic, and comparative approach to explore the interplay between dress and identity in the broader Mediterranean basin, with a special focus on Muslim societies and interconnected cultures, in both the past and present. It aims to bring together anthropologists, sociologists, historians, art historians, archaeologists, and scholars of other disciplines working on this subject, using a wide spectrum of methods – from textual to textile analysis. The study of dress and, in particular, of attempts to control the meanings of dress – whether in practice, depictions, or texts – not only has great potential for social and cultural history, but is also crucial to understand sartorial dynamics within contemporary societies. From the sumptuary laws issued in many ancient societies to the contemporary debate on veiling practices among Muslim women, dress is, and has always been, the site of competing discourses, where authority and resistance, and the interests of the community and those of the individual meet. By bridging the gap between different academic fields, this symposium aims to put perceptions of dress in the past and the present into a broader perspective.

The main themes we aim to discuss are:

• How is dress used to reify or challenge community boundaries? How do intersecting identities influence choices in dress?
• How is dress represented in visual and written sources? What is the relation between these and actual dress practices? How do these images and texts contribute to construct, reinforce, or subvert identity categories?
• How do actual garments, depictions of dress, or discourses on dress refer to the past (i.e. religious or cultural traditions) to legitimize the present?
• What role does dress play in the articulation of transient or multiple identities, for example in cases of conversion, migration, or the assumption of a new social status?
• How do political, economic, and cultural connections between the East and the West influence dress? How is exotic dress appropriated locally to negotiate status and identity?

Scholars, PhD candidates, and advanced MA students doing research related to the subject of dress and identity are invited to submit a proposal for the symposium. If application for participation has been successful the following is granted:

• Participation in the complete program, including lunches and the conference dinners;
• Not included:travel, accommodation expenses, and other meals.

The conference does not offer travel grants, but we can support applications for additional funding sought from third parties such as the Pasold Research Fund (www.pasold.co.uk)

To apply for participation applications should be send to the symposium organizers: Rosita D’Amora rosita.damora@unisalento.it or Tineke Rooijakkers c.t.rooijakkers@vu.nl

Deadline for application: Monday, 16 November 2015, 24.00 (CET)

This application includes the following:

• a title and an abstract of 300 words (max.)
• a short biography of 50 words (max.)

We intend to publish a selection of the papers presented at the symposium in an edited volume. The deadline for the submission of these articles is: Thursday, 15 September 2016.

The organizing committee: Rosita D’Amora, Tineke Rooijakkers, Bas ter Haar Romeny, Mat Immerzeel, Judith Kindinger, and Alexandra Pleşa

 

8. Workshop: “Diaspora Mobilization for Conflict and Post-conflict Reconstruction”, University of Warwick, 26-27 November 2015

 

Submission of papers is particularly welcome to provide insights about: 1) diasporic identities, 2) conditions providing political opportunity structures for transnational mobilization, 3) causal mechanisms concatenating in mobilization processes, 4) and transnational diaspora networks.

 

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2015.

Information:   www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/clusters/comparativepoliticsanddemocratisation/diasporas/news/

 

9. Workshop Proposals  for “7th Annual Gulf Research Meeting”, University of Cambridge, 16-19 August 2016

 

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2015. Information: http://grc.net/alerts/grm_2016.html

 

10. The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a University Lecturer in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, to begin on 1st September, 2016. This appointment is tenure-track, subject to an initial probation period.

 

http://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/faculty/jobs/arabic-literature-lecturer

11. Arizona State University seeks an instructor of advanced Persian (Farsi) to teach small groups in an intensive setting in the Washington, DC, area. Candidates must have a master’s degree or higher in second-language acquisition, linguistics, or a closely related field; possess native or near-native proficiency in Persian; be a U.S. citizen or authorized to work in the United States; and have documented experience teaching Persian to adults. Preference will go to candidates who have taught in intensive language programs and to candidates with experience teaching Persian above the intermediate level.  Salary competitive. Successful candidate will teach full time beginning no later than January 1, 2016 for remainder of federal fiscal year, with potential for renewal beyond FY2016
Applications must be received by November 2, 2015.

Candidates should send a letter in English explaining their interest in and qualifications for a short-term, intensive advanced Persian program; a CV; contact information for two references–one of whom should be able to comment on the applicant’s teaching experience; and student evaluation results, if available. Materials should be sent tomelikiancenter@asu.edu.

Background check is required for employment. Arizona State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Please see ASU’s complete non-discrimination statement at: https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/.

 

1. Workshop – Armenian Manuscript Studies (Berlin, 14-18 March 2016)

We would like to inform you about our workshop on Armenian Manuscript Studies, to be held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) from March 14th to 18th 2016. The workshop will be conducted by one of the leading specialists in the field, Prof. Dickran Kouymjian (California State University Fresno, Berberian Chair of Armenian Studies, emeritus). It is a cooperative working seminar between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Martin-Luther-University Halle Wittenberg (Oriental Institute).

The participants will be introduced to the study of different codicological and paleographical aspects of Armenian manuscripts, including an overview on the history, collections and catalogues of Armenian manuscripts. Among the topics to be covered will be bindings, genres, mise-en-texte, mise-en-page, inks, illuminations and miniature paintings, colophons, scripts, periodization, provenance, etc. The theoretical part will be supplemented by hands-on sessions, in which the participants will have the unique opportunity to observe the features discussed among Armenian manuscripts in the collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.

Applications, including a motivational letter, curriculum vitae, a summary of any current research project, should be sent to orientabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de or by regular mail to Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Orientabteilung, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin, by 15 October 2015.

14-18 March 2016, Berlin: Armenian Manuscript Studies. An Introduction (registration by 15 October 2015) http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/fileadmin/user_upload/zentrale_Seiten/orientabteilung/pd…

 

2. Symposium – Friedrich Sarre and the Berlin Museums (Berlin, 23 Oct 2015)

Wie die islamische Kunst nach Berlin kam.

Der Sammler und Museumsdirektor Friedrich Sarre

Tagung 23. Oktober 2015

Archäologisches Zentrum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz

Brugsch-Pascha-Saal¸ Geschwister-Scholl-Str . 6,  D-10117  Berlin

9.30 – 10.00               Introduction

 

Friedrich Sarre und die Berliner Museen

Friedrich Sarre and the Berlin Museums

 

Chair: Stefan Weber (Berlin)

 

10.00-10.30                 Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University,  Istanbul)

Friedrich Sarre, Osman Hamdi Bey, Halil Edhem Bey and the Birth of the Evkaf Museum in Contantinople

10.30-11.00                 Gabriele Mietke (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst,  Berlin)

Interests and Activities of the Royal Museums of Berlin in the Ottoman Empire at the turn of the 19th century

 

11.00-11.30 Pause / Break

 

Friedrich Sarre und die Türkei

Friedrich Sarre and Turkey

 

Chair: Klaus Kreiser (Berlin)

 

11.30 -12.00                Malte Fuhrmann (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

That’s What Friends Are For: The Sarres, the Humanns, and Enver Pasha

12.00-12.30                 Patricia Blessing (Stanford University)

Friedrich Sarre and the Discovery of Seljuk Architecture in Anatolia

12.30-13.00                 Veit Veltzke (Preußenmuseum, Wesel)

“Persia – finally cleared for us”: Friedrich Sarre and the expedition Klein between the Persian lion and the Ottoman half-moon during WWI

 

13.00-14.30 Mittagessen / Lunch

 

Orientalismusmode in Berlin

Oriental Fashion in Berlin

 

Chair: Sven Kuhrau (Berlin)

 

14.30-15.00                 Anna Mc Sweeney (SOAS, London)

Arthur von Gwinner and the Alhambra Cupola

15.00-15.30                 Angelika Kaltenbach (Potsdam)

Orient meets Occident: the Aleppo-Room and the Oriental Room in the Villa Stauß

 

15.30-16.00 Pause / Break

 

Der Sammler Friedrich Sarre

Friedrich Sarre as collector

 

Chair: Barry Flood (New York/Berlin)

 

16.00-16.30                 Joachim Gierlichs (Qatar National Library, Doha)

Friedrich Sarre and his collection of Islamic Art

16.30-17.00                 Irina Khoshoridze (Georgian National Museum, Tiflis)

Collectors and Museums –Alexandre Roinashvili (Roinov) and his collection

17.30-18.00                 Eva Troelenberg (Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz)

The Masterpiece, the Golden Age and the Canon. Friedrich Sarre and the Introduction of Islamic Art History as Object-History.

 

3. University of Toronto – St. George – Assistant Professor, Islamic Art and Architecture Before 1800

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51576

 

 

4. AUB Post: Faculty position in Modern Arabic Literature

American University of Beirut – Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages

The Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages at the American University of Beirut seeks applicants in the field of Modern Arabic Literature and Literary Theory (with special emphasis on prose genres)

The language of instruction in this department (and only in this department) is Modern Standard Arabic (fuṣḥā), but mastery of English is an essential requirement. Applicants should be well versed in both Arab and Western classical heritages, including Western literary theory. A reading knowledge of French and/or German is highly desirable, as is the ability to teach a second Semitic language or elementary Persian. Applicants must be able to teach, in Arabic, service courses in Arabic grammar and modern Arabic thought to native speakers of Arabic. Solid knowledge of the Arabic language and heritage and training in modern Western methodologies are essential.

Interested applicants should submit a cover letter, a CV, and arrange for three letters of reference to be sent directly to:

Patrick McGreevy, Dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
c/o 3 Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10017-2303, USA

Or

Patrick McGreevy, Dean
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
American University of Beirut
P.O. Box 11-0236, Riad El-Solh
Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon

Electronic submissions are highly encouraged and may be sent to: as_dean@aub.edu.lb

For best consideration, please submit all required credentials by the early deadline of 15 October 2015 and indicate whether you will be attending MESA. Applications accepted through 30 November 2015. Visiting scholars will be considered.

For more information on this position, please visit http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/pages/academic-employment.aspx

5. Middlebury College: Program in Arabic

Tenure Track Position in Arabic

Location: Middlebury, Vermont

 

The Program in Arabic at Middlebury College announces an opening for one tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level, beginning the Fall semester of 2016. Superior language proficiency in both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and English is required, and native or native-like proficiency in at least one Arabic dialect is strongly preferred. The area of specialization for the position is open.

 

The successful candidate will teach MSA courses at all levels, from beginning to advanced levels, and will also offer non-language courses in both MSA as well as in English in their disciplinary area. Candidates should hold a PhD in their area of specialization or should at least have an advanced ABD status with near-term plans for completion of a doctorate by the time of appointment. Candidates must have prior experience teaching MSA at the college level, preferably in a liberal arts college setting, and in accordance with the proficiency-based communicative approach to Arabic language pedagogy.

 

Applications for this position will be accepted starting September 18^th 2015. Review of applications will begin on November 1^st 2015, and will continue until the position is filled.

Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, candidates should submit a letter of application addressed to the Arabic search committee. The letter should include a section addressing approaches to teaching as well as current and future research. In addition, applications should include: a curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts, and three current confidential letters of recommendation (at least two of which must speak to teaching ability/promise). Samples of written scholarship will be solicited from candidates invited for interviews.

 

Inquiries regarding this position should be directed to Usama Soltan, Associate Professor of Arabic, at usoltan@middlebury.edu. More information is available at http://apply.interfolio.com/31686.

 

Offers of employment are contingent on completion of a background check. More information regarding background checks may be found here: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/administration/prospective_faculty/background_checks

6. CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

Special Issue on Imagining Localities of Antiquity in Islamicate Societies; Thematic volume planned for Summer 2017

In honor of the life of Dr. Khaled al-Asaad

Paper proposal deadline: 30 November 2015

The tragically familiar spectacles of cultural heritage destruction performed by the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria and Iraq are frequently presented as barbaric, baffling, and far outside the bounds of what are imagined to be normative, “civilized” uses of the past. Often superficially explained as an attempt to stamp out idolatry or as a fundamentalist desire to revive and enforce a return to a purified monotheism, analysis of these spectacles of heritage violence posits two things: that there is, fact, an “Islamic” manner of imagining the past – its architectural manifestations, its traces and localities – and that actions carried out at these localities, whether constructive or destructive, have moral or ethical consequences for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. In this reading, the iconoclastic actions of ISIS and similar groups, for example the Taliban or the Wahhabi monarchy in Saudi Arabia, are represented as one, albeit extreme, manifestation of an assumedly pervasive and historically ongoing Islamic antipathy toward images and pre-contemporary holy localities in particular, and, more broadly, toward the idea of heritage and the uses to which it has been put by modern nationalism.

