Shii News – Academic Items
1.The University of Edinburgh
Lecturer in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
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01/12/2022, 05:00 PM
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2. Medieval Arab Music and Musicians: Three Translated Texts
Dwight Reynolds
3. Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Applications are invited for Visiting Fellowships and Visiting Research Fellowships tenable at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies for the academic year commencing in October 2022.
Visiting Fellowships
Two Visiting Fellowships are offered to support research in any area of the arts, humanities or social sciences that has relevance to the study of Islam or the Muslim world, particularly anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology.
Applicants would normally be established academics but scholars at the postdoctoral level are also eligible.
The Visiting Fellowship provides a stipend of £5000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 28 January 2022.
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Visiting Research Fellowships
Two Visiting Research Fellowships, open to citizens of countries in Asia or Africa, are intended to encourage interaction among academics from different traditions of learning. Preference will be given to those studying classical Islamic sciences, although other areas in the humanities and social sciences will be considered.
Applicants should normally be at the postdoctoral level or equivalent.
The Visiting Research Fellowship carries a stipend of £4000, intended as a supplementary award, which may be held in conjunction with other research grants, stipends, or sabbatical salaries. Visiting Research Fellows will be provided with an office space, membership of the Common Room including use of the Centre’s dining facilities, and assistance with finding residential accommodation.
Visiting Research Fellows are expected to devote their time to research and writing and to participate in the Centre’s academic activities.
Closing date: 11 February 2022.
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Contact Email:
visiting.fellowships@oxcis.ac.uk
URL:
https://www.oxcis.ac.uk/visiting-fellowships
4. Workshop – Interdisciplinary Textile Studies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential – March 4
tudies Workshop: Past, Future, Potential
Disiplinler Arası Bağlamda Tekstil Araştırmaları Çalıştayı: Geçmiş, Gelecek ve Olası Çalışmalar
(Türkçe tercümesi aşağıdadır).
Organized by Ivana Jevtić (Koç University) and Amanda Phillips (University of Virginia)
We are pleased to call for applications from current graduate students to attend a workshop about textile studies, taking place on Friday March 4 2022 in Istanbul. The one-day event focuses on material from the eastern Mediterranean, with a specific aim of spurring dialogue across periods and disciplines, as well as the immense potential of studying textiles in Turkish collections. Please see below / the end of this message for details on eligibility and application.
Textiles were the second-most traded commodity in world history, second only to grain. In the eastern Mediterranean, silks feature as chief items of display in both Byzantine and Ottoman courts, woolens were worn by soldiers, peasants, and clerics alike, and townsfolk signalled their status and affiliations with expensive clothing, furnishings, and other accoutrements. Work in the textile sector encompassed expert designers, weavers, and tailors, as well as dyers, spinners, and amateur embroiderers. Across the region, men and women raised goats and sheep, and wore woolens, and bought, sold, traded, and re-used cloth both plain and fancy. While textiles shaped life and experience across time and place, they are not often the subject of serious, sustained engagement. This workshop aims to re-center textiles and to showcase the potentials for interdisciplinary study by bringing together academics, curators, professionals, and students.
The workshop is pleased to announce the following speakers and topics:
Sibel ALPASLAN ARÇA, Topkapı Sarayı Museum Osmanlı Kıyafet Koleksiyonu / Clothing from the Ottoman Dynasty; Hülya BİLGİ, Sadberk Hanım, Osmanlı işlemeleri ve işleme tekniği / Ottoman Embroideries and Techniques; Paul HEPWORTH, Conservator, 19th Century Ottoman Textiles / 19. Yüzyıla ait Osmanlı Tekstiller; Ivana JEVTIĆ, Koç University, Representations of Textile in Byzantine frescoes / Bizans Fresklerinde Tekstil Tasvirleri; Recep KARADAĞ, Istanbul Aydın University / Turkish Cultural Foundation, Dyestuffs and metal threads analysis, and textile technologies in Ottoman textiles / Osmanlı tekstillerinde boyalar ve metal iplik analizleri, ve tekstil teknolojileri; Eunice Dauterman MAGUIRE, curator emeritus, Gender-fluid garments, breastfeeding and holy persons in late antiquity/ Geç Antik Çağda Akışkan Cinsiyetli Kıyafetler, Emzirme ve Kutsal Kişiler; Çiğdem MANER, Koç University, Anatolia: A Major Hub for Textile Production During the Bronze and Iron Age / Anadolu: Tunç ve Demir Çağları’nda Önemli Tekstil Üretim Merkezi; Amanda PHILLIPS, University of Virginia, Textile Studies: Interdisciplinary Potentials / Tekstil Araştırmaları: Disiplinler Arası Olasılıklar; Gang WU, former ANAMED postdoctoral fellow; Understanding Byzantine silk production technology / Bizans İpek Üretim Teknolojisini Anlamak; Filiz YENİŞEHİRLİOĞLU, Koç University / VEKAM (Ankara), Tarihi Dokumak: Bir Kentin Gizemi: Sof / Weaving History: The Mystery of a City: Sof (Camlet)
The workshop is sponsored by the Barakat Trust for Islamic Art with the support of Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), the Koç University Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (GABAM), and the American Research Institute in Turkey’s Istanbul branch.
The workshop will be in Turkish and English, with live translation during the Q&A as necessary.
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Space is limited to ten participants. To apply, please send the following information as a single Word or PDF document, to textileworkshopistanbul2022@gmail.com by 15 January 2022.
