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1. University of California – Berkeley – Temporary Part time Lecturer Pool – Arabic
2. Call for Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2016
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London, United Kingdom (“the Institute”) is currently inviting expressions of interest for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships. Holders of Fellowships will have the opportunity to pursue research within a stimulating and supportive environment by playing an active role in the intellectual life of the Institute. The Institute does not itself award the Fellowship but supports selected applications to the European Commission’s programme.
Details at: https://www.aku.edu/ismc/research/fellowships/Pages/home.aspx
3. Open Access:
Onomasticon Arabicum (OA) is a long-living database project. This new online-version informs on more than 15000 scholars and celebrities from the first Muslim millenary. Its entries in Arabic are compiled from ancient biographical dictionaries, a veritable treasure of Islamic culture. Crossed search allows separate interrogation on any of the different elements of the Arabo-Muslim names, dates and places, reconstructing the identity of a person, trace ways of knowledge transmission and frame historical contexts.
See http://onomasticon.irht.cnrs.fr/
4. A website whose main purpose is to solve illegible words in Ottoman Turkish which is especially critical for those dealing with archive documents.
5. AIMA V – FIRST CIRCULAR
International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic
Fifth International Symposium (University of Strasbourg 20-23 March 2017)
Middle and Mixed Arabic in the History of the Arabic Language and Today
The objectives of the Fifth Symposium are the same as those of the four preceding ones, i.e. to study written varieties of Middle Arabic and varieties, particularly oral, of contemporary Mixed Arabic. The proposed subject of the Symposium is: “Middle and Mixed Arabic in the History of the Arabic Language and Today”. The conference theme will deal with questions such as: How is MMA used in contemporary forms of written Arabic? What was the role of Middle Arabic in the evolution of the Arabic Language? What is the role of Mixed Arabic in the contemporary Arabic Language? How is the Arabic continuum used? How is MMA used in literary classical and modern texts?
Of course, this theme is only indicative and proposals of papers on other topics will be accepted, provided they fit into the general theme of Middle / Mixed Arabic. You will find a list of other possible themes hereunder in document 2.
Colleagues and researchers who plan to attend the Symposium are kindly requested to fill up and to send back the Answer form upon receipt of this circular to the following address :
Dr Julien DUFOUR
If you are planning to attend the Symposium, please let us know before 2 September 2016 (and send your provisional title if you are intending to give a paper).
Participants who wish to give a paper are also requested to send an abstract (maximum half a page), as well as their academic affiliation and complete contact information, by e-mail, not later than 1 October 2016. Title and abstract will be passed on to the Scientific Committee which is expected to give you its definite answer before the end of November 2016. Papers may be given in Arabic, English or French and should not exceed 20 minutes. Every paper is planned to be followed by a 10 minutes discussion.
6. Open Access Manuscript Collection: Koç University Manuscript Collection
http://digitalcollections.library.ku.edu.tr/cdm/landingpage/collection/MC
7. AIIS Book Prize Competition
In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject.
– The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities
– The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
+ $2500 Subvention for the press publishing the manuscript.
+ Junior scholars who have received the PhD within the last six years (2009 and after) are eligible.
+ Must be the first book by the author.
+ Unrevised dissertations are not accepted.
+ There is no designated press for publication.
+ Applicants need not have held any AIIS fellowship nor studied in an AIIS language program
+ Manuscripts under review or under contract with a press are eligible.
Send ONE pdf and ONE paper copy of your manuscript,
postmarked NO LATER THAN September 30, 2016, to:
Anand Yang
Chair, Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences
Term Professor of International Studies and History
Box 353650, Henry M. Jackson School
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98195
8. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 5.2 (July 2016): Special Issue – Heritage and the Arab Spring
Special issue on Heritage and the Arab Spring (Vol. 5, Issue 2). This is the tenth of a bi-annually published peer-reviewed journal on architecture, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture. IJIA aims to encourage dialogue between practitioners and scholars and enhance appreciation for the urban heritage in the region and pioneering design work. The journal is committed to inviting new research on understudied topics and reaching out to a broad international readership.
This volume contains an editorial essay by the guest editor, Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh, book and exhibition reviews, conference précis, and articles that treat issues connected to heritage preservation, social changes, documentation of war damage, and urban development in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, the West Bank, and Yemen.
The tenth issue of the IJIA is available in print and online. Please click on the link below to preview the sixth issue abstracts:
www.intellectbooks.com/ijia
9. Open Access Exhibition: Identities: Understanding Islam in Cross-Cultural Contexts
http://marb.kennesaw.edu/identities/
10. First online URDU THESAURUS and mobile app launched
Author and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the editor of the first online Urdu Thesaurus (www.urduthesaurus.com) and its free mobile app, developed and launched through the publishing house KITAB.
The Urdu Thesaurus welcomes data licensing and data download queries at info@urduthesaurus.com
11. Visiting Research Fellowship 2017, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
We are interested in attracting outstanding researchers who are engaged in research projects that are relevant to the respective research profiles at the BGSMCS and at the ZMO.
Deadline for applications: 14 August 2016. Information: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/studies/cfa_visiting_research_fellowship_2017.html
12. Professeur-e associé-e en Etudes Islamiques au Centre Suisse Islam et Société de l’Université de Fribourg
Expertise en Etudes Islamiques ou dans le domaine Islam et Société avec une approche interdisciplinaire requise. Le/la futur-e titulaire doit lier les traditions de savoirs islamiques pluriels avec des questions philosophiques, éthiques et sociétales dans un contexte contemporain.
Les dossiers de candidature devront être adressés avant 15 septembre 2016. Information: http://www3.unifr.ch/lettres/fr/assets/public/files/pdf/faculte_postes%20vacants/160707_annonce_etudes_islamiques_fr.pdf
13. Funded PhD Studentship, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow, Scotland
PhD studentship in history/archive studies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, investigating the capture, transfer, and reconstitution of Iraqi archives in the USA, commencing Oct. 2016. Open to UK and EU students.
Deadline: 29 July 2016. Information: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/graduateschool/fundingopportunities/leverhulmetrustscholarships(scroll down); contact: benjaminthomas.white@glasgow.ac.uk
14. Farsi/Persian Language Speaker and Researcher within the Business Intelligence Services Team in Beirut and Dubai
Deloitte’s Business Intelligence team is seeking a young graduate (0-3 years work experience). The candidate will conduct research on MENA-based entities in English and Farsi and produce business intelligence reports. A qualification in Business, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies is preferred.
Information: mailto:mkasdano@deloitte.com.
15. Free Two-month Professional Training for Arabic and Farsi Speaking Journalists Who Have Fled to Berlin in the Last 2-3 Year
After the workshop – starting on 26 September and organized by the Protestant School of Journalism – the participants will form the editorial board for a mobile based news service to provide the growing Arabic and Farsi speaking community with news from the German capital.
Information: https://amalberlin.net/. Contact: julia.gerlach@ev-journalistenschule.de
- July 18, 2016
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1. International Tashkubrīzādah Symposium, which will be organized in November 18-20, 2016 by Scientific Studies Association (ILEM), Istanbul Medeniyet Univeristy and the Foundation for Science, the Arts, History and Literature (ISTEV), aims to introduce a sixteenth century scholar, Abū al-Khayr ʿIsām al-dīn Aḥmad Tashkubrīzādah, one of the most important figures in Ottoman intellectual tradition, to local and international scientific milieus, as well as to discuss his contribution to Islamic philosophy-science tradition.
Although Tashkubrīzādah is the author of nearly two hundred works from a variety of topics including philosophy, politics, kalām, mathematics, astronomy, fiqh, linguistics, Sufism, tafsīr, the classification of sciences, and history, with a few exceptions, they are yet to be edited, thereby unknown in the scholarly milieu. For almost three years, some of Tashkubrīzādah’s ouevre have been edited and translated into Turkish by more than twenty scholars. This symposium, which will be a fruit of this three-year-preparation, aims to unfold Tashkubrīzādah’s world of thought on the basis of his works prepared for publication, as well as to shed light on Ottoman world of thought in the sixteenth century with reference to him. The publication of Tashkubrīzādah’s almost thirthy works before the symposium, as well as with the outcomes of the symposium will make a substantial contribution to studies on Islamic philosophy after Ibn Sīnā, and on Ottoman thought.
The organizing commitee invites scholars to participate in the symposium with their papers, thereby to contribute to studies on Tashkubrīzādah.
See: http://taskopruluzade.org/en/
2. Call for Papers
Society for the Medieval Mediterranean conference – Ghent University, Belgium, 10-12 July 2017
“Communities, Imaginations and Emotions in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Topics of the conference include, but are by no means limited to:
- Emotional and imagined communities
- Selfing and othering
- Identity and alterity, senses of belonging, ties that bond
- Memory, nostalgia and the imagined or idealized past
- Mirabilia, wonders and magic
- Worldviews and other social schemata
- Mobility across borders
- Emotional and communal dimensions to identity
- Honour and shame, social codes and values
- Emotions bodily felt, orally expressed
- Reading and sharing emotions
- Methodological problems when inquiring emotions and imaginations
Abstract: We invite 200-300 word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers relating to the conference theme (including name, title, affiliation, most important publications, keywords). Participants are encouraged to submit proposals for panels of 3 papers – in this case, the panel proposer should collate the three abstracts and submit them together, indicating clearly the rationale behind the planned panel.
