Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Workshop: “The Morisco Diaspora and Morisco Networks across the Western and Eastern Mediterranean”, Organised by the Projects “Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750) and “The European Qur’an”, Amsterdam, 16-17 September 2021
This workshop aims to bring together scholars who work on the migrations (forced and non-forced) of Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula to other parts of Europe and the MENA Region between the fall of Granada (1492) and the first half of the seventeenth century.
2. ONLINE or IN-PERSON Workshop: “Lived Citizenship, Uprising and Migration: Everyday Poli-tics, Imaginaries and Contestation”, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG)/ SOAS/AUC, Berlin, 30 September – 1 October 2021
The workshop invites contributions based on field research in the Arab region or among Arab populations, virtually and across the world. Through the theme of lived citizenship, it explores how people experience and shape the everyday realities of socio-economic, political and spatial governance, contestation and legitima-tion in the Arab region and along journeys of migration.
Information: http://www.mmg.mpg.de/638078/2021-09-30-cfa-workshop-lived-citizenship
3. International Conference: “Islamophobia and/in Post-Secular States”, University of Alberta, 12-14 November 2021.
This conference will develop a more comprehensive understanding and theorization of the pervasiveness of Islamophobia. Papers will explore any dimension of Islamophobia, that measure its effects, and that develop recommendations to address it. Information: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS;2cec0ea0.2106
4. ONLINE Conference: “Migration Methodologies: Challenges, Innovations and Conceptual Implications for Asian Migrations”, National University of Singapore, 20-21 January 2022
We invite papers that focus on innovative methodological approaches while drawing on substantive findings relevant to “Asian migrations” (broadly defined to refer to migration flows within, as well as in and out of Asia) in order to grapple with the challenges and possibilities in conducting migration research.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2021. Information: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/mime/
5. International Conference: “Body, Medicine, and Feminism: The Life and Work of Nawal El Saadawi”, Duke University, 21-22 March 2022
Papers are invited on the role of the body and medicine in Dr. El Saadawi’s oeuvre, but also papers dedicated to the spirit of her work and thought. A special issue of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies will be devoted to the memory of Dr. El Saadawi.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 October 2021. Information: https://middleeaststudies.duke.edu/call-papers-nawal-conference-2022
6. ONLINE or IN-PERSON “15th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies”, Center for European & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), Athens, 11-14 April 2022
Deadline for abstracts: 13 September 2021. Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
7. International Conference ““Ruling the Waves”: Transnational Radio Broadcasting in the Mid-dle East and the Mediterranean between Production and Reception”, 1920-1970, German His-torical Institute etc., Rome, 22-24 June 2022
The conference re-examines the history and experiences of transnational radio broadcasting by analyzing its production, reception, and impact in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean regions between the early 1920s and 1970.
Deadline for abstracts: 13 September 2021. Information: http://dhi-roma.it/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf-da-teien/Veranstaltungsprogramme/2021/CfP_Ruling-the-Waves_20220622-24.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2bQcjUNGKGsOu0qF-fd_IDj4aAVZWDx1qFQC82MQySyfyRJ7RbaTb2PxQ
8. Workshop: “Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies in Ottoman South Eastern Europe”, by the Research Group “The Ottoman Europe: Methods and Perspectives of Early Modern Studies on Southeast Europe”, Bonn, 23-24 June 2022
Fields of inquisition range from memory of slavery and strong asymmetrical dependency in Near Eastern and East European societies and historiography to transformations of slave status, peasants or slaves obtaining slaves, forms of sale, patterns of distribution and enslavement, norms and practices in court, slaves in cities, in crafts and households.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 August 2021. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/7987353/cfp-slavery-and-other-forms-strong-asymmetrical-dependencies
9. Azrieli Post-doc Fellowships, Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
Invitation for scholars who are studying any aspect of Mediterranean history and would like to develop their work at the HCMH during 2022-24.
Deadline for applications: 1 September 2021. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/azrieli-post-doc-fellowships-at-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history?e=82aeb6c61d
10. New Open Access Resource: ‘Memoirs of the Middle East & North Africa’
This is an ongoing collaborative effort to compile a list of memoirs penned by historical figures in the region. Operating through a Google Sheets document, the project includes the names and descriptions of each author, the title of their memoirs, and whether the documents are available online. The focus is initially centered on 20th century political and military figures, but it is open to all disciplines and can accommodate information on memoirs from any figure and any time period.
Information: https://salahbenhammou.wordpress.com/memoirs-of-the-middle-east-north-africa/
11. POS: Cataloguer, Ottoman Manuscripts, British Library
For more details and the full ad, see here: https://britishlibrary.recruitment.zellis.com/birl/pages/vacancy.jsf?latest=01002501
The British Library is seeking an individual to fill the fixed-term role of Cataloguer, Ottoman Manuscripts. The successful candidate will be responsible for the review and editing of catalogue information regarding the Library’s recent acquisitions of Ottoman Turkish Manuscripts, as well as the entry of this information into the online cataloguing system. The Cataloguer will work closely with the Curator, Turkish and Turkic Collections as well as colleagues throughout the Collections and Curation Department with respect to the cataloguing of West Asian materials. The successful candidate will also have the opportunity to contribute to the British Library’s Asian and African Studies blog and other social media and engagement endeavours with respect to their work on the Library’s holdings of Ottoman Turkish manuscripts.
