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1.The first workshop of the Persianate Subalterns project – on pre-Safavid subalterns – took place on 7-8 November, 2015 in Edinburgh, UK.
The presentations from the workshop are now uploaded on YouTube and can be viewed at:
The workshop’s programme can be viewed on same page.
2. Arthur Upham Pope and A New Survey of Persian Art (Leiden: Brill, 2016).
http://www.brill.com/products/book/arthur-upham-pope-and-new-survey-persian-art
3. The Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages will be held on September 10-11, 2016 at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
| Keynote speakers:
Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (Professor, Allameh Tabataba’i University) Simin Karimi (Professor, University of Arizona) Pollet Samvelian (Professor, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle & CNRS)
Organizers: Gholamhosein Karimi-Doostan (Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran) Negin Ilkhanipour (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran) Vahide Tajalli (PhD student, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran)
Meeting URL : |
4. XVIIIème Journée Monde Iranien
25 mars 2016
Bibliothèque Universitaire des Langues et Civilisations (BULAC) Auditorium du Pôle Langues et Civilisations 65, rue des Grands Moulins 75013, Paris
Organisatrice : Samra Azarnouche
5. Open Access Journal
MELA Notes
The Journal of the Middle East Librarians Association
ISSN 0364-2410
http://mela.us/MELANotes/MELA-Notes.html
6. The Frontiers of Persian Learning: Testing the Limits of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, 1600–1900
Conference 3:
The Epistemological Frontiers of Persian Learning
—organized by Nile Green, University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the UCLA Program on Central Asia and the Irving & Jean Stone Chair in Social Sciences
Friday, April 8, 2016: 10:15 a.m.–5:20 p.m.
&
Saturday, April 9, 2016: 10:15 a.m.–12:40 p.m.
314 Royce Hall, UCLA campus
For the program, please link to:
http://www.1718.ucla.edu/events/epistemological-frontiers-2/
Anyone who would like to attend should kindly register using a link provided in the program, so that the organizers may accurately plan for seating and catering. Please note that for students from any institution, or for UC faculty or staff, there is no charge to attend the conference.
7. Call for Papers
MLA Annual Convention 2017, Philadelphia, PA
https://www.mla.org/Convention/MLA-2017
Arabic in Europe: Medieval Connectivity and “Contamination”
Problem/Significance: In the post-Cold War era of the 1990s, two major American paradigms for understanding the world gained traction: One, popular among conservatives, posits a “clash of civilizations” (Huntington), where conflict between nations will stem not from disputes over resources and justice, but from civilizational identities and animosities. In particular, proponents of this paradigm have capitalized on a seeming clash between “Islam” and “the west.” The other paradigm, popular among liberals, posits “the end of history”, meaning the conclusion of major conflicts of ideology or culture in the post-Soviet era (Fukuyama, drawing on Hegel), largely because of the success of the liberal democratic model, exemplified by American politics and culture, which the people of world will eventually adopt and imitate. These two paradigms – “clash” or “westernization” – have alternatively driven much of American public discourse, policy making, and foreign policy for the last 25 years and counting, leading the US into seemingly endless surveillance and militarism. The underlying premise of these two paradigms suggests the separateness of cultures and the centrality of “the west”. But, what if “civilization” leaks and morphs? What if cultures and civilizations around the Mediterranean have been interconnected (deliberate) and inter-contaminated (un-deliberate) for millennia through trade, war, treaties, inter-marriage, conversion, translation, representations of the bizarre or fascinating “other,” and the circulation of discourses and ideas?
Scope: We invite papers that probe that separateness and purity, and explore those inter-connectivities and inter-contaminations by examining the myriad ways that “Arabic” culture has found reception in premodern Europe. It should be noted though, that “Arabic” here is defined as a metonym for Europe’s many constructed “others” (the Jew, the Turk, the Persian, the “Moor,” the “Mohamatan,” the “Saracen,” etc.) and “Europe” is a likewise constructed space to stage interaction. Thus, since identity relies on (mis)perception and performance (passing as …), the panel remains open to the fluidity of labels in cultural-rhetorical praxis and imagination that may well mistake, conflate, or liken “the Jew” and “the Mohamatan,” for example. This panel proposal invites scores of avenues of investigations, including the reception of Arab(ic) texts, images, objects, and ideas in southern Europe, particularly Iberia and Sicily/Italy.
Please send 300-word abstract by 20 March, 2016 to Samer Ali <samerali@umich.edu>
Co-Organized by the Forum on Arabic Language, Literature and Culture
and on Medieval Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies
8. The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) and the Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) are pleased to announce the second year of the ASPS/MANUU Visiting Scholar Fellowship, beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year.
Scholars applying to the ASPS/MANUU Visiting Scholar Fellowship will be attached to the H.K.Sherwani Centre for Deccan Studies at the Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad.
Theme of Research: The selected scholar will carry out research in the domain of Deccan-Persian Relations/Indo-Persian Culture of the Deccan.
Duration of the Award: Six months
Further details at:
9. Symposium- New Studies in Islamic Painting (April 14-15, Northwestern University)
New Studies in Islamic Painting
A Symposium at Northwestern University, April 14-15, 2016
Organized by Bilha Moor, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, Northwestern University.
For more information, please contact me at bilha.moor@northwestern.edu
PROGRAM
The Symposium presents current studies in figurative painting of the Pre-Modern Islamic lands. It examines Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman illustrated manuscripts, which were produced in the 13th-17th century, in Iraq, Greater Iran, and the Ottoman Empire. The papers address the relationship between word and image, questions of patronage and reception, as well as theoretical approaches to the study of Islamic painting.
The symposium is generously sponsored by the Myers Foundations, the Department of Art History at Northwestern University, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
This program is free and open to the public, but registration in advance is required. Please RSVP to mel.keiser@northwestern.edu by April 7th.
Thursday, April 14th
The Art Institute of Chicago, Sustaining Fellows Lounge, Rubloff Building
4:45-5:15- Coffee
5:15- Welcome, AIC Representative
5:20- Welcome, Jesús Escobar, Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
5:25- Introduction, Bilha Moor, Northwestern University
5:30-7:00- Session I- Reexamining Persian Illustrated Manuscripts
Priscilla P. Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
“Historicity in Persian Manuscript Illustrations”
Sheila Blair, Boston College
“The Archeology of a Manuscript: The Case of Khwājū Kirmānī’s Three Masnavīs”
David J. Roxburgh, Harvard University
“On Baysunghur’s Two Kalīla wa Dimnas: Modeling Practices of Emulation in the Persianate Arts of the Book”
Moderator: Jesús Escobar, Northwestern University
Friday, April 15th
Northwestern University Library, Forum Room
9:00-9:25- Gathering and coffee
9:25-9:30- Welcome, Northwestern Representative
9:30-10:30- Session I- Painting before 1250
Jonathan Bloom, Boston College
“Painting in the Fatimid Period: A Reappraisal”
Anna Contadini, SOAS, University of London
“The Bologna Dioscorides”
Moderator: Ann Gunter, Northwestern University
10:45-11:45- Session II- Rethinking the Manuscript and the Page
Rachel Milstein, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The Manuscript, the Page, the Text as Determinants in the Construction of Pictorial Space”
Yael Rice, Amherst College
“The Reconstitutive Codex: The Generation and Regeneration of Mughal Albums”
Moderator: Rajeev Kinra, Northwestern University
12:00-1:30- Lunch
1:30-2:30- Session III- Mystical Dimensions of Persian Painting
Chad Kia, Independent Scholar
“Kāshifī’s Rules of Artisanal Ethics: A Principle of Selection for Illustrations of ‘Attār’s Mantiq al-Tayr”
Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University
“Love and the Body: Materiality and Figuration in Early Safavid Art”
Moderator: Rob Linrothe, Northwestern University
2:30-3:00- Coffee break
3:00-4:00- Session IV- Safavid Painting in the 17th Century
Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum
“Humor in Paintings of the Seventeenth-Century Isfahani Artist Shaykh ‘Abbāsī”
Anastassiia Botchkareva, Columbia University
“Refocusing the Gaze: Visual Transitions in Seventeenth-Century Persianate Representations”
Moderator: Christina Normore, Northwestern University
4:00-4:30- Coffee break
4:30-5:30- Session V- Turkish and Ottoman Manuscripts
Serpil Bağcı, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara
“Illustrated Manuscripts of the Turkish Iskendernāme and Turkmen Patrons”
Emine Fetvacı, Boston University
“The Album of Ahmed I and the City of Istanbul”
Moderator: Bilha Moor, Northwestern University
6:00-7:00- Reception
10. Newly Digitized 12th-century copy of Arabic Astronomy Manuscript now online
11. Second Perso-Indica Workshop
Indian Narratives and Persian Literature
April 8th 2016, 10.00-17.00
Program
10.00: Fabrizio Speziale, Introduction to the Second Perso-Indica Workshop
10.30: Nalini Balbir, « The Pañcatantra Stories in Their Indian Versions: Languages, Contents and Purposes »
11.00: Pegah Shahbaz, « The Translation and Adaptation of Pañcatantra Tradition in Persian Literature: from Kalīla wa Dimna to Pancakhyana »
11.30: Discussion
12.00: Lunch-break
13.15: Judit Törzsök, « Narrative Strategies and Political Situations: The Hitopadeśa in Context »
13.45: Blain Auer, « From Mufarriḥ al-qulūb (The Rejoicer of Hearts) to Aḫlāq-i hindī (Indian Ethics): Translating Persian and Sanskrit Political Advice Literature »
14.15: Discussion
14.45: Coffee-break
15.15: Iran Farkhondeh, « The Śukasaptati Within the Sanskrit Tradition of Kathā Cycles »
15.45: Sunil Sharma, « When a Translation is Not Really a Translation: Żīyā al-Dīn Naḫšabī’s Ṭūṭī-nāma »
16.15: Discussion
16.45: Conclusion
Place: Salle Claude Simon, Sorbonne nouvelle, 4 Rue des Irlandais, 75005, Paris.
Organisation and contact: Pegah Shahbaz, pegah.shahbaz@univ-paris3.fr
- March 21, 2016
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Cities and disasters: urban adaptability and resilience in history
Call for Papers
Date: November 3, 2016 to November 4, 2016
Location: United Kingdom
Subject Fields: Urban History / Studies, Urban Design and Planning, World History / Studies, Environmental History / Studies, Social History / Studies
The Centre for Metropolitan History, in association with the National Institute for the Humanities in Japan (NIHU), is organising a major conference on 3-4 November 2016 which seeks to explore the ways in which cities across time and geographical regions have experienced, and been shaped by, natural disasters and other ‘shocks’. The idea of ‘resilience’ is now at the forefront of debates about urban development, planning and the future of cities, but long-term historical perspectives are largely absent from these contemporary policy discussions.
The 350th anniversary of London’s ‘Great Fire’ of 1666 provides an opportunity to reflect more widely on the impact of urban disasters, to bring together scholars working on different periods and countries, and to bring to bear different perspectives (literary, material/archaeological, architectural, historical, cultural, linguistic, etc.).
Proposals for 20-minute papers, including an abstract (200 words) and a short CV, should be sent to ihr.cmh@sas.ac.uk by Friday 27 May 2016. See the full Call for Papers at http://events.history.ac.uk/event/show/15077
Contact Info:
Olwen Myhill, Centre for Metropolitan History, Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, UK
Tel: +44(0)20 7862 8790
Contact Email:
2. Jobs:
Visiting Position: Islamic World History/Modern Middle East, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA – http://www.fandm.edu/history/employment-opportunities
Two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Late Ancient Near East (200-900 AD), Ohio State University, Columbus – https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7045
Two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Late Ancient Near East (200-900 AD), Ohio State University, Columbus – https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7045
University of Oxford – I.M. Pei Professorship in Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52669
University of Antwerp – Lecturer, area Modern History of the Islamic World
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52551
3. Graduate Studentships for Research on Muslims in the UK or Europe, University of Cambridge
The proposed research may be at Masters or PhD level, and may be in any discipline. The studentships will cover Cambridge University and College fees only.
Deadline for application: 11 March 2016. Information: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/9356/
4. Third Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies, Chicago, June 23-June 25, 2016
The conference will be divided into two parts and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on numismatics (June 20-22). A list of the papers and panels to be presented can be consulted at http://mamluk.uchicago.edu/sms-conference.html
5. Position: Lectureship in Iranian Islamic Art History
Location: School of Art History, University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
Salary: £38,896 – £47,801 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term: 5 years in the first instance
Start: 1 September 2016 or as soon as possible thereafter
Deadline: 4 April 2016 / Apply Online
We are seeking to appoint a full-time lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History. Applications are invited from candidates whose research interests lie broadly within the spectrum of the Islamic art and/or architecture of the Iranian world, broadly defined. Candidates will therefore be expected to have the centre of gravity of their research squarely in the Iranian world in the Islamic period. Evidence of breadth of interest within the field of Iranian Islamic art and/or architecture is highly desirable, and a firm grounding in Iranian studies generally (e.g. in the fields of language, history, literature, religion) will be an advantage. (Please note that we are not seeking a candidate who is interested in Iranian Islamic art as an offshoot of another field.)
You should already have, or be close to completing, a Ph.D. You should be able to provide evidence of your research abilities in the form of publications of internationally-recognized quality as well as a programme of on-going research that will contribute to our reputation as one of the leading Art History departments in the UK (we were ranked 2nd among Art History departments in REF 2014). Other indications of research activity (e.g. grants awarded, conference papers delivered, exhibitions organized) will also be taken into account, as will evidence that your research has had or will have an impact beyond academia.
You will be expected to offer attractive and accessible undergraduate courses on Iranian art and/or architecture, giving students as much first-hand experience of works as possible. You will also be required to contribute lectures on our first and/or second-year survey modules, which currently deal with the development of Western art, architecture and ideas. Working with postgraduates, both teaching M.Litt. classes and supervising Ph.D. research, will also be a vital part of your role. More broadly, it is expected that the successful candidate will participate in the activities of the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of St Andrews.
Like other members of the School, you will be expected to take on administrative tasks as required by the Head of School.
This is a fixed term post for 5 years in the first instance, with possibility of extension.
Informal enquiries can be directed to Dr Julian Luxford: 01334 462394 or jml5@st-andrews.ac.uk
Applications are particularly welcome from women who are under-represented in Arts posts at the University. You can find out more about Equality and Diversity at https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk.hr.edi/.
The University of St Andrews is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all, which is further demonstrated through its working on the Gender and Race Equality Charters and being awarded the Athena SWAN award for women in science, HR Excellence in Research Award and the LGBT Charter; http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/hr/edi/diversityawards/.