Deadline: Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for panels should be emailed to the conference email address (smm2017@ugent.be) by Monday 31st October 2016. Applicants will be notified regarding the acceptance of their panel or paper by January 2017.
Postgraduate student bursaries: We will offer up to 10 bursaries for MA and PhD students who are interested in presenting at the Conference. The bursaries, which will cover the Conference fees, will be assigned to those proposals, which best fit the theme of the Conference.
Publication: Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for publication in the Society’s journal, Al Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/calm20/current#.U9TZnONdXng), published by Taylor and Francis. Previous conferences have resulted in the publication of special issues of the journal as well as individual articles.
Queries: Specific questions about the conference can be directed to the conference organizers, Professor Jo Van Steenbergen, Dr Kristof D’hulster and Dr Joachim Yeshaya at the conference email address (smm2017@ugent.be).
Conference website: http://www.smm2017.ugent.be
3. Intelligence mapping of British East Africa: a new online resource from the British Library
With generous funding from the Indigo Trust the British Library has published online over 550 colonial-era military intelligence maps relating to the former British East Africa: modern-day Kenya and Uganda, and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The sheets were created between 1890…
4. Call for Papers: Ways of Knowing 2016 Conference
The Science, Religion, and Culture (SRC) Program at Harvard Divinity School announces the 5th annual “Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference in Religion,” to be held October 27-29, 2016, on the campus of Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.
Last year, 128 students and early career scholars representing over 60 graduate programs worldwide gathered to present their research. Following the success of our previous conferences, we invite graduate students and early career scholars to submit paper proposals from of a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives. This year is a particularly momentous year as the conference will celebrate its fifth anniversary alongside the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.
We seek papers that explore religious practices and modes of knowing, especially in relation to this year’s central theme, “Religion and Time”. We welcome the use of all sorts of theoretical tools, including discourse analysis, gender theory, race theory, disability theory, postcolonial theory, performance theory, and ritual theory. Papers may focus on any period, region, tradition, group, or person. They may address a set of practices, texts, doctrines, or beliefs. Projects that are primarily sociological, anthropological, theological, ethical, textual, historical, or philosophical are welcome, as are projects that draw on multiple disciplines.
Proposals for papers and pre-organized panels are now being accepted. For more information about the sorts of papers invited, please visit:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference/general-call-papers
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference/special-call-papers
Proposals are due by July 17, 2016.
Inquiries can be directed to Khytie Brown or H. McLetchie-Leader, Conference Coordinators, at wokconference.harvardsrc@gmail.com.
5. Two full-time PhD positions in Semitic Languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, are open for applications.
For full details, see: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=104778
6. Workshop: “Key Concepts in Interreligious Dialogue: The Concept of Revelation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (KCID), University of Erlangen, 21-22 July 2016
The conference is hosted by the “Lehrstuhl fuer Orientalische Philologie und Islamwissenschaft” and the Eugen-Biser-Stiftung. The conference unites innovative studies to important concepts and metaphors of the three monotheistic religions. See the program at http://www.orientalistik.uni-erlangen.de/KCID/Revelation/the-concept-of-revelation_folder_web.pdf
7. Conference: “Media in Muslim Contexts – Inventing and Re-Inventing Identities”, Aga Khan University, London, 3-4 November 2016
The conference seeks to bring together academics and media professionals to discuss the central role of mass media in the contemporary Muslim World.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2016. Information: http://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=362&Title=Media
8. International Seminar: “The Other Europe. Eastern Europeans and Safavid Communities in Spain and Its Wider World (State of the Art and Lines of Research)”, University of Alicante (Spain), 10-11 November 2016
The concept of Eastern Europeans here is meant to be understood broadly and the session hopes to have a wide range of languages represented in order to promote discussion of this field and its future.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: http://web.ua.es/es/iranian-studies-seminar/anuncios/the-other-europe-eastern-europeans-and-safavid-communities-in-spain-and-its-wider-world-state-of-the-art-and-lines-of-research.html
9. Workshop: “Transnational Relations between Eastern Europe/Russia-USSR and the Middle East, Late 19th Century to 1991”, Princeton University, 10-11 February 2017
Part of a Université de Genève/Princeton University partnership grant co-directed by Sandrine Kott (UNIGE) and Cyrus Schayegh (PU).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/132448/transnational-relations-between-eastern-europerussia-ussr-and
10. International Workshop: “Rethinking Islam at the Turn of the 21st Century: Liberal Trends, Agents of Change and Reassessments of Islamic Traditions”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 5-7 June 2017
The workshop will explore the ideas and forces that aspire to bring about change in Muslim societies, with special emphasis on liberal trends.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2016. For information contact Dr. Muhammad Al-Atawneh: mailto:alatawnh@bgu.ac.il
11. PH.D. Grant to Prepare a Doctoral Thesis in Pre-modern Islamic History (Diplomatic Relationships), University of Antwerp
This full-time position to prepare a doctoral thesis is funded for four years.
Deadline for application: 15 August 2016. Information: www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2016bapdocproex184/. Contact: Malika.Dekkiche@uantwerpen.be
12. Sir William Luce Fellowship on Middle Eastern Studies, Term 24 April – 23 June 2017, Durham University
The Fellowship is awarded annually to a scholar at post-doctoral level, diplomat, politician, or business executive, working on those parts of the Middle East to which Sir William Luce devoted his working life (Iran, the Gulf States, South Arabia and Sudan).
Deadline for application: 6 October 2016. Information: www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/imeis/lucefund/fellowship/
13. 5th Annual Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)
AGAPS seeks to recognize exceptional scholarship on the Gulf. These awards really boost the visibility of young scholars on the job market.
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2016. Information: http://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/
- July 11, 2016
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1. GRABAR TRAVEL GRANT
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) has established a permanent fund in
memory of Professor Oleg Grabar and in support of the annual award of a program of
Grabar Grants and Fellowships. These competitive awards are intended to encourage
and further the professional development of graduate students (Ph.D. candidates) and
post-doctoral scholars in all areas of the history of Islamic art, architecture and
archaeology and are open to all nationalities.
Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application.
Membership status will be verified by the HIAA Secretary, as necessary.
Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements
for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the
United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or
fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.
The Grabar Grants and Fellowships are administered by HIAA’s Grants and Fellowships
Committee, chaired by Prof. Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts
of Islam, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University.
GRABAR TRAVEL GRANT
This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been
invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional
meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions or moderating
discussions.
The maximum amount of the award is $700 US.
Applications are accepted for two deadlines each year: August 1 and December 15 . Notification will be sent within six weeks of the application deadline. Grabar Travel
Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.
Further info: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/132307/funding-opportunity-grabar-travel-grant-deadline-1-august
2. The Islamic Manuscript Association is recruiting a Programmes Coordinator and a Membership and Grant Schemes Coordinator to its team in Cambridge, UK. The Programmes Coordinator’s role will focus on the organisation of the Association’s courses, conferences, symposia, lectures, annual general meeting, and other events. The Membership and Grant Schemes Coordinator’s role will focus on the management of the Association’s membership records, the development of members’ resources, the coordination of the Association’s grant schemes, and Arabic-language support for the office.
See: http://www.islamicmanuscript.org/home.aspx
For questions, contact Armin Yavari, Assistant Director at
armin@islamicmanuscript.org
3. Workshop: “Debates within Iranian Socialism: Historiography, Ideology and Praxis from the Ferqeh-ye Demokrat to the Organisation of the Iranian People’s Fadai Guerrillas”, University of Manchester, 19 July 2016
Papers are in both Persian and English. Each panel will include at least one paper in either language. Attendance is free.
Information: http://events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:qdp-iq2df02r-9s004s
4. Interdisciplinary Workshop: “Courts, Religion, and Politics in Contemporary Muslim States”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 4-5 November 2016
Bringing together scholars working in the fields of Islamic studies, law and society, and judicial politics, this workshop will explore the interaction of state judiciaries and religious politics in contemporary Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 July 2016. Information: jsachs@sfu.ca
5. Conference: “Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 1400-1750”, University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017
Taking as our focus the politically heterogeneous southern Europe and eastern Mediterranean, the Mamluk Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire, we aim to reconstruct the healthscape of this region in the early modern period, exploring its medical unity and disunity and the human and environmental factors that played a part in it.
Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=4eba999427&e=82aeb6c61d
6. Seminar: “Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question” (leading to publication with Brill), Doha, Qatar, 3-5 April 2017
For those who will be invited to present their papers during the closed seminar the costs for travel and accommodation and for the translation of the submitted paper into Arabic or English will be covered.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2016. Information: www.cilecenter.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Genomics-Background-Paper-English.pdf
7. Faculty Positions in Classical and Modern Turkish Literature at Istanbul Şehir University
Applications are invited for two full-time faculty positions. One of these positions is in Classical Turkish Literature and the other in Modern Turkish Literature.
