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1.Call for Papers, 2^nd workshop

RECOVERING ‘LOST VOICES’:

THE ROLE AND DEPICTION OF IRANIAN/PERSIANATE SUBALTERNS FROM THE 13TH CENTURY TO THE MODERN PERIOD

A multi-year research project funded by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS).

The second of four workshops – on subalterns across the entire Persianate world in the Safavid and Afsharid periods – will be held at the University of Edinburgh, UK, on 19-21 May, 2017.

1.The Department of Comparative Literature and Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at the University of California, Davis invite applications for the Bita Daryabari Presidential Chair in Persian Language and Literature at the Associate or Full Professor level, effective 7/1/2017.

For full consideration, complete applications should be received no later than November 1, 2016.

For more information and to apply, see

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF01059

2. CNRS: Mondes iranien et indien

Atelier

Vendredi 7 octobre, 9h-12h, salle 3.15

INaLCO, 65, rue des Grands Moulins PARIS

« Etymologie et emprunts dans l’histoire des langues iraniennes »

Interventions de

Agnes Korn : « Noms de parenté en baloutchi : une famille recomposée »

Thomas Jügel : « Calquing the Iranian verbal system: the case of Neo-Aramaic »

Sebastian Heine : « Influence of other languages on Kurdish »

Johnny Cheung : « Shedding light on the history of the speakers of Kurdish »

Matteo De Chiara : « Recherches sur la lexicologie et la lexicographie du pashto »

3. Open Access Journal

Mizan, Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations

A Bi-Annual, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access Journal of Islamic Studies Border Graphic

E-ISSN 2472-5919

http://www.mizanproject.org/journal/

4. Ebooks from the American Numismatic Society,

http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/results?q=genre_facet:%22e-books%22

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

Séance du 6 octobre 2016, 17h-18h30

Sebastian Heine, Bonn University

« Pashto Influence on the other Indo-Iranian languages in Afghanistan »

Persian and Pashto are the most important Iranian Language in Afghanistan, and also the two official languages of the country. While the deep impact of Persian Loans on the rest of the Iranian Group is evident, from a phonological, lexical as well as from a morphological point of view, until now lesser attention has been paid to the role of Pashto as a contact language with the remaining of the Indo-Iranian languages, i.e. languages belonging to the three subgroups of the Iranian languages, Indo-Aryan languages and Nuristani languages.
On the basis of some selected examples, Pashto influence on several dialect groups (Ormuri, Parachi, Yidgha-Munji, Pashai, Nuristani) will be explained.

Lieu : INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, salle 3.03 (3e étage), 75013, Paris.

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

6. The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (ISMC) and Graduate School of Media and Communications (GSMC) will be holding an academic conference entitled, Media in Muslim Contexts: Inventing and Reinventing Identities, at its London campus (210 Euston Road, NW1 2DA) on Nov 3-4, 2016.

There is no registration fee but places are limited.

https://www.aku.edu/ismc/research/activities/Pages/Media-in-Muslim-Contexts.aspx

7. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Visual Culture

Submission deadline: November 15, 2016
The Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) is pleased to invite submissions for the 2017 Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished article written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. Awarded annually by HIAA, this prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long‐serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world and sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and at MIT.
The competition is open to HIAA members only. As well as receiving an award of $500, the recipient of the prize will be announced at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The winning essay will also be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submission must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to urustem@jhu.edu by November 15, 2016.

8. Fashioned from Holy Matter.
A cross-cultural workshop on the semantics of image-making

Call for Papers
Deadline: 30 November 2016

Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
6–7 July 2017

This workshop draws attention to a particular type of image, which has not been studied yet as a group: images that were made of or shaped from holy matter, such as earth, stone, blood, sweat or wood. These materials might have been used as a support for painting, colour itself, as a modelling substance or as building material. The image-relic relationship—in particular, the insertion of relics into images/icons or reliquaries—and the miraculous properties of images in general have been the subject of sustained scholarly interest. In addition, the material properties of images and materiality, more broadly, are now major areas of study in both art history and a number of related disciplines. Yet little work has been devoted to the creative use of matter already perceived as holy or, vice versa, the later attribution of holiness to the substance of images.

The workshop seeks to explore from a cross-cultural and interreligious perspective how holy material becomes semantically charged and/or redefined through the process of artistic creation. How is meaning attained through the interaction between holy substance and image and how is the value of the holy matter communicated to various audiences (through inscriptions or legends for instance)? Does the image authenticate its holiness and, if so, what visual strategies were used? How might written descriptions or representations of images also make this holy presence known? A related objective of the workshop will be to analyse the implications of meaning: how does it contribute to the function, use and activation of such images—in both sanctioned and unofficial devotional and ritual practices—, which might be informed by possible transcultural and transhistorical dynamics. Further, how might the meanings ascribed to fashioned matter express apotropaic, pharmacological or other concerns?

Papers from all fields, from earliest to contemporary times, are welcome.
Please send proposals of max. 500 words and a short Curriculum vitae by 30 November 2016 to the organisers:

hoffmann@khi.fi.it and jessica.richardson@khi.fi.it

9. Conference: “Envisioning a Post-Crisis Regional Order in the Sharq Region – Sykes Picot 100 Years”, Istanbul, 8-9 October 2016

Registration and Program: http://sharqforum.org/events/envisioning-a-post-crisis-regional-order-in-the-sharq-region/

10. Colloque annuel du Cercle des Chercheurs sur le Moyen Orient (CCMO) : « Complots, mukhabarats, conspirationnisme : le Moyen-Orient du secret », Hôtel de Ville de Paris, 26 octobre 2016

Inscription obligatoire à inscriptions.ccmo@gmail.com. Information: https://cerclechercheursmoyenorient.wordpress.com/

11. International Conference: “Religion: Bridging Gaps and Breaking Paths – Contemporary Approaches towards Discourses of Religion and Knowledge Production in Transdisciplinary Perspective”, Berlin, 2-4 February 2017

This conference is hosted by the Doctoral Program “Religion – Knowledge – Discourse” of the Humboldt-University.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2017. Information: http://www.rwd.hu-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/cfp-conference

12. Tenure-track Position in Sociology, American University in Cairo

The position is beginning in the fall of 2017. Candidates with a PhD in sociology and any area of expertise are welcome to apply, while a focus on the Middle East and/or community development would be an asset.

Deadline for application: 10 November 2016. Information: http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/services/faculty-vacancies

13. Arabic Language Teaching & Learning in UK Higher Education

Tuesday 28^th March 2017

Call for Papers

The purpose of the conference is to bring together academics and language teachers working in UK Universities to discuss the nature and challenges presently faced in the field. This is in the context of a recent rapid growth of demand for Arabic language learning, in particular across University Wide Language Programmes. There are now (2016) almost 60 UK Universities teaching Arabic language, including 12 who offer degree programmes (single or joint honours, undergraduate or postgraduate) in Arabic Studies. The Conference intends to:

Provide a forum for all teachers of Arabic in Higher Education in the UK to come together, and to act as a catalyst for collaboration across all institutions
To support the closer integration of the teaching & learning of Arabic with the teaching & learning of other languages in UKHE
To provide a forum for development of collaborative ideas amongst participants, leading to collaborative projects through external funding

The conference will include two external keynote speakers, and will close with a panel discussion. There will also be parallel sessions to receive presentations on topics of principal interest, a small exhibition and a space for posters. The focus will be towards Arabic teaching and learning in UK universities, submissions from outside the UK will be accepted. We now invite abstract submissions and/or posters that relate to the following sub-themes:

Pedagogical Approaches to Arabic Diglossia and Language Variation: This may include research findings, presentations on the integrated approach and the questions of MSA versus Dialect.
Arabic Language Resources, Technology and Innovation: This would allow discussions on textbooks and technology T&L resources.
Approaches to Assessment and Proficiency Level Bench-marking: This can include discussions on proficiency scales for Arabic language, assessment of the different language skills and the different Arabic varieties and the use of innovative approaches to assessment.
Arabic Students and Teachers Aspirations: This can include learning motivations as well as opportunities for teacher training and professional development.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Zeinab A. Taha, American University in Cairo

Munther A. Younes, Cornell University

Abstract Submission

Papers are allotted thirty-minute slots followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Please submit your abstract (In English, 250 words maximum) to ArabicConference@leeds.ac.uk, by 9^th December 2016. A scientific committee will review the abstracts and acceptance will be confirmed by 13^th January 2017.

Key Dates:

Abstract submission deadline: 9^th December 2016
Notification of acceptance: 13^th January 2017
Registration opens: 16^th January 2017.
Registration deadline: 13^th March 2017.