Please quote ref: AC1929MR
Closing Date: 4 April 2016
Further Particulars: AC1929MR FPs.doc
6. The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University invites applications for an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Specialists in all periods, from approximately 700 to 1700 AD, and geographic regions (including Central, and South Asia) are encouraged to apply.
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/7081
7. Sufis and Mullahs: Sufis and their Opponents in the Persianate World
April 14-16, 2016 at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, England.
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/cpis/newsevents/
provides full details of the conference programme, its speakers, the various issues it addresses, method of registration, accommodation, and all other related matters.
8. SCTIW review : the journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.
Publisher: [Grand Forks, ND] : Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, 2014- ISSN: 2374-9288
“Reviews of works pertaining to the Islamicate world (whether in Islamic studies, Middle East studies, or other related fields and subfields) analyzed in light of contemporary philosophy, literary or artistic criticism, religion, political theory, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies.”
http://www.sctiw.org/sctiw_review
9. Syrian Studies Association Prizes for Outstanding Dissertation and Article on Syria
In order to promote and highlight excellence in research, the Syrian Studies Association each year awards prizes for the best writing on Bilad al-Sham until 1918 and on Syria in the period following.
In 2016, the SSA seeks submissions for the most outstanding dissertation published between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2016, and the most outstanding article or book chapter published between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016.
In order to be considered for the prize, candidates must join the association. Information about the Syrian Studies Association is available at the following website: http://www.ou.edu/ssa/index.html
Submissions in languages other than English are welcomed. Articles should be sent electronically. Books can be sent either electronically or in hard copy.
The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2016. All submissions should be sent to Charles Wilkins, Chair of the Prize Committee, at the following address: charleslwilkins@gmail.com. Winners will be announced at the SSA annual meeting in November 2016. Inquiries should be directed to Charles Wilkins.
10. Position: Arabic-Speaking Membership and Grant Schemes Coordinator
Salary: £22,000–£25,000 per annum
Contract: One year fixed-term in the first instance; Full-time
Location: Cambridge, UK
Deadline: Open till filled
For details of qualifications, essential skills, and to apply, see our website islamicmanuscript.org
11. History of Syria, 1099-1250: Conflict and Co-existence
1–2 April 2016, University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
This conference focuses on events, trends and personalities in Syria between 1099 and 1250, with a decided emphasis on the earlier half of that period. Its papers all bear on aspects of the Crusades, but are grouped into seven major themes. Naturally some deal with the major figures of the time – Nur al-Din, Saladin and Hülegü. But others look at their key advisers, such as ‘Imad al-Din al-Isfahani, the Qadi al-Fadil and al-Jilyani. Special attention will be paid to the multiple contacts between the Franks, the Muslims and the Oriental Christians, from the violence of war and how to wage it to visions of the afterlife and to the arts of peace, trade and diplomacy. New or neglected sources will be examined – Ibn Talha, al-Atharibi and al-Sulami. The cities of Gaza, Aleppo and Hama will be the focus of detailed examination. A closing round-table session, in which a panel of senior scholars will take questions from the audience, will be devoted to discussing the major themes and issues raised in the course of the conference.
Convened by Professor Carole Hillenbrand, FBA, FRSE, OBE,
Sponsored by the University of St Andrews
For details and booking, visit:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/school/conferences/HistoryofSyria.html
12. Conference: “Islam and Peaceful Relations”, University of Coventry, UK, 5 April 2016
The conference will explore the role religion can play in achieving more peaceful and just societies. It will build on our research expertise and will explore the positive difference faith and belief, in this case Islam, can make in today’s world and how conflicts relating to Islam can be overcome.
Information: http://www.mbrn.org.uk/conference-islam-and-peaceful-relations/
13. Professor of Islamic Studies with Focus on Iranian Studies, University of Cologne. Applicants should have academic expertise in the society, culture and history of modern contemporary Iran and the Iranian cultural region. We moreover expect research expertise in Shiite Islam and experience in dealing with questions and approaches of social and/or cultural science. Research experience on Iranian cultures and societies outside Iran/migration is beneficial. Candidates should be familiar with German. Deadline for application: 27 April 2016. Information: http://www.stellenwerk-koeln.de/uploads/tx_exinitswkjobs/Professur__W_2_Phil_Fak_Oriental_Sem1.pdf
14. Articles for “Islamophobia Studies Yearbook”
The Islamophobia Studies Yearbook is a bilingual periodical that started as a German language journal and has now been offering articles in German and English since 2010. The journal provides a forum for interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the phenomenon of Islamophobia. The Yearbook welcomes analysis from various disciplines.
Deadline for articles: 1 July 2016. Information: http://www.jahrbuch-islamophobie.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Call-for-Papers.pdf
- March 14, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University invites applications for an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the history of pre-modern Islamic art and architecture. Specialists in all periods, from approximately 700 to 1700 AD, and geographic regions (including Central, and South Asia) are encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will carry out research on pre-modern Islamic art or architectural history; teach one course per semester for four semesters, the exact classes to be determined in accordance with the candidate’s area of expertise and departmental needs; and deliv= er one public lecture and one formal presentation of research to the department and wider university community during the two-year term of appointment .
Diverse in terms of its temporal and geographic coverage, the faculty of th= e History of Art Department at OSU is particularly interested in questions = of historiography and critical theory; in cross-cultural exchange and the n egotiation of artistic, cultural, and political boundaries; in art’s role in mediating social action; and in issues of representation and the affective engagement of the image. Applications from scholars whose work relates to one or more of these areas of inquiry are especially welcome.
Application Instructions:
Applicants should submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and a statement = of research and teaching interests, and three letters of reference. Inquir= ies may be directed to Lisa Florman (florman.4@osu.edu). Review of applica= tions will begin on March 1, 2016, and we encourage submission before that = date. However, applications will continue to be accepted until the position= is filled. Please apply online through Academic Jobs Online at: http://academicjobsonline.org.=20
2.Virginia Tech — Virginia Polytechnic Institute – Instructor in Religion and Culture http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52652
3. The Islamic Manuscript Association, in partnership with Qatar National Library and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation, is pleased to announce an intensive three-day course entitled Safeguarding Islamic Books and Manuscripts: An Introduction to Cultural Heritage and Property Law, to be held at the 3–5 April 2016, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Student Center in Education City, Doha, Qatar from 3 to 5 April 2016.
For more information and to register, visit the course webpages at islamicmanuscript.org.
4.Open Access Journal
Open Access Journal Archive: Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)
Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:30 AM PST
Studia Orientalia (1925-2013)
Published: Helsinki : Finnish Oriental Society, 1925-
ISSN: 0039-3282
Text in: French, German, English
http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/StOrE/issue/archive
Continues as : Studia Orientalia Electronica
ISSN: 2323-5209
Downloadable list of all Studia Orientalia publications (pdf)
5. Intensive applied summer course (13-24 June 2016)
Hands on Camera: Documentary film as a medium for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program, School of International Studies, Oklahoma State University
in collaboration with
Filmmaking For Fieldwork (Manchester, U.K.)
The Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center (Tehran, Iran)
The Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) program at the Oklahoma State University is presenting its first applied course in visual research methods and documentary filmmaking for Iranian Studies in collaboration with “Filmmaking For Fieldwork” (Manchester, U.K.) and in association with “the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center” (Tehran, Iran). The IPGS visual program is a theoretical and practical visual study course, which is open to all who have a background in human and social science, cross-cultural visual studies, film studies, documentary production, and with special interest in contemporary Iran. This course maps on theoretical and practical aspects of ethnographic film by using documentary film as a medium for area studies (Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies). It exposes the different ways in which Iranian culture can be represented visually and the cultural interpretations of its visual representations.
For more information, please visit:
https://ipgs.okstate.edu/hands-on-camera
For more information, contact:
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies
Oklahoma State University
E-mail: Pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu
6. Volume 43 of Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 43 will be published in a few months.
The volume’s contents can be found on our website: http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/upload/_FILE_1456933643.pdf
Follow us on: https://huji.academia.edu/TheMaxSchloessingerMemorialFoundation
7.http://www.audaciousascetic.com/listen.htm
“Osama Bin Laden Tapes” is a companion website to the book The Audacious Ascetic :
What the Bin Laden Tapes Reveal About Al-Qa’ida by Flagg Miller.
“Website has been designed to allow non-Arabic speakers to listen to material featured in The Audacious Ascetic while reading English translations in real-time as the recordings unfold. As the book demonstrates, much of the meaning of bin Laden’s words and the significance of Al-Qa’ida for his early primary audiences was lost when edited and converted to print, video, and electronic media for global consumption. These recorded excerpts have been selected and produced specifically to accompany the book. They are best contextualized in tandem with the perspectives and arguments therein.”
This space is dedicated to the working paper series published by the “Early Islamic Empire” project. The papers published here are works in progress and should be considered stimuli for debate.
- March 04, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures at the University of Edinburgh is pleased to invite applications from outstanding candidates for a range of Masters scholarships for entry in 2016-17.
The scholarships are open to new Masters students who will be based in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, which includes Asian Studies, Celtic & Scottish Studies, English Literature, European Languages & Cultures, and Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies. The School has a vibrant international community of 480 postgraduate students and 160 academic staff. We have regular research seminars, and postgraduate students run and edit the peer-reviewed journal Forum, which publishes contributions from postgraduates working on culture and the arts.
We invite applications to the following schemes:
1) The School will be awarding two Arthur Kitchin Scholarships. These awards cover tuition fees for a maximum of one year at the Home/EU rate for the chosen taught or research Masters programme of study (up to a maximum of £8,500). Successful Overseas applicants will be liable for the difference between the Home/EU and Overseas fees rates. Applicants to two-year programmes or part-time Masters programmes including distance learning are eligible to apply, but they will be liable for any tuition fees in excess of £8,500.
Deadline: 15 March 2016 (application for a Masters place); 1 April 2016 (scholarship application).
2) The School will also be awarding 7 University of Edinburgh UK/EU Masters scholarships for entry in 2016-17. One of these awards will be worth £10,000, and the remaining six will be worth £4,500.
Deadline: 2 May 2016.
3) IMES is delighted to invite applications for a fees only MSc Taught degree scholarship for any of its programmes (IMES, Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic, Advanced Arabic, Persian Civilisation). The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home/EU rate (£8,500 p.a. for 2016-2017).
Applications for both the Scholarship and the MSc must be made by 15th March 2016.
http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/masters-students/imes-msct-scholarship
The UK government will be introducing a new Postgraduate Loan Scheme for students starting Masters study in 2016-17. These £10,000 loans can be spent at Scottish universities, and students ordinarily resident in England are eligible to apply. Further details of the residence and eligibility criteria will be announced shortly, and updates will be announced via the first link below.
For further details on these schemes, please visit: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school/fees-and-funding/funding/masters-students.
For information about taught and research Masters degrees in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, visit: http://www.ed.ac.uk/literatures-languages-cultures/graduate-school
Contact for general PG admissions enquiries: llc.pgadmissions@ed.ac.uk.
2. Hammed Shahidian Paper Award
Hammed Shahidian (1959-2005): Hammed Shahidan’s premature death has left us with a total sense of loss; loss of a dear friend, a committed academic, a gentle male soul who dedicated his scholarly and political life to the enhancement of women’s rights and feminism. Hammed’s voluminous contribution on the struggle of Iranian women, in general, and secular and leftist women, in particular, was unique and outstanding. He began his research and activism in feminist sociology at a time when ‘feminism’ was going through theoretical turns, which left very little space for the bold and daring scholarship that Hammed was engaged in. As an Iranian male scholar, he took feminism earnestly. Those of us who were in touch with him witnessed his unwavering personal, political, and intellectual commitment to secular feminist scholarship. He did not want to leave this world without finishing his books. His love for life and desire to leave behind critical and emancipatory scholarship will keep his memory alive. Hammed is sadly missed, but his commitment to change the oppressive status quo will inspire generations of women and men.
In memory of Hammed and in continuing his scholarship, the Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation has established the Hammed Shahidian Critical Feminist Paper at the 2006 Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation at Montreal Conference.
Deadline: The paper must be submitted to claudia.yaghoobi@gcsu.edu by March 18, 2016.
The paper may be about Iranian women’s studies in the social sciences, humanities and the arts.
The paper should be unpublished.
The paper must be submitted and written in Persian or English.
The paper must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words.
The paper should follow a consistent way of writing, stating the problem, presenting evidence, analysis of evidence and conclusions, organized under proper subheadings with a bibliography.
The paper should not exceed 5000 words (excluding the bibliography).
The paper should be submitted double spaced online or in print. Please have your name clearly marked on all documents. Papers will not be returned.
Level of Competition: Applicants should identify in their cover letter the following categories: Student (undergraduate or graduate), independent writer, researcher or activist and submit a short biography.
Evaluation: Papers will be reviewed by two or three reviewers.
The Award: The name of the winner will be announced during the annual IWSF conference. The winner is encouraged, but not required, to attend and present the paper. The amount of the award is 500 US dollars.
The awarded paper will be published in the IWSF Conference Proceedings..
3. A position as Associate Professor in Modern Arabic Language and Culture is available at the University of Oslo.
Application deadline is 4 April.
http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1513053/62042?iso=no
Associate Professor in Modern Turkey: History, Language and Culture, University of Oslo
Deadline for application: 18 May 2016. Information: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/1513033/62042?iso=no
4. Call for Papers: The East and Europe Conference, University of Amsterdam
This conference invites researchers from various disciplines within the humanities to share their scholarly interest in the cultural interaction and exchange that has taken place since antiquity between ‘the East’ and ’Europe’, and in the processes of societal transformation and identity construction involved. Through critical, multidisciplinary, diachronic and comparative approaches this conference intends to explore the dynamics between the two geographical and conceptual constructs: ‘the East’, whether identified with Byzantium, Islam, Eastern Christianity, Asia, or other characteristics, and ‘Europe’, as the perceived counterpart of the variously defined ‘easts’ or as in itself the embodiment of western cultures’ self-ideal? The deadline for abstracts is 11 March 2016.
More information on: http://ashms.uva.nl/news-and-events/news/news-ashms/news-ashms/content-2/folder/2015/11/co…
Please be so kind to send your abstract (300 words max.) before March 11th to Inge Kalle-den Oudsten: i.kalle-denoudsten@uva.nl We’ll inform you further in the beginning of April. All other correspondence to Mirjam Hoijtink, coordinator of the UvA Research Group The East & Europe: m.h.e.hoijtink@uva.nl
We will try to meet you in travel costs and help to logistically facilitate your stay in Amsterdam.
