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1.Special issue of al-Masāq
Special Issue: Constructing the Umayyads: from Mecca to Madīnat al-Zahrā
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/calm20/28/1
| 2. The British Library’s oldest Qur’an manuscript now online
The British Library’s oldest Qur’ān manuscript, Or.2165, dating from the eighth century, has now been fully digitised and is available on the British Library’s Digitised Manuscripts site. Among the most ancient copies of the Qurʼān, containing over two-thirds of the complete text, it is one of the largest of known… |
3. The Islamic Manuscript Association, in cooperation with Cambridge University Library and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, is pleased to announce an advanced short course in manuscript studies, entitled Scholars, Scribes, and Readers: An Advanced Course in Arabic Manuscript Studies, which will be held at Cambridge University Library from 6 to 10 June 2016.
This intensive five-day course is intended for researchers, librarians, curators, and anyone else working with Islamic manuscripts. As an advanced course, it is particularly aimed at those who already have some experience in Islamic codicology and palaeography and all participants must have a good reading knowledge of Arabic. The course will focus on Arabic-language manuscripts from various regions, including historical Turkey, Iran, and India. It is hoped that this advanced course will allow participants to gain greater exposure to and familiarity with the vast array of practices encountered in Arabic manuscripts.
The workshop will consist of three days of illustrated, interactive lectures on selected manuscripts and two days of hands-on sessions focusing on a selection of manuscripts from the Cambridge University Library collection. The manuscripts selected for presentation by the instructor cover the whole range of scribal practices encountered in a variety of subjects/genres, geographical regions, and historical periods (see the programme for details).
The course will be led by Adam Gacek, a retired faculty lecturer and former head of the Islamic Studies Library, McGill University, who is the author of a sizeable corpus of publications on Islamic manuscripts, including The Arabic Manuscript Tradition: a Glossary of Technical Terms and Bibliography (2001, 2008 – Supplement), and Arabic Manuscripts: a Vademecum for Readers (2009).
For further details, to view the programme, or to register, please visit our website at www.islamicmanuscript.org
4. The Department of Near Eastern Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University, invites applications for a temporary position as a Teaching Associate in Persian language for one semester, August 16 – December 31, 2016. The successful candidate will teach two courses: Elementary and Intermediate Persian/Farsi. Minimum requirements are: a Masters’ Degree in a related field such as Persian Literature, Linguistics or Comparative Literature; experience teaching Persian language at the university level; and demonstrated commitment to innovative methods of language instruction. Please submit letter of application, curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three references via Academic JobsOnline
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7198
The application deadline is May 22, 2016. Diversity and Inclusion are a part of Cornell University’s heritage. We’re an employer and educator recognized for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities. We actively encourage applications of women, persons of color, and persons with disabilities.
5. What is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015)
What is Islam? A Symposium in Memory of Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015) will take place on April 29, 2016 from 1-6:30pm in Boylston Hall at Harvard University. The symposium will feature Michael Cook, Noah Feldman, Cemal Kafadar, Gülru Necipoğlu, Parimal Patil, and Nicholas Watson, who will discuss the ways in which What is Islam? speaks to, affects, and/or challenges their respective fields of study.
The symposium is sponsored by The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies, the Mahindra Humanities Center, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, the Committee on the Study of Religion, with support of the Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow Memorial Fund, the South Asia Initiative, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Islamic Legal Studies Program.
Please contact Nora Lessersohn, noralessersohn@g.harvard.edu, with any questions.
http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k69205&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup105011
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10587.html
6. Job opening: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – SESRI, Qatar University
A new Post-Doctoral Research Fellow position with the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University. The position is attached to SESRI’s Policy Unit (headed by Justin Gengler) and is open to recent PhDs working on a wide range of policy areas relevant to the Gulf.
The full advertisement is available at the following link, and materials
can be sent to pdsearch@qu.edu.qa :
http://sesri.qu.edu.qa/sites/default/files/SESRI_PolicyFellow.pdf
Review of applications begins May 1.
7. Conference: “The Dynamics of Change in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Region: Politics on Borderland”, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 29-31 August 2016
The conference will to reflect on the changing geostrategic reality, state discourses, and border-making practices as well as the ethical and normative aspects of the border control regimes and focus on the practices of commuting, crossing, and transgressing the physical, cultural, and normative border.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 May 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/118506/dynamics-change-pakistan-afghanistan-region-politics-borderland
8. ERiC Summer School on Problems of Studying Inter-religious Relations on a Global Scale, Center for Religious Studies (CERES), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, 25 July – 3 August 2016
Aimed at doctoral and advanced masters’-level students, ERiC encourages students from around the world to consider religious studies from multiple political and cultural standpoints, giving them the opportunity to create an international network of like-minded junior scholars.
Accepted students will receive a round trip ticket from their home to Germany, accommodations, all lunches and two dinners. The summer school is free of charge.
Deadline for application: 1 May 2016. Information: http://eric.ceres.rub.de/en/
9. Apply for Fulbright Opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa
The 2017-2018 Fulbright U.S Scholar Program competition to the Middle East and North Africa is underway! Each year, U.S. scholars in a wide variety of academic disciplines teach and/or conduct research at educational institutions across the Middle East and North Africa. Beyond their specific research or teaching objectives, Fulbright Scholars to the region build relationships that serve as the foundation for future collaborations and increase mutual understanding across cultures. Applications for 2017-18 are currently being accepted from all levels of faculty, including early career, and professionals.
10. On line/Open Access Sources
Aligned corpus of Divan-e-Hafez, translated by H. Wilberforce Clarke. Calcutta, India. 1891.
http://perseids.org/sites/alignment-prototypes/hafez/index.html
Open Persian Project of the Open Philology Project
http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/open-philology-project/open-persian/
11. From Fereydoun Ave to Charles-Hossein Zenderoudi:
Collecting Iranian Art at the British Museum
Lecture by Dr Venetia Porter
Wednesday 27th April 2016, 6.30pm
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London W1G 7LP
http://www.iranheritage.org/27April16/default.htm
12. Registration is now open for The Architecture of the Iranian World 1000–1250, which will take place at the University of St Andrews, Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 April 2016.
This conference is the first for more than a generation that has as its focus the architecture of the Iranian world in a golden age that set the parameters for centuries of future development. Classic forms were developed for mosques, minarets, madrasas, mausolea and caravansarais. The definitive choice of brick as the medium of construction and decoration changed the face of Iranian architecture in the Iranian world, leading to the creation of monumental dome chambers, spectacular developments in vaulting technique and an astonishing range of ornaments. New heights were attained in fields as disparate as architectural epigraphy and multi-layered carved stucco. The dimension of colour as a key element in the repertoire of decoration began to be seriously exploited. A building boom in the 12th century fostered the emergence of a series of local styles across the vast area between the Tigris and the Indus, the Persian Gulf and the Aral Sea. This period, then, consolidated the tentative experiments of the previous three centuries and embarked on a series of bold innovations that propelled this region into pole position in the architecture of the contemporary Islamic world.
The Organising Committee gratefully acknowledges the support of University of St Andrews, the British Institute of Persian Studies, and Iran Heritage Foundation.
Dates: Thursday 21 – Sunday 24 April 2016
Location: Parliament Hall, South Street, St Andrews, Scotland
Registration: A limited number of free places are available by application until 18 April 2016 – Please see the conference website for details and an application form:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences/Iranian_Architecture.html
Speakers
Dr Alireza Anisi (Iranian Research Center for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Tehran)
Mr Warwick Ball (Independent Scholar)
Professor Sheila Blair (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College, Massachusetts)
Professor Abbas Daneshvari (California State University, Los Angeles)
Dr Eisa Esfanjary (Art University of Isfahan, Isfahan)
Dr Abdullah Ghouchani (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Dr Joachim Gierlichs (Qatar National Library, Doha)
Professor Roberta Giunta (University of Naples)
Professor Robert Hillenbrand (University of St Andrews/ University of Edinburgh)
Professor Mohammad Khazaie (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Korn (University of Bamberg)
Dr Richard McClary (University of Edinburgh)
Professor Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria, Canada)
Professor Bernard O’Kane (American University in Cairo)
Professor Mahnaz Shayestehfar (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
Dr Paul Wordsworth (University of Oxford)
Mr Mustafa Tupev (University of Bamberg)
- April 13, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Conference ”Iran and Europe in the Mirror of History”, Sofia University, 2-3 June 2016
The Department of Iranian Studies, Sofia University ”St.Kliment Ohridsky”, and the Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies are hosting this conference.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 April 2016. Information: http://www.cibce.org/
2. Conference: “Rethinking Social Movements in the Digital Age: Activism, Dissent and Rebellion in the Post-Arab Spring”, Orient-Institut Beirut, 29 July 2016
Theoretical contributions should examine the role of the digital in rethinking social movements and the changing nature of activism, (political) dissent, rebellion and revolutions. Empirical contributions should examine particular venues of the digital or case-studies across the Arab region.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 May 2016. Information: http://www.orient-institut.org/ (click on 29 July)
3. The Ezri Center for Iran & the Persian Gulf Studies at the University of Haifa will be holding a conference on “Iran and Israel – Past and Present” on April 11, 2016.
The program of the conference could be seen in the following link:
Soli Shahvar
Director
The Ezri Center for Iran & Persian Gulf Studies
The University of Haifa
4. She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World
on view April 08–July 31, 2016
National Museum of Women in the Arts
1250 New York Ave NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
http://nmwa.org/exhibitions/she-who-tells-story
5. Transformed: Medieval Syrian and Iranian Art in the Early 20th Century
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, through July 17, 2016
http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/transformed
6. Department of Comparative Religion of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and The Slovak Association for the Study of Religions are delighted to announce a conference titled
Minorities and Majorities in the Middle East and Asia
The conference shall be dedicated to the memory of Professor Rudolf Macúch and will take place in Bratislava on 14th and 15th September 2016.
The relations among majorities and minorities have to a great extent shaped the face of the Middle East and other parts of Asia for millennia. The aim of this conference is to take a closer look at this issue, reflect its current trends and attempt to conceptualize them in both theoretical and practical contexts. Therefore, we welcome contributions in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, History, Oriental Studies and other human and social sciences presenting religious, ethnic or other minorities and majorities in the given context. Since the conference will be dedicated to the memory of world-class orientalist Professor Rudolf Macúch, one section shall focus on his life and work, especially his research of the Mandaeans. This panel will include lectures of invited European and Middle-Eastern experts as well as of Mandaean community itself. The communication languages of the conference are English, Slovak and Czech. Selected papers will be published both in the book which the organizers are currently preparing and the journal of the Slovak Association for the Study of Religions, Axis Mundi. Please fill out the attached registration form, including the abstract, and send it to majminconf2016@gmail.com by 15th May 2016. You will be informed about the acceptance of your abstract by the end of May 2016 and receive details about the method of payment of the conference fee and further details about the conference. The conference fee is € 40 (regular) and €20 (student). The conference is free for members of the Slovak Association for the Study of Religions.
For further information please contact Mgr. Katarína Šomodiová at ksomodiova@gmail.com or majminconf2016@gmail.com.
7. Workshop: “lslamophobia in the East of the European Union”, Prague, 23-24 October 2016
The purpose of the workshop is to lay the foundations for a possible longer term project that would explore Islamophobia in the countries of the Visegrád Group (the “Visegrád Four”, or “V4”) and in eastern Germany.
Information: mailto:i.kalmar@utoronto.ca
8. Fari Sayeed Visiting Fellow in Islamic Art, Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK
Applications are welcome from researchers in any field of Islamic Art, but an emphasis on work that might take advantage of Cambridge’s outstanding holdings of Islamic manuscripts and/or the Islamic collections in the Fitzwilliam Museum will be an advantage.
Deadline for application: 10 April 2016. Information: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANE925/fari-sayeed-visiting-fellow-in-islamic-art/
Research and Teaching Fellow, Middle East Politics, University of Warwick, UK
Candidates should have been or are close to being awarded a PhD in the field of Middle East politics/studies. They should have some teaching experience and experience of writing for publication in English. They must have a good proficiency in Egyptian Arabic and an interest in Egyptian popular culture.