For more information, please contact ArabicConference@leeds.ac.uk

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October 03, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Ottoman Monuments and Persian Poetry: A Case from Istanbul in the 1540s

Lecture by Dr Tim Stanley

London, 5 Octobver, 2016, 6.30 pm

For further information, and ticket details, see

http://www.iranheritage.org/05Oct16/default.htm

2. Washington University in St. Louis – Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic

Art or Art of the Ancient Americas

http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53566

University of Minnesota – Twin Cities – Two Tenure-Track Assistant
Professor positions, specializing in 1) Qur’anic Studies and 2) Muslims in America
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53591

University of Southern California – Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53539

Washington University in St. Louis – Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Art or Art of the Ancient Americas
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53566

Yale University – Henry Chauncey Jr. ’57 Postdoctoral Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53582

Assistant Professor in Medieval Mediterranean/Islamic Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Research focus in Islamic art. Creative cultural interactions between global Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern Studies and contemporary issues encouraged.
Review of applications will begin 1 January 2017. Information: ggorse@pomona.edu

Assistant Professor of Arabic, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina
The position is to begin fall 2017. A Ph.D. in Arabic is required.
Deadline for application: 21 October 2016. Information: www.wofford.edu/modernlanguages/arabicSearch/

3. Trading Communities Conference: 2 – 4 October 2016

Merchants and trading communities in early Islam (800 – 1000)

St Andrews, 2-4 October, 2016-09-22

http://tradingcommunitiesconference.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/

4. Borders, Itineraries on the Edges of Iran

a cura di Stefano Pellò
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia 2016
pello@unive.it

Open Access, at:

http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/en/edizioni/libri/978-88-6969-101-0/

5. The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) at the University of Arizona invites applications for a tenure-track position in Persian and Iranian Studies at the Assistant Professor level, to begin in the fall semester 2017.

For a full copy of the job ad as posted on the University of Arizona Human Resources website and application form, please see: https://uacareers.com/postings/13768

6. International Conference: “Heidegger in the Islamicate World”, University of Bern, 2-4 November 2016

This conference explores various aspects of the reception of Heidegger in the Arabic, Iranian, and Turkish intellectual context. The contributions of established scholars and junior researchers introduce and discuss approaches to Heidegger’s philosophy that operationalize, recontextualize, or review it critically in the light of Islamic and Islamicate traditions.

Information: www.islam.unibe.ch or: HeideggerConferenceBern@gmail.com

7. 8th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, University of Cambridge, 1-4 August 2017

Scholars are invited to apply to direct a workshop focusing on political, economic, security or social issues of the Gulf region. Any proposals dedicated to the study of the Gulf region within the context of the social sciences are welcome.

Deadline for proposals: 10 October 2016. Information: http://grm.grc.net/upload2016/Poster.pdf

8. 50-60 Max Weber Post-doctoral Fellowships & up to 20 Jean Monnet Fellowships at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy

We offer 50-60 fully funded 1 and 2 year postdoctoral fellowships to applicants in the fields of economics, history, law and social and political sciences. The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers Fellowships for the academic year 2017/18 for scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years prior to the start of the fellowship.

Deadline for application: 25 October 2016. Information on the Max Weber Program at www.eui.eu/ProgrammesAndFellowships/MaxWeberProgramme/ApplytotheMWP/Why-Apply-Index.aspx and on the Jean Monnet Postdoctoral Fellowships at www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/Fellowships/JeanMonnetFellowships/Index.aspx

9. 2 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships 2017-18: “Muslim Converts and the Formation of Islamic Civilization”, University of Haifa

Preference will be given to candidates who are well immersed in Islamic history and
proficient in at least two Near Eastern languages, especially, but not exclusively, Arabic, Classical Armenian, Classical Greek, Hebrew, Middle Persian, and Syriac.

Deadline for application: 1 February 2017. Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=1da2af8942&e=82aeb6c61d

10. Mary Fox Whittlesey Visiting Professorship in Sociology, American University of Beirut

Position with specific emphasis on the Arab world, to begin 15 August 2017.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis until 15 November 2016. Information:
www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/academic-employment/Pages/academic_positions.aspx#10

11. Call for Papers

Ottoman and Turkish Studies Seminar, Columbia University

“Visual Sources in Late Ottoman History”

Date: April 20, 2017; 10:00am-6:00pm

Organizers: Zeynep Celik (zc2162@columbia.edu) and Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular (la2142@columbia.edu), Seminar co-chairs

This conference aims to examine and problematize the use of visual sources of late Ottoman history in an interdisciplinary context. As images become more and more accessible, they are integrated in myriad ways into writing history–political, cultural, social, environmental, urban, art, architectural, and even economic. If they constitute primary documents for art and architectural historians, they enhance textual primary documents in other areas by giving them visual representation. However, the dialogue between disciplines provokes serious methodological issues, ranging from excessive interpretation based solely on a single visual document (typically in art history) to the reduction of images as light distraction (as observed in social and political history).

The goal of our conference is to identify and discuss key methodological issues in the use of visual documents in an interdisciplinary manner, drawing from new research. The themes we hope to discuss include:

How to combine visual and textual materials to re-construct buildings and urban forms which no longer exist or which are severely transformed?
Social and political history’s use of photographic data. What are the precautions that need to be taken?
How does the authorship of visual documents affect the messages they convey? Who are the authors? What was the original purpose? What are the ways to read them against the grain?
How to illustrate a historic event with a small number of photographs and convey an argument? How can the problem of flattening be avoided?
How does visual material allow for readings that are not textually explicit? How can they be interpreted to do that?
Use of maps and plans? New technologies?

PdD students and emerging scholars are invited to submit 300-word abstracts and short CVs. Transportation, accommodation, and meals will be provided. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2016. Please send the abstracts and CVs to the seminar rapporteur, Zeinab Alsadat Azarbedegan (zaa2117@columbia.edu)

12. Position in modern Arabic literature: The Department of Arabic and Translation Studies in the American University of Sharjah (AUS) invites applications for a faculty position in Arabic Studies at the rank of Assistant or Associate professor to begin in the Fall 2017. A Ph.D. in Arabic studies is required, with a focus on a genre of or regional focus in modern Arabic literature, preferably the Arabic literature of the Gulf or women’s literature or both. The willingness and ability to teach entry-level Arabic heritage classes is essential. Successful applicants will have native or near-native proficiency in Arabic and English. The language of instruction at AUS is English, however, candidates able to teach courses in both Arabic and English are preferred. Strong scholarly record/potential and relevant teaching experience are expected.

AUS is located in the emirate of Sharjah, adjacent to Dubai, UAE. Founded in 1997 by His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qassimi, AUS is an independent, not-for-profit coeducational university in the Gulf, serving some 6,000 students of more than 90 nationalities. The American University of Sharjah (AUS) is accredited by the Commission of Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.

Applicants should have experience in and/or familiarity with the North American higher educational system, and experience in dealing with cultural and educational needs of a linguistically and culturally diverse student population. The ability to contribute to other courses offered by the Department will be a distinct advantage.

Interested applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a statement of research, a statement of teaching philosophy, and a list of at least three referees to: Dr. Mahmoud Anabtawi, Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, e-mail: cashr@aus.edu

For full consideration, applications must be received by 24 October 2016.

For information about the American University of Sharjah (AUS), please visit:www.aus.edu

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September 26, 2016
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Shii News – Carnegie Grant for Shii Studies

School of Historical Studies Receives Grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Call For Papers

The Stony Brook Linguistics First North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL1) http://www.stonybrook.edu/nacil/

Stony Brook, NY

April 27-30, 2017.

Deadline for abstract submission: November 30, 2016 Decisions on submitted abstracts: February 10, 2017 Conference program posted online: April 20, 2017

*CONTACT:* nacil1@stonybrook.edu

*Call for Papers*

We warmly welcome abstracts on all topics related to Iranian languages and linguistics. Submissions are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion) and/or posters (posters should measure approx. 3ft x 4ft or 90cm x 120cm) on any aspect of Iranian Linguistics.

Abstracts are invited from all areas of grammar (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics) and their interfaces. Abstracts on language acquisition, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics and computational linguistics are also encouraged.

We strongly encourage contributions exploring approaches to language diversity and typological works (including but not limited to sign languages, under-represented languages and comparative studies).

To propose a paper/poster for presentation at *NACIL 1*, upload an abstract conforming to the guidelines below to the EasyAbs site:

http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nacil

*Abstract guidelines*

In order to be eligible for consideration, abstracts should conform to the following requirements.

Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4

pages in length, have 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, and be set in

Times New Roman with a font size no smaller than 11pt.

Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of

the abstract, rather than collected at the end.

The submission must not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any

way.

Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper

being single-authored.

Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through EasyAbs by *Wednesday,

November 30, 2016, 11:59pm EST*.

2. The Classical World in Context: Persia (Villa)

2017/2018

The Getty Scholars Program at the Villa for the 2017/2018 and 2018/2019 terms will address the political, intellectual, religious, and artistic relations between Persia, Greece, and Rome from the ninth century BC to AD 651. The Greeks regarded Media in western Iran as one of the great kingdoms of the East, but it was the Persian Empire, forged by the Achaemenid Dynasty (sixth to fourth century BC), that became their principal adversary. Reaching from the borders of Greece to India, the Persian Empire was viewed by the Greeks as a vastly wealthy and powerful rival and often as an existential threat. When the Macedonian king Alexander the Great finally defeated the Persians in 331 BC, Greek culture spread throughout the Near East, but native dynasties—first the Parthian (247 BC–AD 224) and then the Sasanian (AD 224–651)—soon reestablished themselves.