5. Call for papers: Translation and Religion: Interrogating Concepts, Methods and Practices
University of Edinburgh, 1-3 September 2016
Abstract Submissions Deadline: April 15, 2016
What is the relationship between ‘translation’ and ‘religion’? While all ‘religions’ travel and engage in translation of one kind or another, what gets translated? How do the different components of what is currently understood as ‘religion’—texts, practices, experiences, inner faith or belief systems—translate differently? How can we analyze such commonly held beliefs that some languages simply are sacred and should not be translated? And what are the implications of such questions for understanding religious conversion? What can translation concepts and methods tell us about the way religions and the study of religions are constructed?
While both disciplines have evolved and grown rapidly over the past half century, each has also engaged, in the past few decades, in a re-evaluation of its basic ideas and terms, including fundamental categories such as ‘religion’ and ‘translation.’ It can no longer be taken for granted that there is one definition for what comprises the ‘sacred’ or indeed a ‘correct’ or ‘good’ translation. Such re-assessment provides an excellent context within which to creatively engage the two to generate forward-looking theoretical perspectives.
This three-day AHRC-funded conference aims to bring together scholars from the two disciplines to investigate theories, concepts and methods with comparative and critical tools in order to evaluate areas of mutually creative overlap. For instance, ‘religion’ and ‘translation’ are often taken to be universal and given categories. Instead, we hope to engage scholars in a dismantling of these categories to analyze their conceptualization as evaluative categories within different intellectual histories. Such a focus will allow us to re-evaluate the role of language and translation in the construction of religious concepts and identities as well as enhance current understandings of the nature and function of translation processes.
We invite papers that investigate any aspect of conceptual frameworks (i.e. evaluating the usefulness and limits of conceptual categories, the role played by conceptions of the sacred in developing translation concepts and practices, how and to what extent processes of translation interpret, evaluate or transform religions or the ‘sacred’/’secular’ dichotomy); practices (such as, translations of the sacred involving censorship, retranslation, mistranslations, compensation; role of power, status and ideologies of translators, institutions and faith communities; translations influencing the sacred status of texts; function of translation in the spread of religions and religious conversion); or methodological approaches (What can translation studies bring to the study of religions?, Can examining translation methods and practices contribute to the comparative study of religions or how religions function? What light can the study of the reception of sacred texts or practices of ritual reading throw on translation concepts and strategies? Can studying translation history (both history of translation practice and discursive statements) tell us about changing attitudes to the sacred over historical time?).
Keynote speakers:
Arvind-Pal Mandair
Associate Professor and S.C.S.B Endowed Professor of Sikh Studies, LSA, University of Michigan
Alan Williams
Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Manchester
For more details, please see http://www.ctla.llc.ed.ac.uk/translation-and-religion-interrogating-concepts-methods-and-practices/
6. New Book Series: Islamic History and Thought
Gorgias Press is delighted to announce the launch of its new inter-disciplinary book series Islamic History and Thought. The series will provide a platform for original scholarly research on any geographic area within the expansive Islamic world and dated to any period from the eve of Islam until the early modern period. Scholars are invited to submit proposals for original monographs, translations (Arabic, Persian, Syriac, Greek, and Latin) and edited volumes (including proceeding volumes) related to these broad areas of research. Manuscripts can be written in English, German or French. The series is open to established and early career academics, as well as postgraduate researchers intending to publish revised doctoral theses. The series is overseen by two distinguished editorial boards and all accepted submissions will be peer-reviewed by two leading specialists.
Series Editorial Board
- PD Dr. Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Professor Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Professor Jan Just Witkam, Universiteit Leiden
- Dr. Jack Tannous, Princeton University
- Ahmad Khan, Universität Hamburg
Advisory Editorial Board
- Professor Binyamin Abrahamov, Bar-Ilan University
- Professor Asad Q. Ahmed, University of California, Berkeley
- Professor Abdulhadi Alajmi, University of Kuwait
- Professor Mohammad-Ali Amir-Moezzi, École Pratique des Hautes Études
- Professor Massimo Campanini, Università degli Studi di Trento
- Professor Agostino Cilardo, Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘‘L‘Orientale’’
- Dr. Farhad Daftary, The Institute of Ismaili Studies
- Professor Godefroid de Callataÿ, Université Catholique de Louvain
- Professor Beatrice Gründler, Freie Universität Berlin
- Professor Wael Hallaq, Columbia University
- Professor Konrad Hirschler, SOAS, University of London
- Professor Maher Jarrar, American University of Beirut
- Professor James Howard-Johnston, University of Oxford
- Dr. Harry Munt, University of York
- Professor Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria
- Professor Gabriel Said Reynolds, University of Notre Dame
- Professor Walid Saleh, University of Toronto
- Professor Jens Scheiner, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
- Dr. Delfina Serrano, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, Madrid
- Professor Georges Tamer, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
- Mr. Manolis Ulbricht, Freie Universität Berlin
To submit a proposal, kindly send the following information about your mansucipt to adam@gorgiaspress.com:
- Abstract of the book.
- Table of contents.
- Sample chapters (or the full manuscript).
- A copy of your C.V.
- Contact details of two scholars familiar with your work (for PhD students only).
7. First ‘Great Lake’ Ottoman Symposium:
Bringing together scholars from South-Western German-language universities
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, February 26-27, 2016
Ottoman Typologies of Identities
Program
FRIDAY (26 Feb)
11:00 – 11.30 – Welcome and Opening Remarks (E. Lelić, J. Büssow)
11:30 – 12:00 – Introductory Discussion: “Identity”
– Christoph Herzog, “Identity: Conceptual thoughts”
12:00 – 12:30 – Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00 – Panel I: Early Modern Ottoman Typologies
Panel Chair: Mehmetcan Akpinar
– Emin Lelić, “The Seven Ways of Physiognomy: An Ottoman typology”
– Felix Konrad, “Gesellschaftliche Kategorisierung in politischen Texten des frühen
- Jahrhunderts”
– Hedda Reindl-Kiel, “Living between Two Worlds (16th-18th centuries): ‘Upper-class’
converts in the Ottoman capital”
14:00 – 15:30 – Lunch (SchloßCafé)
15:30 – 17:30 – Panel II: Modern Ottoman Identities
Panel Chair: Maurus Reinkowski
– Henning Sievert, “Typisierung und Praxis im osmanischen Libyen”
– Ellinor Morack, “‘Can the immigrant speak?’ Klasse, sozialer Status und Narrativität
in Dokumenten frührepublikanischer Austauschmigranten”
– Evelin Dierauff, “Negotiating imperial identities in Late Ottoman Palestine:
Modernism, patriotism and civic society in the Arab-Palestinian press, 1911-1914”
– David Suber, “Intermediaries of late-Ottoman Identity: The Jews of Salonika”
17:45 – 19:00 – Panel III: Ottoman Census & Identity
Panel Chair: Erdal Toprakyaran
– Johann Büssow, “The Identification of Individuals in the Ottoman Census of 1905”
– Jörg Baten & Rima Ghanem, “Identification in Ottoman Census Records as a Tool for
Economic Development Studies”
19:00 – Dinner (Neckarmüller)
SATURDAY (27 Feb)
9:00 – 11:00 – Panel IV: Early Modern Scholars and Litterateurs
Panel Chair: Heidrun Eichner
– Gül Şen, “Power and Astrology in the Ottoman Historiography”
– Ferenc Csirkes, “The Man of the Pen, the Sword and the Brush: Sadiqi Beg and self-
fashioning in early modern Persia”
– Muharrem Kuzey, “Ibn Kemal als Šayḫ al-islām zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und Politik
– Fatih Şahan, “Die Kaside-i Nuniye von Hızır Bey”
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 – Panel V: Current Projects in Ottoman and Middle Eastern Studies
Panel Chair: Kurt Franz
– Christoph Herzog, Bamberg
– Maurus Reinkowski, Basel
– Henning Sievert, Zürich
– Johann Büssow, Tübingen
– Kurt Franz, Tübingen
12:30 – 13:30 – Discussion Forum: The ‘Great Lake’ Symposium as a new exchange
format for scholars from South-Western German-language universities
Forum Chairs: J. Büssow, E. Lelić, M. Reinkowski
13:30 – 14:30 – Lunch (SchloßCafé)
[ optional ]
16:00 – 18:00 – Linden-Museum, Stuttgart
Guide: Dr. Annette Krämer
– Typologies of the shadow theater
8. Bahari Associate Professorship of Sasanian Studies, University of Oxford
Deadline for applications: 1st April 2016
This is a new post, and represents an exciting new development for Oxford, complementing its existing strengths in Persian and Iranian studies, Indo-European philology, the study of the religions and cultures of the Near and Middle East, and Late Antique and Byzantine studies. The Associate Professor will carry out research and give lectures, classes, and tutorials in Sasanian Studies, and will be offered a Governing Body Fellowship at Wolfson College.
The successful candidate will, by the start of the appointment, hold a doctorate within the field of Sasanian studies. She/he will be able to teach and supervise undergraduate and graduate students, being capable of lecturing in an interesting and engaging manner. With an excellent command of Middle Persian and Parthian, she/he will be able to carry out research using primary sources in these languages, as well as teaching students in them. The Associate Professor will be able to establish links with colleagues working on related subjects in the University and to contribute to teaching and supervision of interested students in other faculties; she/he will have a commitment to and established record of research of the highest calibre in the field, and to publishing this research at the level expected by international journals and major presses. The successful candidate will also have excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills; be able and willing to undertake administration in the Faculty and the College, and to participate in Faculty and College affairs, including undertaking pastoral responsibilities.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52631
9. LABEX EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTICS
Strand 6 – Language Resources
Job announcement
Job title:
Automatic acquisition of lexicon
Automatic acquisition of Persian compound verbs (complex predicates) and their semantic and syntactic properties from available online corpora (Wiki, etc.), with the possibility of extension to other related languages (ex. Pashto, Kurdish, etc.)
Job rank: Post Doc
Duration: One year
Job Location: Paris
University/laboratory: Sorbonne Paris Cité University, “Mondes iranien et indien” (http://www.iran-inde.cnrs.fr/?lang=fr) and Alpage (http://www.inria.fr/equipes/alpage) laboratories
Salary: 2000 to 2400 euros per month (according to the applicant’s experience), net of taxes
Application deadline: 18 March 2016
Starting date: From May 1st on
Contacts for application: Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian@univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot@univ-paris3.fr).
Job description
The project consists in automatically enriching the PersPred database (http://perspred.cnrs.fr/), the first online syntactic and semantic multilingual database dedicated to Persian compound verbs (complex predicates). PersPred currently has 1600 entries. We aim at considerably improving the coverage of the database (by tripling the number of entries). We are also interested in the possibility of applying the methods elaborated for enriching PersPred to develop similar resources for other Iranian languages, Kurdish or Pashto, for instance, which like Persian resort to compound verbs.
Although Persian complex predicates (compound verbs) have been a focus of interest in theoretical studies, little attention has been paid to the necessity of the elaboration of a rich lexicon of these combinations. Computational studies have mentioned the lack of large-scale lexical resources for Persian and have developed probabilistic measures to determine the acceptability of the combination of a verb and a noun as a CP (Taslimipoor et al., 2012). PersPred aims to contribute to fill this gap by proposing a framework for the storage and the description of Persian CPs. Based on Samvelian’s (2012) theoretical and descriptive survey, PersPred provides a syntactic and semantic classification of Persian complex predicates. Its first version was developed within the PERGRAM project (ANR-DFG) and included around 700 entries with the verb zadan `to hit’ (Samvelian & Faghiri 2013, 2014, to appear). PersPred2 was obtained by semi-automatic enrichment of PersPred1 using the valency information encoded in the database.
Required Qualifications
Applicants should have a PhD in computational linguistics or computer science with an excellent knowledge in natural language processing. Familiarity with methods of automatic acquisition of lexical knowledge about multiword expressions is desirable.
Knowledge of Persian or at least familiarity with the Arabic script would be highly appreciated.
Job Context
The project is a part of the work package LR41 (Morphological and syntactic resources for Iranian languages), of the strand 6 of the Labex EFL. It will be carried out under the joint supervision of Pollet Samvelian (for the linguistic component) and Benoît Crabbé (for the computational component).
Application submission
Applicants are invited to send to Pollet Samvelian (pollet.samvelian@univ-paris3.fr), Benoît Crabbé (bcrabbe@linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr) and Cédric Gendrot (cedric.gendrot@univ-paris3.fr):
- A cover letter
- A CV including their list of publications
- The name and the contact of two referees
- A link for downloading their publications
10. Symposium – The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies (24-26 March, Amsterdam)
The NWO project Fitting In/Standing Out (FISO), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, together with the University of Salento, Lecce, and the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, is proud to present the international symposium The Politics of Dress and Identity in Eastern Mediterranean Societies, Past and Present, organized by Tineke Rooijakkers and Rosita D’Amora. This symposium will take place from 24 March to 26 March 2016 in the Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam.
This symposium takes an interdisciplinary, diachronic, and comparative approach to explore the interplay between dress and identity in the greater Mediterranean basin, with a special focus on Muslim societies and interconnected cultures. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, using a wide spectrum of methods, with the aim of putting perceptions of dress in the past and present into a broader perspective. Themes that recur throughout the papers are dress as part of the representation of the Self and the Other – both in itself and in depictions – and the entanglement of sartorial indicators of culture, status, and religion.
The programme can be found online at: http://fgw.vu.nl/nl/research/onderzoeksprojecten/fitting-standing/events/index.aspx
Attendance is free, but space is limited, so please register before 15 March by sending an email to Alexandra Pleşa (a.d.plesa@vu.nl) or Judith Kindinger (j.e.kindinger@vu.nl).
11.CFP – Historians of Islamic Art Association Majlis at MESA 2016 (17–20 Nov, Boston)
The Historians of Islamic Art Association invites proposals from junior scholars (advanced graduate students or those within 3 years of completion of the PhD) to present at its Majlis, to be held at the Middle East Studies Association Meeting, November 17-20, 2016, in Boston. The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with MESA or CAA, offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars. It will take the form of a panel of four papers, followed by comments from more senior colleagues and discussion. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art. Proposals should be submitted by email to Abigail Balbale at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a two-part attachment and should include:
- a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation; and
- an abstract of no more than one page.
Please note that all those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA. Proposals are due by April 1, 2016.
12. Full professorship in Iranian studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, starting on Sept. 1, 2016.
All fields of Iranian studies are eligible, but with a strong preference for Classical, Medieaval or Modern periods, due to the profile of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. For further information, see:
The teaching is in French.