Deadline for application: 20 July 2016. Information: edebiyat@sehir.edu.tr
8. Association for Middle East Anthropology Graduate Student Paper Prize 2016
The Prize will be publicly announced at the AMEA Annual Meeting at MESA. The winner will receive a $100 cash award and a certificate. The winner will also be invited to submit the paper for publication in the journal “Anthropology of the Middle East”.
Submissions must be sent to Shively@kutztown.edu before 1 August 2016. Information: https://arabamericanstudies.org/2016/05/11/association-for-middle-east-anthropology-graduate-student-paper-prize/
9. Inviting Applications for Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2016
Deadline for Submissions is August 15, 2016.
The Foundation for Iranian Studies invites applications for its annual award of $1000 for the best Ph.D. dissertation in a field of Iranian Studies. Students completing their dissertations between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016 are eligible to apply for the 2016 award.
Dissertations must be nominated by the author’s advisor and be accompanied by the Dissertation Committee’s letter of acceptance. Both documents may be emailed provided they contain appropriate official insignias and signatures.
Applicants for the 2016 award should submit a digital copy of the dissertation, either mailed on disc to
Secretary
Foundation for Iranian Studies
Bethesda, MD 20814
USA
Or emailed to
or
For further information about the award, selection criteria, and previous winners consult the Foundation for Iranian Studies Website at www.fis-iran.org, Programs, Dissertation Awards. Inquiries should be emailed to fis@fis-iran.org.
Gholam Reza Afkhami
Chair
Dissertation Award Committee
10. The role of mass media in the contemporary Muslim World
Date: November 3-4, 2016
Location: Aga Khan University (International) in the UK, London
Deadline for submission of abstracts: July 31, 2016
The Conference
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) seek to bring together academics and media professionals to discuss the central role of mass media in the contemporary Muslim World. Issues to be addressed include changes in media technology, identity formation, heritage destruction, resistance movements and censorship. We welcome paper submissions on a broad range of topics under these themes.
- Media and the invention of history: the invention and reinvention of national pasts; the creation of romantic visions of history through media, especially through film and television.
- Media as vehicles of resistance: media and popular resistance; construction of communities through social media.
- Iconoclasm and the Image Wars: questions of iconoclasm, heritage destruction and preservation; their coverage in international media, as well as the material rewriting of history.
- The Power of Satire: Humour and satire as instruments of dissent and dialogue; censorship and violent reaction; satire directed at Islam and Muslims and satire by Muslims directed at regimes, religious movements and other targets.
Submission of proposals
Papers are invited within the conference themes and accepted papers will be grouped into panels, with each speaker having 20 minutes to present their paper. Interested individuals should submit proposals to ismc.research@aku.edu by July 31, 2016.
Proposals should include the following information:
- Name, institutional affiliation, and email address
- Paper title
- Abstract (of no more than 250 words)
Some conference participants may join via webinar and proceedings will be recorded and made available on the Institute’s website. For all inquiries, please contact ismc.research@aku.edu
- July 06, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Grants for Research on “Mobility, Displacement and Forced Migration in the Middle East”, Georgetown University, Qatar
The maximum amount per grant award is US $25,000 to be used over the course of a one-year research progression based on fieldwork in one or more countries in the Middle East.
Deadline for proposals: 15 September 2016. Information: https://cirs.georgetown.edu/node/41561
2. The Department of Classical, Middle Eastern, and Asian Languages and Cultures at Queens College (CUNY) is currently seeking applicants for the position of Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies for 2016-2017, beginning mid-August.
Responsibilities include teaching courses in Islamic civilization, revivalism and reform in Islam, Islamic intellectual history, Islamic literature, and advanced Arabic. The lecturer will also be responsible for supervising Arabic placement for the department.
University level teaching experience and an advanced proficiency level in Arabic (or near-native or native fluency) are required. Preferred applicants will have a PhD or ABD in Middle East and/or Islamic Studies or a related field. Salary is approximately $45K . Please email a letter of interest as well as a CV to the department chair, Prof. Miryam Segal at Miryam.Segal@qc.cuny.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately and remain open until the position is filled.
3. Conference: “Regional and Transregional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire”, University of Hamburg, 7-8 October 2016
Preliminary program and further details:
www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/news-and-events/conferences/elite-conference.html. Deadline for registration: 31 August 2016 via email to katharina.mewes@uni-hamburg.de.
4, International Conference on Islamic Jurisprudence (ICIJ2016), Krabi, Thailand, 29 October 2016
The conference aims to exchanging ideas and views regarding issues of Islamic Law in order to inculcate corpus of ideas among researchers, lecturers, administrators and post graduate students. The conference is open to any topic in the field of Islamic jurisprudence and any related current issues.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2016. Information: http://ukmsyariah.org/en/international-conference-on-islamic-jurisprudence-2016-icij2016/
5. Post-doc Fellowship at the Jewish Museum Berlin
The candidate’s subject area should fall within the framework of the “Jewish-Islamic Forum”, which includes the history of Jews in the Arab-Muslim world. The scholarship will be granted for one year, with the possibility of an extension of one further year.
Deadline for application: 31 July 2016. Information: http://www.jmberlin.de/main/EN/Pdfs-en/About-the-Museum/Jobs/Postdoc_WMBlumenthal-Stipendium_EN.pdf
6. Masters in “Islamic Studies – Systemic Approach”, Mustafa International University, Tehran Campus
The University is going to admit international students for its MA program in Islamic Studies. Prospective students must hold a Bachelor’s Degree. Deadline for application: 31 July 2016. Information: http://en.tehran.miu.ac.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=195&pageid=38420&newsview=73127
7. 2èmeSymposium international sur les langues iraniennes en danger
8-9 Juillet 2016
Maison de la Recherche
Salle Athena
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
4, rue des Irlandais
75005 Paris
Paris, France
UMR Mondes iraniens et indien (CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Inalco, EPHE), Paris
Département de linguistique empirique, Goethe-Universität, Francfort
Labex EFL
Organisatrices : Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe-Universität) et Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne nouvelle – UMR Mondes iranien et indien)
8. The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Muslim-Jewish-Relations/Meri/p/book/97
9. Lecturer (temporary full time) wanted to teach courses on the history of
the Middle East and North Africa: FALL 2016-SPRING 2017
The Department of History and Philosophy at State University of New York
Old Westbury is looking to appoint a full time Lecturer level for fall
2016 and spring 2017 to teach courses on the history of the Middle East
and North Africa and on Islamic history and culture.
This is a one-year non-renewable appointment. Candidates for this
temporary position will be asked to teach 4 (4-credit) courses per
semester: 4 in the fall semester and 4 in the spring. Regular attendance
at department meetings and help with departmental events and with
student advising will also be expected.
Courses for the spring semester will be determined in consultation with
the appointee. For fall 2016, the courses to be taught will be:
1/ HI2511 World History I: Non-Western (two sections). This is a
freshman/sophomore level semester long course in world history focusing
on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa.
2/ HI3835 Islamic Cultures. A sophomore/junior level introduction to
Islam as a religion and way of life and to its institutions and culture,
beginning with the socio-economic background of pre-Islamic Arabia and
exploring the transforming message of the Quran and the role of Muhammad
as spiritual and political leader.
3/ HI4308 A History of the Middle East and North Africa in the Modern
World. This course studies the development of Middle Eastern and North
African Islamic civilizations from the 18th century to the present.
We are a small 4-year liberal arts college within the SUNY system. Our
department offers a B.A. in history and a separate B.A. in the combined
areas of philosophy and religion. We also offer content courses in our
School of Education’s Master of Arts and Teaching degree in Adolescence
Education Social Studies
Requirements for Temporary Instructor Position
* Masters in History or ABD in History focusing on the region of the
Middle East and North Africa. Teaching experience in the history of the
Middle East and North Africa and Islamic civilization is desirable but
not required.
Send letter and copy of CV to walshj@oldwestbury.edu or to History and
Philosophy Department, c/o Chair, SUNY Old Westbury, 223 Storehill Road,
Old Westbury, NY 11568.
- June 29, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Regionality: Looking for the Local in the Arts of Islam
HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION Fifth Biennial Symposium: 20 – 22 October, 2016
All panels and keynote talks will take place at the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre (KCLT) at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association celebrates the European ‘roots’ of the study of the arts that fall under the cultural umbrella of Islam, and the formation of the important early collections and exhibitions that launched its scholarship. Those early, mostly connoisseurial categories of regional types and styles – the “Moresque”, Persian painting, Turkish tiles, Indian decorative arts – formed the foundations from which universalizing narratives of “Islamic” arts emerged, especially in the period after the Second World War. Some fifty years later, we are witnessing a resurgence of the study of regional specificities, augmented with deeper research into the diverse facets of any given locality or artistic form, and a greater commitment to the linguistic and cultural particularities that shaped the arts, architecture and archaeology in a specific locale. Rigorous application of trans-disciplinary research strategies have contributed to the deepening of our understanding of the arts of Islam in local terms, and have allowed us to embrace broader historical trajectories to include the modern and contemporary in our field.
The conference is organised by Sussan Babaie and the Historians of Islamic Art Association.
The conference program consists of 6 panels, an object-handling session. In addition, there are four keynote speakers:
Finbarr Barry Flood, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University: Prescriptive piety as material practice in Islamic art.