The rise of the Roman Empire as a world power quickly brought it, too, into conflict with Persia, despite the common trade that flowed through their territories. The 2017/2018 scholar year is the first of two that will be devoted to this theme. Priority will be given to research projects that are cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, and that utilize a wide range of archaeological, textual, and other evidence.

http://www.getty.edu/research/scholars/years/future.html

3. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, 701 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996

Assistant Professor

The Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee is seeking applications for a tenure-track position in Arabic at the rank of assistant professor, to begin fall 2017. Ph.D. required (or ABD with promise of completion by August 2017), with native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English essential. Demonstrated research excellence or promise of research and teaching excellence is expected. Preference will be given to candidates who could teach one undergraduate course in French per year, along with three in Arabic. Specialization is open, but those with expertise in linguistics, pedagogy, classical Arabic, medieval studies, or global studies are especially encouraged to apply. Faculty from this and other departments are in the process of creating a new Middle East Studies interdisciplinary program offering an undergraduate major and minor beginning Fall 2017. Salary competitive. Review of applicants will begin November 1, 2016, and continue until the position is filled. The Knoxville campus of the University of Tennessee is seeking candidates who have the ability to contribute in meaningful ways to the diversity and intercultural goals of the University. Please send a cover letter, CV and transcripts to http://apply.interfolio.com/37597 In addition, applicants should arrange for three letters of recommendation to be sent to the above site by the same deadline.

4. CfP:

Seminar on “Modern Iranian Literature: Struggles in Memory and Identity” at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association with whoever might be interested.

Deadline for abstract submission is September 23. The 2017 Annual Meeting will take place at Utrecht University in Utrecht, the Netherlands July 6-9, 2017.

Description:

More than three decades after the revolution, issues of reading and revising public memories in Iran remain urgent, incomplete, and contentious. This panel seeks innovative papers that generally pertain to matters of national, ethnic, religious, or gender identity within the broad sphere of Iranian literature, both domestic and diasporic. The papers are expected to contribute to the ongoing scholarly debates about modern and contemporary literature of Iran, which can include, but is not limited to, modern and postmodern poetry, memoirs of wars, revolutions, and civil strives in the past century, and contemporary political fiction. Studies relevant to the crises of memory and identity during and after the revolution of 1979 and the rise of the Islamic Republic are particularly welcome.

More Info:

http://acla.org/modern-iranian-literature-struggles-memory-and-identity

5. Webinar in Islamic Material Culture
“Communication in Public and Domestic Spaces”
The Social Use of inscriptions and Epigraphy in the Islamic World

5 lectures – Thursday, 4-6 pm CEST – Starting October 27, 2016

Islamic Material Culture

The webinar is part of the ‘Webinar Initiative in Islamic Material Culture’ jointly organized by The Universität Bonn (Bethany Walker), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Andreas Kaplony), The Bard Graduate Center in New York (Abigail Balbale), and Universität Hamburg (Stefan Heidemann).

More information under

https://www.islamic-material-culture.uni-hamburg.de/en/current-webinar.html

6. Conference: “Islam and the Role of Intellect”, Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation, Seville, 28-29 September 2016

Detailed Program: http://www.tresculturas.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/ICMES-DRAFT-22-8-16.pdf

7. 10 Fellowships for Experienced Researchers, Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies, University of Erfurt

The fellowships will be awarded to experienced researchers who are conducting advanced interdisciplinary research in cultural and social studies (especially in sociology, economics, religious studies, law, philosophy, history and theology) for the period 1 September 2017 – 31 August 2018 with the possibility of extension for another year. All experienced researchers regardless of seniority are invited to apply.

Deadline for application: 1 October 2016. Information: http://www.uni-erfurt.de/max-weber-kolleg/projekte/kooperative-projekte/mwk-fellows/call-application/

8. M.S. Sofia Chair in Arabic Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus

The preferred field of specialization of the Associate or Full Professor is pre-modern Arabic Islamic texts and traditions or classical Arabic language and literature. Areas of expertise may include Qur’an and tradition literature, pre-Islamic poetry, philosophy, Islamic theology, belles-lettres, and Arabic grammar and lexicography, among others.

Deadline for application: 1 November 2016. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7874

9. Open Rank Position with Specialty in Islam, Iowa State University, Ames

The position will begin 16 August 2017. The successful applicant will be expected to teach sections of an introductory World Religions course and/or Religion in America in addition to courses in his/her specialty.

Deadline for application: 24 October 2016. Information: http://www.iastatejobs.com/postings/21158

10. Four Research Internship Positions, Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS), University of Peloponnese

The internships are on a voluntary basis for the 2016-2017 academic year. The interns will be supervised by senior associates and will be dealing with the study and analysis of ongoing events.

Deadline for application: 2 October 2016. Information: http://www.cemmis.edu.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=638%3Adokimoi-2016-2017&catid=71%3Aanakoinoseis&Itemid=67&lang=en

11. Grants for Doctoral Program in the History of 19th and 20th Century Middle East, Department of History, George Washington University

The program will start in the Fall of 2017. Candidates with interests in the history of the Ottoman and twentieth century Fertile Crescent are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will receive a 5-year package consisting of full tuition, stipend etc.

Application deadline: 2 January 2017. Candidates should apply at https://history.columbian.gwu.edu/graduate-admissions

12. On behalf of the South Asian Muslim Studies Association (SAMSA) please find attached [not attached – contact the sender, below, for details – ed.] the Program of the SAMSA Third Pre-Conference to be held at the Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin as part of the 45th Annual Conference on South Asia hosted by the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Pre-Conference is scheduled for Thursday, October 20, 2016.

In the program on page 31 you will find the Call for Contributors to the first volume of the “SAMSA Collected Papers” series. We invite contributions in any area of South Asian Muslim studies in any of the countries of South Asia, in any discipline, and from a historical or a contemporary perspective.

Finally, on page 32 you will find a Call for Papers for the 4th SAMSA Pre-Conference we hope to host at Madison in 2017. In commemoration of the seventieth anniversary of independence we have titled the pre-conference “Postcolonial Scholarship at 70: Seven Decades of Research on South Asian Muslims 1947-2017”. Please contact us if you are interested in presenting your research at this pre-conference.

Please get in touch if you have any questions or comments.

Thank-you.

With regards,

Professor Roger D. Long, Ph.D, FRAS, FRHistS
Department of History and Philosophy
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Rlong@emich.edu
Rogerlong1@gmail.com
Phone: 734-484-4424; Cell 734-635-6038
Fax: 734-487-6835

13. I’m happy to inform you that my dissertation
Architektur Osmanischer Karawanseraien. Stationen des Fernverkehrs im Osmanischen Reich (Architecture of Ottoman Caravanserais. Stations for Long-Distance Traffic within the Ottoman Empire), Technische Universität Berlin, is available now as an Online Digital Resource. You can find the two volumes, and If interested download, here:

https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/5872

Robin Wimmel
Berlin / Germany
robbyn1@gmx.de

14. Call for Papers

Muslim cultures of the Indian Ocean

International Conference

The Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

Aga Khan University, London

18-21 September 2018

Rationale:Over the past couple of decades, significant new research has been undertaken across East Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent leading to fresh insights on a number of facets of Indian Ocean Cultures. Our objective is to study these multiple facets through the prism of one religion, Islam. How did one religion managed to unite different people from different area with different cultures? Since the Prophet, Islam was a mercantile religion par excellence and was favored through trade all over the Indian Ocean. As it was defined by Fernand Braudel for the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean became a “Muslim Mare Nostrum”.

This conference aims to understand the development of Muslim cities and states related to port areas as places of exchange, but also through time and competition as places of conflict. Understanding the relationship between ports, travel, economy and religion requires an in depth examination of archaeological remains and written sources, but also knowledge on existing populations. It’s striking to see that Islam until very recently was considered by some scholars as a kind of foreign and coercive influence, sometimes associated with a kind of proto-colonialism, especially in Africa. These observations and theories were done mainly by archaeologists and some historians ignoring all the data provided by the ethnography and social anthropology.

Instead of trying to divide cultures and people, the objective of this conference is to bring together experts of Muslim cultures around the Indian Ocean. We are not seeking nationalism, regionalism and differences but we are looking for diversity and cultural exchanges. We particularly intend to draw specialists from the following geographic areas: Africa, Arabia, Persia and India. These specialists will be from different backgrounds to stimulate debate amongst archaeologists, historians and anthropologists. In recognition of the multidisciplinary nature of the endeavour, the conference will include papers on history, material culture and social anthropology. Accordingly, the conference aims to bring together specialists as well as emerging scholars in the discipline to deliberate on issues related to culture as well as to elicit new approaches to its growing field of study.

This conference is convened to provide a platform for sharing the recent learnings on Indian Ocean Cultures in Muslim Context and mark the coming of age of a reconnaissance of Muslim Cultures as a vital area of study, through the publication of select proceedings of the conference.

Planning & Organisation

The opening call for paper proposals starts the 1^st October 2016.

Proposed papers (title and abstract of 250-500 words) should be sent before 1^st June 2017 to the following:

Dr. Stephane Pradines (stephane.pradines@aku.edu)

Associate Professor, Ismc, Aga Khan University

London, United Kingdom

Papers will be reviewed and selected by a scientific committee and authors of the accepted papers will be informed in October 2017.

The final conference programme will be announced in January 2018.

The conference will be held over 4 days in September 2018, at a central London location; in the new building of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in Kings Cross.

We hope to have up to 30 participants comprising of specialists as well as young scholars emerging in the field of Muslim Indian Ocean Cultures.

The participants will be required bear their own costs for travel, accommodation and subsistence. However, there will be no registration fee for the participants. Plus we will provide a limited number of travel grants to those who have the competence to participate but lack the financial means to do so. Our priority will go first to PhD students and researchers from the Indian Ocean world.

Language of the Conference: English

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September 19, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Islamic Studies Lecturer post at The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Muslims in Europe, based in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) (http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern) and teaching both within IMES and within Sociology (http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk).