The applications are opened now, until March 30th.
The applications are to be made electronically only.
All informations on the procedure the University recruitment page:
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/recrutement-d-enseignants-chercheurs-campagne-2016-session-synchronisee-373056.kjsp
Procedure in two steps:
1) Register as candidate on the Galaxie national education server
(position reference: Galaxie 4171)
https://galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/antares/can/astree/index.jsp
2) Apply through the Sorbonne Nouvelle recruitment application
https://recrutement.univ-paris3.fr/recrutementECcandidat/
13. *Title*: Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor of Arabic Language, Oberlin College*Job Summary*:The Arabic Program at Oberlin College invites applications for a full-timenon-continuing faculty position in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Appointment to this position will be for a term of 2 years, beginning fallsemester of 2016, with the possibility of renewal up to two additionalyears, and will carry the rank of Visiting Instructor or AssistantProfessor.The Arabic Program enjoys strong student interest and the support of the Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures and the College’s Middle Easternand North African Studies Program. Incumbent may also have shared academicinterests with colleagues in the Department of History and Department ofReligion.
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Reponsibilities*:
The incumbent will teach a total of five courses in the general area of
Arabic language and culture.*Qualifications*:
Among the qualifications required for appointment is an M.A or Ph.D. degree
(in hand or expected by first semester of academic year 2016) in teaching
Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL) or a related field, familiarity with
the integrated communicative approach that integrates the teaching of both
standard and spoken Arabic (preferably Levantine), native or near-native
fluency in Arabic, excellent English skills, and at least three years of
teaching experience at the university level (preferably in the U.S).*Compensation:*
Within the range established for this position, salary will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience and includes an excellent benefits
package.*Special Instructions*:
To apply, candidates should visit the online application site found at
https://jobs.oberlin.edu. A complete application will be comprised of 1) a
Cover Letter that includes an articulation of the applicant’s teaching
philosophy; 2) a Curriculum Vitae; 3) Unofficial transcript; and, 4)
Letters of Reference from three (3) recommenders* All application materials
must be submitted electronically *through Oberlin College and
Conservatory’s online application process at:* https://jobs.oberlin.edu/**By providing three (3) Professional References** (names and email
addresses), you agree that we may contact them through our applicant web
portal. Reference writers will be asked to submit an electronic
Letter of Recommendation on behalf of the applicant. Please note: At this
time we are unable to accept Letters of Recommendation from an Interfolio
email address.*Review of applications will begin on March 21, 2016, and will continue
until the position is filled. Completed applications received by the March
21, 2016 deadline will be guaranteed full consideration.Questions about the position can be addressed to: * swojtal@oberlin.edu *
< aartsear@oberlin.edu > or Steven Wojtal, Senior Associate Dean and Acting
Chair of Arabic, at 440-775-8410.
14. Workshop: “Feminism and Theory in the Arab World”, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 18-19 March 2016.The workshop focuses on how scholars who have long been observing feminist endeavors, while being themselves women’s rights activists, interpret the present situation beyond ideological fault lines. Deadline for registration: 10 March 2016. Information: http://www.asienundeuropa.uzh.ch/events/conferences/feminism.html
15. University Lectureship in Ottoman History and Culture, Leiden University, Netherlands
- Requirements are, among others: specialist knowledge of Ottoman history and culture, including the ability to work with primary Ottoman source material; survey knowledge of the Middle East at large; a PhD degree in a relevant field, research experience in Turkey or other locations relevant to the study of Ottoman history and culture; an excellent command of Ottoman Turkish, Modern Turkish and English.
Deadline for application: 21 March 2016. Information: http://werkenbij.leidenuniv.nl/vacatures/wetenschappelijke-functies/16-052-vacature-universiteit-leiden-university-lectureship-in-ottoman-history-and-culture.html
16. Summer School: “Understanding Islamist Movements: Historical Roots and Current Realities”, Université de Genève, 20 June – 1 July 2016
This course asks how we should understand the various political movements that claim to act in the name of Islam. We will examine the historical roots of political Islam, trace the origins of the movement known as Salafism and the changing uses of the term “jihad”. Scholarships in the form of tuition reduction may be available.
Deadline for registration: 1 May 2016. Information: http://www.genevasummerschools.ch/courses/courses-2016/understanding-islamist-movements
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Call for Entries
The Third Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia of EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists), 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy (20-23 July 2016)
We are pleased to announce the third Ethnographic Film and Media Program of the Middle East and Central Eurasia, which will be held annually in conjunction with the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
www.easaonline.org/networks/amce/index.shtml
The goal of our program is to promote original ethnographic films and visual media, not only in the area of anthropology, but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related topics. Our program encompasses all areas of the contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (the Russian Federation, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China), including topics on minority groups and religious themes.
Our third program will be held during the 14th EASA Biennial Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy. We invite and encourage all students, anthropologists, sociologists, documentary filmmakers and media artists to participate in our program by submitting ethnographic videos, films (including online and cell phone styles, short and feature-length films) as well as interactive media (websites, hyperlinked documents, etc.).
Our main focus for this year’s program will be on “war, crises, refugees, migration and Islamophobia”. However, other topics are more than welcome.
Deadline
Films and other materials submitted for the program should be submitted online or as DVD preview copies, accompanied by a synopsis, a 10-line description and technical data, no later than 10 May 2016.
Delivery and return policies
- All entries submitted must have received their first public screening on or after 1 January 2016.
- All participants must cover all costs related to the delivery of preview and screening copies. We will not return the preview and screening copies.
- All entries should be sent to:
Dr. P. Khosronejad
Farzaneh Family Scholar
Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies
School of International Studies
201 Wes Watkins Center, USA
Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078
E-mail: Pedram.Khosronejad@okstate.edu
2. Lecturer in Islamic Economics and Finance
(1 Full-Time and permanent)
Salary range: £29,429 to £37,280 per annum
Applications are invited for the above post at Al-Maktoum College of Higher Education. The successful applicant will have a strong teaching and research profile and be able to make a strong contribution to the academic profile of the College in 2016 and onwards.
The successful applicant will have proven teaching and research expertise in the area of Islamic Economics and Finance and be able to contribute to teaching in any relevant areas, including but not restricted to Islamic Commercial Law, Applied Islamic Banking and Insurance, Islamic Accounting and Auditing. Active participation in the activities of other SQA Programmes and 3. the College’s potential postgraduate programmes is also expected.
Closing Date for applications is Friday 4th March 2016 and interviews will take place on Friday 11th March 2016. The post is immediately available.
For an application pack, and further information, please visit: http://www.almcollege.org.uk/wp-content/uploads//LECTURER-IN-ISLAMIC-ECONOMICS-AND-FINANCE_Further-ParticularsFeb-2016.pdf
Applicants should ensure that their references reach the College by the end of business on Friday 4th March 2016.
3. Leiden University invites applications for a full time replacement University Lectureship in anthropology and Islamic studies, with special attention to Morocco.
Courses may include
- anthropology of the Middle East;
- anthropology of Muslim societies;History, Society, and Islam in Morocco;
- Theories and Methods in Middle-Eastern Studies;
- Culture of/in the Modern Middle East.
Appointment will be fixed-term from August 2016 through June 2019.
Leiden University is committed to diversity, inclusiveness, and equal opportunities. Candidates from outside the Netherlands may be eligible for a substantial tax break.
Application deadline: 21 March 2016.
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ANA179/lectureship-in-anthropology-and-islamic-studies/
4. Summer Institute: “Islamic Thought and Secular Modernity”, International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, VA, 8-13 August 2016
The Summer Institute is an annual meeting dedicated to the study of contemporary approaches in Islamic thought, that brings together senior and emerging scholars in order to present papers and participate in panels and in-depth discussions focused on themes pertinent to the Institute’s mission.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2016. Information: http://iiit.org/Research/SummerInstituteforScholars/SummerInstituteforScholars2016/tabid/424/Default.aspx
5. 7th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Gulf Research Center, University of Cambridge, UK, 16-19 August 2016
Some workshops will be receiving applications until 22 February 2016.
Information and application: http://www.gulfresearchmeeting.net/
6. Conference: “The Gulf and the Wider Middle East: Transnational Dynamics in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives”, University of Exeter, UK, 22-23 August 2016.
This conference aims to stimulate discussion on the empirical, methodological and theoretical questions related to the history of Gulf-wider Middle East relations, the increasing ‘Gulfisation’ of the Middle East and its long-term prospects.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 April 2016. Information: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/gulfconference/2016conference/
7. Researcher for Project “Contributing to Stability and Development in North Africa and the Middle East”, German Development Institute (DIE), Bonn
Master or equivalent, preferably PhD in a social science, in-depth knowledge of economics, comprehensive knowledge of politics, economy, society and culture of the countries of North Africa and the Middle East, work and study experience in these countries, as well as excellent skills of written and spoken German and English are required. Good knowledge of Arabic and/or French is preferred.
Deadline for applications: 13 March 2016. Information: http://www.die-gdi.de/en/about-us/career-internships/
8. Postdoc Position in Islamic Studies: “Perceptions of the Figure of the Prophet Muhammad”, Sorbonne University, Paris
This one-year position is starting on 1 September 2016 within the framework of the “Islamologie” program of the Laboratory of Excellence « Religions and Societies in the Mediterranean ». The candidate should have defended his/her PhD before 8 April 2016 – and the earliest 10 years before this date – in History of Religious Islamic Thought, Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, or any field related to the research theme.
Deadline for applications: 8 April 2016. Information: http://www.labex-resmed.fr/recrutement-d-un-post-doctorant-255?lang=en
9. job opportunity: Research Associate at AGSIW
Position Title: Research Associate
Department/Team: Senior Resident Scholars
Period: Part-Time (Up to 30 hours/week)
Location: Washington, DC
About AGSIW:
The Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW), established in
2014, is an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to increasing
the understanding and appreciation of the social, economic, and
political diversity of the Arab Gulf states. Through expert research,
analysis, exchanges, and public discussion, the institute seeks to
encourage thoughtful debate and inform decision makers shaping U.S.
policy regarding this critical geo-strategic region.
Position Title: Research Associate
Department/Team: Senior Resident Scholars
Period: Part-Time (Up to 30 hours/week)
Location: Washington, DC
See more at: http://www.agsiw.org/research-assistant/#sthash.yxrv07x9.dpuf
10. The next meeting of the Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum will be as follows:
Friday 13th May 2016,
9.30am-6pm
Music Department, City University London
Room AG09, College Building, St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
‘Soundspaces of the Middle East and Central Asia: Exploring the Intersection of Sound Studies and Ethnomusicology in the Middle East and Central Asia’
Admission is free but advance registration is requested for catering purposes. For this and further information, see:
http://www.city.ac.uk/events/2016/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
- February 23, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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1. Project Curator: Islamic Galleries, British Museum
Full time position. 3 year contract. Grade C3C. £27,360 per annum. Reference number: 1537722
Closing date 12 noon; Wednesday, 09 March 2016
The British Museum has an exciting opportunity for a Project Curator: Islamic Galleries to join the Middle East department and work on the Albukhary Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World in preparation for opening in October 2018. The post-holder will assist the team with all aspects of the preparatory work for the new galleries, including object research, coordinating object lists and liaising with other departments within the Museum in order to successfully complete the galleries.
Educated to degree level, or equivalent, in a subject connected to the material culture of the Middle East and broader Islamic World, you will have knowledge of either Arabic, Persian or Turkish. Experience will include evidence of research capabilities, working with a collection and some publication experience, as well as excellent computer skills.
Effective and open communication skills are essential, with the ability to present in public in an engaging manner. Working as part of a team, you will be able to work with colleagues across the Museum in order to meet deadlines and produce work of the highest standard.
For further information or to apply for this role, please go to www.britishmuseum.org/jobs. The following link goes straight to how to apply. https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?SID=amNvZGU9MTUzNzcyMiZ2dF90ZW1wbGF0ZT02NzI…
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52598
2. CFP: Graduate Conference in Vernacular Islam
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) at the University of Michigan invites proposals for papers to be presented at our first graduate symposium, to be held on Monday, April 4, 2016. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Conference Theme: Vernacular Islam
As we envision it, Vernacular Islam is every expression of Islam within the Islamicate world. The focus of our definition is on the domestic and functional—versus the rigid and standard—aspects of the term vernacular. Being a social and expressive faith, there are no practices of Islam nor are there Muslim communities that do not fall under the umbrella of vernacular. Thinking about the vernacular for us also describes a phenomenon in Muslim societies wherein particular Islamic expressions position themselves in relation to an imagined standard or orthodoxy on a social, political, economic, and historical level. In the words of Tom Pepinsky, “All Islam is vernacular Islam. All of it. Wahhabis and Salafis in the Arab Middle East are just as much products of particular historical moments and sociopolitical contexts as are other Sunni Muslims who don’t happen to speak a form of Arabic as their native language (to say nothing of Ibadis, Ismailis, Alevis, etc.).”
Deadline Extension! Now Monday, February 22, 2016!
Monday, April 4, 2016
1:00 – 4:00 pm
Rackham East Hall, 4th floor
915 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Keynote Address by Alexander Knysh, U-M Professor of Islamic Studies
Guideline for Submission
The IISS welcomes all proposals that cover or touch upon this theme. Individuals may submit a proposal, no more than 300 words, for a 15-20 minute presentation, accompanied with a cover letter including the individual’s name, contact information, and affiliated institution. Send all proposals to IISScoordinators@umich.edu. If accepted, the University of Michigan will assist with travel expenses for non-UM presenters.
Please refer any questions to IISScoordinators@umich.edu.
The Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Seminar (IISS) is the only academic forum at the University of Michigan that engages students and faculty who are interested in the study of Islam and Muslim societies in an interdisciplinary and cross-regional conversation. Following our inception in the winter term 2010, IISS has grown to include a large number of both student and faculty participants. They represent a wide range of departments and programs including American Culture, Anthropology, Architecture and Urban Planning, Asian Languages and Cultures, History, Law, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Musicology, Natural Resources and Environment, Near Eastern Studies, Political Science, Romance Languages and Literatures, South Asian Studies, and Southeast Asian Studies.