Deadline for application: 6 May 2016. Information: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&jcode=1546160
Post-doctoral Associate in Islamic Ethics, Yale University – http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52778
9. Fall School: “Reading Fatwas”, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, University of Bonn, 8-12 August 2016
The purpose of this year’s Fall School is to introduce participants to the methods, sources, and lines of inquiry in studying medieval fatwas. It grows out of the Annual Programming Theme of the Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg in 2015-2016, which is Environmental Approaches to Mamluk Studies.
Deadline for application: 15 May 2016. Information: http://www.mamluk.uni-bonn.de/mamluk-events/ask-fall-school-2016.pdf
10. MSc in “Political Islam”, Glasgow University
This one year course has been designed for those who wish to comprehend the main currents of Islamic thinking during the modern period. This will involve investigating a number of radical Islamic movements as well as alternative understandings of Islam. For applicants whose first language is not English, the University sets a minimum English Language proficiency level.
Deadline for international applications: 22 July 2016. Information: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/politicalislam/
11. Lecturer in Persian
The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies within the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Maryland seeks applicants for a position as a full-time (40 hours per week), 9-month lecturer, professional track, beginning Fall 2016. Contract is renewable contingent on performance and availability of funding.
This position will play an important role in the undergraduate program
and its management team. Along with teaching (6-8 credits per semester),
duties include developing and promoting cultural programs, serving as
Persian liaison to the Language House, designing and organizing “beyond
the classroom” activities for students of Persian, and supporting
recruitment efforts. Other duties as assigned.
For information on the mission, programs, and intellectual life of the
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, see http://sllc.umd.edu/persian.
Requirements include: successful teaching record in Persian in a UG
higher education setting (5 year minimum); successful record as
extra-curricular coordinator or other experience with student affairs in
a higher education setting; native/near-native fluency in Persian
language and culture and English. Experience with fundraising a plus.
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
To apply, please submit a cover letter, CV, and the names of three
references through the University of Maryland online employment
application system at https://ejobs.umd.edu/.
For best consideration, materials should be received by April 10, 2016.
The University of Maryland is an equal opportunity employer.
Eighth and ninth century versions of the Rustam cycle
Stories of the hero Rustam and his trusty steed Rakhsh, immortalized by the tenth century poet Firdawsi in his epic poem the Shahnamah (ʻBook of kingsʼ), are among the best loved in the whole of Persian literature. Not so well-known, however, are unique versions of the same story dating from the eighth and ninth centuries which are currently on display in the international exhibition The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination at the National Museum, Delhi (More on this exhibition in my recent post Celebrating Noruz in Delhi with new ‘Everlasting Flame’).
13. Dānesh Institute
Call for Proposals
Iranians in Diaspora: Ethnic and Religious Diversity
Friday, October 21, 2016
Indiana University–Indianapolis
A Conference Sponsored by DĀNESH Institute
Hosted by Indiana University School of Social Work
Historians agree that one of the principal characteristics of enduring civilization of Iran has been cultural and religious diversity of its people. Of the present Iranian population, almost one-half is of Persian origin, while the other half represents several ethnic groups such as Armenians, Azaris, Kurds, Lurs, and Turkmans. The vast majority of Persians as well as Azaris are Moslem Shi’ite. The others are Moslem Sunni, Jewish, Baha’i, Christian, and Zoroastrian. This ethnic and religious diversity is particularly evident among Iranians in diaspora. While sharing many of Persian cultural practices, these diverse groups adhere also to their unique cultures. Thus, the primary focus of this year’s DANESH conference is to recognize and understand the Iranian diverse ethnic and religious groups in diaspora, particularly in the United States.
The Planning Committee for this conference invites submission of proposals for papers and panels related to the above conference theme. Papers may include empirical or conceptual studies, and panels may focus on a single topic or a range of related topics. Paper or panel proposals should include the following information:
- Name, institutional affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, and phone number(s) of the paper’s author(s) or panel chair;
- A concise professional biography of the paper’s author(s) or panel chair;
- The title and an abstract of the paper or of the panel.
The deadline for submissions is August 12, 2016. Proposals should be sent to
Dr. Irene Queiro-Tajalli at itka100@iupui.edu or via U.S. mail addressed to her at Indiana University School of Social Work, 902 West New York Street, ES bldg. Indianapolis, IN 46202-5156.
For information regarding DĀNESH Institute, please visit: http://www.daneshinstitute.org.
Planning Committee Members: Cyrus Behroozi, Ebrahim Fakouri, Mohammad Kaviani, Shamsi Javaheri Mansoori, Irene Queiro-Tajalli, Sholeh Shahrokhi, and Bita Zakeri
14. “Contemporary Urban Landscapes of the Middle East,” Mohammad Gharipour (ed.), New York: Taylor and Francis, 2016 (ISBN-13: 9781138849594, 316 pages).
The role of urban landscape projects in the cities of the Middle East has grown in prominence since the mid-twentieth century, with a gradual shift in emphasis from private sphere to projects with an increasingly more public function. The contemporary landscape projects, either designed as public plazas or public parks, have played a significant role in transferring the modern Middle Eastern cities to a new era and also in transforming to a newly shaped social culture in which the public has a voice. This book considers what ties these projects to their cultural and political context and what regional and local design elements and concepts have been used in their development. The book chapters discuss modern and contemporary urban landscapes in Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, Israel, UAE, Oman, and Qatar.
The following is the table of contents:
1 Urban landscape: public space and environment in cities of the contemporary Middle East by MOHAMMAD GHARIPOUR
2 Between garden and geography: landscape as an emergent concept in the wider Middle East by JAMES L. WESCOAT JR.
3 In pursuit of a European city: competing landscapes of Eskis¸ehir’s riverfront by KIVANÇ KILINÇ AND DUYGU KAÇAR
4 Inventing the seashore: the Tel Aviv-Jaffa promenade by ELISSA ROSENBERG
5 Sculpted landscape: the unbuilt public square of Islamabad by FARHAN KARIM
6 Paradise reconsidered: the early design history of Pardisan Park in Tehran by KATHLEEN JOHN-ALDER
7 Aspiring masonry: design thinking of experimental vernacularism by HOOMAN KOLIJI
8 Cairo’s urban parks: space, place, and meaning by AKEL ISMAIL KAHERA
9 Beyond greening: approaches to the contemporary landscape in the United Arab Emirates by KEVIN MITCHELL
10 Contemporary landscape as urbanism: emergent ecologies of the Doha Corniche by ANNA GRICHTING
11 The sovereign global city: Omani post-traditional landscape urbanism by HALA F. NASSAR AND ROBERT HEWITT
12 Epilogue: urban landscapes and future sustainable urban qualities in Middle Eastern cities by ASHRAF M. SALAMA
- April 06, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Panels and Papers: 23rd International Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association, University Tuebingen, 6-8 October 2016
The annual congress of DAVO is hosted by the University of Tuebingen. It is organized by Prof. Dr. Oliver Schlumberger (Institute of Political Science) and Prof. Dr. Johann Buessow (Department for Oriental and Islamic Studies) with the support of Ms. Stephanie Wagner. The conference will take place in cooperation with the Tuebingen Arabic Film Festival.
Scholars from all fields of the humanities and the social sciences dealing with the contemporary history, culture, society, politics and economics of the Middle East and the Islamic World are cordially invited to participate with panel presentations, papers and posters.
Panels may be offered with a closed selection of presentations or as an open forum for individual papers. Each presentation should not exceed 20 minutes, allowing 10 minutes for discussion. They can be held in German, but English is preferred.
Please note the following submission deadlines:
– Open panels by 30 April 2016 (abstracts up to 100 words);
– closed panels, individual papers and posters by 20 June 2016 (abstracts up to 300 words, see attached form and website).
– Early registration of individual participants at a reduced fee until 31 July 2016 (see attached form and website).
Contact the General Secretary of the Congress, Amke Dietert (amke.dietert@googlemail.com); further information: http://davo2016.org/
2. Conference: “The Future of Scholarship on the Quran”, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, 9-10 April 2016
What does it mean to study the Quran? The conference will explore the relationship of traditional Islamic scholarship to Western academic study, how the Quran is interpreted, and how scholarship can inform public conversation on the Quran.
Information: http://holycross.edu/faith-service/mcfarland-center-religion-ethics-and-culture/conferences/future-scholarship-quran
3. Conference: “Democratization, Authoritarianism, and Radicalization: Exploring the Connections”, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, Washington, DC, 21 April 2016
Panels are: Countering Extremism, Promoting Democracy; Strategizing Democratization; Islam, Moral Authority, and Political Rights; and the Future of Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring.
Deadline for registration: 8 April 2016. Information: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/csid-17th-annual-conference-pre-registration-tickets-23900888200
4. Conference: “State, Society and Democracy in the Postcolony”, American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Lahore, Pakistan, 4-6 August 2016
This conference will focus on the impact of neoliberalism on state, society and democracy in the postcolonies, particularly Pakistan. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we specifically seek to interrogate transformations in the structure of the state and its relations with society.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 April 2016. Information: http://www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/content/state-society-and-democracy-postcolony
5. Conference: “War and Peace in Islam”, North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, Cambridge, MA, 8 October 201 This conference hopes to shed light on the role of religion in general, and Islam in particular, toward war and peace, militant sectarianism and political violence in Muslim-majority nation.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 March 2016. Information: https://naaims.org/uploads/45th_Call_for_Papers_2016_-_Harvard.pdf
6. International Conference: “Heidegger in the Islamicate World”, University of Bern, Switzerland, 2-4 November 2016
We invite senior researchers and junior scholars working on Heidegger reception in the Islamicate world as well as recipients of Heidegger from the Islamicate world to share and reflect perspectives related to the conference’s topic.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2016. Information: https://edit.cms.unibe.ch/unibe/portal/fak_historisch/dkk/islamwissenschaft/content/e101652/e411606/cfp_HeideggerintheislamicateWorld_ger.pdf
7. a) Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Arabic Literature and Culture, Washington University – http://mesana.org/professional-opportunities/employment.html#WUSTL
b) Visiting Assistant Professor in History & Humanities, Reed College, Portland – http://apply.interfolio.com/34488
c) Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University, Doha
Full-time position for a period of one year, with the possibility of a one-year renewal. We are especially interested in persons with knowledge and experience in the field of marriage and family, migration, economics and political economy, education, environment, energy and water, health, or public administration.
Application until the position is filled. Information: http://sesri.qu.edu.qa/sites/default/files/SESRI_PostDoctoralFellow.pdf
d) Three Faculty Positions in International Relations, Media and Cultural Studies, and Journalism at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar
A. International Relations: http://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/En/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?&JobId=DIHR007
B. Media and Cultural Studies: http://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/En/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?&JobId=DIHR006
C. Journalism: http://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/En/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?&JobId=DIHR005
Deadline for application: 16 May 2016.
e) Lecturer of Arabic AFL and Academic Arabic for Graduate Studies, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI), Qatar
Educated native / near native mastery of MSA, an M.A. in TAFL or related field from a reputable university, a proven record of accomplishment in teaching Academic Arabic at the graduate level, and academic familiarity with one or more of the DI’s academic disciplines are required. Successful candidates are expected to take up the post in September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter.
Deadline for application: 20 April 2016. Information: http://www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/En/Careers/Pages/Apply.aspx?&JobId=DIHR004
8. Short-term Course of Wisdom of Islamic Art in Collaboration with the University of Religions and Denominations of Qom, Iran, 22-31 August 2016
The program focuses on Islamic Arts (Miniature, Architecture, Calligraphy, Music, Ta’zieh…), discusses their philosophical foundations and entails visiting the most important Islamic architectures in the three cities of Tehran, Qom and Isfahan. All professors, researchers, students and artists in related fields are invited to apply.
Information: http://art.urd.ac.ir/
9. Articles on Multifaceted Aspects of the Internet and New Media in the Middle East for Journal “CyberOrient”
CyberOrient is a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Anthropological Association, in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts of Charles University in Prague. This issue of CyberOrient aims to bring together the state of the art research dealing with the multifaceted social, cultural, and political aspects of the internet and new media in the Middle East.