But long before the emergence of ISIS and other so-called Islamist iconoclasts, and perhaps as early as the rise of Islam itself, Muslims imagined Islamic and pre-Islamic antiquity and its localities in myriad ways: as sites of memory, spaces of healing, or places imbued with didactic, historical, and moral power. Ancient statuary were deployed as talismans, paintings were interpreted to foretell and reify the coming of Islam, and temples of ancient gods and churches devoted to holy saints were converted into mosques in ways that preserved their original meaning and, sometimes, even their architectural ornament and fabric. Often, such localities were valued simply as places that elicited a sense of awe and wonder, or of reflection on the present relevance of history and the greatness of past empires, a theme so prevalent it created distinct genres of Arabic and Persian literature (aja’ib, fada’il). Sites like Ctesiphon, the ancient capital of the Zoroastrian Sasanians, or the Temple Mount, where the Jewish temple had stood, were embraced by early companions of the Prophet Muhammad and incorporated into Islamic notions of the self. Furthermore, various Islamic interpretive communities as well as Jews and Christians often shared holy places and had similar haptic, sensorial, and ritual connections that enabled them to imagine place in similar ways. These engagements were often more dynamic and purposeful than conventional scholarly notions of “influence” and “transmission” can account for. And yet, Muslims also sometimes destroyed ancient places or powerfully reimagined them to serve their own purposes, as for example in the aftermath of the Crusader presence in the Holy Land or in the destruction, reuse and rebuilding of ancient Buddhist and Hindu sites in the Eastern Islamic lands and South Asia.

This special issue invites scholars from across disciplines to engage with a critical reassessment of imaginings of the past in Islamicate societies. Papers may draw on historical or contemporary examples to explore some aspect of the themes outlined here, but are not limited to them.

1. How are and were ancient place and locality used in Islamicate societies to create a sense of the past, and what are/were the routes, rituals, and performances by which the past is inscribed on the landscape?
2. How are holy sites, sites of memory, and sites of ancient heritage simultaneously construed as contemporary and situated in the present in Islamicate societies?
3. Although ISIS and other Wahhabi and Salafi groups are often said to be “medieval” in their methods and attitudes, should they in fact be envisioned as hyper-modern, both in their generation of spectacles of violence designed for viral sharing in the social media age, but also in the way they target imaginings of heritage as a cherished building block of the modern nation state and of globalized notions of “universal” values?
4. Is there a broader project of reshaping the meaning of heritage unfolding across the Islamic world? The actions of the Taliban, Wahhabi projects of destruction in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, the devastation of heritage in Syria by Assad and rebel groups, and the depredations of Islamists in Mali are recent examples. Can they be considered acts of “iconoclasm” in the traditional sense? Are such acts in fact more closely related to other modern acts of heritage destruction aimed at erasing memory, for example during the Cultural Revolution in China or the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?
5. Analysis of ISIS’ destruction frequently seems to parrot the agenda of ISIS itself in ways that amplify and reinforce their message, whether through viral sharing of their slickly produced videos on social media or credulous academic and journalistic analysis that takes ISIS at its word. How can researchers analyze these hypermodern forms without re-producing and disseminating the very vision of violence that they crafted? How can we formulate an active response that goes beyond expressions of dismay and condemnation?
6. Although Islamicate societies often found ways to revere, venerate, and coexist with the considerable traces of antiquity in their midst, Muslims were also sometimes agents of destruction. What were the contexts in which Muslims destroyed localities of antiquity in the past? What meanings were claimed for such actions and how were they justified by their agents?
7. Is there an “Islamic” notion of heritage? Can the ways Muslims imagined and continue to imagine the past enable a critical interrogation of notions of universal heritage that are predominant in the broader international community?

Essays that focus on historical and theoretical analysis (DiT papers) should be a minimum of 5,000 words but no more than 8,000 words, and essays on design (DiP papers) can range from 3,000 to 4,500 words. Contributions from practitioners are welcome and should bear in mind the critical framework of the journal. Contributions from scholars of heritage history and preservation as well as scholars and critics of heritage in the broadest sense are also particularly welcome.

Please send a 400-word abstract with essay title to the guest editor, Stephennie Mulder, The University of Texas at Austin (smulder@austin.utexas.edu), by 30 November 2015. Those whose proposals are accepted will be contacted soon thereafter and requested to submit full papers to the journal by 1 June 2016. All papers will undergo full peer review.

For author instructions regarding paper guidelines, please consult:www.intellectbooks.com/ijia

 

7. TUFTS UNIVERSITY

THE ARABIC PROGRAM, and

THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY AND VISUAL STUDIES PROGRAM

in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures

The Arabic program and the interdepartmental program on International Literary and Visual Studies at Tufts University invite applicants for a tenure-track Mellon Bridge Assistant Professorship in Comparative Literature with a focus on Arabic literary, film, and/or visual studies of any period. The ideal candidate will provide evidence of excellent research and teaching in these topics, with a rigorously comparative and/or trans-regional emphasis. We are especially interested in candidates whose work engages comparatively with multiple languages and literatures, as well as candidates whose work develops connections between literary and/or cultural studies, understood broadly, and other disciplines or intellectual areas.

Responsibilities include teaching a variety of thematic courses for Arabic Studies, possibly in Arabic, and for the interdepartmental program on International Literary and Visual Studies. There are rich opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with other departments and programs including, Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Colonialism Studies, English, Film and Media Studies, History, International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, and Romance Languages.

This position is being supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation to promote scholarship and teaching that bridges different departments and programs in the humanities at Tufts. The successful candidate will receive an appointment as a fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) for the duration of the pre-tenure probationary period. We seek candidates whose research and teaching has prepared them to contribute to our commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education.

Requirements: PhD by starting date; experience and demonstrated excellence in teaching courses in relevant subjects at the university level. While this position has no language-teaching duties, a high degree of fluency in both Arabic and English is required. Fluency in a third language is a plus.

Letter of Application, CV, statements of research and teaching interests, two writing samples, and three confidential letters of recommendation should be sent via Interfolio at https://apply.interfolio.com/31867 . Further materials will be requested of short-listed applicants. The review of applications will begin on November 16, 2015, and continue until the position is filled. Questions about the search should be addressed to Professor Kamran Rastegar: kamran.rastegar@tufts.edu.

Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty. Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

 

8. CALL FOR PAPERS: Cambridge workshop 20-22 June 2016

 

 

St Andrews-Cambridge joint research initiative

Khamriyya as a World Poetic Genre:

Comparative Perspectives on Wine Poetry in Near and Middle Eastern Literatures.

 

 

After the success of the first Khamriyya workshop held in St Andrews in November 2014 and the Lecture Series supported by the Honeyman Foundation in St Andrews during the 2014-15 academic year, we are now launching the second workshop, to be held in Cambridge (UK) on 20-22 June 2016, supported by the Cambridge Soudavar Fund for Persian Studies and the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The results of this collaborative research will be published in a dedicated volume or special issue of a specialised journal.

 

The organisors designed the two workshops to function as real “work”shops where shared and mutual critical assessment and open discussions will clarify the state of the question and open up new avenues of research. By opening up the participation to specialists across language and cultural boundaries, we hope to foster a better understanding of the phenomenon of wine-poetry across Near and Middle Eastern Literatures.

 

The initiative welcomes contributions exploring various aspects of wine poetry in comparative perspective of Near and Middle Eastern literatures with the focus on the following topics:

 

1. Recusancy and transgression: wine poetry challenging cultural, social and

religious norms of society,

2. Imagery and stylistics: aesthetic transformations in the history of wine poetry,
3. Adoption and transmission: wine poetry crossing linguistic and cultural borders.

 

 

In order to put together the Programme, we would be grateful if you could submit your paper abstract (400 words max) and CV by the deadline of 30^th November, 2015 at the following email address: cv223@cam.ac.uk. The organisation panel will consider the applications and respond by 15^th January 2015. The scientific committee might suggest further focusing of some of the topics in order to better serve the comparative perspective of the workshops. The language of the presentations and publication is English.

 

 

For further information please contact Dr Kirill Dimitriev: kd25@st-andrews.ac.uk

or Dr Christine van Ruymbeke: cv223@cam.ac.uk.

 

9. Séminaire ‘Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien’

 

Séance du 8 octobre 2015, 17h-18h30

 

 

Hawzhin Baghali, doctorante, CETOBAC, EHESS, Paris

 

« Le soufisme et le salafisme au Kurdistan d’Iran : une discontinuité historique dans le discours religieux contemporain »

 

Dans cette présentation, nous nous intéressons au changement discursif religieux dans une région qui constitue de nos jours le Kurdistan d’Iran. L’histoire des régions périphériques tel que le Kurdistan  a généralement été ignoré au déterminent d’une histoire du centre. Sur la plan politique, l’Iran est connu peut être la capitale du monde chiite, tandis que la plupart de ses régions frontalières de pays sont sunnites, même que la plupart de la population kurde d’Iran. Cette dernière présente un visage sensiblement différent à par rapport à l’Iran chiite.

Les acteurs religieux dans la société kurde se présentent à travers deux discoures religieux. L’un repose sur le soufisme et l’autre sur l’islam politique. Aujourd’hui, les soufis sont considérablement marginalisés, moment où le Kurdistan était l’un des centres du soufisme depuisle  XIVe siècle jusqu’au milieu du XXe siècle. En fait l’islam soufiste représentait l’islam dominant  au Kurdistan. Mais à partir de cette date, l’islam politique émergé comme  discours dominant par une rupture historique.  Actuellement, il y’a trois groupes au Kurdistan sous la formes de groupe islamique ; Dawat va eslah-e Iran qui a  l’approche des frères musulman, Maktab-e Qoran qui veut présenter un islam kurde et les petites groupes salafistes.

Donc  en présentant de la situation de l’islam soufi et l’islam politique au Kurdistan nous nous demandons  que comment  l’islam politique a pris la place de soufisme au Kurdistan en tant que le discoures religieux dominant, de sorte que le soufisme se redéfini sous la forme du groupe politique aussi ?

 

 

Lieu : Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3, centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, salle 410 (4^e étage), 75005, Paris.

 

Organisateurs :

Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3), Julien Thorez (CNRS).

 

1. CMES | The Yale Council on Middle East Studies

Iran Colloquium

Fall 2015

 

September 18                   Graduate Student Workshop

12PM                              Painting, poetry, photography: A conversation in Qajar art

Luce 203                          Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandan, Graduate Student, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

 

 

October 2                        The Allure of the Female: Aesthetic Transformations in

12PM                               Early Modern Persianate Poetry and Painting

ISPS A001                       Sunil Sharma, Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature, Boston University

Co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Council

*Location change: ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511 Room A001

 

 

October 16                       Self-Representation, Audience Response, and the Art of Poetry

12PM                              in the Signature Verses of Sa’eb Tabrizi

Luce 203                          Paul Losensky, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

 

 

November 13                   From Persian nasta‘liq to Ottoman ta‘lik: Aesthetic

12PM                             dissemination and cultural appropriation of a script (1500-1700)

Luce 203                          Simon Rettig, Iran Heritage Foundation Curatorial Fellow, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

Co-sponsored by the Medieval-Renaissance Forum of the History of Art Department and The Çağatay Fund

 

 

December 4                      The Social World of “Polluted” Carpets

12PM                             Narges Erami, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Luce 203

 

 

All lectures are in Luce Hall Room 203 unless stated otherwise. Light lunch available at all lectures.

 

The Yale Program in Iranian Studies

[Iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu]Iranianstudies.macmillan.yale.edu

 

Yale University Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center

Luce Hall

34 Hillhouse Avenue

New Haven, CT 06511

 

Sponsored by the Yale Program in Iranian Studies and the Council on Middle East Studies

Funded by a USDE Title VI National Resources grant

 

2. A position as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Semitic Languages at Uppsala University, beginning in 2016 and with a maximum extent of four years is now open for applications. Application deadline is October 30 2015.

 

Subject area: Semitic languages, their philology, linguistics and literature have been studied and researched for over 400 years in Uppsala. Current research and teaching concentrates mostly on Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic/Syriac as well as Assyriology. The diversity of the field of Semitic Languages studied in Uppsala at present means that the postdoctoral research fellow will be part of the leading hub for research and education in the subject in Sweden. Work duties: The vacancy is for a research position within the subject area Semitic Languages and includes teaching and supervision at different levels. Some administrative duties are also part of the job.  For more information, see links below.

 

Announcement in English:  Position as Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Semitic Languages  http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=73523

 

Announcement in Swedish:  Forskarassistent i semitiska språk  http://www.uu.se/jobb/detaljsida/?positionId=73523

 

 

3.  The Birmingham Qur’an Manuscript

2-25 October 2015

Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham

 

A Qur’an manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been placed among the oldest in the world thanks to modern scientific methods. Radiocarbon analysis has dated the parchment on which the text is written to the period between 568 and 645 CE with 95.4% accuracy. Researchers conclude that the Birmingham manuscript is among the earliest fragments of the Islamic holy book known to survive.

