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1.The International Qur’anic Studies Association announces the calls for papers to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas. The Annual Meeting dates are November 18-22, 2016.
The paper proposal submission deadline is March 2, 2016.
For each of IQSA’s five program units please find a detailed call for papers below. Click on the title of the program unit or link below description to be directed to an external link for further instructions on submission of proposals for that unit. For additional information about a specific program unit, contact the unit chairs.
https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/annual-meeting-2016-call-for-papers/
2. Faith and Power: Undergraduate Conference in History
Call for Applications | April 1, 2016, Central European University
3.CALL FOR PAPERS- III International Conferences “MEDITERRÁNEOS 2016”
III International Conferences “MediterráneoS 2016”
Early-Stage Researchers in Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean
and the Near East
Madrid, 26th, 27th and 28th of October 2016
4. Call For Book Proposals, The Early and Medieval Islamic World
I.B.Tauris invites submissions for inclusion in a new academic monograph series, The Early and Medieval Islamic World. Led by series editor Professor Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), the series will promote innovative research on the period 500–1500 AD with the Islamic world, as it ebbed and flowed from Marrakesh to Palermo and Cairo to Kabul, as the central pivot.
Thematic focus within this remit will be broad, from the cultural and social to the political and economic, with preference given to studies of societies and cultures from a socio-historical perspective. It will foster a community of unique voices on the medieval Islamic world, shining light into its lesser studied corners.
5. Call for Middle East Medievalists (MEM) sponsored panels at MESA 2016
A major part of Middle East Medievalists’ (MEM) mission is to raise the profile of medieval studies at MESA. As a MESA Affiliate, we are able to offer MEM sponsorship to up to three medieval panels at each annual MESA meeting. MEM cannot offer financial support but the three selected panels will appear as MEM-sponsored panels on MESA program. We urge medievalists organizing panels at MESA 2016 to submit all the relevant material about their panels (title, participants, abstracts) by February 15, 2015, so they can be considered for MEM sponsorship by MEM’s board. Please email your submissions or questions with regard to potential MEM sponsorship to MEM’s secretary, Antoine Borrut (aborrut@umd.edu).
6. Armenian Studies for a long time has been considered as a part of a bigger Iranian Studies academic domain. Many Linguists, Historians, Anthropologists and other specialists have mastered Armenian language in order to better study and understand Iranian realities.
For the third time we organize an Armenian Studies Summer School in Armenia and I hope, that many of you will be interested to participate or will forward the information about Armenian Studies Summer School to interested parties.
This 21 days summer school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Armenian, reading and interpreting Armenian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in Armenian Literature, History and Arts. During the summer school we also offer cultural trips, visits and meetings, which will transform your stay in Armenia into an unforgettable, academically oriented endeavour.
For more information please visit: http://armacad.info/a/armenian-studies-summer-school-15-jul-5-aug-2016-yerevan-armenia
7. Conference: “Globalisation and its Discontents: Past, Present and Future”, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 5 May 2016
This university-wide interdisciplinary graduate research conference invites graduate students of the humanities and social sciences from all colleges to submit abstracts, regardless of the stage of their research. This conference will offer presenters the opportunity to introduce and receive feedback on their work from an encouraging but critical audience of both students and established academics at the University of Oxford.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: http://st-hughsmcr.blogspot.de/2016/02/st-antonys-graduate-research-conference.html
8. Conference: “Talking About ‘Arabs’. Echoes from Different Europes”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 27-28 May 2016
On the basis of concrete empirical studies, the workshop seeks to investigate the nexus between three different fields of knowledge production and diffusion in today’s Europe: media, academic/intellectual and policy-making. The goal is to examine the ways in which different scholarly traditions, journalistic cultures and political interest (or disinterest) affect knowledge on the Middle East in different parts of Europe.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: www.orient.cas.cz/miranda2/export/sitesavcr/data.avcr.cz/humansci/orient/akce/aktuality/2016/Talking-about-Arabs-Call-for-Contributions.pdf
9. Workshop: “The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed”, University of Birmingham, 2-3 June 2016
The social and political issues the motor age brought with it remain critically relevant and timely today, across the disciplines and to the wider public. Questions of automobility are central to citizens and policymaking around the world.
Information: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ias/workshops/2016/jackson.aspx
10. Seminar: “Good, Evil, and the Grey Zone: Religion’s Role in Genocide from the Holocaust to ISIS”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 27 June – 1 July 2016
The Museum’s Program on Ethics, Religions, and the Holocaust is pleased to announce its annual seminar for faculty from all disciplines but particularly for professors of theology, ethics, and religion at theological schools and other institutions of advanced education.
Deadline for application: 1 April 2016. Information: www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/faculty-seminars/seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty/annual-seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty
11. Doctoral Programme, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
GIGA is an independent social-science research institute. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The GIGA Doctoral Programme invites applications from Prospective Doctoral Students to join the three-year structured programme on 1 October 2016.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2016. Information: https://giga.hamburg/en/dp
12. Tenured Academic Staff in Modern History of the Islamic World, University of Antwerp, Belgium
This is a full-time position as a lecturer or senior lecturer in the tenure track for a term of five years, leading to a permanent appointment, if the performance is assessed favourably. The date of appointment will be 1 October 2016. A PhD in History or an equivalent discipline as well as several years of postdoctoral experience are required.
Deadline for application: 24 March 2016. Information: www.careeredu.eu/index.php?post_id=14334
American University – Sharjah – Head of the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52550
Full-time, Open Rank Position in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut
All specialties are welcome but the department is particularly interested in applicants with expertise in economic sociology, political sociology and/or social movements relevant to the region. The position is to begin September 2016. A Ph.D. in Sociology is required.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2016 Information: www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/academic-employment/Pages/academic_positions.aspx#27
13. Le livre de Justine Landau, De rythme & de raison: lecture croisée de deux traités de poétique persans du XIIIe siècle aux éditions des Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, vient de recevoir le prix iranian du meilleur livre de l’année 2016.
Pour plus d’information veuiller consulter le lien suiavnt:
http://www.irna.ir/fa/News/81953437/
14. The Ernst Herzfeld Society for the Research of Islamic Art and Archaeology and the Berlin Institute of Technology have the pleasure to invite you to the 12th Colloquium of the EHG. It will be held at the Department of Building Archaeology and Built Heritage Conservation (Fachgebiet Historische Bauforschung und Baudenkmalpflege, Technische Universitaet Berlin) between July 1st and 2nd, 2016.
The meeting will not be focussed on a topic. Rather, it is supposed to provide a platform for discussion and exchange on ongoing research. We invite you to present current research projects and new results from the areas of History of Islamic Art, Islamic Archaeology and Building Archaeology.In addition to the open panels there will be one thematic panel focussing on activities in the relevant fields in Berlin and its surroundings. We would appreciate if you submit your title and an abstract of no more than 1.500 characters of your presentation until March 1st, 2016.
Each presentation will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The official conference languages will be German, English and French.
Please direct your conference to Martin Gussone from the Berlin Institute of Technology, who is organising the meeting: martin.gussone@tu-berlin.de
Registration and participation are free for members of the EHG. Guests are supposed to pay a conference fee (50.-€/red. 25.-€).
On the occasion of the conference the annual members meeting of the EHG will be held on Friday, July 1st, 2016.
The Graduates Meeting of the EHG is scheduled for Thursday, June 30th. This meeting will be hosted by the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. For more information on the Graduates Meeting please contact Simone Struth:
simone.struth@googlemail.com
15. The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award
The deadline is extended to receive nominations for The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) Ehsan Yarshater Book Award. Please use the link below to nominate a book suitable for this award:
http://www.iranianstudies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater
The ISIS 2016 Biennial Conference
Continuing updates and information regarding the ISIS 2016 Biennial conference in Vienna Austria are available using this link:
16. Call for Participants in a Panel at MESA 2016 dedicated to the History of the Islamic Book
Panel organizer: Ahmad Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech University
The field of Book History as it applies to manuscripts or printed books in the Islamic world has a
lot of potential that still remains untapped. Dr. Dagmar Riedel (Columbia) has a very informative blog titled “Islamic Books” that showcases well the range of topics that can be discussed within this filed.
In 2012 I organized a panel at MESA dedicated to the history of the Islamic book and in 2014 Kathryn Schwartz organized another panel. Last MESA, there were several papers pertaining to the same field but dispersed over many panels (Bowen Savant for example). It is time to seriously advocate the potential of the field whether in intellectual history, social history, the industry of the book, the medieval “book milieu”, and the history of education in the Middle East, to name a few subjects.Today with the digitization of books and manuscripts and the online database technology, many of these topics are possible; the agency of the physical object can now be fully revealed.
If you are planning to go to MESA 2016 (Boston) and have a paper related to Book History you can join us in this panel that is dedicated to the topic. The deadline for submission is February 16. It is preferable to notify me of your interest to participate a couple of days ahead so I can invite you through the MESA website as a participant in an organized panel. My email is: aatassi@latech.edu
- February 09, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Appointment in Hindi-Urdu language instruction.
College of Arts and Science/Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University
| Position ID: | Vandy-College of Arts and Science/Asian Studies Program-SL [#6997] |
| Position Title: | Senior Lecturer |
| Position Type: | Non tenure-track faculty |
| Position Location: | Nashville, Tennessee 37203, United States [map] |
| Subject Area: | Asian Studies |
| Appl Deadline: | (posted 2016/02/01, updated 2016/01/29) |
| Apply |
| The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University seeks to make an appointment in Hindi-Urdu language instruction. The rank is Senior Lecturer with Ph.D., with initial appointment of up to three years and possibility of renewal. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be met before the start of the appointment in August 2016. The successful candidate must be trained in communicative approaches to language instruction and conversant with digital technologies for enhancing teaching. Ability to create digital video and other authentic instructional materials for classroom will be a plus. Ability to teach students in both nagari and nastaliq scripts is required. The standard course load is three courses per term, with responsibility for course coordination and curriculum development. As the program expands, the capacity to teach courses in the literatures of Hindi and Urdu will be considered an asset. Review of completed application files will begin on Tuesday 01 March 2016 and will remain open until the position is successfully filled. A cover letter, curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, teaching evaluations, a website link with a teaching demonstration video, and transcripts, as well as three confidential letters of reference, should be uploaded to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6997 Vanderbilt University is committed to recruiting and retaining an academically and culturally diverse community of exceptional faculty. Vanderbilt is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and under-represented minorities are encouraged to apply. Vanderbilt University offers employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners and prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/preference and gender identity/expression. |
Application Materials Required:
Submit the following items online at this website:
- Cover Letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Teaching Statement
- Teaching Evaluations
- Transcripts
- Website link with a teaching demonstration video
- Three Reference Letters (to be submitted by the reference writers at this site )
And anything else requested in the position description.
Further Info:
http://as.vanderbilt.edu/asianstudies/
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351806
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1806
2.CALL FOR PAPERS
Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World
School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
8-9 December 2016
Organizers: Dr Michelle Langford and Dr Laetitia Nanquette
Papers are invited to participate in a two-day symposium around the theme of “Worlding Iran”.
Our keynote speaker will be Assistant Professor Amy Motlagh (The American University in Cairo).
For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchange of cultures. However, the contemporary focus on its politics tends to obfuscate how Iran continues to contribute to the global circulation of ideas and cultural products. The success of Iranian cinema globally is a key example reminding us of the connectedness of Iranian culture to the world. This symposium will study how Iranian local/global culture dynamically exchanges with the world.
How are national and transnational Iranian cultural practices linked? What are the roles of the Internet and of the Iranian diasporic communities in connecting Iran and the world? How does Iranian culture evolve in a globalized world?
Disciplines include literature, film, theatre, music, visual arts, and creative media.
Topics that the symposium hopes to discuss include, but are not restricted to:
– local/global interactions between artists and cultural agents
– questions of cultural influences and collaborations
– the circulation of Iranian cultural products within Iran and transnationally
– the question of the cultural market
– the reception of contemporary Iranian culture
– questions of translation
– the cultural links between the nation and the transnation
– the contributions made by Iran’s many minority communities – ethnic, religious and sub-cultural – to a heterogeneous cultural landscape
– disciplinary and comparative approaches
The language of the conference will be English. Please submit a 250-words abstract and biographical note to worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au by 1st June 2016. Enquiries: worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au
3. Les Ghaznavides et leurs voisins :
nouvelles recherches sur le monde iranien oriental (Xe – XIIe s.)
aura lieu le vendredi 26 février 2016, de 9h à 17h, dans la salle A (1er sous-sol) du CNRS à Ivry-sur-Seine (27, rue Paul Bert, 94204).
Cet atelier, organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche Élites et réseaux de l’UMR Monde iranien et indien, est dédié à la mémoire de Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928-2015) et se propose de réunir des chercheurs confirmés ainsi que des jeunes chercheurs travaillant sur le monde iranien oriental aux Xe-XIIe siècles. Des études récentes seront présentées, qui, en s’appuyant sur des nouvelles données textuelles et archéologiques, contribuent à retracer l’histoire et les traditions artistiques et culturelles de cette période, encore mal connue à divers égards.
Veuillez trouver en pièce jointe la brochure avec le programme de la journée.
En raison du nombre limité des places et du plan vigipirate en cours au CNRS, ceux qui souhaitent assister à l’atelier sont priés de nous confirmer leur présence par courriel : viola.allegranzi@gmail.com
4. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom – Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52504
5. We invite all members of the global medieval academic community to submit original manuscripts for the FIFTH issue of Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII. Historia del Arte, New Era. Submissions in English are welcome for the themed dossier. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2016.
*THEMED DOSSIER: “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?”
