Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture: “From Victims to Survivors: Violence, Memory and Social Reconstruction in Rizgari, Kurdistan Region of Iraq” by Karin Mlodoch (Sigmund Freud University Berlin & HAU-KARI e.V.), Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg, 18 January 2022, 6:00 pm MET
In 1988 the Iraqi Baath-regime destroyed thousands of Kurdish villages in Northern Iraq. Since 2009, a group of women survivors in the town of Rizgari have engaged for the construction of a self-designed memory site, which shall represent their specific gendered experience of violence and serve as a platform for bringing the survivors’ claims for justice into the public debate.
Information and registration: https://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/Pictures/Events/2021/Jewish__Kurdish_and_Amazigh_Life_-_Poster_-_FINAL.pdf
2. ONLINE Rencontre avec Adam Baczko ( CNRS – CERI Sciences Po): « Le gouvernement des Taliban en Afghanistan, de l’insurrection à l’administration du pays », Halqa Association des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en sciences sociales sur les mondes musulmans mo-dernes et contemporains, 18 janvier 2022, 18:00 h
Information: https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5033 .
Inscription : halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com
3. ONLINE Lecture on “Sharīʿa Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen” by Dr. Brinkley Messick, Columbia University, 1 February 2022, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST
The historical instance in question comprises the twentieth-century decades of an imam-led polity in the uncolonized, late agrarian-age society of highland Yemen. With the support of ethnographic photography, Messick surveys the relations between the main roles in sharīʿa governance, and between the main types of sharīʿa writings in the textual formation of the period.
Deadline for registration: 25 January 2022 at abw2163@columbia.edu
4. ONLINE Seminar: “Sketching/Scripting Women – Women and Comics in the Arab World”, In-stitute of Modern Language Research, University of London, 4 March 2022, 2:00 pm – 5:30 pm GMT
The seminar will explore the work of Francophone female graphic novelists from the Arab World, with contri-butions from academic speakers focusing on different historical and socio-political contexts spanning from the Maghreb to the Middle-East, and a talk by prize-winning Beirut-born bande dessinée author Michèle Standjofski.
Information and registration: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25230
5. Conference: “Red Sea Project X: Red Sea Horizons, Edges and Transitions”, Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 6-9 July 2022
Conference themes will include: Lines of sight, shores, and islands in the maritime experience; Archaeology and material culture of forelands, hinterlands, and contact zones; Movement, dependencies, and enslaved lives across geographic and temporal borders; Traditional maritime technologies; the transition from the age of sail to the age of steam; Religion and the sea; etc.
Information: Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/11419/discussions/9015868/cfp-reminder-red-sea-project-x-conference-rethymno-crete-july-6-9
6. Conference: “Assessing the Ethnic Groups of the Late Ottoman Empire through a Decolonial Lens (1900 – 1922)”, University of Florida, Gainesville, 9-11 September 2022
The goal of the symposium is to marshal decolonial theory in order to understand how the dynamics between the Ottoman Empire’s ethnic groups can provide insights for contemporary knowledge production for Arme-nia, Greece, Cyprus, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey and the United States.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2022. Information: https://ogus.oral.history.ufl.edu/events/fall-2022-symposium/
7. Postdoctoral Fellows/Research Associates (2 Years) for Project “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, Princeton and University of Bern
Applicants must have graduated with their PhD in a relevant field (History, Religion, Art History, Interreligious Studies, Theology, etc.); An appropriate number of publications depending on the candidate’s experience; A general interest in the historical relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims as manifest in the candi-date’s track record.
Deadline for applications: 31 March 2022. Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=62833
8. Postdoctoral Fellow in the Modern and/or Contemporary History of the Arab World, Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Moscow, Russia
Candidates should have a strong background in the Modern and Contemporary History of the Arab World, ability to teach for the Arab World Programme and to conduct research in the relevant field; Fluent English and Arabic; Knowledge of other Oriental and/or Russian languages will be an asset.
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2022. Information: https://iri.hse.ru/ru/pd2223_HistoryoftheArabWorld
9. International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) Programme for Graduates from Arab Countries of the German Bundestag, Berlin, 1-20 September 2022
The programme is intended for talented Arab graduates who are interested in politics and who are keen to play an active role in promoting core democratic values in their home countries. The programme includes a one-week work placement with a Member of German Bundestag and aims at bringing German politics closer to its participants.
Extended deadline for application: 20 January 2022. Information: https://www.bundestag.de/en/europe/inter-national/exchange/ips/arabian-250618
10. Grants for Research in the Emirate Ras Al Khaima, UAE
The research grants are awarded in the following categories: 1) Doctoral Research Grants; 2) Faculty Re-search Grants; 3) Seed Research Grants. This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students and faculty mem-bers from all nationalities at recognized tertiary institutions from across the world, seeking to conduct field-work in the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah.
Deadline for application: 1 March 2022. Information: https://www.alqasimifoundation.com/grants-research
11. Fully-funded PhD position in Islamic Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
Closing date for applications: 15.2.22
https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:463766/type:job/where:4/apply:1
12. Events on Islam and the Middle East around Cambridge
Tue 18 Jan
5:00pm – 6:00pm
The Contribution of Hanafi Jurists to the Urban Domain of the Islamic City.
(Meriem Ben Ammar (University of Cagliari))
Wed 19 Jan
6:00pm – 7:00pm
Palestine: Memories of Western Palestine –1948 Memory, Geography and Distanciation
(Various speakers – Director and Convener: Dr Makram Khoury-Machoo)
Thu 20 Jan
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Marginal Words: The Local and the Cosmopolitan in an Eighteenth-century Indian Dictionary in Persian
(Dr Arthur Dudney, University of Cambridge)
Fri 21 Jan
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Book launch: Islam and the Arab Revolutions
(Usaama Al-Azami (St. Antony’s College, Oxford))
Sat 22 Jan
2:00pm – 5:00pm
Ottoman Music Workshops with Baha Yetkin
(Baha Yetkin )
And don’t forget that next Monday (Mon 24 Jan) the Persian Poetry Reading Group start their fortnightly meetings and the first CIS Public Talk is Thurs 27 Jan (Conquered Populations in Early Islam (Elizabeth Urban)).
13. Islamic History Geodata Initiative
The Islamic History Geodata Initiative (ihGeo) seeks to stimulate scholarship on the role of places and spaces in the history of the Middle East during the Islamic period. Established by a research unit at the University of Tübingen, it provides a forum for international exchange and envisages collaborative projects in the Spatial Humanities. Another aim is to develop novel research tools for use in the public domain.
Learn about the endeavour of ihGeo to link history, geoinformatics, and cartography for a new understanding of how the region’s societies have been geared to the making and re-making of human landscapes.
14. Hikmat International Institute
Only three days remain to register for the fifth learning and sightseeing tour of Iran that will take place on May 8 – 25, 2022. This special tour is perfect for any travel passionate, especially those who want to explore the beautiful Iran and learn more about its people, culture, ancient and modern history, politics, public life, etc.
In this tour, the participants will see Iran’s most important tourist attractions in six major cities. They can also attend three informative workshops about religion and politics in Iran. There will be friendly meetings and discussions with academics, religious leaders, scholars etc. The tour will be held with high standards and is an amazing opportunity. The group will include 15 to 20 participants. Most seats are already taken, so register soon before it is too late! Deadline for registration is January 20, 2022.
Hikmat Institute organizes this tour only once a year. We hope you can join us in this exciting program.
Please check the webpage of the tour for more information and let us know if you have any questions.
Contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com
- January 18, 2022
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