 

The Birmingham Qur’an manuscript is on public display for a limited time only. The exhibition is ticketed and time slots will be allocated. For more information and to book your tickets, please visit www.birmingham.ac.uk/quran

 

Upcoming events accompanying the exhibition:

 

Unravelling the story behind the Birmingham Qur’an

Fri 16 Oct, 1-2pm

Nicolson Building, University of Birmingham

 

Explore the story behind the Birmingham Qur’an with curator Josefine Frank. Find out how the manuscript connects the 7th-century Muslim community in the Arabian Peninsula with Birmingham’s Quaker community in the 1930s. Free event, please register via http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/artslaw/events/bttf/2015/josefine-frank.aspx

 

 

4. London Middle East Institute: Forthcoming Events     To mark the start of the new academic year, we are pleased to announce the following special events which we hope will be of interest:   Friday 25 September, 5:30 pm: ISIS and the Crisis in the Middle East – A Year on Panel discussion with Professor Gilbert Achcar (SOAS), Professor Nadje Al-Ali (SOAS) and Ghias Aljundi (Syrian writer and human rights activist). Chair: Dr Hassan Hakimian (Director, London Middle East Institute). Organised by the LMEI jointly with the SOAS Students’ Union   Saturday 26 September, 7:30 pm: Live Concert by Reem Kelani The acclaimed Palestinian musician Reem Kelani performs live at SOAS   Monday 28 September, 6 pm: ISIS and the Caliphate: the uses and abuses of history Professor High Kennedy of SOAS examines how ISIS, in its periodical Dabiq, interprets early Islamic history to make its own propaganda and justify its own positions   The forthcoming October-November issue of the LMEI’s bi-monthly magazine ‘The Middle East in London’ is out at the end of the month. Featuring articles on the cultural, political, economic and other issues that affect Middle Eastern communities in London along with the most comprehensive guide to all events relating to the Middle East in London and across the UK the next issue of the magazine focuses on Endangered Languages in the Middle East. You can subscribe to ‘The Middle East in London’ magazine by becoming an Individual Affiliate of the LMEI.

 

5. Journée d’étude  – 17 octobre 2015

9h -17h30 – Galerie Colbert

Représentations des martyrs en mondes musulmans  

Fabrications des images – Présences dans l’espace public

 

Partant du constat largement partagé d’une exposition aussi nombreuse que diverse des figures de martyrs dans les espaces publics de pays musulmans, cette journée se consacre à l’étude des processus de fabrication (peintures, photographies, pochoirs, images numériques…),  des supports d’affichage (murs, musées, internet) ainsi qu’à la mise en rapport de ces productions par-delà les singularités des pays, des conflits et des mythologies, pour en interroger le sens et les évolutions.

 

Journée organisée par l’HiCSA – Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne en partenariat avec : CéSor, IIAC-LAU, IREMAM, Tehran Municipality

Adresse : Galerie Colbert – 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris

Entrée libre

www. hicsa.univ-paris1.fr

Contact : agnes.devictor@univ-paris1.fr.

 

6. Medical Manuscript Studies has grown, and we now have an editorial board that allows us to accept submissions from a broader area: manuscripts, papyri and early printed books in Latin, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Hebrew, Aramaic and German.

http://simonofgenoa.org/index.php?title=Medical_Manuscript_Studies

 

We accept submissions on a rolling basis. Our publications are peer reviewed.

 

We are happy to receive articles containing non-Latin alphabets, and we do not have any restrictions regarding colour photographs, tables and the like. We publish fast.

 

For all administrative intents and purposes, MMS is a normal journal. We have an ISSN, and we are being archived by the British Library. The only difference is that we don’t have a commercial publisher who makes a profit from our work. (Instead, I declared myself publisher, using my work address).

 

The main reason why I created this journal is that it is getting increasingly difficult to publish contributions that  relate to more than one subject area, e.g. ancient and medieval or Greek and Arabic. Moreover, some fields are somewhat disconnected from the history of medicine debate. Here, the prime example is Turkish.

 

Also, I wanted to create a platform that suited the needs and interests of academics, rather than the interests and abilities of some publishers. The journal appears under the simonofgenoa.org URL, which is a decent branding, as it reflects five years of solid open access research. We are Wellcome Trust funded as well.

 

Please feel free to get in touch with any further enquiries!

 

Best wishes,

 

7. Conference: “Islam in Russia”, Harvard University, 15-16 October 2015

The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies is hosting this conference. It is free and open to the public. Registration is not required, but is appreciated for planning purposes. Information: http://daviscenter.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-islam-russia

 

8. Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Religion and Classics, University of Rochester

This is a three-year position, subject to annual review and potentially renewable, to begin fall, 2016. Requirements: M.A. or equivalent, and native or near-native proficiency in Arabic. Ph.D. degree would be beneficial. Information: https://www.rochester.edu/faculty-recruiting/login

 

9. Director, Carnegie Middle East Center, The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Beirut

Successful candidates will have recognized expertise on the Arab region; a Ph.D. in a field relevant to public policy and a distinguished publication record; proven team leadership and project management experience. Information: https://carnegieendowment.applicantpro.com/jobs/273952.html

 

10. Assistant Professor in Political Science (Focus on Middle East/North Africa), Bryn Mawr College, PA

The position will start on 1 August 2016. Deadline for applications: 7 October 2015. Information http://apply.interfolio.com/30357

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11. Assistant Professor in Sociocultural Anthropology (Focus Middle East/Islamic World etc.), Haverford College, PA

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2015. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/31066.

 

12. Associate or Full Professor, M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Ohio State University

The preferred field of specialization is pre-modern Arabic Islamic texts and traditions or classical Arabic language and literature. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6247

 

13. Research Project Coordinator of the  Islamic and Middle East Studies Centers of Duke University, Durham, NC

This positon will work with the directors of the two centers to design, develop, and carry out research projects that pull together faculty from across the university. MA or equivalent higher degree preferable; minimum 4 years experience. Information: www.hr.duke.edu/jobs/apply/external.php?pageid=search, Requisition Number 401003203.

 

14. Stipend for Doctoral Studies in the Field of History of Egypt in the Islamic Period (7 – 20th centuries), Yousef Jameel Scholarship Fund, Philipps-Universität Marburg

The Department of Islamic Studies which is part of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) has a strong emphasis on socio-political and cultural issues but applications outside this field like Islamic Philosophy will be considered as well.

Deadline for application: 30 November2015. Information: www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/aktuelles/stellen/yousef-jameel-academic.pdf

 

15. Articles on “Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Muslim Thought” for “Journal of Islamic Thought & Civilization”

Deadline for full paper submission: 10 November 2015. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/GROUP_NID/announcements/83951/allama-muhammad-iqbal-and-muslim-thought

 

16. Palos Verdes Persian Heritage Foundation presents a two-day workshop for Persian instructors, tutors & parents:

This event has been sponsored in part by Farhang Foundation, USC Dornsife Middle East Studies-Iranian Studies Initiative, and Association of Professors & Scholars of Iranian Heritage.

 

Teaching Persian in the 21^st Century

Date: October 3-4, 2015

Time: 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM

Location: 25550 Hawthorn Blvd., Suite 300, Torrance, CA 90505

Deadline: September 21, 2015

Register at: http://www.pvphf.org or http://www.teachmepersian.com/pages/teachingpersian.php

 

To register for the workshop fill out the online application before September 21^st deadline. Please feel free to forward the announcement to interested individuals.

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17. The British Library: Persian and Turkish manuscripts on view in the Treasures Gallery

– See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2015/09/persian-and-turkish-manuscripts-on-view-in-the-treasures-gallery.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29#sthash.UQmlDX5F.dpuf

 

1.American Councils for International Education (American Councils) is seeking Foreign Language Specialists in 10 critical languages (Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu) to assist in the development of online proficiency-based reading and listening comprehension tests in the ten target languages, across a variety of levels. We are currently looking for Passage Selectors and target language Reviewers for the project.

 

Foreign language specialist qualifications include:

1. Advanced High / ILR level 2+ or a native speaker of one of the following target languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu;
2. Good knowledge of English;
3. Familiarity with either ACTFL or ILR proficiency scales;
4. Experience in language proficiency testing or teaching;
5. Knowledge of proficiency considerations in teaching or research (desirable but not obligatory);
6. Demonstrates strong attention to details and thorough reviews;
7. Ability to complete assignments on time.

 

Please note that in order to participate in this project, language specialists will need to have authorization to work in the U.S. The work is part-time, contractual, and can be completed from your home computer.

 

Interested candidates should send an email message with a current resume or CV to Camelot Marshall, Ph.D. (itemwriting@americancouncils.org). All submissions will receive further information about the project, possible assignments, compensation and schedules.

 

Thank you in advance for your attention.

 

Holly Gerrity

Program Assistant, Assessment and Curriculum Development

American Councils for International Education

1828 L Street N.W., Suite 1200

Washington, D.C. 20036

T 202 833 7522

F 202 833 7523

www.americancouncils.org

 

2. The French website http://www.menestrel.froffers free academic on-line resources for the study of the Middle-Age. The section on Medieval Islam (http://www.menestrel.fr/spip.php?rubrique960&lang=fr) will soon host a page on the history of medieval Sufism and hagiographic literature. I am actually collecting all the academic (or-semi-academic) on-line projects related to Medieval Sufism. A first  first draft of my contribution can be consulted here: https://www.academia.edu/s/77d16e452d. All your feedbacks are welcome, I am especially interested in project in non-european languages.

 

Dr. Francesco Chiabotti

• University of Tübingen – Zentrum für islamische Theologie

Research Assistant

• University of Aix-Marseille – IREMAM

Associate Researcher

https://univ-amu.academia.edu/FrancescoChiabotti

francesco.chiabotti@gmail.com

 

3. 22nd International Congress of German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO) combined with the 1st Section Conference of the Islamic Studies Section of the German Oriental Society (DMG), Ruhr University, Bochum, 24-26 September 2015

The conference will provide a forum for methodological exchange between the different disciplines of the humanities and the social sciences in their research on the historical and contemporary Middle East and the Islamic World. The PhD Conference offers PhD students the possibility to present and discuss their specific PhD projects with a regionally open and interdisciplinary audience.

Information: http://davo-iswidmg2015.de/en. Registration is still possible until 26 September 2015.

 

4. Conference: “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography 2015”, ISMC, Aga Khan University/SOAS, University of London, 25-26 September 2015

Information on the programme: www.academia.edu/15509430/Arabic_Pasts_Histories_and_Historiography_2015_programme

5. Conference: “Islam on the Prairies”, University of Saskatchewan and St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon, 13-14 May 2016

The conference aims to explore the growing presence of Islam on the prairies and in other Canadian provinces, implications of this process, and to provide a dynamic space for the presentations and discussions on issues related to Muslims in Canada.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2015. Information: islam.prairies@usask.ca

6. Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

The position is to begin August 2016. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. in Religious Studies or a related field at the time of appointment, show evidence of a strong potential for professional development as a scholar and teacher, and demonstrate a commitment to promoting diversity as a value in the department and college.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2015. Information: https://jobs.uncc.edu/postings/5111

 

 

 

Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Arabic Language and Literature, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

The appointment will become effective July 1, 2016, with teaching duties beginning in September 2016. Candidates should have native or near-native proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic and English as well as a Ph.D in hand by the time of appointment. Area of specialty is open.

Review of applications will begin on 15 October 2015. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/31166
 

Tenure-stream Position in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, Canada

Applications are welcome from scholars in all disciplines, who work on any aspect of the Ottoman Empire, modern Turkey, or Turkic Central Asia. Applicants whose research focuses on women, gender, and sexuality are especially encouraged to apply. Starting date: 1 August 2016.

Application deadline: 15 November 2015. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5975.

Tenure-track Position in Medieval History of the Mediterranean, Université du Québec, Montréal

Applications from Byzantinists or  Arabists  whose  research concerns the Mediterranean ambit are welcome. The position is to start on 1 June 2016.

Deadline for application: 2 October 2015. Information: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=507

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7. Summer School: “Reading Pleasure – Pleasure Reading: Medieval Approaches to Reading”, Swedish Research Institute, Istanbul, 23-28 May 2016

The aim is to engage with and develop specific approaches that will enable us to discuss medieval developments. Some possible themes include Persian, Arabic, Byzantine and Western literature; Middle Ages; reading and storytelling; translations; romance; drama; poetry; letters; chronography; court culture; book history; illuminations; gender studies. There is no cost for attending the Summer School.

Deadline for applications: 1 December 2015. Information: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=504
8. University of Toronto – Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in

the humanities

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51298

 

 

The Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies and the Gildenhorn
Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, College
Park, seek to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor who specializes
in the Jews of Muslim Lands/Mizrahi Jews in Israel. The position is open
to scholars trained either in History, the Social Sciences, Religious
Studies, or Cultural Studies, and it is part of a larger initiative to
strengthen Middle Eastern Studies on campus. The successful candidate
will have the opportunity to affiliate with other departments at the
University of Maryland, which values interdisciplinary research and
teaching. Position start date: August 16, 2016.

[more info:  https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/36553 ]

 

Columbia University – Richard Bulliet Professorship of Islamic History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51487

 

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and modern Arabic Literature

The Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University seeks a scholar of Comparative Literature and modern Arabic literature at the rank of assistant professor (tenure track). The Ph.D. must be completed by the time of employment, and native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English is required. The field of specialization within the modern period is open. Candidates will outline their future research in Comparative Literature and modern Arabic literature, and they will also make suggestions for courses. Demonstrated excellence in both scholarship and teaching is esssential; an interest in translation theory and practice is also welcome. Please submit complete dossier, including cover letter, curriculum vitae, dissertation abstract, sample of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation, online at the link above by November 1, 2015. Please also indicate whether you will attend the MESA convention in November 2015 and/or the MLA in January 2016.