By Avinoam Shalem
“Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?” is the title of the themed volume for the fifth issue of the journal that has recently entered a New Era. It will be guest-edited by Avinoam Shalem, Professor of the Arts of Islam at the Columbia University of New York, who has proposed the following thematic framework for this special issue:
Questions about identities of patrons and artisans, including even the role of artifacts in supporting and reinforcing such identities—in short, the politics of visual cultures—seem to have dominated scholarly investigations in the field of art history. “Art comes before gold and gems, the author before everything,” claims a twelfth century inscription on a shrine commissioned by Henri of Blois and manufactured by a Mosan goldsmith; “The workmanship surpassed the material,” declared Abbot Suger famously in his ‘De Administratione’—both clearly suggesting a medieval hierarchy for the state of materials vis-à-vis craftsmanship. “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft,” aims at reconsidering and perhaps even challenging this presupposition by focusing on the exploitation of the varied treasures of the sea, their artistic use and reuse, in the medieval and early modern eras (between circa 300-1400) in both the Christian and Muslim worlds.
This volume will consider original papers that address the subject: “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?” We welcome contributions that investigate artistic engagement with the varied materials of the sea. These include precious materials like pearls; coral; amber; tortoiseshell; mother of pearl; crocodile skin; narwhal, walrus and fish teeth; ambergris; etc. Other contributions that concern medieval depictions of mythical sea creatures or discussing medieval stories about legendary sunken treasures will be welcomed too.
Contributions can focus on a particular example or discuss a group of objects. They should engage in rethinking ‘Art before Craft?’ and the artistic strategies of the cultivation of these materials.
Proposals will be evaluated and accepted according to quality, but also spread and variety.
Please circulate this Call for Papers widely. Once you have registered and consulted the submission guidelines, please send your proposal on our online journal platform:
http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/index
http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
If you have any enquiries, please contact the journal editor, Inmaculada Vivas, serie7.revista-etf@geo.uned.es; for queries regarding the e-platform, contact Jesús López revista-etf@geo.uned.es
6. The Fourth Perso-Indica Conference
Translation and the languages of Islam: Indo-Persian tarjuma in a comparative perspective
Paris, 8th-9th December 2016
On the occasion of the 4th international conference of the Perso-Indica project (http://www.perso-indica.net/), we would like to consider our main object of research—the Persian translations and original works bearing on Indic cultures—in a wider perspective than has generally been the case. We aim to do so by comparing the Indo-Persian movement of translation that took place in the subcontinent from the 13th century onwards with other processes of translations operating primarily from and to non-Muslim languages (e.g. Greek, Syriac, Pehlevi, Sanskrit into Arabic, etc.; Arabic into Latin; Greek into Ottoman Turkish, etc.) and, secondarily, between different languages of Muslim societies (e. g. Arabic into Persian, Turkish, Malay, Sub-Saharan languages, etc.; Persian into Urdu, Turkish, Malay etc.). We therefore invite contributions bearing on such movements of translation in different regions of the Muslim world between the 7th and 19th centuries, and highlighting the ways in which each specific translation process articulated the relation between source, “bridge” and target languages.
Within this broad frame of comparison, we more specifically invite each contributor to provide elements of reflection on at least one of the following questions:
– Translated: what was the literary form (prose, poetry) of the original text and to what literary genre or tradition did it (or was it considered to) belong? Which field(s) of knowledge did it cover? How popular was it in the society and time in which it was written?
– Translator(s): who is translating? An individual: if so, is translation part of his everyday job, is he a professional cultural broker such as the well-known Ottoman dragomans? Is, on the contrary, translation an accident in his professional trajectory geared towards other activities, be they intellectual or not? Is the translator part of a group specialized in translation: does he, for instance, belong to a “bureau” of translation or to a family/lineage renowned for its multilingualism and its abilities as cultural go-between? Is the translator a collective and, if so, what do we know of the dynamics and tensions at work in the process of translation? More generally, what are the networks (social, intellectual, economic, religious, political) in which the translator participates? In paying particular attention to the identity (both individual and collective) of the agents of translation, the idea is here to sketch a contrasted socio-intellectual history of the translators active in the pre-colonial Muslim world.
– Patron(s) of translation: is the translation a personal initiative undertaken for personal reasons? Is the translation the result of a commission by an individual or an institution? If so, what do we know of the relation between the translator and his patron prior and after the translation? How was the translator selected and on what criteria? What, if any, were the material conditions (salary, linguistic training, library, etc.) provided by the patron for the realization of the translation? How much involved was the patron in the composition of the translation (e.g. checking its progress, editing passages, etc.) and on which aspects (if any) of the process did he intervene?
– Purpose(s) of translation: if every translation is as such a scholarly effort and may be said to partake in the long run in a general epistemic endeavor, the projects and processes of knowledge building in which many of them were framed need careful examination in order to uncover the function(s) assigned to the texts once they were translated and, by the same token, to understand the idiosyncrasies of each translation. In other words: why was a particular text selected for translation in a particular time and place and what was/were the (political, religious, social, scientific) role(s) assigned to the translated text by the translator and/or his patron? While the purposes of translations in the Muslim world were of course multiple, particular attention will be paid here to the ones that were commissioned as part of state- or empire-building and to those that were conceived in a missionary perspective of conversion/in a spirit of proselytism and even of conversion.
– Process and tool(s) of translation: unveiling the purpose(s) of translation is crucial in order to understand its process and the multiple transformations it entailed at the levels of literary form and genre, language and signification. Bringing the why into light will certainly help us better explain and circumscribe the how and ultimately allow us to lay out a number of correspondences between the purpose assigned to a translation and the methods used for its realization or the type of translation produced as a result. Closely connected to the question of process is the issue of the linguistic and philological instruments and resources available in the society in which the translator was active: what were the dictionaries, glossaries, grammars, etc. at hand when the translator started his work? Did he know of their existence? If so, did he use some of them and how?
– Audience, reception and circulation of translation: how was the translation received by its targeted audience, especially by its patron in the case of commissioned works? How widely did it circulate in contemporary Muslim societies and beyond, and through which specific networks? Did it become a “source” for later translations in other languages, especially in other languages of Islam and in European languages? Studying the afterlife of such translations in both the Muslim world and Europe is crucial to put in perspective and in dialogue the Orientalist traditions they respectively built. In this respect, a particular important question is the appropriation by Western scholarship of translations composed in an Islamicate context: how were these translations understood by European intellectuals and colonial administrators and what was the role (and visibility) of such translations in the latter’s knowledge-building on the society to which the “Ur-text” belonged or on the language in which it was originally written?
Scientific coordination: Corinne Lefèvre (CNRS, co.lefevre@gmail.com) & Fabrizio Speziale (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, spezialef@yahoo.com)
7. Call for Papers
International Conference
20 Years of “Iran and the Caucasus”: a Breakthrough
October 21-23, 2016
Aghveran, Armenia
The Editorial Board of Iran and the Caucasus (published by BRILL Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands, www.brill.nl/ic) has the honour to organise an international multidimensional conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Journal.
It was back in 1996 when the first volume of Iran and the Caucasus, now a renowned and exemplary periodical, was published with the efforts of scholars from Armenia and abroad. That very first volume comprised the best academic directions in a broader geographic area of Iran and the Caucasus, including articles from the fields of history, literature, religion, linguistics, ethnography and anthropology, etc. Since then, 20 volumes have been published, each of them having several issues (during the last years it appears in four issues per year). Currently Iran and the Caucasus is available both in print and online (with thousands of downloads yearly).
From the very first days of its emergence, strict academic criteria have been implemented and adopted by the Journal – factors, which were the main guaranties for the success. Unlike many other scholarly publications, Iran and the Caucasus has never put any restrictions on materials’ length, making special accent exclusively on their quality and academic value. For 20 years, long and short articles, book reviews, essays, letters, etc., published in Iran and the Caucasus, have enriched the wider field of Irano-Caucasica with invaluable academic findings and research.
For more details please visit: http://armacad.info/a/confcfp-20-years-of-iran-and-the-caucasus-a-breakthrough-21-23-oct-2016-aghveran-armenia
8. The International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects (Present and Past)
The Center for The Great Islamic Encyclopedia has organized The International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects (Present and Past) which is held every two years at The Center.
It is our pleasure to invite scholars, linguists and researchers from all countries to present their latest achievements and studies in Iranian Languages and dialects. It is obvious that the organizers of the conference respect all modern and ancient languages and dialects spoken in Iran and hope to receive proposals in these fields. For more information about the conference and registration please visit our website: www.icild.ir/en
Abstract submission deadline, March 19, 2016
Notification of abstract acceptance, April 21, 2016
Article submission deadline, July 21, 2016
Notification of article acceptance, August 21, 2016
Conference date, September 18 -19, 2016 Conference place, The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran, Iran
Conference fee: 100$, will be received on conference day
Email for abstract submission: info@icild.ir
9. Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
is searching for a new Dean. The position advertisement and prospectus
is available at _ http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/dean_search/_
10. Putting the House of Wisdom in Order: the fourth Islamic century and the impulse to classify, arrange and inventory
Workshop at the University of Zurich, February 19th-20th, 2016
Asia-Orient-Institut, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
Room: RAA E-08
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph (UZH) , Dr. Letizia Osti (Università degli Studi di Milano), Dr. James Weaver (UZH)
Registration: james.weaver@aoi.uzh.ch
The fourth Islamic century (roughly the tenth century CE) witnessed a proliferation of texts that aimed in one way or another to codify and render accessible the scientific and literary production of the preceding Islamic centuries and of the pre-Islamic cultures whose intellectual heritage had entered the purview of Arabic scholarly tradition. In an age that combined consolidation with renewed scientific ingenuity, many authors sought comprehensiveness in compiling, arranging, editing and commenting upon the products of discrete, well recognized domains of scholarly endeavor. Others were involved in a project of surveying the whole sweep of human knowledge, mapping the topology of its distinct parts and describing their contents. This workshop will explore motivations for, and manifestations of the period’s enthusiasm for classification and arrangement.
Programme
Friday, 19th February 2016
13.30 – Welcome and Introduction
14.30 – Panel 1: Curricula
Discussant: Regula Forster
– Godefroid de Callataÿ
Encyclopaedism on the fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy: the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm on the classification of the sciences
– Johannes Thomann
The Renaissance of Encyclopedic Education: The Revival of Lectures and Commentaries in Astronomy by al-Fārābī, al-Qabīṣī and Ibn al-Haytham
16.00 – Coffee Break
16.30 – Panel 2: Standards
Discussant: Hilary Kilpatrick
– James Weaver
On the composition of Maqdisī’s Kitāb al-badʾ wa-t-taʾrīkh and the ‘encyclopaedias’ of the East
– Antonella Ghersetti
Systematizing the description of Arabic: the case of Ibn al-Sarrāǧ
18.00 – End of Day 1
Saturday, 20th February 2016
9.30 – Panel 3: Knowledge and Emotions
Discussant: Ulrich Rudolph
– Hinrich Biesterfeldt
An unknown treatise of Avicenna on “the parts of the sciences of the ancients”
– Lale Behzadi
Story-telling as encyclopedic activity: Aspects of classification and arrangement in al-faraj baʿd al-shidda texts as exemplified by al-Tanūkhī (d. 384/994)
11.00 – Coffee Break
11.30 – Panel 4: Eastern (Hi)stories
Discussant: Konrad Hirschler
– Sarah Savant
Making good use of past texts: Book copying and the creation of new forms and meanings in the 10th and 11th century Eastern Islamic world
– Julia Bray
Classifying the exotic: al-Tanūkhī on Indians and their elephants
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Panel 5: Practical Matters
Discussant: Henning Sievert
– Maaike van Berkel
The scribes of the ‘Abbasid administration putting their knowledge and documents in order
– Hugh Kennedy
Archives and Archival practices in 10th and 11th century Islamic government
15.30 – Coffee Break
16.00 – Regards Obliques
– Alessandra Lavagnino
– Peter Burke
17.00 – Final Discussion
18.00 – End of Workshop
11. Ali Shariati: Call for Papers
Dustin J. Byrd & Seyed Javad Miri (Editors)
Ali Shariati, the Iranian sociologist, Shi’a Muslim activist and revolutionary thinker, is well known in some parts of the Muslim world and among Shi’a academics. Many in Iran remember his uncompromising and prophetic critique of the Shah, his courageous urging of the Iranian people and the Shi’a clerical hierarchy to engage in a Hussein-like opposition to the power of the status quo. Many remember his willingness to allow western thought to fertilize his Islamic ideals while remaining devoted to the core tenets of his faith, and the personal courage he showed in his vocal opposition to the Peacock Throne. Unlike what many believe about the Iranian revolution, Shariati did not wish to return Iran to a “golden age” of the past, but rather attempted to forge ahead with a future-oriented remembrance of past suffering with the practical intent to create a Islamic form of modernity that would be rooted in substantive freedom, substantive justice and substantive equality. Despite his immense influence in the Iranian revolution of 1979 –one of the seminal moments in modern Middle Eastern history – the breadth of his work has been inadequately studied within the English-speaking world.
As his biographer Ali Rahnema has demonstrated, the life of Ali Shariati is complex and comprehensive. It reveals the revolutionary potential of theory when a scholar becomes an activist, when a sociologist becomes a prophetic true teller, and when a religious believer – within the context of a brutal dictatorship – becomes a martyr. It also reveals the need for greater understanding between the Muslim world and the West, which is suffering from a new low with the unending “war on terrorism” and the rise of ISIS. By not succumbing to terroristic thought while simultaneously maintaining a uncompromising prophetic stance against empire, we believe that Ali Shariati can play an important role in building bridges between those who are too often ecumenically mute; who do not wish to engage in a robust discussion of their unarticulated biases and prejudices, and see no way of entering into a friendly discourse with the “other.”
In order to facilitate a greater understanding of the work of Ali Shariati and the potential it has to help reconcile the entrenched differences between the East and West without a superficial and therefore meaningless “reconciliation,” we’re issuing this call for papers for scholars who would be interested in contributing to an edited volume. The year 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the “mysterious” death of Ali Shariati in London. We will honor his life, work and continuing influence by reexamining, revisiting and re-theorizing some of his most important themes. We plan to publish this book with a top tier publisher (according to the Sense Rankings of Academic Publishers) in 2017.
Proposal and Abstract Deadline: June 1st, 2016.