3. Journal of Islamic Perspective and Culture is a refereed journal dedicated to publishes high quality, peer-reviewed multidisciplinary scholarly articles on all aspects of related to Islam and Muslim societies offered in a variety of other disciplines as well, such as culture, history, geography, art, law, anthropology, political science, philosophy, literature, sociology, economics, and women, gender and sexuality studies, architecture and international relations. Research papers should be original, substantial and unpublished research that can describe work-in-progress systems, frameworks, standards and evaluation schemes.The journal aims to promote a constructive and critical understanding of the role of Islam and Muslims at different perspective such as the history of Muslim nation, arts and sciences in Islam, Islamic cultural heritage, Islamic Law, Islamic Theology and Islamic philosophy, Islamic economics and finance, Islamic sociology and Islamic psychology, Islamic literature, Islamic art and architecture and all other aspects of Islamic culture and civilization.The scope of the journal includes the study of a variety of different in knowing and understanding of the religion, comprehensive knowledge of Islamic intellectual history and civilization of Islam as well as a closer comprehension of today’s world and interdisciplinary studies that are cross national and comparative.
If you would like to discuss your paper prior to submission, or seek advice on the submission process please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com
Submission and Publication Information:
Submission deadline: April 10th, 2016
Final manuscript submissions to publisher: June, 2016
Number of papers: 5 to 7 papers
Submit Online I Manuscript Submission I Editorial Board I Contact
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The trial is available to all institutions through on our website. Please contact the Editorial Office, at the following email address: jipc@macroworldpub.com
Current Issue
Did Muhammad Really Say That?! Jamal al-Banna’s Refutation of Sahih al-Bukhari’s Infallibility
Luay Radhan
The Political, Social, and Religious Attitudes of Muslim Americans
Dennis Patterson, Gamal Gasim, Jangsup Choi
A Participant Observer’s Insight into Rituals and Practices of the Tablīgh Jamā‘at in Australia
Jan Ali
Challenging the Hegemony of Nationalism and Islamism: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in Algeria
Abdelkader Cheref
Salafism in France: Transnational Identity and Emancipatory Form of the Father’s Colonial Past
Abeer Aloush
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4. Within the framework of the Research Training Group “Literary Form: History and Culture of Aesthetic Modelling”, funded by the German Research Council, the University of Muenster, advertises up to 12 doctoral scholarships. Funding is to commence on 1 October 2016 and lasts for at least 30 months.
The Research Training Group “Literary Form” is a cooperation of eight literature departments at Muenster University (Arabic, English, German, Medieval German, French/Italian/Spanish, Dutch, Slavonic, Classical Philology). The programme offers young researchers working on innovative doctoral projects the chance to connect in a state of the art research context.
The programme’s focus is on the re-interpretation and expansion of the concept of ‘literary form’ by means of a transdisciplinary model theory. It approaches these issues in three methodological distinct research areas: 1.) Knowledge of forms and forms of knowledge (epistemology), 2.) Cultural models and model cultures (cultural poetics), 3.) Modelling at the limits of form (structure).
Project proposals should, ideally, focus on one of these aspects or indicate how they might link up with one or more of them. We welcome proposals from a wide spectrum of research on literature; any further profiling of projects within and towards the programme framework will, wherever necessary or desired, be closely supervised and supported after admission.
Deadline for application: 29 April 2016.
For further Information, see www.wwu.de/GRKLitForm/en/.
Contact: Leonie Windt, M.A. (Coordinator), tel. +49-251-83-30150, leonie.windt@uni-muenster.de
5.Grants – British Foundation for the Study of Arabia
The British Foundation for the Study of Arabia (BFSA) grants are intended to support research in any academic area covered by the BFSA’s aims, which are to promote research relating to the Arabian Peninsula, in particular, its archaeology, art, culture, epigraphy, ethnography, geography, geology, history, languages, literature and natural history. Grants may be used to fund fieldwork, library or laboratory-based research or research support.
Applications must be linked to clear and achievable plans for immediate publication.
The number of awards made each year will depend on the strength of applications. Main Research Grants up to £4,000 and Small Research Grants up to £1,000. It is expected that grants of a combined value of up to about £8,000 will normally be awarded each year.
Guide to applicants
There are two types of research grant:
- Small Research Grants: up to £1,000 (for all categories of researchers)
- Main Research Grants: up to £4,000 (for post-doctoral research)
Completed applications, together with referee statements, should be submitted by email to the BFSA Grants sub-committee (details below) by 15th April 2016. This deadline will be strictly adhered to.
For full details, see:
https://www.thebfsa.org/content/grants
6. Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge agreed to start a joint three year project on the Socio-Economic History of Anatolia in the Ottoman Period.
The Project will consist of three conferences on three themes:
- Disease and Disaster (both man-made and natural disasters).
- Trade and Production will be held in Ankara in Spring 2017
- Social Life will be held in Ankara in Spring 2018
Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center and the Skiliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, Newnham College, University of Cambridge are pleased to announce the program of the Disease and Disaster conference which will be held on 18-19 March 2016 in Cambridge.
For detailed program, see
http://vekam.org.tr/upload/userfiles/files/Programme_%20FINAL.pdf
7. The Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), a world association of academics and researchers, organizes its 3rdInternational Conference on Turkey and Turkish Studies, 27-30 June 2016, Athens, Greece. Please submit a 300-word abstract before 29 February 2016, by email only (info@atiner.gr) addressed to Dr. Nicholas Pappas, Vice President of Academic Affairs of ATINER & Professor of History, Sam Houston University, USA.
Please include with this order: Title of Paper, First Name and Family name of all co-authors, Current Position of all co-authors, Institutional Affiliation (University/Organization) of all co-authors, Country of all co-authors, an email address of all co-authors and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission. Decisions will be reached within four weeks of your submission. The working languages of the conference is Turkish and English.
8. Harvard Law School – Executive Director, SHARIAsource
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52592
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer in the History of the Pre-Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52559
School of Oriental and African Studies – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the History of the Modern Middle East
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52560
9. News from the Islamic Reformulations project, all available at islamicreformulations.net :
Reformulation and Hermeneutics: Researching the History of Islamic Legal Theory, Istanbul, 21st-24th February 2016 – final programme available. This conference, a collaboration of the Islamic Reformulations project (University of Exeter) and the Faculty of Theology (Istanbul University) will examine the intellectual history of Islamic legal interpretation, with a focus on legal theory. Registration has now closed.
Feb’16 Visiting Researchers: Our Jan’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs David Warren (US), Ryan Rittenberg (US) and Bianka Speidl (Hungary)) have now departed after a very productive month; and our Feburary’16 Visiting Researchers (Drs Mohammed Eissa (Germany) and Samer El-Karanshawy (Egypt)) have been with us for nearly a fortnight now and doing great work in the Institute.
Aerosol Arabic creates Knowledge Mural, 1-3 February 2016: Mohamed Ali, aka Aerosol Arabic, returns to Exeter to create a public mural blending local Exeter themes with Arabic calligraffiti.
Recent Islamic Reformulations activities: Islam, Law and the State, a one day workshop with guest lecturer Professor Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto) was held on 7th January 2016 at the University of Exeter. Details here. Rob Gleave and the January’16 visiting fellows (Drs Warren, Speidl and Rittenberg) took part in the URL: Religion and Law workshop, held at Cardiff University, with a guest lecture by Professor Ebrahim Moosa (University of Notre Dame) on 27th January 2016.
10. Call for papers
Exeter Gulf Conference, which will take place at the Institute of Arab and Islamic
Studies (Exeter, UK) on 22-23 August 2016.
http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/iais/research/centres/gulf/events/gulfconference/2016conference/
Deadline for application: *1 April 2016*
- February 19, 2016
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1. Iran Data Portal
We would like to inform you that the Iran Data Portal had moved from
Princeton University to Syracuse University. You will find a treasure
trove of information about Iranian politics, economics, legal and social
system on this portal. Check it out.
http://irandataportal.syr.edu/
Mehrzad Boroujerdi
Syracuse University
2.Al-Furqan Digital Library Portal
http://www.al-furqan.com/manuscripts
Open Access site
“Al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation recently opened its Digital Library Portal. It provides free access to a variety of materials. English and Arabic interfaces are available. The portal allows cross searching between various collections; one of these collection is the “World Collection” which is the digital embodiment of the publication, World Survey of Islamic Manuscripts (4 vols.)This section allows for browsing collections of Islamic manuscripts from all over the the world by language, subject, size and date of establishment of the collections.”
3. 3rd International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
25-26 August, 2016
After two conferences in Bamberg (August 2013) and Mardin (October 2014), the
3rd International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL) will take place at
the University of Amsterdam on 25-26 August 2016. The event is jointly
organized by the Department of General Linguistics at the University of
Bamberg and the Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication.
The conference serves as a forum of scientific exchange for linguists working
on any aspect of Kurdish, including the interactions with its neighboring
languages. Accordingly, we welcome contributions which address these issues
from the perspectives of various subdomains of linguistics, such as
sociolinguistics, descriptive and typologically-oriented analyses of phonology
and morphosyntax, formal approaches to the grammar, grammaticalization and
historical development, pragmatics, language acquisition, language contact,
and corpus linguistics.
Keynote: TBA
Organizing Committee:
Margreet Dorleijn: (local organizer), M.Dorleijn@uva.nl
Songül Gündoğdu: snglgndgdu@gmail.com
Ergin Öpengin: ergin.opengin@uni-bamberg.de
Abstract Submission:
Authors are invited to submit anonymized abstracts, limited to one single and
one co-authored presentation per person, for 20-minute talks. The language of
the conference is English.
Details of poster presentations will be provided by the organizers later.
Abstracts should not exceed 2 pages in length (including examples and
references) with 12 point font size (Times New Roman) and 1.5 line spacing.
Abstracts should be sent by 30 March 2015, as an attachment in pdf and docx
formats to:
kurdishlinguisticsconference@yahoo.com
In the body of the email, please include the following information: Title of
paper, Your name,
Affiliation and address, E-mail address.
Important Dates:
– Deadline for abstract submission: 30 March, 2016
– Notification to authors: 30 April, 2016
– Conference date: 25-26 August, 2016
Note: The conference will not cover travel and accommodation expenses;
however, lunches and refreshments during breaks will be offered to the
participants free of charge.
4. Lecturer in Persian
The University of California, Davis Classics Program and the Middle East/SouthAsia Studies Program announce a lecturer position to teach Persian in a new program.
Primary duties are to teach eight (8) courses at the elementary and intermediate level over three quarters, with the possibility of renewal. In addition to teaching duties, the instructor must hold a minimum of two regularly scheduled office hours per week to provide students with the opportunity for consultation outside of the classroom.Applicant must have an M.A. or a Ph.D. or be A.B.D in Persian or a related field. Applicant should have experience teaching Persian as a second languageat the college level or related experience in second language teaching.
Appointment dates are July 1, 2016 – June 30, 2017. Position is renewable.Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and teaching experience.
For full consideration, please apply by March 10, 2016. The position will
remain open until filled. All materials and information should be submittedelectronically. To apply, go to: https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/apply/JPF00862The following materials are required when applying: please send a letter of application indicating the texts and methods that you have used in Persian instruction, a CV, two sets of evaluations, two syllabi, sample tests and
quizzes, and three letters of reference.
5. CALL FOR PAPERS
Department of Iranian Studies, Sofia University
‘’St.Kliment Ohridsky’’
and
Center for Iran, Balkans and Central European Studies
Announces the International conference
‘’Iran and Europe in the Mirror of History’’
The Conference will take a place on June 02-03, 2016 at Sofia University.
Please send your abstract of about 500 words in English, Bulgarian or Persian to the following address:
Deadline: April 08 st,2016
Registration fee for Speakers: 30 Euro
Conference theme:
– Language:
Commonalities and bonds in Iranian Languages, especially Persian and European Languages
– Literature:
Iran and Iranians in European literature.
Europe in Iranian literature.(Various literary types, visualization and various combinations …)
Comparative Literature.
– History and Civilization:
Iran and Europe, Pre-Islamic Relations.
The influence of Iranian Pre-Islamic Religious ideas in Europe.
The influence of Iranian Mysticism and Sufism in Europe. (Bektashi , Khorasani and…)
The influence of Europe in Iran in the twentieth century .
A comparative look at scholars from Iran and Europe.
Cultural commonalities between Iran and Europe.
Historical Geography of Europe in Iran. (Range, race, language, people, and …)
– Political Science:
Role of Iran in the formation of new states in the latest decades of the twentieth century.
Political Relations between Iran and Europe.
– Economics:
Economic relations between Iran and the countries of Europe.
6. The Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah Foundation / BRISMES Scholarships
http://www.brismes.ac.uk/student-area/scholarships/the-abdullah-mubarak-brismes-scholarshp
The purpose of the scholarships is to encourage more people to pursue postgraduate studies in disciplines related to the Middle East in British universities. The scholarships will be for one academic year. The value of each scholarship will be £2,000. Two scholarships will be awarded.
The deadline for the next round will be 31st March 2016.
To qualify applicants must fulfil the following conditions:
- be registered at any UK university
- be a paid-up member of BRISMES (Student membership suffices) but the time you apply
- submit an application of 600 – 1000 words, by E-mail to the BRISMES research committee This should include a sketch of the overall research topic, and a description of the purpose for which the grant would be used
- obtain a brief supporting statement from their supervisor
The BRISMES research committee will recommend to the Abdullah Al Mubarak Al Sabah Foundation which applications merit an award. The announcement of the award will be made in June and published in the July edition of the BRISMES newsletter.
Applications should be sent by email to a.l.haysey@dur.ac.uk or by post to the administrative office:
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies
Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies
Durham University
Al-Qasimi Building
Elvet Hill Road
Durham, DH1 3TU.
7. CFP: Islamic Art History &Archaeology in Crisis?
Madrid, January 12 – 15, 2017
Deadline: Apr 30, 2016
Islamic Art History and Archaeology in Crisis?
Challenges and New Perspectives
German Archaeological Institute at Madrid / Universidad Autónoma de
Madrid / University of Zurich
Islamic Art History and Archaeology are confronted with political,
social and academic challenges that require the definition of a new
standpoint. How far do conflicts and their related humanitarian and
demographic changes have an impact on the discipline and its social
acceptance? What consequences does the radical attitude of the Islamic
State entail upon accessibility, research, and conservation of art and
architecture in the Islamic World? And to what extent has the current
situation lead to a thematic and geographical shift within the
discipline, which not only finds itself in crisis since the victorious
advent of Global Art History but is also confronted to anti-Islamic
tendencies.
The conference, organized by the German Archaeological Institute at
Madrid, the Universidad Autónoma, and the University of Zürich proposes
to address the issues that now challenge the disciplines of Islamic art
history and archaeology, as well as to contribute to point out to new
perspectives. Areas formerly considered to be peripheral, such as the
Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, the Balkans, the Gulf region, Southeast
Asia, as well as Europe’s and North America’s diaspora, are now in the
limelight of international studies. Simultaneously, the role of
cultural contact zones appear ever more relevant. As a result, the
discipline is opening itself to new paths and approaches.