Application Instructions   http://apply.interfolio.com/30218

Please submit complete dossier, including cover letter, curriculum vitae, dissertation abstract, sample of scholarly writing, and three letters of recommendation, online at the link above by November 1, 2015.

 

Yale University – Full Professor in Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations (NELC)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51493

 

Christopher Newport University – Assistant Professor of History
(Middle East and North Africa)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51494

9. CFP: Current Iran: Art and Culture, Harvard University (17-20 March 2016)

 

An organized seminar at the Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) held at Harvard University [Abstracts by Sept.

23, 2015; Conference March 17-20, 2016].

 

Scholars need to type “Iran” in http://www.acla.org/seminars http://www.acla.org/seminars

 

to find the name of the seminar: “Iran Is Not As It Is Told: Contemporary Persian Art and Culture”

 

After “register”, they can “propose a paper” for this seminar.

 

This seminar seeks to explore the complexities of Iranian contemporary art and

culture, discuss the religious, artistic, and sociopolitical dimension, and

trace the emergence of discourses, previously neglected by academia.

Advocating a comparative cultural approach, it aims to reflect the

competition between subversive and reinforcing discourses embedded in many

cultural products in a seemingly inflexible structure. The process of their

cultural formation reflects not only Iran’s central values but also the

continuously performing and revisionist qualities of those beliefs.

It will address new possibilities: the version of Iran produced by Iranians

themselves for (inter)national audience embedded in Iran’s post revolution

literature, cinema, music, fine art, popular culture, and advertising.

 

For further inquiries, contact organizers:  ghandeharioon@um.ac.ir,

clarkosh@umassd.edu,

 

1.Art in action
Politics and social engagement in art
Akbank Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey, September 19, 2015

Art in action
Politics and social engagement in art

Workshop at AKBANK Sanat Beyoglu, Istanbul

Concept by: Dr. Zoltán Somhegyi
Organised by: Akbank Sanat

We can trace the origins of the relationship between art, politics and
social engagement from the Ancient Near East and Classical Antiquity
onwards. However, in modern times, especially after Romanticism,
artists started to be more openly and directly critical towards the
condition and situation of their times, and in many cases became the
living “conscience” of the society. The workshop aims to analyse both
historical and current questions related to “art in action”. How art
can be and should it be political? Is the social engagement a limiting
or enriching feature of the arts? Should art stay “art for art’s sake”,
or be(come) more and more radically political? These and other
questions will be examined in the workshop, from an inter- and
multidisciplinary perspective, with the participation of Turkish and
international scholars.

Programme:

14:00 First session

Opening remarks by Dr. Zoltán Somhegyi, initiator of the workshop

Dr. Jale Erzen (Professor, Middle East Technical University, Ankara and
Izmir University, Izmir)
Art and architecture for and against ideologies

Dr. Jacob Lund (Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark)
Reframings of the present moment and the experience of contemporaneity
in the work of Alfredo Jaar

Dr. Zoltán Somhegyi (Assistant Professor, University of Sharjah, United
Arab Emirates)
Memory and politics through art. Contemporary examples from the Middle
East and beyond

15:30 Coffee break

16:00 Second session

Ipek Duben (artist, Istanbul)
Art as engagement and conversation

Bedri Baykam (artist and writer, president of UPSD – Turkish Plastic
Arts Association, Istanbul)
Art and politics. The art of constant repositioning and risk taking:
The cost of freedom

Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Politics & Social Engagement in Art (Istanbul, 19 Sep 15). In:
H-ArtHist, Sep 6, 2015. <http://arthist.net/archive/10907>.

2. Porta Linguarum Orientalium. New Series
Edited by Lutz Edzard, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and University of Oslo,
and Stephan Guth, University of Oslo
The Porta Linguarum Orientalium series, founded in 1864 by Julius Heinrich Petermann, later in the 20th century published under the editorship of Franz Rosenthal and Werner Diem, since 2014 edited by Lutz Edzard and Stephan Guth, constitutes a scholarly forum for grammars, pedagogical manuals, chrestomathies, and comparative manuals of the most important languages in the Middle East and Central Asia. In this capacity, the series has an important role within the publishing portfolio of Harrassowitz Verlag. In particular, the series comprises volumes on Semitic languages (Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Gəʿəz, Amharic), Coptic, Ottoman Turkish, modern Persian, Bahasa Indonésia, and Mongolian. The series also comprises comparative reference works on Semitic and the languages of the Islamic cultural area. All contributors to the series are leading scholars in their respective fi elds. The volumes of the series are subject to periodical review and, where appropriate, new editions. In individual cases, English versions of monographs originally published in German are in preparation. The volumes of the series are of interest to scholars and students alike, and are conceived both as pedagogical manuals and reference works.
The volumes are published in German or English, and they should encompass not more than 450 pages. Interested authors are expressly encouraged to approach the editors or Harrassowitz with publication ideas:
Prof. Dr. Lutz Edzard: lutz.edzard@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Stephan Guth: stephan.guth@ikos.uio.no
Dr. Barbara Krauß: bkrauss@harrassowitz.de
Link to the series: http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/category_280.ahtml?NKLN=86_B

 

 

3. CALL  FOR   PROPOSALS. www.MPSAnet.org

74th Annual MPSA Political Science Conference.   April 7-10, 2016.  Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Complete Panel Proposal Deadline:  September 24, 2015
Paper and Roundtable Proposal Deadline:  October 1, 2015
Poster Proposal Deadline:  December 10, 2015

The 2016 MPSA Conference Program Co-Chairs and Section Heads invite proposals in over 80 sections which represent all subfields in political science; the deadline for paper proposals is 10/1/2015.  You must log in at MPSAnet.org to submit a proposal.  If you do not have an account for the website, register for an account here. If you have an account (e.g. past conference attendee, past member), but forgot your username or password, just retrieve your existing username and password.  In particular, you might consider submitting a proposal to our sections on Area Studies:

•    Section 9: European Politics
•   Section 10: Latin American and Caribbean Politics
•   Section 11: Politics in Asia, South Asia & China
•   Section 12: African Politics
•   Section 13: Politics of the Middle East
•   Section 14: Communist/Post-Communist Countries

The MPSA conference has more papers and panels than any conference in the discipline, and yet all sessions can fit in the historic Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago. In addition to standard research panels or poster sessions, the MPSA also has innovative and interactive presentation formats like the Junior Scholar Symposia, Symposia and Research Blitz.

Conference participants are not required to be MPSA members, though all participating presenters are must register for the conference; members do receive a significant registration discount. The conference includes a number of open-bar receptions, formal networking opportunities and organized mentoring opportunities, as well as several dozen professional development sessions on topics of interest to academics including: Journal Editing, Blogging in the Academy, Experiments, Mentoring Students, Promotion to Full Professor and more.

Questions about the content of proposals should be directed to the Program Committee Co-Chairs or section heads. Questions about policies, presentation formats, and the electronic submissions process should be directed to MPSA staff at conf@mpsanet.org.

The MPSA was founded in 1939 and has members in over one hundred countries; the flagship journal of the MPSA is the American Journal of Political Science (www.ajps.org). Contact us at conf@mpsanet.org or 101 W. Kirkwood Ave, Suite 207, Bloomington, IN 47404.  www.MPSAnet.org

You must log in at MPSAnet.org to submit a proposal.  Paper proposals are due 10/1/2015. If you do not have an account for the website, register for one here. If you have an account (e.g. past conference attendee, past member), but forgot your username or password, just  retrieve your existing username and password.

Useful Links to Help You Prepare for #MPSA16

Important Deadlines

Session Formats and Role Descriptions

Section Descriptions and Contacts

Programs and Photos from Past MPSA Conferences

 

4. Critical Studies in Architecture of the Middle East is devoted to the most recent scholarship concerning historic and contemporary architecture, landscape, and urban design of the Middle East and of regions shaped by diasporic communities more globally. We invite interdisciplinary studies from diverse perspectives that address the visual characteristics of the built environment, ranging from architectural case studies to urban analysis. The series will illustrate a range of approaches to the commission, design, construction, use, and reception of buildings and landscapes throughout the region; concurrently, it will illuminate the region’s diverse architectural cultures and traditions. The series intends to present the history, theory, practice, and critical analyses of historical and contemporary architecture, landscape, and urban design, as well as the interpretation and conservation of the region’s existing cultural heritage. It will include surveys, monographs, and edited volumes.

 

Series editors: Mohammad Gharipour & Christiane Gruber
Please submit your book proposals to the series editors.  The following is the link to the book proposal template: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/repository/index/

 

5. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Persian Literature, to begin Fall 2016. Applicants’ primary research focus should be on modern Persian literature and culture. Candidates with additional demonstrated competence in teaching pre-modern Persian literature and in Persian language pedagogy are especially sought. Teaching responsibilities will include introductory and advanced undergraduate, as well as graduate, courses. Ph.D. is expected by July, 2016.

Applications are to be submitted on-line athttp://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/postings/697. Include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching interests, statement of research interests, and the contact information for three individuals who will be contacted by the University with instructions on how to submit a letter of recommendation. Review of applications will begin November 1, 2015 and the process will continue until the position is filled. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations is strongly committed to Penn’s Action Plan for Faculty Diversity and Excellence and to establishing a more diverse faculty (for more information see:
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v58/n02/diversityplan.html).
The University of Pennsylvania is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

The University of Pennsylvania values diversity and seeks talented students, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds. The University of Pennsylvania does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected class status in the administration of its admissions, financial aid, educational or athletic programs, or other University-administered programs or in its employment practices. Questions or complaints regarding this policy should be directed to the Executive Director of the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Programs, Sansom Place East, 3600 Chestnut Street, Suite 228, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6106; or (215) 898-6993 (Voice) or (215) 898-7803 (TDD).

 

6. The Religion Programme at the University of Otago, New Zealand, invites applications for a three-year, fixed-term position as Lecturer in Religion. We welcome applicants from a range of disciplines and specialties, but applicants should have research expertise that speaks to one or more of the Abrahamic religions (Islam, Judaism, and/or Christianity) and be able to demonstrate sophistication in using social-scientific and/or historical methods.  The successful candidate will teach an introductory 100-level paper on Judaism, Christianity and Islam each year, plus one or two more papers (courses) of their own design (an average of two and a half papers per year). We particularly encourage candidates whose own papers would address aspects of Islam and/or Christianity outside Europe and North America. Applicants should have an energetic and enthusiastic commitment to teaching and an active research profile.

 

Applicants should have completed a PhD by June 2016 and should have knowledge of languages relevant to their area of research expertise. It is hoped that duties will commence on 13 June 2016.

 

Further details are available from the University of Otago website at https://otago.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=1501430

Specific enquiries may be directed to Dr Will Sweetman, Head of Department, Department of Theology and Religion, Tel 00 64 3 479 8793, Email will.sweetman@otago.ac.nz

Applications quoting reference number 1501430 will close on Monday, 2 November 2015.

 

—

Dr Will Sweetman

Head of Department / Tumuaki

Theology and Religion / Te Tari Whakapono

University of Otago / Te Whare W?nanga o Ot?go

+64 3 479 8793

 

will.sweetman@otago.ac.nz

http://www.otago.ac.nz/religion/staff/sweetman.php

 

7. Tenured or tenure-track faculty position in History – Medieval and Persianate World (Rank open)

Ashoka University’s Department of History seeks to hire a scholar of the Medieval Persianate World, rank open. Must have the ability/willingness to teach a survey course in Medieval Indian History, with research level fluency in Persian, and/or Arabic, or any language relevant to medieval history, and ability to mentor students in the same.

Teaching load is two courses per semester. Compensation and research support unparalleled in India. PhD must be in hand by time of appointment. Candidates will require (1) a coverletter / CV, (2) statement on teaching philosophy, (3) statement on research, (4) research portfolio sample, and (5) three references. For questions or more information please email faculty.recruitment@ashoka.edu.in. For full consideration all materials should be submitted at http://ashoka.edu.in/facultypositions by October 16, 2015. Ashoka University is a private, nonprofit university providing an international-quality liberal arts and sciences education, the first of its kind in India. We have attracted the brightest students and the highest-quality faculty to our world-class campus on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. Ashoka’s Young India Fellowship, in its fifth year, has become the top destination for Indian postgraduates and our growing Undergraduate Programme consists of 360 of the brightest students in India. Ashoka is supported by partnerships with top universities around the world and an academic council of eminent scholars, all of whom are invested in building a new model of higher education in India through excellence in teaching and research. Our faculty is very diverse and consists of world-class researchers from premier universities (Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and others) who have made a mark in their respective fields, from computer science to philosophy, and are working to shape minds of India’s future leaders.