This post will be offered on a full-time (35 hours each week), open-ended basis.

Salary – £38,896 – £46,414 per annum.

The closing date for receipt of applications is no later than 5.00pm (GMT) on Tuesday 11th October 2016.

For more information, see: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=037044

2. Exhibition: “Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield”

August 29, 2016 – February 13, 2017

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Inscriptions and images on Islamic arms and armor were believed to provide their wearers with safety and success in combat. The exhibition Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield (August 29, 2016 – February 13, 2017) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines the role of text and image in the construction, function, and decoration of arms and armor in the Islamic world. The exhibition features some 30 works from The Met collection, and is divided into five sections. The first establishes the context for understanding the empowering inscriptions and symbols that can be found on Islamic arms and armor. The next three sections, with a geographical focus, shows objects from Iran, Turkey, India, and Southeast Asia. The works include armor, weapons, and military paraphernalia, such as banners and standards. The final section features objects such as personal Qur’ans and seals that may have been carried into battle for good luck.

The exhibition was organized by Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator, Department of Islamic Art, and Rachel Parikh, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Department of Arms and Armor.

A digital catalog accompanies the exhibition: https://metmuseum.atavist.com/powerandpiety

For more information, the exhibition page can be found here: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/power-and-piety

3. Call for Papers Deadline: 15 January 2017

The Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road

Conference date: October 12, 2017

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon

We invite papers that explore the portable arts and built environment of the Silk Road from its beginnings through the period of its fragmentation under the Mongol Empire. Papers may investigate case studies in specific visual and material culture topics, archeological sites, or take a broader, comparative approach. We are particularly interested in having a geographic range of topics represented in the material shared at the conference in order to explore possible themes such as diplomacy in art, hybridity, exoticism, regionalism, and globalization.

Call for Papers:

The language of the conference presentations will be English, and the presentations will be 20-minute papers grouped around themes for discussion panels following each set of talks. Please submit an approximately 300-word abstract and curriculum vitae to Professors Junghee Lee (dilj@pdx.edu) and Anne McClanan (anne@pdx.edu)

Key Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2017

Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2017

Early Registration Deadline: August 15, 2017

Registration Deadline: September 29, 2017

Conference Date: October 12, 2017

https://psusilkroadconference.wordpress.com/

#SilkRoadSymp

Contact Info:

Anne McClanan

Professor of Byzantine Art and Digital Humanities

Portland State University

Contact Email:

anne@pdx.edu

URL:

https://psusilkroadconference.wordpress.com/

4. CALL FOR PAPERS

‘’Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies’’

with cooperation with

Bulgarian National Library ‘’ St, Cyril and Methodius’’ and

Department of Iranian Studies at Sofia University ‘’St. Kliment Ohridski’’

Announces the International conference:

’’Persian Manuscripts in Balkans and Central Europe’’

February 2017, Bulgarian National Library ‘’ St, Cyril and Methodius’’

Please send your abstract of about 500 words in English or Persian to the following address:

persianmanuscripts@cibce.org

Deadline: November 29th, 2016

5. The Institute of Ismaili Studies (210, Euston Road, London NW1 2DA) is pleased to announced the first IIS Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture entitled

Between Medieval Sufi Apologetics and Polemics: The Rise and Fall of Awhad al-Din Kirmani (d.1238) by Dr Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow).

Please note that this lecture will be introduced by Prof Ali Asani (Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religions and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)

DATE: Thursday, 15 September 2016, 17:00 GMT (Room 2.1)

TO ATTEND IN PERSON: Please click here

TO VIEW THE LIVE WEBCAST: Please click here

ENQUIRIES: Please email Miss Naushin Shariff (nshariff@iis.ac.uk)

6. CfP: 4th Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies,

11-13 April 2017, University of Chester

http://www.brais.ac.uk/2017cfp

Note: All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to brais@ed.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 30^thNovember 2016. You will receive an email notification confirming the receipt of your form.

7. Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant/Associate Professorship in modern Iranian Studies (post 1800). The position is open to all disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. This is a one-year position with a strong possibility of renewal for a second year. We especially welcome candidates who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment, whose work is informed by comparative and global perspectives, and who have experience teaching and supervising undergraduates. The successful candidate will teach three classes a year and is expected to actively cultivate broad interest in Iranian Studies at Brown and to contribute to the intellectual life of the university. Additional funding for programming and research expenses will be considered.

For further information, see http://www.middleeastbrown.org/, send an send an email to mes_director@brown.edu or send an inquiry to:

Beshara Doumani Director, Middle East Studies Brown University 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI 02912 +1 401.863.6924

8. 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.

Extended deadline for submission: 19 September 2016. Information: http://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/

9. Other jobs:

Senior Research Fellow on “Islam: Culture, Society and Politics”, Queen’s University Belfast

The post is available for five years at the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice to develop the Institute’s research expertise on Islam in relation to peace-building, security and justice. The post holder will initiate, develop and manage high level research projects in line with the University’s research strategy and contribute to the Institute’s core activities.

Deadline for application: 10 October 2016. Information: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOP124/senior-research-fellow-islam-culture-society-and-politics

Assistant Professor in the Study of Muslims/Islam in America, University of Minnesota

The tenure track position will begin 28 August 2017. Deadline for application: 17 October 2016. Information http://humanresources.umn.edu/jobs . Click the Apply button and search for Job Opening ID #312745.

Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern / North African History, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Appointment to begin 7 September 2017. Geographic focus and time period are open. Interdisciplinary and transnational approaches welcome.

Review of applications will begin on 1 November 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53497

Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History, California State University, Sacramento

Appointment to begin Fall 2017. Specialization in Ottoman history and interest in working with the Tsakopoulos Hellenic collection of Ottoman Turkish and Arabic manuscripts are desirable.

Review of applications will begin 3 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53473

Assistant Professor in Ottoman History (Early Modern or Modern Periods), Columbia University, New York

Appointment to begin on 1 July 2017. We particularly encourage applications from scholars who take transnational approaches to the history of the Ottoman Empire. Review of applications will begin on 15 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53501

Doctoral Candidate in the Public History of the Middle East, North Carolina State University

The position will start in fall 2017 for a period of three years. Acceptance into the program includes a competitive stipend, full tuition waiver, and health coverage.

Deadline for application: 15 January 2017. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53485

Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

The position will begin in the fall of 2017. We encourage applications from candidates who specialize in Sufism and whose skill-set include the following: solid grounding in pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, culture and institutions; superior Arabic language skills.

Review of applications will begin 17 October 2016. Information: https://jobs.usc.edu/postings/74287

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September 13, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.Program of the International Colloquium “Precious Metals in the Medieval Mediterranean“. It will be organised by Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Siena in Aix-en-Provence (France) from October, 6th, 7th and 8th 2016.

– Program :

https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme.pdf

– Poster :

https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Colloque_metaux_2016.pdf

https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Colloquium_metals_2016.pdf

Free registration and practical informations are available on this website (before September, 20th) :

http://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/

For the organizing committee,

Nicolas Minvielle Larousse

PhD Student – Aix-Marseille Université

LA3M – UMR 7298

2. Open Access journal

http://emam.revues.org/

Revue interdisciplinaire à comité scientifique, les Cahiers d’EMAM se proposent de contribuer à la restitution des savoirs en sciences sociales sur le Monde arabe et la Méditerranée. La revue est ouverte aux analyses traitant des questions urbaines, des processus de constructions/reconfigurations territoriales dans leurs dimensions historiques, sociales, économiques et politiques ainsi que leurs interférences avec le reste du monde.

S’inscrivant dans la continuité des Cahiers d’URBAMA (parus entre 1988 et 2000 et dont la mise en ligne est prévue sur ce même site), la revue perpétue ainsi une tradition d’édition qui doit permettre l’échange et le débat scientifique entre chercheurs confirmés et doctorants, mais aussi entre le monde de la recherche et celui des professionnels, des acteurs de l’aménagement et des acteurs sociaux.

Les Cahiers d’EMAM doivent notamment stimuler la valorisation des travaux des chercheurs basés dans le Monde arabe et méditerranéen. Les approches nouvelles, les travaux en cours ainsi que les démarches comparatives sont privilégiés (se reporter à “Procédure de publication et de sélection”).

3. Call for papers

First International Conference of Capacity and Impact of Cyberspace in Promoting Religious Education

In Seven Languages: Persian, Arabic, English, French, Urdu, Turkish, and Azeri

May 2017,Al-Mustafa Open University,Qom,I.R.Iran

Al-Mustafa Open University (MOU) invites all interested professors,scholars,researchers and graduated students to submit their papers to the first international conference under the title of “Capacity and Impact of Cyberspace in Promoting Religious Education”. MOU is holding this conference in order to bring together academics and researchers to discuss about the capacity of web-based and virtual education and to exchange ideas regarding the ways how to promote Religious Studies in cyberspace with no limitation of time and place.

For further information, please refer to conference website:
http://hamayesh.miu.ac.ir/cyberspace/en

4. The Islamic Manuscript Association, together with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cambridge University Library, and the University of Cambridge’s HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, announces its Tenth Annual Intensive Introduction to Islamic Codicology Course, which will be held from 3-7 October 2016 at the Cambridge University Library.