- Your name
- Your university and graduate program affiliation
- The name of one professor with whom you are working who can attest to your enrollment and progress in the program
- A CV, two pages maximum
- In a paragraph of about 200 words, please describe any experience you have studying or working with textiles and material culture of any type, including classes, short or summer programs, field or lab work, internships, or other relevant experience.
- In a paragraph of about 300 words, please explain why you would like to participate in the workshop, what you hope to learn, and how it relates to your overall formation as a student and/or future academic or professional.
Applicants will receive notification by the beginning of February 2022.
We are grateful to Hayriye Bilgi for her help with translations from English to Turkish.
5. ASPIRANTUM is organizing its fourth Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia, to start on July 3, 2022.
For more details and to apply please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/persian-language-summer-school
The deadline to apply is April 21, 2022.
For a discount, you will need to apply by March 10, 2022.
6. ONLINE Contemporary Middle East Lecture Series on “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue” by Marina Rustow (Princeton University), SMEI, 18 January 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/18jan2022-the-lost-archive-traces-of-a-caliphate-in-a-cairo-synagogue.html
7. Mediterranean Seminar Workshop on “Sacred Space(s)”, Fresno State University, 11-12 February 2022
This workshop will explore how sacred spaces of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam helped shape, and were shaped by, inter-communal dynamics in the Mediterranean – including the Near East and North Africa, the Black Sea and Central Asia, and the Red Sea and the western Indian Ocean – from prehistory to the modern era.
8. ONLINE Webinar: “The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs” by Marc David Baer (LSE), London Middle East Institute, SOAS, 8 March 2022, 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm GMT
Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth cen-tury, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War.
Information and registration: https://www.soas.ac.uk/smei/events/cme/08mar2022-the-ottomans-khans-caesars-and-caliphs.html
9. Workshop: “Continuity and Change Throughout the Ottoman Longue Durée”, Third Annual Mid-Atlantic Ottomanists Workshop (MAOW), University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA, 1-3 April 2022.
Works in progress and early career scholars are especially welcomed. Regional participants prioritized.
Abstracts are due 31 January 2022, submitted to naltikri@umw.edu .
Information: https://maow.umwblogs.org/
10. HYBRID “15th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies”, Center for Euro-pean & Mediterranean Affairs (CEMA), Athens, 11-14 April 2022
Information: https://www.atiner.gr/mediterranean
11. Conference: “What Makes a Pilgram a Pilgram? Conceptualising Pilgrims and Pilgrimage, c. 300-1600?” (Focus Muslim Pilgrims), Manchester Metropolitan University, 13-14 July 2022
Conference themes: Varieties and definitions of Medieval Pilgrimage; All ‘pilgrimage’ traditions including Bud-dhist, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Pagan; Terminologies (past and present) used to describe Medieval Pil-grims; Comparative approaches to Medieval pilgrimage; Anthropological and interdisciplinary approaches to Medieval pilgrimage.
Information: https://adterramsanctam.files.wordpress.com/2021/11/pilgrimage-conference-cfp.pdf
12. Freie Universität Berlin
Department of History and Cultural Studies Institute of Islamic Studies
University Professor of Islamic Studies (Classical Islam) Salary grade: W3 or equivalent Reference code: W3Islamwiss Successful candidates will have an excellent record of research and publications in the field of classical Islam, ideally with a focus on the social, cultural, religious, or philosophical history of Islam and employ innovative theoretical and methodological approaches. Candidates must have excellent knowledge of English and be able to teach in that language. Their German language level must be at least B1. Their Arabic must also be excellent. Knowledge of an additional Near Eastern language relevant to the field is desirable. Deadline for applications: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet/beruf-karriere/jobs/english/GK-W3Islamwiss_E.html
13. Several Full-time Open-rank Faculty Positions, Department of Comparative Literature, Koç University, Istanbul
We are particularly interested in candidates with comparatist research profiles in the following areas: Early modern Turkish literature; Modern Turkish literature, preferably with a focus on gender; Turkish folk and popular literatures, period open.
Deadline for applications: 29 December 2021. Information: https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/20440
14. Postdoctoral Fellowships for Historical Studies of the Pre-modern Mediterranean in Haifa and Israel, Haifa, 2022-2024
Candidates are invited who demonstrate academic excellence in their respective fields of expertise, together with an extensive background in Mediterranean studies.
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/211124-post-docs-the-haifa-center-for-mediterranean-history-hcmh?e=82aeb6c61d
15. Call for Articles: Relations Between Religious Communities (Maghreb Review)
Topics could include: 1. The impact of the Arab-Islamic conquest on Christian and Jewish communities in the region. 2. Andalusia with Western Europe during the Umayyad Period 755-1031 and experiences of travel more broadly. 3. The attitudes of different medieval Muslim empires towards religious difference and minorities. 4. Commercial relations and litigation across religious lines in the medieval and early modern period. Etc.
Deadline for submissions in English or French: 31 January 2022. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/call-for-articles-relations-between-religious-communities-maghreb-review?e=82aeb6c61d
16. Articles for Journal “BOAS_insights #2” (“Bonn Oriental and Asian Studies Insights”)
The editors of this online, peer-reviewed and open-access journal call for submissions that cover a wide range of subjects and a large geographical scope within Asian and Middle Eastern Area Studies. We encour-age multi-disciplinary approaches that incorporate diverse perspectives and bridge deeply specialized fields.
Deadline for articles: 28 February 2022. Call for papers, recent issues and further information: https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en; https://www.boas-insights.uni-bonn.de/en/call-for-papers/call-for-papers
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