Shii News – Academic Items

1. CFP – HIAA Biennial Symposium. ‘Regime Change’, Oct. 29 – Nov. 1, 2020

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

How do we write histories of Islamic art and architecture, and in the service of what interests? We might proceed from questions about the intentions of patrons, the agency of craftsmen, and their responses to previous artistic production, thereby allowing artifacts and monuments to be set within a historical, social, and/or artistic context. We might also posit large-scale organizational forms—dynasties, courts, regimes, workshops, technological systems, and exchange circuits—as frames that regulate aspects of life, belief, and ultimately artistic creativity. Recent scholarship has also shifted focus to other forms of agency. For example, “reception history” and the “history of objects” have attempted to move beyond the process of creation to consider the role of later actors and material accretions for the significance of artifacts, while the “material turn” in art history has sought to challenge rigidly anthropocentric epistemologies and open up narratives told by the “stuff” of art.

The aim of this conference is to focus on moments of “regime change” in Islamic art history and to also direct attention to “regimes” that structure our own field, raising questions of interpretation and method. We invite new research focusing on art and architecture after clear political ruptures (e.g., invasion, occupation, conversion); on the replacement of one symbolic order with another (e.g., public inscriptions in the urban space, changes in sartorial codes, new gender norms); and on the transfer of resources (e.g., artists, objects, libraries, treasuries) from one power to another. We also invite panels and papers that explore the potentials and pitfalls of new interpretive and methodological approaches to core questions about objects, material, and images, in both the academy and the museum.

 

Call for Papers

The submission deadline for pre-organized panels and single papers is December 1, 2019. For single papers, please submit as a single attachment a one-page CV and a paper abstract of no more than 250 words. For pre-organized panels (three or four papers), please submit as a single attachment one-page CVs for all speakers, and the panel abstract and individual abstracts, each no more than 250 words.

Please submit panels and papers to Christiane Gruber, Organizer (cjgruber@umich.edu). All other queries may be directed to Bihter Esener, Managing Organizer (besener@umich.edu).

Accepted speakers must be HIAA members in good standing by the time of the symposium. Speakers will have their travel expenses and accommodation covered by the University of Michigan and HIAA.
The 2020 HIAA Symposium Committee:

Christiane Gruber, organizer

Anneka Lenssen, Michael Chagnon, and Alain George, committee members

 

 

 

 

2. Lamia Balafrej, The Making of the Artist in Late Timurid Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2019).

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-making-of-the-artist-in-late-timurid-painting.html

 

 

 

 

3. The Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library seeks to preserve cultural heritage and make it available to as wide an audience as possible. We fund digitisation projects to record the content of archives, which can include rare printed sources, manuscripts, visual materials, or audio recordings. We aim to enhance local capacity to manage and preserve archival collections into the future, and therefore all applications must involve at least one archival partner in the country where the material is based.

We welcome applications for funding on an annual basis. The current deadline for preliminary applications is 11 November 2019. Application forms and guidelines can be found at eap.bl.uk. The Endangered Archives Programme is administered by the British Library and supported by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin.

For enquiries please contact us at endangeredarchives@bl.uk.

 

 

 

 

4. IJCS new Special Issue: The aesthetics of dissent: Culture and politics of transformation in the Arab world

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/ics/0/0

 

 

 

 

5. Call for Papers
First International Conference on Qur’anic Studies
24-25 February  2020

Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies
Tehran, Iran

The department of Qur’anic Studies at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies announces the call for papers for the 2020 international conference on Qur’anic studies to be held in Tehran, Iran from Monday 24 to Tuesday 25 February 2020.

We welcome original work from scholars at any stage of their careers, including early career researchers and PhD students, relating to the following themes:

-The Qur’an and its religious milieu;

-The reception history of the Qur’an, from the beginnings to modern times;

-Literary, historical-critical, and comparative approaches to the Qur’an;

-The history of scholarship and methodological issues in Qur’anic studies;

-Qur’anic manuscripts;

 

Applicants are kindly asked to submit their abstracts to Dr. Ala Vahidnia at a.vahidnia@ihcs.ac.ir by November 15, 2019.

The organizing committee will send notification of acceptance for abstracts on December 15, 2019.

The Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies will issue an official invitation for all participants who need to apply for their own visas individually.

Papers may be presented in English or Arabic.

Should you have any question about the conference please contact the conference director, Dr. Ala Vahidnia at  a.vahidnia@ihcs.ac.ir.

 

 

 

 

6. Workshop: “Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies”, Aga Khan Centre, London, 17-19 October 2019

This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present.

