Shii News – Academic Items

 

1.The Strength and Promise of a Shared Idea, The Digital Library of the Middle East London, 5 December 2019

Abstract:
Dr. Charles Henry of the Council on Library and Information Research and Peter Herdrich of the Antiquities Coalition are building the Digital Library of the Middle East (DLME), uniting libraries, archives, and museums in an international effort to make the cultural heritage of the Middle East and North Africa more accessible, while fighting to safeguard culture at risk. They discuss lessons learned and the vast potential of the Digital Library of the Middle East as it expands its global reach and influence. The Aga Khan Library is pleased to host their return for a discussion with the library and the university community of the strength and promise of the DLME.

The lecture will be moderated by Dr Walid Ghali, the Head of the Aga Khan Library who will share more information about the recent digitisation project in the library. On November 7th, the Digital Collections Portal of the Aga Khan Library was launched with its first collection focusing on Ottoman material.

 

Time and Venue
Thursday 5  December 2019, 16:00-18:00
Room 220
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This event is free but booking is essential. Book as soon as possible.

 

 

 

 

2. International Conference: “Language as a Bridge of Intercultural Communication”, Faculty of Languages (Al-Alsun), Luxor University, 3-5 March 2020

The conference aims to provide modern studies in the fields of linguistic studies and intercultural communication as a basis in today’s business world. It also seeks to address the studies of the analysis of Arabic discourse and studies of non-Arabic speakers, as well as the comparative studies between Arabic and other languages.

Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/4531399/die-sprache-als-br%C3%BCcke-der-interkulturellen-kommunikation (English text at the end)

 

 

 

 

3. International Seminar: „Persian-Arabic Poetics and South Asian Literatures: Readings Recoveries and Re-orientations”, Comparative Literature Association of India, Patna, India, 20-23 March 2020

We look forward to a fruitful exchange of ideas that will unpack the relations between the mainstream and margins, great and little traditions, major and minor languages within South Asia. The very idea of the ‘literary’ here is open to question as the subject proposed covers both the written and the oral, the philosophical and religious, the narrative and the performative.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2020. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/5412876/international-seminar-be-organized-comparative-literature

 

 

 

 

4. International Conference: “Middle Eastern Studies: Conflicts and Struggles of the Contemporary Period”, Altınbaş University, Istanbul, 14-15 May 2020

Papers are welcomed on: Security; Cooperation; Ethnic and religious conflicts/struggles; Migration ; Refugees; Violence ; Islamist movements and organizations; Impact of new technologies on conflicts and struggles; Political and social movements; Foreign policies towards the Middle East and North Africa.

Deadline for abstracts: 10 January 2020. Information: http://www.icmesistanbul.com/

 

 

 

 

5. Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Middle East Studies, Council on Middle East Studies, Yale University (2020-2021 Academic Year)

Candidates must have research and teaching experience relevant to the Modern Middle East, including any period from early modern to contemporary (1500 – present). Focus on the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, or Turkey.

Review of applications will begin 1 February 2020. Information: http://apply.interfolio.com/71070

 

 

 

 

6. MA & PhD Scholarships at the Central European University, Department of History, Vienna

We have excellent resources for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, including language training in Ottoman, Arabic, Turkish, and Persian. CEU offers MA & PhD scholarships to students from all countries.

Deadline for applications: 30 January 2020.

Information: https://history.ceu.edu/financial-aid; https://history.ceu.edu/howtoapply

 

 

 

 

7. Contribution for Edited Book: “Between State and Market: The Making and Breaking of the Middle Class in the Middle East”, University of Exeter Press

In this edited volume, we seek to re-introduce the analytical category of ‘class’–and particularly of ‘middle class’–into the study of political economies in the contemporary Middle East. Bydoing so, we intend to explore the changing roles of middle classes in Middle Eastern nation-states since independence and until the Arab Spring.

Editors Relli Shechter and Ben Zarhi, Ben-Gurion University. Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2019.

Information: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bjeg8w85o4x7kac/Call%20for%20papers.docx?dl=0

 

 

 

 

8. Book Launch: War and Peace in Medieval Middle East

Time and Venue
Thursday 9 January 2020, 18.00-20.00
Atrium Conference Room,
Aga Khan Centre,
10 Handyside Street,
London N1C 4DN

Booking
This event is free but booking is essential. Book as soon as possible.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-war-and-peace-in-medieval-middle-east-tickets-78999715275

 

 

 

 

9. CFP: Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations (19-20 May: Manchester)

The Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN) Conference 2020 on the subject “Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations,” in collaboration with the Sherman Conversations 2020 and the Centre for Jewish Studies, will be held at The University of Manchester on 19-20 May.

Keynote Speakers: Najwa al-Qattan (Loyola Marymount University), Seth Anziska (University College London), Yulia Egorova (Durham University), and Brian Klug (Oxford University)

Call for Papers
Beyond ‘Jewish-Muslim Relations’ invites scholars of Jewish and Muslim histories, cultures, politics, theologies and peoples to share comparative, transnational, and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of these topics as they relate to and come into contact with one another. Despite many theological and cultural similarities and frequent social proximity between Jews and Muslims, Jewish-Muslim relations in both contemporary societies and in diverse historical and geographic settings are often depicted in polarized binary terms. This conference aims to understand interactions and relations between Jews and Muslims in a wide variety of contexts beyond this binary. We encourage papers which offer innovative theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions to the study of these topics, and in particular seek papers which adopt a critical approach to the terminology of ‘Jewish-Muslim relations,’ which might itself inadvertently invoke binary, possibly predetermined relations between Jews and Muslims qua Jews and Muslims, often within historical and socio-political frameworks that have reified categories of Jews, Muslims, and inter-ethnic/-religious relations.

 

We welcome papers on topics including, but not limited to:

• Historical cases of interaction between Jews and Muslims
• Representations and self-representations of Jews and Muslims
• Jewish and Muslim interfaith activism/dialogue
• Religion, tradition, secularism and innovation
• Antisemitism and Islamophobia
• Islamic and Jewish polemic and intellectual cross-fertilisation
• Critical theory and Jewish-Muslim relations
• Gender and sexuality
• Jews and Muslims in the arts, literature and media
• Multilingualism, translation and transnationalism

 

Paper proposals should include abstracts of 250 words and a speaker biography of no more than 100 words. Speakers are allocated 20 minutes to present and 10 minutes for questions and discussion. Lunch will be provided, with kosher and halal options available upon request. Please address all proposals and queries to the organizers (Adi Bharat and Katharine Halls) at jewish.muslim@manchester.ac.uk

Deadline for submissions: December 1, 2019

Contact: jewish.muslim@manchester.ac.uk

 

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