Jeremy Johns, University of Oxford: ‘Fings ain’t wot they oughto be’: making things & the art history of early & medieval Islamic societies.
Talinn Grigor, University of California Davis: Modernism as (a)politics: religious minorities and the discourse on architecture in Pahlavi Iran.
Mary Roberts, University of Sydney: Leighton House, Islamic Art and Collector-dealer Networks.
£35 general admission / £25 students and concessions: Book Now
2. University of Exeter
Postdoctoral Fellowship: Understanding Shari’a: Present Imperfect, Past Perfect. The Understanding Shari’a: Present Imperfect, Past Perfect (USPIPP) project, a collaboration between Robert Gleave and Professors Leon Buskens (Leiden), Irene Schneider (Gottingen) and Knut Vikor (Bergen) is advertising a two-year, fixed term Postdoctoral fellow who will work with Robert Gleave at Exeter. The applicant should be an expert in Islamic law with particular reference to Muslim legal discussions around the legitimacy of violence. An ability to work across time periods is crucial, as is the ability to conduct research using primary sources.
See: http://www.islamicreformulations.net/resources/USPPIP%20Res%20Fellow.pdf
Law and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam (LAWALISI) – This is an early notification that in the near future (hopefully by the end of July 2016), we will be announcing two postdoctoral fellowships linked to the LAWALISI project, to start 1st April 2017; one in “Legal Theory/Legal Doctrine” and the other in “Fatwas and Fiqh”. Whilst open to scholars in any area of these specialisms, the focus of the research will be on the development of Imami Shi’i legal thought.
See http://www.islamicreformulations.net/resources/LAWALISI%20summary.pdf
Lecturer in Islamic Studies (Islamic Law), University of Exeter – This 2year fixed term lectureship position will give an early career scholar the opportunity to teach in the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, and do research alongside Rob Gleave and the USPPIP and/or LAWALISI project teams. Closing date 18th July,
3. CALL FOR PROPOSALS
IRAN IN WORLD POLITICS
Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh
ABOUT THE SERIES
Iran in World Politics is committed to showcasing cutting-edge research
on the place of Iran in the world. The changing regional and
international environment have presented new challenges and
opportunities for Iran. These relate to diplomacy and trade, strategic
alliance-building, and networks of cultural and religion. How Iran
responds to these challenges and opportunities, and how other states
reciprocate, is influenced by a range of factors, including threat
perceptions. Domestic politics have a direct bearing on Iran’s external
relations and this publication series is keenly aware of this nexus.
Iran in World Politics promotes original and pioneering research on
urgent issues in Iran’s international relations.
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS
Prof Mohammed Ayoob (Michigan State University),
Prof Anoush Ehteshami (Durham University),
Prof Mehran Kamrava (Georgetown University),
Prof Mahmoud Sariolghalam (Shahid Beheshti University).
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Professor Shahram Akbarzadeh is Research Professor of Middle East and
Central Asian Politics, Convenor of the Middle East Studies Forum and Deputy Director
(International) of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and
Globalization at Deakin University, Australia. He has an active research
interest in Iran, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He has held a
prestigious Future Fellowship with the Australian Research Council to
examine Iran’s foreign policy making and has developed a major
international research project on Iran’s regional relations.
PROPOSALS
If you would like to submit a proposal please contact the series editor
Shahram Akbarzadeh (shahram.akbarzadeh@deakin.edu.au
or consult the Palgrave
submissions page at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/why-publish/submit-proposal
4. Antisemitism Studies
Call for Submissions
Deadline for first issue: September 15, 2016
Deadline for second issue: December 15, 2016
The editor of Antisemitism Studies welcomes the submission of manuscripts that will contribute to the scholarly study of antisemitism. We will consider articles on specific antisemitic episodes, and their historical significance and impact on society, as well as more thematic and theoretical studies of the phenomenon. Authors may work from any disciplinary perspective, address any cultural, national, or religious context, and study any period of history, including the present. We are particularly interested in articles that appeal to a broad international audience of scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
For detailed information on manuscript preparation and to sign up to our email list please visit: antisemitismstudies.com.
Manuscripts should be submitted via the Indiana University Press website: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/ant/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions
Any questions about the journal or its submissions process may be directed to the editor: antisemitismstudies@icloud.com
5. Hands-on Cinema Verite
Academic Participation in The 10th Iran International Documentary Film Festival (Tehran, Iran, 4–11 December 2016)
The Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program at the Oklahoma State University is presenting its first Hands-on Cinema Verite, an academic visiting program for participation in the 10th edition of Iran International Documentary Film Festival which will be held from 4-11 December 2016 in Tehran, Iran.
This program is open only to registered students (all around the globe) who are studying or carrying out research on any aspects of Iranian documentary film: history, production and industry, or practising filmmaking. You will join an exciting and creative arranged academic package which includes participation in the film festival and also academic activities organised by our program.
For further information and to register, please visit:
https://ipgs.okstate.edu/cinema-verite
6. Conference: “Re-Ordering the Middle East? Peoples, Borders and States in Flux”, University of Jordan, 18 July 2016
The conference consists of three sessions: the Collapse of Authority: Order in the Middle East?; State Vacuums and Non-State Actors; the Role of Economy and Global Issues.
Information: http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=0ff1600706
7. Third Conference of the Arab Council for the Social Sciences: “State, Sovereignty and Social Space in the Arab Region: Emerging Historical and Theoretical Approaches”, Beirut, 10-12 March 2017
The conference will be organized around three major axes: 1) Transformations of State and of Forms of Sovereignty – 2) Social Space and Power – 3) Political Geography of Refugees and Displaced Populations.
Deadline for proposals: 6 September 2016. Information: http://www.theacss.org/pages/third-conference
8. One-year Position Teaching Islamic Law, American University in Cairo
The deadline for application has been extended beyond the stated date. Information: https://aucegypt.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp;jsessionid=EF891FA4E1EBD3166D3E4E3A20580EF8;jsessionid=92912ADED964F7A0605F87B17E29CF0D;jsessionid=68C0BE9B8144D7753CE46DE359E55030?JOBID=71446
9. Open Access Digitised Manuscript: British Library’s Shāhnāmah manuscript (Add.5600)
British Library’s Shāhnāmah manuscript (Add.5600)
Date: late 15th century
Title: Shāhnāmah, by Firdawsī
Content : Firdawsī’s epic the Shāhnāmah ‘Book of kings’ with the older preface. Refurbished ca 1616 (f..274r) in the studio of ʻAbd al-Raḥīm Khān Khānān. Contains 90 overpainted mniatures by attributed Mughal artists.
- June 23, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Lecturer in Islam in South East Asia
The School of Divinity, History and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen seeks to make an appointment of a Lecturer in the field of Islam in South East Asia with a provisional start date of January 2017.
Applicants should have a proven research record in the relevant field and experience of teaching in higher education. This position will involve a commitment to undergraduate teaching, postgraduate supervision and research and will carry particular duties in the delivery of teaching and in the supervision of doctoral work.
The School offers a wide range of undergraduate courses leading to an MA (without honours) after three years or, more usually, a single or joint honours MA after four years. The School houses the largest body of postgraduate students within the University
The successful candidate will teach in the Religious Studies undergraduate programme, introduce and lead exciting and challenging courses in Islamic Studies at undergraduate and masters level, and provide postgraduate supervision within the field of their expertise.
College of Arts and Social Sciences
Divinity, History & Philosophy
Staff Category: Teaching
Position Type: Full Time
Closing Date: 04/07/2016
Ref No: DHP049A
For more details please visit:
https://www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/lecturer-in-islam-in-south-east-asia-267144.html
2. I.B.Tauris is currently inviting new proposals for the Islamic South Asia series.
http://www.ibtauris.com/islamic-south-asia
This series aims to:
- Explore and reconsider the role of Islam in South Asia, both historically and in a contemporary context
- Address current issues in response to modern contexts
- Encourage a forward-thinking and multi-disciplinary approach to South Asian and Islamic Studies
You can find full details on the series webpage: http://www.ibtauris.com/islamic-south-asia
Series Editor:
Professor Ruby Lal (Emory University)
Advisory Board:
Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University)
Stephen F. Dale (Ohio State University)
Michael Fisher (Oberlin College)
Ebba Koch (University of Vienna)
David Lewis (London School of Economics)
Francis Robinson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Willem van Schendel (University of Amsterdam)
Nira Wickramasinghe (Leiden University)
If you would like to submit a proposal or have any questions, please contact the Commissioning Editor at I.B.Tauris, Sophie Rudland, srudland@ibtauris.com
3. Le Département d’études persanes de l’Université de Strasbourg recrute un ATER pour l’année universitaire 2016-2017 pour un service de 192 H / TD, réparties sur deux semestres et constituées de cours et de travaux dirigés en études persanes pour les niveaux suivants :
DU (initiation au persan), Licence (linguistique et histoire de la littérature) et éventuellement Master (analyse littéraire et traductologie).
L’ATER recruté devra donc être capable d’assurer des cours de langue à tous les niveaux, de traduction (thème-version littéraire) et histoire de la littérature. Par conséquent, une solide maîtrise des deux langues (persane et française) est exigée.