We seek contributions that relate to the following themes:
– Conflicts and accessibility, study and conservation of art and
architecture in the Islamic world
– Political instrumentalization of cultural heritage
– Strategies of reconstruction
– Role and relevance of archives and digital media
– Economic versus academic interests
– New positions within the discipline of Islamic art history and
archaeology
– New geographic focal points
– Social relevance
Contribution will be of 20 minutes and may be presented in German,
English, Spanish, or French. Please submit an abstract (max. 300 words)
as well as a short curriculum vitae until April 30, 2016 to:
conference@transculturalstudies.ch
8. CALL FOR PAPERS:
American and Muslim Worlds circa 1500-1900
Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
30 Mar – 1 Apr 2017
Keynote speakers:
Denise Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders
Sylviane Diouf, author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Program Committee: Edward E. Curtis, Mehmet Darakcioglu, Mitch Fraas, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, John Ghazvinian, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Timothy Marr, Daniel Richter, Heather Sharkey, Karine Walther
Long before the age of twentieth century geopolitics, the American and Muslim worlds informed, interacted, perplexed, inspired, confounded and imagined each other in ways far more numerous than is frequently thought. Whether through Salem traders in the East Indies, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in the work of Emerson, Morisco converts in Latin America, or the burial practices of enslaved Africans, there was no shortage of opportunities for Islam, Muslims and the inhabitants of the Americas to meet, interact and shape one another.
We invite proposals for a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conference examining the interplay between American and Muslim worlds, circa 1500-1900, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies in the spring of 2017. Most papers will be pre-circulated via a password-protected website, accessible only to conference registrants, who will be expected to read them in advance.
We are intentionally leaving the term “American and Muslim worlds” open to the widest possible interpretations. Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Islam and slavery in the Americas
- Islam and the founders
- Muslim immigration to the Americas
- American missionary activity as well as eschatological and other religious responses to the Muslim world
- Military conflicts (e.g., the Barbary wars)
- American orientalism
- Material culture (carpets, textiles, horses, irrigation, etc)
- Aesthetic forms
- Diplomatic and political history
- Trading networks
- Travel narratives
We envisage this conference as an intellectual platform bringing together scholars from the US and abroad, to consider the interweaving of American and Muslim worlds. We are particularly open to papers that consider Muslim responses to events that scholars in the Anglophone world have traditionally considered from “American” points of view (e.g., the US and the Barbary wars, missionary activity). We are also favorably disposed to papers that disrupt the idea of American and Muslim worlds as two separate and non-overlapping entities. Finally, we are keen to attract papers that conceive of the Muslim world as something more than just the Middle East (for example, papers that deal with the Ottoman Balkans; Central, South and Southeast Asia; West Africa).
Confirmed participants include Jacob Berman, Karoline Cook, Michael C. Hawkins, Paul Lovejoy, Ussama Makdisi, Bethel Saler, and Malini Johar Schueller. The conference will feature an opening plenary with presentations from senior scholars, and discussion-intensive panels of research in progress, with plenary speakers serving as discussants. The forum will also feature a public exhibit at the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at Penn’s Van Pelt Library.
Some support for travel and lodging expenses will be available to conference presenters.
Papers of approximately 7,500 words will be due for precirculation no later than 3 February 2017. To be considered, please send an abstract of 250-300 words, along with a one-page CV, to mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu no later than 16 May 2016. Decisions will be made during summer 2016.
Contact Info:
For questions, please contact mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu, or one of the conference co-conveners — John Ghazvinian ( john_ghazvinian@yahoo.com ) or Mitch Fraas ( fraas@pobox.upenn.edu )
Contact Email:
URL:
http://mceas.org/cfp-worlds2017.pdf
9. Individuals and Legal Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean – Conference Announcement
Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC – March 7-8, 2016
While there is a vast literature on medieval Jewish and Islamic law, the histories of medieval Jewish and Muslim legal institutions have received substantially less attention. A relative dearth of documentary sources and a privileged position given to prescriptive texts have led to a top-down approach that views courts predominantly from the perspective of the central political power and/or the legal tradition. This situation contrasts with the study of courts and the legal arena in Christian Europe, where there has been a long tradition of studying legal institutions “from below,” whether through the lens of dispute settlement, microhistory, or legal anthropology.
This conference will attempt to bridge the gap between the study of legal culture and practice in medieval Europe and the Islamic world by bring together scholars of medieval Christian, Muslim, Jewish and secular legal institutions to think comparatively about the study of individuals and legal institutions “from below.” In order to supply a comparative perspective, we will be joined by scholars who have tackled such questions in adjacent fields, from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Empire. The talks will explore how individuals accessed legal institutions and maneuvered in the legal arena, how legal institutions catered to and were affected by litigants’ participation, and to what extent viewing litigants as consumers is a fruitful model in Europe and across the Mediterranean.
Attendance on the first day of the conference is open to all. The second day of the conference will be in a workshop setting, but attendance is certainly possible with prior arrangement. To register, or to ask any questions please contact Serena Bazemore (serena.elliott@duke.edu) or Oded Zinger (oz3@duke.edu).
For more details on the conference and the participants, check out the conference website
http://jewishstudies.duke.edu/2016-medieval-mediterranean-conference .
10. Call for papers for the International Colloquium “Precious Metals in the Medieval Mediterranean : mining, processing, circulations.”.
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.
Paper proposals should be uploaded to this website by February 29th, 2016.
http://metaux2016.sciencesconf.org/
We encourage you to disseminate the call for papers among your own networks. For any further queries, please feel free to contact me.
For the organizing committee,
Nicolas Minvielle Larousse
PhD Student – Aix-Marseille Université
LA3M – UMR 7298
http://la3m.cnrs.fr/pages/acteurs/minvielle/minvielle.php
11. Brill provides free access to the Journal of World Literature
JWL provides a forum for debates on World Literature, defined as the global dissemination and canonization of literatures across space and time. It offers a space to discuss the circulation of literary traditions, with an emphasis on peripheral literatures and on translation issues.
The first issue of the JWL will be officially launched during the ACLA 2016 (March 17-20, 2016, Harvard University).
Take advantage of Brill’s offer and secure your free access to the journal for the next two years. The first issue is already available online!
To get free access to the journal, please visit the JWL homepage here:
http://www.brill.com/products/journal/journal-world-literature
Welcome to the JWL!
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12. Conference: “Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation”, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, 12-13 October 2016. There has been as yet no international conference dedicated to studying MENA’s environmental sustainability in its entirety in recent years. We hope to bring together climate and natural scientists and environmental engineers along with social scientists and policy makers and practitioners to engage in urgent dialogue to pave the road for future collaborations.
Deadline for abstracts: 25 March 2016. Information: www.soas.ac.uk/lmei/centenary-conference/file109493.pdf
13. Visiting Assistant Professor of African and/or Middle Eastern History, Lewis & Clark College, Portland – http://apply.interfolio.com/33855
14. Summer Student Program, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, VA, 11 July – 14 August 2016
This residential program is designed for graduate students and exceptional senior undergraduates who have a particular interest in developing their knowledge and research skills in the core areas of Islamic studies such as methods in the study of Islam, the Qur’an, the Sunnah, Fiqh, Muslim History and Civilization, and Contemporary Islamic Thought.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2016. Information:
http://iiit.org/Education/SummerStudentsProgram/2016SummerStudentsProgram/tabid/419/Default.aspx
- February 15, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.The International Qur’anic Studies Association announces the calls for papers to be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting to be held in San Antonio, Texas. The Annual Meeting dates are November 18-22, 2016.
The paper proposal submission deadline is March 2, 2016.
For each of IQSA’s five program units please find a detailed call for papers below. Click on the title of the program unit or link below description to be directed to an external link for further instructions on submission of proposals for that unit. For additional information about a specific program unit, contact the unit chairs.
https://iqsaweb.wordpress.com/annual-meeting-2016-call-for-papers/
2. Faith and Power: Undergraduate Conference in History
Call for Applications | April 1, 2016, Central European University
3.CALL FOR PAPERS- III International Conferences “MEDITERRÁNEOS 2016”
III International Conferences “MediterráneoS 2016”
Early-Stage Researchers in Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean
and the Near East
Madrid, 26th, 27th and 28th of October 2016
4. Call For Book Proposals, The Early and Medieval Islamic World
I.B.Tauris invites submissions for inclusion in a new academic monograph series, The Early and Medieval Islamic World. Led by series editor Professor Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), the series will promote innovative research on the period 500–1500 AD with the Islamic world, as it ebbed and flowed from Marrakesh to Palermo and Cairo to Kabul, as the central pivot.
Thematic focus within this remit will be broad, from the cultural and social to the political and economic, with preference given to studies of societies and cultures from a socio-historical perspective. It will foster a community of unique voices on the medieval Islamic world, shining light into its lesser studied corners.
5. Call for Middle East Medievalists (MEM) sponsored panels at MESA 2016
A major part of Middle East Medievalists’ (MEM) mission is to raise the profile of medieval studies at MESA. As a MESA Affiliate, we are able to offer MEM sponsorship to up to three medieval panels at each annual MESA meeting. MEM cannot offer financial support but the three selected panels will appear as MEM-sponsored panels on MESA program. We urge medievalists organizing panels at MESA 2016 to submit all the relevant material about their panels (title, participants, abstracts) by February 15, 2015, so they can be considered for MEM sponsorship by MEM’s board. Please email your submissions or questions with regard to potential MEM sponsorship to MEM’s secretary, Antoine Borrut (aborrut@umd.edu).
6. Armenian Studies for a long time has been considered as a part of a bigger Iranian Studies academic domain. Many Linguists, Historians, Anthropologists and other specialists have mastered Armenian language in order to better study and understand Iranian realities.
For the third time we organize an Armenian Studies Summer School in Armenia and I hope, that many of you will be interested to participate or will forward the information about Armenian Studies Summer School to interested parties.
This 21 days summer school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Armenian, reading and interpreting Armenian texts from different periods as well as rapidly deepening their knowledge in Armenian Literature, History and Arts. During the summer school we also offer cultural trips, visits and meetings, which will transform your stay in Armenia into an unforgettable, academically oriented endeavour.
For more information please visit: http://armacad.info/a/armenian-studies-summer-school-15-jul-5-aug-2016-yerevan-armenia
7. Conference: “Globalisation and its Discontents: Past, Present and Future”, St Antony’s College, Oxford, 5 May 2016
This university-wide interdisciplinary graduate research conference invites graduate students of the humanities and social sciences from all colleges to submit abstracts, regardless of the stage of their research. This conference will offer presenters the opportunity to introduce and receive feedback on their work from an encouraging but critical audience of both students and established academics at the University of Oxford.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: http://st-hughsmcr.blogspot.de/2016/02/st-antonys-graduate-research-conference.html
8. Conference: “Talking About ‘Arabs’. Echoes from Different Europes”, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 27-28 May 2016
On the basis of concrete empirical studies, the workshop seeks to investigate the nexus between three different fields of knowledge production and diffusion in today’s Europe: media, academic/intellectual and policy-making. The goal is to examine the ways in which different scholarly traditions, journalistic cultures and political interest (or disinterest) affect knowledge on the Middle East in different parts of Europe.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 February 2016. Information: www.orient.cas.cz/miranda2/export/sitesavcr/data.avcr.cz/humansci/orient/akce/aktuality/2016/Talking-about-Arabs-Call-for-Contributions.pdf
9. Workshop: “The Global Middle East in the Age of Speed”, University of Birmingham, 2-3 June 2016
The social and political issues the motor age brought with it remain critically relevant and timely today, across the disciplines and to the wider public. Questions of automobility are central to citizens and policymaking around the world.
Information: www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/ias/workshops/2016/jackson.aspx
10. Seminar: “Good, Evil, and the Grey Zone: Religion’s Role in Genocide from the Holocaust to ISIS”, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, 27 June – 1 July 2016
The Museum’s Program on Ethics, Religions, and the Holocaust is pleased to announce its annual seminar for faculty from all disciplines but particularly for professors of theology, ethics, and religion at theological schools and other institutions of advanced education.
Deadline for application: 1 April 2016. Information: www.ushmm.org/research/competitive-academic-programs/faculty-seminars/seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty/annual-seminar-for-seminary-and-religious-studies-faculty
11. Doctoral Programme, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
GIGA is an independent social-science research institute. It analyses political, social and economic developments in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The GIGA Doctoral Programme invites applications from Prospective Doctoral Students to join the three-year structured programme on 1 October 2016.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2016. Information: https://giga.hamburg/en/dp
12. Tenured Academic Staff in Modern History of the Islamic World, University of Antwerp, Belgium
This is a full-time position as a lecturer or senior lecturer in the tenure track for a term of five years, leading to a permanent appointment, if the performance is assessed favourably. The date of appointment will be 1 October 2016. A PhD in History or an equivalent discipline as well as several years of postdoctoral experience are required.
Deadline for application: 24 March 2016. Information: www.careeredu.eu/index.php?post_id=14334
American University – Sharjah – Head of the Department of Arabic and Translation Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52550
Full-time, Open Rank Position in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies, American University of Beirut
All specialties are welcome but the department is particularly interested in applicants with expertise in economic sociology, political sociology and/or social movements relevant to the region. The position is to begin September 2016. A Ph.D. in Sociology is required.
Deadline for application: 15 March 2016 Information: www.aub.edu.lb/fas/fas_home/academic-employment/Pages/academic_positions.aspx#27
13. Le livre de Justine Landau, De rythme & de raison: lecture croisée de deux traités de poétique persans du XIIIe siècle aux éditions des Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, vient de recevoir le prix iranian du meilleur livre de l’année 2016.
Pour plus d’information veuiller consulter le lien suiavnt:
http://www.irna.ir/fa/News/81953437/
14. The Ernst Herzfeld Society for the Research of Islamic Art and Archaeology and the Berlin Institute of Technology have the pleasure to invite you to the 12th Colloquium of the EHG. It will be held at the Department of Building Archaeology and Built Heritage Conservation (Fachgebiet Historische Bauforschung und Baudenkmalpflege, Technische Universitaet Berlin) between July 1st and 2nd, 2016.
The meeting will not be focussed on a topic. Rather, it is supposed to provide a platform for discussion and exchange on ongoing research. We invite you to present current research projects and new results from the areas of History of Islamic Art, Islamic Archaeology and Building Archaeology.In addition to the open panels there will be one thematic panel focussing on activities in the relevant fields in Berlin and its surroundings. We would appreciate if you submit your title and an abstract of no more than 1.500 characters of your presentation until March 1st, 2016.