Deadline 30 August 2016. Information: http://www.cyberorient.net/detail.do?articleId=3682
10. A.H. Morton Scholarship for Doctoral Research in Classical Persian Studies
The Gibb Memorial Trust is pleased to advertise the Annual Scholarship in memory of Alexander (Sandy) Morton for doctoral research in the area of classical Persian Studies. Sandy Morton (1942-2011) worked at the British Museum and as Senior Lecturer in Persian at the London School of African and Oriental Studies. His interests ranged widely over the field, from glass weights and numismatics to Persian literature and the history of Iran from the Saljuqs to the Safavids. He was a long-standing Trustee of the Gibb Memorial Trust.
The award is for a maximum of £3,000 and can be applied to any year up to the final completion of a course of doctoral study at a British university, including for an approved period of study abroad; it will be paid at the start of the academic year in question, up to the submission of the dissertation.
The Gibb Memorial Trust http://www.gibbtrust.org was founded in 1902 to commemorate Elias John Wilkinson Gibb. He devoted his life to researching the history, literature, philosophy and religion of the Turks, Persians and Arabs and the objectives of the Trust are to promote the study and advancement of these topics.
Eligibility:
The award is open to all students undertaking doctoral research at a British university in the field of classical Persian studies, loosely defined to embrace Persian literature and history of the pre-modern era but not excluding other areas of study.
Recipients of the award will not be eligible to reapply another year. Those unable to take up an award will need to reapply.
Applications:
- Should be submitted in writing and sent by post or email to the address below;
- Should be received not later than 30 April for the academic year starting the following October;
- Should include proof of application or of acceptance to study on a course of doctoral research at a British university;
- Should contain a brief curriculum vitae (maximum 2 pages) and description of the dissertation topic and intended use of the award (maximum 2 pages plus budget);
- Should be supported by two references from the dissertation supervisor(s) or persons familiar wth the student’s previous graduate or undergraduate work, to be sent separately to the Trust by the same deadline.
Applications will be reviewed by the Trustees and shortlisted applicants may be called for an interview in person, if in the UK or, if overseas, by Skype.
Awards will be announced by early June. They will be paid in two instalments, depending on the nature of the support requested. The first will be made on proof of commencement or continuation of the doctoral programme at the start of the next academic year; the second instalment will follow receipt of a satisfactory progress report supported by the dissertation supervisor(s), to be received by the 30 April following.
In the event of applications including an approved period of research abroad, the first instalment will be made on receipt of proof of travel arrangements and the second instalment on submission of a final report with proof of the expenditures borne. Money not spent within the academic year in question should be returned.
All recipients of the A.H. Morton Scholarship will be required to acknowledge this support in their dissertation and to write a final report on their grant and how it furthered their work, for publication on the website of the Gibb Memorial Trust.
Applications and enquiries for further information should be sent to
E J W Gibb Memorial Trust
14 Avalon Way
Trumpington
Cambridge CB2 9DX
United Kingdom
11. EASA’s (European Association of Social Anthropologists) call for funding applications to attend its biennial meeting (University of Milano-Bicocca 20-23 July, 2016) is now open.
For more information please visit:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/funding.shtml
- March 30, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. BRAIS is proud to announce its provisional 2016 Annual Conference Programme. Please follow the link to see the programme and abstracts: http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2016
You can now sign-up as a delegate for BRAIS 2016 online.
If you are giving a paper at the conference, the deadline for registration is Friday 11th March. For all other delegates, the deadline for registration is Friday 1st April.
Please note that the Alwaleed Centre at the University of Edinburgh is currently the administrative hub for BRAIS. Delegate fees are therefore being processed through the University of Edinburgh’s ePay system.
Members of BRAIS receive a substantial discount on delegate fees. We would therefore encourage you to sign-up as a BRAIS member before you register for the conference.
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Delegate fees for BRAIS 2016 are as follows:
| Delegate type | Two-day rate | One-day rate |
| Non-member | £95 | £60 |
| Full/Associate Member of BRAIS | £70 | £40 |
| Student non-member | £75 | £40 |
| Student Member of BRAIS | £60 | £30 |
Regards, the BRAIS team
2. Workshop: “The Status of Non-Muslims in Sharīʿa”, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, 2-3 June 2016
We especially encourage, and invite, paper proposals engaging with the methodological questions involved in justifications for both traditional and alternative perspectives on fiqhī (juristic) readings of matters related to the status of non-Muslims in Islam.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 April 2016. Information: http://almahdi.edu/forthcoming-workshop-the-status-of-non-muslims-in-shari-a
3. PhD Research Fellowship in Contemporary Middle East Studies, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo
Applicants must have completed a Master’s Degree or equivalent in Middle East studies or South Asia Studies with a Middle East/Islam orientation, or in a relevant discipline in social sciences or humanities.
Deadline for application: 11 April 2016. Information: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1586873/62042?iso=no
4. Editor of “Middle East Media & Book Reviews (MEMBR)”
The position requires institutional support for e-communication with reviewers, publishers of books/media on the Middle East and North Africa, receiving such publications from publishers, announcing/matching these books to the roster of current and potential reviewers, mailing out books, receiving, editing, and publishing online these reviews and notifying respective publishers of posted reviews of their books.
Information: mailto:aman@uwm.edu
5. Summer School: “The Political Economy of the Middle East: Resources, Strategies and Politics”, TOMidEast, Turin, 27 June – 1 July 2016
This is the first Summer School in Europe specifically focused on the Middle East politics, with international specialists of the area. The participation is open to students and professionals willing to critically explore the complex facets of the political dynamics of the Middle East. Scholarships are foreseen.
Deadline for application: 25 May 2016. Information: http://www.to-asia.it/to-mideast/
6. Call for Articles for New Journal “Contemporary Levant” of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
We are now accepting submissions for the second issue which will be published in September 2016. We welcome contributions from various disciplines including: anthropology, sociology, politics, religion and theology, cultural studies, modern history, social geography, media, film studies and literature.
Information: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=ycol20#.VurvqYyyNBc
7. Articles on “The Middle East after the Arab Spring” for Special Issue of “The Canadian Journal for Middle East Studies – The Researcher”
We particularly welcome contributions on: civil society after 2011 in the Arab World; democracy and democratization in the Arab World; women in politics in the Middle East; Gulf Countries as regional power; ethnic and religious minority issues in the Middle East; social movements in the Middle East; tribalism in the Middle East; conflict resolution; political Islam, democracy and governance etc.
Deadline for submission: 30 March 2016. Information: https://submissions.scholasticahq.com/sites/the-canadian-journal-for-middle-east-studies
8. Call for Book Proposals for Gerlach Press
We are pleased to have been able to publish more than 30 books in Middle East and Islamic Studies during the last three very successful years. We are now looking for authors and editors to contribute to our programme on the following topics: – Islamic Thought & Philosophy – Islamic Law – Quranic Studies – The Gulf Region / GCC. We are keen for our programme to include reference works and textbooks as well as research monographs and edited volumes. We would be very glad to hear from you about any book proposals, or series ideas, regarding the above-mentioned topics.
Contact: Kai-Henning Gerlach & Malcolm Campbell Publishers Berlin, http://www.gerlach-press.de
9. The Unthought in Islam: Gender Perspectives
Glasgow University (April 18-19th)
St Andrews Lecture Theatre 213
April 18th
Introduction
9.15-9.30 Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow)
9.30-10.30 Juliane Hammer (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Women in Prayer: American Muslim Negotiations of Gender, Practice, and Space.”
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)
“Women’s Mosques, women imams and the resurgence of an expressive culture in Hui Muslim communities in contemporary China”
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00-2.00 Zohar Hadromi-Allouche (University of Aberdeen)
The Good Wife: Eve as a paradigmatic feminine figure in Muslim tradition
2.00-2.30 Coffee
2.30-3.30 Samina Ansari (Amina – The Muslim Women’s Resource Centre)
Muslim women in Scotland – the reality on the ground
April 19th
9.30-10.30 Amanullah De Sondy (University College Cork)
“Scottish Islamic Masculinities: An Exploration”
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.00 Yafa Shanneik (University of South Wales)
“Re-thinking Women’s Empowerment? The Practice of self-flagellation among Shia Women between Europe and the Middle East”
12.00-1.00 Lunch
1.00 – Discussion
For further information, contact: Lloyd.Ridgeon@glasgow.ac.uk
10.THE CLARK’S RESEARCH AND ACADEMIC PROGRAM INVITES YOU TO:
OBJECTS OF ORIENTALISM
FRIDAY-SATURDAY, APRIL 29 (1:30–5:30pm) & APRIL 30 (9am–1pm), 2016
Clark Art Institute
225 South Street
Williamstown, Massachusetts 01267
http://www.clarkart.edu/visit/directions
Convened by Mary Roberts and Marc Gotlieb, this symposium is designed to open a new dialogue around orientalist visual practice in the second half of the nineteenth century, and to continue the methodological conversation around contemporary valences of the term.
We will engage debates about ornament, cultural patrimony, and the role of artists as collectors and interpreters of Islamic art. Other topics include the poetics of Orientalism and the intersection of art and music. The symposium will also include a panel on curatorial practice and a gallery session in front of key works of art in the Clark’s collections.
This symposium is free and open to the public. For directions to the Clark, click here.
Participants include:
Timothy Barringer (Yale University), Orient and Ornament: India in British Art and Music, 1877-1914
Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Beyond Orientalism?
Zirwat Chowdhury (Bennington College), The View of Counter-Insurgency
Holly Edwards (Williams College), Globalizing Orientalism
Edhem Eldem (Boğaziçi University), Text and Context in a Predominantly Visual Field
Luke Gartlan (University of St. Andrews),Beyond the Photobook: Orientalism, Bibliophilia, and the Reprographic Object
Marc Gotlieb (Williams College), Sand and Blood: On the Experience of Time in Orientalist Painting
Caterina Pierre (City University of New York),Sculpture, Materials, and Orientalism: The Case of Barrias
Mary Roberts (University of Sydney),Ornament, Object, Art? The Unstable Currency of Things in the Orientalist Interior
Ünver Rüstem (Johns Hopkins University),Dressing the Part: Ottoman Self-Representation in the Age of Orientalism
11. Lecturer in Persian (Full-Time)
The Department of Religious Studies at the University of California,
Santa Barbara invites applications for a one-year lecturer position in
Persian language beginning in the 2016-17 academic year. The position
is renewable based on performance and department needs.
Responsibilities include teaching three quarters of Persian annually
at the first- and second-year levels (six courses) plus two upper
division undergraduate courses in modern and classical Persian
literature in translation. We are especially interested in candidates
with specialization in modern and classical Persian prose literature
and/or poetry. The successful candidate will also be the assistant
coordinator of the Iranian internship program and have
responsibilities for assisting with related cocurricular programming.
Minimum Qualifications: MA or Ph.D. in relevant academic field; native
command of Persian and English; and excellent record of teaching
experience of undergraduates at the college level. Experience in
coordinating programs and institutions highly desirable.
The department is especially interested in candidates who contribute
to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through
research, teaching, and service. UCSB has recently been designated a
Hispanic serving institution under the U.S. Department of Education?s
guidelines (where total Hispanic enrollment constitutes a minimum of
25% of total enrollment). For information on our department please
visit our website at www.religion.ucsb.edu.
To ensure full consideration, please submit a cover letter, curriculum
vitae, and arrange to have at least three letters of recommendation
sent to UC Recruit, at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/apply/JPF00706.
Complete applications received by May 31, 2016, will receive full
review. Inquiries about the position may be directed to Kathleen
Moore, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion,
sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability
status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic
protected by law.
- March 26, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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1.The first workshop of the Persianate Subalterns project – on pre-Safavid subalterns – took place on 7-8 November, 2015 in Edinburgh, UK.
The presentations from the workshop are now uploaded on YouTube and can be viewed at:
The workshop’s programme can be viewed on same page.
2. Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
http://www.brill.com/products/book/arthur-upham-pope-and-new-survey-persian-art
3. The Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages will be held on September 10-11, 2016 at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
| Keynote speakers:
Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (Professor, Allameh Tabataba’i University) Simin Karimi (Professor, University of Arizona) Pollet Samvelian (Professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS)
Organizers: Gholamhosein Karimi-Doostan (Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran) Negin Ilkhanipour (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran) Vahide Tajalli (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran)
Meeting URL : |
4. XVIIIème Journée Monde Iranien
25 mars 2016
Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC) Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations 65, rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris
Organisatrice : Samra Azarnouche
5. Open Access Journal
MELA Notes
The Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association
ISSN 0364-2410
http://mela.us/MELANotes/MELA-Notes.html
6. The Frontiers of Persian Learning: Testing the Limits of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, 1600–1900
Conference 3:
The Epistemological Frontiers of Persian Learning
—organized by Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences
Friday, April 8, 2016: 10:15 a.m.–5:20 p.m.
&
Saturday, April 9, 2016: 10:15 a.m.–12:40 p.m.
314 Royce Hall, UCLA campus
For the program, please link to:
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/epistemological-frontiers-2/
Anyone who would like to attend should kindly register using a link provided in the program, so that the organizers may accurately plan for seating and catering. Please note that for students from any institution, or for UC faculty or staff, there is no charge to attend the conference.
7. Call for Papers
MLA Annual Convention 2017, Philadelphia, PA
https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2017
Arabic in Europe: Medieval Connectivity and “Contamination”
Problem/Significance: In the post-Cold War era of the 1990s, two major American paradigms for understanding the world gained traction: One, popular among conservatives, posits a “clash of civilizations” (Huntington), where conflict between nations will stem not from disputes over resources and justice, but from civilizational identities and animosities. In particular, proponents of this paradigm have capitalized on a seeming clash between “Islam” and “the west.” The other paradigm, popular among liberals, posits “the end of history”, meaning the conclusion of major conflicts of ideology or culture in the post-Soviet era (Fukuyama, drawing on Hegel), largely because of the success of the liberal democratic model, exemplified by American politics and culture, which the people of world will eventually adopt and imitate. These two paradigms – “clash” or “westernization” – have alternatively driven much of American public discourse, policy making, and foreign policy for the last 25 years and counting, leading the US into seemingly endless surveillance and militarism. The underlying premise of these two paradigms suggests the separateness of cultures and the centrality of “the west”. But, what if “civilization” leaks and morphs? What if cultures and civilizations around the Mediterranean have been interconnected (deliberate) and inter-contaminated (un-deliberate) for millennia through trade, war, treaties, inter-marriage, conversion, translation, representations of the bizarre or fascinating “other,” and the circulation of discourses and ideas?
Scope: We invite papers that probe that separateness and purity, and explore those inter-connectivities and inter-contaminations by examining the myriad ways that “Arabic” culture has found reception in premodern Europe. It should be noted though, that “Arabic” here is defined as a metonym for Europe’s many constructed “others” (the Jew, the Turk, the Persian, the “Moor,” the “Mohamatan,” the “Saracen,” etc.) and “Europe” is a likewise constructed space to stage interaction. Thus, since identity relies on (mis)perception and performance (passing as …), the panel remains open to the fluidity of labels in cultural-rhetorical praxis and imagination that may well mistake, conflate, or liken “the Jew” and “the Mohamatan,” for example. This panel proposal invites scores of avenues of investigations, including the reception of Arab(ic) texts, images, objects, and ideas in southern Europe, particularly Iberia and Sicily/Italy.
Please send 300-word abstract by 20 March, 2016 to Samer Ali <samerali@umich.edu>
Co-Organized by the Forum on Arabic Language, Literature and Culture
and on Medieval Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
8. The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) and the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) are pleased to announce the second year of the ASPS/MANUU Visiting Scholar Fellowship, beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year.
Scholars applying to the ASPS/MANUU Visiting Scholar Fellowship will be attached to the H.K.Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
Theme of Research: The selected scholar will carry out research in the domain of Deccan-Persian Relations/Indo-Persian Culture of the Deccan.
Duration of the Award: Six months
Further details at:
9. Symposium- New Studies in Islamic Painting (April 14-15, Northwestern University)
New Studies in Islamic Painting
A Symposium at Northwestern University, April 14-15, 2016
Organized by Bilha Moor, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, Northwestern University.
For more information, please contact me at bilha.moor@northwestern.edu
PROGRAM
The Symposium presents current studies in figurative painting of the Pre-Modern Islamic lands. It examines Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, which were produced in the 13th-17th century, in Iraq, Greater Iran, and the Ottoman Empire. The papers address the relationship between word and image, questions of patronage and reception, as well as theoretical approaches to the study of Islamic painting.
The symposium is generously sponsored by the Myers Foundations, the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration in advance is required. Please RSVP to mel.keiser@northwestern.edu by April 7th.
Thursday, April 14th
The Art Institute of Chicago, Sustaining Fellows Lounge, Rubloff Building
4:45-5:15- Coffee
5:15- Welcome, AIC Representative
5:20- Welcome, Jesús Escobar, Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
5:25- Introduction, Bilha Moor, Northwestern University
5:30-7:00- Session I- Reexamining Persian Illustrated Manuscripts
Priscilla P. Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Historicity in Persian Manuscript Illustrations”
Sheila Blair, Boston College
“The Archeology of a Manuscript: The Case of Khwājū Kirmānī’s Three Masnavīs”
David J. Roxburgh, Harvard University
“On Baysunghur’s Two Kalīla wa Dimnas: Modeling Practices of Emulation in the Persianate Arts of the Book”
Moderator: Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University
Friday, April 15th
Northwestern University Library, Forum Room
9:00-9:25- Gathering and coffee
9:25-9:30- Welcome, Northwestern Representative
9:30-10:30- Session I- Painting before 1250
Jonathan Bloom, Boston College
“Painting in the Fatimid Period: A Reappraisal”
Anna Contadini, SOAS, University of London
“The Bologna Dioscorides”
Moderator: Ann Gunter, Northwestern University
10:45-11:45- Session II- Rethinking the Manuscript and the Page
Rachel Milstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The Manuscript, the Page, the Text as Determinants in the Construction of Pictorial Space”
Yael Rice, Amherst College
“The Reconstitutive Codex: The Generation and Regeneration of Mughal Albums”
Moderator: Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University
12:00-1:30- Lunch
1:30-2:30- Session III- Mystical Dimensions of Persian Painting
Chad Kia, Independent Scholar
“Kāshifī’s Rules of Artisanal Ethics: A Principle of Selection for Illustrations of ‘Attār’s Mantiq al-Tayr”
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
“Love and the Body: Materiality and Figuration in Early Safavid Art”
Moderator: Rob Linrothe, Northwestern University
2:30-3:00- Coffee break
3:00-4:00- Session IV- Safavid Painting in the 17th Century
Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum
“Humor in Paintings of the Seventeenth-Century Isfahani Artist Shaykh ‘Abbāsī”
Anastassiia Botchkareva, Columbia University
“Refocusing the Gaze: Visual Transitions in Seventeenth-Century Persianate Representations”
Moderator: Christina Normore, Northwestern University
4:00-4:30- Coffee break
4:30-5:30- Session V- Turkish and Ottoman Manuscripts
Serpil Bağcı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara
“Illustrated Manuscripts of the Turkish Iskendernāme and Turkmen Patrons”
Emine Fetvacı, Boston University
“The Album of Ahmed I and the City of Istanbul”
Moderator: Bilha Moor, Northwestern University
6:00-7:00- Reception
10. Newly Digitized 12th-century copy of Arabic Astronomy Manuscript now online
11. Second Perso-Indica Workshop
Indian Narratives and Persian Literature
April 8th 2016, 10.00-17.00
Program
10.00: Fabrizio Speziale, Introduction to the Second Perso-Indica Workshop
10.30: Nalini Balbir, « The Pañcatantra Stories in Their Indian Versions: Languages, Contents and Purposes »
11.00: Pegah Shahbaz, « The Translation and Adaptation of Pañcatantra Tradition in Persian Literature: from Kalīla wa Dimna to Pancakhyana »
11.30: Discussion
12.00: Lunch-break
13.15: Judit Törzsök, « Narrative Strategies and Political Situations: The Hitopadeśa in Context »
13.45: Blain Auer, « From Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicer of Hearts) to Aḫlāq-i hindī (Indian Ethics): Translating Persian and Sanskrit Political Advice Literature »
14.15: Discussion
14.45: Coffee-break
15.15: Iran Farkhondeh, « The Śukasaptati Within the Sanskrit Tradition of Kathā Cycles »
15.45: Sunil Sharma, « When a Translation is Not Really a Translation: Żīyā al-Dīn Naḫšabī’s Ṭūṭī-nāma »
16.15: Discussion
16.45: Conclusion
Place: Salle Claude Simon, Sorbonne nouvelle, 4 Rue des Irlandais, 75005, Paris.
Organisation and contact: Pegah Shahbaz, pegah.shahbaz@univ-paris3.fr
- March 21, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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1.Cities and disasters: urban adaptability and resilience in history
Call for Papers
Date: November 3, 2016 to November 4, 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: Urban History / Studies, Urban Design and Planning, World History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Social History / Studies
The Centre for Metropolitan History, in association with the National Institute for the Humanities in Japan (NIHU), is organising a major conference on 3-4 November 2016 which seeks to explore the ways in which cities across time and geographical regions have experienced, and been shaped by, natural disasters and other ‘shocks’. The idea of ‘resilience’ is now at the forefront of debates about urban development, planning and the future of cities, but long-term historical perspectives are largely absent from these contemporary policy discussions.
The 350th anniversary of London’s ‘Great Fire’ of 1666 provides an opportunity to reflect more widely on the impact of urban disasters, to bring together scholars working on different periods and countries, and to bring to bear different perspectives (literary, material/archaeological, architectural, historical, cultural, linguistic, etc.).
Proposals for 20-minute papers, including an abstract (200 words) and a short CV, should be sent to ihr.cmh@sas.ac.uk by Friday 27 May 2016. See the full Call for Papers at http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/15077
Contact Info:
Olwen Myhill, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK
Tel: +44(0)20 7862 8790
Contact Email:
2. Jobs:
Visiting Position: Islamic World History/Modern Middle East, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA – http://www.fandm.edu/history/employment-opportunities
Two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Late Ancient Near East (200-900 AD), Ohio State University, Columbus – https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7045
Two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Late Ancient Near East (200-900 AD), Ohio State University, Columbus – https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7045
University of Oxford – I.M. Pei Professorship in Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52669
University of Antwerp – Lecturer, area Modern History of the Islamic World
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52551
3. Graduate Studentships for Research on Muslims in the UK or Europe, University of Cambridge
The proposed research may be at Masters or PhD level, and may be in any discipline. The studentships will cover Cambridge University and College fees only.
Deadline for application: 11 March 2016. Information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/9356/
4. Third Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Chicago, June 23-June 25, 2016
The conference will be divided into two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on numismatics (June 20-22). A list of the papers and panels to be presented can be consulted at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
5. Position: Lectureship in Iranian Islamic Art History
Location: School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Salary: £38,896 – £47,801 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term: 5 years in the first instance
Start: 1 September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter
Deadline: 4 April 2016 / Apply Online
We are seeking to appoint a full-time lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History. Applications are invited from candidates whose research interests lie broadly within the spectrum of the Islamic art and/or architecture of the Iranian world, broadly defined. Candidates will therefore be expected to have the centre of gravity of their research squarely in the Iranian world in the Islamic period. Evidence of breadth of interest within the field of Iranian Islamic art and/or architecture is highly desirable, and a firm grounding in Iranian studies generally (e.g. in the fields of language, history, literature, religion) will be an advantage. (Please note that we are not seeking a candidate who is interested in Iranian Islamic art as an offshoot of another field.)
You should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. You should be able to provide evidence of your research abilities in the form of publications of internationally-recognized quality as well as a programme of on-going research that will contribute to our reputation as one of the leading Art History departments in the UK (we were ranked 2nd among Art History departments in REF 2014). Other indications of research activity (e.g. grants awarded, conference papers delivered, exhibitions organized) will also be taken into account, as will evidence that your research has had or will have an impact beyond academia.
