Categories : Academic items
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Islamic Studies Lecturer post at The Alwaleed Centre, University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh seeks to appoint a Lecturer in Muslims in Europe, based in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) (http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/islamic-middle-eastern) and teaching both within IMES and within Sociology (http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk).
This post will be offered on a full-time (35 hours each week), open-ended basis.
Salary – £38,896 – £46,414 per annum.
The closing date for receipt of applications is no later than 5.00pm (GMT) on Tuesday 11th October 2016.
For more information, see: https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=037044
2. Exhibition: “Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield”
August 29, 2016 – February 13, 2017
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Inscriptions and images on Islamic arms and armor were believed to provide their wearers with safety and success in combat. The exhibition Power and Piety: Islamic Talismans on the Battlefield (August 29, 2016 – February 13, 2017) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, examines the role of text and image in the construction, function, and decoration of arms and armor in the Islamic world. The exhibition features some 30 works from The Met collection, and is divided into five sections. The first establishes the context for understanding the empowering inscriptions and symbols that can be found on Islamic arms and armor. The next three sections, with a geographical focus, shows objects from Iran, Turkey, India, and Southeast Asia. The works include armor, weapons, and military paraphernalia, such as banners and standards. The final section features objects such as personal Qur’ans and seals that may have been carried into battle for good luck.
The exhibition was organized by Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator, Department of Islamic Art, and Rachel Parikh, Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Department of Arms and Armor.
A digital catalog accompanies the exhibition: https://metmuseum.atavist.com/powerandpiety
For more information, the exhibition page can be found here: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2016/power-and-piety
3. Call for Papers Deadline: 15 January 2017
The Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road
Conference date: October 12, 2017
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon
We invite papers that explore the portable arts and built environment of the Silk Road from its beginnings through the period of its fragmentation under the Mongol Empire. Papers may investigate case studies in specific visual and material culture topics, archeological sites, or take a broader, comparative approach. We are particularly interested in having a geographic range of topics represented in the material shared at the conference in order to explore possible themes such as diplomacy in art, hybridity, exoticism, regionalism, and globalization.
Call for Papers:
The language of the conference presentations will be English, and the presentations will be 20-minute papers grouped around themes for discussion panels following each set of talks. Please submit an approximately 300-word abstract and curriculum vitae to Professors Junghee Lee (dilj@pdx.edu) and Anne McClanan (anne@pdx.edu)
Key Dates:
Abstract Submission Deadline: January 15, 2017
Acceptance Notification: March 1, 2017
Early Registration Deadline: August 15, 2017
Registration Deadline: September 29, 2017
Conference Date: October 12, 2017
https://psusilkroadconference.wordpress.com/
#SilkRoadSymp
Contact Info:
Anne McClanan
Professor of Byzantine Art and Digital Humanities
Portland State University
Contact Email:
URL:
https://psusilkroadconference.wordpress.com/
4. CALL FOR PAPERS
‘’Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies’’
with cooperation with
Bulgarian National Library ‘’ St, Cyril and Methodius’’ and
Department of Iranian Studies at Sofia University ‘’St. Kliment Ohridski’’
Announces the International conference:
’’Persian Manuscripts in Balkans and Central Europe’’
February 2017, Bulgarian National Library ‘’ St, Cyril and Methodius’’
Please send your abstract of about 500 words in English or Persian to the following address:
Deadline: November 29th, 2016
5. The Institute of Ismaili Studies (210, Euston Road, London NW1 2DA) is pleased to announced the first IIS Annemarie Schimmel Memorial Lecture entitled
Between Medieval Sufi Apologetics and Polemics: The Rise and Fall of Awhad al-Din Kirmani (d.1238) by Dr Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow).
Please note that this lecture will be introduced by Prof Ali Asani (Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religions and Cultures, Department of Near Eastern languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
DATE: Thursday, 15 September 2016, 17:00 GMT (Room 2.1)
TO ATTEND IN PERSON: Please click here
TO VIEW THE LIVE WEBCAST: Please click here
ENQUIRIES: Please email Miss Naushin Shariff (nshariff@iis.ac.uk)
6. CfP: 4th Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies,
11-13 April 2017, University of Chester
http://www.brais.ac.uk/2017cfp
Note: All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to brais@ed.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 30th November 2016. You will receive an email notification confirming the receipt of your form.
7. Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a Visiting Assistant/Associate Professorship in modern Iranian Studies (post 1800). The position is open to all disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. This is a one-year position with a strong possibility of renewal for a second year. We especially welcome candidates who thrive in an interdisciplinary environment, whose work is informed by comparative and global perspectives, and who have experience teaching and supervising undergraduates. The successful candidate will teach three classes a year and is expected to actively cultivate broad interest in Iranian Studies at Brown and to contribute to the intellectual life of the university. Additional funding for programming and research expenses will be considered.
For further information, see http://www.middleeastbrown.org/, send an send an email to mes_director@brown.edu or send an inquiry to:
Beshara Doumani Director, Middle East Studies Brown University 111 Thayer Street Providence, RI 02912 +1 401.863.6924
8. 5th Annual Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)
AGAPS seeks to recognize exceptional scholarship on the Gulf. These awards really boost the visibility of young scholars on the job market.
Extended deadline for submission: 19 September 2016. Information: http://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/
9. Other jobs:
Senior Research Fellow on “Islam: Culture, Society and Politics”, Queen’s University Belfast
The post is available for five years at the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice to develop the Institute’s research expertise on Islam in relation to peace-building, security and justice. The post holder will initiate, develop and manage high level research projects in line with the University’s research strategy and contribute to the Institute’s core activities.
Deadline for application: 10 October 2016. Information: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AOP124/senior-research-fellow-islam-culture-society-and-politics
Assistant Professor in the Study of Muslims/Islam in America, University of Minnesota
The tenure track position will begin 28 August 2017. Deadline for application: 17 October 2016. Information http://humanresources.umn.edu/jobs . Click the Apply button and search for Job Opening ID #312745.
Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern / North African History, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Appointment to begin 7 September 2017. Geographic focus and time period are open. Interdisciplinary and transnational approaches welcome.
Review of applications will begin on 1 November 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53497
Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern History, California State University, Sacramento
Appointment to begin Fall 2017. Specialization in Ottoman history and interest in working with the Tsakopoulos Hellenic collection of Ottoman Turkish and Arabic manuscripts are desirable.
Review of applications will begin 3 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53473
Assistant Professor in Ottoman History (Early Modern or Modern Periods), Columbia University, New York
Appointment to begin on 1 July 2017. We particularly encourage applications from scholars who take transnational approaches to the history of the Ottoman Empire. Review of applications will begin on 15 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53501
Doctoral Candidate in the Public History of the Middle East, North Carolina State University
The position will start in fall 2017 for a period of three years. Acceptance into the program includes a competitive stipend, full tuition waiver, and health coverage.
Deadline for application: 15 January 2017. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53485
Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
The position will begin in the fall of 2017. We encourage applications from candidates who specialize in Sufism and whose skill-set include the following: solid grounding in pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, culture and institutions; superior Arabic language skills.
Review of applications will begin 17 October 2016. Information: https://jobs.usc.edu/postings/74287
- September 13, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.Program of the International Colloquium “Precious Metals in the Medieval Mediterranean“. It will be organised by Aix-Marseille Université and Università degli studi di Siena in Aix-en-Provence (France) from October, 6th, 7th and 8th 2016.
– Program :
https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Programme.pdf
– Poster :
https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Colloque_metaux_2016.pdf
https://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Colloquium_metals_2016.pdf
Free registration and practical informations are available on this website (before September, 20th) :
http://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/
For the organizing committee,
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
PhD Student – Aix-Marseille Université
LA3M – UMR 7298
2. Open Access journal
Revue interdisciplinaire à comité scientifique, les Cahiers d’EMAM se proposent de contribuer à la restitution des savoirs en sciences sociales sur le Monde arabe et la Méditerranée. La revue est ouverte aux analyses traitant des questions urbaines, des processus de constructions/reconfigurations territoriales dans leurs dimensions historiques, sociales, économiques et politiques ainsi que leurs interférences avec le reste du monde.
S’inscrivant dans la continuité des Cahiers d’URBAMA (parus entre 1988 et 2000 et dont la mise en ligne est prévue sur ce même site), la revue perpétue ainsi une tradition d’édition qui doit permettre l’échange et le débat scientifique entre chercheurs confirmés et doctorants, mais aussi entre le monde de la recherche et celui des professionnels, des acteurs de l’aménagement et des acteurs sociaux.
Les Cahiers d’EMAM doivent notamment stimuler la valorisation des travaux des chercheurs basés dans le Monde arabe et méditerranéen. Les approches nouvelles, les travaux en cours ainsi que les démarches comparatives sont privilégiés (se reporter à “Procédure de publication et de sélection”).
3. Call for papers
First International Conference of Capacity and Impact of Cyberspace in Promoting Religious Education
In Seven Languages: Persian, Arabic, English, French, Urdu, Turkish, and Azeri
May 2017,Al-Mustafa Open University,Qom,I.R.Iran
Al-Mustafa Open University (MOU) invites all interested professors,scholars,researchers and graduated students to submit their papers to the first international conference under the title of “Capacity and Impact of Cyberspace in Promoting Religious Education”. MOU is holding this conference in order to bring together academics and researchers to discuss about the capacity of web-based and virtual education and to exchange ideas regarding the ways how to promote Religious Studies in cyberspace with no limitation of time and place.
For further information, please refer to conference website:
http://hamayesh.miu.ac.ir/cyberspace/en
4. The Islamic Manuscript Association, together with the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, Cambridge University Library, and the University of Cambridge’s HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, announces its Tenth Annual Intensive Introduction to Islamic Codicology Course, which will be held from 3-7 October 2016 at the Cambridge University Library.
This intensive five-day course will introduce the study of Islamic manuscript codices as physical objects, or the archaeology of the Islamic book. Daily illustrated lectures will provide an overview of writing supports, the structure of quires, ruling and page layout, bookbinding, ornamentation, tools and materials used in book making, and the paleography of book hands. Participants may choose to register for hands-on sessions during which they will examine Islamic manuscripts from Cambridge University Library and complete a series of practical exercises on manuscript description.
The course will be taught by Professor François Déroche, holder of the Chair of History of the Qur’an, Text and Transmission at the Collège de France, and Professor Nuria Martínez de Castilla Muñoz, Professor of the Codicology and History of the Manuscript Book in the Islamicate World, École Pratique des Hautes Études, both leading scholars of Islamic codicology and palaeography.
All instruction will be in English. A scholarship offered by the Centre of Islamic Studies for a participant from the Islamic World is also available. For more information, see www.islamicmanuscript.org
5. Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Beirut, May, 2017
Call for Papers
We are pleased to announce the Fourth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies which will be held at the American University of Beirut from May 11-13, 2017.
The conference will be conducted in two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk architecture from May 8-10, 2017.
The first day of the conference, May 11, will be themed. In consideration of the quincentennial of the fall of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo in 1517, the theme of this part of the conference will be Time. This theme may be interpreted in a variety of ways, from problems of traditional historical periodization, to notions and explorations of time and temporality in history writing, daily life, literature, material culture, and other areas of research relating to the Mamluk sultanate of Egypt and Syria. Without attempting to offer an exhaustive presentation of possible approaches to the theme, papers may deal with conceptions of time and temporality—cyclical, linear, teleological, etc.—in the construction of chronologies and narratives; the ordering and division of time in daily life, spiritual life, literature, and the study of the natural world; notions of change and continuity over time; temporal practices—the use of and interaction with time; and the experience and understanding of time.
A maximum of 12 to 15 paper proposals will be selected. Should a greater number of proposals be received, the authors of those which are not selected for the conference may be offered the possibility to publish their contribution in the proceedings. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes, plus ten minutes for discussion.