 

8. Manar al-Athar (http://www.manar-al-athar.ox.ac.uk/)

 

The Manar al-Athar website, based at the University of Oxford, aims to provide high resolution, searchable images for teaching, research, and publication. These images of archaeological sites, with buildings and art, will cover the areas of the former Roman empire which later came under Islamic rule, such as Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa and Spain. The chronological range is from Alexander the Great (i.e., from about 300 BC) through, the Islamic period to the present. It is the first website of its kind providing such material labelled jointly in both Arabic and English. We will also be publishing related material, both online and on paper, in English and Arabic.

 

Aims of Image Archives

a. to provide freely-downloadable images at high resolution for research and publication, as well as at low resolution for powerpoint slides for teaching;

b. to make images freely available for publication simply by acknowledging the source (no form-filling); (see Copyrigh

c. to have simple labels with a concentration on accurate and standardized labels, using metadata (explained under Photo Archive) for easy searching and organizing, with bilingual text in Arabic and English to facilitate the use of the images for both teaching and research in the Arab world, where most of the monuments are located.

d. to present the images in a structured way that is simple and easy to follow, moving from the whole building to details, to show their context.

 

9. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN IRANIAN OR TURKISH STUDIES

The Program in Middle East and North African Studies at Northwestern University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in modern Iranian studies or Turkish studies, in the humanities or humanistic social sciences. Candidates should work within an established discipline, and also engage with interdisciplinary conversations in Middle East studies. The position is anchored in the interdisciplinary Program in Middle East and North African studies, which offers an undergraduate major and minor and a PhD certificate program and a growing community of scholars and students. The successful candidate will need to qualify for a joint appointment in a partner department, including but not limited to anthropology, art history, a literature department, history, philosophy, religious studies, or sociology. Expertise and extensive engagement with primary documents, archives, and/or fieldwork in the language(s) of the region is expected. While this search names both Iranian and Turkish studies, candidates need not engage both fields, nor work exclusively in one or the other. The committee will be considering applicants in both subfields, which are areas of growth within the MENA Program. Job to begin September 1, 2016.  PhD expected to be completed no later than spring 2016.

Applications should include: a cover letter including description of current research project, future research areas, and teaching experience or philosophy; curriculum vitae; names and electronic addresses of three referees, and a writing sample of 20-25 manuscript pages or a published academic article. In order to receive full consideration, materials must arrive by Monday Oct 10. Interviews will be conducted at the Middle East Studies Association meetings in Denver (accommodations made for semi-finalists not able to travel to MESA).

The Program in Middle East and North African Studies is committed to a diverse faculty, both in terms of gender diversity and ethnic and racial diversity, as understood both in the United States and the Middle East region. We encourage women and ethnic, racial, and religious minorities to apply.

AA/EOE. Northwestern University is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer of all protected classes including veterans and individuals with disabilities. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the United States.

For further information and to apply, see: http://www.mena.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/faculty-search.html

 

10. BRAIS 2016 Call for Papers

Third Annual Conference

Monday 11 – Tuesday 12 April 2016

Senate House, University of London

 

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (April 2014) and London (April 2015), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic Studies, for the Third Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts as well as historical, textual, contemporary anthropological and sociological approaches.

Pre-arranged panels are particularly welcome on themes within the subject area, such as:

• Qur’anic studies
• Sociology of Islam
• Law
• Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
• History, Medieval and Modern
• History of Science
• Philosophy and theology
• Muslims in Africa and Asia
• Intellectual History
• Islamic Art and Architecture
• Diversity within Islam
• Economics and Finance
• Education
• Gender Studies
• Islam in the Media
• Interreligious Relations

Individual proposals will also be considered, and, if accepted, will then be grouped with similar submissions by the conference organisers.

For panels, a 200-word outline of the theme of the panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each paper and a short biography of each presenter, should be submitted using the form which is available HERE.

For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, with a short biography of the presenter, should be submitted using the form which is available HERE.

All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to conference2016@brais.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Monday 30^th November 2015.

Notification of accepted panels and papers will be circulated in January 2016.

Further details about the Association, including how to join, can be found at www.brais.ac.uk. Registration for the conference will open in February 2016, and early registration is recommended as limited space is available.  The deadline for registration for the conference will be 5 pm (UK time) on Monday 21 March 2016.

If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Committee on: conference2016@brais.ac.uk or the BRAIS administrator on: brais@ed.ac.uk.

 

1. MENA Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa Program, Berghof Foundation, Berlin

Position for an initial period of one year with possible extension. Main tasks: Provide logistical support for program activities (workshops, conferences, travel) etc.  Qualifications: BA in relevant field; background in the MENA region and/or in the field of conflict transformation is an asset; a minimum of one to three years’ work experience in project management; excellent communication skills in Arabic, English and German.

Deadline for application: 31 September 2015. Information:
www.berghof-foundation.org/fileadmin/redaktion/Documents/Vacancies/20150825_Profile_MENA_Programme_Assistant_final.pdf

2. Research Associate in the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge

The post is a two-year, fixed-term position, beginning on 7 December 2015. The successful candidate will conduct original research into Islam or Muslims in the UK or Europe and must have been awarded a PhD or be in the final stages of completion of a PhD.

Deadline for application: 2 October 2015. Information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/7942/

3. Assistant Professor of Arabic (Applied) Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

The position is starting in August 2016. The successful candidate will have a completed Ph.D. with a clearly demonstrated specialty in Arabic Linguistics and a solid background in classical Arabic, grammar, and texts.

Review of applications will begin on 10 October 2015. Information: Meriem Tikue mmt43@georgetown.edu
 

4. Tenure-track Position in Early or Medieval Islamic History, George Washington University, Washington D.C.

The position is to begin as early as fall of 2016. Basic Qualifications: A PhD in early or medieval Islamic history or a closely related field. Applicants should have a clear research agenda as demonstrated by publications.

Review of applications will begin on October 23, 2015. Information: www.gwu.jobs/postings/28673

 

5. Assistant Professor of Arabic, University of Oklahoma

The tenure-track position is beginning August 2016 as part of the Language Flagship program. Applicants must have a Ph.D. in a relevant field at the time of appointment, native or near-native proficiency in Arabic, and a demonstrable commitment to excellence in both teaching and research. Preference will be given to candidates specializing in modern literature and/or cultural studies.

Review of applications will begin on 30 September 2015. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/5989
 

6. Assistant Professor in International Relations with Specialization in Intelligence Studies in the Middle East, University of Pittsburgh
The successful candidate will have both research and teaching interests in East Asia, the Middle East, analytical methodologies, cyber-security, and/or the increasingly globalized nature of intelligence collection (including big data).

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2015. Information: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000895409-01

 

7. Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Yale University

The tenure-track appointment is beginning July 1, 2016. Research specialties in early Islam or Qur’an and Qur’anic studies are necessary.

The review of applications will begin November 1, 2015. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/30707
 

8. Assistant/Associate Professor in Islamic History, Qatar University

The successful candidate should be able to teach and develop different courses related to the area of Islamic History where the candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven record in research excellence and scholarship.  Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Islamic history or related areas and should have a minimum of five years teaching experience.

Deadline for application; 15 October 2015. Information:
https://careers.qu.edu.qa/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_EID_VIS_INTG_GATEWAY&p_action=viewPosting&p_svid=947&p_spid=35126&p_srid=28188

9. Dear Friends,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the website, Anthology of Iranian Masters of Calligraphy, which I developed at the suggestion of Professor Kambiz GhaneaBassiri and with the support of Reed College, is now available online.  Please take a look at it, if you are interested.
http://www.reed.edu/persian-calligraphy/en/index.html

 

Sincerely yours,

Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani, Ph.D.
Calligrapher & Scholar of Persian Literature and Calligraphy.
www.ghelichkhani.com

 

10. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem invites applications for tenure-track and
tenured positions in the field of Arabic Language and Literature (modern Arabic
literature, classical Arabic literature – poetry and prose (adab), Arabic
language and linguistics, early Islamic history and historiography, medieval
Islamic philosophy/theology and Islamic law), as well as in the field of
Religious Studies, with a specialization in Islam.

An ability to teach courses in Arabic is an advantage. The primary language of
instruction at the Hebrew University is Hebrew, but candidates not familiar
with Hebrew will be given time to reach proficiency in Hebrew during the
initial years of their appointment.

Applications are due by 15 October 2015.

Please find further information here:
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/new.php?cat=5369

 

11. CfP: political party organisation in the Middle East and North Africa.

 

A conference to be held at the University of Manchester, 25-27 January 2016.

Convened by the Subject Areas of History and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Manchester, in Association with the Centre for Advanced Study of the Arab World

Co-organised by Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi and Dr Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi Email: manchester.conference.2016@gmail.com

This international conference aims to make sense of past, present and future perspectives on political party organisation in the Middle East and North Africa. It will seek to understand whether political parties in MENA should still be considered an integral part to the creation of resilient democratic states or the enactment of radical social transformation, as well as chart the evolution of the single party system and the challenges it has faced over the past decade. It will aim to bring together a wide range of scholars studying topics ranging from the social bases of marginalized political organizations to mainstream parties which have held power for decades. It is the conference’s intention to contribute to extant international scholarship on political parties in the fields of history, political science, international relations, sociology and anthropology and the literature concerned with political parties in the post-colonial world.

Proposals might choose to focus on the following themes:

• Nationalism and Political Parties
• Ethnicity and Political Parties
• Imperialism and Political Parties in the Middle East
• State formation and Political Parties in the Middle East
• Political Parties and Democratization in the Middle East
• Political Parties and Class Politics
• Modernization Theory and the Legacy of Political Parties
• Political Parties in the Arab Spring
• Does Political Pluralism in the MENA Require a Multi-Party System?
• Political Parties in the Age of Social Media
• Political Parties and the Legacy of the Left in the Middle East
• Official Co-opted Political Parties in the Middle East
• Loyal Oppositions in the Middle East
• Political Parties and Gender in the Middle East
• Political Parties and Welfare Networks
• Political Parties and Sectarianism
• Factionalism or Multi-Party System?
• Political Parties and Revolutionary Elites
• Political Parties and Arab Armies
• Political Parties in the Middle East: A Spent Force?
• The validity of the Western political party theory and conceptualisation in the modern Middle East.

Limited funding is available to cover select travel and accommodation expenses of accepted panelists.

Please complete the paper submission form on the conference website ( https://politicalpartiesmiddleeast.wordpress.com/ ) by no later than 5 October 2015. Selected participants will be contacted towards the publication of an edited volume.

 

12. Islamic’ Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures

Organized by Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor, Arts of Islam, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, in collaboration with the Middle East Institute, Columbia University.

*

This semester continues a lecture series initiated in 2014-15, addressing the historiography of the field of ‘Islamic art’ by scoring the particular moments of ruptures that fractured its foundations. The next three lectures will address problems raised by modern and contemporary spaces:

September 21:
Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London): “Hannibal in Rafah: a forensic reconstruction of one day in the 2014 Gaza War.”

October 22:
Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology): “Photographing Ottoman Modernity.”

December 3:
Nada Shabout (University of North Texas): “Modernities: Discontent and Alliances.”
with discussant Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
*Rescheduled from Spring.

All lectures are held at 6 pm
Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027.

*

For more information, please visit our website:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/calendar/disrupting-unity-and-discerning-ruptures.html

 

13. Final call for papers – Race, religion and migration: spaces, practices, representations

 

A final reminder about a call for papers for the conference below. Abstract deadline is 10^th September. Please feel free to forward this on to colleagues or others who you think may be interested in participating.

 

Race, religion and migration: spaces, practices, representations

 

Newcastle University, January 13-15^th 2016

 

Confirmed keynote speakers include:

 

Claire Alexander (University of Manchester),

Catarina Kinnvall (Lund University),

Greg Noble (University of Western Sydney),

Ann Phoenix (University of London), and

Gurchathen Sanghera (University of St Andrews)

 

The Race, religion and migration: spaces, practices, representations conference brings together scholars, activists and practitioners who research matters of ethnicity, faith and mobility. It engages with an international community of scholars (including established, mid-career and emerging), policy-makers, practitioners and activists who share an interest in these topics, and who are working on issues of space, practice and/or representation (or at the intersections between two or all of these). The conference includes contributions which explore and demonstrate the social and political significance of issues of race, religion and migration, and engages with the multiple spaces in which these are constructed, contested and represented.

 

We welcome a range of empirical, conceptual and policy-focused papers from different disciplines across the social sciences. We welcome papers that connect with the conference title and particularly encourage submissions on the following themes:

• Everyday multiculturalism
• Intersections of race, religion and migration with gender, sexuality, class and age
• Childhood, youth and ethnic/religious diversity and difference
• Embodied experiences of, and negotiations of, racialised and religious difference
• Representing race, religion and/or migration in different contexts
• Islamophobia and racism
• Local, regional, urban and national patterns and processes
• Critical reviews of policies about race, religion and migration

We also welcome suggestions for alternative forms of presentations/sessions.