You will be expected to offer attractive and accessible undergraduate courses on Iranian art and/or architecture, giving students as much first-hand experience of works as possible. You will also be required to contribute lectures on our first and/or second-year survey modules, which currently deal with the development of Western art, architecture and ideas. Working with postgraduates, both teaching M.Litt. classes and supervising Ph.D. research, will also be a vital part of your role. More broadly, it is expected that the successful candidate will participate in the activities of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews.
Like other members of the School, you will be expected to take on administrative tasks as required by the Head of School.
This is a fixed term post for 5 years in the first instance, with possibility of extension.
Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr Julian Luxford: 01334 462394 or jml5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Applications are particularly welcome from women who are under-represented in Arts posts at the University. You can find out more about Equality and Diversity at https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk.hr.edi/.
The University of St Andrews is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all, which is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender and Race Equality Charters and being awarded the Athena SWAN award for women in science, HR Excellence in Research Award and the LGBT Charter; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.
Please quote ref: AC1929MR
Closing Date: 4 April 2016
Further Particulars: AC1929MR FPs.doc
6. The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University invites applications for an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Specialists in all periods, from approximately 700 to 1700 AD, and geographic regions (including Central, and South Asia) are encouraged to apply.
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7081
7. Sufis and Mullahs: Sufis and their Opponents in the Persianate World
April 14-16, 2016 at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England.
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/cpis/newsevents/
provides full details of the conference programme, its speakers, the various issues it addresses, method of registration, accommodation, and all other related matters.
8. SCTIW review : the journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
Publisher: [Grand Forks, ND] : Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, 2014- ISSN: 2374-9288
“Reviews of works pertaining to the Islamicate world (whether in Islamic studies, Middle East studies, or other related fields and subfields) analyzed in light of contemporary philosophy, literary or artistic criticism, religion, political theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.”
http://www.sctiw.org/sctiw_review
9. Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding Dissertation and Article on Syria
In order to promote and highlight excellence in research, the Syrian Studies Association each year awards prizes for the best writing on Bilad al-Sham until 1918 and on Syria in the period following.
In 2016, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding dissertation published between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016, and the most outstanding article or book chapter published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
In order to be considered for the prize, candidates must join the association. Information about the Syrian Studies Association is available at the following website: http://www.ou.edu/ssa/index.html
Submissions in languages other than English are welcomed. Articles should be sent electronically. Books can be sent either electronically or in hard copy.
The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2016. All submissions should be sent to Charles Wilkins, Chair of the Prize Committee, at the following address: charleslwilkins@gmail.com. Winners will be announced at the SSA annual meeting in November 2016. Inquiries should be directed to Charles Wilkins.
10. Position: Arabic-Speaking Membership and Grant Schemes Coordinator
Salary: £22,000–£25,000 per annum
Contract: One year fixed-term in the first instance; Full-time
Location: Cambridge, UK
Deadline: Open till filled
For details of qualifications, essential skills, and to apply, see our website islamicmanuscript.org
11. History of Syria, 1099-1250: Conflict and Co-existence
1–2 April 2016, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
This conference focuses on events, trends and personalities in Syria between 1099 and 1250, with a decided emphasis on the earlier half of that period. Its papers all bear on aspects of the Crusades, but are grouped into seven major themes. Naturally some deal with the major figures of the time – Nur al-Din, Saladin and Hülegü. But others look at their key advisers, such as ‘Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, the Qadi al-Fadil and al-Jilyani. Special attention will be paid to the multiple contacts between the Franks, the Muslims and the Oriental Christians, from the violence of war and how to wage it to visions of the afterlife and to the arts of peace, trade and diplomacy. New or neglected sources will be examined – Ibn Talha, al-Atharibi and al-Sulami. The cities of Gaza, Aleppo and Hama will be the focus of detailed examination. A closing round-table session, in which a panel of senior scholars will take questions from the audience, will be devoted to discussing the major themes and issues raised in the course of the conference.
Convened by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, FBA, FRSE, OBE,
Sponsored by the University of St Andrews
For details and booking, visit:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences/HistoryofSyria.html
12. Conference: “Islam and Peaceful Relations”, University of Coventry, UK, 5 April 2016
The conference will explore the role religion can play in achieving more peaceful and just societies. It will build on our research expertise and will explore the positive difference faith and belief, in this case Islam, can make in today’s world and how conflicts relating to Islam can be overcome.
Information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/conference-islam-and-peaceful-relations/
13. Professor of Islamic Studies with Focus on Iranian Studies, University of Cologne. Applicants should have academic expertise in the society, culture and history of modern contemporary Iran and the Iranian cultural region. We moreover expect research expertise in Shiite Islam and experience in dealing with questions and approaches of social and/or cultural science. Research experience on Iranian cultures and societies outside Iran/migration is beneficial. Candidates should be familiar with German. Deadline for application: 27 April 2016. Information: http://www.stellenwerk-koeln.de/uploads/tx_exinitswkjobs/Professur__W_2_Phil_Fak_Oriental_Sem1.pdf
14. Articles for “Islamophobia Studies Yearbook”
The Islamophobia Studies Yearbook is a bilingual periodical that started as a German language journal and has now been offering articles in German and English since 2010. The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the phenomenon of Islamophobia. The Yearbook welcomes analysis from various disciplines.
Deadline for articles: 1 July 2016. Information: http://www.jahrbuch-islamophobie.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Call-for-Papers.pdf
- March 14, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University invites applications for an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Specialists in all periods, from approximately 700 to 1700 AD, and geographic regions (including Central, and South Asia) are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will carry out research on pre-modern Islamic art or architectural history; teach one course per semester for four semesters, the exact classes to be determined in accordance with the candidate’s area of expertise and departmental needs; and deliv= er one public lecture and one formal presentation of research to the department and wider university community during the two-year term of appointment .
Diverse in terms of its temporal and geographic coverage, the faculty of th= e History of Art Department at OSU is particularly interested in questions = of historiography and critical theory; in cross-cultural exchange and the n egotiation of artistic, cultural, and political boundaries; in art’s role in mediating social action; and in issues of representation and the affective engagement of the image. Applications from scholars whose work relates to one or more of these areas of inquiry are especially welcome.
Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a statement = of research and teaching interests, and three letters of reference. Inquir= ies may be directed to Lisa Florman (florman.4@osu.edu). Review of applica= tions will begin on March 1, 2016, and we encourage submission before that = date. However, applications will continue to be accepted until the position= is filled. Please apply online through Academic Jobs Online at: http://academicjobsonline.org.=20
2.Virginia Tech — Virginia Polytechnic Institute – Instructor in Religion and Culture http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52652
3. The Islamic Manuscript Association, in partnership with Qatar National Library and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, is pleased to announce an intensive three-day course entitled Safeguarding Islamic Books and Manuscripts: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Property Law, to be held at the 3–5 April 2016, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Center in Education City, Doha, Qatar from 3 to 5 April 2016.
For more information and to register, visit the course webpages at islamicmanuscript.org.
4.Open Access Journal
Open Access Journal Archive: Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)
Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:30 AM PST
Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)
Published: Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 1925-
ISSN: 0039-3282
Text in: French, German, English
http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/StOrE/issue/archive
Continues as : Studia Orientalia Electronica
ISSN: 2323-5209
Downloadable list of all Studia Orientalia publications (pdf)
5. Intensive applied summer course (13-24 June 2016)
Hands on Camera: Documentary film as a medium for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University
in collaboration with
Filmmaking For Fieldwork (Manchester, U.K.)
The Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center (Tehran, Iran)
The Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program at the Oklahoma State University is presenting its first applied course in visual research methods and documentary filmmaking for Iranian Studies in collaboration with “Filmmaking For Fieldwork” (Manchester, U.K.) and in association with “the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center” (Tehran, Iran). The IPGS visual program is a theoretical and practical visual study course, which is open to all who have a background in human and social science, cross-cultural visual studies, film studies, documentary production, and with special interest in contemporary Iran. This course maps on theoretical and practical aspects of ethnographic film by using documentary film as a medium for area studies (Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies). It exposes the different ways in which Iranian culture can be represented visually and the cultural interpretations of its visual representations.
For more information, please visit:
https://ipgs.okstate.edu/hands-on-camera
For more information, contact:
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies
Oklahoma State University
E-mail: Pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu
6. Volume 43 of Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 43 will be published in a few months.
The volume’s contents can be found on our website: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1456933643.pdf
Follow us on: https://huji.academia.edu/TheMaxSchloessingerMemorialFoundation
7.http://www.audaciousascetic.com/listen.htm
“Osama Bin Laden Tapes” is a companion website to the book The Audacious Ascetic :
What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa’ida by Flagg Miller.
“Website has been designed to allow non-Arabic speakers to listen to material featured in The Audacious Ascetic while reading English translations in real-time as the recordings unfold. As the book demonstrates, much of the meaning of bin Laden’s words and the significance of Al-Qa’ida for his early primary audiences was lost when edited and converted to print, video, and electronic media for global consumption. These recorded excerpts have been selected and produced specifically to accompany the book. They are best contextualized in tandem with the perspectives and arguments therein.”
This space is dedicated to the working paper series published by the “Early Islamic Empire” project. The papers published here are works in progress and should be considered stimuli for debate.
- March 04, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for a range of Masters scholarships for entry in 2016-17.
The scholarships are open to new Masters students who will be based in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, which includes Asian Studies, Celtic & Scottish Studies, English Literature, European Languages & Cultures, and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. The School has a vibrant international community of 480 postgraduate students and 160 academic staff. We have regular research seminars, and postgraduate students run and edit the peer-reviewed journal Forum, which publishes contributions from postgraduates working on culture and the arts.
We invite applications to the following schemes:
1) The School will be awarding two Arthur Kitchin Scholarships. These awards cover tuition fees for a maximum of one year at the Home/EU rate for the chosen taught or research Masters programme of study (up to a maximum of £8,500). Successful Overseas applicants will be liable for the difference between the Home/EU and Overseas fees rates. Applicants to two-year programmes or part-time Masters programmes including distance learning are eligible to apply, but they will be liable for any tuition fees in excess of £8,500.
Deadline: 15 March 2016 (application for a Masters place); 1 April 2016 (scholarship application).
2) The School will also be awarding 7 University of Edinburgh UK/EU Masters scholarships for entry in 2016-17. One of these awards will be worth £10,000, and the remaining six will be worth £4,500.
Deadline: 2 May 2016.
3) IMES is delighted to invite applications for a fees only MSc Taught degree scholarship for any of its programmes (IMES, Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic, Advanced Arabic, Persian Civilisation). The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU rate (£8,500 p.a. for 2016-2017).
Applications for both the Scholarship and the MSc must be made by 15th March 2016.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/masters-students/imes-msct-scholarship
The UK government will be introducing a new Postgraduate Loan Scheme for students starting Masters study in 2016-17. These £10,000 loans can be spent at Scottish universities, and students ordinarily resident in England are eligible to apply. Further details of the residence and eligibility criteria will be announced shortly, and updates will be announced via the first link below.
For further details on these schemes, please visit: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/masters-students.
For information about taught and research Masters degrees in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, visit: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school
Contact for general PG admissions enquiries: llc.pgadmissions@ed.ac.uk.
2. Hammed Shahidian Paper Award
Hammed Shahidian (1959-2005): Hammed Shahidan’s premature death has left us with a total sense of loss; loss of a dear friend, a committed academic, a gentle male soul who dedicated his scholarly and political life to the enhancement of women’s rights and feminism. Hammed’s voluminous contribution on the struggle of Iranian women, in general, and secular and leftist women, in particular, was unique and outstanding. He began his research and activism in feminist sociology at a time when ‘feminism’ was going through theoretical turns, which left very little space for the bold and daring scholarship that Hammed was engaged in. As an Iranian male scholar, he took feminism earnestly. Those of us who were in touch with him witnessed his unwavering personal, political, and intellectual commitment to secular feminist scholarship. He did not want to leave this world without finishing his books. His love for life and desire to leave behind critical and emancipatory scholarship will keep his memory alive. Hammed is sadly missed, but his commitment to change the oppressive status quo will inspire generations of women and men.
