Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Webinar: “Building New Academic Communities in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Near East” by Gülşah Şenkol ( Orient-Institut Istanbul), ANAMED, Koç University, 23 November 2021, 6:30 pm TRT
The talk will also introduce a new gender research and networking platform which will promote accessible, innovative scholarship and foster global interaction and cooperation among scholars and institutions engaged in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies across disciplinary lines in the Near East.
Information and registration: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/events/anamed-talks-building-new-academic-communities-in-womens-gender-and-sexuality-studies-in-the-near-east/
2. HYBRID Conference: “Digitizing Jerusalem’s Archives: Urban Heritage in the Age of Digital Culture”, Jerusalem, 2-4 January 2022
The conference will focus on three main themes: Cultural heritage in the digital age: Digitizing Jerusalem Archives; Digital heritage and the Historic Urban Landscape Approach; Democratizing/interpreting Jerusalem’s heritage.
3. Colloque : « Le Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al‑ʿArabī (m.543/1148) : Parcours, héritage et transmission » à l’occasion du 900e anniversaire de son décès, Centre Jaques-Berque, Rabat, 28 et 29 jan-vier 2021
Ce colloque international a pour objectif de dresser un bilan de la recherche académique réalisée sur la figure, l’oeuvre et la postérité d’un des savants les plus influents de l’Occident Musulman. En effet, depuis près de cent vingt-cinq ans, les nombreux travaux d’édition et études thématiques autour de son oeuvre se sont succédé à un rythme effréné, traduisant un fort intérêt des chercheurs pour cette figure riche et complexe du Ve/ XIe siècle.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2021/10/colloque-internationnal-janvier-2022.pdf
4. Conference: “The Coptic Educational Systems and Institutions (11th Century – Present)”, French Institute for Oriental Archaeology (IFAO), Cairo, 17-18 February 2022
Contributions are invited on: Between Islamic and Coptic Institutions: Sources and Approaches; Ways of Transferring Religious and Liturgical Knowledge; Manuscripts Traditions, Copying, Revising, Editing; Sources of Non-Religious Teaching; Modern and Missionary Schools; Charitable Foundations and Their Educational Roles; Current Educational and Research Centers; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://www.ifao.egnet.net/recherche/manifestations/ma1359/
5. Workshop: “Da’wa and Qur’an Translation in the First Decades of the 20th Century”, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 15-16 March 2022
We invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop that will deal with the globalisation of Muslim Qur’an translation in the first decades of the 20th century, until the 1960s, against the backdrop of migration and increasing daʿwa activities. Travel costs and accommodation during the conference will be fully funded.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 November 2021.
Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CfP_Workshop-dawa.pdf
6. Roundtable Workshop: “The Arab-majority and Muslim-majority Worlds in/and Contemporary Decolonisation Debates”, University of Edinburgh, 5-6 April 2022
This workshop seeks to specifically think through the decolonising movement and an engagement with it from the histories, experiences, perspectives, traditions, and problematics of the Arab-majority and Muslim-majority worlds (broadly defined) as a contribution toward growing decolonial scholarship and movement.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2021.
7. Middle East Initiative Research Fellowships at Harvard Kennedy School
Offers for one-year fellowships for researchers at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and junior faculty level for research related to Middle Eastern governance and public policy from political scientists, historians, econo-mists, sociologists, and other social scientists. Applications from women, minorities, and citizens of all countries are encouraged.
Deadline for applications: 1 December 2021.
Information: https://www.belfercenter.org/fellowship/middle-east-initiative
8. Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor for Middle Eastern Literature or Film, Johns Hopkins University
Qualifications: A Ph.D. is required, but we will accept applications from doctoral students expected to fulfill Ph. D degree requirements by 1 July 2022.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98144
9. Faculty Fellow at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University
The ideal candidate is an outstanding junior scholar with an in-depth understanding of the modern Middle East, knowledge of at least one Middle Eastern language, a commitment to inclusive pedagogy, and a PhD in one of the following fields: Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern History, Cultural Studies, Politics/Political Economy, Sociology, Urban Studies/Geography, or similar.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022.
Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/98325
10. “Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies”, Department of Near Eastern Studies, 2022, University of Vienna
The fellowship is open to advanced doctoral candidates and postdoctoral/early-stage researchers studying a specific subject in Turkish studies. We particularly welcome projects that require a (research) stay in Vienna – especially in environmental history, history of technology, digital humanities, consumption history, history of tourism, and cultural heritage.
Deadline for application: 31 December 2021.
Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9007203/cfa-andreas-tietze-memorial-fellowship-turkish-studies-2022
11. Call for Papers – PLATFORM
PLATFORM is a digital venue for public conversations about architecture, the built environment, and landscape. It features timely short essays organized into eight sections—Conversations, Finding, House Histories, Opinion, Photo Essay, Reading /Listening/Watching, Specifying, and Teaching/Working—that serve as entry points into different realms of discussion, and address different constituencies and interests. We invite writers working in diverse regions across the world and from across multiple professions and disciplines. We are committed to publishing bilingual articles, in order to bring timely and exciting new research to as many people as possible.