The following two days of the conference (May 12 and 13) will be structured in panels, which may focus on any aspect of the intellectual, political, social, economic, and artistic life of the Mamluk period. The panels will be organized into presentations of three to four papers of twenty minutes each. Panel proposals must be made by a representative, who will be responsible for its organization. Please note that in case of cancellation of two papers out of the three (or three out of the four) composing the panel, the panel will have to be withdrawn from the program. Time allotted to each paper will be twenty minutes. Discussion will take place at the end of each panel.
Language: The official language of the conference will be English.
Fees: The conference registration fees will be $50 for participants and attendees. A farewell dinner will take place on the last day (May 13) at a cost to be determined. Payment of the fees (registration and farewell dinner) must be received by April 30, 2017 (information on the method of payment to be used will be provided in the first circular, which will be sent in January 2017). Participants must make their own travel arrangements; information and suggestions for accommodations will be provided in the first circular.
Proposals: Paper proposals for the themed day must be submitted electronically through the School of Mamluk Studies webpage (http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/school-of-mamluk-studies.html ) by October 31, 2016. Panel proposals must be submitted in the same manner by November 30, 2016. The paper proposals should provide the name and a one-page CV of the speaker, a provisional title, and an abstract of a maximum of 1500 characters (about 300 words) per paper. Panel proposals must be submitted as such, including the relevant information for each component paper as well as the name of the panel’s chair (the chair can be one of the panelists).
Acceptance: Paper and panel proposals will be peer-reviewed. A first circular will be sent by January 2017 to those whose proposals have been accepted, and to those who have expressed interest in attending the conference as listeners.
Publication:
- a) Themed day: the papers will be published in a volume of proceedings.
- b) Panels: selected papers will be published in Mamlūk Studies Review.
Intensive course: Mamluk Architecture
A three-day intensive course in Mamluk architecture intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants will be offered by Professor Howayda al-Harithy (American University of Beirut) and will be held immediately before the fourth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies held at the American University of Beirut (May 8-10, 2017). The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format, but no previous training is required. The course will cover topics such as building typology, stylistic evolution, patronage of architecture, construction techniques, and decorative styles.
Since the number of the participants will be limited (a maximum of 10), those who desire to take part in the course are requested to submit a CV, a statement of purpose, and a letter of recommendation by someone familiar with your work to the following email address: sms2017beirut@gmail.com by the end of January, 2017. Those who are selected for the course will be notified by the end of February, 2017, at which time information about the method of payment for the course fees will be provided.
The course fee is $300.00, which also includes the registration fee for the subsequent conference (May 11-13). The fees must be paid by April 30, 2017. Registration and participation will not be confirmed until payment is received. Participants must make their own travel arrangements. The local organizer will provide suggestions for lodging at an affordable price.
We look forward to meeting you in Beirut.
John Meloy, American University of Beirut (local organizer)
Frédéric Bauden, Université de Liège
Antonella Ghersetti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Marlis Saleh, University of Chicago
6. CALL FOR PAPERS
Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy
A two-day seminar is to be held at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh on
Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th May 2017
This is a formal Call for Papers for a two-day event of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) in conjunction the Centre for Middle Eastern Plants, part of the RBGE. Presentations should be rigorous and accessible. They should take around thirty minutes, with ample time allowed for discussion and debate. The event will be recorded and the plan is to publish final versions of the papers.
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 January 2017
Please e-mail your offers of papers to ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com together with a working title, a brief abstract of not more than 250 words, and the names of authors and their affiliations.
We also welcome the offer of pre-organised panels of up to four speakers on specific themes.
Participants will be informed about the acceptance of their paper by 15 February 2017.
Seminar Bursaries are also offered to attend (these bursaries do not cover travel or accommodation): please contact treasurerastene@gmail.com for further information.
Contributions to the Seminar are welcome from a wide range of disciplines and interests. It is envisaged that the Seminar will cover many fascinating subjects on (though not restricted to) the following main themes:
— Travellers’ accounts related to the botanical legacy of any part of the former Ottoman Empire (e.g. present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, Arabian Peninsula etc.)
— The flora of the region, including their heritage, preservation and medicinal uses
— Bulbs of the region, especially tulips, and their cultural significance; Tulipomania
— Ottoman garden design and architecture
— Floral and related motifs in Ottoman art, including textiles, ceramics etc.
— Culinary aspects of the botanical legacy of the region
— Literary, pictorial and photographic depictions of any aspect of the botanical and horticultural legacy of the region
— Orientalism as applicable to any of the seminar’s main themes.
The Seminar Booking Form and the Draft Seminar Programme will be available on Eventbrite in early January 2017 with the deadline for bookings being 15 April 2017. Tickets will also be available at the event. All Welcome!
In the meantime, any enquiries should be addressed to ottomanlandsastene@gmail.com
Sponsored by: The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh; The Centre for Middle Eastern Plants; The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE; Cornucopia, the magazine for connoisseurs of Turkey; the Republic of Turkey Consulate General, Edinburgh.
7. Conference: “Modern Hadith Studies Between Arabophone and Western Scholarship”, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 9-10 January 2017
The organizers Belal Alabbas, Prof. Christopher Melchert and Dr Nicolai Sinai invite scholars from Arabophone and Western institutions to discuss current research on the hadith corpus, aiming to bridge the divide between Anglophone and Arabophone research in hadith studies. It is based on the belief that the absence of any engagement of the scholarly communities with one another inhibits any significant methodological convergence.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2016. Information: www.religiousstudiesproject.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CFP-Hadith-Studies-Oxford.pdf
______________
8. Full time fixed-term position as Postdoctoral Associate, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
The Max Planck Institute invites applications for a position as Postdoctoral Associate (m/f) within its Research Group “Changes in God’s Law – An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Law”. The successful candidate must have primary research interests in the family law of contemporary Muslim societies.
Deadline for application: 31 October 2016. Information : www.mpipriv.de/files/pdf4/Postdoctoral_Associate_mf_Position.pdf
9. Senior Research Fellow, MENA Programme (Iran Specialist), Emirates Diplomatic Academy (EDA), United Arab Emirates
The ideal applicant has expertise in the relations between Iranian and the Arabian Peninsula. The EDA is an Abu-Dhabi based independent, federal UAE entity that opened its doors in 2015.
Information http://eda.ac.ae/careers/eda-vacancies
10. Postdoctoral Scholarships: Academy Scholars Program 2017-2018 of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
The program supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or present.
Deadline for application: 1 October 2016. Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53348
11. Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics or International Relations, Miami University
The successful candidate will be an expert who studies some combination of the following in a Middle Eastern setting: governance, gender politics, human rights, conflict and conflict resolution (domestic and/or international), identity politics, trade and development, energy, water, agricultural, and natural resource issues, and/or environmental problems.
Screening of applications will begin September 30, 2016. Information: http://miamioh.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobID=3238
12. Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Global Languages and Literatures, Bridgewater State University
The successful candidate should be able to teach some currently offered lower and upper division courses and add offerings in the Anthropology of the Middle East and other areas of expertise, including writing- and/or speaking-intensive courses as well as Introductory and Intermediary Arabic.
Information: https://jobs.bridgew.edu
13. The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, Columbia University, is seeking a full-time tenured or tenure-track teacher-scholar for the Moinian Professorship in Pre-modern Middle Eastern Cultures and Civilizations, starting September 1, 2017. Rank open with strong preference for candidates with an established record of teaching and research and a mastery of the languages relevant to their specialization. Candidates should demonstrate a broad interest in the history, cultures and/or literatures of the Middle East; discipline and geographic area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required.
Teaching will include undergraduate general education courses such as “Middle Eastern Civilizations” and “Asian Humanities: Colloquium on Major Texts of South Asia and the Middle East,” as well as more specialized and graduate courses. Particular attention will be given to candidates with a record of diverse, innovative, and interdisciplinary research and teaching. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping to build an independent Program in Middle Eastern Studies at Barnard, and coordinating with MESAAS, Columbia University.
To apply: please submit a complete curriculum vitae, a writing sample, and the names and contact information for three references to http://careers.barnard.edu/postings/2378.
Review of applications will begin on October 15, 2016, and continue until position is filled1.
- September 07, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Qur’an Between Judaism and Christianity
A series of public lectures funded by the British Academy, hosted at the University of Nottingham and co-sponsored by the Karimia Institute, seeking to enhance the public understanding of the Qurʾān by focusing on the ways in which the Scripture of Islam relates to Judaism and to Christianity.
On three days in autumn 2016, prominent and emerging academics from the UK, from mainland Europe, and from overseas will address how the Qurʾān relates to aspects of the two other “Abrahamic” traditions, ranging from Biblical narrative to theology and law. The talks will be followed by a response and a discussion.
Attendance is free and open to the public, but registration is required.
For further information, see: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/html-emails/arts/theology/the-quran-between-judaism-and-christianity.aspx
2. University of Edinburgh
W M Watt lecture – Prof. Maribel Fierro, Charisma and Anti-Charisma in al-Andalus: Friday 4 November
Relations between scholars and rulers were of fundamental importance in competing claims to religious and political authority in Islamic premodern societies. Sunni Islam as against Shii Islam has historically been suspicious of charisma—that is, the belief that God has appointed one particular person who is protected by God and given right belief. Islamic Spain (al-Andalus) is a territory usually identified with Sunni (Maliki) Islam and characterized by a strong network of Sunni (Maliki) scholars. However, charisma was used to support political and religious claims, while one of the region’s most productive and original thinkers, Ibn Hazm (d. 1064), was very outspoken in his rejection of charismatic authority and also of Malikism.
Professor Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), in Spain. She is a leading authority on the religious and intellectual history of Islamic Spain and the Islamic West, and on Islamic law. She is the editor of volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam, The Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 2010) and recently led an ERC project on Knowledge, Heresy and Political Culture in the Islamic West, during which she published The Almohad Revolution: Religion and Politics in the Islamic West (Ashgate, 2012)
The event is free but booking a place is essential.
For further details and booking information, see:
3. Call for Proposals
“Books as Agents of Contact”
Session Organizers: Hansun Hsiung (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), András Kiséry (The City College of New York), Yael Rice (Amherst College)
Saturday, 14 October 2017, 8:30–10:00am
Bibliography Among the Disciplines Conference
12–15 October 2017, Philadelphia, PA
The book territorializes and deterritorializes. It binds together materials, technologies, and labor from far and abroad–a letter from Goa, an editor in Rome, Chinese paper, German engravers, Italian leather, English capital–only to be dispersed and reconstituted, from hand to hand, collection to collection, dismembered, reassembled, and reinvented for new audiences in new locations.
This panel seeks to understand how books as physical artifacts are agents of contact, summoning diverse persons and places into unanticipated relationships. Of particular interest are proposals that address the following: What formal or material features of books facilitate or generate promiscuity? How does the physical object of the book create audiences that exceed or trouble established political and territorial maps? Can the logic of book circulation challenge narratives of globalization as the rise of commerce and empire?
We welcome proposals for any time period, from antiquity to the present, and interpret “books” broadly as surfaces of semiotic inscription, from stone, papyri, and parchment, to paper, and even digital media. Papers will be circulated in advance of the conference. Presenters will deliver short summary provocations (8-10 minutes), followed by a moderator-led discussion.
Please submit a proposal of no more than 200 words, along with a brief CV, by 25 October 2016 at:
rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-papers
Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference, will bring together scholarly professionals poised to address current problems pertaining to the study of textual artifacts that cross scholarly, pedagogical, professional, and curatorial domains. The conference will explore theories and methods common to the object-oriented disciplines, such as anthropology and archaeology, but new to bibliography. The program aims to promote focused cross-disciplinary exchange and future scholarly collaborations. Bibliography Among the Disciplines is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and organized by the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in Critical Bibliography at Rare Book School. For more information, please visit: rarebookschool.org/bibliography-conference-2017
4. International Congress: “Islam in Plural. Thought, Faith and Society.” Université Catholique, Lyon, 6-9 September 2016
Three main topics provide the structure of the congress: current developments in geopolitics and economics, theological questions underlying interreligious encounters, and sociological dimensions of intra-islamic pluralism particularly with respect to the diverse challenges rising from modernity.