This intensive five-day course will introduce the study of Islamic manuscript codices as physical objects, or the archaeology of the Islamic book. Daily illustrated lectures will provide an overview of writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in book making, and the paleography of book hands. Participants may choose to register for hands-on sessions during which they will examine Islamic manuscripts from Cambridge University Library and complete a series of practical exercises on manuscript description.

The course will be taught by Professor François Déroche, holder of the Chair of History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission at the Collège de France, and Professor Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Professor of the Codicology and History of the Manuscript Book in the Islamicate World, École Pratique des Hautes Études, both leading scholars of Islamic codicology and palaeography.

All instruction will be in English. A scholarship offered by the Centre of Islamic Studies for a participant from the Islamic World is also available. For more information, see www.islamicmanuscript.org

5. Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Beirut, May, 2017

Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce the Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies which will be held at the American University of Beirut from May 11-13, 2017.

The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk architecture from May 8-10, 2017.

The first day of the conference, May 11, will be themed. In consideration of the quincentennial of the fall of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo in 1517, the theme of this part of the conference will be Time. This theme may be interpreted in a variety of ways, from problems of traditional historical periodization, to notions and explorations of time and temporality in history writing, daily life, literature, material culture, and other areas of research relating to the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria. Without attempting to offer an exhaustive presentation of possible approaches to the theme, papers may deal with conceptions of time and temporality—cyclical, linear, teleological, etc.—in the construction of chronologies and narratives; the ordering and division of time in daily life, spiritual life, literature, and the study of the natural world; notions of change and continuity over time; temporal practices—the use of and interaction with time; and the experience and understanding of time.

A maximum of 12 to 15 paper proposals will be selected. Should a greater number of proposals be received, the authors of those which are not selected for the conference may be offered the possibility to publish their contribution in the proceedings. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.

The following two days of the conference (May 12 and 13) will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized into presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each. Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for its organization. Please note that in case of cancellation of two papers out of the three (or three out of the four) composing the panel, the panel will have to be withdrawn from the program. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes. Discussion will take place at the end of each panel.

Language: The official language of the conference will be English.

Fees: The conference registration fees will be $50 for participants and attendees. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (May 13) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by April 30, 2017 (information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular, which will be sent in January 2017). Participants must make their own travel arrangements; information and suggestions for accommodations will be provided in the first circular.

Proposals: Paper proposals for the themed day must be submitted electronically through the School of Mamluk Studies webpage (http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html ) by October 31, 2016. Panel proposals must be submitted in the same manner by November 30, 2016. The paper proposals should provide the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional title, and an abstract of a maximum of 1500 characters (about 300 words) per paper. Panel proposals must be submitted as such, including the relevant information for each component paper as well as the name of the panel’s chair (the chair can be one of the panelists).

Acceptance: Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2017 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.

Publication:

a) Themed day: the papers will be published in a volume of proceedings.
b) Panels: selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.

Intensive course: Mamluk Architecture

A three-day intensive course in Mamluk architecture intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants will be offered by Professor Howayda al-Harithy (American University of Beirut) and will be held immediately before the fourth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies held at the American University of Beirut (May 8-10, 2017). The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format, but no previous training is required. The course will cover topics such as building typology, stylistic evolution, patronage of architecture, construction techniques, and decorative styles.

Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms2017beirut@gmail.com by the end of January, 2017. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February, 2017, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.

The course fee is $300.00, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (May 11-13). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2017. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging at an affordable price.

We look forward to meeting you in Beirut.

John Meloy, American University of Beirut (local organizer)

sms2017beirut@gmail.com

Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège

Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago

6. CALL FOR PAPERS

Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy

A two-day seminar is to be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on

Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May 2017

This is a formal Call for Papers for a two-day event of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants, part of the RBGE. Presentations should be rigorous and accessible. They should take around thirty minutes, with ample time allowed for discussion and debate. The event will be recorded and the plan is to publish final versions of the papers.

Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 January 2017

Please e-mail your offers of papers to ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com together with a working title, a brief abstract of not more than 250 words, and the names of authors and their affiliations.

We also welcome the offer of pre-organised panels of up to four speakers on specific themes.

Participants will be informed about the acceptance of their paper by 15 February 2017.

Seminar Bursaries are also offered to attend (these bursaries do not cover travel or accommodation): please contact treasurerastene@gmail.com for further information.

Contributions to the Seminar are welcome from a wide range of disciplines and interests. It is envisaged that the Seminar will cover many fascinating subjects on (though not restricted to) the following main themes:

— Travellers’ accounts related to the botanical legacy of any part of the former Ottoman Empire (e.g. present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, Arabian Peninsula etc.)

— The flora of the region, including their heritage, preservation and medicinal uses

— Bulbs of the region, especially tulips, and their cultural significance; Tulipomania

— Ottoman garden design and architecture

— Floral and related motifs in Ottoman art, including textiles, ceramics etc.

— Culinary aspects of the botanical legacy of the region

— Literary, pictorial and photographic depictions of any aspect of the botanical and horticultural legacy of the region

— Orientalism as applicable to any of the seminar’s main themes.

The Seminar Booking Form and the Draft Seminar Programme will be available on Eventbrite in early January 2017 with the deadline for bookings being 15 April 2017. Tickets will also be available at the event. All Welcome!

In the meantime, any enquiries should be addressed to ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com

Sponsored by: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; The Centre for Middle Eastern Plants; The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE; Cornucopia, the magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey; the Republic of Turkey Consulate General, Edinburgh.

7. Conference: “Modern Hadith Studies Between Arabophone and Western Scholarship”, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 9-10 January 2017

The organizers Belal Alabbas, Prof. Christopher Melchert and Dr Nicolai Sinai invite scholars from Arabophone and Western institutions to discuss current research on the hadith corpus, aiming to bridge the divide between Anglophone and Arabophone research in hadith studies. It is based on the belief that the absence of any engagement of the scholarly communities with one another inhibits any significant methodological convergence.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2016. Information: www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CFP-Hadith-Studies-Oxford.pdf

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8. Full time fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Associate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg

The Max Planck Institute invites applications for a position as Postdoctoral Associate (m/f) within its Research Group “Changes in God’s Law – An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law”. The successful candidate must have primary research interests in the family law of contemporary Muslim societies.

Deadline for application: 31 October 2016. Information : www.mpipriv.de/files/pdf4/Postdoctoral_Associate_mf_Position.pdf

9. Senior Research Fellow, MENA Programme (Iran Specialist), Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA), United Arab Emirates

The ideal applicant has expertise in the relations between Iranian and the Arabian Peninsula. The EDA is an Abu-Dhabi based independent, federal UAE entity that opened its doors in 2015.

Information http://eda.ac.ae/careers/eda-vacancies

10. Postdoctoral Scholarships: Academy Scholars Program 2017-2018 of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

The program supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or present.

Deadline for application: 1 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53348

11. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics or International Relations, Miami University

The successful candidate will be an expert who studies some combination of the following in a Middle Eastern setting: governance, gender politics, human rights, conflict and conflict resolution (domestic and/or international), identity politics, trade and development, energy, water, agricultural, and natural resource issues, and/or environmental problems.

Screening of applications will begin September 30, 2016. Information: http://miamioh.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=3238

12. Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Global Languages and Literatures, Bridgewater State University

The successful candidate should be able to teach some currently offered lower and upper division courses and add offerings in the Anthropology of the Middle East and other areas of expertise, including writing- and/or speaking-intensive courses as well as Introductory and Intermediary Arabic.

Information: https://jobs.bridgew.edu

13. The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, is seeking a full-time tenured or tenure-track teacher-scholar for the Moinian Professorship in Pre-modern Middle Eastern Cultures and Civilizations, starting September 1, 2017. Rank open with strong preference for candidates with an established record of teaching and research and a mastery of the languages relevant to their specialization. Candidates should demonstrate a broad interest in the history, cultures and/or literatures of the Middle East; discipline and geographic area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required.

Teaching will include undergraduate general education courses such as “Middle Eastern Civilizations” and “Asian Humanities: Colloquium on Major Texts of South Asia and the Middle East,” as well as more specialized and graduate courses. Particular attention will be given to candidates with a record of diverse, innovative, and interdisciplinary research and teaching. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping to build an independent Program in Middle Eastern Studies at Barnard, and coordinating with MESAAS, Columbia University.

To apply: please submit a complete curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and the names and contact information for three references to http://careers.barnard.edu/postings/2378.

Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2016, and continue until position is filled1.

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September 07, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.The Qur’an Between Judaism and Christianity

A series of public lectures funded by the British Academy, hosted at the University of Nottingham and co-sponsored by the Karimia Institute, seeking to enhance the public understanding of the Qurʾān by focusing on the ways in which the Scripture of Islam relates to Judaism and to Christianity.

On three days in autumn 2016, prominent and emerging academics from the UK, from mainland Europe, and from overseas will address how the Qurʾān relates to aspects of the two other “Abrahamic” traditions, ranging from Biblical narrative to theology and law. The talks will be followed by a response and a discussion.

Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

For further information, see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/html-emails/arts/theology/the-quran-between-judaism-and-christianity.aspx

2. University of Edinburgh

W M Watt lecture – Prof. Maribel Fierro, Charisma and Anti-Charisma in al-Andalus: Friday 4 November

Relations between scholars and rulers were of fundamental importance in competing claims to religious and political authority in Islamic premodern societies. Sunni Islam as against Shii Islam has historically been suspicious of charisma—that is, the belief that God has appointed one particular person who is protected by God and given right belief. Islamic Spain (al-Andalus) is a territory usually identified with Sunni (Maliki) Islam and characterized by a strong network of Sunni (Maliki) scholars. However, charisma was used to support political and religious claims, while one of the region’s most productive and original thinkers, Ibn Hazm (d. 1064), was very outspoken in his rejection of charismatic authority and also of Malikism.

