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.
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