Shii News – Academic items
1.ONLINE “Hakluyt Society Symposium 2021 – Decolonising Travel Studies: Sources and Approaches”, Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs), University of Warwick, 10-12 November 2021
Program and registration:
2. ONLINE Webinar: “Reflections on Afghanistan” with Professor Noam Chomsky, SOAS, London, 12 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm GMT
Professor Chomsky will address some of the most pressing concerns surrounding the ongoi ng conflict in
Afghanistan, including Taliban rule, US policy in Afghanistan post 9/11, drone warfare, the refugee crisis, and
future solutions. He will also be taking questions from an online audience.
Information and registration:
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Creative Radicalism in the Middle East: Culture and the Arab Left after the Uprisings” by Caroline Rooney (University of Kent), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 16 November 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
In her account of the Arab uprisings, Caroline Rooney outlines the importance of aesthetic strategies and creative expression in the left’s critique of authoritarian and Islamic extremist discourse during the revolutions. Using a wide array of texts and sources she offered a way for the left to reclaim ethical and progressive ‘radical’ values co-opted by political leaders and extremists in the Middle East.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/16nov2021-creative-radicalism-in-the-middle-east-culture-and-the-arab-left-after-the-uprisings.html
4. ONLINE Workshop: “Colonial Baggage: Global Tourism in the Age of Empires, 1840s–1970s”, Munich Centre for Global History and German Historical Institute Washington, 18-19 November 2021
Information and registration: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/8859007/colonial-baggage-global-tourism-age-empires-1840s%E2%80%931970s-zoom
5. 19th Media Workshop on “Aesthetics and Material Cultures: New Approaches within Islamic Studies” with Dr. Alina Kokoschka (Berlin/Lübeck), Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, LMU Munich, 13-14 January 2022
Up to ten participants will be chosen to discuss selected academic articles about aesthetics and material culture in the Middle East in n an intense reading session of four hours.The texts will b distributed in advance. Deadline for application: 1 December 2021.Contact Dr.Bettina Gräf (b.graef@lmu.de ).
Information:
https://www.naher-osten.uni-muenchen.de/wasistlosaminstitut/veranstaltungen/cfp-19mws/index.html
6. Workshop: “Travel, Mobility, and Cultural Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa”, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 9-10 April 2022
We invite paper proposals from any discipline in the humanities or social sciences that address topics relating
to travel and mobility in, to, and from the Middle East and North Africa (region in any historical era.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2021.
Information: https://sites.google.com/su.edu/sermeiss/meetings_1/spring-meetings?authuser=0
7. Resident Fellowships (Post Doc, 1-12 Months in 2022) at the “RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies”, University of Hamburg
Fellowships are available for scholars who have completed their doctoral degree and established an inde-pendent research profile. Applicants should be engaged in a research project related to the Center’s interests in Romanization and Islamication in the period and area in question.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://www.romanislam.uni-hamburg.de/documents/cffellows-2022.pdf
8. PhD Student Position (36 Months) in the Project “Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)”, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies, Vienna
Your profile: Completed studies in history; Experience in archive work, especially with handwritten early modern sources; Working experience with TRANSKRIBUS, TEI and other editing tools are advantageous; Flexibility, communication skills, creativity, team spirit.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/fileadmin/subsites/Jobs/I.H.B/IHB136DOC121_e.pdf
9. Director of Modern Language Programs (Focus Near Eastern Languages), Harvard University
The Director will head and coordinate all aspects of the program, which currently consists of Arabic, Persian,Turkish, Hebrew, Yiddish and Armenian. The ideal candidate must be able to teach all levels of Arabic language and have a record of successful experience with American academic institutions.
Deadline for applications: 15 December 2021.
Information https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/10792
10. Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Requirements: Ph.D. in modern Persian Literature; ability to teach courses in English about modern Persian Literature in English Translation, History of Modern Persian Literature, Modern Persian Society and Culture through Literature and Film, and/or Iranian Cinema. Applicants are expected to have native or near native proficiency in Persian,
Deadline for applications: 3 December 2021.
Information: https://asia.ubc.ca/job-opportunities/copy-2/
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