Submission of completed chapter Deadline: January 1st, 2017.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, or have any questions, please email the editors:
Dustin J. Byrd (Olivet College, USA): dbyrd@olivetcollege.edu
Seyed Javad Miri (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. University of Sharif, Tehran, Iran): seyedjavad@yahoo.com
Suggested Themes:
Shariati’s role in the Iranian Revolution
Shariati’s openness and critique of the West
Marxist and/or Leftist influence on Shariati’s work
Red Shi’ism vs. Black Shi’ism
Shariati on Islam (in general)
Shariati on the Hajj
Shariati on Politics
Shariati on Economics
Shariati on Secularism
Shariati’s relationship and/or influence on Khomeini
Khomeini’s views on Shariati
Shariati against the Shah
Shariati on Violence and/or Terrorism
Shariati and Post-Islamism
Shariati on Socialism/Communism
Shariati and the “White Revolution”
Shariati on Gender
Shariati on Colonization & Imperialism
Shariati and Jalal Al-i Ahmed
Shariati and the Shi’a clergy
Shariati and Martyrdom
Legacy of Shariati in modern Iran
Acceptance of Shariati outside of Iran
Updating Shariati’s work
Shariati on Humanism
Shariati on Theology
Shariati on Class
Shariati on History
Shariati on the “Ideal Society”
Biographical controversies
Shariati on Christianity, Judaism and other religions
Reconciliation between the West and Iran
Shariati on Existentialism
Shariati on Continental Philosophy
Shariati and Russian Literary Thinkers
Shariati and the Frankfurt School
Shariati and Classics of Sociology and Social Theory
Shariati as bridge between East and West
- February 06, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Open Access Digital Library: Oman Library at Middle East Institute
“The Oman Library’s online collection is a web-based digital collection of the library’s rare books and manuscripts, consisting entirely of subjects related to Middle Eastern Studies. The topics of the rare collection range from history and culture to works of fiction from the early twentieth century. The collection includes materials in seven different languages — English, Arabic, French, Farsi, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish — and publications spanning the period from 1700 to 1921. In addition to the rare collection, MEI has included in the digitalization process all of its own Middle East Institute published works that span from the 1960s to 2004, including its 1947 meeting memos”
http://www.mei.edu/library/digital
2. Open Access Report: Arab Opinion Index 2015
Published by: Arab Center For Research & Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar.
Arab Opinion Index 2015 report is a 44-page PDF document organized under several headings:
- Living Conditions of the Arab Citizenry
- Arab Citizens’ Views of State Institutions and Governmental Effectiveness
- Arab Public Attitudes Towards Democracy
- Civic and Political Participation
- Religion and Religiosity in the Public Sphere and Political Affairs
- Arab Public Opinion and Pan-Arab Affairs
- Arab Public Opinion and the Arab Spring
- Arab Public Opinion and Current Affairs
http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/9dba8f9c-7fb3-447b-9d7c-fda63ec5927e
3. Conference: “Islam and Peaceful Relations”, Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN), Coventry UK, 5 April 2016
This conference will uncover Islamic theological traditions around peacebuilding, historical precedents of peaceful existence with Muslims and contemporary lived experiences of intra-faith and inter-cultural dialogue, improved societal understanding of difference and peaceful relations. It will move the debate beyond simplistic ‘good and bad’, ‘us and them’ binaries to more complex discussions that consider the impact of diverse social factors including, gender, class, economy and geography.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2016. Information: www.mbrn.org.uk/cfp-islam-and-peaceful-relations/
4. Conference: “The Great War in the Middle East 1911-23”, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst & Oxford University, Sandhurst, UK, 20-21 April 2016
The aim is to widen discussion from the European experience of 1914-18, relating the Great War to the broader period of conflict that affected the Ottoman Empire from 1911 to 1923.
Information: www.centenarynews.com/article/the-great-war-in-the-middle-east—sandhurst-conference-april-2016
5. Workshop: “The Bible in Arabic in the 19th Century: What Challenges for Christianity and Islam in the Middle East Societies since 1865?”, CNRS-GSRL, Paris, 26 May 2016
This International Workshop primarily intended to bring together researchers from all disciplines, who worked on the Middle East in a perspective linking the history, sociology and anthropology to this translation of the Bible into Arabic. We strongly encourage junior researchers to apply.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2016. Information: www.infoclio.ch/fr/cfp-bible-arabic-nineteenth-century-what-challenges-christianity-and-islam-middle-east-societies
6. Workshop: “Security and Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”, Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 26-28 May 2016
The general topics of the workshop may include the following: security in the Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East: problems and prospects of the South, migration and human security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and the present and future of Euro-Mediterranean relations.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 March 2016. Information: http://idos.gr/med-security/
7. Conference: “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era”, Verein für Reformationsgeschichte & Society for Reformation Research, Nuremberg, Germany, 19-21 July 2017
The two central questions of the conference are: 1. How did the interactions and relationships of Christians, Jews, and Muslims change as a result of the Reformation? 2. How was the Reformation socially and discursively influenced by the religious pluralism that already existed with the presence of Judaism and Islam?
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2016. Information: www.nuremberg2017.org/call-for-papers2.html
8.Professorship for Economics: Economy and Society of the Middle East, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Prerequisites for the position are a university degree, university level teaching experience, a doctoral degree, and additional academic qualifications. These should be in the form of a “Habilitation” or equivalent academic publications. The necessary qualifications may also have been acquired in a non-university context or through a junior faculty position.
Deadline for application: 18 March 2016. Information: www.fau.eu/university/careers-at-fau/
9. PhD Position: “Study of Religion”, University of Leipzig, Germany
The position is starting in April 2016. Requirements: degree in Islamic Studies and/or Sociology which is knowledgeable in the other subject as well, ability to work independently, fluency in English, good knowledge of the debates within Islamic studies and of the debates on secularization/secularism/secularity. Knowledge of one of the languages spoken in the ‘Islamic world’ is desirable.
Deadline for application: 8 February 2016. Information: www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/kuwi/2016/01/27/stellenausschreibung-job-offer/
10. Funding Programme for Persecuted Researchers, Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
With funding to start in summer 2016, the Philipp Schwartz Initiative will allow up to 20 scientists and scholars who are under threat from political persecution to continue their research at German universities and research institutions.
Deadline for application: 31 March 2016. Information: www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/21611250.html
11. Poste : “Langue, civilisation, littérature persanes”, Université de Strasbourg
http://diwan.hypotheses.org/6876?utm_source=alert
13.University of Manchester –
| Nashriyah: digital Iranian history |
| View digital versions of Iranian newspapers and periodicals capturing key historical events as they happened.
These newspapers and periodicals, many of which have been only partially accessible inside Iran, cover the defining moments from the following three eras:
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http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/projects/nashriyah-digital-iranian-history/
- February 01, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. http://alkindi4.ideo-cairo.org/
AlKindi, the online catalogue of the Dominican Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo (IDEO)
IDEO’s library is one of the prominent libraries specialised in Islamic studies in the world. It is opened to all. Our library gathers over 125,000 monographs and nearly 1,800 journals and periodicals. It intends to cover all disciplines in Islamic studies: Arabic language, Quranic exegesis, theology, law and jurisprudence, history, philosophy, sufism, history of sciences. It provides more than 20,000 classical texts of the Arabic and Islamic heritage, and secondary literature in Arabic and European languages. Many PhD dissertations are also available.
2. The World of the Tazkirah: Sources for Study of the Premodern Persianate Lands
Friday, February 5th, 2016
University of California, Irvine | Humanities Gateway 1010
http://sites.uci.edu/tazkirah/
The tazkirah is a premodern genre of writing with a long history in Persian and Arabic literature, as well as in the literatures they influenced such as Urdu, Turkish, and others. Essentially a type of biographical dictionary or anthology, tazkirahs could cover a range of figures, including Sufi saints, religious scholars, political notables, and poets. This conference draws together scholars from across academic disciplines and linguistic traditions who use tazkirahs as sources for their research. What can tazkirahs tell us not only about their subjects, but about their authors, and the literary traditions and historical conditions to which they belonged? What innovative methodologies can be brought to bear upon these texts? For what types of inquiry can they be fruitful? How can interdisciplinary work bring new approaches to the study of tazkirahs and the contexts in which they were produced? This conference may help to answer these and other questions through original research presented by the conference participants.
Attendance is free and open to the public. The full program is available online at the conference website.
3. Uncovering The Past Towards the Future, Uniting Experiences and Values. Kurdistan in Western and Eastern Research Tradition. 24-26.10.2016
Institute of Oriental Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
The conference will be held in memory of August Kościesza-Żaba, the Polish-Russian diplomat and researcher and Mela Mahmud Bayazidi the Kurdish clergyman who according to Żaba “was his teacher and collaborator” in collecting, translating and commenting on Kurdish texts.
The main aim of the conference is to bring together scholars in Kurdish studies from Kurdistan as well as from the West and the East of Europe. The conference is related to the research project How to make a voice audible? Continuity and change of Kurdish culture and social reality in postcolonial perspectives. Until now, our experiences have shown that methods and approach to Kurdish studies applied in the light of different academic traditions give birth to different interpretations of what Kurdish studies entails and what is important in developing and deepening its research areas. This creates the diverse hierarchy of topics and methods of studying them, which is not necessarily readable for the academics from different parts of the world. That is why during our conference we would like to pay attention to the problem of distinct Eastern and Western European traditions in Kurdish studies and to thematise their differences and similarities.
Our aim is also to stress the importance of the three elements which today should contribute to more successful Kurdish research: the wide theoretical background, good knowledge of language and the contact with the studied reality and people. Although sometimes differently evaluated and discussed, knowledge and experiences can, be in fact, effectively shared and exchanged in our Kurdish studies society. We would like to give the possibility for participants to make their presentations in three different languages: English, Kurdish and Russian. We believe that the present stage of Kurdish studies cannot give priority only to the English language. That is why we would also like to promote the knowledge of the native language (i.e. Kurdish and its dialects) and Russian as the language of a long and rich tradition in Kurdish studies.
http://www.kurdishstudies.pl/?en_call-for-abstract-to-our-international-conference,133
4. The journal Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) is looking to recruit a new Book Review Editor, with the first contributed work to appear in Volume 5(1), Summer 2016.
The Book Review Editor will work with the chief editor and publisher, and be responsible for liaising with publishers marketing departments (securing books for review, sending published reviews to the press), commissioning suitable reviewers and supplying them with books, and editing and readying the final work for publication. The book review section will be forwarded to the publishing house for copyediting and layout, and then reviewed by the Books Review Editor prior to final publication. We anticipate between 6 and 12 books being reviewed for each instalment of the section, to be published twice a year.
A wonderful opportunity for the right candidate, this is an unpaid, volunteer position requiring a commitment of at least two years. The Book Review Editor will be expected to participate in editorial decisions for the journal, secure topically relevant review copies, recruit and coordinate a pool of reviewers, and assemble a high-quality, informative book review section.
ACME wishes to recruit for this position before February 15, 2016. If you are interested, please forward a copy of your curriculum vitae, along with a brief statement about your interest in the position and an example of your professional writing to:
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad (Chief Editor)
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies
Oklahoma State University
E-mail: Pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu
Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) is seeking a new book review editor is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropological studies of all societies and cultures in the Middle East and Central Eurasia. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed. Its scope is to publish original research by social scientists not only in the area of anthropology but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related social sciences. It includes all areas of modern and contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China), including topics on minority groups and religious themes.
5. Published on 25 January 2016:
Jan Just Witkam, Inventory of the Oriental manuscripts of the Library of the University of Leiden, vol. 18.
Manuscripts Or. 17.001 – Or. 18.000, registered in Leiden University Library in the period between April 1980 and December 1982.
Free downloads of this volume from: http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/inventories/leiden/or18000-definitief-20160125.pdf
An overview of all volumes published to date (all freely downloadable): http://www.islamicmanuscripts.info/inventories/leiden/index.html
Jan Just Witkam
(Leiden University Institute of Area Studies, LIAS)
(j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
6. David R. Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies
Deadline Extended!
The deadline for submissions to The David R. Blumenthal Prize in Medieval Jewish Studies has been extended to June 1, 2016.
The David Blumenthal Prize in Jewish Studies selection committee is soliciting book-length manuscripts in Jewish Studies that utilize historical, literary, and philological methods for the study of Jewish life in the Islamic world as well as medieval Jewish Studies generally.
Named for the eminent scholar David R. Blumenthal of Emory University, long-time editor of the Études sur le judaïsme medieval (EJM) series at Brill, the prize-winning manuscript will be published in the EJM series. The prize winner will also receive $500 cash and $500 in book credits from Brill. Brill particularly encourages junior scholars to submit manuscripts for this prize; nominations for the prize may be submitted by scholars on their own behalf.
To be considered for the prize, complete manuscripts must be submitted by 1 June 2016 to Katelyn Chin via email at chin@brill.com ; the winner of the prize will be announced at the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) conference in December 2016.
7.CFP for the session ‘‘Islam, Vernacularization and Cultural Heritage,’ at the World Archaeological Congress (Kyoto, August 28-September 2, 2016).
We are hoping to attract a wide diversity of researchers who work on Islam and cultural heritage from a critical perspective, from diverse temporal and geographical contexts, and in strong consideration of the challenging contemporary contexts in which Islamic heritages are discussed. The intents of the panel are to deepen our intellectual and pedagogical approach to the studies of cultural heritage and material culture in Islamic contexts, and to inspire, encourage and motivate dialogue. Ideally, we will amass enough interest to run two back-to-back sessions, with the aim of pouring our efforts into a dedicated publication in a peer-reviewed journal (discussions underway).
Trinidad Rico
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Trinidad.rico@qatar.tamu.edu
Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann
Assistant Professor of African Studies, Hampshire College, USA
8. Webinar – Islamic Material Culture: “The Rise of an Agricultural Empire” (Summer 2016)
http://www.aai.uni-hamburg.de/voror/Personal/agricultural-empire-sommer-2016.html
57-525 Webinar in Islamic Material Culture “The Rise of an Agricultural Empire”
Economy and Material Culture in the Early Islamic Empire
Bi-Weekly, Wednesday, 4-6 pm CEST Starting April 6, 2016
Islamic Material Culture
The Universität Bonn (Bethany Walker), the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Andreas Kaplony), The Bard Graduate Center in New York (Abigail Balbale), and Universität Hamburg (Stefan Heidemann) are co-operating in setting up a series of webinars in Archaeology of the Middle East, Arabic Papyrology, Islamic Arts and material Culture, and Numismatics of the Middle East.