Each presentation will be limited to 20 minutes and followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The official conference languages will be German, English and French.
Please direct your conference to Martin Gussone from the Berlin Institute of Technology, who is organising the meeting: martin.gussone@tu-berlin.de
Registration and participation are free for members of the EHG. Guests are supposed to pay a conference fee (50.-€/red. 25.-€).
On the occasion of the conference the annual members meeting of the EHG will be held on Friday, July 1st, 2016.
The Graduates Meeting of the EHG is scheduled for Thursday, June 30th. This meeting will be hosted by the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin. For more information on the Graduates Meeting please contact Simone Struth:
simone.struth@googlemail.com
15. The Ehsan Yarshater Book Award
The deadline is extended to receive nominations for The International Society for Iranian Studies (ISIS) Ehsan Yarshater Book Award. Please use the link below to nominate a book suitable for this award:
http://www.iranianstudies.com/awards/ehsanYarshater
The ISIS 2016 Biennial Conference
Continuing updates and information regarding the ISIS 2016 Biennial conference in Vienna Austria are available using this link:
16. Call for Participants in a Panel at MESA 2016 dedicated to the History of the Islamic Book
Panel organizer: Ahmad Nazir Atassi, Louisiana Tech University
The field of Book History as it applies to manuscripts or printed books in the Islamic world has a
lot of potential that still remains untapped. Dr. Dagmar Riedel (Columbia) has a very informative blog titled “Islamic Books” that showcases well the range of topics that can be discussed within this filed.
In 2012 I organized a panel at MESA dedicated to the history of the Islamic book and in 2014 Kathryn Schwartz organized another panel. Last MESA, there were several papers pertaining to the same field but dispersed over many panels (Bowen Savant for example). It is time to seriously advocate the potential of the field whether in intellectual history, social history, the industry of the book, the medieval “book milieu”, and the history of education in the Middle East, to name a few subjects.Today with the digitization of books and manuscripts and the online database technology, many of these topics are possible; the agency of the physical object can now be fully revealed.
If you are planning to go to MESA 2016 (Boston) and have a paper related to Book History you can join us in this panel that is dedicated to the topic. The deadline for submission is February 16. It is preferable to notify me of your interest to participate a couple of days ahead so I can invite you through the MESA website as a participant in an organized panel. My email is: aatassi@latech.edu
- February 09, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1.Appointment in Hindi-Urdu language instruction.
College of Arts and Science/Asian Studies Program, Vanderbilt University
| Position ID: | Vandy-College of Arts and Science/Asian Studies Program-SL [#6997] |
| Position Title: | Senior Lecturer |
| Position Type: | Non tenure-track faculty |
| Position Location: | Nashville, Tennessee 37203, United States [map] |
| Subject Area: | Asian Studies |
| Appl Deadline: | (posted 2016/02/01, updated 2016/01/29) |
| Apply |
| The Asian Studies Program at Vanderbilt University seeks to make an appointment in Hindi-Urdu language instruction. The rank is Senior Lecturer with Ph.D., with initial appointment of up to three years and possibility of renewal. All requirements for the Ph.D. must be met before the start of the appointment in August 2016. The successful candidate must be trained in communicative approaches to language instruction and conversant with digital technologies for enhancing teaching. Ability to create digital video and other authentic instructional materials for classroom will be a plus. Ability to teach students in both nagari and nastaliq scripts is required. The standard course load is three courses per term, with responsibility for course coordination and curriculum development. As the program expands, the capacity to teach courses in the literatures of Hindi and Urdu will be considered an asset. Review of completed application files will begin on Tuesday 01 March 2016 and will remain open until the position is successfully filled. A cover letter, curriculum vitae, a teaching statement, teaching evaluations, a website link with a teaching demonstration video, and transcripts, as well as three confidential letters of reference, should be uploaded to https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/6997 Vanderbilt University is committed to recruiting and retaining an academically and culturally diverse community of exceptional faculty. Vanderbilt is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and under-represented minorities are encouraged to apply. Vanderbilt University offers employment benefits to same-sex domestic partners and prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/preference and gender identity/expression. |
Application Materials Required:
Submit the following items online at this website:
- Cover Letter
- Curriculum Vitae
- Teaching Statement
- Teaching Evaluations
- Transcripts
- Website link with a teaching demonstration video
- Three Reference Letters (to be submitted by the reference writers at this site )
And anything else requested in the position description.
Further Info:
http://as.vanderbilt.edu/asianstudies/
Vanderbilt University
VU Station B #351806
2301 Vanderbilt Place
Nashville, TN 37235-1806
2.CALL FOR PAPERS
Worlding Iran: Contemporary Iranian Culture and the World
School of Arts and Media, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
8-9 December 2016
Organizers: Dr Michelle Langford and Dr Laetitia Nanquette
Papers are invited to participate in a two-day symposium around the theme of “Worlding Iran”.
Our keynote speaker will be Assistant Professor Amy Motlagh (The American University in Cairo).
For centuries Iran stood at the crossroads of civilizations and was a pivotal site for the exchange of cultures. However, the contemporary focus on its politics tends to obfuscate how Iran continues to contribute to the global circulation of ideas and cultural products. The success of Iranian cinema globally is a key example reminding us of the connectedness of Iranian culture to the world. This symposium will study how Iranian local/global culture dynamically exchanges with the world.
How are national and transnational Iranian cultural practices linked? What are the roles of the Internet and of the Iranian diasporic communities in connecting Iran and the world? How does Iranian culture evolve in a globalized world?
Disciplines include literature, film, theatre, music, visual arts, and creative media.
Topics that the symposium hopes to discuss include, but are not restricted to:
– local/global interactions between artists and cultural agents
– questions of cultural influences and collaborations
– the circulation of Iranian cultural products within Iran and transnationally
– the question of the cultural market
– the reception of contemporary Iranian culture
– questions of translation
– the cultural links between the nation and the transnation
– the contributions made by Iran’s many minority communities – ethnic, religious and sub-cultural – to a heterogeneous cultural landscape
– disciplinary and comparative approaches
The language of the conference will be English. Please submit a 250-words abstract and biographical note to worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au by 1st June 2016. Enquiries: worlding.iran@unsw.edu.au
3. Les Ghaznavides et leurs voisins :
nouvelles recherches sur le monde iranien oriental (Xe – XIIe s.)
aura lieu le vendredi 26 février 2016, de 9h à 17h, dans la salle A (1er sous-sol) du CNRS à Ivry-sur-Seine (27, rue Paul Bert, 94204).
Cet atelier, organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche Élites et réseaux de l’UMR Monde iranien et indien, est dédié à la mémoire de Clifford Edmund Bosworth (1928-2015) et se propose de réunir des chercheurs confirmés ainsi que des jeunes chercheurs travaillant sur le monde iranien oriental aux Xe-XIIe siècles. Des études récentes seront présentées, qui, en s’appuyant sur des nouvelles données textuelles et archéologiques, contribuent à retracer l’histoire et les traditions artistiques et culturelles de cette période, encore mal connue à divers égards.
Veuillez trouver en pièce jointe la brochure avec le programme de la journée.
En raison du nombre limité des places et du plan vigipirate en cours au CNRS, ceux qui souhaitent assister à l’atelier sont priés de nous confirmer leur présence par courriel : viola.allegranzi@gmail.com
4. Wolfson College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom – Stipendiary Junior Research Fellowship in Islamic Art and Architecture
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=52504
5. We invite all members of the global medieval academic community to submit original manuscripts for the FIFTH issue of Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie VII. Historia del Arte, New Era. Submissions in English are welcome for the themed dossier. The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2016.
*THEMED DOSSIER: “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?”
By Avinoam Shalem
“Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?” is the title of the themed volume for the fifth issue of the journal that has recently entered a New Era. It will be guest-edited by Avinoam Shalem, Professor of the Arts of Islam at the Columbia University of New York, who has proposed the following thematic framework for this special issue:
Questions about identities of patrons and artisans, including even the role of artifacts in supporting and reinforcing such identities—in short, the politics of visual cultures—seem to have dominated scholarly investigations in the field of art history. “Art comes before gold and gems, the author before everything,” claims a twelfth century inscription on a shrine commissioned by Henri of Blois and manufactured by a Mosan goldsmith; “The workmanship surpassed the material,” declared Abbot Suger famously in his ‘De Administratione’—both clearly suggesting a medieval hierarchy for the state of materials vis-à-vis craftsmanship. “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft,” aims at reconsidering and perhaps even challenging this presupposition by focusing on the exploitation of the varied treasures of the sea, their artistic use and reuse, in the medieval and early modern eras (between circa 300-1400) in both the Christian and Muslim worlds.
This volume will consider original papers that address the subject: “Treasures of the Sea: Art Before Craft?” We welcome contributions that investigate artistic engagement with the varied materials of the sea. These include precious materials like pearls; coral; amber; tortoiseshell; mother of pearl; crocodile skin; narwhal, walrus and fish teeth; ambergris; etc. Other contributions that concern medieval depictions of mythical sea creatures or discussing medieval stories about legendary sunken treasures will be welcomed too.
Contributions can focus on a particular example or discuss a group of objects. They should engage in rethinking ‘Art before Craft?’ and the artistic strategies of the cultivation of these materials.
Proposals will be evaluated and accepted according to quality, but also spread and variety.
Please circulate this Call for Papers widely. Once you have registered and consulted the submission guidelines, please send your proposal on our online journal platform:
http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/index
http://revistas.uned.es/index.php/ETFVII/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
If you have any enquiries, please contact the journal editor, Inmaculada Vivas, serie7.revista-etf@geo.uned.es; for queries regarding the e-platform, contact Jesús López revista-etf@geo.uned.es
6. The Fourth Perso-Indica Conference
Translation and the languages of Islam: Indo-Persian tarjuma in a comparative perspective
Paris, 8th-9th December 2016
On the occasion of the 4th international conference of the Perso-Indica project (http://www.perso-indica.net/), we would like to consider our main object of research—the Persian translations and original works bearing on Indic cultures—in a wider perspective than has generally been the case. We aim to do so by comparing the Indo-Persian movement of translation that took place in the subcontinent from the 13th century onwards with other processes of translations operating primarily from and to non-Muslim languages (e.g. Greek, Syriac, Pehlevi, Sanskrit into Arabic, etc.; Arabic into Latin; Greek into Ottoman Turkish, etc.) and, secondarily, between different languages of Muslim societies (e. g. Arabic into Persian, Turkish, Malay, Sub-Saharan languages, etc.; Persian into Urdu, Turkish, Malay etc.). We therefore invite contributions bearing on such movements of translation in different regions of the Muslim world between the 7th and 19th centuries, and highlighting the ways in which each specific translation process articulated the relation between source, “bridge” and target languages.
Within this broad frame of comparison, we more specifically invite each contributor to provide elements of reflection on at least one of the following questions:
– Translated: what was the literary form (prose, poetry) of the original text and to what literary genre or tradition did it (or was it considered to) belong? Which field(s) of knowledge did it cover? How popular was it in the society and time in which it was written?
– Translator(s): who is translating? An individual: if so, is translation part of his everyday job, is he a professional cultural broker such as the well-known Ottoman dragomans? Is, on the contrary, translation an accident in his professional trajectory geared towards other activities, be they intellectual or not? Is the translator part of a group specialized in translation: does he, for instance, belong to a “bureau” of translation or to a family/lineage renowned for its multilingualism and its abilities as cultural go-between? Is the translator a collective and, if so, what do we know of the dynamics and tensions at work in the process of translation? More generally, what are the networks (social, intellectual, economic, religious, political) in which the translator participates? In paying particular attention to the identity (both individual and collective) of the agents of translation, the idea is here to sketch a contrasted socio-intellectual history of the translators active in the pre-colonial Muslim world.
– Patron(s) of translation: is the translation a personal initiative undertaken for personal reasons? Is the translation the result of a commission by an individual or an institution? If so, what do we know of the relation between the translator and his patron prior and after the translation? How was the translator selected and on what criteria? What, if any, were the material conditions (salary, linguistic training, library, etc.) provided by the patron for the realization of the translation? How much involved was the patron in the composition of the translation (e.g. checking its progress, editing passages, etc.) and on which aspects (if any) of the process did he intervene?
– Purpose(s) of translation: if every translation is as such a scholarly effort and may be said to partake in the long run in a general epistemic endeavor, the projects and processes of knowledge building in which many of them were framed need careful examination in order to uncover the function(s) assigned to the texts once they were translated and, by the same token, to understand the idiosyncrasies of each translation. In other words: why was a particular text selected for translation in a particular time and place and what was/were the (political, religious, social, scientific) role(s) assigned to the translated text by the translator and/or his patron? While the purposes of translations in the Muslim world were of course multiple, particular attention will be paid here to the ones that were commissioned as part of state- or empire-building and to those that were conceived in a missionary perspective of conversion/in a spirit of proselytism and even of conversion.
– Process and tool(s) of translation: unveiling the purpose(s) of translation is crucial in order to understand its process and the multiple transformations it entailed at the levels of literary form and genre, language and signification. Bringing the why into light will certainly help us better explain and circumscribe the how and ultimately allow us to lay out a number of correspondences between the purpose assigned to a translation and the methods used for its realization or the type of translation produced as a result. Closely connected to the question of process is the issue of the linguistic and philological instruments and resources available in the society in which the translator was active: what were the dictionaries, glossaries, grammars, etc. at hand when the translator started his work? Did he know of their existence? If so, did he use some of them and how?
– Audience, reception and circulation of translation: how was the translation received by its targeted audience, especially by its patron in the case of commissioned works? How widely did it circulate in contemporary Muslim societies and beyond, and through which specific networks? Did it become a “source” for later translations in other languages, especially in other languages of Islam and in European languages? Studying the afterlife of such translations in both the Muslim world and Europe is crucial to put in perspective and in dialogue the Orientalist traditions they respectively built. In this respect, a particular important question is the appropriation by Western scholarship of translations composed in an Islamicate context: how were these translations understood by European intellectuals and colonial administrators and what was the role (and visibility) of such translations in the latter’s knowledge-building on the society to which the “Ur-text” belonged or on the language in which it was originally written?
Scientific coordination: Corinne Lefèvre (CNRS, co.lefevre@gmail.com) & Fabrizio Speziale (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, spezialef@yahoo.com)
7. Call for Papers
International Conference
20 Years of “Iran and the Caucasus”: a Breakthrough
October 21-23, 2016
Aghveran, Armenia
The Editorial Board of Iran and the Caucasus (published by BRILL Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands, www.brill.nl/ic) has the honour to organise an international multidimensional conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Journal.