Information: http://evenement.pluriel.fuce.eu/en-/; Contact: contact.pluriel@fuce.eu
5. Postdoctoral Scholarships: Academy Scholars Program 2017-2018 of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
The program supports outstanding scholars at the start of their careers whose work combines disciplinary excellence in the social sciences (including history and law) with a command of the language, history, or culture of non-Western countries or regions. Their scholarship may elucidate domestic, comparative, or transnational issues, past or present.
Deadline for application: 1 October 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53348
6. University of Edinburgh
Syria: From Severus to Saladin
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology, in association with Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, is holding a day conference, open to students, staff and members of the public alike, organised by Dr Lucy Grig (Classics) and Dr Andrew Marsham (IMES).
The conference will include papers from a range of international, focusing on diverse aspects of the history, material and visual culture of Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Syria, as well as the current challenges to the preservation of Syria’s archaeological heritage.
Syria: From Severus to Saladin
School of History, Classics and Archaeology (Doorway 4, Old Medical School) Saturday 17th September
9-9.30 am Registration (McMillan Room)
9.30 Introduction Lucy Grig and Andrew Marsham (Meadows Lecture Theatre)
9.45-10.30 Ted Kaizer (Durham) ‘Questions of Identity at Tadmor/Palmyra’
10.30-1115 Robert Hillenbrand (Edinburgh/St Andrews): ‘Umayyad and Abbasid Palaces Compared’
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-12.30 Koray Durak (Bogazici, Istanbul): ‘Islamic Syria through Byzantine Eyes’
12.30-2 Lunch break
2-2.45 Simon Gundelfinger (Hamburg): ‘9th and 10th Century Concepts of al-Sham: a Geographical Survey’
2.45- 3.30 Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh/St Andrews): ‘Damascus: Saladin’s favourite city’
3.30-4 Coffee break
4-4.45 Mike Bishop (EAMENA, Oxford) ‘When the Present Threatens the Past: Endangered Archaeology in Syria’
4.45-5.15 Final panel discussion: ‘Syria: Continuity, Change and Challenges’
Cost: £20/£10 students.
For full and information and to register see:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/news-events/events/conference-syria
7. on-line journal
MIDÉO. Mélanges de l’Institut dominicain d’études orientales
La revue MIDÉO est un périodique scientifique qui s’intéresse à l’aspect religieux et philosophique des domaines d’investigation des chercheurs de l’IDÉO et de ses collaborateurs. Une attention particulière est portée à l’histoire des idées et des doctrines du monde arabe, dans son passé et jusque dans son présent en l’envisageant en lui-même aussi bien que dans ses relations avec l’Occident. Produit en Égypte, le MIDÉO manifeste un intérêt particulier aux problèmes historiques, culturels et doctrinaux de l’Égypte ancienne et moderne, poursuivant avec les savants égyptiens une étroite et constante collaboration.
- August 30, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. Annual Meeting Call for Papers
Partnerships: Enhancing Opportunities is this year’s theme for the annual Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) meeting. The meeting will be hosted by the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT, and will take place at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, 15-17 November 2016.
Middle East librarians, and more generally Area Studies librarians, have a long history of cooperation and partnerships. Indeed, it is through partnerships that programs such as the Middle East Cooperative Acquisitions Program (MECAP), and the Center for Research Libraries’ (CRL) Middle East Materials Project (MEMP) developed. These programs have been instrumental for our communities, the research being conducted, and highlight some of the larger initiatives that have taken place over the years. Other large scale projects have made collections available digitally encouraging and enabling new avenues of scholarship. The profusion of digital humanities projects being created highlights the ever-changing ways in which scholars interact with each other, scholarship is produced, and is providing enhanced opportunities for long-distance and international partnerships.
Partnering with institutions to further our goals as a community is essential; we invite papers of no more than 20 minutes exploring historical and contemporary partnerships. Preference will be given to partnerships with libraries (or museums) in the MENA region.
Presentations dedicated to investigating, analyzing, and discussing the opportunities, challenges, and experiences with all types of partnerships are welcome, including but not limited to:
- Community building
- Collection development
- Rights, rules, and regulations of multi-party ownership
- Resource sharing
- Digitization practices
- Documentation practices
- Negotiating standards
- Enhancing metadata for accessibility across platforms
- Reciprocal agreements for shared materials
Submission guidelines:
- Proposals should be a maximum of 250 words.
- Please send your proposals to vice-president@mela.us in a word document.
- Proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
- Proposals must include a title and clearly demonstrate relevancy to this year’s theme, Partnerships: Enhancing opportunities.
- Submission deadline is 31 August 2016.
- Session format is a 30 minute presentation (20 minute presentation with 10 minutes for questions).
Notification:
- All submitters will be notified by 21 September 2016.
- All presenters will be asked to submit a brief biography (max 100 words), a photograph, and an abbreviated abstract to be published in the program and posted on the MELA website.
- All presenters will be asked to make their presentation available on the conference website.
While MELA is not in a position to pay honoraria or provide financial support for travel and lodging, we will waive program registration fees for presenters. Presenters are expected to be full paid MELA members.
See further: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7636/discussions/137390/cfp-2nd-call-partnerships-enhancing-opportunities-middle-east
2. Open call to candidates for a tenure-track position in modern Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (including Qajar-Pahlavi Iran) in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (open rank).
The position is open to individuals who hold a doctorate degree and for advanced doctoral students whose PhD will be conferred no later than July 1, 2017.
For more information:
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/new.php?cat=5369
Contact:
Dr. Michael Shenkar, Senior Lecturer in Pre-Islamic Iranian Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt Scopus 91905, Jerusalem.
3. A.C.S. Peacock and Sara Nur Yıldız, eds. Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-century Anatolia, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag Würzburg in Kommission, 2016.
This collection of thirteen essays addresses the intellectual, religious and literary culture of medieval Anatolia and the early Ottoman realm of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, focusing on text written in Arabic, Persian and Old Anatolian Turkish as case studies. The introductory chapter surveys the beylik (Turkish principalities) period and the emergence of Anatolian Turkish as a vernacular literary language in the fourteenth century. The subsequent chapters present a wide range of topics, ranging from proto-Bektashi poetry and the Vefa’iyye to the emergence of the Ottoman scholarly system. These scholarly essays aim not only to move beyond Köprülü’s nationalist paradigm of Anatolian cultural life with new approaches, but also to provide background for further research and point to new avenues of inquiry in this relatively neglected field of study.
The volume may be purchased through the Ergon Publisher’s website: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/en/orientalistik/istanbuler-texte-und-studien/band-34.php
The volume may be purchased also as an E-Book: http://www.ergon-verlag.de/en/e-books/istanbuler-texte-und-studien/band-34-e-book.php
4. 1st North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2016
Meeting Description:
The Iranian language family hosts some of the densest variation in grammatical
systems on the planet. Despite the remarkable scientific potential of the
Iranian language family as a ”laboratory” for comparative study, and unlike
the situation with nearly every other major language family, no conference has
ever been held in the US specializing exclusively in languages of the Iranian
family. Stony Brook Linguistics is pleased to host the first North American
Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 1), April 27-30, 2017.
Invited Speakers:
Jila Gomeshi, University of Manitoba
Geoffrey Haig, Bamberg Universität
Simin Karimi, University of Arizona
Pollet Samvelian, Université Paris III
Call for Papers:
We warmly welcome abstracts on all topics related to Iranian languages and
linguistics. Submissions are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for
discussion) and/or posters (posters should measure approx. 3ft x 4ft or 90cm x
120cm) on any aspect of Iranian Linguistics.
Abstracts are invited from all areas of grammar (phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics) and their interfaces. Abstracts on language acquisition,
psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, sociolinguistics and computational
linguistics are also encouraged.
We strongly encourage contributions exploring approaches to language diversity
and typological works (including but not limited to sign languages,
under-represented languages and comparative studies).
To propose a paper/poster for presentation at NACIL 1, upload an abstract
conforming to the guidelines below to the EasyAbs site:
Abstract guidelines:
In order to be eligible for consideration, abstracts should conform to the
following requirements:
– Abstracts, including references and data, must not exceed two A4 pages in
length, have 2.5 cm (1 inch) margins on all sides, and be set in Times New
Roman with a font size no smaller than 11pt.
– Examples, tables, graphs, etc. must be interspersed into the text of the
abstract, rather than collected at the end.
– The submission must not reveal the identity of the author(s) in any way.
– Submissions are limited to two per author, with at most one paper being
single-authored.
– Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format through EasyAbs by Wednesday,
November 30, 2017, 11:59pm EST (http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/nacil1).
Scientific committee:
Mostafa Assi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies)
Elena Bashir (The University of Chicago)
Ali Darzi (University of Tehran)
Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Geoffrey Haig (Bamberg Universität)
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto)
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Agnes Korn (Universität Frankfurt)
Gholamhosein KarimiDoostan (University of Tehran)
Richard Larson (Stony Brook University)
Yahya Modarresi (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies)
Taylor Roberts (York University)
Vida Samiian (California State University, Fresno)
Pollet Samvelian (Université Paris III)
Greg Stump (University of Kentucky)
Important dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: November 30, 2017
Decisions on submitted abstracts: February 10, 2017
Conference program posted online: April 20, 2017
5. University Lectureship in International Relations of Modern Iran
The Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University invites applications for an:
University Lectureship in International Relations of Modern Iran (1.0 fte)
Vacancy number: 16-249
Queries may be sent to Ali Seyed Gohrab
(a.a.seyed-gohrab@hum.leidenuniv.nl
<mailto:a.a.seyed-gohrab@hum.leidenuniv.nl>), with cc to Frank Pieke
(f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl <mailto:f.n.pieke@hum.leidenuniv.nl>).
6. University of Oklahoma, Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Persian Language and Literature (Tenure Track)
The University of Oklahoma’s Department of International and Area Studies, a thriving academic department in the expanding College of International Studies
invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in Persian literature, funded by the Farzaneh Family Foundation. Applicants’ primary research focus should be in the field of modern Persian literature. Candidates with additional teaching and research expertise in classical Persian literature and language pedagogy are also encouraged to apply. Teaching responsibilities will include advanced Persian language instruction, as well as survey courses in Persian literature in translation. Candidates will also be expected to offer thematic courses in literature and culture that contribute to the comparative, global, and transnational curriculum of the Department of International and Area Studies.
The successful candidate will join a growing and vibrant program in Iranian Studies at the University of Oklahoma, with two tenure-line faculty already present, and searches for three additional tenure lines forthcoming. Native or near-native fluency in Persian and English, and demonstration of an active research agenda, are also required. We hope to welcome a new colleague with a demonstrated commitment to fostering inclusivity and mentoring members of underrepresented groups.
The Department of International and Area Studies (IAS) offers seven undergraduate degrees to approximately 350 majors, and an MA in International Studies with 40 students enrolled. The Department has approximately 20 full-time faculty with collective research strengths in the areas of development, security, and national identity. For more information, please visit the IAS website at https://www.ou.edu/content/cis/ias.html. The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a comprehensive public research university with a Carnegie classification of very high research activity known for excellence in teaching and research. OU enrolls over 30,000 students and has more than 2700 full-time faculty members in 21 colleges. Norman is a culturally rich and vibrant town located just outside Oklahoma City. For more information, visit http://soonerway.ou.edu and http://www.ou.edu/flipbook.