Professor Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), in Spain. She is a leading authority on the religious and intellectual history of Islamic Spain and the Islamic West, and on Islamic law. She is the editor of volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 2010) and recently led an ERC project on Knowledge, Heresy and Political Culture in the Islamic West, during which she published The Almohad Revolution: Religion and Politics in the Islamic West (Ashgate, 2012)

The event is free but booking a place is essential.

For further details and booking information, see:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/centre-medieval-renaissance/news-events/news-events/w-m-watt-lecture-prof-maribel-fierro

3. Call for Proposals

“Books as Agents of Contact”

Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College)

Saturday, 14 October 2017, 8:30–10:00am

Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference

12–15 October 2017, Philadelphia, PA

The book territorializes and deterritorializes. It binds together materials, technologies, and labor from far and abroad–a letter from Goa, an editor in Rome, Chinese paper, German engravers, Italian leather, English capital–only to be dispersed and reconstituted, from hand to hand, collection to collection, dismembered, reassembled, and reinvented for new audiences in new locations.

This panel seeks to understand how books as physical artifacts are agents of contact, summoning diverse persons and places into unanticipated relationships. Of particular interest are proposals that address the following: What formal or material features of books facilitate or generate promiscuity? How does the physical object of the book create audiences that exceed or trouble established political and territorial maps? Can the logic of book circulation challenge narratives of globalization as the rise of commerce and empire?

We welcome proposals for any time period, from antiquity to the present, and interpret “books” broadly as surfaces of semiotic inscription, from stone, papyri, and parchment, to paper, and even digital media. Papers will be circulated in advance of the conference. Presenters will deliver short summary provocations (8-10 minutes), followed by a moderator-led discussion.

Please submit a proposal of no more than 200 words, along with a brief CV, by 25 October 2016 at:

rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-papers

Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference, will bring together scholarly professionals poised to address current problems pertaining to the study of textual artifacts that cross scholarly, pedagogical, professional, and curatorial domains. The conference will explore theories and methods common to the object-oriented disciplines, such as anthropology and archaeology, but new to bibliography. The program aims to promote focused cross-disciplinary exchange and future scholarly collaborations. Bibliography Among the Disciplines is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and organized by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. For more information, please visit: rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017

4. International Congress: “Islam in Plural. Thought, Faith and Society.” Université Catholique, Lyon, 6-9 September 2016

Three main topics provide the structure of the congress: current developments in geopolitics and economics, theological questions underlying interreligious encounters, and sociological dimensions of intra-islamic pluralism particularly with respect to the diverse challenges rising from modernity.

Information: http://evenement.pluriel.fuce.eu/en-/; Contact: contact.pluriel@fuce.eu

5. Postdoctoral Scholarships: Academy Scholars Program 2017-2018 of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies

Deadline for application: 1 October 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53348

6. University of Edinburgh

Syria: From Severus to Saladin

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology, in association with Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, is holding a day conference, open to students, staff and members of the public alike, organised by Dr Lucy Grig (Classics) and Dr Andrew Marsham (IMES).

The conference will include papers from a range of international, focusing on diverse aspects of the history, material and visual culture of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Syria, as well as the current challenges to the preservation of Syria’s archaeological heritage.

Syria: From Severus to Saladin

School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4, Old Medical School) Saturday 17th September

9-9.30 am Registration (McMillan Room)

9.30 Introduction Lucy Grig and Andrew Marsham (Meadows Lecture Theatre)

9.45-10.30 Ted Kaizer (Durham) ‘Questions of Identity at Tadmor/Palmyra’

10.30-1115 Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh/St Andrews): ‘Umayyad and Abbasid Palaces Compared’

11.15-11.45 Coffee break

11.45-12.30 Koray Durak (Bogazici, Istanbul): ‘Islamic Syria through Byzantine Eyes’

12.30-2 Lunch break

2-2.45 Simon Gundelfinger (Hamburg): ‘9th and 10th Century Concepts of al-Sham: a Geographical Survey’

2.45- 3.30 Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh/St Andrews): ‘Damascus: Saladin’s favourite city’

3.30-4 Coffee break

4-4.45 Mike Bishop (EAMENA, Oxford) ‘When the Present Threatens the Past: Endangered Archaeology in Syria’

4.45-5.15 Final panel discussion: ‘Syria: Continuity, Change and Challenges’

Cost: £20/£10 students.

For full and information and to register see:

http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/conference-syria

7. on-line journal

MIDÉO. Mélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales

http://mideo.revues.org/

La revue MIDÉO est un périodique scientifique qui s’intéresse à l’aspect religieux et philosophique des domaines d’investigation des chercheurs de l’IDÉO et de ses collaborateurs. Une attention particulière est portée à l’histoire des idées et des doctrines du monde arabe, dans son passé et jusque dans son présent en l’envisageant en lui-même aussi bien que dans ses relations avec l’Occident. Produit en Égypte, le MIDÉO manifeste un intérêt particulier aux problèmes historiques, culturels et doctrinaux de l’Égypte ancienne et moderne, poursuivant avec les savants égyptiens une étroite et constante collaboration.

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August 30, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items

1. Annual Meeting Call for Papers

Partnerships: Enhancing Opportunities is this year’s theme for the annual Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) meeting. The meeting will be hosted by the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, and will take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, 15-17 November 2016.

Middle East librarians, and more generally Area Studies librarians, have a long history of cooperation and partnerships. Indeed, it is through partnerships that programs such as the Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program (MECAP), and the Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) developed. These programs have been instrumental for our communities, the research being conducted, and highlight some of the larger initiatives that have taken place over the years. Other large scale projects have made collections available digitally encouraging and enabling new avenues of scholarship. The profusion of digital humanities projects being created highlights the ever-changing ways in which scholars interact with each other, scholarship is produced, and is providing enhanced opportunities for long-distance and international partnerships.

Partnering with institutions to further our goals as a community is essential; we invite papers of no more than 20 minutes exploring historical and contemporary partnerships. Preference will be given to partnerships with libraries (or museums) in the MENA region.

Presentations dedicated to investigating, analyzing, and discussing the opportunities, challenges, and experiences with all types of partnerships are welcome, including but not limited to:

Community building
Collection development
Rights, rules, and regulations of multi-party ownership
Resource sharing
Digitization practices
Documentation practices
Negotiating standards
Enhancing metadata for accessibility across platforms
Reciprocal agreements for shared materials

Submission guidelines:

Proposals should be a maximum of 250 words.
Please send your proposals to vice-president@mela.us in a word document.
Proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
Proposals must include a title and clearly demonstrate relevancy to this year’s theme, Partnerships: Enhancing opportunities.
Submission deadline is 31 August 2016.
Session format is a 30 minute presentation (20 minute presentation with 10 minutes for questions).

Notification:

All submitters will be notified by 21 September 2016.
All presenters will be asked to submit a brief biography (max 100 words), a photograph, and an abbreviated abstract to be published in the program and posted on the MELA website.
All presenters will be asked to make their presentation available on the conference website.

While MELA is not in a position to pay honoraria or provide financial support for travel and lodging, we will waive program registration fees for presenters. Presenters are expected to be full paid MELA members.

See further: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/137390/cfp-2nd-call-partnerships-enhancing-opportunities-middle-east

2. Open call to candidates for a tenure-track position in modern Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (including Qajar-Pahlavi Iran) in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (open rank).

The position is open to individuals who hold a doctorate degree and for advanced doctoral students whose PhD will be conferred no later than July 1, 2017.

For more information:

http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/new.php?cat=5369

http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/templates/publications_details.php?cat=5298&incat&page=0&act=large&pos=1&tui=5298

Contact:

Dr. Michael Shenkar, Senior Lecturer in Pre-Islamic Iranian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus 91905, Jerusalem.

3. A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, eds. Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag Würzburg in Kommission, 2016.

This collection of thirteen essays addresses the intellectual, religious and literary culture of medieval Anatolia and the early Ottoman realm of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on text written in Arabic, Persian and Old Anatolian Turkish as case studies. The introductory chapter surveys the beylik (Turkish principalities) period and the emergence of Anatolian Turkish as a vernacular literary language in the fourteenth century. The subsequent chapters present a wide range of topics, ranging from proto-Bektashi poetry and the Vefa’iyye to the emergence of the Ottoman scholarly system. These scholarly essays aim not only to move beyond Köprülü’s nationalist paradigm of Anatolian cultural life with new approaches, but also to provide background for further research and point to new avenues of inquiry in this relatively neglected field of study.

The volume may be purchased through the Ergon Publisher’s website: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/en/orientalistik/istanbuler-texte-und-studien/band-34.php

The volume may be purchased also as an E-Book: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/en/e-books/istanbuler-texte-und-studien/band-34-e-book.php

4. 1st North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2016
Meeting Description:

The Iranian language family hosts some of the densest variation in grammatical
systems on the planet. Despite the remarkable scientific potential of the
Iranian language family as a ”laboratory” for comparative study, and unlike
the situation with nearly every other major language family, no conference has
ever been held in the US specializing exclusively in languages of the Iranian
family. Stony Brook Linguistics is pleased to host the first North American
Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 1), April 27-30, 2017.