Pour toute information complémentaire, veuillez consulter la page « Attachés temporaires d’enseignement et de recherche (ATER) » sur le site Web de l’Université de Strasbourg à cette adresse :
http://www.unistra.fr/index.php?id=19432
Ainsi que ces adresses concernant les postes publiés dans GALAXIE :
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4. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Artby Linda Komaroff, with contributions by John Hirx and Anke Scharrahs, and Sandra Williams, Manal Alghannam, and Keelan Overton (New Haven: Yale University Press and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016). This illustrated volume features 150 works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s rich holdings of Islamic art, including numerous unpublished artworks from the collection such as a fifteenth-century ceiling panel from Spain and especially an eighteenth-century reception room from Damascus. Full-color plate images are accompanied by descriptions in both English and Arabic, organized chronologically and thematically.
See http://yalebooks.com/book/9781943042036/beauty-and-identity
5. Conference: “The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics on Borderland”, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 29-31 August 2016
This Fifth Bara Gali Conference invites papers that take up the common theme of “politics on border” along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in different ways. The conference aims to make a series of interdisciplinary forays in making the Pakistan-Afghanistan border more understandable.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 June 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/128159/cfp-extended-fifth-bara-gali-conference-dynamics-change-pakistan
6. International Conference: “Regime Transformation and the Recomposition of Elites in the Arab World after 2010-2011: A Comparative Approach“, Tunis, 20-22 October 2016
The conference is jointly organized by the Institut de recherche sur le Maghreb contemporain (IRMC) and the Konrad‐Adenauer‐Stiftung (KAS). Working languages are French and English.
Deadline for proposals: 16 July 2016. Information: http://irmcmaghreb.org/images/pdf/call.pdf
7. Conference: “Global Muslim Encounters: Homogenisation and Diversity across Time and Space”, University of Cambridge, 9 – 10 December 2016
The interdisciplinary conference aims to investigate Muslim interactions and encounters in various spatial and temporal settings since ca. 1250. Historians, art historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and scholars of comparative literature and Islamic studies who work on Islamic communities all across the globe are invited.
Abstracts are due on 15 July 2016. Information: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26819
8. Conference of ACLA: “Sacred Troubling Topics in the Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur’an”, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-9 July 2017
Suggested troubling topics include racism, domestic violence, purity/impurity, polemics, figural readings, suicide, sexuality, unbeliever, LGBTQ, misogyny, trickster, humor, fallible prophet, good vs./and evil, self-denial, spying, deception.
Submission of proposals: 1-23 September 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/128349/sacred-troubling-topics-tanakh-new-testament-and-quran-acla
9. Lecturer in Islamic Studies, University of Birmingham
Applications are welcome from scholars in Qur’an (including study of hadith or the history of tafsir), in classical Arabic texts, in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
Deadline for application: 29 June 2016. Information: http://tinyurl.com/gm4hgm2
10. Summer School: “Reading and Analyzing Ottoman Administrative Sources”, Amman, 31 August – 2 September 2016
During the program we will introduce young researchers (mostly MA and Ph.D. candidates, but post-docs may also apply) to reading and analyzing the various manuscript sources which have been issued by Ottoman administrative institutions at both provincial and imperial levels.
Deadline: 15 June 2016. Information: www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/Summer_school_Amman_CfA_English.pdf
11. Articles for “The Journal of Contemporary European Antisemitism”
This journal is the first of its kind and will cover all forms of anti-Semitism found in today’s Europe. We invite scholars from all relevant disciplines across the social sciences and humanities to send us their original research articles.
Deadline for submissions: 1 August 2016. Information: www.academicstudiespress.com/journals/jcea/
12. I invite you to visit Abadan:Retold (www.abadan.wiki): an innovative online
platform for documenting the social history of Abadan, Iran.
We have just launched in beta version with interesting new articles and essays
by Willem Floor, Paul Schroeder, Mattin Biglari and yours truly. Over the
coming weeks, more texts will be added by Shireen Walton, Khodadad Rezakhani,
Touraj Atabaki, Kaveh Ehsani, Pamela Karimi and many more.
In the second phase, the website will contain an interactive map, connected to
an Abadan-wikipedia, oral history podcasts, photo galleries as well as other
features.
Please spread among your friends and in your networks – and let us know of
possible writers, academic and non-academic, for the platform.
Many thanks for your support.
Best regards,
Rasmus Christian Elling
Associate Professor
University of Copenhagen
Denmark
13. Position: Post-Doctoral Research Assistant
Institution: Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen
Hours: Fulltime (regular weekly working time of 39,8 h per week)
Salary: According to TV-L 13
Start: 01.09.2016
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Professor Irene Schneider, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, invites applications for a two-year
Post-Doctoral Research Assistant position
(Payment is based on the German salary scheme TV-L 13., with regular weekly working time of 39,8 h per week)
The successful candidate, beside some teaching, shall especially help building up and work in the project Understanding Shari’a: Past Perfect. Present Imperfect“ (USPPIP) which is a two-year project financed by Humanities European Research Area (HERA) (www.heranet.info), integrated in the HERA-Program: Uses of the Past. It is a joint project involving four European universities: University of Exeter (U.K.),University of Leiden (Netherlands), University of Bergen (Norway) and University of Göttingen (Germany). He/she shall investigate how concepts of the past affect the ongoing legal discourse and practice in Muslim societies today. Each of the four universities has its own focus: violence (Exeter), custom and practice (Leiden), role of the state (Bergen) and gender (Göttingen). Close collaboration with the project researchers in the other universities is a prerequisite.
The candidate is required to hold an excellent Ph.D. in Islamic Studies with a special focus on Islamic law and have profound knowledge in the area of gender studies. Other qualifications comprise high proficiency in Arabic, and if possible, good reading ability in another Islamic language as well as experience in publication procedures and teaching.
The position offers post-doctoral students the possibility of further qualification by habilitation. There is the option of job-sharing.
The University of Göttingen is committed to increase the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from thus qualified individuals.
Furthermore the University of Göttingen seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.
As the university regards itself as a family-friendly institution and supports the compatibility of science/ profession and family.
Please send your applications including the usual documents to Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen; E-Mail: sekretariat.schneider@phil.uni-goettingen.de before June 30, 2016.
For information please contact Prof. Dr. Irene Schneider, E-mail: ischnei@uni-goettingen.de
- June 14, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Workshop: “Greek and Arabic in the Middle Ages: Projections and Reflections”, University of Athens, 9 June 2016
The workshop consists of four parts and discussions concerning the workshop’s topic.
Information: http://soscientgr.blogspot.de/2016/06/universite-nationale-et.html
2. Conference: “Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization”, Quebec, 28-29 July 2016 The conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Arabic Studies and Islamic Civilization. Information: https://waset.org/conference/2016/07/quebec/ICASIC
3. Conference: “Islam and Democracy”, Vancouver, 4-5 August 2016
The conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Islam and Democracy.
Information: www.waset.org/conference/2016/08/vancouver/ICID
4. Workshop: “Left-Wing Trends in the Arab World (1948-1979): Bringing Transnational Back in”, Orient-Institut, Beirut, 12-13 December 2016
This international workshop aims at shedding light on the transnational dynamics in which Arab left-wing trends have been embedded, especially during the 1960-70s, the glorious period of left-wing revolutionary movements throughout the world, in one word: the Tricontinental moment.
Deadline for abstracts: 26 June 2016. Information: www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ARAL-CFP.pdf
5. University of Pittsburgh – Assistant Professor, Islamic World History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53008
6. Le département des études iraniennes de la Philipps Universität Marburg (Allemagne) recherche :
un(e) chercheur(e) post-doc (22 mois)
dans le cadre du programme bi-national “Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th centuries)“ financé par l’ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) et la DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
[See: https://dyntran.hypotheses.org/ ]
Les candidats sont invités à présenter un projet individuel centré sur l’histoire / l’histoire culturelle du monde iranien sur une période comprise principalement entre le XVe et le XVIIe siècle.
Informations et dépôts de candidature : chwerner@uni-marburg.de
La date limite de dépôt des candidatures est fixée au 1er juillet 2016.
7. Conference – Islamic Art at Cambridge: Lifting the Veil (Cambridge, UK, 20 June 2016)
On Monday 20 June 2016, a conference entitled ‘Islamic Art at Cambridge: Lifting the Veil’ will be held at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, with a visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum. Organised by Jean Michel Massing, Charles Melville, Firuza Melville, and Ünver Rüstem, the conference will highlight Cambridge’s burgeoning contributions to the field of Islamic art history, not only showcasing the University’s rich artistic holdings, but also presenting the latest research of current and former Cambridge-affiliated scholars. Papers will cover topics as diverse as album painting, ceramics conservation, architecture, and Orientalism.
For the full programme and further information, see http://persian.pem.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/conferences/islamic-art-cambridge-lifting-veil.
The event is free, but space is limited; those wishing to attend are therefore asked to pre-register by emailing islamic.art.cambridge@gmail.com.