9. The Department of Middle Eastern Studies in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a lecturer position in Arabic starting in Fall 2016. This successful applicant will be expected to teach Arabic language courses at all levels (including advanced content courses) for an average of twelve hours per week according to the needs of the program. This position is renewable annually; contingent upon budgetary funding and performance. Security sensitive position; background check conducted on applicant selected.
QUALIFICATIONS
Applicants should hold an MA or PhD in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or a related field, be a native or near-native speaker of Arabic and/or have at least three years of university level teaching experience and experience teaching in an intensive program integrating the teaching of both standard and spoken Arabic.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Applicants should submit a brief cover letter indicating interest in the position, curriculum vitae, a list of three references, formal student evaluations, and statement of teaching philosophy via Interfolio, http://apply.interfolio.com/33798. Please direct any questions to Mrs. Denise Beachum at: denise.beachum@austin.utexas.edu.
The University of Texas at Austin is an equal employment opportunity affirmative action employer committed to a diverse faculty, staff and student body. Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
- January 30, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Workshop: “Holistic Approaches to the Study of Early Islam and the Late Antique World”, Indiana University, Bloomington, 15-17 April 2016
The workshop invites scholars of late antique Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Mandaeanism, Buddhism and other religious communities to IU to work with scholars of early Islam.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/106661/workshop-holistic-approaches-study-early-islam-and-late-antique
2. Postgraduate Symposium: “Muslims in the UK and Europe”, University of Cambridge, UK, 13-15 May 2016
The aim is to bring together graduate students from British, European and American universities to present their research, discuss their findings and engage in debate about the issues that face Muslims in the European context. Topics vary widely, from Sufism to Salafism, from charity to burial rites, religious travel to therapy, Islamophobia, deradicalisation initiatives and more.
Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2016. Information: www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/annual-graduate-symposia/
3. Workshop: “The Main Intellectual Currents in the Late Ottoman Empire”, University of Basel, Switzerland, 20-21 May 2016
This two-day workshop will concentrate on the major intellectual currents of late Ottoman history. The main thread of the workshop will follow intellectual history in a broad sense, but other topics including social, religious, and political history will receive some coverage as well.
Deadline for registration: 15 March 2016. Information: https://nahoststudien.unibas.ch/fileadmin/orientsem/user_upload/redaktion/Dokumente_MUBIT/Mubit_Call_for_Applications_Hanioglu_1.1.pdf
4. Fourth International Congress of Turkology: “Turkic Peoples through the Ages and Lands”, University of Warsaw, 21-23 September 2016
The main area of interest will be contemporary studies and research on the history, culture and language of Turkey and Turkish (Turkic) peoples, as well as lands they inhabit now and in the past. This year we would like to continue the discussion on the development of Turkic studies and their methods, theoretical basis for research, promotion of research results, as well as teaching Turkic languages and cultures of Turkic peoples.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2016. Information: www.orient.uw.edu.pl/turk_conf/4KT_CallForPapers_eng.htm
5. Conference: “The Levant and Europe: Shipping and Trade. Networks of People and Knowledge”, Levantine Heritage Foundation, London, 2-4 November 2016
This conference will emphasize the theme of trade as the central dynamic in the creation of a Levantine world, with complex economic networks giving rise to equally complex social, cultural, political, and material interactions and syntheses.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 February 2016. Information: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=606
6. Training Programme on Ottoman and Archival Studies, London Centre for Social Studies, 23-27 May 2016
The Programme is designed to fill the gap for much-needed short-term programmes aimed at helping researchers and students working in the field of Ottoman Studies. As a result, the Programme will give you access to the finest Ottoman resources available in the UK and guide you on key archival research methods.
Deadline for registration: 29 April 2016. Information: www.socialstudies.org.uk/Events/Training/23589/Training-Programme-on-Ottoman-and-Archival-Studies
7. Articles on “The Middle East after the Arab Spring” for Issue of “The Canadian Journal for Middle East Studies, The Researcher“
We are interested in articles that focus on the Middle East in a wide range of contexts, and encourage articles from humanities and social science perspectives. “The Researcher“ engages in serious, scholarly exploration of the forms, representations, meanings, and historical influences of radical social movements.
Deadline for submission: 30 March 2016. Information: https://submissions.scholasticahq.com/sites/the-canadian-journal-for-middle-east-studies/post/38
8. Florida State University – Postdoctoral Associate – Middle East
History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52482
9. La prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” se tiendra le jeudi 4 février 2016de 17 h à 19 h,à l’Université Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris 3, centre Censier, 13 rue de Santeuil, salle 410 (4e étage), Paris.
Nous accueillerons Jean-Pierre Digard, ethnologue, directeur de recherche au CNRS émérite, Mondes iranien et indien : « Questions épistémologiques autour d’Une épopée tribale en Iran (CNRS Éditions, 2015) ».
Nous vous attendons nombreux !
Matteo De Chiara (Inalco), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS).
10. Lecture – Burak Erdim, “”The Academical State: Rethinking the American Campus in the Cold War Middle East” (UVA, 8 Feb)
TJSAH (Thomas Jefferson Society of Architectural Historians) is hosting Burak Erdim (MArh ’04, MArch ’05, PhD ’12) on Monday, February 8, at 6 pm in Campbell 153. His lecture is titled “The Academical State: Rethinking the American Campus in the Cold War Middle East.” Reception will follow. We hope you can join us!
-Thomas Jefferson Society of Architectural Historians, University of Virginia
Précis:
Recent studies of the postwar university indicate that the reorganization of, for instance, Harvard University’s School of Fine Arts by Joseph Hudnut and Walter Gropius, was part of a broader reconceptualization of the American university and campus during the first half of the twentieth century. This lecture examines the establishment of the Middle East Technical University in Turkey in 1956 as the most ambitious and comprehensive manifestation of the ideas that were changing the university both here and abroad. While James B. Conant and Clark Kerr worked in a rigorous but piecemeal way to transform the American university at home, a group of architects and administrators from the University of Pennsylvania had the opportunity to design the ultimate postwar university from the ground up and interestingly within the political context of the Cold War in the Middle East.
11. The “Dangerous Classes” in the Middle East and North Africa
Conference: 26 January 2017
Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Call for Papers
The concept of the “dangerous classes” was born in mid-nineteenth century Europe and became famous after the publication in 1872 in New York of a book with the same title by the American social reformer Charles Loring Brace. The “dangerous classes,” the lumpenproletariat of Marx and Engels, described all those who had fallen out of the working classes into the lower depths of the new industrial and urban social environments, and survived there by their wits and by various amoral, disreputable or criminal strategies. They included beggars and vagrants, gypsies, pickpockets and burglars, prostitutes and courtesans, discharged soldiers, ex-prisoners, tricksters, drug-dealers; the unemployed or unemployable, indeed every type of the criminal and marginal, and were drawn from among women as well as men, and juveniles as well as adults. Such representatives of the “dangerous classes” were well-represented in literature, notably by Zola, Dickens and Victor Hugo in the nineteenth century and Brecht in the twentieth, and in popular culture of all kinds.
The “dangerous classes,” sometimes barely distinguishable from the new working class recently concentrated in the urban industrial centres, were a constant preoccupation of the emerging bourgeoisie. Fear of both permeated social policy, including among reformers, and was central to the establishment of new methods of control, policing and judicial, and even medical and psychiatric systems. Although the term fell into disuse in the twentieth century West, it is often argued that the concept remains embedded in elite discourses of connections between propertylessness, poverty, immorality, criminality and the “underclass.”
This conference takes as its central theme this notion of the “dangerous classes” and invites abstracts examining its explanatory power when applied to the Middle East and North Africa in the period from around 1800 to the present. Topics include but are not limited to: narratives of the lives of members of the “dangerous classes”; the social conditions in which they emerged; their relationship with “respectable” society and especially with the police; their political inclinations and potential; the attitudes towards them of elites; their role in shaping elite formulations of systems and institutions of discipline and control, legal/judicial, prison/asylum, medical; notions of the biological basis of criminality; their representation in literature and in popular culture. Abstracts which examine both collectivities (eg lutis or baltagiya) as well as individual strategies, and colonial/imperial as well as indigenous discourses and policies are welcome.
Abstracts of papers of no more than two hundred and fifty words are invited for consideration for inclusion in the conference.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 30 June 2016.
Abstracts and enquiries should be addressed to Stephanie Cronin <Stephanie.cronin@orinst.ox.ac.uk>
12. Exhibition – Mystic Travellers: Sufis, Ascetics and Holy Men (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin)
PRESSEMITTEILUNG online www.smb.museum/presse/pressemitteilungen/detail/56427.html
Museum für Islamische Kunst – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Pergamonmuseum, Museumsinsel Berlin
Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Öffnungszeiten: Mo – So 10 – 18 Uhr, Do 10 – 20 Uhr
Mystische Reisende. Sufis, Asketen und Heilige Männer
- Januar – 24. April 2016
13. Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art:
‘Legends of Authority: Inscriptions and Decoration on Citadel Walls in Medieval Anatolia, Syria, and Egypt’
Professor Scott Redford (Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London)
Monday, 8 February 2016, 5.30 pm
Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Cambridge
Free and open to all.
http://persian.pem.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/legends-authority
- January 27, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies – Workshop
4-8 April 2016
The IIS-ISMC Joint Library in Central London warmly invites applications for a five-day workshop entitled Introduction to Arabic Manuscript Studies,
led by world expert on Islamic manuscripts Adam Gacek
The primary focus of the workshop is to provide an overview of writing supports and structures of Islamic manuscripts, bookbinding and decoration, scripts, as well as composition and transmission of texts. The last day will feature a hands-on session where participants will be able to examine rare manuscripts from the Institutes’ collections under the supervision of the instructors.
The workshop is open to suitably qualified academics, scholars and students.
The deadline for applications is March 4, 2016.
The fee for the five-day workshop is £500, with an early bird discount of £50 for bookings received by Friday 29 February 2016.
Applicants should email Walid Ghali at walid.ghali@aku.edu with their affiliation and contact details. Payment will be required by bank transfer on successful registration
2. Conference (October 7-8, 2016): “Regional and Transregional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire”
Call for Papers
The ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” investigates how the vast Islamic empire, stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic and more diverse in terms of religion, language, and (if this is a valid concept at all) ethnicity than the Late Roman or Chinese Empire, was governed. It focuses specifically on the question of how its various regions were controlled and integrated into one of the most prosperous empires of the (late) antique world.
To integrate the regions of the early Islamic empire politically, to create an imperial idea and an imperial culture, elites of various backgrounds were essential. To fulfill their role, they had to commute and to communicate. The conference seeks to examine the roles that regional and transregional elites played in governing the vast early Islamic Empire (7th-10th century CE), with a particular emphasis on aspects of (social, institutional, spatial) mobility. The regional elites and their participation in governance and administration are essential for understanding the intricate workings of the early Islamic Empire. Similarly, the study of transregional elites, who projected imperial power but sought also to negotiate regional interests at the caliphal court, promises key insights into how the caliphal administration controlled and integrated diverse regions and populations whilst securing the interests of the empire at large.
The composition of the imperial elite, mostly expressing themselves in Arabic, changed over time, exhibiting both spatial and social mobility. While the conquering elite had a tribal background going back to the Arab Peninsula, this changed with manumitted slaves and the rise of the Persian-speaking elite under the ʿAbbāsids, as well as the substitution of the Arab and Persian military forces with Central Asian Sogdian and Turkish commanders and military. Nevertheless, moving elites were created not only by the military and the religious establishment, but also by investing landowners and networks of long-distance merchants. These various different elite segments created a shared taste in Arabic literature (adab), science and material culture.
The conference seeks to address a number of core issues about regional and transregional elites: who were the various elites in a region? How did these regional elites interact with the empire, and did they change in the course of interaction? What mechanisms and strategies did they develop? How and through which agents did they influence imperial decisions? How were transregional elites influenced by their interaction with regional elites, eventually becoming entrenched in the regions? How did they balance their relationships with regional elites, on the one hand, and central caliphal authorities on the other? How important was conversion to Islam for elite access? Where and how were transregional elites recruited? Was the shift from one imperial elite (Arab, Khurāsānian, Central Asian, and others) to another a sign of failure, or were some elites better at reproducing themselves? Which existing networks and emerging institutions helped elites to connect the empire and its diverse regions (tribal affiliations, family policies, mawālī, strategic appointments)?
The conference will be organized around three key themes:
- Conceptualization of regional and transregional elites from a comparative perspective
Definitions of elites, their origins, and their evolving identities
- Transregional and imperial elites
Recruitment, function, networks, and reproduction of imperial elites (Arabs, Khurāsānians, Central Asians, non-Muslim elites, and others)
- Regional elites
The interactions of converted regional elites and non-Muslim elites with the empire in
- North Africa and Egypt,
- the Arab Peninsula, Syria, the Jazīra, and Iraq,
- and Iran and Greater Khurāsān
The conference will follow a workshop format, with a focus on discussion. Individual slots will be 45 minutes, leaving 20 minutes for presentation and 25 minutes for discussion. Abstracts of 500 words should be sent to katharina.mewes@uni-hamburg.de before February 15, 2016; you will be notified whether your abstract has been accepted before April 1, 2016. Full papers should be sent by July 15, 2016, for pre-circulation among the participants. A financial contribution to travel and accommodation costs might be possible, but cannot be guaranteed at this point.
3. Craven Museum & Gallery is hosting an ambitious new exhibition in the New Year – showing work from some of the most exciting contemporary Islamic artists working in the UK. The Faith in Art Exhibition, run in collaboration with the Muslim Museum Initiative, opens on February 5, 2016, and is on until March 28.