Applicants should have a Ph.D. in hand by the time of appointment. The teaching load will be two courses per semester (2-2). Salary is competitive. The appointment will begin on August 16, 2017. Applicants should submit a letter of application, statements of teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, transcripts, complete sets of teaching evaluations, and a writing sample. Submit all materials electronically at: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7640.
Review of applications will begin October 17, 2016 and will continue until the position is filled. We especially encourage applications from underrepresented groups as we continue to build a diverse faculty. The University of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity institution (www.ou.edu/eeo).
7. International Symposium: “The Fatwā System and Fatwā Books in the Ottoman Empire and India”, New Delhi, 14-15 January 2017
The symposium aims to elaborate on the Fatwā system and Fatwā books that were produced by Indian and Ottoman ulama. Participants will be reimbursed for accommodation costs.
Submission of Abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: http://www.ifa-india.org/english.php; contact: mailto:symposium@isar.org.tr
8. Assistant Professor in the Department of History (tenure-track), Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
The position is beginning August 2017. We seek candidates with combined teaching and research expertise in transnational history with an area of focus in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East.
Application Deadline: 23 September 2016.Information: https://jobs.willamette.edu/postings/2121
9. Assistant Professor in Classical Islam (tenure-track), Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
The position is to begin in Fall 2017. The successful candidate must have primary research interests and training in Classical Islam (e.g., Qur’an and tafsir, history, philosophy, Sufism, literature, etc.).
Deadline for application: 14 October 2016. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7635
10. Assistant Professor for Middle East / Islamic World, University of West Georgia
The position will start fall 2017. Responsibilities include teaching a world history survey, a survey of the Middle East or the Islamic World, as well as advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in the candidate’s area of specialization.
Deadline for application: 1 November 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53297
11. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, Salisbury University, Maryland
Teaching includes World Civilizations, History of the Middle East, and graduate courses for the M.A. in History program.
Deadline for application: 15 October 2016. Information: http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53303
- August 23, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.CALL FOR PAPERS — Due 15 November 2016
IJMES Special Issue: The Environment in the Middle East and North Africa
Guests editors Tessa Farmer and Jessica Barnes with IJMES editors Akram
Khater and Jeffrey Culang
From arid cities to irrigated fields, hot deserts to Mediterranean
mountains, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) encompasses a range
of environments for thinking through the relationships between nature
and society, people and animals, human and nonhuman worlds. Yet, while
research on various aspects of the material world has a long history in
the scholarship of the MENA, research on the environment as such has
been relatively limited. Reflecting growing interest in the environment
as a topic of concern, this special issue of IJMES will bring together
scholarship from anthropology, geography, sociology, Science and
Technology Studies (STS), and related disciplines on current
environment-related themes in the region.
We invite manuscript submissions that examine cultural, political, and
social dimensions of the environment in the contemporary MENA. We are
particularly interested in papers that are based on in-depth
ethnographic fieldwork. The following are some of the key questions that
this research may address. How does attention to the environment shape
new understandings of knowledge production and expertise? How are
categories of scale, from the global to the regional, national, and
individual, embroiled in and produced through environmental engagements?
How can we investigate the body and its fluid articulations with
environmental materials? How do various religious conceptions and moral
imaginaries come into view when examining socionatures in urban,
periurban, and rural locales? What new angles do environmental issues
offer for viewing long-standing sociopolitical conflicts at local and
national levels? How do ideas of the “environment” and
“environmentalism” function in local and national political projects?
What role does the environment play in how nation-states articulate
their histories and futures? How is “care” for the environment performed?
In drawing together a set of rich, empirically based papers, this
special issue will not only shed important light on how we understand
environmental change in the MENA, but also speak to central questions
within anthropology, geography, sociology, Science and Technology
Studies (STS), and related fields. The issue will push literature on the
region forward by decentering narratives about conflict, religious
fundamentalism, confessional systems, and debates about civilizational
failures, and reorienting the focus onto the social, political, and
cultural dimensions of human engagements with the natural world.
The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2016. Authors should follow
the regular guidelines for submitting an article manuscript to IJMES,
which are detailed here:
http://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/docs/DetailedSubGuidelines.pdf. Please
indicate in your cover letter that your submission is intended for the
special issue. All special issue articles must be accepted individually
through the IJMES peer review process.
For additional information see the contact info below.
Jeffrey Culang
Managing Editor
International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
ijmes.meditor@cambridge.org
IJMES editorial website: http://ijmes.chass.ncsu.edu/index.htm
Cambridge University Press website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=MES
Follow IJMES on Twitter @IJMES1
2. Mysticism in Comparative Perspective
CALL FOR PAPERS
Glasgow University 14th-16th December 2016
Speakers to include:
Rob Faesen (Leuven)
William Franke (Vanderbilt)
Bernard McGinn (Chicago)
George Pattison (Glasgow)
Ada Rapoport-Albert (King’s College, London)
Jane Shaw (Stanford)
Mia Spiro (Glasgow)
At the start of the 20th century, it was widely believed that there was some unitary ‘mystical experience’ underlying the varieties of religious and doctrinal expression. On this view, a Christian, a Buddhist, a Hindu, or a Sufi all had the ‘same’ experience and only differed in their manner of expressing it. By the end of the century this kind of comparativism had fallen into disrepute. Nevertheless, dialogue between faiths would seem to be significantly imperilled if no shared experiential or practical points of unity can be identified. Drawing on recent research, the conference seeks to renew the project of a comparative study of mysticism and in doing so to offer resources for both teaching and research in theology and religious studies.
Proposals under the following headings are especially welcome: Methodology, Annihilation, Love/Union, Material Culture, and Syncretism.
Proposals for Papers must be sent by September 15th to arts-comparativemysticism@glasgow.ac.uk (Acceptances will be notified by end-September.)
The conference will incorporate the Astaire Seminar in Jewish Studies ‘Wandering Souls’ with papers by Ada Rapoport-Albert and Mia Spiro.
For more information, see the Mystical Theology Network Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rege0676/Glasgow%20Conference.html
3. Jobs at Cambridge Muslim College:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/employer/cambridge-muslim-college
4. Find out about the special double issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society in which Professor David O. Morgan is honoured for his contribution over many years to the understanding of the Mongols and their fascinating story. The festschrift issue features exciting new work exploring the complex narratives of the Mongols and their influence on the lands they conquered.
http://view.academic.cambridge.org/?qs=6b1e2c263a99a1c2e492600fb7af38c3d85da69a37502af70ed …
For a fascinating insight into Professor Morgan’s career, watch Timothy May’s interview with him here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0-ur4ePT9Y
5. SJAS CONFERENCE- VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
The 17th International Conference of the Society for Judaeo-Arabic Studies will be held
at Vanderbilt from 15-18 August. The conference will feature world-renowned scholars
speaking on all issues of Judaeo-Arabic language, literature, philosophy, society, and
culture. The conference will begin with an opening banquet and plenary at the Nashville
Gordon Jewish Community Center on 15 August, and will continue through mid-day on
18 August on the Vanderbilt campus. The conference is free and open to the Vanderbilt
community and the Nashville community at large.
6. PhD position in Turkic Languages, focusing on Linguistic Turcology
Uppsala University is an international research university focused on the development of science and education. Our most important assets are all the individuals who with their curiosity and their dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden’s most exciting work places. Uppsala University has 40,000 students, 7,000 employees and a turnover of SEK 6,5 billion.
Research and teaching at the Department of linguistics and philology covers approx. twenty different languages and linguistic subjects as well as computational linguistics. These include many of the important languages and cultures in the Middle East, to which can be added Hindi, Swahili, Chinese, Ancient Greek and Latin. Comparative Indo-European linguistics and general linguistics are also part of the department
Doctoral studies extend over a 4-year period during which the PhD-student will receive a salary as an employee of the department. Doctoral students are expected to engage in full-time study and research, and contribute to and participate in the department’s activities. Teaching and/or administrative tasks may be involved up to a maximum of 20%.
Project: For this position, we are seeking a candidate with a solid background in Turkic Studies, who is highly motivated and interested in theoretical and/or descriptive linguistics. We are interested in projects which investigate linguistic phenomena of the Turkic languages. Projects dealing with philological investigation of written sources would only be considered if they contained a major descriptive component. The final form of the dissertation project will be determined in collaboration with the advisor. Applicants should discuss their proposed research with the section chair, László Károly, before submission.
Qualifications: To qualify for a doctoral position a candidate should hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) in Turkic languages.
How to apply: The application should contain:
- A letter of intent describing your research interests and motivation for PhD studies (maximum one page)
- A CV containing (i) a description of your education, (ii) a list of academic results, (iii) a list of any academic publications, (iv) professional experience relevant to academic research, and (v) relevant technical skills (maximum three pages)
- An authorized copy of your master’s degree (or equivalent)
- A copy of your master’s thesis (and an English summary in maximum ten pages if it is not in English)
- A research proposal which (i) states a research question, (ii) describes the methodology and work plan, and (iii) contextualises the expected results in relation to the state of the art. (maximum five pages including references)
- Other documents which the applicant would like to submit.
The application may be written in English or Swedish.
More information about the PhD programme at the department can be found at the following website: http://www.lingfil.uu.se/admissions/doctoral-studies/
For a general description of PhD student admissions in Sweden, see Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.7 §§34-36.
Rules of employment of graduate students can be found in the Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.5 §§1-7.
Rules for doctoral education is regulated in the Act of higher education (Högskoleförordningen) chap.6 kap §§26-36.
Local admission rules can be found at http://regler.uu.se and at http://www.sprakvet.uu.se/Forskning/Forskarutbildning .
Uppsala University aims for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organization. We therefore welcome applicants of any gender and with different birth background, functionality and life experience.
Salary: Local salary regulations apply.
Starting: 1 January 2017 or earlier
Working hours: Full time
For more information about the position, please contact
Professor László Károly (Laszlo.Karoly@lingfil.uu.se), phone +46 (0)18 471 1089
Director of graduate studies, Professor Christer Henriksén (Christer.Henriksen@lingfil.uu.se), phone + 46 (0)18 471 6845
Senior faculty administrator Lars Hagborg (Lars.Hagborg@uadm.uu.se), phone +46 (0)18 471 1907
You are welcome to submit your application no later than September 30 2016, UFV-PA 2016/2337.
We decline offers of recruitment and advertising help. We only accept the application the way described in the advertisement.
Placement: Department of Linguistics and Philology
Type of employment: Full time , Temporary position longer than 6 months
Pay: Fixed pay
Number of positions: 1
Working hours: 100 %
Town: Uppsala
County: Uppsala län
Country: Sweden
Union representative: Per Sundman, Saco-rådet 018-471 1485
Marie Ols, TCO/ST 018-471 2459
Stefan Djurström, Seko 018-471 3315
Number of reference: UFV-PA 2016/2337
Last application date: 2016-09-30
7. 3 PhD candidates in Middle East Studies (Arabic), Leiden University
The 3 PhD candidates (Vacancy number: 16-252) will carry out research in the framework of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)” headed by Prof. Dr. Petra Sijpesteijn. The PhD candidates will use the vastly important but largely neglected documentary evidence from the Muslim world. This is a full-time post from 1 February 2017 until 31 January 2021.
Deadline for application: 14 September 2016. Contact: mailto: p.m.sijpesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl . Information on LIAS Department: http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lias/
8. Jobs:
Assistant Professor of Political Science Specializing in Comparative Politics, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ
Starting Date: September 2017. Ability to offer courses in one or more of the following areas is desired – Political Economy of Development, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, Politics in the Developing World, Gender and Politics, Environmental Politics, Comparative Law, Democratization, or Regional Integration. Regional focus is open.