8. CFP – Islamic Art & Architecture (Zurich, Schaffhausen, 4-6 May ’17)
Zurich and Schaffhausen, May 4 – 06, 2017
Deadline: Sep 25, 2016
A l’Orientale – Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art
and Architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries
International conference
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Francine Giese (University of Zurich),
Prof. Dr. Mercedes Volait (CNRS/InVisu),
Dr. Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zurich)
Cooperations: Museum Rietberg Zürich, Moser Familienmuseum
Charlottenfels der Heinrich und Henri Moser Stiftung in Neuhausen bei
Schaffhausen
Keynotes Speakers:
Kjeld v. Folsach (David’s Collection Kopenhagen),
Yannick Lintz (Musée du Louvre), Tim Stanley (V&A London),
Stefan Weber (Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin)
The Swiss Orient traveler Henri Moser Charlottenfels (1844-1923) is
considered one of the pioneering 19th-century amateurs of Islamic Art,
because of his activity as collector and exhibitor. His continuously
growing collection had made Moser famous from 1876 onwards through
much-noticed traveling exhibitions in and outside of Switzerland. His
collection was later displayed permanently at the widely known private
museum he established in 1906 at the Charlottenfels Castle near
Schaffhausen. Through his 1914 donation to the Bern Historical Museum,
Moser assured that after his disappearance the Orientalische Sammlung
Henri Moser Charlottenfels (Oriental collection Henri Moser
Charlottenfels) of over 4000 objects would remain available to the
public in an exhibition hall specially built for that purpose.
The conference wants to present Henri Moser and his collection in an
international context. Does Moser’s activity of collecting and
exhibiting Islamic art reflect a widespread tendency of his period? How
have strategies of presentation, re-contextualisation and didactics
changed since the 19th century? To what extent have private collections
influenced the making of Islamic departments in national museums? And
which role did private collectors such as Moser play in transmitting
and appropriating Islamic art and architecture in the West during the
19th and early 20th century?
The conference will open on Thursday, 4th May 2017, with a first
section on „Displaying Islamic Art“ at the Museum Rietberg, with a
roundtable discussion with representatives of the most important
European collections of Islamic Art. The second day will take place at
the University of Zurich and will be dedicated to the section
„Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture“. Finally, a third section
regarding „Collecting Islamic Art“, taking place on Saturday, 6th May
2017, will bring the topic to a close in Charlottenfels Castle.
We invite you to propose papers on the following topics:
– Moser and his collection
– Islamic art in European private collections in the 19th and early 20th centuries
– Mapping and classifying Islamic art through collections
– From Wunderkammer to modern exhibition – ways of presenting Islamic art
– Transmission of Islamic aesthetics through art exhibitions
– Strategies of appropriation in the West
– Neo-Islamic declinations of Islamic art and architecture
Each presentation will be of 20 minutes, and may be given in French,
English or German. Please submit a proposal of maximum 300 words and a
brief curriculum vitae by the 25th of September 2016 to the following
e-mail address: conference@transculturalstudies.ch
9. Announcement – Museum With No Frontiers project MWNF Galleries now online
The new Museum With No Frontiers project MWNF Galleries is now online.
MWNF Galleries invite exploration of the universal language of cultural heritage as the key for understanding and respect. A continuously growing Database feeds a constantly updated set of Galleries.
Artefacts contributed by partners from different countries and representing different civilisations are gathered in thematic collections, witnessing a great variety of artistic expressions and a multitude of perceptions.
Visitors are able to sort the artefacts on display according to different criteria and to carry out searches in the database of a specific Gallery or in the overall Galleries Database. Results will be listed chronologically.
I you wish to view the objects of a specific museums, go to ‘Partners All Galleries’, select the museum you are interested in and then click the ‘View Objects’ link. Links to relevant Galleries have been added to each database entry.
Also the MWNF Portal has been given a new look, with direct access to our Virtual Museums and to MWNF Galleries.
Background
MWNF Galleries build on and develop the Database of the MWNF Virtual Museums:
Discover Islamic Art & Explore Islamic Art Collections
The Discover Islamic Art Virtual Museum and Virtual Exhibitions present the Islamic heritage of the Mediterranean basin, alongside collections of Islamic art hosted by the participating museums. New partners continue to enrich the Discover Islamic Art Database by adding new items within the follow-up project Explore Islamic Art Collections.
Discover Baroque Art
The Discover Baroque Art Virtual Museum and Virtual Exhibitions explore the cultural environment of European Baroque, putting the spotlight on less familiar highlights of Baroque art and architecture, alongside universally known masterpieces.
Sharing History
The Sharing History Virtual Museum and Virtual Exhibitions address Arab–Ottoman–European relations in the 19th century from the specific perspectives of all parties, offering the first Database to document this period of common history.
We hope you will enjoy exploring MWNF Galleries and look forward to your feedback.
Eva Schubert
Chair and Chief Executive
Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)
Non profit organisation
Email: management@museumwnf.net
- June 09, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP-The Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries
The Center for Religion, Ethics, and Culture and the Middle Eastern Studies Concentration at the College of the Holy Cross (http://www.holycross.edu) invite abstract submissions (300-400 words) for a conference to be held March 24-25, 2017 entitled, the Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries (see abstract below). Keynote speaker: Dr. Carla Nappi, the University of British Columbia.
Abstracts are due by June 15, 2016. Send abstracts to Sahar Bazzaz and Jane Murphey at globalizationofscience@gmail.com. Participants will be notified of their participation by July 1, 2016.
Conference participants will receive airfare/travel, ground transportation costs, and accommodation for the duration of the conference. In preparing their abstracts, potential participants should plan to produce a 8000-10,000 word paper for pre-circulation before the conference takes place. Participants are expected to contribute their papers to an edited volume, which will be the final outcome of the conference.
ABSTRACT:
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries mark the period in which science became globalized and institutionalized as a dominant epistemology trumping all others. The scientific study of the natural world (Botany, Taxonomy, Systematics, Geology, Comparative zoology), of human behavior and society (Psychology and Sociology), and of the past (History and Archeology) emerged and developed their own disciplinary methodologies and notions of expertise and professionalism. As a way of understanding the globalization of science in non-European contexts such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), scholars have turned to the field sciences such as natural history, geology, and cartographic surveying, highlighting these disciplines’ intimate connection to imperial conquest and global trade networks. Drawing on germinal works of Michel Foucault and Edward Said, some have argued that the ‘sciences’ served as a powerful tool in the hands of European conquerors. According to this view, disciplines including mapping, statistical census gathering, natural history, archaeology, and the taxonomy of peoples, languages, and religious traditions allowed Europeans to define, categorize and order—to “know”—colonized territories and peoples and hence to dominate and rule them.
But as critics have pointed out, this perspective problematically attributes the spread of the taxonomical revolution beyond Europe to “the often violent imposition of ‘rationality’ on cultures originally endowed with ‘another reason’.” Furthermore, science as an epistemology is now firmly entrenched in and embraced by Middle Eastern societies suggesting that its advent was something more than simply imposition. In order to challenge the ‘science as imposition’ narrative and to develop a more nuanced understanding of the globalization of science in the region—its perceived promises and perils and the role of local epistemologies in the development of modern science—this panel considers the reception/assimilation/rejection/translation of scientific theories and practices by the peoples of the region through examples from a variety of scientific disciplines. While the politics of knowledge production occurred in the context of state modernization (as in Ottoman Egypt and the central lands of the Ottoman empire), on one hand, and the extension of European power into these regions, on the other, the panel considers other social, economic, and intellectual developments, which shaped (and were shaped by) this process.
This conference brings together scholars from the Middle East, Europe, the United States, and Canada, and will explore important issues related to the history of science in the MENA region during the 18th-20th centuries—a critical period of change and modernization when Middle Easterners were concerned about the rising power of European states and societies and the weakness of Islamic ones in relation to them. Conference participants will present papers, which consider the nature of encounters between Islamic societies and the west as the balance of power between these regions shifted in the favor of Europe, including the role of science in modernization and development in the MENA region, the relationship between modern science and religion (Islam), the effects of European imperialism on the spread of modern science in the MENA (and the Global South more generally), and the use of science and technology by MENA states and societies to combat foreign domination in the region.
Contact Email:
globalizationofscience@gmail.com
2. Workshop: “Time(s) in Comparison: Transregional Approaches to Contemporary Philosophical Thought in the Middle East and South Asia”, Berlin, 3-4 June 2016
The workshop is organized by Roman Seidel and Nils Riecken at the Berlin Graduate School for Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin / Zentrum Moderner Orient.
Information and program: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/dates/workshop_2016_times_in_comparison.html
3. Conference: “Medicine, Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World, 1400-1750”, University of Cambridge, 3-4 April 2017
Taking as our focus the politically heterogeneous southern Europe and eastern Mediterranean, the Mamluk Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire, we aim to reconstruct the healthscape of this region in the early modern period, exploring its medical unity and disunity and the human and environmental factors that played a part in it.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=4eba999427&e=82aeb6c61d
4. Submissions for Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize 2016
The author of the winning article will receive a € 750,- cash prize and the article will be published in one of Brill’s leading journals. The Prize is open to students who are currently registered for doctoral research at a higher education institution, or have obtained their doctoral degree after 1 September 2013.
Deadline for submissions: 1 September 2016. Information: www.brill.com/paperprize
5. The international peer-reviewed open access journal Middle East – Topics and Arguments (http://meta-journal.net/) is seeking contributions for a special-themed issue on “ICONOGRAPHY”.
