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1.Scriptural Sexuality in the Three Traditions: A Call for Papers
An edited volume in memory of John Tracy Greene
Edited by Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Nirmal Fernando, Keren Abbou Hershkovits
Professor John Tracy Greene (May 05, 1944 – March 25, 2021) was a religious studies scholar, a biblical scholar and an archaeologist. Together with the late Prof. Mishael Caspi, they founded and coordinated the “Biblical Characters in the Three Traditions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam)” ISBL seminar.
The volume Scriptural Sexuality is dedicated to the memory of John. In line with his interreligious, comparative approach to the study of religions and the Bible, it will comprise of new scholarship on the broader theme of sexuality in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
The volume will explore the presentation, or mis-presentation, of sexual/ised characters through one, or more, of the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Such characters may vary, and include, for example, divine, human, animal, vegetal, and other characters.
Articles are invited that examine expressions, in relation to such characters, of sexuality in various scriptural texts.These expressions might include, but are not limited to, sexual views; literary and visual portrayals; laws; ritual, medical, or other relevant practices; sexual orientation; gender; non/marital sexual relations; asexuality; or the denial of sexuality. They might be an early feature (e.g., in scripture) or a later development (as part of reception history or legal theory), up to current times.
Articles might use a single or several perspectives, such as theology, art, literature, history, archaeology, law, medicine, or other disciplines.
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be submitted by 15th January 2022 to:
Zohar Hadromi-Allouche hadromiz@tcd.ie
Nirmal Fernando curlsu@hotmail.com
Keren Abbou-Hershkovits kabbou@gmail.com
Potential contributors who wish to present their contribution in the “Characters in the Three Traditions” seminar (ISBL 2022, Salzburg), please contact Zohar Hadromi-Allouche.
2. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »
Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI
Séance du 18 novembre 2021, 17h15-19h
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, qui aura lieu le jeudi 18 novembre 2021 de 17h15 à 19h. Vous pourrez suivre la séance :
– en présentiel : Salle 5.05, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris, [Attention : le “Pass sanitaire” sera demandé]
– ou en visioconférence (lien de connexion ci-après) : Inscription obligatoire via ce formulaire
Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir Amin Moghadam (Senior Research Associate, Ryerson University, CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto), pour une conférence intitulée :
« Chanter les rivages, s’ancrer dans la ville : autonomie et initiatives culturelles des Iraniens à Dubaï »
Résumé
Cette présentation est le résultat d’une réflexion approfondie sur les relations de l’Iran avec son environnement régional à travers le champs culturel et artistique, mais surtout d’une enquête de terrain récente (de mars à juin 2021) qui a porté sur les initiatives culturelles des Iraniens dans la ville de Dubaï. Elle mettra l’accent sur les conditions matérielles et institutionnelles des circulations culturelles(Kaufmann et al. 2015) afin d’examiner d’une part la relation entre des individus et des communautés diasporiques avec l’Etat et la société d’origine, et d’autre part la reconfiguration des relations centre/périphérie à travers les dynamiques transnationales. Ces questions seront abordées principalement à travers le portrait et le parcours de la poétesse iranienne, Silviana Salmanpour, originaire du sud de l’Iran (de la région de Lârestân) et installée à Dubaï depuis les années 1980. L’étude de cette trajectoire migratoire et artistique révèle en premier lieu l’autonomie de l’espace migratoire qui conduit parfois à la redéfinition des relations centre/périphérie du contexte national. Par ailleurs, elle démontre à travers ce parcours les multiples relations d’interdépendance qui se situent à des échelles géographiques et institutionnelles variées, y compris avec la société émirienne et les dynamiques globales qui caractérisent la ville de Dubaï. C’est par le biais de cette approche relationnelle que les notions de la « culture » et de la « circulation culturelle » seront abordées dans cette présentation afin de mieux comprendre les modalités de formation et de circulation d’une œuvre littéraire au sein et au-delà des frontières nationales (Levitt 2010; 2020).