The successful candidate will have an excellent knowledge of Ottoman Turkish and contemporary Turkish, with a good knowledge of Arabic, Persian, Kurdish and/or Uyghur/Chagatai seen as an asset. They will have an understanding of Ottoman manuscript, literary, and/or creative culture as well as library or archival cataloguing, with experience in working with library or archival catalogues seen as an asset. They will be experienced in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of applications. The successful candidate will have good time management skills, excellent oral and written communication skills, and an ability to work independently. Experience in authoring popular or scholarly works on Ottoman history, literature, and/or culture will be seen as an asset.
In return we offer a competitive salary and a number of excellent benefits. Our pension scheme is one of the most valuable benefits we offer, as our staff can become members of the Alpha Pension Scheme where the Library contributes a minimum 26.6%. Another significant benefit the Library provides is the provision of a flexible working hours scheme which could allow you to work your hours flexibly over the week and to take up to 5 days flexi leave in a 3 month period. This is on top of 25 days holiday from entry and public and privilege holidays.
More about the British Library
As one of the world’s great libraries, our duty is to preserve the nation’s intellectual memory for the future. At the moment we have well over 150 million items, in most known languages, with three million new items added every year. We have manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, prints and drawings, music scores, and patents. We operate the world’s largest document delivery service providing millions of items a year to customers all over the world. What matters to us is that we preserve the national memory and enable knowledge to be created both now and in the future.
For further information and to apply, please visit www.bl.uk/careers quoting vacancy ref: 03747
Skilled worker sponsorship
We are unable to provide sponsorship under the UK Skilled Worker visa for this role, as it does not meet the eligibility criteria required for this immigration route.
Closing Date: 25 August 2021
Interview Date: 8 September 2021
12. Mejlis Institute Fall 2021 Immersive Persian Courses
Mejlis Institute, Armenia-based NGO, is happy to announce the launch of new semester-long immersive Persian courses for Beginner/Lower Intermediate and Upper Intermediate/Advanced level students. The courses, lasting between September 13 and December 17, 2021 are designed for students who would like to make fast progress in Persian and become acquainted with different aspects of Iran’s modern and contemporary culture through literature and cinematography. Upper Intermediate/Advanced students who use Persian in their studies and research will also be given an opportunity to receive individual help in working with particular types of literary and/or historical sources. Both courses will have sequels in Spring 2022, and interested students will be able to continue their studies in the second semester.
Application deadline: August 20, 2021
Course fees: $2800 (Upper Intermediate/Advanced), $2600 (Beginner/Lower Intermediate), need-based partial waivers available upon request
For more information, please visit https://mejlisinstitute.org/semester-persian-courses.
13. CFP for IMC Leeds 2022 on Medieval Borders
Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 4-7 July 2022
Organisers: Dr Elisa Ramazzina (University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast); Professor Karen Pinto
Borders are difficult to define, yet they have tangible resonance at various levels. Their function is ambivalent as they allow both alienation and integration. In the Middle Ages the situation was even more intricate, so much so that there are scholars who even deny the existence of boundaries in this era. Nevertheless, the role of borders in shaping particular critical events, such as political-religious conflict, the development of national kingship and the spreading of disease, is undeniable. It is also evident how these events have, in turn shaped or modified such borders.
This Call Papers aims at putting together a series of interdisciplinary sessions that will examine the ambivalent function of borders, how they worked, what they implied, how they were created, (trans)formed and moved. The sessions will foster a cross-disciplinary approach and will follow three interconnected main thematic strands examining different kinds of borders:
Geographical borders which include concepts such as insularity; periphery; regional networks; continents; regional boundaries; feudalism; the rising of national identities and national kingship; invasions; conflict and integration; development of social, ethnic and national identities; hybrid frontier cultures and languages; multilingualism and multiculturalism; the symbolic function of borders; moral, cultural and social barriers; etc
Permeable and moveable borders include travel, pilgrimage, migration; the function of small islands as borderlands with a pivotal role in migration, conquest and integration; the role of geographic, socio-political and cultural borders in the spreading of epidemics;
Intellectual borders include the social significance of knowledge (literary, scientific, medical, etc) as an element of cross-border integration and as a way to understand cross-cultural and trans-border relations, as well as the role of borders in its circulation; textual transmission and manuscript circulation; how borders influence the production, distribution and use of knowledge, trans-border relations among monastic centres and scriptoria.
Topics of Interest include but are not limited to:
- All the fields of Germanic Philology, including Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Icelandic, Lombard, Gothic, etc;
- Celtic Studies;
- Medieval Islamic Studies
- Geography and Cartography;
- History of Science and History of Medicine; Landscape Epidemiology;
- Sociology; Anthropology; Human Geography.
Please, send abstracts of 250-300 words to elisa.ramazzina@ell.ox.ac.uk by the 5th of September 2021.
See also https://www.academia.edu/50102184/CALL_FOR_PAPERS_IMC_LEEDS_2022
14. The British Library
The art of small things (3): Surah headings in Qur’an manuscripts from Southeast Asia
15. The Islamic Texts Society is pleased to announce that ‘Abd al-Razzaq al-Kashani’s A Sufi Commentary on the Qur’an: Volume I is now available. One of the masterpieces of Sufi exegesis, the ITS’ publication of A Sufi Commentary on the Qur’anis the first translation into English of this seminal work; it is a complete commentary on every chapter of the Qur’an (Vol. I incudes chapters 1 to 18).
https://its.org.uk/catalogue/a-sufi-commentary-on-the-quran-1/
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