Invited Speakers:

Jila Gomeshi, University of Manitoba
Geoffrey Haig, Bamberg Universität
Simin Karimi, University of Arizona
Pollet Samvelian, Université Paris III

Call for Papers:

We warmly welcome abstracts on all topics related to Iranian languages and
linguistics. Submissions are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for
discussion) and/or posters (posters should measure approx. 3ft x 4ft or 90cm x
120cm) on any aspect of Iranian Linguistics.

Abstracts are invited from all areas of grammar (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics) and their interfaces. Abstracts on language acquisition,
psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics and computational
linguistics are also encouraged.

We strongly encourage contributions exploring approaches to language diversity
and typological works (including but not limited to sign languages,
under-represented languages and comparative studies).

To propose a paper/poster for presentation at NACIL 1, upload an abstract
conforming to the guidelines below to the EasyAbs site:

Abstract guidelines:

In order to be eligible for consideration, abstracts should conform to the
following requirements:

– Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages in
length, have 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, and be set in Times New
Roman with a font size no smaller than 11pt.
– Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of the
abstract, rather than collected at the end.
– The submission must not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any way.
– Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being
single-authored.
– Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through EasyAbs by Wednesday,
November 30, 2017, 11:59pm EST (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nacil1).

Scientific committee:

Mostafa Assi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies)
Elena Bashir (The University of Chicago)
Ali Darzi (University of Tehran)
Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Geoffrey Haig (Bamberg Universität)
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Agnes Korn (Universität Frankfurt)
Gholamhosein KarimiDoostan (University of Tehran)
Richard Larson (Stony Brook University)
Yahya Modarresi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies)
Taylor Roberts (York University)
Vida Samiian (California State University, Fresno)
Pollet Samvelian (Université Paris III)
Greg Stump (University of Kentucky)

Important dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: November 30, 2017
Decisions on submitted abstracts: February 10, 2017
Conference program posted online: April 20, 2017

5. University Lectureship in International Relations of Modern Iran

The Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University invites applications for an:

University Lectureship in International Relations of Modern Iran (1.0 fte)
Vacancy number: 16-249

Queries may be sent to Ali Seyed Gohrab
(a.a.seyed-gohrab@hum.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:a.a.seyed-gohrab@hum.leidenuniv.nl>), with cc to Frank Pieke
(f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl <mailto:f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl>).

6. University of Oklahoma, Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature (Tenure Track)

The University of Oklahoma’s Department of International and Area Studies, a thriving academic department in the expanding College of International Studies

invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Persian literature, funded by the Farzaneh Family Foundation. Applicants’ primary research focus should be in the field of modern Persian literature. Candidates with additional teaching and research expertise in classical Persian literature and language pedagogy are also encouraged to apply. Teaching responsibilities will include advanced Persian language instruction, as well as survey courses in Persian literature in translation. Candidates will also be expected to offer thematic courses in literature and culture that contribute to the comparative, global, and transnational curriculum of the Department of International and Area Studies.

The successful candidate will join a growing and vibrant program in Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, with two tenure-line faculty already present, and searches for three additional tenure lines forthcoming. Native or near-native fluency in Persian and English, and demonstration of an active research agenda, are also required. We hope to welcome a new colleague with a demonstrated commitment to fostering inclusivity and mentoring members of underrepresented groups.

The Department of International and Area Studies (IAS) offers seven undergraduate degrees to approximately 350 majors, and an MA in International Studies with 40 students enrolled. The Department has approximately 20 full-time faculty with collective research strengths in the areas of development, security, and national identity. For more information, please visit the IAS website at https://www.ou.edu/content/cis/ias.html. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a comprehensive public research university with a Carnegie classification of very high research activity known for excellence in teaching and research. OU enrolls over 30,000 students and has more than 2700 full-time faculty members in 21 colleges. Norman is a culturally rich and vibrant town located just outside Oklahoma City. For more information, visit http://soonerway.ou.edu and http://www.ou.edu/flipbook.

Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment. The teaching load will be two courses per semester (2-2). Salary is competitive. The appointment will begin on August 16, 2017. Applicants should submit a letter of application, statements of teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, transcripts, complete sets of teaching evaluations, and a writing sample. Submit all materials electronically at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7640.

Review of applications will begin October 17, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. We especially encourage applications from underrepresented groups as we continue to build a diverse faculty. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution (www.ou.edu/eeo).

7. International Symposium: “The Fatwā System and Fatwā Books in the Ottoman Empire and India”, New Delhi, 14-15 January 2017

The symposium aims to elaborate on the Fatwā system and Fatwā books that were produced by Indian and Ottoman ulama. Participants will be reimbursed for accommodation costs.

Submission of Abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: http://www.ifa-india.org/english.php; contact: mailto:symposium@isar.org.tr

8. Assistant Professor in the Department of History (tenure-track), Willamette University, Salem, Oregon

The position is beginning August 2017. We seek candidates with combined teaching and research expertise in transnational history with an area of focus in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East.

Application Deadline: 23 September 2016.Information: https://jobs.willamette.edu/postings/2121

9. Assistant Professor in Classical Islam (tenure-track), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

The position is to begin in Fall 2017. The successful candidate must have primary research interests and training in Classical Islam (e.g., Qur’an and tafsir, history, philosophy, Sufism, literature, etc.).

Deadline for application: 14 October 2016. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7635

10. Assistant Professor for Middle East / Islamic World, University of West Georgia

The position will start fall 2017. Responsibilities include teaching a world history survey, a survey of the Middle East or the Islamic World, as well as advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the candidate’s area of specialization.

Deadline for application: 1 November 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53297

11. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Salisbury University, Maryland

Teaching includes World Civilizations, History of the Middle East, and graduate courses for the M.A. in History program.

Deadline for application: 15 October 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53303

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August 23, 2016
by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items

1.CALL FOR PAPERS — Due 15 November 2016

IJMES Special Issue: The Environment in the Middle East and North Africa

Guests editors Tessa Farmer and Jessica Barnes with IJMES editors Akram
Khater and Jeffrey Culang

From arid cities to irrigated fields, hot deserts to Mediterranean
mountains, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) encompasses a range
of environments for thinking through the relationships between nature
and society, people and animals, human and nonhuman worlds. Yet, while
research on various aspects of the material world has a long history in
the scholarship of the MENA, research on the environment as such has
been relatively limited. Reflecting growing interest in the environment
as a topic of concern, this special issue of IJMES will bring together
scholarship from anthropology, geography, sociology, Science and
Technology Studies (STS), and related disciplines on current
environment-related themes in the region.

We invite manuscript submissions that examine cultural, political, and
social dimensions of the environment in the contemporary MENA. We are
particularly interested in papers that are based on in-depth
ethnographic fieldwork. The following are some of the key questions that
this research may address. How does attention to the environment shape
new understandings of knowledge production and expertise? How are
categories of scale, from the global to the regional, national, and
individual, embroiled in and produced through environmental engagements?
How can we investigate the body and its fluid articulations with
environmental materials? How do various religious conceptions and moral
imaginaries come into view when examining socionatures in urban,
periurban, and rural locales? What new angles do environmental issues
offer for viewing long-standing sociopolitical conflicts at local and
national levels? How do ideas of the “environment” and
“environmentalism” function in local and national political projects?
What role does the environment play in how nation-states articulate
their histories and futures? How is “care” for the environment performed?

In drawing together a set of rich, empirically based papers, this
special issue will not only shed important light on how we understand
environmental change in the MENA, but also speak to central questions
within anthropology, geography, sociology, Science and Technology
Studies (STS), and related fields. The issue will push literature on the
region forward by decentering narratives about conflict, religious
fundamentalism, confessional systems, and debates about civilizational
failures, and reorienting the focus onto the social, political, and
cultural dimensions of human engagements with the natural world.

The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2016. Authors should follow
the regular guidelines for submitting an article manuscript to IJMES,
which are detailed here:
http://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/docs/DetailedSubGuidelines.pdf. Please
indicate in your cover letter that your submission is intended for the
special issue. All special issue articles must be accepted individually
through the IJMES peer review process.

For additional information see the contact info below.

Jeffrey Culang
Managing Editor
International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
ijmes.meditor@cambridge.org
IJMES editorial website: http://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/index.htm
Cambridge University Press website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MES
Follow IJMES on Twitter @IJMES1

2. Mysticism in Comparative Perspective

CALL FOR PAPERS

Glasgow University 14th-16th December 2016
Speakers to include:
Rob Faesen (Leuven)

William Franke (Vanderbilt)

Bernard McGinn (Chicago)

George Pattison (Glasgow)

Ada Rapoport-Albert (King’s College, London)

Jane Shaw (Stanford)

Mia Spiro (Glasgow)

At the start of the 20th century, it was widely believed that there was some unitary ‘mystical experience’ underlying the varieties of religious and doctrinal expression. On this view, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu, or a Sufi all had the ‘same’ experience and only differed in their manner of expressing it. By the end of the century this kind of comparativism had fallen into disrepute. Nevertheless, dialogue between faiths would seem to be significantly imperilled if no shared experiential or practical points of unity can be identified. Drawing on recent research, the conference seeks to renew the project of a comparative study of mysticism and in doing so to offer resources for both teaching and research in theology and religious studies.
Proposals under the following headings are especially welcome: Methodology, Annihilation, Love/Union, Material Culture, and Syncretism.