Review of applications will begin 28 September 2016. Information: http://www.isanet.org/Programs/Job-Board/mid/9461/EntryDetail
Assistant Professor or Instructor in the History of the Islamic World/Middle East (tenure-track), Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The position is beginning Fall 2017. Applicants should possess or be close to completing a doctoral degree. The successful candidate will teach courses at all levels in the history of the Islamic World and the modern Middle East.
Deadline for application: 15 November 2016. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/36412
9. Articles on “Frontiers of Contemporary Research on the Middle East and North Africa” for “APSA MENA Newsletter”
This newsletter is emerging from the MENA Workshops of the American Political Science Association (APSA), a community-building initiative designed to serve as a platform for Political Science researchers interested in the Middle East and North Africa. For the first issue, we invite topics related, but not limited to, emerging research fields, challenges during fieldwork and methodological issues.
Deadline for submissions of 800-1000 words is 1 October 2016. Information: menanewsletter@apsanet.org.
10. Call for Submissions: Persian Passages (Special issue of Southerly)
Persian speakers from Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan have influenced Australian culture in many ways. What are the evocations of Persian themes in Australian writing and culture? What are the contemporary heirs to Judith Wright’s poem ‘Hafiz of Shiraz’? And what is the image of Australia in contemporary Persian texts? Guest editors Laetitia Nanquette and Ali Alizadeh are calling for submissions of poems, stories, non-fiction and literary papers for a special issue of Southerly focusing on literary transactions between Australian and Persian cultures. The editors are also interested in writings from Iranian, Afghan and Tajik writers engaging with Australia in any way. As the Persian-speaking community is becoming stronger in Australia and its cultural production diversifies, this issue aims to offer to an Australian audience a rich sample of texts and perspectives focusing on Australian-Persian perspectives. This includes but is not limited to:
– Persia and the contemporary nations of Persian culture (Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan) in the Australian literary imaginary
– Literary relations and cultural interactions between Australian and Persian-speaking nations
– Contemporary Australian writers of Persian origin and their texts
– The reception of Persian texts in Australia
– New forms of cultural or literary interaction between Persian-speaking cultures and the West
– New works of creative writing, by authors from any background, that speak to the themes and motifs of Persian culture and history
With academic essays, please keep in mind that Southerly is a journal devoted to Australian literature. Please submit only one story, one personal essay or up to 5 poems, at a time. Short fiction and literary non-fiction texts should be around 2,000-6,000 words. Submissions can be in English or Persian. Please submit your texts online to the category “Persian Passages”: https://southerly.submittable.com/submit
You can refer to Southerly’s guidelines:
http://southerlyjournal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Submissions-guidelines-2015.pdf
Submissions due: 1st September 2016
The issue will be published in April 2017.
Dr Laetitia Nanquette,
Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow,
School of Arts and Media,
University of New South Wales, Sydney
+61 (2) 9385 7792
11. Ascetics and Yogis in Indian painting
Being invited to give a series of three lectures on this wide ranging topic at a seminar at the Universita di Ca’ Foscari in Venice in July 2016, it seemed a good opportunity to write a blog highlighting the interesting material in the British Library. Here are discussed such images in Mughal and Deccani painting.
- August 15, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. An in-depth look at the British Library’s collection of Arabic manuscripts from West Africa
2. Open Access – Abstracta Iranica
http://abstractairanica.revues.org/
3. New display of Dara Shikoh Album in Treasures Gallery
Regular visitors to the Treasures Gallery of the British Library will know that the wall case displaying Indian book arts has recently had a change of display. On exhibition are eight folios from the Dara Shikoh Album (Add.Or.3129), one of the great treasures of the Asian and African department, which are discussed in this blog. The album is known to have been compiled by Dara Shikoh (1615–59), the eldest son and heir of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, from the inscription in the prince’s hand on folio 2 dated 1056/1646–47. The inscription records the gift of the album to his wife Nadira Banu Begam, his cousin and the daughter of Sultan Parviz, whom he had married in 1633.
4. Washington and Lee University – Assistant Professor in the study of Islam
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53211
5. The British Library is advertising for a part-time permanent curator of its Turkish and Turkic collections.
https://britishlibrary.recruitment.northgatearinso.com/birl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=01000899
6. International Conference: “Revisiting the Practice of Islamic Law: Ideas and Institutions”, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 11-13 November 2016
The scope of the conference will include studies related, but not limited, to the complexities of law, legal actors and legal activities in many corners of the world.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 September 2016. Information: http://aljamiah.or.id/index.php/AJIS/announcement/view/2
7. Jobs:
Assistant Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The tenure track appointment will begin in Fall 2017. The successful candidate is expected to teach undergraduate courses on the Modern Middle East, including upper-level courses for History majors and Middle East Studies majors.
Deadline for application: 14 October 2016. Information: https://umass.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=74277
Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East, West Virginia University
The position is beginning 16 August 2017. Required qualifications include a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in History or a closely related field at time of appointment.
The screening process will begin on 28 October 2016. Information: https://wvu.taleo.net/careersection/faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=03725
Adjunct Professor in Modern History of the Middle East, Washington, D.C. Campus of Pepperdine University
Minimum qualifications are a M.A./M.S. degree in a relevant field and 3 years of professional experience, and the preferred qualification is a Ph.D. in a relevant field. The successful candidate will teach one semester-long course in Fall 2016.
Information: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=53203
Tenure-track Position in Modern Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (19th-21st Centuries), Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rank to be determined according to the candidate’s qualifications. The language of instruction is Hebrew.
Deadline for application: 26 September 2016. Information: www.hum.huji.ac.il/new.php?cat=5369
- August 09, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1.International Conference: “Geographies of Arab and Muslim Identity through the Eyes of Travelers”, Bucharest, 15-16 September 2016
This conference is held on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Arabic Department at Bucharest University.
2. 12 PhD & 1 Postdoc Position, Graduate School Global Intellectual History, Freie Universitaet Berlin
Successful candidates will develop a PhD dissertation/postdoc project in the field of global intellectual history (18th to 20th century) and contribute to the activities of the program in the form of seminars, workshops and summer schools.
Deadline for application: 15 September 2016. Information:
* http://www.global-history.de/gih/positions/predoc/index.html and
* http://www.global-history.de/gih/positions/postdoc/index.html
3. Assistant/Associate Professor for Islam and Gender in the Social Sciences, Stanford University
A candidate with a focus on the Middle East and/or Southeast Asia is preferred. The appointment can be in Anthropology, Communication, Political Science, or Sociology.
Deadline for application: 3 October 2016. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7445
4. Articles on “Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mysticisms” for Journal “English Language Notes” (Winter 2018)
Contributions are invited on mystical practices and beliefs, mystical writings, the culture of mysticism, and mystics themselves. We are especially interested in contributions that address the ways in which the mystical traditions of one monotheistic religion intersect with and/or speak to others.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2016. Information: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e1ae5bef9757e58afec01a89a&id=063718b209&e=82aeb6c61d
5. A permanent Research Fellow post below at Newman University, Birmingham, UK. For further details please follow this link:
http://www.newman.ac.uk/jobs/4656/qualitative-social-science-research-fellow?1=m
Another fixed term position linked to the same project is being advertised at Hampshire College in the US:
https://jobs.hampshire.edu/index.cgi?&JA_m=JASDET&JA_s=503
See below:
REF: NU3216
Salary scale: £31, 656 – £35, 609 per annum
Closing date for applications: 09/08/2016
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Research Fellow to work within the Centre for Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society (CSKBS) at Newman University. Up until September 2017 the post holder will work principally on the development of a large-scale project on ‘Establishing a framework for a multidisciplinary study of science in Muslim societies’. Beyond 2017 it is expected that the post holder will work on subsequent phase 2 grant delivery and contribute to the development of the ‘Science across diverse societies’ research theme within CSKBS.
‘Establishing a framework for a multidisciplinary study of science in Muslim societies’ phase 1 project overview: There is a significant gap in scholarly understanding of how Muslims living in majority and minority contexts perceive science and the role it plays in the construction of both their religious and secular worldviews. The primary aim of this planning project is to begin to build the capacity and networks necessary to conduct a larger scale research study to address this gap. This longer term research will seek to develop a more comprehensive picture of how differing groups along a spectrum of worldviews, within Muslim majority and minority contexts, relate to and form public domain narratives surrounding ‘science’ and ‘religion’.
The Centre for Science, Knowledge and Belief in Society (CSKBS) is a multidisciplinary Research Centre that fosters open-minded social science and humanities based research on: the public understanding and communication of the relationship between science and religion, research into the sociology and psychology of religion, and the role of science, knowledge and belief in diverse societies. For further details, please go to:
/research-centres/2371
This project will be undertaken in partnership with Dr. Salman Hameed at the Center for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies (SSiMS) at Hampshire College, US. For further details, please go to:
https://www.hampshire.edu/faculty/salman-hameed
Research Fellow candidates should expect to undertake and play a significant role in the development of the ‘Establishing a framework for a multidisciplinary study of science in Muslim societies’ project, and to contribute to project publications and the development of future research within the research CSKBS. Therefore, they are expected to have a relevant disciplinary background and an interest in/enthusiasm for the subject matter of the project and the Centre’s wider research.
We welcome applications from experienced, enthusiastic and creative early career researchers with backgrounds in:
- science and technology studies
- Sociology of religion/sociology of Islam
- qualitative sociology
- Human Geography
- related areas of social scientific research
You will hold a relevant doctoral qualification. You will have a record of research activity commensurate with your career stage. It is essential of the post holder to have some experience working on postdoctoral qualitative research projects. Language skills in French, Arabic or Turkish are desirable but not essential. Where relevant mentoring and support will be provided.
The post is expected to start in September 2016.
Informal enquiries regarding the above post may be made with, Dr, Fern Elsdon-Baker, F.Elsdon-Baker@newman.ac.uk, 0121 476 1181 Ext 2415.
Further particulars can be obtained by emailing: recruitment@newman.ac.uk or telephone 0121 476 1181 ext 2398.
6. THE ELEVENTH ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CONFERENCE: SUFISM AND ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPT CULTURE
13–15 September 2016, Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK
Organised by The Islamic Manuscript Association
Registration now open.
For further information, to view the programme, or to register, see our website at www.islamicmanuscript.org
7. New Book Series: Islam and International Relations
The book series is a partnership between Co-IRIS and Gerlach Press. Co-IRIS is an organization that promotes and advances research on Islam and International Relations. Gerlach Press is an academic publisher specialized on the Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Series Editors: Deina Abdelkader, Nassef Manabilang Adiong, and Raffaele Mauriello.
The series addresses the role of Islam in the study and practice of the ‘international’, in terms of both conventional relations among modern states and a broader view on interactions among humans and their societies that go beyond their locality. It aims to provide a platform for advancing research on Islam and the ‘international’ with the aim to develop and sustain a body of knowledge that addresses the theories and practices of the Islamic civilization and of Muslim societies as regards international affairs, and hence enriches and diversifies the disciplines of International Relations and Geopolitics with contributions from Islamic history and thought.
We welcome book proposals in areas such as:
Islamic theories of international relations • Islam in International Relations theories • Islamic Studies and International Studies • Islamic Studies and Area Studies • Islamic approaches to world politics • Islam and foreign policy • Islam and diplomacy • Islam and geopolitics • Islam and Security Studies • Islam and post-colonial international relations • Islam and global development studies • Islam and international law • Islam and international political economy • Islam and international political sociology • Islam and human rights • Islam and international organizations
Submission
Please email your book proposals to info@coiris.org and include carbon copies to deina_abdelkader@uml.edu, contact@nassef.info, and raffaele.mauriello@me.com.
All book proposals should include the following:
• A title of the book.
• A description of the book (between 400 and 700 words) and its relation to competing works.
• A table of contents.
• An estimate of page length.
• One or two sample chapters.
• A curriculum vitae of the author(s).