Curated by Mobeen Butt, founder of the Muslim Museum Initiative, the exhibition will bring together 10 exceptional artists, to celebrate the variety and vibrancy of Islamic art being produced in Britain. The exhibition will showcase calligraphy, geometry, arabesque, illumination, miniature painting, wood crafting, paper-cutting, embroidery, fabric dyeing and three dimensional works.
“Art has the power to transcend, it can bring worlds together, evoke emotions, pierce through politics, tell stories, and take people to distant times and far off places. The Faith in Art Exhibition aims to do all the above and more. This will be a rare and unmissable opportunity to see such a spectacular array of contemporary Islamic art exhibited outside of London, UAE, Qatar or Malaysia. Muslims in Britain are producing exceptional art; art with real soul, depth and meaning; art that mesmerises; and art that is increasingly being collected around the world. Synonymous with Islam, and the religion’s real strength, this exhibition will show that there can be ‘unity within diversity’ and ‘diversity within unity’.’’ – Mobeen Butt
Craven Museum & Gallery is part of Skipton Town Hall, and is open every day 10am – 4pm except Tuesdays and Sundays, admission is free. The Faith in Art Exhibition is a joint initiative between Craven Museum & Gallery and the Muslim Museum Initiative and has been funded by Arts Council England Museum’s Resilience Fund, as part of the museum’s Museum: Indispensable project. Run by Craven District Council and part of Skipton Town Hall, Craven Museum & Gallery has impressive displays of social history, archaeology, costume and art. The exhibition gallery on the ground floor shows a changing programme of exhibitions related to heritage and the arts. For more information visit cravenmuseum.org or contact the museum on 01756 706407.
The Muslim Museum Initiative explores the 1,400 year relationship between Britain and Islam, and celebrates the history and culture of Muslims in Britain. It endeavours to work with museums, universities, archives, and other educational and cultural institutes to help explore and feel inspired by a shared past. The Muslim Museum Initiative provides advice, consultancy and assistance to heritage, arts and educational institutes wanting to engage Muslim communities, explore elements of Islamic culture or Muslim heritage in Britain. http://muslimmuseum.org.uk/
4. New research project funded by the CSIC (Spain), in collaboration with the Université de Liège (Belgium) and the Université d’Aix-Marseille (France):
The diplomatic exchanges between Islamic Mediterranean and Christian European powers in the Middle Ages: new methods for the analysis of documents
Objectives
The main objective is to create an international research group of specialists in the study of Arabic and Christian diplomatic documents in the Late Middle Ages, and to develop a common methodology combining philological and historical perspectives. The methodological focus will include specific aspects of the study of Arabic diplomatic documents from the Middle Ages, such as:
- The establishment of a model (or models) for the diplomatic description of the documents based on standardized criteria. The model(s) will be used to assess both the Arabic documents and those in Latin or Romance languages.
- The establishment of a model (or models) for the paleographic description of the documents, with a set of standardized criteria. The model(s) will be used to assess both the Arabic documents and those in Latin or Romance languages.
- The definition of common guidelines for the edition or re-edition and translation of the texts in Arabic, in Latin or in other Romance languages, their contemporary translations, and contemporary archive materials.
- Reaching agreement on the processes of revision of the old editions and translations available, and a substantial broadening of the study of the processes by which they were produced.
- The establishment of paradigms for the study of linguistic and terminological features, both of the Arabic of the original texts and of the contemporary Latin and Romance translations; a linguistic study of the Arabic, Latin and Romance languages used in correspondence (dialectology, diplomatic and notarial formulae, vocabulary …) and their translations.
- Methodology for the selection, evaluation and classification of complementary historical materials that provide contextualization (letters in Latin, Catalan, Italian and other chancery documents).
- Comparison of the practices and arts of chancery used by the various Islamic powers in the mediaeval Mediterranean, by consulting the secretarial manuals in use at that time as guidelines for the preparation of documents in Arabic.
- Guidelines for the compilation of a comprehensive record of the individuals who took an active or a passive part in diplomatic exchanges and in the transmission of documents, or who are mentioned in them.
- Prosopographic studies of the individuals involved; identification and characterization of the groups that mediated in the political and diplomatic contacts of the relations between European cities and the Arab countries of the Mediterranean.
- The study of the mechanisms and strategies for exploiting the linguistic and cultural skills of these groups.
- Guidelines for analyzing the strategies of socio-economic, political and institutional integration of European groups in the Arab-Islamic countries of the Mediterranean and the presence of Islamic groups in the Christian lands.
Members of the official team
– Roser Salicrú i Lluch (CSIC, Milà i Fontanals Institution, Barcelona) and Marta Manso Rubio (CSIC, Milà i Fontanals Institution & Universitat de Barcelona): Nasrids-Crown of Aragon, Christian sources
– Maria Mercè Viladrich Grau (Universitat de Barcelona) and Anas Benmokhtar (Universitat de Barcelona): Merinids-Crown of Aragon
– Mohamed Ouerfelli (Université d’Aix-Marseille): Hafsids-Crown of Aragon and Hafsids-Pisa
– Frédéric Bauden (Université de Liège): Mamluks-Crown of Aragon; Mamluks-Venice; Alessandro Rizzo (Université de Liège): Mamluks-Florence
With kind regards,
Roser Salicrú i Lluch
Milà i Fontanals Institution
CSIC, Barcelona
Principal investigator (I-LINK0977)
5. Last few days of “Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts” (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, USA)
“Pearls on a String: Artists, Patrons and Poets at the Great Islamic Courts” is up at the Walters until January 31st, 2016.
Two of reviews are here:
Washington Post:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/art-review-pearls-on-a-string-artists…
wsj:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/pearls-on-a-string-artists-patrons-and-poets-at-the-great-isla…
6. Call for Papers: BRISMES International Annual Conference 2016: ‘Networks: Connecting the Middle East through Time, Space and Cyberspace’
Date and time: 13 – 15 July 2016, University of Wales Trinity St David, Lampeter Campus
Conference website: www.brismes.ac.uk/conference
Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 19 February 2016
BRISMES Annual Conference 2016 welcomes abstracts examining ANY aspect of Middle East and North Africa Studies. We will include panels on as wide possible a range of disciplines, including: politics; religious studies; history; law; economics; sociology; anthropology; literature; linguistics; geography; translation studies; and language teaching.
Proposal forms and more details are available on the conference website.
7. 2ème Symposium international sur les langues iraniennes en danger
8-9 Juillet 2016
Paris, France
UMR Mondes iraniens et indien (CNRS, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Inalco, EPHE), Paris
Département de linguistique empirique, Goethe-Universität, Francfort
Labex EFL
Organisatrices : Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe-Universität) et Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne nouvelle)
La seconde édition du Symposium international sur les langues iraniennes en danger (ISEIL) aura lieu à Paris, le 8 et le 9 juillet 2016. Il sera co-organisé par l’UMR ‘Mondes iranien et indien’ (CNRS, Sorbonne nouvelle, EPHE, Inalco) et le Département de linguistique empirique de la Goethe-Universität de Francfort.
Ce symposium a vocation à rassembler les chercheurs travaillant sur les langues iraniennes en danger dans différentes perspectives. Nous invitons des communications sur tous les aspects de la recherche sur ces langues, notamment (mais pas exclusivement) :
- description (phonologie, morphologie, syntaxe…)
- philologie et étude diachronique
- dialectologie et atlas dialectologiques
- méthodes et outils pour la documentation des langues en danger
- revivification des langues en danger : enjeux et expériences
Le symposium comportera une session spéciale dédiée à l’élaboration des atlas linguistiques, animées par E. Anonby (Université de Carleton) et Amos Hayes (Université de Carleton) :
Comité scientifique : Johnny Cheung (Inalco, Chaire d’excellence USPC), Matteo De Chiara (Inalco), Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe-Universität), Geoffrey Haig (Universität Bamberg: Otto-Friedrich), Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne nouvelle)
Comité d’organisation local : Pegah Faghiri (Sobonne nouvelle), Ophélie Gandon (Sorbonne nouvelle), Emmanuel Giraudet (CNRS, MII), Farzaneh Zareie (CNRS, MII)
Consignes aux auteurs :
La langue du symposium est l’anglais. Les résumés ne doivent pas dépasser deux pages (police de caractères 12, marges 2,5 cm), exemples et références bibliographiques inclus. Les documents devront être envoyés au format Word ou PDF. Veillez à ce que les polices de caractères soient compatibles avec Unicode.
Les soumissions, anonymes, se feront sur le site EasyChair en utilisant le lien spécial pour le symposium :
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iseil2016
Les auteurs dont le résumé est retenu se verront proposer soit une présentation orale soit une présentation par poster.
Dates importantes :
– Date limite pour soumettre un résumé : 15 février 2016
– Notification aux auteurs : 30 mars 2016
– Inscriptions : 30 avril 2016
– Annonce du programme final : Mai 2016
– Symposium : 8-9 juillet 2016
8. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows
The American University of Beirut invites applications for its newly established Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities, which will begin September 2016. The normal duration of appointment will be one year. Appointees will be attached to a relevant department and will be expected to remain in residence for the duration of the academic year.
The competition is open to recent recipients of the PhD whose research and teaching interests involve one or more of the following disciplines: Arabic language; Arabic literature; archaeology; art history; English language; English literature; fine arts (visual arts, theatre, and music); history; and philosophy. AUB is particularly interested in innovative work that explores humanistic study from multiple perspectives and pushes disciplinary boundaries.
Calls for Mellon postdoctoral fellows will focus on specific disciplines and departments that are likely to have permanent openings in the near future. These may occur as senior faculty retire; as new lines are created to reduce teaching loads; and as existing lines are redistributed after academic program reviews. However, while promising fellows will be urged to apply for openings that may arise in their areas of specialty, all positions must be filled through open searches in accordance with University policy.
Requirements:
• Applicants must have received their doctoral degrees no later than 30 days and no earlier than five years prior to the appointment start date;
• Applications must include the following:
• Letter of interest;
• Curriculum vitae;
• Statement of research interests (2-3 pages), specifically, research to be undertaken during the fellowship and proposed research product;
• Dissertation abstract or summary (1 page);
• Samples of publications (or dissertation extracts)
• Statement of teaching interests and experience;
• Three letters of recommendation;
• Copy of official transcript or letter of confirmation from dissertation committee chair indicating that the degree will be granted by the appointment start date.
Individuals who have held other postdoctoral fellowships are not barred from applying.
Stipend, benefits, and other advantages of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities include:
• Annual stipend of $45,000;
• Co-pay health coverage under the University’s Health Insurance Plan;
• Relocation allowance and housing subsidy as described in the AUB Faculty Handbook;
• Eligibility for travel grant in the second year of extended fellowships;
• Teaching load of one course per semester;
• Participation in Arts and Humanities core group activities;
• Access to training and support from the Center for Teaching and Learning; the Academic Core Processes and Systems Unit; the Office of Grants and Contracts; and the University Writing Center.
Candidates with experience in or exposure to innovative approaches to research and teaching are strongly encouraged to apply.
Completed proposals should be submitted by close of business (5:00 p.m.) on March 10, 2016. Decisions will be announced by April 20, 2016.
Application material should be sent to:
Submissions
The completed application should be submitted electronically to The Center For Arts And Humanities [cah@aub.edu.lb]
9. CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies
Special Issue: Persian Language Pedagogy and Assessment in the 21st Century
Paper submission deadline: July 1st 2016
Guest Editors: Anousha Sedighi (Portland State University) and Samad Alavi (University of Washington)
The guest editors for a special issue of The Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies seek submissions on the topic of Persian Language Pedagogy and Assessment in the 21st Century. Scholars, researchers, and professionals in the field of Persian teaching are invited to submit papers for this special peer-reviewed volume. The volume aims to provide instructors of Persian with state-of-the-art research in the field of pedagogy and assessment and will include a wide range of creative and scholarly work on such topics as second language acquisition, methods and techniques for teaching Persian language and culture, incorporating cutting-edge technology into curricula, corpus-based research, and web-based teaching. Both quantitative and qualitative research are welcome. More specific topics encompass, but are not limited to:
– Interlanguage or learner language analysis (error, discourse, and pragmatics analyses)
– Task based instruction
– Content-based instruction
– Project-based instruction
– Form-focused instruction
– Teaching cultural understanding
– Teaching and proficiency assessment of listening, speaking, reading, and writing
– Teaching and assessment of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar
– Genre and academic language teaching
– Learning strategies and styles
– Heritage language teaching and assessment
– Bilingualism and multilingualism
– Standards-based language instruction
All papers will undergo the standard peer-review process of the Iranian Studies Journal. For submission guidelines please click here
Papers and inquiries should be sent directly to the Guest Editors, Anousha Sedighi and Samad Alavi at the following email address: 21stCenturyPersianPedagogy@gmail.com
Submission deadline: July 1st 2016
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10. The University of Edinburgh will offer up to 3 postgraduate scholarships for students from Syria studying a one-year Master’s degree programme in any subject offered by the University for the 2016-2017 academic session. See for further
http://www.ed.ac.uk/student-funding/postgraduate/international/region/syria
The deadline is 1 April.
11. We are very happy to announce that, thanks to a collaboration with the Smithsonian Libraries and Internet Archives, the Ars Orientalis back issues, volumes 1 to 41, have now been digitized, and are available for free on our new website. (http://www.asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/) Please check our new website to learn more about the journal and access the volumes 1 to 41 at your leisure from the “Browse volumes” section. (http://www.asia.si.edu/research/ars-orientalis/explore.asp)
Thank you and with best wishes,
Zeynep Simavi
Program Specialist Public and Scholarly Engagement
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution
12. We are glad to announce that a new way to explore the MWNF Database is now available. 5,951 objects from 31 countries.
The ‘MWNF Database complete listing’ lets you search the entire MWNF Database. Results include relevant material from all the thematic databases (Discover Islamic Art, Discover Baroque Art, Sharing History) and list: first, database entries where the search term appears in the name of the item or where it has been added as a keyword; and second, entries where the search term is mentioned in the text. Results appear chronologically according to the time span entered during the upload by our team.