In memory of Hammed and in continuing his scholarship, the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation has established the Hammed Shahidian Critical Feminist Paper at the 2006 Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation at Montreal Conference.
Deadline: The paper must be submitted to claudia.yaghoobi@gcsu.edu by March 18, 2016.
The paper may be about Iranian women’s studies in the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
The paper should be unpublished.
The paper must be submitted and written in Persian or English.
The paper must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
The paper should follow a consistent way of writing, stating the problem, presenting evidence, analysis of evidence and conclusions, organized under proper subheadings with a bibliography.
The paper should not exceed 5000 words (excluding the bibliography).
The paper should be submitted double spaced online or in print. Please have your name clearly marked on all documents. Papers will not be returned.
Level of Competition: Applicants should identify in their cover letter the following categories: Student (undergraduate or graduate), independent writer, researcher or activist and submit a short biography.
Evaluation: Papers will be reviewed by two or three reviewers.
The Award: The name of the winner will be announced during the annual IWSF conference. The winner is encouraged, but not required, to attend and present the paper. The amount of the award is 500 US dollars.
The awarded paper will be published in the IWSF Conference Proceedings..
3. A position as Associate Professor in Modern Arabic Language and Culture is available at the University of Oslo.
Application deadline is 4 April.
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1513053/62042?iso=no
Associate Professor in Modern Turkey: History, Language and Culture, University of Oslo
Deadline for application: 18 May 2016. Information: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1513033/62042?iso=no
4. Call for Papers: The East and Europe Conference, University of Amsterdam
This conference invites researchers from various disciplines within the humanities to share their scholarly interest in the cultural interaction and exchange that has taken place since antiquity between ‘the East’ and ’Europe’, and in the processes of societal transformation and identity construction involved. Through critical, multidisciplinary, diachronic and comparative approaches this conference intends to explore the dynamics between the two geographical and conceptual constructs: ‘the East’, whether identified with Byzantium, Islam, Eastern Christianity, Asia, or other characteristics, and ‘Europe’, as the perceived counterpart of the variously defined ‘easts’ or as in itself the embodiment of western cultures’ self-ideal? The deadline for abstracts is 11 March 2016.
More information on: http://ashms.uva.nl/news-and-events/news/news-ashms/news-ashms/content-2/folder/2015/11/co…
Please be so kind to send your abstract (300 words max.) before March 11th to Inge Kalle-den Oudsten: i.kalle-denoudsten@uva.nl We’ll inform you further in the beginning of April. All other correspondence to Mirjam Hoijtink, coordinator of the UvA Research Group The East & Europe: m.h.e.hoijtink@uva.nl
We will try to meet you in travel costs and help to logistically facilitate your stay in Amsterdam.
5. Call for papers: Translation and Religion: Interrogating Concepts, Methods and Practices
University of Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2016
Abstract Submissions Deadline: April 15, 2016
What is the relationship between ‘translation’ and ‘religion’? While all ‘religions’ travel and engage in translation of one kind or another, what gets translated? How do the different components of what is currently understood as ‘religion’—texts, practices, experiences, inner faith or belief systems—translate differently? How can we analyze such commonly held beliefs that some languages simply are sacred and should not be translated? And what are the implications of such questions for understanding religious conversion? What can translation concepts and methods tell us about the way religions and the study of religions are constructed?
While both disciplines have evolved and grown rapidly over the past half century, each has also engaged, in the past few decades, in a re-evaluation of its basic ideas and terms, including fundamental categories such as ‘religion’ and ‘translation.’ It can no longer be taken for granted that there is one definition for what comprises the ‘sacred’ or indeed a ‘correct’ or ‘good’ translation. Such re-assessment provides an excellent context within which to creatively engage the two to generate forward-looking theoretical perspectives.
This three-day AHRC-funded conference aims to bring together scholars from the two disciplines to investigate theories, concepts and methods with comparative and critical tools in order to evaluate areas of mutually creative overlap. For instance, ‘religion’ and ‘translation’ are often taken to be universal and given categories. Instead, we hope to engage scholars in a dismantling of these categories to analyze their conceptualization as evaluative categories within different intellectual histories. Such a focus will allow us to re-evaluate the role of language and translation in the construction of religious concepts and identities as well as enhance current understandings of the nature and function of translation processes.
We invite papers that investigate any aspect of conceptual frameworks (i.e. evaluating the usefulness and limits of conceptual categories, the role played by conceptions of the sacred in developing translation concepts and practices, how and to what extent processes of translation interpret, evaluate or transform religions or the ‘sacred’/’secular’ dichotomy); practices (such as, translations of the sacred involving censorship, retranslation, mistranslations, compensation; role of power, status and ideologies of translators, institutions and faith communities; translations influencing the sacred status of texts; function of translation in the spread of religions and religious conversion); or methodological approaches (What can translation studies bring to the study of religions?, Can examining translation methods and practices contribute to the comparative study of religions or how religions function? What light can the study of the reception of sacred texts or practices of ritual reading throw on translation concepts and strategies? Can studying translation history (both history of translation practice and discursive statements) tell us about changing attitudes to the sacred over historical time?).
Keynote speakers:
Arvind-Pal Mandair
Associate Professor and S.C.S.B Endowed Professor of Sikh Studies, LSA, University of Michigan
Alan Williams
Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Manchester
For more details, please see http://www.ctla.llc.ed.ac.uk/translation-and-religion-interrogating-concepts-methods-and-practices/
6. New Book Series: Islamic History and Thought
Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series Islamic History and Thought. The series will provide a platform for original scholarly research on any geographic area within the expansive Islamic world and dated to any period from the eve of Islam until the early modern period. Scholars are invited to submit proposals for original monographs, translations (Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Greek, and Latin) and edited volumes (including proceeding volumes) related to these broad areas of research. Manuscripts can be written in English, German or French. The series is open to established and early career academics, as well as postgraduate researchers intending to publish revised doctoral theses. The series is overseen by two distinguished editorial boards and all accepted submissions will be peer-reviewed by two leading specialists.
Series Editorial Board
- PD Dr. Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Professor Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Professor Jan Just Witkam, Universiteit Leiden
- Dr. Jack Tannous, Princeton University
- Ahmad Khan, Universität Hamburg
Advisory Editorial Board
- Professor Binyamin Abrahamov, Bar-Ilan University
- Professor Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor Abdulhadi Alajmi, University of Kuwait
- Professor Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi, École Pratique des Hautes Études
- Professor Massimo Campanini, Università degli Studi di Trento
- Professor Agostino Cilardo, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘‘L‘Orientale’’
- Dr. Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Professor Godefroid de Callataÿ, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Professor Beatrice Gründler, Freie Universität Berlin
- Professor Wael Hallaq, Columbia University
- Professor Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London
- Professor Maher Jarrar, American University of Beirut
- Professor James Howard-Johnston, University of Oxford
- Dr. Harry Munt, University of York
- Professor Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria
- Professor Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame
- Professor Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
- Professor Jens Scheiner, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Dr. Delfina Serrano, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid
- Professor Georges Tamer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Mr. Manolis Ulbricht, Freie Universität Berlin
To submit a proposal, kindly send the following information about your mansucipt to adam@gorgiaspress.com:
- Abstract of the book.
- Table of contents.
- Sample chapters (or the full manuscript).
- A copy of your C.V.
- Contact details of two scholars familiar with your work (for PhD students only).
7. First ‘Great Lake’ Ottoman Symposium:
Bringing together scholars from South-Western German-language universities
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, February 26-27, 2016
Ottoman Typologies of Identities
Program
FRIDAY (26 Feb)
11:00 – 11.30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks (E. Lelić, J. Büssow)
11:30 – 12:00 – Introductory Discussion: “Identity”
– Christoph Herzog, “Identity: Conceptual thoughts”
12:00 – 12:30 – Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00 – Panel I: Early Modern Ottoman Typologies
Panel Chair: Mehmetcan Akpinar
– Emin Lelić, “The Seven Ways of Physiognomy: An Ottoman typology”
– Felix Konrad, “Gesellschaftliche Kategorisierung in politischen Texten des frühen
- Jahrhunderts”
– Hedda Reindl-Kiel, “Living between Two Worlds (16th-18th centuries): ‘Upper-class’
converts in the Ottoman capital”
14:00 – 15:30 – Lunch (SchloßCafé)
15:30 – 17:30 – Panel II: Modern Ottoman Identities
Panel Chair: Maurus Reinkowski
– Henning Sievert, “Typisierung und Praxis im osmanischen Libyen”
– Ellinor Morack, “‘Can the immigrant speak?’ Klasse, sozialer Status und Narrativität
in Dokumenten frührepublikanischer Austauschmigranten”
– Evelin Dierauff, “Negotiating imperial identities in Late Ottoman Palestine:
Modernism, patriotism and civic society in the Arab-Palestinian press, 1911-1914”
– David Suber, “Intermediaries of late-Ottoman Identity: The Jews of Salonika”
17:45 – 19:00 – Panel III: Ottoman Census & Identity
Panel Chair: Erdal Toprakyaran
– Johann Büssow, “The Identification of Individuals in the Ottoman Census of 1905”
– Jörg Baten & Rima Ghanem, “Identification in Ottoman Census Records as a Tool for
Economic Development Studies”
19:00 – Dinner (Neckarmüller)
SATURDAY (27 Feb)
9:00 – 11:00 – Panel IV: Early Modern Scholars and Litterateurs
Panel Chair: Heidrun Eichner
– Gül Şen, “Power and Astrology in the Ottoman Historiography”
– Ferenc Csirkes, “The Man of the Pen, the Sword and the Brush: Sadiqi Beg and self-
fashioning in early modern Persia”
– Muharrem Kuzey, “Ibn Kemal als Šayḫ al-islām zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und Politik
– Fatih Şahan, “Die Kaside-i Nuniye von Hızır Bey”
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Panel V: Current Projects in Ottoman and Middle Eastern Studies
Panel Chair: Kurt Franz
– Christoph Herzog, Bamberg
– Maurus Reinkowski, Basel
– Henning Sievert, Zürich
– Johann Büssow, Tübingen
– Kurt Franz, Tübingen
12:30 – 13:30 – Discussion Forum: The ‘Great Lake’ Symposium as a new exchange
format for scholars from South-Western German-language universities
Forum Chairs: J. Büssow, E. Lelić, M. Reinkowski
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch (SchloßCafé)
[ optional ]
16:00 – 18:00 – Linden-Museum, Stuttgart
Guide: Dr. Annette Krämer
– Typologies of the shadow theater
8. Bahari Associate Professorship of Sasanian Studies, University of Oxford
Deadline for applications: 1st April 2016
This is a new post, and represents an exciting new development for Oxford, complementing its existing strengths in Persian and Iranian studies, Indo-European philology, the study of the religions and cultures of the Near and Middle East, and Late Antique and Byzantine studies. The Associate Professor will carry out research and give lectures, classes, and tutorials in Sasanian Studies, and will be offered a Governing Body Fellowship at Wolfson College.
The successful candidate will, by the start of the appointment, hold a doctorate within the field of Sasanian studies. She/he will be able to teach and supervise undergraduate and graduate students, being capable of lecturing in an interesting and engaging manner. With an excellent command of Middle Persian and Parthian, she/he will be able to carry out research using primary sources in these languages, as well as teaching students in them. The Associate Professor will be able to establish links with colleagues working on related subjects in the University and to contribute to teaching and supervision of interested students in other faculties; she/he will have a commitment to and established record of research of the highest calibre in the field, and to publishing this research at the level expected by international journals and major presses. The successful candidate will also have excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills; be able and willing to undertake administration in the Faculty and the College, and to participate in Faculty and College affairs, including undertaking pastoral responsibilities.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52631
9. LABEX EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS
Strand 6 – Language Resources
Job announcement
Job title:
Automatic acquisition of lexicon
Automatic acquisition of Persian compound verbs (complex predicates) and their semantic and syntactic properties from available online corpora (Wiki, etc.), with the possibility of extension to other related languages (ex. Pashto, Kurdish, etc.)