• A proposed deadline for submission of the final manuscript.
8. Workshop: “A Century of Youth Engaging Politics in the Arab World”, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 16-19 May 2017
This workshop seeks papers that will present nuanced explorations of the history of politically-motivated youth movements in the Arab world since the First World War.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 September 2016. Information: http://jenniferdueck.com/index.php/call-for-papers-youth/
9. Articles for Edited Book on “End of the Arab Spring? Reflections on Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Politics in the Arab World” by Springer International Publishing
Articles are still required that critically examine the role of the military, mainstream media (Al-Jazeera), Turkey/Israel, and sectarianism/tribalism on the Arab Spring.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 August 2016. Contact Gamal Selim gmselim@gmail.com
10. The International Society for Iranian Studies is pleased to announce, for the first time, the live video streaming of parts of its upcoming 11th Biennial Conference, held in Vienna, Austria, 3-5 August 2016.
Starting at noon Austrian time on Wednesday, the Society will make available, free of charge and through Youtube, the live streams of the plenary panels and the Opening Ceremony, which also features an awards ceremony and a musical performance by Sima Bina.
The streams will be accessible through the Society’s home page, http://www.societyforiranianstudies.org and through the Society’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/InternationalSocietyForIranianStudies/ .
The full schedule and content of the live streams is as follows:
Wednesday, 3 August, 12:30pm CET (Central European Time):
IRAN AND THE FUTURE OF OIL:
Convenor: Bijan Khajehpour | Managing Partner, Atieh Group
Featuring:
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani | Professor of Economics, Virginia Tech University
Helmut Lananger | Chairman of the Board of Directors, Serinus Energy
Jafar Haghpanah | University of Tehran
Javad Yarjani | Former National Representative of Iran
at OPEC
Bijan Khajehpour | Managing Partner, Atieh Group
Wednesday, 3 August, 18:00 CET
OPENING AND AWARDS CEREMONY – Featuring a Musical Performance by Sima BIna
Thursday, 4 August, 12:15 pm CET
VIENNA NUCLEAR TALKS: 1 YEAR LATER
Convenor: Mehrzad Boroujerdi | Syracuse University
Chair: Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Featuring:
Roham Alvandi | London School of Economics and Political Science:The United States and the Shah’s Nuclear Programme
Mohsen Milani | University of South Florida: The Impact of the Nuclear Deal on Iran’s Regional
Policies
Seyyed Kazem Sajjadpour | School of International Relations, Tehran: Iranian Diplomacy and the Nuclear Negotiation
Mehrzad Boroujerdi | Syracuse University: Reception of the Nuclear Deal in Iran
Friday, 5 August, 12:15pm CET
CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES IN IRAN
Convenor: Nayereh Tohidi | California State University
Northridge & Ata Hoodashtian | Umef University
Chair: Touraj Atabaki | International Institute of Social
History, Amsterdam
Featuring:
Hassan Yousefi Eshkevari | Independent Scholar: Is Islamic Science Possible?
Nayereh Tohidi | California State University, Northridge: Women’s Studies in Iran’s Universities: A Display of the Paradox of Islamic Republic
Ata Hoodashtian | Umef University: Human Science, Critical Thought, and Iran
Saeed Paivandi | University of Lorraine: The Meaning and Trajectory of Islamization of the
Humanities in Iran
Mohammad-Reza Nikfar | Independent Scholar: On Fortunate and Unfortunate Aspects of Social Sciences and Humanities in Iran
Sadegh Zibakalam | University of Tehran: Some First-Hand Experiences and Observations on Challenges Facing Social Sciences in Iran
11. York Islamic Art Circle is launching on Thursday 13th October 2016. With Professor Robert Hillenbrand presenting “Story-telling in the Great Mongol Shahnana”. At the Ron Cooke Hub, York University (UK). 6-8pm (talk starts at 6:30pm) For further info and to book a place at the launch please email islamic-art@york.ac.uk
12. Call for Papers – International Conference
From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide
23-24th February, 2017
Proposal deadline: Sunday, 25th September 2016
Proposals for papers are welcome for the two day conference From Malacca to Manchester: Curating Islamic Collections Worldwide, to be held at Manchester Museum on the 23rd and 24th February, 2017. The conference is part of a wider project to catalogue and research collections of Islamic art and material culture across the Manchester Museums and Galleries Partnership (MMGP), and is supported by the John Ellerman Foundation.
In the UK there is a need to better understand the rich and complex traditions of the Islamic world. A 2010 YouGov survey commissioned by the Exploring Islam Foundation revealed that the British public know relatively little about Islam and tend to problematise it as a consequence of exposure to negative media stereotypes. In an attempt to counteract this, UK museums and galleries are using collections of Islamic art and material culture to increase understanding and challenge misconceptions. In Manchester specifically, work on the Islamic collections will inform an exciting series of events and exhibitions in 2017 to mark UK-India Year of Culture, and a permanent South Asia gallery due to open at Manchester Museum in 2020.
Concurrently, across the UK and Europe high-profile museums such as the Louvre, the British Museum, and the Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin, have embarked upon or completed major re-installations of important Islamic art collections. At the same time, smaller and regional museums are developing new ways to work with existing collections. The role of the curator is changing, and previously underrepresented voices are increasingly given space to express personal responses to material cultures. All such projects represent critical opportunities to present the complexity of Islamic art in innovative new ways, reach out to new audiences and utilise the richness of Islamic material culture to promote social cohesion and understanding.
This conference will explore and appraise current and developing practices in the curating of museum collections of Islamic art and material culture across the world, in Europe and in the UK. A keynote address by Dr Stefan Weber, Director of the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin, will be complemented by a series of presentations, panel discussions, practical workshops, and visits to collections in Manchester including the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, The John Rylands Library (Special Collections), and Manchester Art Gallery. The conference’s aim is to offer a vibrant and challenging perspective on the field, review ongoing projects and public and scholarly engagement, and explore professionals’ aspirations for the future developments of collections of Islamic art and materials culture.
Original proposals are welcome from British, European, and international museum professionals, rising and established academic scholars, and graduate students. Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to:
- Recent and continuing developments in the organisation and display of museum collections of Islamic art and material culture.
- The conceptual understanding of these collections (both ‘Islamic’ and ‘art’ as concepts).
- The representation of faith in the museum.
- Presenting cultural complexity engagingly.
- Islam in Europe: in the museum.
- How museum education and volunteer programmes are engaging with this field.
- Outreach and education involving both Muslim and non-Muslim groups.
- Particular challenges faced by non-specialists working with these collections.
- Addressing the longstanding scholarly exclusion of certain regions from the traditional consideration of ‘Islamic world’ (i.e. parts of South and South-East Asia).
- Migration of artistic techniques and transregional interconnection between cultures.
- Approaches to the museum presentation of Islamic artistic traditions alongside those of non-Islamic cultures which are related temporally, geographically, or stylistically.
Guidelines for paper proposals:
Papers will be 20 minutes in length with an additional 10 minutes for questions. Proposals for presentations or panels of up to four participants should be emailed to Jenny Norton-Wright and Stephen Terence Welsh by 25th September 2016, using the following email address: malaccatomanchester@gmail.com.
Proposals should include the presenter’s name, position and institutional affiliation, the paper’s title, an abstract of up to 250 words, a biography of up to 200 words (written in the third person), and a contact email address. Panel proposals should include the above for each speaker, plus a paragraph of up to 250 words describing the panel’s rationale. Informal enquiries in advance of this deadline are welcome.
13. The Fifth Annual AGAPS Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize
competition is upon us!
The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)
wishes to recognize exceptional scholarship on the region, from
across the disciplines and a variety of perspectives.
The guidelines and application are available at
http://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/. The deadline for complete
application packets is August 31st.
Please share this widely in your networks, and encourage your
students to apply.
Crystal A. Ennis, Leiden University
Email: c.a.ennis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | Twitter: @Crystal_Ennis
- August 02, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. CfP: The 13th International Conference of Mahdaviat Doctrine, May 2017, Qom.
Abstract and cv due by 20.11.16.
See http://mahdaviat-conference.com/images/docs/files/000001/nf00001217-1.pdf
2. On July 19th, an exhibition of “Islamic Art at the Art Institute: A Century of Exhibitions and Acquisitions” will be open at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries of Chicago. The exhibition consists of eight cases carrying rare books and archival materials related to the advent and presence of Islamic and Oriental art in Chicago area.
The exhibition continues by September 26th, 2016 and tours by the curator are set for August 4th and 25th. For more information please visit: http://www.artic.edu/exhibition/islamic-art-art-institute-century-exhibitions-and-acquisitions or contact: kmaleki@artic.edu
3. Professeur-e associé-e en Etudes Islamiques au Centre Suisse Islam et
Société de l’Université de Fribourg auprès de la Faculté des lettres à
partir du 1.1.2017. Expertise en Etudes Islamiques ou dans le domaine
Islam et Société avec une approche interdisciplinaire requise. Le/la
futur-e titulaire doit lier les traditions de savoirs islamiques
pluriels avec des questions philosophiques, éthiques et sociétales
dans un contexte contemporain. Des intérêts pour la recherche
appliquée (p.ex. pédagogie ou travail social) sont souhaitables ainsi
que des connaissances de didactique universitaire dans le domaine de
la formation continue. De très bonnes connaissances de la langue
française ou allemande avec des connaissances de base de l’autre
langue et la volonté d’enseigner dans les deux langues à plus long
terme sont nécessaires.
Les informations détaillées concernant ce poste et les documents
demandés se trouvent sous http://lettres.unifr.ch/fr/services/job/
Les dossiers de candidature devront être adressés avant 15 septembre
2016 uniquement sous forme électronique à szig@unifr.ch .
4. The Five College Arabic Language Initiative and the Program in Middle East Studies at Smith College invite applications for a full-time one-year lecturer position in Arabic Language, which will be based at Smith College beginning July 2016. Applicants must have native or near-native fluency in Modern Standard Arabic, English, and at least one Arabic dialect. Master’s degree or above in Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics, Culture, Arabic Studies, or a relevant field is required.
The successful candidate will teach five courses each academic year, typically teaching on at least two campuses. Candidates should have demonstrated experience and excellence in teaching Arabic language with the proficiency-communicative approach at all levels at the college level.
Located in Northampton, MA, Smith College is the largest women’s college in the country and is dedicated to excellence in teaching and research across the liberal arts. A faculty of outstanding scholars interact with students in small classes, as advisors, and through student-faculty research projects. The Five College Consortium, comprised of Smith, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Hampshire Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, provides a rich intellectual and cultural life. Details about the Five College Arabic Language Initiative can be found at https://www.fivecolleges.edu/arablanguage . Details about the Middle East Studies Program at Smith can be found at http://www.smith.edu/mes/index.php.
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Submit application at http://apply.interfolio.com/36046 with a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, three recent teaching evaluations, and contact information for three references (formal letters will be required at the finalist stage). In addition, we will request samples of teaching materials (e.g. syllabus, teaching plans, exams, handouts, etc.) from selected finalists. Review of applications will begin July 11, 2016.
Diversifying the student body, faculty, administration, staff, and curriculum is at the heart of our mission and vision for the College. We are committed to providing access and reasonable accommodation in the application process for individuals with disabilities and encourage applicants to request any needed accommodation(s). We value and are committed to a host of diverse populations and cultures, including, but not limited to, those based on ability, age, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, and veteran status.
Smith College is an EO/AA/Vet/Disability Employer. Women, underrepresented racial groups, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
5. ‘The 5th International Conference on Contemporary Philosophy of Religion’ will be held in Tehran, Iran, Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran at January 24-25, 2017. Please do join us for this event.
Every year we hold this conference to establish the unique ground for dialogue and mutual understanding among the very influential community of Philosophy of Religion from both West and East, with the hope to make a bridge from the abstraction to action.