 

If you would like to present at this conference, you should send a title and abstract (250 words maximum) to sean.gill@ncl.ac.uk by Thursday 10^th September.

 

To register, follow the link at the bottom of this page: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/youngpeople/finalconference/

 

Thanks

Peter

********

Peter Hopkins

Professor of Social Geography

School of Geography, Politics and Sociology

Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

England, UK  NE1 7RU

(0191) 208 3924  peter.hopkins@ncl.ac.uk

 

Managing Editor, Gender, Place and Culture

 

14. McGill University – Assistant Professor, Ottoman and Turkish Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51486

 

University of North Carolina at Charlotte – Assistant Professor, Islamic World
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51467

 

Northwestern University – Associate/Full Professor, Islam in African
Societies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51425

1.[my apologies for the poor rendition of this note – ed.]

Assistant Professor of South Asian Art History
 (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

Application deadline:  November 1, 2015

URL:   http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/


The Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities seeks candidates for the position of Assistant Professor of South Asian art (tenure track) beginning Fall 2016. We invite applications from scholars whose research focuses on any historical period and geographic area of South Asia, but especially welcome candidates specializing in the art, architecture or archaeology of ancient through early modern South Asia, particularly those that complement current faculty strengths in ancient Iran or the Ottoman and Safavid empires.  In addition to upper-level/graduate teaching in their areas of research, ideal candidates will be able to teach broadly within South Asia and contribute to undergraduate Asian art surveys.



Appointment will be 100% time over the nine-month academic year (late-August to late-May).

Appointment will be at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor, depending on qualifications and experience, and consistent with collegiate and University policy.


Responsibilities include: engaging actively in research; teaching courses on all undergraduate and graduate levels (from broad surveys of South Asian art to specialized graduate seminars); and the supervision of senior projects, M.A. qualifying papers, and doctoral dissertations. We seek candidates who will work collaboratively with their colleagues in Art History as well as with faculty in other departments and engage in the interdisciplinary life of the College. Faculty members of this department are committed to outstanding, theoretically-driven research and to the support of and collaboration with younger colleagues.


The Standards for Promotion and Tenure in the Department of Art History are available at: http://www.academic.umn.edu/provost/faculty/tenure/pdf/CLA/7_12ARTH.pdf


The Workload Principles and Guidelines for Regular Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts are available at: http://intranet.cla.umn.edu/faculty/FacultyWorkloadPrinciplesGuidelines.php


Qualifications

Ph.D. or foreign equivalent in Art History or related field (A.B.D. considered but Ph.D. is strongly preferred by appointment start date); college/university-level teaching experience; a promising record of research and publication. If Ph.D is completed by the start date (August 29, 2016), appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor.

Candidates will be evaluated according to a) overall quality of their academic preparation and scholarly work, b) relevance of their scholarly research to the department’s academic priorities and fields of inquiry, c) evidence of commitment to teaching and skills as a teacher, and d) strength of recommendations.

How To Apply

All applicants must apply online. Please go to: http://www1.umn.edu/ohr/employment/ and search for Job ID 304138. To be considered for this position, please click the “apply” button and follow the instructions. You will be given an opportunity to complete an online application for the position and attach a cover letter and curriculum vitae. Additional documents must be attached by accessing your “My Activities” page. The following materials must be attached to your online application: 1) cover letter, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) names, addresses, and email contact of three references as separate attachment in “My Activities.”

Additional materials may be requested at a later date.
The deadline to apply for this position is November 1, 2015.
This position will remain open until filled.

About the Department

The Department of Art History at the University of Minnesota consists of approximately 10 core faculty, 65 undergraduate majors, and 20 graduate students. South Asian art history has a long been a strength of University of Minnesota and benefits from a thriving multi-disciplinary community of scholars across the College of Liberal Arts.
The Ames South Asia Library at the University of Minnesota is one of the world’s outstanding resources for the study of South Asia.
The Department of Art History is housed within the College of Liberal Arts and has active collaborations with faculty throughout the University, including those in Asian Languages and Literatures, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, the Center for Early Modern History, American Studies, Studio Art, and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literatures.


Established in 1868, the College of Liberal Arts supports the University of Minnesota’s land-grant mission as home to disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

The College of Liberal Arts is committed to intellectual freedom, the pursuit of new knowledge, and the belief that the liberal arts are the foundation of academic learning. CLA prepares students to be independent and original thinkers, innovators in their chosen fields; to create meaning in their lives and in their life’s work; and to become productive citizens and leaders in their communities and the world.



The College of Liberal Arts values diverse cultures, experiences, and perspectives as key to innovation and excellent education. [http://www.cla.umn.edu%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A8%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A8]www.cla.umn.edu



In addition to UMN’s own faculty, library, museum and archival resources, the Twin Cities is a culturally rich area with, among many other resources, two Indian dance companies and an Indian Music Society. A search for a South Asia curator at the Minneapolis Institute of Art is just concluding, and the University of Minnesota is home to South Asia specialists in many departments.
Founded in 1851, the University of Minnesota, with its five campuses and more than 65,000 students, is one of the largest, most comprehensive universities in the United States, and ranks among the most prestigious research universities in the world. It is both a major research institution, with scholars of national and international reputation, and a state land-grant university, with a strong tradition of education and public engagement.

Diversity
The University recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting the academic mission. The University is committed to attracting and retaining employees with varying identities and backgrounds.



The University of Minnesota provides equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression. To learn more about diversity at the U: [http://diversity.umn.edu.%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A8]http://diversity.umn.edu.


[http://diversity.umn.edu.%C3%A2%C2%80%C2%A8T]To request an accommodation during the application process, please e-mail employ@umn.edu or call (612) 624-UOHR (8647).

Background Check Information
Any offer of employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Our presumption is that prospective employees are eligible to work here. Criminal convictions do not automatically disqualify finalists from employment.



About the U of M

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (UMTC), is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional students a multitude of opportunities for study and research. Located at the heart of one of the nation’s most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world-renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations



    â€¢    EEO/AA Policy The University recognizes and values the importance of diversity and inclusion in enriching the employment experience of its employees and in supporting the academic mission. The University is committed to attracting and retaining employees with varying identities and backgrounds.
The University of Minnesota provides equal access to and opportunity in its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

To learn more about diversity at the U: [http://diversity.umn.edu.%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%A8To]http://diversity.umn.edu.
To request an accommodation during the application process, please e-mail employ@umn.edu or call (612) 624-UOHR (8647).

 

2. Dear Friends,

 

I am pleased to announce the publication of my first monograph, which may be of interest to some on this list: Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914.  This is a study on the importance of private estate building and elite factionalism in shaping social, economic, and political change in the Kirman region over the long nineteenth century.  While playing the obvious role of intermediaries in relations with the Qajar and British Empires, local families also invested in projects to commercialize opium, cotton, and carpet production in southern Iran and facilitated their trade through the Persian Gulf to markets overseas.  Kirman was also at the center of the constitutional movement in the early 20^th century, with local families caught between calls for placing limits on the patrimonial rule of the Qajar dynasty and attempts to maintain their own hereditary control over local administration.  “Modernity” here is explored as an interrelated process of regional integration and expanding global networks, with a particular emphasis on exploring how Iranians participated in shaping this locally.

 

The book is now available through Routledge https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138914568 and in hardbook or ebook through Amazon: http://amzn.com/B011RLMTTU

 

James M. Gustafson, Ph.D.

President, MAMEIS

Assistant Professor of History

Indiana State University

621 Chestnut St.

Terre Haute, IN 47809

 

3. The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2016-2017 fellowship programs for U.S.-based students and scholars:
ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary aspects of cultural history for applicants who have completed their academic training.  The fellowships may be held for terms ranging from four months to a full year.  Stipend per month is $4,200.

ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey are offered for research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences.  Post-doctoral and advanced doctoral fellowships may be held for various terms, for terms from one month up to one academic year.  Stipends range from $2,500 to $15,500.

Applications for ARIT fellowships must be submitted to ARIT by November 1, 2015.  The fellowship committee will notify applicants by late January, 2016.

ARIT Summer Fellowships for Intensive Advanced Turkish Language at Bogazici University, Istanbul, summer 2016.  The program supports intensive study of advanced Turkish language at Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, including air fare, tuition, and stipend.  The application deadline is February 5.

For further information please see the ARIT webpage at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ARIT/FellowshipPrograms.html

…………………………………………………
American Research Institute in Turkey
c/o University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street
Philadelphia PA 19104
p: 215.898.3474
f: 215.898.0675

 

4. CFP: Subverting or Sustaining Authority: NEMLA 2016-Satire in the Middle East and North Africa

 

As part of the literary heritage of the Middle East and North Africa, satire
has long played an essential role in resisting and subverting the status quo of
religious, political, and cultural hegemonies in the region. From Abbasid era
poet Ibn al-Rumi’s invectives and al-Jahiz’s humorous tales to 20th-century
Syrian playwright Muhammad al-Maghut and contemporary Moroccan comedian Ahmad
al-Sanusi, satire has been deployed as a mechanism of critiquing, ridiculing,
and repudiating authority while at the same time implicitly alluding to the
possibility of constructing alternative futures. At the same time, satire has
also been co-opted by state cultural institutions, used to propagate
authoritarian discourses, and maintain the status quo whether in the case of
political cartoons published in state-owned newspapers or soap operas broadcast
on national television channels.

This seminar aims to explore the following questions: how and to what effect
has satire, humor, and invective been employed in prose, verse, visual culture
and on stage in the Middle East and North Africa in the 20th and 21st
centuries? What are some of the underlying impulses of satire in the
contemporary era, and how are satirical works linked to both nostalgia for an
idealized past and conceptions of a utopian future? How are contemporary
satirical works related to classical traditions of invective and satire? What
are the potential implications and limitations of satire as political critique
and resistance? How have state cultural institutions and the apparatus of state
censorship attempted to restrict and co-opt satire and comedy as an extension
of state power?

Abstracts (300 word maximum) must be submitted to the NEMLA website and are due
September 30th,2015.  https://www.cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/15921

For questions, please contact Shareah Taleghani at taleghani.s@gmail.com or
Eman Morsi at esm313@nyu.edu

 

5. CFP – AAH2016: Inside / Outside in Islamic Art and Architecture [discussion]

AAH2016 Annual Conference and Bookfair
University of Edinburgh
7 – 9 April 2016

Inside / Outside in Islamic Art and Architecture

Convenor:

Saygin Salgirli, University of British Columbia (saygin.salgirli@ubc.ca)

As an offshoot of Orientalist fantasies about the absolute interior, the harem, earlier scholarship on the domestic architecture of the Islamic world transformed each household into a micro seraglio, less erotic but equally exotic, with a definite separation between private and public, inside and outside. The damage has been so profound that the revisionist scholarship of the past few decades devoted more effort to replacing the Orientalist canon than to asking new questions about the relationship between inside and outside in Islamic art and architecture. This panel calls for empirically grounded papers that engage with theoretical and methodological issues pertaining to various conceptualisations of inside and outside in Islamic art and architecture. Topics may include, but are not limited to: the relationship between peripheral and central figures in illuminated manuscripts; compositional means of defining or redefining an inside and an outside; the relationship between text and image; questions of audience and visibility; borders and frames in manuscripts and portable objects; architectural means of inclusion and exclusion; architecture as the configuration of an outside as well as an inside; sensory means of defining an inside; an insider’s experience of space versus an outsider’s experience. Papers can focus on any part of the Islamic world from all periods, but especially welcome are comparative studies that discuss multiple works / buildings across space and/or time.

Email paper propsals to the session convenor(s) by 9 November 2015. Download a Paper Proposal Guidelines

 

 

6. ISLAMIC STUDIES IN SCOTLAND: RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT

 

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the inaugural lecture of Montgomery Watt as the first Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Scotland, the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies in the University of Edinburgh, supported by the Alwaleed Centre, has arranged an evening celebrating and assessing Prof Watt’s work (talks by Professor Carole Hillenbrand of the University of Edinburgh and Prof Fred Donner of the University of Chicago), and a day symposium on ‘Representations of Muhammad’, with talks by Professor Wilferd Madelung (Institute of Ismalili Studies), Dr Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford), Dr Andreas Goerke (University of Edinburgh), Dr Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan), Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz (University of Edinburgh), and Dr John Tolan (University of Nantes).