Orientations bibliographiques
- Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, Catherine Dossin, et Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel (eds.), Circulations in the global history of art. Studies in art historiography. Farnham Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015.
- Levitt, Peggy, « Taking Culture Seriously: The Unexplored Nexus between Migration, Incorporation and Development », Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales 26/2 (2010): 139‑53. https://doi.org/10.4000/remi.5149
- Levitt, Peggy, « Explaining Variations in Scale Shifting: The Role of Spatiality, Topography and Infrastructure in Global Literary Fields », Poetics 79 (2020): 101397. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101397
Organisateurs : Amr Ahmed (INALCO, CeRMI), Sandra Aube (CNRS, CeRMI), Samra Azarnouche (EPHE PSL, CeRMI)
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ID de réunion : 946 0069 9663
Code secret : CeRMI
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Queering the Middle East and its Diasporas – Queer States: Geopolitics and the Art of Government” by Sima Shakhsari (University of Minnesota), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 17 November 2021, 12:00 pm EST
Information and registration: https://brown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DtyHnn8wSLKduiTSUAPaiw
4. ONLINE Webinar: “Perfect Imperfection: Socio-cultural and Religious Reforms in Saudi Arabia” by Dr Stéphane Lacroix (Science Po Paris), Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 17 November 2021, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm SGT
Social change is one aspect of MBS’ vision. Religion is another target. The crown prince has said that Wah-habism is akin to “deifying human beings”. This follows his championing of “moderate Islam” reining in the clerical class and resetting the role of religion in the state. How successful has this religious re-orientation been? What are the implications for Riyadh’s role as the gatekeeper of the global Muslim community?
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/perfect-imperfection-socio-cultural-and-religious-reforms-in-saudi-arabia/
5. HYBRID Colloque international : « Les disputes théologiques entre ašʿarites et ḥanbalites et leurs représentations du XIe/Ve siècle jusqu’au wahhabo-salafisme contemporain », Inalco, Paris, 18-19 novembre 2021
Information and registration: https://iismm.hypotheses.org/56372.
Programme : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/11/programme_colloque_discordia_0.pdf
6. ONLINE Graduate Student Research Presentations, Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, 19 November 2021, 12:00 pm ET
Moderated by Joseph Leidy. Presenters: Mairéad Smith, Anthropology; Yasemin Bavbek, Sociology; Dima Nasser, Comparative Literature.
Information and registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKfiU-NDdkInYmzLqXy5Tto8Xrc49x0H33TYMqP_VQF8FOGA/viewform
7. ONLINE Workshop: “Digital Humanities and Islamic Studies”, Organized by Dagmar Riedel (OCIS & Columbia University) and Talal Al-Azem (OCIS & University of Oxford), 20 November 2021, 10:00 am GMT
This workshop will explore how scholars in Islamic studies engage with the Digital Humanities in order to confront the question of how repositories of digital surrogates together with computational methods are changing the meaning of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences.
Information and registration: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wc1P9kT9QziZBNmsjEIG5w
8. ONLINE Conference: “Citizenship, Sectarianism and Belonging (Focus MENA)”, University of Lancaster, 16-17 December 2021
The study of citizenship has received renewed attention in Middle East and North Africa studies across recent years. How do citizenship and nationalism interact in the Middle East, and to what effect?
Information: https://www.sepad.org.uk/event/citizenship-sectarianism-and-belonging
9. Conference for Graduate Students in Western Universities, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, 26-28 March 2022
The conference will provide Arab doctoral students and recent PhD graduates of the social sciences and humanities based at Western universities an open space to present papers rooted in their graduate studies. This unique conference will give the participants the chance to benefit from discussions with their peers and with established Arab academics.
Deadline for applications: 4 December 2021.