With regard to the great success of four past conferences, the fifth conference is organized by Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion (IAPR), with cooperation of Faculty of World Studies at the University of Tehran.
Please forward the following call to whom you think might be interested;
You can have access to further details via the conference’s website:
Sincerely yours,
Conference Secretariat
6. Translation and Religion: Interrogating Concepts, Methods and Practices
University of Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2016
What is the relationship between ‘translation’ and ‘religion’? While all ‘religions’ travel and engage in translation of one kind or another, what gets translated? How do the different components of what is currently understood as ‘religion’—texts, practices, experiences, inner faith or belief systems—translate differently? How can we analyze such commonly held beliefs that some languages simply are sacred and should not be translated? And what are the implications of such questions for understanding religious conversion? What can translation concepts and methods tell us about the way religions and the study of religions are constructed?
While both disciplines have evolved and grown rapidly over the past half century, each has also engaged, in the past few decades, in a re-evaluation of its basic ideas and terms, including fundamental categories such as ‘religion’ and ‘translation.’ It can no longer be taken for granted that there is one definition for what comprises the ‘sacred’ or indeed a ‘correct’ or ‘good’ translation. Such re-assessment provides an excellent context within which to creatively engage the two to generate forward-looking theoretical perspectives.
This three-day AHRC-funded conference aims to bring together scholars from the two disciplines to investigate theories, concepts and methods with comparative and critical tools in order to evaluate areas of mutually creative overlap.
Keynote Speakers:
Professor Alan Williams, University of Manchester
From Oceanography to Fillet-O-Fish®. The Spectrum of Translation of the Poetry of Rumi
Professor Arvind Pal Mandair, University of Michigan
Complicating Contact Zones: Translation as Practice of Creating Concepts and Self-Differentiation
For further details and a full conference programme please see http://www.ctla.llc.ed.ac.uk/conference-draft/. Enquiries should be addressed to Dr. H. Israel at H.Israel@ed.ac.uk .
7. Call For Papers: Rethinking Late Ottoman Civilization
March 24-25, 2017
University of Texas at Austin
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Keynote Speaker: Suraiya Faroqhi
Program Committee: Samy Ayoub, Jeannette Okur, and Firdevs Canbaz Yumuşak
The Ottomans encountered the word civilization in the early 19th century, and the Ottoman version of this word, medeniyet, was coined thereafter. Both ‘civilization’ and ‘empire’ refer to comprehensive manifestations of power, culture, and ideas. This symposium will explore the artifacts of Ottoman modernization and intellectual history, and encourage careful examination of the late Ottoman discourse on “civilization”. As is well known, many Ottoman intellectuals, in their conceptualization of civilization, aimed to reconcile the material achievements of European civilization with Ottoman-Islamic morality and aesthetics. Even so, historiographies in the post-Ottoman sovereign states have often equated modernization with de-Ottomanization, a notion which excludes the Ottoman period as a legitimate setting for the study of modernity. This symposium encourages new scholarship that will further legitimize the study of Ottomans’ engagement with modernity’s social, political, economic and aesthetic implications.
We invite advanced graduate students and established scholars to submit paper proposals for this two-day interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the University of Texas at Austin on 24-25 March, 2017. We will welcome papers from the disciplines of history, law, literature, architecture, art, and music. We especially encourage papers on the following subtopics:
Possible subtopics include (but are not limited to):
– Daily Life in the Empire
– Justice
– Aesthetics of Love (Aşk)
– Family
– Politics
– Minority Communities
– Trade and the Economy
Potential participants should submit an abstract (up to 250 words) and a brief curriculum vita by October 31, 2016. Please include the words “Late Ottoman Civilization Symposium” in the subject line. Also, please provide your institutional affiliation, as well as a mailing address and telephone number where you may be reached. Funding for lodging and meals may be available for participants.
Applicants will be notified of acceptance by November 14, 2016 and completed papers from accepted applicants will be due for pre-circulation on March 1, 2017. Please send all submission materials to sayoub@austin.utexas.edu
For further information, please contact: Dr. Samy Ayoub at sayoub@austin.utexas.edu
8. CFP – Light and Darkness in Medieval Art, 1200–1450 (ICMS, Kalamazoo, May 2017)
International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, 11-14 May 2017
Sponsored by the International Centre of Medieval Art.
Convenors: Stefania Gerevini and Tom Nickson
Light has occupied an increasingly prominent role in medieval studies in recent years. Its perceptual and epistemic significance in the period 1200-1450 has been scrutinized in several specialised research projects, and the changing ways in which light and light-effects are rendered and produced in the arts of the Middle Ages, particularly in Byzantium and Islam, are routinely evoked in literature. However, scholarship on these topics remains fragmented, especially for the Gothic period, and comparative approaches are seldom attempted. New technologies of virtual reconstruction and changing fashions of museum display make it an opportune moment to consider these issues in a more systematic manner.
These two sessions will investigate how perceptions of light and darkness informed the ways in which art across Europe and the Mediterranean was produced, viewed and understood in the period 1200–1450. In the late 12th century a key set of optical writings was translated from Arabic into Latin, providing new theoretical paradigms for addressing questions of physical sight and illumination across Europe. At this time theologies of light also gained renewed popularity in the eastern Mediterranean – particularly as a result of the Hesychast controversy in Byzantium, and in connection with Sufi notions of divine illumination in Islam. What correlations can be traced between theories of optics, theologies of light, practices of illumination, and modes of viewing in the Middle Ages? Are there similarities in the ways different religious or cultural communities conceptualised light and used it in everyday life or ritual settings?
These sessions invite specialists of Christian, Islamic and Jewish art and culture to explore the status of light in broader discourses around visuality, visibility and materiality; the interconnections between conceptualizations of light and coeval attitudes towards objectivity and naturalism; and the ways in which light can articulate political, social or divine authority and hierarchies. The session will also welcome papers that address such broad methodological questions as: can the investigation of light in art prompt reconsideration of well established periodizations and interpretative paradigms of art history? How was the dramatic interplay between light and obscurity exploited in the secular and religious architecture of Europe and the medieval Mediterranean in order to organise space, direct viewers and convey meaning? How carefully were light effects taken into account in the display of images and portable objects, and how does consideration of luminosity, shadow and darkness hone our understanding of the agency of medieval objects? Finally, to what extent is light’s ephemeral and fleeting nature disguised by changing fashions of display and technologies of reproduction, and – crucially – how do these affect our ability to apprehend and explain medieval approaches to light?
Proposals for 20 min papers should include an abstract (max.250 words) and brief CV. Proposals should be submitted by 10 September 2015 to the session organizers: Stefania Gerevini (stefania.gerevini@unibocconi.it) and Tom Nickson (tom.nickson@courtauld.ac.uk). Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation, funds may be available to defray travel costs of speakers in ICMA-sponsored sessions up to a maximum of $600 ($1200 for transatlantic travel). If available, the Kress funds are allocated for travel and hotel only. Speakers in ICMA sponsored sessions will be refunded only after the conference, against travel receipts.
9. Islamic World Research Associate (Fixed Term) (Cambridge, UK)
Applications are sought for a Research Associate who will be one of four postdoctoral researchers on the ERC funded ‘Impact of the Ancient City’ project led by the Principal Investigator Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.
The project will re-examine the impact of the ancient, Greco-Roman city on subsequent urban history in Europe and the Islamic world, investigating both the urban fabric and urban ideals. Bringing together researchers trained in historical, archaeological and literary analysis, the project spans the entire Mediterranean region from Greco-Roman antiquity to the present day.
The research team will investigate case histories in the western and the eastern Mediterranean, and pose a set of questions about how urban forms responded to changing social needs.
Closing date
12 September 2016
- July 25, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. University of California – Berkeley – Temporary Part time Lecturer Pool – Arabic
2. Call for Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships 2016
The Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London, United Kingdom (“the Institute”) is currently inviting expressions of interest for Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships. Holders of Fellowships will have the opportunity to pursue research within a stimulating and supportive environment by playing an active role in the intellectual life of the Institute. The Institute does not itself award the Fellowship but supports selected applications to the European Commission’s programme.
Details at: https://www.aku.edu/ismc/research/fellowships/Pages/home.aspx
3. Open Access:
Onomasticon Arabicum (OA) is a long-living database project. This new online-version informs on more than 15000 scholars and celebrities from the first Muslim millenary. Its entries in Arabic are compiled from ancient biographical dictionaries, a veritable treasure of Islamic culture. Crossed search allows separate interrogation on any of the different elements of the Arabo-Muslim names, dates and places, reconstructing the identity of a person, trace ways of knowledge transmission and frame historical contexts.
See http://onomasticon.irht.cnrs.fr/
4. A website whose main purpose is to solve illegible words in Ottoman Turkish which is especially critical for those dealing with archive documents.
5. AIMA V – FIRST CIRCULAR
International Association for the Study of Middle and Mixed Arabic
Fifth International Symposium (University of Strasbourg 20-23 March 2017)
Middle and Mixed Arabic in the History of the Arabic Language and Today
The objectives of the Fifth Symposium are the same as those of the four preceding ones, i.e. to study written varieties of Middle Arabic and varieties, particularly oral, of contemporary Mixed Arabic. The proposed subject of the Symposium is: “Middle and Mixed Arabic in the History of the Arabic Language and Today”. The conference theme will deal with questions such as: How is MMA used in contemporary forms of written Arabic? What was the role of Middle Arabic in the evolution of the Arabic Language? What is the role of Mixed Arabic in the contemporary Arabic Language? How is the Arabic continuum used? How is MMA used in literary classical and modern texts?
Of course, this theme is only indicative and proposals of papers on other topics will be accepted, provided they fit into the general theme of Middle / Mixed Arabic. You will find a list of other possible themes hereunder in document 2.
Colleagues and researchers who plan to attend the Symposium are kindly requested to fill up and to send back the Answer form upon receipt of this circular to the following address :
Dr Julien DUFOUR
If you are planning to attend the Symposium, please let us know before 2 September 2016 (and send your provisional title if you are intending to give a paper).
Participants who wish to give a paper are also requested to send an abstract (maximum half a page), as well as their academic affiliation and complete contact information, by e-mail, not later than 1 October 2016. Title and abstract will be passed on to the Scientific Committee which is expected to give you its definite answer before the end of November 2016. Papers may be given in Arabic, English or French and should not exceed 20 minutes. Every paper is planned to be followed by a 10 minutes discussion.
6. Open Access Manuscript Collection: Koç University Manuscript Collection
http://digitalcollections.library.ku.edu.tr/cdm/landingpage/collection/MC
7. AIIS Book Prize Competition
In order to promote scholarship in South Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) announces the award of two prizes each year for the best unpublished book manuscript on an Indian subject.
– The Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian Humanities
– The Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences
+ $2500 Subvention for the press publishing the manuscript.
+ Junior scholars who have received the PhD within the last six years (2009 and after) are eligible.
+ Must be the first book by the author.
+ Unrevised dissertations are not accepted.
+ There is no designated press for publication.
+ Applicants need not have held any AIIS fellowship nor studied in an AIIS language program
+ Manuscripts under review or under contract with a press are eligible.
Send ONE pdf and ONE paper copy of your manuscript,
postmarked NO LATER THAN September 30, 2016, to:
Anand Yang
Chair, Department of History
College of Arts & Sciences
Term Professor of International Studies and History
Box 353650, Henry M. Jackson School
University of Washington
Seattle, Wa. 98195
8. International Journal of Islamic Architecture 5.2 (July 2016): Special Issue – Heritage and the Arab Spring
Special issue on Heritage and the Arab Spring (Vol. 5, Issue 2). This is the tenth of a bi-annually published peer-reviewed journal on architecture, urban design, planning, and landscape architecture. IJIA aims to encourage dialogue between practitioners and scholars and enhance appreciation for the urban heritage in the region and pioneering design work. The journal is committed to inviting new research on understudied topics and reaching out to a broad international readership.