Click here to try: http://www.museumwnf.org/database_searchform.php
We hope you will enjoy using this new way to explore our Database.
With our best wishes,
Eva Schubert
Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF)
http://www.sharinghistory.org/ (NEW)
http://www.discoverislamicart.org/index.php
13. al-Usur al-Wusta
I write in my capacity as co-editor, with Antoine Borrut, of al-Usur al-Wusta, the newly transformed journal of Middle East Medievalists. As many of you know, UW is now an online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal. If you have not done so already, I would urge you to have a look. We would welcome your comments and suggestions, and invite you to consider submitting your essays, reviews and other work to us for publication.
We are also very pleased to announce the creation of our new editorial board.
To access the new issue of UW and view the list of board members, please proceed to the Islamic History Commons site (http://islamichistorycommons.org). Click on the link for Middle East Medievalists.
I would also urge you – again, if you have not done so already – to renew or begin your membership in MEM. The process is straightforward and, we believe, the dues quite modest.
with best wishes,
Matthew Gordon
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Vacancies at CISS (Londson)
Job Title: Research Interns (x3)
Working For: Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies (CISS)
Location:London
Charity number:1142811
Salary: Voluntary. Reasonable expenses reimbursed (part-time).
Job Details:
The Centre for Islamic Shi’a Studies (CISS) is a non-profit research centre founded in 2007 as the academic body of the Alridha Foundation. Alridha Foundation is an independent, international, charitable, non-governmental organisation with projects and events relating to youth, education, academic research, community support and international aid work.
The CISS specialises in the study of intellectual traditions and scholarly outputs articulated by persons or entities committed to the Shi’a Islamic faith, and/or persons or groups concerned with Shi’a Islamic milieus of past and present. We also aim to offer an informed and scholarly perspective on traditional and contemporary issues that affect Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
We are currently recruiting 3 part-time interns for our current research programme, which aims to produce comprehensive research and recommend efficient and effective policies for lawmakers. Our research will focus on compiling a detailed history of Shi’a Islam, including biographies on traditional and contemporary Shi’i scholars – looking at their history, experiences and contributions, alongside a historical study of the Akhbari and Usuli split in Shi‘ism. Our research will also explore contemporary issues facing Muslims, both in the Middle East and the West, including Islamophobia, sectarianism, demographics and human rights.
CISS is looking for candidates with enthusiasm, flexibility, an inquisitive mind and the ability to apply high standards of judgement. They will need to work efficiently, effectively and accurately – a keen eye for detail is essential. Teamwork is a key feature so candidates will need to have a collaborative mentality and at the same time be able to focus on their own individual tasks. Previous research experience is highly preferred. Candidates must have excellent writing skills, including being able to write concisely to an academic standard.
Whilst there is flexibility regarding the numbers of days per week, interns should be prepared to commit to a period of 3-6 months. As we share our building with a school, successful applicants will be required to pass a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
Closing Date:1 February 2016
Interview/Start Dates: All applications will be reviewed upon receipt and interviews may be conducted before the closing date. Final interviews will be conducted in the week commencing 1 February 2016.
Application Details: Applicants interested in applying for a role should send a CV and covering letter to internship@shiastudies.org specifying why they are suitable.
2. SEMINAIRE ‘SOCIETES, POLITIQUES ET CULTURES
DU MONDE IRANIEN’
SEANCE DU 21 JANVIER 2016, 17h-19h
Agnes Korn, Chargée de recherches en Linguistique au CNRS, Paris
« Le bashkardi, une langue peu connue du sud de l’Iran (si c’en est bien une) »
Le terme bashkardi désigne un groupe de dialectes parlés au sud de l’Iran, non loin du détroit
d’Ormuz ; il s’agit d’une région peu accessible même pour les citoyens iraniens. C’est peut- être
aussi pour cette raison que le bashkardi a été assez peu étudié jusqu’ici : il y a deux esquisses de
quelques pages, mais on ne possède ni une grammaire ni un dictionnaire ou glossaire. La
documentation du bashkardi est d’ailleurs chose urgente puisque l’influence forte du persan est
en train de l’assimiler à la langue nationale, surtout sur le plan de la syntaxe.
Cet exposé présentera mes recherches actuelles sur le bashkardi (menées en coopération avec Behrooz
Barjasteh Delforooz / Uppsala, Suède) et les défis de la description d’un groupe de dialectes si
divergents que leur origine commune semble plutôt invraisemblable
Johnny Cheung, Maître de Conférences à l’INALCO, Paris
« La recherche actuelle sur la religion et littérature de la communauté des Yézidis,
quelques observations préliminaires »
La communauté des Yézidis, s’exprimant surtout en kurde, du dialecte kourmandji, habite dans
plusieurs pays ou régions du Proche Orient (Irak, Turquie, Syrie), du Caucase (Géorgie,
Arménie), et depuis récemment, en Europe (Allemagne et Suède principalement). Malgré une
assez longue histoire de marginalisations et de persécutions, les Yézidis ont préservé leur
identité, leur culture et leurs coutumes religieuses spécifiques. L’expression “Adorateurs du
Diable” par laquelle les désignent leurs voisins musulmans sunnites et chrétiens révèle une vision
négative voir même hostile de cette communauté.
Pour cette intervention je présenterai les théories, anciennes et modernes, sur l’origine
multifactorielle de la foi des Yézidis et comment leurs chants de prière, appelés “qewl”, aident
les chercheurs à (re)découvrir cette population mal connue.
Lieu : INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, salle 413 (4e étage), 75013, Paris.
Organisateurs : Matteo De Chiara (INaLCO), Denis Hermann (CNRS), Fabrizio Speziale (Paris 3 – CNRS), Julien Thorez (CNRS).
3. Call for Papers
Pahlavi Iran, 1941-1979:
A Global History Workshop
London School of Economics and Political Science
19 May 2016
Sponsored by the LSE Kuwait Programme and the British Institute of Persian Studies
The LSE Middle East Centre invites submissions for a one-day workshop on the global history of Pahlavi Iran at the London School of Economics on 19 May 2016.
In the four decades that passed between the Allied wartime occupation of Iran in 1941 and the fall of the Pahlavi monarchy in 1979, Iran was slowly transformed from a battleground of Cold War competition to a major regional and global actor. The Pahlavi state and Iranian society both witnessed profound social, cultural, and economic changes as rising oil revenues fuelled the developmental goals of the White Revolution, while global movements of ideas and activism shaped the growing opposition to the rule of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The roots of contemporary Iran, and the challenges and opportunities it presents, lie in those formative four decades that culminated in the political and social earthquake of the Iranian Revolution.
We seek applications from advanced graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and non-tenured faculty working on all aspects of Iran’s global history in the Pahlavi era from 1941 to 1979. Papers could examine Iran’s place and impact in the world, or the impact of global forces within Iran itself. We welcome submissions on a variety of topics spanning the cultural, diplomatic, intellectual, political, and social history of late Pahlavi Iran, with a common focus on global issues, forces and questions that transcended Iran’s borders. We particularly welcome submissions in three broad areas: 1) the international and transnational relations of Pahlavi Iran; 2) oil, development, and modernisation in Pahlavi Iran; and 3) ideas, culture, and dissent in Pahlavi Iran. Workshop participants will receive feedback at the closed-door workshop from three commentators: Roham Alvandi, Associate Professor of International History at the LSE; Houchang Chehabi, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University; and Cyrus Schayegh, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.
Applicants should submit a 300-word abstract and CV by email to the workshop convenor, Dr Roham Alvandi <r.alvandi@lse.ac.uk>, by 1 February 2016. Abstracts should indicate what sources your paper will draw on, as well as the global dimensions of your research. We anticipate selecting nine workshop participants, each of whom will receive funding for return economy air or train travel to London, and one night’s hotel accommodation. Participants will be asked to submit an 8,000-word working paper ahead of the workshop in London. Following the workshop, having received feedback on their work, participants will be invited to revise and resubmit their papers for publication as an edited collection.
For further information, please see: http://www.lse.ac.uk/middleEastCentre/vacancies/Pahlavi-Iran-workshop-.aspx
4. The upcoming conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies will be held August 15-18, 2016 (11-14 Av, 5776) at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (USA), to be hosted by Prof. Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman.
We would encourage our members from Europe and North America to register.
This is the final call for papers for the 2016 conference. Please send your submissions to Phil (mailto:phil.lieberman@vanderbilt.edu), with a copy to Sarit Noy at Ben-Zvi Institute (mailto:mbz@ybz.org.il).
Please provide an English title and short abstract (not to exceed 250 words). The normal time slot for papers will be 20 minutes plus10 minutes for discussion. Please let us have your topic by January 31, 2016. There is no overriding theme for the conference as a whole. Any paper related to the field may be submitted.
5. International Studies Librarian (African, Middle Eastern, and/or South Asian Studies), University of Iowa
https://jobs.uiowa.edu/pands/view/68234
6. Teaching Opportunities at Sciences Po/Kuwait
www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sites/sciencespo.fr.psia/files/Kuwait_Chair_at_SciencesPo_Call_2016.pdf
<http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sites/sciencespo.fr.psia/files/Kuwait_Chair_at_SciencesPo_Call_2016.pdf>
www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sites/sciencespo.fr.psia/files/KSP_Visiting_Faculty_2016-2017.pdf
<http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/sites/sciencespo.fr.psia/files/KSP_Visiting_Faculty_2016-2017.pdf>
The Kuwait Program at Sciences Po (KSP) is a partnership between
Sciences Po and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.
Working together, the two institutions are supporting teaching and
research of excellence in the social sciences and the humanities with
special emphasis on the study of the Arab World and the Gulf Region.
www.sciencespo.fr/psia/kuwait-program
<http://www.sciencespo.fr/psia/kuwait-program>
7. Conference: “Women, Empowerment, Citizenship and Development”, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, Manchester University, 28-29 January 2016
Postgraduate candidates are invited to submit proposals/papers addressing modes of gender and sexuality in and around the Middle East and North Africa, as they are manifested in political, social, economic, educational, literary and artistic contexts. Please send your papers/proposal and a 50-word biographical statement to sarah.tafakori@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk.
Deadline for submission: 23 January 2016. Information: http://www.casaw.ac.uk/news-events/women-empowerment-citizenship-and-development-28-29-january-2016/
8. Symposium: “The Idea of Iran: Renewal in the Age of Post-Mongol Prestige”, SOAS, University of London, 20 February 2016
This symposium explores the cultural complexities of reinventing the idea of Iran during the period of extreme political decentralization, focusing on aspects of cultural longevity and fluid transformations in light of the competing cultural, political, and religious aspirations in the post-Mongol world.
9. Conference: “101 Years of Research in the Oasis of Bukhara – Looking Forward to New Venues”, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, 11 March 2016
The conference seeks to address the interplay and entanglement of the political, geographical, climatic, and economic factors in the history of the Oasis of Bukhara, within the contexts of the larger empires. Geo-sciences and history are connected on the ground with archaeology. The aim is to develop a new dynamic historical model on historical, political, and economic system of the oasis.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2016. Information:
www.islamic-empire.uni-hamburg.de/en/news-and-events/conferences/bukhara-hofstra.html
10. Conference: “Avenues of Social and Political Change: Five Years of Contention in the Middle East and North Africa“, City University of New York, 8 April 2016
Five years after the eruption of mass protests across North Africa and the Middle East, citizens of these countries now live under contrasting conditions. This conference will explore current possibilities that have been opened up through and in the aftermath of the grassroots uprisings that have swept through the region since 2011 and the sustained struggles for these arenas as well as the counter-efforts that have attempted to constrain and constrict them.
Deadline for abstracts: 5 February 2016. Information: ascmenaconference@gmail.com
11. Session at the Royal Geographic Society Annual Conference: “Sacred Stuff: Material Culture and the Geography of Religion”, London, 30 August – 2 September 2016
We want to explore how material things offer alternative narratives about religious communities and what religion means to its adherents; how material objects are designed, created, appropriated or travel; what affects the decay, damage and necessary repair and maintenance of religious things have on religious engagements and experiences; what role material things play, and have played, in both the contemporary geographies and past histories of religious institutions.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 February 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/106481/sacred-stuff-material-culture-and-geography-religion
12. Conference: “Mutual Imaginings of Europe and the Middle East (800-1700)”, Barnard College, New York, 3 December 2016
Bringing together art historians, literary scholars, historians, scholars of the history of science, and scholars of religious thought, this interdisciplinary conference will explore the real and imaginary cultural interchanges between Europe and the Middle East during their formative periods.
Deadline for abstracts: 10 April 2016. Information: http://humweb.ucsc.edu/mediterraneanseminar/news/index.php?id=597
13. Conference: “Outcast Voices: Reflections on the Marginalized, the Exiled and the Secondary in Classical and Modern Arabic Culture”, University of Haifa, Israel, 10-12 January 2017
The Department of Arabic Language and Literature seeks to encourage reflections on marginalized, exiled and secondary voices, persons, groups, thoughts, arts, language and trends in classical and modern Arabic culture.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 April 2016. Information: http://arabic.haifa.ac.il/images/random/random_2016/Call_for_Papers_OUTCAST__VOICES_Jalal.Masud.pdf
14. Doctoral Dissertation Summer Workshop: “Researching Lebanon”, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 13-24 June 2016
By bringing together PhD students of various disciplinary training and topical foci, this program creates a space to interrogate, modify, and develop critical approaches to the study of Lebanon. Central to this process is increasing students’ familiarity with the contours of knowledge production as well as field research in Lebanon.
Deadline for application: 15 February 2016. Information: www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/23504/call-for-applicants_doctoral-dissertation-summer-w
15. Summer Seminar: “Transcending Boundaries: The Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800“, Washington, DC, 20 June – 15 July 2016
This four-week seminar offers an opportunity to college and university professors (and two advanced graduate students) to integrate stimulating approaches toward Ottoman, Mediterranean and European history. Seminar participants who have broad research and teaching interests in comparative history will develop skills and knowledge that will enable them to integrate the Ottoman Empire into their projects and courses.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2016. Information: http://grants.smcm.edu/neh-summer-seminar-2016/
- January 18, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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1.The Arabic Papyrology Database (APD) team wishes you a happy new year.