 

The full programme is available at http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/islamic-studies-in-scotland-retrospect-and-prospect-tickets-18324770883

 

7.  The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

2015 – 2016 AKPIA Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234

 

Thursday, September 24, 2015

“The Landscapes of Post-Byzantine Anatolia”

Nicolas Trépanier, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Associate Professor of History, University of Mississippi

 

Thursday, October 8, 2015

“Landscape of Sovereignty: The Villa in Umayyad Córdoba”

Glaire Anderson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies

 

Thursday, November 19, 2015

“Efşancı Garden: Questioning the Ideal of Ottoman Garden Design in the Sixteenth Century”

1. Deniz Çaliş Kural, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Assistant Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University

 

Thursday, February 18, 2016

“Poetry, Policy and Landscape Representation in Akbari Painting”

Mika Natif, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Assistant Professor of Art History, The George Washington University

 

Thursday, March 24, 2016

“Lodging Along the Trade Routes: Hans and Caravanserais in Bosnian Pashadom in the Early Modern Period”

Darka Bilić, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Institute of Art History, Centre Cvito Fisković, Split

 

Thursday, April 21, 2016

“Figural Representation in the Stucco Ornament of Religious Architecture in Khorasan”

Amirhossein Salehi, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Lecturer, Department of Art Studies, Semnan University

 

Thursday, April 28, 2016

“Some Exploratory Thoughts on Ottoman Islamic Aesthetics”

Shahab Ahmed, Harvard AKPIA Associate

 

Lectures are free and open to the public. They are held Thursdays, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., at the Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318,

Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138.  For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

 

View previous AKPIA lectures here: http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup125394

Download lecture poster here: http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234

 

Contact Info:

Cecily Pollard

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

Harvard University, Sackler 412

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Tel 617-495-2355

Email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

Web agakhan.fas.harvard.edu

Contact Email:

agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

URL:

http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup104234

 

8. Three Research Internship Positions at the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS), University of Peloponnese

The three internships, on a voluntary basis, are offered for the 2015-2016 academic year. The interns will be supervised by senior associates and will be dealing with the study and analysis of ongoing events.

Deadline for application: 4 October 2015. Information: http://cemmis.edu.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=582%3A-2015-16&catid=71%3Aanakoinoseis&Itemid=67&lang=en&acm=3102_189

 

9. Workshop: “The Cities in Khurasan/Transoxiana – Occupation, Agriculture, and Environmental Changes in the First Millennium – The Bukhara Oasis”, University of Hamburg, 7-9 October 2015

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts of archaeology, historical science and geography in order to approach the geographical turn of historical research.

For registration contact Katharina Mewes  katharina.mewes@uni-hamburg.de. Information: www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/documents/bukhara-oasis-gis-program.pdf

 

10. Workshop: “The Mingana 1572a Qur’an Fragments”, University of Birmingham, 21 October 2015  The workshop will assess the recently announced dating of two leaves from an early Qur’an at the University of Birmingham. Spaces are limited.   For information and details of registration, contact Professor David Thomas d.r.thomas.1@bham.ac.uk.

 

 

11. International Conference: “Social and Cultural History in the Arab World, Turkey and Iran: Theories, Methods and Themes”, Qatar University, 17-18 March 2016

This conference will look at social and cultural history as a specific episode in the history of historiography with special focus on the Arab world, Turkey and Iran. It seeks to provide a re-appraisal of this type of history today.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 15, 2015. Information: www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/humanities/conferences/index.php

1. International Workshop: “The Fiqhī Heritage in the Ottoman Empire and India”, Istanbul University, 27-28 February 2016

The aim of the workshop is to study Indian and Ottoman scholars and institutions in light of the works produced during the Ottoman period. The workshop will be held in Turkish, Arabic, and English.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2015. Information: http://ilahiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/The-Fiqhi-Heritage-in-the-Ottoman-Empire-and-India.pdf

 

2. 19th Annual International Mediterranean Studies Association Congress, University of Palermo, 25-28 May 2016

150-200 scholarly papers will be delivered before an international audience of scholars, academics, and experts in a wide range of fields. A number of special events are being planned for Congress participants that will highlight the unique cultural aspects of Sicily.

Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2016. Information: www.mediterraneanstudies.org/
3. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics and Middle East, Loyola University Chicago

The tenure-track position is beginning fall 2016. The successful candidate is expected to have a Ph.D. in Political Science at the time of the appointment. The Jesuit Catholic institution seeks candidates who will contribute to deliver a Transformative Education in the Jesuit tradition.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2015. Information: pschrae@luc.edu

 

4. Assistant Professor of Islam and Modernity, University of Toronto

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Religion, Middle Eastern Studies, or an appropriate disciplinary area, by the time of appointment, or shortly thereafter, must have a high level of scholarly achievement in Islamic Studies, must be competent in Arabic and in classical sources, and must have competence in the academic study of religion.

Deadline for applications: 1 November 2015. Information: https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl?job=1501073

5. Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore

The successful candidate should have a sound understanding of the contemporary Middle East, and be familiar with current scholarship on the region. Desirable qualifications include, among others, a Ph.D. involving work related to the Middle East and knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, preferably Arabic.

Deadline for applications: 1 October 2015. Information: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/index.php/web/new-job-opening
6. New Doctoral Program on „State Politics and Islamic Orthodoxy”, Institute of Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, North Sydney

The four-year program begins with an intense year of coursework and training, combined with serious theoretical and conceptual work. The demanding and rigorous year of coursework, comprised of four North American style doctoral seminars, provides students with a deeper understanding of the great debates in social and political thought, and better prepares them for the task of undertaking original investigations of their own.

Deadline for expression of interest: 16 September 2015. Information: http://isj.acu.edu.au/research/doctoral-program-in-social-political-thought/
7. Doctoral Fellowships, Study of Conversion and Inter-Religious Encounters, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

The scholarships will be for four years (starting 1st October 2015) and the value will be around 50,000 NIS per academic year.  The candidate will be expected to carry out research in areas relevant to the study of conversion and inter-religious encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern periods and to contribute materials to the database on conversion.

Information: http://in.bgu.ac.il/en/csoc/Pages/news/Scholarships2016.aspx

 

8. Islamic Painted Page website – Upgrade

We are pleased to report an upgrade to The Islamic Painted Page database at www.islamicpaintedpage.com .

This database enables users to locate reproductions, commentaries and online images of thousands of Persian, Ottoman, Arab, Mughal, Sultanate and other paintings, illuminations and bindings up to c.1750 CE.

Following the addition of a full search by picture description facility in 2014, the new upgrade resolves issues about transliteration and MS references, besides enlarging the database from 17,500 to almost 21,500 references.

Accordingly the data has now been improved to provide consistent, fully-transliterated (Library of Congress) listings of MS authors and titles, as well Anglicised IJMES versions, plus entries in Arabic script. The site also now gives direct links into the relevant pages of the VIAF website, so that users can check other transliterations with confidence, and into relevant pages of the FIHRIST catalogue, for more definitive information about specific manuscripts.

Links to online images have also been extended, a print facility added, and there is a new Resources page where users can download listings of collections with their websites, publications with WORLDCAT links, and a 666-line listing of MS authors and titles in LC, Anglicised IJMES and arabic script with VIAF links.

Access remains free and users can create their own areas within the site to record search results, access additional features and communicate direct with the site admin. We are continuing to update the site and all feedback is welcome.

This upgrade has been made possible with support from The Islamic Manuscripts Association, whose assistance is gratefully acknowledged.

Stephen Serpell

stephen.serpell@btinternet.com

 

9. CALL FOR PAPERS: Sacred Spaces and Political Places: Fostering Regional Identities
through Historical and Literary Medieval Pilgrimage I and II

The 51st International Congress on Medieval Studies 

Kalamazoo, Michigan

May 12 – 15, 2016

Among the many factors impelling medieval pilgrimage, these sessions seek to examine those elements which fostered regional identity. The dedication of pilgrims traveling varying distances to experience the divine at sacred destinations was simultaneously enhanced by patrons who promoted traffic to and maintained pilgrimage sites. Saints’ shrines, tombs, and holy relics reinforced cultural and social identities relevant to the geographical and religious characteristics of a given locale and they helped shape and strengthen the prevailing political landscapes.
These two panels call for papers which closely examine Muslim and/or Christian medieval texts, both literary and historical, which foster regional identity through their promotive character as they call attention to medieval sites of pilgrimage, relics, and/or the history of saints. By engaging in this dialogue through a cross-cultural lens, we not only aim to evaluate the common characteristics of shrine visitation and rituals in the Middle Ages but also their disparities in both Islamic and Christian literary and historical disciplines. We welcome papers which analyze several genres of medieval texts such as romances, chronicles, hagiographies, guidebooks, and travelogues to explore this topic. We urge papers to consider how textual accounts of pilgrimage and pilgrimage sites relate to practical experience, how the translation and distribution of relics affected centers of power in a region, or how legends associated with specific saints contribute to the understanding of a particular locale.
Please send in your abstract of no more than 300 words to Laura Clark (l_clark@baylor.edu) and Ali Alibhai (alibhai@fas.harvard.edu) by September 15th 2015. Panelists will be informed in early October 2015 regarding their acceptance in the panels.

 

10. University of California – San Diego – Assistant Professor, Islamic

Middle East

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51378

 

University of Wisconsin-Madison – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral

Fellowship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51404

 

 

11. Fellowships Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Research Project

With the generous support of Farman-Farmaian Family, the IISH launches a new fellowship programme named the Prince Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian Fellowships for scholars who wish to use its collections for the study of social and cultural history of 18-20 century of Iran, whether from a regional, national, or comparative and transnational perspective.

Fellowships are awarded for six months each year. This is a call for applications for fellowships for the year 2016.

Until 15 October 2015 applications can be made.

Fellows receive a monthly stipend of €1,500. The fellowship also includes an economy return flight to the Netherlands, visa support, as well as arrangements for accommodation and health insurance in Amsterdam.

Minimum requirements/selection criteria

– An MA degree or equivalent academic track record,

– An update CV,

– A Research proposal in not more than 500 words.

The fellow’s research plan should fit the Institute’s focus on social history.

Fellows are expected:

– To write a report on their research activities at the end of the fellowship period,

– To be present at the institute customarily,

– To take part in the activities of the Institute’s Research Department,

– To interact with other fellows and the IISH’s research staff in the English language,

– To give at least one public lecture.

Selection will be made based on the quality and novelty of the proposed research project, its affinity to social history research conducted at the International Institute of Social History, and the applicant’s qualifications.

Outcome

Fellows are expected to present the results of their work both orally to the other members of the Research Department, and in writing with a paper of min. 5000 and max. 8000 words (including notes). It is envisaged that the PDF version of the paper will be published as an occasional paper on the website of the IISH.

Applications

Applications should be submitted before 15 October 2015 to:

farmanfarma@iisg.nl

 

General information about the IISH can be obtained via

http://Socialhistory.org

 

https://socialhistory.org/en/jobs/fellowships-prince-dr-sabbar-farman-farmaian-research-project

 

More information about the fellowship can be obtained from Professor Touraj Atabaki, e-mail:

 

tat@iisg.nl

Department: Research Fellows

Deadline: 15 October 2015

 

12. California State University – Dominguez Hills – Assistant Professor of African History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51406

University of California – San Diego – Assistant Professor, Islamic Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51378

Columbia University – Assistant Professor, Modern Arabic Literature
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51395

Pennsylvania State University – Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature & Arabic literatures and cultures
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51409

Washington State University – Instructor, Pre-1500 European and World
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51394

 

_{13. DĀNESH INSTITUTE 2015 Annual Conference}

Hosted by the Indiana University Department of Central Eurasian Studies

 

RESEARCH IN IRAN AND IRANIAN DIASPORAS:
FINDINGS, EXPERIENCES, AND CHALLENGES

 

 

Saturday, October 24, 2014; 8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

 

Indiana University Global and International Studies Building

355 North Jordan Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana

 

Preliminary Program

 

Mitra Fallhi, Lewis University. A Comparison of the Patterns of the Immigration of Iranians to the United States Before and After the Revolution of 1979, and Unique Characteristics of Iranians in American Society.

Seema Golestaneh, Indiana University. Of Mirrors and Mirroring: Discovering Mimetic Relationships in “the Field” in Iran.

Bahar Karimi, King’s College London, Great Britain. Second Generation of Iranians in Britain: The Question of Dual Culture.

Annahita Mahdavi, Long Beach City College. Same Event, Different Experience: What Makes Immigration a Different Experience for Each Individual?

Mozhgan Malekan, University of Cincinnati. Who Is the Ideal Woman? A Phenomenological Study of Feminist Identities among Iranian Muslem Immigrant Women in Columbus, Ohio.

Alice Miggiano, University of Naples, Italy. The Iranian Diaspora in Italy.

Niloofar Shariat, Independent Scholar and Ali Akbar Mahdi, California State University-Northridge. Does a Dispersed Family Make for a Better Life? The Case of Iranian Transnational Families.

Bita Zakeri, Indiana University. Who Is the Researcher? A Multifaceted Self in a Transnational Realm.

FOR REGISTRATION, PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED FORM

 

The conference is co-sponsored by the Indiana University School of Social Work, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and Society for Promotion of Persian Culture.

 

For information regarding DĀNESH Institute, please see:
http://www.daneshinstitute.org.