Proposals for Papers must be sent by September 15th to arts-comparativemysticism@glasgow.ac.uk (Acceptances will be notified by end-September.)

The conference will incorporate the Astaire Seminar in Jewish Studies ‘Wandering Souls’ with papers by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Mia Spiro.

For more information, see the Mystical Theology Network Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rege0676/Glasgow%20Conference.html

3. Jobs at Cambridge Muslim College:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/employer/cambridge-muslim-college

4. Find out about the special double issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in which Professor David O. Morgan is honoured for his contribution over many years to the understanding of the Mongols and their fascinating story. The festschrift issue features exciting new work exploring the complex narratives of the Mongols and their influence on the lands they conquered.

http://view.academic.cambridge.org/?qs=6b1e2c263a99a1c2e492600fb7af38c3d85da69a37502af70ed …

For a fascinating insight into Professor Morgan’s career, watch Timothy May’s interview with him here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-ur4ePT9Y

5. SJAS CONFERENCE- VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

The 17th International Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies will be held
at Vanderbilt from 15-18 August. The conference will feature world-renowned scholars
speaking on all issues of Judaeo-Arabic language, literature, philosophy, society, and
culture. The conference will begin with an opening banquet and plenary at the Nashville
Gordon Jewish Community Center on 15 August, and will continue through mid-day on
18 August on the Vanderbilt campus. The conference is free and open to the Vanderbilt
community and the Nashville community at large.

http://as.vanderbilt.edu/jewishstudies/uncategorized/sjas-conference-to-be-held-at-vanderbilt-university

6. PhD position in Turkic Languages, focusing on Linguistic Turcology

Uppsala University is an international research university focused on the development of science and education. Our most important assets are all the individuals who with their curiosity and their dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting work places. Uppsala University has 40,000 students, 7,000 employees and a turnover of SEK 6,5 billion.

Research and teaching at the Department of linguistics and philology covers approx. twenty different languages and linguistic subjects as well as computational linguistics. These include many of the important languages and cultures in the Middle East, to which can be added Hindi, Swahili, Chinese, Ancient Greek and Latin. Comparative Indo-European linguistics and general linguistics are also part of the department

Doctoral studies extend over a 4-year period during which the PhD-student will receive a salary as an employee of the department. Doctoral students are expected to engage in full-time study and research, and contribute to and participate in the department’s activities. Teaching and/or administrative tasks may be involved up to a maximum of 20%.

Project: For this position, we are seeking a candidate with a solid background in Turkic Studies, who is highly motivated and interested in theoretical and/or descriptive linguistics. We are interested in projects which investigate linguistic phenomena of the Turkic languages. Projects dealing with philological investigation of written sources would only be considered if they contained a major descriptive component. The final form of the dissertation project will be determined in collaboration with the advisor. Applicants should discuss their proposed research with the section chair, László Károly, before submission.

Qualifications: To qualify for a doctoral position a candidate should hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) in Turkic languages.

How to apply: The application should contain:

A letter of intent describing your research interests and motivation for PhD studies (maximum one page)
A CV containing (i) a description of your education, (ii) a list of academic results, (iii) a list of any academic publications, (iv) professional experience relevant to academic research, and (v) relevant technical skills (maximum three pages)
An authorized copy of your master’s degree (or equivalent)
A copy of your master’s thesis (and an English summary in maximum ten pages if it is not in English)
A research proposal which (i) states a research question, (ii) describes the methodology and work plan, and (iii) contextualises the expected results in relation to the state of the art. (maximum five pages including references)
Other documents which the applicant would like to submit.

The application may be written in English or Swedish.

More information about the PhD programme at the department can be found at the following website: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/admissions/doctoral-studies/

For a general description of PhD student admissions in Sweden, see Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.7 §§34-36.

Rules of employment of graduate students can be found in the Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.5 §§1-7.

Rules for doctoral education is regulated in the Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.6 kap §§26-36.

Local admission rules can be found at http://regler.uu.se and at http://www.sprakvet.uu.se/Forskning/Forskarutbildning .

Uppsala University aims for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organization. We therefore welcome applicants of any gender and with different birth background, functionality and life experience.

Salary: Local salary regulations apply.

Starting: 1 January 2017 or earlier

Working hours: Full time

For more information about the position, please contact
Professor László Károly (Laszlo.Karoly@lingfil.uu.se), phone +46 (0)18 471 1089
Director of graduate studies, Professor Christer Henriksén (Christer.Henriksen@lingfil.uu.se), phone + 46 (0)18 471 6845
Senior faculty administrator Lars Hagborg (Lars.Hagborg@uadm.uu.se), phone +46 (0)18 471 1907

You are welcome to submit your application no later than September 30 2016, UFV-PA 2016/2337.

We decline offers of recruitment and advertising help. We only accept the application the way described in the advertisement.

Placement: Department of Linguistics and Philology

Type of employment: Full time , Temporary position longer than 6 months

Pay: Fixed pay

Number of positions: 1

Working hours: 100 %

Town: Uppsala

County: Uppsala län

Country: Sweden

Union representative: Per Sundman, Saco-rådet 018-471 1485
Marie Ols, TCO/ST 018-471 2459
Stefan Djurström, Seko 018-471 3315

Number of reference: UFV-PA 2016/2337

Last application date: 2016-09-30

7. 3 PhD candidates in Middle East Studies (Arabic), Leiden University

The 3 PhD candidates (Vacancy number: 16-252) will carry out research in the framework of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)” headed by Prof. Dr. Petra Sijpesteijn. The PhD candidates will use the vastly important but largely neglected documentary evidence from the Muslim world. This is a full-time post from 1 February 2017 until 31 January 2021.

Deadline for application: 14 September 2016. Contact: mailto: p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl . Information on LIAS Department: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/

8. Jobs:

Assistant Professor of Political Science Specializing in Comparative Politics, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Starting Date: September 2017. Ability to offer courses in one or more of the following areas is desired – Political Economy of Development, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Politics in the Developing World, Gender and Politics, Environmental Politics, Comparative Law, Democratization, or Regional Integration. Regional focus is open.
Review of applications will begin 28 September 2016. Information: http://www.isanet.org/Programs/Job-Board/mid/9461/EntryDetail

Assistant Professor or Instructor in the History of the Islamic World/Middle East (tenure-track), Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The position is beginning Fall 2017. Applicants should possess or be close to completing a doctoral degree. The successful candidate will teach courses at all levels in the history of the Islamic World and the modern Middle East.
Deadline for application: 15 November 2016. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/36412

9. Articles on “Frontiers of Contemporary Research on the Middle East and North Africa” for “APSA MENA Newsletter”

This newsletter is emerging from the MENA Workshops of the American Political Science Association (APSA), a community-building initiative designed to serve as a platform for Political Science researchers interested in the Middle East and North Africa. For the first issue, we invite topics related, but not limited to, emerging research fields, challenges during fieldwork and methodological issues.

Deadline for submissions of 800-1000 words is 1 October 2016. Information: menanewsletter@apsanet.org.

10. Call for Submissions: Persian Passages (Special issue of Southerly)

Persian speakers from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan have influenced Australian culture in many ways. What are the evocations of Persian themes in Australian writing and culture? What are the contemporary heirs to Judith Wright’s poem ‘Hafiz of Shiraz’? And what is the image of Australia in contemporary Persian texts? Guest editors Laetitia Nanquette and Ali Alizadeh are calling for submissions of poems, stories, non-fiction and literary papers for a special issue of Southerly focusing on literary transactions between Australian and Persian cultures. The editors are also interested in writings from Iranian, Afghan and Tajik writers engaging with Australia in any way. As the Persian-speaking community is becoming stronger in Australia and its cultural production diversifies, this issue aims to offer to an Australian audience a rich sample of texts and perspectives focusing on Australian-Persian perspectives. This includes but is not limited to:

– Persia and the contemporary nations of Persian culture (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan) in the Australian literary imaginary

– Literary relations and cultural interactions between Australian and Persian-speaking nations

– Contemporary Australian writers of Persian origin and their texts

– The reception of Persian texts in Australia

– New forms of cultural or literary interaction between Persian-speaking cultures and the West

– New works of creative writing, by authors from any background, that speak to the themes and motifs of Persian culture and history

With academic essays, please keep in mind that Southerly is a journal devoted to Australian literature. Please submit only one story, one personal essay or up to 5 poems, at a time. Short fiction and literary non-fiction texts should be around 2,000-6,000 words. Submissions can be in English or Persian. Please submit your texts online to the category “Persian Passages”: https://southerly.submittable.com/submit

You can refer to Southerly’s guidelines:

http://southerlyjournal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Submissions-guidelines-2015.pdf

Submissions due: 1^st September 2016

The issue will be published in April 2017.

Dr Laetitia Nanquette,

Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney

+61 (2) 9385 7792

11. Ascetics and Yogis in Indian painting

Being invited to give a series of three lectures on this wide ranging topic at a seminar at the Universita di Ca’ Foscari in Venice in July 2016, it seemed a good opportunity to write a blog highlighting the interesting material in the British Library. Here are discussed such images in Mughal and Deccani painting.

http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2016/08/ascetics-and-yogis-in-indian-painting.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+asian-and-african+%28Asia+and+Africa%29

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August 15, 2016
by Andrew Newman
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