This volume contains an editorial essay by the guest editor, Dr. Heghnar Watenpaugh, book and exhibition reviews, conference précis, and articles that treat issues connected to heritage preservation, social changes, documentation of war damage, and urban development in Egypt, Syria, Turkey, the West Bank, and Yemen.
The tenth issue of the IJIA is available in print and online. Please click on the link below to preview the sixth issue abstracts:
www.intellectbooks.com/ijia
9. Open Access Exhibition: Identities: Understanding Islam in Cross-Cultural Contexts
http://marb.kennesaw.edu/identities/
10. First online URDU THESAURUS and mobile app launched
Author and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the editor of the first online Urdu Thesaurus (www.urduthesaurus.com) and its free mobile app, developed and launched through the publishing house KITAB.
The Urdu Thesaurus welcomes data licensing and data download queries at info@urduthesaurus.com
11. Visiting Research Fellowship 2017, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
We are interested in attracting outstanding researchers who are engaged in research projects that are relevant to the respective research profiles at the BGSMCS and at the ZMO.
Deadline for applications: 14 August 2016. Information: www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/studies/cfa_visiting_research_fellowship_2017.html
12. Professeur-e associé-e en Etudes Islamiques au Centre Suisse Islam et Société de l’Université de Fribourg
Expertise en Etudes Islamiques ou dans le domaine Islam et Société avec une approche interdisciplinaire requise. Le/la futur-e titulaire doit lier les traditions de savoirs islamiques pluriels avec des questions philosophiques, éthiques et sociétales dans un contexte contemporain.
Les dossiers de candidature devront être adressés avant 15 septembre 2016. Information: http://www3.unifr.ch/lettres/fr/assets/public/files/pdf/faculte_postes%20vacants/160707_annonce_etudes_islamiques_fr.pdf
13. Funded PhD Studentship, School of Humanities (History), University of Glasgow, Scotland
PhD studentship in history/archive studies, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, investigating the capture, transfer, and reconstitution of Iraqi archives in the USA, commencing Oct. 2016. Open to UK and EU students.
Deadline: 29 July 2016. Information: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts/graduateschool/fundingopportunities/leverhulmetrustscholarships(scroll down); contact: benjaminthomas.white@glasgow.ac.uk
14. Farsi/Persian Language Speaker and Researcher within the Business Intelligence Services Team in Beirut and Dubai
Deloitte’s Business Intelligence team is seeking a young graduate (0-3 years work experience). The candidate will conduct research on MENA-based entities in English and Farsi and produce business intelligence reports. A qualification in Business, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Middle Eastern Studies is preferred.
Information: mailto:mkasdano@deloitte.com.
15. Free Two-month Professional Training for Arabic and Farsi Speaking Journalists Who Have Fled to Berlin in the Last 2-3 Year
After the workshop – starting on 26 September and organized by the Protestant School of Journalism – the participants will form the editorial board for a mobile based news service to provide the growing Arabic and Farsi speaking community with news from the German capital.
Information: https://amalberlin.net/. Contact: julia.gerlach@ev-journalistenschule.de
- July 18, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment
Shii News – Academic Items
1. International Tashkubrīzādah Symposium, which will be organized in November 18-20, 2016 by Scientific Studies Association (ILEM), Istanbul Medeniyet Univeristy and the Foundation for Science, the Arts, History and Literature (ISTEV), aims to introduce a sixteenth century scholar, Abū al-Khayr ʿIsām al-dīn Aḥmad Tashkubrīzādah, one of the most important figures in Ottoman intellectual tradition, to local and international scientific milieus, as well as to discuss his contribution to Islamic philosophy-science tradition.
Although Tashkubrīzādah is the author of nearly two hundred works from a variety of topics including philosophy, politics, kalām, mathematics, astronomy, fiqh, linguistics, Sufism, tafsīr, the classification of sciences, and history, with a few exceptions, they are yet to be edited, thereby unknown in the scholarly milieu. For almost three years, some of Tashkubrīzādah’s ouevre have been edited and translated into Turkish by more than twenty scholars. This symposium, which will be a fruit of this three-year-preparation, aims to unfold Tashkubrīzādah’s world of thought on the basis of his works prepared for publication, as well as to shed light on Ottoman world of thought in the sixteenth century with reference to him. The publication of Tashkubrīzādah’s almost thirthy works before the symposium, as well as with the outcomes of the symposium will make a substantial contribution to studies on Islamic philosophy after Ibn Sīnā, and on Ottoman thought.
The organizing commitee invites scholars to participate in the symposium with their papers, thereby to contribute to studies on Tashkubrīzādah.
See: http://taskopruluzade.org/en/
2. Call for Papers
Society for the Medieval Mediterranean conference – Ghent University, Belgium, 10-12 July 2017
“Communities, Imaginations and Emotions in the Medieval Mediterranean”
Topics of the conference include, but are by no means limited to:
- Emotional and imagined communities
- Selfing and othering
- Identity and alterity, senses of belonging, ties that bond
- Memory, nostalgia and the imagined or idealized past
- Mirabilia, wonders and magic
- Worldviews and other social schemata
- Mobility across borders
- Emotional and communal dimensions to identity
- Honour and shame, social codes and values
- Emotions bodily felt, orally expressed
- Reading and sharing emotions
- Methodological problems when inquiring emotions and imaginations
Abstract: We invite 200-300 word abstracts for individual 20-minute papers relating to the conference theme (including name, title, affiliation, most important publications, keywords). Participants are encouraged to submit proposals for panels of 3 papers – in this case, the panel proposer should collate the three abstracts and submit them together, indicating clearly the rationale behind the planned panel.
Deadline: Abstracts for individual papers and proposals for panels should be emailed to the conference email address (smm2017@ugent.be) by Monday 31st October 2016. Applicants will be notified regarding the acceptance of their panel or paper by January 2017.
Postgraduate student bursaries: We will offer up to 10 bursaries for MA and PhD students who are interested in presenting at the Conference. The bursaries, which will cover the Conference fees, will be assigned to those proposals, which best fit the theme of the Conference.
Publication: Presenters will be invited to submit their papers for publication in the Society’s journal, Al Masaq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/calm20/current#.U9TZnONdXng), published by Taylor and Francis. Previous conferences have resulted in the publication of special issues of the journal as well as individual articles.
Queries: Specific questions about the conference can be directed to the conference organizers, Professor Jo Van Steenbergen, Dr Kristof D’hulster and Dr Joachim Yeshaya at the conference email address (smm2017@ugent.be).
Conference website: http://www.smm2017.ugent.be
3. Intelligence mapping of British East Africa: a new online resource from the British Library
With generous funding from the Indigo Trust the British Library has published online over 550 colonial-era military intelligence maps relating to the former British East Africa: modern-day Kenya and Uganda, and adjacent parts of Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo, South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia. The sheets were created between 1890…
4. Call for Papers: Ways of Knowing 2016 Conference
The Science, Religion, and Culture (SRC) Program at Harvard Divinity School announces the 5th annual “Ways of Knowing: Graduate Conference in Religion,” to be held October 27-29, 2016, on the campus of Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.
Last year, 128 students and early career scholars representing over 60 graduate programs worldwide gathered to present their research. Following the success of our previous conferences, we invite graduate students and early career scholars to submit paper proposals from of a variety of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives. This year is a particularly momentous year as the conference will celebrate its fifth anniversary alongside the bicentennial of Harvard Divinity School.
We seek papers that explore religious practices and modes of knowing, especially in relation to this year’s central theme, “Religion and Time”. We welcome the use of all sorts of theoretical tools, including discourse analysis, gender theory, race theory, disability theory, postcolonial theory, performance theory, and ritual theory. Papers may focus on any period, region, tradition, group, or person. They may address a set of practices, texts, doctrines, or beliefs. Projects that are primarily sociological, anthropological, theological, ethical, textual, historical, or philosophical are welcome, as are projects that draw on multiple disciplines.
Proposals for papers and pre-organized panels are now being accepted. For more information about the sorts of papers invited, please visit:
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference/general-call-papers
http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gradreligionconference/special-call-papers
Proposals are due by July 17, 2016.
Inquiries can be directed to Khytie Brown or H. McLetchie-Leader, Conference Coordinators, at wokconference.harvardsrc@gmail.com.
5. Two full-time PhD positions in Semitic Languages at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, are open for applications.
For full details, see: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/join-us/details/?positionId=104778
6. Workshop: “Key Concepts in Interreligious Dialogue: The Concept of Revelation in Judaism, Christianity and Islam” (KCID), University of Erlangen, 21-22 July 2016
The conference is hosted by the “Lehrstuhl fuer Orientalische Philologie und Islamwissenschaft” and the Eugen-Biser-Stiftung. The conference unites innovative studies to important concepts and metaphors of the three monotheistic religions. See the program at http://www.orientalistik.uni-erlangen.de/KCID/Revelation/the-concept-of-revelation_folder_web.pdf
7. Conference: “Media in Muslim Contexts – Inventing and Re-Inventing Identities”, Aga Khan University, London, 3-4 November 2016
The conference seeks to bring together academics and media professionals to discuss the central role of mass media in the contemporary Muslim World.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2016. Information: http://www.aku.edu/events/pages/event-detail.aspx?EventID=362&Title=Media
8. International Seminar: “The Other Europe. Eastern Europeans and Safavid Communities in Spain and Its Wider World (State of the Art and Lines of Research)”, University of Alicante (Spain), 10-11 November 2016
The concept of Eastern Europeans here is meant to be understood broadly and the session hopes to have a wide range of languages represented in order to promote discussion of this field and its future.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: http://web.ua.es/es/iranian-studies-seminar/anuncios/the-other-europe-eastern-europeans-and-safavid-communities-in-spain-and-its-wider-world-state-of-the-art-and-lines-of-research.html
9. Workshop: “Transnational Relations between Eastern Europe/Russia-USSR and the Middle East, Late 19th Century to 1991”, Princeton University, 10-11 February 2017
Part of a Université de Genève/Princeton University partnership grant co-directed by Sandrine Kott (UNIGE) and Cyrus Schayegh (PU).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2016. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/132448/transnational-relations-between-eastern-europerussia-ussr-and
10. International Workshop: “Rethinking Islam at the Turn of the 21st Century: Liberal Trends, Agents of Change and Reassessments of Islamic Traditions”, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 5-7 June 2017
The workshop will explore the ideas and forces that aspire to bring about change in Muslim societies, with special emphasis on liberal trends.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2016. For information contact Dr. Muhammad Al-Atawneh: mailto:alatawnh@bgu.ac.il
11. PH.D. Grant to Prepare a Doctoral Thesis in Pre-modern Islamic History (Diplomatic Relationships), University of Antwerp
This full-time position to prepare a doctoral thesis is funded for four years.
Deadline for application: 15 August 2016. Information: www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/ap/2016bapdocproex184/. Contact: Malika.Dekkiche@uantwerpen.be
12. Sir William Luce Fellowship on Middle Eastern Studies, Term 24 April – 23 June 2017, Durham University
The Fellowship is awarded annually to a scholar at post-doctoral level, diplomat, politician, or business executive, working on those parts of the Middle East to which Sir William Luce devoted his working life (Iran, the Gulf States, South Arabia and Sudan).
Deadline for application: 6 October 2016. Information: www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/imeis/lucefund/fellowship/
13. 5th Annual Dissertation Award and Graduate Paper Prize of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS)
AGAPS seeks to recognize exceptional scholarship on the Gulf. These awards really boost the visibility of young scholars on the job market.
Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2016. Information: http://agaps.org/agapsmesa/mesa-awards/
- July 11, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
- 0 Comment