Registration and Program: https://networks.h-net.org/node/7801/discussions/4613292/workshop-arabic-pasts-histories-and-historiographies

 

 

 

7. Workshop “Travelling Practices and the Emergence of Tourism in the Middle East (16th-20th Centuries)”, University of Vienna, 12-13 June 2020

This workshop will analyze travel literature (travelogues and guidebooks) with regard to the practices, patterns and significations of travel. In shifting the focus to routine and mundane aspects of travelling, it will serve to place travel narratives in a relational framework combining basic questions of infrastructure and transportation with the movements and pathways of individual travellers.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2019. Information: https://travelmena.univie.ac.at

 

 

 

8. Professorship for Turkish Studies (W2), Department of Turkish Studies, University Duisburg-Essen

Candidates should have a PhD in the social or political sciences or in the humanities, and a distinctive international profile in Turkish Studies. Expected is a specialization in Gender Studies.  Desirable are research interests in cultural studies modes of enquiry and pan-epochal approaches that will facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation in the Turkish Department. Excellent knowledge of Turkish and English is expected. Candidates without German language skills will be expected to learn German (C1) within the first two years.

Deadline for applications: 30 September 2019. Information: https://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/turkistik/professorship_in_turkish_studies_ude.pdf

 

 

 

 

9. Tenured Professor in Ethnic Studies and/or Studies of Islam in America, Havard University

Qualification: Doctoral degree and Intellectual leadership in the field; potential for significant contributions to the Faculty, University, and wider scholarly community; demonstrated excellence in teaching and mentoring; and experience working with and teaching diverse students.

Deadline for applications: 1 October  2019. Information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/9212

 

 

 

 

10. Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern History, North Carolina State University

Minimum Experience: PhD in Middle Eastern History or a relevant field in the Humanities or Social Sciences, or ABD with confirmed plans to defend the dissertation within the next year.

Deadline for applications: 15 October 2019. Information: https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/122937

 

 

 

11. PhD Master Class

 

The Study of Islam and Muslim Societies

School of Social Sciences and Psychology

Western Sydney University

Parramatta South Campus

2 October 2019

 

Convenor and Organiser

Dr. Pedram Khosronejad

(Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University)

 

 

Local Tarekat and the State: Tarekat Shiddiqiyyah and Its Efforts to Preserve Nationalist Values in Indonesia

Rizqa Ahmadi

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Problems Faced by Indonesian Female Muslim Students in the US and Australia: An Intercultural Communication Case

Win Arifin

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

The Politics of Mobilizing Piety: Islam and Women in Gaza

Ayah Abubasheer

PhD student, Institute for Religion, Politics, and Society, Australian Catholic University.

 

‘Green Islam’ in Indonesia: Prospects and Challenges

Mohammad Hasan Basri

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

What are the factors leading young Australian Muslim men to travel to Syria to join Islamic State?

Joumanah El Matrah

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

Countering Islamophobia: The Role of Muslim Community Organisations as Agents for Positive Change

Sara Cheikh Husain

PhD student, Alfred Deakin Institute of citizenship and Globalisations, Deakin University.

 

The MTB Bargain: Using Religion and Autocratic Leadership for Economic Advancement in West Java

Shinta Dewianty

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Being Women Sufi in Modern Life: An Anthropological Study of Women Members within the Naqshabandiyyah Nazimiyyah Sufi Order

Laily Hafidzah

PhD student, School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University.

 

Reinventing the Progressive Era of Thought: State, Political Dissonance, and the Origins of Reformist Thought in the Teaching of Islamic Law in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Wildani Hefni

PIES student, Department of Political and Social Change, the Australian National University.

 

Mechanics Fleeing Communism: the Russian Refugee Diaspora in Iran and its Resettlement in Australia and the United States, 1930-1960.

Marcus James

PhD student, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University.

 

Islamic Leadership and Muslim Immigration: A Framework for Reflection and Analysis

Mehrnosh Lajevardi Fatemi

Religion and Society Research Cluster, Western Sydney University.

 

Contingency of Text in 17th Century Safavid Art: An Intertextual Survey of the Epigraphic Program of the Prayer Hall of Shaykh Lutfullah Mosque

Mahroo Moosavi

PhD student, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney.

 

A Preliminary Sketch of Iranian Middle-Class Consciousness

Hugh Myers

Masters student, Department of Social Anthropology, Macquarie University.

 

Normalising Islamophobia: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, the Liberal Party of Australia and the current othering discourse.

Heela Popal

PhD student, School of Social and Political Science, The University of Sydney.

 

The Sound of Utopia: Prayers as Sonic Invocation of a Perfect Public in Contemporary Iran

Simon Theobald

PhD student, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, Australian National University.

 

Media and Democracy in the Third Space: Locating the Spatial Axis of the Turkish Media in the Euro-Muslim World

Fulya Vatansever

PhD student, Southern Cross University.

 

Searching for a Meta-Theoretical Framework for Analysis of Rival Conceptions of Rights during the Constitutional Revolution of Iran

Behzad Zerehdaran

PhD student, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.

 

All are welcome

Venus:

8am – 12pm: Building EB, Level 3, Room 21 (Collaborative Learning Space)

12pm – 5:30pm: Building EB, Level 3 Room 18 (Collaborative Learning Space)

 

Dr. Pedram Khosronejad | Adjunct Professor

Religion and Society Research Cluster | School of Social Sciences and Psychology

E: P.Khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au

 

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