It was back in 1996 when the first volume of Iran and the Caucasus, now a renowned and exemplary periodical, was published with the efforts of scholars from Armenia and abroad. That very first volume comprised the best academic directions in a broader geographic area of Iran and the Caucasus, including articles from the fields of history, literature, religion, linguistics, ethnography and anthropology, etc. Since then, 20 volumes have been published, each of them having several issues (during the last years it appears in four issues per year). Currently Iran and the Caucasus is available both in print and online (with thousands of downloads yearly).
From the very first days of its emergence, strict academic criteria have been implemented and adopted by the Journal – factors, which were the main guaranties for the success. Unlike many other scholarly publications, Iran and the Caucasus has never put any restrictions on materials’ length, making special accent exclusively on their quality and academic value. For 20 years, long and short articles, book reviews, essays, letters, etc., published in Iran and the Caucasus, have enriched the wider field of Irano-Caucasica with invaluable academic findings and research.
For more details please visit: http://armacad.info/a/confcfp-20-years-of-iran-and-the-caucasus-a-breakthrough-21-23-oct-2016-aghveran-armenia
8. The International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects (Present and Past)
The Center for The Great Islamic Encyclopedia has organized The International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects (Present and Past) which is held every two years at The Center.
It is our pleasure to invite scholars, linguists and researchers from all countries to present their latest achievements and studies in Iranian Languages and dialects. It is obvious that the organizers of the conference respect all modern and ancient languages and dialects spoken in Iran and hope to receive proposals in these fields. For more information about the conference and registration please visit our website: www.icild.ir/en
Abstract submission deadline, March 19, 2016
Notification of abstract acceptance, April 21, 2016
Article submission deadline, July 21, 2016
Notification of article acceptance, August 21, 2016
Conference date, September 18 -19, 2016 Conference place, The Centre for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia, Tehran, Iran
Conference fee: 100$, will be received on conference day
Email for abstract submission: info@icild.ir
9. Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
is searching for a new Dean. The position advertisement and prospectus
is available at _ http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/dean_search/_
10. Putting the House of Wisdom in Order: the fourth Islamic century and the impulse to classify, arrange and inventory
Workshop at the University of Zurich, February 19th-20th, 2016
Asia-Orient-Institut, Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich
Room: RAA E-08
Organisation: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph (UZH) , Dr. Letizia Osti (Università degli Studi di Milano), Dr. James Weaver (UZH)
Registration: james.weaver@aoi.uzh.ch
The fourth Islamic century (roughly the tenth century CE) witnessed a proliferation of texts that aimed in one way or another to codify and render accessible the scientific and literary production of the preceding Islamic centuries and of the pre-Islamic cultures whose intellectual heritage had entered the purview of Arabic scholarly tradition. In an age that combined consolidation with renewed scientific ingenuity, many authors sought comprehensiveness in compiling, arranging, editing and commenting upon the products of discrete, well recognized domains of scholarly endeavor. Others were involved in a project of surveying the whole sweep of human knowledge, mapping the topology of its distinct parts and describing their contents. This workshop will explore motivations for, and manifestations of the period’s enthusiasm for classification and arrangement.
Programme
Friday, 19th February 2016
13.30 – Welcome and Introduction
14.30 – Panel 1: Curricula
Discussant: Regula Forster
– Godefroid de Callataÿ
Encyclopaedism on the fringe of Islamic Orthodoxy: the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ, the Rutbat al-ḥakīm and the Ghāyat al-ḥakīm on the classification of the sciences
– Johannes Thomann
The Renaissance of Encyclopedic Education: The Revival of Lectures and Commentaries in Astronomy by al-Fārābī, al-Qabīṣī and Ibn al-Haytham
16.00 – Coffee Break
16.30 – Panel 2: Standards
Discussant: Hilary Kilpatrick
– James Weaver
On the composition of Maqdisī’s Kitāb al-badʾ wa-t-taʾrīkh and the ‘encyclopaedias’ of the East
– Antonella Ghersetti
Systematizing the description of Arabic: the case of Ibn al-Sarrāǧ
18.00 – End of Day 1
Saturday, 20th February 2016
9.30 – Panel 3: Knowledge and Emotions
Discussant: Ulrich Rudolph
– Hinrich Biesterfeldt
An unknown treatise of Avicenna on “the parts of the sciences of the ancients”
– Lale Behzadi
Story-telling as encyclopedic activity: Aspects of classification and arrangement in al-faraj baʿd al-shidda texts as exemplified by al-Tanūkhī (d. 384/994)
11.00 – Coffee Break
11.30 – Panel 4: Eastern (Hi)stories
Discussant: Konrad Hirschler
– Sarah Savant
Making good use of past texts: Book copying and the creation of new forms and meanings in the 10th and 11th century Eastern Islamic world
– Julia Bray
Classifying the exotic: al-Tanūkhī on Indians and their elephants
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Panel 5: Practical Matters
Discussant: Henning Sievert
– Maaike van Berkel
The scribes of the ‘Abbasid administration putting their knowledge and documents in order
– Hugh Kennedy
Archives and Archival practices in 10th and 11th century Islamic government
15.30 – Coffee Break
16.00 – Regards Obliques
– Alessandra Lavagnino
– Peter Burke
17.00 – Final Discussion
18.00 – End of Workshop
11. Ali Shariati: Call for Papers
Dustin J. Byrd & Seyed Javad Miri (Editors)
Ali Shariati, the Iranian sociologist, Shi’a Muslim activist and revolutionary thinker, is well known in some parts of the Muslim world and among Shi’a academics. Many in Iran remember his uncompromising and prophetic critique of the Shah, his courageous urging of the Iranian people and the Shi’a clerical hierarchy to engage in a Hussein-like opposition to the power of the status quo. Many remember his willingness to allow western thought to fertilize his Islamic ideals while remaining devoted to the core tenets of his faith, and the personal courage he showed in his vocal opposition to the Peacock Throne. Unlike what many believe about the Iranian revolution, Shariati did not wish to return Iran to a “golden age” of the past, but rather attempted to forge ahead with a future-oriented remembrance of past suffering with the practical intent to create a Islamic form of modernity that would be rooted in substantive freedom, substantive justice and substantive equality. Despite his immense influence in the Iranian revolution of 1979 –one of the seminal moments in modern Middle Eastern history – the breadth of his work has been inadequately studied within the English-speaking world.
As his biographer Ali Rahnema has demonstrated, the life of Ali Shariati is complex and comprehensive. It reveals the revolutionary potential of theory when a scholar becomes an activist, when a sociologist becomes a prophetic true teller, and when a religious believer – within the context of a brutal dictatorship – becomes a martyr. It also reveals the need for greater understanding between the Muslim world and the West, which is suffering from a new low with the unending “war on terrorism” and the rise of ISIS. By not succumbing to terroristic thought while simultaneously maintaining a uncompromising prophetic stance against empire, we believe that Ali Shariati can play an important role in building bridges between those who are too often ecumenically mute; who do not wish to engage in a robust discussion of their unarticulated biases and prejudices, and see no way of entering into a friendly discourse with the “other.”
In order to facilitate a greater understanding of the work of Ali Shariati and the potential it has to help reconcile the entrenched differences between the East and West without a superficial and therefore meaningless “reconciliation,” we’re issuing this call for papers for scholars who would be interested in contributing to an edited volume. The year 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the “mysterious” death of Ali Shariati in London. We will honor his life, work and continuing influence by reexamining, revisiting and re-theorizing some of his most important themes. We plan to publish this book with a top tier publisher (according to the Sense Rankings of Academic Publishers) in 2017.
Proposal and Abstract Deadline: June 1st, 2016.
Submission of completed chapter Deadline: January 1st, 2017.
If you are interested in contributing to this project, or have any questions, please email the editors:
Dustin J. Byrd (Olivet College, USA): dbyrd@olivetcollege.edu
Seyed Javad Miri (Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. University of Sharif, Tehran, Iran): seyedjavad@yahoo.com
Suggested Themes:
Shariati’s role in the Iranian Revolution
Shariati’s openness and critique of the West
Marxist and/or Leftist influence on Shariati’s work
Red Shi’ism vs. Black Shi’ism
Shariati on Islam (in general)
Shariati on the Hajj
Shariati on Politics
Shariati on Economics
Shariati on Secularism
Shariati’s relationship and/or influence on Khomeini
Khomeini’s views on Shariati
Shariati against the Shah
Shariati on Violence and/or Terrorism
Shariati and Post-Islamism
Shariati on Socialism/Communism
Shariati and the “White Revolution”
Shariati on Gender
Shariati on Colonization & Imperialism
Shariati and Jalal Al-i Ahmed
Shariati and the Shi’a clergy
Shariati and Martyrdom
Legacy of Shariati in modern Iran
Acceptance of Shariati outside of Iran
Updating Shariati’s work
Shariati on Humanism
Shariati on Theology
Shariati on Class
Shariati on History
Shariati on the “Ideal Society”
Biographical controversies
Shariati on Christianity, Judaism and other religions
Reconciliation between the West and Iran
Shariati on Existentialism
Shariati on Continental Philosophy
Shariati and Russian Literary Thinkers
Shariati and the Frankfurt School
Shariati and Classics of Sociology and Social Theory
Shariati as bridge between East and West
- February 06, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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Shii News – Academic Items
1. Open Access Digital Library: Oman Library at Middle East Institute
“The Oman Library’s online collection is a web-based digital collection of the library’s rare books and manuscripts, consisting entirely of subjects related to Middle Eastern Studies. The topics of the rare collection range from history and culture to works of fiction from the early twentieth century. The collection includes materials in seven different languages — English, Arabic, French, Farsi, Urdu, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish — and publications spanning the period from 1700 to 1921. In addition to the rare collection, MEI has included in the digitalization process all of its own Middle East Institute published works that span from the 1960s to 2004, including its 1947 meeting memos”
http://www.mei.edu/library/digital
2. Open Access Report: Arab Opinion Index 2015
Published by: Arab Center For Research & Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar.
Arab Opinion Index 2015 report is a 44-page PDF document organized under several headings:
- Living Conditions of the Arab Citizenry
- Arab Citizens’ Views of State Institutions and Governmental Effectiveness
- Arab Public Attitudes Towards Democracy
- Civic and Political Participation
- Religion and Religiosity in the Public Sphere and Political Affairs
- Arab Public Opinion and Pan-Arab Affairs
- Arab Public Opinion and the Arab Spring
- Arab Public Opinion and Current Affairs
http://english.dohainstitute.org/file/Get/9dba8f9c-7fb3-447b-9d7c-fda63ec5927e
3. Conference: “Islam and Peaceful Relations”, Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN), Coventry UK, 5 April 2016
This conference will uncover Islamic theological traditions around peacebuilding, historical precedents of peaceful existence with Muslims and contemporary lived experiences of intra-faith and inter-cultural dialogue, improved societal understanding of difference and peaceful relations. It will move the debate beyond simplistic ‘good and bad’, ‘us and them’ binaries to more complex discussions that consider the impact of diverse social factors including, gender, class, economy and geography.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2016. Information: www.mbrn.org.uk/cfp-islam-and-peaceful-relations/
4. Conference: “The Great War in the Middle East 1911-23”, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst & Oxford University, Sandhurst, UK, 20-21 April 2016
The aim is to widen discussion from the European experience of 1914-18, relating the Great War to the broader period of conflict that affected the Ottoman Empire from 1911 to 1923.
Information: www.centenarynews.com/article/the-great-war-in-the-middle-east—sandhurst-conference-april-2016
5. Workshop: “The Bible in Arabic in the 19th Century: What Challenges for Christianity and Islam in the Middle East Societies since 1865?”, CNRS-GSRL, Paris, 26 May 2016
This International Workshop primarily intended to bring together researchers from all disciplines, who worked on the Middle East in a perspective linking the history, sociology and anthropology to this translation of the Bible into Arabic. We strongly encourage junior researchers to apply.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 February 2016. Information: www.infoclio.ch/fr/cfp-bible-arabic-nineteenth-century-what-challenges-christianity-and-islam-middle-east-societies
6. Workshop: “Security and Stability in the Mediterranean and the Middle East”, Institute of International Economic Relations, Athens, 26-28 May 2016
The general topics of the workshop may include the following: security in the Mediterranean and the Broader Middle East: problems and prospects of the South, migration and human security in the Mediterranean and the Middle East, and the present and future of Euro-Mediterranean relations.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 March 2016. Information: http://idos.gr/med-security/
7. Conference: “Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Reformation Era”, Verein für Reformationsgeschichte & Society for Reformation Research, Nuremberg, Germany, 19-21 July 2017
The two central questions of the conference are: 1. How did the interactions and relationships of Christians, Jews, and Muslims change as a result of the Reformation? 2. How was the Reformation socially and discursively influenced by the religious pluralism that already existed with the presence of Judaism and Islam?
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2016. Information: www.nuremberg2017.org/call-for-papers2.html
8.Professorship for Economics: Economy and Society of the Middle East, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Prerequisites for the position are a university degree, university level teaching experience, a doctoral degree, and additional academic qualifications. These should be in the form of a “Habilitation” or equivalent academic publications. The necessary qualifications may also have been acquired in a non-university context or through a junior faculty position.
Deadline for application: 18 March 2016. Information: www.fau.eu/university/careers-at-fau/
9. PhD Position: “Study of Religion”, University of Leipzig, Germany
The position is starting in April 2016. Requirements: degree in Islamic Studies and/or Sociology which is knowledgeable in the other subject as well, ability to work independently, fluency in English, good knowledge of the debates within Islamic studies and of the debates on secularization/secularism/secularity. Knowledge of one of the languages spoken in the ‘Islamic world’ is desirable.
Deadline for application: 8 February 2016. Information: www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/kuwi/2016/01/27/stellenausschreibung-job-offer/
10. Funding Programme for Persecuted Researchers, Philipp Schwartz Initiative, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
With funding to start in summer 2016, the Philipp Schwartz Initiative will allow up to 20 scientists and scholars who are under threat from political persecution to continue their research at German universities and research institutions.
Deadline for application: 31 March 2016. Information: www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/21611250.html
11. Poste : “Langue, civilisation, littérature persanes”, Université de Strasbourg
http://diwan.hypotheses.org/6876?utm_source=alert
13.University of Manchester –
| Nashriyah: digital Iranian history |
| View digital versions of Iranian newspapers and periodicals capturing key historical events as they happened.
These newspapers and periodicals, many of which have been only partially accessible inside Iran, cover the defining moments from the following three eras:
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http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/about/projects/nashriyah-digital-iranian-history/
- February 01, 2016
- by Andrew Newman
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