Our present: new, handy features in the APD and a many many more documents
implemented. Please, check www.naher-osten.lmu.de/apd under
(a) “Documents”. For 2,571 published documents, we provide the full text
of the document and information on the document, while for another 6,281
published and unpublished documents, we give information on the document
only. We are proud to offer not only records from Egypt and the Middle
East, but also a quite comprehensive list of Arabic documents from Sicily
and Spain: click on “Origin” and choose Sicily or Spain. Weekly updates!
For full bibliographical details, check at
www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/apb.
(b) “Text”: This is our full text search tool. Many features, including
search restricted by time, provenance, document type, etc.
(c) “Lexicon”: This site is completely new and allows you to access the
lexicon of all implemented texts in several ways: Looking for a lemma,
you will have an overview on all actual realizations, with hyperlinks giving
you direct access. You might look for a root, a verbal stem, or
a shape/morpheme type (e.g. fāʿil or faʿʿāl). Or try Word categories
(functional categories) and Domains (semantic categories), independently
or in combined searches.
We will be happy to have your feedback on the new features.
Best regards, Eva Youssef-Grob (evamira.youssef@uzh.ch ),
for the Arabic Papyrology Database team
2. Epistles of the Brethren of Purity. Sciences of the Soul and Intellect. Part I. An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of EPISTLES 32-36
Edited and Translated by Paul E. Walker; Ismail K. Poonawala and David Simonowitz; Godefroid de Callataÿ, Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Oxford – New York, 2015.
More details on: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/sciences-of-the-soul-and-intellect-part-i-9780198758280?facet_narrowbypubdate_facet=This%20Month&lang=en&cc=be#
3. MINERVA SCHOLARSHIP FOR IRAQ, LIBYA, SYRIA, AND YEMEN
In response to scholarly concerns of heritage destruction and looting throughout Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art has extended its Minerva Scholarship to also include candidates from these conflict countries for its eighth annual postgraduate certificate program in the study of art crime and cultural heritage protection. Postgraduate candidates with a background or current position within either museums, cultural heritage institutions or universities from these countries are strongly encouraged to apply.
The Minerva scholarship is set aside to equip scholars with the knowledge and tools needed to build the capacity of their home institutions and to advance the education of future generations. Scholarships are limited and awarded through an open, merit-based competition.
Awardees of the Minerva are granted a full tuition waiver to ARCA’s ten-week, intensive professional development postgraduate program in Amelia, Italy for the Summer of 2016.
For more details about this scholarship for the multidisciplinary program and to request a prospectus and application materials please see the two links attached here:
Lynda Albertson
Chief Executive Officer
ARCA – Association for Research into Crimes against Art
http://www.artcrimeresearch.org/
Italy +39 348.902.6898
—
USA Number
(281) 899-0098
4. The Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University
seeks a dynamic and detail oriented instructor of Arabic at the Teaching
Faculty I level, a full-time (12-month) non-tenure track faculty position. This
position requires both teaching and administrative responsibilities with
approximately equal commitment to both areas.
Fluency in Modern Standard Arabic
is required and native or near native fluency in an Arabic dialect is
desirable.
An MA or PhD in Arabic language and literature or applied linguistics
is required.
Experience with an integrated approach to Arabic language teaching
at the college level is required. The person will be part of the Middle Eastern
Studies (MES) program at Florida State University, a program within the
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics in the College of Arts and
Sciences. The candidate will work closely with other faculty members in Arabic
and Middle Eastern Studies to maintain a cohesive and rigorous MES program. The
teaching assignment is five undergraduate Arabic language and/or culture
courses per year at the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels (2/2/1).
The administrative responsibility for the Middle Eastern Studies BA degree
includes the following: advising students; providing information about the MES
program; recruiting during orientation sessions on campus; performing
graduation check; updating yearly Institutional reports; contributing to grant
writing and other material and preparing expense reports; helping to organize
and conduct events related to the Middle East; preparing list of MES courses
offered every semester; maintaining the Middle East Center’s website; being a
liaison with other participating faculty.
The candidate will directly work with the Director of the Middle Eastern
Studies program and will be part of the Arabic division.
Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience.
An Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer.
FSU’s Equal Opportunity Statement can be viewed at:
http://www.hr.fsu.edu/PDF/Publications/diversity/EEO_Statement.pdf
Through Interfolio, candidates should submit, on or before February 15, 2016, a
cover letter with a brief description of teaching philosophy and supporting
documents including administrative experience, teaching evaluations, sample
syllabi, curriculum vitae, and three current confidential letters of
recommendation. Review of applications will begin on February 15, 2016, and
will continue until the position is filled. Inquiries regarding this position
should be directed to Zeina Schlenoff, Director of Middle Eastern Studies
program at zschlenoff@fsu.edu.
http://apply.interfolio.com/33635
5.Intensive course: Mamluk Numismatics
A three-day intensive course in Mamluk numismatics intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants will be offered by Professor Warren Schultz (DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois) and will be held immediately before the third conference of the School of Mamluk Studies held at the University of Chicago (June 20-22, 2016). A reading knowledge of Arabic is required. The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format, but no previous numismatic experience is required.
Since the number of participants will be limited (a maximum of 15), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with their work to [sms2016chicago@gmail.com] by the end of January, 2016. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February, 2016, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
The course fee is $300.00, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (June 23-25) as well the cost of the annual SMS social dinner. The fees must be paid by April 30, 2016. Registration and participation are not confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging at an affordable price. A certificate of attendance will be awarded.
Marlis J. Saleh, University of Chicago (local organizer)
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
6. Call for papers
P003 – Anthropologists between the Middle East and Europe: war, crises, refugees, migration and Islamophobia [AMCE]
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4146
Deadline February 15th, 2016
14th EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological legacies and human futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
20-23 July, 2016
Convenors:
Dr. P. Khosronejad (Farzaneh Family Scholar and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University)
Dr. L. Schiocchet (Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Dawn Chatty recently stated that while the 20th century has been called the ‘century of the refugee’, the 21st century looks set to become known as the ‘century of displacement and dispossession’. Postcolonial heritage fuelling conflicts in the global South tints much of this displacement and dispossession. However, much of it has also been caused by new wars in the global South involving the global North. The Middle East, in particular, has been for decades under a generalized state of war that has had a tremendous, if differential, impact on people’s lives. Recent ongoing wars in Yemen, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and increasing political, religious, and ethnic clashes and refugee catastrophes from the Middle East to Europe, signal radical geopolitical change. How should anthropologists and their professional associations relate to such changes? Should we remain “aloof from” or actively engage in the “great issues of our times” (Fried, Hariis, and Murphy 1967:ix)? As regional specialists and social theorists, anthropologists have both moral and professional concerns for the effects of war. We must acknowledge both the perpetual dynamic motion of global history and the especially troubled present condition of conflict and transformation in the contemporary Middle East. Anthropology then, with its emphasis on lived experience, is currently facing a dilemma: on the one hand we must collect and interpret critical data, while on the other hand ethnographic research is both difficult and sensitive. Bold yet comprehensive positioning is thus critical, given our ethical responsibility to contribute to the understanding and resolution of such complex problems. In this panel, we aim at engaging in constructive new thinking by understanding how such anthropological investigations may impact and spark debate within the European public sphere, inspiring policy makers, faith communities, and media representatives. Complementarily, we intend to enrich the dialogue surrounding the role of anthropologists vis-à-vis policy making in multicultural and multi-religious countries, such as France, that hinge on principles and norms regarding the right to offend and to defend, according to interpretations and mobilizations of discourse such as those of freedom of expression and securitization.
In this panel, we aim at engaging in constructive new thinking by understanding how anthropological investigations may impact and spark debate within the European public sphere, inspiring policy makers, faith communities, and media representatives.
– Instructions for online submission of papers
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
-Online submission of abstracts :
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=4146
– EASA Network of Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (AMCE)
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml
7. Call for submissions (Summer 2016) : The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME)
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropological studies of all societies and cultures in the Middle East and Central Eurasia.
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml
Its scope is to publish original research by social scientists not only in the area of anthropology but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related social sciences. It includes all areas of modern and contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) including topics on minority groups and religious themes. The journal also will review monographic studies, reference works, results of conferences, and international workshops. ACME also publishes review essays, reviews of books and multimedia products (including music, films, and web sites) relevant to the main aims of the journal. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed.
ACME is published with the financial support and collaboration of Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France.
For general enquiries and Instructions for Authors, please visit:
http://www.seankingston.co.uk/publishing.html
8.Call for film reviews
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) welcomes film reviews for his journal. Should you like to review a particular documentary or send us one to review please email the film review editor :
Dr Michael Abecassis, directly to: michael.abecassis at modern-langs.ox.ac.uk
For general enquiries and Instructions for Authors, please visit:
9. MESA’s 50th Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, 17-20 November 2016
Submissions may be in the form of pre-organized panels, pre-organized roundtables, or individual papers on Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab World from the seventh century to modern times.
Deadline for abstracts: 16 February 2016. Information: http://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers.html
10. 3 Positions as Editors / Research Associates in Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Philosophy, Thomas-Institute, University of Cologne
Appointment requirements are: a university degree and PhD in a field related to the subject-matter of the edition project. Eligible candidates should demonstrate an excellent knowledge of either Arabic, Hebrew, or Latin, working knowledge of at least one of the other languages, and close familiarity with Medieval philosophy.
Deadline for application: 15 February 2016. Information: www.thomasinstitut.uni-koeln.de/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/Research_Associates_Thomas_Institute.pdf
11. Non-Tenure-Track Position in Islamic Political Thought & Islamic Studies, Boston College – www.bc.edu/schools/cas/polisci/employment.html
Residential Fellowship, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, VA
The fellowship is starting on or after September 1, 2016, and ending by December 31, 2016. It provides the monthly stipend of $4,000. IIIT Residential Fellowship is ideal for a faculty member on sabbatical, a researcher working on a long-term project, or a researcher who has completed data collection and preliminary research and needs to write a paper, series of papers, or book chapter(s).
Deadline for application: 15 January 2016. Information: http://iiit.org/Research/IIITResidentialFellowship/tabid/403/Default.aspx
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Middle East Studies, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Fellows of the Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES may come from any discipline in the social sciences or humanities, as long as their primary substantive specialization is in the Middle East/North Africa (to include Iran and Turkey. The fellowship begins September 1, 2016 and the successful candidate can choose to extend the fellowship period to two full academic years (through May 31, 2018).
The deadline to apply is January 31, 2016. Information: http://imes.elliott.gwu.edu/post-doctoral-research-fellows
Post-Doc Fellowship, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, VA
The fellowship is starting on or after March 01, 2016, and ending by December 31, 2016. It provides the monthly stipend of $3,500 and is ideal for a recent PhD graduate working on converting their dissertation into a book. Other projects may also be considered. Priority will be given to applicants who are willing to publish the book with IIIT.
Deadline for application: 15 January 2016. Information: http://iiit.org/Research/ResearchGrants/IIITPostDocFellowship/tabid/405/Default.aspx
12. Articles on: “Iranian Cosmopolitanism“ for Special Issue of “Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies”
Contributions are invited that provide theoretical advancements in understanding textual, conceptual, historical and sociological contours of “Iranian Cosmopolitanism”.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 March 2016. Contact: Milad Odabaei and Christopher Cochrant milado@berkeley.edu Information: www.academia.edu/Documents/in/Iranian_History
- January 12, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Associate or Full Professorship in Global Political Economy, with Asia / Middle East Focus, Leiden University
Appointment will be fixed-term from July 2016 for a period of maximally four years, with the possibility of a permanent position thereafter. Requirements: A PhD degree in a relevant field; a strong research and publication record; specialist expertise on Asia or the Middle East, including proficiency in one or more Asian or Middle Eastern languages; an excellent command of English etc.
Deadline for application: 25 January 2016. Information: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/15-428-vacatureuniversiteitleiden-associate-or-fulprofessor-global-political-economy.html
2. Doctoral Spring School 2016: “Reviving Previous Times and Expanding Horizons: Islam and Modernity in Global Historical Perspective”, Istanbul, 14-18 March 2016
The Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS, Islamic Studies/Iranian Studies) at the University of Marburg, in cooperation with AKMED, NISIS, IFEA, IISMM/EHESS, Koç University, NIT and RCAC, organizes this Spring School. PhD candidates active in the field of Near and Middle East – as well as Islamic Studies are invited to apply.
Application deadline: 15 January 2016. Information: www.uni-marburg.de/cnms/aktuelles/newsitemext.2015-12-21.3519528590
3. 2 PhD Scholarships: “The Poetics of Aristotle between Europe and Islam. A Multilingual Edition with Studies of the Cultural Contexts of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations”, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), February 2016 – February 2019
The formal requirement for application is a university honours degree reflecting a level of attainment that is above average. The degree should be in one of the disciplines relevant to the project (Arab and/or Islamic Studies etc.)
Deadline for application: 31 January 2016. Information: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/studies/application/cfa_phd_einstein.html
4. Articles on “Studying the Everyday in the Arab World: Power, Performance and Survival” for Special Issue of “Middle East Critique”
This issue will reflect on how the study of everyday life is a fundamental site for studying the dynamics of power, survival, resistance, social change and all those aspects that are defined as politics. The focus is twofold: firstly, to understand how the site of everyday life helps to study politics in the Arab world; secondly, to engage theoretically with the notion of the everyday in order to unpack its significance.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2016. Information: http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/mec-cfp
5. International Journal of Islamic Architecture
The ninth issue of the IJIA is available in print and online. Please click on the link below to preview the ninth issue abstracts: www.intellectbooks.com/ijia. For full-text articles, see Ingenta: www.ingentaconnect.com.
This volume contains an editorial by the academic editor, Hasan-uddin Khan; Abidin Kusno’s commentary on invisible geographies in the study of Islamic architecture; book and exhibition reviews; conference précis; and articles that discuss the work of the Balyan Family in nineteenth century Istanbul and their Parisian education; the Jordan Gate Towers of Amman as an example of neoliberal urbanism; the role expertise played in the Israeli Plan for Rebuilding the Qazvin Region in Iran; the work of Doxiadis Associates in postcolonial Pakistan (1958–1968); and the restoration of a forgotten Mughal Tomb in Kashmir.