For more detailed information see:
http://meta-journal.net/announcement/view/14
6. Lapis and Gold, The Story of the Ruzbihan Qur’an
until 28 August 2016
The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Castle, Ireland
In the late 1920s, Chester Beatty purchased a large and magnificent Qur’an. Its beautifully executed script is the work of the renowned Shiraz calligrapher Ruzbihan Muhammad al-Tab‘i al-Shirazi, although its breath-taking illumination is the work of a team of anonymous of artists. The combined quality, extent, diversity and complexity of the manuscript’s decorative programme sets it apart from almost all other 16th-century Persian Qur’ans.
In 2012, the manuscript was disbound in order to allow badly needed conservation of its 445 folios to take place. Following certain intriguing discoveries during the course of conservation, it was decided to keep the manuscript temporarily unbound to allow the Library’s curatorial and conservation staff to conduct further research on it. Through the display of more than 30 single folios and double-page openings, as well as another 20-some folios partially displayed to facilitate the discussion of pigments, the exhibition presents many of the results of that research. Three other 16th-century Qur’ans and a manual on recitation from the Library’s Islamic Collections are also included in the exhibition.
The manuscript will be rebound in its 19th-century, Ottoman binding following the close of the exhibition.
An accompanying book will be published shortly.
7. ‘Culture and Cultural Production in Iran: Past and Present’
School of Modern Languages and Institute of Iranian Studies
(17th, 18th and 19th June 2016)
Convener: Saeed Talajooy <st83@st-andrews.ac.uk>
For the programme and registration, see:
8. Call for Papers Deadline approaching
The “Dangerous Classes” in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference: 26 January 2017
Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Call for Papers
The concept of the “dangerous classes” was born in mid-nineteenth century Europe and became famous after the publication in 1872 in New York of a book with the same title by the American social reformer Charles Loring Brace. The “dangerous classes,” the lumpenproletariat of Marx and Engels, described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new industrial and urban social environments, and survived there by their wits and by various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. They included beggars and vagrants, gypsies, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and courtesans, discharged soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers; the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal, and were drawn from among women as well as men, and juveniles as well as adults. Such representatives of the “dangerous classes” were well-represented in literature, notably by Zola, Dickens and Victor Hugo in the nineteenth century and Brecht in the twentieth, and in popular culture of all kinds.
The “dangerous classes,” sometimes barely distinguishable from the new working class recently concentrated in the urban industrial centres, were a constant preoccupation of the emerging bourgeoisie. Fear of both permeated social policy, including among reformers, and was central to the establishment of new methods of control, policing and judicial, and even medical and psychiatric systems. Although the term fell into disuse in the twentieth century West, it is often argued that the concept remains embedded in elite discourses of connections between propertylessness, poverty, immorality, criminality and the “underclass.”
This conference takes as its central theme this notion of the “dangerous classes” and invites abstracts examining its explanatory power when applied to the Middle East and North Africa in the period from around 1800 to the present. Topics include but are not limited to: narratives of the lives of members of the “dangerous classes”; the social conditions in which they emerged; their relationship with “respectable” society and especially with the police; their political inclinations and potential; the attitudes towards them of elites; their role in shaping elite formulations of systems and institutions of discipline and control, legal/judicial, prison/asylum, medical; notions of the biological basis of criminality; their representation in literature and in popular culture. Abstracts which examine both collectivities (eg lutis or baltagiya) as well as individual strategies, and colonial/imperial as well as indigenous discourses and policies are welcome.
Abstracts of papers of no more than two hundred and fifty words are invited for consideration for inclusion in the conference.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 June 2016.
Abstracts and enquiries should be addressed to Stephanie Cronin Stephanie.cronin@orinst.ox.ac.uk
9. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania announces the availability of a position as full-time Lecturer in Arabic Language for the academic year 2016-2017.
The appointment will be for one year with the possibility of annual renewal for up to an additional two years based on satisfactory performance and approval of the Dean.
Applicants should have native or near-native competence in modern standard Arabic, knowledge of an Arabic dialect, and an advanced degree in Arabic language pedagogy and/or another relevant subject with a primary focus on Arabic language and culture. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience in teaching Arabic language at all levels at the university or college level, in language pedagogy, and in administering the Oral Proficiency Interview (OPI). The teaching load for this position is five courses per year (3/2 or 2/3), which includes one section of the elementary-level Arabic language. Additional responsibilities include regular attendance at meetings of the Arabic language program, and working with the Director of the language program and Arabic faculty on materials development.
Candidates should apply online at http://facultysearches.provost.upenn.edu/postings/880. Submit a cover letter, CV, and statement of teaching philosophy. Also submit the names and contact information of two individuals who have agreed to provide a letter of recommendation. The University will contact the referees with instructions on how to submit their letters.
10. An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician’s Handbook
While cataloguing the British Library’s collection of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa (see BL blog passim) I came across a very strange item. This manuscript, Or.6557, was given to the British Museum Library (the forerunner of the British Library) by a Muhammad Shami on the 10th of October 1903 and catalogued the following year. According to a slip of paper pasted on the blank recto of the first folio in the handwriting the donor, this work is a “book on Reml [Arabic: ʻIlm al-Raml, meaning divination by sand] and magic and some of austronomy by Saidi Saeed Abdoul Naim” with the date of composition given as 1202AH (1788 AD). The text block is loose-leaf, as is often the case in North and West Africa, and protected at either end by squares of animal hide.
11. The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, opening October 15, 2016 at Freer|Sackler in Washington, D.C.
From October 15, 2016 until February 20, 2017, the Freer|Sackler will host the first major international loan exhibition on Qur’ans in the United States. It highlights more than fifty of the most important manuscripts from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi) in Istanbul, Turkey, complemented by twenty works from the Freer|Sackler collections. Representing Qur’ans from early eighth-century Damascus to late sixteenth-century Herat and Istanbul, the exhibition will trace the evolution from an orally transmitted message to a written text and its transformation into sumptuous volumes by celebrated calligraphers, illuminators, and bookbinders.
The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts will also consider the carefully recorded “biography” of many of the Qur’anic manuscripts. Commissioned by some of the most powerful rulers of the Islamic world, the volumes were sought out and cherished by the Ottoman ruling elite as prized possessions and were offered as gifts to public and religious institutions to express personal piety, to secure political power and prestige, and to ensure the continuity of the divine blessings (baraka) which these precious manuscripts were believed to carry.
Please see the exhibition website here, and check back for more information as it is posted.
Symposium: The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts
In conjunction with the exhibition The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, the Freer|Sackler will hold an international symposium from December 1 to December 3, 2016. The focus will be on production of luxury Qur’an manuscripts in the Islamic world as well as their usage from the late seventh to the seventeenth century. Speakers will also address issues of patronage and the later lives of these remarkable works of art.
The full conference program will be posted on the Freer|Sackler website in September.
12. Les Arts de l’Islam en France: collections, trésors et découvertes archéologiques
6 June 2016
9:30am–6pm
Auditorium du Louvre, Paris
La présence des arts de l’Islam dans les collections publiques françaises interroge l’histoire et la nature du patrimoine national défini comme art islamique. Ce patrimoine a déjà fait l’objet de deux expositions : « Arts de l’Islam des origines à 1700 dans les collections publiques françaises » en 1971 à l’Orangerie des Tuileries, puis « L’Islam dans les collections nationales » en 1977 au Grand-Palais.
http://www.louvre.fr/les-arts-de-l-islam-en-france-collections-tresors-et-decouvertes-archeologiques
13. Columbia University – Professor / Associate Professor of Islamic History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52998
Freie Universitaet Berlin – Lecturer, Medieval Middle Eastern History (3 years)
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52982
- June 04, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – ‘a Persian Ismâ`îlî text in Sindhi’
“Vernacularization of a Persian Ismâ`îlî text in Sindhi: the case of Pandiyât-i Jawânmardî”
Zahir Bhalloo
(CEIAS/EHESS)
This paper examines the Persian text known as Pandiyât-i Jawânmardî attributed to the thirty fourth Nizârî Ismâʻîlî Qâsim Shâhî imâm, Mustanṣir biʼllâh II (d.904/1498). Based on a comparison of the oral tradition and the textual evidence, I argue that Pandiyât-i Jawânmardî, like the text Kalâm-i Pîr among the Ismâʻîlîs of Badakshan was initially a sacred object, and in the Sindhi context, a living pîr, that served as an instrument of conversion and islamization. Only later did it serve to legitimize the relationship between the Ḥasanî sayyid lineage of the pîr-s accepted by the Khojas of South Asia and the Ḥusaynî sayyid lineage of their Ismâʻîlî imâm-s, the âghâ khân-s.