Job rank: Post Doc
Duration: One year
Job Location: Paris
University/laboratory: Sorbonne Paris Cité University, “Mondes iranien et indien” (http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/?lang=fr) and Alpage (http://www.inria.fr/equipes/alpage) laboratories
Salary: 2000 to 2400 euros per month (according to the applicant’s experience), net of taxes
Application deadline: 18 March 2016
Starting date: From May 1st on
Contacts for application: Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian@univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot@univ-paris3.fr).
Job description
The project consists in automatically enriching the PersPred database (http://perspred.cnrs.fr/), the first online syntactic and semantic multilingual database dedicated to Persian compound verbs (complex predicates). PersPred currently has 1600 entries. We aim at considerably improving the coverage of the database (by tripling the number of entries). We are also interested in the possibility of applying the methods elaborated for enriching PersPred to develop similar resources for other Iranian languages, Kurdish or Pashto, for instance, which like Persian resort to compound verbs.
Although Persian complex predicates (compound verbs) have been a focus of interest in theoretical studies, little attention has been paid to the necessity of the elaboration of a rich lexicon of these combinations. Computational studies have mentioned the lack of large-scale lexical resources for Persian and have developed probabilistic measures to determine the acceptability of the combination of a verb and a noun as a CP (Taslimipoor et al., 2012). PersPred aims to contribute to fill this gap by proposing a framework for the storage and the description of Persian CPs. Based on Samvelian’s (2012) theoretical and descriptive survey, PersPred provides a syntactic and semantic classification of Persian complex predicates. Its first version was developed within the PERGRAM project (ANR-DFG) and included around 700 entries with the verb zadan `to hit’ (Samvelian & Faghiri 2013, 2014, to appear). PersPred2 was obtained by semi-automatic enrichment of PersPred1 using the valency information encoded in the database.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have a PhD in computational linguistics or computer science with an excellent knowledge in natural language processing. Familiarity with methods of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge about multiword expressions is desirable.
Knowledge of Persian or at least familiarity with the Arabic script would be highly appreciated.
Job Context
The project is a part of the work package LR41 (Morphological and syntactic resources for Iranian languages), of the strand 6 of the Labex EFL. It will be carried out under the joint supervision of Pollet Samvelian (for the linguistic component) and Benoît Crabbé (for the computational component).
Application submission
Applicants are invited to send to Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian@univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot@univ-paris3.fr):
- A cover letter
- A CV including their list of publications
- The name and the contact of two referees
- A link for downloading their publications
10. Symposium – The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies (24-26 March, Amsterdam)
The NWO project Fitting In/Standing Out (FISO), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, together with the University of Salento, Lecce, and the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, is proud to present the international symposium The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present, organized by Tineke Rooijakkers and Rosita D’Amora. This symposium will take place from 24 March to 26 March 2016 in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.
This symposium takes an interdisciplinary, diachronic, and comparative approach to explore the interplay between dress and identity in the greater Mediterranean basin, with a special focus on Muslim societies and interconnected cultures. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, using a wide spectrum of methods, with the aim of putting perceptions of dress in the past and present into a broader perspective. Themes that recur throughout the papers are dress as part of the representation of the Self and the Other – both in itself and in depictions – and the entanglement of sartorial indicators of culture, status, and religion.
The programme can be found online at: http://fgw.vu.nl/nl/research/onderzoeksprojecten/fitting-standing/events/index.aspx
Attendance is free, but space is limited, so please register before 15 March by sending an email to Alexandra Pleşa (a.d.plesa@vu.nl) or Judith Kindinger (j.e.kindinger@vu.nl).
11.CFP – Historians of Islamic Art Association Majlis at MESA 2016 (17–20 Nov, Boston)
The Historians of Islamic Art Association invites proposals from junior scholars (advanced graduate students or those within 3 years of completion of the PhD) to present at its Majlis, to be held at the Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November 17-20, 2016, in Boston. The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with MESA or CAA, offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars. It will take the form of a panel of four papers, followed by comments from more senior colleagues and discussion. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art. Proposals should be submitted by email to Abigail Balbale at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a two-part attachment and should include:
- a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation; and
- an abstract of no more than one page.
Please note that all those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA. Proposals are due by April 1, 2016.
12. Full professorship in Iranian studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, starting on Sept. 1, 2016.
All fields of Iranian studies are eligible, but with a strong preference for Classical, Medieaval or Modern periods, due to the profile of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. For further information, see:
The teaching is in French.
The applications are opened now, until March 30th.
The applications are to be made electronically only.
All informations on the procedure the University recruitment page:
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/recrutement-d-enseignants-chercheurs-campagne-2016-session-synchronisee-373056.kjsp
Procedure in two steps:
1) Register as candidate on the Galaxie national education server
(position reference: Galaxie 4171)
https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/astree/index.jsp
2) Apply through the Sorbonne Nouvelle recruitment application
https://recrutement.univ-paris3.fr/recrutementECcandidat/
13. *Title*: Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of Arabic Language, Oberlin College*Job Summary*:The Arabic Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-timenon-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Appointment to this position will be for a term of 2 years, beginning fallsemester of 2016, with the possibility of renewal up to two additionalyears, and will carry the rank of Visiting Instructor or AssistantProfessor.The Arabic Program enjoys strong student interest and the support of the Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures and the College’s Middle Easternand North African Studies Program. Incumbent may also have shared academicinterests with colleagues in the Department of History and Department ofReligion.
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Reponsibilities*:
The incumbent will teach a total of five courses in the general area of
Arabic language and culture.*Qualifications*:
Among the qualifications required for appointment is an M.A or Ph.D. degree
(in hand or expected by first semester of academic year 2016) in teaching
Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or a related field, familiarity with
the integrated communicative approach that integrates the teaching of both
standard and spoken Arabic (preferably Levantine), native or near-native
fluency in Arabic, excellent English skills, and at least three years of
teaching experience at the university level (preferably in the U.S).*Compensation:*
Within the range established for this position, salary will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience and includes an excellent benefits
package.*Special Instructions*:
To apply, candidates should visit the online application site found at
https://jobs.oberlin.edu. A complete application will be comprised of 1) a
Cover Letter that includes an articulation of the applicant’s teaching
philosophy; 2) a Curriculum Vitae; 3) Unofficial transcript; and, 4)
Letters of Reference from three (3) recommenders* All application materials
must be submitted electronically *through Oberlin College and
Conservatory’s online application process at:* https://jobs.oberlin.edu/**By providing three (3) Professional References** (names and email
addresses), you agree that we may contact them through our applicant web
portal. Reference writers will be asked to submit an electronic
Letter of Recommendation on behalf of the applicant. Please note: At this
time we are unable to accept Letters of Recommendation from an Interfolio
email address.*Review of applications will begin on March 21, 2016, and will continue
until the position is filled. Completed applications received by the March
21, 2016 deadline will be guaranteed full consideration.Questions about the position can be addressed to: * swojtal@oberlin.edu *
< aartsear@oberlin.edu > or Steven Wojtal, Senior Associate Dean and Acting
Chair of Arabic, at 440-775-8410.
14. Workshop: “Feminism and Theory in the Arab World”, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19 March 2016.The workshop focuses on how scholars who have long been observing feminist endeavors, while being themselves women’s rights activists, interpret the present situation beyond ideological fault lines. Deadline for registration: 10 March 2016. Information: http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch/events/conferences/feminism.html
15. University Lectureship in Ottoman History and Culture, Leiden University, Netherlands
- Requirements are, among others: specialist knowledge of Ottoman history and culture, including the ability to work with primary Ottoman source material; survey knowledge of the Middle East at large; a PhD degree in a relevant field, research experience in Turkey or other locations relevant to the study of Ottoman history and culture; an excellent command of Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish and English.
Deadline for application: 21 March 2016. Information: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/16-052-vacature-universiteit-leiden-university-lectureship-in-ottoman-history-and-culture.html
16. Summer School: “Understanding Islamist Movements: Historical Roots and Current Realities”, Université de Genève, 20 June – 1 July 2016
This course asks how we should understand the various political movements that claim to act in the name of Islam. We will examine the historical roots of political Islam, trace the origins of the movement known as Salafism and the changing uses of the term “jihad”. Scholarships in the form of tuition reduction may be available.
Deadline for registration: 1 May 2016. Information: http://www.genevasummerschools.ch/courses/courses-2016/understanding-islamist-movements
- February 29, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Entries
The Third Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (20-23 July 2016)
We are pleased to announce the third Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia, which will be held annually in conjunction with the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml
The goal of our program is to promote original ethnographic films and visual media, not only in the area of anthropology, but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related topics. Our program encompasses all areas of the contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (the Russian Federation, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China), including topics on minority groups and religious themes.
Our third program will be held during the 14th EASA Biennial Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. We invite and encourage all students, anthropologists, sociologists, documentary filmmakers and media artists to participate in our program by submitting ethnographic videos, films (including online and cell phone styles, short and feature-length films) as well as interactive media (websites, hyperlinked documents, etc.).
Our main focus for this year’s program will be on “war, crises, refugees, migration and Islamophobia”. However, other topics are more than welcome.
Deadline
Films and other materials submitted for the program should be submitted online or as DVD preview copies, accompanied by a synopsis, a 10-line description and technical data, no later than 10 May 2016.
Delivery and return policies
- All entries submitted must have received their first public screening on or after 1 January 2016.
- All participants must cover all costs related to the delivery of preview and screening copies. We will not return the preview and screening copies.
- All entries should be sent to:
Dr. P. Khosronejad
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies
201 Wes Watkins Center, USA
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
E-mail: Pedram.Khosronejad@okstate.edu
2. Lecturer in Islamic Economics and Finance
(1 Full-Time and permanent)
Salary range: £29,429 to £37,280 per annum
Applications are invited for the above post at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education. The successful applicant will have a strong teaching and research profile and be able to make a strong contribution to the academic profile of the College in 2016 and onwards.
The successful applicant will have proven teaching and research expertise in the area of Islamic Economics and Finance and be able to contribute to teaching in any relevant areas, including but not restricted to Islamic Commercial Law, Applied Islamic Banking and Insurance, Islamic Accounting and Auditing. Active participation in the activities of other SQA Programmes and 3. the College’s potential postgraduate programmes is also expected.
Closing Date for applications is Friday 4th March 2016 and interviews will take place on Friday 11th March 2016. The post is immediately available.
For an application pack, and further information, please visit: http://www.almcollege.org.uk/wp-content/uploads//LECTURER-IN-ISLAMIC-ECONOMICS-AND-FINANCE_Further-ParticularsFeb-2016.pdf
Applicants should ensure that their references reach the College by the end of business on Friday 4th March 2016.
3. Leiden University invites applications for a full time replacement University Lectureship in anthropology and Islamic studies, with special attention to Morocco.
Courses may include
- anthropology of the Middle East;
- anthropology of Muslim societies;History, Society, and Islam in Morocco;
- Theories and Methods in Middle-Eastern Studies;
- Culture of/in the Modern Middle East.
Appointment will be fixed-term from August 2016 through June 2019.
Leiden University is committed to diversity, inclusiveness, and equal opportunities. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a substantial tax break.
Application deadline: 21 March 2016.
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANA179/lectureship-in-anthropology-and-islamic-studies/
4. Summer Institute: “Islamic Thought and Secular Modernity”, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA, 8-13 August 2016
The Summer Institute is an annual meeting dedicated to the study of contemporary approaches in Islamic thought, that brings together senior and emerging scholars in order to present papers and participate in panels and in-depth discussions focused on themes pertinent to the Institute’s mission.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2016. Information: http://iiit.org/Research/SummerInstituteforScholars/SummerInstituteforScholars2016/tabid/424/Default.aspx
5. 7th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Gulf Research Center, University of Cambridge, UK, 16-19 August 2016
Some workshops will be receiving applications until 22 February 2016.
Information and application: http://www.gulfresearchmeeting.net/
6. Conference: “The Gulf and the Wider Middle East: Transnational Dynamics in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”, University of Exeter, UK, 22-23 August 2016.
