Shii News – Academic Items

1.Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volume 44, 2021 – Issue 12 : Special Issue: The Politics of Race and Racialisation in the Middle East

2. CFP – 21: Inquiries into Art, Theory, and the Visual

We are pleased to invite submissions to the journal 21: Inquiries into Art, Theory, and the Visual. Published quarterly, the journal presents peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. This forum embraces the full range of diverse objects, questions, and methodologies that comprise and enrich the discipline. In parallel with this openness in subject matter, 21: Inquiries is available online as an Open-Access-eJournal, making it freely accessible to the widest possible audience. We do not charge “Author processing charges” (APCs) and are a scholar-led journal. Authors retain the copyright and full publishing rights without restrictions. Our issues are published with the license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, unless this license has to be removed for a specific issue because of restrictions by the provider of the image rights. The journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur was launched in September 2019 with the aim of establishing a new forum for art history. We particularly encourage topics and cultural perspectives that remain marginalized in art history and related fields, and work by scholars of underrepresented backgrounds and/or in early career stages.

The choice of the title indicates the intent of the editors to expand the boundaries of traditional art history by integrating all methodologies and subject matter related to images and visual phenomena around the globe. The journal seeks to publish methodologically and theoretically rigorous contributions that can claim a relevance for their topic beyond exemplary single-case studies. The multilingual aspect of art history and visual studies is reflected in the multiple languages in which the journal is published: contributions are welcome in English, German, French, and Italian, but we would also be interested in bilingual edited issues in further languages. In our reviews section, we strongly encourage reviews of exhibitions and books in languages that differ from the original.

Submissions should not exceed 60-70,000 characters (including spaces and footnotes). Reviews should not exceed 15,000 characters (including spaces). The html version can include short videos, e.g. as part of an exhibition review. Manuscripts are to be submitted as a doc. attachment via email to the editors: 21-inquiries@ikg.unibe.ch. In order for the document to be considered, please make sure it corresponds to the style sheet guidelines [PDF] of 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur.

Submissions are reviewed on a rolling basis.

View the Journal Online: https://21-inquiries.eu/en/about-the-journal/
Instructions for Authors: https://21-inquiries.eu/en/instructions-for-authors/
Contact the Editorial Office: 21-inquiries@ikg.unibe.ch https://21-inquiries.eu/en/contact/

Statistics/Downloads: https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/xxi/statistic/alldownloads.

The editors

Olga Acosta (Bogotá), Naman P. Ahuja (New Delhi), Beate Fricke (Bern), Ursula Frohne (Münster), Celia Ghyka (Bucharest), Birgit Hopfener (Ottawa), Karen Lang (Oxford), Karin Leonhard (Konstanz), Rebecca Müller (Heidelberg), Avinoam Shalem (New York/Rome) and Michael F. Zimmermann (Eichstätt)

3. Muslim Views of the Bible

ONLINE CONFERENCE!

September 29th-30th, 2021

https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk/research/mvb/muslim-views-bible-conference

4. University of Utah – Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=61731

Closing date: Nov 5, 2021.

5. Oxford Interfaith Forum invites you to our Upcoming Events

Scriptural Discussion Series

Registration details are available at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbiU9aAw4WhK5a_mJF0rR9t90B-wPr4UzD-W7BENW2jIuDIw/viewform?usp=pp_url

SEPTEMBER 2021

Discussion topic: The Creation Story.

Date:14th September 2021

Time: 19:30-20:30pm BST | 20:30-21:30pm CEST |11:30am-12:30pm PDT | 14:30-15:30pm EST | 21:30-22:30pm IST

Welcome address: Lord Alderdice, Patron of Oxford Interfaith Forum.

Chair: Revd Nevsky Everett, Chaplain of Keble College, the University of Oxford.

Speakers:

1. Revd Dr John Goldingay, Oxford.

2. Ustadah Yomna Helmy, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge.

3. Rabbi David Wolpe, The Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles, CA.

Venue: Online

Followed by a Q&A session

6. Nahyan Fancy and Monica H. Green, “Plague and the Fall of Baghdad (1258),” Medical History 65, no. 2 (April 2021), 157-177. A read-only copy is here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/plague-and-the-fall-of-baghdad-1258/C0E179EB4890C10BBFAE5C11DFC8DF36/share/dca51a1d89bbf32ec6406ae7f0b1b0070e78db48.

Monica Green has spent more than a dozen years reading genetics work on plague (Yersinia pestis) to try to figure out what it contributes to understanding the history of the disease. A podcast interview about this work appeared today on the Ottoman History Podcast, https://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2021/08/green.html. This captures the main results of this work: a proposed redating of the Second Plague Pandemic to the 13th century, linking up the western dissemination of plague with the 13th-century plague outbreaks documented in northern Song China by Robert Hymes in 2014.

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