01.06.2016, CEIAS/EHESS, 190 avenue de France 75013 Paris, Room 638-640 (6th floor)
Workshop ‘The Vernacularization of Muslim and Hindu Traditions: The Case of Sindhiyyat’
organized by CEIAS research groups “New Muslim Elite and the Vernacular” and “Gujarati and Sindhi Studies”
- June 01, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. A Conference: The Middle East: World Crisis?- June 4, 2016—June 5, 2016
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik Rauchstraße 17, Berlin, Germany
Organized by
The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
The New York Review of Books Foundation
Supported by
The Dan David Prize, Tel Aviv
The Fritt Ord Foundation, Oslo
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, Hamburg
http://www.nybooks.com/event/middle-east-world-crisis/
The Middle East is now subject to a conjoncture of political instability, economic dysfunction, growing religious extremism and seemingly endless war which is bringing misery and hardship to tens of millions of its citizens, and with a capacity to increase already shocking levels of violence in a zone stretching from the Afghan-Pakistan border to the southern shores of the Mediterranean.
In the late summer of 2015 the crisis took on a new and frightening dimension. A year of escalating violence in Syria and Iraq, driven by the Islamic fanaticism of ISIS, has unleashed a huge wave of refugees fleeing for their lives and seeking sanctuary mostly in the member states of the European Union.
With the added violence of the terrorist attacks in Paris and now Brussels, this has become for Europe perhaps the gravest crisis of its kind since the Second World War and engages the continent in the day to day affairs of the Middle East in ways that are unprecedented. Our conference, taking place at the heart of the EU in Berlin, will we hope contribute towards an understanding of the region’s multiple crises, and explore paths to their solution.
Free and open to all; registration required. To submit a request for registration, please use this form. Space is extremely limited. Submission of a request for registration does not guarantee entry.
Form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dte6C0KnyY_l9ZnoJPHx6Z_QcjBZkqHmKKBpM6tsGrg/viewform?c=0&w=1
2. The Global Humanities Translation Prize
Funded by the Global Humanities Initiative
Northwestern University
Deadline for submissions: August 1, 2016
Northwestern University’s Global Humanities Initiative is pleased to announce the establishment of a new Global Humanities Translation Prize. The goal of the prize is to encourage new translations of important literary, scholarly, and other humanistic works from around the world, particularly in non-Western languages, and thereby help bring greater international attention to such works and a renewed measure of academic prestige to the craft of translation itself.
The Prize will be awarded annually to a previously unpublished translation that strikes the delicate balance beween scholarly rigor, aesthetic grace, and general readability, as judged by a rotating committee of distinguished international scholars and literati.
For further details, please visit the Global Humanities Initiative website: http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/global-humanities/index.html
And http://buffett.northwestern.edu/programs/global-humanities/2016-translation-prize.html
All other queries should be directed to the Initiative’s co-directors, Rajeev Kinra (r-kinra@northwestern.edu) or Laura Brueck (laura.brueck@northwestern.edu), while complete dossiers should be submitted by August 1 to the Global Humanities Initiative: ghi@northwestern.edu
3. Call for film review
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) welcomes film reviews for his journal. Should you like to review a particular documentary or send us one to review please email the film review editor:
Dr Michael Abecassis directly to: michael.abecassis@modern-langs.ox.ac.uk
For general enquiries and Instructions for Authors, please visit:
4. Call for submissions (Winter 2017): The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropological studies of all societies and cultures in the Middle East and Central Eurasia. http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml Its scope is to publish original research by social scientists not only in the area of anthropology but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related social sciences. It includes all areas of modern and contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) including topics on minority groups and religious themes. The journal also will review monographic studies, reference works, results of conferences, and international workshops. ACME also publishes review essays, reviews of books and multimedia products (including music, films, and web sites) relevant to the main aims of the journal. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed. ACME is published with the financial support and collaboration of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program at the Oklahoma State University. Founder&Chief Editor-Pedram Khosronejad- Oklahoma State University, USA; Assistant Editor- Leonardo Schiocchet, Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Book Review Editor- Brian Callan- Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.; Film Review Editor-Michael Abecassis, University of Oxford, UK. For general enquiries and Instructions for Authors, please visit: http://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html
5. Conference – The Ottomans and Entertainment (Cambridge, UK, 29 June-2 July 2016)
Organised by Kate Fleet and Ebru Boyar, this conference will be held at the Skilliter Centre for Ottomans Studies at Newnham College, Cambridge, from 29 June to 2 July 2016. Papers will consider Ottoman entertainment in the widest possible sense, from specific areas of entertainment (including performing arts, religious festivities, excursions, consumption, travel, night life, violence as entertainment and entertainment for troops in war) to Ottoman concepts of leisure and pleasure, the division between acceptable and unacceptable entertainment and the social, political and economic impact of entertainment.
The panels are entitled:
– Entertainment in the City
– Sociability and Wordplay
– Entertainment and the Court
– Entertainment and Identity
– Visual Entertainment
– Entertainment Seen from Outside
– Entertainment and Healing
– Prostitution
– Entertainment and Modernity
The conference is free and open to all.
For the full programme, see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8al61dpPhPhZjA1ZTZ0WjRKUk0/view?usp=sharing
For further details, please contact Kate Fleet (khf11@cam.ac.uk) or Ebru Boyar (boyar@metu.edu.tr).
6. ‘Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa’.
International conference on 30 June-1 July at the Department for African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham.
The programme explores the practices, disciplines and debates through which West Africans learn to be Muslims. Focusing on the elaborate and complex systems of Islamic learning that have emerged in the region, we ask how knowledge about being Muslim is passed on and acquired through the circulation of ideas and texts, and through physical, emotional and social forms of discipline. In the often multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies of West Africa, how does one learn to be Muslim and differentiate oneself from non-Muslim others? And how does one develop a particular Islamic identity amongst many ways of being Muslim?
For more information, see:
http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/dasa/events/cadbury/index.aspx
or contact D.Kerr@bham.ac.uk
7. The Maqāma and its Readers: A Workshop on Arabic and Hebrew Literatures
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Friday, May 27th 2016
Location: White Levy Room
9:30 am Coffee & mini muffins – Foyer White‐Levy Room
9:45‐10:00 Opening Remarks and Welcome
Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study) & Maurice A. Pomerantz (NYU Abu
Dhabi/Institute for Advanced Study)
10:00‐10:45 Bilal Orfali (American University of Beirut)
“Two Picaresque Tales and a Yellow Cow: Black Humor and Qurʾānic References in
Hamadhānī’s al‐Maqama al‐Mawṣiliyya”
10:45‐11:30 Maurice A. Pomerantz (NYU Abu Dhabi)
“Hamadhānī’s Maqāmāt and its Readers: The Examples of Ibn Nāqiyā and al‐Ḥarīrī”
11:30‐12:15 Matthew Keegan (New York University)
“The Ethical Dimension of al‐Ḥarīrī’s Maqāmāt: The View from Al‐Panjdīhī’s
Commentary”
12:15‐1:30 Lunch – Simons Hall
1:30‐2:15 Devin Stewart (Emory University)
“The Anti‐Shiism of al‐Hamadhānī and the Maqāmāt”
2:15‐2:30 Response by Hassan Ansari (Institute for Advanced Study)
2:30‐3:00 Coffee Break –Foyer White‐Levy Room
3:00‐3:45 Jonathan Decter (Brandeis University)
“Judah al‐Ḥarīzī as a Bilingual Author”
3:45‐4:30 Raymond P. Scheindlin (Jewish Theological Seminary)
“Religious Themes in the Tahkemoni by Judah al‐Harizi”
4:30‐5:15 Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago)
“Monks in Love, Greedy Priests and Muslim Tricksters: On the image of the Other in
Post‐Andalusī Hebrew Maqāmāt”
5:15‐5:30 Closing Remarks (Sabine Schmidtke & Maurice A. Pomerantz)
8. Now Accepting Proposals: The Modern Muslim World
Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series: The Modern Muslim World. The series will provide a platform for scholarly research on Islamic and Muslim thought, emerging from any geographic area and dated to any period from the 17th century until the present day. Academics dealing with any aspect of the Muslim world, irrespective of their specialisations (history, theology, philosophy, anthropology, science, art, economics, etc.), are invited to contribute to the series.
The series will accept proposals for original monographs, translations and edited volumes related to these broad areas of research. The series is open to established and early career academics, as well as to postgraduate researchers intending to publish revised doctoral theses. All accepted submissions will be peer-reviewed by two specialists and the series is overseen by two editorial boards comprising some of the leading scholars in the field.
To submit a proposal, please send the following information to Gorgias’ Islamic Studies Acquisitions Editor: adam@gorgiaspress.com:
- A cover letter or e-mail.
- An abstract of the book.
- A table of contents.
- Sample chapters (or all chapters).
- A copy of your C.V. with two referees.
Series Editorial Board:
- Professor Hina Azam, The University of Texas at Austin
- Professor Marcia Hermansen (Chair), Loyola University Chicago
- Professor Ussama Makdisi, Rice University
- Professor Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University
- Professor Joas Wagemakers, Utrecht University
Advisory Editorial Board:
- Professor Talal Asad, City University of New York
- Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl, University of California, Los Angeles
- Amira Bennison, University of Cambridge
- Professor Islam Dayeh, Freie Universität Berlin
- Professor Marwa Elshakry, Columbia University
- Rana Hisham Issa, University of Oslo
- Professor Tijana Krstic, Central European University
- Professor Ebrahim Moosa, University of Notre Dame
- Professor Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Professor Armando Salvatore, McGill University
- Professor Adam Talib, American University of Cairo
- May 27, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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