6. A new title in the “Islamic Art in the Mediterranean” series is now available:
THE AYYUBID ERA: ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEDIEVAL SYRIA
This new MWNF Travel Book was conceived not long before the war started. All texts refer to the pre-war situation and are our expression of hope that Syria, a land that witnessed the evolution of civilisation since the beginnings of human history, may soon become a place of peace and the driving force behind a new and peaceful beginning for the entire region.
Bilad al-Sham testifies to a thorough and strategic programme of urban reconstruction and reunification during the 12th and 13th centuries. Amidst a period of fragmentation, visionary leadership came with the Atabeg Nur al-Din Zangi. He revived Syria’s cities as safe havens to restore order. His most agile Kurdish general, Salah al-Din (Saladin), assumed power after he died and unified Egypt and Sham into one force capable of re-conquering Jerusalem from the Crusaders. The Ayyubid Empire flourished and continued the policy of patronage. Though shortlived, this era held long-lasting resonance for the region. Its recognisable architectural aesthetic
– austere, yet robust and perfected – survived until modern times.
“The Ayyubid Era: Art and Architecture in Medieval Syria” describes eight thematic Itineraries including, among others, the cities of Damascus, Bosra, Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa.
250 colour illustrations | 25 plans of monuments | 288 pages
The MWNF Travel Books are researched and written by local scholars and convey history, art and culture from the local perspective.
For further details please refer to this page: http://www.mwnfbooks.net/books_detail.php?booklngid=41;en&
7. The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT is seeking presenters for a session at the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) Annual Conference 13-15 July 2016 at University of Wales, Lampeter
Our panel will explore the functions and structures of the nodes and networks operating within North Africa and the Middle East, as well as the networks that connect people in those places with others outside the region. The networks may be historical or contemporary, and the means through which they function may be considered from a variety of contexts and perspectives. For example, papers may consider how real world or cyber nodes and networks have functioned in the growth and development of cities, the diffusion of knowledge and culture, the creation of communities, organizing social actions, etc. Papers may approach the subject with temporal or geographic specificity, or they may take a comparative view. Topics to explore may include one or more of the following questions:
- How have networks and nodes functioned in patterns of urbanization or the diffusion and adaptation of knowledge or culture through the history of Muslim societies?
- How can these networks best be mapped or represented?
- How can a consideration of nodes and networks be useful in understanding these processes?
- To what extent are these networks intersecting, interdependent or overlapping?
- How are historical and physical networks analogous to informational technology and online social networking?
- Do nodes on networks reinforce or undermine dichotomies such as center/periphery and metropole/colony?
- Can centers of education be considered nodes in networks of knowledge? How do these physical structures compare to those in cyberspace?
- What does an analysis of networks, historical or virtual, reveal about social and political structures?
This list is not exhaustive, and other topics may be considered.Participants will fund their own travel and participation. Proposals should be less than 500 words and submitted via email to Sharon C. Smith (scsmith@mit.edu) and Michael A. Toler (mtoler@mit.edu) .Include a brief biographical paragraph or abbreviated CV of no more than one page. Proposals should be submitted as early as possible, but no later than 25 January 2016. Proposals received after that date cannot be considered.
8. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – Doctoral Fellow in
History, Theology, Jewish Studies or Religious Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52370
University of Oxford – Departmental Lecturer, Islamic Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52339
University of Maine – Augusta – History Faculty Vacancy
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52376
Gallaudet University – Assistant Professor, East Asia, South Asia, or
Middle East History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52369
- December 31, 2015
- by Andrew Newman
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1. THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE (AKPIA) AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE ITS POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATESHIP PROGRAM FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017.
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is pleased to invite applications for self-supported Associateships to conduct advanced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology at Harvard University. AKPIA Associateships are intended principally for overseas scholars–preferably, but not exclusively, from Muslim countries–to support research in art and architectural history and archaeology. Our program is not intended to sponsor professional design, conservation, or urban development projects, nor are they intended to support research travel. The recipient is expected to be in residence, except for one or two short research-related trips. Please note–these are unpaid Associate positions.
We welcome applications both from senior scholars and from recent graduates. Research projects should preferably be publishable in the annual publication of the Aga Khan Program, Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World. It is potentially publishable, original projects that will be given preference.
AKPIA Associates have an affiliation with Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture (HAA). They are free to pursue their own research without any obligations other than presenting a public lecture on their research project–as part of the AKPIA lecture series, A Forum for Islamic Art and Architecture–and submitting an article based on the research at Harvard for consideration by the editor for publication in Muqarnas. AKPIA Associates have access to all Harvard University libraries, museums, and facilities; they are also welcome to audit Harvard seminars, if they so choose.
BASIC REQUIREMENTS
Applicants must have a doctoral degree (PhD, DPhil, or equivalent). A solid command of written and spoken English is required (your AKPIA lecture will be delivered in English). Associates must remain in Cambridge for the duration of the appointment.
REQUIRED MATERIALS
Application materials must be submitted in hard copy, or via email in a single message; the Committee will not consider incomplete applications or applications submitted after the deadline: March 1, 2016.
The following materials are required of applicants:
Completed, signed application form (2 copies)
Curriculum vitae (2 copies)
Research proposal (2 copies)
Two different writing samples of previous research publications (2 copies each)
*Letters of recommendation from two professors or scholars familiar with the applicant’s research (1 copy each)
*Original transcripts—when possible—in sealed enveloped from institutions where graduate work was conducted (1 per institution) Copies of original transcripts will be considered
* Letters of recommendation and transcripts may be mailed directly to the Program from the institutions or recommenders (preferred), may be sent by a professional dossier and credentials service (such as Interfolio), or may be included with the other application materials in their original, sealed envelopes. Letter writers may also email their letters directly to agakhan@fas.harvard.edu. All other materials should be submitted together in a single envelope/package or via a single email message.
Materials should be mailed to:
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University
Attn: AKPIA Associate Program
485 Broadway, Sackler 412
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Alternately, materials may be emailed in a single email message to: agakahn@fas.harvard.edu
DEADLINE
All application materials must be received by March 1, 2016. Results will be announced by mid-May.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Please direct any inquires about the AKPIA Associateships at Harvard University to agakhan@fas.harvard.edu or 617-495-2355.
2. Position: Arcapita Visiting Professor (open rank)
Institution: Columbia University
Location: New York, NY
Application Deadline: March 4, 2016
The Middle East Institute and the Department of Middle Eastern, South
Asian and African Studies at Columbia University invite applications for
an appointment as Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies for
a one-semester position for the fall 2016 or spring 2017 semester.
The position may be filled at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor,
Visiting Associate Professor, or Visiting Professor. We are interested
in candidates whose field of research and teaching is in history,
culture, or social sciences of the modern Arab world.
The incumbent will be expected to teach two courses, participate in the
activities of the Middle East Institute, and give a brown bag lecture
and other such public lectures as may be appropriate.
A Ph.D., a record of scholarly publications, and proven teaching
experience in English are required by the beginning of the appointment.
Experience teaching at a university in the Middle East highly preferred.
or additional information and to submit your application, please visit
our Recruitment of Academic Personnel System (RAPS) website
http://bit.ly/1YZfv8W
Review of submissions will begin immediately.
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3. Call for Papers
International Börklüce Mustafa Symposium (June 2-5, 2016, Izmir)
Izmir Mediterranean Academy
Conference web site: http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=72
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: December 29, 2015
2016 marks the six hundredth anniversary of an event, which demonstrated that rebellion as a widespread form of protest was not a peculiarly Western European phenomenon, that it was just as common in the Eastern Mediterranean and just as natural to its history. In 1416, under the leadership of Börklüce Mustafa, the peasants of Karaburun / Stylarion (Izmir) rose up with demands of common living and common use of property; demands that were widely popular in Europe, too. The Rebellion of Karaburun had large effects in both shores of the Aegean. Often, the 1416 uprising is referred to as the Rebellion of Sheikh Bedreddin, who was hanged as the leader of the Balkan leg of the rebellion, which was suppressed before it began. Yet, it seems more appropriate to approach the history of this great uprising as the history of all its actors and of all the circumstances effective in their mobilization, rather than as the biography of a few individuals. This way, we can more comprehensively contextualize this momentous event which revealed that history from below and history of the below is possible for the Ottoman world as well, that Ottoman history is not simply the “history of the Ottomans”.
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has decided to commemorate in 2016 the six hundredth anniversary of the Rebellion as “Year of Börklüce Mustafa” accompanying with several social and cultural events. One of the events will be the Börklüce Mustafa Symposium that will be organized under the responsibility of Izmir Mediterranean Academy (http://www.izmeda.org). The Symposium aims to discuss the 1416 Rebellion within the above-mentioned context by means of historical, geographical and historiographical comparisons and encounters. The objective is to question local dynamics and discuss universal characteristics of the Rebellion from partly diverging, partly intersecting perspectives.
The Izmir Mediterranean Academy invites you to sent paper proposals in line with the subjects cited below. Symposium will be composed of papers of invited researchers and the papers selected by the Organization Committee (http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=71) among the proposals. Contributions are expected to be twenty-minute long and presented in English or Turkish. The proceedings of the Symposium will be published.
For the conceptual framework of the Symposium please visit
http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=70 (in Turkish)
http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=62 (in English)
Main themes specified in the Symposium are as follows:
-Discussions and new approaches in the historiography of Börklüce Mustafa Rebellion
-New approaches and methodological and theoretical overtures in the history of rebellions
-Social dynamics in the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries Mediterranean and Europe: feudal society; economic and social crises; rebellions; wars; population movements
-Social dynamics in the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth centuries Karaburun, Izmir, Anatolia and Balkans: Social mobility in Ottoman, Byzantine and Mongolian geography; economic and social crises; rebellions; wars; population movements; terminology of the period (keşiş, torlak, abdal, baldırı çıplak, etc.)
-Economic and social dynamics of the Rebellion and claims of common living and common use of property: slavery/serfdom/peasantry; sipahis/margraves/ seigneurs/ landlords; land regime; transformations in has, timar and vakıf holdings; attacks towards the commons and reactions against them; crisis and poverty; anti-feodal movements of the period; piracy; social banditism
-Historical topography: topographic researches and discussions on the geography of the Rebellion
-Rebellions and uprisings in the Anatolia and Balkans in the historical perspective from Börklüce Mustafa to Celalis, from Ilinden to Gezi
Title and abstract (300 words) delivery date: December 29, 2015
Papers deadline: April 15, 2016
Symposium date: June 2-5, 2016
Application form for proposals could be found at
http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=76 (in Turkish)
http://www.izmeda.org/Pages/Sempozyum.aspx?id=75 (in English)
Contact:
Izmir Mediterranean Academy
Phone: +90 (232) 293 46 06
E-mail: info@izmeda.org
4. On-line Resource
Duke University Libraries, Ottoman-Turkish Literature (on Internet Archive)
https://archive.org/details/dulturk&tab=collection
5. The MEI Library’s Digital Collection
The Oman Library at the Middle East Institute is pleased to announce the
launch of its new Digital Collection, a browsable database of rare books
that can be read online and downloaded for free.
The topics of the collection range from history and culture to works of
fiction from the early twentieth century, with materials in seven
different languages — English, Arabic, French, Farsi, Urdu, Ottoman
Turkish, and Turkish — spanning the period from 1700 to 1921.
At launch there are already more than 70 books available for viewings
online, with hundreds more lined up to be scanned and digitized and
added to the database on a rolling basis each week, so you can check
back frequently to see what’s new.
*A few of the English titles available now:*
* “Nineveh and its palaces,” 1852
* “Cairo: Sketches of its history, monuments, and social life,” 1892
* “Travels to the city of the caliphs, along the shores of the
Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean,” 1840
* “Description of Mesopotamia and Baghdad,” 1895
The Digital Collection was made possible by a grant from Saudi Aramco.
The first project of its kind for MEI and the Oman Library, the
digitization process utilizes a high resolution scanner to make hundreds
of books, manuscripts, and materials spanning MEI’s history available
online for scholars and researchers anywhere in the world.
6. Lectureship in Arabic Literature and Culture, Leiden University
The successful candidate will have a PhD degree in a relevant field as well as research experience in the Middle East, and familiarity with modern and contemporary cultural developments in the region; an excellent command of Arabic and English. Proficiency in other languages of the Middle East is an advantage;
Deadline for application: 18 January 2016. Information:
http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/15-407-vacature-universiteit-leiden-university-lectureship-in-arabic-literature-and-culture.html
7. Luce Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – http://mideast.unc.edu/hartford-seminary-luce-professor-of-islamic-studies-and-christian-muslim-relations/
8. MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the Medieval period. The program is therefore characterised by a strongly research-driven, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in the original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research.
The primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for several days/a couple of weeks for discussion, teaching and examination.
Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students, many of whom are from the Middle East. The language of instruction is English.
Entry Requirements
- Above-average university degree proven by a transcript of records
- 240 ECTS credit points, at least 80 of which must be in one or more of the following disciplines: Islamic, Arabic, Jewish or Religious Studies, Philosophy and/or equivalent fields
- Excellent language proficiency in English and Arabic (C 1)
Fees and scholarships
- No tuition fees
- Scholarships for Palestinian and Israeli nationals
- Funds for travel and accommodation costs for all participants are in the process of being secured
Application period for the academic year 2016/17 will be open
from 15 April until 31 May 2016.
For more information: www.ihiw.de/master
For direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
9. The Belfer Center’s Iran Project at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government is now accepting applications for pre-doctoral and
post-doctoral fellowships for the 2016-2017 academic year. We seek
applicants whose research addresses issues of contemporary Iranian
affairs and can contribute to advancing scholarship on Iranian studies.
The 2016-2017 application period is now open and will close on January
15, 2016. Recommendations will be due on Monday, February 1, 2016.
More Information About the Fellowship ›
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