Categories : Field-specific (academic)

This talk explores Isfahan through the lens of seventeenth century household anthologies (majmu’a). Thousands of manuscripts produced in Isfahan assembled urban objects ranging from portraits and letters from friends, to poems depicting the central square, to marriage contracts and talismans. Authors collected, curated, and bound together material generated by Isfahan’s culture of adab to learn how to act and relate to other residents of a diverse and ever-growing capital city. With these family collections, Professor Babayan tells a new history of Isfahan at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people’s lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Kathryn Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover the dialogic relationship between the city and its residents.

The Center for the Study of the Middle East at Indiana University, Massey University in New Zealand, and the Middle East and Islamic Studies Aotearoa/New Zealand are delighted to invite you to the virtual zoom conference, “Shia Studies in Twenty-First Century,” to be held in 5/30-31/2022 (Eastern US Time) / 5/31-6/1/2022 (NZ time).This conference is intended to bring together scholars of Shi’ism across the world to share their research. It intends to create a scholarly network from Europe and North America to Oceania.
The themes of the conference are; Theology and Philosophy of Shia Islam, Shia Islamic Metaphysics, Shi’ism and Sufism, Modern Political Thought in Shia Islam, Shia Shariah: Private or Public?, Equality and Economics in Shia Islam, Equality in Shia Islam, Contemporary Shi’ism and Gender Equality, non-Twelver Shias, Shi’ism and the environment, Atheism Skepticism and Apostacy in Shia Islam, Rights in Shia Islam, Ultra-Shia, Shia Islam and Democracy, Shia Islam and Art, Shia Islam and Technology.
We would very much appreciate your contribution to the conference, as we understand your contributions already made to the field. Please send your 250 word abstract by Friday April 21st. We will announce speakers by the first of May. After the conference, we will select papers for publication by September. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at Shiaconference2022@gmail.com
We dearly hope you are able to participate in our zoom conference, thank you so much for the consideration and your outstanding work in Shia Studies.
Sincerely
-Mr. Alexander Shepard.

-Dr. Negar Partow.

-Dr. Carl Pearson.

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‘Shii News Chats’ aims to profile academics across the world whose research focuses on Shiism and Shii communities across the world. These thereby highlight the diversity of the researchers but also the diversity of the faith and its practitioners.
The link to these can be found on the menu along the top of the site’s main page.
The first of these is with Mara Leichtman, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Michigan State University.

The IMES research seminar of 21 March with Morten Valbjorn and Jeroen Gunning’s talk “Where Have All the (Sunni) Islamist Gone? Bridging Studies of Sunni and Shia Islamism” has been cancelled. It will be recheduled for the Autumn.

The next seminar will be on Monday March 28 at 17:15 (UK time) and will feature two presentations by IMES PhD candidates Lucy Deacon and Carlos Mendez.

Here is the link to register for this and the next talk, and obtain the zoom meeting log-in information:
https://ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYlcuyvqjgvHdaSodYsuXt5D9W4T3lim0DW