Information: https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/Events/Graduate-Students-in-Western-Universities-3rd-Round-Upcoming/Pages/index.aspx
10. International Conference: “Iraq Twenty Years After the US Invasion: Memory Politics, Governance and Protests”, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg, 29-31 March 2023
The conference will shed new light on the main factors shaping Iraqi politics and society since the US invasion of 2003. It will take stock of the scholarship on Iraq’s modern history, post 2003 transformations and current developments, with a special focus on questions of govern ance, institutions, protest movements, and the politics of memory.
Deadline for abstracts: 20 January 2022.
11. HYBRID 12th Annual Gulf Research Meeting, Gulf Research Center Cambridge, UK, 14-16 July 2022
Scholars are invited to apply to direct a workshop focusing on political, economic, security or social issues related to the Gulf region.
Deadline for proposals of workshops: 30 November 2021.
12. Assistant Professor of Islamic Art History, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
The field of specialization is open and includes any area of Islamic art and architectural history from the early Islamic period to the present.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2022.
Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19323
13. Visiting Fellowships for Harvard Law School’s Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World, 2022–2023
We are particularly interested in applicants whose work focuses on human rights, women’s rights, children’s rights, minority rights, animal welfare and rights, constitutional law, food law, environmental law and climate change in particular, migration and refugee studies, LGBTQ issues, and related areas.
Dealine for applications: 15 January 2022.
Information: https://plsmw.law.harvard.edu/fellowships/
14. “Moving Biography Summer School”, Orient-Institut Beirut with American University of Beirut and Global (De)Centre, Beirut, 1-8 June 2022
We invite doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to explore the various etymologies and connotations that the term “biography” carries in different languages. The Summer School will focus on three main themes: ques-tions of data, the act of creation, and the importance of the social and historical context of biographies.
Deadline for applications: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/call-for-applications-moving-biography/
15. The German Bundestag Invites Highly Motivated Graduates from the Arab Region to Take Part in a Scholarship Programme in Berlin from 1 to 30 September Each Year
Eligibility criteria: Citizenship of an Arab country; under the age of 35; university degree; good knowledge of German (at least level B2), a strong interest in politics, and social/political commitment.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/international/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
16. Call for Proposals: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Special Issue on Digital Ottoman Studies
Themes may include: creation of text or image corpora, development of language resources, entity recognition, progress in OCR/HTR, digital textual methods, gazetteer creation, network analysis, GIS, geocoded datasets, image analysis, advances in technology and cultural heritage (digital GLAM) as well as examples of open scholarship, open source softwares, crowdsourcing and digital community building.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 December 2021.
17. CfP: Levantines of the Ottoman World
We welcome chapters that engage in current topics such as Levantine cosmopolitanism, hybridity, marginal-ity, ambiguity, and transnationalism, but we also encourage submissions which critique the centrality of such terminology and theoretical frames in historical scholarship. Editors: Erik Blackthorne-O’Barr (Colombia Uni-versity) and Burhan Çağlar (Sakarya University).
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2022.
Information: https://levantinestudies.wixsite.com/book
18. The Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto invites applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Zoroastrian Languages and Literature.
For the job posting link.
All application materials, including reference letters, must be received by December 20, 2021
19. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Princeton University
Postdoctoral Research Associate/Associate Research Scholar
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate or more senior researcher position(s) in the relevant fields of Iran and the Persian Gulf studies in the 19th – 21st century.
Anticipated to start in September 2022, the position is open to scholars of all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. This full-time, twelve-month position is renewable annually for up to three years, subject to satisfactory performance and available funding. The center promotes interdisciplinary approaches to advancing the study of Iran and the Persian Gulf, with special attention to the region’s role and significance in the contemporary world. The goal of the program is to support outstanding scholars of Iran and the wider Persianate world at an early stage of their careers and thus to strengthen the field of Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in the United States and abroad.
DEADLINE: All materials must be received by Friday, December 10, 2021, 11:59 p.m. EST. Preferred start date is September 1, 2022. This position is subject to the University’s background check policy.
For further info,
https://iran.princeton.edu/about/open-positions/postdoctoral-research-associate
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