For information about the CEUS Department, please visit:
http://www.indiana.edu/~ceus/.
For a map of the Indiana University campus, visit: http://map.iu.edu/iub/

 

14. ‘Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire’

10 September 2015 – 11 September 2015

Sponsored by: The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), the Trevelyan Fund and the Iran Heritage Foundation

Convened by : Dr David Motadel (Gonville and Caius College, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge)

 

Venue

CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT – SG1&2

Introduction

In the heyday of empire, most of the world was ruled, directly or indirectly, by the European powers. On the eve of the First World War, only a few non-European states had maintained their formal sovereignty: Abyssinia (Ethiopia), China, Japan, the Ottoman Empire, Persia (Iran), and Siam (Thailand). Some others kept their independence for a while, but then succumbed to imperial powers, such as Hawaii, Korea, Madagascar, and Morocco. Facing imperialist incursion, the political elites of these countries sought to overcome their political vulnerability by engaging with the European powers and seeking recognition as equals.

The conference ‘Sovereignty and Imperialism: Non-European Powers in the Age of Empire’ will explore how diplomats, military officials, statesmen, and monarchs of the independent non-European states struggled to keep European imperialism at bay. It will address four major aspects of the relations of these countries with the Western imperial powers: armed conflict and military reform (Panel 1); capitulations, unequal treaties, and subsequent engagement with European legal codes (Panel 2); royalty and courts (Panel 3); and diplomatic encounters (Panel 4). Bringing together scholars from across the world, the conference will be the first attempt to provide comparative perspectives on the non-European powers’ engagement with the European empires in the era of high imperialism.

Programme & Abstracts

Please click here

Registration

Registration fee is £50 (full) and £25 (students). It includes lunch and tea/coffee

Deadline for registration is Sunday 6 September 2015

For any inquiries please contact: conferences@crassh.cam.ac.uk

Accommodation

The following websites will be able to help with accommodation:

Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Rooms
University of Cambridge accommodation webpage

 

15. The Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Program at the College of William and Mary seeks applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level. The successful applicant will be jointly appointed in a home department and AMES. AMES is a concentration within the interdisciplinary major of Global Studies, and is supported by 32 faculty affiliates from eleven departments.

We are interested in individuals with research and teaching expertise in Middle Eastern, East Asian, and/or South Asian studies. We welcome applicants in the humanities or humanistic social sciences including, but not limited to Anthropology, Art and Art History, Cultural Studies, Government, Literature, Religious Studies, and other areas of scholarly expertise pending departmental approval. Teaching expectation is two courses per semester, and the successful candidate will be responsible for teaching the interdisciplinary core course in AMES as well as upper-level courses in AMES and his/her home department.

Candidate must apply online at https://jobs.wm.edu. (https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/22241)

Submit a curriculum vitae, and a cover letter including statement of research and teaching interests. You will be prompted to submit online the names and email addresses of three references who will be contacted by us with instructions for how to submit a letter of reference.

The College of William & Mary values diversity and invites applications from underrepresented groups who will enrich the research, teaching and service missions of the university. The College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and conducts background checks on applicants for employment.

Information on the AMES Program may be found at http://www.wm.edu/as/globalstudies/ames/

and job information at:

https://jobs.wm.edu/postings/22241

 

16. Sheikh Hamad Awards for Translation and International Understanding
(Doha, Qatar, 2015)
Nominations are now open for SHATIU in the following categories:
1.      Translation from Arabic into English            ($200.000)
2.      Translation from English into Arabic            ($200.000)
3.      Translation from Arabic into Turkish            ($200.000)
4.      Translation from Turkish into Arabic            ($200.000)
5.      Achievement award                               ($200.000)

Please visit our website ([http://]www.hta.qa/en ) for details and rules of submission.

 

1.Florin Curta (University of Florida) and Andrew Holt (Florida State College in Jacksonville) are the editors of a three-volume encyclopedia entitled Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History (under contract with ABC-Clio). We are seeking contributors to write entries considering key events in worldwide religious history from prehistoric times to the present. Current entries consider topics that range from the first Neanderthal burial to the ordination of the first woman in a mainline Protestant denomination. The roughly 470 proposed entries range in size from 750 to 3000 words.

We desperately need contributors to cover a number of entries pertaining, or at least related to Islam. Here is the list:

Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah and the establishment of the Shi’ia Ismaili Fatimid dynasty (909)
Building of the al-Hakim Mosque in Cairo (928)
Cairo is established as capital of the Fatimid state in Egypt (969)
Destruction and razing of the Husayn Mosque in Karbala by Caliph al-Mutawakkil (850)
Fatimid Dynasty (Founding of)
Khan Tarmashirin’s conversion to Islam (1330s)
Khan Uzbek’s conversion to Islam (1313)
Rise of the Mamluks
Şêx Adî and the establishment of Yazidism
University of al-Azhar in Cairo (founding of)
Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate (1924)
Establishment of the Secular Republic of Turkey
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
Partition of India and the beginnings of the Hindu-Muslim conflict (1947)
Qajar implementation of Shi’ia Islam in Iran
Safavid dynasty and the proclamation of the first Shi’ia empire
Shah Ismail I and the founding of the Safavid dynasty (1501)
Usman dan Fodio and the establishment of the Sokoto Caliphate in Western Africa (1810s)​

We need those contributions by mid-November. The intended audience of the encyclopedia consists primarily of first-year college students. We are therefore seeking contributors who can write meaningfully about a number of scholarly issues, but in a manner appropriate for college students. At a minimum, potential contributors should be at the level of an advanced graduate student. This project obviously provides them with the opportunity to add some minor publications to their c.v.

If interested, please contact any of the two editors at fcurta@ufl.edu or Andrew.Holt@fscj.edu

__________________

2. Assistant Professor of Islamic Law and Society, New York University

The tenure-track position is to begin September 1, 2016. It is not limited as to historical period or to the Middle East as conventionally defined.
Review of applications will begin on October 1, 2015. Information: http://meis.as.nyu.edu/

 

 
Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Appointment of the tenure track position begins July 1, 2016. ABD or Ph.D. required. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/30161  and govsrch@hamilton.edu

 

Assistant Professor of Middle East Politics, Tenure-Track, Elon University, NC
Appointment is beginning in August 2016. Deadline for application: 15 September 2015. Information: www.elon.edu/facultyemployment/openings

 

 

Indiana University – Bloomington – Contemporary Central Asia, Open

Rank Search

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51352

 

 

School of the Art Institute of Chicago – FULL-TIME FACULTY POSITION:

HISTORIAN OF ART, DESIGN, OR ARCHITECTURE BEFORE 1800, WITH AN

EMPHASIS ON GLOBAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES (OPEN RANK)

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51334

 

 

University of Pennsylvania – Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship

in the Digital Humanities

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51342

 

Missouri State University – Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51353

 

Daemen College – Assisstant Professor of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=51361

The position requires a primary emphasis in world history with any regional focus except Russia/Europe and expertise in environmental history and/or the digital humanities.

 

3. Forty more Arabic scientific manuscripts go live in Qatar Digital Library

In November 2014 we announced the first forty Arabic scientific manuscripts to go live in the Qatar Digital Library.  We are now pleased to let you know that a further forty Arabic manuscripts have been uploaded.

– See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2015/08/forty-more-arabic-scientific-manuscripts-go-live-in-qatar-digital-library.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29#sthash.DTiG7M2n.dpuf

 

 

4. The travels of a manuscript: Rashid al-Din’s Compendium of Chronicles (Add.7628)

The Jāmiʿ al-tavārīkh or ‘Compendium of Chronicles’ is a monumental universal history composed by Rashīd al-Dīn (d. 1317) in Persian at the beginning of the 14th century. It was originally written for the Mongol Ilkhan of Iran Ghazan Khan (d. 1304) but was finally presented to his brother and successor Oljaytu Khan (d. 1317) possibly in 1307. The work acquired enormous popularity both in medieval and modern times especially for its unique description of the rise of Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire. There are copies of this work in all the major libraries in Europe and the Middle East, including several masterpieces of 14th century manuscript illustration.

– See more at: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/asian-and-african/2015/08/the-travels-of-a-manuscript-add-7628.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29#sthash.KlEE8ryf.dpuf

 

5. The Third Perso-Indica Conference

 

The Sultanate Period and the Early Mughal Empire

 

September 3rd – 4th, 2015

University of Delhi

Department of Persian

Conference Center (opp. Botany Dept.)

 

September 3^rd

 

Opening session (Venue: Main Hall)

9.30-10.00: Dinesh Singh, Chander Shekhar, Fabrizio Speziale

 

Political analysis, identity and historiography

10.00-10.30: Satoshi Ogura – Linguistic Cosmopolitanism, Political Legitimacies and Religious Identities in Šāhmīrid

10.30-11.00: Mayank Kumar – Tʼari ḫ-i Qal’ah-i Ranthanbore: Historical Investigation of Persian Rendering of a Sanskrit/Brajbhasa/Rajasthani Text

Chair:  Radha Vallabh Tripathi

Coffee break

 

Natural and occult sciences (Venue: Room 5)

11.30-12.00: Kazuyo Sakaki – Changing Ourselves – the Textual Transmission of the Sivasvarodaya

12.00-12.30: S. M. Razaullah Ansari – Persian Translations of Kitāb-i Barāḥī Sang’hitā

12:30-13.00: Eva Orthmann – Religion and Astrology in the Kitāb-i Barāḥī, Aspects of Translation

Chair: Kashif Ghani

Lunch break

 

Medical knowledge

14.30-15.00: Fabrizio Speziale – A 14th-Century Revision of the Greco-Arabic and Indian Theories of the Humours: The Hybrid Model by Šihāb al-Dīn Nāgawrī

15.00-15.30:  Azarmi Dukht – Persian Writings of the Sultanate Period – Valuable Sources of Indic Knowledge. Case Study: Ṭibb-i Sikandar Šāhī: Persian Translation and Compilation of Medicinal Information from Sanskrit Sources

15.30-16.00: Sonia Vij – Rahasya to Laḏḏat: Translating Secrets of Sexuality

Chair: Ramesh Bhardwaj

Coffee break

 

September 4^th

 

Sufism and Yoga

9.30-10.00: Carl Ernst – Enigmas of Translation in the Kamaru Pancasika, an Early Persian Work on Yoga

10.00-10.30: Soraya Khodamoradi – Rušd-Nāma and the Idea of Immortality

Chair: IH. Siddique

Coffee break

 

Literature

11.00- 11.30: Chander Shekhar- Indian Elements in Persian Narrative (Pre-Mughal Period): a Survey

11.30-12.00: Muzaffar Alam and Thibaut d’Hubert – Mufarriḥ al-Qulūb: A Fifteenth-Century Persian Translation of the Hitopadeśa

12.00-12.30: Pegah Shahbaz – Jawāhir al-Asmār: an Early Fourteenth-Century Persian Translation of Sukasaptati

Chair: SH. Qasemi

Lunch break

14.00-14.30: Balram Shukla – Kathakautukam: a Sanskrit Rendering of Yūsuf and Zulaikha

14.30- 15.00: Syed Akhtar Hussain – Ṭūṭī Nāmah: Persian Tapestry Woven by Indian Threads

Chair: Corinne Lefèvre

Coffee break

 

Aesthetic and musicology

16.30-16.00: F. ‘Nalini‘ Delvoye – Translating Aesthetic Concepts and Qualities Prescribed for Artists and Connoisseur-Patrons in Two Sultanate Period Indo-Persian Texts on Performing Arts

16.00-16.30: Chandragupta Bhartiya and Ali Akbar Shah –  Sangeetratnakara and Lahajāt-i Sikandar Šāhi va Latāif-i Nāmutanāhī, A Persian Translation (A Comparative Study)

Chair: Raza Ullah Ansari

Coffee break

 

17.00-19.00: General discussion

 

Scientific coordination: Chander Shekhar (University of Delhi) – Eva Orthmann (University of Bonn) – Fabrizio Speziale (University Sorbonne Nouvelle – CNRS).

 

Contact for information: Soraya Khodamoradi: skhodamo@uni-bonn.de.

 

6. The Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University seeks to fill a position in Modern Arabic Literature at the rank of assistant professor.  The successful candidate will have broad intellectual interests, a commitment to both undergraduate and graduate education, and a willingness to contribute to new departmental initiatives. Participation in the Columbia College Core Curriculum will be expected.

Applicants should submit a c.v., cover letter, a representative sample of scholarship, and upload their dissertation abstract and a sample course syllabus. They should also arrange to have recommendations sent by three referees. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on September 25, and will continue until an appointment is made.

For more information and to apply, please visit our online site:

academicjobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=61316

Columbia University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

 

7. The Program in Arabic Language and Culture in the Department of Classics at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a tenure-track position.  The field of specialization is open, although we welcome especially applications from scholars of either modern Arabic literature and culture or Islamic Studies (classical and modern).  The appointment will commence in July 2016. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach undergraduate courses in Arabic language as well as a broad range of undergraduate courses in the literature, culture, and history of the Arabic speaking world.  Completion of the Ph.D. is required.
 
Please apply through Interfolio.com using the following link: http://apply.interfolio.com/31050.

 

Complete dossiers will include a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and evidence of teaching experience and research, if available.  Review of complete applications will begin on November 20, 2015.
 
The University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration.  The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace.  We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and others that will enhance our community.  Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).

 

Information about the Program in Arabic can be found at http://arabic.nd.edu