This conference aims to stimulate discussion on the empirical, methodological and theoretical questions related to the history of Gulf-wider Middle East relations, the increasing ‘Gulfisation’ of the Middle East and its long-term prospects.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2016. Information: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/gulfconference/2016conference/
7. Researcher for Project “Contributing to Stability and Development in North Africa and the Middle East”, German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn
Master or equivalent, preferably PhD in a social science, in-depth knowledge of economics, comprehensive knowledge of politics, economy, society and culture of the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, work and study experience in these countries, as well as excellent skills of written and spoken German and English are required. Good knowledge of Arabic and/or French is preferred.
Deadline for applications: 13 March 2016. Information: http://www.die-gdi.de/en/about-us/career-internships/
8. Postdoc Position in Islamic Studies: “Perceptions of the Figure of the Prophet Muhammad”, Sorbonne University, Paris
This one-year position is starting on 1 September 2016 within the framework of the “Islamologie” program of the Laboratory of Excellence « Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean ». The candidate should have defended his/her PhD before 8 April 2016 – and the earliest 10 years before this date – in History of Religious Islamic Thought, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, or any field related to the research theme.
Deadline for applications: 8 April 2016. Information: http://www.labex-resmed.fr/recrutement-d-un-post-doctorant-255?lang=en
9. job opportunity: Research Associate at AGSIW
Position Title: Research Associate
Department/Team: Senior Resident Scholars
Period: Part-Time (Up to 30 hours/week)
Location: Washington, DC
About AGSIW:
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW), established in
2014, is an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to increasing
the understanding and appreciation of the social, economic, and
political diversity of the Arab Gulf states. Through expert research,
analysis, exchanges, and public discussion, the institute seeks to
encourage thoughtful debate and inform decision makers shaping U.S.
policy regarding this critical geo-strategic region.
Position Title: Research Associate
Department/Team: Senior Resident Scholars
Period: Part-Time (Up to 30 hours/week)
Location: Washington, DC
See more at: http://www.agsiw.org/research-assistant/#sthash.yxrv07x9.dpuf
10. The next meeting of the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum will be as follows:
Friday 13th May 2016,
9.30am-6pm
Music Department, City University London
Room AG09, College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
‘Soundspaces of the Middle East and Central Asia: Exploring the Intersection of Sound Studies and Ethnomusicology in the Middle East and Central Asia’
Admission is free but advance registration is requested for catering purposes. For this and further information, see:
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2016/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
- February 23, 2016
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1. Project Curator: Islamic Galleries, British Museum
Full time position. 3 year contract. Grade C3C. £27,360 per annum. Reference number: 1537722
Closing date 12 noon; Wednesday, 09 March 2016
The British Museum has an exciting opportunity for a Project Curator: Islamic Galleries to join the Middle East department and work on the Albukhary Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World in preparation for opening in October 2018. The post-holder will assist the team with all aspects of the preparatory work for the new galleries, including object research, coordinating object lists and liaising with other departments within the Museum in order to successfully complete the galleries.
Educated to degree level, or equivalent, in a subject connected to the material culture of the Middle East and broader Islamic World, you will have knowledge of either Arabic, Persian or Turkish. Experience will include evidence of research capabilities, working with a collection and some publication experience, as well as excellent computer skills.
Effective and open communication skills are essential, with the ability to present in public in an engaging manner. Working as part of a team, you will be able to work with colleagues across the Museum in order to meet deadlines and produce work of the highest standard.
For further information or to apply for this role, please go to www.britishmuseum.org/jobs. The following link goes straight to how to apply. https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTUzNzcyMiZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT02NzI…
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52598
2. CFP: Graduate Conference in Vernacular Islam
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) at the University of Michigan invites proposals for papers to be presented at our first graduate symposium, to be held on Monday, April 4, 2016. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Conference Theme: Vernacular Islam
As we envision it, Vernacular Islam is every expression of Islam within the Islamicate world. The focus of our definition is on the domestic and functional—versus the rigid and standard—aspects of the term vernacular. Being a social and expressive faith, there are no practices of Islam nor are there Muslim communities that do not fall under the umbrella of vernacular. Thinking about the vernacular for us also describes a phenomenon in Muslim societies wherein particular Islamic expressions position themselves in relation to an imagined standard or orthodoxy on a social, political, economic, and historical level. In the words of Tom Pepinsky, “All Islam is vernacular Islam. All of it. Wahhabis and Salafis in the Arab Middle East are just as much products of particular historical moments and sociopolitical contexts as are other Sunni Muslims who don’t happen to speak a form of Arabic as their native language (to say nothing of Ibadis, Ismailis, Alevis, etc.).”
Deadline Extension! Now Monday, February 22, 2016!
Monday, April 4, 2016
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Rackham East Hall, 4th floor
915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Keynote Address by Alexander Knysh, U-M Professor of Islamic Studies
Guideline for Submission
The IISS welcomes all proposals that cover or touch upon this theme. Individuals may submit a proposal, no more than 300 words, for a 15-20 minute presentation, accompanied with a cover letter including the individual’s name, contact information, and affiliated institution. Send all proposals to IISScoordinators@umich.edu. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Please refer any questions to IISScoordinators@umich.edu.
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is the only academic forum at the University of Michigan that engages students and faculty who are interested in the study of Islam and Muslim societies in an interdisciplinary and cross-regional conversation. Following our inception in the winter term 2010, IISS has grown to include a large number of both student and faculty participants. They represent a wide range of departments and programs including American Culture, Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Planning, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, Law, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Musicology, Natural Resources and Environment, Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Romance Languages and Literatures, South Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies.
3. Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated to publishes high quality, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scholarly articles on all aspects of related to Islam and Muslim societies offered in a variety of other disciplines as well, such as culture, history, geography, art, law, anthropology, political science, philosophy, literature, sociology, economics, and women, gender and sexuality studies, architecture and international relations. Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes.The journal aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims at different perspective such as the history of Muslim nation, arts and sciences in Islam, Islamic cultural heritage, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology and Islamic philosophy, Islamic economics and finance, Islamic sociology and Islamic psychology, Islamic literature, Islamic art and architecture and all other aspects of Islamic culture and civilization.The scope of the journal includes the study of a variety of different in knowing and understanding of the religion, comprehensive knowledge of Islamic intellectual history and civilization of Islam as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world and interdisciplinary studies that are cross national and comparative.
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com
Submission and Publication Information:
Submission deadline: April 10th, 2016
Final manuscript submissions to publisher: June, 2016
Number of papers: 5 to 7 papers
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Current Issue
Did Muhammad Really Say That?! Jamal al-Banna’s Refutation of Sahih al-Bukhari’s Infallibility
Luay Radhan
The Political, Social, and Religious Attitudes of Muslim Americans
Dennis Patterson, Gamal Gasim, Jangsup Choi
A Participant Observer’s Insight into Rituals and Practices of the Tablīgh Jamā‘at in Australia
Jan Ali
Challenging the Hegemony of Nationalism and Islamism: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Algeria
Abdelkader Cheref
Salafism in France: Transnational Identity and Emancipatory Form of the Father’s Colonial Past
Abeer Aloush
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4. Within the framework of the Research Training Group “Literary Form: History and Culture of Aesthetic Modelling”, funded by the German Research Council, the University of Muenster, advertises up to 12 doctoral scholarships. Funding is to commence on 1 October 2016 and lasts for at least 30 months.
The Research Training Group “Literary Form” is a cooperation of eight literature departments at Muenster University (Arabic, English, German, Medieval German, French/Italian/Spanish, Dutch, Slavonic, Classical Philology). The programme offers young researchers working on innovative doctoral projects the chance to connect in a state of the art research context.
The programme’s focus is on the re-interpretation and expansion of the concept of ‘literary form’ by means of a transdisciplinary model theory. It approaches these issues in three methodological distinct research areas: 1.) Knowledge of forms and forms of knowledge (epistemology), 2.) Cultural models and model cultures (cultural poetics), 3.) Modelling at the limits of form (structure).
Project proposals should, ideally, focus on one of these aspects or indicate how they might link up with one or more of them. We welcome proposals from a wide spectrum of research on literature; any further profiling of projects within and towards the programme framework will, wherever necessary or desired, be closely supervised and supported after admission.
Deadline for application: 29 April 2016.
For further Information, see www.wwu.de/GRKLitForm/en/.
Contact: Leonie Windt, M.A. (Coordinator), tel. +49-251-83-30150, leonie.windt@uni-muenster.de
5.Grants – British Foundation for the Study of Arabia
The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) grants are intended to support research in any academic area covered by the BFSA’s aims, which are to promote research relating to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular, its archaeology, art, culture, epigraphy, ethnography, geography, geology, history, languages, literature and natural history. Grants may be used to fund fieldwork, library or laboratory-based research or research support.
Applications must be linked to clear and achievable plans for immediate publication.
The number of awards made each year will depend on the strength of applications. Main Research Grants up to £4,000 and Small Research Grants up to £1,000. It is expected that grants of a combined value of up to about £8,000 will normally be awarded each year.
Guide to applicants
There are two types of research grant:
- Small Research Grants: up to £1,000 (for all categories of researchers)
- Main Research Grants: up to £4,000 (for post-doctoral research)
Completed applications, together with referee statements, should be submitted by email to the BFSA Grants sub-committee (details below) by 15th April 2016. This deadline will be strictly adhered to.
For full details, see:
https://www.thebfsa.org/content/grants
6. Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge agreed to start a joint three year project on the Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period.
The Project will consist of three conferences on three themes:
- Disease and Disaster (both man-made and natural disasters).
- Trade and Production will be held in Ankara in Spring 2017
- Social Life will be held in Ankara in Spring 2018
Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge are pleased to announce the program of the Disease and Disaster conference which will be held on 18-19 March 2016 in Cambridge.
For detailed program, see
http://vekam.org.tr/upload/userfiles/files/Programme_%20FINAL.pdf
7. The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 3rdInternational Conference on Turkey and Turkish Studies, 27-30 June 2016, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 29 February 2016, by email only (info@atiner.gr) addressed to Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice President of Academic Affairs of ATINER & Professor of History, Sam Houston University, USA.
Please include with this order: Title of Paper, First Name and Family name of all co-authors, Current Position of all co-authors, Institutional Affiliation (University/Organization) of all co-authors, Country of all co-authors, an email address of all co-authors and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. The working languages of the conference is Turkish and English.
8. Harvard Law School – Executive Director, SHARIAsource
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52592
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer in the History of the Pre-Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52559
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52560
9. News from the Islamic Reformulations project, all available at islamicreformulations.net :
Reformulation and Hermeneutics: Researching the History of Islamic Legal Theory, Istanbul, 21st-24th February 2016 – final programme available. This conference, a collaboration of the Islamic Reformulations project (University of Exeter) and the Faculty of Theology (Istanbul University) will examine the intellectual history of Islamic legal interpretation, with a focus on legal theory. Registration has now closed.
Feb’16 Visiting Researchers: Our Jan’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs David Warren (US), Ryan Rittenberg (US) and Bianka Speidl (Hungary)) have now departed after a very productive month; and our Feburary’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs Mohammed Eissa (Germany) and Samer El-Karanshawy (Egypt)) have been with us for nearly a fortnight now and doing great work in the Institute.
Aerosol Arabic creates Knowledge Mural, 1-3 February 2016: Mohamed Ali, aka Aerosol Arabic, returns to Exeter to create a public mural blending local Exeter themes with Arabic calligraffiti.
Recent Islamic Reformulations activities: Islam, Law and the State, a one day workshop with guest lecturer Professor Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) was held on 7th January 2016 at the University of Exeter. Details here. Rob Gleave and the January’16 visiting fellows (Drs Warren, Speidl and Rittenberg) took part in the URL: Religion and Law workshop, held at Cardiff University, with a guest lecture by Professor Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) on 27th January 2016.
10. Call for papers
Exeter Gulf Conference, which will take place at the Institute of Arab and Islamic
Studies (Exeter, UK) on 22-23 August 2016.
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/gulfconference/2016conference/
Deadline for application: *1 April 2016*
- February 19, 2016
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