PLATFORM, explicitly outward facing, is a work of public humanities, designed to allow writers in diverse fields to shed light on a range of contemporary concerns. As a digital forum, it leverages the capabilities of new media to facilitate this conversation. PLATFORM is broad in perspective and interdisciplinary in orientation. We want to attract novices as well as old hands. We are not a closed or finite group. Unsolicited work is welcome. We value the diversity of opinions about how we view, read, experience, and engage with the built and natural landscapes. To submit an article or pitch an idea, write to info@platformspace.net. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out to any of us, we’re happy to help develop pitches, vet ideas, make suggestions.
Kishwar Rizvi, Production Editor.
Swati Chattopadhyay, Marta Gutman, Zeynep Kezer, Matthew Lasner, Acquisitions Editors.
Sara Lopez, Min Kyung Lee, Fernando Lara Luiz, Mira Waits, Contributing Editors.
Here is an example of what we do:
Kabul in Two Contexts
On August 29, 2021, the United States launched rapid drone strikes on a site in Kabul, allegedly in retaliation for the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Airport three days earlier. By September 17th, the Pentagon was admitting that it was a tragic miscalculation. Instead of an Islamic State in Khorasan operative, they killed ten civilians, among them seven young children. These horrific events make clear that technology has made urban warfare, although long in use, deadlier than ever. The articles in last week’s issue of PLATFORM present Kabul in two very different contexts – as a modern city experiencing architectural development in the late twentieth century, and also an example of abstract legal calculations in contemporary urban warfare.
In “Modern Kabul: Legacies of Polish Architects in Afghanistan,” Muheb Esmat delves into the history of Kabul’s modern architecture. The city’s first master plan, presented in 1965, was heavily based on Modernist principles, partially fueled by municipal leaders’ desire to conceal traditional architecture. Among the new buildings constructed in this period was the Hajhda Manzila, a government tower which, despite its monumental presence in the city, has an obscure history. Esmat finds that the building was designed by a well-known Polish architect, Andrej Riabow, who along with Mieczysław Wrobel designed many other structures in Kabul. Their buildings situate Kabul’s architecture in a larger narrative of exchange that took place between the Eastern Bloc and post-colonial states, including Afghanistan. Esmat argues that there is a larger story to be told about Kabul’s urban development and that its modern past might serve as a lesson for the city’s future.
In “Law and Urban Warfare,” Craig Jones sheds light on the rise of military lawyers over the past few decades of American military presence in West Asia. These legal professionals, whom Jones calls “war lawyers,” are shaping the modern battlespace in ways we are only just beginning to understand. Ever since the Vietnam War, during which catastrophic military strikes led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians, war lawyers have worked to ensure that strikes are within the bounds of International Humanitarian Law. Yet their role has been complicated by the relatively recent phenomenon of drone strikes and remote targeting, as witnessed most recently in Kabul. Despite a suite of precision technologies and strategies that aim to minimize harm to civilians, many military strikes in cities are still deeply destructive—not only due to the increasingly compressed (and thus accident-prone) decision-making process, but also because the laws of war do not always serve to constrain violence. In a world that legitimizes military operations, war lawyers share responsibility for who lives and dies in the increasingly urban spaces of modern war.
12. The British Library:
A Tale of Two Enigmas: A Magtymguly Pyragy Manuscript in the British Library Collections
Divan-i Makhtumquli, a late 18th-early 19th-century Turkmen manuscript. (Divan-i Makhtumquli, Central Asia?, late 18th century or early 19th century CE. Or 11414 f 3v)
13. The Bakhtiari are still migrating
The Smithsonian Magazine June, 2021
14. Medicine, Magic and Healing at University of Exeter, through the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies.
The workshop will take place on November 29 and November 30 at Hotel Du Vin in Exeter.
The full schedule can be found here: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/events/details/index.php?event=11747
Please note regisration is required for this event as we have a number limit at the venue. Please contact Sarah Wood s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk for further information
15. ‘A political sociology of empire: Mughal historians on the making of Mughal paramountcy’
Gagan D. S. Sood
Modern Asian Studies, November, 2021
16. The Interdisciplinary Studies of Literatures, Arts and Humanities,is an academic journal recently published by the University of Birjand, Iran, in Persian.
Editor-in-Chief: Alireza Anurshiravani, Professor of Comparative Literature, Literary Theory, and Criticism, Shiraz University, Iran.
Editorial Board, https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/journal/editorial.board?lang=en
For your information, this is the Journal Website in English: https://islah.birjand.ac.ir/?lang=en
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