Shii News – Academic Items

1.The editors of PLSJ: Persian Literary Studies Journal are pleased to announce the call for papers for an upcoming special issue (Vol. 8) on cinema in Iran to be published in 2019. We welcome article submissions (5000-8000 words) addressing the following topics:

1. Film in Popular Culture
2. Literature and Film (Film Adaptation)
3. Gender Studies
4. Iranian Cinema in International Realm
5. Social Issues (War, clash of classes,…)
6. Children’s Movies and Animated Cartoons
7. Ecofilms and Ecocritical Perspectives
8. Movie Business and Studios

Deadline for submission of papers is November 2018.

PLSJ is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal published by Shiraz University listed in MLA and Index Islamicus.

Papers must be uploaded to http://plsj.shirazu.ac.ir/

The Editor of the drama special issue is Dr. Azra Ghandeharion, Assistant Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.

 

 

 

2. The editors of PLSJ: Persian Literary Studies Journal are pleased to announce the call for papers for an upcoming special issue (Vol. 7) on drama in Iran to be published in December 2018. We welcome article submissions (5000-8000 words) addressing the following and other related topics:

• Pre-Islamic theater
• Traditional Iranian theatrical forms: shabih khani, Ta’zieh, siah-bazi, etc
• Postmodern drama
• Women in Iranian Drama: female playwrights, female characters, etc
• Critical studies of significant Iranian playwrights: Bahram Beyzayi, Akbar Radi, Farhad Nazer-zadeh Kermani, Abbas Na’lbandian, Mohammad Yaghoubi, etc
• The future of Iranian drama
• A study of the winners of the Best Playwriting Award of Fajr International Theater Festival in the last few years: trends, themes, techniques …
• Adaptation
• International reception of Iranian drama
• Critical reviews of significant books on Iranian drama

Deadline for submission of papers is September 30, 2018.

PLSJ is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal published by Shiraz University listed in MLA and Index Islamicus.

Papers must be uploaded to http://plsj.shirazu.ac.ir/

The Editor of the drama special issue is Dr Mona Hoorvash, assistant Professor of English Literature at Al-Zahra University.

 

 

 

3. The Fourth Round (2019) of the BRAIS – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now accepting submissions (deadline: 1st October 2018).

This international prize will be awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis or unpublished first monograph based on a doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted. Applicants can be based in any country, and manuscripts will be assessed on the basis of scholarly quality and originality.

The award includes publication of the winning manuscript and a prize of £1,000, and it will be officially presented at the Annual Conference of BRAIS. The selection process will be undertaken by a seven-member prize committee comprising established academics from across the field.

For further details, including information about how to submit an entry, please see:

http://www.brais.ac.uk/prize

 

 

 

4. Workshop: “Conceptualizing Sectarianization”, University of Bern, 6-8 September 2018

Our workshop invites scholars to revisit the analytical validity of sectarianism which has remained to be taken as either a self-evident category to discuss the region of the Middle East and North Africa or an explanatory framework. Rather, we would like to address specifically what “sectarianization” actually means and discuss possible definitions to the term.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2018. Information: http://www.islamwissenschaft.unibe.ch/ueber_uns/aktuelles/workshop/index_ger.html

 

 

 

5. International Seminar on “Identity, History, and Narrative in Contemporary Afghan”, Gauhati University, India, 6-8 February 2019

We invite papers that look into the complex cultural, historical and political contexts that underpin the literature emerging from both within Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora since the last two decades.

Deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2018. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1880122/international-seminar-identity-history-and-narrative

 

 

 

6. Posts

Bourse postdoctorale en doctrines de l´islam classique, l´Université catholique de Louvain, Belgique

Le montant mensuel de la bourse (variable selon la situation administrative) est de l’ordre de 2300 € (net) par mois. La bourse de post-doctorat est exonérée d’impôts, mais est assujettie à la sécurité sociale des travailleurs salariés. Le·La candidat·e devra avoir obtenu, depuis moins de 6 ans un doctorat portant sur les doctrines de l’Islam clas-sique. Il·Elle devra être capable de s’exprimer, au moins oralement, en français. Le·la candidat·e (belge ou non belge) devra avoir résidé plus de 12 mois hors de Belgique durant les trois dernières années qui précèdent le début de cette bourse.

Date limite de application : 15 juin 2018.

Information : https://f-origin.hypotheses.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1460/files/2018/03/AppelBoursePostDocIslam-final.pdf

 

 

Fellowship for Historical Research on the Islamic World (2019-2010), School of Historical Studies, Princeton, New Jersey

Candidates of any nationality may apply for a single term or a full academic year. The only other obligation of the fellows is to pursue their own research.  The Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial publications are required.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2018. Information: https://www.hs.ias.edu/mem_announcement

 

 

 

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Carleton College, Minnesota

The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in International Relations with expertise in security and with significant research interest or field experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Candidates with a scholarly focus on Sub-Saharan Africa will also be considered. PhD or its imminent completion is required. The appointment will begin September 1, 2019.

Deadline for applications: 14 September 2018. Information: https://chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000427970-01

 

 

 

7. Articles on “Pilgrimage and Diversity in the Information Age” for Special Issue of “International Journal of Information, Diversity, and Inclusion (IJIDI)”

Focusing on pilgrimage to the Holy Land, the Hajj etc. in order to enrich our understanding of the pilgrim’s journey and it complexities through the lens of information and media practices, embodied experiences, memory work, discourses and practices around diversity, curation practices, and community building in a global and digital world.

Deadline for abstracts: 1 August 2018. Information: https://publish.lib.umd.edu/IJIDI/pages/view/CFP

 

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